The Jester

     One of my problems with Donald Trump isn't that he lied about fucking Stormy Daniels.  It's also not his alleged relationship with Russian operatives to steal the 2016 election.  His boorishness offends my sensibilities, yes, but the news media get off on that character trait of his.  Comedian Michelle Wolf was right when she told journalists at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner that they need Trump, they love him because of the ratings he provides.  To elevate their own careers, they helped foist him upon the United States and the world.  They are the scum contributing nutrients to the funny-looking flower.
     My problems with Trump are many, but one in particular occurs to me whenever he tweets or states something that's true.  His clumsiness with the English language, his predictable use of hyperbole, mask the occasional blunt facts he puts forth, such as when, in an interview soon after he took office, Trump told Bill O'Reilly, "We [the United States] have a lot of killers.  Well, you think our country is so innocent?"
     The remark, in response to O'Reilly's observation about Vladimir Putin being "a killer," caused mainstream news media talking heads much theatrical dismay.  Trump could've been even more truthful, admitting that right about the time of the interview, he'd ordered a Navy Seal raid in Yemen that resulted in numerous civilian casualties, one of them an eight year old girl.
     "We have a lot of killers, Bill, and I'm one of them."
     If only honesty were to prevail among politicians and the journalists who serve power instead of the truth.  Instead, Trump's bluntness about the homicidal nature of U.S. foreign policy and the military machine that carries it out became one more example for journalists pretending to be shocked by Trump's words, themselves forgetting, apparently, about the reality of the war this country has been pursuing aggressively, killing millions of people, during the course of this century.
     When, in 2016, Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of assisting Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President Kennedy, he implied, nakedly, that the "crime of the century" was the result of a conspiracy, because if Oswald had help, he wasn't acting alone, as was the official conclusion.  Since 1963, U.S. news media have vigorously supported the "Lone Gunman" theory, rejecting totally other, more plausible, theories.  Trump, like the majority of Americans, doesn't accept the Oswald-did-it-alone theory.  His identification of Ted Cruz's father as someone assisting Oswald was meant to discredit his strongest opponent for the Republican nomination.  Whether that worked or not, Trump's use of a JFK conspiracy theory was derided by a mainstream media that won't accept conspiracy theories about JFK, even as they wallow in Russiagate conspiracy theories.  Again, his clumsy use of language crippled his credibility.
     Most recently, Trump has highlighted the role played by a spy in his campaign, Stefan Halper, a man with extensive spooky CIA contacts going back to the 1970s.  A mole in the Carter re-election campaign in 1980, he fed information to the Reagan campaign, on President Carter's foreign policy plans and decisions.  He's the son-in-law of a CIA official, Ray Cline, who was close to former CIA Director George Bush.  The CIA supported Bush's presidential campaign, but he failed to secure the nomination.  Reagan's first CIA Director, William Casey, managed Reagan's campaign.  Halper operated as a subversive against a sitting president, Carter, who was struggling to free the American hostages held in Tehran.  The October Surprise theory holds that the Reagan campaign secured the release of the hostages by getting the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to hang onto them until Reagan became president.  Reagan's campaign were fearful that Carter might rescue the hostages before election day, giving him the victory.  Note that Reagan sold missiles to Khomeini (supposedly the enemy), profits from which went to fund, illegally, the Nicaraguan Contras.  There is no end to the indecency of the motherfuckers who run this planet.
     I mention October Surprise only because it's part of the shady history of the CIA presence in Reagan's campaign, Stefan Halper being one such operative.  For Halper to turn up as a spy in the Trump campaign is significant, and President Trump is correct to be alarmed; yet, the news media have characterized Halper as an "informant," not a spy, even though, given Halper's history, it's a distinction without a difference.
     If Donald Trump could explain to the American people, in plain English, the shenanigans carried out by the CIA and the so-called "Deep State," it would be more difficult for compromised mainstream news media personnel to mock him.  Understanding these matters concerning the intelligence community and how they intersect with government and journalistic communications, how these persons are thoroughly mixed-up with each other, will help Americans correctly identify who their enemies really are.
     The enemy isn't Russia.  That's a made-up story, as false as the idea that Oswald acted alone.  Both of these tales derive from the same type of people--intelligence professionals who make it their business spreading plausible-sounding lies; they seek to separate American minds from what's really happening, because they're the kind of people who in the 1940s smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Europe, or dosed people with LSD without their knowledge to see what would happen.  In a word, psychopaths.
     Trump's destructiveness, his use of the military machine, his lack of compassion for the poor, for immigrants, for the downtrodden of the world, his unforgivable environmental policies, his might makes right belief system, all overwhelm in importance speculation about whether or not his wife is pissed at him because he fucked a pornstar.  His clownishness is the least important thing about him to be concerned about, but his repeated denials of having colluded with Russians to steal the election make him seem, to the mainstream media, like a kid lying about stealing from the cookie jar.
     The quiet spectacle of "respected" journalists (notably Rachel Maddow) devoting most of their professional lives investigating a fictional story concocted by the intelligence community (Russiagate) while spending little time on the real damage committed daily by politicians, including Trump, in a country dying from its shitty leadership, makes them seem far more pathetic than a president who can't express himself very well.

                                                                                Vic Neptune