Watch Out, He's a Dirty Fighter

     Gary Cohn, former Director of the National Economic Council under President Trump, received a severance package of approximately $285 million from Goldman Sachs before joining the Executive Branch as an unelected government official.  Bob Woodward, of Watergate scandal reporting fame, has a new book out, Fear, detailing life and work-hell inside the Trump White House.  A much-reported story from that book has Cohn saving a South Korea-U.S. trade agreement by removing a paper from Trump's desk, preventing the President from signing an order ending the deal.  Cohn claimed, too, that he could do the same thing if Trump would try to end the North American Free Trade Agreement.
     On the POW comedy show, Hogan's Heroes, Colonel Hogan and his men often managed to hoodwink Camp Commandant Colonel Klink, making him sign papers without understanding their contents.  In M*A*S*H, Corporal "Radar" O'Reilly did the same with his commanding officer.
     Has the business of the White House become a sitcom?
     Gary Cohn and other Executive Branch officials featured in Woodward's book appear to have a low opinion of President Trump.  Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly called his boss "an idiot."  Secretary of Defense Mattis ignored Trump's tirade about assassinating Bashar al-Assad.  In some respects, it's good that not all of Trump's whims are being heeded.  The so-called "Resistance," which ironically consists of the Democratic establishment (hardly a Progressive group and a gang of Wall Street, Big Pharma, and Military Industrial Complex-connected individuals as well) and Intelligence Community rogues seeking Trump's removal from office, but also many Hollywood celebrities, celebrates news that Trump is being fucked with by his own people in the West Wing.
     Trump, regarded by the "Left" as something close to a tyrant, is apparently being messed with by unelected officials, as evidenced by Cohn's behavior, in the name of keeping him in line; yet, their methods are hardly democratic.  Trump, whether you're for him or not, is the legitimate President of the United States.  To have a group of power players in the White House acting against the President is dangerous, for we are supposed to trust money-pigs like Gary Cohn to look out for our best interests.  I don't trust Trump, but I also don't trust the Intelligence Community seeking to ruin him.
     Uncritical and stupid commentary by mainstream news media journalists and pundits suggests that they, like the so-called "adults in the room" at the White House who've taken it upon themselves to run the Executive Branch (if it really has gone that far), are hellbent on the removal of Donald Trump and the installment of the sane and steady Mike Pence, who, in my view, is as bad or worse than Trump.  Pence doesn't tweet, he's polite, but he's also a fundamentalist Christian loon.  He's anti-abortion to the extreme.  It's true that Trump's latest Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, is also anti-abortion, suggesting that Trump feels the same way (although I think he doesn't really care one way or the other).  Kavanaugh, however, is likely to be the next Supreme Court Justice, in spite of having worked for Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez at a time when lawyers in the Bush Adminstration conjured up the torture programs used by the U.S. military and CIA.  If he had something to do with the "enhanced interrogation techniques" thing, Kavanaugh is set to become America's first Supreme Court Justice who's also a war criminal.  Democrats, given their nature these past many years, will probably cave, Kavanaugh will wear a black robe.
     This touches on how Donald Trump really does serve the interests of Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, the Oil Industry, Polluting industries, in short, Capitalism.  For his service to these concerns, he won't lose his job before 2021.  He may lose his next election, but every rich politician benefits from his tax bill.  Gary Cohn, despite his theft of important government documents from the President's desk (is that a crime?  If if it isn't, why not?) has done fine with Trump's view of taxes.  Cohn is the same man who expressed his displeasure when Trump, right after the neo-Nazi riots in Charlottesville last year, said there was "blame on both sides," equating Nazis with protestors of fascism.  Cohn later said he wanted to resign right then, but didn't, waiting evidently until the tax bill became law.  Cohn is a Jew--he used his religion as a way of getting others to sympathize with his plight as an advisor to a racist President.  I suggest that Gary Cohn doesn't give a fuck about Jews, Nazis, people killed in America's wars, the poor, but he does care about money.
     Someone from inside the White House wrote an anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times.  This person claims that Trump is being prevented from following his destructive impulses, that this is not an example of the Deep State, but of "the Steady State."  The op-ed's author praised Trump's noteworthy accomplishments, such as the tax bill and his beefing up of the military budget.  Whoever wrote this piece is as much of a pile of shit as Donald Trump.  This person loves our wars, loves helping out millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the good of the country.  This person also boasted of being part of the "Resistance," which now consists of White House insiders committing acts of duplicity against the President of the United States.  Whoever this person is, journalist Glenn Greenwald called him or her a coward, and I agree.
     All of this anti-Trump hysteria will help him get re-elected in 2020.  If I'm wrong about that I'll admit my error in judgment.

                                                                            Vic Neptune