The Wind and the Cryin' Lion
Donald Trump suffered the whimsy of an elemental force: wind-driven rain.
"...I was standing under the wing of Air Force One [important to mention his luxurious ride] doing a news conference early this morning, a very unfortunate news conference. And the wind was blowing and the rain, and I was soaking wet, and that's what I ended up with today [meaning his hair's appearance]..."
Saying this at a Future Farmers of America conference in Indianapolis, he continued, "I said, 'Maybe I should cancel this arrangement because I have a bad hair day, and the bad news, somebody said, 'Actually it looks better more than it usually does.'"
That morning, an anti-Semitic creep with guns murdered eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Six were wounded, including four cops, who practice a profession that Trump likes to praise every chance he gets, but his near-cancellation of the Indianapolis event had more to do, apparently, with the condition of his hair.
I don't find it necessary to give examples of Trump's psychopathic personality, his inability to empathize (which should be disqualifying for his position, but is actually a common trait shared by many CEOs, politicians, corporate lawyers, and serial killers), but when he's trying to be funny in relation to a situation in which he stood in the rain answering questions from reporters wanting to know his thoughts about mass murder in Pittsburgh, as well as the would-be bomber Trump super-fan arrested in Florida who sent pipe bombs to Obama and the Clintons, plus several other prominent Democrats, his severe moral imbalance stands out.
Just a few weeks ago, Trump was prevaricating about the leader of Saudi Arabia, who has obviously had one of his journalist opponents tortured and murdered. Trump's talking points were identical to those of Mohammad Bin Salman al-Saud's, who not only probably ordered the hit, but condemned the killing after ordering an investigation. Yes, I remember when Charles Manson was allowed to investigate the Tate-LaBianca murders--no, that didn't happen, because that would've been insane.
Trump and MBS (as he's often referred to--I guess it means Muslim Bullshitter) both used the word "rogue" to describe the hit. The Saudi authorities produced a report concluding that the journalist died, accidentally, in a "fistfight" that concluded with a "chokehold" that must've been held a second or two too long. Manslaughter in the midst of some good old-fashioned fisticuffs.
When Trump talks about trivial matters, it may be a defense on his part, since he doesn't know how to express himself; human terms that aren't scripted for him don't come readily to his limited vocabulary. Even more limited--and let's recall that even the inarticulate Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's Hunchback, does have a heart--is Trump's ability to read situations, to say the right thing at the right time.
Newscasters on non-Fox cable news programs played montages of past presidents making speeches intended to unite the country after tragedies or national stressors. Obama's Newtown Elementary School shooting speech, George W. Bush's megaphone speech at the World Trade Center wreckage, Clinton talking about the Oklahoma City bombing, Reagan's Space Shuttle Challenger disaster speech. The journalists didn't mention that the above presidents didn't write those speeches--we have no one of Lincoln's caliber, the man who wrote the Gettysburg Address on the train on the way to the battlefield. But our modern presidents deliver the speeches well, usually. Trump, we must now realize, is weak when it comes to giving speeches. Since he has no inner core of morality, no ethical foundation except that of figuring out sleazy ways to make money, our president shouldn't be expected to act like he cares about one more mass shooting, one more organized terror attack (by a domestic terrorist would-be bomber who, not coincidentally, is an extreme Trump supporter).
Trump, asked by reporters if he called Hillary and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, or the other recipients of the bomb packages, to offer the solace, concern, and support a real leader would provide in such a situation--even to his political opponents--replied that no, he hadn't made any such calls.
"...if they wanted me to," Trump said, "but I think we'll probably pass."
Pass, as if if he's turning down an offer? From whom? He uses a business term but shows his mental and emotional deficiency by not making sense, a non sequitur applied to a reasonable question.
One advantage to be had when a politician speaks the English language well can be detected in our ability to think through and feel their intent, whether the well-spoken politician is benign or malign, or a mixture of both. Trump's use of language has been established by linguists and educators as being at the fourth grade level, but there are many nine and ten year olds who can articulate their thoughts and feelings and be readily understood.
Trump seems like a nine year old who never had the advantage of interacting with other children or adults who were sensibly interested in his progress as a human being. Instead, he grew up economically privileged, his father creative with financial manipulation. Trump, by the time he was eight, was a millionaire. Unfortunately, for his character, and the world, he wasn't abducted like someone in a romantic nineteenth century adventure novel, put to sea on a merchant ship as a cabin boy, suffering a great deal, but emerging as a strong person.
I don't advocate that this kind of thing be done to the children of the rich, but in Trump's case, he needed to get beaten up when he was young, to have his vanity pounded out of him. Trump likes MBS and Kim Jong-Un because all three of them are children of privilege who never suffered from need or want, ruling over millions of subjects whose daily concerns are of no concern to them, nor have they ever had such concerns for populations they can't relate to.
Trump, standing under the wing of his super-plane, getting wet and tempest-tossed, was only thinking of himself. He knew he had to say a few things about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; his son-in-law and daughter, after all, are Jewish. He knows that Israel runs much of American political thought and practice.
But damn, that rain! The hairdo is being assassinated!
Vic Neptune
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
The Young War
From March 6, 2003, to March 6, 2005, I wrote an account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and related matters called The War File. Similar to this blog, it gave me the opportunity to express my thoughts and feelings about the rich and powerful, world events, domestic affairs from the trivial to the important. Mostly, it illustrates how my perspectives on U.S. foreign policy and the psychopathic personalities who wield it haven't changed; in fact, my views on these subjects, going back to the 1980s, have been consistent. My study of the John F. Kennedy assassination and later on President Reagan's on-camera lie denying U.S. support of the Contras triggered me, making me realize the extent to which governments and their allies in the news media use deception as a matter of regular practice.
Although there's much about the world right now I could write about, I'm using this post to display a random selection from The War File, the entry for June 28, 2004:
L. Paul Bremer jumped the gun. Iraq is now a sovereign state, run by Iraqis, for Iraqis. That's the officially approved idea. The handover was scheduled to occur this Wednesday [June 30] but was moved up two days to foil possible terror plots. Bremer gets to go home forty-eight hours sooner than expected and American politicians and pundits can feel proud of the epic accomplishments of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Thousands killed, wounded, left homeless. Guerrilla warfare, rising tensions between Shiites and Sunnis, a well-organized Kurdish army of 75,000 soldiers who might prove unwilling to obey the Iraqi governing council's edict for all militias to disband. The country still suffers from frequent electrical blackouts. Unemployment is very high. An American occupation force of 100,000 soldiers will remain. Will they be popular, now that Iraq is "free"?
Bush and Blair are optimistic. It's easy to feel upbeat when you don't have to smell the stink of Third World death. They've spent the last few days at a NATO summit in Istanbul. Bush has gladly given some of America's responsibility for "shouldering the burden" of the Iraq mess to other NATO members. After vigorous energy spent alienating NATO members prior to the war, Bush now seeks to buddy up to them. They cave in to his wishes because, truthfully, all nations fear the United States of America.
Donald Rumsfeld was at the NATO summit and said in an interview that we mustn't forget the Iraqis killed by terrorists. He refers to the many bombings that have occurred since the war "ended."
It's true that hundreds of Iraqis have died from terror attacks in 2003 and 2004, but Rumsfeld neglects to mention that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed by American forces and the U.N. embargo of 1990 to 2003.
Another big lie: Bush, during a press conference, made reference to Saddam Hussein; that the former Iraqi leader destroyed his country's infrastructure. No journalist in that room had the guts to call Bush on this reprehensible distortion of the facts. Saddam Hussein did not destroy Iraq's infrastructure. During the Gulf War of 1991 and the 2003 war, mostly American warplanes and
cruise missiles destroyed Iraq's electrical power stations, bridges, buildings and communication centers. From 1991 on the country has been wrecked, and during the 1990s the first Bush and then the Clinton administrations pressured the U.N. to maintain the strictest and most destructive embargo on any nation in recorded history. Hussein and his government were not permitted to repair the damaged and destroyed infrastructure caused by Operation Desert Storm. Parts needed to fix electrical power plants were often denied because they were regarded as "dual-use" items--objects with civilian but also potential military applications. With unreliable electrical power plants, Iraq's water treatment facilities bogged down, tainting the country's water supply. By 2000, raw sewage ran down some Baghdad streets. The effects of bad water and the recurrent lack of power had its most horrendous effects on Iraqi children and on the elderly. They died in droves.
Imagine: malnourished little kids with no medicine [due to the embargo] afflicted with diarrhea, shitting themselves to death so that George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush could punish Saddam Hussein into submission. Three fine Christian presidents have each remarked that our beef is not with the Iraqi people, but with Saddam Hussein. They've demonstrated this sentiment by killing over a million innocent Iraqis, before the 2003 war even began.
Rumsfeld and Bush do not want us to think about those victims.
Hussein, as we now know fourteen years since I wrote the above, got a noose around his neck. Rumsfeld, the two Bush presidents, Clinton, are all war criminals at large with more blood on their hands than hundreds of historical serial murderers combined. "No Drama" Obama continued the killings, even assassinating two American citizens, one of them a sixteen year old boy. Trump seems bent on bombing and shooting everyone that fits his narrow definition of enemies. He wants to unleash the military on thousands of refugees from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. They flee drug gangs, police corruption, terrorism, all of it generated by the U.S.-prosecuted drug war. Like an unredeemable alcoholic, the U.S. will not accept responsibility for the destructive conditions it creates and the lives it ruins.
American leaders continue to embrace triumphalism, brutality, and an arrogance rivaled only by the most chauvinistic Israelis. It's impossible to say for sure, but I can't accept the idea that the Fascist creeps running America and many other nations will be able to sustain their rule beyond the horizon of the mid-century. The world, dying as it is, most definitely transforming into a planet that will be increasingly an alien world to human life, won't help out the idiot tycoon class that chose to do nothing to save it. The needed revolution against the powers that be may simply come in the form of some really bad weather, combined with growing anarchy, humans forming into enclaves, nations growing quickly irrelevant, survival of the strongest and the luckiest. If luck includes negotiating the contours of Hell.
My country has visited Hell on other nations many times. Iraq, of course, still tells us something. I wrote the above account of human failure, hubris, lies and stupid cruelty fourteen years ago when I was forty years old. My father was dying of esophageal cancer at the time. He hated George W. Bush by 2004. A lifelong Democrat, the 9/11 attacks nevertheless bothered the shit out of him. He accepted Bush's invasion of Afghanistan and later supported Bush's rationale for invading Iraq. We argued once about Dick Cheney's Halliburton connection, how it enabled him to profiteer from the war. My father said, "We were attacked by people who want to kill us! If Cheney makes some money from the war that's fine with me."
A year later, though, with no WMD showing up, my father knew he'd been lied to by Bush and other administration officials. I knew Bush was lying from the start; I never trusted the son of a bitch and I still don't. I assumed from the very beginning of his phony stolen presidency that he would lie all the time; that, like his father, he would commit egregious acts of inhumanity against innocent people in other parts of the world. I was right about George W. Bush, who now, grossly, enjoys popularity among idiots on the Left because he seems so much better than Donald Trump.
They're both killers, they both violate human rights, they both deny global warming, they're both useless as leaders.
As my father lay dying during his final two weeks, the 2004 election yielded the result we now know. My father had stayed awake as long as he was able, watching the election reports but the winner was not yet known when he fell asleep. The next morning, he asked my mother, "Who won?" She had considered giving him the white lie that Kerry had won. My father, who was unconscious most of the time during those last days, would have then gone to his death believing that Bush and Cheney would've been out of the White House in two months. My mother decided she couldn't lie about it, though, and said, "Bush."
My father cried.
He and I finally agreed in our identification of human scum.
Vic Neptune
From March 6, 2003, to March 6, 2005, I wrote an account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and related matters called The War File. Similar to this blog, it gave me the opportunity to express my thoughts and feelings about the rich and powerful, world events, domestic affairs from the trivial to the important. Mostly, it illustrates how my perspectives on U.S. foreign policy and the psychopathic personalities who wield it haven't changed; in fact, my views on these subjects, going back to the 1980s, have been consistent. My study of the John F. Kennedy assassination and later on President Reagan's on-camera lie denying U.S. support of the Contras triggered me, making me realize the extent to which governments and their allies in the news media use deception as a matter of regular practice.
Although there's much about the world right now I could write about, I'm using this post to display a random selection from The War File, the entry for June 28, 2004:
L. Paul Bremer jumped the gun. Iraq is now a sovereign state, run by Iraqis, for Iraqis. That's the officially approved idea. The handover was scheduled to occur this Wednesday [June 30] but was moved up two days to foil possible terror plots. Bremer gets to go home forty-eight hours sooner than expected and American politicians and pundits can feel proud of the epic accomplishments of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Thousands killed, wounded, left homeless. Guerrilla warfare, rising tensions between Shiites and Sunnis, a well-organized Kurdish army of 75,000 soldiers who might prove unwilling to obey the Iraqi governing council's edict for all militias to disband. The country still suffers from frequent electrical blackouts. Unemployment is very high. An American occupation force of 100,000 soldiers will remain. Will they be popular, now that Iraq is "free"?
Bush and Blair are optimistic. It's easy to feel upbeat when you don't have to smell the stink of Third World death. They've spent the last few days at a NATO summit in Istanbul. Bush has gladly given some of America's responsibility for "shouldering the burden" of the Iraq mess to other NATO members. After vigorous energy spent alienating NATO members prior to the war, Bush now seeks to buddy up to them. They cave in to his wishes because, truthfully, all nations fear the United States of America.
Donald Rumsfeld was at the NATO summit and said in an interview that we mustn't forget the Iraqis killed by terrorists. He refers to the many bombings that have occurred since the war "ended."
It's true that hundreds of Iraqis have died from terror attacks in 2003 and 2004, but Rumsfeld neglects to mention that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed by American forces and the U.N. embargo of 1990 to 2003.
Another big lie: Bush, during a press conference, made reference to Saddam Hussein; that the former Iraqi leader destroyed his country's infrastructure. No journalist in that room had the guts to call Bush on this reprehensible distortion of the facts. Saddam Hussein did not destroy Iraq's infrastructure. During the Gulf War of 1991 and the 2003 war, mostly American warplanes and
cruise missiles destroyed Iraq's electrical power stations, bridges, buildings and communication centers. From 1991 on the country has been wrecked, and during the 1990s the first Bush and then the Clinton administrations pressured the U.N. to maintain the strictest and most destructive embargo on any nation in recorded history. Hussein and his government were not permitted to repair the damaged and destroyed infrastructure caused by Operation Desert Storm. Parts needed to fix electrical power plants were often denied because they were regarded as "dual-use" items--objects with civilian but also potential military applications. With unreliable electrical power plants, Iraq's water treatment facilities bogged down, tainting the country's water supply. By 2000, raw sewage ran down some Baghdad streets. The effects of bad water and the recurrent lack of power had its most horrendous effects on Iraqi children and on the elderly. They died in droves.
Imagine: malnourished little kids with no medicine [due to the embargo] afflicted with diarrhea, shitting themselves to death so that George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush could punish Saddam Hussein into submission. Three fine Christian presidents have each remarked that our beef is not with the Iraqi people, but with Saddam Hussein. They've demonstrated this sentiment by killing over a million innocent Iraqis, before the 2003 war even began.
Rumsfeld and Bush do not want us to think about those victims.
Hussein, as we now know fourteen years since I wrote the above, got a noose around his neck. Rumsfeld, the two Bush presidents, Clinton, are all war criminals at large with more blood on their hands than hundreds of historical serial murderers combined. "No Drama" Obama continued the killings, even assassinating two American citizens, one of them a sixteen year old boy. Trump seems bent on bombing and shooting everyone that fits his narrow definition of enemies. He wants to unleash the military on thousands of refugees from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. They flee drug gangs, police corruption, terrorism, all of it generated by the U.S.-prosecuted drug war. Like an unredeemable alcoholic, the U.S. will not accept responsibility for the destructive conditions it creates and the lives it ruins.
American leaders continue to embrace triumphalism, brutality, and an arrogance rivaled only by the most chauvinistic Israelis. It's impossible to say for sure, but I can't accept the idea that the Fascist creeps running America and many other nations will be able to sustain their rule beyond the horizon of the mid-century. The world, dying as it is, most definitely transforming into a planet that will be increasingly an alien world to human life, won't help out the idiot tycoon class that chose to do nothing to save it. The needed revolution against the powers that be may simply come in the form of some really bad weather, combined with growing anarchy, humans forming into enclaves, nations growing quickly irrelevant, survival of the strongest and the luckiest. If luck includes negotiating the contours of Hell.
My country has visited Hell on other nations many times. Iraq, of course, still tells us something. I wrote the above account of human failure, hubris, lies and stupid cruelty fourteen years ago when I was forty years old. My father was dying of esophageal cancer at the time. He hated George W. Bush by 2004. A lifelong Democrat, the 9/11 attacks nevertheless bothered the shit out of him. He accepted Bush's invasion of Afghanistan and later supported Bush's rationale for invading Iraq. We argued once about Dick Cheney's Halliburton connection, how it enabled him to profiteer from the war. My father said, "We were attacked by people who want to kill us! If Cheney makes some money from the war that's fine with me."
A year later, though, with no WMD showing up, my father knew he'd been lied to by Bush and other administration officials. I knew Bush was lying from the start; I never trusted the son of a bitch and I still don't. I assumed from the very beginning of his phony stolen presidency that he would lie all the time; that, like his father, he would commit egregious acts of inhumanity against innocent people in other parts of the world. I was right about George W. Bush, who now, grossly, enjoys popularity among idiots on the Left because he seems so much better than Donald Trump.
They're both killers, they both violate human rights, they both deny global warming, they're both useless as leaders.
As my father lay dying during his final two weeks, the 2004 election yielded the result we now know. My father had stayed awake as long as he was able, watching the election reports but the winner was not yet known when he fell asleep. The next morning, he asked my mother, "Who won?" She had considered giving him the white lie that Kerry had won. My father, who was unconscious most of the time during those last days, would have then gone to his death believing that Bush and Cheney would've been out of the White House in two months. My mother decided she couldn't lie about it, though, and said, "Bush."
My father cried.
He and I finally agreed in our identification of human scum.
Vic Neptune
Monday, October 8, 2018
Prop Wash
Before he goes somewhere, Donald Trump stands for a short while on the White House Lawn, answering reporters' shouted questions. They must raise their voices because of the nearby idling helicopter whining like a nuclear washing machine. The reporters participate in these absurd exchanges because Trump is news, no matter what hogwash gushes from his mouth. I've never heard any journalist remark upon the unacceptable noise of these lawn meetings, or why Trump likes to do them. He also takes questions in the Oval Office when a foreign dignitary sits beside him. Camera clicks and Trump's bullshit are the two instruments heard, with reporters supplying backing vocals. His responses in these situations are never useful as signposts of truth. He can't tell the truth, except inadvertently. The noisiness in the Oval Office question and answer periods, the helicopter and lawn interviews lack real information. They are static from an administration, indeed, a government more interested in hiding what's real and of concern to citizens than using straightforwardness as a matter of habit. They do this to protect themselves because they know that the masses of Americans would like to beat the shit out of them.
Ted Cruz, for instance. Cruz, a Senate Judiciary Committee member who all but begged Brett Kavanaugh to sexually assault him, so sniveling was his defense of the judge seeking a Supreme Court nomination, Cruz faces a strong possibility of defeat at the hands of a popular Democrat, Beto O'Rourke, in next month's election. If Cruz loses, he'll have more time on his hands to plan his next presidential run.
In the meantime, he's one of fifty senators who voted for Kavanaugh's confirmation, an explicit statement of support for a likely sexual assaulter and possible war criminal (from his previous work for Alberto Gonzalez in the Bush administration during its formulation of torture justifications).
One of the most reprehensible Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine, cast the deciding vote in favor of someone she says she believed to be truthful, while also believing that Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's alleged victim, was telling the truth about her assault in 1982, but that Kavanaugh wasn't the perpetrator. How does Collins know this? We have no idea. She assumes that Ford, despite her vivid memory of the assault, got it wrong when identifying her attacker, in spite of the fact that Ford had known Kavanaugh for a while. I'm pretty sure that Collins herself doesn't believe her own rationale, because it's fucking ridiculous.
Trump expressed his concern about young men and boys getting falsely accused. Trump himself has been accused of sexual assault by, I think, fourteen women. He presents himself as having been victimized by his accusers. Brett Kavanaugh has done the same, buttressed by people like Cruz and Collins and forty-eight other creeps in the Senate willing to inflict a narrow-minded Republican with a frat boy background and mentality on the Supreme Court and thus into the legal bloodstream of the land--goodbye environmental protections, goodbye women's right to choose, congratulations misogyny and unchecked capitalism.
This does put the fight into people, though. A lot of women will run for office because of this. Kavanaugh's victim from 1982, though, can't return to her home. She receives death threats. Trump at a rally in Mississippi mocked her testimony after keeping his mouth shut for a few days. He received laughter and applause, because, I suppose, it's funny when a girl gets nearly raped by a drunken lout and years later gets a chance to tell her story to the world, only to see the drunken lout get a huge job opportunity provided to him by powerful people who, even if they believe her story, don't really give a shit, because Machiavelli beats Jesus at poker every time.
Now is it understandable that the U.S. government after World War Two smuggled Nazis like Klaus Barbie out of Europe? That Saddam Hussein was a U.S. ally during the Reagan administration? That the U.S. aids al-Qaeda in Syria? The people running the show don't have souls, caring only about the ends; furthermore, since they're also fallible and tend to be incompetent a lot of victims pile up.
Covering up that smell is why Trump likes to talk with a helicopter providing backing distortion. If people in general would realize the true degree of how loathsome these leaders inflicting damnation on us really are, how much they, Republicans and Democrats, don't give a fuck about anything except power and money, how long would we put up with this state of affairs? Brett Kavanaugh and the new five to four majority in the Supreme Court is poised to ruin millions of lives for the sake of enriching the richest of the one percent. And we just keep taking it, defending capitalism, apologizing for failed political parties, believing wrongly that if Trump is "gotten rid of" everything will be good again, like when Obama was using drones to blow up children in Yemen.
A new scientific study reveals that 2030 is the point of no return in regard to global warming. Drastic changes must occur until then to prevent the average temperature from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius, and even then, the world's in for a plethora of disasters. Our government demonstrates a persistent and willful lack of interest in preventing such horrors to befall the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Baby Boom generation that failed to act on global warming in a timely manner. Massive die-offs of animals are already occurring. Frogs, toads, bees, their populations drop. This harbinger means we will drop. The truth must be faced about these upcoming complexes of problems. The bullshit and lies must stop being regarded as anything but noise. Giving up your life to cling to some idiotic statement of belief by a man with no soul, Trump or otherwise, is a stupid thing to do.
Learn to read people. Apparently, Susan Collins and others of her kind lack that capacity.
Vic Neptune
Saturday, October 6, 2018
The Woman From Marie Antoinette's Fantasy Farm
Melania Trump visits four African countries in five days. Emphasis on meetings with children. If meeting with elephants in Kenya, they are calves. She feeds a calf with a milk bottle. When hugging children a smile shoves away the usual frozen expression of an isolated wealthy woman trapped in a loveless marriage to the world's most famous prick.
She visited a child welfare clinic in Ghana where she gazed at an infant in an incubator. She met with tribal chieftains in a place called Obama Hall. She was given a tour of a former fort used in the slave trade. In Malawi, resembling a giantess in four inch heels, she talked to a roomful of students sitting on the floor. She met with first ladies, hugged flower girls. The height of her heels was relentlessly stratospheric. The modest but attractive clothing of Kenya's first lady, Margaret Kenyatta, contrasts startlingly with Melania Trump's flamboyant couture. Out for a non-violent big game tour in Nairobi National Park, Melania Trump wears a white blouse, khaki pants tucked into brown leather boots, and a white pith helmet. On her way to get a glimpse of Tarzan?
At an elephant orphanage she pets the animals' rough heads and tips the milk bottle, smiling broadly because this reminds her of when she fed her son Barron.
Melania Trump loves the little ones, especially those without parents. There are many of these in Texas whose parents aren't dead, but their children have been separated from them according to a policy enforced by Mrs. Trump's husband, resulting in Central American minors forced to waste their lives inside for-profit American prisons. Does Melania Trump know that her husband inflicts pain and death on the world's children on a scale John Wayne Gacy would envy?
The Washington Post this morning put out a brief story entitled, "Melania Trump in Egypt to tour pyramids, Sphinx".
U.S. Agency for International Development has been working on a project to drop groundwater levels to prevent further damage to the pyramids and the Sphinx. Mrs. Trump will probably hear about this from an on-site scientist. Her own Sphinx-like face will nod up and down. She's supposed to meet, too, with Egypt's president, al-Sissi and of course the first lady, Entissar Mohameed Amer (cool name). Did President Trump tell his wife, "When you meet with Sissi, tell him he can have the F-35s, but he has to be prepared to use them against Iran."
She's in Egypt right now, or perhaps is on her way back already. Fast trip, lots of brown kids and elephants, she didn't go during the hottest time of the year. She can catch up on her sleep on board the plane. Did it occur to her that Donald Jr. and Eric, her stepsons, kill large African mammals? That her husband eliminated the slain African animal importation ban, probably to do his sons a favor? Does she know that the white pith helmet looks like something out of 1905 rather than 2018? That it visually brands her as an imperialist?
Is she even dumber than her husband?
Vic Neptune
Melania Trump visits four African countries in five days. Emphasis on meetings with children. If meeting with elephants in Kenya, they are calves. She feeds a calf with a milk bottle. When hugging children a smile shoves away the usual frozen expression of an isolated wealthy woman trapped in a loveless marriage to the world's most famous prick.
She visited a child welfare clinic in Ghana where she gazed at an infant in an incubator. She met with tribal chieftains in a place called Obama Hall. She was given a tour of a former fort used in the slave trade. In Malawi, resembling a giantess in four inch heels, she talked to a roomful of students sitting on the floor. She met with first ladies, hugged flower girls. The height of her heels was relentlessly stratospheric. The modest but attractive clothing of Kenya's first lady, Margaret Kenyatta, contrasts startlingly with Melania Trump's flamboyant couture. Out for a non-violent big game tour in Nairobi National Park, Melania Trump wears a white blouse, khaki pants tucked into brown leather boots, and a white pith helmet. On her way to get a glimpse of Tarzan?
At an elephant orphanage she pets the animals' rough heads and tips the milk bottle, smiling broadly because this reminds her of when she fed her son Barron.
Melania Trump loves the little ones, especially those without parents. There are many of these in Texas whose parents aren't dead, but their children have been separated from them according to a policy enforced by Mrs. Trump's husband, resulting in Central American minors forced to waste their lives inside for-profit American prisons. Does Melania Trump know that her husband inflicts pain and death on the world's children on a scale John Wayne Gacy would envy?
The Washington Post this morning put out a brief story entitled, "Melania Trump in Egypt to tour pyramids, Sphinx".
U.S. Agency for International Development has been working on a project to drop groundwater levels to prevent further damage to the pyramids and the Sphinx. Mrs. Trump will probably hear about this from an on-site scientist. Her own Sphinx-like face will nod up and down. She's supposed to meet, too, with Egypt's president, al-Sissi and of course the first lady, Entissar Mohameed Amer (cool name). Did President Trump tell his wife, "When you meet with Sissi, tell him he can have the F-35s, but he has to be prepared to use them against Iran."
She's in Egypt right now, or perhaps is on her way back already. Fast trip, lots of brown kids and elephants, she didn't go during the hottest time of the year. She can catch up on her sleep on board the plane. Did it occur to her that Donald Jr. and Eric, her stepsons, kill large African mammals? That her husband eliminated the slain African animal importation ban, probably to do his sons a favor? Does she know that the white pith helmet looks like something out of 1905 rather than 2018? That it visually brands her as an imperialist?
Is she even dumber than her husband?
Vic Neptune
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