Every Republican in the House and Senate and in the Trump regime, many in the Judiciary own the developed putrid criminally insane disaster that Trump is. They should be the ones to immediately suffer for it and I think it is our obligation to make certain that it is constantly put on them.
That we got Trump in the first place is first and most of all the fault of the media, entertainment and news, both created the Trump that got Republicans to give him their nomination and the ones who voted for him against a woman they have been lying about for more than a quarter of a century. The American media has proved that given permission to lie by the Courts and the worst of flaky Constitutional theory, is not the protector of democracy, it is the enemy of democracy, equality, decency and morality. Last night Rachel Maddow said that in the catastrophic danger that Trump set off with his macho grandstanding in Iraq and Iran, we needed good journalism more than we have at any time, well, good luck finding any. And good luck with finding any that isn't swamped by the sewer of "opinion journalism" and "balanced journalism" that will do back-flips while bending over backward with its head up its own ass such as NPR is the example I noted the other day.
It all started with the Constitutional fundamentalism that allows lies told for the benefit of the wealthy who own the media and the political party that serves the interest of the rich. Things have gotten steadily worse since 1964, step by step, starting with the election of the criminal Nixon with the support of the media in the very next presidential election after the Sullivan ruling was handed out. Democracy has been destroyed lie by lie, lies that have debased the culture, the establishment and ultimately, through lies on TV and hate talk radio and on social media, The People. That and the skilled playing of the defects in our system, such as the Electoral College by domestic billionaires like the Mercers and foreign ones like Putin got us here today.
Iran is not Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it is a far larger country with a far more unified culture and a far more supported government. I am prepared to believe that Trump had never looked on a map to see just the size of the country he's committed an act of war against - and it will not be admitted here that Trump had America strike first but the rest of the world will not fail to notice. This will not be a war that Trump goes into with the support of Europe or Canada, Australia is otherwise occupied with dealing with the climate change it continues to contribute so heavily to, the House of Saud, that gangster regime that poses as a country, will have its own problems, now, and so will our other buddies there. I think we're going to find that all of those "allies" were not our allies. And there is Israel which will certainly, now, find that the Likud calculation of benefiting by America going to war in Iran was as stupid as it obviously was.
Pick any of the above because even if some of the other possible complications don't become relevant the results will still certainly be worse than the Bush II disaster in Iraq. I doubt Trump, cold, could tell you the difference between the two countries, I'm certain that a large percentage of those who support Trump couldn't. They've learned everything they know about it from TV and the movies. Which means they know nothing and they have put a know nothing in the most powerful office in the world. It was lies freely permitted that brought down America from its height, Auden, thou should be living at this hour, we have need of thee.
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