Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Let's Dare Call It What It Is . . .



Remember folks - the question that The Gadfly has been asking for the past several months on the pages of this shitty little blog - the question of how deep?  As in, how deep does the ongoing onslaught of subterfuge of American democracy truly go?

Three events that have taken place in the past few days provide a fairly sobering answer to that question in The Gadfly's not-so-humble opinion.

Drumpf nominates Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seat being vacated by Anthony Kennedy.  Anthony Kennedy's son Justin Kennedy spent a decade working for the International Criminal Bank of Mobsters (ICBM), aka Deutsche Bank.  Deutsche Bank has a well known reputation of being the most favored "banking" institution of Russian money launderers.  While at Deutsche Bank, Kennedy the Junior signed off on loans of over $1 billion dollars to Donald Trump - at a time when no U.S. banks would do business with Trump because of his shady business deals background, and a well documented record of spectacular business failures.  Brett Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy at the SCOTUS.  Kavanaugh has a paper trail of writings expressing his idea that a sitting President cannot be subpoenaed or indicted because the President "is the law,"  intimating that the President is the only citizen, in a country of 330 million citizens, to whom American laws and justice do not apply to - the President is a King, if you will.  But Hillary's emails - right?

There was another nomination.  Drumpf also nominated a guy named Brian Benczowki - for the position of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ's Criminal Division.  Benczowski was employed not long ago by another International ICBM called Alfa Bank.  Alfa Bank is owned by a cabal of Russian oligarchs who have close ties to - - gee, like you all don't know . . . but yeah, Vladimir Putin.  Guess who get's Rosenstein's job if he's fired?  Guess who then oversees Robert Mueller's investigation and can fire Mueller?

Following along ok dear readers?

Lastly - Trump has gone to Europe - to meet with American allies.  Remember kids - ally = good, not enemies, but our friends, mkay?

And so what does Trump do right off the bat, in a face to face meeting with the leaders of the countries who have pledged to fight by America's side if she were ever attacked?  He berates our allies, lies about their NATO commitments, blatantly disrespects the allied leaders with bullshit and an ignorant buffoon's grasp of history, and sneeringly accuses one of our staunchest allies Germany of being a "captive" of Russia because they buy natural gas from them.

Jeebus fuck.

If you need some help figuring out what is going on here:

Why would a president who stands accused of conspiring with Russia to win election want to nakedly adopt policies that suit Russia more than his own country and that are opposed by our allies? Why would he want to have a summit with the Russian leader? Why would he want to have a private meeting with no witnesses present with that Russian leader? An innocent man would avoid making himself look so clearly guilty and a guilty one would be more deceptive. Only a captured man would act like this.

And it’s getting silly how far people will go to avoid facing up to that simple fact.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/11/can-we-just-admit-that-trump-is-captured-by-the-russians/

When are the people of this country going to wake up and smell the fucking coffee scented roses and acknowledge what is going on right in front of all of our faces?

Donald Trump is selling this country down the river to a murdering, Borscht swilling Communist, ex-KGB (no, the KGB are not "fine") thug and a bunch of Russian oligarchs, and quite probably, a few American ones as well.

It is also pretty apparent that some members of the Republican party, primarily in the House, but maybe a few Senators as well, are more than just passive enablers of the Putin/Drumpf ham-fisted coup.

Here's the main point that The Gadfly is trying to convey - every citizen of this country is going to be put in to an extremely agonizing position of having to choose a side here pretty soon, if of course that they haven't already made that decision.

It's unfortunate.

It's inevitable.

Choose wisely.




----TFG




Sunday, July 1, 2018

To Infinity And Beyond! . . . Ok, Maybe Only to Palm Beach, But Whatever...

Oh dear lord . . .

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1013406871582015488


While this clip aired on a Comedy Central show, the interviewees are NOT, The Gadfly is disturbed to tell you, paid actors.

These are real-life, dyed-in-the-wool, Red White & Blue Donald Trump supporters (allow that to sink in for a bit) who truly are of the belief that Trump is going to create some form of his very own federal agency, or "Space Force" as Trump himself called it, of Buzz Lightyear, Marvel Super Heroes-like American Astronuts (sic) to go out and conquer the galaxy under the colors of Old Glory and in the name of the baby Jeebus.

Sigh . . . . .

The Gadfly's favorite one was the lady who is convinced that NASA - NASA FOR FUCK SAKE!! . . . is conspiring to keep some mysterious, ambiguous truth from her and her tribe, and that The Great and Powerful Trump is going to send his "own stuff" in to outer space to get her that truth.  And she stated as such quite matter-of-factly, and without ever once cracking a smile.  Regrettably, this intellectual giant of a lady neglected to educate us on precisely what kind of "stuff" Mr. Trump was going to send in to space, suffice to say that as long as Kanye West, Ted Nugent and Rupert Murdoch are on the payload bill of laden for the one-way launch of that "stuff," The Gadfly won't protest too much at all.  Nor did she bother to opine as to what it is that she believed this mystical "truth" to be that Donald Trump's "stuff" was going to find for her, and what they intend to do with it when they find it.

And please -- don't get The Gadfly (who has a 30 year career in IT) started on the doofus, who when he was asked to describe what he believed Trump's "Space Force" to be, this clown argle-bargled some clueless, Homer Simpson crockery about how it's like a "cloud computer," you know, kinda' like "I-Tunes." Umm - no numbnuts - it's really not, and The Gadfly will spare all you dear readers the droll details of that discussion for another day mkay?

Honestly though -- Fucking Yikes! with these people, huh?  And as such, to whit, the plaintive lamentations of Civility! do ring hollow in The Gadfly's ears.

After viewing that video, The Gadfly is utterly convinced that if this country somehow manages to survive this unenlightened period of it's short (comparatively to other world democracies) democratic history, it will have been mostly due to a hair-raising yet amazing escape from the lumbering clutches of Main Street "Idiocracy" - which also happens to be the name of a very funny, and now quite obviously, prophetic movie.  If you have not seen "Idiocracy", do yourself a favor, go rent it on Netflix or Amazon, have your favorite mind altering substance handy, and watch it - at least twice. Then take a good, hard look around yourself and ponder your destiny.



----TFG