The Madness Of The Boy Who Would Be King

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Drumpf has just brought this country significantly closer to not just a constitutional crisis in the form of his own impeachment, but also with an escalation in the battle for this nation's soul and our democracy's future.

Observe:

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump tells @GStephanopoulos that he "wasn't gonna fire" special counsel Robert Mueller because "I watched Richard Nixon go around firing everybody, and that didn't work out too well." https://t.co/J72Biz1YSs pic.twitter.com/glA1e6L57y

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/trump-moves-to-take-unchecked-power-article-ii-of-the-constitution-allows-me-to-do-whatever-i-want/

Trump:  "𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙄𝙄 [𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣] 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩."

He was not joking folks.  Watch the videotape.  That was a very serious statement just cavalierly uttered by President Orange Caligula.

Now, imagine if, at any time during his presidency, speaking in his official capacity as President of The United States of America, Barack Obama had ever -- EVER!!!! -- even in joking EVER!!!! -- proclaimed that "𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙄𝙄 [𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣] 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩."

Holy shit! - the conservatives in this country would have been foaming at the mouth with apoplectic rage.  There would have been a run on pitchforks and rope at Home Depot.  And The Gadfly has absolutely no doubt that they would have pushed for the immediate impeachment of Obama - not one iota of doubt.  Tell The Gadfly he is wrong about that and The Gadfly will tell you that you are irrefutably full of shit.

With his arrogant decree that he can do "whatever" he wants because his interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is the only interpretation that matters, Drumpf has now arrived at one of the key junctures in the process of how autocrats advance the ambitions of their eventually despotic regimes - by issuing public proclamations staking out unilateral ownership of absolute, unaccountable executive power - unaccountable to no one, not even the law.

It's like his tweet from the other day, where he basically threatened Americans that if anyone but him  "takes over" the presidency in 2020 (spoken like a true mobster), America's economy would be destroyed.  First of all - that is about as un-American and unimaginable a thing to hear coming from the mouth of a sitting U.S. president.  Secondly, it dovetails nicely with his newest proclamation that he can do "whatever" he wants with the American people's government, which he now apparently believes, belongs solely to himself, as if it were just one of his gaudy, shady business deal, real-estate properties.

At some point we are going to arrive at the nexus where the constitutionally mandated process of Congressional oversight and Judicial checks and balances, reality, and Donald Trump's psychotic, authoritarian ego are going to meet, and shit is going to get ugly pretty damn fast.

“Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.”

― Louis L'Amour, 'Comstock Lode'

----TFG