Sleep Well America, Donald Trump Just Made a Deal: North Korea is Our New Great Pal and the Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Free Press

I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain speaking in front of 10 Downing St. on September 30th 1938 after signing an agreement with, Adolf Hitler, Der Fuehrer of Germany
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President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer--sleep well tonight.

American President Donald J. Trump via Twitter after his meeting with, Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
                                                                   


Chamberlain said those words in front of about 5,000 supporters that day. What wasn't mentioned in most British news releases--because Chamberlain had almost complete control over what the BBC reported--was, at around the same moment, 15,000 protesters were raising hell about the agreement in Trafalgar Square.

Don Trump doesn't have that luxury when it comes to the press, at least not yet. So he has to say things like, "The country's biggest enemy is fake news. NBC and CNN are fighting to down play the deal with North Korea."

Actually it isn't hard to down play an agreement which is woefully vague on North Korea's commitment to denuclearize the peninsula in exchange for Trump's promises to stop scheduled, "war games," (as opposed to what has always been referred to as military exercises). That's in addition to halting U.S air patrols in the area, and vowing to bring American troops home from South Korea.

All without letting the South Koreans and our own military commanders in on the concessions before hand. Well, you know, too many cooks in the kitchen and all that. Besides, loose lips sink ships and more importantly, Nobel Prize aspirations.

Thanks to Trump's sudden rush to friendship with the former, "Little Rocket Man," it would seem, Mr. Kim, just like Herr Hitler in 1938, got pretty much everything he wanted while Trump, as did Chamberlain, got a cloud full of promises.

To this day, Chamberlain is routinely mis-quoted as saying, "peace in our time." No matter how he put it, 11 months after Germany signed the paper, its troops poured into Poland, kicking off that melee known as World War II. Before it was over, approximately 60 million people on all sides had died. The number Includes 449,816 British soldiers and civilians--another 359,267 were wounded. Chamberlain himself was gone a little over a year into it, claimed, not by Nazi bombs, but cancer.

Ever since then anytime an American leader, especially a democrat, has sought an accord with some antagonistic despot, members of the republican party in particular, but really both political sides in this country, have cited the strange and awful case of Neville Chamberlain.

Given that, imagine the reaction of the American right wing if Barack H. Obama had said this about, Kim Jong-un, "He's a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, with tough people and you take it over from your father--I don't care who you are, how much of an advantage you have. If you can do that at 27 years old, I mean that's one in 10,000 that can do that. So he's a very smart guy. He's a great negotiator, but I think we understand each other."

Tragically The Big Orange Guy is probably right. After he responded to a question about Kim's human rights record this way, "A lot of other people have done really bad things," it became clear Kim recognized a kindred spirit across the table in Singapore. Just ask all those Hispanic mothers who've had their kids pulled out of their arms by American immigration authorities and chucked into what amounts to a concentration camp in Texas.

The, "historic agreement," and subsequent statements came immediately after El Donald publicly called Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, "Very weak and dishonest." At the same time one of his aides told a cable news outlet there was a special place in hell for people like Trudeau who screw with Donald J. Trump.

Obviously we now know, without question, what type of national leader Brother Trump likes and admires. That's right, Fuck all those weenies like Trudeau, Macron, Merkel, and May. Give me Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un any day. They know how to run things!

And, although a tad little less subtle than Chamberlain, those guys also know how to handle dissident journalists and publications. Hey, it is easy to imagine the envy and longing the current resident of the White House has for those who not only don't have to worry about any media criticism, but, in fact, expect and receive nothing, but gushing praise from the local news outlets.   .

Indeed, when it comes to stifling the media, you have to believe DJT, after he downs a breakfast of Red Bull, orange juice, Frosted Flakes, and ultra pure Colombian blow, is thinking, Ah, maybe someday, sooner than they all think, I'll own the bastards here..

Yes, sleep well tonight, America. Donald Trump just made a deal. North Korea is now our great pal and the only thing we have to fear is a free press.



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6-15-18