Sliding Down the Rabbit Hole With, The Leader

That slide down the rabbit hole just keeps gaining momentum.

During a May, 25th phone call things got a tad testy between Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump, the American strong man wannabe. The purpose of the call was a, "discussion," between the two gentlemen regarding punitive tariffs The Big Orange Guy slapped on aluminum and steel imports coming from Canada, Mexico, and just about everyone else we used to call friends.

CNN is reporting that when Trudeau questioned Trump's excuse for the tariffs--it's a national security issue--El Donald snapped at the Canadian PM, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?"

Well, two hundred plus years ago, they sort of, kind of, but not really did. On August 24th, 1814 British troops entered Washington D.C. and burned part of the city, along with the White House. At the time,  Canada was a large chunk of the British Empire. However, as far as anyone can tell, there weren't any actual Canadians who took part in the sacking.

Of course, details such as these never really bother Trump, or the trailer park fascists he caters to. Neither do facts. Like the one which explains why the British came to town in the first place. The en masse raid was retaliation for an American attack on York, Upper Canada in April of the previous year.

York was Upper Canada's capitol and later the town was renamed Toronto, and the province, Ontario. United States troops, led by General Zebulon Pike, won that battle, took the city, then for fun and profit looted it. Afterward our guys burned down large portions of the burg and its dock area. Pike was killed during the campaign and years later a mountain in Colorado he never climbed was renamed in his honor.

There you go. Cite some two hundred year old faux grievance while defending questionable, not to mention hostile, 21st century policy to the leader of a country which has fought with us in a series of wars beginning in 1917.

Trudeau told NBC's Meet the Press, "The idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the United States is, quite frankly, insulting and unacceptable." Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke on CNN's State of the Union and said, "And I would just say to all of Canada's American friends--and there are so many--seriously? Do you really believe that Canada, that your NATO allies, represent a national security threat to you?"

Indeed, this national security bullshit is straight out of the playbook used by two bit dictators around the globe. When pushing insane nonsense they invariably howl about looming threats to the national well being perpetrated by foreign powers. Just ask Kim Jong-un and Nicolas Maduro. Or, hey, you can ask Donald Trump himself when it comes that wall he insists on building.

Before he got on the phone with Trudeau, Mr. Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron about trade and immigration. One source told CNN the call was, "Just bad. It was terrible. Macron thought he'd be able to speak his mind based on their relationship, but Trump can't handle being criticized like that."

Most dictators in the making can't. And that's just what Don Trump is. How else can you describe a man who claims he can, "unquestionably," pardon himself and whose lawyers say he can't be indicted for murder while he remains President even if he guns down an innocent person in the street?

Yes, we fucked up. Many of us wrote this monster off as a wacky buffoon who didn't understand even the basics of the United States government--you know, stuff like the separation of powers. We were wrong. He understands it perfectly, he simply has no use for it and, in truth, despises it.

He ran his business for decades without advisement, or any sort of second party consent. He bent, twisted and, at times, broke the rules, while conning the rubes, and stiffing those foolish enough to invest their financial support and labor in his projects. In the process he made millions, all the while beating his chest in the media as if he was the urban Tarzan, King of the Grifters.

Given his background is it any wonder he thinks of himself as the CEO of a private corporation known as the United States of America. One who is going to run the place for long as he wants and whose decisions shouldn't be questioned by anyone? That's right, Fuck the constitution and congress. I'm in charge now. I'll decide what we do and when I leave. And in the meantime my truth is the only truth. Everything else is fake.

You betcha and every news outlet which questions that self serving axiom, is, as Big Joe Stalin used to say, "The enemy of the people."

Early in March of this year The Great and Powerful Ego spoke to a group of big buck donors down in Florida. Here is what he said about China's President, Xi Jinping--head of the country which actually does have us by the balls when it comes to trade. "He is now president for life, for life. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday."

Yes, the sound you hear is George Washington spinning in his grave.

That's opposed to the noise those right wing slugs made in response to his words during the dreadful get together. Despite their avowed dedication to the constitution, which explicitly prohibits such an act, they applauded and  raucously cheered, The Leader, Donald John Trump's wishful thinking.

Tread carefully America. We are right on the edge with this son of a bitch. And--as we've seen all too clearly, there are millions in this country who are prepared to willingly follow him over that awful precipice whenever he decides to make the trip.




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