Mod: Just a great Rick Wilson article on The Daily Beast site. As Rick puts it, "The humiliations mount, and you can hear the laughter from Pyongyang to Ankara to Tehran. Trump isn’t their boss. He’s their bitch." These are bad days if you still love America.
Our Commander in Chief is a Petulant Little Child, and the Bad Guys of the World Have His Number (
The Daily Beast link):
Donald Trump’s plan to unravel
America’s international influence, moral standing, reputation, alliances, and values wasn’t going fast enough for him, so last week the pudgy toddler in the
Oval Office slammed the throttle to the firewall, lit the afterburners, and decided to plunge the jet into the side of
Burning Tire Mountain by green-lighting an invasion of
Syria to give
Turkey,
Russia, and
Iran a new playground in the
Middle East.
But wait, as they say on television, there’s more.
Amid the conflagration of his
Trumpot Dome scandal in
Ukraine,
Trump may have wanted a distraction by letting
Turkey run buck wild over the
Kurds, but as with all things, his every action makes things worse, not only for himself but for the nation.
We thought he’d capped the week by sending history’s most batshit crazy diplomatic missive to
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. By now you’ve seen it, and wondered, as they say in the cautious, deliberate language of diplomacy, “What the actual fuck?”
America’s collective reaction was, “Is this
The Onion?
The Babylon Bee?
Spy Magazine, reborn?”
Shortly after telling the
Turks they were free to invade
Syria and kick off their long-desired slaughter of the
Kurds,
Trump decided to try to put the horse back into the barn with a letter that read like a tour of his id rather than the needed demarche that would, you know, stop the impending slaughter and remake the
Middle East into a
Russian,
Iranian, and
Turkish regional hegemony.
When the members of the
International Bad Boys Club of strongmen, totalitarians, kleptocrats, bad actors, and extremists heard
Trump utter the risible line after ordering
American troops to flee
Syria—“we’re the boss, remember that!”—you could hear the howling laughter from
Pyongyang to
Caracas to
Beijing to
Ankara to
Tehran to
Manila.
Putin, deep in his
Moscow lair, just gave his usual sly chuckle. If you wonder which international malefactor wakes up every day and wonders how he got so lucky, it’s
Donald’s immediate supervisor.
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Lock this slug up. |
Dictators and thugs know
Trump isn’t the world’s big boss but is instead their bitch. They know
Trump is profoundly weak, and he’s made
America profoundly vulnerable in turn. They know his big-swinging dick act is for the rubes at home and that this weak, petulant child of a president is easily led by his ego and his wallet, a man subject to even the crudest forms of flattery and seduction. He’s a cheap date, and they know it.
The forces in this world that are anathema to every
American value see a shallow, trifling man-child, not an imposing figure imbued with the power of the
American presidency and its mighty tools. They know him. He has shown all of them who and what he is, and not one world leader respects or fears what they see.
Mod: The rest of the above article is available at the link.
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