Smashing Donald Trump's Cell phone

Well, it's almost been a month now since a stereotypical sleazy 80's business man crawled out of the past and seized the American Presidency by promising the moon to anyone gullible enough to trust him.  I'm not despondent of course.  The beauty of the American system is that checks and balances exist to keep over reaching executives from tearing down the nation too quickly.  I am however, very nervous about our soon to be commander-in-chief's pernicious cell phone habits.

President elect Donald Trump's lack of cell phone restraint is well documented and egregious, and it's soon to be a national security risk.  It would be best for us all if soon to be secretary of defense James Mattis took a Gallager sized wooden mallet and smashed the offending piece of tech into oblivion.

Trump, Democracy, Nukes, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, South Africa and mother fucking America man

So, I think this is officially the most ambitious title I'm ever posted.  First off, Donald Trump worries me.  But, as elections and media reporting are generally pretty heavily colored by the times and places they're written in.  While I find his antics, especially his threats to muzzle the free press and anti-trade rhetoric concerning to say the least. But, I'm gonna give the man a chance.

See, I believe the reporters get caught up in the times around them and it colors their reporting in a way that influences the perceived truth of their work.  And though, in the end, US reporting standards and the US press are still the best in the world, any reporter worth a damned will tell you there is no removing bias.  We need to remember that even venerable institutions can release opinion pieces as hard news the same as the partisan networks of MSNBC and FOX.

Just remember people, the only safe news source is all of them.  Just preliminarily though, my observations are that Donald Trump seems like a very low character gentlemen, with a lot of money and dodgy finances, but I'm gonna give him a chance.  

 I was ideologically opposed to Clinton based on the abortion/reproductive rights issue though, so what's the difference between possible economic and nuclear annihilation and the sanctioned mass murder of children?   Even though I highly suspect El-Trumpo is lying about his pro-life stance, that's one of the few things I take cold comfort in.

Perhaps Trump, who has so skillfully used bankruptcy law before, spies another opportunity to fuck over a bunch of creditors we don't like.  Who can say?

I will say this, our republic worked and worked well.  I just fucking hate its piss poor results and wish it were a direct democracy. 

But lets get to some of the results I fucking hate.  Trump has stated that he will substantially grow the military while substantially cutting taxes, he also pledges to start a trillion, yeah with a "T" infrastructure plan.

 My opinion as a real, non-fake ass grin your teeth and get fucked up the ass Trump republican, is that he's talking about a massive unfunded budget increase and we're already sitting on an $20 trillion dollar debt.  Paul Ryan is going to need to grow some big boy balls this year if he wants to save the nation cause it's about to get real.

If money does rain from the sky like mana from heaven though and all president Trump's hopes and dreams come true, here are a couple of nightmare scenarios I predict.

1) Brinkmanship up to and including nuclear war with China.  Rudy Giuliani, member of Trump's team and widely expected to win a spot on his cabinet, has said that Trump wants to expand the size of the US Navy, by a lot.

He wants to do this tough and incredibly expensive move to present China with overwhelming force before China's military is more powerful than our own, as it will inevitably be.  This will hopefully counter Chinese aggression in the Yellow Sea.

 If this move can check China's open flouting of international law in their seizure of territory from other countries (and American allies,) it will have been worth it.  But Trumpo's menacing of his allies with threats to pay more of the bill or he'll leave them defenseless might lose us our two strongest allies in the region in Japan and South Korea.

If that happens the US will still have a superior naval force but two of the most prosperous nations in the world will now be less cooperative in vital economic and supplemental support to our Navy.  In short, we'll have the ships but not the supplies, cause Trump doesn't value continued business relationships enough.

We'll lose to China in the Pacific if we're not supported by our allies.  If they're scared into China's orbit and Trump tries to intimidate the lot of them ... well, he might nuke shitty little North Korea.

It's always been a mouthy little country that's loved running shit it can't back up, so why not give em' a good back hand pimp slap to get them to shut the hell up.  Nuke Pyongyang and send those little fucks an unmistakable message. The Chinese' ears mike perk up a little too right?  Riiiiiiigggghhht?

Sweet Jesus I hope so, because if Trump continues to antagonize our allies we might lose them, and, if we're not properly supported, China might be willing to take acceptable losses and make a run at the Yankees.  Now, you know 'Merica aint about to sit around and take it if some Chinese soldiers are coming to our shores to tell us what's what.

I'm talking Armageddon man, end of days, end of the world, numberless soldiers invade, nukes fly, small pox is released and the blessed sarin nerve gas sets us free  ... but, like I said I'm going to give him a chance.

2) Generational depression.  Our debts at what, 20 trillion dollars now right?  Well, congress is worthless, thus it would not surprise anyone if it gave Goldenhair Spendy-McGee rubber stamp spending.  Donald Trump spends trillion and congress gleefully spends our lives away until American credit is no good anymore.  The debt has swollen to 50 Trillion and we genuinely can't afford to service our debt anymore.  America declares bankruptcy, and fuck it, peace; Trump out.

America has now been robbed of the gift of Alexander Hamilton and is without credit.  Want a house?  Sure lets go get a mortgage, nope.  Or worse, sure but 40% interest.  Want a car?  Nope, same deal.  Credit freezes and banks start to fail, banks that are ensured by the full faith and credit of the us government right?  Oh shit !?!?!? The government's bankrupt.  That's right bro, your money is gone.  You just got Trumped. 

A default in US credit would literally ruin us.  Roads would decay, education would become a scarce commodity for the ultra wealthy and police would protect only where people could afford to pay them.  Welcome to third world America.  Don't worry we'll move out of mom's basement in 70 years but we just went bankrupt so we need some time to figure shit out.

Runner up catastrophic futures were:

1) dogs suddenly revolt to avoid a Trump presidency and proceed to start a world wide dog revolution that subjugates humanity.
2) The Clinton Foundation is militarized and fills the void ISIS leaves behind as we systematically pursue and destroy them.
3)You saw your parents having sex that night ... yeah, can't unsee that.  You should get some counseling.


So, right.  Now everything could go right too.  Congress could grow a spine.  Trump could back China off.  Russia could realize it doesn't matter.  Japan could militarize and South Korea could apply for annexation and mother fucking America could triumph uber allus!  But Donald Trump would have still promised conservative American's everything they wanted even though we knew there was no way we could have it all and I would still be depressed.  Cause I just got Trumped.

An Ally Lost

America lost a key Southeast Asian Ally today as the Philippines have officially allied with China.  Hopefully this will be a good move for the Philippine people, because it's certainly bad news for the Americans.

A good movie plot

Movies, if they're good, leave you in constant suspense throughout their course.  They mimic the true reality that each of us experiences, that which requires all of our attention. But when hardship comes, luxury and fantasies melt away, and one is left with the cold reality that A=A. We are a nation deep in debt facing two powerful and warlike nations in Russia and China.

We are at the same time being confronted by dozens of commercial challenges.  How do we survive and prosper?  On a long enough time scale, the math doesn't add up.  But, luckily, humans live short lives.  It is my hope that the current set of sparring Illuminati don't kill us all.  They probably won't, that's the whole point of the illuminati, er, Jackson Hole golf club, or whatever ... after all.  Justice is a luxury enabled by survival.

The nature of survival is peace, and I think for the moment, peace remains.  

cows

I'm probably going to hell because I assume cows are conscious and I eat them anyway ... they're delicious.

The death of American Freedom

photo by Torben Hansen  snipped from wikipedia

         I had an interesting conversation with an Afghanistan war veteran today.  He told me everyone should be drug tested for every job.  I disagreed, saying instead that jobs should be performance based, not based on some superficial moral judgement.  Eventually my friend and I agreed to disagree.  So, I lost one convert.  Let me try to win some more.  My thoughts are essentially this, nobody has the right to search me, (a drug test is essentially a search of my blood or urine.) unreasonably.

       It's fair to say that many Americans have been desensitized to the fact that their fourth amendment protection against unreasonable searches has been trampled upon to the point where they are no longer applicable. The vast majority of the population that cannot defend themselves from bullying by those in authority.  People without a solid education on the law, their rights, and a nice chunk of cash to back it up don't stand a chance against people armed with those very things.  In American law, might makes right.  Doesn't sound much like the American dream does it?

      Drug testing in the work place is one example.  In jobs where a person's impairment could cause harm to the interests of both the company, and the community in general, it is commonly accepted practice to screen employees and applicants for use of illegal drugs.  This, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia constitutes an unreasonable search.

    “The impairment of individual liberties cannot be the means of making a point" Scalia wrote. "Symbolism, even symbolism for so worthy a cause as the abolition of unlawful drugs, cannot validate an otherwise unreasonable search.” 

      Scalia wrote these words as part of a dissenting opinion at the conclusion of the Nationial Treasury Employees v. Von Raab case back in 1989.  He felt that drug testing was being used as a symbol of social and corporate responsibility among firms.  I use his quote because he agrees with my opinion that drug testing constitutes an unreasonable search, but it seems as though the idea of drug testing goes beyond symbolism though, it goes more to the point of control.  Employers want control of their employees personal lives, something they're not supposed to have.

     Now, this post stemmed from one conversation about drug testing in the work place.  But the freedom Americans are supposed to enjoy from unreasonable search and seizure isn't the only protection to be subjected to what I view as a sinister demand for "the public good."  Gun ownership and the right to self defense in general spring to mind.  I just wonder how many people really think they are free in this country.  I certainly don't feel that way. 

With that said, it also must be said that America, with all its warts, still offers one of the freest and fairest systems in the world to live under and I fully understand what a privileged it is to live there.

Links of the week!

Here is the part where I post things that I found interesting this week.

The Obama administration is hinting at giving Israel back one of its spies.  So, I haaad thought Israel was an American ally.  Why is it again that we've imprisoned this intelligence agent of theirs for almost 30 years?

Healthcare! Well, I didn't sign up for it ... Now if I could just get one of those Obamaphones, then I would be interested!

Huge graft scandal developing in the Chinese military?  Impossible, the fact that China's president has a fortune ranging in the hundreds of millions and its prime minister is a billionaire have nothing to do with abuse of power ... nope ... this is certainly an isolated incident. .  Now, nobody pay attention to the insider trading in the U.S. Congress though, because then Americans would be hypocrites.

Hey! It's Ebola!  Thanks for brightening my day as usual Drudge!  I didn't ever want to go to Africa anyway.

Now for the non-story link of the week!  Constitutional protections have never applied when it comes to governments spying on their citizens.  Also, breathing oxygen is good for your health, and picking fights with police officers is bad for it.

The dirty south has its own small time "bishop of bling."

Finally, here's some April Fool's pranks from The Mirror.

Hope you enjoyed the links.

I'll try to find something decent to write about for the next post.