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Presidential Rogue- The First 10 Days

On 30 January 2017,  wrote:

The despair in the weeks following the election has now turned into constructive rage. Opposition – more precisely, oppositions – are forming, not only in the general population, but inside the government itself, as is evident from the cascade of leaks and rogue tweets. One can only speculate what is happening in the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, but the reaction to Trump’s characterization of the CIA as ‘Nazis’ and his appalling speech about the size of his inauguration crowd in front of their memorial to fallen agents was plain. Moreover, in a move at first barely noticed in the general chaos, Trump removed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of National Intelligence from the Principals Circle of the National Security Council and replaced them with Steve Bannon, the white nationalist who has become Trump’s Cheney, co-wrote the ‘America First’ inauguration speech, and was the architect of the current Muslim ban. 

So, are we getting ready to replace the Orange Gentleman? The fact that Sally Yates, an interim governmental department head, refused to defend the Muslim Ban is HUGE. Her swift firing does  not matter; the rift is public. Trump is alone with the economically impoverished white folks who elected him, which is not that much, and the white nationalists surrendering him. Numerically speaking, they are a losing minority. It is sad because in the process the economically disadvantaged folks will be further marginalized, and with their demise, the middle class will further shrink. The Democrats have still to own their failures by supporting a faulty candidate.

 A military coup is no longer unimaginable in the USA: Trump calling for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Pyongyang and the spooks and brass rising against him.

Now, this is scary serious because it is not a TPVism. And the only joke I can think of is that:

“Luckily, there is nothing personal in any of this. It is just the imagination of a Finding Dory closeted fan, who reached his seventh decade refusing to play with the other kids in the playground, coming alive. Such people are usually kept away in seclusion, unfit for social interaction. How this one escaped is a sign of the times. Nothing personal, and thus more tragic.”

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By DANA NEACSU: Presidential Rogue- The First 10 Days

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