The Dictator Trump Loves
We’ve all seen Trump fawn all over brutal dictator Kim Jung Un, ignoring his human rights record, nuclear weapons threat, and outright brutality. Last week, Trump sided with Kim against Japan, our most important Asian ally, after North Korea launched short range missiles towards Japan that fell into the sea. Trump dismissed the launch saying,
“It doesn’t matter. All I know is that there have been no nuclear tests, there have been no ballistic missiles going out, no long-range missiles going out. And I think that someday we’ll have a deal. I’m not in a rush”
We all know that Trump is an unthinking, narcissistic ass. No one or nothing is more important to him than himself. He ignores his advisors, our allies, and all intelligence and law enforcement agencies. He’s an “expert” and a “professional” in all matters, taking his own counsel. He has done the same when it comes to Kim, playing games and coddling him.
Well, that behavior has now gotten at least five North Korean emissaries killed according to South Korean newspaper, Chosun Igbo. Remember when Trump abruptly ended the sham negotiation with Kim over nuclear weapons last March? Apparently, Kim showed his displeasure with Trump’s walkout by executing by firing squad chief negotiator Kim Hyok Chol and four of his staff.
The guy that Trump loves and trusts, who has a murderous track record, just murdered five diplomats because His Orangeness, in his all-knowing wisdom, is screwing around with nuclear weapons, close allies, and a brutal dictator for reality television storylines and more tweeting from the toilet in the WH.
Thanks a lot.
Oh well, at least soon we can drown our sorrows with $25 avocados and $100 bottles of “cheap” tequila!
1I’ll miss Corona.
2El Jefe,
Kim is also waay smarter and well educated in international politics than Rump.
3Trump likes Lil Kim’s absolute power. He’d execute his enemies if he could. We’re past the point for an intervention; a coup is in order.
4Very few people that I can’t stand in this world, Trump is near the top of the list.
5God forbid that the mutant creature that infests/infects the White House decides Kim Jung Un’s method of dealing with those he is displeased with is a workable solution to all of his problems.
You have to wonder if trump’s belief that: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” would actually be true! Would his base supporters and the toadies in politics that empower his continuing behavior agree with this solution?
Could the orange repugnancy actually order the executions of his *enemies*? In his dreams he probably already has.
6Sam in St. Paul @ 4,
History brings to my mind Romanian president/dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu who was greedy, cruel and dumb. It ended badly for him and his wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceaușescu
7Trump respects those who kill pesky journalists and (possibly, maybe) less than 100% loyal administration officials. It sure would be an effective way to keep underlings from writing tell-all books or issuing statements to the press.
He probably wonders how he could get in on the deal as he sings himself to sleep at night:
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
8Find out what it means to me…
OT again: With RAT45’s Twitler announcement of a new 5% tariff/tax on Mexican imports starting on 10 June, ratcheting up each month another 5% until a cap of 25%, Wall Street is yet again melting down today:
S&P 500 2,753.35 -35.51 -1.27
DJIA 24,839.84 -330.04 -1.31
NASDAQ 7,455.97 -111.75 -1.48
So far the major indices are roughly 1.4% down so far, closing in ~10 minutes. Wait until Monday…
9Diplomacy to the tune of Al Wilson’s 1968 semi-hit, The Snake.
to the snake: “And you’ve bit me even, why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”
the snake, portrayed by Kim, Jong-un: “You knew I was a snake before you brought me in”
10Yeow, commodities also reflecting the ‘tRump effect’ too; gold is up a bunch [vs long term trend], scary.
WTI crude oil prices have taken another big hit, down to 53.13/bbl, they were around 60 a day or two ago, 65 a month or two ago.
At this level new fracking becomes a loser.
See how long it takes gas pump prices to ‘adjust’ [I just filled up a few days ago @2.27/gal and felt screwed over].
Yeah, I know: ICE bad, but no choice.
I did just buy an all-electric Ryobi lawn tractor, a fantastic machine! My first EV, but not last. No gas-oil-plugs-filters-belts-etc., just pure [recharge plugin] power at a fraction of the gas operation cost [~25 cents a charge/mowing cycle, vs $3-4 for gas tractor].
Commodity prices:
Gold 2019-06 1,306.40 1.50
Light Crude 2019-07 53.13 -6.11
Natural Gas 2019-07 2.46 -3.46
Morningstar financial:
11https://www.morningstar.com/markets.html
Reinforceing the demented ones headlong rush into autocracy/kleptocracy is now two of his personal appointees are purposely flaunting the law.
12Conway has said until they put her in jail she will continue to flaunt the Hatch act as des Ivanka’s “party planner” ensconsed as one of ben carsons higher ups at HUD who stated she doesn’t care if she is breaking the law she will keep using government resources to push partisan points and policies.
So blatant flaunting of the law they have both been “warned” about.
Surprised that the demented one hasn’t promoted them both to being asst. AG’s directly under barr.
Looks like the bloated toad at Justice has lowered the barr for Hatch Act complience.
13And the house d’s help demented donnies cover up again.
14The house d’s get two ruling stating that they can get tax returns with in a week of decision. Both cases refused demented donnies request for a stay.
Yet instead of following up they rolled over and played dead for demented donnies shills by agreeing to not excercise their legal and judicially decided right to get tax returns.
Instead they agreed to forestall legal rights, and moral imperative, by NOT seeking these documents in “exchange” for a expedited appeals process. As though demented donnies hacks would not push for expedited appeal.
So now the schedule is such that just filing the paperwork on the appeals extends to at least middle/end of July with no clarity on when decision will be made.
What a bunch of incompetent whimps.
Sam in St Paul is right. Trump’s dearest fantasy would be to be able to have Cabinet members and other officials who displease him executed rather than just fire them so they can write books about him. It must irk him fiercely that he can’t just have Tillerson, Kelly, Mueller, Amash, Pelosi, and dozens of others put in front of firing squads. To him, Kim is living the dream.
15I read a book probably 10 years ago by Charlie Savage called Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency.
16I never even took the SAT’s, much less went to law school. But the biggest takeaway I got from it was not Bush’s use of signing statements as line item vetoes, although that was huge.
It was a different take on precedent that I’d ever imagined.
I don’t remember him specifically saying it, but the impression I got was that precedent was set not just by action.
But what I consider INACTION.
Some government or legal entity chooses to NOT act on an issue in front of it when accepted wisdom was that they should, it sets a precedent that can be used in a court of law as much as if the entity had taken action by intervening.
K has got a point. A huge one.
The refusal to comply with established laws about turning over evidence to Congress is paving the way to an unrestricted executive branch.
Just so happens that a malignant narcissist/wannabe dictator is the head of the executive branch at the moment.
Damn the luck.
I do wish people would stop using the term, “wannabe dictator”. He already IS with the complicity of a terrified congress and a witless population. it’s obvious that everyone is only out for him -or-herself.
BTW, and on another topic, as of 7:00 am on Saturday, the Kraken is yet to offer some unifying statement about the 12 people murdered in Virginia Beach.
17Linda Phipps @17,
Of course the statement will be about all about him…
18There are only a couple of quotes from antiquity that Trump would agree with.
First, obviously, is “To the victor goes the spoils.” It’s the closest thing he has to a philosophy. He literally lives by it, and is always in combat mode.
The other is “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” The problem is, Trump considers anyone who opposes, disagrees with, or competes against him as an Enemy. Not an opponent, a competitor, or even an adversary: an Enemy. There is no nuance, no level of relative threat or importance, no strategic evaluation or compromise.
Since pretty much everyone on the planet has figured this out, it makes Trump ridiculously easy to manipulate. All Kim had to do was talk a little trash about Joe Biden, The Democrat Enemy, and Trump became the cheapest date in town. It’s pathetic. It would also be kind of comical, if it weren’t so damned terrifying.
19This ‘execution’ is from a rather unreliable source per the BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48477248
“The most (in)famous of these was the alleged death of singer Hyon Song-wol. In 2013, the same South Korean newspaper announced that she had been shot in a “hail of machine gun fire while members of her orchestra looked on”.
20Last year, Hyon Song-wol swept into Seoul leading a visiting North Korean delegation ahead of the Winter Olympics looking rather glamorous in a fur coat and very much alive. She is now one of the most powerful women in North Korea.”
Lunargent @19,
Too bad he’s not a cockroach. He’d go to a roach hotel (by Raid) if it was renamed Trump.
21Papa – could be worth a try.
22Gotta bait it with Hamberders.
Finally the penny dropped.
23Part of what was bothering me about dowds mob lawyer call to flynn’s lawyer was that by asking for a heads up on any “national security issues” he was;
a) Suggesting a team of Government lawyers led by an ex FBI director could not be trusted to notify the appropiate authorities in the event that a true “national security” issue arose
b) That demented donnies claim of innocence was so important that to challenge it was “national security issues”
c) Since he was acting as personal, not governmental, lawyer for the demented one that “national security issues” and doddering don’s crimes were so intertwined that, as far as dowd was concerned, “national security” became an issue when ever his master was threatened by the consequences his own irresponsible behavior.
Essentially a restatement of the sun kings ‘L’etat c’est moi’ with demented donnie as the sun king, gold gilt and ugly design included.
Looks like it’s time for perp walks; all the fools that defied a judge’s legal order should be in the slammer by 0900 hours on Monday.
24You know what undercuts respect for law?
25Chelsea Manning is in Jail for contempt and bill barr is not.
Double standards to protect the connected expose the hypocrisy of judicial and law enforcement.
Either every one held in contempt is in jail or no one is.
Selective enforcement is an excuse for abuse.
Revisiting: has anyone asked Trump how he feels about the murders at the directive of Kim?
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