Random Reflections On This Flitting Moment
Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Cowardly Murder and Russian Capitulation, has said that Americans are too fat and too dumb to serve in the military. He is surely right about this. Fortunately, Hegseth himself is not fat.
There is no such thing as a “narco-terrorist,” just as there is no such thing as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” These terms of art have been manufactured by the criminally subversive and mentally derailed who could never rationalize their intentions or actions without accusing their intended victims of war crimes or insanity.
As long as Americans remain obsessed with drug-induced self-obliteration, there will continue to be many enterprising men who seek their livelihood by providing those drugs for a profit. Donald Trump and former House Speaker John Boehner, incidentally, are among such profiteers today, as witness their investment-fostered enthusiasm for legalizing marijuana. Nobody would be piloting small drug boats to the U.S. from Venezuela or anywhere else, unless they knew there was a large and thriving market for their wares, thus justifying the long and risky journey. If you really wanted to stop poor and desperate men from trying to make a living by supplying such harmful products, then you would focus on the source of the problem: demand. But Trump and his allies in this “narco-terrorist” fraud evidently share the South American drug traffickers’ vested interest in promoting Americans’ craving for drugs. They merely wish to destroy their competition in the most final and absolute manner possible — as all “greed is good” capitalists would wish to destroy theirs, if only they had the legal and military tools at their disposal to do it.
The Trump fixation on Venezuela is clearly about oil. Trump is fixated on anything only if he believes there is material gain in it for himself or his family. Ergo, Trump is summarily executing random petty criminals on the sea because he believes Venezuelan oil could make him billions of dollars. It makes perfect sense if you remember that if ever there were a walking demonstration of the old adage, “Follow the money,” Trump and his mob are it.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia tries to save its hopeless cause by promising Trump big money deals if he cooperates with their schemes against Europe. And he cooperates, of course, selling out long-time allies and backing out of long-term American promises, facilitating real tyranny and the tangible shrinkage of the semi-free world because he believes there is something in it for him. This is what Trump calls “The Russia Hoax.” That, coincidentally, is probably what the Russians call Trump as well.
