Well, just checking in from my bunker. After taking inventory of my canned goods and ammunition, I thought I’d look into how some of the media’s predictions have been playing out over the first weeks of the new administration.
— No nuclear wars.
— No wars with China, Russia, Iran or North Korea. Same wars Obama started or escalated still going strong.
— No diplomatic breakdown because of Taiwan. No change in U.S. “Two China Policy.”
— No new wars anywhere.
— NATO and alliances with Australia, Japan, etc. still intact.
— No mass resignations among government employees. CIA, NSA, and State Department still open for business.
— No coups.
— 1st Amendment, and others, still in place.
— No impeachment, no invocation of Emoluments Clause, 25th Amendment, formal charges of treason.
— Congress has approved Cabinet nominees.
— No roundups of POC, women, journalists, LGBTQ, deportations are still below Obama-era headcount of 2.5 million deported, highest under any presidency.
— Stock market did not crash.
— No psychological break down by Trump leading to anarchy, war, etc.
— No signs of capitulation to Putin.
— U.S. justice system and courts still open and functioning.
I will keep an eye on all this, and update as necessary.
BONUS: I don’t like Trump. This post is a criticism of his critics and the media for all their idiot fear-mongering.
BONUS BONUS: Someone will respond “Yes, but it’s only been _____ weeks, so you never know.” This is true because no one knows the future, but it is also irrelevant because I am writing about what has already (not) happened.
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RICH BAUER said...
1Not so fast, Peter. While it appears we are living in Trump’s ultimate bad reality show, we all could be dead and in hell having to watch the sad rerun over and over and over….
03/29/17 7:45 AM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
2How else can you explain the cast of damned souls we watch parade before America? It’s hair razing.
“Go straight to hell’: Angela Rye smacks Bill O’Reilly for racial attack on Maxine Waters’ hair.
Don’t bother, We’re here.
03/29/17 7:49 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
3“Lock Her Up” has not happened. Obama has stopped bombing people of color.
03/29/17 8:22 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
4Trump has bombed “the shit out of” people of color. Back to my bunker.
03/29/17 8:24 AM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
5Who would ever think the sexist Fox shitheads would be racists too?
03/29/17 9:03 AM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
6BillO keeps this up and he is gonna lose Fox’s audience of angry old white people who are afraid of black people.
03/29/17 9:11 AM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
7Peter.
Your Smartass side is improving….
And….
One that just says it all….” I feel fine”…..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY#
M
03/29/17 9:43 AM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
8PS.
Rich… You should feel honored…. Peter wrote today’s essay…. All about you.
But he left off checking the supplies of DVD’s and Toilet Paper.
M
03/29/17 9:46 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
9Breaking “Fake News…” * Trump accused of having sex with daughter!* Bill Clinton responds… “I did not have sex with that women”. He seems depressed. Wage Peace. The D and R’s are BS.
03/29/17 9:52 AM | Comment Link
StarkNakedTruth said...
10RIP Chicken Little.
03/29/17 10:50 AM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
11Starknaked.
I thought ‘Chicken Little’s ‘ first name was Rachel. As is Madow.
M
“End of the world as we know it, and I feel fine… ” REM.
M
03/29/17 11:39 AM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
12Well
It is the end of the world for some people…..as the truth comes out.
If you read between the lines…. I do believe this woman admitted to being the source of the intel community leaks…..
And she’s taking “senior white house staff ” down with her.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/29/former-obama-official-discloses-rush-to-get-intelligence-on-trump-team.html
M
03/29/17 11:48 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
13Mildew is bad.
03/29/17 12:14 PM | Comment Link
chuck said...
14Smell you later!
03/29/17 12:15 PM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
15Chuck.
Trump’s daughter would absolutely kick Bill’s ass if he tried… Besides…. She’s to old for him.
Bill likes the 11 to 14 age group.
M
03/29/17 12:22 PM | Comment Link
Bruce said...
16Last bullet debatable : serial demonstrable perjurer, criminal record destroyer and CGI RIC0 BaRacketeer ( & Company) $till At-LARGE !
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-11.00.50-AM.jpg
Press The CHARGE$, Donald “Justice” Trump & Congress !!
03/29/17 1:03 PM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
17Rich.
Here you go….. Some places…. They call this proof.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/29/former-obama-official-discloses-rush-to-get-intelligence-on-trump-team.html
M
03/29/17 2:39 PM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
18So….
Why am I guessing this is a friend of a few people that run around this blog?
Peter?… Rich?…. Couple others….?????
See some serious trouble coming.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39439159
M
03/29/17 11:06 PM | Comment Link
chuck said...
19Please lIke me on Facebook, and Tweet me.
03/30/17 9:21 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
20CNBC interviewer of Putin Conference today was good, a journalist! Putin quote regarding U.S. speak…”Idle talk suitable for media”! Off to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle. Have a nice day. PPP’s
03/30/17 9:24 AM | Comment Link
Jonathan L. Seagull said...
21Peter, you missed a BIG ONE!! The deportations that began during Obama’s presidency have continued under Trump, only he brought them to media attention!
03/30/17 10:32 AM | Comment Link
Traven said...
22Hitler took power in 1933 and didn’t start WW II until 1939.
Are we to wait around patiently until Trump has full control of all levers of power before we start to get worried?
03/30/17 10:46 AM | Comment Link
chuck said...
23We need a condom for internet protection. Lee Camp Be safe! Have a nice day.
03/30/17 11:27 AM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
24Peter, here is a good topic for your sequel to GHOSTS:
Across large swaths of the country, disability has reshaped scores of mostly white, almost exclusively rural communities, where as many as one-third of working-age adults live on monthly disability checks, according to a Post analysis. The increases have been worse in working-class areas, worse still in communities where residents are older, and worst of all in places with shrinking populations and few immigrants.
Trump supporters take note.
03/30/17 1:57 PM | Comment Link
chuck said...
25Famous quote of the day… “I know nothing” Sgt. Shultz, U.S. TV (State?).
03/30/17 3:00 PM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
26Rich.
First…. ” according to a Post analysis. “…. When the Hell has the Post ever done that correctly???
Second….
How the hell did you come up with the logic to tie that to Trump?
M
03/30/17 4:13 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
27Chuck- you win the prize for the most prescient and sadly fitting reference (Sgt Shultz) to this whole American governing farce. I owe you an E cocktail.
03/30/17 4:33 PM | Comment Link
chuck said...
28John, I know nothing, continue…
03/30/17 4:51 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
29Trump is In Like Flynn.
He is sooooooo fuckkkkkked.
03/30/17 9:37 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
30Would Putin have Flynn silenced like the Russians who are dropping like flies?
03/30/17 9:52 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
31Will Trump be allowed only one tweet a day in prison?
03/30/17 10:30 PM | Comment Link
Mitch said...
32So…. Rich….
I guess your lack of response…. Is still a response…
Here you go again….
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39439159
M
03/30/17 10:33 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
33We plead the 25th
Assuming Flynn doesn’t plead the 5th
Congress can appoint a body with no medical expertise whatsoever. Because the 25th Amendment does not require a medical diagnosis or consultation with medical professionals, Congress could even appoint members of its own ranks to the panel. This approach could give Congress the ability to enforce its own criteria for presidential fitness. For example, Congress could deem the President “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” if he is unable to be trusted with classified information by intelligence agencies. Congress could even use the threat of removal to exercise additional leverage over the President’s actions.
03/30/17 10:54 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
34Former national security adviser Michael Flynn denied in an FBI interview last month that he had discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Moscow’s ambassador to the United States, contradicting transcripts of intercepted communications between the two men, the Washington Post reported
Felony conviction can mean Goodbye pension, unless Flynn strikes a deal.
Flynn: It was all Trump’s idea. He told me to do it. That’s why he waited three weeks to force me to resign. He and that lunatic Bannon were trying to find another excuse.
03/30/17 11:09 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
35WE the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
03/30/17 11:13 PM | Comment Link
RICH BAUER said...
36Flynn’s flipping takes the wind out of gasbag Nunes pathetic attempt to blowup a federal case out of the unmasking of “innocent” US citizens caught in NSA intercepts of foreign communications. Flynn nor Nunes apparently never heard of Stellar Wind.
03/30/17 11:28 PM | Comment Link