Freak Out Friday – July 20, 2018

We really don’t have to break the comments down into sections this week. We are faced with a hard truth that has been presented with indisputable proof in the last weeks in general, and this last week in particular.

The hard truth is that Donald J. Trump is a traitor.

The fact that he met for two and a half hours with Putin all by himself, with no American present aside from the translator (who is sworn to secrecy) should alone be enough to trigger all manner of concerns, which it already has. His subsequent personal appearance with Putin was a complete and utter disaster by any definition of the word.

Since then he has desperately been trying to walk back his moronic comments, including–most conspicuously–asserting that he meant to say “wouldn’t” rather than “would” when discussing whether the Russians interfered with the election.

Let us make a couple of things clear:

Of course they interfered with the election.

Of course Putin ordered it. It’s a dictatorship. He’s the dictator. They dob’t take a dump without him signing off on it.

Over the past weeks we have witnessed Trump doing exactly what a traitor who became POTUS would do. He has done his level best to shred the relationship between the U.S. and its allies of over half a century. He wants to destroy NATO. And he speaks highly and allies himself with Putin, a vicious dictator who punishes and/or kills local reporters or dissidents, poisons them when they’re abroad, and invades and annexes other countries. This goddamn dictator, to the addled mind of Trump, is an ideal leader because everyone lives in terror of him and that’s what Trump wants for himself. This isn’t me making speculation. He’s made “jokes” about how the U.S. government should work and how everyone would show him total obedience and kowtow to his every desire. When Putin offers to have Russians work with the FBI to “investigate” the action they themselves undertook, in exchange for having the opportunity to interview people they want such as former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul, anyone with a lick of sense knows this is a non-starter. Yet during the press conference Trump described it as “an incredible offer.” Now technically he’s correct, if one is considering the exact definition of incredible, which means “impossible to believe.” But I think we’re all reasonably sure that he meant it was remarkable, amazing, and something to be strongly considered. Especially because even Sarah Sanders, when asked about it, initially refused to say that it was off the table. How could it ever be on the table. It shouldn’t even be in the same room as the table.

We are left wondering if Putin has something on Trump, or if Trump is just that monumentally stupid. Honestly, I don’t see why it can’t be both. The pee tape might have just been the triggering device to put Trump squarely in Putin’s pocket, but he may have come to firmly believe in getting orders from someone smart enough to force him to accommodate him.

Meantime we’ve learned that Michael Cohen did indeed tape Trump in conversation about coughing up money to buy the story of a Playboy model’s affair with him. That of course will not make the slightest difference to his incredibly venal and stupid base (90% of Republicans still support him, according to a Gallup Poll) but what it does give is proof that Cohen indeed does have recordings of Trump, and maybe one of them will be demonstrably illegal.

We can only hope.

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