Yes, it’s crazy, but it’s no crazier than anything I’ve seen in the past six days.
What if Trump is trying to set himself up for impeachment or for rejection by the Electoral College?
Reality began to dawn on Cheeto Hitler late last week that his big win was going to produce results that would really, really suck. The 1,000-yard stare, flop sweat seeping from every pore, pasty complexion — here was a man trapped by his “victory”, utterly and irremediably over his head and more than capable of bringing down the whole show through pure ineptitude — and fully aware of it. The presidency is the 20th Century Limited, roaring down the rails, smoke belching from the stack, and poor little Excreta of Donnybrook Farm is well and truly tied to the tracks.
Do. Not. Want.
Could it be that the screeching paranoia, the flaming racism and the clueless floundering of his transition “team” so far are a means to an end? If you’ve been following the events of the last few days, there’s plenty of gob to smack yourself with.
1. The firing of Mike Rogers, the only transition team that I’ve heard of with any foreign policy expertise was apparently “at the request” of the transition team, which seems to be largely made up of all the little Trumplings. Apparently, he was a Christie recommendation, and since Christie sent Jared Kushner’s dear papa to prison for tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions, he was simply not acceptable.
2. Eliot Cohen, former State Department Counselor under Condaleeza Rice, head of SAIS at Johns Hopkins, Romney’s 2012 national security advisor and not exactly on the Dennis Kucinich end of the political spectrum, published words to the effect that experienced foreign policy professionals should consider working under a Trump administrations, misgivings notwithstanding. That was last week. Today, at about 5:00 AM, he Tweeted as follows: “After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They’re angry, arrogant, shouting “You LOST!” Will be ugly.”
3. Defense and State Department both confirmed today that they have not been contacted by any member of the transition team to begin the briefings necessary to bring the new administration up to speed on, y’know, Things They Should Know. Crickets.
4. Bannon the Odious Shitbag is finally getting the attention he deserves from the likes of Harry Reid, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown and a number of other rational individuals. It’s not nearly enough, but it’s not going to go away.
5. Stirrings of opposition in the Senate are beginning, with people like Rand Paul (Wow! Evidence of a functioning central nervous system!) saying there are potential Trump cabinet nominees they will not support — and it wouldn’t take many GOP defectors to block them.
6. The Provisional Transition Authority apparently requested Top Secret clearances for three of Trump’s kids. Non-starter to begin with, since you have to be a federal employee to get the clearance, and they can’t be federal employees because of nepotism laws. But really? REALLY? “We need help, Commissioner! Send up the Bat-Shit Signal!!”
Think about it — is he trying to disqualify himself? There’s nothing he’d like more now than to retreat to his penthouse and resume his usual amusements of stupid tweets, TV stardom and raping 12-year old girls. Is the idea to project so much crazy and so much incompetence that he gets the boot on December 12th, or starts the wheels of impeachment turning? He could get to be the martyred victim of the evil libruls, and go play with his television station while snorting cocaine off the breasts of underage prostitutes and not have to do all that heavy lifting . . .
Nah, probably not. But I’m not sure it’s any crazier than reality.