Military strategists often seek to take out the leadership of their enemy’s forces. They sometimes refer to this as cutting off the head of the snake, decapitation. If the leaders are gone, the movement they led is much easier to defeat. Smart modern day tacticians usually go for decapitation as their first option.
We are in the midst of watching our own government, from intelligence, to law enforcement, to health and welfare, to education, to infrastructure, to energy, to science, to media, worker safety, climate disaster mitigation, women’s rights, immigrant’s rights, rape victim’s rights, police safety, being decapitated by the appointment of manifestly unqualified reality-denying partisans for every crucial cabinet position.
Their chief “qualification” is publicly insisting that a fair election with record voter participation was stolen from their leader, who, according to an incoherent conspiracy theory, actually won and was cheated out of victory by a cabal of bipartisan pedophiles. That there is absolutely no evidence of the 2020 election being rigged, unfair, stolen, is absolutely no problem for the ambitious, brazen, unqualified creeps who are vying to make dimwitted megadonor Betsey DeVos look highly competent in her cabinet position as Secretary of Education.
During the 2016 campaign our current president’s circle had 140 documented contacts with Putin’s people. Trump had to pardon people convicted after Mueller referred them for criminal indictment. Mueller could not prove every legal element of criminal conspiracy, partly because of lack of cooperation and destruction of evidence by contemptuous witnesses and participants. He did, however, note that Putin’s folks worked in coordination with Trump’s, at least 140 times, to advance their mutual political fortunes.
In an election he lost by 3,000,000 votes Trump, with help from Putin, and likely MBS, managed to win every single electoral district he needed to capture the Electoral College, shades of the social media engineered Brexit victory (Sloppy Steve Bannon was connected to that one too). Trump maintains close ties to his Russian benefactor, with whom he spoke numerous times between Trump’s two totally legit presidential wins, though the former KGB officer regards the American president, not unfairly, as a vain and easily manipulable useful idiot. Putin is now openly contemptuous of his witless American henchman.
Also, keep in mind, Mueller found numerous instances of Obstruction of Justice from Trump and his people and stated that he could not exonerate him for obstruction, even if he couldn’t charge him (due to Robert Bork’s Nixon-era OLC memorandum about the DOJ not indicting a sitting president). Trump’s response was to appoint corrupt theocrat Bill Barr to obstruct justice by, among other things, repeatedly lying that the Mueller Report had totally exonerated Trump of all wrongdoing. Team Trump does nothing but obstruct justice, law, decency, norms, common sense, the will of the vast majority of Americans.
The current Republican playbook is obstruction, particularly of damaging and disqualifying information about the president’s unqualified appointees. Recall that the highly partisan, radical legal opinions of Boof Kavanaugh, written while serving in the White House counsel’s office for Cheney and Bush, were OFF LIMITS! to Congress during his confirmation hearing. Thousands of unseemly files were hidden from the public, in the manner of the sham six day FBI “investigation” of hundreds of tips about Kavanaugh’s blackout drinking and sexually embarrassing attempts to “get some” from unwilling women, who, though named in the tips, were also not interviewed.
Pete Hegseth might be an alcoholic who gets publicly shitfaced from time to time, and who had to pay at least one woman $50,000 not to rat him out to the police over alleged non-consensual sex, which she considered “rape”, but only, as he keeps insisting, because fucking woke billionaire Jew liars are smearing him, along with ugly women he wouldn’t impregnate with Mike Pence’s dick, and who are, in any case, also bound by the terms of iron-clad NDAs.
Well, at least Vladimir Putin is laughing his humorless ass off. There is that, I suppose.
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