There is no gate, stupid.

               Stupid Watergate is a term coined by John Oliver several months ago in a joke about the Trump administration Russian collusion scandal.  The joke was funny and I like John Oliver’s sense of humor.  That being said, referring to modern political scandals with the suffix gate takes away the seriousness of the situation.  The suffix gate has lost all meaning in American culture for several reasons. This first being it’s obvious and hyperbolic overuse.  Second, many Americans living in 2017 do not know or understand their own or world history, therefore, they do not grasp the full gravity which should come with the comparison.  Finally, because of the first to reasons, this political age needs its scandals to have a more well branded moniker as an icon for the current scandals.  I suggest Tower, as in Trump Tower, the stinking, steaming pile of bullshit upon which the current President resides in the top floor.  From now on I will refer to this as the Russian Tower scandal.

                One of the premises of Oliver’s joke is the question of whether those in the Trump administration/family are so stupid as to get themselves tied up in such an obviously illegal and unethical situation.  The answer is that they are not stupid at all.  They have assessed the modern political reality in the United States with Machiavellian psychopathic clarity.  Their analysis, which is sadly on point, determined that shame is no longer a viable persuasive tool in American politics.  This is a big deal.  Without shame as a border between acceptable and unacceptable behavior, acceptable behavior is redefined in absolute Machiavellian terms, the ends justify any means necessary. 

                What killed shame as a viable persuasive tool in the American Political Theater?  There were a multitude of afflictions which lead to shame’s eventual demise.  One is the daily hyperbolic sensualizing of events on what are considered news outlets.  Second is the relentless ideology of the profit motive within the corporations that control media outlets.  Third is the ubiquitous invasion of personal privacy, real or imagined.  Fourth is the partisan divisions which have given credence to black and white thinking.  Finally, the natural death of nuance that occurs when a people are not adequately taught history and as a result develop poor long term cohesive planning skills. 

                The result has been that American politics and in many cases American life has become an embodiment of a phrase from the opening monologue of the movie Patton, “Americans have never tolerated a man who lost and laughed.  Americans love a winner! Always have, always will.”  While this sentiment makes an excellent battle cry for soldiers you are sending to fight and die, it is a disastrous way for a society to function.  It is this mentality that propelled Trump and his minions to the White House.  Trump’s entire brand is based on the concept, not the reality, of winning.  Trump succeeds to this end by defining whatever he does as winning.  Much like Charlie Sheen.  This is the exact approach that his team used to steal the election and they will make no apology for it.  This not making an apology for it is one of the important reasons why they continue to get away with it.  Don Jr. comes out and says yeah, I met with a hostile foreign government to aide my father in winning the election, so what, it worked. 

                The saddest fact is that the American people are so jaded, divided, overwhelmed, empathy eroded, sacred, and our system is so corrupt that it will work.  It will continue to work for as long as Trump stays in office and those who follow him will adopt his tactics and increase them to absurdity and beyond. 

                This Russian Tower scandal will be the least of the scandals that come out of this administration, so I say we do right by our President and his lifelong goal of promoting his brand and drop the gate and rebrand his scandals appropriately.  

Buyer’s remorse gets Trumped

Every time that Trump does something stupid and disastrous that will have lasting effects on both our national and foreign policy and disgraces the office of the President, so about seven times a day.  I see yet another article by some news outlet pondering the question of whether or not the Trump voter will now finally regret their decision to have voted for him.  The answer is and always will be no. 

                This question is analogous to asking if a habitual lottery ticket purchaser regrets the money they have wasted each time they don’t win the jackpot.  You can sit down every day with this person and go over the numbers.  You can show them that their odds of winning are miniscule.  You can show them how much money they could save every year and every decade if they just chose not to spending it on the lottery.  This will have no effect on their mindset or their behavior.  Someone who buys five dollars’ worth of lottery tickets twice a week will continue to do so in spite of your best logical arguments.  The fact that you have worked out the numbers and can show them the facts of these numbers will make no difference. 

                This is because playing the lottery fulfills one of the basest human needs that there is, it provides a sense of hope that allows the purchaser to continue to dream impossible dreams.  They say that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession.  If this is true, then in the waiting room of the first brothel someone started a numbers racket and everyone present bought a ticket.  This racket has been alive and well ever since and it isn’t going to end. 

You may be asking me what sense of hope Trump inspired that would have caused someone to cast their vote for him?  The answer is simple.  He said he would make America great, again.  I know that great is an ambiguous and manipulatable term just like patriotism, which can mean completely different things to each person, but this doesn’t change the fact that he hit a nerve.

 

                The people that felt America was no longer great don’t have to be completely bigoted, racist, misogynistic, homophobic pricks.  They just have to live with an underlying and daily sense of dread, real or imagined.  Though I will concede that a false sense of dread not tied to reality is much harder to overcome then one based on actual threats.  The majority of those who feel this sense of dread are not ignorant, openly racist rednecks.  They are the pseudo-educated, who hold certificates of education whose main purpose is the constant reminder of the debt burden they accumulated for such a privilege.  They are those that just signed for a loan on an overpriced house on the “right” side of the tracks.  Those who make $75,00 to $150,000 a year and still live paycheck to paycheck.  Those who do whatever it takes to get their children into charter schools and still feel that their kids won’t have it as good as they did.  Those who distrust and dislike law enforcement but still put blue lights out on their porch in solidarity because they believe that the alternative to militaristic law enforcement is to be overrun by those who are worse off than they are. 

                These people believe that the “system,” however they define it, is and has for a long time been rigged.  The reality of the situation is that they are right, for all the wrong reasons, and the reasons fucking matter.  Trump played to these fears and promised to be something different.  This is what jumpstarted his campaign for President.  He was able to win because he was the perfect storm of the American illusion.  Trump is the icon of modern extravagant wealth.  He’s a thin-skinned braggart that believes his wealth is the source of meaning and purpose in life.  He openly states that this wealth is a sign of his betterness and that he is therefore entitled to act as he pleases in all situations without fear of consequence or retribution.  Something he believes he is entitled to dole out to others on a daily basis. 

                This sales pitch is not new.  It has been the mantra of monarchs and depots throughout long course of human civilizations.  If you want a biblical reference for the same type of herd behavior look no further than the people of Israel beseeching God to provide them a king.  They perceived that they were surrounded by overwhelming threats both foreign and internal.  They willing gave their functioning form of tribal democracy for the presence of a strong leader.  In spite of the warnings by their own prophets of what type of destruction such a leader always does to their own people.  If you want to know the aftermath of this horrible decision read Kings and Chronicles. 

                Many of the people in the United States today feel those same pressures the tribes of Israel felt, and have turned to the same solution.  It is my opinion that much of this fear is real even if it is grossly misplaced.  The constant cycle of endless consumerism driven debt coupled with a digital permanent record of all financial and personal failings that can and do occur over a lifespan of seventy plus years.  Removes a sense of wellbeing from most individuals that is impossible to get back.  In a vain and misguided attempt to do so we elected a blowhard charlatan who promised greatness with even not knowing what the term meant. 

                I believe Trump as President will cause much great and irreversible damage to the once sovereign country of the United States.  He already has with his actions in the realm of foreign affairs.  This so-called, travel ban, just being the latest blow. 

                Our Statue of Liberty proudly proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”  Yet, we as a people have forgotten that those masses are not supposed to remain forever tired, poor and wretched. 

                As the wealth gaps grows daily by leaps and bounds, between the wealthiest few and the rest of us.  The gap between those who are just getting by and those who aren’t closes just as rapidly.  This is the real terror that we should be waging a war on.  Yet we are giving up our freedoms that allowed for us to prosper together. In exchange for a false sense of security, which we will find out to late, is going to be our undoing. 

                The Trump voter can see all this happening but they will still never regret their choice in the ballot box.  This is because, just as the lottery player, they never truly expected to win.  They voted on the outside chance that something other than their worst fears would become reality.  When those fears and more, do become reality, which they will, those who voted for and still support Trump will recite the same tired excuses they were taught in place of an actual education.  It would have been worse if we elected the other one.  

Dependable President Trump

There has been several news stories lately about the amount of extra money that has gone into the travel budget for President Trump.  In the spirit of the ole cloak and dagger, black ops mentality, that permeates the Trump presidency.  They have refused to disclose what all this extra money is being sent on.  However, here at the Wrong Hole Blog we have insider sources extremely close to the President himself, i.e., nursing staff who have leaked to us the exact nature of these extra expenses.

                As we all know President Trump is the oldest elected president in the history or the U.S., and even though he claims a fortune of billions, he cannot escape the slow and embarrassing march to the grave.  This includes his loss of bowel control.  Now this happens to lots of people as a natural part of the aging process and is nothing to be ashamed of, but in classic Trump brand style the President has really went over the top when it comes to taking care of this need. And this is where the added expense comes in.

                President Trump must have his Depends Adult diapers made to order for the Midas addicted Real Estate mogul.  All of his diapers come in the color gold but that is just the beginning.  He has the elastic waist band embossed with the Presidential Seal and then each separate pair is hand crafted with the wording of his choice. 

                Some of Trump’s favorite decals for the back panel of his diapers include the first amendment to the constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  These are usually his early morning diapers, the ones he wears while tweeting at 3am.  They are not his only custom style.  He also has different pairs that include the 3rd through the 10th amendments.  Our sources also say that on April 15th he exclusively wore the diapers with the 16th amendment on them.   We have also been told that he ordered his staff to have his next order of Depends include the Declaration of Independence, and many parts of the Constitution.

                The front panel of all his custom Depends are the same.  Just pictures of naked, under-age Russian prostitutes.  With a prostrate his size (It’s Yuge), he needs to use anything that helps him be able to go. 

                Now if we could just find a way that was as effective at containing the shit coming out of his mouth, the entire world would be a much safer place.  

TRUMP'S REVERSES REAGAN'S LEGACY

American Military Coup of 2017

“Right now we have an armada heading toward North Korea,” President Trump.  This statement by the current Commander In Chief was proven to be the opposite of true.  The armada in question was sailing away from North Korea.  This is actually a big deal.  All of the regular sources of American/World continuous advertising tried to make the case that this was just a gaffe.  There was even some discussion about this being a communication mix-up, or a statement that was true, just not when he said it.

                What was never once mentioned, as is corporate media policy, was the truth.  This was blatant proof of the successful military coup that has taken place in this country.  Let us consider the facts; the POTUS is the Commander-In-Chief of all American military operations.  This means that if he makes a statement about what the military is doing it better damn well be happening.  The military, American or otherwise, demands a rigid structure of chain of command that is to be followed unquestionably and to the letter of its orders.  For a member of the military to do otherwise is misconduct and if that soldier were to do the exact opposite of his order it would be an offense for which he would find him/herself, minus Toto, but very much in Leavenworth, Kansas.  Probably occupying Michael Vick’s old cell.  Yet this did not happen.

                When it was brought to the public’s attention that there was no armada sailing toward North Korea, and that the ships in question were actually sailing in the opposite direction only the President was said to be in the wrong.  The President’s public relations staff scrambled to provide an explanation of how the President was making an accurate statement.  Most of their explanations ran along the Magellan line of thinking, i.e. the ships were going to North Korea but they were circumnavigating the earth to get there.  Or, even less believable, they were sailing to North Korea by the usual maritime route of sailing around Australia first.  All woke folk know this is complete bullshit.

                The implications of a direct order from the Commander-In-Chief being defied in such an obvious manner have served to turn Trump from the President of the United States in the Parrot of the United States Military.  Hence, vis-a-vi, ergo, a successful military coup has taken place.  This direct and publicly acknowledged violation of a direct order is not the only proof that the military controls this once sovereign nation.  The fact that Trump’s often stated, and seemingly only attainable goal, is to increase military spending should have been seen as another white flag of surrender by civilian power. 

                This creep of insidious military control in our society has been going on for quite some time.  The undemocratic election of Parrot Trump is the culmination point of what has been a several decades long process.  The military’s momentum gaining power play was to convince the American people to declare a War On Drugs.  This came during height of the most recent age of American civilian protest against unwarranted and excessive military power.  Those profiting off of military operations realized that they could no longer openly engage against sovereign nation states with the compliance or complacence of the American public.  As a result they changed strategies.  They began classifying their military targets as consumable natural products, i.e. some drugs.  This lead to the creation of the paramilitary branch of government operating openly on American soil, the DEA. 

                Once the American public began to read about and see on TV, these military operations on American soil, and they accepted them unquestionably, in fact, encouraging them.  The military began to take its next step to militarize the law enforcement branches on the federal, state, and local level.  Any protest against this was silenced by the notion that this militarization of public services was necessary to win the war against inanimate, consumable objects, aka some drugs.

                The military did not have to change the time tested propaganda in order to gain support for this war.  They drew the battle lines as always and said ‘you are either with us or you are with the drugs!’  The well-oiled propaganda machine that has been up and running since the Second Great American Power Grab, continued to run as smoothly as ever.  In order to increase the fear needed to gain compliance from the general public, sensationalized horror stories became the common fodder of the news feeds.  Fear mongering, ambiguous claims about the stated enemy of this war were required reading in the public education systems.  As always, youth groups were organized to lead the fight for the hearts and minds of the people.  All the while being used as human child shields against any critique of the war effort.  This program was so successful that every public and private institution threw its full support into the war effort in hopes of getting a ticket aboard the money train.    

                Efforts to show the patriotism of the aforementioned institutions included, but was not limited to, the creation of drug free school and work zones.  This was a blatant lie, drugs were readily available in these places, but never free.  Mandatory drug testing for students, athletes and wage slaves became common and accepted practice.  The legal system, taking its cues from their military master’s, took full advantage of this war, and the profits came rolling in.  Profits, not only monetary, but also in the form of a lever of control to return semi-free citizens to their former position of absolute slaves.  Social and economic mobility became more and more restricted, while the marketing companies, as obedient entrepreneurs, sold simultaneously, the lure of glamourous disobedience and the false sense of security of blind obedience to all unwitting participants caught in this fabricated struggle. 

                The real military genius of this war wasn’t the age-old techniques applied to wage it, but rather the way in which it was declared.  By declaring a war whose battle lines are drawn by arbitrary economic restrictions of long used consumable goods, those waging it could keep the fighting going for the foreseeable future.  This is due to the fact that the enemy in this case cannot surrender.  Not unconditionally or otherwise.  An inanimate object, that is a naturally occurring plant in many cases, perpetuates the war simply by its very existence. 

                IT has taken well over 50 years, but the American citizens have begun to recognize the arbitrary nature of the battle lines in this conflict and have begun to challenge the long-established demarcation lines of the war zone.  In the future the war on drugs will come to an end.  Not because those waging it will be able to claim victory.  They never intended for there to be a victory.  The goal was endless and exponentially profitable warfare. 

                The military industrial complex saw that this war could possibly have an endpoint so they made sure to start another one.  This one will be much harder to ever end because it is a war on a feeling.  The feeling of terror.  The battle lines of this conflict are not only arbitrary they are also fluid.  Today’s terrorist will be tomorrow’s ally.  Anyone can and will be denounced as a terrorist on any grounds.  And anyone who stops being terrified will be called unpatriotic and moved automatically into the classification of a terrorist.  The same, you are with us no matter what we say or do, or you are an enemy combatant, black and white thinking, is being employed to wage this war. 

                This, no end in sight, ever expanding war, was giving a golden egg laying bird in the form of Parrot Trump.  He is Commander-In-Chief in name only.  He repeats was is told to him and he pushes for expanding the war on every front as he has been instructed.  This is what a military coup, stated or not, looks like.  Everyone born in the U.S, since 1970 has been born into a war-torn country.  Now that the military is firmly and unquestionably in control, this status will be expanded to include everyone on this planet. 

                The only way to stop the fighting is to stop the feeling.  If, we the people, want this conflict to end we must actively not engage in it.  This starts by looking in the mirror and not fearing what you see.  This comes from embracing the mortality of all things, including feelings, ideas, and power structures.  Only together, with concentrated and determined, mass disengagement from the front lines of this conflict we can force a surrender by those who profit from this conflict.  If we together change the definition of what is profitable, those to whom profit is sacred, will follow us instead of the other way around.