Does Trump Have The Brains To Avoid A Nuclear Confrontation? NO!

"They gotta be taught a BIGLY lesson! That punk Kim Jong Un can't get away with threatening me! I'm gonna bomb 'em back to the stone age!'


The question for the CNN panel yesterday evening was how best to respond to the continuing North Korean threats, including taking out the Carl Vinson and its strike group, while also holding an American hostage. Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson offered the most serious warning: "We can't treat  Kim like a normal guy. It would be a huge mistake".

These echoed the words of Denver Post columnist Gregg Dobbs two days earlier who wrote that he didn't believe Trump had the patience, intelligence or emotional equilibrium to deal with the rapidly escalating situation on the Korean Peninsula.   The basic reasons have been echoed many times from the date Trump "won" the farcical 2016 general election, by the likes of David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, Charles Blow, Eugene Robinson, Richard Cohen and others.  Cohen early on even recommended Trump be removed under the little known 25th amendment - by virtue of his inability to rein in his egoistic petulance, along with his reckless bombast and narcissism. I agreed, and in a subsequent blog post asserted the Donald is barely able to run a dog kennel, far less an administration or the whole nation.

All these concerns have acquired enormous gravitas as the North Korean standoff has now reached the phase it could instantly turn into a blood bath.  With Trump now deploying the Carl Vinson carrier  strike group close to the peninsula along with the U.S.S. Michigan - a nuclear sub outfitted with nuclear missiles - we're now in a situation close the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962. We got through that crisis because we had a man of temperance, intelligence and historical understanding at the helm : John Fitzgerald Kennedy..  Now, we have a "former" failed businessman who actually rode his sleazy real estate empire -  based largely on bankruptcies - to fame and fortune. Oh, after he already got 'nuff millions from daddy via inheritance.


So now we're saddled with a clown:  a bombastic pseudo-business tycoon and former reality TV personality who still thinks he's playing a role on 'The Apprentice' and believes any time he barks he can make lowly staff jump.  But we're in the real world now, not Trump's fantasy world of ego, entitlement and arrogance. And despite multiple warnings from even former military - generals and admirals - Trump can't seem to back off the bellicose rhetoric. This even as the North Koreans have vowed to take down the Vinson using one of their missiles. Rather than pause and reflect, Trump continues to think he's playing 'chicken' or high stakes poker - not that he's playing with the lives of tens of thousands.


As Gregg Dobbs put it, Kim Jong-un is not intimidated by threats, especially hollow ones - and also any pre-emptive strike would be about the worst move  possible. It would ensure the slaughter of tens of thousands of South Koreans as well as U.S. troops stationed there.   There is even the possibility the North Koreans could be spurred to employ one or more of their nuclear weapons, again most likely against South Korea - namely Seoul.

Things might not have reached this malignant stage had the media (most) not done back flips with wet dreams after Trump launched his 59 cruise missiles on a Syrian base. Since then, this deformed mental mutant has been putatively granted the "keys to the kingdom" (read: "respect" from media) by a stupid pack of slobbering suckers and goofballs who'd held their breath for any sign of Trump being "presidential".   Since these sycophantic imbeciles conflate use of force with "being presidential"  it was inevitable we'd now see a guy acting like he's been given his first hit of smack or crack cocaine.

As I wrote before, unless the same media pulls him back to reality - mainly by halting the cheerleading- we may now be in for the "most serious military confrontation since the Korean War" - in the words of one pundit last night.

Except this confrontation may be nuclear and we have a psychotic in charge of the country without the brains, knowledge, forbearance or basic human skills to deal with the situation.

SNL 'ISIS' Skit Shows Too Many Remain Free Speech Hypocrites

The Saturday Night Live skit featured cute Dakota Johnson  (of '50 Shades' fame) as a teen off to join the terror zombies called ISIS. She is being taken to the airport to meet their local emissaries by "Dad" - played by Taram Killam.  At the outset Dad asks his budding little ISIS girl: "Well, this is it. Need any help with your bag?"

She replies, "No that's all right, I got it".  And Dad responds, "Looks like your ride is here."

And the scene pans off to a pickup arriving with Islamic emblems displayed and guys sporting rifles. Dad sees them and chirps: "You be careful, okay?"

And as the wannabe warrior peeks into the car window from outside she smiles and says:

"Dad, it's just ISIS."

The spot ends with the main ISIS bearded guy saying "Death to America!" after 'Dad' asks him to "take care of her", then the words appear on the right bottom of the screen:

"ISIS: We'll take it from here, Dad"

To behold the reaction  to this skit (as "offensive") , at which we howled with laughter, you'd think the SNL bunch had insulted everyone's mom. Despite the backlash from obvious free speech hypocrites (who want only THEIR brand justified) Taram Killlam defended it on Twitter, observing:

"Proud of this. Freedom to mock is our greatest weapon. Thanks to the writers who asked not to be mentioned by name."

So why all the huff and puff and sanctimonious outrage now when many of these same upset ninnies cheered in indy theaters when N. Korean dictator Kim Jong -Un was killed in a pseudo-jokey assassination flick called 'The Interview"?  Well, because Americans can dish it out but can't take it. They will howl with laughter when another nation's pet "Ox" is gored in a media venue, but snarl in outrage when their own Ox is exposed. In this case the petrified fear of the ISIS bugs and their foul deeds.

Oh no! Mustn't laugh at that or mock it! No NO! It's real and it could happen to us!

But see, if that meme is kept constant as well as it's ancillary one, that numbers of young Americans (and other nationality) idiots really are trying to join ISIS, then we lose by being reluctant to mock them. Both the nitwit joiners and the ISIS bugs. (Which I already have stated ought to be eliminated with nerve gas whenever they charge out into the open desert by themselves).

So why the asymmetric outrage?  Again, because far too many pick and choose what forms of free speech (mostly over the top jabs at others' cultures, religions)  they will defend and hold sacred, but are prepared to condemn and punish those who dare to offer second thoughts - or jokes - concerning our own sensitive baggage. In this case the phenomenon of ISIS recruiting our wholesome young 'Murican offspring via social media.

Since it is too real to those who have young 'uns (and fortunately I don't,  so don't have to police them 24/7)  then mocking it - as in depicting a girl being driven by daddy to meet  ISIS - becomes seriously "cringe worthy" and offensive.

So basically, the ISIS maggots so have Americans crawling into their holes out of fear that they're afraid to laugh at their own neurotic foibles.

The takeaway from this is - once more - you  do not get to pick and choose which forms of free expression you will defend and which you will ignore if you declare yourself a real free speech champion. Cafeteria free speechers are hypocrites, pure and simple. So, if you're yelping now about the SNL 'ISIS" skit, you didn't have any right to yelp about being denied yucks when 'The Interview' was not shown in mainstream cinemas.

It's as simple as that!