HR McMaster, Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, told a tech CEO recently that Donald Trump was an “idiot,” a “dope,” and that he has the “smarts of a kindergartner.” These are strong words coming from someone that the President trusts, and even more compelling considering McMaster isn’t the first to say things like this behind closed doors. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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According to a new article in Buzzfeed, H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, believes that Donald Trump is an idiot, a dope, and has the smarts of a kindergartner. At least that’s what H.R. McMaster told the CEO of a tech company during a recent private meeting. So, McMaster, one, called Trump an idiot, similar to what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him earlier this year, he called trump a dope, which I’m sure that’s a name most of us agree on, but has the smarts of a kindergartner. Now, that’s the particular line out of the insults that McMaster lobbied against the President that we should probably focus the most on, because after all, McMaster is Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, you know, the guy who informs the President about threats to the United States, about threats overseas that the United States might or might not need to be involved in. And if he thinks that Donald Trump is as smart as a five or six year old child, yeah, we’ve probably got a pretty pig problem sitting there in the White House.
How many more members of the Trump administration, how many more cabinet officials that Trump himself appointed, have to come forward and tell us that this guy is a complete fricking moron before we decide to do something about it? In this case, the case of the National Security Advisor telling us he’s as smart as a kindergartner, this is a man that gets to make life or death decisions, not just about Americans but about people overseas. Reports have already shown that Donald Trump is killing civilians with his drone warfare against ISIS at an alarming rate, higher than Barack Obama ever could have imagined. And yet we’re just letting him sit there and do it.
We’re not invoking the 25th Amendment, we’re not demanding that Republicans in DC take action and put a stop to this mad man’s antics, no, we just laugh along with the stories that say that Donald Trump’s dumber than a kindergartner, Donald Trump’s an idiot, so says his cabinet. There’s gonna come a time when these stories aren’t gonna mean anything anymore, the public’s gonna become numb to them, and it’s all because people aren’t taking enough of a stand, to demand that our officials in Washington DC do something, invoke the 25th Amendment, to get this psychopath out of office.
Because until that happens we’re just gonna see more reports, more people coming out, more insults lobbied against the President. And yeah it’s fun, it shows what kind of a person he really is, but at the end of the day it’s not actually helping anything, and it’s not fixing the problem. That lies with the American public, and with the Republicans and Democrats in Washington DC. We have to step up and demand that they do their job in order to get Trump out of the office, so that he can’t do that job anymore. There’s a chain of events that has to happen here, and unfortunately it starts with the American public. And while we do have a lot of voices crying for Trump’s removal from office, at this point there simply are not enough. We have to make that chorus louder; that’s on us.
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Possibly a psychopathatic kindergartener is less frightening than a religious fundamentalist. Here’s a check. The Twilight Zone rerun with the monster kid that can make anything happen with his mind unless everyone loves him, or the Taliban/Isis/Wahabi fundamentalists. Who comes after them, Who cares, we’ll all be dead or locked up. Our only hope is if they find the election invalid, or give our current not-at-all dear leader lots of shiny things to distract him and talk nice about him on Fox so he’s busy tweeting about nonsense while we pay attention to, dare I say it, Paul Smegel Ryan is trying to give his “my precious” donors huge tax breaks, and stop them all from taking away our remaining liberties.
For all the people calling Trump a moron… he sure did manage to make this a thorny-ass mess, for a moron, didn’t he? (What I mean is, picking Pence as a VP, then filling the cabinet with a rogue’s gallery of people who would make worse presidents than he would, so no matter how many you run through, impeachment after impeachment, each taking oodles of time we don’t have, you end up worse-off than before.) I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t all just an act, (on Trump’s part,) and a massive distraction while much subtler, more nefarious stuff goes on behind the scenes, like all these judicial appointments he’s quietly making. (A president has between 4 and 8 years to do whatever damage he might want to do, just “presiding”. BUT, a smarter man wanting to have a much longer duration of influence, who isn’t worried about trivialities, distracts everyone with constant insults and tantrums, while his friends quietly run the board while no one is looking, focused as they are on the babyman with the tiny hands screaming and howling and crying.) I think, frankly, that it’s just possible we’re all being played like morons, and looking right where Trump wants us to look.
What if it’s all just a giant, elaborate act? A show? A play… and we’re all suckers?
What’s that say about US, that we a-let a ‘man’ (for want of a better word,) with the APPARENT mentality of a small boy get into something like this, and that we b-weren’t smart enough to stop him?
I agree, btw, that the only safe course here, would be to hold an Article V convention, amending the US Constitution as follows: the entire 2016 US General Election’s results are declared NULL AND VOID in their entirety, effective immediately, including all hiring/firing decisions, executive orders, pardons, etc., meaning that Trump would not only no longer be “president,” but indeed never WOULD HAVE BEEN, Pence would never HAVE BEEN vice-president, and all those losers and unqualified morons in the cabinet would NEVER HAVE BEEN APPOINTED… the Supreme Court would suddenly have a vacancy again… Naturally, this would create a few issues, like, then who’s president NOW, and how do you prosecute people for corruption if you undid their various appointments/confirmations? Right off the bat some would clamor for the person who CAUSED all this in the first place to be made president, despite her incredible unpopularity. I suggest fixing that simply by putting right in the amendment that NO ONE who ran for office in 2016 at the national level EVER be allowed to hold ANY elected office again in the federal government. Solved.
So who’s president? Well, it can’t be Obama, he’s already served two terms. I *CAN* think of SOMEONE most people would agree upon under these circumstances. Someone eminently qualified for the job, as much as someone who’s never done it CAN be… and to who BEING president, potentially, America has already agreed in what was, (unlike THIS fiasco,) a LEGITIMATE, and at least somewhat free and fair election, not once, but TWICE. Joe Biden. (I’m not a Biden fan, at all, but at least HE was picked as the US electorate’s designated successor to Obama, not once, but TWICE, and he’s never been President, so he hasn’t burned up his 8 years, unlike Obama, who would create brand-spanking-new constitutional problems were someone to TRY to reinstall him as POTUS.) So, that makes Joe Biden a natural choice, and I think under the circumstances, he’d go along with this idea. We’d need one other clause though. We’d have to declare that until, at least, the next general election in 2020, that the President may NOT appoint as a VP, any person who was on the ballot in any general election previously, (preventing him from simply appointing HRC as his VP, then resigning).
C’mon… you know you’d love to hear this: “Ladies and Gentlemen, the 45th President of the United States, Joseph Biden!”
Then, having done the seemingly impossible, we should hold another Article V convention, for the purpose of declaring that all federal and state elections of any kind throughout the US, MUST be entirely publicly funded, and fix the present situation where bribery is LEGAL if you call it a “campaign donation,” by making donation to a public figure EXPLICITLY illegal. #MakeBriberyACrimeAgain. Maybe, I dunno, enact ranked-choice voting?
Right on brother! You nailed it. Here I sit, fingers crossed.