Skip to main content

What if Trump salts the field once he knows he's not getting re-elected?

In medieval times it was a common occurrence to salt (expensive stuff at the time) the land to deny the arriving armies the ability to live off the conquered land.   Yesterday, in the Weekly Standard (a right-wing newspaper) it was suggested that if the Democrats won the mid-terms then Trump's agenda (what agenda?) would be stimmed and that he would turn his efforts are killing government as we (well the Americans) know it!

Now The Weekly Standard is the kind of newspaper that will suggest that the whole Trump tower was engineered by Hillary Clinton and her numerous friends at the CIA and FBI to entrap Trump...Yeap that kind of crew! 

However, there is no doubt that Trump is the kind of guy who seeks out revenge.  Its always been his operating model -- a bit like the Mafia:  They mouth off, and you hit them with a baseball bat...Anyway, the suggestion is not as crazy as it sounds.  Already the State Department has been gutted (maybe staff reduction there was a good idea, but we will never know), it's clear now that major operations are taking place at the Veteran's Affaire bureau since a somewhat "secret" group has taken over the management.  The only parts of the government getting positive attention are Homeland Security and the department of defense. 

HHS, HUD, and Energy all look to be in trouble with massive cuts being planned at the Social Security.  Obviously, the Department of Energy is in charge of Nuclear energy in the country -- but that responsibility could be shifted to Homeland or Defense.  Education is already being gutted by DeVos and her friends.  Commerce is at the center of the Trade offensive that Trump has started against China, Canada, and Europe -- Tariffs that had been in free fall for years are on the rise again.  Agriculture and Interior are both very small departments and have little real impact. 

The facts are that the government only works when all three branches (legislative administration and Justice) are working in a system of check and balances; there is no doubt that the legislative cannot act against the administration with the upcoming November midterm elections (Trump is getting 90% approval amount GOP), these are the people who will choose who will run against the Democrats in November!  GOP Congressmen cannot go against their supporters wishes.

So the tools and individuals that could affect the salting of government are in place!  It is not impossible to think that by 2020 the US government could be completely dysfunctional







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Spray painting Taylor Swift G650 aircraft (updated)

 First, a bit of paint will not harm anyone.  These climate activities are going to learn two things in the next few days:  (1) Trespassing at an airport is a felony almost anywhere in the world.  That means criminal prosecution.   (2) removing paint from an aircraft is expensive.   So these climate activists are about to find out the reach of the British criminal system and it will not be pleasant, the UK has very strict laws about that, I would be surprised if cleaning the aircraft of all the paint will cost less than $100,000.     I am sure that when they planned (premeditation) this little show they had a very valid logic to doing this.  Tonight, they are probably realizing the depth of their troubles.   I understand that in the UK it's a minimum one-year jail sentence.    Also, good luck travelling with a criminal trespass charge against you.  I am relatively certain that the airline industry will ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tariffs on inhabited Island

 Two seldom-visited islands, part of Australia, saw a massive increase in the tariffs they will face when exporting to the United States.   The 32,000 residents did not have much to say...being Penguines.   NO kidding, massive tariffs were imposed on Heard Island and McDonald Islands.  According to the Australian government, the last visitor to Heard was about a decade ago.   Never mind the 47% tariff on Madagascar, where the principal export is Vanilla and the GDP per capita is less than $500 a year. Not only a Stable Genus but evidently an administration that took all of two hours to proof the list of countries.    They also treated St Pierre & Miquelon, two islands part of France in the middle of the St Lawrence Gulf...
Post a Comment
Read more

Britain, France and Egypt

 The voters realize now that the Conservative Praty desire to return to 19th-century dominance has driven its hatred of the EU.  The voters realize now that departure from the EU has accelerated Britain's decline and may soon make it irrelevant.  At best it will have to kiss American arses to maintain its standing.  For this, the conservatives were punished.  The decline of Britain was inevitable, competition from Frankfurt and Germany in Finance was bound to grow.  The core of Europe (aka Germany) is aging quickly Macron seems to be winning his bet, the left alliance that won the legislative elections will not remain united for long, since they disagree on about everything.   The Far right though it was about to assume power is once again relegated to the back of the bus.   It may draw its own conclusions, but not all of these are good for France.  The far-right has won nearly 1/3rd of the electorate, that is not something to be ig...
Post a Comment
Read more