The government shutdown will continue another day or another year according to President Trump. It is, ostensibly, about a wall and border security. The talking heads on television tell us if the President doesn’t get $5 billion for the wall, federal employees, contractors and beneficiaries will continue to suffer. It is a manufactured crisis. It is not about building a wall, it’s to create suffering.
The proof of his shutdown intention was Trump’s complaint today about it not being a manufactured crisis, a pathological attempt to further gaslight the American people.
“You know what solves it?” asked Donald Trump in a 2014 interview with Fox News before answering himself, “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell, and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be, when we were great.”
Want to know what causes riots the world over? Hunger. Want to know when funding for food stamps runs out? March.
If the President can stretch out the government shutdown just seven more weeks, hunger will descend on the 38 million Americans who rely on Food Stamps to get by. They will be joining the million federal employees and contractors whose financial lives will have already been destroyed. There will be no FEMA, CDC, HHS or Agriculture Department to deal with the attendant crisis, thereby magnifying it.
Perhaps I’m reading too much into the President’s 2014 interview. There’s also Steve Bannon, the self-proclaimed architect of Trump’s election victory claiming pre and post election that he was a Leninist bent on destroying the establishment. You might remember those articles about it back when he was Trump’s chief strategist and an NSC advisor.
Maybe I’m being paranoid, but Russia did help Trump get into office. Putin would enjoy more civil disorder in the United States. Russian disinformation outlets and their American lackeys have been pushing American Civil War 2.0 for over a year now. Just this morning the head of Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Russian NASA, said he couldn’t travel to the U.S. because it’s ” engulfed in its second civil war now.”
It seems to me that if people in Trump’s corner keep saying the same thing and share the same goals, maybe we should listen to them.
Ask yourself, why would the President delay the funding for the wall until now? The wall was his primary campaign promise and unofficial slogan (narrowly beating “lock her up”). He had such control over both houses of Congress his first two years he was able to appoint dozens of nimrods to federal courts, place incompetents and criminals as cabinet secretaries and manage to get a trillion dollar tax cut, plunging the national debt off a cliff. Do you mean to tell me he could get a trillion dollars for multi millionaires but couldn’t get five billion for a wall?
Trump and his reality show team of villains aren’t as stupid as many believe despite their carelessness.. Crisis are planned out in advance. It’s how the Russians, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have always operated – create the problem, then be the hero for solving it. The wall wasn’t pushed through with the rest of 2017 and 2018’s Congressionally-approved insanity because it would be needed later as a political weapon. Immigration was to be Trump’s issue in the midterms, hence why we were bombarded with stories about a dangerous migrant caravan that necessitated deploying the army, then promptly disappeared after the election. I fully expect to see another caravan while the government is shut to further incite the base.
If the Democratic Congress caves on the wall, there will be a new ridiculous demand. The goal isn’t the demand, it’s the chaos and suffering that the President and his die hard supporters believe necessary to create the conditions for truly radical change. Remember, they’ve told us all of this in advance because they’re so full of braggadocio and menace they literally cannot help themselves.
As the Mueller investigation closes in on Individual 1, Trump and his allies have every incentive to push Humpty Dumpty off the wall. Psychologists were in agreement from day one of his Presidency that Trump would pull down the country rather than accept justice, humiliation and defeat. There are no longer any adults left in the room to manage Presidential Day Care.
Trump is a cornered animal who sees the only way out of his predicament to be something he’s actually good at – wrecking shit. He’ll try to make his Hail Mary pass to beat Mueller using lots of incitement and some active measures from his Russian friends.
It’s imperative that people not take the bait and understand the long con. Don’t fall for the head fakes. Keep faith that the wheels of justice will likely grind the administration to dust before the “Destroy America to Make It Great,” crowd can carry through with their plan.
The sooner he’s out of power, the safer we are.
Wes Clark Jr. 
Should I be sticking up on food? Are you?
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I always have two weeks food and water but that’s it. There will be food, it’s just that people won’t be able to afford that and rent.
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