Is It Shock and Awe, or Is It a Flash in the Pan?

The Trump Administration Fizzles

Asbury Park, July 3, 2023.

Dear God, what a mess. They've had all this time to prepare, and this is all they've got? There's an old line in the infantry: No plan survives initial contact with the enemy.

So the Trumpies decided to conduct a full-frontal assault on the American people, choosing to simultaneously alienate as many of their constituents as possible. And when the people woke up and got angry, the geniuses running things had no backup plan. This is pathetic.

The U.S. president is looking small and lethargic, and perhaps depressed; his co-president is spinning like a top and may be having a nervous breakdown; the platoon of young storm troopers with laptops continues to send emails telling people they're fired, which is very stupid; the elected and appointed fascists are looking around and discovering that there is no exit.

And the president of France, having humiliated Trump in the friendly way that the French are so good at, will now create a new world order with Europe at its center. Putin did not see this coming. 

Charles de Gaulle would be very happy.

America will now go sit on a back bench.

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