Day 206.
Over the weekend we saw another attack in London. This one was no doubt a terrorist attack where seven people were killed and several others were wounded. The attack began with a van running into a crowd of people on the London Bridge and then the attackers jumping out and stabbed others.
Right after, our beloved leader pledged our support to the British. Then on Sunday morning he went off on his tweets again issuing one stupid comment after the other. This man showed the world that he has no basic understanding of how things work in other countries, nor any idea of simple English.
In one tweet he criticized the London Mayor, who is Muslim and trump hates, for saying, according to trump, “there is no concern for alarm”. What the man actually said was that citizens will be “seeing more police officers on the street some with guns. So, there is no cause for alarm.” What beloved leader does not understand is that police in England do not carry guns as part of their standard equipment. Therefore, the mayor was assuring his citizens not to worry if they see more police on the streets with guns.
Then Mr. Moron tweeted something he heard on Fox News. He said “you notice we aren’t having a gun debate because these attackers used a vehicle and knives.” Once again, pea brain doesn’t know what he is talking about. England has some of the strictest gun control laws ion the world for private gun ownership. As a result, it is much harder for terrorists to purchase guns, than say here in the good ole USA. If this kind of attack took place in this country, the odds are that guns would have been used and that many more people would have been killed. The strict gun laws in England helped keep the toll down because the terrorists couldn’t get the guns they could have here.
Then beloved leader told the biggest lie of the year on terrorism. He said “I will do everything I can to stop the killing.” As a matter of fact, his own budget is making us less safe. And, his lack of hiring key officials in many departments are also making us less safe.
For example. There is a program called Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), which aims to combat terror threats. This program is an essential part of major city police departments in their fight against terrorism. So, what does beloved leader’s budget do to this program? It cuts it 25 percent. How is that making us safer? Senator Schumer said it best:
Amazingly, with terrorism on the rise, President Trump actually proposed cutting vital anti-terrorism funding in his budget last week. He has proposed cutting anti-terrorism funds, including a 25% cut to UASI, a program that is essential to major city police departments, including New York, in their fight against terror. These proposed cuts would make us less safe.
As you can see, beloved leader is going to make us safer by cutting programs that are designed to help keep us safe. Yeah, that makes total sense to me. Doesn’t it make sense to you, too?
Then we have the anemic hiring process of this administration to fill necessary positions to help make us safer. He still has several key positions in the State Department that need to be filled. He hasn’t even nominated anyone to fill these positions. The State Department helps track terrorists and offers advice to federal and local law enforcement. These critical positions are vacant with no prospect of being filled anytime soon.
Beloved leader finally nominated someone to fill the position as the Head of FEMA. That isn’t such an important position. That position is only responsible for coordinating federal assistance after either natural disasters, or, get this, major terrorist attack. So, that can’t be too important to fill quickly either. The Senate will hold confirmation hearings next week.
There is still no head of the Transportation Security Administration. That agency isn’t very necessary either. It is only responsible for air travel security. They are supposed to keep terrorists from getting on planes with weapons or bombs. So, why would it be important to make sure the head position is filled?
The Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division is open as well. Why would we need to fill the lawyer in charge of our National Security Division in our Justice Department? That person is only responsible to bring charges against terrorists. We obviously don’t need that position filled anytime soon.
Nor, do we have a deputy at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence or a director of the office’s National Counterterrorism Center. Okay, maybe he can justify not having a deputy at DNI, but how can he justify not having a director of the National Counterterrorism Center. That is only the place that helps plan anti-terrorist activities to keep us safe. Obviously, that position is vital in the trump world of stupidity.
Then we have the one position that is probably most critical in any fight against terrorism. That position is the Director of the FBI. Remember when trump fired Comey? He said that he would fill this position within a week. Ooops! Here we are several weeks later and still not even a nomination. We have had more people turn the job down than ever before.
Also remember when he took office, he promised us that he would have an anti-hacking strategy within 90 days. Where is his promised anti-hacking plan? It is well past the 90 day window he gave. Why is there no plan? Simply because no one knows who the hell is supposed to be in charge of this task. Work hasn’t even started.
When you couple this lack of leadership with the budget cuts proposed to grants for cities and states for counter-terrorism efforts, you can see we are not safer under beloved leader. Rather we are far less safe than we were before.
Christian Marrone, who served as chief of staff to former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson put it this way: “The proposed cuts to state and local law enforcement are dangerous. We must ensure the men and women on the front lines have the tools and training they need to handle such situations.”
So, how does beloved leader plan to keep us safe? Ban those awful Muslims, that’s how. He tweeted how his “Travel Ban” must be reinstated. Not Muslim Ban 2.0, which is the one under court review, but Muslim Ban 1.0 that he pulled with Muslim Ban 2.0.
The second step is to build his Berlin Wall along the Mexican Border. He still refuses to understand that the latest Muslim type terrorist attacks in this country have been committed by U.S. citizens. His Travel Ban would not have stopped them. The rest of the terrorist attacks in the country were committed by U.S. citizens who are part of the Radical Christian Terrorist groups. How is his Travel Ban going to prevent those attacks?
There has been zero evidence that any terrorist came across the border from Mexico. There have been no arrests of any “radical terrorist” of any kind being arrested at the southern border. They are arrested coming in from Canada and other countries in Europe and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia which is not on the Travel Ban list.
We have the unfortunate situation where we have a beloved leader who hides whenever things get tough for him. He hides behind his press corps telling lies for him. He won’t face the free and open press in press conferences. He tweets in the darkest hours of the morning showing his own cowardice.
He always talks tough when standing at one of his political rallies with his ardent supporters, but cowers back into the shadows when faced with real crises. Our beloved leader, just like every other dictator wannabe is nothing short of a coward. He knows nothing. He doesn’t want to know anything. He blusters. He talks. He tweets. He wails about being persecuted. But, he does nothing!
And, what do the leaders of his party, the Republican Party, do? Nothing. They sit quietly on the sidelines only because trump will help them get the billions of tax cuts they want for the rich. That is what all of these cuts to the budget are all about, and they know it. They are willing to go along because they don’t give a shit if you are safer or not.
And, the shirts keep marching along!