Patriotism under Trump Turns into Terrorism

Within 24 hrs of one another, two former members of the US military carried out what amounts to terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. What they have in common is that they are not immigrants, legal or otherwise, but are Americans through and through and many "graduated" from a much-hyped military patriotism into mass murdering terrorists. 

On MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out that Americans should look to their fellow citizens, specifically U.S. military personnel, and not illegal immigrants, as instigators of terrorism: "The simple fact is, this country has suffered more deadly terrorism at the hands of American-born citizens who are veterans of the United States military than people who have crossed into this country at the southern border ... It is very clear from the evidence that if you want to worry about terrorism in this country, the United States Army is a much bigger problem than the southern border."

Instead, Donald Trump exploits terrorist attacks such as the one in New Orleans to wrongly blame imaginary riminals crossing the southern border. Why he does that is clear: In his mind, his supporters are illiterate peasant xenophobes who will believe anything as long as it is against immigrants and foreigners.

"No one who has ever crossed the southern border, in the history of the existence of the southern border, has killed more people in this country than Timothy McVeigh, who was born in Lockport, New York, the northwest part of the state, into a White Roman Catholic American family with roots in this country that go back farther than Donald Trump’s roots in this country," O'Donnell said. "The New Orleans terrorist, like Timothy McVeigh, reached the rank of sergeant in the United States Army."

Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, car-bombed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 167 people.

Remember the November 5, 2009, Fort Hood (Texas) mass shooting when US Army major and psychiatrist Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 and injured more than 30 people among his brothers in arms?

And now the New Year' eve car ramming in New Orleans by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Texas-born US citizen and Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, followed by the highly decorated Green Beret soldier, Matthew Livelsberger, blowing up a Tesla Cybertruck outside Donald Trump's Las Vegas dump and shooting himself in the head before the explosion.

Contrary to what the jackass Trump is saying, these incidents have nothing to do with immigration. It's been said many times, US-born criminals - especially those with military backgrounds - by far surpass on a per capita basis criminals with immigrant background. By far, most terror attacks in the US over the decades were carried out by homegrown white boys, often with military background and for a variety of motives. The cancer is in the culture of violence that is embedded in the American DNA.

On MSNBC this morning, the newscast was detailing the two recent terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, warning viewers that the footages might be difficult to watch. A Barely a second later, commercials began with an ad for the British Hollywood copycat trash series, the Day of the Jackal, showing the main actor with his rifle pointing at human targets... No warning of violence there. Does anyone see any connection between the movie "heroes" - amateur or professional killers - and the real life killers who lose a bolt in their brain? In America, life is now imitating "art". The cultural references of most Americans are overwhelmingly in a fantasy world of gory, bloody violence spewed like poison in their heads by Hollywood. And some, eventually, lose track of reality and act upon these references to become themselves the "heroes".

Whether you're a disgruntled husband, a government hater, a sore loser, a recently laid off worker, or a former army vet with PTSD.... there is no other way to vent your anger than killing other people (doesn't matter if it's with cars or weapons) BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN IT DONE EVERY EVENING ON TV. 

For this recent surge in mass shootings and killings, Donald Trump has too in his own "artsy" way fanned the flames of hatred of government institutions and the xenophobic hatred of immigrants and people who do not have "his lovely white skin". Everyone is an enemy right now. And the dumb idiot isn't even in the White House yet. Brace yourselves, my fellow Americans, we are entering a very dark 4-year long tunnel without any light at the end.

Another Fake Trump Campaign Promise Goes Belly Up

Before taking office, Trump is backtracking on almost every one of the fake empty promises he made to his herd: immigration, lowering costs and prices, fixing the economy (that doesn't need fixing), etc... And now ending the Ukraine-Russia war.

The blond orangutan, soon to be enthroned as President of the American wasteland, promised his tribe of midwestern and southern tailless primates that he, alone, will end the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours before he even enters the White House.

Now the dumb moron – and his credulous racist primate tribe – are discovering that the deceitful testicular integrity of the Supreme Moron is useless without a romping partner. And Russia’s Putin is no romping girl. Donald Dumb is discovering that negotiating an end to centuries-old wars is not like negotiating the sale of a stupid building.

On Monday, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, delivered Trump an Unhappy New Year wish from his friend Putin by turning down the orangutan’s proposals to end the war in Ukraine. “We are not happy, of course, with the proposals made by members of the Trump team to postpone Ukraine’s admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine,” Lavrov said, adding he wanted “reliable and legally binding agreements that would eliminate the root causes of the conflict and seal a mechanism precluding the possibility of their violation.” By “root causes”, the Russian barbarians drill their colonial imperial belief that Ukraine has always belonged to Russia and therefore ought to be kept under Russian control.

As he has so far done with many of his campaign lies and false promises, Trump admitted last week that it would be more difficult to solve the Ukraine-Russia conflict than the Middle East conflict, after months and months of campaign lies that he would end the war “by the time he takes office” and that “he would end it within 24 hours of his taking office”.

Trump’s approach to negotiation is based on the mechanics of negotiating the sale of a rundown building; he thinks he can apply these to negotiating issues that have centuries of history and identity conflicts, none of which his illiterate uneducated mind can comprehend. For example, Trump’s proposal includes forcing Ukraine to the negotiating table by threatening to cut off aid, while forcing Russia to negotiate by threatening a surge of weapons for Ukraine. Trump wants Ukraine to abandon joining the EU and NATO which would alleviate Russia’s concerns, but he wants to put European forces on Ukrainian soil as a security guarantee.

The other macaque in the incoming Trump administration, VP-elect J.D. Vance, proposed last September to allow Russia to keep the Ukrainian territories it has already occupied, and give Russia guarantees that Ukraine would be a neutral country. What geniuses!

For lying imbeciles like Trump and Vance, their approach to such conflicts stems from a position of absolute ignorance that frustrates them to the point where they seek “express” solutions that do not demand too much thinking.