Smart caring people from both sides of the political aisle must have at least some degree of foreboding after the events of the previous 4-year presidential administration. We should all realize that the riots of January 6, 2021, were but the culmination of a series of events that led to near disaster. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis knew we were in trouble in real-time, but the real gravity of that series of events took time to sink in. We later learned how close we came to a true nuclear holocaust.
Will this time be painted with a similar brush of pending doom by future historians? Well, it is clear by the dump of new book titles that, while opinions vary a bit, we were in serious trouble. Most depict a president “consumed by personal hatred” with an out-of-control violent temper exacerbated by his election defeat. In Michael Bender’s book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election, he tells us that Trump wanted whoever was responsible for telling the world that he hid in the White House Bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests, executed. Yes, executed, as in killed.
In Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s book, I Alone Can Fix It, they point out that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley was so worried that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act, that he compared the lies of the stolen election to Hitler’s Reichstag fire that Hitler used to seize control of Germany. His concern was such that he developed contingency plans to prevent Trump from calling out the military to stage a coup.
Michael Wolff’s book Landslide tells us that Trump aides thought he was “off his rocker” and they made vain attempts to appease him while ignoring his demands. Wolff goes on to assure us that we were never in real danger. He arrives at this, not because Trump wasn’t a delusional tyrant, but because he was so disorganized and incompetent that he had no chance of success.
There was also talk of Trump getting the support of a few Iran hawks in the administration to launch a strike on Iran just before he left office. Trump raised this possibility with Milley as late as January 3rd but was finally persuaded to drop it. By all accounts, Trump, who was and is the GOP leader, was unhinged and viewed laws, rules, and norms as minor inconveniences.
Of course, Trump loyalists and members of his cult don’t read such books. They get all they need to know from the only true source of good information, Q. Yes, Q, better known as Jim Watkins (and his son Ron), is/are probably the man/men behind the curtain telling the Trump minions all they need to know. Q of course is the Wizard behind the QAnon conspiracy cabal.
Who is James Arthur Watkins? Well, he started a company called N.T. Technology in the 90s while he was in the US Army. The site was built to support a Japanese porn site called Asian Bikini Bar to circumvent strict Japanese censors. It later hosted other Japanese porn distributors many of which had names suggesting links to child pornography. You can see why such a man would be in a position to suggest that Hillary Clinton and other members of “the elite” ran a child sex slave shop out of a pizza parlor. He was an actual expert in the field.
So, with Donald Trump still in charge of the GOP, and people like Jim Watkins serving the Kool-Aid to a large contingent of followers, and folks like Jim Jordan still beating the Trump drum in Congress, and the great legal mind of Rudy Giuliani to steer them out of trouble, will the good ship Trumptanic avoid the icebergs ahead? I can see Donald and Melania on the bow now, and him yelling I’m King of the world.
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