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The Billionaire-Owned Banana Republic: Trump in Five Acts of Fuck You America

What’s most *impressive* about Trump is how he fits so much Cowardly, Cruel, Cantankerous, Crazy and, of course, Corrupt, into one simple-sugars bloated body. What’s least impressive are the ways America allowed him to get to a point where he could brazenly, publicly accept a $400MM luxury jet from Qatar.

It reminds me of something my pal Tony Michaels wrote before most recent monstrosity—in fact, on inauguration day:

Let’s talk about what this really means. Trump has essentially turned the presidency into a private equity fund, and now anyone in the world can “invest.” You’ve got geopolitical players, corporate lobbyists, and power-hungry billionaires all lining up to buy a piece of the Trump brand—and, by extension, America.

There’s even some poetry to the fact The Qataris are bribing Trump—yep, bribing—with the same amount of money daddy left him, that he managed to piss away faster than a 90-year old man on a caffeine-moonshine drip. But, for it to happen, we needed four things a) A man who breaks through all restraints due to a sick mind as everyone watches him do it; b) A corporate media that’s failed our Constitution & republic in every way; c) Democrats’ lack of indy media support, coherent messaging and instinct for the jugular; 4) A GOP Congress that’s a political party..in Brezhnev’s USSR.

1. The Emoluments Clause is Dead: Trump Strangled to Eat Caviar on a Qatari Jet
Trump is a caricature of unchecked greed in cheap suits, Saddam Hussein home decor chic and the morals of a gutter rat eating another, injured gutter rat. Generalissimo didn’t just violate the Emoluments Clause from the moment the he took office in 2017, he used it as a welcome mat. Foreign governments funneled money into his properties like they were Marjorie Taylor Greene wiring funds to Palantir just after a market dip with totes zero inside info!

What happened then? Zip. No indictments, no crisis, just another Tuesday. As many of us said, allow this jack-a-lantern—and many other corrupt Republicans in really high places—to blatantly ignore a law, especially one as crucial as banning foreign governments from buying our President, you’ll never get enforcement of that law back. That’s what the whole boiling frog parable is about—how cultural change happens slowly, under your nose, and before you know it, everything’s changed. When we let Saudis—& Qataris—rent whole, empty floors in Trump’s shitty, bed-bug-bungalow of a DC hotel, we ensured this’d happen if he got reelected (but, not to worry, Merrick Garland was gonna take care of it).

Now Trump will literally be flying around in a private jet from Qatar like the low-rent mobster he is—Bugsy, but with piss-cotton candy for hair and a tie hanging below his nuts. Again, it’s simple: When you don’t stop a criminal in Act I, by Act V he’s taking kickbacks to fit the Lincoln Bedroom with golden toilets and calling it a jobs plan.

2. The Media’s Context-Free Collapse: Jared, Qatar and the Art of the Shrug.
While Trump cashes in with Qatari planes and just the biggest tidal wave of corruption any White House has even seen, our bullshit corporate media is busy breathlessly covering “horse races” and personality cults and offering “balance” while gaining “access.” They’re as worthless as a Trump meme coin the minute all his investor buddies have safely gotten out.

And of course there’s plenty our media could do here to educate the public, specifically on past corruption with Qatar. Maybe, mention the name Kusner? But that would take connecting dots and explaining Trump’s a globe-humping kleptocrat, not just a “former president.” ABC News didn’t even mention Trump’s name in its segment on the Qatari jet. The only thing missing was Terry Moran saying “let’s move on.”

Here’s Just Security, a publication not of the corporate media, providing a refresher:

When the Kushner Companies purchased 666 5 Avenue in midtown Manhattan in early 2007 for a record-breaking price of $1.8 billion, it was supposed to be a center of their real estate portfolio. Instead, the Kushners struggled to cover their debt..shortly after its purchase on the eve of the financial crisis. As Jared Kushner’s father-in-law Donald Trump was running for President, the Kushners pitched Qatari investors to help bail out the building.

And just weeks after his father Charles failed to reach a deal with Qatar’s minister of finance, Jared Kushner, as senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade..Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered..deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue.

I dunno, I’m no genius reporter like monopoly-media, but you think the fact this SOB, Kushner, upended our foreign policy and likely got people killed, all to escape his fucked-up, Boebert-like business skills is kinda important context here, no? You think if they properly covered this 8 years ago this month we’d be here? We’ll never know, because our for-a-huge-profit-media sucks harder than an E5 tornado.

3. Democrats, You Have One Job. Do It.
Trump’s so cartoonishly corrupt Bernie Madoff may have to sue for copyright infringement. Yet somehow, Democrats, my party, can’t seem to hammer that point daily, with a coherent narrative and compelling examples (this was part of our discussion on our first “Amped Up” when we spoke to Never-Trumper Joe Walsh). Trump’s in bed with Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern monarchs, various ganger-states & American plutocrats, the last group trying to torch the middle class for a new wing on their yachts. Trump hates immigrants, but, damn, does he love him elites if they’ll love him back. Even foreigners, so long as they dump a ton of cash in his diaper.

He has back room meetings with Elon, the world’s richest idiot, to plan how to destroy people’s economic livelihoods—or the exact right-wing conspiracy theory about Soros. There are simple narrative frames to make it easily understandable to all Americans. To render it cohesive…I dunno, how about *corrupt, cruel & incompetent* (alliteration!) Yet, instead of tattooing this message on every podium, briefings with MAGA families he’s hurt many times each week in DC and around the country...

Instead of creating an online influencer army—supporting indy media with 1/10th the funds The Right’s plowed into propaganda—and especially in cultural areas outside of politics…we just, don’t. Nobody’s ever given me a convincing explanation why that is. We also need more spectacle—tours across the country for more town halls in GOP districts where local reps are hiding.

Instead, we often just issue polite press releases like it’s fucking 2009. Trump’s a national security threat trapped in a grimy, cholesterol shell & golf cleats. The message writes itself—but we must deliver it early & often with more urgency than an NPR tote bag drive.

Don’t get me wrong—I highlight Democrats who fight these fights everday—and every day there are more. Your Beshears, AOCs, Swalwells, Stansburys, Murphys, Pritzkers, Crocketts, Whitmers, Duckworths, Raskins…but with respect to a tight narrative, coordinated, multi-media-campaign, driven home by myriad of different events, hearings, platforms, press conferences & spectacle...our leadership is still in the dark. How about following the lead of the Dems listed above?

4. Congress: A Spineless Blob of Bought Cowards.
Mike Johnson governs like a youth pastor with a persecution complex and the courage of a damp sponge. The only kind of real oversight Johnson engages in all day is monitoring his son’s porn.

The rest of the GOP? Utterly compromised or refusing to fight constantly. Don Bacon? He knows better, but speaks only now and again. Brian Fitzpatrick? Hiding behind centrist cosplay. Susan Collins? Still concerned, likely from the safety of her fainting couch, while Murkowski says she’s “scared.” Well, Senator, welcome to the America the rest of us are fucking living in, because you all didn’t stop this ill-tempered, crack-brained, blubberwocky from reentering our lives. WTF are all of you on Trump’s corruption? Worried about the next election—or the damn republic?

Just, remember, if Hunter Biden took so much as a Qatari paperweight, Republicans would’ve held 46 hearings and a séance, and of course included pictures just so Marge Greene could stare at his penis again in the hope it’d become her third regular shack-up since she ditched the ex…Sure, Mike Johnson’s a lost cause. The others I named—not to mention Mike Turner, Thom Tillis and others who’ve shown an ounce of integrity—these are the moments for which history eventually judge you.

If you’re not sure about that, look up the names “Quisling” or “Petain.”

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