Trump Announces Himself King
And starts divvying up the spoils of war with Emperor Putin
President Trump, of course, loves to bate the press, so we probably shouldn’t make too much of his reference to himself as king today. After overruling a very unpopular New York toll road approval, Trump wrote on social media,
'Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan, and all of New York, is saved. Long Live The King!'
To play it up even more, the White House officially posted the photo above to go with the story.
Loving to play the king bit, Trump had also recently quoted Napoleon Bonaparte to justify his own rule by decrees:
'He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.'
That sounded like an echo of Trump’s repeat boast that he can kill anyone on the streets of Manhattan that he wants, and no one can do anything about it. He’s said that several times.
The man who would be king has already racked up a number of law suits accusing him of ruling outside the kingly constraints of the constitution that were intended to make sure the United States never has to endure the efficiency of rule by king.
Even though I know he is playing the press (but probably enjoying the title way too much because he can wear it boldly to tick them off but then scoff at the them for not getting the joke if they attack him for calling himself king), I can’t avoid noting today that Trump and Putin acted just like the kings of olden days as they finished their first phase of carving up the spoils of Ukraine in a meeting to which Ukraine’s own leader was not invited.
Kings, of course, have been known to declare history into being by being the ones who rule over those who write it, and Trump did a little rewriting of history himself today when he said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had no right to be upset for not being invited to the meeting where the Ukrainian carcass was being picked in a process that will ultimately redraw maps of his land.
Trump said with very evident disdain that Zelensky has no right to complain about not being invited to the meeting that intends to redraw his national boundaries because Z should have never started the war in the first place if he wants to complain about it:
Apparently facts are irrelevant because Trump also berated Zelensky for having done a “terrible job” as leader of Ukraine and stated that his approval rating was a paltry 4% when, in fact, Zelensky’s approval rating is far higher than Trump’s own declining rating of 44%. Z’s is 57%. In fact Zelensky’s approval rating rose five points on its last move, while Trump’s fell one point.
But facts are meaningless when you can just make them up and whatever you say will be believed almost religiously by those who want to believe you. Truth is the victim—as I said would be the case with this regime. Truth is the loser.
Ukrainian citizens expressed feelings of betrayal in Trump’s abrupt and total move to Putin’s side by making Putin’s talking points his own. As it appears now, the parcels will go to Putin, but Ukraine will pay tribute to the US forever. As the kings began the process of divvying up the spoils of Ukraine to the chagrin of all of Europe, the United State’s former allies, the DOGE brothers achieved a couple of worthy accomplishments, proving Trump isn’t just on the imperial take all over the globe, but is accomplishing some of what we all want him to accomplish at home.
DOGE Brothers to the rescue
First, the DOGE brothers put their self-acclaimed big male parts to work and caught the US Treasury in a snafu that bared the kind of laziness that befits a dying empire. As the docents from DOGE orchestrated a guided public tour through Treasury’s books and practices, they revealed how, in order to save time, the government’s drones didn’t bother to use accounting codes during the Yellen years (and perhaps prior as well) for nearly $4-TRILLION worth of expenses paid, so there is no ready way to know where the money went.
It seems like that kind of granular detail (or maybe it’s glandular with the DOGE boys) would be worth knowing. I know use of accounting codes for every entry was common practice wherever I was general manager, but I suppose not bothering with the extra time of a single numerical entry for each payment comes in handy for black-box programs where you don’t want anyone to know where the money goes.
The docents of DOGE also made a tour of of the SS offices, by which I’m not referring to anything Nazi (that I know of), and discovered 6.5-MILLION social security accounts assigned to people over the age of 112.
Well, actually we have to step back for a minute, that story was reported back in March, 2015, but what DOGE discovered this week was that, in the intervening decade, Social Security has not only done absolutely nothing about it, but the problem has become much worse. In fact, the current numbers of people with SS numbers who are over the age of 112 have doubled in a decade, and the SS gestapo guys now excuse themselves for doing nothing by claiming that trying to figure out who among the 112+ high-flyers club was still alive would have been an onerous job wasteful of government time, so they just kept making payments.
To be fair, Elon did not say that SS is paying out on all these numbers that belong to dead people, but SS did admit in 2015 to paying out on thousands of them.
Crickets from the mainstream media. Who cares?
Elsewhere around the empire
Meanwhile, Canadians, unhappy with the new partition plans for Canada under US empire, got extra scrappy at their hockey game against the US, while Trump endorsed a budget from the House of Representatives that will add $4-trillion to the national debt, which isn’t as bad as it sounds because DOGE claims to have already found $50-billion in savings to offset the increase.
In what the White House claimed was another act of efficiency, the White House stopped publishing daily numbers for deportations today because the deportation dailies have consistently been coming in 25% lower since Trump took office. The White House actually claimed it could save money by only reporting the numbers monthly … and hopefully by a month from now they will be able to show they’ve caught up with Biden and Obama on the head count.