"By 2028, America's government debt burden could explode from this year's $15.5 trillion to a staggering $33 trillion -- more than 20 percent bigger than it would have been had (the tax bill) not passed."
Perhaps it's digressive to point out that such irresponsible toying with America's fiscal future might be something that would inspire yet another hearty thumbs-up from bin Laden. But who cares, right? After all, didn't Ronald Reagan prove that "deficits don't matter?" What matters most is infuriating the "libs."
The Circus
I happen to see a bit of irony in the fact that the legendary Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus faded into history right around the same time that the absurd Russian circus known as the trump "administration" was taking off.
At the time, Ringling Brothers' closing was a pretty darn disturbing turn of events for kids who prefer an actual circus over the political one that many of their parents helped set up for them in the Oval Office. And I imagine that many of these kids might sense that it's way worse than just the demise of their circus, or even the future of the Republican Party that their parents may have once known. The world's problem is the political circus' delusional ringmaster; an incorrigible, feckless, 71-year-old with a short attention span and every bit the temperament of a middle-school bully.
What many of us --including perhaps most children -- now copiously realize is that the self-proclaimed "stable genius" is something far deeper than the living metaphor for the buffoonery of a thousand dark circus clowns, packed into a 300 pound frame. That he is far worse than some rancid, inelegant, overly fortuitous weirdo who for some reason favors giant red, bib-like neckties, smashing porn stars raw-dog , and getting pee-peed on by prostitutes .
The purported leader of what's purported to be the most powerful nation on earth is indeed a mendacious, angst-ridden, self-absorbed megalomaniac who seems willing to destroy anyone or anything for the sake of self-preservation.
"As long as Donald Trump is president," Emily Thornberry, a member of Britain's Parliament proclaimed in early May, "we must get used to a world without American leadership."
Rings true. For is it really far-fetched to presume that the guy who has characterized the White House as a "real dump" has never truly felt awed by the Office of the Presidency in the first place? Is it all that hard to believe that trump's boundless vanity wouldn't convince him that it's more appropriate for the Presidency to be in awe of donald trump than vice-versa?
It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that Robert Mueller's probe reveals that the exotic strain of blind hubris afflicting trump was the element that fueled his seduction into a furtive, quid-pro-quo conspiracy with the powerful ruler of an adversarial regime -- even if it was just to further feed his bulbous vanity.
If so, to where will America and the world be led by such hubris?
Although there's still time for Mueller to put an end to the curse, the question remains: Can it be ended in time?
Wait for it.
(Article changed on May 14, 2018 at 20:59)
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