O Say Can You Please Entry 8

O Say Can You Please Entry 8: Tweens and Tweets

(2 months and 21 days)

    Son of a…

    Well, it’s finally time to return to the wonderful world of top headlines and great gaffes. We have three stories for you all today, but first let’s go over what I missed. First, Venezuela’s Maduro had an uprising against him happen, and we also found out that Elizabeth Warren had a plan for that, as well as many more. Then, Brexit killed Theresa May’s political career, and Hong Kong rioted over a craptacular extradition bill. America’s women’s soccer team won the World Cup, while at the debates, Kamala ruled while Biden and Beto drooled. That’s all we need to catch up on, and let’s just get on with it, a la Monty Python. Back to today’s topics, we have escalating tensions with Iran, ridiculously racist tweets, and a man so depraved that a single word is not enough to describe him. 

    To begin, let’s briefly touch upon the Iran story. That nation’s Revolutionary Guard recently captured a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital water route for oil shipments. It wasn’t the only one either, as a Liberian tanker was also captured according to American military reports. This happened after the US Navy shot down an Iranian drone that may have been hostile. 

This could lead to war, which is an interesting proposition, to put it politely. This could end up being a military fiasco almost as bad as when Germany had the “novel” idea of copying Napoleon and invading Russia without preparing for the winter. The reason for this is simple: War is expensive, and America has $22 trillion in debt and a deficit over a trillion dollars. Worse still, our GDP is around a trillion dollars smaller than our debt, which means our economy can’t pick up the slack. We are just too unstable financially to support a major war right now, and the sooner that gets into the Trump adminisration’s heads, the better it will be for them and everyone else. More updates on this crisis will likely be reported on if this intensifies, so keep an eye on this one.

Next, we have the story of four Democratic Congresswomen being told to go back to where they came from by the President by means of Twitter, even though three of them were born in the US. This is with the fourth woman being a refugee who became a naturalized citizen (AKA a legal immigrant). To make this an even bigger PR disaster, all four of the women descend from some of our many ethnic and religious minorities. This quickly prompted cries of racism and xenophobia that even led to a House of Representatives resolution condemning the tweets as such. In fact, it even inspired one Dem Congressman to try to put impeachment on the table, but that predictably failed, as even I have a hard time believing that these tweets constituted a high crime or misdemeanor.

While I would like to seize this opportunity to make more jokes at Trump’s expense, I’m not doing that for two reasons. First, the late night TV shows took all of the jokes I wanted to make days ago. Second, attacking Trump only fuels him and his supporters, so it’s better to let Trump take himself out as his dysfunction replaces his attacks in the news. Only then will his supporters realize that they got played. In this case, silence is the answer. That way, Trump’s ignorance and stupidity will be reported on even more, more so than the present bickering.

Now, let’s move on to the final segment for today. What if I told you that one man who was friends with both President Trump and former President Clinton was arrested on charges of sex trafficking recently? Worse still, records exist of them both hanging out with him before and/or during the early-mid 2000s, when the crimes allegedly took place. That man is Jeffrey Epstein, a financier, friend of the elite, and registered sex offender. He was arrested earlier this month and is currently being held without bail in a New York prison. However, what he allegedly engaged in definitely went beyond NYC and into Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands. However, there is more to the story than that. Many notable names were associated with him at the time. These included renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz, renowned pervert Kevin Spacey, and the two earlier-mentioned Presidents, and that’s just scraping the very surface. 

This story has been kicking around since 2007, when Epstein was first charged. However, Trump’s former Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta, was a prosecutor at the time, and he made an agreement with Epstein without consulting all of the victims. If I’m not mistaken, that’s a bit on the illegal side. Then, the story re-appeared.  As a result of an ensuing controversy, Acosta resigned. Since the announcement of Epstein being denied bail, no new developments have emerged. However, make no mistake, as we will continue to monitor this story for some time to come. To sum this all up...

Have a great day!