Did Trump really cave?

Monday, January 28, 2019

After weeks of hearing Democrats and media whining about how much federal workers were being hurt by the shutdown, and how Trump ought to do the right thing and make sure these loyal government employees did not starve (even though every one of them would get full back pay once the Trump struck a deal with a Democrats), Trump decides to suspend the shutdown for 21 days to allow workers to catch up, and media goes ape shit claiming he caved in to Pelosi.

This has allowed media and Democrats to sell two lines of bullshit to the unsuspecting public.

First that Trump was outfoxed by Pelosi or that the bogus indictment of Roger Stone so scared Trump that he had to so something to get the negative headlines off the news feed.

The first is a classic example of the double bind as outlined by 1960s psychologist, Lang – or in more conventional terminology: you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

Lang used the example of a mentally unfit mother rather than a mentally ill media, who gives her son two shirts, a blue one and a green one, and when her son comes to breakfast wearing the green shirt, she asks, “What? You don’t like the blue shirt?”

Media is going to spin the worst no matter what Trump does. Had he kept up the shutdown, we would have heard more bitching and moaning about how government workers are suffering and how Trump is to blame (even though Pelosi and the Democrats share the same level of guilty) and how workers will starve unless Trump gives up his plans to force the Democrats into building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

But when Trump finally feels sorry for the impact the conflict is having on the workers (which clearly Democrats did not and were willing to let suffer as long as they could make their political points), media and Democrats howl about how he caved in, and how tough Pelosi was, and how weak Trump must be.

The fact is federal workers were always going to get their back pay, and for all of the wailing by media-manipulating Democrats, the shutdown largely amounted to forced savings.

The Roger Stone indictment is even more ludicrious, just one more pathetic attempt by the Mueller investigation to show it is still relevant when clearly after two years of hearing fake Russian conspirciy theories only the most deluded liberals actually believe it. N

Mueller needed to keep his investigation in the headlines, and to add to the notches on his gun belt for all the so called bad guys he brought down, even if he has used every unethical and questionable method to charge them, sometimes so pathetically desperate you have to wonder how Mueller can look in the mirror each morning and not laugh at himself.

Mueller is the Beetle Baily of federal investigators, just competent enough to do the wishes of the Democrats, but not quite enough to actually find a real conspiracy, so he has to manufacture one out of bits and pieces of things such as charges of lying to the FBI and other things that really don’t add up to anything except in the deluded minds of Democrats desperate to overturn the 2016 election and media that will distort anything to sell its anti-Trump agenda.

Media harps on the nearly dozen indictments Mueller has brought against those close to Trump, ignoring the more than 40 scandals that occurred with White House and the federal legislature under Obama, and a score more under Bush before him, with a record number of Reagan indictments of 138 before that.

This really is trying to build a mountain out of a pile of horseshit.

Many Democrats are still peeved at Stone for his uncovering the fact that liberal Democratic New York Governor Spitzer routinely hired prostitutes.

This, too, is a kind of damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation.

Democrats are big on the Me-Too movement, yet try not to admit that most of the victims of these vigilantes are Democrats and that the public should not judge the Democratic Party by the miscreant acts of people like Spitzer or Bill Clinton, yet at the same time try to make a case against Trump for his alleged affair with a porn star well before he was elected president.

Nobody is supposed to notice the Democratic double standard or the fact that they will do or say anything to regain political power.