National “Intelligence” Director Tulsi Gabbard is said to be looking into ways to get Taco to take his Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) that might work for him. Every OTHER Oval Office occupant (except 45, of course) gets a short, written summary of events and expectations. What those guys did was, they read it. By all accounts, that’s more than 47 can be asked to do. Read. Who does that? What he DOES do – apparently a LOT – is watch TV.

So, in order to try to get him the information he should have, the information he needs to do his job, the National Security Agency is considering creating a ‘Fox Not-News’ type set. “Taco watch TV. Taco LIKE pictures!” The talk is about creating a set that mimics his favorite propaganda outlet, hire one (or some) of the outlet’s talking heads to read to him, and let him pretend it’s real “Fox Not-News” stuff. Just like a big boy!

I suppose I should add, in fairness, a White House spokesliar has insisted the claims are false. Actually, he called it, “libelous garbage from unnamed sources.” But actions speak louder than words. During his LAST criminal regime, it was said the NID tried to put his name into the briefings once they realized he was more likely to read them if his name was in them prominently. “Not about Taco? Taco no care!”

Perhaps we’ve identified the reason his answer to question after question is some form of, “I don’t know about that,” “That’s the first I’ve heard of that,” and “You’re telling me about it now, for the first time.” He’s one of the people on the planet who is NOT expected to get his information from the “news.” He can get actual information about what’s really going on but all he wants to do is watch TV…

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“Oh, you’re starving?”
“Yes, very much.”
“Oh, well, there’s food over there. Help yourself.”
“Thank God. Over there?”
“Yes, yes, right over there. Just go get with that group and you’ll be taken care of.”
“Bless you. Thank you.”
“SQUAD 2, OPEN FIRE!”

If that isn’t an international war crime, I don’t know what is. An Israeli group set up a food distribution point for starving Palestinians, then gunned them down when they came to get the food. I’m not sure even the Nazis were that creative when it came to killing their opponents.

You know what? Setting up food distribution points, then gunning down the starving people who show up desperate for food is NOT going to “eliminate Hamas.” Every bullet fired into the crowd creates young new recruits – and I’m having difficulty trying to figure out why they wouldn’t want to fight back…

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I’ve seen several columns speculating on why Taco has it in for Harvard. Maybe it’s because Harvard didn’t let Barron in. Maybe it’s because Harvard didn’t let Taco, himself, in. Maybe this, could be that. Here’s MY guess: he’s a petty, small-minded, little person who insists on getting his own whiny way at all times and in all things and anybody who challenges that thinking needs to be punished…

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So, can I have a minute to understand this? He said he wants to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but continue to have the government guarantee the mortgages? How is that NOT corporate Socialism? I mean, isn’t that the very definition of privatizing gains but socializing losses? If Capitalists get their greedy little fingers around Freddie and Fannie, won’t that make it harder for first time home buyers and/or credit-risk borrowers to buy a house? How is that NOT the exact opposite of the exact reason Fannie and Freddie were created in the first place?

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We all know this. Hell, we make jokes about it. But, we keep doing the same thing, hoping it will get better. Oh, what am I on about? So-called ‘Free-Market’ Capitalism. Oh, and what we ALL know? It doesn’t work. No, really. Haven’t you noticed? Every few years, the so-called “free market” crashes and burns. WHEN that happens, the Capitalists always “shift” to Socialism just long enough to let the citizenry bail them out. Then it’s right back to “Free market good, Socialism bad.” Rinse and repeat.

All I’m saying is that if Socialism has to keep bailing out Capitalism, how bad could it be? The US had a long period where the economy stabilized somewhat. It was the forty-plus years of FDR’s ‘New Deal.’ The thing is, FDR’s ‘New Deal’ was, essentially, a watered down version of what the world calls ‘Democratic Socialism.’ One NEVER hears about a Democratic Socialist nation turning to Free Market Capitalism from time to time to bail themselves out of some financial crisis they put themselves into.

If you REALLY want to make America great again, you have to tax high incomes at high rates and regulate business activities so they don’t harm the society. I base that statement on the track record of other countries but also the US from around 1940 to 1980, when Reagan introduced ‘Tinkle Down Economics.’

Free Market Capitalism doesn’t work and is unsustainable. Democratic Socialism DOES work and IS sustainable. I’m hoping that, after the revolution, we institute Democratic Socialist principles and really seek to make America the best she can be…