WAS: What Adults are Saying about White House Avarice
High end grifting pisses on America's recent pain and history
The announced acceptance of a gifted jumbo jet to 47 from the Qatari government has understandably raised the hackles of many Americans—even some politicians on both sides of the aisle. Of course for the current administration its just another day where 47’s propogandists have offered a stunt meant to shock normal sensibilities. Evidently believing that merely electing 47 was an insufficient heart-attack, Stephen Miller and other graduates of Goebbels University work overtime to develop the most outrageous, Un-American nonsense imaginable. Gasping is now an appointed exercise daily at ten, two and four just like Dr. Pepper wanted. Every time time we draw one of our collective breaths might the heart stop? Cardiologists everywhere are paying close attention.
In this instance, many insist a sitting President receiving such a gift of largesse from a foreign government is unlawful. That so far seems pretty clear, which of course—is exactly the reason why 47 pursues it. The game of listing his Top 10 Transgressions ended long ago because what fun is a game that must be played daily? At that point it stops being leisure and becomes a chore. That aside, this one is a biggie.
Not just because 47 continues to use the Oval Office as pit from which to day-trade—he does that a lot with his peek-a-boo tariff reversals and crypto shenanigans. Nor is this instance of an even greater “severe moral outrage”—that phrase having lost its impact in the 47 era. Both of those things are true. But the planned acceptance of the grand Qatari gift while visiting Gulf States (including Saudi Arabia) is designed to cross a line not touched previously.
Anyone over the age of 30 can remember encountering the hideous events of 9/11. The source, funding and motivation for those bloody attacks was easily (and almost immediately) traced back to the many of the same nation states where 47 is visiting and chomps daily at an imported McDonalds. The Saudi’s, Qatari’s, Yemeni’s and others from that region have long preached death to “infidel” Americans and brought it for many in horrific fashion. Response from the U.S. was rapid, overkill (how many companies were made fat by the rapid development of the Homeland Security department?), the basis for a falsely justified war and lasting. Not until Osama Bin-Laden was flushed out of a small hole during Obama’s watch did the country begin to think 9/11 was over. Of course for many of us and especially victim families it will never be over and the heart-breaking ceremonies held every September 11th provide testament.
In visiting the Gulf States 47 is doing what he always does—grift. Just like a military mercenary or Vegas street-walker the transaction is paramount—with whom and under what symbolic attachments is simply too much detail that puny brains can’t process. Although in contrast, at least the mercenary and the whore provide a service. The President just sells off parts of the country—both tangible and symbolic—as though he’s an auctioneer at a farm sale. It’s always hideous but in this instance, once again, a new ceiling has been broken.
In the wake of 9/11, but especially in the last 15 years, many Gulf States have sought to remake their image as jihadists and terrorists into something like new capitalists. World investments in sports, international finance, local desert resorts and other ventures is how they now strain to be accepted and bury their bloody history. Many there were made obscenely rich—not through capitalism—but a series of interlocking relationships that supplied carbon for the world to burn. They laughed with their riches, funded terrorists in many parts of the world and now host an infantile President who salivates when he hears the phrase “blood money.” That’s just the next step in them trying to be judged normal.
By comparison, Pavlov got off cheaply—a bell and some food got the canines going. But these states have learned from Putin that America now has a most “useful idiot” and its time to start using. So while he coos at how well the robed hosts lick western boots, he tramples the memory of the souls who died on 9/11. He seeks to normalize some of the most bloodthirsty actors and their banks the world has ever seen in the wake of Hitler. He quite simply chooses to ignore the long-suffering that is 9/11 for America. He scarfs Saudi burgers and takes gold bars requiring a jacket far larger than Bob Menendez (he receiving payment from another Gulf State). This is not just another round of 47’s garish behavior. The current American President is leading the charge to sane-wash decades of terrorist behavior that directly, on our soil, killed thousands of Americans. For him a mere stroll on American graves while the rest of us remain tied, grieving and alert about the infamy of 9/11.