Trump Muzzles State Department And Guess Who Is Happy About That
by David P. Greenberg
The Secretary of State is 4th in line of ascendency after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. The State Department was the first Cabinet Post created under George Washington. That’s how important State is to our Government.
The Constitution lists two jobs for the President, and it is important to note the order. The first job listed by the Constitution is “Head of State.” The second – and deemed of lesser import – is the “Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.”
This means two things. 1) The Founders considered diplomacy more crucial than military force. 2) The President is not “our” Commander in Chief, but rather the Commander of the military. So in other words, soldiers have to follow his orders, but you and I do not.
While Trump has slashed and burned so much of our traditions and institutions, what he’s done in the background – that hasn’t received sufficient press – is that he’s destroyed the State Department. He not only put an oil baron CEO in the Secretary’s slot, but he has systematically fired the entire staff. Ambassadors who have worked at maintaining – or at least TRYING to maintain – peace in our world for a half century. On top of that, #KomradePissGuzzler has gagged the department, not allowing them to talk to reporters, hence the public whom they are sworn to serve.
So, basically, these people now have a job, where they are not forced – or even allowed – to talk to their own bosses. Trump is not the boss – WE are.
There’s a word for that kind of government. Fascism. I think it was… Oh, wait… ME. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It was ME, who warned you for 2 FUCKIN’ YEARS that Trump would create a government of Fascism. Well, whaddayaknow?
But who would most benefit from the destruction of the State Department? If a despotic, Fascistic, warlord were to be creaming his jeans over America dismantling her State Department, who would that dictator be? Putin, that’s who. The ex-Soviet bathroom-peeper, Putin. The man who has spent a lifetime figuring out how to “weaponize information.”
#KomradePissGuzzler will not get away with selling MY country to his Oligarchic master in the former Soviet Union. A man born under Stalin and raised under Khrushchev. The richest man in the world – and one who garnered all those riches by blackmail if not outright theft. A thug and a gangster of the highest order. I will not allow that to happen. As long as I can breathe air, I will not allow that to happen.
Something different every day.