№ 605.1: EXTRA! Ho Hum (another day at the Oval Orifice)

Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims

Former White House adviser says financial investigations will take down president in sequel to Fire and Fury

The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag”.

The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the Trump administration.

THE NEW IMPROVED SWAMP, May 29

Now let us handle 

another Trump scandal.

(He'll say it's “very unfair”.)

Say what you will

about this shrill shill,

you have to admit

he's got some pair.

Away to the dumpster

with Cosa Trumpster.

Break out all the sump pumps.

Vaccinate everyone

against Trump Mumps.

Call it THE POX.

(Except on FOX.)

Crime, if you please,

is Trump's “family” disease.

Did Junior sneeze?

Did Eric wheeze?

Ivanka, as always,

cannot be appeased.

I mean Geez Louise,

high time we stopped 

being chumps

dump all the Trumps,

get off the fence,

with sad reluctance

inaugurate Pence

and speak of liberty

in the past tense. 

[updated 5/29/2019 12:40 pm]

No. 251.1: EXTRA! Steve Bannon's Thinking

Let me tell you why

Trump's still my guy

despite the fact he kinda sorta fired me.

He assured me that

our bit of a spat

had no impact, that he still admired me.

Yes, I lost Rebekah Mercer

who had been my purser

showering huge fortunes on my causes.

I'm out at Breitbart too. . .

(I blame Jared, THE JEW!

Jews own news and it makes me nauseous.)

I'm still down with Donald Trump.

Do I hear you go, “Hrump”?

See, he's the John the Baptist to my Jesus?

As it's been foretold,

first it gets real cold.

I take over after. When hell freezes.

Keep cool. Just sit tight.

All things will be alt-right.

I bring you national salvation.

After Donald and me

set OUR people free

and America learns to take dictation.

No. 224.2: EXTRA! A Steve Bannon Canon

Is there any question of white male supremacy?

And wherefore this outcry from femininity?

Should these give us pause, disrupt our cause  —

why should we account for where we place our paws?

'Tis the law of Nature — land, air and sea! —

the superior stature of masculinity.

Saying some other “race” could ever keep pace

with white Christian males, is, well, a disgrace!

Jeffersonian nonsense, his “created equal”,

has led to this present unhappy sequel

where women, Asians, Latinos, blacks

demand equal access. We have to fight back.

Go on the attack, prove we have what they lack.

Our innate ability to ignore civility,

our white-male-privileged freedom from culpability

provide us the tools to dispense with these fools.

(And if that doesn't work, then we'll change the rules.)

No. CXXXVI: The Great Game Encore

NYT: Angry Trump Grilled His Generals About Troop Increase, Then Gave In (Paywall)

On Monday night, Mr. Trump finally put forward a broader strategy for Afghanistan, one that would require thousands more American troops but place more conditions on the Afghan government....As a private citizen, he repeatedly called on Mr. Obama to withdraw the troops.

Foreign Affairs: Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires, November/December 2001, (Free registration or paid subscription required)

THE GREAT GAME
...This spot...has witnessed the traverse of the world's great armies on campaigns of conquest...All eventually ran into trouble...

Alexander the Great...ran into fierce resistance...Genghis Khan and the great Mughal emperors...a millennium later...established the greatest of empires -- but only after reaching painful accommodations with the Afghans...

In the nineteenth century...the Great Game, the contest between the United Kingdom and Russia for control of Central Asia and India...[saw]...[t]he first Afghan War (1839-42)...British commanders sent a huge army of British and Indian troops into Afghanistan to secure it against Russian incursions, replacing the ruling emir with a British protege...by January 1842 the British were forced to withdraw from Kabul with a column of 16,500 soldiers and civilians...only a single survivor...made it to Jalalabad...

...The British would repeat [their] mistakes in the second Afghan War (1878-81), as would the Soviets a century later...

If Afghanistan isn't the graveyard of empires,

perhaps it's the hospice where empires expire,

where aiming for victory, clean and complete,

in the end all anyone finds is defeat.

(Meantime: Bannon back at his old professions
contemplates corps of modern day Hessians

and Trump, as he views the eclipse with bare eyes,
says, "The sun never shines brighter than me!")

No. CXXX.ii: EXTRA! Sent From The Tent (or Bannon Go Yurt)

NYT: Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster (Paywall)

Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.  

Time to ban Bannon?

His date's expired.

So bad is he,

Murdoch wants him fired!

Now that it's printed,

it can not happen.

And, besides,

Donald likes Bannon.

He one hundred percent agrees with his views

and if he fires him this won't be "fake news"!