Cousin Fred finding his way back home...Fearless Leader unhinged?...Mr. Robin explains the real reason for the sudden departure from Syria.

Happy Tuesday everybody! Hope you’re all well.

So, the past 24 hours have been a blur here at The Compound. I won’t bore you with a lot of detail, but it appears that Cousin Fred and Friend Lamont are on their way back here (as long as I send them some money). It seems Cousin Fred has given up hope for Gigi ever returning to The Compound. I tried to tell him that she’ll show up again…she always does. Expect them to arrive late tonight.

Let’s see, the Wife is on her way out of town on another of her fabulous vacations (first one in a while). She’s been stocking up on filterless Pall Malls and Old Crow whiskey to bring with her.

Oh, and did I mention that Fearless Leader appears to be moving toward completely unhinged over the Great Wall of America? Where to start? Where to start?

First, he is addressing the nation tonight in a reported attempt to convince those few skeptics among us that he really does need to build the Great Wall along the southern border. Fortunately for all of us, his television address will not overrun the season premiere of NCIS (we all have our priorities). He is also expected to make his case to (again) us remaining skeptics that he should be able to use the ruse of a declared emergency to pull funding from DoD to fund said wall.

Having contemplated this for a time this morning. I began to realize it’s all just another scam. No really.

I was as surprised as anyone a couple of weeks ago when he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and announced via Twitter that he was pulling U.S. Forces out of Syria. That seemingly rash decision was made partially after assurances from that thug of a president in Turkey that ISIS (the reason we were in Syria) had all but been eliminated.
He didn’t seem to give any consideration as to the affect his decision might have on the Kurds (our allies), the people that Turkey will smash like so many bugs when no one is looking.

Vlad “the Poot” Putin praised Fearless Leader’s vision and leadership. Of course, he’d like nothing better than to have the meddling Americans out of the way, so he can do as he pleases with Syria.

Now, overnight, Fearless Leader is tweeting out that American involvement in “endless wars” brought about by “…judgement mistakes that were made many years ago” would be ending soon. Okay, so now he’s proposing to pull us out of Afghanistan and Iraq?

If you’re a dedicated follower of this blog (there’s one or two of you left), you know there is not a lot that Fearless Leader does that I don’t find a way to criticize, condemn, or complain about. Ending those wars (and I promise not to go into the lengthy discussion as to why they should end) would not be a bad thing in my estimation.  

But then, it hit me.

I suspect Fearless Leader is figuring (in that genius brain of his) that if he ends all the fighting and brings all of the troops home, he will: 1) earn the respect and adoration of Americans whom he believes love him without end anyway; and, 2) (and this is the most sinister) that by ending conflicts, DoD will ring up surplus funding that he can tap to build the Great Wall of America.

Let that soak in for a minute.

Now, I know most of you are probably saying, “Gee, Mr. Robin, is that the entire case for your declaring Trump as becoming unhinged?”

Certainly not, mere mortal readers. Certainly not.

Also, in the overnight newsfeed, there were several other articles that help make my case. A few highlights (or in the case of Fearless Leader, lowlights) follow:

• As we enter day 18 of the shutdown, Fearless Leader pushed his altogether unwitting vice president out onto stage yesterday to announce that despite the shutdown the IRS would be issuing refunds same as it always has. Uh huh. This from an agency that has been decimated (thank goodness) by budget and personnel cuts over the past several years.
  
• Despite Fearless Leader’s claims that more than one former president expressed to him their regret over not having built a border wall during their administration. Ahem. FALSE. All four living presidents deny ever having had the conversation with Trump.
  
• White House officials claim that there is something on order of 4,000 suspected foreign terrorists attempting to cross the border from Mexico annually. His own Homeland Security secretary says the number is classified (really?). The actual number, according to the Border Patrol, the people making the captures, is closer to one a month. Let’s do the math: 1 x 12 (the number of months in a year) equals 12 annually.

Is there more? Yeah, probably, but that’s the latest over the past 24-hours. We’d be forever trying to post this blog if I started reaching back. Tonight’s address from the Oval Office should be interesting…
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That is all!