Mr. Robin gets all ironic in a pre-holiday rant...we get so little of that around here, irony that is...rants are a daily occurrence.

Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you’re all well! You know, I kind of like when you people take off work for a holiday. How do I know you’ve taken off, you ask? Because the number of people visiting the www.cosmiccityblog.com shoots through the roof, that’s how!

Now if I could just figure out how to monetize that I could rest on my laurels (Latin word for butt cheeks) and spew forth daily nonsense. What can I tell you, lots of traffic across the site does make me happy. It takes so little really. Traffic across the site and fruitcake, of course. How’s that for a subtle reminder?

Seriously, I needed the pick up that people reading my drivel brings. The stock market has been pummeling my IRA all week. I’m more convinced than ever that Fearless Leader is manipulating the stock market. No, really.

Think about it.

For instance, over the weekend SNL brought a skit with Steve Carell portraying Jeff Bezos doing a Trump-trolling rap about how he is worth way more than Fearless Leader. The segment goes viral. Starting Sunday night, Fearless Leader begins pounding on Amazon (again) and how they’re ripping off USPS (not really true) and then went on to shoot holes in Facebook (again). So what happens? Tech stocks take a dive this week with Bezos, Zuckerberg, and the Apple Dude watching their net worth drop before their eyes…along with mine! Okay, there was more to the tech drops than just Fearless Leader’s tweets, but still…

Often, we’ll be going along just fine. The economy by most measures is doing well. Things are perking along. Unemployment is low. Then Fearless Leader finds where his Chief of Staff hid his smartphone and begins tweeting in the middle of the night about one thing or another and suddenly the stock market takes a dive and people panic.

Enough, already!

And then he (Fearless Leader) appears on TV the next day with that stupid smirk on his face telling us little people how stupid we are to invest in those companies.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he’s manipulating the markets because he can, and it feeds that narcissistic megalomaniacal soul of his to see the result of his finger f-ing the markets. Plus, if the “family” is betting on futures, it’s entirely possible they’re raking in the cash every time the markets dive as they have been since early October.

Now, he’s sucking up to that murderous gang of thugs in Saudi Arabia in order to keep “America first.” Uh huh. America First in this case means not letting trillions of dollars in Saudi weapons and equipment sales go to Russia or China. Fearless Leader figures, “Eh, the guy was a fake journalist, who cares? My hands are clean. I have the cleanest hands of any president in the universe!”

Are they?

You know the problem with this country? I served it in one capacity or another for 35 years, so I guess I can make this statement. The problem with this nation is that since the end of WWII, we’ve built a “brand” based on a phrase coined by President Eisenhower way back when: the military-industrial complex. Ike (a Republican by the way) derided the concept as a detriment of America’s greatness.

We spend more money on weapons, etc., than Russia and China combined, yet according to a new study done for Congress, a shooting war with either one of them would pose a significant struggle, if not outright defeat to the U.S. Beyond that, if one or more of the rogue states (let’s see, there’s North Korea and Iran) decide to jump into the fray suddenly you have World War III.

And, then we’re back to the military-industrial complex model as a way of life.

“America first” should not include putting children in cages or waiting on the edge of our collective seat to read the latest nationalist pandering the individual we apparently elected king issues forth with his thumbs. It’s not about standing around and shrugging off news that a journalist who was living in the United States was murdered in a foreign consulate of his native nation. It’s not standing idly by as one person (again, that we apparently elected king) seeks to single-handedly manipulate (dare I say destroy?) the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

And this morning I see that Fearless Leader is promoting himself as the leading candidate for Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Curiously, according to a reader poll released on Tuesday by Time, he is tied for 13th place along with Bezos, Zuckerberg, and special counsel Robert Mueller for the  title…oh, the irony!

Happy f-ing Thanksgiving, by the way!

​That is all!

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