“Whenever Caesar Disgustus confronts Vladimir Putin, our “president-for-life” folds like a deck chair on the Titanic.
---- from "The Quotations of Chairman Joe
To date, the response by the Western World to the poisoning of a Russian double agent and his daughter has been tepid. Prime Minister May of Great Britain has called out Putin for this outrage but, led by May, the Western World has so far only expelled diplomats. True, a significant representation of participating countries joined in the effort, from France to Ukraine, with the U.K. Expelling 20 diplomats, but the response of the United States has been puzzling.
Disgustus' first response was 'wait and see', telling the press corps and the nation that he wanted to first talk with the Brits and see the evidence, not that anything the Rescumlickans do is evidence-based. This was a curious response, given that Prime Minister May had already stood in the House of Commons and declared unequivocally that the attack, using an agent pioneered by the Russians, was engineered by Putin and his henchmen. Nevertheless, like any other 'inconvenient truth' (like global warming), the scum are always late to the scene. So while May and the European community were organizing a response, our very own Caesar Disgustus was found wanting.
Instead, our intrepid Disgustus was seen congratulating Putin on his electoral victory, ignoring a memo written by his national security team with the words “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in capital letters. Disgustus, famous for his illiteracy, ignored the memo and called, we learned again from Russian sources, Putin to do precisely that. Not only did he ignore his advisers, but failed to call Putin into account for the violence visited upon the former Russian spy and his daughter, nor bring any criticisms to bear concerning ongoing election tampering or the Russian hacking of our nuclear plants and the power grid. White House officials were stunned and embarrassed, as is the nation.
Disgustus has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the collective effort by the West to mount some kind of response. But let us face facts. The effort, to date, has been lackluster. Obama, in the wake of election tampering, expelled 25 Russian diplomats. Putin responded by expelling 700 U.S. Diplomats from Russia. Disgustus, responding to the Russian reaction merely said that his friend Putin was doing him a favor by helping his administration cut costs. Now we have another round of Diplomatic tit-for-tat, which basically boils down to a slapping on the wrist, while the meddling and hacking continue.
What is amazing here is not only the tepid response of this administration—as deplorable as it is—but that of the West generally. While Britain's may take some solace in the expulsion of twenty Russian diplomats, the fact is that this isn't much of a response. Indeed London has been flooded with Russian Oligarch money, money in search of a safe haven against possible political upheaval, or the falling from grace. Russian-linked money has done its worst, for it has not only bought the oligarchs a safe haven for their funds, or their possible futures but has bought acquiescence from the governments of those countries so invested.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the United States, where Russian money-laundering and the implicit, if not explicit, participation by our very own Caesar Disgustus has frozen in place the appropriate American action. Look no further than the steadfast refusal of Disgustus to impose the sanctions voted by Congress with only 5 dissenting votes in both the House and the Senate. Clearly, Disgustus is willfully ignoring the expressed will of the people and their demand that our response is punitive. Instead, our Maximum Leader, our “president-for-life” in waiting, folds like a deck chair on the Titanic.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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