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Bob Woodward wrote a story.  It supposedly is about an insane asylum created by a President unfit to serve.

But the stock market, businesses and working people who are benefiting from an increase in jobs won't be convinced the improvements they see as being the work of a loony bin. Obama is trying to claim credit for the economy but cutting regulations and lowering taxes are the real drivers of growth, neither of which he did.

Voters also all know Trump is not the only guy who has been challenged on his treatment of women, they are falling out of the sky like rain right now. If women want to know anything about men being a bunch of abusive clowns, a lot of them simply have to roll over in bed, or look at the faces of their ex when they come to see the kids, or their bosses at work. That certainly does not apply to all men but women do not have to look far to see males behaving badly at one time or another. Or they can read the bible and listen to the crap about being made from a man's rib, which to me is throwing the weight of a massive fiction justifying male dominance, no different from the idea that the world was flat or that there were witches. Then they just have to read the news about the Pope claiming the devil made them do it. And then having a laugh with the "boys." (The beer and wings are in the far cabinet to the right.)

None of this is intended to justify Trump's behavior towards women in any way, but it took his mouth and Trumpathology to get the conversation going. Score 1 huge point for disruption. If you are a woman voter keep looking for abusers to pop up.  They make great targets for protest. And to understand why disruption is better than secrets, look no farther than the process the House and Senate uses to cover up sexual abuse by their members. 

On that topic, there is one massive argument for disruption, and that is the upending of secrecy.  If you follow this entire affair and everything that we have covered about corporate and government malfeasance it becomes clear really quickly that the strength of corruption is being able to hide what is going on.  The entire Russian collusion affair, the way abuse of women is hidden behind non-disclosure agreements and forcing them into binding, non public arbitration, the press refusing to cover what is going on, are all reasons to disrupt everything continuously. 

The mainstream press has no Get Out of Jail Free card for their role in any of this. The attached article shows the US media called Trump's pre-election exposure of Bush taboo. They publicly defended speaking out about lying. Do you want to know why? And here is where they are called out for it by Al Jazeera.  Bottom line, you need a lot of people speaking out, not less.  People who will not shut up expose of lot of things others would prefer hidden.

Then there is the Washington undercurrent that deserves looking at, and as usual its all about money, yours the taxpayers. To put it into perspective, have you ever met anyone who is a government or union employee, or one of the bankers that fleeced the entire world in 2008, that would admit they are overpaid and return their salary or the money they were never entitled to?  Or that the military needs to cut its budget? Looking for a basis for leaks, lies, undermining a President, whining and sniveling? Start here, first with an analysis of the pay and job protection government employees get. Then think about taking it away, or reducing it to make them move with the ebb and flow of the economy, just like everyone else. 

"State government  employees  in  most  states  receive  greater  total  compensation  than  similarly educated  and experienced private-sector employees who work for large employers. Public-employee wages in nearly all states fall below those paid in the private sector, but fringe benefits –in particular health and retirement benefits – are  significantly  more  generous  in government  than  in  the  private  sector.  In addition, public employees in every state have greater job security than they would likely enjoy outside of government." 

Now here is what is happening to workers in the private sector.  Big business suggests their employees are entitled to no wage increases, should be happy to be replaced by immigrants because that is the "American" way, corporate profits come before wages, and if you are Walmart's owners, even before feeding your family. They dump their employees on the food stamp program your taxes pay for.  This is not any kind of justification for the way business behaves, it just points out the difference between coddled and protected government employees and people who have to work for a living in the private sector.

With a perspective on workers in the private sector, let's look at the government groups that consider themselves separate from everyone else and who will react negatively to being subject to the same market forces as people in the private sector. Do you see any reason for their squealing and bleating other than self entitlement that private sector employees dare not think?  Score another point for disruption, or at least for explaining why anyone would undermine a business approach to running the government. 

Here is another group affected by attempts to boost the economy, the self-indulgent bureaucrats who benefit from the expansion of the regulatory class. And just to counter the claims that past governments are responsible for the booming economy, ask any small business person how complex the rules for starting and running businesses are, and what they think of reducing those rules.  The answer to that question is important to you for two reasons. One, is that it will explain why business confidence is up.  The second reason is because YOU SHOULD BE THINKING OF STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS. You live in America, a country in which free enterprise is supposed to give everyone opportunities to achieve their goals.  Working as an employee is not capitalism nor does it afford you the opportunities that owing your own business does. Don't take my word for it, speak to a small businesses person to get the facts. 

That does not mean there should not be rules to protect the public, but the last kind of entrepreneurship you want anywhere is people who work for the government, advance based on seniority whether they are competent or not, and who grow their jobs by making up more rules to expand their bureaucracy and justify their position and pay.

The second is reducing the tax burden on corporations.  Not because it gives the rich tax breaks, but because it flushed them out of the woodwork. They always could have boosted the economy in the past, they simply refused to do so because they were not bribed to do so.  Now that you know that large businesses are gaming America, you can start taking steps to do something about it.  Score another point for disruption with an unintended revelation.

And as for Woodward, could the Woodward story include information calculated to damage a President given to him by a bunch of overpaid and self aggrandizing people who have either been feeding at the public trough for so long they think they are entitled to continue, or that are new to the scene and want to wet their beaks in the slop too? When the hog wallow is threatened by a cheap, chiseling President who could care less about what anyone thinks and is trying to rein in costs and bloated budgets like any sane business person would, they act like they are all Jack Nicholson in the Shining. 

Or could Woodward's skill in story telling be what he is paid for now?  There are suggestions that Woodward may have massaged the facts to tell a good story in the past.  Perhaps Woodward allowed a story to run to parlay the story for self promotion. You can always read the biography of his editor Ben Bradlee to find out:
"...proof that Woodward and Bernstein lied when they claimed that they never used a Watergate grand juror as a source in their Watergate reporting (the female juror is referred to as "Z"). Himmelman played sleuth, and it's nifty to read how he arrived at this revelation.

To my mind, the second revelation is less startling and perhaps less important, unless you're Bob Woodward: it involves Bradlee's admission in the early 1990s that he, Bradlee, had some wisps of doubt - "residual" unease - about minor details in Woodward's account in All the President's Men of his interactions with Deep Throat (spy-craft touches like Woodward's placing of a red flag in a potted plant outside his apartment when he wanted a meeting with Deep Throat AND Deep Throat's setting of a meeting time by drawing a clock on an inside page of Woodward's the New York Times).

Himmelman's decision to include these and a few other tidbits effectively torpedoed his relationships with Woodward as well as Bradlee and Sally Quinn. I can understand why they were infuriated. But I have to say that as a reader, I'm grateful for Himmelman's instinct toward fuller, rather than lesser, disclosure."

Bradlee's "residual unease" about Woodward's reporting is a red flag and as the Editor responsible for the reporting he would know. Of course Woodward will never admit it, the myth of his greatness serves him well and I am sure CNN has an air pump on his leg to float him over the game like the Goodyear blimp.

Then there is the expose of Deep Throat.  This thing is starting to sound like the kind of literary license Trump is accused of. Somebody should fact check Woodward. To be fair, Woodward may be a useful pawn in disruption, because now the jury of the public can look deeper into the disruption to see why it is happening.

And as for a member of the FBI acting like some petulant spoiled loser who would knife anyone in the back to get ahead, Mark Felt was touched on in the links, now lets start with Hoover. Think of Hoover setting the long term winning strategy for the team, which is get something on everybody, shake them down to make sure they know you are there, and do whatever it takes to hide your own faults, even covering for the mob.  The only guy who has a better cover story than Hoover is the Pope.  He gets to blame the Devil, and the Devil can never be confronted by a Bob Mueller.

A few links to check the Hoover case:
 And then the current FBI.  I won't comment on the Comey, Strzok stuff.  If you are reading this, you probably already are aware of the story with Comey et al. There is a lot more information here.

Then we get to look at US foreign policy. This is an older read, but the more information here link above has more on it and if you do not investigate it you will be clueless about the way in which your tax dollars are bing pissed away.  Everyone complains about tax breaks for the rich and they are right to do so.  But look at the military industrial complex's abuse of money to see another glaring example of ripping you off.  US foreign policy is a shakedown operation that costs billions, creates wars and makes its suppliers billions that you pay for. Trump has figured that out and is looking for some cost savings on wars that serve no purpose and cost billions annually. Score another point for disruption. 

By the way, read the Constitution and find the part that says the United States is supposed to save the world.  I thought the Constitution was about America. When it wanders outside America's borders the military is simply a mercenary for hire and Trump is right, everyone should pay for the service.  When people join the military they should be told we don't give a damn about democracy, justice or God.  We are guns for hire and you may get your butt shot off.  Here is what we are paying.

Of course foreign policy ties in to the largest ongoing scam on the public, funding the military industrial complex.  According to the contacts Woodward quotes, US foreign and military policy is to prevent World War 3. That would explain why the US has to use pretexts to start wars all over the world, lie about the wars it has started, and hide everything from the public. If there is any truth to the adage that it takes one to know one, then Trump and the military are on an equal footing in terms of bullshit baffling brains. The good news for the public is Trump won't shut up and everyone gets to see it.  Then of course you get CNN, Woodward and all of the other hustlers, liars, Washington types and con men wading in and stuff that has been hidden for years is overflowing the trough.
So when you are looking for people who would object to being subject to the same forces that affect the private sector and almost everyone else in the nation, look no farther than people working for your government.  Its a gravy train that they will do anything to protect, including ambushing a President who provides lots of of fertile soil for treachery.  When you follow the money, your money, it becomes fairly clear what is going on.  Its always about your money in America and the thieves do not like the sunlight when they are caught stealing it.

As for Trump, he was and is about his brand. Now that stepping into the swamp has covered him in crap, his brand is threatened.  He is going to have to double down to fix it.  That means living up to the promises he made to boost the economy, create jobs for the average guy, try to bring back industry to America, make NATO members pay their fair share which they have never done, and hammer China for their policies on intellectual property and trade. Not that I blame China for trying to defend the way they do things, Washington insiders are as corrupt as the Chinese, they just get to call their corruption Democracy which is the same strategy the tobacco companies used for years to hide their corrupt activities. Anything Trump can can shake out of China is better than ignoring the problem. Plus the wall, which is simply a gerrymander blocker corporations and certain politicians want to exploit to rig voting forever and undermine American workers. The good news is in a free country no one has to buy anything or vote, so spreading a  little bankruptocracy and voting in rabble rousers is a tactic everyone can embrace if they get it.

So while a bunch of bureaucrats, government employees, a totally corrupt intelligence community and the union like employees in camo try to bring back big ears and theory to overcome cutting costs, you need to think about the benefits stirring up the shit has brought the country. Let the whiners whine, but ramp up the whining.  The rats will keep on tattling and they can never undo what has been exposed.

UPDATE:  Woodward threatens his sources if they challenge him. Based on what is written above, all I can say is go ahead Woodward, DO IT. DO IT! That will clear the way for a Trump housekeeping and the rats will be thinned out some more.