Louisiana Voice

Apparently, there are readers of LouisianaVoice who believe:

• I’m a tree-hugging liberal deeply in love with Hillary Clinton (I’m not. I’m a former Republican who, like a week-old puppy, finally opened my eyes—except it took me a little longer than a week.)
• I should limit my observations to Louisiana news and not delve into national politics (I am both a citizen of Louisiana and the U.S. I will opine about national politics whenever it damn-well pleases me.)
• I shouldn’t express opinions because I’m a news blog (Not true. A blog can be about anything its owner wishes to write about. I make no claim to being objective or impartial. That is the freedom afforded me as a blogger as opposed to a regular reporter.)
• I shouldn’t “trash” President Frump because he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. (The only “trashing” I’ve done is to provide links to real stories that relate what he has done or said. Those pretty much speak for themselves.)

To all those disgruntled folks, here’s the deal I will offer you.

You read The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. And I mean read it. Thoroughly. Cover to cover. And if there’s something you don’t understand, read it again. And again.

The book is only about 200 pages, so it shouldn’t be too big a task for you—even those of you who watch Fox News (or should I say Faux News?) for all your information.

The book isn’t about any Russian collusion.

The book isn’t about hordes of Central American rapists/Middle Eastern terrorists invading our border.

The book isn’t about Trump’s myriad conflicts of interests or his golfing vacations or even his tweet storms.

But it is about an ego-driven, self-aggrandizing (Yeah, I know that’s redundant) everything’s all about me court jester who is convinced he knows all the answers and who has systematically gone about proving that he is woefully ill-prepared to be POTUS. It’s about a man whose learning curve is as flat as three-day-old roadkill.

Read the book objectively and with an open mind for once. And then if you can still defend this buffoon, get back to me and we can talk.

Until then, I don’t need to hear your postulating (look it up) about how he is “the greatest president ever.”

Scott Pruitt, H.R. McMaster, Rex Tillerson, Tom Price, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Mike Flynn, Don McGhan, Gary Cohn, Hope Hicks—Just a few of at least 60 PEOPLE who have either quit or been fired from the Frump administration.

And now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is in deep doo-doo over a proposed LAND DEAL backed by Halliburton chairman David Lesar.

And while the details of the deal are different, it still somehow resonates with the Harding administration’s TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL, another deal between an Interior secretary and an oil company of nearly a century ago.

With that in mind, LouisianaVoice is suggesting that Frump may wish to adopt this as the THEME SONG for what’s left of his train wreck of an administration.

He can thank me later.

Donald the Frump has offered the job of UN ambassador to HEATHER NAUERT.

And why not? As one LouisianaVoice reader noted, she’s blonde and she worked for Fox News.

What other qualifications are needed? Not even outgoing ambassador Nikki Haley possessed such an eye-popping curriculum vitae.

Back on June 5, Heather, then working as a State Department spokesperson, noted that the next day would be the 74^th anniversary of the D-DAY INVASION which she said was an example of America’s “very strong relationship” with Germany.

Next, she’ll cite 9/11 as an example of our “very strong relationship” with Al-Qaeda.

In the words of the late C.B. Forgotston, “You can’t make this stuff up.”

(Thanks to John Sachs for pointing this out to us.)

(Thanks to an alert reader who pointed this out to us):

So, Frump wants to do an end run around the Constitution and declare that children born in this country to immigrant parents do not have the right to citizenship.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/804640/trump-wants-bypass-constitution-unilaterally-end-birthright-citizenship

If he’s successful, an executive order to that effect would give him the power to deport all such residents of the U.S.

• Bobby Jindal was in his mother’s womb when his parents came to this country.
• He was subsequently born to immigrant parents who were not yet citizens of the U.S.
• He could, at least theoretically, instantly become a non-citizen, subject to deportation.

Just sayin’.