So the Department of Homeland Security is currently shut down
And yet Trump has started a war of regime change against a country that is potentially capable of guerilla strikes on American soil.
According to a CBS report from a few weeks ago, "The shutdown will affect the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and other agencies within DHS that safeguard national security."
It seems to me that if you're going to start a major war with another country -- especially if you're going to force the leaders of that country into an existential crisis, meaning that literally everything is on the table in terms of their response -- it would make sense to have all those defense and security agencies operating at full strength. And yet here we are.
Of course, DHS itself, along with the rest of the Trump regime, has been describing this as the "Democrats' shutdown" because Republicans have refused to negotiate with Democrats, who simply want ICE to follow the Constitution.
Now, if I were a very cynical person, I might think that not only does Trump not care about an attack on American soil, but he'd actually welcome such a thing, because a) he could blame it on the Democrats for shutting down DHS, and b) it would give him the pretext he needs to declare a national emergency and assert federal control over the mid-term elections.
But gosh, one would really have to lose one's faith in the President of the United States to consider that he might do something so disgraceful, wouldn't one?
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for every contingency, so...................... screw it, I can't keep this charade up. 
With tRump it's always been, "Ready.......shoot......AIM! He's a horse's ass. 
Let it happen on purpose?
A 9/11-type attack on the USA would be TSF's wet dream. Poll numbers shooting up to 90 percent or more.
Wag the Dog
Now, send ICE, every last one of them.
Make Iran safe for McDonalds
They would save him a bundle on tearing down all the old US monuments so that he could build all new ones.
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Earl you are justly empathizing with the Trump regime. They are the cynical ones. Sometimes, quite often these days, you have to go there to the world they inhabit to understand them. It is not as if you can get a straight answer out of them. It is not as if ignoring the threat is an option.
cyn·i·cal
/ˈsinək(ə
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adjective
1.
believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
"he was brutally cynical and hardened to every sob story under the sun"
2.
concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted or appropriate standards in order to achieve them.