The Puppet

When I see (supposedly) smart Republicans insist Trump is a better choice than Clinton, it's bad enough, but when I hear anyone on the left insist they'd rather vote for Donald than Hillary, I'm truly gobsmacked.  What are you talking about?  Trump is the biggest threat to the stability of the United States ever, and yes I'm taking the Civil War into consideration.

I don't throw large statements like this around willy nilly, so to try to add credibility to my argument, here's a list of the greatest threats we've had to America's continued, autonomous existence:

• Before the country even got going, there was the Shayes Rebellion, which nearly destroyed the incubating government as it was forming. 
• Washington had many make or break moments in the first Presidential term; not a surprise due to the enormity of actually building a country, but the Whiskey Rebellion was his own public uprising which brought American citizens to arms against the US government.
• John Adams had a very different version of democracy in mind, one where the President was an authoritative, near dictator.  Thank Jefferson for reversing a lot of what he did.
• The War of 1812 did not go well for the US.  When President Madison had to flea for his life, actually taking command of a military unit as the British burned the White House down, while his wife secured the valuables, it doesn't speak of a resounding victory.  I've always wondered why the British didn't demand far more in the Treaty of Ghent.
• The Election of 1824 was pretty bad, with Andrew Jackson winning both the popular and electoral vote counts, but not enough of a majority to claim victory.  It went to the House of Representatives to decide, and the end result was Speaker Henry Clay's power grab leading to the installation of John Quincy Adams as President.
• Folklore has it William Henry Harrison died one month into his Presidency because he wasn't wearing a jacket during a cold inauguration address.  Reality, he actually got sick three weeks after the address.  They did try leeches!  At this point in the country's history, the path of succeeding after the death of a President was untested and unknown.  Numerous power hungry individuals planned on being the true leader of the government until Vice President John Tyler established the current method of the Vice President becoming the President.
• The Civil War wasn't just one Presidency.  Lincoln was the President when the actual fighting happened, and there were numerous times where, through US military commander incompetence, the US could've been lost, but that was during combat.  As Lincoln's predecessor, Buchanan sat and did nothing to stop the flow of southern states he knew would leave the union after the 1860 election, and Andrew Johnson's horrific reign afterwards still reverberates in the injustices of today.  Buchanan's malaise, Lincoln's lack of military leaders, and Johnson's incompetence brought the country to the edge multiple times.
• President Grant was a notorious drunk, who would be considered a obnoxiously heavy drinker today, even during his so called sober Presidential years. So was Grover Cleveland, who curtailed his drinking during his first term to a barrel a night, was nicknamed Uncle Jumbo, got a woman pregnant and married a 21 year old in office.  Alcohol allows you make horrible decisions when you're NOT the President of the United States.  The country was compromised during both of their reigns.
• The Election of 1876 had massive voting irregularities in three southern states, which lead to Grant having to threaten the public by insisting he would use the military to curb violence.  The end result was President Rutherford B. Hayes, who trailed by 3% in the popular vote, but won the electoral vote by 1!
• When people talk about Hillary Clinton being the first female President, they're really overlooking Edith Bolling, Woodrow Wilson's wife.  Wilson had a debilitating stroke late in 1919.  From most accounts, he wasn't fit to fulfill his responsibility as President.  Edith would convey his commands and wishes.  Without a proper process to replace a compromised president (the 25th Amendment was passed after Wilson), and no one wanting to actually call the President unfit for office, Edith, an unelected first lady, was the de facto President.
• Harding was a nightmare.  Corrupt, disgusting; he sold the United States to the highest bidder, as exposed in the Teapot Dome Scandal, amongst others (!!!), and he was the worst kind of human.  He had numerous affairs, at least seven, got two women pregnant, and, during prohibition, something he voted for as Senator, he always had a fully stocked bar, openly displayed in the White House.
• JP Morgan and other industrialists, furious FDR took the country off the gold standard, actually got pretty far into the planning stages of an overthrowing of the federal government.  WWI military leader Smedley Butler, after being asked to march WWI vets on the White House, exposed the conspiracy.
• World War II was pretty tough, and we needed to use nuclear bombs to prevent from having to commit to a incredible costly land invasion of Japan.
• JFK was assassinated in Dallas by an unknown entity (seriously, magic bullet???).  LBJ, a notorious drinker himself, took office, but with an angry anti-minority undercurrent flowing in the country.
• Nixon was a neurotic twit whose administration conspired in grandiose and unnecessary games to maintain a control they would've always maintained.  His being exposed in the Watergate scandal led to the first President neither elected to the office of the Presidency or Vice Presidency (Ford).  
• For George W. Bush, we could go with the Supreme Court inserting itself in the 2000 election, to award the Presidency to W., as opposed to the top vote getter in Florida, Gore, but how about we go with him starting a war with a country that didn't attack us on 9/11, and his administration grossly manipulating the evidence for war, strong-arming other countries into going along with the US.  Then, after we'd conquered Iraq, they had zero plan in place for the post war government of Iraq.  The war lead to the loss of thousands of American lives, trillions of American tax dollars, tens of thousands of permanently injured American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.  It also directly lead to the rise of extremist terrorism, in the form of ISIS.

You see!  This country's history is chock full of scandal and incompetence which could've broken it.  The wars are always the most dangerous element, but with Trump, were seeing something far more terrifying.  None of these historical moments involved the head of another country actually calling the shots in the United States.

Vladamir Putin, the head of Russia, is a power hungry dictator.  He's manipulated the system in Russia to make him the most powerful leader, regardless of which office he holds.  He has a strangle hold on his countries media and populace, and has had numerous political rivals executed in brazen fashion.

Putin sees an opportunity to take over the United States.  He's backing an easily manipulated fool in Donald Trump, a man who's all bravado and little substance, a man who seems to have an extreme loyalty to the leader of Russia.  Trump/Putin is an actual alliance.  Putin sees the impossible developing in front of his eyes; the ability to become the installed de facto leader of the most powerful country in the world.  Of course, a man so power hungry and evil will jump at this opportunity.

The current Wikileaks attack on the Democrats came from the Russian Government.  They've proven this.  The Russians hacked the DNC computers and fed the damaging e-mails to Wikileaks.  There are some embarrassing things in the e-mails, and Debbie Wasserman Shultz, the outgoing head of the DNC, should've been fired a year ago, but this is proof the Russians are trying to manipulate the election.

Trump vetted his Vice Presidential picks by telling them "you'll be running all domestic and foreign policy."  WHAT?!!!?  Trump has stated he won't support or honor our NATO allies, and has even said he'll remove the United States from the World Trade Organization.  These statements are HUGE red flags, enough to exclude Trump from being considered a viable candidate, statements that show Trump has been, or easily could be, manipulated, but nothing slows this guy's campaign.  You should be scared!  Putin, a man who has regularly killed off his political rivals, will likely do ANYTHING for a Trump win in November, including taking out Hillary if the election is looking like an anti-Trump landslide.

Just so no one misses what I'm saying:  I think Russia might try to assassinate Hillary Clinton if it looks like Trump will lose.  I wouldn't be surprised if a Russian military presence is already in the US, trying to recruit some extremist American rube they can cast in the role of patsy, someone Bundy-esque.

A Tump Presidency would mean a new Russian Empire, with them forcibly taking back the countries which left the old Soviet Union, while Trump ignores the screams.  It would destroy our relations with all of our allies.   It would likely mean a war in the Middle East and possible a war with China, and whereas some people think the deaths of American soldiers would be some sort of win, I'm tired of Americans dying for wars which we should not be involved in.  Oil and fishing rights in American territorial waters would be handed back to the Russians, and Putin might even request some of Alaska back.  Before you scoff, you see what he did in the Crimea?

This is not bizarro science fiction, this is real, and its could happen in the United States under the right circumstances.  Look at how much the Bush's bent over backwards for the Saudis.  Now times that by 10, and instead of the Saudis, it's Vlad Putin!

Republicans, I know you hate Hillary.  You do because your media has vilified her for over 20 years.  You think she's a crook because you've been told she's a crook, over and over and over again.  It's called brain washing, and it's worked so well, Republican politicians are furious when she doesn't get charged with the non-existent crimes they insist she's committed.  Please wake up!  There's no comparison between Trump and Clinton.  You don't have to vote for her, but for God's sake, don't vote for him "just because!"

Far lefties, first off, Bernie LOST!!!  We had primaries and caucuses, and because he didn't take the South seriously, and because he didn't resonate with minority voters, he didn't win.  Super delegates weren't the problem for Bernie; he came in 2nd.  You insisting a Trump Presidency is a better option because you're disappointed is incredibly dumb.  Regardless of whether you just hate Hillary, or if you want to see the house burn down so you can rebuild it, let me remind you of something.  What replaces the burned down house, likely, won't be better than the one you allowed to burn, and often the replacement is FAR worse.

WAKE UP!  Do not elect a Russian puppet!

Do you know what the saddest part of a Trump Presidency would be?  Not the numerous Americans insisting Trump was a much better choice than Clinton, as they watch their sovereign rights being taken away from them, but rather how many of them would actually believe it.