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Two-and-a-Half Minutes to Midnight: Could J. Edgar Hoover Have Saved the World from Trump?

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  • The early-February loosening of the sanctions imposed in the closing days of the Obama Administration that barred transactions between US businesses and the Russian spy agency US intelligence says is responsible for hacking the 2016 election.

  • The strange occurrence surrounding the death of Oleg Erovinkin, a former KGB chief suspected of leaking the details of the trump dossier to Steele (the former Brit spy who compiled the dossier). Erovinkin was recently found dead in the back seat of a black Lexus in Moscow.

  • The disappearance of Sergei Mikhailov, a senior Russian cyber-intelligence official who, according to reports, was dragged out of a Russian intelligence meeting with a bag over his head early this past December and hasn't been seen or heard from since. According to a January 25 edition of the New York Times, Mikhailov "oversaw" Russia's hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

  • That's a lot of smoke. Nonetheless, until further notice these questions and other allegations related specifically to geo-political subterfuge involving trump and the Russians remain open to speculation.

    On the other hand, is there really a lot of room for speculation regarding pretty much any allegation of trump engaging in sexually-deviant behavior regardless of the source? What's to speculate about the possibility of a filthy rich, New York City businessman -- who admits to p*ssy-groping women he does not know -- having engaged in even filthier sexual activities while abroad (pun intended)?

    As many Americans were horrified to discover during his campaign, there is little of what can be considered "normal" about trump's general behavior. Why, therefore, would one speculate otherwise about his sexual activities? Thanks to his campaign for the presidency, trump's life has been revealed as a decades-old chronicle of furtive movements regardless of the platform on which he has performed be it business, entertainment, or politics. In this attempt at building a sexual deviancy case against trump, let's avoid using the trite "if it walks like a duck" analogy in favor of a more appropriate boys-in-blue-related rhetorical device. In other words, based on the maggot-gagging nature of the allegations of sexual deviancy against him, donald trump -- like the sweaty, no-pants-wearing perp in the wrinkled old raincoat loitering at the playground with his hands in his pockets -- clearly "fits the description."

    Two-and-a-Half Minutes to Midnight

    Admittedly, there's an element of wishful thinking connected to the idea that were he still FBI director any dirt Hoover may have developed on trump would have been damaging enough to have actually ended trump's candidacy. Indeed, based on what we've seen thus far, the opposite seems more likely. In other words, even if J. Edgar was still alive and still running today's FBI exactly as he did nearly 50 years ago, he'd still face today's reality that regardless of how heinous they might be, trump's crimes -- like black lives -- wouldn't matter to trump supporters. Remember, we're talking about a group of Americans who voted for a guy who is not only bananas enough to call some of his own supporters "stupid," but who also pointed out that they are so stupid that he could shoot someone on New York's 5th Avenue during broad daylight without losing a single vote.

    Thus, with society having apparently reached a point in time at which abnormal thoughts and actions have become overwhelmingly normalized, it's plausible to assume that if shooting someone in broad daylight doesn't bother them, why would they give a flying f*ck about the kind of showers donald trump fancies, "golden" or otherwise.

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