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 “If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

There's your policy statement issued from the Southern White House/Golf Resort by the guy who spent the past ten days out on the links. Apparently word came to him somewhere between rounds of cheating at golf that Iran might be shotting or violently killing protesters. Which does bear some unpacking since the so-called-"president" of the United States is issuing fatwas from his golf cart without bothering to conjugate verbs or consider the fact that pretty much all the killing of peaceful protesters falls under the "violent" category. 

Then there's the matter of peaceful protest in his own country. It was over this same holiday week that “We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact.” Not constricted by a character count on his own social media platform, the twice-impeached golf pro finished up his rant with, "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!" 

What he fails to mention here is that he was forced to do this by the same Supreme Court that had once seemed to be rubber-stamping the fascist takeover of our cities. Perhaps the empty-headed threats being tossed around by the guy trying to get us all to ignore his increasingly obvious appearance in the Trumpstein Files is now standard operating procedure in what's left of the White House. 

And, quite possibly, policy decisions that involve the safety of the rest of the world should not be made between rounds of golf.