I’ve been reading about Trump’s problems. His lack of knowledge of how government works. His lack of skills working with other moneyed, privileged white men (Legislative Branch), his doofiness in his approach to business deals. His success must accrue because he has been dealing with underworld mentalities that don’t play into the ruling class savvy. I’ve guessed for decades that people with old money are so connected and savvy that nothing will prevail in their path. It is hopeless to even consider moving against the moneyed people who have been at it for generations. This is what I’ve been contemplating this warm afternoon at The Castle while enjoying a Stella Artois or two or three.
I have fancied the Trump organization, along with their attendant comrades, as a multi-pointed and dangerously poisonous creature. The sea urchin comes to mind. There is a movie that depicts an island nation of South Pacific islanders who have been victimized by sharks. Many of the population are missing limbs. I guess that’s what you get for swimming in the water around shark infested territory. Anyway, the islanders would catch a shark on a line and before releasing it they would shove a sea urchin into its throat. You don’t want to get on the fighting side of these folks. The shark would die from starvation and whatever else the sea urchin had in mind considering the pointy spines would inject something distasteful into the throat of the big fish.
Sea Urchins came into my life indirectly when I moved to Maine. The lobster industry was functioning but at a lower level than norma. Coincidentally the Japanese were buying sea urchins at a higher price than normal. So the enterprising fishermen in Maine started diving on the urchin beds that lined the shore of this rocky coast. They made a killing. Of course the fishermen here also gave the urchins a new moniker to fit their other worldly description; Whore’s eggs. Whore’s eggs became the name that people here used to describe what the fishermen were catching along the coast.
So here is my latest reading link. It is a concise description of what the Trumpers were involved with at that June 2016 meeting in New York at the Trump Tower. We may see some of them stepping out the window there in a few years. Former FBI Director Mueller seems to have a handle on what was going on. Here is the link. Enjoy this afternoon. It is beautiful here in the Royal Living Room of The Castle.
Have a lovely day.
G. M. Goodwin 3 August 2017
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