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When workers are responsible for leading a sprawling entity, where people’s lives or livelihoods hang in the balance, there can be extracurricular activity because no one is minding the store.
It appears that such is currently the case with regard to president Donald Trump, who is showing signs of dementia. The nation is rudderless for the next three years.
Two particular cautionary tales in the United States come to mind in connection therewith. The top leaders got blamed because one thing led to another on their watch, due to their impaired brain function. Even so, no one person, not even the top leader is entirely to blame when things go wrong.
Into the early 1980’s, senile Bill Paley, head of the international corporation CBS, would come into board meetings with a walker and two nurses by his side. Since he wasn’t truly running the company anymore, a rogue department at CBS, having zero experience, decided to try to make movies. That division generated disastrous losses that resulted in layoffs in unrelated departments, causing trauma for all stakeholders associated with CBS.
In the late 1980’s, senile president Ronald Reagan’s CIA director Bill Casey– whose mental faculties were worsening due to a brain tumor– allowed Oliver North to go rogue– play a large role in secretly selling weapons to Iran– supposedly an enemy of the United States. Reagan then diverted the arms-sales proceeds to help the Contras in Nicaragua. Reagan was accused of abusing his presidential powers by failing to get Congress’ permission for either endeavor.
In both of the above instances, there would have been a lot less trouble had the leader been removed when his incompetence due to reduced brain function became evident. Of course, the GOP and Fox News scream that the mental incompetence of his predecessor Joe Biden, was hushed up for three years– but they knew, and let Biden stay in power!
Here’s a song that Trump is singing to his vice-president, JD Vance. Trump’s still in power, despite the infinite number of reasons that numerous people feel that he should never have become president in the first place!
Trump is still keeping his job as president, and controlling his underling.
JD VANCE
sung to the tune of “Carrie Anne” with apologies to the Hollies, and to whomever else the rights may concern.
Hey JD Vance.
Hey JD Vance.
In my thousand-year rule, our games are simple.
I play the dictator, you play the messenger.
I HAVE-you play with my billionaire boys and diplomats.
We act like frat boys in what we’re doing.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
You’re always, a useful idiot to me.
Never independent. Never daring.
You’re my PR arm as I am aging. There’s always attraction in what I’m doing.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
You go, go to cover for me. Go to cover for me. Go, go, go, go to cover for me, cover for me.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
Sheeple never learn so they’re still burning.
My pockets are lined and I’m a force of nature.
When democracy’s over, you’ll be rich-with me,
but then you WILL, still, hear me saying,
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
Hey JD Vance, Trump’s your game now. I control your play.
JD Vance. JD Vance. JD Vance.