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The Big Picture - 
By Glynn Wilson - 

It’s hard to know what the Chinese astrologers were thinking when they came up with the Chinese zodiac, but sometimes their system creates opportunities for word games that also tend to possess political and/or social insight. Take 2020, for example, the Year of the Rat.

The Rat sign marks the beginning of the Chinese zodiac. It’s associated with an aggressive attitude and entrepreneurship. In Chinese philosophy, it is linked to material success and a luxurious lifestyle.

That sounds a bit like a certain American president who is on trial in the U.S. Senate for impeachment, although Donald Trump was actually born under the dog sign in 1946.

But still, it’s looking like the year of the ratfucker, which is what rats turn into when people don’t bow down to their aggressive charms.

Rats have only a few friends, but they do have powerful manipulative skills. They go to great lengths to win a battle. When heavy bad karma causes inner conflicts, they will get involved in speculations or adventures out of their desire to live dangerously.

When that doesn’t go well, they turn against themselves, trying to self-destruct, and will take down the entire “mischief of rats” with them. Thus the term ratfucking. If you don’t go along with a rat king’s plans, he will screw the entire country and the world.

Remember a couple of years ago when Jake Tapper of CNN took on Trump for calling Latino immigrants from South America an “invasion” of “illegal aliens?” And then pressed him on Congressional investigations into his collusion with Russia to ratfuck the 2016 election?

Remember what Trump said? “Nothing good will happen if the Democrats don’t stop these investigations.”

Translation: Get onboard the Trump rat king dictatorship or I will fuck you over, and good.

While he’s been impeached by the House and stands trial in the Senate, the Trump administration has not stopped with the ratfucking threats.

Knowing that most environmentalists will never support him, and to keep big, polluting industrial leaders on his side, the Trump administration finalized a rule last week to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers.

From Day 1 of his administration, according to the New York Times and other sources, President Trump vowed to repeal President Barack Obama’s “Waters of the United States” regulation. His new rule, which will be implemented in about 60 days, is the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to repeal or weaken nearly 100 environmental rules and laws, loosening or eliminating rules on climate change, clean air, chemical pollution, coal mining, oil drilling and endangered species protections.

So not only is he threatening to ratfuck any Republican who might vote to impeach him on Twitter, he is showing just how destructive he can be to screw up the environment and the world — if people don’t bow down to him.

Although Trump frequently speaks of his desire for the United States to have “crystal-clean water,” he has called his predecessor’s signature clean-water regulation “horrible,” “destructive” and “one of the worst examples of federal” overreach.

Only the rat king knows how to give us clean water, by dumping sewage into it. Drink that with your cake, you poor, pathetic serfs.

“I terminated one of the most ridiculous regulations of all: the last administration’s disastrous Waters of the United States rule,” Trump told the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention in Texas last Sunday, to rousing applause, of course.

“That was a rule that basically took your property away from you,” Trump added.

His real estate holdings include more than a dozen golf courses, and golf course developers were among the key opponents of the Obama rule and are key backers of the new one.

Yep, you heard that right. Here is another conflict of interest with Trump using his public position as president to profit personally. He literally could be impeached for that, if the Ukraine impeachment doesn’t work.

Trump’s replacement, called the “Navigable Waters Protection Rule,” not only rolls back key portions of the 2015 rule that had guaranteed protections under the 1972 Clean Water Act to certain wetlands and streams that run intermittently or run temporarily underground, but also relieves landowners of the need to seek permits that the Environmental Protection Agency had considered on a case-by-case basis even before the Obama rule.

It also gives President Trump a fake major policy achievement to brag about to his political base while his impeachment trial dominates the headlines on every news outlet in the country and much of the world.

A Peace Plan?

Meanwhile this week, Trump got together with indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and announced a so-called peace plan that was resoundingly rejected immediately by the Palestinians, since it came out as basically a plan that allows Israel to annex all the territory it wants, leaving the Palestinians with one poor slum to turn into their new country. Trump called it “East Jerusalem,” a new term no one in the Middle East had ever used before.

It’s a little like the gentrification of Manhattan to the Trump’s, I guess, forcing poor minorities and the homeless out into the hinterlands and out of site.

Obviously this is the brain child of his son-in-law Jarad Kushner, begging the question of nepotism, as in why is this president turning over major international diplomacy to a relative with no government or foreign policy experience whatsoever?

When announcing it, Trump did it with his characteristic “my way or the highway” threat, warning Palestinians this would be their last chance ever for statehood (at least as long as he is dictator of the United States in league with the other right-wing nationalist dictators of the world).

After Trump is done, and hands Russia’s Vladimir Putin the keys to the city in Washington, D.C., he will be free to finally open that Trump Tower in Moscow he has wanted for so long. There the dictators of the world can get together for rounds of vodka and toast the destruction of democracy for good.

I suspect Ivanka Trump already has a name planned for the rotating bar on the club level on the top floor. The Ratfuckers Club.

Cheers to all my conservative, Christian, Republican friends. You made it all possible.

I hope you enjoy those Cadillacs in Heaven on the streets paved with gold in your dreams, because on planet Earth, you just voted to bring Hellfire and brimstone down on yourself and your entire family. While you wait on this so-called messiah named Jesus to come riding down on cloud nine shaped like a white horse to save you, you just doomed us all to hell, including your grandkids.

Are you happy now?

Well, at least Trump is not black, and he says he’s against abortion. That is unless the fetus is a bastard in the womb of one of his porn star girlfriends.

Wake up and smell the rat shit people. This guy’s no good. Rats spread the plague.