Sunday, April 6, 2025

SNL Cold Open 4/5/25


 

A Modern Day Rasputin, Laura Loomer Persuades Weak-Minded Trump to Devastate The Nation's CyberSecurity Leadership





One of the contributing factors to the first Russian Revolution in February/March 1917 (depending on which calendar one follows) was the influence of the monk Rasputin on the Romanov Royal Family.

Brought in to help the Tsar and Tsarina's son cope with his hemophilia, the monk's success in helping "treat" the boy allowed him to influence decisions made by the royal couple in which ministers to appoint and fire, in part based on who Rasputin said was loyal to the Romanov Dynasty. 

Sound familiar

This week, Laura Loomer, a devoted MAGA-Trump enthusiast who shares her idols fondness for xenophobia and conspiracy theories (in her world view 9/11 was an inside job) showed herself to be a modern-day Rasputin by persuading the weak-minded, stable genius American Duce wannabe in the White House that several of his officials in the National Security Agency were disloyal to him and should be removed, including General Timothy Haugh, the head of U.S. Cyber Command. 

Other NSA/NSC firings included "Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence; Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs; and David Feith, a senior director for technology and national security."

This is the latest in a series of moves this gang of mental defectives has made to weaken this nation's defenses while making the leaders of Russia (who did not get hit with tariffs while Penguins did in Trump's trade war) and China very happy.

Reacting to the firing of General Haugh and the others, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly posted:

In a report by the New York Times, Senator Angus King reacted to the firing by offering:

“I predict you are going to see some nonsense statement about some policy difference or something General Haugh wasn’t doing, but we all know what happened. Laura Loomer said it. She is the one who told Trump to fire him...“Our country is under attack right now in cyberspace, and the president has just removed our top general from the field for no reason at the recommendation of someone who knows nothing about national security or even the job this general does."

Republican, former Senate Leader, and Trump Enabler (despite how much Trump despised his wife and him) Mitch McConnell commented:

“If decades of experience in uniform isn’t enough to lead the N.S.A. but amateur isolationists can hold senior policy jobs at the Pentagon, then what exactly are the criteria for working on this administration’s national security staff?”

Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, relayed:

“I fear this is just the hourly installment in the Laura Loomer clown car aspect of this administration...Given this administration’s break-it-first-then-fix-it style of operating, I am concerned it is not the low performers or obsolete skill sets that are being fired. In many cases, it is some of our most valuable people. And this very directly makes us less safe.”

The influence of Rasputin on the Romanov Royal Family paved the way for Two Revolutions, the creation of the Soviet Union, its breakup, and the rise of Putin. 

What will Modern Day Rasputin Laura Loomer and other uninformed MAGA-Project 2025-White Nationalist Fascist influencers in the Trump circle result in?

It is fairly obvious, given how they are currently influencing the economy, national security, and global relations, that it will pr

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SNL Cold Open 4/5/25