Matt Davies for October 15, 2019

Don the pawn and Erdoğan. Putin must be giddy. He must think he’s the one with great and unmatched wisdom.

Easiest move ever.

Didn’t know pawns could move backward.

If he moves far enough along the board, he can become the Red Queen.

Putin’s the Grand Master. Pawns are expendable.

Checkmate.

So when will the GOP decide they’ve had enough of Putin in the White House? When will the GOP decide that Russia’s money won’t pay for their souls anymore? Duh oh,… I guess it won’t be anytime soon, huh? Too bad… We used to have a pretty good political system… The founding fathers called democracy the great experiment… Looks like somebody (the elite 1% Philthy Rich freeloafers?) decided that Putin’s money is a good substitute for clean air, clean water, clean food, Etc etc etc.

I read a story once in which 32 people were being manipulated by a couple of uber-brainiacs. Each of the sections was titled something like “Knight to King’s Bishop Three”. And each section then had something like the Good Cop being lured into exploring a situation near the police station. If you wished, you could get out your chess board and pieces and use the titles of the sections to play out the game…

Putin’s nowhere near the calibre of those fictional brains. But on the other hand, the pResident isn’t as bright as that cop…

So this must be the 4D Chess that I keep hearing the chuds praising Trump for.

Oh COME ON! Trump struggles at checkers. CHESS?!? Everyone knows the game is beyond his grasp.

All the pawn moves are blocked

How did Russia know the outcome in Syria to be able to move in without a tip from some stable genius?

And Barr wants to be the bishop, Rudy the rook (that would be crow, not castle)

Even if there is no actual collusion everything tRump does seems to strengthen Putin’s position.