POTUS AND POTENTATE PED XING

  I really do try not to endlessly talk about Trump, but I've just choked back multiple articles from the Guardian and it feels like an overview is warranted.

THE SITUATION AT THIS POINT

1. Some Chinese honcho will be arriving for meeting with POTUS

2. Normally golf with foreign potentate is the go-to icebreaker, but here we have a problem: namely, that Chairman Mao frowned on golf, typecasting it as a sport for millionaires.
Seems to me this is the typical kind of prejudice we associate with these wily Asian communists, but there it is.

3. Cutting right to the chase, a senior US official told reporters: “I think its safe to say there will be no golf.
It’s possible that they will walk around a bit as the mood strikes, but nothing formal and nothing involving golf clubs.”

4. Because of the North Korean habit of escalating, always escalating, the heat in the proverbial kitchen, it's quite important that this POTUS/potentate tete a tete go well. Kim Jong 2.0 is testing nuclear items practically every day, over there in his earthly palace, and it's apparently crucial that China help out with the job of keeping his atomic proclivities within the zone of acceptability, whatever POTUS determines those parameters to be. For these reasons, I assume Jared Kushner will help guide the decisionmaking about where POTUS and Potentate can walk, because protocol dictates that if POTUS is walking outside at all, he would normally be on a golf course of some sort, and in order to set the right tone for the facilitation of chumminess, they'll need to walk somewhere that doesn't have such a capitalistic connotation.


5. I've put this last item at the bottom of the list, because I have yet to place these new facts within the spectrum or meridian of relevance, but my dad has handed me one of his bulletins, alerting me to the fact that Dallas has been having trouble with their 911 system. While I freely admit that the story that someone in Texas had to wait on the line for such a long interval that the result was death is quite a harrowing cautionary tale, how it can be germane to the whole rigmarole surrounding the Atomic Golfcourse Conundrum is beyond me at present. But I will apply myself to this as soon as I can. Right now it's lunch time.