• Rex Tillerson basically gives Assad the ok to gas civilians by stating: "I think the status and the longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people."

• Assad gases civilians

• outcry demands a response

• trump team colludes with Russia, by warning them that the bombs are coming

• Russia warns Assad's regime, they get personnel and equipment out before the bombs hit

• outcry subsides and senators say they want a plan

• bombs miss the target, Assad uses airfield the very next day

• the US just wasted 100 million on bombs, which will be replaced, feeding the war machine

• oil prices shoot up 2% benefitting Putin, the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil.

• everyone who doesn't look too closely is happy, trump's popularity should rise.

-we stop talking about the GOP undermining democracy and Gorsuch is on the supreme court.

Welcome to the new tyranny in the US, everyone! I hope you enjoyed the show in Syria, because that all it was, pure theater.

Almost the exact plot of Wag The Dog.