The President is barking mad.

I had been naively hoping that we could get two weeks into the new administration without a constructional crisis.

Said crisis is that the DHS has decided to ignore, the judges suspension of the Muslim travel ban order.  The Professor will call it that under the looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck rule. This is a duck. Rudy G maybe not remembering that other folks pay attention to what folks say on Fox News came out and said this is a Muslim ban. 

It’s not quite a full blown crisis just yet as the order merely suspended but did not overturn the order. A ruling on the constitutionality of this order has not been made.

Meantime Bannon who is as evil a little creep as I have ever seen making Grima Wormtongue seem principled has been put on the National Security Council which  folks are calling dangerous even crazy…

This brings me to the main part of this ramble.

The Professor has seen more than his share of insane behavior – a long ago moment at some Thanksgiving dinner when a guest insisted that his dog was talking to him in the night comes to mind – as he went on, it became clear that he mentally had left us far far away, and any attempt to drag his attention away from his frustration that while he knew his dog was taking to him, he couldn’t understand what he was saying was going to fail. And so the conversation dropped away until there was a moment of very heavy silence at which some brave soul started talking about sports or something and with palpable relief, the rest of the party jumped on the bandwagon.

I was reminded of this incident as I watch with mounting fear and horror the news and the new president’s ongoing war with reality.  He has left us, there may be moments of lucidity here and there but for the most part the new President while he may be sleeping in the White House is living in cloud koo koo land.

In what may be the most disastrous interview on tape (I date myself yes but there doesn’t seem to be a current version of this expression, the Professor would appreciate any suggestions along this line) Trump ranted about illegal voting and the size of the crowd. Both topics that have turned into major embarrassments solely due to Trump not being able to shut up about them.

We are also informed that the new President has been upset and unable to ‘enjoy’ his presidency due to the negative coverage of the crowd side compared to that of Obama’s swearing in. And that he’s upset CNN is being so hard on him considering his relationship with the president of NBC who has something to do with CNN but I forget what.

While it has only been less than two weeks, the Professor feels a need to state this in as plain fact. The president is insane – at a reality denying level that reminds one of a man in a bunker, but he at least had been in power for some time, was being poisoned by a quack doctor and was in the process of losing World War 2.

Alas our system does not have a quick and easy means to remove a president who is barking mad- there is impeachment and it is a mark of how bad things are is that it is being talked of already.

These are indeed frightening times.

 

DER TAG

By the time I finish writing this Trump will be officially President of the United States. Reports indicate that after this Trump is going to take weekend off which means a couple of things – that if something blows up this weekend the country will be caught flat footed, but on the other hand he can’t start to do any real damage until Monday.

Trump is a disaster on many levels and there are a lot of folks to blame for it, but recent news has come out that shows that while the director of the FBI was writing congress to say they may be found more e-mails, he resolutely refused to tell anybody that the FBI were also investigating Trump and his people for having direct contact with the Russian Government. That bit the director kept silent about.

So today we have the inauguration of man that both Russia and the FBI helped to make president, with a nice assist from the major news media who couldn’t let the emails alone and thought trump was good for ratings.

And let’s not forget the purges of the eligible voting lists and the various vote id acts that were designed by admission of the clueless NC legislator to prevent folks likely to vote democratic from voting.

And a last fuck you and go to hell must be given to those who all during the election said there was no difference between the two – or that if anything Hillary was worse – hope you are enjoying your righteous purity right now because a lot of innocent folks are going to suffer.

As for the folks who are now disappointed with Trump because he is doing what he said he would do, well sorry there is no real hope for you.

So we now have as president a thin skinned lunatic with more ties and obligations to Russia that Bill Haydon (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and looks to do more damage – between ideological claptrap for example, repealing the ACA without giving the slightest thought to a replacement and willful stupidity and ignorance regarding China, the middle east, Europe and North Korea – and the economy where wall street is looking to resurrect the leverage casino and never mind that anti-vaccine and climate change deniers are inside the hen house, the acceptance of racists  – honestly it’ll be a blessed miracle if the Republic survives two years never mind 4.

What can be done? I hope something but the already the press is trying to make the crazy town world of Trump normal,  the democratic party has too many people who would rather make nice because while they may object to some of his plans, they agree with the idea, they would just be nicer about it. The resistance to Trump needs a Churchill willing to call a spade a spade and not care how upset the beltway media is that he is not trying to play nice. It also needs a press who does not look at Trump as a ratings machine or a clown but looks upon as a fraud as a dangerous conman.

But I’m not sure what good marching in the streets is going to do – millions marched against the Iraq war and we got the Iraq war – unless this loathing of the man can be turned into political power, it’s not going to do anything and will be marginalized by the media as Occupy was.

I will march and I will work but to be honest, I think we’re doomed. My hope is that not too many people get hurt, but sanguine about that I am not.

Peace Out