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