5/17/17 - A completely evil thought.

The Professor is not a good person at least in his own mind. He doesn’t do things like kick dogs or rob widows and orphans or anything like that but he is aware that his thoughts go into very dark places that a decent persons mind would not go.

And here is a very bad one

As Trump’s presidency is showing about as much seaworthiness as the Titanic, the GOP is now faced with a major problem. What to do? The latest revelation that Trump asked Comey to end the Flynn probe – which fits in very nicely with Trump firing Comey over ‘the Russian’ thing is the real thing obstruction of justice a criminal offense that nicely fits the whole “high crimes and misdemeanors” section of the Impeachment articles.

But here is the problem – Trump although already a disaster that looks very likely despite their disparate attempts to game the system so only white people vote to remove control of the lower house and lord knows even the Senate might come into play given enough disasters; but despite that Trump remains popular with the 27% the hard core of racists fascists and fools that make up the rancid base of their party. Trump is despite everything is still their guy. There has been some loss of support but nothing that would allow any GOP congressmen to take on Trump and not pay for it by being forced into a primary fight – holding onto their – to quote Mel Brooks ‘phony baloney jobs’ is the most important thing in their lives nothing else matters not honor not loyalty not country, their job is their god.  So right now, initiation of impeachment proceedings would be nothing but political suicide on their part.

It is possible that further down the road Trump’s failures and erratic behavior and dodgy links to Russian intelligence and mobsters might just weaken his support among the 27% or someone might sensing a chance try to undercut Trump with his base to gain power. If that did happened Trump would find out very very quickly that he doesn’t have a friend in the world and he’d been out of there so fast his head would spin.

However, as long as the troglodytes are in Trump’s camp that isn’t going to happen.

So the GOP is caught on the horns of dilemma – either Trump stays in office and wrecks their party or he’s removed by Impeachment or Article 25 and the base savages them in the primaries for ‘betraying Trump’ and the party is wrecked.

In short, there are no good answers.

However, there is a way out that would be manna from heaven for them.

Trump could die.

It’s not impossible really, he’s 70, not in good health and has gained a lot of weight and aside from hitting a golf ball doesn’t get much exercise. Therefore, the chances of him simply popping off are not all that bad.

And it would be manna from heaven for the GOP they could mourn the loss of the leader and his potential, even better he could be presented as a martyr to liberal media and since, let’s be honest here, the news of Trump’s death would be greeted on the left with at best a profound absence of sorrow to quote John Kenneth Galbraith to dancing in the streets, it would allow them to claim the moral high ground and lambaste the evil of the left.

In addition,  the Vice President, because he isn’t Trump would get a pass from the beltway media who have found their adversarial relationship with Trump to be very painful as they would rather simply be courtiers and mouthpieces.

And the Democratic Senators and Congressmen would feel at least a bit constrained in their actions and comments in opposing any legislation that would be pushed by the GOP as a way to ensure President Trump’s legacy.

It really is a win win here for the GOP

Again, the only problem is that he doesn’t quite seem like he’s going obligingly drop dead for them.

Which leads one to the evil thought – given all the advantages that Trump’s demise would accrue to the GOP is it possible that they might decide to hurry it along as it where? Yes, it is murder, but hell, they’ve shown no great respect for human life anyway, what’s one man’s life with so much at stake?

And yes, I think they are capable of it.

And what that depressing thought I need to take shower.

5/12/17 A time of Maddness

The Professor has more than once suggested that there is something seriously wrong with the way the president’s brain functions, however as the fallout from his firing the FBI Director grows ever more negative we are witnessing via the magic of twitter a man have a mental breakdown in public.

After undercutting his own people’s story on why he fired Comey in the first place , and pretty much admitting that he fired Comey because of the Investigations  regarding Russia –

As a darkly humorous side note here – the Guardian, a news source that I tend to value, as it, unlike the NY Times it does not (often), mush mouth  controversial subjects by using the ‘shape of the earth opinions differ” story template where they simply quote both sides and leave it at that. However after the election of D Trump, The Guardian decided that we good liberals were too close minded and that exposure to the thinking of the right would broaden our minds.  To date I had not clicked on this feature – for one that the right wing at this point has ‘thoughts’ other than for example “say something to piss off  libtards”  and “teh gays are bad”  is debatable and two in the modern media it’s almost impossible NOT to hear what the right thinks – Brother Driftglass has long pointed this out many many.  So I have not partaken and have let my mind stay in my bubble as they would have it.

However today I looked at the tab with some interest because this week’s piece of conservative thought was  on the firing of Mr. Comey and what made this amusing in grim way was simply that since these pieces were written Trump opened his mouth and admitted that the story given out and that these learned conservative scribes had twisted themselves into pretzels to support was bullshit.  If there was ever a damning indictment of the right wing pundits as nothing but hacks and trimers without a single ethical or moral standard to their name this is as good an example as any.

Anyway back to the madness.

The story that is surfacing now is that Comey was ushered into the great man’s presence some days after Trump took office and at a private dinner was asked , as if Trump was some sort of gangland boss or duke, to swear loyalty to him. Comey said that his loyalty was to the truth and this apparently that did not sit well with Trump.   And then after he testified in the Senate Trump fired him first citing one reason and then another before admitting he fired him because of Russia.  (As a side note one should Note that Comey probably swore an oath to defend the Constitution which he should have mentioned to President Two Scoops when asked where his loyalty lay.)

As this has blown up – Trump has tweeted a threat to Mr. Comey saying he’d better keep his mouth shut – which along with other deranged tweets has even the GOP wondering about the man’s mental stability.  Of which in my judgement he has none.

At this moment one does have to marvel a bit about this speed of all this – the man has been in office less than 120 DAYS and already the word impeachment is being said not in the usual (curse you Newt Gingrich) political manner but as a serious possibility down the road.

One has to feel a bit for the underlings working in the White House these days not so much the aides and officials but the assistants and secretaries one has to imagine the atmosphere can’t be good. One is tempted to call to mind a certain bunker but at least by this point Trump is not losing a war – well in some ways its early days yet there .

So as the weekend comes into view and one assumes that the president flees  somewhere to play golf – New Jersey may be out as it is expected to rain this weekend – official and unofficial Washington and the well the republic need to figure out what to do . As tempting as impeachment sounds the politics as long as Trump’s base of hateful monsters support him means for anyone in the GOP to break ranks will be political suicide as would invoking Article 25 although in this case one can say that’s more likely. But to do nothing is to leave the executive branch of this country in the hands of crazed lunatic who may be in the grip of a mental break down and/or dementia in addition to his basic evil tendencies.

As the Professor has a dark mind – it’s quite possible someone in the GOP will say ‘can no one rid us of this troublesome president?” and something just might happen – the man is 70 and massively overweight; for him to die overnight of stroke isn’t outside the realm of chance. But if that does happen one should  be suspicious of the timing.

One hopes it doesn’t come to that. But one fears it might

5/10/17 – dark dark days

For some reason I always remember that today is the anniversary of the start of the  German attack on France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark in 1940 ending the phony war with a bang.

Meantime here in the present – things are moving faster than some z grade blogger with other things on his mind can keep us with however the firing of Comey as head of the FBI – this coming after more a little bombshells of testimony over the last few days coming from Ms. Yates Former acting Attorney general who basically told Trump that Flynn was a mole at which news Trump did..nothing until the news got out into the public and even now he insists Flynn did nothing wrong.

That and the confirmation that there were and are investigations of the contacts between Trump’s people and the Russians, no details included as these are classified but Subpoenas had just gone out for some of Flynn’s associates.

This is the background against which Trump decided to have his own version of the Saturday Night Massacre by firing Comey – the news about the subpoenas came out afterwards as does news this morning that Comey was seeking more funds for the Investigation and about oh an hour ago a report came out that oh yes Trump is being investigated and one of the things he’s being investigated for is asking the Russians in a speech to hack Hillary’s computer and find the 50,000 emails that never existed.

And the response of the GOP who impeached Bill Clinton for a blow job?

Crickets.

Of course one really these days expects nothing else from that craven lot who just finished the first part of making sure people die because they can’t afford medical care because money is more important than anything.

But I digress.

What we have right now – is a President who has fired the director of the FBI because he was investigating the ties between Trump’s folks and Russia.

It’s all dispiriting and dark – but one does wonder what on earth is Trump hiding? What considering that his zombie like base shown no indication that they have changed their mind about anything is the secret that he is willing to risk the cries of impeachment that are gaining strength about the country? Willing to risk a constitutional crisis to hide. – yes Trump is probably too stupid to have any idea what that is but not everybody around him are that stupid. They aren’t bright but not all of them are as brick stupid as Trump is.

So what is it? Considering the hideous nature of his base one could waggishly conclude that he’s hiding massive conurbations to Planned Parenthood and that has special homes set up for illegal immigrants and poor people and stray dogs and cats.

But that surely isn’t it.

The only think that I can think of is that he is in hock to the Russian mob big time and has been for years –which gave the Russian government the leverage they needed to climb on board his election campaign because if they spill what they know – he goes to jail, goes directly to jail does not pass go, does not pass two hundred dollars.

This at least is my quiet prayer.  

 

 

5-2-17 The President’s Delicate Condition

It’s interesting that the word ‘senile’ or some variation therewith has finally been broached in the beltway media following the President’s weird and disjointed interview with some AP flunky that ended up with Trump spinning a fantasy that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the civil war.

As many people noted AJ died sometime in the 1840’s which would have greatly limited his political effectiveness in 1861.

It was a bizarre note in a bizarre day where Trump wandered all over the place with ideas about North Korea “I’d be honored to meet him” the murderous leader of the Philippines “he’s got very high approval ratings” and some nattering about breaking up banks and gas taxes.  (like any of this is going to happen)

Some folks were saying that Trump was probably saying with regard to AJ that he, Trump, could have brokered a deal to prevent  the civil war, reflecting his own sense of himself as a great man who could crack heads together and let everybody know what’s what.

Possible yes, however,  his comments were disordered and flew about the room touching on many subjects including his election win that this point, if it was his point, was hard to discern.

As a fallout from all this, Joe Scarbourgh who is suffering some regret for his letting Trump spout  away on his show before the election Morning Joe, al la Dr. Frankenstein suffered  for his role in bringing this monster to life has mentioned the word ‘dementia’ in connection with Trump. He’s the first to do it, but another story quotes several White House staff and other folks saying Trump’s been ‘acting crazy’.

So the magic words are out there – whereas before folks have been tiptoeing about it, the sense that the president is not all there and probably barking mad to boot is being spoken aloud by people who are not scruffy little bloggers like my humble self.

I’m sure there will a push back on this – indeed the AP flack has already tried – and failed – to explain away Trumps verbal meanderings.

But ladies and gentlemen, the ugly truth is that the President is mentally incapable of doing the job, first we are going to have to face that and then deal with it.

 

5/1/17

First happy May day:  “arise ye prisoners of starvation, Arise ye wretched of the earth”  From one of the English versions of the Internationale.

Anyway as we have passed the 100 day Mark, the Professor is beginning to fear that we really to long to go to stay lucky.  At lunch time today Trump gave a scattered and incoherent response to a question about North Korea.

It hurts too much to bury too deeply into the word salad but the essence is that  he’s saying be afraid – right now of North Korea but I think he’d be happier if we were all afraid all the time.

As the days go by,  Trump  more and more reminds me not of the German leader most people think of but the man in charge of Germany before the First World War: Kaiser Wilhelm the Second .

Granted the parallels are not exact, history does not repeat itself exactly (although someone said it often rhymes) however reading about The Kaiser’s actions before the war and his combination of unstable personality  and massive insecurity can’t help but see they are very much alike in their bombast, their reliance on threats, and their waffling when they encounter any real push back.

The problem of course is that the Kaiser’s bombast helped pave the way for the First World War – and my humble terror of the day is that Trump’s bombast is going to get us involved and a massively serious war in Korea with consequences to the world nobody can really foresee other than it will be very very bad.

The concern is that neither NK or Trump can allow themselves to feel or act weak so both sides have been pushing, and  if we are unlucky (I’m not even saying very unlucky just unlucky) we could end up with one or the other side doing something stupid because of this terror of seeming weak.

Frightened people with guns are very very dangerous.