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