Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Scenes From Crazy Town


I honestly can’t keep up – there is so much wrong going on that one is reduced to bullet points.

·         The latest report is that there the Russian election hacking attempts included 39 states. This begins to raise the idea that nobody in DC wants to face. That the Russians affected the vote totals giving the election to Trump. Which of course means a) we have a REAL crisis on our hands as something like this is far far outside anything the founders could imagine and b) Hillary actually won which means all those stories about how it’s all Hillary’s fault she lost are wrong wrong wrong.

·         Linked to this after Labor’s much better than expected result in the recent snap election, there were a spate of stories that pretty much said “nah nah Bernie would have won”. This is of course debatable given the above story.  And alas if true, the point it makes is that misogyny is so pervasive in the US that a Male Socialist Jew would have a better chance of winning than a woman. 

·         Trump held his first cabinet meeting which after he gave a quick speech saying how wonderful he was had the cabinet all say how wonderful he was.  It was something that would not have been out of place in North Korea. It was crazy and creepy at the same time. Honestly one expected each cabinet member to say “Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” After which Jeff Sessions shot the Sec of the interior at trumps command – no but it’s that level creepy.

·         Trump has pretended there are tapes of his conversations with Comey, there are none. He’s also said he’s willing go under oath. He won’t.  Not that being under oath would stop him from lying but again he won’t it’s just him spouting bullshit.

·         I have no idea what is going on with Qatar – Trump says one thing the Sec of State says another and nobody knows what’s the deal

·         Newt Gingrich and others are saying that Trump should fire the recently appointed Special Prosecutor.  Trump may or may not do this, he’s gotten away with a heck of a lot in his lifetime so he might try this – still taking Newt’s advice about anything given his track record is not a good idea. Of course the real reason Trump will fire him, if he does, is that he’s guilty as hell.

·         Folks are puzzled that Trump has never asked anybody a single question about Russia’s interference  in the election including James Comey – the reason? Well someone somewhere noted that the guilty never ask questions, they know.

·         The idea that the President is out of his mind is flowing into the mainstream these days – one weird thought I’ve had is that Trump keeps pushing because he wants to get caught. He knows he is of control but he can’t stop himself. 

·         Sessions will appear in front of the Senate and not say anything.

·         Megan Kelly is not turning out to be a good hire – which is not a shock. She’s gotten into hot water with her interview of Alex Jones . My response is why? Who the hell doesn’t know about Alex Jones and his instance that the killings at Sandy Hook were fake?

·         The Senate is trying to kill people, sorry enact in the dead of night it seems a version of Trumpcare that will kill people.

Welcome to crazy town everybody. It can only get worse yes?