FOR FUCK’S SAKE Mon 4/23/2018–Day 458 of The Hostage Situation

1 year, 93 days, 12 hours, 9 minutes and 50 seconds until it’s over

Let’s see..the so-called-ruler-of-the-United-States (SCROTUS) has been a busy little bee.

Today we’re talking about his nomination for Secretary of the Veteran’s Administration. Imagine him getting push-back on nominating his own personal physician for the position. Compound that with the fact we have breaking news that Ronny Jackson might have created a drunken hostile work environment while pushing pills out of the White House pharmacy. The stall seems to be a bipartisan showdown so, we'll see if it last. 

Over at the CIA there's trouble concerning the nomination of a new Director (since Pompeo is gracing the Secretary of State position with his presence. We think). There appears to be some concern America could be sending the wrong message by appointing a woman who was directly implicated in the humiliation and, some say torture, of prisoners of war. Gee, you think? God, help us. 

Two “adult” entertainers are in various stages of taking SCROTUS to court for sex-related acts deemed inappropriate – they both have 2 names.

Trump claims he couldn’t have been compromised by Russian hookers because he didn’t stay overnight in Russia but we have flight records and interviews by the man himself which totally blows that alibi out of the water. He did stay in Moscow overnight. All in the day of the life….

Mueller is still going on with his investigation while PutinsMiniMe continues to call it a witch hunt. The GOP is doing nothing to save Mueller or Rosenstein from Trump’s temper tantrums and still has no spine nor moral compass. The Country is waiting for Michael Cohen’s next move therein Trump’s next meltdown. Good times.

DJT is still supposed to meet with North Korean dictator about nuclear situation. Trump is clueless he is, once again, being played like a fine-tuned piano. He can’t make a deal to save his life and inevitably gives away the baby with the bathwater each time, offering to gift-wrap the whole deal to boot. He will negotiate America away in no time if left to his own.

French President Macron is in town to talk about the Iran Nuclear Agreement. The Idiot will probably fixate on the damn French military parade again having no attention span left over for actual policy discussions. I mean, it’s only nuclear weapons with Iran, it’s not like it’s North Korea or Russia.The King wants to hold court but the subjects don’t exist. Sorry, Donald.

As if on cue the Universe and World seem to know the United States is no longer holding the bar high in regard to respect of human rights, tolerance or moral authority, There seem to be no acts that are responded to involving an American conscience. Today 10 people were mowed down by a white van in Toronto, Canada, leaving 15 more that were injured. The 2nd worst act of killing that has ever happened in Canada. Yesterday 4 people were killed in Tennessee by a 29-year-old American in a Waffle House around 3 in the morning. An assault rifle was used. Again. The discussion about the tragedy and senselessness of the act has barely been given a nod in the news. #ThisIsNotNormal

Jack Johnson is being considered for a potential pardon after Sylvester Stallone contacted Trump about the boxer.

I think this is enough crazy for today.

Insanity & the Alabama Special Election

I was truly disturbed by many aspects of the whole debacle. I mean, really, did we just have an election where there was an alleged child rapist actually running for Senate? Did we just have the so-called-leader-of-the-United-States tell us that a vote for an accused sexual malcontent was preferable to voting for a Democrat? Are we at that place, politically, where the Right just boldly says we need the vote for our policy because our millionaire donors have threatened to withhold future money if we don't pass a tax reform bill that benefits them specifically and to hell with the American voter's needs?

Yes, yes and yes.

With that said I absolutely had no problem at all with the results of the election. The election should have been a no-brainer on morality alone, but as many witnessed morality is of short supply in America these days. I knew that in this surreal quasi-political environment we exist in that Roy Moore could have possibly won the race in Alabama. The fact he didn't made many things that have felt wrong with the world lately fade away for a few minutes restoring, albeit it briefly, faith in our government, the scale of checks and balances and the human race as a whole.

I thought the Democrats got exactly what they put into it - the win. This was a much needed dry run against this unique & ever-changing political landscape. With the ever-decreasing length of the ol' attention span, seizing the moment as soon as it presents itself is critical to achieving success. The left, and I mean all facets of the left, from DC to Delaware to Detroit to Denver, has been not only discussing what was needed to begin to flip the Hill blue but has actively been engaging in activities that are laying the groundwork, on grassroots level, for potential continued success until the 2020 elections. 

I say potential because this is going to be a race that requires constant focus, energy and unusual approaches that the DNC has not been comfortable in the past but seem to be more open to embracing with this new breed of GOP insanity. With this win in Alabama, the Dems remember the thrill of winning due to a job well done. Add that to the fact resuscitation of the left has been needed for a long time and with the unique challenges from a Trump GOP, we are training for a marathon. We just have to give back to the Right what they put out. 

The GOP got what they put into the election as well. It was a half-arsed attempt to finish yet another unfinished “project” they have laying around that they keep tripping over. Even with their collective minds they still have too many pots boiling on the stove to keep track of them efficiently. They keep running here, there & everywhere trying to finish something, anything and end up looking the fool. The lack of any kind of flexibility in their mindset makes impromptu problem solving a deal breaker. The GOP has a set of policies they feel are imperative to their success and identity and seem unwilling to accommodate new approaches or ideas leaving them in an utter heap of unfinished policy. 

Add to everything the rapid demise of mere warm bodies on the Hill due to scandals and lawmakers who no longer wish to perform beneath a wannabe leader whose numbers are rapidly deteriorating in the polls makes for an unknown factor of a solid headcount by the Right who has blown almost a year in the majority with very little to show for their #1 position. 

The popular vote and polling numbers most incoming administrations have to feed off never gathered enough speed to take them through the special elections. Maintaining their election-year momentum was never an option because they never had any momentum, to begin with and that is exactly what usually carries the incoming party through to mid-terms election successes. The lackluster showing by the GOP opens a huge door for the Democrats to take back Congress but they must never get comfortable, confident or matter of fact. They must continue to fight each battle with entire heart and soul and they may be able to continue this streak of ousting Repubs & taking back the direction of policymaking in America sooner than either party thought was possible at first glance a year ago.

Insanity Unhinged

Before the election, there seemed to be a longer shelf life for the insane events that came with the Trump candidacy. Usually, we'd get a day or two to digest his latest assault upon our intelligence (and usually against either the Constitution or just the fabric of moral conscience). We'd shake it off, square our shoulder, looking straight ahead, determined to catch the next wild fly ball with more grace and less flinching, only to get popped side the head by his next stray ball.

Ah, the good old days.

Apparently, Americans hadn't seen anything yet. After the GOP candidate won an election that by all accounts, "just didn't make sense," the ride, we found out was just warming up.

It's been 11 months and we're hitting our stride making the time before November 2016 look like a vacation.

We now have Putin's Russia not only actively attempting but, successfully determining the outcome of America's "free" election for President who, until 2016, was always referred to as "The Leader of the Free World." Well, not so much now.

We have seen the office of the President of the United States be used, abused and tossed under the bus not only for personal monetary gain but for egotistical pleasure and self-necessity to the likes which have never been imagined, much less actually seen implemented in America before.

We have seen the supporting cast of said so-called leader delve into the underbelly of America's lowest and bleakest moments of our history only to regurgitate them back into this Century reflecting the dark sexist side of Mad Men coupled with the unbridled abuse of position of power last seen during the time of McCarthyism.

While politics is not a "pretty business" we have all been reminded how truly ugly and ruthless white, power-hungry men appear and how frightening it is to realize that still so many of those men exist in 2017.

The GOP is doing nothing to stop the insanity of an unhinged, man-child with little to no regard for America's Constitution, her Bill of Rights nor the protocol for the unique bi-partisan tug-of-war we have witnessed as the status quo of politicking in DC.

Yes, we all knew Washington wasn't perfect but, there used to be the appearance of a somewhat reverent half-ass admiration for the maneuvers between the parties, by the parties. A cocked head, raised eyebrow and nod of appreciation of a policy well played by the other guys.

Now all pretense of Congress having the camaraderie of being Americans, thrown together by a unique election process to better America and her people does not appear to exist. The GOP has openly declared war not only against America's political foundation but the American people.

Actually, the scrimmage by the GOP started before the 2016 election. Months, if not years, before that election it appears many "God-fearing, Gun-loving, Abortion-hating, Race-mongering, Gay-bashing" homophobic Republicans had been hanging out with the Commies. I remember when that was considered a treasonous act with and of itself.

Oh yeah, that was treasonous until November 6, 2016. Odd how that love/hate Russia thing changed just in time for a GOP "win". Almost like, ah, it was planned or something. Strange.

Then there was THAT question. THE question. The MOST ridiculous question. The beat-the-horse-its-still-alive, god-please-kill-me-now-about-the-damn-server, question: Commies or Emails? (do we really have to ask that question after the Cold War & such?) We all know if two men had been running that would have not been THE determining question of character.

America has caught a glimpse of itself in the mirror of reality, it's reflection being held up for all to witness and see. 

The reflection of the present soul of America isn't pretty to look at. It's harsh, alarming and down right scary.

We're not respected nor admired as we once were among World leaders. We are pitied.