Pentagon People: Do Always Rain On His Parade!

Mind-boggle: T supporters definitely drank the koolaid. We can tell. What was in it? How could it eat up absolutely all their critical-thinking brain cells? What addictive substance makes any American worth her/his salt see Russia as our friend? What diseased brains seriously considered mimicking Russian and Chinese and North Korean military parades in T's Inauguration Day parade? Thank God the pentagon people, our military bureaucracy, our democratic structures and governmental checks and balances foiled that outrageous plan. Each day brings reminders of what idiocy T brought us to the brink of. And each day we resist accepting the most imminent lunacy as a normal development of the new administration. Almost nothing is normal now in the West Wing and Oval Office. If these protagonists were half as cunning or chess-wise as House of Cards characters, we'd be depressed and terrified. As it is, chutzpah and lunacy are having their 15 minutes... And, unfortunately, we cannot nap for even a moment lest this pox on our house kills us deader or incinerates us more completely than Vesuvius did Pompeii. God Bless the United States of America. True, we do not yet suffer the devastation Assad inflicts on the Syrian people, but Rome did not fall in one day. Despots find a foothold and tenaciously advance. In the meantime, nothing else does - unless there is unrelenting resistance. And rain, lots of rain on proposed military parades. (One has to suspect that there's significant overcompensating for otherwise tiny... hands?)

Unreal Facades And Shell Games

I have been thinking again about signs that AgentOrange is extremely insecure, weak and paranoid. Why else require his oldest daughter, her husband and his own private security guards at his elbow in White House? Why go almost every weekend to FL? His current wife and young son apparently do not provide any security blanket, just a show and shell facade of (absent) domestic normalcy. And why else must T relive and endlessly rebroadcast the "glory day crowds" of his campaign? Why? I suspect he is a rather perfect fit for the republicans because, currently, neither he nor they have the capacity to actually govern. Their incapacities are diversely  based, but their inadequacy seems to stem from an extremely extremist philosophy of government. Abolishing "the administrative state" is worse than dumb (no matter who or how many billionaires back the idea). Being unable to discern the inadequacies of business tactics for governing the people of the USA while minding the constitutional character of ones Office, well that is dumber than dumb. And worse than paranoia, nepotism, greed, delusional lunacy, narcissism or any possible combination of pathologies. The Dems certainly have their flaws and corruption, and their own particular weaknesses and obtuseness, but on the whole, they know how to govern and legislate and serve the people of our democracy. And they tend to know that Putin (and his Russia) is NOT our friend. And they do not equivocate on that important point. Furthermore, the Republicans have a particular aptitude and unapologetic propensity for playing dirty, e.g. Resolving to obstruct Obama even as he was being inaugurated, and proudly failing in their duty regarding a Supreme Court nominee made by President Obama, simply because he was of the opposite party was and is shameful. Such servile partisan acts have designed and woven an Oval Office carpet of unprecedented blind idiocy.