Tracking with the madness. It's getting harder to do. Keeping up. Seems everyday, we are spinning faster & faster, threatening to spin out of control. Luckily, you can check in with Paul Krugman each morning. He has his finger on the pulse. Here is the main headline of the last few days
in this morning's post:
"If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency. Trump treated the event like a political rally and was clearly taken aback by the refusal of the audience to applaud or laugh at his jokes. Delivering a nakedly partisan speech to a mandated assembly of military officers was a gross violation of the Hatch Act. The content —telling the officers to be ready to use force against U.S. citizens — was clearly an impeachable offense. In an earlier era, Trump’s incoherent ranting would have paved the way for his immediate removal from office under the 25th Amendment."
Yep. No doubt. Seems we don't have a functioning Democracy, because the Republicans just turn away, and pretend not see or hear a thing. The madness just keeps flowing. We all scramble trying to keep up. We think it's our duty as concerned citizens, but, then, again, I think we all need to pause, catch our breath, take care of our own sanity in the face of the over-amped crazy.
We are trapped in the claws of the worst of the worst amongst us. Trump's hiring practice: "crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Yikes. We are good & royally fucked! Have a nice day!
Ok, back to Krugman. Let's praise the hope that maybe wrapped up in their incompetence: "In a perverse way, we can be grateful that Trump and his minions are so incompetent, because that is forcing the dormant parts of our country to push back. Let’s just hope that the pushback is strong enough and fast enough to save us all."
