Emma Gonzalez For President

Emma Gonzalez, a high school girl who escaped the Florida school massacre with her life, is Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Smart, verbal, strong, female and of Latin American heritage, she is his opposite in every respect, and a formidable adversary. In just a few sentences spoken to the press, she effectively annihilated him, and suggested we deal with the illegitimate and dysfunctional president by ignoring him. For the narcissist Trump, that's the ultimate horror. Without attention from others, he withers away.

Pity he makes such great documentary drama at the moment. It's hard to look away from the messiest presidential train wreck in history, and it's hard not to comment on it. But for Emma, I will try. I hope she gets into politics. Her voice was a beacon of common sense, clarity and honesty that lit up the day, even against the grim reality of the recent mass shooting.

"Case Closed"

Because the first round of indictments against Russians in the election rigging scandal didn't explicitly state that the outcome of the election was altered nor that they collaborated with any of the people around Trump, he took to Twitter to claim that he had been cleared of suspicion and that we're done. Nothing to see here. His exact choice of words was "case closed".

That is, of course, not the case. There's plenty to see here, and a lot more is coming very soon. Robert Mueller and his team are going to make Trump eat those words.
Dtarting today, I'm having the popcorn ready.

Dead Man Walking

Suddenly, it's all over. With yesterday's announcements that a number of Russian nationals and some Russian organizations were involved in rigging the election for Donald Trump, there is no doubt that Donald Trump is a willing and knowing Russian puppet. Trump himself is if course shouting about how the indictments, which are now just one step away from incriminating Trump and his close advisors, actually vindicate him and show that he did nothing wrong. Of course, he is delusional. Like a headless chicken, he runs around, flapping and making random noises, but soon enough it's bound to register even in his slow, stupid and severely addled mind: his failed attempt at an illegitimate presidency is dead, and he has lost all political power as well as all credibility.

Two Flies In One SWAT

The FBI is investigating the NRA for laundering Russian money to make donations to the GOP. If they find any grounds for the allegations, it will be a very big deal indeed. The NRA could be barred from making any political contributions in the future, and the GOP could be sanctioned or even disbanded for violating US election laws.


Could this be the demise of the Republican party, or the NRA, or perhaps both?

West Winging It

The White House is losing people at an alarming rate, and they are having trouble finding new candidates to fill the vacancies. Exacerbating the problem is their initial reluctance to hire enough people in the first place, with many deputy positions within the administration left unstaffed since Trump took office. The result is as evident as it was predictable: a White House in chaos, struggling to stay on top of even the most important issues. There is no plan, just a daily panic and madness. Balls are dropped, contradicting messages are released, scandals are created around the incompetent people in Trump's orbit, most every official White House statement is a shameless and transparent lie, and the big, ugly ghost of Russia is always lurking in the background.

The West Wing is looking more like the Wild West Wing for each passing day. This is not a healthy way of running a government.

Exodus

All across the US, Republicans are quitting and withdrawing from the mid-term elections in 2018. Most people expect it to be a severely uphill battle for the party, with Democrats set to engage voters like never before and Republicans considerably less eager to vote for a party that is turning hard right and alienating its more moderate sympathizers, not to mention that they are hampered by the most inept president in modern history. Facing a humiliating defeat, Republican senators and representatives choose to drop out of the race instead of running for re-election.

Experienced lawmakers see the writing on the wall. If you are a Republican and have a brain, it's time to leave.

Childspeak

When asked for a comment on one of the most recent exits from his administration, Donald Trump offered this, quoted verbatim but not in full:

"He did a very good job when he was in the White House. And we hope he has a wonderful career and he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he's also very sad now."

Small, simple words. Needless, unimaginative repetitions. Who talks like that? Children with a small vocabulary. Idiots. People suffering from dementia. Donald Trump is not a child, so he is either stupid or demented. Or both.

Falling Down

We are finally at the stage where most people around Donald Trump are ignoring him, realizing that he is incompetent, disgusting, evil and out of his mind. However, he was always like that, and it has been as clear as day since before ue took office. What took them so long to see it?

Repugnicans

The slur "Repugnicans", alluding to the GOP representatives being repugnant, is sadly fitting. The Republican party took another step into darkness when Arthur Jones became the single Republican candidate for an Illinois seat in Congress. Jones is a racist, an anti-semite and a holocaust denier. Yes. Seriously. What's more, he used to be the leader of the American Nazi party. This is beyond crazy. Having that kind of person unopposed on the ballot sends a very clear message that the Republican party is heading full speed into right wing lunacy. The GOP is a scary, ugly mess of angry old white men.

I'm thinking that Lincoln would probably not have approved.

More Parties

The Republican party is at war with itself, with the right wing hijacking their agenda and running roughshod over the more moderate faction.

The Democrats can't decide on a common agenda, as they represent a too wide spectrum of opinions from left to right-middle.

Time for more than two parties in US politics, perhaps?

"No Obstruction"

Donald Trump doesn't seem to understand that he is making things worse for himself. He doesn't even seem to understand the term "obstruction of justice", the crime that brought Nixon down. In a single breath, Trump managed to say that "There has been no obstruction", and that "there is nothing to see here, and the Russia investigation needs to be closed down". The latter statement is precisely what is meant by "obstruction": using undue influence to stop an investigation from running its course.

Trump is making Robert Mueller's job a lot easier by being a moron and running his mouth - two of the very few things that seem to come natural to him.

Village Idiots

When looking for explanations for the strange behavior of Carter Page and Devin Nunes, the only plausible alternative seems to be very simple: these people are unbelievably stupid, too stupid to even understand that they are stupid. They have both repeatedly failed to understand the nature of their Russia problem, acted in clumsy defense only to make things worse for everyone involved, and failed to realize when they should just shut up. A lot of people around Trump are incompetent, but Page and Nunes take the prize for pure, unadulterated stupidity.

However, it's certainly convenient when criminals act in such stupid manners, incriminating themselves and everyone around them as they unsuccessfully enact their badly devised schemes to hide the treasonous crimes committed by the Trump administration.

Last Stand

In these final moments of the illegitimate, failed and embarrassing presidency of the traitorous and demented criminal Donald Trump, we are seeing him fight for his life. The sad thing is that he carries out that task exactly like any other task he has faced as president: badly, with the help of incompetent people, and without a clue about what he is actually doing, or why.

It is, of course, a good thing that a wannabe dictator is this stupid and lazy. He is figuratively lying down for his last stand, curled up on the floor in fetus position, catatonic with fear. If his handling of the now infamous Nunes memo is indicative if how he will fight back from now on, he will be very easy indeed to take down.

Body Language

An amateur's opinion is not enough for a serious news publisher, but this is just a blog, so here comes my speculation on the body language of Republicans versus Democrats.

When you watch Republicans on TV, they often send off signals of something being off. They look uncomfortable, defensive, embarrassed, even scared. It's as if they feel the weight of their conscience and subconsciously send off signals of guilt.
Democrats, on the other hand, act with animosity, outrage, engagement and spirit. They speak their mind, freely and without hesitation,

Simply put, Democrats come across as honest, whereas Republicans do not. Coincidence?

Falling Down

The wannabe Emperor currently occupying the White House, after having cheated his way to power by committing treason, is finally going to face justice. It's not entirely clear whether his deteriorating and deeply addled mind has any concept of guilt, or if he is truly living in the delusional belief that he has done nothing wrong, but the special counsel Robert Mueller and his team, along with the majority of the US population, knows the truth: Donald Trump is a criminal who should be locked away, along with a large number of co-conspirators.