Are You Scared Yet?

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Don’t you feel like you are in an 18-wheeler and hurtling down a hill with no brakes?  Instinctively you know that one of the upcoming curves is going to be too sharp to survive….

That is what we all are feeling after the last 48 hours and the departure of Gen. McMaster and the appointment of John Bolton.  It is clear that President Trump has morphed into a President that wants to exercise increasing power, and erase whatever boundaries remain to our system of checks and balances and separation of powers.  Think about this---he is appointing people to run our government who are commentators at Fox News and expert at throwing verbal bombshells!  The complexion of our governing officials has changed overnight to emphasize impulsiveness, conspiracy theory and warmongering!

Mueller’s Russia probe is clearly in danger at the hands of the new legal team led by Fox News commentator, DeGenova—well known for his unsubstantiated belief that the “Deep State” is conspiring to frame President Trump for unwarranted crimes.  War looms on the horizon as the National Security Advisor appointee Bolton, known and reviled for his long held desire to attack North Korea pre-emptively and to trash the Iran Agreement that will assuredly lead to renewed activity by the Iranians to develop nuclear weapons, assumes his post.  This surely will lead to Israeli action and middle east conflict.  The new Secretary of State nominee, Mike Pompeo, shares the same yearning for conflict with North Korea and Iran.  Our fearless President just imposed $60 billion in new tariff restrictions on China that will surely result in an economic counterattack that will make our lives here in the US more expensive.  (And yet our ‘fearless’ President doesn’t have the guts to walk down the hall and ‘face-to-face’ ask a 3 Star General to leave his post.)

There is genuine fear and panic amongst long time diplomats and foreign policy experts that our country is out of control and being managed by an impulsive man and his supplicants who really don’t have a clue about what forces they are unleashing in the world.  Our allies are truly unnerved and fearful of any kind of situation that would require an allied response from the US.  Since our President is now universally recognized to be a liar, they cannot believe anything that emerges from his mouth.

In addition, our President is unsurprisingly a misogynistic, narcissistic, disgusting human being who has no respect for women or his marriage for that matter.  He consorts with porn stars and tries to pay them off to keep them silent about his indiscretions while his wife was nursing their newborn son!

And where are the mealy-mouthed lemming-like Republicans?  In the face of Trump going to ‘war’ against Mueller, after he unceremoniously fired his Secretary of State and his National Security Advisor, the Republicans believe that there is no reason to protect the Special Counsel from being summarily fired.  Really?

There is so much going on in this maelstrom that it is hard to keep up with the disintegrating sinkhole that has become our government.

History will remember that Republicans let Pandora out of the box when they nominated this miscreant for President.  It will also hopefully record the return to reason that will start this November on election day.