The Do: Masquerade as competent.
Day 88. Quantifying the “do” in “doability.”
Alaska’s Sen. Lisa Murkowski, admits she is frightened, as we all are, of the man pretending to run the government. Rubio in Paris, tossing in the towel. Our yelling about “day one” promises we all knew were stupid, doesn’t help Ukraine either. Sen. Van Hollen wins our admiration for his courage and heart in facing the impossible possible task (Donald said so) of seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They had “margaritas.”
A shooting in Florida’s Leon county. A 20 year old shoots and kills two, injures six with his mother’s weapon, while in another place in Leon county, a 20 year old is reunited with his mother after being wrongfully held by ICE.
A lot of unflattering things said about the shooter not yet old enough to get a gun. Acquaintances identify him as a kid too radical in his “white” talk for most other radicals in his circles. Not everyone is super mad and shooting up the place today, but he did.
Why Leon County yesterday? How are two similar yet totally divergent events take place in that spot in Florida? Don’t know. The idea of somehow life trying to balance out springs to mind.
Try as hard as they are to wisk people off… it’s not the Congo… what was he yapping about the Congo the place he admits, he doesn’t know of, where is it? he knows nothing. Especially when it comes to telling Pam Bondi what to do. Knows nothing. She will bear the burden of her illegality. She will have the bus tire marks along her noggin, not the he.
Or what he thinks he, we, are doing there.
“The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural resources in Heart of Darkness. Under Donald Trump, that scramble may be back. If news reports are right, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is offering the US a blunt deal: minerals for military help – a slice of sovereignty traded for a shot at stability.”
This isn’t winning by anyone’s modern metrics. Thoughtless stupid man, recreating the worst of the past while all the while he could be aligned with Leon, not of the county but by silly moniker, and going to Mars. Maybe he needs the rare earth stuff for the trip. Just say Congo from the oval and make it happen. Power, freedom, jail for everyone but me. …
“The core concept involves a magical game that, when played, opens a portal to a dangerous and exotic world, often a jungle, and releases jungle-themed hazards into the real world. The goal for the players is to finish the game and return to their normal lives.” Maybe ask Lisa Murkowski about that “return to normal life.” We are hopeful. Well, I am.
Waiting for Van Hollen’s report upon his return, the man who showed Trump to be so tiny of spirit he’s miniscule. And Bukele, well, it the US government that pays his gov, 6 million to “house” the “criminals.” Not Trump. Of course he would comply with a US senator. The fight is now on between Scotus and the man that demands to be the only well, the source of knowledge and the rest.
Trump is on record- "Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "GRANDSTANDER!!!"
No nickname for Van Hollen. Lazy lazy POTUS. He was the one standing with his ‘you know’ in his hand. Trumps the beggar. Always looking for some kind of handout.
They all need jail. Revolk her bar license. Fall from grace what grace? If you’re not on that social sewer you just don’t get a glimpse of the real workers in the White House. How they make things happen. Start petty fires and irritate citizens. Threaten, demean. Official account, not a parody.
They are both unserious and not kidding. A terrible mix of intellectual subservience to whims of dictators poorly understood orders and undeniable delight in their access to power which is consuming them, and us, as they opine.
Sitting in fire and sipping a warm beverage, perhaps the meme that tell all for all. No red fire or blue fire. We all adapt as Trump in hissy fit number one billion, walks away from a problem he made that he can’t fix. Not unfixable. Simply beyond his capacity and no one else will be allowed to show him up. Case closed. No one is allowed to take that man’s name in vein. He no longer thinks he’s god. Trump made god up to help him. Why not? Not a law has been fashioned to contain his illness. Read what he wanted of Harvard? Complete control over policy regarding teaching, admissions, student behavior. It turns out, the money he wanted to withhold from them, was earned by a merit based competition for funding in research. Reminds me of the original Ukraine money. He want his money and yours and theirs too.
Trump seems in a wedge now. Once more we do have him wiggling between the laws he wants expunged and the men and women in the final line, our highest courts prepared to stop him or become ineffective once more?
Know who Maga is intended to be. They are a weapon against democracy. They are told a fantasy of reality and made ignorant for a purpose.
Under what idea are we expelling people from this country to prisons in other countries? All shades of unlawful managed with slippery rhetoric of ‘thought to be’ and clothing like a hoodie to be determinative of ones innocence or guilt of anything.
And lastly, things to talk about over the weekend. Is this the right time of impeachment? Is Lisa Murkowski asking for help? I think she is.
Thanks for being here. I wouldn’t be here without you.
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