What can go wrong?
I’ve got a lot of friends in the media business, who are repporting the news fairly, impartially and without favor ... but they also take time to vent their frustrations to me, a former colleague who now writes a blog to vent my own frustration.
So said one of them today. He wrote: “It just annoys me that this man (Donald Trump) has his hands on levers that really affect me -- health care, agriculture, justice, freedom of speech. And he’s just so aggressively stupid and so mind-blowingly unqualified. And I guess what annoys the most is the feeling (wrongly) that I’m the only one who sees it.”
He’s not the only one. I want to tell him so, right now.
Earlier, I had vented to my friend. I wrote: “Pete Hegseth is another example of an empty suit tasked with making decisions that have no relation to whatever skill he brings to the office he occupies. An absolute disgrace.
“RFK Jr is sentencing children and poor folks to death by rescinding drugs that would make them well; we have an ed secretary who confuses AI with A1; we have an AG who indicts a former FBI boss because Trump wants her to, and who has absolutely no legal grounds on which to indict him.”
My comment to my friend was aimed primarily at the numbskulls with whom Trump has surrounded himself. Why bring this up? Because the federal government is on the verge of shutting down.
Hmm. How can it be? Republicans occupy the White House. They have a slim majority in the U.S. House. They have a little larger majority in the U.S. Senate. Why can’t they, or won’t they, avoid a government shutdown?
My friend asked what I presume to be a rhetorical question, which was why are Republicans willing to shut ‘er down? I responded:
I have the answer. It’s because the MAGA disphits who control the GOP have no interest in or ability to govern. They want to make headlines. They are addicted to the sounds of their own voices and don’t give a pile of shit about the services they swore to provide to those they represent.
They are led by the MAGA dipshit in chief, Donald John Trump. So, we stand at the precipice of yet another GOP-inspired government shutdown. We will deny millions of Americans the services for which they pay. Thousands of Americans will lose their jobs.
You and I will be left to fume and vent our rage at the politicians who don’t know how -- or care to learn how -- to govern.