I'm listening to a weekly news roundup show on the radio. One of the reporters says something that I think is very important. With regard to the bombing of the small boat in the Caribbean on September 2 for allegedly carrying drugs, the reporter says that we shouldn't get all tangled up in debating whether or not shooting a second missile at the two survivors who were clinging to the burning wreckage was a war crime, because there is not in fact a state of war and summarily executing alleged drug smugglers is murder, plain and simple. Which seems to me so obvious, I am annoyed at all the blether in the media about the rules of engagement. Just because the White House says we're in a war, doesn't make it so. It doesn't even mean that one has to take the claim seriously.
It's hard to keep focused amid the welter of evil emanating from the White House. So I'd like to suggest some consistent themes that I've perceived since the incumbent first began his foul squat in the Oval Office. It seems important to me that the President barely could stay awake through the last Cabinet meeting of the year, and that the Commander in Chief says he had nothing to do with the decision to commit murder on the high seas by killing the two initial survivors of the September 2 massacre. Herein lies corroboration, as if any were needed, for the increasingly obvious fact that the beast at the helm of government doesn't give a shit about the business of governing.
We've also had plenty of recent corroboration that there are basically three things that he does care about. What he cares about is bullying people he believes are obstacles to his desires, paying off people who have behaved towards him in a manner he considers friendly, which is to say they have given him some valuable token of fealty, and cashing in on his office. He threatens Senator Mark Kelly and others with death (!) for the offense of reminding people in the military of their obligations to follow legal orders and to decline to obey illegal ones. He directs his puppet Attorney General Pam Bondi to engineer meritless indictments against James Comey and Letitia James. He commutes convicted fraudster George Santos' sentence to seven years incarceration and hundreds of thousands of dollars of restitution because, in the President's own words, when Santos was in Congress he "ALWAYS VOTEDS REPUBLICAN." (Caps in the original.) He demands that his puppet Attorney General Pam Bondi "reimburse" him $230,000,000 of taxpayers' money in "compensation" for the FBI's investigation of his 2016 campaign's ties to Russia and his purloining of classified documents and squirreling them away at Mar-a-Lago.
He doesn't care about governing. He's a bully. He surrounds himself with stooges and sycophants, who commit all manner of outrages, crimes, and evil because he's turned government over to them and he doesn't really care much what they do so long as they don't get in his way. He's cashing in. He's cashing in all the more because recent polling and electoral results indicate that the chances of his staying in office much beyond the mid-term elections are growing shaky. "Get it while you can" might be a good motto for his coming year.
Lock him up.
