Creative leaking

According to he whose name should not be spoken, we have entered into new and unexplored realms of leaking. There has apparently been real leaks of false facts. This is a hard concept to get one,s head around. How can one leak something that doesn't exist? One may  create false facts and spread false facts but how can one leak false facts?  The trumpeter seems to be saying that the leaks about contacts with the Russians by Mike Flynn, AKA Jack D Ripper, we're leaks about something that never happened. What would be the motivation of" leaking" that which is nonexistent? Of course it is obvious that the contacts in question did occur. It now seems of that Flynn was cashiered because he lied to Mike Pence by failing to tell him about something that didn't happen. Even for the deranged mind of Donald, this gets curiouser and curiouser.

Trump also seems to be borrowing a power from the Pope, and that is in fallibility. Under Catholic doctrine, when the Pope speaks about the church or religion he speaks ex cathedra and  is infallible. The T man seems to be claiming this power universally.At the very least, anyone who disagrees with him, particularly the press is irrebutably wrong. This is particularly true if it is demonstrable that what the D man has said is false. In a recent letter to the New York Times a medical professor who authored the description of narcissism in the DSM stated that Trump does not fit that description. Certain characteristics that those truly mentally ill with narcissism exhibit and experience he does not. On television, the doctor went on to explain that Trump was basically a lying, bullying unrepentant egoist. Basically he is just a bad bad person. It is for that reason unfair to the mentally ill to compare them to him. I have to tell you, that pretty much made my day.

Make America great again

HEY TRUMP

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

ITS EASY

RESIGN

PUT AMERICA FIRST,NOT YOURSELF

Who spilled the beans?

The head twit is very very mad because something very very serious matters of incredibly tremendous magnitude occurred. This problem was occasioned by more revelations in the very very unfair and very very false press of more contact between Flynn and the Ruskies during the campaign. You may recall that Flynn was cashiered by the twit meister because he lied to the administration and had lost their trust. That would make anyone unhappy. But what Trump appears to be livid about is not that Flynn lied but that this behavior was disclosed to the public by the very very dishonest and very very false press. Trump also stated that the very very dishonest and very very unfair press had been very very unfair to Flynn. Apparently this unfairness consisted of reporting why Flynn had been fired.

Now, in all fairness if one were the head of an organization demonstrating the consistent incompetence and total disarray of the current administration, one would like that hidden as completely as possible. There has been some speculation that information is leaked by long time loyal Federal employees because of their dismay at the lying of Trump and his people. That's possible. I suppose the irony of some of this, understanding that the concept of irony is way beyond Donald Trump, is in his persistent praising of WikiLeaks during the campaign.

Even some Republicans are now stating there needs to be an investigation of the Flynn/Russia imbroglio. However, they are circling the wagons in that the investigation should be done within existing congressional committees. The Republicans, of course, control what goes into the hearings and what comes out. Any investigation is not likely to be considered robust. Remember that just a few days ago the Republicans in Congress blocked an attempt to cause Trump to release his tax returns. The Republican Ministry of concealment and disinformation has its work cut out. My guess is that they will be up to it.

Chopped

As of yesterday, former  NSA Mike Flynn, who seemed like the reincarnation of Curtis Lemay, is gone. There seems to be some confusion as to whether he resigned or was booted out. Yesterday, Dear little Kellyanne, speaking on behalf of the president, said the president had full confidence in Flynn. Apparently something happened overnight, based on information the White House had had for 18 days, that caused that trust to disappear. Today Kellyanne said that Flynn had resigned. Just now, in his daily hilarious monologue, also known as the white house briefing, Sean Spicer stated that in so many words he had been fired. We don't know exactly what transpired but in my mind what occurred was something like this–" Flynn, you have breached our trust by lying to us. Your job was to lie to the public and Congress not us. For that reason, we had to chop you."

Speaking of Kellyanne, a new primary spokesman for the president  appeared on TV yesterday who makes one sort of wistful for Kellyanne and Kaylee and Sean and Jeffrey who tried to dance around Trump's bullshit and put a good face on it, inventing such devices as alternative facts and stating you are only listening to his words. This guy, Steven Miller is a sort of Kamakasi pilot of a surrogate or spokesperson. According to Miller, the president has absolute power over immigration, unchecked by the Constitution and exempt from judicial review, everything he says it is absolutely true, and there is evidence of massive voter fraud, just as Trump says. This guy is part of the Bannon team and he clearly fits in, at the hitman level.

Trump is also upset because the White House pandemonium is being disclosed. It is understandable why Trump would not want what is going on in that madhouse disclosed.

Finally, the governor of New Jersey whose name is Krispy Kreme or something like that is having lunch with the president today. What this presages is anyone's guess.

A certain ambivalence

I have been out of the country, in Belize, for a week. During that time I did not receive my normal Quotidien portion of the antics of our head twit. I was able to see the highlights from time to time of his antics but not the steady drip that is normal. I suppose that should've been a total respite but oddly enough I found myself missing it. Now, I am not disabused of the notion that he  has the potential, which he seems to be actualizing, to provide a great harm to the country including the environment the educational system the reasonable balance of expectations of a cross section of citizens and the general economy, not to mention foreign relations. I do take this seriously. But what I realized is I miss the daily humor provided by his relentless buffoonery. There is a tremendous entertainment value in watching him solemnly make banal and stupid statements as he pauses dramatically. It really is funny. In fact, our best hope may be that the general citizenry eventually dismisses him as a total phony clown, without too much rigorous analysis of the ridiculousness of his policies. It is hilarious as he signed his executive orders and hold them up, proudly displaying the fact that he can write his name in big letters. Each executive order is more fantastic, more incredible, more tremendous, more unbelievable than the last. I have this new fantasy that he is going to announce a new special presidential aid for superlatives. He will solemnly state that this new aid will only add to the tremendous accomplishments buy using more and better superlatives. I can just see him saying you'll be hearing more quintessential's and paradigmatic's and other truly tremendously unbelievably fantastic superlatives.

It has been clear and is becoming more clear that his extreme egocentric nature cannot cope with loss or disappointment. So, let's hope that he keeps getting whacked like he did this week and that more and more people make fun of him. He is a truly risible semi human being.

Mafia America

Some of the speculation about Donald Trump is whether he sees himself as the president of a Constitutional Republic or the CEO of some sort of enterprise. It seems to me that the latter is most close to the reality but that the Enterprise is not some sort of normal Corporation. His tactics actually appear to be of the kind that should cause us to call him Don Trump. At least as legend has it, and there is no doubt that there is truth to this, mafia families would extract tributes from businesses in their sphere of influence in order that those businesses would be allowed to operate. This appears to be what Don Trump is up to as far as the global economic system is concerned. He is going to extract tributes from our trading partners as a condition of doing business. To justify this he harps about the unfairness visited upon the United States. This unfair system which he deplores has allowed the United States to become the most richest , successful and powerful nation on earth. If our GDP was distributed somewhat more equitably everyone in this country could have a decent education , decent housing and a job, increasingly in the service industry, that would allow everyone to have a good life. It would also increase aggregate demand to the benefit of the economyThis is the system he wishes to dismantle.

His program is not about America first. It is about ME first. He continues to demonstrate his pathetic need to convince everyone that he, not Mohammad Ali, is the greatest and can do things that no one else ever could or ever would be able to. Now, make no mistake about it. He is wielding enough power to push most other countries around. He may well be able to claim short term positive results as far as increasing America's share of the pie is concerned. But no one can gage the collateral and long-term effects of this sort of behavior. He has surrounded himself with a circle of sycophants with an extreme ideological bent. The new visible member of this group, Sebastian Gorka,  appears well suited for the role of Luca Brazi.

One wonders if we should be flying the American flag upside down.