The Books of Bokonon

If Lawrence is soon to be off the air (his contract ends in June), he is going to go down swinging. Here is his take on Trump and the GOP's cowardice:

Okay, since I am not well and can't really sleep, I will post a couple videos. I'll start off with Jon Stewart as he tries to cut through the crap old Trump and Vance pulled last Friday - an event that still has me muttering Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: The pro wrestling metaphor is fitting, actually. That's about as sophisticated as Trump and Vance can manage. And the Russian government and its state controlled media are jumping for joy. I'll finish with Jimmy Kimmel who had his own reaction to whatever old Trump's SOTU address was.

Still a couple more videos in this series to post. As a quick aside, I urge anyone who reads this to buy or check out a copy of On Tyranny. You'll thank yourself later. We are clearly at a point where any semblance of normality is out the window. I've read elsewhere on how it took Hitler only 53 days to consolidate power. It's reasonable to assume that there are still plenty of people in denial about the dangerous times we live in, and they will be in shock when the bubble inevitably bursts. Keep calm and carry on, as Winston Churchill once said.

Rachel Maddow lays it out. Call it a thought experiment, or call it just asking questions. It doesn't really matter. Clearly someone is benefitting from actions at the White House now that Trump has been reinstalled.

Say what you will about James Carville, but he is correct in pointing out that Trump is more unhinged than ever. Just like the self-styled heterodox crowd, he deftly uses the tactic of stating that he is "just asking questions" regarding the state of Trump's mental health given the debacle that happened on Friday. Maybe it's just the accumulation of decades of a bad diet, bad sleep habits, and a generally bad attitude. Maybe Trump has an undiagnosed  personality disorder that leads him to think (along with Vance, who also ain't right) that ambushing the leader of an allied nation is a "good" idea. Or maybe the Kremlin has some kompromat on Trump that can explain what happened Friday. Personally, I don't give a fuck what the reason or reasons behind Friday's ambush of Zelenskyy who was gracious enough to appear at the White House and effectively surrender some of Ukraine's wealth to soothe mad King Trump's easily bruised ego. The point is ...

I already considered Trump's attempted shakedown of Ukrainian mineral rights to be thuggish and unhinged. What happened on Friday during what was around the start of my lunch break was at a completely different level of insanity. Don't believe me? See for yourself:   Chris Hayes' commentary strikes me as spot on. But even if you want to skip his commentary, watching the 7-minute meltdown that occurred at that particular event is a sight to behold, and I do not mean that in a good way. It was beyond embarrassing, and it was something many of us would have predicted as likely to happen - maybe I would not have predicted this clusterfuck from yesterday, but some other unhinged rant followed by a betrayal of our allies was to be expected. Many of us warned you. Many of you did not listen. After this debacle, old Trump let slip that the US government was turning its back on Ukraine. Again, this was predictable. If we interpret what old Trump and Vance did as an ambush on a leade...