Before he goes somewhere, Donald Trump stands for a short while on the White House Lawn, answering reporters' shouted questions. They must raise their voices because of the nearby idling helicopter whining like a nuclear washing machine. The reporters participate in these absurd exchanges because Trump is news, no matter what hogwash gushes from his mouth. I've never heard any journalist remark upon the unacceptable noise of these lawn meetings, or why Trump likes to do them. He also takes questions in the Oval Office when a foreign dignitary sits beside him. Camera clicks and Trump's bullshit are the two instruments heard, with reporters supplying backing vocals. His responses in these situations are never useful as signposts of truth. He can't tell the truth, except inadvertently. The noisiness in the Oval Office question and answer periods, the helicopter and lawn interviews lack real information. They are static from an administration, indeed, a government more interested in hiding what's real and of concern to citizens than using straightforwardness as a matter of habit. They do this to protect themselves because they know that the masses of Americans would like to beat the shit out of them.
Ted Cruz, for instance. Cruz, a Senate Judiciary Committee member who all but begged Brett Kavanaugh to sexually assault him, so sniveling was his defense of the judge seeking a Supreme Court nomination, Cruz faces a strong possibility of defeat at the hands of a popular Democrat, Beto O'Rourke, in next month's election. If Cruz loses, he'll have more time on his hands to plan his next presidential run.
In the meantime, he's one of fifty senators who voted for Kavanaugh's confirmation, an explicit statement of support for a likely sexual assaulter and possible war criminal (from his previous work for Alberto Gonzalez in the Bush administration during its formulation of torture justifications).
One of the most reprehensible Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine, cast the deciding vote in favor of someone she says she believed to be truthful, while also believing that Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's alleged victim, was telling the truth about her assault in 1982, but that Kavanaugh wasn't the perpetrator. How does Collins know this? We have no idea. She assumes that Ford, despite her vivid memory of the assault, got it wrong when identifying her attacker, in spite of the fact that Ford had known Kavanaugh for a while. I'm pretty sure that Collins herself doesn't believe her own rationale, because it's fucking ridiculous.
Trump expressed his concern about young men and boys getting falsely accused. Trump himself has been accused of sexual assault by, I think, fourteen women. He presents himself as having been victimized by his accusers. Brett Kavanaugh has done the same, buttressed by people like Cruz and Collins and forty-eight other creeps in the Senate willing to inflict a narrow-minded Republican with a frat boy background and mentality on the Supreme Court and thus into the legal bloodstream of the land--goodbye environmental protections, goodbye women's right to choose, congratulations misogyny and unchecked capitalism.
This does put the fight into people, though. A lot of women will run for office because of this. Kavanaugh's victim from 1982, though, can't return to her home. She receives death threats. Trump at a rally in Mississippi mocked her testimony after keeping his mouth shut for a few days. He received laughter and applause, because, I suppose, it's funny when a girl gets nearly raped by a drunken lout and years later gets a chance to tell her story to the world, only to see the drunken lout get a huge job opportunity provided to him by powerful people who, even if they believe her story, don't really give a shit, because Machiavelli beats Jesus at poker every time.
Now is it understandable that the U.S. government after World War Two smuggled Nazis like Klaus Barbie out of Europe? That Saddam Hussein was a U.S. ally during the Reagan administration? That the U.S. aids al-Qaeda in Syria? The people running the show don't have souls, caring only about the ends; furthermore, since they're also fallible and tend to be incompetent a lot of victims pile up.
Covering up that smell is why Trump likes to talk with a helicopter providing backing distortion. If people in general would realize the true degree of how loathsome these leaders inflicting damnation on us really are, how much they, Republicans and Democrats, don't give a fuck about anything except power and money, how long would we put up with this state of affairs? Brett Kavanaugh and the new five to four majority in the Supreme Court is poised to ruin millions of lives for the sake of enriching the richest of the one percent. And we just keep taking it, defending capitalism, apologizing for failed political parties, believing wrongly that if Trump is "gotten rid of" everything will be good again, like when Obama was using drones to blow up children in Yemen.
A new scientific study reveals that 2030 is the point of no return in regard to global warming. Drastic changes must occur until then to prevent the average temperature from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius, and even then, the world's in for a plethora of disasters. Our government demonstrates a persistent and willful lack of interest in preventing such horrors to befall the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Baby Boom generation that failed to act on global warming in a timely manner. Massive die-offs of animals are already occurring. Frogs, toads, bees, their populations drop. This harbinger means we will drop. The truth must be faced about these upcoming complexes of problems. The bullshit and lies must stop being regarded as anything but noise. Giving up your life to cling to some idiotic statement of belief by a man with no soul, Trump or otherwise, is a stupid thing to do.
Learn to read people. Apparently, Susan Collins and others of her kind lack that capacity.
Vic Neptune
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