Happy Whatever To All

I read this statement first thing this morning. I don't know why, but I did. It sorta set the tone for the day:

We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody. I know it’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right? So they make these things and then they put them up.                                                                     Feckless Leader December 21st 2019 

There is a interesting article in the Washington Post that sorta unpacks this chaos into semi-cogent thoughts, but in reality, it does little to convince me the mouth moving up and down is attached to anything of any import. Clearly, he doesn't understand climate change or science. He thinks that if he thinks he sounds scientific, he is scientific. Nope. Smarts don't work that way.

I'm really tired of pointing out the wacky stuff this guy says. I've decided he really does remind me of Professor Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority:

624: The sum of the cyclic hypotenuse and any two angles of tensor vertices is equal to the co-tangent of the obtuse seraphim. Where the angles are expressed in radians per some time unit I forget, but will come back to in overdue time, yielding feathers per flap.                                 

The difference between Professor Irwin Corey and Feckless Leader is that Irwin Corey was a bona fide comedian. He was obtuse and ridiculous because he was aiming for obtuse and ridiculous. Based on the statement above and other things he said, he could easily be the role model for the sitting president. After all, he says stuff that is equally obtuse and ridiculous. Only he's not funny. 

What speeches like the one on wind turbines do is to turn me into a conspiracy theorist. I suspect that's only because I can't believe this stuff is happening in real time. Which it is. So when the editor of Christianity Today, a magazine (founded by Billy Graham) comes out and says in no uncertain terms that the president of the United States should be immediately removed from office, you just gotta wonder why. It can't be that they had some sort of epiphany over there. You'd think all the pussy grabbing, multi-wife, multi-baby-mama routine would've sent them out onto Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street three years ago. But I guess the gospel of prosperity delayed their right-mindedness. 

Or did it? Are they seeing a crack in Mordor that can be exploited to open for Mike Pence? It would certainly make sense. After all, he's on board with denying health care for women and children-outside-the womb. This is a guy who wants funerals for fetal remains, whether they are aborted or miscarried. He's the guy who can't be alone in a room with a woman not his wife...obviously because he cannot control his carnal nature. I could go on, but why bother. You all know the drill. This is who they want as president. Sure, the majority of Americans didn't elect him either, but the electoral college made him first runner up. And you know what that means, right?

On an even more bizarre note, let's not forget that teeny-tiny incident back in November when The Feckless Foundation was fined over $2,000,000 for using its cash as the president's personal piggy bank. From the NY Times

Reporting by The Washington Post, which led to the New York State attorney general’s investigation of the foundation, found that the foundation could not provide evidence that it gave anything to veterans groups until a reporter started asking about it, months after the fund-raiser.

When Mr. Trump was not treating the foundation like an arm of his campaign, he used it to pay off some of his business’s legal obligations, according to Thursday’s settlement. (Although, shortly after his election, Mr. Trump did agree not to use the foundation to pay any of the $25 million settlement awarded to victims of his fraudulent Trump University.) 

He also used foundation money to buy a $10,000 portrait of himself, which he displayed at one of his hotels.

Granted, $2,000,000 is nothing more than chump change for a supposed billionaire, but it sure shows him to quite the grifter, dontcha think? Apparently not everyone agrees with that conclusion either. No seemed to be that upset about it. 

In unpacking all this wackiness, I have come to a conclusion that some (including my big brother) will disagree with. I don't mind; I haven't been wrong on much yet when it comes to this administration. So here it is: we are witnessing a bloodless coup, not against a sitting president...who the wackos wanna keep, but against the foundation of our government: The Constitution of the United States. 

There are a number of reasons why I suspect this could be an attempted coup. There is, of course, the ongoing joke Feckless Leader makes about having to serve a 3rd term even though only 2 terms are Constitutional. AG Barr's statements on the proceedings also skate the narrow line of malfeasance:

There is an inherent conflict in Barr's designated role as the chief law enforcement officer of this country and his efforts to protect the man who gave him his job. It is unfortunate that Bill Barr never misses an opportunity to place his thumb on the scales of justice in favor of Donald Trump. That's not how it is supposed to be.                                                                                                                             Michael J. Stern, former Federal prosecutor 

Since no one is stepping up to the plate on how this process is supposed to work, we can only look back to the impeachment of Bill Clinton to get a sense of how his impeachment unfolded:

• Whereas Clinton's impeachment was over extramarital affairs and lying to Congress, it was sex, not international diplomacy. There's a bit of a difference right there. But lots of people thought it was heinous enough to impeach the guy.
• Whereas Clinton said, "It's not in my hands; it's in the hands of Congress and the people of this country — ultimately, in the hands of God. There is nothing I can do," Feckless Leader has been spewing garbage statements via any media outlet he can find, regardless of the truth or accuracy of his statements, bashing everyone in sight. Anything to shift the focus away from him.
• Whereas in the Clinton impeachment, witnesses, including Monica Lewinsky, were called to testify and tapes of the testimony replayed in the Senate, this White House has consistently blocked witnesses from appearing and Moscow Mitch has declared not only will he NOT be an impartial juror, he will align with the Oval Office to forbid additional testimony from witnesses Democrats think should be heard. This sounds a whole lot like judicial malfeasance. Or at least Obstruction of Justice. 

The smoke and mirrors are choking the process and that's exactly what they are designed to do. Come on, folks; if the guy did nothing wrong, why aren't people clamoring to testify in his defense? It's like the taxes. If they're above board and honest, why can't the American people see them? What are Feckless Leader and his henchmen hiding? 

That is the $64,000 Question. 

This is a pattern supported by people who seem not to have the good and welfare of We, the people, our Constitution, or the health and well-being of the nation as central tenets of their modes of operation. One look at the people surrounding the Oval Office from the beginning of this administration should make you wonder about who is running the show. Few congressionally vetted Secretaries remain. There is no process being followed for replacements. The appointments are haphazard and scattered; positions crucial to foreign relations, like ambassadors and consuls, remain vacant. If there are no experienced people in the grunt-work positions, and the few remaining are leaving, being forced out, or just canned, who is there left to speak for this nation?

This is the bloodless coup part. When professional government positions are filled by flunkies (like Ambassador Sondland readily admits he is) or left empty, who is actually managing our place in world diplomacy/economics/defense/security? 

No one. 

The Ukraine debacle makes that very clear. This administration is concerned with implanting fiction as fact, nonsense as news, and propaganda as policy. We can continue to stick our collective heads in the sand, or........

One upon a time, a country turned itself over to a guy like Feckless Leader. Like Feckless, he declared Jews to be an independent nationality, not a religion. Ultimately, all the Jews had to wear identity stars. Jews were just the first...there were more symbols after that one. 

In 1932, Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva Posner of Kiel, took this photo of their Hannukah menorah set in their living room window:

In German, on the back of the picture she wrote:

Chanukah 5692

(1932)

"Death to Judah"

So the flag says

"Judah will live forever"

So the light answers

They left Germany with their family, many congregants, and the menorah in 1933 and arrived in Israel in 1934.  

They did not wait around to find out what happens next. 

The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week

Chag urim same'ach to those who light menorahs.

Merry Christmas to those who mark the birth of Jesus.

Happy Winter Solstice to those seeking longer days and shorter nights.

Happy Festivus to those airing grievances around the pole.

And happy whatever to all.