America, checks with top advisers:
Q.) U.S A. : How fucked am I?
A.) First adviser: Well, you look awful, you look terrible. I mean, you often look quite bad, but…
Q.) U.S.A.: In terms of basic functional health of our federal government on the fuck-o-meter, where am I?
A.) Second Adviser: Oh, 12.
A.) First adviser: Yeah. 12, say.
Q.) U.S. A.: Out of what?
A.) Second Adviser: Er… 50.
A.) First adviser: Oh. Mine was out of ten.
U.S. A.: Right, (to Second Adviser) so I’m 24% fucked according to you, (to First Adviser) but according to you I’m 120% fucked? *
Two years of Trump & GOP rule and now post-election the prognosis may be a little better. The Democrats did take control of the house. “So for the first time in two years, there is an institution of the government that is neither afraid of, nor controlled by, the president”. Women candidates running for office made huge gains. From the NYTimes.com: There will be at least 100 women in the House next year — the largest number in U.S. history. And Democrats gained in state legislatures, CBS news reports: […] as well as obtaining governorships in seven formerly Republican-held states. Additionally, the majority of state attorneys general will be Democrats come January.
The glimmer of light at the end of the Trump/GOP tunnel is a little brighter.
But the GOP in the Senate still has Trump’s back covered. And at two post-election press conferences Donald more than demonstrated his continuing contempt for normal rules of behavior. Not only did he escalate his attacks on the media and revoke a CNN reporter’s White House press credentials but he threatened more reporters with the same. He topped off his belligerent performances by firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Then by placing a complete GOP hack with questionable ethics as acting Attorney General he put the Mueller investigation in real jeopardy.
I’m an optimist today so let’s say we’re at 24% on the “f” meter.
*Apologies to Armando Iannucci and The Thick of It.
Interesting perspective. Now all we have to do is hold the creep-in-chief off for 2 months until the new Congress convenes, then 2 more years until the next major election — and hope that the Dems get behind a single solid Democratic candidate-who-isn’t-Bernie (who isn’t a Democrat).
And we get to do all that while defending democracy from the despot-in-chief, who has never heard of “advise and consent” when placing cronies and crackpots in positions of power to desperately defend him.
…and who ISN’T Hillary Clinton.
I’m thinking Kamala Harris needs to get more name recognition, and soon.
Yup!
It’s less than 500 days until March 2020, which I think is around about the earliest date state primaries,including the New Hampshire Primary™ might be held.
Wikipedia Democratic Party presidential primary page lists four declared candidates.
Duh….who??
All men, of course.