Right now, if you had to bet $1,000 on which option is more
likely to happen, which would you choose?
1. Aliens land on earth next Monday
2. A thorough, fair and independent investigation
into the Trump/Russia affair finds no collusion or wrongdoing.
It’s a toughie isn’t it?
I mean, I really, really feel confident that little green
men are not going to show up in five days somewhere on the planet, but…….?
Seriously. The absolute biggest and most blockbuster story
in the world over the next year would be that Trump and his administration were
completely innocent of working with Russia to throw the election. The second
biggest story would be proof that he and they did.
That is where we are right now. The smoke is so think and
powerful right now that a conflagration threatening to outstrip Watergate is
building and building. We are all in at this point. It really is the political
embodiment of the transitive property of math – If A equals B and B equals C,
than A equals C.
A Trump needed help to win because god knows he’s not smart
enough to do it alone
B Russia wanted a stooge in the White House;
C November 9th brought us the previously
unthinkable.
And it’s only been a little over 100 days!!!! Seriously
republican defenders of the president…do you really have the stamina for
another 3 and 2/3 years of this?!
One of my favorite football quotes comes from defensive guru
Wade Philips who once said about playing football: “it’s an incredibly hard
game because every play is a crisis.” And that’s fine for a contest that lasts
about three hours. Then everyone can take a break until next Sunday.
Can we really handle a presidency where every day is a
crisis – a self-made crisis? My god! He
hasn’t even been tested yet. No terrorist attacks, no economic shocks, no
killer storms, no incursions abroad…relatively speaking, nothing.
Others have said this, but it bears repeating: we are at the
point where we fear picking up our smartphones and checking social media
platforms for the latest news on the administration. Every buzz of a twitter
alert, illumination from an RSS feed or jingle of a text sends us all into
panic.
“What now!?”we all reflexively think, “What has he done
now!!!!”
Yes, I held lofty dreams of Clinton presidency, a democratically
controlled congress and a 5-4 liberal tilt in the Supreme Court – only to have those
velvety aspirations slapped down like a fly on one’s shoulder.
So yes, my wondrous visions of fairness, equality,
environmental stewardship and economic justice have been bludgeoned to death. But at this point, I’d just settle for a
stretch of days where I didn’t actually fear Trump calling a nuclear strike
against some third-rate state senator from Minnesota daring to tweet critically
about healthcare premiums.
In the famous words of every A through D list actor over 50
in far too many movies to even count: “I’m too old for this shit.”
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