Kakistocracy

New revelation from the 2016 campaign: Steve Bannon the thug like presence in the Trump White House, at one point called Paul Ryan a "limp dick motherfucker."

Senate GOPers are still trying to repeal "Obamacare." The new plan is to repeal now and give themselves two years to come up with a replacement. Of course they're not going to fix anything. If this goes through millions of people will lose access to healthcare. This in spite of the fact that the Senate plan is widely unpopular with most Americans.

The American political system can no longer be called democracy but has become kakistocracy; government by the worst people.

Trump's Legacy

With all the turmoil coming out of Washington, it's tempting to forget how messed up things are in the rest of the country. In West Goshen PA, a few weeks ago, 18 year old Bianca Roberson, an African American woman, was shot and killed and by a white named David Desper. Desper killed Roberson simply because she cut him off in traffic. Desper could be seen as an example of white privilege. White thugs who think they have the right to go about armed and killing anybody who pissed them off. These kinds of incidents have become increasingly common since Trump became President. However long Trump stays in the White House, his legacy will primarily be a wave of racist violence.

GOPers Can't Shoot Straight

The GOPer Senate has apparently failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. After 7 years of railing against "Obamacare" the Gopers can't even get a workable alternative. That might sound like good news, for the moment. The Gopers can only think about cutting taxes on the rich and kicking people off Medicaid. In the middle of an opioid epidemic, they want to cut funding for substance abuse treatment. The best thing would be for the Gopers to just drop the whole thing. The problem with Gopers is that they don't even know when to let things drop.

Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Clintonites Have Got To Go!

The Democrats lost two special elections in Georgia and South Carolina. These were two GOP "safe seats" and while the Dems were right to contest these races they then fell into wide-eyed Hillary wishful thinking. They went from "might" win to "will" win and when they lost it made it seem worse. Much ire has been directed at Nancy Pelosi but the fault isn't hers alone. The Clintonites who still run the Democratic party remain convinced that the way to beat the GOP--is to sound just like the GOPers. The Democrats still aren't putting forth any policy alternatives and thus they can't win.

Red Alert!

Amidst all the drama taking place in Washington, we are forgetting that the Trump administration is re-escalating the War in Afghanistan. According to military.com

"Mattis is expected to back the long-standing request of Army Gen. John Nicholson, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for at least 3,000 more troops to battle the Islamic State and a resurgent Taliban."

John MCCain, the old warhead himself is incensed that that the administration doesn't actually have a strategy:

""We are now six months into this administration; we still haven't got a strategy for Afghanistan," he said. "It makes it hard for us to support you when we don't have a strategy. We know what the strategy was for the last eight years -- don't lose. That hasn't worked."

This as the US is drifting into a confrontation with Russia over Syrian. And there are still rumors about a possible war with Iran. Trump and the GOP have no strategy or plan, other than to keep waging war for its own sake.

How Trump Will Destroy America

Yesterday we were treated to the grotesque spectacle of a Trump cabinet meeting where cabinet officials were blowing smoke up Trump's ass. The scene resembled the worst moments of Trump's defunct tv show. But the real damage is taking place behind the scene.

* Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act, which will lead to a new financial crash

* Trump also want to emasculate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which make the lead to the financial ruin of the middle class

* Trump's plan to cut taxes and wage war will lead to runaway deficits and undermine the value of the dollar,

People just don't realize how shaky America's position is. Trump will destroy everything good about America.

Another Nail in the Coffin?

Trump was supposed to revive his grand infrastructure program this week, but all he could come up with was scheme to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. There are many problems with privatizing government services. Many states have privatized their voting systems and that has allowed the Russians to interfere in last year's elections. A document leaked to The Intercept describes an NSA document that

Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.

The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.

The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document:


Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.

The point here is that the Russians have clearly violated the integrity of the American political system. So much for Trump being the defender of American sovereignty.

The alleged leaker, Reality Winner, has been arrested. According to the Huffington Post she is 25 years old and a federal contractor.