Musing For Today
It amuses me to hear about President Trump stating that "the stock market will crash for sure" if he's ever impeached.
That one surely deserves a place in the annals of "most self-aggrandizing statements ever made".
This guy can't seriously believe he's really the "end all". That the U.S. is going to "shut down" if HE gets shut down.
Like any president prior and in the future he, too, will have to "pass the baton" to whoever his successor is, whether it be after this term or, if he gets reelected, the next one. He shouldn't be coming off as some kind of panacea. He's not. In fact his successes in life have all been as a professional robber-baron. Hardly anything to boast about.
I remember I was 9-years-old and naïve when Kennedy was assassinated, and I was feeling panicky---like "What's going to happen (to this country) now? How are we going to continue on, now that the President is dead?"
...but when Johnson got sworn in, I was "Oh, is that how it's done? The country already has a back-up plan 'just in case'?"
One of my earliest lessons in Civics, for sure.
It amuses me to hear about President Trump stating that "the stock market will crash for sure" if he's ever impeached.
That one surely deserves a place in the annals of "most self-aggrandizing statements ever made".
This guy can't seriously believe he's really the "end all". That the U.S. is going to "shut down" if HE gets shut down.
Like any president prior and in the future he, too, will have to "pass the baton" to whoever his successor is, whether it be after this term or, if he gets reelected, the next one. He shouldn't be coming off as some kind of panacea. He's not. In fact his successes in life have all been as a professional robber-baron. Hardly anything to boast about.
I remember I was 9-years-old and naïve when Kennedy was assassinated, and I was feeling panicky---like "What's going to happen (to this country) now? How are we going to continue on, now that the President is dead?"
...but when Johnson got sworn in, I was "Oh, is that how it's done? The country already has a back-up plan 'just in case'?"
One of my earliest lessons in Civics, for sure.
The problem this time is Pence is waiting in the wings. From kleptocracy to theocracy.
ReplyDeleteSo, this could end up being an exchange of one form of collective fascism for another
Delete...sort of a perverse version of "musical chairs"