Author: Mike

I would say yes. He does seem unhinged and unable to discern reality from self perceived fantasy. He’s clearly a pathological liar. He’s a consummate self absorbed narcissist. Yeah, I would say Caligula is unhinged.

But here’s the thing, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan knew this way, way back when and basically shoveled it under the door because they wanted this dupe to sign laws beyond just getting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. Now they can’t use him because the motherfucker is somewhat crazy. And…it is somewhat hilarious because there appears to be the real possibility Trump is becoming an Independent Party POTUS right before our eyes as each day passes.

Crazy Unhinged Bull Moose Party prez, Mike Pence?

This is Mitch McConnell’s problem. He told everyone Caligula would come around and be able to do the job. All of this is right in his lap. All of it — because he never did the right thing.

So what do you do with an unqualified, unhinged president when the majority party doesn’t have the integrity to remove the unhinged party? I guess what you do is calibrate what kind of damage being honest could ultimately do to your own political existence and hide in the shadows as long as possible.

When you can’t govern and your future is in the hands of Bob Mueller, what else is there to do except have a road trip like the one in Animal House. And that’s exactly what we have here, an Animal House presidency.

As Bluto asks in the movie, “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

Details and facts—who needs them?

Trump does know one thing. He knows his base and he knows exactly what makes them tick. Again, I don’t pay any attention to these Trump approval rating polls. They meant nothing in the election and they mean nothing now because what we’re seeing is not only a revolution for the soul of the Republican Party, but a revolution campaign to win the Electoral College again in 2020 if Bob Mueller can’t put this guy away. The only poll I pay any attention to whatsoever is Trump’s approval rating amongst Republicans and it’s still in the 70% range. John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Nikki Haley have no chance whatsoever against Caligula in 2020. None. They’re not even viewed as Republicans by the people who see Trump as the savior of the GOP and the country.

More importantly, is there one single Democrat to date in the midst of all this national carnage who has even remotely galvanized his or her own party?

As we knew he would, he was nothing like the performer we saw the night before when discussing Afghan policy. He put on his Bluto garb and just flat out performed for the core in Phoenix. It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. They know when to chant. They know when gyrate. They know the show. They love him, but more importantly—they hate the status quo in American politics.

So was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No and it won’t be over until Bob Mueller has enough evidence to put this to a merciful end. But even then, revolutions aren’t easy things to put away sometimes.

They know Gorsuch was confirmed, right?

Tonight in Arizona could be the most interesting night of the Trump presidency to date. Except for looking up at the sun without his special glasses, he acted all grown up and had a bit of an Obama nuance about him. I found it a refreshing change. I’m sure his frothing nutjob base wasn’t as thrilled, but still it was a nice change to observe a lucid adult addressing the nation.

Tonight is the test. He usually goes nutty in these pep rallies he loves so much. Maybe the Generals got to him or have laced his Viagra with some other meds. Or maybe he just saw the light in his rogue ways. Maybe his inner voice just said, ” Be like Barack, buddy.”

Should this really be a surprise to anyone? Melania, clearly…the sharper pencil in the Trump family pencil jar did keep her glasses on and follow procedure. How she puts up with this dolt I have no idea. All in all, it was one of the better days for Caligula in his presidency. He didn’t go blind and he sounded exactly like Barack Obama when he said exactly what Kelly and McMaster told him to say in detailing the basic template of the Obama Afghanistan policy when his second term ended. Bannon is gone one day and Caligula becomes Obama. Maybe I misread him.

All said… a good day for our Little Caligula.

You know, maybe, with some time and work— the Generals can turn Caligula into half the man Barack Obama is. We can only hope.

Paul Krugman wrote a piece with this title in the N.Y. Times this week. Paul Krugman isn’t telling me anything I haven’t been writing for close to a year. Little Caligula is just such a fucked up human being at so many levels it boggles the mind how sixty million people thought this was the thing to do. Quite frankly, I thought Krugman was a little pedestrian in his comparison to be honest. Maybe this is a good time to revisit the Caligula history profile before Little Caligula goes rogue in Phoenix on Tuesday. It should be quite an event with the racial profiler Sheriff Joe seeking a pardon from Trump. Sheriff Joe should meld effortlessly with the running Nazi and KKK themes. And, of course, Arizona’s two senators, McCain and Flake, have been a thorn in Trump’s side when he’s not gouging himself with an ice pick in his own forehead. So no telling how much of vintage Caligula we see hurled towards the two Trump dissidents.

The Trump-Caligula comparison is much more in line than the absurd Trump-Teddy Roosevelt lineage which Mike Pence was trying to sell to Trump’s insipid base of dimwits, dimbulbs, and microwave conspiracy theorists.

Get with it, Trump zombies…a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Get with it. Come to the realization the presidency isn’t a reality show. It’s a very tough gig which requires smarts, maturity, boundless patience, and character.

And make no mistake about it, given the world we as Americans live in today any president would be engulfed daily with challenges faced every day. But it didn’t have to be this way. It really didn’t.

I’m not really sure what Corker’s comments mean. Trump will be in Arizona on Tuesday doing one of his pep rallies and it could be somewhat rogue with Jeff Flake being a centerpiece of the rally. Corker is someone to watch though. He’s not really an over the top type of politician and generally well respected. Is Bob Corker possibly the next Howard Baker? Did anything really change this week for the Republican Senate or is this just another Access Hollywood episode which fades by Labor Day? Corker said these things while Mike Pence was comparing Trump to Teddy Roosevelt. Interesting.

If you love history and politics you might enjoy this. It’s a little lengthy, but it gives great insights as to how the Solid South went and has stayed Republican since 1968. The five traditional southern states have never left the Civil War era, but in fact have morphed themselves into a significant power block with other regional fringe states to become a major player in American contemporary politics. So, I’m putting this on here so as to clarify what I mean when I use my term the New Confederacy.

While Pence was comparing the worst presidency to date in American presidential history to Teddy Roosevelt—his boss was sharing some bullshit cockamamie nonsense with his core people in West Virginia and other outliers of the New Confederacy. By the way…just so we all know, the Civil War has never ended in multiple outliers of the New Confederacy. Just so we’re clear, the New Confederacy came about when LBJ passed Kennedy’s civil rights legislation in the 60’s and from that point forward we have what some call the Solid South for the GOP. But in reality, it’s the New Confederacy. Oklahoma being a prime example as since the mid sixties, Oklahoma has been one of the reddest of the red states and in reality, Oklahoma doesn’t even have legitimate elections anymore. Off the top of my head, I believe LBJ was the last Dem to carry the state of Oklahoma in a presidential election.

But anyway, here’s Jake Tapper trying to explain Donald Trump’s delusional fascination with General Pershing.

Who are these people and what does it say about the other sixteen GOP candidates who couldn’t beat Donald Trump in the primaries?

You see, I’m not sure Bannon finally being fired by John Kelly is the lead storyline because I’m beginning to be of the thought Mike Pence is an even bigger joke than Donald Trump.

Can you imagine any literate fourth grader comparing the piece of dog shit named Donald Trump to one of our greatest presidents of all-time? This makes me ‘almost’ even more livid than everything else which has happened this week, and ordinarily it would, but keep in mind the other clueless dumbshit ahead of Mike Pence on the ticket went yard when he inferred, ” Some of these Nazis and KKK people are very fine human beings.”

Tom Friedman has it all wrong. This isn’t just the acceleration of Moore’s Law, but rather the implosion of the Peter Principle cascading down on the people of the United States in an unfathomable snowball of collective grotesque cultural nothingness.

The thought a sitting Vice-President of the United States would compare Donald Trump to Teddy Roosevelt is to me an even more impeachable offense than colluding with the Russians, laundering money in a Cypriot bank, or obstructing justice because it shows you we have a VP who couldn’t pass a basic U.S history exam.

Is Sarah Palin still available?

The notion that sixty million Americans would cast their votes for these two idiots is the storyline because here’s the thing–even if Trump is impeached or cuts a deal to walk away– there’s this other idiot waiting in the wings unless Mueller gets Pence as well for obstructing justice in the Michael Flynn debacle.

Speaking of Michael Flynn, consider here we are not even eight months into the most disgraceful presidency in the history of the United States and Flynn, Priebus, Spicer, and Bannon are all gone.

I would evoke the names of Grant, Harding, and Andrew Johnson as comparable disgraceful U.S. presidencies, but what really would be the point considering sixty million Americans have no concept whatsoever what was the conceptual vision of which previously made America the envy of the rest of the world.

Angela Merkel knows what made America great. The sixty million Americans who voted for Trump-Pence not a chance.

I guess Mike Pence never heard the phrase ‘Walk Softly Carry a Big Stick’.