We really don’t have a newspaper in Oklahoma City other than the sports section of the Daily Oklahoman which has some decent stuff pertaining to the Thunder and the Sooners. The rest of the paper is worthless. Letters to the editor which aren’t worth reading and no real intellectual curiosity in the Op-Ed page. So this is what you get when you don’t have an informed or educated readership. That being a not so bright state which languishes near dead last in education.
Here we are several days before XMas with a shut down government, no Secretary of Defense, no real Attorney General, and an interim Chief of Staff by the name of Mick Mulvaney who already has the look of a guy planning his exit. Of course the states with the greatest plurality of Trump voters are in Oklahoma, Mississippi, and West Virginia. And of course these three states all rank near the bottom in education. You think there’s any possible correlation to this at all?
Quick, who’s the current Secretary of State? Hint—he didn’t get fired or quit this week. It would be the unfortunate soul named Mike Pompeo.
See what I mean?
Now the last guardrail of defense to protect the Constitution from Caligula’s worst instincts in General Mattis will soon be gone. I wonder if the GOP senators will at all take the current state of affairs as a sign of things not quite in place as they should be. I wonder if Lindsey Graham will be golfing his balls with those of Caligula today after the pullout in Syria. It was all Deep State by General Mattis. Fake news. This is on him, Hillary, and Obama.
Maybe Caligula on his own will order the bombing of a vacant airfield in Syria.
Does Mitch McConnell even care? He got his tax break for America’s wealthiest and two Supreme Court Justices. Mitch McConnell could care less, he got what he wanted for those who own him lock, stock, and barrel.
So are we lower now than we were with Richard Nixon in the days leading up to his resignation?
I would say yes because this president will not resign. He’ll drag this country through the mud and slime no matter hell or high water. It is the Roy Cohn in him. It is his DNA. My guess is if you took a poll in Oklahoma this morning Trump would still be trending at 70% approval rating numbers. You see, when you have no public means of intelligent discourse or debate this is what you get… a dumb Republic and one spiraling even dumber by the day. I have no idea how Kendra Horn somehow won in Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District.
It seems like a lifetime ago in which we were only concerned with Sean Spicer fibbing at White House briefings. It seemed quaint, almost innocent, and funny.
Think of that and how far the train has fallen off since.
How far will the train have fallen by this time next year?
We’re past the part in Watergate where Howard Baker goes and has a talk with Nixon, because there is no Howard Baker in sight. John McCain might have been, but he’s no longer amongst us. There is no Howard Baker. Lindsey Graham isn’t Howard Baker as he tingles being thought to be relevant and golfing his balls next to those of Caligula’s.
History can teach if you take great care in studying it and learning from it.
Remember when it was funny watching Sean Spicer lying for Caligula at the press briefings. It seemed so innocent. So harmless. But when you have no veracity whatsoever attached to your government it becomes anything but funny in the end.
Are we close to the end?
I don’t think so.
There will be some very dark days ahead which will make Nixon look like an angel.
This is why you must have a smart press and a free press and why in places like Oklahoma it doesn’t change. Why stupidity lingers. Because if you have no starting point for an intelligent discussion you in essence have nothing.
You do have history though, only sometimes the ending isn’t what you’d hoped it would be.