Day 214: The Impossibility of Reason

💢💢💢It is now 214 days into the Trump - Epstein Coverup💢💢💢

Isn't that a great screenshot? That is a capture of the weather app on my tablet. It shows that sunset is now twenty minutes removed from 8PM EDT.  This is wonderful to behold because it is a pivotal indicator for the eventual demise of summer, the worst season of all. With the Tyrant Sun being forced into an ever earlier retreat by the remorseless hero of our story, orbital mechanics, the Earth will quickly begin to cool and darken, leading to the greatest season of all, Autumn. 

We are almost there, friends! Civilized interior living is about to make its return!

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As I sit here on this blandly warm and sunny day, my mind floats from topic to topic. Being the Dog Days of Summer, a term derived from how summer days stink like a wet canine when compared to Autumn (but don't Google that), political news is starting to dry up as everyone enjoys one last sweaty hurrah.  Sure, there is always something goofy that this clown car of an administration is doing, but even clowns need a summer vacation, after all.

The one story that did catch my eye was how Comrade Trump dispatched the KGB...er, FBI to the home and offices of John Bolton, famed former national security advisor for Trump during his first disastrous term. Like many competent former employees of the First Felon, Bolton was fired/quit over his refusal to participate in what Bolton would later refer to as "Trump's drug deal", which is to say, Trump cutting off Ukraine's supply of weapons until Zelensky agreed to dig up dirt on Joe Biden to influence the outcome of the forthcoming 2020 election. 

There are two justifiable reactions to this news:

First, Bolton is getting what he deserves. This emotion stems from the fact that Bolton refused to participate in the hearings for Trump's historic SECOND IMPEACHMENT, triggered by the January 6th insurrection that Trump formulated. Bolton's original excuse was that he found the impeachment to be too political, which is a remarkable observation when commenting about a process that is entirely political in nature (I mean, we are talking about the president versus Congress here). It was a profoundly stupid thing to say that only served to highlight how Bolton, like every other senior Republican during those shocking days, was a man who continued to put party above country. Later, Bolton would claim that he was willing to testify against Trump, but no one subpoenaed him, so he kept quiet. Again, nonsensical in its transparent party over country cowardly cover story. Now, here we are, in the second Trump term, one that could have been prevented if cowards like Bolton had worked to end any possible political future for Trump via the impeachment process, and Bolton is being targeted for retribution nonetheless. Who saw that coming? Clearly, not Bolton. The rest of us did, of course. But not the blind partisans of the GOP. 

The second reaction, one equally as valid, is that this is yet another step on the slippery slope to authoritarianism. Bolton is being targeted not just for his unwillingness to participate in Trump's criminal behavior during the first term, but also because, despite being a political coward when it counted during the impeachment process, Bolton has played the tough guy Trump critic in the years since the first Trump term ended.  You know, when it was safe to do so.  

Authoritarian narcissists cannot abide many things, but at the top of the list are things that prick their fragile egos, be it by sins of commission or omission on the part of their minions. Bolton, as a cutting critic of Trump's foreign policy incompetence - as recently seen in Alaska, to name just one example of many - must now be publicly humiliated to assuage the ego of the Dear Leader. Hence, this FBI raid. Who's next? And you can be sure someone else is next, as authoritarian narcissists never slake their thirst for blood, especially when Johnny-come-lately cowards like Bolton make it so darn easy.

I wonder how long before they get around to small fry like me and this blog? 

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This just in: 

Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief

The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a senior defense official and a senator said on Friday, weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report that contradicted President Trump’s contention that Iran’s nuclear sites had been “obliterated” in U.S. military strikes.

See the above discussion concerning Bolton and the authoritarian narcissist's inability to take criticism. As I wrote when Comrade Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because it published a report contradicting regime propaganda, none of this is going to end well for the nation. Occasional lies become frequent lies, and frequent lies become state policy. As Václav Havel, the Czech writer, dissident, and future president, once wrote, "Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics... It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing."

When such a thing comes to pass, the flickering flame of enlightenment is snuffed out by what Oliver Stone termed "the impossibility of reason." At that point, an entire nation will find itself living in a madhouse governed by the straightjacketed inmates. 

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