Brief comments on a week of insanity

I've stopped doing weekday posting, for the most part, and I don't think these comments warrant a weekend post, but this week has presented special temptations to throw aside work and rant.  Here are just a few comments on assorted nuttiness during one of the nuttiest weeks ever in the era of perpetual anaphylactic shock for those allergic to both nuts and legumes often incorrectly categorized as nuts.  Three cheers for pedantry!  Hurray!  Hurray!  Hurray!

1.  It looks very much like Trump told Cohen to commit perjury.  That's obstruction of justice, it's impeachable, and blah, blah, blah.  Do I, in Bayesian statistical terminology, update my assessment of the probability that Trump gets impeached or otherwise removed from office?  No.  It remains precisely zero.  Why?  The premise of my assessment is that Republican defenses of Trump are unrelated to facts.  My analogy remains.  The GOP has an electoral bomb strapped to it.  There's a dead-man trigger wired up to Trump, and if Trump goes down, the bomb goes off.  So, the GOP will defend him no matter what.  No matter what.  Nothing will ever get the party to turn on him.  Are we learning just how corrupt he is?  Yes, but it won't take him down because the Dems don't have 2/3 of the Senate.  It's as simple as that.

2.  Steve King.  Now?  This?  This is what does it?  OK.  Whatever.  That is all I have to say.

3.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Go away.  Republicans:  Stop obsessing over her.  Democrats:  Stop trying to defend her.  Nobody who seriously advocates a federal jobs guarantee without anything resembling a plan knows what she's doing.  If everyone did this, she'd go away and I wouldn't have to keep reading about her.

4.  Lindsey Graham.  Not compromised-- just a pathetic, wimpy, little tool who got bullied by Trump, and the Stepford treatment took hold.  Is he gay?  If I had to bet, I'd bet yes, but he has spent his career as a second fiddle and a lackey.  Now, he's Trump's.  Occam.  The Best A Man Can Get.  Yes, I still use that line, and no, I'm not getting into whatever people are writing about some stupid ad.  I don't care.

5.  Anti-semitism and feminism.  Yup, it's a thing.  Anti-semitism isn't just for the right!  Ah, the joys of identity politics...

6.  Oh, and um... State of the Union?  Um...

Is that a weekend post, or a...

I think I'm developing a nut allergy.  Damn.  Please!  Not the cashews!  I love cashews!

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