Gun Wrongs

In his address to the NRA (National Rat's Ass) today Presidente Trump said that the eight years of violating our “Second Amendment rights are over.” Does that mean we are now free to form militias again and to use them to rob Native Americans of their land as our founding fathers intended? Possibly, but if you are an oil company or someone with political influence you do not need a militia because Trump will be more than happy to use his power as President to help you steal the land you want for your pipe line! Just ask him; say it with money - preferably with untraceable financial contributions to something like his inauguration fund (see Huffington Post and CNBC).  Trump has a high regard for money and such a low regard for Native Americans that he even uses Pocahontas as a pejorative term for Elizabeth Warren. He finds Ms Warren particularly odious because she has a much higher IQ than he does, and no one should have a higher IQ than the Donald, particularly not a woman! He would, of course deny that anyone has a higher IQ than he does regardless of all evidence to the contrary.  Hell, he might even be delusional enough to believe it.

What's Under That Russian Dressing?

Baghdad Bob Spicer said that if Trump poured Russian Dressing over a salad the press would accuse Trump of having a "Russian connection.”  Spicer should by careful with his choice of words.  Any dressing is a cover by definition. Furthermore, Trump and his minister of disinformation, Sean Spicer are not pouring the dressing on a salad. Instead Trump and his minions are pouring Russian dressing on a pile of bull shit they are trying to sell to us as salad. The dressing is so sweet and benign don't you know.  If Trump and/or his campaign staff have nothing to hide about the Russia connection why is Trump not calling for an impartial investigation by a special prosecutor or select committee or both to clear his name. Why, instead, does Trump have his minister of disinformation trying to convince us that there is no need for any investigation let alone an impartial one, and why are Trump and Spicer silly enough to do this when Devin Nunes, the chairman of the committee that is supposed to be investigating this matter, is acting so suspiciously - like someone involved in a cover up. In law there is the concept of probable cause, and the public information already amassed about the connection between Trump, Trump's aids and Russia exceeds what is needed to establish probable cause; what we know at this point fairly well screams for an independent investigation.

The lies and dissembling by Trump and his administration regarding the Russian connection, Trump's business interests, his taxes, etc demand a close scrutiny. What is already clear is that Trump is untrammeled by any concept of ethics. A charitable explanation for that is that he simply cannot understand why we think he cannot serve two masters who are bound to have conflicting interests and goals! But Trump's unethical behavior begs a far less charitable question: Do we now have the most corrupt President ever? Only time and an impartial investigation will tell!