Marjorie Taylor Greene. Can we please put a moratorium on giving her a speedy rise to fame, or more precisely, infamy. I get it that she is batshit crazy, but honestly how much of that is her and how much is theater.

She seems quite delighted in all the attention in a way that is truly Trumpian. The reports that she has endorsed the untimely demise of Pelosi and her reported disclosures of fellow congressmen’s locations during the insurrection indicates she is possessed of a singular goal: her own advancement at the expense of democracy. And we are back to Trumpism.

Shape shifters were supposed to be mythical but many Republicans display evidence that they are real and they are among us. To call Greene loathesome just doesn’t do her proper justice. She is all that and so much more.

So let’s get over her by removing her from office as is the process in Congress. Seems as though we have more pressing matters at the moment but politicians in general never miss an opportunity to claim the limelight. Shape shifting.

Anthony Scaramucci when called to task for being “radicalized” vehemently denied the implication, insisting instead that he was mistaken in his assessment of DJT and came to realize fully two years ago that he must do everything in his control to prevent a second coming. By dodging to protect his image and macho, he refused to answer the question of how he was able to divest himself of DJT. Instead he deflected and made the claim that such a line of questions was more about self righteousness than trying to bring that large percentage of the population back to reason.

Right. Shape shifting. There can be no healing until those who are in office disconnect from the guy who lost and who should remain isolated rather than deified. Free your mind and your ass will follow.

An RV bomb went off in downtown Nashville. It happened on Christmas Day. It happened while parked in front of an ATT building. It happened early hours of the morning. What could it mean. What was the bomber trying to say.

One thing cable news has going for it is that there is no lack of hours to speculate. There is an endless wave of law enforcement experts, human psychology experts, terrorism experts being trotted out to offer various explanations. Problem is, there is no explanation from a dead guy. Whatever he wanted to tell us died with him in that RV.

So as long as we’re all speculating with no real facts or evidence, I have a theory.

We may discover that he suffered from depression exacerbated by the isolation of pandemic distancing. He may have become unemployed with no realistic path to return to work again given his age. He may have lived alone, either by choice or unfortunate circumstance. He had a house, so he wasn’t living in his RV.

During the holidays, those of us suffering depression are at greater risk of suicidal thoughts or action.

The audio warning of an impending explosion indicates that he did not want others harmed. But, he wanted to go out with great aplomb and in a fashion which would guarantee his demise. No maiming or chance for revival.

He possibly sedated himself after initiating the audio and the countdown and simply laid down. Maybe. Suicide is painful. And in this case, it was no cry for help but a final, lasting impression of a life mired in futility.

To give aid and comfort to the enemy. Have we forgotten what that means? Are we so blinded that we cannot see the truth of it: that DJT has given aid to our enemies.

He is telling us how he did it. These voting machines were manipulated in the 2016 election to favor our current leader. The only thing preventing that same manipulation happening in this election was a pandemic that prevented a majority of the population from voting in person. This is why he so vehemently wants the mail in ballots delegitimized. This is why he cries foul because he projects his deviance.

I had predicted that he would sign the COVID relief bill, wanting to be the savior. But I now see that his perversion is beyond compassion. He will hold the American people hostage demanding a way to preserve his hold on the presidency. On January 6 we will see the apex. (Of course we now know that he did sign the bill with some heavy caveats and demands).

Anything and everything that happens between now and inauguration is about positioning both the party and foreign influencers to gain maximum leverage for DJT to maintain his hold on power. The massive rally/ super spreader planned for the 6th in DC will turn decidedly ugly and violent if things go Biden’s way. Those standing by are no doubt finalizing the action plan. Any pretense of democracy will be torn asunder in favor of a more imperfect union. Like the nuclear winter, none of us has yet seen it but it should scare the hell out of you.

And so it did turn ugly. Those in attendance are being sought by law enforcement. Luckily Trump supporters do not wear masks, making them easily identifiable. Thank you.

Pence and Trump are no longer communicating. While there was never friendship, there was a mutually accepted relationship of convenience. What is exceedingly disturbing is the abject isolation of Trump and the unknown of both his disposition and intent. We are right to be concerned.

There are two numbers of historic significance: 25 and 10. 25th Amendment. And 10 days to Biden. Be vigilant and wary of the bad beat. Good luck gamblers.

I mean no disrespect to the caregivers of those afflicted with Alzheimer’s.

We can draw comparisons to DJT. For example, he can’t remember meeting anyone. No matter who or when, it’s always, “I don’t know the person.”

He is regressing to childlike behavior. For example, he is egocentric to the point of disaffection to others as well as an inability to recognize human emotion. For all the bullshit about positive thinking, he always projects negativity.

His personality is supplanted by the illness. He is no longer DJT but a victim with all the traits of victimization. He feels sorry for himself, he lies to protect himself, he sees enemies in the drapery. And worst of all, he has been given power and he will use that power to soothe himself, to further himself, to enrich himself and to buy some friends. Not real friends, but the imaginary kind, the kind that would do anything for him, who would die for him even, totally devoted. The kind of friends you don’t invite to dinner but you ask favors.

And like Alzheimer’s, there is no cure.

Blend in some egomania, and we have the recipe for a perfectly despicable faux human. For those of us convinced there is a specimen hidden in Area 51, this could be the proof that they walk among us.

A classic movie full of dark images of lives destroyed by mental torment and illness. The story centers on a Vietnam veteran, DeNiro’s character, who is having difficulty reassimilating to life outside the military while dealing with a descent into mental illness probably exacerbated by PTSD.

He clings to a semblance of military discipline by rigorously exercising and toning his body. This, however, cannot ease his mind. He turns to pornography and frequents sex clubs. He is a soul lost but searching. Anger becomes his greatest motivator.

In the midst of his personal anguish another character emerges, a child prostitute, Foster’s role. He both wants her and wants to save her. Confusing, no?

So how is this relevant to current affairs.

We are a country consumed with anger, but more importantly, we are lost. Of the many ways humans can cope with anguish, anger can be a strong aphrodisiac. It can also cloud one’s mind to rational thought and perhaps lead one to search for solutions that allow blame to be focused outside oneself, so that the anger can be legitimized. It is also a way to remove personal responsibility rendering a person willing to listen and be guided by narratives that feed a need to regain control over the uncontrollable. So there can be no satisfactory outcome, only a desperate journey.

Throw in a healthy dose of sexual titillation and that’s a great movie. But it’s a crap way to live.

Cue the messiah. It’s not a religious metaphor. It’s more the 12 step AA approach of turning over one’s problems to a higher power. No need for guilt or taking responsibility. It’s a recipe for recovery that works. For addicts and drunks.

The nation is in need of a good slap to snap out of it. What a great and fertile environment for the entrepreneurs of the sex trade to flourish. Pimps are now savvy businessmen. We are simultaneously being pimped and punked and somehow that’s okay with a once fringe segment of the population. Not only is it okay, it’s being embraced like the last lifeline to make America great. Again.

“Are you talking to me?”

DJT doesn’t understand gambling. If he did, his casinos would not have bankrupted out of business. So confident in his ability for bullshit, what he figured he didn’t know he could just bluff his way through. You know, the way he ran the country.

Now he is betting on a few more things to go his way. But beware the steaming divots. For starters, he has been eerily quiet, publicly speaking. Like crocs swimming just below the muddy surface, there’s danger there. Speculation is floating about that he is planning a 2024 run. Or that he is planning starting a media outlet to rival Fox News. Or that he will continue to Tweet his way to political prominence.

This is all bullshit. The money being collected aggressively for his Election Defense Fund is a PT Barnum, sucker born every minute, scam to gather money for the DJT Legal Defense Fund. But really, it’s just a scam. He will take the money and run.

He will fade into the shadows of the Kremlin. He cannot remain here without facing a myriad of legal challenges which will find him in the unprecedented situation of being a former president faced with jail time. That’s incentive. We are already witnessing his going out of business bargain basement sale.

He is in a position to sell many baubles of valuable information. And we would be wise to consider that nothing is off the table. Moving is expensive after all. It remains to be seen how many sand traps are being dug for the new resident president, but it’s a really good bet the nuclear briefcase or “football” will be buried in one of them. Right next to the pee tapes.

Among his many failures, the one that may ultimately bite him in the ass, is the failure to address issues of voting irregularities. Recall after 2016 which saw Trump’s ascension amid his many claims of voter fraud during the campaign, how all was forgiven and forgotten once he gained ownership of the country and the Republicans. Four years is a long time to do nothing to improve voting systems throughout the country. What seems true is that what was accomplished for DJT by foreign intrusions into the voting process was deemed sufficient to carry the day four years into the future. As it turned out, a pandemic put a monkey into the wrench at what only a devoted gambler would recognize as a bad beat. Timing damn it.

So now we can see why DJT is so verklept about voting by mail in ballot. The opportunity for nefarious intrusion at the voting machine is negated. And the window of opportunity for casting a ballot was not only expanded but could happen much earlier providing far less opportunities for foreign influence peddling. Oh the humanity.

People who blindly follow a cult hero used to be called Mansonites. What they lacked in numbers they made up for in unspeakable violence. Why we humans are doomed to repeat our mistakes of the past cannot be easily explained but can be reduced to a simple equation: gullible equals danger.

It has come down to Marquis of Queensberry vs. street thug. If only Obama had recognized early on that old traditions of decency were no longer in play, we may have avoided this lemming mentality.

All bets are down. No more bets. Good luck.

Even though experts declare we cannot overdose on CO2 by wearing a face mask, I think we can see the error in that thinking playing out in real time. And he only wore the damn thing for a few minutes. If he didn’t have the bloated breast of a domesticated turkey, he could fly over the cuckoos nest.

Standing on the balcony like Juliet, the only thing missing was Romeo trying to breach the wall. DJT is bat shit cuckoo and that’s not meant to be amusing in the least. When he says don’t let the virus dominate you, what he means is he is so damn scared he peed and pooped himself. Then he screamed at his doctors to throw everything they have at him because even he realized that this was a bit more serious than a bone spur.

He’s been positive for a while. And we know this because his paper doctor can’t say for sure. This attitude of machismo chauvinism must be appealing to that Trump base of machismo chauvinists. The unmitigated gall of declaring the COVID no big deal, cause look at me all big and victorious. Lest we forget, he of the privileged class had access to designer drugs that are unavailable to anyone else. Good show.

Perhaps his prediction will come true. It will be like a miracle. It will just disappear.

We need Elliot right now. During the reign of mob rule, crime families, Murder, Inc. Elliot brought down Al Capone in the most mundane of ways…tax evasion. And it seems as though our favorite hustler, er President, may be facing the same fate. His believers will find DJT tantalizingly mischievous, but the prosecutors in New York will find him guilty of tax fraud and evasion. Oh what a tangled web.

This of course makes the rat trapped that much more dangerous. His ex lawyer and fixer has told us what DJT will do to delegitimize the election and we should take Cohen deadly serious. Even us average Americans can see that president for life is a better deal than life in prison.

The Republicans are betting on DJT. A problem gambler only wants to stay in action, win or lose. At some point losing will become a tragic misstep which must be mitigated by acquiring more funds. The goal is to keep the mule in play so the game continues. So any talk of Republicans acting with integrity or acting in the interests of the country or democracy are simply misguided.

And his devoted believers? Well they think that all the privileges DJT enjoys will somehow trickle down to them. They, like the Republicans in office, are totally invested in the illusion of the DJT supremacy. When the smoke clears, many will be sacrificed and none will be spared.

And if you like your revenge served cold, you should hope that somehow justice will prevail.

Stay strong. Plan your vote.

So now Bill Barr compares self isolation to slavery, the worst affront to individual liberty…same thing. Does anyone think Bill Barr is conscious in any sense of the word. My theory is that Bill is senile. I doubt that Barr and Trump will appear in the same room together. That elephant is just way too big.

What does a senile elephant do to entertain itself. Excessive mud baths? Extra peanuts? If an elephant never forgets, now what.

Talking. Lots of talking. Incessant jabbering about nothing. Except instead of ignoring them, many believers are hanging on every word. And when it makes absolutely no sense, they depend on Sean Hannity to explain it. It’s as if the elephants are speaking in tongues, that somehow the more bizarre the sound, the closer to divine it must be.

Tone deaf. Well they say hearing is the first thing to go. Parlor tricks, ouji boards, sleight of hand, snake oils…everything is in play. By the time we wake from this nightmare, it will be too late.

Plenty of time to sleep in the off season. The game is on. No excuses. There can be no bench warmers. If everybody plays, we all win.