Stranger than fiction and the Senate

Sometimes life is nuttier than any short story or TV comedy... and this week we find ourselves with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee conducting hearings on Joe Biden's state of mind, or something, while president. The feeble justification is that he might not have been "all there." 

The committee is co-chaired by 91-year-old Chuck Grassley, from the great state of Iowa. Far be it from me to be ageist, but that guy has at least one foot in the grave and seems to rarely be aware of where he is and what he is saying. So we have one old codger investigating another old codger and neither of them should be allowed anywhere near important decisions.

Another leader in some stage of dementia is Donald Trump, who today called for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election. This refusal to let things go and to accept reality is a symptom of dementia but no one... and I am including the New York Times and CBS... seems willing to simply state this plain fact: the Emperor wears no clothes.

While Iran was being bombed incessantly, Trump droned on about two new flagpoles he had installed on the White House grounds. There are live wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and he appears to not have any sort of understanding of either.

I suppose we just have to wait for the next two weeks to pass... Trump is fixated on two weeks as the time needed to work out "a deal." Again, the demented come to rely on simply repeating whatever information lies at top of their minds. 

Our expertise in everything from foreign intelligence to military leadership has been fired in the service of Elon Musk collecting data on everyone while high on various drugs. American just sighs and carries on. 

Demonstrations have basically dropped off in Los Angeles but Trump just sent 2,000 more National Guardsmen to... um, mill around? 

It's all madness, of course, and so beyond the pale that reputable media don't seem to have any way to handle such nonsense. 

And the so-called leaders of the Republican Party just carry on, scared spitless of the Trump crime family. 

Or, worses, maybe they are just fine with the chaos and the division and the wars and the injustices. 

Shame on them all. Shame on us all.

We are not going back as a nation, that seems clear. As to where we might be going? Anything but clear.