Nikolas Cruz: Just the Latest Misunderstood Bad Boy Rock Star

I want you to know that Nikolas knows about us and he had the biggest smile on his face when he was told that we all support him. Keep the letters coming because he can't wait to finally get them.

An unnamed teen aged girl's post on one of the Facebook sites dedicated to Nikolas Cruz, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter who murdered 17 students and teachers in a little over six minutes on Valentine's Day, 2018.

One of the reasons Nikolas Cruz hasn't received all those letters the anonymous young lady mentioned is because he is on suicide watch. Another is, as the Daily News reported, more than a few include photos of the senders barely clothed and in provocative positions.

Yes, it would seem some people simply can't resist the bad boys, especially if they are really bad. Not to mention, in Cruz's case, extremely deadly.

Of course it isn't like we haven't seen this grotesque fetish before. The quintessential crazy fuck, Charlie Manson maintained a huge following right up until his death in November of last year. Before Florida sat Ted Bundy down in the electric chair in 1989 he received stacks of correspondence from those enamored with him. After they murdered their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez both got life, then each of them married women who began writing and visiting them while they were in the joint. 

Obviously, there is no accounting for taste.

Nor apparently the human capacity for loneliness, self loathing, and demented obsession.

The Daily News, quoted Cruz's defense attorney, Howard Finkelstein as saying, "In my 40 years as a public defender I've never seen this many letters to a defendant. Everyone now and then gets a few, but nothing like this."

One of those contained this sentiment: "I'm 18 years old. I'm a senior in high school. When I saw your picture on the television, something attracted me to you. I'm really skinny and have 34C breasts." The note arrived in an envelope decorated with hand drawn hearts and happy faces.

Another, from a woman in Chicago, contained one photo of her cleavage, a second of her dressed in a bikini sucking on a Popsicle and, finally, a tight shot of her ass taken as she was bending over.

For the sake of full disclosure it should be noted not all the correspondence has come from women. There was set of photos sent by a middle aged man living in New York which showed him, bushy gray mustache and all, sitting behind the wheel of his car. The pictures arrived tucked inside a card which sported the image of a cute cat on the front.

In addition, at last look, Cruz's fans have sent him around $800 which has been deposited into his Broward County Jail commissary account. He can use the cash to buy personal hygiene items, plus coffee and different snacks.

A Facebook group, which has now gone private, counts 300 members. It is named, "Nikolas Cruz--The First Victim." Before it became secret one female member solicited photos from the group so she could put together a collage of the selfies. "I want him to see how many people love and care for him and all the beautiful faces, " she wrote.

One of the trending hashtags supporting Cruz is #stopthebullying. A major belief of these pathetic twists is, if someone had just made friends with Nikolas he would have never gone off his nut and opened fire.

According to Stoneman Douglas senior, Isabelle Robinson that notion is outright bullshit. She should know. When she was in the seventh grade Cruz nailed her in the back with an apple as she sat eating lunch in the school cafeteria. His motive for the attack was apparently something along the lines of, hey, she was sitting there.

A couple of years later she was assigned to the future killer as a peer mentor/mediator. She described her one meeting with him as a painful experience during which he cursed at her and lewdly ogled her breasts. In short, Nikolas Cruz was the bully.

On February 14th Isabelle Robinson found herself hiding in a closet as Cruz ran amok. The very thought school authorities once stuck her alone in a room with him both terrifies and enrages her.

Since the cops won't allow Cruz to see any of the photos and letters, save for a few pleading with him to find God, one has to wonder how that young internet admirer knew, "he had the biggest smile on his face," after learning about his supporters.

The Daily News had a hint. It reports Broward County deputies have overheard Cruz's brother Zachary telling him he has become, "quite popular with the girls," during visits. Presumably that was before young Zach was popped on March 20th for trespassing at, you guessed it, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

To say something is wrong with this picture is understating things a tad. Nikolas Cruz's life wasn't without recent emotional trauma, but let's face it, the fucker had been off the rails for years before he started shooting. He was not the sad, innocent, loner driven to madness by cruel classmates. He had been, by many accounts, mean, aggressive, and bat shit crazy long before the death of his adoptive mother.

Yet, despite all of his unacceptable and delinquent behavior, he was still able to buy a type of weapon which, as any reasonable person will tell you, should be restricted to the military. And now, in the wake of his rampage, some among us are imagining him to be just another misunderstood rock star because he chose to use the God damned thing.

Is it any wonder the bar has opened? I didn't think so.

3-30-18

Emma Gonzalez: A Gun Range Target Morphs Into The Constitution of the United States

You can say this for the rabid pro NRA and alt right crowds in this country. When they feel threatened by anyone, even teen aged girls, they go all in with crazed social media blitzes that make the Russians look positively civilized in comparison.

On Saturday tens of thousands took to the streets across the nation to protest gun violence and America's lax laws which allow it. One of the faces of the protest in Washington D.C. was Parkland, FL Stoneman Douglas High School senior Emma Gonzalez. She has a unique perspective on the subject because on Valentine's day last month 14 of her classmates and three of her teachers were gunned down by a former student who had been able to buy an AR-15 assault style rifle as easily as he could a movie ticket.

This weekend isn't the first time Ms. Gonzalez has appeared in front of news cameras letting people know she thinks congress and the NRA are willing to let children be murdered in order to preserve their version of, The American Way. She has also been quite adamant all those, "thoughts and prayers" which are offered to the victims by both groups after each and every school massacre just won't cut it any more.

The savage campaign against Emma Gonzalez and other Stoneman Douglas students began almost immediately. First there was Florida legislative aide, Benjamin Kelly who sent emails from his government account to a Tampa newspaper claiming she and some of the others weren't high school students at all, but paid crisis actors. Just before he was fired he said his only regret was he had contacted the wrong media outlet.

Then there was a republican candidate for the Maine state legislature, Leslie Gibson. His response to Gonzalez's message was a tweet in which he claimed he'd never succumb to the wishes of a, "skinhead lesbian." Gibson, who at the time was running unopposed for the Maine seat quickly drew a GOP challenger in the upcoming primary and dropped out.

Now we've come to this. Ms. Gonzalez did a photo shoot for, "Teen Vogue," during which she was shown tearing a gun range target in half. By the time some troll using the name, "Linda NRA Supporter," got through doctoring the pictures, then posting them on Twitter, the paper target had morphed into a copy of the Constitution of the United States.

Before, the "Linda," account was suspended by Twitter, the altered photos were retweeted 65,000 times by true believers, now utterly reassured this crazy looking kid was out to destroy America. One of those vile yokels was the actor Adam Baldwin. He also retweeted the post, but this time the message went to his 250,000 some odd followers along with the added hashtag, #vorwarts.

For those wondering about this obscure reference, vorwarts is German for the word, forward, and way back when, "Vorwarts! Vorwarts!" was the title of the Hitler Youth anthem. Hey, who knew the guy was such an expert on Nazi trivia?

When confronted with news the photos had been faked Baldwin promptly declared the deliberately misleading images and his accompanying hash tag were nothing more than, "political satire."

Right.

In another widely seen photo, Ms Gonzalez is wearing a jacket with a small Cuban flag sewn onto the arm. This is probably because her mother and father, a math tutor and--you have to love it--a cyber security attorney got out of Cuba in 1968 and she is, you know, of Cuban descent.

Not so, screamed another right wing troll who posted, "Emma Gonzalez wearing the flag of an authoritarian communist nation. Makes sense. They both hate an armed citizenry!"

Just to ensure all their bases were covered, Iowa GOP representative, Steve King's campaign took her to task on Facebook. No, not for being a commie plant, but that she failed to understand both her heritage and the brutal nature of the Cuban regime her parents escaped from.

High School students not understanding the gun debate, or for that matter, anything else, is a common theme among the right wing. They are howling constantly the pupils of Stoneman Douglas and all those others are being exploited, yes, manipulated, by the liberal media and their big money backers,  the "Hollywood Elites," and George, by God, Soros himself. To prove it, FOX News has put Gonzalez's fellow student, Kyle Kashuv on the air multiple times--in a strictly non exploitative way, of course. Saturday afternoon young Kashuv solemnly informed the viewing audience the vast majority of those thousands of kids we saw in the streets didn't understand what they were marching for.

In addition, our old pal Rick Santorum went on CNN and told the audience all those young people were doing nothing other than looking for, "someone else to solve the problem." Rather than seeking some weenie socialist style answer, he said, they should be doing something specific to help themselves when it comes to school violence, like taking CPR classes.

It was a statement so devoid of intelligence and common decency it moved Dr. Eugene Gu to tweet, "Marie Antoinette: Stupid peasants, let them eat cake. Rick Santorum: Stupid students, let them learn CPR."

You know your argument is in trouble, both intellectually and morally, when you have to stoop to this sort of God awful shit. However, doing just that has never made the right wing purveyors of blatant propaganda and lies, or their raving disciples pause, much less blink.

Indeed, despite what Kyle Kashuv told a FOX panel his fellow students knew exactly why they were protesting in the streets. Here is a hint: they don't want their brains blown out while walking from English Lit to the gym simply because some crazy fuck can get his hands on a weapon that should be limited to the military.

They also know if lawmakers don't do something about it mass school shootings are going to happen again, and again, and again. The pro NRA crowd knows it too. They just don't want to admit they own part of the responsibility for the ongoing horror, nor do they want to do anything to stop the body count from growing even higher than it already is.

Honestly, evil is too kind of a descriptor for them.



sic vita est



3-26-18

McMaster is Out, Bolton is In, and the Bookies Win Big in March

After prowling the streets of Santa Fe for a number of days and avoiding all news and disasters--other than my NCAA men's basketball brackets--it is time to get back to it.

So, where are we? Ah yes, the White House chief National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster has just been sacked. The reason is up to speculation, but the best guess is that over the past year the former General didn't tell Donald J. Trump exactly what he wanted to hear on a daily basis. Hey, if we've learned anything during this administration it is Trump will hire anyone. However, getting the job isn't nearly as hard as keeping it. Indeed, as soon as you start to act a little sane, or overwhelming evidence comes to light you're either an unapologetic wife beater, or have committed treasonous acts, he will have security show you the door.

The Big Orange Guy's pick to replace McMaster is John Robert Bolton. According to a tweet from former G.W. Bush chief White House ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, "John Bolton was by far the most dangerous man we had in the entire eight years of the Bush administration. Hiring him as the president's top national security advisor is an invitation to war, perhaps nuclear war."

As the Business Insider pointed out on line today, considering Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were also part of that happy band of brothers, claiming Bolton was the most dangerous of the bunch should give everyone reason for pause.

Bolton was the younger Bush's ambassador to the U.N. from August of 2005 until the end of December 2006. He was considered such an asshole a republican controlled Senate wouldn't confirm him, forcing, "W," to slide him through the back door with a recess appointment. Bolton resigned shortly before the legal time limit for the political maneuver ended only because it became obvious the same Senate, on the cusp of a takeover by democrats, still wouldn't confirm him.

Wikipedia notes he briefly considered presidential runs in 2012 and 2016, but decided against it both times. The site also provides us with another bit of truth. John Bolton, who is so casual with the concept of war isn't much for fighting one himself. During the Vietnam conflict, he joined the Maryland National Guard, thereby serving in the armed forces while making sure he never put himself at risk by getting stuck on some bleak and deadly hill in the central highlands.      

He is also a bit of a conspiracy theorist. The former ambassador once went on FOX news and claimed Hillary Clinton faked a concussion to avoid testifying before congress about the attack in Benghazi which cost the life of the American ambassador to Libya among others. Then, within a few short years, citing the formerly, "faked," head injury, he was publicly questioning her health during the 2016 campaign.

In December of that year, after Trump won, he told FOX viewers he had received word from the U.S. intelligence community they believed the accusations Russia had covertly intervened in the presidential election on Donald Trump's behalf was a false flag operation. Shortly afterward, presumably without blinking an eye, he blamed the Obama administration for not taking sufficient action against the Russians in response to their meddling in--that's right--the 2016 election.

Oh yeah, this guy is going to fit right in.

Or not. Brother Bolton has also been a wildly vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and Russia for all sorts of reasons. He's been so vociferous at times it seems he's advocating for a new cold war, up to and including fingers sitting squarely on the nuclear buttons. Obviously Johnny B. is going to have to tone that part of his act down since even casual observers realize Putin has some real shit on Donald Trump--and as long as he does the current President isn't going to say, or do anything to piss Vlad off.

Yes, if there is one piece of optimism available in this affair it's that Don Trump has already blown through two previous National Security Advisers. One lasted barely three weeks, the other 13 months. The odds of John Bolton hanging on long enough to cause any real catastrophe are fairly long, especially if he can't keep his mouth shut about the President's, good pal, Vladimir Putin.

That's the hope anyway, but, let's face it, I'm the one who picked Virginia to win the NCAA men's basketball championship. They went out in the first round to that great hoops power, the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Unfortunately for many like me the bookies scored big this March. With the appointment of John Bolton we can only hope they'll have time to spend their early spring windfall wisely, or at all.


sic vita est


3-24-18

The Games are Afoot

As these words are being typed the Rhode Island and Oklahoma men's basketball teams are locked in a first round death struggle. Today and tomorrow and to a slightly lesser extent Saturday and Sunday it will be wall to wall college hoops in what is the greatest tournament in all of the truly American sports.

A few years ago TV spots for the NBA playoffs featured Charles Barkley yammering, "Win, or go home." Someone should have sued the league for false advertising. You don't even have to follow the pro game to know during a NBA playoff series you can lose as many as three times without your season ending  Have an off night? That's okay, because unless it's a game seven, you can come back the day after tomorrow and redeem yourself. In the NCAA championship tournament, fuck up just one time and you are gone.

Right now employers across the land are looking at half empty offices as workers cash in on accrued personal time off and crowd into local sports bars. Everyone from Barack H. Obama to the neighborhood meth addict have filled out brackets. Persons who haven't watched a game all year are suddenly experts and vast sums of money have been put at risk.

Personally I have Duke, Villanova, North Carolina, and Virginia in the final four. This despite the fact it is well known the Dukies and their coach Mike Krzyzewski have a long and sordid history of destroying my brackets. When I bet them to flame out they invariably go long. When I have depended on them to make a deep run they end up tanking first round games against people like Lehigh and Mercer. My God, I didn't even know what state Mercer was in when that particular disaster hit. (For those wondering the campus is located in Macon, GA)

This morning I have Rhode Island advancing to the next round against Krzyzewski's outfit. I know that means I bet against my alma mater Oklahoma. Trust me, when it comes to dealing with bookies there isn't any room for fond memories of tossing a Frisbee on the South Oval, or old school loyalty. OU started the year hot, but since the middle of January has flat out sucked. The truth is it was a miracle--some say wrought by a FBI investigation into nasty allegations leveled against a few other teams--they are in at all.

Of course it also means I'm relying on Duke to take care of business against Iona later today and as mentioned earlier, that's never a done deal--no matter what over matched band of miscreants the Blue Devils are up against.

Yes, screw Don Trump, the Russians, the NRA, and the rest of the vile monsters who make the current state of national and world affairs such a nightmare. It is time to kick back and dwell on something utterly unimportant, yet totally entertaining, not to mention, if things break the right way, financially rewarding.

Next stop Santa Fe and dry martinis at the Thunderbird Bar and Grill over looking the Plaza.

And this news: despite a valiant, heart stopping, effort in regulation Oklahoma went down in OT 83-78. Hey, so far, so good.

Indeed. To paraphrase Holmes, the games are afoot.


sic vita est



3-15-18

Remaining Stuck For Another Week With a Bizarre and Brutal Reality--Then Escaping With the Thursday Tip Off and, at the Advice of the Eminent Doctor, a Road Trip

Let's face it, things have spun out of control. The Russians have been running completely amok for a couple of years now. That's when it dawned on them Americans will believe anything if it's plastered all over social media. The proof is in the hysteria. Just take a look at the Obama birther hullabaloo and the 2012 Mayan end of time thing. You can almost hear Vlad Putin laughing his ass off as his people  spread unfounded rumors, libelous allegations, and outright science fiction over the internet, leading large portions of the U.S. electorate into unbridled chaos and frenzy.

Then there is Donald Trump. He can rile up the trailer park fascists with the best of them, but when it comes to actually running the country he has all the acumen of a meth addict deep in the throes of a paranoid psychotic break. Even worse, his contempt for the American style of democracy is such that a little over a week ago he had this to say to a bunch of supporters and donors, "President Xi Jinping (of China) is a great gentleman and now he's president for life. And look he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day." Rather than reacting in horror and revulsion the arch conservative audience went all orgasmic with glee and cheered him lustily.

Meanwhile 14 Florida school kids and three of their teachers were shot and killed by yet another lunatic who bought a semi automatic weapon as easily as he could a bunch of bananas. They apparently have died in vain despite the anguish and outcry from their friends and loved ones. After a private meeting with the NRA poohbahs El Donald has begun to back peddle on his own gun control proposals, proving once again, in American politics, bucks count for much more than common sense and high school campuses piled high with dead bodies.

Yes, given the circumstances, it is time to change the dial, so to speak.

Luckily two things are about to happen. First the NCAA men's basketball tournament tips off tomorrow and Wednesday with play-in games, then in earnest on Thursday. Since I never pay attention to the Tuesday-Wednesday action that gives me nearly 48 hours to study the brackets, make my picks, and get in touch with one, or more of the prominent book makers in the local market.

The field seems muddled this year and while there are a couple of teams who look to be final four material, no one stands out as completely dominant. All sorts of so called experts are on the net and airwaves talking historic trends, past tournament runs and traditional flame outs. They are a bunch of fools and shills and have approximately the same success rate as my wife. She has far better things to do than analyze this shit, so makes her picks based entirely on the likeability of team mascots and colors.

Well everyone has a system. Who is to say hers is any less valid than, say, some guy who thinks he's a wagering genius because he put money on Alabama in this year's college football playoffs.

Beyond the tournament and following the advice of that eminent physician, Dr. Evans, we'll escape from the southern plains this weekend in order to make a road trip to Santa Fe and--weather permitting--certain retail outlets in southern Colorado specializing in pesticide free botanicals.

Indeed, get away from the news and social media. Make sure the only thing on TV is college basketball, while swilling massive amounts of Tequila accompanied by crates of lime and barrels of salt. Find a mountain, climb the fucker, then bask in the moonlight as a layer of snow glows blue-white all around. That's right, go Ice Age Primal--get back to Nature, by God. 

That's the plan anyway. And yes, the weekend cannot get here fast enough.

Until then we will remain stuck with a bizarre and brutal reality that is everything other than what it should be.

And just think, that's without any help from the foul quacks who manage the MK-Ultra project.  


sic vita est



3-12-18

The Main Problem With The Process

The White House has tremendous energy, it has tremendous spirit. It is a great place to be working. Many, many people want every single job. Believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House. They all want a piece of that Oval Office, they all want a piece of the west wing. So many people want to come in. I have a choice of anybody. 

Donald John Trump speaking about staff jobs at the White House during his first term as President



Yes, The Big Orange Guy has his choice of anybody, yet he has picked some of the most grotesquely incompetent and venal monsters imaginable. The record cannot be more perfectly clear on the issue.

That leads us  to the current media hot topic. Thanks to Gary Cohn folding his tent and pulling out of the chaos known as the Trump White House, it is the extreme turnover rate in the administration. It would seem many are called, but most who serve prove to be corrupt two bit cranks while the rest flee after realizing just how bat shit crazy their new boss is.

The main problem with The Process seems to be the screening and hiring protocols, which currently have all the professional integrity of back alley crap games run by bored pimps and the occasional loan shark looking for an easy mark.

Let's face it, someone really should have figured out beforehand, Rob Porter and David Sorenson liked to spend their spare time savagely abusing their wives. Or that, Hope Hicks was not only fucking Porter, but may have been doing the same with Corey Lewandowski. And, Mike Flynn was so deep in the pockets of Russia and Turkey he needed to unfold himself every morning before showering.

It does behoove us to note Preet Bharara, Sally Yates, and James Comey all worked for The Justice Department and were fired because they didn't--let's say--fit in with Mr. Trump's concepts of duty and loyalty. Hey, by now everyone should know respect for the separation of powers is a drag on the current job market at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and fealty to The Leader is prized above all.  

Beyond them we move on to profane rubes like Anthony Scaramucci. He was such an obnoxious bugger he apparently got his ass shanked by the publicly humble and soft spoken Ivanka.

Steve Bannon hung on longer than, "The Mooch," but in the end was so unhinged he left the stifling halls of power for a more fulfilling career as a freelance ultra right wing kingmaker. That was his excuse anyway and by God he's stuck with it, despite multiple reports he'd royally pissed off just about everyone he was working with, including the entire Trump family. Bannon's first post White House project was to back Roy Moore in Alabama's GOP Senate primary. His man won against the Trump endorsed candidate Luther Strange, then lost the general election mainly because it turned out the former chief justice of the state's supreme court was an extraordinarily dirty old man.

Sebastian Gorka quit because he came to believe members of the administration were undermining Trump's Make America Great Again initiatives. In other words, the Trump inner circle turned out to be far too leftist for Brother Gorka.

The list goes on and on. It includes the hapless buffoon, Sean Spicer and former and now once again reality TV star, Omarosa Manigualt. She was so weird reports are she had to be forcibly removed from the White House by security. There was also, Tom Price, the Secretary of Health and Human Services who never saw a private, or military aircraft he wouldn't charter at tax payer expense.

Others who have hit the road are once Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. He formerly ran the RNC, but when it came to commanding Donald Trump's White House didn't have a clue. In addition there is, Katie Walsh, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Walter Shaub, Director of the Office of Government Ethics, Michael Dubke, Communications Director, Andrew McCabe, FBI Deputy Director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Director of the CDC, and finally. the aforementioned, Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council.

Reports maintain Cohn resigned because he couldn't talk Trump out of leveling heavy tariffs on aluminum and steel imports. According to sources, it was a decision arrived at during a fit of presidential anger over just about everything other than--you guessed it--aluminum and steel imports.

How can anyone believe, Donald Trump is capable of running this country in a coherent fashion? His staff selections have consisted of a bunch of self serving egomaniacs, borderline traitors, feral neo-nazis, and, to borrow a phrase, "I assume a few good people."

It is so bad, our only glimmer of hope at the moment is, that for a variety of reasons, none of these vile fucks last very long.

God save The United States of America.

And yes, if you were wondering, the bar is open.


3-7-18

Donald Trump One Day and Then the Next

I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf.

Candidate Donald J. Trump in August 2016, comparing his work ethic with that of then President Barack Obama

Right.

This morning CNN reported The Big Orange Guy, a little over 13 months after he took office, has spent 100 days of his presidency at private golf clubs which he owns. That's nearly 25% of his current term.

Well, what should we have expected? After all, if we know anything about the current resident of the White House it is he will say something one day then do the opposite the very next without blinking an eye.

Not only that, he will ignore any and all proof of obvious lies and inconsistencies as long as he can. If he is finally cornered on any one subject he'll instantly move on to another by igniting a whole new media storm--and those poor fools at CNN, MSNBC, and others never fail to take the bait--leaving behind the previous craziness like so much flotsam in his wake               

Here is how it plays out. A little while ago he seemed all in on a bi-partisan immigration bill. Senators Dick Durbin, D-IL and Lindsey Graham, R-SC were so excited they rushed into a meeting with Mr. Trump to pitch their proposal for one. Their sit down with the chief executive was a mere 48 hours after Trump's overture to compromise. 

Silly them.

Once in the meeting the Senators ran into a buzz saw during which Trump went off and demanded to know why the United States should be expected to accept immigrants from, "shithole," (or shithouse, depending on your source) countries like Haiti and Africa. The fact Africa is a continent and not a country didn't seem to phase him. Durbin and Graham exited shocked and angry and the issue of immigration is still on the back burner of the stove known as Washington D.C.

The episode left a dismayed Graham wondering aloud about the identity of the guy he met with that day because, according to the Senator, it certainly wasn't the Don Trump he knew as a friend and yes,  played golf with.

Which leads us to the elephant in the room known as gun control. The other day Donald Trump rocked the conservative world by coming down on unrestricted gun sales harder than Obama ever did. He accused Senator John Cornyn, R-TX of being scared of the National Rifle Association. In addition he told another lawmaker her idea of linking Cornyn's weak tea bill with hers, which would essentially lessen a large part of what's left of gun control in this country, was untenable.

The President's anti gun rhetoric became so surreal he went on to propose taking away firearms owned by people suspected of mental illness until it can be determined by a court if they are stable enough to possess them.

That stunning moment led West Virginia's democratic Senator, Joe Manchin to philosophize that, much like the old adage, only Nixon could go to China, only Trump can take away the guns of crazy people without due process.

Ah, but the get together once again proved to be just one day in the life. The next morning El Donald was sitting down with NRA Executive Director, Wayne LaPierre. Afterward the President tweeted, they had a, "...good (Great) meeting..." LaPierre was also tweeting. His read, both the President and Vice-President, Mike Pence, "...don't want gun control."

Only minutes after LaPierre's tweet the United States Senate, knowing Brother Trump all too well, postponed any legislation concerning gun control until a later, unspecified, date. In other words despite the nationwide outrage, the collective horror, and all logic, congress is once again happily prepared to do nothing in the aftermath of yet another massacre of American school kids.

And why? Because, by now, they understand this President is certifiably amoral and once he stops cynically pandering to the American vox populi he'll drop his out of character pretense of giving a shit about the lives of American school children. When it happens just picture the massive sighs of relief on capitol hill--the members of both houses won't have to worry about a bunch of NRA financed wankers trying to unseat them.

Hey, it is what both he and they do.

Meanwhile, on Friday, Central Michigan University student, James Eric Davis Jr. killed his parents in his dorm room. The night before he'd been hospitalized by local police for acting erratically on campus and, "not making much sense." Reports are he used his father's gun, taken from the family car as the murder weapon.

Needless to say, the bar has opened once again.

sic vita est

3-3-18