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Someone posted today that they thought all the brouhaha over Trump’s ‘shit hole countries’ comments was a deliberate diversion from the  fact that  an indictment, a big old 11 count  indictment, had been issued in the Uranium One case.  Well, I had to admit, I hadn’t even heard  about the  indictment yet, so I thought  maybe he had a point.  So, I looked it up and sure enough, it’s true.  Although the indictment doesn’t actually name Clinton, it’s a beginning.  And, as much as I hate having to side with Nazi-elf Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who would absolutely love to see a pot smoker like me behind bars, as long as he’s going after Hillary, I’m happy.  It will distract him from his ridiculous fight against the good  herb, and it  will distract her from doing anything more to proactively destroy the Democratic party, so  it’s a win-win.

Now, one of those ‘shit hole countries’ Trump was talking about was Haiti, and the Clintons are involved there, too (see Eberwein, Klaus, murder thereof).  Bill fired back today at charges that Clinton Foundation funds paid for Chelsea’s wedding (which doesn’t really matter – the point is they never made it to Haiti), but it seems Bill is parsing his words again.  Wikileaks was ready  instantly with their rebuttal to his rebuttal, saying they never said ‘funds,’ they said ‘resources.’  So, they are savvy enough  at this money laundering game that actual cash doesn’t need to change hands.  Depends on what the meaning of  is is.

I’m just hoping both sides go  down in flames, and we can get a few progressives elected in  the next couple of rounds.

We are all one species, and every race can interbreed with every other race and, at some point in history, probably has, except for maybe a few remote jungle tribes, and they will soon.  So, racism is stupid.

We all live on one planet, we aren’t even close to being able to move to  another – even if we colonize Mars in the next couple  of decades, which I’m all in favor of, it will  be more like the colony of scientists in Antarctica, than the discovery of the Americas was to Europe.  If we destroy our planet, almost  everyone in the human race will  die.  Probably everyone.  So, not wanting to protect the planet is stupid.  It’s as stupid as driving faster when there’s ice on the road.

Wars kill people, and everybody in the world knows that.  So, supporting war as an instrument of public policy is stupid.

And yet, we have  so many people  who are racist, anti-green, and militaristic.  It’s not just a legitimate difference of opinion. There are differences of  opinion about  exactly what racism is, about the best way to clean up the environment, and how can we  wean the world from war without  leaving anybody at the mercy of the last warlike people, but there  really shouldn’t be any difference  of opinion about the  stupidity of these things.

But, there is.

This is the struggle for the future of the human race.  Stupidity vs. Intelligence.  And it sure as hell looks like  stupidity is winning.

Well, the short fingered, cheeseburger in bed eating, vert stable genius in chief sure put his foot in his mouth with his “we don’t want any immigrants from shit hole countries” comment.

I think the longest lasting effect of that, however, is that now they can say shit hole on television.  It’s not as bad, for instance, as mocking a disabled reporter, or the Mexican rapists comment, or the ‘grab ’em by the pussy’ tape, any one of which would have ended a politicians career in a more civilized era.  But, we are not in a civilized era.

It’s not as if he’s going to lose followers over it.  His followers eat that shit right up.  It’s not as if they’re going to be able to impeach him over it.  It’s not technically illegal to say stupid, racist stuff and, besides, they don’t have the votes.

There is plenty of justification  for impeachment, of course.  They had enough to impeach over after the first weekend at Mar a Lago.  Using the office for personal enrichment is textbook corruption.  If the Democrats had had any balls (or were anything other than the Republican foils a lot of us think they are), the movement to impeach would have started right then.

So, just add this to the extremely long list of extremely stupid things this extremely stupid man has said, and wait until tomorrow.

Amid the ongoing horrors of our modern world (such  as a teacher getting arrested for speaking up at a public meeting with a very reasonable question), there have been a couple of positive news items in the last couple of days.

Dianne Feinstein, who I consider to be one of the most corrupt, arrogant, and obnoxious people in the U.S. Senate, released a dossier on Trump.  My questions are “How is it that specifically DiFi had this info” and “Why wasn’t it released until now.”  Also, it’s basically meaningless.  They had enough to impeach after the first weekend at Mar a Lago.  The reason they haven’t is because almost everybody in congress, both parites, is a shitweasel.  Still, the more info that comes out, the better.

Then, the news that North Korea is going to send a team to the Winter Olympics in South Korea.  That is great news.  The down side is that some may see this as an upside to ‘Trump Diplomacy.’  Threaten people with nuclear war, and cooler heads will prevail.  It’s backwards logic.  You thank the cooler heads, not the one making the threats.  So, weird as it seems to say it, ‘Good job, Kim Jong Un!’

Then, Darryl Issa has announce he’s bot running for re-election, and I’m not even getting into the reasons why.  Just glad we’re done with that piece of shit.

I’ve got a touch of it.  Just a touch.  No fever, no vomiting.  Not so bad that I canceled my class today, although I probably should have.  I passed on attending an event at my kids’ school, tonight, in order to get a couple hours extra sleep and be ready to teach tomorrow.  Again, I probably should cancel, but A. I don’t want to get into the habit, that can be a slippery slope.  It’s much easier not to work than to work, and B.  It’s their first lesson of the new year, it’s actually their first lesson since about mid-October.

But, we’ll see how I feel in the morning.