Crossroads

Sometimes events become so twisted, so absurd that the oft-used phrase, CAN'T MAKE THIS UP, serves as balm in the Gilead that is driving you crazy.

Then again, maybe what's happening in plain view in our national discourse is not driving you nuts.

Maybe you're pleased that the President of the United States is a serial liar, as are his underlings, that if he says a color is red, it is likely blue, and that he is a pawn of former KGB agent who now runs the country that has never stopped being USA's greatest enemy.

Maybe you like blatant nepotism to the point of endangering reality itself. Jared Kushner is going to solve the crisis in the Middle East? Santa's also dropping by a bit later.

Maybe you're a big fan of cruelty for cruelty's sake.

Maybe you favor putting kids in cages because their parents made the fatal error of wanting to come to a country that at one time promised a better life for everyone.

Maybe you don't care that your grandchildren will not have water because of the greed of fracking.

Maybe you agree that climate change is a hoax.

Maybe you don't feel the need for comprehensive health care coverage. You and you alone will never get sick.

Maybe you endorse putting flacks on the highest courts, so that the President of the United States can attain whatever justice he desires.

Maybe you just don't care about any of this as long as a woman or a black man is not in charge.

Maybe your mind is so closed, so stagnant, so made up that you don't even bother to watch what was your one source of news/entertainment — Fox News. Now, you check Twitter to see what your leader insists is the the truth.

Maybe you've forgotten what you might have learned in civics class back when you went to school. Those phrases that actually meant something ... Home of the Brave. Land of the Free. America — The Melting Pot.

Or maybe you believe your leader is right in regard to immigration that the United States is full.

It's full all right. With corruption and human waste. Right up to the brim.

The release of the redacted Mueller Report shoves all of these concerns onto the front burner. Sane observers have long been aware that Trump will stop at nothing to get what he wants, that he is amoral ... morality and law don't exist for him. He lies every time he opens his mouth and demands those who enable him to lie. Some, like Mitch McConnell, go along with this lout willingly, helping drag whatever decency remained back into the swamp that was never drained, only amplified.

For me, part of what drives me nuts also keeps me sane. What if Trump were actually smart? What if he didn't telegraph all of his bullshit? What if Trump was as clever as he assumes he is?

Well, he isn't.

Here's the proof. Trump has tried to diminish the effects of the Mueller investigation by having his flunky of the month, Barr, do his bidding by "selling" the notion that there is nothing to see here. That the report exonerated Trump. And as we know now that is the exact opposite.

To use one of Trump's favorite words, SAD.

And worse than sad — Big mistake. Like Nixon's tapes, there is evidence. Not as burning hot as Nixon's kryptonite, but what Mueller and his team accumulated amounts to a road map that I believe Schiff and Nadler will follow.

To dismiss Mueller, Trump needed to remove Mueller before the investigation. Not after, thinking that he, in effect, can send another version of Sean Spicer or Sarah Suckabee to the podium to tell us the "truth."

Instead, The Mueller Report and its many splinter investigations EXIST.  Clearly, if Trump were not a sitting President he'd have been charged. Multiple times. And when this monster is no longer President, karma is going to do its thing. Big time.

Yet it's hard, almost impossible to stay positive at this point.

That's my goal. Just to keep some form of faith that all of the things that we can't make up will eventually arrive at the intersection of actual truth and justice.

Sooner the better.

For those seeking proactivity.

Vote.