Haunted

 I read somewhere that Denver Broncos' coach Sean Payton is haunted by a decision he made during his team's loss to the New England Patriots. For those of us whose next six or seven months will be spent wondering if choosing to go for a touchdown rather than a field goal was what kept our team from a trip to the Super Bowl it's good to know that there is a conscience associated with the alternatives presented to someone in charge in the heat of the moment. Or in the middle of a blizzard. 

But I didn't come here today to discuss professional football. I will have an offseason for that. Instead I present Coach Payton's response to making a decision that did not work out well to that of the Trumpreich's various and sundry misfires over the first year of their second term at the controls of this big machine we call democracy. 

Shall we begin with the "twenty-four hours" needed to end the war between Russia and Ukraine? I don't get the impression that our Dear Leader is losing any sleep over that hyperbolic promise. Much in the same way that things in Gaza continue to deteriorate. Add to that the millions of barrels of oil that he stole from Venezuela after kidnapping their "president," or the continuing flurry of threats directed at various established world leaders who were under the mistaken impression that they were dealing with a rational human being. Spoiler alert: They were wrong on both counts. 

Then there is the domestic situation. Eggs continue to cost just a little more than they did the week before. The promised "concepts of a plan" to bring health care to Americans continues to hold little or no metaphorical water. 

And people are being murdered in the streets of our country by federal agents. The supreme irony being that this program of "enforcement" is intended to weed out the "worst of the worst." Yet another ugly reminder of looking for trouble and finding it in the mirror. His own "justice" department has driven past the deadlines set forth by law that he signed to ensure the release of all the Epstein Files. By more than a month. And no particular sense of urgency to get those accounts of sexual trafficking by our Dear Leader out in public view. 

For now we have to be content with imagining just how awful the contents of those files must be to keep stacking up invasions of other sovereign nations and murdering his own people in the streets. The worst part of all of this is that there is no offseason to reflect. Just another day in these "united" states.