Optics Ad Infinitum

 When a convicted felon announces from a perch safely hidden within the cavernous Xanadu of his own golf club that, “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is. Likely to be more. But we’ll do everything possible where that won’t be the case,” we have passed the point of no return. 

He can only say this ice cold drivel if someone out there is listening. And believing. 

When an adjudicated rapist can tell anyone who wants to listen that he has been "completely exonerated" of charges connected to the sex trafficking ring that his good friend Jeffrey Epstein ran for decades, he is speaking to the faithful. 

That's not faith in anything in heaven's creation. It comes from someplace much darker. 

The Orange Worst is counting on there being still another place he can take his rabble where they can't hear the voice of reason. The voice of diplomacy. The voice of peace. There can be no regrets in his army of lemmings. Forward into the abyss. 

What are the alternatives? I spent the weekend contacting my elected representatives. I continue to talk to anyone who will listen, including you dear reader, of the existential threat being poised by this one man. There is no right left in this administration. It contains only rage and fear. That is the fuel that keeps him awake and alive. Let that noxious gas out of the balloon that he inhabits and you would be left with nothing. No apologies. No regrets. 

He will stand in front of a group of people looking for relief from the strain of living their lives here in the country he nominally controls, and he can give them only more fear and rage. Blame for everyone and everything that he has brought on. All by himself. 

A man who dodged serving his country and promoted himself as "the peace president" is sending Americans into war with the assurance that there will be more because, "that's the way it is." 

I implore you not to accept this. It is not the way it is outside of his deranged myopathy. The world is waiting for this to end. 

Sooner. 

Not later.