Where To Begin?

Let us ponder, for a moment, May 8th, 2018.

Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA or Iran Nuclear Deal, primarily because his hatred of Obama created a presumption that the deal was terrible.  How does Donald Trump know it's terrible?  Because he said it was terrible, and Donald Trump is never wrong. The lack of evidence of any violations by Iran means that the US is increasingly marginalized.  Israeli missiles fell on Damascus last night.

North Korea is on the verge of a diplomatic coup: a summit with an American President.  The American President is too thick and unknowledgeable to understand that there is no way North Korea follows through on their promises. The release of hostages today is simply more bait to appeal to Trump, so that he shows up at the summit and Kim gets what every North Korean leader has wanted: a shared stage with an Ameican president.

Reports from a pornographic actress's lawyer demonstrate that the slush fund that the president used to pay her hush money was filled with money from Russia and American businesses, like AT&T, who had business before the president.  While there is no direct evidence yet in the report that the president was using illegal contributions to pay off mistresses, the dots are very close together.  The fact that a Russian oligarch funneled money into the slush fund certainly suggests that Russian state security did know about Trump's affairs, and perhaps helped him cover it up.  Regardless, companies giving money to slush funds in contradiction to campaign finance laws....Dude.

Meanwhile, we had a slate of primaries.  Notable among them was West Virginia's senate primary.  Odious troll and convicted felon, Don Blankenship, was denied the GOP nomination.  What is interesting is that Joe Manchin and his primary challenger received 159,000 votes, whereas the hotly contested GOP primary only drew  139,000 votes.  That bodes well for Manchin's ability to hold this seat in a state Trump won handily. In both parties, it was a good night for the "establishment," which could hold a key to understanding a brewing backlash against the chaos of Trumpism.

An American spy gave up America's entire spy network in China.  You might have missed that.

Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water and Puerto Rico still doesn't have full power restored.

Trump's America.  Thanks, Republicans.