We Are Rewarding Lunatics

 Dana Milbank makes a connection between the bizarre UFO hearings and the general behavior of the GOP caucus. First, let's get the aliens shit out of the way. Interstellar travel requires remarkably advanced technology or the discovery of physics that we have no idea about. As one physicist put it, we would have to accept that these alien lifeforms were so incredibly advanced to master faster than light travel - which under our understanding of physics is impossible - and then, after traversing the trillions of miles to come here specifically, crash when they got here. Amazingly capable...becomes a teenaged drunk driver when they get to earth. 

The lead witness for the circus offered no evidence.  None. It was highly inflammatory, including accusations of murder by the government and, wait for it, the Pope. There was not, however, a shred of evidence to back this up.

The fucking GOP ate it up. Why? I suppose they will embrace anything that suggests a dark "deep state" conspiracy. The general philosophy of the Reagan years was that you needed to restrain public spending to let the private sector flourish. I think that turned out to be largely bullshit, but it's not completely bullshit. The modern GOP has taken that idea to "all government is bad" and we need to destroy it. 

That is how the Chaos Caucus would govern America if they ever got their hands back on power in the White House, and that is exactly what Trump and his minions are promising. They would hollow out expertise and experience because of the "deep state" that makes your weather forecasts and processes your Social Security checks and inspects your food for salmonella. That's why they are going to shut down the government again at the end of September.

I have zero patience for anarchists, whether they be left wing poseurs running around in their back turtlenecks or right wing nihilists who millions of our countrymen want to put in charge of governing.

Milbank goes on to note that this same crew of circus clowns is preparing to impeach Joe Biden. The actual charges are unknown at this point, because fuck facts. The basic idea of empirical reasoning that has governed civilization since the Enlightenment is discredited as being a tool of the coastal elites. You've impeached and indicted our Lord and Savior, Donald Trump, so we will impeach your president. We don't actually need evidence of a crime, beyond the fact that Biden is president.

Saturday, I ruminated on the tragedy and possible solutions to the fact that we consign the mentally ill in this country to live under overpasses. I did not offer "electing them to Congress" as a possible solution.