The Next Insurrection

We're all getting dumber. Intentionally.

We're about two weeks away from coronating our new Fuhrer. What happens after that is anybody's guess. Literally. Because like half the country, many of us have decided to eschew any news or headlines or, god forbid, any video clips of the accordion-playing shit-for-brains felon/rapist. 

The epaulets have not even been pinned to his weak, rounded shoulders and Shit Show Two, The Reich Redeaux, has already begun. 

I've stayed away from any Trump news but couldn't escape the news about Matt Gaetz. The forehead challenged legislator from Florida, the anti-Mensa Capitol of the World, was nominated to be the Attorney General of the United States of America -- the highest law enforcement officer in the country. 

That was before the House Ethics Committee, perhaps temporarily remembering their half oath to the Constitution of the United States, released their findings about Matty's ingestion of drugs, his dabbling in prostitution and his oh-so-insignificant statutory rape and pedophilia. 

Given the wall-to-wall coverage of Hunter Biden's exploits, again, not an elected public servant, you would think Gaetz's store-bought bacchanalia would merit its own media frenzy. And still be in the headlines. 

It has not.

As mentioned above, I have sworn off all mass media -- TV/CNN/MSNBC and even Fox News, to see how the other half drools -- and suspect the suggested appointment of Chester the Tall Molester, to the highest office in the Department of Justice, would keep journalists jumping. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure I'm right. 

Even the Old Grey Lady, who would blush and turn pink covering the shenanigans of Florida's favorite son, has eschewed its responsibility to point out the fatal judicial appointment. I know, I checked. Not one word in the A or B section. I haven't got to the Opinion section of the NY Times, but given the complicit zeitgeist, I suspect there's nothing there either.

Perhaps the blame can placed at the feet of the Internet. Or the corrosive curse of social media. Or just the laziness of Americans who fail over and over again to inform themselves regarding the politics of the day. But here's what I cynically know about all this -- it is being exploited and leveraged by billionaire tech bros and their Manchurian candidate.

And as a result, we're all getting dummer.