I have entered little of substance here regarding the state of our polity for the last couple of months. I have not resumed regular posts since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, as I intended last November, partially because family issues have taken up a measure of our time, but also because … I am at a bit of a loss as to what to say. Nothing that has occurred starting on January 20 could be any surprise to anyone with the sense God gave a goose. Posts simply making points of which you’re already well aware, or saying, “What’dja think was gonna happen?” or “Toldja so,” will be tiresome. I am beginning to put together a note that tries to place the Trump Administration’s types of activities into a framework – I do believe that there is a design behind them – but beyond that – and although more declarations regarding Trump malignity and Trump supporters’ states of mind will undoubtedly form the bases of a greater number of future posts than I now intend – I am pondering how to proceed with at least some future entries in a way that is constructive given the vile – albeit completely predictable – political devastation we are now witnessing.
That said: one can remain confident that whatever is hereafter published in these pages will still be only so much Noise. 😉
Stay well – or at least as well as you can.
McCoy's Noise 
A thought I had today was Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon which infuriated me back then. Political pundits gave credit to Ford suggesting the pardon was the heroic thing to do for not putting the country through the “turmoil” of putting a former President on trial for crimes committed as President. Never believed it was heroic because I think that was the deal Nixon made to resign.
But, looking back, if Nixon had been put on trial for Watergate back then, norms for dealing with this issue of presidential malfeasance would have been established so all of this presidential immunity crap would not have happened and Trump would be doing four years in the slammer now instead of the White House.
Edk
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Hey — just catching up. Here, I’m more cynical than you are. [Think about THAT 🙂 ]. There has been such a coarsening of our social fabric since Nixon’s day that whether or not he went to jail, I’m afraid we’d still be where we are. We are going to have to watch the wreckage until Musk — who’s devoid of emotional sensitivity — touches something that Trumpers care about, like Social Security or Medicare. I’ll stop there — but the damage in the meantime will be devastating and irreparable.
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