Rubber Stamping Trump

THE CIRCUS has barely but begun, but, it has begun. The confirmation hearings for Trump's incoming bizarre cabinet are underway.The Republicans, perhaps unsurprisingly, are hurling softball qestions at Trump's annointed few, evidently expecting nothing, getting nothing, and allowing the nomminees to issue the standard bland, slam dunk, sycophantic, innocuous, responses. Apologies for the mixed metaphor. In so doing they are, as usual, ignoring, overlooking, minimalizing, glaring personal flaws and egregious, often illegal past behavior. The Demorats, properly, are hitting the nail on the head, trying to force the nominees to explain it all. That approach, of course, never seems to work, not in America, the land of obfuscation. Nobody deftly dodged pertinent question any better than Secretary of Defense nominee Hegseth, who somehow managed to turn sexual misbehavior and alcohol abuse into irrelevant trivialities, if not outright irrelevancies. It has become starkly obvious what we alreday knew; that every Trump nominee was nominated by Trump for two reasons; for holding extremist conservative views and attitudes, and for absolute,unconditional, fervent loyalty to Trump. Experience and competance bedamned. Not a single Trump nominee possesses even remoely adequate experience nor qualitfications for the job for which they are being nominated. We the American people are about to be giftd with what is arguably the least competant, least qualified, least moral presidential administration in the entire history of the united States. Mr. Hegseth actually is an impressive interviewee. He presents a pleasant but demeanor, and responds to all questions calmlyand intelligently. Hee managed to preesnt himself as a champion of women military menbers and serice, to have done a complete one eighty from his prior lifelong stance that there is no place for women in the military. What appears to be a miraculous conversion. Democratic Senator Gillibrand told him so, and congratulated him on it. It brings to mind the threee Trump SCOTUS justices who told the world tht Roe v. Wade was "settled law", got appointed, then, proceeded to "unsettle" it. During a job interview, an ardent, eager job applicant will say damned near anything to get the job. Republicans control Congress, if only barely, and thus control every committee and sub committee. There is no doubt that all of Trump's nominees will pass the "test", and get the job, amazingly, terrifyingly. The most alarming aspect of these sham nomination hearings is that they clearly demonstrate another salient fact which we have always suspected; that the incoming Republican Congress is going to back Trump one hundred percent. Whatever he says, is gong to go in Conogress, if only by a narrow majority. The same for his MAGA mob supporters, who are in fact a distinct minority in America. Just yesterday the new House of Reps passed a bill that would make it illegal, nationally, for transgender girls to play on girls sports teams in public schools. The Senate will probably pass it, Trump will probably sign it, and, here we go again, backwards, blindly stumbling back towards some fantasy former great America. The regression has begun, the dark ages are looming. You can try to tell them that its impossible, that you cannot turn back the clock to a time which only exits in their imagination, but why bother? They only hear and see what they want to, as we already know.