What would it take?

[JoeRedskin]

I honestly don't know what to think right now. Sure, there has been some epic BS (Devos, Flynn, the Executive Order roll-out), but something tells me that there is more to this than meets the eye ... and not necessarily as in "Holy Crap! This is just the tip of the BS iceberg."

On both Russian interference in the election and on cooperating with them in Syria, Mattes's comments directly contradicted Trump. Same with Nicki Haley's comments about Russia and sanctions. Trump when confronted with this sidesteps, avoids, maintains his "lets be friends / no interference" stand. It may be that he is just a lying dumbass. But, I watch the CNN commentators being completely flummoxed by his seemingly imperviousness to facts. "He either wasn't properly briefed or what he saying is illogical"; "He can't believe that statement," etc.

When he first came in he was mocked for not "draining the swamp" with his picks, now - the press, the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, and foreign allies and enemies are all sitting back and going "WTF??" Well, either he is crazy and we should all be building are bomb shelters and stocking up on food, water, and tradable goods we will need to survive the zombie apocalypse OR he is crazy like a fox and traditional norms of politics and diplomacy are being reset in order to halt creeping group think globalism and the extension of federal regulatory tendrils into all walks of life.

I honestly don't know which it is but, I am convinced that, just b/c it is not "business as usual" as we all sing kumbayah, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

[As a comparison, for long time Baltimore and Maryland residents, Trump is beginning to remind me of Willy Don Schaefer. In all his public appearances, WDS was buffoonish. Epically so. Newspaper reporters (the local media generally loved Willie Don - until the tired of him after about 20 years), when reporting on his speeches would edit great chunks of gibberish out of them. Rumors were constantly swirling about crap going down at the Statehouse, BUT, at the end of the day, a lot of sh** got done and done right. WDS appointed folks in key positions, let them establish their fiefdoms and then played umpire between them - it worked great for about 15 years.]