General Jumbliness and Discombobulation

Is anyone else out there just plain exasperated?

This White House is leaving me breathless with its constant stream of conspiracy theories, illegal maneuvers, flat-out lies and baseless accusations.

Not that I want him to do what he promised to do (I did not vote for him), but wasn't his big draw with his crowd the fact that, according to him, he and ONLY HE could get done what people wanted done? He was going to repeal Obamacare on DAY 1 (it turns out he had, and I quote, "no idea how complicated healthcare is!" Seriously?). He's going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it (no indication as of yet that Mexico will embrace that idea, so if there's a wall then US taxpayers will foot that bill). Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Trump was going to bring back manufacturing plants and coal plants and thousands upon thousands of jobs on DAY 1. We do seem well on our way to backing out of trade agreements. Perhaps that will bring back some jobs. Not thousands upon thousands. And I'm not sure whether Trump ever addressed what is likely to happen to the price of consumer goods once those trade agreements are broken. The devil's in the details, and Trump provided preciously few of those in his speeches. He's more of a grand, sweeping statements kind of guy. ISIS--I believe Trump declared that he would convene his generals and they would have to submit a plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days. Anyone heard of anything happening in that arena? Anything at all? Do we have that plan yet? And crime. Didn't he say that he would clean up crime in the inner cities on DAY 1? And shouldn't the VA be fixed by now?

DAY 1 was never going to be what Trump said it was going to be. That should have been people's first clue that perhaps nothing else was going to go as planned.

And things have definitely not gone as anticipated.

We've had a categorically unsuccessful special forces raid in which one soldier was killed, though Trump deemed the operation a huge success from start to finish (how he could lose a man and still declare 100% success on the mission is beyond me, and seems disrespectful to all military families). He's had one senior official resign in disgrace over his lies/Russia connections, and one has had to recuse himself from all things Russia at this point due to his own lies to Congress during his confirmation hearings. He's accused three million people of voting illegally, President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, President Obama of orchestrating White House leaks, and the Democrats of obstructing his every whim. I'm not sure if he's noticed, but the Democrats do not have the numbers currently to obstruct anything. Literally. Whatever's not happening is either on Trump himself or on the Republicans.

You don't have a full cabinet? Have your cabinet nominees submitted the required forms for confirmation hearings? No? Then that's on them. There's a process in place for a reason.

Not a lot has gotten done so far. Thankfully. Because what has made it through is thoroughly alarming. Pollution regulations have been rolled back. By Executive Order. The EPA is on lockdown and their website being scrubbed of environmental date regarding climate change. Financial regulations have been rolled back. By Executive Order. There have now been TWO Muslim bans put forward. By Executive Order.

History has also been rewritten by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Did you know that Historically Black Colleges and Universities began because black students were not satisfied with the level of education they were receiving? Take that in for a moment. That's Ms. DeVos's version of the genesis of HBCU's.

So exasperated. Yes. I have no idea what's going on with my government. I'm not really sure my government knows what's going on with my government. Yesterday Senator Rand Paul was pushing his copy machine all over Capitol Hill in search of the new ACA bill. He was not allowed to see it. It's under lock and key, apparently. Another fact to take in: a sitting US Senator is being actively prohibited form seeing the healthcare reform bill being put forward by his own party. WTF?

It feels good to get this all out. It feels a little jumbled, but I think that's because that's how I'm feeling these days. This is not only disconcerting, it's discombobulating.

Here's how I see this in a nutshell:

Trump and his cohorts are raging drunk with power.

At some point soon, I would like the adults in the room to announce their presence, take people's car keys, and bring this raucous kegger back under control.