In this backwoods country, we have a sexual predator (possibly hypothetical) with questionable proclivities, leading a group of oddities, running this sad remnant of a previously “great” country into the ditch. Attorney General Garland during his hearing after making clear that the Justice Department was chugging along trying to keep gangs and cartels at bay and trying to control the rise of white male supremesists from shooting down anybody who they think at the moment needs to be done away with, was subjected to an onslaught of questions about the ongoing investigation of a private citizen who happens to be related to the current President. Garland over and over said he wasn’t involved in that investigation, but to demonstrate their inability to understand a clear straight-forward answer, Republican after Republican continued to ask the answered question, quoting debunked and completely untrue memos and letters.

 After years of negative attacks on the Justice Department by the former mob boss of the MAGA cult and his fellow travelers, the questioners used the distrust they themselves created to suggest that that distrust was to somehow be laid at the feet of the FBI and Justice. It would be stunning but for the past years of constant anti-government rhetoric we’ve experienced.

            So, naturally, the above-mentioned hypothetical sex trafficker is leading the charge to defund the FBI because …I have no actual knowledge of why such a dangerous subversive idea has puked out of his head. My personal favorite conspiracy theory, which I am now inventing, is as follows: the only beneficiaries of such a mind-boggling notion are the gangs and cartels and those folks dressed up like pretend soldiers and threatening various and sundry. The uptick in carjackings reminds me of about a decade back when a friend of mine was mugged to get his phone or even further back when another friend described killing a random person when he was 11 or 12. What these things had in common was that the perpetrators were fulfilling a requirement for gang initiation.

            One might consider further who benefits from chaos in this country. The answer clearly those countries, Russia, China, North Korea, who have demonstrated an ongoing strategy disruption of our elections. It is well known that the Russian gangs are very active in this country, and the vast network of gangs have one effective enemy, the FBI and the Justice Department. Do these efforts to defund these agencies arise from some benefit. The question, “Who does it benefit?”, leads inexorably to a possible sad conclusion.

            Does the hypothetical sex trafficker perhaps have some benefit in mind? This is my personal favorite conspiracy theory.

 Making America Great again as a goal is antithetical to the ongoing effort by the group of House republicans to shut down the ability of the House to do its job by refusing even to allow votes on military spending or funding the entire government. What are they trying to accomplish? So far, their brinkmanship has seen the country’s credit rating diminished. If within a week, the House continues to demonstrate its malevolent efforts to undermine the United States government, the entire government will shut down. Paychecks won’t come for government workers and soldiers and their families won’t have enough funds to buy food or pay rent. Those same families will be unable access programs designed to help. Soldiers and “essential” personal will have to continue to work but unpaid. Federal parks, educational aid, childcare, school lunches and a whole lot more will be unavailable. Who will that serve? Only those who benefit from chaos and their fellow travelers.

            Even in the Senate the inability to appoint military personal is being blocked from unanimous consent by one Republican. For months that man has been the focus of a litany of condemnations, but every one of those appointments could have been done one at a time over all those months but the Democratic leader just wouldn’t let it happen. Finally, the Senate did hold a vote on three appointments to the Joint Chiefs of staff including the new chairman. It could and should have long been done but these Zaks would rather perpetrate a standoff. The right going Zaks and the left going Zaks face off and unlike in the story, these employees of you and me, while refusing to just get on with it, are preparing to immobilize the country and within a week apparently will allow the fellow travelers of the gangs, cartels, white supremesists, Russians, Chinese and all the other entities that desire the demise of this once respected country are simply going to shut it all down. Sadly, there is currently no way for us employers of this rag tag bunch to simply go on with the business of our lives. We put these people in their jobs and for unknown reasons refuse to fire them, a pox on both their houses.

            Will someone somewhere some media finally begin to ask the right questions. Who does it serve? What benefits are gained? Are these people simply misguided or plain ignorant? Or are they simply un-American trying to take this country to the brink of disaster.