The Sinking Ship Of State

"We're trapped in an intellectual prison from which there is no escape.  The modern American experience has been reduced to a few grim lines:  Trump says something crazy; we freak out.  A leak comes out; we obsess over it.  Someone gets fired; the deck chairs on the sinking ship of state get rearranged a little.  Trump says something crazy again.  Rinse, outrage, repeat.

"It's a fatal mind loop worthy of a Twilight Zone episode, and if you think about it (although the next presidential tweet will likely pre-empt that possibility), we've been riding in this same moronic circle for more than two and a half years.  Cycling through the Twitter opinions about Trump's latest brain belch has become an irresistibly shallow national ritual.

"Watching this schizoid administration has been like watching the world's worst comedian die onstage, only not for 15 minutes, for a year, and counting."

                                                                                        -- by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 2/8/18