THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS

There is a problem with deal making in the current climate. Various pundits on newscasts in the United States have ridiculed the supposed commercial deal between the United States and the United Kingdom. Apparently the deal changes nothing between the two countries as the 10% tariff, previously put in place, remains the same and any actual agreement has yet to be completed. So why the grand announcement that a great deal has been made? Perhaps the concept of the great deal is enough.

I may be out of touch with actual events so far as deal making is concerned, but I see little evidence that the United Kingdom economy is likely to grow to any great extent. Are luxury cars really so important? Will the sale of 5000 expensive vehicles being sold to wealthy Americans save the British economy? That seems to be the great deal to crow about. Was it really all about the car industry?  There are, so my google search tells me, about 22 million millionaires in the United States. So I guess if  0.02% of them are likely to buy a car from the UK the industry is saved. What am I missing?

The above was a passing thought in the light of some of the stuff I see on YouTube. There is a lot of stuff posted on YouTube, in particular congressional oversight committees which question the various Trump appointed secretaries of various departments of state and other institutions. The likes of Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Kash Patel, Director of the FBI, are classic examples of mendacity.

The Senators and Congressional Representatives are each given 5 minutes to ask questions. In view of the limitations on time, they try to ask questions requiring yes or no answers. It is really quite a simple approach to ascertain whether or not the person in charge of a particular office knows what they are doing and understands the basic exigencies  of their office.

Trump appointees do not answer questions but have prepared lengthy statements of obfuscation and subtile prevarications in order to effectively filibuster and take up as much time as they can to run out the time the questioner has. Most committees are now being chaired by republican sycophants because they are in the majority. As a result the times are strictly enforced when it comes to Democrats or any representative who seeks the truth. The disrespect shown by these Trump appointed persons towards elected congressional representatives in both houses of Congress is an outrage.

What makes this so obvious is that when questioned by a Maga representative, like Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, they are more than willing to provide short yes or no answers and allow the Senator to spill his poisonous views and bigotry at will. There is no other was of interpreting the spectacle. Kash Patel is the most outrageous in his disrespectful behaviour and obvious outright deceit. His display of incompetence and lies over the submission of the proposed budget for his department is in itself almost criminal  and cringe making.

What is sad is that they appear to be getting away with this type of arrogant disdain for the rule of law and present oversight of Congress. There is in effect no  oversight whatsoever.  How the American public will be able to recover from this chicanery during the next 4 years and beyond comprehension. To watch the death and destruction of what was once a proud democracy, albeit with a few flaws, is sad in the extreme. It is now “my country piss on thee, sour land sans liberty, of thee I dread”.  If ever there was a time to take action to rid the United States of these people, it is now. How you go about it is something else. When in the course of human events... think about it and good luck.