Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks call Jim Jordan’s government “weaponization” hearings “lackluster…because there is no there there” and Republicans should “start focusing on solving problems that Americans face and not trying to settle scores or create false narratives about the fake election, or anything else that has nothing to do with what is going on in government.”
Even Steven Bannon
(why is he not in jail yet?) complained that John Durham is being made out to be
a “saint” and that Jordan—despite his juvenile antics and the dirty exhaust emissions
from his mouth of broken-down “logic”—has failed to make his "case" disastrously; but this isn’t just
because of his incompetence, because even he can't be that stupid not to realize that there is nothing "there" and this is all just a waste of time. But he persists, becoming an updated version of Joe McCarthy, waiting to be discredited for all time.
Meanwhile, that other McCarthy, Kevin, and the rest of the House Republicans continue to prove they are incapable of governing and are only interested in ludicrous partisan exercises by censoring Adam Schiff for holding hearings on Trump’s connections with Russia (which are real), and yet is incapable of controlling the catfighting between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert; Greene, angry that Boebert “stole” her articles of impeachment of Joe Biden, called her a “little bitch”—which says enough about the level of maturity we can expect not only from House Republicans, but the people who voted for them.
Foresight and
common sense also seems in short supply in the endless “war” in Palestine, and
there has merely been an “uptick” in the violence on the historical graph in
the past few months. Attacks on the ever-growing Jewish settler population on
the West Bank has led to incidents of violence by Palestinians (why should we
be surprised?), followed by rampages by settlers and then incursions by Israeli
armed forces. Benjamin Netanyahu is still running things, so no one should
expect “negotiations,” since the plan "eventually" is to incorporate all of the West Bank.
But on the other hand, this whole thing is a waste since if the Palestinians and their Arab supporters had accepted the 1948 partition plan or subsequent offers of the West Bank, they would have had a “homeland” long ago. But foresight and common sense was in short supply there as well.
Of course we can let out our frustrations about the world we live in like this woman:
Or if we are billionaires we can buy tickets to places far, far away from the masses howling around the Prince Prospero hideaways and take a trip into “space”—or at least suborbital—for a few minutes, or head into the deepest depths of the ocean, like film director James Cameron did:
We assume such missions are “safer” than some city streets. After all, submarine “accidents” are rare, and that of submersibles even more so. The last fatalities aboard a submersible had been in 1974 in a Japanese craft, which occurred when it was only 33 feet beneath the surface. The deep sea tourism company Oceangate has been sponsoring “tours” in deep sea for years without “accidents,” in particular to the Titanic, which apparently remains of interest since it is apparently decaying at a rapid pace and may disappear completely by 2030.
However, it appears that its ”luck” has not only run out, as reported by Reuters…
The five people aboard a missing submersible died in what appears to have been a "catastrophic implosion," a U.S. Coast Guard official said on Thursday, bringing a grim end to the massive international search for the vessel that was lost during a voyage to the Titanic.
An unmanned deep-sea robot deployed from a Canadian ship discovered the wreckage of the Titan on Thursday morning about 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the century-old wreck, 2-1/2 miles (4 km) below the surface, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said at a press conference.
…but information disclosed prior to the discovery seems to set-up the company to a massive lawsuit; although the Titan...
...had made numerous trips to the Titanic without apparent incident since 2021, a former employee had warned that the hull with a new carbon-fiber design had been insufficiently tested, that a new hull breach “warning system” would be too little and too late, and a new view window was designed to withstand pressure only at one-third the depth of where the Titanic lay.
Apparently it had been pure “luck” that previous “tours” hadn’t ended in tragedy, and the “tourists” this time—including the CEO of Oceangate—thought that whatever the danger, they were “indestructible.” I guess most rich people believe this. But as Barry McGuire sang in "Eve of Destruction"
You may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
The rest of us have to live in a rude, nasty world where some people just have to make life even worse because they have no sense to control themselves (like Republican lawmakers or that woman in the above image). Would existence be more tolerable (and safer) if we just put on some AI goggles and live the life of our fantasies, or just shut ourselves off from the world and become an urban hermit?
Only in dreams, because one way or another we have to find a way to "live" with each other.
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