Oblivion

Last night was another episode in the ongoing public humiliation of the United States of America. I think I'm past the point of being dumbfounded. I guess it's just his commitment to the bit, or maybe it is dementia. I know the people around him blow smoke up his ass as they're kissing it every minute of every day; but I have to wonder just how much he believes his own bullshit about America being respected ("as never before"). I know he lies as reflexively as breathing, but does he think anyone else is believing his bullshit? I also know there is roughly about a third of the electorate who will believe him no matter what he says, and every Republican in office, but these people are fools. Which seems to be just about enough to destroy democracy. It's supposed to be "majority rule," but not so much, as it turns out. It's embarrassing. He sounded like an incoherent, two-bit huckster. He's become a caricature of a caricature. He's a prop used by the cynical opportunists who are really…