#GoneByValentinesDay

In yesterday's Salon writer Lucian Truscott posted an article titled "Defeat is inevitable. Everybody knows it, even Trump." He recalled his experience covering the Watergate scandal, and how he knew the end game had begun when the Washington establishment organized to rid itself of Nixon. He says that time has now come for Trump, finishing his screed with "Now Washington’s immune system is about to expel yet another infection from the body politic. The end game is here. Even Trump knows it."

This seems obvious. There has never been such a buffoon and purveyor of fraud on a worldwide scale in human history. Trump, the culmination of many decades of perversion of the "American experiment," is too crude and malevolent for even our declining culture. If this country has any decency left, to coin a phrase, it will get rid of Trump, and soon. Families have to raise children. The fabric of society, weak as it is, has to set some kind of standard. Trump has shown himself to be barely human.

The only question at this point is when, and who Trump takes down with him. The problem for "Republicans" is that when people start setting standards they might keep going. Given that the "Republican" party is a criminal organization, the elevation of standards might rise above them.
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Here's a song.

Will Farrell hosted Saturday Night Live last week, and reminded us of a president who did more harm than Trump has so far.

For a visual reminder of the Bush presidency, click here.

R.I.P. Dolores O'Riordan.  Here's my favorite Cranberries song.

R.I.P Hugh Masekela. I saw him perform on a double bill with Miriam Makeba in 1993. Here's a sample of his music.