The Cowardly Lyin'

With the release of Nunes report, Trump has taken another whack with his lead pipe at the kneecaps of yet another one of our institutions. I have to admit it's difficult for me to muster much sympathy for the FBI, but that's not what this is about. And it's certainly not about transparency to protect our rights, as Speaker of the House, Paul "Cheez Wizz" Ryan, would have us believe. No, it's just some more ill-intentioned, poorly thought through bullying of political opponents by the Bully-in-Chief.

And at the heart of it all is more lies, lies, and more lies, all to cover Trump's prodigious backside over the Mueller investigation of his and his brood's collusion with Mother Russia and Trump's very own Sugar Daddy, Vladimir Putin. At this rate, you really have to wonder if there's anything Trump would hesitate to destroying in order to save his skin. Continue to expose our electoral system to tampering and manipulation? Sure! Start a nuclear war with North Korea, using his stubby fingers on his big beautiful nuclear button. Why not?

And, I guess I'll have to make this point, again, and will continue to do so even at the risk of beating a whole herd of horses: nary a Republican, with the sole exception of John McCain, has spoken up or spoken out against Trump's (re-?) politicizing the nation's domestic intelligence agency for his own personal gain. I guess they're all in to gain whatever additional victories they might score as Trump does his best to destroy, denigrate and debilitate whatever progress we had made in improving our institutions of governance. And the only thing that's keeping me from going to a dark, scary place is the schadenfreude I will get to experience when karmic justice finally comes a-knockin' on the GOP's door. 

Meanwhile, if you have a chance, watch Bert Lahr singing, "If I Were King of the Forest." It'll put a smile on your face and chuckle in your belly, as will this cartoon, or so I hope.