With Friends Like These...

​I've strayed a bit too far lately from my hope of writing shorter articles to save the sanity of readers and the strain on my typing fingers.  But some stories demand the substance and details.  And there have been far, far, far too many stories demanding that substance and details.  But we'll keep having the goal in mind and head that way today.

And in some ways, the tsunami of Trump debacles and scandals has allowed me recently to just pick up some single lunacy or outrage of the day, rather than dive off the deep end into a pool full of muck.

Like this from last week.

It was just one more example of why Trump and his party won’t be able to recover from all the scandals and disasters – because (as I've long repeated) there's no one in his  administration who can him him.  Because all the people Trump has surrounded himself with are unqualified incompetents, only out to serve their overlord by saying "Yes" to him, and are often the ones causing the problems themselves.

It turns out that Pam Bondi did her Trump-sycophantic best by posting a chart lauding to high heaven (of course...) Trump’s supposed success in drastically bringing down drug deaths.  The problem was, though, that the chart clearly stops at the end of 2024, when Joe Biden was actually the president! 

And so, of course, she deleted it.  Except the problem was that people noticed, and nothing is lost on the Internet.

You might not be able to read the data on the graph well, since it's too small.  But here's a slightly-fuzzy version of it enlarged.  Trump didn't take office until January 20, 2025, of course.  And  you'll see the last entry before that.

Yes, really.  The big drop that ace-lackey Pam Bondi was trying oh-so-hard to laud was all under... President Joe Biden.

These are the people around Trump who he's counting on to help him in the midst of his debacles, amid dementia, which is degenerative.  ​