Maggie's Farm

I have yet to see anything that Trump has done wrong. Why is he bound to follow Swamp Rules in running the country? Despite all the fulmination, I have yet to see anything he has done illegal. He just won't play by the Swamp Rules.

I think the country has gone stark raving mad. I was in a lunch meeting today, where one of the attenders, a lawyer who is a graduate of both an Ivy League college and an Ivy League law school, was going on and on about how Trump and Kushner were Russian puppets and were being controlled by the Russians.

After a little while I said, "Did you hear about Jerry Brown and how he entered into an environmental and trade agreement with the Chinese just a couple of days ago?" This guy says, "Right, he's rejecting Trump's position on the Paris Agreement by making this deal with the Chinese to fight climate change, I saw the pictures with him and the Chinese president!"

And then I said, "So, did it occur to you that China is just as much an 'enemy' of our country as Russia is, they are in an expansionist phase and trying to take control of S.E. Asia maritime routes and other places, and now you have a governor of a state apparently having had secret negotiations with the Chinese and now entering into an agreement with them which is essentially a treaty with a hostile foreign government? And what do you think you'll find if you look at the Constitution about whether it was legal for him to do any of this? [Hint, look at Art. I, Sec. 10.] And do you think that someone might have concerns that President Xi is just using him for propaganda purposes to get at the United States and to divide our country?"

And his response is, "well that's completely different. He was just being responsible for the environment and going against Trump who's destroying the environment."

And I just said, "ok."