dealing with trumpistan

the last two months have been surreal, trying to deal with the reality of living in trumpistan --- it is not going well so far --- he remains the lying, narcissistic, thug he was in the campaign, and after yesterday's "press conference," since he already has his personal bodyguards, all he's lacking are epaulettes to be the american mussolini he's clearly destined to be --- again, he made the bald claim that a president cannot have a conflict of interest, which is true in terms of a single statute, but he clearly believes it applies across the board --- director of the office of govt ethics responded:

Common sense dictates that a President can, of course, have very real conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest is anything that creates an incentive to put your own interests before the interests of the people you serve. The Supreme Court has written that a conflict of interest is, and I’m quoting here, 'an evil which endangers the very fabric of a democratic society, for a democracy is effective only if the people have faith in those who govern, and that faith is bound to be shattered when high officials and their appointees engage in activities which arouse suspicions of corruption.

but that all may be the least of it, with bbc now reporting what cnn and buzzfeed reported yesterday about salacious trump sex tapes (that such a thing exists is a horrifying thought in and of itself) that the russians have --- if the fate of the republic did not hang in the balance, i would be joyfully mesmerized by the spectacle

but the fate of the republic does hang in the balance ----