What’s happening with Trump looks like the Deep State attempting to sabotage his administration.

He is hostile and a threat to them, he let this be known before the election, and now they are taking their prevenge. I say this not as a Trump supporter, but it does give some clue how Obama would have been treated if he’d seriously attempted to cross them, giving me a bit more sympathy for his lack of reining them in.

I seriously doubt much if any of the Russian “reveals” are true, and if true are irrelevant. That anyone trusts the US intelligence community is a bit shocking to me, especially when liberals aver their rectitude and probity.

What we’re witnessing — like most early takes — is not what’s really happening. It almost never is, especially when dealing with people at this level.

If you think you know what’s going on, you’re an idiot. All I know is that I don’t know what’s going on and I refuse to let party identification or my enmity towards Trump cause me to believe convenient lies.

People are having huge trouble with what’s happening because nothing like this in living memory has ever happened before; their frameworks are broken and they simply cannot cope cognitively or emotionally.

My brain and thought processes are optimized for shit like this, though (and deal less well with “normal” times) so I think that’s why I am having less trouble with it all.

Simply applying normal heuristics to what’s happening now just will not work, and you will and do look foolish.