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Drop by and tell us about your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper.
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THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD
Nothing is Off the Table
But play nice
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I’m getting Breaking News Fatigue, how about you?
Ever since the biggest Breaking News story of the past decade, that Donald Trump, serial monogamist and lecher extraordinaire, had upset the entire political news industry and won the presidency in an election plagued with conflict and strife — this nation and her people have been on Breaking News overload.
It’s not that serious news shouldn’t be broadcast, or that we, the viewing public, shouldn’t pay attention to it. We should. It’s necessary for a population which gives it’s consent to be governed to be INFORMED, so that elections are meaningful exchanges of power and authority and not merely an Eight Ball answer to “who’s in charge now” questions.
But with the election of the Mango Menace, we’re facing a never-ending stream of scandals and mini-scandals being brought to our attention on nearly a daily basis.
It’s sucking all of my energy up, and that of millions of other Americans who didn’t vote for the man who imagines himself a Rumplestiltskin, dyeing his hair to appear like spun gold, only to fail and produce only a mango shaded moptop coated in at least two cans of hair spray each day.
The weekends are the worst — it’s so bad now that I must force myself to watch the news on Saturday and Sunday mornings, if only to assure myself that Donnie Boy hasn’t started a 3rd World War while I was sleeping…
It’s so bad now, just over 3 months into Trump’s term in office, that MSNBC hardly has to repeat stories, even significant stories, during their daily deluge of News and News related tales — because about every six to ten hours there is another revelation about someone in his family or someone on his staff or Cabinet rolling across my television screen.
Will no one rid us of this troublesome priest president, who appears to know nothing about government or governing, via any one of the methods provided via the US Constitution?
How was your weekend?