Too Many Notes!

        Amadeus is one of my all time favorite flicks, and the plethora of news, near news and bullshit currently saturating all media reminds me of a line from that movie. At one point the Emperor, played, appropriately by Jeffrey Jones, the same actor who portrays principal Rooney on Ferris Bueller's Day Off, criticizes a Mozart composition as having "too many notes."  He then "explains" that the mind can only hear so many notes at one  time. As ludicrous as this seems and is meant to seem in the context of the film, it may just be true with the current flood of half truths,  lies, and damned lies flooding network news, social, and print media.

        I note with dismay, the blithering of, for example, the woman that almost tearfully proclaims that "If  she (Hillary) gets in, the country will be ruined in a month."  One has to assume that this poor beknighted soul has absolutely zero understanding of  how the government works. Of course she isn't alone. Louie Gohmert, Texas Congressman, who actually should know a little something about it, suffers from the same wave of sheer stupidity which is sweeping the Far Right of the GOP nation.

Really, I'm serious!

         Just as this woman fails to understand that there are constitutional limits regarding what a President can do, which is actually fairly  well restricted to signing bills sent to them by the Congress and then enforcing those new laws, Gohmert recently proclaimed,  “I don’t have any delusions that if we have a Republican majority the House and even if we had it in the Senate and Hillary’s elected, she changes the Supreme Court....."  His allegation,  ridiculous in intent and in fact, concludes that his people (Evangelicals) would somehow have their right to worship restricted by some Godless justices. Of course what he really fears is the buttressing  of the current provisions that  people like him (Gohmert) aren't allowed to treat people who are different from him (which thank goodness most of us are)  with disrespect and discrimination.

        What am I getting at here? Gohmert should understand that any  USSC nominee will first be vetted and, more than likely, subjected to the inquisition of, the Senate judiciary committee.  With a GOP Senate majority, that's about as far as it goes for a liberal candidate, except in Gohmert land. He just "makes shit up." Period.  Of course for  many who know little and suspect even less, if he says it, so be it. Some will decide how to vote based on a snippet of raving by this vacuous yahoo.

        In like manner, the person with the highest percentage of "Pants on Fire"  ratings by Politifact, Michele Bachmann has weighed in with a, perhaps, even more preposterous theory - that if Mrs. Clinton is elected "There will be an  increase in the number of sexual assaults on women!" Huh? Let's get this straight: it is vital to the safety of women in America to elect a , demeaner of women, body shaming,  groping, uncontrollable (by his own admission) lecher to the Presidency? Really, Michele? What the f**k is in the water where you live?  

God likes me best!

        Of course her justification is that she "knows" that Mrs. Clinton wouldn't  run a "Biblical" based administration. (I certainly hope that is correct, otherwise we will all be selling girls into slavery, killing anyone who works on Sunday, and all that old shit. It would also piss off the pig farmers and shrimpers.)  All that levity aside, here is her quote and the TV host's addendum : "She  will set a standard in this country that will lead to even more sexual assaults against women because she will be setting an anti-biblical agenda.” Rohrer (host) agreed, saying that "The effort to turn Christian women away from Trump is really a satanic effort to divide Christian evangelical homes.” as I let the sheer idiocy of this comment sink in, I wondered if  Ms. Bachmann considered the Bush 43, years,  with its foreign adventures orchestrated by Rove, Wolfowitz,  and Rumsfeld, as "biblically  based."

        Apparently Mrs. Clinton, lifelong United Methodist, who taught Sunday school in the 70s, worked with church based children's aid programs, and  was a regular at a DC UMC Church while First Lady, hasn't met the high level of religiosity expected by Bachmann.  Trump on the other hand, has not attended any church (other than for  several marriages) since adolescence, and has lived every day since in a most irreligious manner, but per Ms. Bachmann, "God chose Trump to lead America, to the point of tipping the primaries in his favor."  It makes  one's head hurt