Yesterday a friend of mine got caught in a huge traffic jam on a local street.  The cause of the jam? The line of cars trying to get into a Popeye’s Fried Chicken drive thru to buy their chicken sandwich.  Also yesterday, there was a fatal stabbing outside of a Popeye’s fried chicken in Maryland during an argument over…wait for it…a goddam chicken sandwich.

If you’re around a Chick-fil-A around lunchtime in Texas, you will be caught in a traffic jam with hundreds of people sitting in dozens of cars willing to wait for almost an hour to buy THEIR goddam chicken sandwich.  This willingness, though, is in large part owed to conservatives  making some kind of statement in support of Chick-fil-A for their anti-diversity politics and support of Trump.

In the meantime, we’re only a few weeks away from the madness of Black Friday (which now starts on Thanksgiving morning) as millions of Americans stupidly storm into big box stores to do battle with one another to buy a cheap made in China flat panel television which they can neither afford or fit on a wall in their home.

Insanity has now become normalized.  More Americans are engaged in Dancing with the Stars and The Voice than they are in participation in their own government.  They go nuts over shit they read on Facebook and Twitter, while ignoring the real world of what’s going on around them.  AND, our system of consumer protections has been decimated.  Lying about products, politics, people, and policy is now OK and our courts have been packed with ideologies who believe that is just fine.  The President of the United States has amplified this cancer by lying himself over 14,000 times in 3 years.  He’s tweeted over 11,000 times, most of those tweets either lies, attacks against his enemies, wild conspiracy theories, or promotion of his own businesses.  His education department is making it worse by destroying decades of progress in public education and assuring that millions of Americans swim in debt created by a system designed to entrap them for profit.

We are living in the age of lies.  The masses, whose wages have been stagnated for 0ver 30 years and whose education system is broken, now live in a distopian television fantasy world, reduced to fighting over goddam chicken sandwiches, flat panel televisions, and casting meaningless votes for people who have no business dancing on national television.

We are lost, and with few viable government protections left, Trump has accelerated the downward spiral to an outright freefall.  I don’t have a solution for it, and don’t even know where to start.

Political Wire does some math.

The new Fox News poll shows 41% of registered voters are against impeaching President Trump. Of those, 57% say no new evidence could cause them to change their minds.

That would put Trump’s true base at around 23% of registered voters.

So, about one in every four.  I will not look at my weekly bridge game the same ever again.

My favorite story so far is this one:

So when former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was wondering why all these false charges were being leveled against her, she went to Mike Pompeo.

Pompeo took it straight to the top.  He went directly to Sean Hannity.

No shoot, Sherlock. Sean Damn Hannity is running our foreign policy.

Okay, this is my favorite so far, but I’m sure it’s gonna get even better.

It’s not a good day to be Trump.

The House Intelligence Committee has released transcripts from depositions with former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and former State Department adviser Michael McKinley.

Rumor has it that CNN is reading them right now.

A three judge panel in the Federal Appeals Court in Manhattan just ruled that Trump must turn over 8 years of tax returns to the Manhattan DA, which is investigating Michael Cohen paying bribes to Stormy Daniels and others.  Trump, who lied for 2 years that he would release his tax returns after they were “audited” is fighting tooth and nail to keep them secret, and we can all guess as to why – they’ll likely add to the mountain of criminal evidence piling up on his doorstep.  I continue to believe, and Trumpists continue to deny, that Trump, once out of office (one way or the other) will spend the rest of his life trying to stay out of jail.  The closer we get to that, the more dangerous he will become until we get him out.

Trump’s pastor, Paula White-Cain, revealed that Trump wanted to build a Crystal Cathedral together in 2006 but the timing wasn’t good for her because her teevee appearance were booming and she was in the middle of her second divorce.   She also says that she knows what God wants her to do for Trump so she doesn’t spend much time “trying to figure it out.”

And then there’s Pastor Rick Wiles from Florida who says that if Trump is removed from office, “veterans, cowboys, mountain men, guys that know how to fight” will “hunt down” those responsible.

And we can’t forget Robert Jeffress, pastor of the mega church First Baptist of Dallas, who gave the invocation at Talladega Superspeedway, claiming a civil war will “happen”  if Trump is impeached.  You can just visualize this wimpy little man taking to his bunker and converting to Branch Davidian.

Every time Trump gets into trouble, he has a bunch of off-brand Super DeLux Fancy Christians come to the Oval Office and do lewd crap even Monica Lewinsky wouldn’t do.

Money changers. Prosperity gospel.