A Strange Year in America, and Beyond
We’ve never seen politics like this
An ex-President, running for re-election, sits in a courtroom, stony-eyed, while a jury is picked for the criminal trial he faces. Prospective jurors ask to be released out of fear for what his followers might do to them. And outside a man obsessed with bizarre conspiracy theories sets himself on fire, eventually dying from the burns.
That’s just one day. Soon we will see a porn star testifying in the same courtroom and possibly claim the sex she had with the ex-President was not consensual. He does not deny that the sex took place, paid her well to keep it quiet so he could win his first election, and allegedly hid that payment, breaking the law.
In Congress the Republican House Speaker, a far right evangelical conservative, breaks with his fellow right wingers and finally passes aid to embattled Ukraine, while those same right wingers speak well of our country’s greatest enemy and prepare to try and oust their Speaker.
Hurricane season is predicted to start early and there are an estimated 24 possible named storms. Normal is 14. Atlantic Ocean surface temps are far higher far earlier in the season than ever recorded, fuel for those storms. And in the states most frequently hit by those storms, home insurance has quadrupled, if you can get it.
