Mr. Kurd's Wild Ride

I have always liked to think I have a pretty good sense of humor. Maybe I have misjudged myself.

When I walked into Starbucks this morning, a man I had never seen before was talking to two men I know. I stopped by to say hi; the new guy glanced over and immediately went back to his conversation. If you could call it that, since he was the only one who appeared to be talking.

"My sister lives out in California," he told them. (As far as he was concerned, I was not there.) "She thinks Trump is crazy." My guess is he was rolling his eyes, but I cannot be certain because I could only see the back of his head.  "He's a genius."

I may have made some sort of noise, because he turned to me, for a moment. "You don't think he's a genius? You have to admit he's entertaining. Even if you don't like his politics." His politics? What are those?

Not only do I like to think I have a sense of humor, but I also like to think I'm pretty good at conversation, always ready with a quick response. Again, the best I could come up with was some sort of noise. I left.

Okay, when I want to be entertained, I watch late night comedians. When I want genius, I read a good book. Or watch late night comedians.

My jaw dropped yesterday, stayed dropped for over an hour, as I watched a raging imbecile who calls himself our president insult pretty much everybody (except Sean Hannity), lie about pretty much everything (except his devotion to himself), and reveal the kind of ignorance of the world around him that tops Sarah Palin waving at her Russian neighbors from her back yard. He referred to a Kurdish correspondent as "Mr. Kurd," although he did, to be fair, announce that the Kurds are great people. He referred to the press corps (except for his friends at Fox, even though he rarely talks to them) as maniacs, liars, and failing. He said he just wants the Palestinians and Israelis to be happy. One state, two state, red state, blue state. Dr. Seuss must be rolling over in his grave. He's leaning toward the two state thing, by the way -- just another real estate deal.

Contrary to what several men of the Republican persuasion have accused, I do not automatically believe women and disbelieve men. I have no idea what our Supreme Court nominee did or did not do back in the day, although I do know that I dislike his politics and his hard line views and I am not a fan of having the likes of him in a position to shape our future. I am certainly not a fan of the process -- the one he thinks should be fair (to him). As for hypocrisy, there is plenty of that to go around. Except when it comes to the president. He's pretty consistent.

His news conference yesterday was not funny. It was downright frightening.