Alex Jones' Highly-Modified Limited Hangout

Somewhat popular CT radio host and "truth"-seeker Alex Jones has, despite his ample help in raising the profile of current White House Occupier-in-Chief supposed Russian-connected "billionaire" Donald Trump (who owes an awful lot to fake news"), found himself in a bit of a bind--continue on his mission, as he sees fit, to spin reality into neatly-exaggerated piles of biased pablum for the faithful to suck up and chuck up on Twitter and other social media fora, or hold his family together keep custody of his kids with a plausible "untruth"--he isn't a true believer, but a mere "entertainer".

I know. You could say "But Pizza Gate?" or "But Sandy Hook?" But huh! This is such an old ploy--did you know back in the day, one Rush Limbaugh had to sometimes be an entertainer, when his shenanigans grew too fretful? But he and his bullshit perseveres. Even though he pretends that the idea of his being an entertainer only came from The Left--and not because the right was disavowing his worst palaver!

So, I would presume, things would be mega-ditto with Jones. He can cheerily deny that he intended harm or even believes half of what his show consists of--all the while still spewing like a bullshit volcano. As a character, of course. A semi-respectable lying bottom-feeding character.

This is All So Very Wrong

PEOTUS Donald Trump's cabinet, etc., picks have, in retrospect, come to not actually look like the "best people" as was foretold in the Prophetic Book of Big Daddy Trumpisms.  For one terrible example, it turns out that being Secretary of the Department of Energy actually has a lot to do with maintaining our nuclear infrastructure, both regarding weapons stockpiles and energy generation, which is probably why the last handful of Energy Secretaries were actual scientists. Trump didn't have the least idea what the Energy Department did. Neither did former Governor of TX and Dancing with the Stars contestant Rick Perry. Rick Perry once actually wanted to do away with the Department of Energy.  Having no idea at all about what it actually did. Now he will sort of know.  But I think the actual comprehension, arriving this late in his life, sort of renders him at very poor odds of understanding his new role in this department which is actually very important, and which he deemed dispensable.

He chose snaggle-toothed former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, who utterly fucked up ops during 9/11, to be his cyber-security guy, and it turns out he is shit at cyber security.  His Health and Human Services pick, the guy who will oversee the death of the ACA, seems to have benefited from insider trading which is very illegal. Another of the people Trump has selected to help with Technology issues is apparently a hardcore racist.   

Betsy DeVos is actually really unfit as all hell to be involved with Education. She doesn't know the difference between testing for proficiency vs growth. She doesn't seem to know that most kids in America attend public schools, or that public schools are responsible for living up to our ideal of educating disabled youth. I think she's awful.

But even while Trump is presiding over a crisis situation where he isn't appointing staff in line with the operational needs, he engages in Twitter Wars of shocking uselessness. All this while his own legitimacy is questioned. Because it has to be. There is too much information out there to pretend his legitimacy can't be questioned.  The sad finale to all this being, there will be  no end of scandal after this inauguration goes down.