A big news night.

 What a night.

First, my thoughts are with the folks in South Texas and Louisiana, as  hurricane Harvey barrels towards them.

This will be Mr. trump's first test with a natural disaster and I suspect that it will not go well. He is a man, after all, who does not believe that global warming or climate change is a thing. Already his White House is declaring that the states will be the main actors in this disaster and they must not depend on the federal government.

We will see.

Second, the president pardoned a known racist and a convicted criminal tonight, a man who blew off the Constitution and has no respect for the law.

But we shouldn't be surprised, trump promised that he would do it, and the fact that the man happens to be a racist just made it easier for him.

"In a two-paragraph statement, the White House said that Mr. Arpaio gave “years of admirable service to our nation” and called him a “worthy candidate for a presidential pardon.”

OK, if you believe that denying human beings their basic human rights and dignity is cool, go ahead and knock yourself out.  

Think about this, trump pardons this clown on the very weekend that a category 4 hurricane might do mass damage and cost the loss of life to quite a few Americans. This is a time when we should be focusing on the people of this part of the country, and not making news by pardoning a racist criminal.

Finally, trump claims that he fired another known racist today (the man claims that he resigned) and  a lot of people are wondering what took them so long. I am wondering why he didn't wait a few more weeks to do it since he already waited so long. Why do it now?  

I am guessing that the pardon of Arpaio and the firing of Gorka kind of go hand in hand. He couldn't just fire Gorka and not throw a bone to his racist base, and he did just that tonight by pardoning Joe Arpaio.

Wait, did I say finally? There is more. North Korea fired three more missiles today , and there is more news on the Russian probe.

Have a nice weekend.

*Pic from politico.com










  

OPEN THREAD WEDNESDAY.

 Wassup field hands?

I need you to tell us what's on your mind tonight.

Personally, I am thinking about North Korea and just how long it will be before they will have the ability to drop a nuke on the West Coast of America. My  dear sister lives in Seattle, Washington, so this new develpment is particularly problematic for me.

Former president Obama tried to warn Mr. trump about North Korea, but he was too busy worrying about crowd sizes and his Russian bank accounts to care.

The thing is that trump and his minions really believed that his you're fired shtick would work with the North Koreans; they are starting to find out now just how naïve their leader was when it comes to this issue. 

Thoughts?