The Razor That Didn’t Cut
I think there is a lot to be said for Occam’s Razor. A bunch of people, not exclusively but predominantly, on the side of the table that includes Republicans in the US, have forgotten Occam’s Razor. This seems to be an indication of a new phase in the collapse of the old American order. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Trump regime, or whatever you care to call it, has little or nothing to do with administration. The pieces are flying off left and right and people, including several who have been thrown under the bus several times already, are becoming irrational with increasing frequency. That’s probably not surprising given the steady thump-thump from under the bus. It’s becoming hard to keep track of who just went under the bus as distinct from those who are waiting in line for federal charges to be filed. Kellyanne Conway seems to have, so far, barely avoided the first but is now in the second group with Hope Hicks and all the others.
Probably the clearest indicator of how far things have gone wrong is Paul Ryan desperately begging Trump to not start a trade war. In the present situation that warrants only a small mention in the main stream media. No one expects this to do any good and therefore sees no reason to even talk about it. Little Trumpy is scared shitless and needs to have his revenge on all those who haven’t given him the adulation he deserves. He has decided a trade war is something that he can understand, which is not true, but he thinks it, so it is true in his world. Paul Ryan publicly shitting his pants doesn’t make a bit of difference. This is a catastrophe of huge proportions (the trade war, not Ryan shitting his pants) but we are inured. The frequency and size of these things is now meaningless unless nuclear weapons are involved. The last threshold. May Kim Jong-un save us.
But Occam's Razor has been tossed out the window thus triggering this penultimate(?) stage of the collapse. Defenders of Little Trumpy and his playmates in Congress have begun to write incredibly long and complex screeds. I’ve seen two in the last two days explaining how all of the growing evidence of Little Trumpy playing with Russians when he shouldn’t is purely a figment of Hilary Clinton’s imagination. This vast conspiracy can only be understood by oracular divination of the entrails of monkeys rumored to have once been owned by people close to Julian Assange. This caused the Steele Dossier to miraculously appear in a sandwich accidentally delivered to James Comey who told Obama to book a flight to Athens to denounce Russia on the steps of the Parthenon. This, of course, proves that Little Trumpy had nothing to do with all the Russian help he received in the 2016 election. How could anyone dispute this incredibly suspicious chain of events?
Occam’s Razor will never be the same again.
