Yeah But No

The Hill:

A firestorm over former chief strategist Stephen Bannon is consuming the White House with the new year only days old.

It comes even while the president’s latest controversial tweets are still reverberating and the stubborn cloud of investigations into collusion with Russia remains.

By the end of an extraordinary day of news on Wednesday, Bannon’s enemies within the GOP were glorying in his apparently final demise from the Trump inner circle. His loyalists were complaining that the White House was being too easily spooked and had overreacted.
Never forget that this is a Reality TV Show - a years-long effort at Brand Visibility.

Take a look at the script of any "Unscripted Reality Series" - or listen to the instructions and suggestions of the show's producers - and you're going to find a pattern of deliberate mischief. The players make more money if they start a fight - especially the women, cuz hey - it could get physical, and everybody loves a girl fight, and we might get to see some boobage, and that'll be good for at least a few days of good buzz.

Nobody watches the typical family next door as they take out the trash and bring in the groceries, so nobody's going to buy advertising on a show like that.

I'm thinking Mueller and Schiff and Warner (maybe even Burr) are keeping their eyes on the ball while the rest of us get to spend a day or two indulging ourselves in some good ol' fashioned celebrity voyeurism.

Pro Wrestling meets The Kardashians - it's The Infomercial Presidency.

Unfortunately, it's being used as cover by the Kremlin, and by some very shady characters in and around Capitol Hill.

Get 'Em, Prez

The 'Nerd Prom' in DC every year is a glaring and obvious example of what's wrong with this joint.  Maybe it started out as a way to get everybody together and blow off a little steam, but when you make TV out of it, then even though you hear some pretty good jokes and zingers, all you've really got is a G-Rated Celebrity Roast that always morphs down to a public circle jerk - and that's pretty much what goes on with the Dems and the GOP and the Press Poodles every day anyway.

The Theater

I love it and it makes me nauseous; and I can't think of anything more repulsively silly than most show tunes, but I remember way too many of them; and I still can't figure out why I know so much about all this shit - and all of that goes on inside my head all at the same time.  Sometimes I hate my brain.