A child throws a raw egg at a wall, and it splatters. An angry parent yells at the child and says, “Get that egg off the wall, put it back together, and put it back in the carton.” The child says “OK, but I hate you”, but does not put the egg back together, and takes all the eggs out of the carton snd throws them at different walls, yelling “Bad egg. Bad egg.”. The parent realizes he/she can not control the child and decides to get someone else to put the eggs back together. No one can. The eggs keep flying, and you can’t put an egg back together.

Welcome to the United States of America.

Yesterday, courts told Trump he had to reinstate all USAID employees, and that he couldn’t summarily preclude trans people from serving in the military. Another asks more questions about sending Venezuelans to El Salvador without any semblance of due process. Trump says he will follow the courts’ orders and that he hates the judges. He will do nothing. No one else will or can do anything, either.

Welcome to the United States of America.

DOGE raids the Institute of Peace. The Institute of Peace does not let them in and calls the police. But someone else has called the police. The terrible, horrible , no good, very bad US Attorney for the District of Columbia also calls the DC police. The police respond only to the US Attorney, and kick the officials at the Institute of Peace out of their offices, allowing DOGE to enter. Say, what?

I don’t understand the Institute of Peace, which is a non-profit founded by Congress and funded by Congress. It claims that it is not part of the executive branch and that its employees are not government employees. Its directors are approved by the Senate, but include certain specified executive officials, like the Secretary of Defense.

Wouldn’t you think some process should have been undertaken to determine whether DOGE had any authority? This certainly was not an emergency. I think the police need to explain their actions.

The Institute of Peace website, interestingly, boldly states that their activities are consistent with the America First agenda. Weird. And what do they accomplish, anyway?

Speaking of peace, how is Donald doing? How are things looking in Ukraine and Gaza? Those were to be his easy fixes. But maybe he’s too busy bombing Yemen? That will work out well, I am sure.