Turbulence

These are the times and this is my record of the times.  

Ever since Hurricane Zeta dropped a massive tree on my house in October 2020, I've been monitoring the U.S. Weather Service's National Hurricane Center website on a daily basis.  It's been a quiet year (so far) with only three named storms (so far), but no fewer than three systems are currently being tracked by the NHC.  Of particular note, a broad area of low pressure over the central Atlantic (the orange X above) is producing a large cloudy area of disorganized showers. Gradual development of this system is expected over the next several days and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week. The disturbance is forecast to move slowly toward the west and then west-northwest at 5 to 10 mph, toward the adjacent waters of the northern Leeward Islands. No word yet on when it will reach Atlanta.

These are turbulent times and not just meteorologically. In other news beyond the weather, political consultant Simon Rosenberg points out that just in the past couple of months alone:

1. Former one-term "president" Trump apprently stole national secrets and then lied to the FBI about it.


2. Trump's CFO pled guilty to 15 felonies. 


3. Trump himself took the fifth 440 times in an investigation into his crooked finances. 


4. The Jan 6th committee established that Trump led a massive illegal conspiracy involving hundreds of GOP officials and sought to overturn an American election, unleashing a violent attack on Congress as part of its strategy. 


5. The Trump family took $2Billion from the Saudi government, and launched a new business venture with them here in the U.S. 


6. The Supreme Court went on an extremist field day, ending Roe, legalizing coercive prayer, and weakening common sense guns laws. 


7. Numerous states passed medieval abortion restrictions, creating a public health crisis in the United States. 


8. A leading Republican organization brought Putin's closest ally in Europe, Hungary's Viktor Orban, to the U.S. while our Ukranian allies are fighting Putin to defend their homeland. 


9. There were more mass shootings. 


10. Election deniers have won GOP primaries across the country. Some of them will get elected this fall. 


11. Liz Cheney lost her primary to an absolute fucking lunatic. 


12. Trump has encouraged violence against the FBI and DOJ and attacks have already taken place. 

"It's been a tornado of malevolence and venality unlike anything we've seen in American history," Rosenberg concludes.