So who do they put up to replace him? More of the same. God help us.
Those of us that participate in street focussed martial arts with integrated weapons training from time to time discuss what to do during an entangled engagement when an opponent bites you? It certainly happens (LEOs are particularly aware of the possibility), is hard to train as few are willing to even lightly bite a training partner, yet there are anecdotes enough to suggest it's something one has to be ready to deal with.
There are various thoughts on the subject--people on the pointy end of the spear I've chatted with tell me thrusting a blade into an attacker's, generally a guard dog's--anus reliably inspires a pooch to release its grip. Where humans are concerned, thrusting the affected body part as deeply into the opponents mouth--you want a piece of me? Here you go, open wide--as possible makes the gag reflex kick in and gives the bitee a chance to escape.
Why am I rambling about this here? I've come to conclude we are entangled with so many nasty maws that the only thing that make sense is to push into them. "You all like insurrmountable debt? Fine by us; we want a border wall that works, a well supplied and trained military, an accountable election mechanism..." and every other pie in the sky tool or resource we can think of. "What's that you say, you want to create an unsustainable trans-gender benefit for those you can dupe into mutilating themselves to your political ends? Fine, we'll trade that for hot and cold running F-35s for every military unit that needs them, though we strongly believe our spending secures America's future while yours secures political points that serve few Americans while ensuring fiscal insolvancy looms."
"What's that you say, you want to fund grifters in the Ukraine so they can throw more of there population into a Russian buzzsaw as their territory and liklihood of a positive outcome continues to shrink? Fine, we demand full funding for our only reliable Mid-East allie, Israel. We think it's stupid to throw money at causes that do little to support American interests and critical that we fund those whose interests align with ours, particularly in this energy rich portion of the world, but you've created this stupid quid pro quo process, we think it will lead to a fiscal crisis sooner rather than later, but if you insist on it we will make sure our demands that serve American interests are part of the package and will make sure we let all Americans capable of critical thinking know how silly and ultimately self-destructive your program(s) is, but if this is the structure you insist on okay, we'll play."
At our current rate the crash is coming. As pulling away from it and allowing the lunatics run the asylum only brings us more of the same, it's time to get what we can when we can that serves post-crash America while loudly proclaiming at every turn what a bad idea the spending "Progressives" insist on in return for allowing programs that actually serve America and prepares it to survive the looming crash is. The best option? Hardly! But at this juncture with these lunatics at the wheel it's the only option there is.
