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VIA, Kristin Hardy Passing it on. On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a US-based journalist and critic of Saudi Arabia's government, was strapped to a table and dismembered alive by Saudi Arabian henchmen. His blood curdling screams were broadcast to the outside world on his Apple Watch for the seven minutes it took to kill him. The next day, on October 3, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley privately drafted her resignation letter. (Thank you, Paula Cobia). Six days later, on October 9, she submitted it to a stunned public. No plausible explanation was offered for her sudden departure. It was not until October 12, a full ten days later after the brutal killing, that the world began to even learn of Khashoggi’s disappearance. It would take almost another full week after that for details of the gruesome ambush to publicly emerge. What is clear, is that the American government certainly knew of Khashoggi’s killing before we knew, and most certainly in advance of the murder itself. Yet in the following two weeks have saw nothing less than an absurd, obsequious public cover up from the president of the United States himself and top cabinet members for this gruesome ambush by the Saudi Arabian government of somebody Trump was certainly familiar with. Pat Robertson of the Evangelical community told his flock all the Trump talking points. That this man’s life and extrajudicial torture and assassination should not matter to us, because $100 billion is on the table in weaponry that the Saudis need to kill the Yemeni people with, and, as seems to be the new reality in Gotham, who could possibly know the truth anyway? The worst part of what is happening is not trump. It is trying to understand the millions of people who enabed this. The people who will send the same people back to let this continue while screaming about tyranny and the swamp and claiming some Orwellian moral high ground. I never thought a party could take a trillion dollars from the treasury for their wealthiest donors, steal Internet privacy as the new electronic gold, end net neutrality, blame the massive deficit not on their tax heist but on your Social Security and Medicare then promise to slash those if re-elected, sell junk insurance plans to tens of millions and seek to take away insurance from tens of millions of others, imprison children literally grabbed from parents who are then deported with NO MEANS of reunification, put a man on the supreme court sexual assault allegations be damned, and cover up a brutal murder for a dictatorial regime for no proffered reason except to allow that dictatorial regime to continue genocide in Yemen using the weapons we were selling them." Today’s GOP isn’t a political party so much as it is a crime syndicate with a flag. A hollowed-out husk of its former self, rubber-stamping whatever demands come down from the penthouse suites while feeding their base a daily buffet of rage-inducing nonsense to keep them too angry and distracted to notice their pockets are being picked. “Conservative” now translates roughly to: ethically allergic, reality-optional, and morally bankrupt with a side of fascism. It’s time—long past time—for the adults in the room to take the wheel. Because this isn’t governance. It’s a three-ring circus on fire, and the clowns are in charge. Every day is a new lowest day in America. Today is no different. It is difficult wondering what the bottom might be.