As a child, there was a particularly difficult lesson for me to learn. Mom used to say that I'd been vaccinated with a phonograph needle, because I was a very talkative child. The truth of the matter was that somewhere, deep down inside, I was convinced that if I did not give voice to each and every random thought that crossed my adolescent mind, some sort of mental backup would occur, and that as a result, eventually, my head might simply explode.
When it is worthwhile to speak, and when it might be more advisable to remain silent, is a lesson that all of us must learn, sooner or later. I tend to believe that for me, it happened later than for most - I was at least 12 or 13, possibly older, before I came to appreciate the value of NOT talking. I also imagine that if I'd been born into a very wealthy family, with servants and toadies and people who get paid for telling the kids how smart they are, it might have taken even longer.
But if the past few weeks are any judge, this is a lesson that has yet to be learned by our current *resident. He apparently has never HAD to learn it. You see, the way I learned the value of self-censorship was by saying things that got me into some sort of trouble with someone or other. People tend to be much less inclined to respond with anger (or even to simply indicate disagreement) to the words of a man of great wealth. For the greater portion of his life, crooked donnie has been able to say whatever he feels like, whenever he feels like saying it, with no, or minimal, blowback.
I recall that there was a certain type of person who mistrusted President Obama specifically because he chose his words so carefully. Well, I hope those folks are happy, now that we have a chief executive who rarely takes the time to choose his words at all. He constantly puts the mouth in gear without first engaging the brain, he freely gave code-word national security information to enemies of the state, and he has now revealed the name of a mass-murder suspect to the press without the permission of the investigators. He's even gone as far as freely admitting, out loud, that he's obstructed justice — on more than one occasion.
This is what we've done, America - we've put a man who lacks the necessary judgement to keep his fat yap shut in order to save his own skin in the most powerful office in the free world. SAD - very sad.