Scorched Earth?

 Evil had a scent, bitter and pungent, like the scorched earth after a forest fire. I'd been living with the stench long enough to recognize it anywhere. - Author: Lisa Kessler

Peaceful Transition?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Russia was “pretty clearly” behind the largest cybersecurity breach Washington has ever seen.

The comment, made almost as an aside to a conservative radio show host, was the first time the Trump administration went on the record to blame the Kremlin for the recent hacking that infiltrated dozens of government and private systems.

But because President Trump has 30 days left in office, national security officials say the U.S. response will likely fall to President-elect Joe Biden. That became even more clear when Mr. Trump insisted on Twitter that “everything is well under control” and suggested that it might have been China rather than Russia that carried out the hack.

And given the intensity of the attack, it may be months before Mr. Biden can trust the systems that run much of Washington. -NY Times People who know what they are talking about say it is most likely the Russians, but not Trump. Is it to provide cover for Putin? Is it vindictiveness by Trump?  Both?  The craziness doesn't end. It just one more episode in a never ending stream of crazy. Friday night at the White House, there was talk of sedition. Flynn and others are urging Trump to declare martial law to overturn the election. Is Trump capable of sinking so low as to destroy our Republic? Consider this... Hillary Clinton recalled the 2017 Inauguration in a 2019 interview,  "I had hoped to hear Trump make an attempt to reach out to non-supporters." “I hoped I would hear a little of that, I didn’t hear any of that. And that carnage in the street and the dark dystopian vision. I was sitting there like just, wow. I couldn’t believe it. And George W. Bush says to me, ‘Well, that was some weird shit,’” she recalled. We've gone way beyond weird to dangerous.