Chaos is a ladder.

The media should get used to reciting the serenity prayer because I’m not sure it really understands what it’s dealing with when it comes to Trump.

This piece on Bob Corker at The New Yorker starts to get to the heart of the matter:

raju: Is the President of the Untied States a liar?

corker: The President has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

raju: Do you regret supporting him in the election?

corker: Well, let’s just put it this way: I wouldn’t do that again.

raju: You wouldn’t support him again?

corker: No way. No way. I think he’s proven himself unable to rise to the occasion. I think many of us, me included, have tried to . . . I’ve intervened, I’ve had private dinner, I’ve been with him on multiple occasions to try to create some kind of aspirational approach, if you will, to the way he conducts himself. But I don’t think that that’s possible. He’s obviously not going to rise to the occasion as President.

raju: Do you think he is a role model to children in the United States?

corker: No, no, absolutely not . . . . When his term is over, I think, the debasing of our nation—the constant non-truth-telling, the name-calling—the debasement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for. And that’s regretful, and it affects young people. We have young people who for the fist time are watching a President stating absolute non-truths, non-stop, personalizing things in the way that he does. And it’s very sad for our nation.

raju: Do you trust him with access to the nuclear codes?

corker: I don’t want to go into . . . in our hearing process, certainly, we are gong to be addressing the fact that he, with only one other person on the defense side, has tremendous powers. Again, I don’t want to carry this much further. But, look, I expressed concerns a few weeks ago about his leadership, and . . . his stability, and the lack of desire to be competent on issues and understand. And nothing has changed. But, again, I don’t want to make this, you know, a daily issue. There is work that we need to do, and he is currently the person from the executive side that we have to deal with.

In other words, this is as good as he’s ever going to be. He’s not going to get more presidential by accurately reading the prewritten speech on a TelePrompTer. He doesn’t want to learn and he’s incapable of learning.

What you have here is an entropy machine. He’s there to introduce disorder into the system. It’s intentional. This is what his voters wanted. They want to upend the system and make the politicians bend to their will.

But that’s not how things actually work. More often, the powers that be will quickly seize on disorder to profit and restructure so as to make the emerging new system more accountable to themselves. Readers should check out The Shock Doctrine for a historical perspective on how this works and who stands to gain from it. (Well that didn’t take long in Puerto Rico)

There is no way to normalize Donald Trump. He’s delta S all over the place. Maybe no one intended for him to get into office. Maybe it was all fun and games and great ratings because he was just so fucking off the wall last year.

It wasn’t an act.

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I’m feeling a bit bad ass today. Let’s go with the Allman Brothers on the way home. It’s classic rock week at The Confluence. Put your favorites in the comments.