The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Well, it’s definitely been a relief to spend a week or so detoxifying from politics. You take the ‘cure’ in Wisconsin, they substitute sports for methadone and the Green Bay Packers for Donald Trump. Part of the reason I left the Badger State in the first place back in ’76, a happy adios to deer hunting and the Posse Comitatus. Still, when you have nearly overdosed repeatedly on the news and there’s no Narcan for political junkies, a tonic of football and walks in the Driftless Area prairies isn’t the worst substitute. Course, now I’m back on the needle.

An addict could feel like Rip Van Winkle gone cold turkey to come home to the latest batch of outrages. Our Fearless Leader has obviously gone rogue, looks like to this asylum seeker. He admits he’s asking foreign countries to meddle in the next election, all to the good so long as it benefits himself. He figures, I guess, that Uncle Joe is going to be his opponent so naturally he’s looking for mud. I was sitting with a Republican friend — and yeah, I know, I’m consorting with the enemy, but if you have as few friends as I do, you’ll take what you can get. Last night he was defending his President against those unfounded charges by those mean and nasty Democrats. “What about Biden and his kid?” he kept asking. “How did the kid get a job that paid a fortune with a Ukrainian oil company, huh?”

I said the same way most of our lobbyists get theirs, parlaying their connections or their previous jobs in the government. I don’t like it but it isn’t illegal. Asking the Ukrainians to dig up dirt, well, sir, that’s a slightly different issue and we won’t even mention Biden and the boy haven’t been shown to have done anything wrong.

What we got here is the usual tactic when wrongdoing is discovered. Deny deny deny … until they get the goods, then attack attack attack. Go after Biden, smear Schiff, mock Pelosi. Worked for the Mueller Report.

My buddy is like a drug pusher for politics, sets your teeth on edge and forces you to fact check the internet to see if you’ve completely lost your grip on reality. Which, judging by the news overdose I got the last couple days, either I have or else the country has gone crazy. Sure gonna miss those Packers….

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