Mitt Romney apparently

Wrote his wife in for President in 2016 rather than vote for Donald Trump.  That is exactly the sort of feckless empty gesture I'd expect for the Former Viceroy, well parsed and inherently meaningless in a state like Utah where Trump racked up a solid 60% margin.

Seriously who does Mitt think he is kidding here? No wonder his GOP rival Mark Kennedy is smacking him around in their debates. Romney is a complete hypocrite how else to account for his eager solicitation of Trump's endorsement in 2012 and his subsequent rejection of said dangerous & debauched criminal in 2016?

If I was Kennedy I'd repeat this appalling contradiction at every campaign rally, Romney will literally melt before the primary electorate's eyes.

Likely Romney will win this one, but Ghod Almighty help this Republic if "Senator Romney" is ever called upon to render impeachment judgement on Donald Trump in the US Senate, Mitt will likely fake a heart attack and hide under his bed til it's over.

Separating an alleged 1,475 refugee children

From their parents, by force and "losing track" of the same, is pretty much the picture definition of terrorism in my books.
But, there is a purpose behind this terrorism and it's a malevolent one as well, Sessions & Trump are trying to create the fear of their families being forcibly broken up to divert them away from border. Its sick and demented but thats the terrorist playbook, whats worse is that this is clearly aimed dead center at political refugees who are literally fleeing for their lives. Trust me those alleged MS-13 gangsters aren't showing up with their newborns...
I'd like to say the Republic Has Hit Rock Bottom on this one, but that would be considered delusional optimism these days. No I will simply close by observing this is also more importantly setting an evil precedent that requires only a mere change to wording to be visited on US Citizens.

Thought Experiment

If the NFL Players wish to continue their protest, they need to get creative. I say the player's union should start loudly agitating for "open carry" rules on the sidelines. Force the NRA to come out on behalf of their Second Amendment Rights since no one wants to protect their First Amendment Rights. Then the players can "muster" during the National Anthem with M-1 Garand Carbines and Browning Automatic Rifles at Full Attention on the sidelines.
This whole sorry ass situation is fully the consequence of cowardly owners, dangerous wing nut activists looking to arrest other people's First Amendment Rights , gloaters, persecution trolls & their sundry enablers in the Opinion Industry. No one forces the fans to stand up, remove their hats and pipe down during the Anthem?
And if so, how is said policy enforced...armed biffsquads in the stands compelling respect for the anthem?
Are toilets being flushed during the anthem, if so that should stop as well.

Another school shooting down in Texas...

"eight to ten dead" as of this writing.

Soon enough the cry will go up to "harden the schools & homeschool the rest" then "arm the teachers" for a suitable idiotic climax.
I suppose we should be grateful that cry hasn't gone up to arm the students but don't kid yourself that'll get worked in the debate as we spiral down and down into more and more school shootings.
I say if arming the teachers ever becomes a reality the teacher unions need to get control of that process in order to ensure proper training & compensation...because training teachers to occupy and defend public buildings IS NOT good training for executing a "civilian coup " in DC or elsewhere.
No...it is not.
And yes I regret the snark but its all I have left.

As for the Late Iranian Agreement

it always a good example "making the best of a bad situation" nothing more.  Sanctions and covert action was SLOWING not stopping Iran's path to WMDs.  Even turtles, even determined enough, will struggle past a line given enough time, non-proliferation being an ongoing policy preference of the USA we were slowly approaching a situation where either we had to militarily intervene or invoke diplomacy. Thankfully we invoked diplomacy got the program dismantled and got the IAEA back on the ground in Iran (where they damn well belong believe me).
This was a sort of a diplomatic "Hobson's Choice", did we want a nuclear armed Iran that was then making turtle speed towards reliable ICBMs or a nuclear disarmed Iran that trying to build missiles all the same.  The short term problem to me at least, is the nukes, get those off the board and then set to work on a missile regime.
All diplomatic progress is culmulative and subject to fitful evolution, but if the nuclear "agreement" was a success it stood to reason that a missile agreement could be reached as well.
Alas the nuclear agreement has been denounced by the USA (with fateful consequences for our negotiations with North Korea as well) but at the bottom of that decision lies a conflict between two world views.
A rational realist world-view that asserts interests are defined by power, that intervention holds hidden costs and that captioned actors make reasonably rational decisions. The other view, the Trumpian view is that we are manipulated abused and persecuted by our negotiating partners, we must lash back to gain respect and assert power over our hated enemies. Its a child's view of the world, but then children are rarely rational and are much given to mendacity on the rocky road to adulthood.
And that view in turn is calling the shots in DC right now...if anything it'll do nothing but spark more proliferation not less...nukes, chemical weapons, biological warfare the whole unholy menu.
Lastly, breaking the agreement fractures NATO, compels the European signatories to renegotiate (if possible) in reduced circumstances, introduces new cross cutting sanctions and worst of all hands a shit ton of soft power and leverage to Moscow and Peking.  John Bolton is talking tough now, but wait until Putin makes a State Visit to Tehran...that'll make the Whole World Gasp.

I wanna thank the US Supreme. Court

For fecklessly legalizing Sports Gambling in all fifty states and or territories yesterday, the state legislators from Honolulu to Bangor turning cartwheels imaging vast new taxation dimensions and even vaster sources of campaign contribution.
Oh THANK YOU Tenuous Libertarian Social Engineers on the Supreme Court you've put local bar room bookmakers out of business and have likely put the fix in for every on-line gambling outfit from Shanghai to Moscow.
This is my problem with libertarianism (an ideological blight equal to Bolshevism IMHO) in its pure form, nobody says no to ANYTHING, literally society doesn't exist so we must never ever try and rationally calculate cost versus benefits.
But there they go, libertarians they have the answer seemingly to everything and the power (however long it lasts) to make us all the lab rats in their holy mission to remake the nation in their twitchy image.

Mitt Romney got all Brave Yesterday

and denounced the Rev Robert Jeffress as a "religious bigot".  Jeffress was selected to "bless" the new US Embassy in Jerusalem and he has the usual low opinion of Jew, Muslims and ...wait for ir...Mormons.
So of course when its his ox getting gored, Mitt Squawks Mightily...Another line of inquiry might start with why a Dingbat Protestant Minister is "blessing" a public building in Israel unless is merely "cheap heat" for apocalyptic xian cultists.
Y'know Mitt Romney has been making bad bargains with the likes of Robert Jeffress all his natural life, if they lay off his faith he'll give them the Eschaton, if he'd a been elected President Romney would have happily moved the Embassy to the Moon if it appeased the Sky Grifters. Jeffress simply refused the bargain so to speak and thus Mitt's injured outrage.
Never let it be said that the Former Governor of Massachusetts wasn't willing to treble down on Hypocrisy when necessary, oh I wish Utah The Joy of Him, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.