Well…I think one of the biggest mistakes that the idiot trump made in trying to use his petty grifting tactics that worked in NY on a worldwide basis is the fact that grift doesn’t scale…what I mean by that is the sleazy two-bit scams that worked so well in NY where everyone knew trump was just that…a two-bit grifter don’t translate to a national or a world stage since the environment is different…it was just an acceptable part of the NY real estate market that scams abounded and that regulators could be bought off for what is peanuts to the scammers…as evidenced by Jared and Ivanka getting bought out of a few felony counts of lying to investors by a 25K donation to the New York county district attorney who, against the advice of the team investigating the scam, dropped the charges against them. Since he got away with everything his entire life, it follows that trump would think the same thing would happen after he was installed as president by Putin…but, then reality intervened in the guise of people who still think that the law needs to be followed and there needs to be a respect for the rule of law…and now, trump and his kids and anyone else in his crooked sphere are in the spotlight and are in real trouble….there was a quote from someone that I read yesterday that sums it up…”no one comes away from trump’s orbit unscathed”…and that would be a great epitaph for his tombstone…impeach…
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Meltdown in real time….
Well…with the revelations from the Cohen sentencing whacking the idiot boy upside the head and the fact that the parent of the Enquirer has been granted immunity to tell everything they know about trump and his criminality (prosecutors now have the contents of the “trump safe” that held all the worst stuff that he Enquirer found out about trump over time), we are seen a meltdown of trump in real time today and I am not going to lie, I am loving this crap. Just today, idiot boy returned to his wall and in the span of 15 minutes said that he would shut down the government if he didn’t get funding for his wall, then Mexico was going pay for the wall in the new version of NAFTA, and then that most of the wall has already been built and has stopped 7,000 terrorists at the Mexican border. Whew…is anyone else exhausted with just hearing of idiot boy’s delusions? Look, let’s put all of this playing to his base in context…it’s all he has left…he is going to trial after his term is up in 2020…that is a fact that appears to be finally sinking in and this mornings tweets trying to minimize the severity of lawbreaking in campaign finance violations show his panic is starting to be all consuming…and the reports from inside the WH that he is a ranting hot mess further show that he is melting down in real time…man, I’d like to throw a little gas on that fire and help him along the road to ruin….although he doesn’t need any help there…impeach…
December 13th
Well…running really early for a Thursday but I was up early so I thought I’d get this done before the grocery run instead of after…I’ve been good for a few days now and it feels okay to wake up with a little energy…but, just a little bit, I won’t have coffee until after I get back so that jolt will have to wait…my BP machine croaked yesterday so I’m not sure what it is this morning…and it was so cheap that it costs less to just buy another one than to send it back for warranty replacement….so, I’ll probably do that today since I got used to checking my BP every day…it was never really too high so maybe I can wait a bit….I really do need to remember to take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike again today…did that yesterday and was not sore at all after the ride and that was welcome after how I’ve been creaking around here lately…didn’t get much done yesterday other than screwing around with some equipment but I am going to clean today and recycle some newspapers and will feel good if I do get that done…more later…
Cohen confirmed…
Well….a topic has finally fallen into my lap this afternoon and it is kind of a shocker….the parent company of the National Enquirer and it’s president, David Pecker, escaped prosecution today for conspiring with the trump campaign to silence one of the women whom trump had an affair with to affect the outcome of the election. This blows up the repub talking point that there was only Cohen lying that trump and his campaign broke the law by paying off these women to stay quiet until after the election…now the first piece of corroborating evidence was made public and yes, trump did commit two felonies by paying off these women…and the interesting thing is that the SDNY has decided that the cooperation that Pecker and the company has given was so valuable that they will face no charges for these crimes…this is called flipping, donnie, and it is going to bring you down…but one thing we have to remember is that this news makes it less likely that idiot boy will resign since being president is the only thing shielding him from an immediate perp walk for these two felonies that Michael Cohen is going to prison for…for 3 long years…and this is just the tip of the iceberg for trump…the meat of the Mueller investigation is still to come along with the SDNY investigation into money laundering that is currently ongoing….there is no way the idiot avoids prison…it’s just a matter of time….impeach…
Can’t find a topic…
Well…have been looking for a topic since I got off the bike but with little luck…nothing seems interesting right now and there really isn’t anything going on other than the Cohen sentencing and that is still in progress so that’s no help…and I’m tired of hearing from or about the idiot boy so that’s out, too…okay….I’ll take one more run out to twitter and see if there is anything there…okay…this is one thing I want to comment on about idiot boy and his belief that people would “revolt” if he is ever impeached…and the immediate word that came into my head was “rejoice” if he is ever impeached…the delusion is strong in this one to quote Yoda…okay, this one isn’t going anywhere so I’m going to stop before I permanently bore you….more later…
December 12th
Well…trying to get started today and am having only a little luck doing it…just got started on coffee so that is not working yet but I hope it starts soon…slept okay but tossed a lot…okay, not going to talk about that…it’s just boring to me even so I guess it would be to you, too…not as sore today as I was yesterday but I am still going to take something for it before I get on the bike…had a nice ride yesterday but the trails are not melting as fast as I expected…it’s annoying to have to be so careful for all the ice and snow and I hope the rain that is coming in a couple of days will clear them…it looks like I’ll get to 3400 miles for the year if the weather holds and I can get out every day for the rest of the month…not a bad year…I did get out to run some errands yesterday and got some kielbasa from my daily deals store…this stuff is almost healthy with no nitrites or any other preservatives that are bad for you in it…and it even tastes good…a bonus….not much to do today…not sure if I’m going to clean or not but the kitchen needs it….more later….
Trump has his ass handed to him…
Well…it was quite a spectacle a couple of hours ago when the idiot trump invited Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to the WH to discuss legislation to keep the government open…I am still laughing that idiot boy wanted the meeting to be covered live and he thought he could bully Pelosi and Schumer to get the damn wall since he was able to do that to Paul Ryan and the rest of the repubs he has had to deal with…when he started his usual schtick of going on and on that the wall is needed to keep the country safe and that he would shut down the government if he didn’t get funding, Schumer basically said go for it and Pelosi made it clear that she understood that he couldn’t get funding for the wall passed even in current repub controlled House…and trump continued to bluster that he could get funding passed “in a minute” if he wanted to…sounding like a little kid caught in a boast that he knew was a lie and then reverted to bragging that the repubs “won” the senate..to which Schumer replied “when the president brags that he won Indiana and North Dakota, he’s in real trouble” and then manuevered trump into accepting that if the government shuts down it’s his fault…all this while Pence sat there looking like he’d rather be anywhere else and trying to stay awake…the fact is that trump is facing people who know how government works and are tougher than nails and he has no clue how to do anything but bully and bluster and lie….and he had his ass handed to him…this could be a great show…impeach…
The NRA is done…
Well…with the news that the Russian spy Maria Buttina is changing her plea from not guilty to guilty and is cooperating with the FBI, the NRA is done. If you didn’t read about this one, during the 2016 election, Buttina did her best to insinuate herself into the NRA to use the NRA as a money funnel to the trump campaign…with the NRA spending almost 3 times what they have ever spent on a presidential election…and the money came from an arm of the NRA that didn’t have to disclose it’s donors…again, something that had never happened before. Buttina’s handler in this whole spy operation (and it has all of the hallmarks of a Russian spy operation) was Alexander Torshin, who is a close ally of Putin’s and sits on the board of Russia’s central bank….and someone who had access to all the money he needed to funnel to the NRA. Oh, a twist to this story is that, after it was revealed that Buttina was going to flip, Torshin “retired” from his roles in government in Russia and has disappeared…or Putin has disappeared him to try to sever the ties back to him and the Russian government. Tomorrow is going to be the day that Buttina is heading back to court to change her plea so there should be some more details coming…on thing we can’t forget is that Don Jr. met with Torshin and Buttina at some conference in DC during the campaign…I wonder what that was about? Impeach….
December 11th
Well…so much for sleeping in…up again at 5:34 this morning and didn’t sleep well at all…and I am sore from getting back on the bike…I wonder if the pain has anything to do with not sleeping? Had a pretty good day yesterday with getting out of here for a while to shoot pool…which I won for the first time in 3 weeks and the drive out and back was fun, too…okay, that’s how boring my life has become that the highlight is driving my car for a while…Tom did give me some of the best corn bread I’ve ever had…it is so fine grained that it does look like pound cake and very tasty…going to have some of that with my coffee in a few minutes….got a bike ride in yesterday but the trails are still treacherous in spots and they my be worse today with the little thaw and re freezing from yesterday….and that makes it a lot of work…my hands were cramped like crazy by the time I got back here so I think I’ll take something for it before I get out today…and that will be a soon as the sun comes up since it is 33 and I can take that….didn’t get anything done yesterday but running a couple of errands but I do need to at least try cleaning a little today…oh, I did get the dishes run and some laundry, too so I guess that is something…more later….
Remember this…
Well…with the idiot trump bleating that the information included in the court filings against two of his cronies “exonerated” him…we just need to remember this…even with only the un-redacted parts of these filings in view, which is less than 20% of the total document pages, trump is implicated in at least two felonies already and there are still many, many investigations ongoing that are turning up much more damning information if these document are any indication. The ones filed last week only deal with the campaign finance violations, not the profiting off the presidency or the bribes that the Saudis are still sending his and Kushner’s way, or the entire Russian conspiracy to steal the election for trump and the many, many counts of perjury and obstruction of justice that have yet to be filed…so, the idiot boy’s delusional thoughts that he is in the clear are going to be exploded in the coming months and they will have the “smocking” gun (as trump tweets) that puts him in prison for the rest of his life…impeach…