Well…just saw a little article that made me laugh out loud…as you know, there are investigations of trump and his cronies everywhere but it never dawned on me that everything trump is under investigation…yep, with the announcement yesterday that the trump inaugural is now under investigation, every damn thing that trump has touched in his life is now under investigation for criminal acts….let’s compare that to Nixon even…nope not everything Nixon touched was under investigation…not for money laundering, not for working with a foreign power to steal his election, not for looting his inauguration fund, not for having a fake charity that was used like a personal piggy bank….you get my drift…until now, Watergate was the worst political scandal in the history of the country but trump beat that out even before he was elected…or kinda elected…you know, for a while there, I thought trump was going to get away with it with the repubs conspiring with him to protect him from his criminality…but not now…he is already implicated in two felonies and will pay for them when he is out of office…and the new AG of New York is going to investigate everything trump as soon as she takes office in January….and, if there are no crimes there, I’ll shut this site down and go live in the woods like a hermit…and, there are no pardons that can save idiot boy from state crimes….is it too early to grin? Don’t think so…impeach…
December 14th
Well…running a bit late this morning and just can’t get moving…had luck going back to sleep after getting up for the first time at 5:04 so that puts me late but that’s okay…what the hell do I have to do? Had an okay day yesterday and a long bike ride and it looks like I’ll be able to do that again after the rain stops this morning…the trails were clear of ice yesterday…almost…so this should take care of the rest of it…it was nice to finally not have to think for every foot and get back to the mindless, thinking rides that I like…I did go over 3300 miles a couple of days back and now the goal is to finish the year strong and get to 3400 for the year…and that’s just on the new bike…I guess it’s not new if it has 3300 miles on it…I do need to work on the shifter since it’s still hanging up on the 6-7 shift but I think it’s just dirt so I’ll soak it in lube before I go out…didn’t get anything done yesterday but the grocery run…just can’t get motivated lately and I hope I can work through that today and get some general cleaning done…or not…who knows? More later….
Yow….what an afternoon for the idiot trump…
Well…just got caught up with the news from the afternoon after I finished watching soccer and all I can say is Yow! If yesterday with Cohen’s sentencing and the fact that trump directed two felonies was hard for the idiot boy…today was a gut punch with the revelation that the feds have a criminal investigation going of the trump inaugural and how the 107 million dollars they raised was spent and what part of that money was to buy access and get favors from trump and his cronies. This investigation has even drawn in trump’s wife since her best friend was paid 26 million dollars to “plan” some of the balls and events that were held…I wonder where that money went? Kickbacks to line trump’s pockets? Oh, and one tiny little detail came up in the mistress payoff, too…NBC news has just reported that they have proof trump was in the room when the payoffs were discussed…man, I can’t wait for the tweet storm from this one…how many more instances of criminality do we have to put up with before trump is impeached and locked up? Oh, one last thing that came up from one of the people who worked on the idiot boy’s tv show….trump was constantly snorting Adderal while doing the show…I wonder if that is why the idiot is so weird all the time? Geez…impeach this asshole already….
Grift doesn’t scale…
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…
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…