I know this is very serious excrement, but I propose we lighten the mood with some hyperbolic predictions and questions and see if anyone comes even close to the eventual truth.
Plane(? Planes) at Mira-a Lago, fueled and ready. Who is allowed and who is left behind? Melania(aka Red Sparrow) would certainly have her own Putin jetliner. Iv…
I know this is very serious excrement, but I propose we lighten the mood with some hyperbolic predictions and questions and see if anyone comes even close to the eventual truth.
Plane(? Planes) at Mira-a Lago, fueled and ready. Who is allowed and who is left behind? Melania(aka Red Sparrow) would certainly have her own Putin jetliner. Ivanka and Jared must be contemplating calling Liz Cheney for a deal. Leave Eric behind with the rest of the baggage. And how fast is Guilfoyle going to give back that ring(is it appraised?).
Importantly, do the Russians living in Trump Tower leave now? Does anyone in Trump properties continue to pay rent or fees? Are there sudden job vacancies at Deutsche Bank?
Are these documents the reason for Pompeo's weight loss? And where is Lindsey Graham? Is Stephen Miller calling Lukashenko about asylum? Where is William Barr?
Does the Secret Service detail with djt have an endless supply of burner phones recording conversations? And pics? Any undercover FBI agents feeding info to Attorney General Garland? Super secret Special Prosecutor and Special Grand Jury?
How many quiet divorce papers are being filed by Republican spouses?
Ok, early morning stream of consciousness palaver. Sorry if anyone is offended.
None of your ramblings would even be surprising...that is the pathetic state of affairs in our body politic. We are living out a movie that no studio would have ever made made because the script was so insanely stupid. Put nothing past a leader who would let Sidney Powell guide him. Or Steven Miller. Or Rudy. Or the other Steve. Or Roger (not the rabbit).
I actually suspect that Rupert Murdoch has been orchestrating everything from a mansion in Australia. After infesting his home nation, he put Boris in charge of the UK. Then he was bored and he hired O'Reilly, Hannity and then Carlson to run the US via the puppet called Trump. I bet Rupert and Putin have Zoom drinks together and laugh at how gullible and dumb Americans are.
It is as if an asylum released all it's inmates and they simply walked into the White House.
Very unfortunately, this is not a movie, but is all too reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s, and of Russia after the revolution there, and even Russia today. After Putin was made president for life, Trump said he liked that idea. He was dead serious. Trump, the MAGAs and nearly all Republicans in Congress, and in America, want to run America as they see fit, and they have no remorse for January 6. Whatever it takes to take over America is what they they are willing to attempt. We know this, because of how they treat January 6. They wish it had succeeded. Otherwise, they'd be howling for criminal prosecutions of the instigators, Trump on down. I was in a deposition yesterday with a young lady attorney who is proud she worked in the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney Generals Jeff Sessions and William Barr. She is a Trumper. She is very smart, but I wonder if her soul is even engaged with her body and her mind? I am in my 80th year. What happens in America won't affect me all that much longer, but it will affect my children and their families. The entire world should shudder over an America run by the hard right, who are convinced God is on their side.
@ Sloan Bashinsky, Since 2008 I have proposed that Republicans have envisioned a government that will do away with pesky Democracy; I call it Fascism 2.0. In point of fact my substack exposes this over 80 process of embracing Nazi and Christian Nationalism (Christo-Fascism) which always, includes a powerful unfettered Capitalism. If my line of reasoning is of interest lemme know and I’ll point you to my work.
Boy, have you been reading my mind. Proof that propaganda not only works, but can ensnare all kinds of disaffected know-nothings into a coalesced group of evil. And, they don't even know they are evil. Definition of a cult it seems. And the Rupert evil has been spewed non-stop for decades. The inmates have truly taken over the asylum and are attracting more and more "fairness" adherents, trying to "both sides" crazy and sane. Yes, Rupert and Vlad are laughing their arses off. Makes my blood boil to see intelligent people lap up the treasonous pap.
Loved this. I needed a bit of humor after reading today’s letter. It’s appalling to find ever more convincingly just how close we came to the unthinkable. And now Mitch McConnell claims the voting rights act would be government over-reach? Of course he also claims that Black Americans can vote as easily as Americans. Talk about Hoo, boy.
Let’s not forget that McConnell let Trump get away with all of it in two impeachments. His wife cut and ran at the very end so she didn’t have to sign the 25A. I bet they’re deep in.
I didn’t think so when I learned she would be one of the people to sign for 25A. McConnell is far from clean no matter how much he gives speeches that make him look good. If you follow his actions and wonder how he keeps getting re-elected with such low ratings it’s strange. Plus he doesn’t care about the people of Kentucky. They are in real trouble in so many ways with massive opioid addictions and lousy education.
Bill these are interesting--and amusing--speculations but the operative here re: all of the marriages probably going bust is that if Guilfoyle dumps Trumpette she and he both are open to subpoenas and requirements to testify against each other. The deal with Trumpette is likely that they will marry as quickly as possible to stave off that little issue. Same goes for the Ghastly Ones' wives. Miz Lindsey is out on a limb because he doesn't have a tame vagina to cover his ass (sorry for the pun, but the problem is not that he doesn't have a "beard" as this person is usually called in female-centered circles but a "wife" to hide behind)--his toy boyz are probably keeping files and files of stuff they use as guarantees that he won't throw any of them under the bus.
I am sure there are below-the-surface levels of this iceberg we have no clue about. But I am also sure this is going to get interesting. And since Gorsuch clearly has an agenda that he needs public support to enact (threatening Sotomayor's health by refusing to wear a mask, for instance) he probably knows that jumping on the insurrection bandwagon won't help him.
Gaetz married most likely because he figured the Florida law of wife can’t testify would help him, but didn’t think it through that former “romantic” partners could. An ex-girlfriend has already been given immunity for her testimony. My guess is Trumpette has a string of ex’s willing to sing … unless they had to sign NDAs. 🙄
The ones that make the male medical students in the class acutely uncomfortable and fill the female medical students with glee are the ones where I lecture on ancient and medieval medicine. It's all about wandering wombs (aka "hysteria" from the Greek word for uterus) and menstruation as a form of disease. Two things we still have to deal with in the medical and cultural communities not surprisingly. I admit I love giving those lectures.
I’m currently reading Democracy In Chains (Nancy McClean) 😡 . I find it necessary to intersperse my “heavy” reading with humor so yours, and Hiassen’s are much appreciated !
Love Carl Hiassen’s books. Wasn’t aware of Squeeze Me. As you say, just the levity needed to intersperse with all the heavy reading these days. Thanks for the recommendation!
I downloaded the audio version on Libby this morning and listened for an hour while on the treadmill. So entertaining! I’ll sit by my husband with my headphones on as he watches tv sports this afternoon. 😁
Thanks much for mentioning Hiassen's "Squeeze Me." I hadn't heard of it. His novels are incredibly good medicine for me. When I feel down, I pull out my copy of "Stormy Weather" and begin to put things in perspective. Hiassen is beyond funny and talented--he's a national treasure. I'll get a copy of "Squeeze Me" today. It will help me decompress a bit.
Democracy in Chains - McClean’s work is essential, and wow she held up under a right wing hit job to discredit her. But the naked truth tends to prevail in these things.
Cynthia - if you have access to a Public Library do your town and yourself a good turn and get the book in paper OR as an ebook… If you then want to retain the book as reference then buy.
As I write I am listening to a audible 'sample' of 'Democracy in Chains', (and I'm about halfway through 'Squeeze Me'). Is D in C really good? The number of books in my 'shopping cart' gets fuller every day!)
where would they fly to? Russia might take them, but they will end up in a Gulag someplace...iDiJiT is of no use to Putin now...a gulag would be too good for them. Saudi Arabia might be an option, but then Melania would have to cover up that beautiful plastic surgery face. Perhaps the pilot will load just a enough fuel to get them over the ocean, put on his parachute and ditch the lot of them.
Melania won’t go with them. She will return to her handlers that set her up with Trump years ago. The Chinese aren’t the only ones who play the long game on spying.
Bill - I have thought about this possibility for months now - and hope it does come to fruition. I wonder just how far it will reach. Is Jim Jordan “smart” enough to have fear?
Based on all this Independent former practicing attorney reads, sees on TV, on Facebook and hears in personal conversations, in the main, Republicans and their MAGA siblings could care less what the rest of America, and the rest of the world, think about January 6. What they care about is making sure they retake the White House and all of Congress at the ballot box, and from all I am seeing and hearing, they are making serious progress in that direction. It may well be that the only way to stop them is for Donald Trump to be seized and put on one of Elon Musk's rockets and deported to Mars, as the wheels of justice, perhaps should be in quotation marks, might move a tad too slow to to prevent Trump from being reelected again. And to prevent him from inciting the same folks and intimidating Republicans in office who do now bow down and kiss his feet. Even as I recently saw on CNN, Erin Burnett, that President Biden's approval rating had dropped to 33 percent, and among Independents, it had dropped to 25 percent. I'm among the 75 percent, who am not impressed with Biden's 1st year in the White House, but I for sure won't vote for Trump or Mike Pence, but I might vote for Elizabeth Cheney.
Sloan, You are right. Like Hitler and other despots they want the legitimacy of elections to give cover to the fact that they rigged them. Unless you figure that 37% of the voting electorate is actually 70% or higher.
At the rate revelations on the plot are being exposed to daylight I’m thinking that ultimately (maybe before 2002) that Biden will declare that he has to stop the plot and work thought the details under a State of National Emergency. My further prediction is that Milley and Generals supportive of the Constitution are removing the traitors from the ranks.
I know scary, but everyone thought I lacked credulity on the 2008 meltdown of which I was 8 months ahead, They also looked at me like I was talking about Harry Potter over the Bush/Cheney WMD fiasco, when I said the whole thing was yet another play to get rich on oil with American blood. Finally, I was spot on about the genuine coup (which is still in progress toward plan B)
But, it’s like this. The plotters are stopped or I’ll see you soon a Texas border combined deportation and reeducation camp. Not a joke.
I think Biden should have begun right away, based on the raw film footage of Trump and the Jan 6 mob, and Mitch McConnell's instant condemnation of Trump, to have Trump seized and held in a high security undisclosed federal detention center, without bail, because of the very clear and present danger he then was to America.
I have no idea what Miley, etc. are doing with a U.S Military that probably is 50 percent +- pro Trump.
I doubt the Heilers intend to deport the non-Heilers and the south of the border immigrant workers, because they need them to keep the American economic machinery working. Imagine America with no Democrats paying taxes and no Hispanic immigrants doing manual labor?
I missed the 2008 meltdown, but was told in a dream that year, by Archangel Michael, that Barack Obama had the potential to be the AntiChrist, which he proved shortly after being sworn in by accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace while waging the 2 Bush-Cheney right white men for profit war$: Afghanistan and Iraq.
Looks to me Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as a running mate was unfortunate, as she seems to be a very young girl in a grown up body.
I don’t have a real bone to pick with your reply. I really am amazed that Biden did not use the PEADs (Presidential Emergency Action Directives) to “lock him up” especially since Trump and his Minions were only a step away in doing the same thing to Biden, based on the exposed planning documents and Power Points now in the hands of the 1/6/21 Committee. I think a lot had to do with fear of going into an immediate Lebanese Civil War. An outcome that I think gives far too much credit to the coordinating abilities of the Fascist Far Right.
I guess the real % of Officers that would support a right wing coup is at present going to remain a mystery. My rule of thumb is to apply what I’ve called the “37% rule.” That seems to crop up in virtually any gauge of support for Fascism in almost any issue before us.
My observation about illegal immigrants is that they play the same function as did immigrant Jews fleeing Russia to live in 1920’s and 30’s Germany as a political foil to feed meat to the Base.
Oh, I assure you were Trump to achieve his coup and/or a return to Fascist rule in 2024 that the economics of our nation will be just fine, as you may recall the trains ran on time in Italy under Mussolini.
Capitalism and Fascism are not and never were enemies and in fact both will take a back seat to the return of Fedualism by 2050 at the rate things are going.
You're a riot, for real :-). Meanwhile, Trump and his Heilers conveniently ignore his own hand-picked Attorney General William Barr said there was no voter/election fraud. Not belonging to a political party (rhymes with religion, cult, etc.) is liberating 😎.
Barr - I think giving DOJ legal sanction to a coup de’tat per his script for 1/6/21 and taking the fall when it failed (Trump always pushes his minions under the bus) was a bridge too far. It wasn’t that he didn’t love the idea, but his finger prints would definitely be all over the murder weapon.
Looked to me Barr threw himself under the bus, when he said there was no voter/election fraud. Thanks for link to your substack. I went there and left a long comment under your Onward Christian Soldiers post. I started a substack, but that was about as far as it went. For years, I have published at a blog, which mostly is just me shooting off my mouth so I can hear myself :-). afoolsworkneverends.blogspot.com
Sloan, I will check out your work. Your commentary and views make me wonder if we weren't separated at birth. A bit tied up this day, but will be back to give feedback.
By the way, I have developed the view, which the angels on my case seem to favor, that JFK, MLK and RFK were killed because they opposed a war in Vietnam. Look today at the furor from the right over President Biden pulling America out of the Afghanistan war, even though he simply was doing what President Trump had said he was going to do. There was no way to get out of Afghanistan cleanly, even as there was no way to get out of the Vietnam war cleanly.
That comment was on my mind when I turned in around midnight and again on my mind when I woke about 6 a.m. today. So, I wrote up my view of the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. Then I got my wish: to go back to sleep, as I was thinking of two times I had jolting revelations about the Vietnam war. In my sleep, and man, whose voice I did not recognize, asked me, "Can you continue?" I woke up, thought about the two jolting revelations, thought the voice might be yours, and fell back asleep again, and dreamed about something else going on in my life. I get lots of information and direction and correction in dreams.
Anyway, the two jolting Vietnam war revelations:
(1) In mid-1988, my father invited me to attended a Downtown Birmingham Rotary Club luncheon with him. This was a top shelf club, its members prominent or children of prominent members. The guest speaker was the CEO (or President or Executive Director) of the National Geographic. His topic was "Getting to Know Our Neighbors." He said the Geographic had come to think many conflicts between nations were caused, at least in part, by people not knowing much about people in other countries. He said a study had revealed that 95 percent of American high school and college students could not locate Vietnam on a map.
After the speaker finished his talk, he invited questions, The first question was, "Did the Geographic have a position on the Vietnam war?" The speaker said the Geographic had correspondents in Saigon, where there was a huge street demonstration of people carrying posters begging America to save them. The posters were in English . That demonstration was seen all over America television news. It swung American sentiment from against to for American military intervention in South Vietnam.
The speaker said the Geographic's correspondents spoke Vietnamese and French and they interviewed many of the demonstrators, who said they had been paid money by the Saigon government to demonstrate and carry the posters They did not speak English and did not know what was on the posters or why they were demonstrating. The speaker said the Geographic did some digging and learned the money for the demonstration had been paid by American corporations and the U.S. Government.
You could have heard a pin drop in the Rotary Club. Many of the older members, including my father, were WW II combat veterans. My father look like he was going to throw up. He had never liked the Vietnam war. He said nothing about it the, nor during the drive back to where he had picked me up to go to the luncheon with him. He never spoked of it later.
(2) In the spring of 2005, I joined a "Seekers" group, who met weekly in a Unitarian Church in Key West. The church minister, who just happened to be from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, attended each meeting. There were about ten of us. We talked about on and of-off beat topics.
One day, a fellow maybe 10 years my senior, said he had worked for the CIA and was stationed with a CIA team in South Vietnam when the French were trying to retake Vietnam and regain access to its rubber trees and other national recourses. Although publicly the American government was backing France, his team's mission was to help Ho Chi Minh beat the French, so America could have access to Vietnam's rubber trees and other natural resources. He said that Ho wanted to do business with America, but in the end America wanted too much. Not caring at all for Communist China, Ho sought the Soviet Union's help.
I sat in my chair waiting on a response from the other group members. No one said anything. I asked, "Did you hear what he just said?" There was no response. It was like being among the walking dead. Seekers? That older man and I became somewhat friends. He received copies of my shootings off of my mouth. We bumped into each other every now and then in Key West. Sometimes I retold that on my blog. Last year, a Key west reader of the blog told me he knew the same man, who had told him the same story with a lot more details.
I read in my Apple newsfeed this morning articles about President Biden saying he will not send American troops into Ukraine, if Russia invades that country. I do truly hope Biden sticks his position. There also also news talk of very heavy economic sanctions, which would wreak havoc inside of Russia and perhaps backfire on Biden politically, upheave the stock markets, and get massive cyber counter attacks from Russia and Russia stop sending Western Europe natural gas and oil, and world oil prices will skyrocket. Perhaps instead, Biden just freezes the bank and securities accounts (Magnitsky Act) of all Russian nationals in America and deports them back to Mother Russia post haste, if Putiin invades Ukraine? The other Mafias in America would love that!
Hilarious. Should I pray for you? No rush on getting back to me. Used your and my musings in my blog posts yesterday (Not belonging to a political party, rhymes with religion, cult, etc., is liberating 😎) and today (When you start a new country with an evil such as human slavery driving much of its economy, there is going to be karma playing out around that for quite a while, if not longer).
wow...I am with you up to 'voting for liz cheney'! Actually, she blows my mind...in a real good way...but I have to pull myself back from time to time when I remember her views on everything else...
After reading HCR's letter (and before reading this comment), I felt that my prediction from before the election - that the Trump family would board their big jet and take off for places unknown but safe from U.S. prisons - had belatedly acquired ia heightened liklihood of actually happening. Coincidently, an article in todays NYT may provide an opportunity for the departing family. An island off the northwest coast of England is advertising for a king. There's even an old castle on the island. This king would manage the local pub and manage the island grass and rocks. His backgropund in the hospitality industry may provide excellent support his application. The "King of Piel" is cusomarily inaugurated, while sitting on an old chair while wearing a rusty helmet and holding a sword, by having a gallon of beer dumped on his head. Seeems fitting!
Have been reflecting on this past year. And coming to decision on whether to go for second run for school board seat. Have been working with other candidate since new maps edge me out of District that is best district for me. But consensus wants my name in there. Will have to decide what’s best soon.
Ya know back in 2016 when I was doing “org charts” of all the Russian Mafioso and agents that were using Trump Tower and The Taj casino to launder billions… well those were more innocent times. But, I appreciate these insights and invite you to share your insight on these Q’s
I know this is very serious excrement, but I propose we lighten the mood with some hyperbolic predictions and questions and see if anyone comes even close to the eventual truth.
Plane(? Planes) at Mira-a Lago, fueled and ready. Who is allowed and who is left behind? Melania(aka Red Sparrow) would certainly have her own Putin jetliner. Ivanka and Jared must be contemplating calling Liz Cheney for a deal. Leave Eric behind with the rest of the baggage. And how fast is Guilfoyle going to give back that ring(is it appraised?).
Importantly, do the Russians living in Trump Tower leave now? Does anyone in Trump properties continue to pay rent or fees? Are there sudden job vacancies at Deutsche Bank?
Are these documents the reason for Pompeo's weight loss? And where is Lindsey Graham? Is Stephen Miller calling Lukashenko about asylum? Where is William Barr?
Does the Secret Service detail with djt have an endless supply of burner phones recording conversations? And pics? Any undercover FBI agents feeding info to Attorney General Garland? Super secret Special Prosecutor and Special Grand Jury?
How many quiet divorce papers are being filed by Republican spouses?
Ok, early morning stream of consciousness palaver. Sorry if anyone is offended.
None of your ramblings would even be surprising...that is the pathetic state of affairs in our body politic. We are living out a movie that no studio would have ever made made because the script was so insanely stupid. Put nothing past a leader who would let Sidney Powell guide him. Or Steven Miller. Or Rudy. Or the other Steve. Or Roger (not the rabbit).
I actually suspect that Rupert Murdoch has been orchestrating everything from a mansion in Australia. After infesting his home nation, he put Boris in charge of the UK. Then he was bored and he hired O'Reilly, Hannity and then Carlson to run the US via the puppet called Trump. I bet Rupert and Putin have Zoom drinks together and laugh at how gullible and dumb Americans are.
It is as if an asylum released all it's inmates and they simply walked into the White House.
It is inexplicable.
Very unfortunately, this is not a movie, but is all too reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s, and of Russia after the revolution there, and even Russia today. After Putin was made president for life, Trump said he liked that idea. He was dead serious. Trump, the MAGAs and nearly all Republicans in Congress, and in America, want to run America as they see fit, and they have no remorse for January 6. Whatever it takes to take over America is what they they are willing to attempt. We know this, because of how they treat January 6. They wish it had succeeded. Otherwise, they'd be howling for criminal prosecutions of the instigators, Trump on down. I was in a deposition yesterday with a young lady attorney who is proud she worked in the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney Generals Jeff Sessions and William Barr. She is a Trumper. She is very smart, but I wonder if her soul is even engaged with her body and her mind? I am in my 80th year. What happens in America won't affect me all that much longer, but it will affect my children and their families. The entire world should shudder over an America run by the hard right, who are convinced God is on their side.
@ Sloan Bashinsky, Since 2008 I have proposed that Republicans have envisioned a government that will do away with pesky Democracy; I call it Fascism 2.0. In point of fact my substack exposes this over 80 process of embracing Nazi and Christian Nationalism (Christo-Fascism) which always, includes a powerful unfettered Capitalism. If my line of reasoning is of interest lemme know and I’ll point you to my work.
Heil!
King of Hearts
https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_King_of_Hearts?id=2ECjQEYC0To.P&hl=en&gl=US
Well said!!
I think I am gonna crown you "Bulls-eye Bill"
Boy, have you been reading my mind. Proof that propaganda not only works, but can ensnare all kinds of disaffected know-nothings into a coalesced group of evil. And, they don't even know they are evil. Definition of a cult it seems. And the Rupert evil has been spewed non-stop for decades. The inmates have truly taken over the asylum and are attracting more and more "fairness" adherents, trying to "both sides" crazy and sane. Yes, Rupert and Vlad are laughing their arses off. Makes my blood boil to see intelligent people lap up the treasonous pap.
Intelligent?
Amazing how people can twist and shout to make bull schitt pile up nicely and to their satisfaction
And in God's name, in so many cases :-)
Loved this. I needed a bit of humor after reading today’s letter. It’s appalling to find ever more convincingly just how close we came to the unthinkable. And now Mitch McConnell claims the voting rights act would be government over-reach? Of course he also claims that Black Americans can vote as easily as Americans. Talk about Hoo, boy.
Let’s not forget that McConnell let Trump get away with all of it in two impeachments. His wife cut and ran at the very end so she didn’t have to sign the 25A. I bet they’re deep in.
Kentucky benefitted from McConnell’s wife having decision powers in her role as Transportation Secretary. It was interesting that she cut and run.
I didn’t think so when I learned she would be one of the people to sign for 25A. McConnell is far from clean no matter how much he gives speeches that make him look good. If you follow his actions and wonder how he keeps getting re-elected with such low ratings it’s strange. Plus he doesn’t care about the people of Kentucky. They are in real trouble in so many ways with massive opioid addictions and lousy education.
Hmm, might his elections actually be the results of questionable maneuverings? https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/
exactly!
What about "Chinese-Americans?" Personally, I know of one that is a disservice to America.
If only Americans could vote as easily as Russians can in this country…
Stephen, you've got to the heart of the matter!
And good morning to you Lynell!
Love this!
You win today!
Bill these are interesting--and amusing--speculations but the operative here re: all of the marriages probably going bust is that if Guilfoyle dumps Trumpette she and he both are open to subpoenas and requirements to testify against each other. The deal with Trumpette is likely that they will marry as quickly as possible to stave off that little issue. Same goes for the Ghastly Ones' wives. Miz Lindsey is out on a limb because he doesn't have a tame vagina to cover his ass (sorry for the pun, but the problem is not that he doesn't have a "beard" as this person is usually called in female-centered circles but a "wife" to hide behind)--his toy boyz are probably keeping files and files of stuff they use as guarantees that he won't throw any of them under the bus.
I am sure there are below-the-surface levels of this iceberg we have no clue about. But I am also sure this is going to get interesting. And since Gorsuch clearly has an agenda that he needs public support to enact (threatening Sotomayor's health by refusing to wear a mask, for instance) he probably knows that jumping on the insurrection bandwagon won't help him.
You nailed Lindsey 👍
Linda I love it when you let loose
Hi Roland! Nice to have you back!
Gaetz married most likely because he figured the Florida law of wife can’t testify would help him, but didn’t think it through that former “romantic” partners could. An ex-girlfriend has already been given immunity for her testimony. My guess is Trumpette has a string of ex’s willing to sing … unless they had to sign NDAs. 🙄
Ugh...the NDAs...I forgot about that! no no no no!!!
Wow! Definitely ahead of the curve thinking! Thanks for the good work.
Wow! What are your medieval history lectures like?
The ones that make the male medical students in the class acutely uncomfortable and fill the female medical students with glee are the ones where I lecture on ancient and medieval medicine. It's all about wandering wombs (aka "hysteria" from the Greek word for uterus) and menstruation as a form of disease. Two things we still have to deal with in the medical and cultural communities not surprisingly. I admit I love giving those lectures.
I would kill to be a fly on the wall!!
Loved it, no offense taken except Melania should be referred to as Mockingbird.
TFG is Mastadon. Lindsey Graham is a Potussy?😂
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50644565-squeeze-me
I’m currently reading Democracy In Chains (Nancy McClean) 😡 . I find it necessary to intersperse my “heavy” reading with humor so yours, and Hiassen’s are much appreciated !
Love Carl Hiassen’s books. Wasn’t aware of Squeeze Me. As you say, just the levity needed to intersperse with all the heavy reading these days. Thanks for the recommendation!
I just downloaded the book!
I downloaded the audio version on Libby this morning and listened for an hour while on the treadmill. So entertaining! I’ll sit by my husband with my headphones on as he watches tv sports this afternoon. 😁
Ha! Wait, don’t tell me… football!!! I am about to start it! Report back here upon completion!❤️
Yup. Football when it’s cold. Golf when it’s hot. Lots of opportunity for reading. Will get back to you when I finish.
I am flying through this book! It was JUST what I needed!) Thanks!
Thanks much for mentioning Hiassen's "Squeeze Me." I hadn't heard of it. His novels are incredibly good medicine for me. When I feel down, I pull out my copy of "Stormy Weather" and begin to put things in perspective. Hiassen is beyond funny and talented--he's a national treasure. I'll get a copy of "Squeeze Me" today. It will help me decompress a bit.
Democracy in Chains - McClean’s work is essential, and wow she held up under a right wing hit job to discredit her. But the naked truth tends to prevail in these things.
tell me more!?
Cynthia - if you have access to a Public Library do your town and yourself a good turn and get the book in paper OR as an ebook… If you then want to retain the book as reference then buy.
As I write I am listening to a audible 'sample' of 'Democracy in Chains', (and I'm about halfway through 'Squeeze Me'). Is D in C really good? The number of books in my 'shopping cart' gets fuller every day!)
where would they fly to? Russia might take them, but they will end up in a Gulag someplace...iDiJiT is of no use to Putin now...a gulag would be too good for them. Saudi Arabia might be an option, but then Melania would have to cover up that beautiful plastic surgery face. Perhaps the pilot will load just a enough fuel to get them over the ocean, put on his parachute and ditch the lot of them.
I think they'll just move to a Caribbean island with golf courses but no extradition obligations.
Epstein island?
Haha!
Melania won’t go with them. She will return to her handlers that set her up with Trump years ago. The Chinese aren’t the only ones who play the long game on spying.
Yay
Actually you expounded on my single thought of wondering when chump would fly off!
Bill - I have thought about this possibility for months now - and hope it does come to fruition. I wonder just how far it will reach. Is Jim Jordan “smart” enough to have fear?
He’s going to be squirming around before long… he may not be smart, but all mammals at least have instincts!
Wow! You will shortly receive a plum job offer from National Enquirer! 🤣
Oh, you mean Trump’s one time journal of record - How quickly we forget. ;-)
Offended? Quite not. I love some early morning slapstick comedy.
Based on all this Independent former practicing attorney reads, sees on TV, on Facebook and hears in personal conversations, in the main, Republicans and their MAGA siblings could care less what the rest of America, and the rest of the world, think about January 6. What they care about is making sure they retake the White House and all of Congress at the ballot box, and from all I am seeing and hearing, they are making serious progress in that direction. It may well be that the only way to stop them is for Donald Trump to be seized and put on one of Elon Musk's rockets and deported to Mars, as the wheels of justice, perhaps should be in quotation marks, might move a tad too slow to to prevent Trump from being reelected again. And to prevent him from inciting the same folks and intimidating Republicans in office who do now bow down and kiss his feet. Even as I recently saw on CNN, Erin Burnett, that President Biden's approval rating had dropped to 33 percent, and among Independents, it had dropped to 25 percent. I'm among the 75 percent, who am not impressed with Biden's 1st year in the White House, but I for sure won't vote for Trump or Mike Pence, but I might vote for Elizabeth Cheney.
Sloan, You are right. Like Hitler and other despots they want the legitimacy of elections to give cover to the fact that they rigged them. Unless you figure that 37% of the voting electorate is actually 70% or higher.
At the rate revelations on the plot are being exposed to daylight I’m thinking that ultimately (maybe before 2002) that Biden will declare that he has to stop the plot and work thought the details under a State of National Emergency. My further prediction is that Milley and Generals supportive of the Constitution are removing the traitors from the ranks.
I know scary, but everyone thought I lacked credulity on the 2008 meltdown of which I was 8 months ahead, They also looked at me like I was talking about Harry Potter over the Bush/Cheney WMD fiasco, when I said the whole thing was yet another play to get rich on oil with American blood. Finally, I was spot on about the genuine coup (which is still in progress toward plan B)
But, it’s like this. The plotters are stopped or I’ll see you soon a Texas border combined deportation and reeducation camp. Not a joke.
I think Biden should have begun right away, based on the raw film footage of Trump and the Jan 6 mob, and Mitch McConnell's instant condemnation of Trump, to have Trump seized and held in a high security undisclosed federal detention center, without bail, because of the very clear and present danger he then was to America.
I have no idea what Miley, etc. are doing with a U.S Military that probably is 50 percent +- pro Trump.
I doubt the Heilers intend to deport the non-Heilers and the south of the border immigrant workers, because they need them to keep the American economic machinery working. Imagine America with no Democrats paying taxes and no Hispanic immigrants doing manual labor?
I missed the 2008 meltdown, but was told in a dream that year, by Archangel Michael, that Barack Obama had the potential to be the AntiChrist, which he proved shortly after being sworn in by accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace while waging the 2 Bush-Cheney right white men for profit war$: Afghanistan and Iraq.
Looks to me Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as a running mate was unfortunate, as she seems to be a very young girl in a grown up body.
I don’t have a real bone to pick with your reply. I really am amazed that Biden did not use the PEADs (Presidential Emergency Action Directives) to “lock him up” especially since Trump and his Minions were only a step away in doing the same thing to Biden, based on the exposed planning documents and Power Points now in the hands of the 1/6/21 Committee. I think a lot had to do with fear of going into an immediate Lebanese Civil War. An outcome that I think gives far too much credit to the coordinating abilities of the Fascist Far Right.
I guess the real % of Officers that would support a right wing coup is at present going to remain a mystery. My rule of thumb is to apply what I’ve called the “37% rule.” That seems to crop up in virtually any gauge of support for Fascism in almost any issue before us.
My observation about illegal immigrants is that they play the same function as did immigrant Jews fleeing Russia to live in 1920’s and 30’s Germany as a political foil to feed meat to the Base.
Oh, I assure you were Trump to achieve his coup and/or a return to Fascist rule in 2024 that the economics of our nation will be just fine, as you may recall the trains ran on time in Italy under Mussolini.
Capitalism and Fascism are not and never were enemies and in fact both will take a back seat to the return of Fedualism by 2050 at the rate things are going.
You're a riot, for real :-). Meanwhile, Trump and his Heilers conveniently ignore his own hand-picked Attorney General William Barr said there was no voter/election fraud. Not belonging to a political party (rhymes with religion, cult, etc.) is liberating 😎.
Barr - I think giving DOJ legal sanction to a coup de’tat per his script for 1/6/21 and taking the fall when it failed (Trump always pushes his minions under the bus) was a bridge too far. It wasn’t that he didn’t love the idea, but his finger prints would definitely be all over the murder weapon.
PS here’s my substack: https://olflawriduhcracker.substack.com/p/onward-christian-soldiers?r=38b45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Looked to me Barr threw himself under the bus, when he said there was no voter/election fraud. Thanks for link to your substack. I went there and left a long comment under your Onward Christian Soldiers post. I started a substack, but that was about as far as it went. For years, I have published at a blog, which mostly is just me shooting off my mouth so I can hear myself :-). afoolsworkneverends.blogspot.com
Sloan, I will check out your work. Your commentary and views make me wonder if we weren't separated at birth. A bit tied up this day, but will be back to give feedback.
By the way, I have developed the view, which the angels on my case seem to favor, that JFK, MLK and RFK were killed because they opposed a war in Vietnam. Look today at the furor from the right over President Biden pulling America out of the Afghanistan war, even though he simply was doing what President Trump had said he was going to do. There was no way to get out of Afghanistan cleanly, even as there was no way to get out of the Vietnam war cleanly.
That comment was on my mind when I turned in around midnight and again on my mind when I woke about 6 a.m. today. So, I wrote up my view of the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. Then I got my wish: to go back to sleep, as I was thinking of two times I had jolting revelations about the Vietnam war. In my sleep, and man, whose voice I did not recognize, asked me, "Can you continue?" I woke up, thought about the two jolting revelations, thought the voice might be yours, and fell back asleep again, and dreamed about something else going on in my life. I get lots of information and direction and correction in dreams.
Anyway, the two jolting Vietnam war revelations:
(1) In mid-1988, my father invited me to attended a Downtown Birmingham Rotary Club luncheon with him. This was a top shelf club, its members prominent or children of prominent members. The guest speaker was the CEO (or President or Executive Director) of the National Geographic. His topic was "Getting to Know Our Neighbors." He said the Geographic had come to think many conflicts between nations were caused, at least in part, by people not knowing much about people in other countries. He said a study had revealed that 95 percent of American high school and college students could not locate Vietnam on a map.
After the speaker finished his talk, he invited questions, The first question was, "Did the Geographic have a position on the Vietnam war?" The speaker said the Geographic had correspondents in Saigon, where there was a huge street demonstration of people carrying posters begging America to save them. The posters were in English . That demonstration was seen all over America television news. It swung American sentiment from against to for American military intervention in South Vietnam.
The speaker said the Geographic's correspondents spoke Vietnamese and French and they interviewed many of the demonstrators, who said they had been paid money by the Saigon government to demonstrate and carry the posters They did not speak English and did not know what was on the posters or why they were demonstrating. The speaker said the Geographic did some digging and learned the money for the demonstration had been paid by American corporations and the U.S. Government.
You could have heard a pin drop in the Rotary Club. Many of the older members, including my father, were WW II combat veterans. My father look like he was going to throw up. He had never liked the Vietnam war. He said nothing about it the, nor during the drive back to where he had picked me up to go to the luncheon with him. He never spoked of it later.
(2) In the spring of 2005, I joined a "Seekers" group, who met weekly in a Unitarian Church in Key West. The church minister, who just happened to be from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, attended each meeting. There were about ten of us. We talked about on and of-off beat topics.
One day, a fellow maybe 10 years my senior, said he had worked for the CIA and was stationed with a CIA team in South Vietnam when the French were trying to retake Vietnam and regain access to its rubber trees and other national recourses. Although publicly the American government was backing France, his team's mission was to help Ho Chi Minh beat the French, so America could have access to Vietnam's rubber trees and other natural resources. He said that Ho wanted to do business with America, but in the end America wanted too much. Not caring at all for Communist China, Ho sought the Soviet Union's help.
I sat in my chair waiting on a response from the other group members. No one said anything. I asked, "Did you hear what he just said?" There was no response. It was like being among the walking dead. Seekers? That older man and I became somewhat friends. He received copies of my shootings off of my mouth. We bumped into each other every now and then in Key West. Sometimes I retold that on my blog. Last year, a Key west reader of the blog told me he knew the same man, who had told him the same story with a lot more details.
I read in my Apple newsfeed this morning articles about President Biden saying he will not send American troops into Ukraine, if Russia invades that country. I do truly hope Biden sticks his position. There also also news talk of very heavy economic sanctions, which would wreak havoc inside of Russia and perhaps backfire on Biden politically, upheave the stock markets, and get massive cyber counter attacks from Russia and Russia stop sending Western Europe natural gas and oil, and world oil prices will skyrocket. Perhaps instead, Biden just freezes the bank and securities accounts (Magnitsky Act) of all Russian nationals in America and deports them back to Mother Russia post haste, if Putiin invades Ukraine? The other Mafias in America would love that!
Hilarious. Should I pray for you? No rush on getting back to me. Used your and my musings in my blog posts yesterday (Not belonging to a political party, rhymes with religion, cult, etc., is liberating 😎) and today (When you start a new country with an evil such as human slavery driving much of its economy, there is going to be karma playing out around that for quite a while, if not longer).
wow...I am with you up to 'voting for liz cheney'! Actually, she blows my mind...in a real good way...but I have to pull myself back from time to time when I remember her views on everything else...
And her daddy was seriously bad news, but would you rather have her in the White House than Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Ron deSantis, etc. etc.?
Yes...I get that...
Does Guilofoyle regret not rushing to have a wedding in the White House? Now, that would absolutely take me down!
‘How sweet it is! ❤️
And a must reason for future daddy-in-law not to ever reside in the WH ever again!
After reading HCR's letter (and before reading this comment), I felt that my prediction from before the election - that the Trump family would board their big jet and take off for places unknown but safe from U.S. prisons - had belatedly acquired ia heightened liklihood of actually happening. Coincidently, an article in todays NYT may provide an opportunity for the departing family. An island off the northwest coast of England is advertising for a king. There's even an old castle on the island. This king would manage the local pub and manage the island grass and rocks. His backgropund in the hospitality industry may provide excellent support his application. The "King of Piel" is cusomarily inaugurated, while sitting on an old chair while wearing a rusty helmet and holding a sword, by having a gallon of beer dumped on his head. Seeems fitting!
Hilarious. Thank you.
Morning Fab. How are you?
Morning Christine. I'm ab fab and you?
Ab Fab was my favorite show in the early 1990's - it was totally off the rails as only the Brits can do!
It was a fantastic show!!
I never heard of "ab fab" before. I'm glad you and Christine are.
Have been reflecting on this past year. And coming to decision on whether to go for second run for school board seat. Have been working with other candidate since new maps edge me out of District that is best district for me. But consensus wants my name in there. Will have to decide what’s best soon.
On the contrary, I love it.
Will take any scintilla of levity possible on this. Thanks
Ya know back in 2016 when I was doing “org charts” of all the Russian Mafioso and agents that were using Trump Tower and The Taj casino to launder billions… well those were more innocent times. But, I appreciate these insights and invite you to share your insight on these Q’s