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Day 844

April 30, 2019 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 844 Tuesday April 30, 2019

552 Days to the 2020 election and 630 Days to Inauguration Day

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Nothing to Say It’s True! QED

As a high school student I remember being interested in two periods of American history and wondering how they related to the present day. I wondered if we were in a cycle where these two periods would reappear, and if so, what should we do if and when they did reappear. Those two periods were The Great Depression and the period of corruption around the administration of Ulysses S. Grant. 

Grant had been a successful general. Maybe not so much due to his brilliance on the battlefield as his tenacity. That and the fact that there had been so many truly bad military leaders before him. But what I remember about the Grant presidency was that he would leave the White House, go across the street to the hotel and read the newspaper. I guess he saved the country the cost of the paper by reading the hotel’s copy. It was known by some that he would do this and they hung out in the lobby waiting for him so they could bend his ear and ask favors. Hence, the term lobbyists. (We should be thankful for that because if it had waited until this era the term would be much different, and like our times, much more vulgar. It turns out that Bill Gates can’t even take a piss without someone pitching him an investment idea. He has a security staff that blocks anyone else from going into the bathroom while Bill is in there. Imagine if he didn’t have his security team do that? And imagine if in Grant’s time we didn’t coin the term “lobbyist”? What would we have? Pissers. You heard me. Hum, I kind of like that, “so and so was convicted of being an unregistered pisser…” It’s got a nice – well, hum – “ring” to it. Kind of like when you really have to go and that first stream hits the dry bowl. Never mind. I digress.)

In high school I thought the 1880s through to the 1920s and then 30s was a bleak time in our country and the world: Grant’s corruption, the robber barons, WWI, The great Depression, fascism. The only bright spot was the roaring twenties that ended in a huge thud on Black Friday. I wondered if the rising problems in Vietnam and the civil unrest it prompted as well as rising health care costs via what seemed a rigged system and politicians inability or unwillingness to deal with inflation were not a harbinger of another similar cycle that we were on the cusp of it beginning again.

I still wonder. We seem to be trying to break through the wave crashing on the shore and hoping that calm waters lie beyond, but the reality seems to be even bigger waves that suck all the water up into them and would leave us on a bare sandbar to be pounded into that sand as the bigger waved crashed upon the bar. (Okay, every analogy suffers at some point and this one didn’t take long for it to happen.)

There seem to be basic patterns in human history that shape the outcome at any particular point in time of a civilization. Why does a political entity succeed or fail? Failure seems to be rooted in not understanding how or why something can fail. Ayn Rand repeatedly wrote, “Check your assumptions. One of them is wrong.” One that point I have to agree with the old gal. The problem is, “Which assumption?” (I liken this to the folks who want to sell you penny stock screening programs. Their pitch is that on any given day a number of stocks double in value. If you invested in those stocks the day before that happened you’d be rich in no time. The problem is there are so many stocks and so few doubles. The stock screener sales people claim to have a program that will tell you what those stocks are.  They don’t. Of course or they’d be using them.) 

If we go back and look at history several things jump out at me in this regard. A failure of a political entity comes from not knowing, or not dealing, with something. This or assuming things would stay the same (I.e. always be there):

The Roman Republic’s people became complacent because in their lifetime the republic had always been there, until it wasn’t. (I’ve heard similar things with the rise of Hitler. People in Germany knew he was crazy, but didn’t try to act until it was too late.)

Constantinople had stood for centuries as a bulwark against invasion into Europe so it was thought that it always would, because it had. However, in those centuries there was a back and forth phenomena. The land owners (the rich) and the priests (the influencers) would team up to rig the rules in their favor. When they got enough power they would change the tax laws so they paid little or no taxes. This put the burden on the middle class: the workers and the shop keepers. What did those workers and shop keepers do? They left town. They literally “took to the hills.” The middle class disappeared. The city faltered and finally a new administration would come in, clean up the mess, until people weren’t paying attention and the land owners and priests would sneak into power again. Constantinople finally fell when they decided not to pay a young man who had this idea of a canon. A canon that shot an 800 pound ball of stone. Boom. End of a civilization and a way of life. 

Interestingly what did the city in, before that, was the ginned up feeling in Europe that the city was not a team player, not on their side, and people stopped supporting it. This was caused by a crusade. Yup, the Christian crusades were the social media campaign of its day that soured folks on supporting what was in their best interest. Instead of supporting the city they attacked it. There was a fellow named Peter the Hermit, a priest. He wandered around Europe gathering every hanger on and starving person promising them great salvation and riches if they followed him to the holy lands to take it back for Christianity. At the same time the jews were blamed and slaughtered in Europe. When Peter’s rag tag mob showed up in Constantinople they demanded food and arms and everything else. Why they thought the city would do this was based on some vague idea that they should. The city didn’t have the resources or the interest in doing this, but let the mob pass through. Guess what happened? I mean what happens when a street mob meets a professional fighting force? Yeah, surprise. They got their asses kicked and the rest of Europe blamed Constantinople. Left unsupported and roiled by internal conflict the city couldn’t rise to defend itself adequately and fell to the Ottomans. Then everyone in Europe was shocked. Kind of like Notre Dame burning.

“People don’t know what they’ve got til it’s gone…” Joni 

The Roman Republic fell because folks were tired of the corruption and let a strong man take over. Sure they were concerned, but the republic had always been there in their time so surely it would survive. Surprise, it didn’t. Their system of government scaled up to a certain point and then became unmanageable. The idea was that you elected two men to serve for a year, then you had another election. Once the empire got so large that a year wasn’t enough time to wander off and do something great to get you elected again, things fell apart.

The Roman Empire suffered a similar fate*. It’s politicians and populace decided to ignore the threat posed to them by an invading army. They killed the man who said we have to do something. Then when they were on the verge of being wiped out they cried.

 

The United States goes through cycles. There have been cycles of boom and bust brought on by greed and over confidence. Much of this has been tamped down by having a central banking system. Before then it was much worse. There are also cycles of addiction too, notably to cocaine and heroin. I suspect a few other drugs will enter that pantheon. There also are cycles of political thinking. This is often viewed as conservative versus progressive or left versus right. The underlying thinking seems based on beliefs about human behavior and fear.

The fear seems to be a sense that someone is getting something for nothing. However, those who believe that seem to also think it’s slick to get something for nothing, to learn to play the system, which they deem okay for themselves but a travesty if someone else does it. The belief side of this seems to be a sense of how a person will behave in a given situation. The conservative mindset seems to be not only a fear of someone getting something they don’t deserve, but a sense that if people don’t earn it for themselves they won’t appreciate it, and therefore should be made to struggle. While a more progressive mindset is the thinking that the system is rigged and folks need a helping hand to overcome the inequalities built into the system. They tend to believe more in the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats while a conservative seems more of the mindset of “I got my boat off the beach and you can too if you work hard.” (I’m trying to be positive here.)

I recently asked some of my conservative friends what they believed in. I never got an answer to that question. The first round brought a “Here’s what the left believes and why that’s no good,” and the second attempt got a “when government gives hand-outs over a certain percentage of (wealth? tax revenue? GDP? something) then the country is in decline and everything will go to hell.” Both arguments are based in fear. Yes, there’s a point along an economic curve where if you go too far (in whatever it is) the underlying premise no longer holds. I always liked “the backward bending curve of labor,” which basically states that a person will continue to work in 24 hour period longer hours as long as you pay them enough, but at some point they will say no, because no matter how much you offer they need to sleep. (Hence the backward bend.) The Lafler curve was another one that I liked because it really didn’t work in the general case and perhaps in certain extremes it would, but Lafler tried to apply it to the general case where it didn’t work at all and hence Reaganomics was shit. 

I would posit that an economy and a political entity do better when everyone is involved. 

I would guess that few would argue that point. Where the argument comes in, is how to achieve that state and what does it mean? Also, how willing are you to work to achieve it? What if it means giving someone help? One could argue that by giving someone help they aren’t earning it and therefore won’t appreciate it because they didn’t struggle. The other side of that argument is that people that are down and out need some help. What form that should take and how much is the question. In the case of the very rich, they believe they are entitled to the help in the form of tax breaks. In the case of the very rich’s attitude toward everyone else, it’s dog eat dog and good luck. If you’re poor or if you are struggling then any help you get is typically appreciated. It’s hard to worry about altruism when you’re struggling to breath. Also, it’s hard to worry if someone else is getting more than you when you are drowning.

552 Days to the 2020 election and 630 Days to Inauguration Day

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Day 841

April 28, 2019 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 841 Saturday April 28, 2019

555 Days to the 2020 election and 633 Days to Inauguration Day

It’s been a week since my last screed and it seems like forever. I’ve been busy with a Mayan workshop and then symposium. It’s been refreshing to be away from the maddening madness. I started my re-entry last night where I scrolled through Facebook posts for longer than I’d like to admit. Then I got an email from one of my right wing friends’ buddies who asked the question, “Isn’t there someone better than Trump to represent the right’s values?”

I have to ask, “What are those values?”

I see none. Whatever “they” have claimed to stand for they have proved in the face of Trumpism that they don’t. Tax cuts? Only for the wealthy, we have to pay the rest. Fiscal responsibility? Please. Steve Mnuchin just had to borrow another $1,000,000,000,000.00 to make ends meet for this year, and that goes on top of the  $1,000,000,000,000.00 he borrowed last year. 

Conservatism as in “conserving out resources”? Once again Trump is letting every oil and gas man drill wherever they want and to throw their sludge in our rivers. Chemicals? Dump in the river, cover them up. Forget about it. 

So what are these right’s values? 

In a stunning display of the right’s values the courts in Kansas held up a woman’s right to say what goes on with her body. For them individual rights trump some religious nonsense, which has been getting foisted off on the general public under the name of pro-life, which should really be called pro-death and personal destruction, but somehow pro-life sounds better.

The right is really good at putting labels on things, like “right to work.” This little goodie means “We have the right to fire anyone for any reason and there ain’t stink you can do about it.” 

Then there’s the old “socialism” yell. As far as I can figure out if there’s a suggestion to help the public it’s socialism. This isn’t my idea. It’s Harry Truman’s. 

Well, that’s all for this week. I’ve got to get ready for a workshop on the glyphs of Ek Balam. After four or more years of looking and studying this stuff it’s starting to make sense. Which means I will be able to go on and on and on about them if you ask me.

555 Days to the 2020 election and 633 Days to Inauguration Day

PS Maya at the Lago glyph 

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Day 834

April 20, 2019 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Candy Vending Machine with the words "Freedom Fighter" on the front
Freedom Fighter

Day 834 Saturday April 20, 2019

562 Days to the 2020 election and 640 Days to Inauguration Day

Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow is Easter. I’m never sure what the Saturday in between is, but here we are.

I have many thoughts on the Mueller Report (Redacted) but before I go there I’d like to step back and look at a bigger picture. Russia interfered in our last presidential election, so the media reports. That is an understatement. They carried out an act of war against our country. They were aided and abetted by Paul Manafort the campaign chairman of the Trump campaign. Manafort gave them polling data and in one instance told his contact that the campaign needed help in several key swing states. The Russians carried out a social media attack campaign in those states and Trump won those states with less than a 1% margin. The total that he won four swing states that gave him the presidency was less than 72,000 votes. Does anyone believe that a targeted media campaign didn’t swing that many votes? 

In other words, the Russians installed their man as our president. Let us not forget that fact. A Manchurian candidate is in the White House and he is running our country into the ground.

Now, onto the Mueller Report.

Everyone should read this report.

I had begun to read it two days ago. I stopped at the Table of Contents to Volume I. I was struck by the items listed in the table. “How could it be that this is not obstruction?” was my question to myself. that was my first impression.

The first paragraph lays out that Russia systematically attacked our election process. 

I have read very little beyond that. I did look at all the pages and went to a section that had a huge redaction near it. Oh boy. I can’t remember exactly what I read around there, but I was struck by all the stuff we’ve been reading and hearing for months is in the report, but with more specificity. (That is, unless you are watching Fox News then you are getting an entirely different story to what the facts are as laid out in the report.) 

I will go into detail in the coming screeds as I read more.

However, I’ve watched several news shows on this topic and I am struck by all the different bits and angles that these shows are bringing up. None of them the same. Many have concentrated on Barr and his antics. Ya gotta wonder what his deal is. It shows me one thing, if you get close to Trump you will be forever tarnished, not that Barr, imho, had much of a reputation to tarnish, but some believed “he was a good lawyer” etc. Well, you can forget that line. He’s a toady for Trump. (Hey, maybe that can be a sign to hold up at the next Trump rally? “TOADIES FOR TRUMP” )

The incredible outright lying by the Attorney General was not only shocking, but sad and disheartening. This wasn’t a case of looking at something in a slightly different light. This was outright lying. Why? Well, there’s all that talk about “getting out in front of the story” and “framing the narrative.” Maybe, Barr did that. For Trump? Why? He’s the AG of the U.S. not DT. Oh wait. There’s been a change? No? Then WTF?

However, people are now reading the report. It’s 448 pages in two volumes. The second volume is 180 pages and it lays out 12 or 14 cases of Trump’s obstructing the investigation, which is Obstruction of Justice. But Mueller wouldn’t call it that, because well shucks, the poor president can’t be charged according to a memo (not a law – a memo!) and because he can’t be charged it just wouldn’t be right to charge him because he can’t defend himself in a court of law. So we’ll let him use his bully pulpit, and Twitter, and Fox News, and all the rest of the right wing crapola to say he’s innocent and that there was no collusion and no obstruction when Mueller has laid out instance after instance of Trump doing just that: conspiring, colluding, and obstructing. This isn’t subtle stuff. It’s mostly in the public record before Mueller listed it, but Mueller has it corroborated with sworn testimony and verified paper trails. 

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders went on Fox and had people overwhelmingly liking what he was proposing over what Trump and the Republicans are doing. Next week Amy Klobuchar is going on Fox. I hope she does as well. Maybe then some of the rust belt, rural areas that voted for Trump will start to say, “Huh, maybe there’s a better way?” 

Won’t it be interesting if the Trump base embraces Bernie? Or someone else? Hey, you tried Trump. He screwed you. Isn’t it time to try something and someone else?

Bill Weld is challenging Trump for the Republican nomination. As a conservative – financially – he thinks that running the country into so much debt as Trump is doing is not a good thing. Huh.

The other thing that is emerging from the Mueller Report (Redacted) is how incompetent and misguided the White House is on a functioning level. Many have said that we would be in real trouble if a crisis were to hit and we needed swift decision making centered in the White House. 

The other thing that emerges is a picture of Donald aa a weak and ineffectual boss. 

Then there’s Ivanka and Jared. They are supposedly working for the good of the American people as employees of the Federal government. Last year they made between $60 and $80 million. Do you know of any other Federal employee that’s pulling down that kind of money?

Just asking. Oh maybe Wilbur, or any of the other crooks in the cabinet. Yeah. Okay. Maybe so.

Is there anyone Trump has put in a position that is doing anything for the people?

562 Days to the 2020 election and 640 Days to Inauguration Day

PS Freedom Fighter

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Day 833

April 19, 2019 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

I’m Number One!

Day 833 Friday April 19, 2019

563 Days to the 2020 election and 641 Days to Inauguration Day

The president of the United States committed multiple crimes.

Of this there is no question.

The only question is what are we going to do about it?

Cut it., spin it, lie about it, do whatever you want, but the truth is the president of the United States committed multiple crimes.

In an act of war he conspired with the other side. There’s a term for that, let me think, what is it? Treason. Yeah, that’s it. Treason. Benedict Arnold was found guilty of treason for being in the same room with a man from the other side. Here we have a president who since becoming president has met secretly with the head man from the other side, has met with that man and not revealed anything of what he said, who has on many occasions taken that man’s position on various issues to the detriment of ourselves and our allies.

We were attacked by a foreign adversary and  the man who is now our president aided and abetted in that attack, along with some of his long time associates. 

His campaign chairman’s job before he became campaign chair was to help a Russian oligarch. How did he help him? By helping to install people that were friendly to said oligarch into positions of power in various foreign countries where this man had financial interests.

This chairman also shared polling data with this man via an intermediary. He specifically told the intermediary that the campaign needed help in four states to swing the election, and the Russians provided that help.

As to the president’s involvement there are 180 pages of criminal behavior and charges outlined in the Mueller Report. One hundred and eighty pages!

This does not include any of the stuff that is direct threats to national security in the form of counter intelligence stuff. That’s in a separate report we know nothing about. These one hundred and eighty pages does not include any of his financial crimes that’s all been referred out to various other prosecutorial groups. There are twelve or fourteen redacted other possible investigations that are prosecutable according to the redacted Mueller report.

This is just the broad brush of what we have learned from the redacted Mueller Report as it relates to the president.

In one of those legal jiu-jitsu type logic arguments the big one the Mueller Report makes is startling. Here we go. The Office of Legal Consul (OLC) wrote a memo saying you can’t indict a sitting president. Okay (but there seem to be some reasons you can, like if that president were to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.) 

Because you can’t indict a sitting president you shouldn’t even charge him with a crime. All you can do is say, “look at this criminal behavior.” 

What you could do, if the case warranted it, is to say the president is innocent of any crime.

This is not what the Mueller Report said. What it said was it could not exonerate him (the president) and – oh, by the way – here are 180 pages of crimes relating to my purview of “Did the Russians try to influence the 2016 campaign?” that I found. Maybe you folks in Congress should take a peek and decide if he should be impeached?

If Bill Clinton was brought up on charges relating to a defunct land deal that was not illegal and six blow jobs and lying about that, then what do you think about Donald Trump conspiring with a foreign adversary secretly and in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue?

The talk now is that Mueller is an institutionalist and he stuck to a very narrow definition of the law. Great. Meanwhile a bunch of yahoos led by a person who acts in every way possible like a crime boss is running our country into the ground.

The question some people are asking is why hasn’t this case against the president been investigated like you would a typical case against a crime boss? Why wasn’t he forced to testify under oath? Why weren’t his kids questioned? etc. etc. etc.

The redacted report from beginning to end is damning, and yet, here we are.

Some people are outraged that the Attorney General lied about the report. He lied on a key point. He said that the reason the president was not charged had nothing to do with the OLC memo. It had everything to do with it. It was the only reason the president was not charged by Mueller.

I wonder if William Barr can read. I wonder why he so desperately wanted the job of AG? Did he want to be back in the limelight? Did he want everyone to be reminded of his past misdeeds?

In the pantheon of shameful legal minds William Barr has elevated himself up there with Wu, the guy who said torture is okay because it’s not torture.

I’m trying to decide which analogy fits Trump better when it comes to criminal behavior:

Is he like Pigpen, the Peanuts character who is trailed by clouds of dirt and debris? But in the case of Donald it’s criminal behavior, legal suits both by him and against him.

Or is he more like a massive black hole, spinning at near light speed throwing off energy in huge waves and bands? Except with Donald it would be anyone coming close to him gets sucked in, torn apart, and throw out along with other debris in swaths of criminality, immorality, and unethical behavior.

It’s hard to say.

563 Days to the 2020 election and 641 Days to Inauguration Day

PS Yesterday I attained Number One status. I am so proud. (My order at McDonald’s was #1. Let that sink in. Yeah, baby. I’m back. #1 woot woot. I think I’m ready to declare myself a social influencer. Quick, I need to jump into the bathroom and take selfies of myself (Hey, isn’t that redundant? “selfies of myself”? I guess I’ll have to put it out there to my fans and favs and find out. Meanwhile, let me just mention that I’m wearing a black t-shirt that is oh so cute. Don’t you wish you could see it? Too bad. I’m not in the bathroom taking selfies, isn’t it? 

OMG! What is happening to me? Pogo – help me! What? You can’t? No one under 30, no 40, even knows who you are? …) )

Later.

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Day 832

April 18, 2019 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 832

564 Days to the 2020 election and 642 Days to Inauguration Day

Statement by Mr. Bryce Holliwell, World Traveler and BFD.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

and all the rest of you.

It is with a semi-heavy heart that I announce the end of civilization as we know it.

That is why I have the phony backdrop of Paris behind me, because it was in France that civilization began and now ended.

As we await the press conference of Mr. William P. Barr to tell us some shit about a report that he won’t let us see, has now redacted, and is trying to pawn off to Congress as the real thing let me remind you that we’ve seen this before from Mr. Barr. Let me also remind you that he was the mastermind behind one of the greatest criminal conspiracy coverups in the history of the United States of America. With this latest venture into unlawfulness Mr. Barr has amassed by my count three strikes, which if this were a baseball game he’d be out.

But it is not baseball, it is civilization. I can only hope that if civilization is to end, that it should end much the way it found it’s mid-point, with The French Revolution and the guillotine. However, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Last night we went to see and hear David Sedaris, a very funny man. I have to say the guy who was sitting directly behind me and thought it a good idea to hoot loudly at every cute thing Sedaris said at the beginning of the show was not as bad as the fellow who screamed into the microphone which in turn blasted it out of the speakers at my nephew’s soccer game earlier this week. I learned to cover my ears every time the other team scored a goal, because the announcement caused me to jump out of my skin every time. 

But I have unfortunately wandered off the path here…

Ah me. Where was I?

Oh yes, the end of civilization…

as we know it.

This of course raises the question of, “When did it all begin?”

That is civilization…

as we know it.

Not all civilization, just civilization as we know it.

But first let me say, before I forget again, the reason for this press conference, and I’d like to thank all of you who came, because I don’t think you are phony or the enemy of the people, I am by the way, one of those but not the other…

I’d also like to thank WDF for having me on.

That’s What Da – What Da – What Da Fuck?

Yes, where was I? Civilization, as we know it. It began in France. When Francis the first ask Leonardo to come live out his remaining years in an old folks home. Mr. Da Vinci did. Moving from Italy to France, where he died. Painting in France was transformed from flat crappy listless portraits to lush voluminous representations of reality. And France became the world’s leader in sophistication and taste.

Maybe not in all things practical, I mean you gotta wonder about building a place like Versailles and not having any toilets? Ah the French, you gotta love it.

We had warnings that civilization was ending. That art and culture was changing, but it took the burning of Notre Dame to symbolize and crystalize it for us.

My first thought when I heard the news was, “What? No fire suppression system?” Alas, no. Because why put one in? They hadn’t needed it in over 800 years? But now? Now we will shed tears and raise money to build anew. Maintain the old? Why bother? It’s been there forever, let someone else do that if they want to. 

“They don’t know what they’ve got til it’s gone…”

That should be a song lyric.

Oh, it is?

Damn, I’m good.

The end of civilization was thought to be when all out nuclear war happened, and it may still be the case, as was announced in Mad Magazine’s take off on The Daily News, which they called The Daily Dirt. In that parody, between the announcements of a starlet who got a bruise on her thigh while the apartment building was being robbed. (The robbers were in a different unit and she slipped in the shower and bruised herself.) and the announcement of 1,000 pieces of furniture for $9.99 (one toothpick box and 999 tooth picks) there was a small headline on the bottom of column six which said, “Nuclear War Declared.” At the bottom of that column it said, “Today Russia and the U.S. declared nuclear war,” It then went to the top of column seven and finished in small print, “which is the end of civilization as we know it.”

And that’s where we are right now.

Oh we saw the signs. We just ignored them.

In 1907 the art world was forever changed. Moving pictures came to Paris. The great artists who had gathered in Montematre realized that representation painting was dead because a new representational reality was upon them and they began the long journey looking for a new reality. 

That journey continues, with it’s many dead ends and false fronts.

Hand in hand with this journey are the manipulators and con men, or should I say “people”, con people. I wouldn’t want to leave anyone, like Sarah Sanders, out of the mix.

Yes the fore flushers and manipulators were there too. They were in a backroom scheming to start World War I so Britain could defeat Germany before it became too strong. Then again during the Spanish Civil War, which led to George Orwell’s writing of 1984. Then again after the Korean War with the founding of The John Birch Society and now with Fox News, Cambridge Analytica, and the vast right wing conspiracy so accurately identified by Hillary Clinton. 

Yes, they are still here among us. 

We will see yet another installment of heinousness dressed up in legalese and patriotism, but do not be deceived this is if not criminal, unpatriotic and not what are country is all about, or shouldn’t be. Not if we wish to remain the grand old gal.

I am giving this statement to get out in front of the phony narrative that will be advanced soon by Mr. Barr. He is giving a press conference about a report that no one has seen. He given a report like this before. To Congress, and the American people. It was about a memo he wrote telling that old bagman for Nixon, George H. W. Bush, that it was okay to send the FBI into a country to arrest someone without telling that country they were doing it. (Thus violating the rule of law known as The Charming Betsy – Ya gotta love that name – don’t ya?) He wrote a memo explaining the memo he had written earlier and now wouldn’t let anyone see. It turned out his ‘splainin’ was all a lie. So we know he’s a liar on this sort of thing. Of that there is no question.

He has no credibility. Yet he will try to sell it again. 

Remember he was also the guy who convinced H. W. Bush to pardon Ollie North and Cap Wineburger and the rest of the criminal involved in Iran-Contra on Bush’s last day in office.

This guy will do anything for – for what? Not love as Meatloaf sang. In fact Meatloaf said he’d do anything but he wouldn’t do that. 

Don’t worry Willie Barr will!

In fact, I’d like to announce the formation of a new effort and I’d invite Mr. Barr to be if not the head of it then the nominal head of it. “Judas, Inc.” With the slogan, “If you won’t sell us out, we will.”

Shekels? We won’t do it for Shekels. Heck we’ll do it, because that is what we do.

Ladies and Gentlemen in the next few hours we will see the end of civilization as we know it. 

Don’t ask God to save us.

Save yourself.

Save your fellow persons.

This has been Bryce Holliwell reporting speaking live from world headquarters.

564 Days to the 2020 election and 642 Days to Inauguration Day

 

PS Bryce Holliwell and the end of civilization as we know it.

Bryce Holliwell

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