Day 939 Friday August 2, 2019
460 Days until the 2020 election and 542 days until the Inauguration
I haven’t been writing much because I’ve been busy. We are on a cruise on the Rhine River and associated places. Wi-Fi connectivity has been, at first non-existent for me, because the ship couldn’t handle a mac. Now that I’m on, Facebook wants to send an authorization code to my phone, which is useless because the number they have isn’t set up for international calls. So no Facebook. I’m just posting to my website for now.
I’ve been getting bits and pieces of information, mainly from Shelby mentioning things she sees on Twitter and the occasional news item off google.
The best item so far has been Don Jr.’s comment that the next Democratic debate should be held on Comedy Central. Trevor Noah commented, “If what you say, I love it!”
Matt Taibbi wrote a piece ripping the Dems and the media for making Mueller the hero. It’s interesting that he says this, but he seems to duck the big point that there is credible evidence that Trump obstructed justice on at least ten occasions. He also gives no credence to any collusion between Trump and his people and Russians. One can make a case for this, but only because both sides fumbled, not that they didn’t want to collude. There also has been no analysis as to how many votes were changed due to a barrage of false propaganda. Nor has there been much to verify if votes were changed by hackers. There is now talk that this will definitely happen in the next election and the Republican efforts both locally and in the Senate are doing everything they can to muddy the water and to prevent accountability. It seems the Republicans led by Mitch McConnell are more than willing to conspire with whomever: Russians, skinheads, Christian conservatives, whomever as long as they can stay in power.
Therefore the moniker “Moscow Mitch” is fitting. He apparently doesn’t like it. A lot of money has been raised under a go fund me of that name to defeat McConnell. He’s not happy about that. Then again he’s pretty quiet about all the Russian money being invested in his state to get control of voting machines and media outlets. I mean – no collusion, right? And even if it is, so what?
Pop quiz – name something Mitch McConnell has done in his some forty odd years in the Senate that has helped you? How about wonder boy Paul Ryan? John Boehner?
I come up with zero. I can think of lots of grandstanding and blocking of what I would call common sense solutions, but stuff to help you or me? I got nothing.
460 Days until the 2020 election and 542 days until the Inauguration
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