Day 1115  Are the Wheels Coming Off?

Day 1115  Are the Wheels Coming Off?

Thursday October 17, 2019

384 Days until the 2020 election and 466 days until the Inauguration

I keep thinking the wheels are coming off this bus, but I’m continually surprised how stupid people are in still believing in this fool. 

Ah me.

One right wing friend wrote that she’d like to see figures on how much Trump has actually benefitted from his businesses while president. Her buddy chimed in that she thought it was all a lie.

Hum, what are they saying? That Trump is such a bad businessman that he’s still losing money? Probably not.

I guess they missed the news item about the Saudi Royal family buying a shit ton of rooms at one of Trump’s hotels and this allowed the hotel to be in the black. Not that the king stayed there mind you, he stayed at the Four Seasons. His entourage stayed there for a night and them went elsewhere. 

Or did they miss the article about the military planes refueling at the airport in Scotland and the crews staying at Trump’s golf resort?

Or Mike Pence staying across Ireland at a Trump resort and commuting in Air Force II to his meetings at a cost of $264,000 to us the taxpayer?

Or the little tidbit about the cost of protecting Trump while he plays golf? The equivalent of 568 years of presidential salary?

Or Ivanka and Jared raking in 60 to 80 million this year?

Meanwhile I think Donald is trying to do everything he can to get fired from his job. I can’t think of anything else that explains his behavior.

A friend of mine said that lots of people are talking about the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I’m obviously not a lot of people but I’ve never heard of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

It is being used to explain why people are so stupid as to believe Trump. Kind of like a self-inflicted Stockholm Effect. They believe they are better and smarter than they are and can’t recognize their competence or incompetence. In other words – Rick Perry.

Speaking of which, seems like Mr. “Do these glasses make me look smart?” might be in trouble. 

Meanwhile back in the bull fighting ring called the inner circle of the White House, Trump is lashing out and crying for help. He sent a letter to Erdogan, which was so stunningly – I’m not sure what to call it – that the news commentators sitting around a table were speechless, and it’s their job to say something! Later, when folks had a moment to think about it the best they could say was that it looked like a letter written in crayon by a five year old.

Trump was seen on TV saying that the Kurds weren’t our problem, the middle east had been fighting for years, that they are fighting over sand and there’s a lot of sand out there. So in less than ten days Trump has managed to destroy thirty years of Middle East foreign policy and let Russia become a big time player in the region. It must be especially galling to the troops that were stationed there to see a Russian flag over their previous location and hear and watch their allies being raped and slaughtered.

But don’t worry Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are in Turkey to straighten out the situation. Yeah, Erdogan and Trump talk. Erdogan tells Trump exactly what he is going to do. Trump agrees. Now Trump sends the Mikes over to clean up his mess. BTW They won’t be able to do that.

Donald is going to get a taste of the art of the deal slapped in his face. Neither Mike will be able to do anything. They will be lucky to meet with Erdogan because he’ll be meeting with his new best friend Vladimir Putin. 

Meanwhile our troops near the Syrian border are pinned down. The commander in chief has given them a “good luck, hope you get out okay” wish, and – oh yeah – we have fifty tactical nuclear weapons in Turkey. Maybe, we need to get them out?

Latest polls nationwide shoe 52% of people want the president impeached and removed from office.

Adam Schiff has sent a letter to his colleagues explaining a few things, just in case they missed it.

The most significant is the reason they are having to do the investigating, and thus keep things confidential, is the Department of Justice has refused to do anything.

There’s more but I’m a day behind, catch it in the next screed.

384 Days until the 2020 election and 466 days until the Inauguration

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