Archives for December 2020

Day 1350 – A Criminal Pardon, A Pardon Criminal?

Tuesday December 29, 2020 (2 days til New Years Eve)

Election Day -56

23 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There is this little thing I learned listening to the two Lawrences last night. Not Welk but O’Donnell and Tribe. Laurence Tribe wrote a piece for Financial Times which explored the idea that a president could be brought up on charges of criminal obstruction of justice if he pardoned someone in a quid quo pro for covering up some of the president’s crimes. Not only did Tribe say he should be charged, but he must be charged. Otherwise, there would be no limits on what a President could do once in power. Talk about a bad precedent.

I look forward to the coming months and hope that this comes to pass. We’ll watch the conservatives on the court try to tie themselves in knots to get around sending The Orange One to jail.

Ah me.

Most fun of all, if he pardons his family members they will not have the 5^th amendment to hide behind. They will be forced to rat out their own father, or lie and go to jail for lying, or refuse to testify and go to jail until they decide to testify.

I also like Colin Powell’s suggestion that Michael Flynn should be brought up in a military court on charges of sedition.

In other news Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer. Too bad, so sad. I guess his bloviating will be reduced to a whisper soon.

Mike Pence will be called upon to do his duty to oversee the casting of ballots in the Electoral College. Will he do his duty? Or will he do something stupid, like what Louie Gohmert is suing him to do? Ignore the law, the Constitution, and precedent and seize power to install Trump as president?

Then there is Mike Flynn suggesting that the president declare Marshall Law and rerun the elections I swing states. (See Colin Powell suggestion above.)

Oh and we found VOTER FRAUD!

The Lieutenant Governor of Texas offered a million dollars for anyone to find examples of voter fraud. The reward wasn’t limited to the state of Texas.

Well boys and girls, we found it in Pennsylvania. Not only that but then they found more voter fraud. It was an increase of 50% over what they had previously found! It was all across the state! Yes, indeedy. Terrible. 

For some reason the Lieutenant Governor of Texas is not paying up. 

Specifics? You want specifics? I’ll give you specifics. A guy tried to cast a vote using his dead mother’s ballot. Not only that but he tried to vote himself twice! (He put on sunglasses the second time so no one would know who he was.) Charges have been filed. Ladies and Gentlemen this man is or will be soon found to be a criminal. He tried voting for Trump. Trump is a Republican. REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! Ding. Ding. Ding. We got him prez and you too Lt. Gov. (“Pay up you cheapskate.”)

That’s not all! Another guy on the other side of Pennsylvania tried to vote his dead mother’s ballot. They got him. I don’t know if they hauled him out in chains or not. Guess what? He tried to vote for Trump too! REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! 

That’s an increase, as I already pointed out, of fifty percent. And it makes the REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! All across the state. 

Criminal. Lock them up!

Meanwhile 2.1 million people have been vaccinated and 11 million doses have been delivered. You may find this shocking but there is no real clear plan of how to get people vaccinated. Shocking, I know.

Monday December 28, 2020 (3 days til New Years Eve)

Election Day -55

24 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Her name was Francois Hardy (“Har-D”). She was wispily beautiful. She was a singer. She sang mainly in French. I had no idea what she was saying most of the time. There were bits I could translate: “I see you with others” “There” “I love you.” She modeled and she was an inspiration to Bob Dylan and Mic Jagger among others. She was part of the 60s French yé-yé singing phenomena.

From time to time I would see articles about her. Later on she got into astrology. A big turn-off for me. Oh well, I thought.

Yesterday, I was click-baited into looking at slides of “women who were muses for musicians.” There was Marianne Faithful, Courtney Love, Linda Eastman, Marilynn Monroe, Yoko Ono, and Francois Hardy!

The little blurb on Hardy mentioned that she had been in a coma for two years and awoke in 2018.

It made me wonder, “Had anyone been in a coma in 2018 and awoken in 2020?” Or what if they had gone to sleep in 2016 before the election and woken up now?

Can you imagine?

At first they’d come to, and probably see people in plastic shielded hospital beds with breathing tubes and monitors. There would be the sound of ventilators and pinging of monitors, green and blue little lights twinkling from devices. Maybe a CRT with patient information. They’d hear the groaning of people in pain. The silence of sorts, but the constant sucking in of air and letting out via the bellows of the ventilator.

They’d wonder what kind of surreal landscape they were in.

A team of gowned workers would rush in and administer to a patient a few beds away. ( “Why are they all covered from head to toe?” “Why the googles and the face masks?” “What is going on?” )

At some point, someone would spot you lying in the bed awake. Either a passing nurse or a monitor would have pinged that you were awake and an RN would be sent in to see and reset the monitor, then discover you, the patient, conscious. Imagine the conversation:

“You’re awake.”

“Yes.”

[Aside yells or speaks into a monitor “#43 is awake!”]

“What’s the big deal?”

Others flood into the room.

“You’ve been asleep for a long time.”

“Really? Like twenty hours?”

“Try four years.”

“No way. I’m thirsty. What time is it?”

“4:30 pm December 28^th 2020.”

“You’re kidding right?”

“Not kidding.”

“When I was last awake Hillary was going to be President.”

“She lost.”

…

Thursday December 24, 2020 (1 day til Christmas, also called “Christmas Eve”)

Election Day -51

28 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Okay, well, hum Did anyone see the video of Satan and Melania leaving The White House yesterday to go to Florida? There were several interesting things to note:

– Where was Baron?

– Is Satan ever returning?

– Will he sign a Covid Relief Bill? Forget which one, will he sign?

– Did you notice the two hand gestures? The “thumbs up” and “the fist”? They are his signature rally signs. It seemed to me they were very lifeless. Especially, “the fist” which was more of a “whatever” gesture. Like – here’s the fist, kind of, eh, who give a sh*t? Goodbye.

Commentators were wondering if he was ever coming back from Florida. Is he done? Etc. 

He threw out the idea that he wanted larger stimulus checks for people. He said he wants $2000.00 not $600.00, which is great. Great because it puts McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate in a real bind. And it screws up the two Republicans running for the Senate seats in Georgia in a huge bind. I mean what can they say? Oh we were always for the bigger checks? (Yeah? Bull!) 

The history of the Republican Party from Reagan on has been to screw the average person. It has gotten worse over the years but now we are at a kind of climax. It will be sadly interesting to see how it plays out.

There’s little polling on the Senate races in Georgia. That’s because pollsters are gun shy. They were so wrong on so many races that these two, with so many variables, is not one they want to weigh in on. One pollster said that the problem they will have as pollsters and the electorate will have on January 6^th is that you are literally running against Santa Claus. Yikes. Who wants to do that? Not the pollsters.

But here’s the real danger to the country right now. The president has vetoed the military spending bill. This means the Senate and the House can override the veto and the bill passes. No problem. It’s kind of interesting that Democrats will be able to run on the mime of Republicans Wanted to Defund the Military. 

However, with the Covid relief bill of which there will be two versions: the $600 stimulus check version and the $2000.00 one. I suspect the $2,000 will be passed by the House soon and then given to McConnell to either put on the Senate floor or not.

Some Covid bill will end up on the president’s desk. The question is “will he sign it?”

Forget that he’s in Florida. Will he sign it? If he doesn’t sign then the country is screwed. The president is given ten days to sign a bill. If he doesn’t it’s called “a pocket veto.” In ten days Congress will be done. They won’t have time to override his pocket veto. There will be no relief for anybody. No $600 check, no $2,000 check, no eviction protections – nothing. 

Frankly, based on Satan’s limp fuck-it fist gesture I think he is done with being president. He will probably come back to the White House to strut around. Maybe tag a few things with a spray paint can, but that’s it. Sign a bill? Screw that!

Hey, Merry Christmas. 

PS In the lair of The Fat Cat

Wednesday December 23, 2020 (2 days til Christmas)

Election Day -50

29 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Seems my count to Jan 20^th may be off a day or two. Oh well. We are getting so close that we can calculate it easily now. Should be 28, not 29.

Will adjust here:

28 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There. Done.

Okay, about a week ago I hit the DVR up to look for my favorite Christmas movies. They are:

A Christmas Story,

A Child’s Christmas in Wales,

Truman Capote Christmas in Cape Cod.

I only found one, Jean Shepard’s “A Christmas Story” That’s the one about the Red Rider BBgun, Ralphie and Darren McGavin as the dad. I always liked Darren. He had a TV series called “Night Stalker” which apparently was a movie too. In it he played a guy that was chasing down vampires and killing them. No one believed him and he had a beat up old car. It was kind of The Rockford Files for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer crowd.

Jean Shepard I came to appreciate much later in life. I had a high school buddy who kept telling me to listen to his radio program every Sunday night. I never did. I’d ask Peter what it was about and he’d say Jean just talked. Man, do I regret not listening now.  Besides A Christmas Story there is another movie about the 4^th of July which is outstanding, and I think maybe another. He has a story called “Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories” which recounts his taking Wanda to the prom and he getting very drunk. Excellent stuff.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales – is a poem by Dylan Thomas. The movie has the poem being read (perhaps by Thomas?) and scenes re-enacted based on the poem. It’s lyrical as Dylan can be. Can’t find it on the DVR or Netflix. Will try Amazon Prime or whatever it’s called as soon as we locate that skinny remote.

Truman Capote Christmas in Cape Cod – is similar to A Child’s Christmas in Wales in that it is Capote recounting his spending the holiday on the Cape every Christmas as a kid. It’s lovely. Can’t find it either.

While looking for these I ran across another movie I’ve been looking for “Peppermint” starring Jennifer Garner. Garner is one of those actresses that can look really good or kind of washed out. I watched her in Alias a bit, but didn’t really connect. I think it was like listening to Jean Shepard on the radio. I didn’t give it enough time. Peppermint is a role I’ve never seen Garner play before – a kick ass MMA type fighter trained in weapons and everything else she needed to seek vengeance on the people who killed her family. It’s a large cast. Most of them are mobbed up or dirty – she kills them all. It takes place on December 21^st and there’s a Christmas tree in her house. I guess that’s why it came up under Christmas films.

Moving on to White House Shenanigans – We all wonder, “Can it get worse?” And it always does. I am way past being shocked or outraged. I’m more in the acceptance phase and the hard core determination phase, much like Garner in Peppermint, I’m out for Justice. There’s a new ad out by The Lincoln Project. It is designed for one person, and I bet you can guess who! It says that on January 6^th Mike Pence will preside over the official counting of ballots by the Electoral College and then The reign of Satan will be done for good. But will it? 

Apparently, Satan has been having meetings with any crackpot who he can cage into his lair. The partially sane people who have enabled him all this time are all of a sudden are busy and in some cases out of the country. That nutty woman lawyer who was with Rudy at press conferences is now at The White House and rumors are circulating that Satan wants her to head up a special prosecutorial investigation of Hunter Biden. Of course, he can’t do that directly, he needs Barr to do it, but Barr leaves as of today and the new toadie coming in. Will he do it? God knows. Probably.

Also, there have been meetings at the White House that have some observers “concerned.” These seem to be twofold: Satan might try to overthrow the election and he might use the military to do it. Well, at least there isn’t talk of him going nuclear or starting a war – is there? Is there? Hello? 

The latest bit of madness seems to involve Mike Pence and the idea of overturning the election via the Electoral College. What should happen on January 6^th is the delegates of the Electoral College meet in Washington. I guess in the Senate Chamber. The Vice President presides. He asks for and counts the ballots cast for President. So if I got this correctly what Satan wants Mike to do is to not accept some of the official ballots from some of the swing states, declare them no good and accept ballots from Trump supporters. Easy-Peezy. So the question is would Mikey do it? We’ll have to wait and see. To not do what Satan wants and actually do his job as laid out in the Constitution would require some act of near courage. Something Pence is loath to demonstrate. He prefers to be the sneaky, lying, sanctimonious little putz he is. Stay tuned. I’m betting several news networks will show the counting live.

Meanwhile Trump is looking to see what else he can ruin. He’s fighting with McConnell, and has demonstrated a lack of interest in the Georgia Senate races. McConnell and Mnuchin have agreed to give the American people $600, and McConnell wants it done before the Georgia runoff. That way he’s hoping to say, “See we gave you something.” This is equivalent, in my humble opinion, to Soupy Sales doing the ads for 7UP where he splashes some of the soda on the table and serves it to White Fang by brushing it off the table onto the floor with the back of his hand.

But Satan says he may veto it! Just in time for Christmas, when everything runs out either the day after or the end of the month. Nice. He says he wants to give folks $1200 or maybe $2000. Why now? Who knows? Besides that was earlier in the week, maybe he’s changed his mind? If I were Nancy Pelosi, I’d pass an addendums so quick old Mitch wouldn’t be able to get his turtle head turned around*. Then the Senate could pass it or not, but it would take away any argument McConnell has that he’s looking out for folks, regardless of whether he brings it up for a vote. Think about it.

And when Satan hasn’t been having meetings with nut jobs, or trying to overturn the election, he’s been busy selling pardons. Well, more like tit-for-tat. What’s that called? Quid pro Quo. Got it.

Let’s see he’s pardoned the Blackwater murderers. The ones who at the suggestion of Eric Prince that they are just arabs (or not Christian?) and you should shoot them in the ass did so at a traffic circle killing 17 civilians: women and children.

He’s also pardoned corrupt Congressman. Insider trading? No problem. Campaign spending on plane tickets for your rabbit? Okay. And traveling to see your mistresses, all on your campaign funds? Cool. What they have in common is they were early supporters of Trump.

Then there’s the guy from Florida who carried out one of the largest Medicare frauds in history. Over a billion dollars. Bigger than Rick Scott’s? I guess. The fellow got 20 years. Scott became Governor then Senator. That is after he pleaded the Fifth like seventy times. But that guy? He got pardoned. Where’s Peppermint? We need justice.

PS Me in my Elvis/Hunter S. Thompson sunglasses. 

* Did you hear? Someone put up “Turtle Crossing” signs near McConnell’s house in Kentucky. Me like-e.