Sunday March 21, 2021
Much of what I am going to tell you we’ve already covered. However, like many a math class I took where they went over stuff I already knew, by the time they got to the good stuff I had tuned out. Damn.
Yesterday, my buddy dean asked me if I had heard the podcast from deep state radio. I hadn’t. It was a look, mainly, at the Intelligence report that came out last week which clearly stated that Russia had been the one interfering in our 2020 election and not China. China had considered it, but decided not to. Same for Iran. This report was done during the Trump administration and was circulated as far as we know to The Gang of Eight, Trump, Both AG Barr and his replacement, and the DNI. This meant that the information was well known to Devin Nunes, Ron Johnson, and Bill Barr. Yet, they and others lied about it to the public.
Not only that, but they actively took information that they knew was bad, that was untrue, and they knew came from Russia and they publicly decimated it.
The question is why and what can be done about it in the future? The answers were not comforting: educate people with civics classes, and don’t let idiots be elected to Congress or hold important positions. Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent, was the special guest. He said lying to the public was not a crime, and that going after a Congress person who knowingly lies is a tricky. Great.
So what does all this mean? It means that Devin Nunes, Ron Johnson, Bill Barr and most, if not all of the Republican Party consciously decided to take the side of Russia over this country. I would call this activity treasonous. The gross thing is that they have convinced a great swath of the public to believe this stuff.
Also, during this time I was asked for context of the comments I had made concerning possible legal troubles for Satan. Here are more details.
JB 60 Summary
In Georgia the investigation into election fraud is being done by Fani Willis. Her office is kind of down the legal food chain in Georgia but she grabbed the case because everyone further up is implicated or involved. Some might think this short black woman who has a naive looking smile in her campaign photo is not up to the task. That would be a mistake. She has a thirty year career of putting away people on RICO charges for all kinds of diverse things, like teachers giving student answers on standardized tests.
On her team is the country’s leading RICO lawyer. Also, the man who wrote the book on Georgia Evidence in Court, which every judge in Georgia has on their bookshelf.
It turns out Mark Meadows went down to Georgia and tried to get into the place where they were counting the votes in Georgia. He didn’t make it into the room, but got in the building. He did get the numbers of two people associated with counting the vote. He gave those numbers to Donald who then called those people asking in one case to find one more vote than Biden got so that he would win the state and the other person he told there had been massive voter fraud in Georgia and “everybody knows that” and if she would look into that and find the fraud the would be doing a great patriotic duty. Both calls are recorded.
To prove conspiracy under Rico you need at least two people working in concert, like say Mark Meadows going to Georgia and then giving Trump the phone numbers of people.
Let’s move to New York. Michael Cohen has been called in to see the New York prosecutor, Cy Vance, for the eighth time this past week. He says that in the over one million pages of tax records they have on Trump it is organized and tabulated in three ring binders. Vance has hired one of the top forensic accounting firms in New York and has the best mob lawyer in New York on the case. According to Cohen subpoenas will be flying soon.
Then there are the two suits brought against Trump and others based on the 1871 Klu Klux Klan law one by Eric Swallwell and there’s another Congressman as well. These relate to the Jan 6th insurrection. According to Constitutional expert Lawrence Tribe these are not trivial lawsuits and they are suing for damages. Theoretically, everyone under attack on Jan 6th could file a similar law suit. These two cases alone could bankrupt the Donald. Imagine if he had a hundred cases?
Moving on.
On Thursday there was a back and forth between Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci. Depending on what news source you listen to either Paul schooled Fauci or Fauci, once again, explained basic science to Paul. Regardless, both sides call it “fireworks” and “a heated exchange.”
“Let’s go to the tape,” (thank you Mr. Michaels).
I’ve listened to the segment on the back and forth.
Paul is trying to bully, disparage, and correct Fauci. Paul is saying there is no evidence that once you are vaccinated you need to wear a mask.
Fauci is saying that there are variants of the virus and wearing the mask protects you and others from the variants. Yes, there is spill over protection, but you are not necessarily protected.
Paul is trying to make this a liberal nanny state argument.
Fauci is explaining the science and using reason.
How did we get to this point?
Why are Republicans siding with the potential of killing more people when we could all just suck it up and wear a mask for a bit longer? What’s the big deal?
What I found amazing was how many ad hominem arguments about Fauci were in the comments. It’s very disturbing and sad.
Meanwhile, the Atlanta shooter is being treated with kid gloves. This whole massage parlor thing is revealing one of those unsaid things about our economy. Why are there so many massage parlors? Hum.
Why did the shooter pass by many massage parlors that did not feature Asian women after shooting the first group of people and go to another one featuring Asian women? You don’t have to be a genius to figure this out.
In economic news Larry Summers is making comments about how dangerous our economic state is. We could fall into stagflation. Blah blah blah. I listen to Krugman because he seems to be calmly rational. His thoughts? It took decades of economic mismanagement back then to get to the state of stagflation. We aren’t anywhere near that.
Okay about economic news.
Btw Stagflation was the problem that started when Nixon was president. At that time they called it inflation and were trying to tame inflation. Ford did WIN “Whip Inflation Now.” He didn’t and Carter inherited the mess. Carter kept Volker as Fed Chief. Volker was tough and eventually got inflation under control, but it wasn’t easy and Carter lost re-election, partially because of that (and the treason of Reagan.)
Stagflation is rising prices without rising cost of living (like wages) to keep up. Soon there is no economic growth. How can that happen? It can’t say economists, but there it is. Hum. I asked a buddy of mine who is very smart about this stuff. His conclusion was there was a lot of money in the economy that was unaccounted for and until that was taken out of the economy prices would rise. As he said to me, “There’s a lot of money in mattresses.” I found it hard to believe because the situation had gone on so long. His answer? “The mattresses were a lot thicker than we thought.”
People on the conservative side of the spectrum are posting meme and cartoons emphasizing that “back in the day they earned a living. It wasn’t given to them.”
To which I say, “Oh yeah? You gonna give back your $1400 check?”
Or what about the pension you have that those nanny state Democrats got for you over the objections of those “fiscal conservative” fat cat corporate Republicans?
How about Social Security? Or Medicare?
Where would you be without them?
Programs opposed by Republicans.
Here’s an economic insight for you all, “Do you know the absolute way to cure poverty?”
Come on. Take a guess. No. No. Uh-uh.
It’s money. Yup. If people have money they aren’t poor. You want to cure poverty? Find a way for people to have money.
PS Lobster! “Hey, you want a piece of me? Come on!”
PPS Please check out the photos of the findings of the reports linking Republicans to their lies and to the Russian disinformation campaign.
It amazed me how lockstep the Republicans are. Seems to me that putting these crazy Republicans in place has been going on longer than most realize. Also occurs to me that Republicans have been gerrymandering much longer than has been known. How in god’s name have people like Jordan, Johnson and that ilk been elected? It’s obvious the public has been dumbed down so far that these idiots could be elected. Then there is Marjorie Green Taylor! Geez!
I just read where if a topic is repeated more that 24 times, it becomes brainwashing. Then there is Clivon Bundy in our neighborhood. To think there are elected people in this state who stand behind the January 6, insurrection. Cathy McMorris Rogers for instance. I find it scary that there are so many of them that see that attack as a method to further their agenda. Take a look at her. Does she look like a person who would want to overthrow Democracy? She is.