Day 339 – I Can’t Help Myself

Friday December 24, 2021

I wasn’t going to write about this kind of sh*t anymore, but…but…

OMG.

Trump’s lawyers are trying to stop his stuff going to the Jan 6th committee, claiming executive privilege.

Apparently, the filing is going to the Supreme Court and is so badly done that none of the news shows would even attempt to read parts of it on air. The Jan 6th Committee’s comment that went to the Court was read in part, I guess because they used whole sentences that formed a cogent narrative. DJT’s lawyers filed on the last day they could. This to lawyers means the case isn’t serious and is just an attempt to delay, which they will get until Jan 14th. Then it will likely get tossed with a two word Latin phrase saying, “We ain’t gonna listen to it.” The Supreme Court gets between 6-8,000 requests per session and they take 65. 

So odds aren’t good, especially when it’s BS.

On to the virus, well the data is clear, if you are unvaccinated you are in trouble. Next.

Remember the big shortage problem that was being touted in the fall? What happened? Well, it never really came. Why? Turns out the Labor Secretary and the Transportation Secretary and others worked on it. They reduced paperwork time for truckers from two months to two days. They opened the ports 24/7 instead of 8/5. Goods started to flow, and the finger pointing stopped. Turns out that there is a lot turnover in some parts of the trucking biz. Turns out that there isn’t a lot of turn over with union truckers. Seems that if you pay people a decent amount they don’t quit. Who could have guessed that?

And now it turns out that out VP is actually doing a really good job. This despite various press outlets saying she’s not. One thing she has done is to rally businesses to up their commitment to Central America, and to restart programs in that area that the previous administration stopped. Turns out that people want to stay put if they can, but corruption, gangs, and no jobs forces folks to leave their homes. This seems to be a better plan than putting a racist in charge of immigration, and making photo-ops at the southern border. Who knew? Yeah, apparently the problem isn’t at the southern border but in the countries where people are fleeing for their lives. Who knew? I’ll tell you who – Henry Kissinger back when he worked for Tricky Dick. Imagine if we had followed his suggestions back then instead of doing the Republican “let’s ignore the situation” strategy? 

Now we got voting rights to work on.

As to Build Back Better, AOC nailed it. Joe Manchin can’t be trusted and the second the Progressive Caucus gave in and decoupled the two two bills one passed and the other didn’t. Just like the Progressive Caucus said would happen. Let’s keep in mind that this isn’t a progressive agenda thing, but the middle of the road President’s thing. I have to also wonder why Republicans are in office? The only thing they do when they have power is load the judgeships up with religious nuts and cut taxes on the wealthy. As to helping common people? Nah. Hey, they could help by getting on board with the President. Or they could suggest something else. Oh that’s right Susan Collins suggested that Biden do less. Why? She liked it better. Any reason? No. Same with Manchin, he likes a smaller number, why? Doesn’t matter. He likes it better. 

As to the folks hurting in Kentucky, if I were the President I’d have hauled McConnell and Paul into the Oval Office and asked them why he, the President, should give Kentucky any money to rebuild. I’d quote some to the lame BS Rand Paul had said when he voted against other states, when they needed money. I’d say to them. “You know what, I’ll do it, but you have to vote for Build Back Better at $3.54T” When they balk I’d say,”Gee, too bad. But hey Mitch you claimed Kentucky ‘punched above its weight’ when it came to Federal monies. Start punching.”

I’d then tour Kentucky and say to the people, “yeah, we want to help but your Senators don’t.”

But that’s just me.

Oh but the real thing I wanted to talk about and forgot is that Trump has aligned himself with a Chinese group that pumps out shell companies and tries to get folks to invest. I like the company that made cupcakes one year and the next year was making touch-screens. All with no employees.

Okay so it’s “Chiner” and it’s fraud – somehow they found Donald. Because it’s him they’ve raked in over $300M and may go as high as $1.2B. They’ve been in trouble with the SEC several times before and are again. Who knew? They are so bad the FINRA is involved and you got to be right on the cusp of being overtly illegal to get those folks stirred up, but this group in China has done it multiple times! Go team.