Day 911 – Tay-Tay, The Fed, The Many Trials of Donnie, and More

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Okay. let’s start with music and economics. Jerry of the Grateful Dead has been gone for thirty years, Stevie for 35. Now, the Dead say they are playing their last gigs in San Fran. They’ve said this before. We’ll see.

Taylor Swift is the first woman to have four albums in the top ten at one time. More remarkably, the Fed has commented that her Era’s Tour has affected the U.S. economy. I knew she had been affecting local economies when she came to town, but now the Fed can discern positive upticks due to her work. Wow.

There is new reporting that the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and his enablers have developed a plan that if he comes to power again he will, with their help, destroy our democracy. Maybe, some think this an over statement, but consider that they have a name for this project. It’s written down on paper and they are figuring out strategies and assigning people to roles. This compliments what Trump has been saying at his rallies. This is not idle back room talk. This is right out in the open.

Consider these ideas: Destroy the civil service so Donald can put in sycophants to steal our money and do his bidding, put the Judiciary and all investigative bodies directly under his control, and have the Federal Trade Commission report directly to him. This would mean we would get rid of the people in government who know what they are doing and replace them with stooges; the President could squash any investigation into himself or his buddies and he could sic the FBI or the IRS on his enemies, and he could direct businesses to pay him money or be forced out of business.

Meanwhile, let’s count the cases agains Trump:

Jack Smith #1 – he documents case at Mar-a-Lago,

Jack Smith #2 – the Jan 6th insurrection,

Fani Willis’ Georgia election,

New York #1 – Latisha James,

New York #2 – Alan Bragg,

New York #3 – rape (or was that resolved? one was),

Arizona AG Investigation into fake electors,

Michigan AG Investigation into fake electors,

At 2 o’clock today Willis is supposed to announce something.

Donald has said on the campaign trail that The Presidential Records Act let’s him take whatever he wants because he’s (or was) the President. This is the exact opposite of what the legislation says. Jack Smith in his latest filing to the Florida judge has asked for a pretty standard protective order concerning classified information, but he has made a few things very clear, like saying that whatever materials are presented are and will be the property of the U.S. government.

I’m betting that Trump’s lawyers are saying things in court that are much different than what their client is saying on the campaign trail. One reason is that they could lose their law license if they knowingly lie in court. The other reason is that the case is not about the Presidential Records Act. It’s about espionage. Hopefully, the lawyers understand this.

In the Jack Smith documents case his lawyers said they were objecting to things. Smith has repeatedly asked what. No answer.

Trump’s lawyers tried to get Fani Willis dismissed from her case. The strongest reason they had was that she attended a fund raiser. It was for one of the fake elector’s opponents. It took the Georgia Supreme Court less than a day to throw that out.

Onto more fanciful stuff. Marjorie Taylor-Greene gave a speech this weekend. She was pointing out all the stuff Biden was doing and linking it back to some guy I think she just discovered named Lyndon Baines Johnson or LBJ. She said Biden was trying to finish the work of LBJ that was started by FDR. Things like helping people with their education, medical bills, civil rights and so much more. Terrible. The White House put out a statement thanking Ms Greene for pointing this out.

Meanwhile, Ms Boebert is saying the church should direct the government. Isn’t that what bin Laden wanted?

Meanwhile, 19 Republican AGs are asserting a claim that they have the right to demand medical records of people. Not only in state, but if said resident goes out of state, for say an abortion because in their state it is not allowed. So they, the AGs, should be able to hunt down their residents.

One group in Ohio has been posting an ad showing a couple in the early throws of making love. They reach for a condom in a drawer and are stopped by a Republican politician’s hand on a wrist saying they can’t do that and he’ll stay in the bedroom and watch to make sure they don’t break the law. That’s what it’s come to.

Republican politicians realize anti-abortion stuff is very unpopular so they are pivoting to attack the gay community and say the laws they want to pass are about that, hoping people won’t notice.

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has had to lay off a bunch of his staff. He’s running out of money. Turns out he’s not very good at running a campaign. It also turns out he’s not very good at running a state. While malaria is being reported in his state he’s oblivious and he’s got no one in the top spots in health to deal with it.

Also, a sheriff is bringing charges against DeSantis for his stunt of shipping migrants to northern states. Hum.