Day 1206 – What Lies Ahead
Friday May 8, 2020
177 Days until the election on November 3rd
257 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Do you remember Mr. Peabody and Sherman from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show? Mr. Peabody was a dog that had a “Wayback Machine” allowing him and the boy Sherman to travel back in time to various events in history and to visit famous people from the past.
I, through the magic of the internet and mainly magic, have been able to find, reproduce and rewire the WABAC as it is referred to in nerd circles to go into the future. Unfortunately, it has a very limited capacity in this regard. So far, I can only get it to take we about fourteen or fifteen days forward. I therefore call it The Stumble Forward Machine or TSFM.
- Here is a bit of my screed two weeks hence:
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Friday May 22, 2020
A huge wave of new coronavirus outbreaks are now gripping the nation. The death toll has soared as has the infection rate. This is happening mainly in rural and red states due to the fact that those governors have opened their states up for business.
“No on saw this coming,” commented …
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Okay, let’s leave it right there. Yes. People saw this coming. Many people. People like doctors, epidemiologists, and scientists.
- Continuing on with the May 22nd Screed:
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The president has said that he felt the states were opening too soon.
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Okay, BS on that. As you may recall from yesterday May 7th the president was hailing those governors. Now, he’s letting them twist in the wind.
Moving on to the present. Oh boy. We keep being stunned by the depths to which this guy can sink. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he finds a way.
This one is a doozy. Okay, just in case you haven’t heard; you better sit down, and tighten your belts. It is stunning; and not surprising all at the same time.
The Attorney General of the United States of America wants to drop charges against Michael Flynn and is arguing that the FBI was not within their bounds to question Flynn as to the things that he ended up lying about.
Depending on where you are on the opinion scale about Flynn let me say that most people rate him on two different scales. One rates him a traitor and the other rates him a piece of excrement. Take your pick, or say “both.”
Flynn has pleaded guilty in public court, twice, to lying to an FBI agent. He was lying about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Talking with the Russian ambassador is not a crime. Lying to the FBI is.
Why was he lying?
That question has never been truthfully answered.
The best guess is that he was told by Trump to tell the Russians something. That something may have been illegal.
If for instance Flynn was telling the Russians not to react to Obama’s sanctions because “they” would soon be in charge and “they” would undo all those sanctions then there is cause for concern on Flynn’s part, and Trump’s. You are not allowed to carry out U.S. Foreign policy unless you are in the U.S. Government. An incoming administration is not the U.S. Government. Making promises to foreign officials as the incumbent or as the potential winner of the presidency is illegal, because it violates the idea that there can only be one government at a time.
This did not stop Nixon, Reagan, or George Bush from doing it and therefore, as far as I am concerned, they are all traitors, but that’s just me in my strict constitutionalist mode, which I would think people like Ted Cruz and Sean Hannity would love due to their constant chest puffery around such issues.
So one day, if I ever get the TSFM to look farther forward than two weeks, or I live long enough, then maybe we’ll learn what old Donnie told Mikey to do that was so illegal that Mike had to take the fall.
For now we’ll have to be satisfied with the revealing of the House intelligence Committee’s revealing of the notes and conversations among Trump family and campaign staff concerning the Russian interference. These notes and conversations reveal that the family and campaign were well aware of the Russian efforts and actively courted them.
A final note: Many of my conservative friends in Virginia are posting pictures of Amanda Chase with the bi-line “Our Next Governor”. They are also making disparaging remarks about our current Democratic Governor, Ralph Northam. Mainly, these are ad-hominem remarks about the current governor.
Dr. Northam is a medical doctor. Amanda Chase is known for carrying a gun in her purse, being pro-life/anti-science, Bible loving, and bitchy to security authorities around the State Capital where she has been a State Senator. There were several incidents. She wanted to park her car near the entrance to a door to the capital building. It was a no parking zone. She was told she couldn’t. She responded with several defamatory statements and with the old “Do you know who I am?” statement. She said that she did not feel safe parking in the garage. (What? She’s carrying a gun. WTF?)
So let me ask you, in a time of pandemic crisis who would you rather have as your governor a medical doctor or a gun carrying, bible believing, anti-science stated person?
177 Days until the election on November 3rd
257 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Space Cakes!
This is just the beginning. Now the real looting and usurping of our system begins, out in the open, no holds barred. We are so fucked.