Day 1422 – Timing, Criminality, A Fantasy

Thursday December 10, 2020 (15 days til Christmas)

Election Day -37

42 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

A quick investing note, I knew Pfizer’s vaccine is to be approved today and thought that would give their stock a boost while depressing for a moment the second vaccine from Moderna which is due to be approved next week. So the smart thing to do would be to wait for this to happen then sell a little Pfizer and buy a bit more Moderna on the dip as it would shoot up next week.

The Moderna stock started to shoot up a few days ago so I bought a little more worried I had missed or was missing the boat. Then Moderna went down and Pfizer went up. What is the lesson here Grasshopper*? 

The lesson is that things don’t happen when you think they will.

Yes, I know. There are other lessons one could draw:

You can’t time the market. Etc.**

*If you don’t know the Grasshopper reference you are young. (Look up “Kung Fu” TV series.)

** I put this in the same category as Tim Allen’s comment about not swimming within an hour of eating. (i.e. If he let his daughter go in the pool within an hour of eating and if she did in fact get a stomach cramp there would be a phalanx of mothers blocking him from saving her saying, “I told you so!”)

Patience is a hard thing to do. Procrastination isn’t. However, doing nothing can look like either one. Don’t mistake one for the other. (Wow, that sounds pretty erudite.)

Criminality – As we watch the president commit more crimes and insults to our democracy we also get to watch the Republicans do nothing and/or go along with it. We now get to see some authoritarian actions reminiscent of the Brown Shirts of the Nazis and Mussolini, Peron, Pinochet, etc.

What will happen? I’ll tell you. Pence will get together with the cabinet and a majority will decide that Satan is unfit for office and Mike will become President. He’ll appoint all of Biden’s picks to start running things so we don’t get anymore screwed up then we are and that will be that.

One problem. 

He’s a friggin’ lying whimp. As Melania noted when Donnie picked him. (She said that he would not go against her husband, but the others he was considering would.)

Speaking of Melania isn’t it wonderful that there is a tennis pavilion on the South Lawn? It was just completed. How nice. Does she play? Does Baron? Who the F is going to use that in the closing days of this administration?

Covid is running rampant in this country and it’s about to get worse, a lot worse. Hospitals are full. In Nevada they reconditioned a parking lot to make a Covid ward: two levels, negative air, the whole bit. They had to hire extra security because of some idiotic claim that it was something else, I guess some deep state secret lab or something.

Meanwhile, the current commander and chief is being reported as completely absent from any responsibilities. He is reportedly watching TV, playing golf, continuing to make baseless claims about the election, and stuffing his cronies into jobs.

Kelley Ann Conway has been appointed to the board of The Kennedy Center.

The AG of Texas, a man under investigation for Federal crimes, has filed a law suit asking four other states to reverse their election and appoint Trump folks to the Electoral College. The fact that the date when all the election results are certified and locked in “The Safe Harbor Date” has passed, and the fact that it’s weird for one state to try and tell another state what to do (unless you can show your state was harmed, which I guess Texas can claim they were harmed by the election of Joe Biden?) is very weird. This means, as far as one can speculate, that this isn’t about reversing the election but getting the AG of Texas a pardon.

What can we hope for? Andrew Weismann provided some needed relief. He said that a pardon can not forgive future crimes. That Trump and his children will still have to file tax returns, etc. Is it possible that a family where “cheating is a way of life” can stop themselves from ever doing it again?

I don’t think so.

Same for the Texas AG. He’s been caught before doing the same thing. His whole staff wrote a letter saying he was doing it again. I forget exactly, selling/taking bribes for letting cases go? I can’t remember. Something like that.

We are now at the point where we are losing more people every day to Covid than we did on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. What does the president say about this? “Terrific.”

There are rumors that Billy Barr may be leaving his AG job. Why? I don’t know. I guess he thinks he’s done enough damage and boot-licking? Or is it that he finally will not do what Donnie wants? I mean Satan is only asking him to commit crimes, go against the Constitution, and I don’t know – grovel? There’s always a cruel twist with a sociopath I am told.

The discussions have now turned to who will end up getting disbarred. It should be quite a list. 

Normalcy is gone. What will replace it is hard to imagine. 

PS “It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day.” Lyrics to “Felling Good” Michael Buble sang it.