Rick Kinnaird

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Okay, I’m hearing they may not charge Matt Gaetz for sex trafficking because “the witnesses are unreliable.”

What?

How hard is this? 

Okay, you have a woman who alleges she had sex with Gaetz when she was seventeen. She then went into porn. You have Gaetz’ “wingman” who claims the same thing (and more.) The guy has already pled guilty to the sex trafficking thing. Couldn’t we at least charge Matt, put the witnesses on the stand and see if a jury believes them?

I mean – how hard is this?

And then there’s Donnie whining that Letitia James ran on the promise of investigating him. Yeah? So? Everyone in New York knew what he was doing. That’s why no bank would give him money. In fact, no bank did. It is alleged that Deutsche Bank gave him Russian money, not theirs. Pretty cheap buy for Vlad. In fact, why doesn’t George Soros bail him out? Wouldn’t you like to see him turn on the Maga folks for a few bucks?

September 22, 2022

If you remember this sci-fi movie from the 1950s you will recall that the advanced civilization on a planet developed machines that would carry out what the people thought. No sooner did they christen the machines than the next morning one person woke up to find everyone else dead. The Monster of the Id, I believe he called it. When explorers came to find out what happened the guy seemed to be in a semi-drugged state. Actually, he was trying not to think and invoke the monster. He urged them to leave, but not before some really bad special effects could show you the monster.

I wonder if Donnie saw that movie? He is asserting he can declassify documents by thinking about it. I wonder if that extends to pardoning people? Amazing powers, don’t ya think?

“Did you pardon him?”

“Yeah, yeah, I think I did, Yeah.”

“What about these documents?”

“What about them?

“Are they declassified?”

“Yeah, I think so.”

Unbelievable. And what about asset value? I guess it’s “What I say it’s worth is what it’s worth.” Seemed to have worked for him so far.

Does this super power extend to measurements? “Yeah. Sure. I said I had the biggest inaugural crowd ever, and so I did.” 

“What about the size of you New York apartment?”

“What about it?”

“You said over 30,000 square feet. The documents said it’s only 10,000.”

“The documents are wrong.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, lemme see them. I have a black Sharpie I can fix them.”

“What about the tape measure used to measure the length and width of the place?”

“Wrong too. Give me the tape. I’ll fix it.”

“Does your Sharpie work on a laser measure?”

“They are so wrong. You can’t trust them. Invented by George Soros. Commie. Antifa. You racist you. Stand with Q! I gotta go.”

“One last thing before you go.”

“Yes?”

“Did you know that Merrick Garland has a 100% conviction rate?”

[silence]

[sound of door slamming]

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

After an in-depth and exhaustive search I have come up with the true value of Donnit T’s Florida home/country club/and top secret repository:

It is not $75 Million as Ms James claims. Far from it. I have the proof!

This from Zillow:

Forty six bathrooms and only fourteen bedrooms? Oh, that’s to be able to flush papers. Got it.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Ah yes, the conversation about the ex-president has moved from “Should we?” to “How can we not?”

His overwhelming criminality done in plain sight is catching up with him.

The crimes are so blatant, and the defense so non-existent that it is hard for any lawyer to see a way that the American system of justice can do anything but follow the law and indict.

The defense by the Trump lawyers in the case about the documents was “Well, we don’t know what’s in the documents that we say the ex-president declassified so how can we say whether they were declassified?” and here’s the killer, “We aren’t going to tell you whether they were declassified or not. If you want to know what we think then charge are client criminally.”

The lawyer that Trump paid $3 Million out of the fund he scammed people out of (not his own money, but the money he conned people out of) – that lawyer said nothing. Smart. The other lawyers also would not say if anything was declassified because if they did and the papers weren’t declassified, that could be a crime and they could lose their law licenses and go to jail. To quote Meatloaf, “I’d do anything for you, but I won’t do that.”

The other striking thing reported about the hearing in Brooklynn was that the judge started on time, was respectful of both sides, and asked logical legal questions. The legal folks who have been following the proceedings all breathed a sigh of relief. Logic! The Law! Reason! These principles all returned after the hiatus in Florida. One remark was, “There was an adult in the room.” Another commented about “adult supervision.”

You get the point.

Donald, for the first time in his life, might … might … be held accountable.

And to add to his legal woes the woman who has been after him for sexual abuse has gotten clearance to go after him.

Aw gee, now he’s being sued by the New York AG for fraud. He is being charged $250 million in fines and would be banned from doing business or loans from any banks registered in New York. That’s about every bank in the world. And…and he and his children would be permanently banned from doing business in New York.

Wow. The list of fraudulent things goes on and on. Hum. Not good. 

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Do you remember the cult that were found dead in a house in LA?

They thought a spaceship was in the tail of a comet. Two of the members went to Radio Shack and bought a telescope, only to return it because they weren’t able to see the spaceship in the comet’s tail. Obviously, the scope was faulty.

Today I was reading an article about one of the fake electors in Georgia who claimed she only spent a few minutes in a county office where a forensic audit of the voting machines was going on by one of the Republican Trump team election denying folks. The video tape shows she was there for four hours and contrary to her claim of only being in the front office for a few minutes she was in the back where the “audit” was going on.

Okay. So? I got to wondering what happens when your belief gets upended by reality? 

If you claim the election was rigged and you go time and time again to prove it and there is no evidence of your claim, then what?

We’ve seen one example – Qanon. The ex-president has gone full in on that loony cult.

I guess it makes sense in that he can’t keep trying to operate in the real world.

In the last ten days three books have come out of significance about all this lunacy and its antecedents:

David Corn wrote one pointing out that this bigoted racist stuff that the Republicans are spouting has been festering in the U.S. for decades. (Ken Burns is pointing it out in his three part piece on the Holocaust and the U.S.)

Geoffrey Berman has one out called “Holding the Line” talking about how Trump and his flaks tried to drive him out of office. He wouldn’t go and had to be fired thus avoiding Barr or Trump from appointing anyone they wanted to take his place.

Now the book The Divider comes out and it chronicles just how ignorant and stupid Trump was in the Presidency. He didn’t know Finland was not part of Russia. He offered the West Bank to the Saudis (who didn’t want it). He didn’t know the difference between the Baltics and the Balkans. His ignorance is stunning, and dangerous. Those in his party knew this and failed to act. Now our democracy is in peril. Thanks all.

Oh, and now, one of Trump’s lawyers is being reported in NYT that he told Trump taking those documents would “get him in legal jeopardy,” and Trump took them anyway. What? He didn’t know. Uh, sorry, he returned half of them remember? Kinda blows the “I didn’t know” argument. Maybe he only half knew? Like being kinda pregnant? 

Liz Cheney said in the cloak room on Jan 6th there were sign up sheets for people willing to say the election was not won by Biden. She watched one of her colleagues sign the papers saying this what we do for orange Jesus. She watched this person committing a crime and willingly admitting to it as he was doing it.

And then Trump posts something about it being a disgrace where Biden was seated at the funeral of the Queen, and if he were President this wouldn’t have happened. Jimmy Kimmel remarked that he was happy to see that Trump admitted he wasn’t President.

If he had been President at the time of the Queen’s funeral I think the Brits would have handled it with stiff upper lip and seated Trump right at the front of the casket in Whitehall or somewhere, along with a stand in for Prince Charles – I mean King Charles. It would have been great. Oh well. 

Maybe, he could have been in-between Mr. Bean and John Cleese?

So much to ponder.