Trump

Thursday January 7, 2021 ( Electoral College Certification Day -1, 

                                           Insurrection Day -1,

                                          Georgia Senate Election  -2 )

Election Day -65

13 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

He told you what he was going to do.

He did it.

And now some of you are surprised?

Please.

If the 25^th Amendment hasn’t been enacted; do it now. Get the nuclear football away from this man and then we can talk.

If you are a Trump supporter you have a choice: 

Stand with The United States of America,

Or

Stand with Trump.

Stand for Democracy,

Or

Stand for authoritarianism.

Stop. Don’t lecture me about socialism and the danger of Pelosi or AOC. Just stop.

He told you who he was and what he was long ago.

He used the same words to sell himself to you that he used to sell Trump University.

Ask yourself this, “What has he promised you that he has delivered on?”

The only people he delivered for were the ultra-rich whom he and his Republican enablers gave the largest tax break in history and deepened our national debt.

People who worked for him before he was president told you who he was.

People who worked for him when he was president told you who he was.

He told you who he was. He told you what he was going to do.

Now he’s done it.

Stop it. Stop him.

Enough.

We can not risk a day more of this.

Every time you think it can’t get worse it has.

Stop it. Stop deluding yourselves. Stop saying that it’s only a little more time.

REMOVE HIM NOW!

PS Ironically, I got this in the mail yesterday. I hope it is wrong and Biden is #47.

Tuesday January 5, 2021 ( 1 Day to The Electoral College Certification, 

                                          Today is the Georgia Senate Election )

Election Day -63

15 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Somehow I managed to flip the days on the Electoral College certification and the Georgia Senate runoff election. It has been corrected in today’s screed.

It hard to know where to begin. I received a seven page photocopied full paged collated and stapled which stated on page 1. “REPENT REPENT REPENT”

This was placed not in the mailbox but in the little opening below the mailbox where circulars are usually placed. I had numerous questions about this action:

Was I the only one who received this?

If so was it a mistake?

Or was it specifically for me?

Later on it stated that Trump was Satan.

I was beginning to warm up to this epistle. 

I hadn’t read more and mentioned to my wife that probably Putin was Lucifer. She confirmed this. What? Oh yes, it’s all in there.

I read more this morning. Lots of numbers. Turns out they are using gematria, a word I didn’t know. It’s a Hebrew numerology thing. A=1 … Z=26. You can then look at the letters in a word, assign numbers, add them up and reach startling conclusions. 

Those into pot will recognize this clever device because M=13 and that’s the first letter in Marijuana. Get it? Clever, no? No. Okay. Nevermind. 

Why curse someone when you can just say, “6+21+3+11 25+15+21”

(It is left to the student at lab time to figure out the answer.)

Some people just don’t know how to curse. Personally, I’d just say, “102.” Maybe, “41 61” because it’s two words. Kinda get a cadence going, “41 61 56 hut hut hut” I don’t know. It’s a lot of work. (56 is the total of 19+8+9+20 in case you wanted to know.)

Update: From the neighborhood Facebook group, “I see our overzealous, ultra religious nut job is killing trees again. Where can we burn this garbage?”

And I thought I was special.

Now we get to the Georgia runoff. It’s an interesting problem the Republicans keep putting them selves in. Kind of like painting yourself in a corner and then saying, “Screw it,” and walking on the fresh wet paint and tracking it all through the house.

First, they yell and scream that the election (or whatever) is a fraud. So they set up a commission or agency or deputy to oversee whatever it is. Then the event to be overseen happens and there is no fraud, but they loose. There has to be fraud they reason because they didn’t win. Therefore the loser attacks the people who oversaw the election. Now that person overseeing is a Republican. So the loser and the overseer are at each others throats. Nice.

In Georgia the Secretary of State and his deputy have had to continually defend the results of the presidential election to the president who lost. They’ve had the election, the first recount, the second recount, the audit, the court cases and the results have been the same. Satan lost. 

This Secretary of State in Georgia is not paragon of virtue. He’s been behind the usual and most egregious of Republican voter suppression tactics available to him. He’s thrown people off the voting roles, limited early voting, restricted voting hours and done all he could to assure a Republican victory. But, it didn’t happen and he has now defended the results. 

This has prompted Trump to call him up and ask that he find enough votes to overturn the election. 

This is illegal, both Federally and according to Georgia state law. There’s an attorney general in the county Trump targeted that said she’ll enforce the law. 

We’ll see.

So Donald is getting squeezed from the north in New York and now in the south from Georgia.

Apparently, he’s called all the swing states trying to get them to overturn their elections results. Will he succeed? In court he’s batting 0-59, so it looks bad for The Donald.

In fact, it looks real bad. However, he’s got a bunch of Senators and Congresspeople who are willing to vote against a free and fair election. There’s a name for that – Sedition. In fact, they are now called the Sedition Caucus. Hopefully they will all be tried, thrown in jail and kicked out of office.

Some ask, “Can the president be impeached again?” I say, “Hell, yes.” And we should do it. Apparently, if you are impeached and voted out of office you can’t run for office again. At least, that’s what some have said. I hope they’re right.

Okay. Enough. Now to – WAR! 

That’s right. There’s a war abrewing or afoot. Either way it could be messy (Getting your foot stuck in the brew is not a good idea.) McDonald’s started it by announcing a new chicken sandwich. How will the others respond? This could be “THE GREAT CHICKEN SANDWICH WAR of 2021”.

This raises the question of which party which sandwich or establishment backs. Chick-fil-a is believed to be Trumpers. 

Sunday January 3, 2021 ( 1 Day to The Electoral College Certification, 

                                          2 Days to the Georgia Senate Election,

                                           3 Days since another round of crappy NYE shows )

Election Day -61

17 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Where to start? The biggest non-drama coming up is the certification of Joe Biden in the Electoral College process, unless it’s not. Here the drama is two fold: Will Mike Pence do nothing, which is his job in this case and something he has proven over and over again that he is very adept at, or will he try to be the leader of an insurrection foisted upon us by the far right nut jobs? Will Ted Cruz actually lead a bunch of numb-nuts to attempt to overturn our democracy? Will someone in Washington have some stones to actually arrest these yahoos? ( Nancy Pelosi being the only one who has shown any backbone, but I think this is a bridge too far for her. )

Then comes the Georgia Senate races. OMG! Stop! I’ve given you money. 10,000 emails a day isn’t helping your cause. No more “Humbly Asking”, no more “The Fate of the Senate rests on Georgia”, no more “Warnock loses”, “We’re packing our bags”, “Final Ask”, “Quadruple your match” – please enough. 

I still find it staggering that the Dems lost so many other senate races. However, 538 posted something that said people tend to vote based on tribe not on issue. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what the facts are. Stacey Abrams is correct to try and register new voters because the old ones ain’t changing their allegiance, as we have seen time and again in Kentucky with McConnell, or in Maine with Collins.

Now let’s look back at another year end of TV New Year’s Eve celebrations, which was the worst? I know, hard to say right? What were the highlights? I think the reporting says Anderson Cooper being drunk on national TV. I don’t know I kind of missed that performance.

Cindy Lauper certainly gets the Mariah Carey award for worst performance by a has-been. Some asked if she was trying to imitate a white Teletubby? I don’t know, but it was strange and off-key. Then she was singing with that black guy with the big coat with the giant shoulder pads. What’s up with that? Oh he’s Billy somebody and he was in Kinky Boots with her. Okay, got it.

Then there’s Megan Thee Stallion. I got to hand it to her. She a no talent, chunky, uneducated, unsophisticated black woman who has managed by sheer audacity (I guess) to make a name for herself. I mean it takes a lot of guts to stand up on national TV in a skin tight human flesh full body yoga suit and turn your fat ass to the camera and do a few mountain climbers while some music is playing. Oh that’s right she had a mic and said some sound over and over again so they now call that a song. This “singing” seems to be her trademark performance style. She ought to have a lot of songs because you know there are a lot of sounds out there. Am I right? Am I right? Let’s hear it for me! OMG. I first became aware of her when she was on SNL. I think I fell asleep and was awoken by a kind of firecrackers string sound of a drum and a repetitive phrase being uttered. On stage was a woman with ample décolletage arranged to look like a shelf due I guess to a massive push up bra. This woman was jumping a bit up and down in time to the thumping of the firecracker sound. The effect of her jumping was her flesh on the top part of her tits jiggled. This seemed to be the whole routine. (I mean you could get the same effect by buggy whipping an old lady with four turkey necks and a low cut summer dress and a jiggly chest.) Then it was over. 

Next I heard about her when she got into a fight on instagram or twitter or somewhere with her hair stylist and makeup person over who really does her make up. This passes for news. It’s like the guy in the Geico ad who is supposed to be helping people not become like their parents. “You got up at 5am. Nobody cares.”

In the case of old Megan someone must care because she keeps showing up. I’ll say this for her. She was on the playbill on two of the New Year’s Eve shows. One was the aforementioned live performance and the other was a pre-recorded video. I mean if you’ve got no talent then the New Year’s Eve shows is the place to flaunt it. Whatever you want to say about Megan you can’t deny that she flaunts “it.” I guess that makes her a flauntist?

Speaking of pre-recorded, Sting seems to make it on most NYE performances. He was in a wide brimmed hat and hobbling around with a cane. At first, I thought the cane was part of the performance. But now? I don’t think so.

The best performances? Hum. Miley Cyrus did a good job. She was dressed in a goth black leather nihilist rage outfit. Very nice. Her song was good. I mean, she sang, in tune, you could understand the words. Also, Miley’s sister did well too. Who knew she had a sister? Two actually. The sister who sang has long back hair parted in the middle. I’m guessing she’s going for the Buffy St. Marie award.

Hannah Montana is long gone, but there’s new entrant in the perky Disney young girl category, Jo Jo somebody or other. My nine year old niece hates her. That’s a good sign. Jo Jo, I saw on a Christmas special. She was at her house in Kansas, (I think it was Kansas or Nebraska.) She had 16 Christmas trees. They looked like they had been decorated by the same people who decorate the malls. Perfect and lifeless. As for Jo Jo, she was perky and friendly. Riding around on a one wheel thingee, showing off her Christmas crap. In between they showed clips of her dance singing routines – very perky, very pink and sparkly. It was fitting. I hope I don’t read about her going into rehab in a few years.

In other news, we watched the Bee Gees documentary on Netflix, which was very good. I didn’t realize the breadth of their work and length of their careers. The youngest Gibb, Andy, I saw on Broadway in Joseph and The Amazing Colored Dreamcoat. He was okay, but his voice wasn’t very strong, and came out like more of a whisper. The show features a genie who was played by a young black woman and who had to really hold back so as to not blow Mr. Gibb off the stage. Andy died of a heart attack and got very involved in the Hollywood drug scene. The two twins that made up two thirds fo the group have also died – cancer. Very sad. Heavy drinking by one. He was married to Lulu for awhile. She couldn’t take the level of alcohol and got out after four years. She’s still alive! That leaves the oldest one, Barry. Down in Miami. They were in the house where Clapton recorded 461 Ocean Boulevard. The documentary showed Barry walking to the fence by the ocean and looking out. His once wonderful hair, now a wet combed down insipid nothing. Unrecognizable, he was to me. I’m sure he misses his brothers everyday. Sad, very sad. I had no idea that Barbra Streisand called them up and asked to work with them. Nor Celion Dion, or many more. They wrote over 1,000 songs. Now I can’t get one or two out of my head.

I saw that someone is creating art with toilet paper tubes. Like the ice water challenge I decided to join in. ( Okay, I didn’t do the ice water challenge. ) But here is a great work of TPT art! Enjoy. 

Day 1350 – A Criminal Pardon, A Pardon Criminal?

Tuesday December 29, 2020 (2 days til New Years Eve)

Election Day -56

23 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There is this little thing I learned listening to the two Lawrences last night. Not Welk but O’Donnell and Tribe. Laurence Tribe wrote a piece for Financial Times which explored the idea that a president could be brought up on charges of criminal obstruction of justice if he pardoned someone in a quid quo pro for covering up some of the president’s crimes. Not only did Tribe say he should be charged, but he must be charged. Otherwise, there would be no limits on what a President could do once in power. Talk about a bad precedent.

I look forward to the coming months and hope that this comes to pass. We’ll watch the conservatives on the court try to tie themselves in knots to get around sending The Orange One to jail.

Ah me.

Most fun of all, if he pardons his family members they will not have the 5^th amendment to hide behind. They will be forced to rat out their own father, or lie and go to jail for lying, or refuse to testify and go to jail until they decide to testify.

I also like Colin Powell’s suggestion that Michael Flynn should be brought up in a military court on charges of sedition.

In other news Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer. Too bad, so sad. I guess his bloviating will be reduced to a whisper soon.

Mike Pence will be called upon to do his duty to oversee the casting of ballots in the Electoral College. Will he do his duty? Or will he do something stupid, like what Louie Gohmert is suing him to do? Ignore the law, the Constitution, and precedent and seize power to install Trump as president?

Then there is Mike Flynn suggesting that the president declare Marshall Law and rerun the elections I swing states. (See Colin Powell suggestion above.)

Oh and we found VOTER FRAUD!

The Lieutenant Governor of Texas offered a million dollars for anyone to find examples of voter fraud. The reward wasn’t limited to the state of Texas.

Well boys and girls, we found it in Pennsylvania. Not only that but then they found more voter fraud. It was an increase of 50% over what they had previously found! It was all across the state! Yes, indeedy. Terrible. 

For some reason the Lieutenant Governor of Texas is not paying up. 

Specifics? You want specifics? I’ll give you specifics. A guy tried to cast a vote using his dead mother’s ballot. Not only that but he tried to vote himself twice! (He put on sunglasses the second time so no one would know who he was.) Charges have been filed. Ladies and Gentlemen this man is or will be soon found to be a criminal. He tried voting for Trump. Trump is a Republican. REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! Ding. Ding. Ding. We got him prez and you too Lt. Gov. (“Pay up you cheapskate.”)

That’s not all! Another guy on the other side of Pennsylvania tried to vote his dead mother’s ballot. They got him. I don’t know if they hauled him out in chains or not. Guess what? He tried to vote for Trump too! REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! 

That’s an increase, as I already pointed out, of fifty percent. And it makes the REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!!! All across the state. 

Criminal. Lock them up!

Meanwhile 2.1 million people have been vaccinated and 11 million doses have been delivered. You may find this shocking but there is no real clear plan of how to get people vaccinated. Shocking, I know.

Monday December 28, 2020 (3 days til New Years Eve)

Election Day -55

24 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Her name was Francois Hardy (“Har-D”). She was wispily beautiful. She was a singer. She sang mainly in French. I had no idea what she was saying most of the time. There were bits I could translate: “I see you with others” “There” “I love you.” She modeled and she was an inspiration to Bob Dylan and Mic Jagger among others. She was part of the 60s French yé-yé singing phenomena.

From time to time I would see articles about her. Later on she got into astrology. A big turn-off for me. Oh well, I thought.

Yesterday, I was click-baited into looking at slides of “women who were muses for musicians.” There was Marianne Faithful, Courtney Love, Linda Eastman, Marilynn Monroe, Yoko Ono, and Francois Hardy!

The little blurb on Hardy mentioned that she had been in a coma for two years and awoke in 2018.

It made me wonder, “Had anyone been in a coma in 2018 and awoken in 2020?” Or what if they had gone to sleep in 2016 before the election and woken up now?

Can you imagine?

At first they’d come to, and probably see people in plastic shielded hospital beds with breathing tubes and monitors. There would be the sound of ventilators and pinging of monitors, green and blue little lights twinkling from devices. Maybe a CRT with patient information. They’d hear the groaning of people in pain. The silence of sorts, but the constant sucking in of air and letting out via the bellows of the ventilator.

They’d wonder what kind of surreal landscape they were in.

A team of gowned workers would rush in and administer to a patient a few beds away. ( “Why are they all covered from head to toe?” “Why the googles and the face masks?” “What is going on?” )

At some point, someone would spot you lying in the bed awake. Either a passing nurse or a monitor would have pinged that you were awake and an RN would be sent in to see and reset the monitor, then discover you, the patient, conscious. Imagine the conversation:

“You’re awake.”

“Yes.”

[Aside yells or speaks into a monitor “#43 is awake!”]

“What’s the big deal?”

Others flood into the room.

“You’ve been asleep for a long time.”

“Really? Like twenty hours?”

“Try four years.”

“No way. I’m thirsty. What time is it?”

“4:30 pm December 28^th 2020.”

“You’re kidding right?”

“Not kidding.”

“When I was last awake Hillary was going to be President.”

“She lost.”

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