Bumbling Joe
17/03/24 07:14
God willing, it's going to be another good week. What the hell does that even mean? I went to bed last night, regretting not having cracked a book in the last two days. You'd think that in the space of twenty-four hours, I might make time to do that. Well, not so much. I did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, so there's that. Only kidding. I made a nice dish of roasted vegetables last night, which the missus thoroughly enjoyed. I also don't know why it turned out as good as it did, or maybe why the missus liked it as much as she did, but she did. Maybe it was the combination of vegetables. Maybe it was the spices that I used. She had been complaining that she had been eating all day, and that's never a good thing. That's not a jag you want to be on. You tend to put things in your mouth that you know you're going to regret. If having a spoonful of peanut butter is one of those things, at least for me, it is not something I regret. Where am I going with this?
The missus wanted to watch some of the Oscars last night, so we tuned in. I don't particularly care for the host, Jimmy Kimmel, or any other host of late-night television, for that matter, so I'm just throwing that out there. I always worry that these ridiculous shows are nothing more than a platform for the Hollywood muckety-mucks, where they spend the better part of three hours spewing nonsense about the latest and greatest social injustices, whether it be the war in Ukraine, the struggles in the minority communities, or whatever. Sure enough, last night was no exception. Many attendees wore little red buttons signifying something about Ukraine. I'm guessing that it had something to do with supporting Ukraine with the $60 billion that they say they need to fight back against Russian aggression. The missus thought that the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon" starring DiCaprio and DeNiro should have won best picture. The movie "Oppenheimer" won instead. Knowing the Hollywood lefties as I do, or think I do, I was surprised that the American Indian actress in the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon," whose name escapes me, did not win best supporting actress. Oh well, just a couple of ditties about something that I could really give two fucks about. I'm okay with Oppenheimer winning.
I'm telling you, they are pulling out all the stops. When I say "they," I'm referring to Biden's handlers. Hugh Hewitt, a morning talk show guy I listen to occasionally, played back certain portions of an interview that some media type was having with Biden. I knew it was a hoax because Biden was speaking in complete sentences. Everyone knows this dunce can't string two words together, even when reading a teleprompter. What kind of deception is this bullshit? They are clearly trying to build on the narrative that started with his drug-fueled speech he gave in the "State of the Union. The clapping seals were out in force across the media after Biden's speech, saying that it was the best speech he's ever given and that if there were ever any doubt about his being ready to take on Trump as his party's nominee, he was now in it to win it. Shouldn't we expect more from our media when they sit across from the President of the United States and allow him to read his responses from a teleprompter? I tuned in late, so I didn't catch the entire interview, but I do not doubt that Hugh knew full well it was a farce. Everything with Biden is smoke and mirrors.
The missus has a friend who recently complained that he lost a lengthy Word document when he inadvertently saved it after erasing its contents. She was able to piece the document together after a bit of extra effort, but it amazed me that anyone could lose everything in a matter of seconds if he or she were not paying attention. Her friend utilizes a backup service, but the backup service backed up the bad version, and they had no ability to access older versions of the document. Let me qualify that. They could access older versions but only if the user was on a Windows platform. They were working on updating their systems to do the same for Mac users. Right. What I didn't realize, but came to realize after a bit of research, is that as a Microsoft 365 subscriber, her friend was entitled to download and use an application called OneDrive. OneDrive is essentially a cloud-based storage platform. Unfortunately, it was not set up on his Mac when he moved from Windows to an IOS platform. Among the features of OneDrive is the ability to access older versions of documents. Damn. Long story short, he now has OneDrive set up on his Mac. Better late than never.
I plan to watch Robert Hur testify before Congress today on his assessment as a Special Prosecutor after looking into Biden's handling of classified documents. He's the guy who decided against bringing charges because Biden was too addled, and any charges brought would likely not produce a favorable (guilty) verdict once all was said and done. I'm sure he'll be asked if, after seeing Biden's barn burner of a speech at the State of the Union, whether or not he'd like to reconsider his position on bringing charges. Not that it's an option now that the horse has left the barn but you have to figure it's going to come up. If there is any good news, it is that Hur is no longer an employee of the federal government, and he can now speak more freely about his findings and impressions after having interviewed Biden for several hours on matters relating to his handling of classified materials. Now that we've heard all about Biden's having taken money from various bad actors around the world in the past few decades, it's entirely appropriate to conclude, as many have, that Biden was peddling classified materials to the highest bidder. After hearing from Hur today, we'll better understand the scope of Biden's criminality. Perhaps even more telling may be what we hear from the Democrats as they circle the wagons to defend the leader of their party and the party's presumptive nominee for the presidency in 2024.
I don't think I realized that Republicans in Congress have a committee investigating January 6th. That's encouraging for many reasons, the least of which is that many American citizens are sitting in jail cells for doing nothing more than being in the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021. The sooner they expose the corruption behind the architects of the "insurrection," the sooner Americans can set the record straight on what J6 was and what J6 wasn't. When we hear about Liz Cheney's role in suppressing exculpatory evidence, one has to wonder what she had to gain from playing into the hoax that was J6. One has to wonder if she wasn't involved from day one in the planning and execution of the J6 hoax. Who was that other woman who testified that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his limo to force the driver to return to the Capitol? As it turns out, that was all fake news. Where are the perjury charges? It's encouraging as well that the committee in Congress is looking into many players on the periphery, like Fani Willis, the DA who brought charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants. She sent a letter to the J6 committee asking for any and all relevant materials she could use to bring charges against Trump. I don't think I'm mistaken when I say this was all done to keep Trump from returning to the White House in 2025. Did I mention that Trump said yesterday that he intends to set the J6 prisoners free once he is re-elected? That is some righteous shite.
Mrs. G called last night with her knickers in a bunch. She sounded terrified. I thought something nasty happened, and I feared the worst. As it turns out, she called because she came pretty darn close to being scammed, or so she said. She received what she thought was an e-mail from Amazon offering to extend her Prime membership by three months. All she had to do was click on the link in the e-mail. I'm unsure how things rolled out from there, but instead of clicking on the link, she called Amazon to confirm what she thought might be a hoax. She should have been proud of herself for having the wherewithal to question the offer from the jump, yet she still sounded rattled to the core for having experienced the near-scam. Maybe it was nothing more than Mrs. G wanting to regale us with yet another story proving her capacity beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can still tell the good guys from the bad guys even at her advanced age. We'll never know what might have happened had she clicked that link. That's the good news. There is no bad news. It's all good.
I should have known that the Hur hearing would be a nothing burger. The Republicans did their best to question Hur and get to the bottom of Biden's criminality. The Democrats did their best to compare Trump's handling of classified documents to Biden's handling of classified documents. There also wasn't a lot of discussion about how demented Biden was when Hur interviewed him. Hur stuck to talking about the report that he wrote where he decided that a jury would more than likely not return a guilty verdict were it to go to trial. When pushed by one Democrat on the Committee, Hur said his report did not exonerate Biden. Fast forward to the evening talking head shows, and the Democrats were out in force twisting Hur's testimony into a fucking pretzel. This is what they do. This is who they are. Protect the head of your party at any cost. If it means lying through your teeth or gaslighting the bejesus out of your viewers, then that is what you do. I was also a little surprised that not one Republican mentioned anything about Biden stealing state secrets to benefit our enemies abroad. They've been investigating that angle for the better part of a year for chrissakes. Oh, and despite his autobiographer destroying the classified documents that Biden gave him, Hur decided he would not be prosecuted. Talk about a fucking double standard.
Trump now has the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination. He's the first person in American history to win back-to-back nominations for three years straight. I looked at the votes cast in the Georgia primary last night, and the Republicans got twice the number of ballots cast compared to the votes cast for Democrats in that state. Am I correct in saying that that ain't nothing? If last night's primary in Georgia is any indication of the enthusiasm for Trump over Biden, then I will project here and now that Trump will walk away with Georgia in the general election in November. I believe the margin was a mere ten thousand votes between Trump and Biden in the presidential election in 2020. I went back and looked at the primary results in 2020 and found that both Trump and Biden got roughly one million votes each. Does the ridiculously low number of ballots cast by Democrats last night in Georgia have anything to do with the fact that Biden is the incumbent? Putting on my partisan hat for just a moment, I'm thinking that Biden's bringing our country to the brink of (fill in the blank) has a lot to do with the outcome of last night's primary. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck here, but it's starting to look like Trump's chances in November are getting better by the day.
Now we have to hope that Biden doesn't get us into a war with Russia ahead of the November elections. He sounds like a broken record when it comes to Ukraine and its war with Russia. It's nonstop "Russia won't stop with Ukraine" coming out of Biden's mouth, and that's worrisome. Putin commented recently that Russia will resort to using nuclear weapons if Russia's existence is threatened. I keep asking myself, what the hell is all of this heated rhetoric coming out of the White House? By the way, nobody believes that Putin has any intentions of doing anything more in Ukraine than that which is laid out in his comments when all of this started some two years ago. So, why does Biden keep pushing the envelope on the Russia issue? The French pipsqueak of a president, Macron, has a scheduled speech before his nation on Thursday. What are the chances that he will announce sending French forces into Ukraine? I don't give a flying fuck what the Frenchies do, but it better not have anything to do with what Biden does or does not have planned. If they want to send their young men to the killing fields of Ukraine, be my guest. If Frenchies start dying by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Russians, what obligation do we have as a NATO member to join the fight? I'm thinking none since Russia hasn't attacked France, but that won't stop Biden from trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat by sending our young men into Ukraine so he can win an election. F'ing clown.
Judge McAfee announced that he is dropping six of the thirteen or so charges against Trump in Fani Willis's case in Georgia. According to the judge, the District Attorney did not sufficiently define the charges, so Trump's defense team couldn't properly defend their client. Willis can refile the charges, but not without effectively delaying the trial until after the election. Or, Willis can proceed with the remaining charges without refiling charges and try to get a conviction before election day. We'll find out tomorrow whether Willis will be disqualified, so we're in a wait-and-see mode. Is the fact that the judge was receptive to this argument by Trump's defense team suggestive of anything? What are the chances that he's telegraphing that he will not disqualify Willis, but he agrees with Trump's defense team that Willis's motivation to bring these charges is questionable, if not unethical? At least for the time being, any news is good news when we hear these sorts of things about the multitude of lawfare cases that Biden's Department of Justice is bringing, directly or indirectly, against Donald J. Trump. Needless to say, I'll be tuning in online tomorrow to watch Judge McAfee hand down his ruling on the disqualification issue.
I could give two shits about what happens in Haiti. That is, unless it impacts America one way or another. Word has it that gangs are now running the island, and there is no real government in place to control much of anything. I've seen videos online of one of the gang leaders known locally as "Barbecue." The footage shows Barbecue pulling the leg off a body that was burning in the street and ripping off chunks of flesh with his teeth. You can't make this stuff up. Things are so bad that Haitians are getting on anything that floats to escape the maelstrom and are heading to the shores of Florida en masse. If this isn't a situation that calls for intervention by the federal government, I don't know what it is. Naval vessels should be intercepting these flotillas at sea and redirecting them to Guantanamo Bay, where they can wait until order is restored to their homeland. Will this be yet one more situation where Biden willfully ignores illegal entry into our country by people who have no right to be on America's soil? What can and what will Governor Ron DeSantis do to stop Haitians from invading the shores of his beloved state of Florida? What are the chances that Biden assists in the relocation efforts in order to create even more chaos for political gain? Then again, what's another two million or more illegal ne'er do wells in addition to the 10-12 million already here thanks to Biden?
I caught Lara Logan yesterday on Steve Bannon's show, WarRoom. She was talking about Trump's taking donations from some dude with deep pockets to change his position on banning TikTok. I recall Trump wanting to ban TikTok during his first term in office, but I can't recall how that effort ended. The audio they played of Trump now saying he is more concerned about how other platforms like FaceBook (META) might become more powerful with TikTok gone has me wondering how malleable Trump is on the subject. That wasn't the most interesting part. Politicians change their minds for a lot of different reasons. Logan suggested that this was potentially a trap for Trump in that should Republicans not win a majority in the House in November, there is a very real chance that Democrats might impeach Trump for collaborating with the Communist Chinese Party in order to keep their spying apparatus (TikTok) in place. Newly elected senators supported by McConnell, such as that fat fuck from Maryland, Larry Hogan, or Tim Sheehy, the guy who never saw a war he didn't want the U.S. to be involved in, would increase the likelihood of Trump being convicted in the Senate and tossed out of the White House. It's plausible enough to be scary. Good for Lara Logan in putting together the pieces. She's good. She's very good.
The missus has been after me for the last few weeks to take a ride up Maine way to visit a store called Mardens. We finally got around to taking that ride yesterday. Driving up Route 1 through Maine was nice, so that was good. It was also a nice day for a ride, with everything else being equal. We thought the Ev man might like to join us for the ride, but he had other plans, so he opted out. Aside from the ride itself, the Ev man didn't miss much when all was said and done. The store turned out to be more of a yard-sale style store than anything else. In and of itself, not the end of the world. That said, we didn't need to drive the better part of an hour or more to go to a yard sale. I mosied down an aisle of baking pans and thought to myself that this was just what the missus has been looking for. And the prices, they were to die for, as they say in the movies. When I brought the missus around to look at them, we both discovered at the same time that the pans were cheaper than cheap and not worth buying at any price. That about sums up, to a tee, everything the store had to offer. The missus and I agreed on one thing. We wouldn't be revisiting Mardens anytime soon. And no, I told the missus, the other Marden stores are probably not much better.
What is this ridiculous obsession that Biden and the Democrat party have with getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu? I know shite about Israeli politics, so I can't say with any degree of confidence that Netanyahu's replacement would be any better. Maybe it's just this whole left-wing versus right-wing thing that the Democrats feel that they need to control. Maybe they don't like the way Netanyahu has been ignoring their pleas to scale back the war on Hamas in order to save innocent Palestinians from a fate worse than death itself. Netanyahu, in so many words, has told the Biden administration to fuck off. That, to me, seems to be the appropriate response considering what the Israelis are trying to accomplish. And then we see Chuckles Schumer, the Senate Majority leader, go to the well of the Senate to call for new elections in Israel. Since fucking when does a United States Senator take to the Senate floor and call for the displacement of a foreign leader? Are these clowns not satisfied with trying to put their own political opponents in jail here in our country such that they have to do the same thing around the world? Maybe they're trying to placate their left-wing Jewish base here in the United States, who would like nothing better than to see Netanyahu get the boot. And then there are the Muslims and Palestinians in Michigan who are not exactly feeling the love from this administration. They may or may not go to the polls to vote for Biden in November.
Today is the day. Today, we learn about the fate of one Fanny Willis and her boy-toy, Mr. Wade. It's been a long two weeks since Judge McAfee told the world he'd be handing down his ruling on the disqualification case against Willis and Wade. I'm not sure why he needed the full two weeks, but here we are. To be clear, removing these two perjurers from the case would be good for Team Trump. Any delay at this point, in addition to the half dozen or so charges that the judge recently dismissed, would extend a trial and possible conviction beyond Election Day in November. I'm also mindful that Team Trump has made a more-than-compelling case against the two lovers, which would, under normal circumstances, result in a "conviction" of Willis and Wade. It's probably too much to expect that the two would lose their law license as a result of their perjurious testimony. Splitting the baby at this point might see the two taken off the case and keeping their licenses while taking jail time off the table in exchange for their signing off on the agreement. I learned yesterday that McAfee will not hand down his ruling in open court, so I can put away my popcorn for another day. Nonetheless, a win is a win either way. Until it isn't, that is.
(Fast forward two hours) Fuck it. I'm giving up on the legal system. Judge McAfee let these two dopes off the hook with a slap on the wrist. Well, he said that one of the two needs to be removed from the case. Can you guess which one will be taking a hike? I'll give you a hint: It's not going to be Fanny. Her father, you know, the ex-Black Panther, must have made quite an impact on the judge when he told him that he's always advised his daughter to carry cash when she's out on a date. Just when I thought she had dug herself too deep a hole to climb out of with her tall tales about always carrying a cache of hard currency in the event she had to get away from a bad date in a hurry. There were other rather disparaging comments in the ruling by the judge suggesting that her lies and subterfuge on the stand were unbecoming of a public servant. He listed any number of ongoing inquiries by external agencies and organizations, not the least of which is Congress, that are either collectively or separately looking into Fanny and issues raised during her testimony before Judge McAfee. Here's my take: She will rue the day she decided to take down Trump for asking questions about the validity of election results. Let the investigations begin.
I think we'll put the Ev man in an Uber the next time he decides to visit his friend in Boston. It's a shitty drive if you're not accustomed to driving in and out of the city on a regular basis. He's only made that drive a couple of times, so you might be tempted to think he's getting better at navigating his way in and out of the city. He did say that he thought about giving us a call to give him a lift but decided against it for whatever reason. That's fine. The missus thinks his confidence will only grow with each trip, and I think there's probably some truth to what she says. He may even come to enjoy going down to the city for various and sundry reasons unrelated to the friend he now visits. I wonder how he'll feel about the Uber idea. I will ask him and we'll see soon enough. I'm also willing to look the other way when it comes to just how much it might cost. How would we feel if his car was stolen in the city? Would we then wish that we'd sucked it up and paid the price for him to take an Uber? Yeah, I think we would. In spades, if I'm truthful about it. Has the Ev man ever taken an Uber? Hmmm.
What do you suppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is up to when he says he's considering Aaron Rodgers as his Vice Presidential nominee? I heard someone suggest picking Rodgers could spell problems for Trump in states like Wisconsin in the general election. I still think that there are a lot of older voters out there who have fond, if not fading, memories of the Kennedys and the whole Camelot thing. They might well walk into the polls thinking that Joe Biden is a demented old fuck, so why not vote for a Kennedy instead. That checks the "I'll never vote for a Republican" box and then some. Better yet, "I'm not voting for the Orange Man" so there's that. I'm old enough to remember the insurgent campaign of Ross Perot, whose campaign put that sleazy fuck, Bill, "I never had sex with that woman" Clinton in the White House. Thanks for nothing, Ross. He's dead now, but you get the idea. The fact of the matter is, I don't know who would benefit from a Kennedy/Rodgers ticket in Wisconsin or anywhere else. To quote babbling Joe Biden, here's the deal: No sooner had Kennedy started talking about Rodgers as a potential running mate when stories hit the media about Rodgers calling the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings a hoax back in the day. That smacks as some trash talk coming out of the Biden White House. Now who's got their knickers in a bunch over a potential Rodgers VP pick?
So much for the Rodgers pick for Kennedy. He's announced that his running mate is none other than the ex-wife of a Google co-founder. She may be important in some circles, but I've never heard of her. Is it safe to say she's probably got the money the Kennedy campaign needs to run circles around their competition? Probably. Here's my response: Whatever. That's it. That's all I've got. Have you seen bumbling Joe Biden out there wearing his new sneakers? They are specifically designed to give added stability to the vertically challenged. We've all seen the old fool walking unsteadily and stiffly across the lawn outside the White House toward the helicopter. If I had to guess, he's walking a little too fast and unsteady for his handlers. One stumble, and he's falling flat on his face. How much do you want to bet he cannot get off the ground alone? Since it would be too obvious if they had someone holding his hand for additional stability, they opted for the best footwear that money could buy to solve the problem. Now, if they can just take the old-man-shuffling look out of his gait.
I'm getting a little tired of these stupid Committees in Congress run by Republicans who are supposedly looking into the criminality of the Biden Crime Family. Time is running out, and running out fast if they plan to do anything. If the Democrats take over the House in January, everything the Republicans have done will go up in smoke. It will be memory-holed forever. I can only conclude that they either don't have the evidence or they don't have the votes to proceed with Biden's impeachment. Yet, they continually come on Sunday shows like Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures and talk about their ongoing investigations like they're going somewhere. They're not. As for the January 6th fiasco, Congressman Loudermilk promises to call many of the people who ran the J6 Committee, such as Liz Cheney, to testify under oath about their lies and transgressions. What the hell is he waiting for? She knows how the game is played. Time is clearly on her side. I don't know how much more of this lose-lose bullshit we can take before our Republic starts to lose its moorings.
The missus wanted to watch some of the Oscars last night, so we tuned in. I don't particularly care for the host, Jimmy Kimmel, or any other host of late-night television, for that matter, so I'm just throwing that out there. I always worry that these ridiculous shows are nothing more than a platform for the Hollywood muckety-mucks, where they spend the better part of three hours spewing nonsense about the latest and greatest social injustices, whether it be the war in Ukraine, the struggles in the minority communities, or whatever. Sure enough, last night was no exception. Many attendees wore little red buttons signifying something about Ukraine. I'm guessing that it had something to do with supporting Ukraine with the $60 billion that they say they need to fight back against Russian aggression. The missus thought that the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon" starring DiCaprio and DeNiro should have won best picture. The movie "Oppenheimer" won instead. Knowing the Hollywood lefties as I do, or think I do, I was surprised that the American Indian actress in the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon," whose name escapes me, did not win best supporting actress. Oh well, just a couple of ditties about something that I could really give two fucks about. I'm okay with Oppenheimer winning.
I'm telling you, they are pulling out all the stops. When I say "they," I'm referring to Biden's handlers. Hugh Hewitt, a morning talk show guy I listen to occasionally, played back certain portions of an interview that some media type was having with Biden. I knew it was a hoax because Biden was speaking in complete sentences. Everyone knows this dunce can't string two words together, even when reading a teleprompter. What kind of deception is this bullshit? They are clearly trying to build on the narrative that started with his drug-fueled speech he gave in the "State of the Union. The clapping seals were out in force across the media after Biden's speech, saying that it was the best speech he's ever given and that if there were ever any doubt about his being ready to take on Trump as his party's nominee, he was now in it to win it. Shouldn't we expect more from our media when they sit across from the President of the United States and allow him to read his responses from a teleprompter? I tuned in late, so I didn't catch the entire interview, but I do not doubt that Hugh knew full well it was a farce. Everything with Biden is smoke and mirrors.
The missus has a friend who recently complained that he lost a lengthy Word document when he inadvertently saved it after erasing its contents. She was able to piece the document together after a bit of extra effort, but it amazed me that anyone could lose everything in a matter of seconds if he or she were not paying attention. Her friend utilizes a backup service, but the backup service backed up the bad version, and they had no ability to access older versions of the document. Let me qualify that. They could access older versions but only if the user was on a Windows platform. They were working on updating their systems to do the same for Mac users. Right. What I didn't realize, but came to realize after a bit of research, is that as a Microsoft 365 subscriber, her friend was entitled to download and use an application called OneDrive. OneDrive is essentially a cloud-based storage platform. Unfortunately, it was not set up on his Mac when he moved from Windows to an IOS platform. Among the features of OneDrive is the ability to access older versions of documents. Damn. Long story short, he now has OneDrive set up on his Mac. Better late than never.
I plan to watch Robert Hur testify before Congress today on his assessment as a Special Prosecutor after looking into Biden's handling of classified documents. He's the guy who decided against bringing charges because Biden was too addled, and any charges brought would likely not produce a favorable (guilty) verdict once all was said and done. I'm sure he'll be asked if, after seeing Biden's barn burner of a speech at the State of the Union, whether or not he'd like to reconsider his position on bringing charges. Not that it's an option now that the horse has left the barn but you have to figure it's going to come up. If there is any good news, it is that Hur is no longer an employee of the federal government, and he can now speak more freely about his findings and impressions after having interviewed Biden for several hours on matters relating to his handling of classified materials. Now that we've heard all about Biden's having taken money from various bad actors around the world in the past few decades, it's entirely appropriate to conclude, as many have, that Biden was peddling classified materials to the highest bidder. After hearing from Hur today, we'll better understand the scope of Biden's criminality. Perhaps even more telling may be what we hear from the Democrats as they circle the wagons to defend the leader of their party and the party's presumptive nominee for the presidency in 2024.
I don't think I realized that Republicans in Congress have a committee investigating January 6th. That's encouraging for many reasons, the least of which is that many American citizens are sitting in jail cells for doing nothing more than being in the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021. The sooner they expose the corruption behind the architects of the "insurrection," the sooner Americans can set the record straight on what J6 was and what J6 wasn't. When we hear about Liz Cheney's role in suppressing exculpatory evidence, one has to wonder what she had to gain from playing into the hoax that was J6. One has to wonder if she wasn't involved from day one in the planning and execution of the J6 hoax. Who was that other woman who testified that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his limo to force the driver to return to the Capitol? As it turns out, that was all fake news. Where are the perjury charges? It's encouraging as well that the committee in Congress is looking into many players on the periphery, like Fani Willis, the DA who brought charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants. She sent a letter to the J6 committee asking for any and all relevant materials she could use to bring charges against Trump. I don't think I'm mistaken when I say this was all done to keep Trump from returning to the White House in 2025. Did I mention that Trump said yesterday that he intends to set the J6 prisoners free once he is re-elected? That is some righteous shite.
Mrs. G called last night with her knickers in a bunch. She sounded terrified. I thought something nasty happened, and I feared the worst. As it turns out, she called because she came pretty darn close to being scammed, or so she said. She received what she thought was an e-mail from Amazon offering to extend her Prime membership by three months. All she had to do was click on the link in the e-mail. I'm unsure how things rolled out from there, but instead of clicking on the link, she called Amazon to confirm what she thought might be a hoax. She should have been proud of herself for having the wherewithal to question the offer from the jump, yet she still sounded rattled to the core for having experienced the near-scam. Maybe it was nothing more than Mrs. G wanting to regale us with yet another story proving her capacity beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can still tell the good guys from the bad guys even at her advanced age. We'll never know what might have happened had she clicked that link. That's the good news. There is no bad news. It's all good.
I should have known that the Hur hearing would be a nothing burger. The Republicans did their best to question Hur and get to the bottom of Biden's criminality. The Democrats did their best to compare Trump's handling of classified documents to Biden's handling of classified documents. There also wasn't a lot of discussion about how demented Biden was when Hur interviewed him. Hur stuck to talking about the report that he wrote where he decided that a jury would more than likely not return a guilty verdict were it to go to trial. When pushed by one Democrat on the Committee, Hur said his report did not exonerate Biden. Fast forward to the evening talking head shows, and the Democrats were out in force twisting Hur's testimony into a fucking pretzel. This is what they do. This is who they are. Protect the head of your party at any cost. If it means lying through your teeth or gaslighting the bejesus out of your viewers, then that is what you do. I was also a little surprised that not one Republican mentioned anything about Biden stealing state secrets to benefit our enemies abroad. They've been investigating that angle for the better part of a year for chrissakes. Oh, and despite his autobiographer destroying the classified documents that Biden gave him, Hur decided he would not be prosecuted. Talk about a fucking double standard.
Trump now has the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination. He's the first person in American history to win back-to-back nominations for three years straight. I looked at the votes cast in the Georgia primary last night, and the Republicans got twice the number of ballots cast compared to the votes cast for Democrats in that state. Am I correct in saying that that ain't nothing? If last night's primary in Georgia is any indication of the enthusiasm for Trump over Biden, then I will project here and now that Trump will walk away with Georgia in the general election in November. I believe the margin was a mere ten thousand votes between Trump and Biden in the presidential election in 2020. I went back and looked at the primary results in 2020 and found that both Trump and Biden got roughly one million votes each. Does the ridiculously low number of ballots cast by Democrats last night in Georgia have anything to do with the fact that Biden is the incumbent? Putting on my partisan hat for just a moment, I'm thinking that Biden's bringing our country to the brink of (fill in the blank) has a lot to do with the outcome of last night's primary. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck here, but it's starting to look like Trump's chances in November are getting better by the day.
Now we have to hope that Biden doesn't get us into a war with Russia ahead of the November elections. He sounds like a broken record when it comes to Ukraine and its war with Russia. It's nonstop "Russia won't stop with Ukraine" coming out of Biden's mouth, and that's worrisome. Putin commented recently that Russia will resort to using nuclear weapons if Russia's existence is threatened. I keep asking myself, what the hell is all of this heated rhetoric coming out of the White House? By the way, nobody believes that Putin has any intentions of doing anything more in Ukraine than that which is laid out in his comments when all of this started some two years ago. So, why does Biden keep pushing the envelope on the Russia issue? The French pipsqueak of a president, Macron, has a scheduled speech before his nation on Thursday. What are the chances that he will announce sending French forces into Ukraine? I don't give a flying fuck what the Frenchies do, but it better not have anything to do with what Biden does or does not have planned. If they want to send their young men to the killing fields of Ukraine, be my guest. If Frenchies start dying by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Russians, what obligation do we have as a NATO member to join the fight? I'm thinking none since Russia hasn't attacked France, but that won't stop Biden from trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat by sending our young men into Ukraine so he can win an election. F'ing clown.
Judge McAfee announced that he is dropping six of the thirteen or so charges against Trump in Fani Willis's case in Georgia. According to the judge, the District Attorney did not sufficiently define the charges, so Trump's defense team couldn't properly defend their client. Willis can refile the charges, but not without effectively delaying the trial until after the election. Or, Willis can proceed with the remaining charges without refiling charges and try to get a conviction before election day. We'll find out tomorrow whether Willis will be disqualified, so we're in a wait-and-see mode. Is the fact that the judge was receptive to this argument by Trump's defense team suggestive of anything? What are the chances that he's telegraphing that he will not disqualify Willis, but he agrees with Trump's defense team that Willis's motivation to bring these charges is questionable, if not unethical? At least for the time being, any news is good news when we hear these sorts of things about the multitude of lawfare cases that Biden's Department of Justice is bringing, directly or indirectly, against Donald J. Trump. Needless to say, I'll be tuning in online tomorrow to watch Judge McAfee hand down his ruling on the disqualification issue.
I could give two shits about what happens in Haiti. That is, unless it impacts America one way or another. Word has it that gangs are now running the island, and there is no real government in place to control much of anything. I've seen videos online of one of the gang leaders known locally as "Barbecue." The footage shows Barbecue pulling the leg off a body that was burning in the street and ripping off chunks of flesh with his teeth. You can't make this stuff up. Things are so bad that Haitians are getting on anything that floats to escape the maelstrom and are heading to the shores of Florida en masse. If this isn't a situation that calls for intervention by the federal government, I don't know what it is. Naval vessels should be intercepting these flotillas at sea and redirecting them to Guantanamo Bay, where they can wait until order is restored to their homeland. Will this be yet one more situation where Biden willfully ignores illegal entry into our country by people who have no right to be on America's soil? What can and what will Governor Ron DeSantis do to stop Haitians from invading the shores of his beloved state of Florida? What are the chances that Biden assists in the relocation efforts in order to create even more chaos for political gain? Then again, what's another two million or more illegal ne'er do wells in addition to the 10-12 million already here thanks to Biden?
I caught Lara Logan yesterday on Steve Bannon's show, WarRoom. She was talking about Trump's taking donations from some dude with deep pockets to change his position on banning TikTok. I recall Trump wanting to ban TikTok during his first term in office, but I can't recall how that effort ended. The audio they played of Trump now saying he is more concerned about how other platforms like FaceBook (META) might become more powerful with TikTok gone has me wondering how malleable Trump is on the subject. That wasn't the most interesting part. Politicians change their minds for a lot of different reasons. Logan suggested that this was potentially a trap for Trump in that should Republicans not win a majority in the House in November, there is a very real chance that Democrats might impeach Trump for collaborating with the Communist Chinese Party in order to keep their spying apparatus (TikTok) in place. Newly elected senators supported by McConnell, such as that fat fuck from Maryland, Larry Hogan, or Tim Sheehy, the guy who never saw a war he didn't want the U.S. to be involved in, would increase the likelihood of Trump being convicted in the Senate and tossed out of the White House. It's plausible enough to be scary. Good for Lara Logan in putting together the pieces. She's good. She's very good.
The missus has been after me for the last few weeks to take a ride up Maine way to visit a store called Mardens. We finally got around to taking that ride yesterday. Driving up Route 1 through Maine was nice, so that was good. It was also a nice day for a ride, with everything else being equal. We thought the Ev man might like to join us for the ride, but he had other plans, so he opted out. Aside from the ride itself, the Ev man didn't miss much when all was said and done. The store turned out to be more of a yard-sale style store than anything else. In and of itself, not the end of the world. That said, we didn't need to drive the better part of an hour or more to go to a yard sale. I mosied down an aisle of baking pans and thought to myself that this was just what the missus has been looking for. And the prices, they were to die for, as they say in the movies. When I brought the missus around to look at them, we both discovered at the same time that the pans were cheaper than cheap and not worth buying at any price. That about sums up, to a tee, everything the store had to offer. The missus and I agreed on one thing. We wouldn't be revisiting Mardens anytime soon. And no, I told the missus, the other Marden stores are probably not much better.
What is this ridiculous obsession that Biden and the Democrat party have with getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu? I know shite about Israeli politics, so I can't say with any degree of confidence that Netanyahu's replacement would be any better. Maybe it's just this whole left-wing versus right-wing thing that the Democrats feel that they need to control. Maybe they don't like the way Netanyahu has been ignoring their pleas to scale back the war on Hamas in order to save innocent Palestinians from a fate worse than death itself. Netanyahu, in so many words, has told the Biden administration to fuck off. That, to me, seems to be the appropriate response considering what the Israelis are trying to accomplish. And then we see Chuckles Schumer, the Senate Majority leader, go to the well of the Senate to call for new elections in Israel. Since fucking when does a United States Senator take to the Senate floor and call for the displacement of a foreign leader? Are these clowns not satisfied with trying to put their own political opponents in jail here in our country such that they have to do the same thing around the world? Maybe they're trying to placate their left-wing Jewish base here in the United States, who would like nothing better than to see Netanyahu get the boot. And then there are the Muslims and Palestinians in Michigan who are not exactly feeling the love from this administration. They may or may not go to the polls to vote for Biden in November.
Today is the day. Today, we learn about the fate of one Fanny Willis and her boy-toy, Mr. Wade. It's been a long two weeks since Judge McAfee told the world he'd be handing down his ruling on the disqualification case against Willis and Wade. I'm not sure why he needed the full two weeks, but here we are. To be clear, removing these two perjurers from the case would be good for Team Trump. Any delay at this point, in addition to the half dozen or so charges that the judge recently dismissed, would extend a trial and possible conviction beyond Election Day in November. I'm also mindful that Team Trump has made a more-than-compelling case against the two lovers, which would, under normal circumstances, result in a "conviction" of Willis and Wade. It's probably too much to expect that the two would lose their law license as a result of their perjurious testimony. Splitting the baby at this point might see the two taken off the case and keeping their licenses while taking jail time off the table in exchange for their signing off on the agreement. I learned yesterday that McAfee will not hand down his ruling in open court, so I can put away my popcorn for another day. Nonetheless, a win is a win either way. Until it isn't, that is.
(Fast forward two hours) Fuck it. I'm giving up on the legal system. Judge McAfee let these two dopes off the hook with a slap on the wrist. Well, he said that one of the two needs to be removed from the case. Can you guess which one will be taking a hike? I'll give you a hint: It's not going to be Fanny. Her father, you know, the ex-Black Panther, must have made quite an impact on the judge when he told him that he's always advised his daughter to carry cash when she's out on a date. Just when I thought she had dug herself too deep a hole to climb out of with her tall tales about always carrying a cache of hard currency in the event she had to get away from a bad date in a hurry. There were other rather disparaging comments in the ruling by the judge suggesting that her lies and subterfuge on the stand were unbecoming of a public servant. He listed any number of ongoing inquiries by external agencies and organizations, not the least of which is Congress, that are either collectively or separately looking into Fanny and issues raised during her testimony before Judge McAfee. Here's my take: She will rue the day she decided to take down Trump for asking questions about the validity of election results. Let the investigations begin.
I think we'll put the Ev man in an Uber the next time he decides to visit his friend in Boston. It's a shitty drive if you're not accustomed to driving in and out of the city on a regular basis. He's only made that drive a couple of times, so you might be tempted to think he's getting better at navigating his way in and out of the city. He did say that he thought about giving us a call to give him a lift but decided against it for whatever reason. That's fine. The missus thinks his confidence will only grow with each trip, and I think there's probably some truth to what she says. He may even come to enjoy going down to the city for various and sundry reasons unrelated to the friend he now visits. I wonder how he'll feel about the Uber idea. I will ask him and we'll see soon enough. I'm also willing to look the other way when it comes to just how much it might cost. How would we feel if his car was stolen in the city? Would we then wish that we'd sucked it up and paid the price for him to take an Uber? Yeah, I think we would. In spades, if I'm truthful about it. Has the Ev man ever taken an Uber? Hmmm.
What do you suppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is up to when he says he's considering Aaron Rodgers as his Vice Presidential nominee? I heard someone suggest picking Rodgers could spell problems for Trump in states like Wisconsin in the general election. I still think that there are a lot of older voters out there who have fond, if not fading, memories of the Kennedys and the whole Camelot thing. They might well walk into the polls thinking that Joe Biden is a demented old fuck, so why not vote for a Kennedy instead. That checks the "I'll never vote for a Republican" box and then some. Better yet, "I'm not voting for the Orange Man" so there's that. I'm old enough to remember the insurgent campaign of Ross Perot, whose campaign put that sleazy fuck, Bill, "I never had sex with that woman" Clinton in the White House. Thanks for nothing, Ross. He's dead now, but you get the idea. The fact of the matter is, I don't know who would benefit from a Kennedy/Rodgers ticket in Wisconsin or anywhere else. To quote babbling Joe Biden, here's the deal: No sooner had Kennedy started talking about Rodgers as a potential running mate when stories hit the media about Rodgers calling the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings a hoax back in the day. That smacks as some trash talk coming out of the Biden White House. Now who's got their knickers in a bunch over a potential Rodgers VP pick?
So much for the Rodgers pick for Kennedy. He's announced that his running mate is none other than the ex-wife of a Google co-founder. She may be important in some circles, but I've never heard of her. Is it safe to say she's probably got the money the Kennedy campaign needs to run circles around their competition? Probably. Here's my response: Whatever. That's it. That's all I've got. Have you seen bumbling Joe Biden out there wearing his new sneakers? They are specifically designed to give added stability to the vertically challenged. We've all seen the old fool walking unsteadily and stiffly across the lawn outside the White House toward the helicopter. If I had to guess, he's walking a little too fast and unsteady for his handlers. One stumble, and he's falling flat on his face. How much do you want to bet he cannot get off the ground alone? Since it would be too obvious if they had someone holding his hand for additional stability, they opted for the best footwear that money could buy to solve the problem. Now, if they can just take the old-man-shuffling look out of his gait.
I'm getting a little tired of these stupid Committees in Congress run by Republicans who are supposedly looking into the criminality of the Biden Crime Family. Time is running out, and running out fast if they plan to do anything. If the Democrats take over the House in January, everything the Republicans have done will go up in smoke. It will be memory-holed forever. I can only conclude that they either don't have the evidence or they don't have the votes to proceed with Biden's impeachment. Yet, they continually come on Sunday shows like Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures and talk about their ongoing investigations like they're going somewhere. They're not. As for the January 6th fiasco, Congressman Loudermilk promises to call many of the people who ran the J6 Committee, such as Liz Cheney, to testify under oath about their lies and transgressions. What the hell is he waiting for? She knows how the game is played. Time is clearly on her side. I don't know how much more of this lose-lose bullshit we can take before our Republic starts to lose its moorings.