Willy Nilly
18/02/24 07:58
We got us a Nor'easter coming in tomorrow. We're expecting maybe half a foot or more of snow. It's all coming down during the day so that will be easier to deal with. There is nothing worse than waking up to a foot of snow on the ground. I'll go out several times during the day to clear a bit of snow and it will be easy peasy. A piece of cake. Anytime we have a Nor'easter, there is always the chance that we'll lose electricity. Do I have enough gas in our generator if that happens? I'll look at that today. It's times like these when I wish we had a home generator and not one of those free-wheeling units that I have to move in and out of my garage when we lose power. Maybe we'll rectify that this year. How much does that sort of thing cost anyway? Will I wish I had bitten the bullet down the road and got it done if I don't end up doing it now? Probably.
The Ev man was over for a visit yesterday. It's always good to have the Ev man pay a visit. It was Superbowl Sunday, of course, so we planned a nice spread to enjoy during the game. The missus made her lovely chicken wing recipe, and she threw together a pan of delicious cornbread to go with it. The plan all along was to have the Ev man leave for home later that evening with some very tasty leftovers. If that meant the missus and I had one less chicken wing a piece, so he would have more to take home, then that is what we did. He loved the Greek salad that I picked up from Martha's in Hampton. Is that in Hampton or Seabrook? I bought two large Greek salads, one for the missus and me and one for the Ev man. I actually stopped in to buy the salads, so the missus wouldn't have to stop there on her way home from Massachusetts. Bad things happen after dark and I wasn't taking any chances. I dropped the Ev man home just a bit after 8 pm and returned home just in time to catch the second half of the game.
Just because we have a snowstorm coming in tomorrow doesn't mean that I'm not going to try and get a bike ride in today. I'm satisfied if I can ride every other day these days seeing that February can be a cruel month weather-wise. If we're not getting too much snow to ride, then it's too cold to ride. We've had so little snow this winter that snow hasn't been a problem. It also hasn't been terribly cold so that's been great. What I don't need now, now that Spring is right around the corner, are back-to-back snow storms for the next few weeks that make riding more difficult than it has to be. Let's hope that this is a one and done snow storm, and I get to resume my biking activities as I would ordinarily do. Did I mention that I was riding the other day when temperatures along the coast topped out at 60 degrees? I couldn't believe the amount of traffic. It was worse than any summer day by a healthy margin. I saw an eagle on Eel Pond, and I stopped on the roadway to pick up a pair of sunglasses that someone had lost. It's finder's keepers, loser's weepers. It was also just a matter of time before someone or something ran over the shades. Not sure who's going to end up using them, if anyone.
Is it me, or are there an awful lot of Democrat politicians coming out in the wake of the Special Counsel's report and saying that they have regular conversations with President Biden, and that he's sharp as a tack? They are circling the wagons to protect one of the most corrupt and cognitively challenged presidents in the history of our country. He's being beaten like a drum in the polls by Trump, and he and his cabal are pulling out all the stops to do whatever they have to do to get his feeble ass back in the White House for a second term. I personally don't think he knows what day of the week it is on any given day, so one has to wonder who exactly it is if it isn't Biden who is willing to do whatever it takes to win the election in November. Is it Obama? Is it Susan Rice? Is it that asshole, Jake Sullivan? Is he the real president? The stuff coming out of the mouths of these Democrat politicians is really just a bridge too far. Is there any question about a damn one of them that they wouldn't sell their souls to keep this demented corrupt old fuck in office? This is who they are. This is what they do.
I don't follow the TikTok stuff too closely, but I do believe the scuttlebutt about TikTok being a tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I know that various past administrations have tried, without success, to ban the application because of its utility to the CCP. I think the government banned the use of the app on government-issued devices so that's probably prudent in a lot of ways. So, there is a story in the news today about Biden signing on to the TikTok app. That has probably been the plan all along. Biden's ties to Beijing and the CCP are well known, so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that he's now signed up to use the app. You know that Biden is very concerned about losing the youth vote to Trump and this may well explain why he's now signing up on TikTok. Do you think that he cares one whit about compromising national intelligence or some other bullshit if it means the difference between winning the election and losing the election? Don't delude yourself. He does not. Nor do the people he surrounds himself with.
Kamala "Word-Salad" Harris was quoted recently as saying "She is ready to serve." Who thinks that this complete nitwit of a Vice President hasn't been salivating since joining the Democrat ticket back in 2019 and just waiting for the then somewhat dementia-riddled Joe Biden to get taken out using the 25th amendment to our Constitution? I can hear her now. What the hell is it going to take to get this damn fool off the world stage? What do you mean I can't measure the drapes in the Oval Office? What aren't Biden's Cabinet members calling for a discussion about implementing the 25th amendment? Those are just a few examples. Biden also wouldn't be the first dementia patient to serve in the office of the presidency so there's that. You know things are bad when the New York Times calls for you to step down. To be honest, I'm not sure it will matter who sits in the Oval Office. It's the people behind the curtains that have been running the show since 2020, and I don't think that's going to change once Harris becomes president. Maybe we'll get presidential press conferences back again. That should be fun.
I'm sitting here wondering if I can watch the Fanny Willis hearing on television this week. It's a state court, so I should be able to tune in. Right? She's the cunt of a District Attorney in Georgia trying to convict Trump and his attorneys on RICO charges for making a telephone call on Election night in 2020. Remember that call? Trump was just trying to make sure that every VALID vote got counted. This particular case out of Georgia is part and parcel of a larger lawfare operation being run against Trump out of the White House to steal yet another election. Georgians see it for what it is. One of the defendants caught on to the shenanigans of Fanny and her boyfriend, Wade, the prosecutor she hired to handle the case, and is asking the Court to disqualify her and her beau from the case. Who doesn't love a little well-deserved comeuppance? Now, I think Trump's attorneys can reasonably make the case that she lied to the Court about her relationship with the prosecutor in terms of when that relationship started. It's coming apart at the seams, folks. At a minimum, Fanny's fat ass ends up in jail and the case gets reassigned. Best case scenario, it all goes away either as a result of Fanny's criminal behavior, or when Trump gets reelected in November.
I've been meaning to sit down and watch Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin for the better part of a week now. I think the damn thing runs around 2 hours. I hear that the first 30 minutes of the interview is Vlad giving Tucker a history lesson on Russia so I might fast forward through that section. Every time that I hear that Putin was willing to sit down and work things out with Zelensky early on in Russia's war with Ukraine, only to have those talks summarily scuttled by Biden's White House, I'm left slack-jawed about the needless deaths on both sides that could have been avoided were it not for the decisions made by Biden and his minions. That's one reason I want to listen to the interview. I also want to be sure that I go into the viewing/listening with my eyes wide open. Putin, no doubt, has his own agenda, so I need to take what he has to say with a grain or two of salt. I would apply the same filters to the bullshit coming out of government. I understand that Tucker also interviewed Tara Reade while in Russia. She is the US citizen who accused Biden of digitally raping her while she worked as an aide in Congress. Fearing for her life after accusing Biden of his alleged crimes, she moved to Russia out of an abundance of caution. If nothing else, it would be nice to see some suburban moms move back into the Trump column as a result of Reade's accounting of her alleged rape at the hands of a then-United States Senator by the name of Joseph Biden.
Trump has apparently filed paperwork with the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity as a result of the lower court's decision that he is not entitled to immunity for crimes committed while president. The Supremes could force the lower courts to allow Trump to file to have his case heard by the entirety of the Appeals Court and, at the same time, insist that he not be treated any differently than any other defendant in terms of the number of days afforded to his team to file their case, for the courts to hear their case, etc. Is it me or does the presidential immunity issue seem to be tailor-made for the Supreme Court? What the hell do the lower courts know about the issue of presidential immunity? There is no precedent in the history of the United States on the issue. The lower courts, besieged as many of their legal counterparts are these days by Trump Derangement Syndrome, have neither the desire nor the patience to properly adjudicate the issue. Since there is no underlying crime in the case, forgetting the ninety-one lawfare indictments brought against Trump by Biden's henchman from the Hague, Jack Smith, the highest court in the land should take their time and give the case the consideration that it deserves. If that means issuing a stay on all related cases while putting the case on the docket in the Fall after the election, then so be it.
The Republicans finally got the votes to impeach that sack of shit, Mayorkis, on two articles of impeachment related to his flouting the law and ignoring his responsibilities to protect our borders. I don't care that the Senate probably won't even take it to trial. That's not the point, although I wouldn't object to listening to various arguments on both sides of the aisle as to the merits, or demerits as it were, of the case. I hope this piece of shit wears the stain of impeachment like a crown of thorns for his remaining days on the face of God's good earth. He is the first Cabinet member of any administration in the last 150-plus years to be impeached, so it's not nothing. I think a hat tip to Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene is in order. It might never have gotten off the ground were it not for Ms. Taylor. The leftists are likely now to go after Ms. Greene hammer and tong to inflict as much pain as possible. If they can put up a Democrat candidate to take her out on Election Day, they will raise the funds necessary and then some to do so. I think Speaker Mike Johnson also deserves a little credit. Were Kevin McCarthy still Speaker, it might never have gotten to a floor vote.
Man, I did not see that inflation number coming in as hot as it did yesterday. I thought Biden and his people were cooking the books to give us nothing but Goldilocks-like numbers on everything between now and the Election in November. The Dow was down by some 700 points during the day and ended up in the 400-plus area by the close of the Market. It was an interesting reversal on the day of an almost vertical trajectory in the stock market that began at the end of October 2023. Just when you think the market is never going to go down, wham! What the fuck, Jack! Did we just put in an interim top, or will the market ignore it all and get back on track today? I think we're still in the middle of earnings season, where some 80% of the companies have beaten estimates, so that may help in the near term. The higher inflation numbers, or the change in the rate of inflation, may have also put the kibosh on talk of cutting interest rates, so that's not good. Hell, they may have to increase interest rates in order to tame this sticky inflation we're seeing. Let's see if Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell can pull a rabbit or two out of their hats now that the markets are getting a bit wobbly. Are they, or are they not, responsible for price stability? Do they, or do they not, have an interest in seeing Bumbles Biden get reelected for a second term?
I like the idea of a deportation force to remove the ten million or so illegal aliens who have been encouraged by the Biden Administration to cross our borders en masse. I don't know that I understand where Trump is going with the plan when I hear reports that he plans on sending the force into blue states instead of red states. Maybe it's one of those Willie Sutton deals where, when asked why he robs banks, he responded, "That's where the money is." If I had to guess where I'd find the greatest concentration of illegal aliens, I would probably say that we're more likely to find them in blue states than in red states. There are programs galore in blue states that act like magnets for the masses coming from shitholes across the face of the globe where you're lucky to get two squares a day and a place to rest your weary head at night. Maybe it's all about getting the biggest bang for your buck if you're tasked with deporting as many people as you can and as fast as you can. As for residents living in red states, it may be nice to know, post-deportation, that you no longer have to go to sleep at night with a firearm by your side to protect your family should your home be broken into or otherwise compromised. You no longer have to worry about your daughters being accosted or that you may return to your home after work someday to find a family of illegals taking up residence in your home.
I'm getting a little concerned that with the loss of another Republican seat in Congress yesterday the Republicans may not have the votes they need to impeach Biden if and when that day arrives. Has that been the plan all along? Have the Republicans decided that their chances of taking back the White House in the Fall are better if they don't impeach Biden? Are they worried about kicking off a wave of sympathy for the beleaguered and demented old fuck by dragging his sorry ass through the rigors of impeachment in the House and a trial in the Senate? Who wouldn't want front-row seats to that circus? Did I mention that Tony Bobulinski, Biden's business partner back in the day, was in Congress yesterday, giving testimony behind closed doors? I don't know why they had to do that behind closed doors. Doesn't the public have the right to know about the Biden Crime Family and their alleged extensive criminal ventures across the globe? If we can't impeach Biden, how will the Committee that's been investigating Biden for the better part of two years now share the information they have with the American public so they know who they're voting for when they go behind the curtain in November?
Putin is quoted as saying that he would prefer Joe Biden to Trump in the upcoming election. Is that some kind of twisted 3-dimensional chess, or what? I think he said something about Biden being more "predictable." One thing we know about the Trump presidency during his first term was that our country was not involved in any wars around the globe. Much of that so-called deterrence had to do with the fact that no one knew what Trump was willing or capable of doing when push came to shove. Would he launch nuclear missiles willy-nilly? He wasn't a politician so he had no history for our enemies to draw upon when trying to decide what he would and would not do. Trump has even offered to broker a settlement to end the Russian aggression against Ukraine once in office for his second term, so one would think that would be of interest to Putin. It's also important to understand that Putin knows that Joe Biden is a bowl of oatmeal away from being committed to a long-term care facility. That means he ends up dealing with Kamala Harris. I don't even know what that looks like, but it should scare the bejeesus out of every American.
What the hell was Mike Turner thinking when he sent that cryptic tweet yesterday about some kind of imminent threat to our national security coming from Russia yesterday? The guy is a Congressman on the Intelligence Committee, for chrissakes, so it was kind of hard not to take him seriously when he said what he said on Twitter. Turner was basically saying that Americans have to right to know about threats imminent and otherwise coming from our enemies and that Biden should declassify the materials without delay. His tweet was a little more pointed than that, but you get the idea. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, went to the podium within a half hour of Turner's rant and promptly downplayed the matter. Turner's comments created a firestorm of concern that had some people wondering what the hell was coming down the pike. It felt a little like the Cuban Missile Crisis in the moment, but it never seemed to take on a life of its own over the course of the afternoon. As the dust settled in the early evening, people began to suspect that Turner's tweet had more to do with getting the House of Representatives to vote for the bill to give Ukraine $60 billion than it did with anything having to do with national security.
If it turns out that Turner was sitting in Ukraine with Zelensky when he sent that tweet, I think Turner needs to lose his seat on the Intelligence Committee and be sanctioned for his irresponsible behavior. Maybe the guy has lost his damn mind. We all know that Zelensky would like nothing more than to drag Americans into his war with Russia, so what he said to get Turner to send that tweet remains to be seen. I also saw articles yesterday about Ukraine running out of ammunition, so I understand that what we're seeing from the neocons in our country is a full-out propaganda assault on and against those people in Congress holding up the funding for Ukraine. Then you have the ass-clowns who will tell you with a straight face that any and all funding for Ukraine approved by Congress is really going to our defense contractors in our country to replenish our stocks, and if the funding doesn't come through, then their constituents who work in the defense industry may well lose their jobs and livelihoods. It's Goebbels-level propaganda on steroids. Putin won't stop with Ukraine if we don't stop him in his tracks, they warn. Yeah, it all looks like a ruse now that we're seeing it for what it is. Not another fucking penny! Sorry, not sorry.
Wow! Just wow. Have you been watching this legal drama involving Fanni Will and Nathan Wade unfold down there in Georgia? I'm watching the hearings on YouTube and thinking to myself, this is what passes for legal jurisprudence deep in the bowels of Fulton County, Georgia? These two complete ass clowns are wanting to take down Trump and his legal team on RICO charges? They'll be lucky if they keep their law licenses after this hearing. I think it's probably a good bet that Fanni and her entire office will be wholly and disgracefully disqualified after the revelations we've heard coming out of their mouths on the stand. All of these so-called cash payments that were exchanged between the two of them without so much as a receipt for any of the withdrawals. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the cash used for their extravagant trips came from external leftist organizations who were, and still are, collaborating with the White House to take down Trump in yet another lawfare case? And you can't tell me, after listening to Wade, that this backwater ambulance chaser has the chops to take on a RICO case against the former president of the United States.
It was quite clear to anyone with any common sense that these two had concocted and collaborated on their stories beforehand. None of the sources and uses of cash could be verified and that was the plan all along. The attorneys questioned Wade at length about any receipts that he might have that could help prove that he was telling the truth. He was adamant that no receipts existed, and he was sticking to his story until they finally got him to admit that while he had no receipts, he did have statements. Wut? Fanni stuck to her story that she kept her cash at home and that was the source from which she reimbursed Wade for her share of the trips that they took together. If all of the cash that she kept at home came from her paychecks from the county, which were direct deposits into her bank, surely she could show a bank statement to that effect. She produced and offered nothing. What are the chances that Trump's people subpoena those records from the bank? Pretty good, I'd say. Did you hear her say that she took money from her campaign account for her private use? Can you say, "felony"?
I think the Trump attorneys have now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that she lied on the affidavits when she said that she had no romantic relationship with Wade prior to her hiring him as lead prosecutor on the RICO case. It's quite simple. She hired her boyfriend, who had never handled a felony case, to manage the RICO case against Trump and his co-defendants. The two of them, based on the unbelievable stories they've weaved while on the stand, are now in deep shit. I haven't even talked about Fanni's indignance and contempt for the process that was on clear exhibit in the courtroom. It was devastatingly not a good look. Let's just say she didn't do herself any favors. She was combative and defiant and was admonished twice by the judge for both her outbursts and her unwillingness to answer questions without filibustering. Her lies and deceptions aside, she broke every rule in the book when it came to courtroom protocol and decorum. None of it was lost on either the judge or the general public who, thanks to cameras in the courtroom, caught every damnable moment of it. As District Attorney for the County, she gave an unforgivable performance that was an example of what not to do in a courtroom.
We took the Ev man on a day trip up to Wells, Maine, yesterday. We planned to go to Renys department store to do a little shopping. I wouldn't say that it's our favorite store, but it's just far enough up the coast that it gave us a nice getaway for a few hours. What I've discovered recently about the Ev man is that he enjoys going shopping. I just think that's something that I didn't know about him until he and I dropped into Ocean Job Lots one day and I couldn't get him out of the store to save my life. That's a bit of an exaggeration, and we were there to do a little Christmas shopping at the time, so both he and I had good reason to be pouring over this and that ad nauseam. I figured that if he liked shopping at Job Lots, he'd really like shopping at Renys. I wasn't wrong. He tried on several items of clothing before making his selections, and we probably spent the better part of an hour in the store before calling it a day. The Ev man ended up with a much-needed update to his wardrobe including a pair of swim trunks that he'll need when we head to the Adirondacks later this summer. It was mission accomplished for the missus and me. Well, for the Ev man as well I suppose. I can't tell you how good I think he feels about having a few nice new things to wear. Getting out of town for the afternoon was pretty nice too.
I sometimes wonder if the leftists who have been out to destroy Trump since day one for the simple act of running for president ever considered that what they're doing to this man is, at the end of the day, actually helping him in his renewed bid to return to the White House for a second term. Why they hate him so much is another question altogether. I'm just shooting from the hip here, but I'd say that it has something to do with his exposing them for the Marxists that they are. He wasn't wrong about the fake news media, that's for fucking sure. This latest fiasco, which at first blush seems to be nothing more than an effort by the leftist courts in New York City to bankrupt a famous and storied NYC businessman and deprive him of his livelihood and his ability to wage a political campaign against his corrupt opponent, Joe Biden, actually has what could be considered a silver lining for Trump. What better illustrates the pathological obsession that the left has with Trump than the fine imposed on Friday by the radical judge Engoron in the NYC courtroom in the amount of approximately $350 million? They weren't done. The court also banned Trump from doing business in NYC for four years. This is some serious Bolshevikian bullshit. Alan Dershowitz had it right when he said that it reminded him of what Stalin once said: Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. Dershowitz's latest book, "Get Trump", goes into all of the lawfare cases against Trump in great detail.
The Marxists regaled their counterparts with fistbumps all around on MSNBC and elsewhere after the judgment was announced with the great news that it was the beginning of the end for the twice-impeached ex-president who also, in case you've forgotten, has 91 outstanding indictments against him for his "crimes" related to the 2020 election. Surely, with such an onerous fine and no ability to run his once-vaunted real estate empire in the greatest city in the world, it was just a matter of time before he folded his tent and called it a day. With Biden's only real competition now out of the race, he would be freed up to pursue even more radical measures in his upcoming second term designed to turn our great country into a third-world hellhole. Here's the silver lining as I see it. The ruling by the radical judge will not stand when appealed to the higher courts. It may need to go to the Supreme Court, but it will be overturned. Trump will get the last laugh. The $350 million dollar judgment is farcical on its face. It was so extreme that I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump get yet another more significant bump in the polls as people, in case they haven't already, start to see these cases for what they are: Biden and his DOJ going after his political opponent. Not unlike, I would remind you, of Putin poisoning and jailing his political opposition. Who knows, Biden may be taking his direction on how to bring Trump down from Xi and his communist party (CCP.)
I'm hearing that truckers across the country are now threatening to not transport goods in and out of New York City in response to the communists who are trying to bring Trump down. This is in response to the judge who levied a fine of some $350 million on Trump for his alleged crimes over the last two decades and more in NYC. There has to be a price to pay, or else these communists will move on to their next victim, and then their next victim, and on and on. They made a colossal mistake in going after one of the more iconic figures in the world, one Donald J. Trump. I hope they bring that fucking city to a standstill. I like the idea of starving the leftist fucks to death rather than some trucking blockade that creates a traffic nightmare for a day or two. Maybe the people in that city will think twice before seating rabid judges or using rabid judges to go after people they disagree with. I fully understand the Pavlovian response that liberals have to Trump. After four years of non-stop hateful propaganda by the television networks directed at Trump and his family, it shouldn't surprise anyone that putting Trump in jail is at the top of their wishlist. It's Trump derangement syndrome on steroids. It's high time we started to push back.
Can I back up to the shopping trip that we took to Renys in Maine for a minute? I was telling the missus that I thought I observed a fellow in the store who I recalled seeing on one of our prior visits. He appeared for all intents and purposes to be just another shopper. What I'm thinking now, in retrospect, is that he was a store security guy. Well, not exactly in retrospect. I had my suspicions when we were in the store. I'll never know for sure, but that's not my point. Given his proximity to the Ev man, I'd say that he was probably surveilling the Ev man as he went from rack to rack willy-nilly, trying on this and that article of clothing. The Ev man and I were standing just far enough apart that nobody would have thought that the two of us were together. It also pains me to say this, but the Ev man could have passed for a vagrant given his unkempt appearance. Were I a security guy, I, too, would have had my suspicions. It didn't help that the Ev man was wearing multiple layers of clothing as is his practice. How difficult would it be to replace, advertently or inadvertently, one of the many layers he was wearing with a shirt right off the rack? I quickly closed the ten feet or so between us and made it clear to anyone around us that the Ev man was not alone. That must have been just enough to allay any concerns that the security fellow had since I soon lost sight of him inside the store. I never shared any of it with the Ev man. It's just as well.
The Ev man was over for a visit yesterday. It's always good to have the Ev man pay a visit. It was Superbowl Sunday, of course, so we planned a nice spread to enjoy during the game. The missus made her lovely chicken wing recipe, and she threw together a pan of delicious cornbread to go with it. The plan all along was to have the Ev man leave for home later that evening with some very tasty leftovers. If that meant the missus and I had one less chicken wing a piece, so he would have more to take home, then that is what we did. He loved the Greek salad that I picked up from Martha's in Hampton. Is that in Hampton or Seabrook? I bought two large Greek salads, one for the missus and me and one for the Ev man. I actually stopped in to buy the salads, so the missus wouldn't have to stop there on her way home from Massachusetts. Bad things happen after dark and I wasn't taking any chances. I dropped the Ev man home just a bit after 8 pm and returned home just in time to catch the second half of the game.
Just because we have a snowstorm coming in tomorrow doesn't mean that I'm not going to try and get a bike ride in today. I'm satisfied if I can ride every other day these days seeing that February can be a cruel month weather-wise. If we're not getting too much snow to ride, then it's too cold to ride. We've had so little snow this winter that snow hasn't been a problem. It also hasn't been terribly cold so that's been great. What I don't need now, now that Spring is right around the corner, are back-to-back snow storms for the next few weeks that make riding more difficult than it has to be. Let's hope that this is a one and done snow storm, and I get to resume my biking activities as I would ordinarily do. Did I mention that I was riding the other day when temperatures along the coast topped out at 60 degrees? I couldn't believe the amount of traffic. It was worse than any summer day by a healthy margin. I saw an eagle on Eel Pond, and I stopped on the roadway to pick up a pair of sunglasses that someone had lost. It's finder's keepers, loser's weepers. It was also just a matter of time before someone or something ran over the shades. Not sure who's going to end up using them, if anyone.
Is it me, or are there an awful lot of Democrat politicians coming out in the wake of the Special Counsel's report and saying that they have regular conversations with President Biden, and that he's sharp as a tack? They are circling the wagons to protect one of the most corrupt and cognitively challenged presidents in the history of our country. He's being beaten like a drum in the polls by Trump, and he and his cabal are pulling out all the stops to do whatever they have to do to get his feeble ass back in the White House for a second term. I personally don't think he knows what day of the week it is on any given day, so one has to wonder who exactly it is if it isn't Biden who is willing to do whatever it takes to win the election in November. Is it Obama? Is it Susan Rice? Is it that asshole, Jake Sullivan? Is he the real president? The stuff coming out of the mouths of these Democrat politicians is really just a bridge too far. Is there any question about a damn one of them that they wouldn't sell their souls to keep this demented corrupt old fuck in office? This is who they are. This is what they do.
I don't follow the TikTok stuff too closely, but I do believe the scuttlebutt about TikTok being a tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I know that various past administrations have tried, without success, to ban the application because of its utility to the CCP. I think the government banned the use of the app on government-issued devices so that's probably prudent in a lot of ways. So, there is a story in the news today about Biden signing on to the TikTok app. That has probably been the plan all along. Biden's ties to Beijing and the CCP are well known, so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that he's now signed up to use the app. You know that Biden is very concerned about losing the youth vote to Trump and this may well explain why he's now signing up on TikTok. Do you think that he cares one whit about compromising national intelligence or some other bullshit if it means the difference between winning the election and losing the election? Don't delude yourself. He does not. Nor do the people he surrounds himself with.
Kamala "Word-Salad" Harris was quoted recently as saying "She is ready to serve." Who thinks that this complete nitwit of a Vice President hasn't been salivating since joining the Democrat ticket back in 2019 and just waiting for the then somewhat dementia-riddled Joe Biden to get taken out using the 25th amendment to our Constitution? I can hear her now. What the hell is it going to take to get this damn fool off the world stage? What do you mean I can't measure the drapes in the Oval Office? What aren't Biden's Cabinet members calling for a discussion about implementing the 25th amendment? Those are just a few examples. Biden also wouldn't be the first dementia patient to serve in the office of the presidency so there's that. You know things are bad when the New York Times calls for you to step down. To be honest, I'm not sure it will matter who sits in the Oval Office. It's the people behind the curtains that have been running the show since 2020, and I don't think that's going to change once Harris becomes president. Maybe we'll get presidential press conferences back again. That should be fun.
I'm sitting here wondering if I can watch the Fanny Willis hearing on television this week. It's a state court, so I should be able to tune in. Right? She's the cunt of a District Attorney in Georgia trying to convict Trump and his attorneys on RICO charges for making a telephone call on Election night in 2020. Remember that call? Trump was just trying to make sure that every VALID vote got counted. This particular case out of Georgia is part and parcel of a larger lawfare operation being run against Trump out of the White House to steal yet another election. Georgians see it for what it is. One of the defendants caught on to the shenanigans of Fanny and her boyfriend, Wade, the prosecutor she hired to handle the case, and is asking the Court to disqualify her and her beau from the case. Who doesn't love a little well-deserved comeuppance? Now, I think Trump's attorneys can reasonably make the case that she lied to the Court about her relationship with the prosecutor in terms of when that relationship started. It's coming apart at the seams, folks. At a minimum, Fanny's fat ass ends up in jail and the case gets reassigned. Best case scenario, it all goes away either as a result of Fanny's criminal behavior, or when Trump gets reelected in November.
I've been meaning to sit down and watch Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin for the better part of a week now. I think the damn thing runs around 2 hours. I hear that the first 30 minutes of the interview is Vlad giving Tucker a history lesson on Russia so I might fast forward through that section. Every time that I hear that Putin was willing to sit down and work things out with Zelensky early on in Russia's war with Ukraine, only to have those talks summarily scuttled by Biden's White House, I'm left slack-jawed about the needless deaths on both sides that could have been avoided were it not for the decisions made by Biden and his minions. That's one reason I want to listen to the interview. I also want to be sure that I go into the viewing/listening with my eyes wide open. Putin, no doubt, has his own agenda, so I need to take what he has to say with a grain or two of salt. I would apply the same filters to the bullshit coming out of government. I understand that Tucker also interviewed Tara Reade while in Russia. She is the US citizen who accused Biden of digitally raping her while she worked as an aide in Congress. Fearing for her life after accusing Biden of his alleged crimes, she moved to Russia out of an abundance of caution. If nothing else, it would be nice to see some suburban moms move back into the Trump column as a result of Reade's accounting of her alleged rape at the hands of a then-United States Senator by the name of Joseph Biden.
Trump has apparently filed paperwork with the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity as a result of the lower court's decision that he is not entitled to immunity for crimes committed while president. The Supremes could force the lower courts to allow Trump to file to have his case heard by the entirety of the Appeals Court and, at the same time, insist that he not be treated any differently than any other defendant in terms of the number of days afforded to his team to file their case, for the courts to hear their case, etc. Is it me or does the presidential immunity issue seem to be tailor-made for the Supreme Court? What the hell do the lower courts know about the issue of presidential immunity? There is no precedent in the history of the United States on the issue. The lower courts, besieged as many of their legal counterparts are these days by Trump Derangement Syndrome, have neither the desire nor the patience to properly adjudicate the issue. Since there is no underlying crime in the case, forgetting the ninety-one lawfare indictments brought against Trump by Biden's henchman from the Hague, Jack Smith, the highest court in the land should take their time and give the case the consideration that it deserves. If that means issuing a stay on all related cases while putting the case on the docket in the Fall after the election, then so be it.
The Republicans finally got the votes to impeach that sack of shit, Mayorkis, on two articles of impeachment related to his flouting the law and ignoring his responsibilities to protect our borders. I don't care that the Senate probably won't even take it to trial. That's not the point, although I wouldn't object to listening to various arguments on both sides of the aisle as to the merits, or demerits as it were, of the case. I hope this piece of shit wears the stain of impeachment like a crown of thorns for his remaining days on the face of God's good earth. He is the first Cabinet member of any administration in the last 150-plus years to be impeached, so it's not nothing. I think a hat tip to Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene is in order. It might never have gotten off the ground were it not for Ms. Taylor. The leftists are likely now to go after Ms. Greene hammer and tong to inflict as much pain as possible. If they can put up a Democrat candidate to take her out on Election Day, they will raise the funds necessary and then some to do so. I think Speaker Mike Johnson also deserves a little credit. Were Kevin McCarthy still Speaker, it might never have gotten to a floor vote.
Man, I did not see that inflation number coming in as hot as it did yesterday. I thought Biden and his people were cooking the books to give us nothing but Goldilocks-like numbers on everything between now and the Election in November. The Dow was down by some 700 points during the day and ended up in the 400-plus area by the close of the Market. It was an interesting reversal on the day of an almost vertical trajectory in the stock market that began at the end of October 2023. Just when you think the market is never going to go down, wham! What the fuck, Jack! Did we just put in an interim top, or will the market ignore it all and get back on track today? I think we're still in the middle of earnings season, where some 80% of the companies have beaten estimates, so that may help in the near term. The higher inflation numbers, or the change in the rate of inflation, may have also put the kibosh on talk of cutting interest rates, so that's not good. Hell, they may have to increase interest rates in order to tame this sticky inflation we're seeing. Let's see if Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell can pull a rabbit or two out of their hats now that the markets are getting a bit wobbly. Are they, or are they not, responsible for price stability? Do they, or do they not, have an interest in seeing Bumbles Biden get reelected for a second term?
I like the idea of a deportation force to remove the ten million or so illegal aliens who have been encouraged by the Biden Administration to cross our borders en masse. I don't know that I understand where Trump is going with the plan when I hear reports that he plans on sending the force into blue states instead of red states. Maybe it's one of those Willie Sutton deals where, when asked why he robs banks, he responded, "That's where the money is." If I had to guess where I'd find the greatest concentration of illegal aliens, I would probably say that we're more likely to find them in blue states than in red states. There are programs galore in blue states that act like magnets for the masses coming from shitholes across the face of the globe where you're lucky to get two squares a day and a place to rest your weary head at night. Maybe it's all about getting the biggest bang for your buck if you're tasked with deporting as many people as you can and as fast as you can. As for residents living in red states, it may be nice to know, post-deportation, that you no longer have to go to sleep at night with a firearm by your side to protect your family should your home be broken into or otherwise compromised. You no longer have to worry about your daughters being accosted or that you may return to your home after work someday to find a family of illegals taking up residence in your home.
I'm getting a little concerned that with the loss of another Republican seat in Congress yesterday the Republicans may not have the votes they need to impeach Biden if and when that day arrives. Has that been the plan all along? Have the Republicans decided that their chances of taking back the White House in the Fall are better if they don't impeach Biden? Are they worried about kicking off a wave of sympathy for the beleaguered and demented old fuck by dragging his sorry ass through the rigors of impeachment in the House and a trial in the Senate? Who wouldn't want front-row seats to that circus? Did I mention that Tony Bobulinski, Biden's business partner back in the day, was in Congress yesterday, giving testimony behind closed doors? I don't know why they had to do that behind closed doors. Doesn't the public have the right to know about the Biden Crime Family and their alleged extensive criminal ventures across the globe? If we can't impeach Biden, how will the Committee that's been investigating Biden for the better part of two years now share the information they have with the American public so they know who they're voting for when they go behind the curtain in November?
Putin is quoted as saying that he would prefer Joe Biden to Trump in the upcoming election. Is that some kind of twisted 3-dimensional chess, or what? I think he said something about Biden being more "predictable." One thing we know about the Trump presidency during his first term was that our country was not involved in any wars around the globe. Much of that so-called deterrence had to do with the fact that no one knew what Trump was willing or capable of doing when push came to shove. Would he launch nuclear missiles willy-nilly? He wasn't a politician so he had no history for our enemies to draw upon when trying to decide what he would and would not do. Trump has even offered to broker a settlement to end the Russian aggression against Ukraine once in office for his second term, so one would think that would be of interest to Putin. It's also important to understand that Putin knows that Joe Biden is a bowl of oatmeal away from being committed to a long-term care facility. That means he ends up dealing with Kamala Harris. I don't even know what that looks like, but it should scare the bejeesus out of every American.
What the hell was Mike Turner thinking when he sent that cryptic tweet yesterday about some kind of imminent threat to our national security coming from Russia yesterday? The guy is a Congressman on the Intelligence Committee, for chrissakes, so it was kind of hard not to take him seriously when he said what he said on Twitter. Turner was basically saying that Americans have to right to know about threats imminent and otherwise coming from our enemies and that Biden should declassify the materials without delay. His tweet was a little more pointed than that, but you get the idea. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, went to the podium within a half hour of Turner's rant and promptly downplayed the matter. Turner's comments created a firestorm of concern that had some people wondering what the hell was coming down the pike. It felt a little like the Cuban Missile Crisis in the moment, but it never seemed to take on a life of its own over the course of the afternoon. As the dust settled in the early evening, people began to suspect that Turner's tweet had more to do with getting the House of Representatives to vote for the bill to give Ukraine $60 billion than it did with anything having to do with national security.
If it turns out that Turner was sitting in Ukraine with Zelensky when he sent that tweet, I think Turner needs to lose his seat on the Intelligence Committee and be sanctioned for his irresponsible behavior. Maybe the guy has lost his damn mind. We all know that Zelensky would like nothing more than to drag Americans into his war with Russia, so what he said to get Turner to send that tweet remains to be seen. I also saw articles yesterday about Ukraine running out of ammunition, so I understand that what we're seeing from the neocons in our country is a full-out propaganda assault on and against those people in Congress holding up the funding for Ukraine. Then you have the ass-clowns who will tell you with a straight face that any and all funding for Ukraine approved by Congress is really going to our defense contractors in our country to replenish our stocks, and if the funding doesn't come through, then their constituents who work in the defense industry may well lose their jobs and livelihoods. It's Goebbels-level propaganda on steroids. Putin won't stop with Ukraine if we don't stop him in his tracks, they warn. Yeah, it all looks like a ruse now that we're seeing it for what it is. Not another fucking penny! Sorry, not sorry.
Wow! Just wow. Have you been watching this legal drama involving Fanni Will and Nathan Wade unfold down there in Georgia? I'm watching the hearings on YouTube and thinking to myself, this is what passes for legal jurisprudence deep in the bowels of Fulton County, Georgia? These two complete ass clowns are wanting to take down Trump and his legal team on RICO charges? They'll be lucky if they keep their law licenses after this hearing. I think it's probably a good bet that Fanni and her entire office will be wholly and disgracefully disqualified after the revelations we've heard coming out of their mouths on the stand. All of these so-called cash payments that were exchanged between the two of them without so much as a receipt for any of the withdrawals. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the cash used for their extravagant trips came from external leftist organizations who were, and still are, collaborating with the White House to take down Trump in yet another lawfare case? And you can't tell me, after listening to Wade, that this backwater ambulance chaser has the chops to take on a RICO case against the former president of the United States.
It was quite clear to anyone with any common sense that these two had concocted and collaborated on their stories beforehand. None of the sources and uses of cash could be verified and that was the plan all along. The attorneys questioned Wade at length about any receipts that he might have that could help prove that he was telling the truth. He was adamant that no receipts existed, and he was sticking to his story until they finally got him to admit that while he had no receipts, he did have statements. Wut? Fanni stuck to her story that she kept her cash at home and that was the source from which she reimbursed Wade for her share of the trips that they took together. If all of the cash that she kept at home came from her paychecks from the county, which were direct deposits into her bank, surely she could show a bank statement to that effect. She produced and offered nothing. What are the chances that Trump's people subpoena those records from the bank? Pretty good, I'd say. Did you hear her say that she took money from her campaign account for her private use? Can you say, "felony"?
I think the Trump attorneys have now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that she lied on the affidavits when she said that she had no romantic relationship with Wade prior to her hiring him as lead prosecutor on the RICO case. It's quite simple. She hired her boyfriend, who had never handled a felony case, to manage the RICO case against Trump and his co-defendants. The two of them, based on the unbelievable stories they've weaved while on the stand, are now in deep shit. I haven't even talked about Fanni's indignance and contempt for the process that was on clear exhibit in the courtroom. It was devastatingly not a good look. Let's just say she didn't do herself any favors. She was combative and defiant and was admonished twice by the judge for both her outbursts and her unwillingness to answer questions without filibustering. Her lies and deceptions aside, she broke every rule in the book when it came to courtroom protocol and decorum. None of it was lost on either the judge or the general public who, thanks to cameras in the courtroom, caught every damnable moment of it. As District Attorney for the County, she gave an unforgivable performance that was an example of what not to do in a courtroom.
We took the Ev man on a day trip up to Wells, Maine, yesterday. We planned to go to Renys department store to do a little shopping. I wouldn't say that it's our favorite store, but it's just far enough up the coast that it gave us a nice getaway for a few hours. What I've discovered recently about the Ev man is that he enjoys going shopping. I just think that's something that I didn't know about him until he and I dropped into Ocean Job Lots one day and I couldn't get him out of the store to save my life. That's a bit of an exaggeration, and we were there to do a little Christmas shopping at the time, so both he and I had good reason to be pouring over this and that ad nauseam. I figured that if he liked shopping at Job Lots, he'd really like shopping at Renys. I wasn't wrong. He tried on several items of clothing before making his selections, and we probably spent the better part of an hour in the store before calling it a day. The Ev man ended up with a much-needed update to his wardrobe including a pair of swim trunks that he'll need when we head to the Adirondacks later this summer. It was mission accomplished for the missus and me. Well, for the Ev man as well I suppose. I can't tell you how good I think he feels about having a few nice new things to wear. Getting out of town for the afternoon was pretty nice too.
I sometimes wonder if the leftists who have been out to destroy Trump since day one for the simple act of running for president ever considered that what they're doing to this man is, at the end of the day, actually helping him in his renewed bid to return to the White House for a second term. Why they hate him so much is another question altogether. I'm just shooting from the hip here, but I'd say that it has something to do with his exposing them for the Marxists that they are. He wasn't wrong about the fake news media, that's for fucking sure. This latest fiasco, which at first blush seems to be nothing more than an effort by the leftist courts in New York City to bankrupt a famous and storied NYC businessman and deprive him of his livelihood and his ability to wage a political campaign against his corrupt opponent, Joe Biden, actually has what could be considered a silver lining for Trump. What better illustrates the pathological obsession that the left has with Trump than the fine imposed on Friday by the radical judge Engoron in the NYC courtroom in the amount of approximately $350 million? They weren't done. The court also banned Trump from doing business in NYC for four years. This is some serious Bolshevikian bullshit. Alan Dershowitz had it right when he said that it reminded him of what Stalin once said: Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. Dershowitz's latest book, "Get Trump", goes into all of the lawfare cases against Trump in great detail.
The Marxists regaled their counterparts with fistbumps all around on MSNBC and elsewhere after the judgment was announced with the great news that it was the beginning of the end for the twice-impeached ex-president who also, in case you've forgotten, has 91 outstanding indictments against him for his "crimes" related to the 2020 election. Surely, with such an onerous fine and no ability to run his once-vaunted real estate empire in the greatest city in the world, it was just a matter of time before he folded his tent and called it a day. With Biden's only real competition now out of the race, he would be freed up to pursue even more radical measures in his upcoming second term designed to turn our great country into a third-world hellhole. Here's the silver lining as I see it. The ruling by the radical judge will not stand when appealed to the higher courts. It may need to go to the Supreme Court, but it will be overturned. Trump will get the last laugh. The $350 million dollar judgment is farcical on its face. It was so extreme that I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump get yet another more significant bump in the polls as people, in case they haven't already, start to see these cases for what they are: Biden and his DOJ going after his political opponent. Not unlike, I would remind you, of Putin poisoning and jailing his political opposition. Who knows, Biden may be taking his direction on how to bring Trump down from Xi and his communist party (CCP.)
I'm hearing that truckers across the country are now threatening to not transport goods in and out of New York City in response to the communists who are trying to bring Trump down. This is in response to the judge who levied a fine of some $350 million on Trump for his alleged crimes over the last two decades and more in NYC. There has to be a price to pay, or else these communists will move on to their next victim, and then their next victim, and on and on. They made a colossal mistake in going after one of the more iconic figures in the world, one Donald J. Trump. I hope they bring that fucking city to a standstill. I like the idea of starving the leftist fucks to death rather than some trucking blockade that creates a traffic nightmare for a day or two. Maybe the people in that city will think twice before seating rabid judges or using rabid judges to go after people they disagree with. I fully understand the Pavlovian response that liberals have to Trump. After four years of non-stop hateful propaganda by the television networks directed at Trump and his family, it shouldn't surprise anyone that putting Trump in jail is at the top of their wishlist. It's Trump derangement syndrome on steroids. It's high time we started to push back.
Can I back up to the shopping trip that we took to Renys in Maine for a minute? I was telling the missus that I thought I observed a fellow in the store who I recalled seeing on one of our prior visits. He appeared for all intents and purposes to be just another shopper. What I'm thinking now, in retrospect, is that he was a store security guy. Well, not exactly in retrospect. I had my suspicions when we were in the store. I'll never know for sure, but that's not my point. Given his proximity to the Ev man, I'd say that he was probably surveilling the Ev man as he went from rack to rack willy-nilly, trying on this and that article of clothing. The Ev man and I were standing just far enough apart that nobody would have thought that the two of us were together. It also pains me to say this, but the Ev man could have passed for a vagrant given his unkempt appearance. Were I a security guy, I, too, would have had my suspicions. It didn't help that the Ev man was wearing multiple layers of clothing as is his practice. How difficult would it be to replace, advertently or inadvertently, one of the many layers he was wearing with a shirt right off the rack? I quickly closed the ten feet or so between us and made it clear to anyone around us that the Ev man was not alone. That must have been just enough to allay any concerns that the security fellow had since I soon lost sight of him inside the store. I never shared any of it with the Ev man. It's just as well.