Thursday, August 4, 2022

The Orange God of Mar-a-Lago: October 2022

 UPDATED 6/15/23


October 1, 2022: The polls, which looked promising for Democrats in early September have begun to erode. In the “generic congressional vote,” Republican have retaken the lead: 46% of voters say they would prefer to have the GOP control the next Congress. Only 45.1% favor Democrats.

It looks like the GOP will gain enough seats to secure control of the U.S. House of Representatives. 


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TODAY, we have a snippet of election stealing-type activity to report. Finally! Trump fans will be…thrilled? 

Not really. 

James Donald Holkeboer, of Kent County, Michigan, has been charged with tampering with voting machines during the 2022 primaries. If you believe the last election was rigged by evil Democrats, we should quickly note that Holkeboer is a Republican. 

He is facing felony charges.

 

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WHILE the blogger has been on vacation, Iran has been roiled by protests, after religious “fashion police” arrested Masha Amini, 22, for not wearing a hijab properly. She was taken into custody and beaten to death – for the sin of dressing immodestly. 

President Biden has backed the protesters, angering Iran’s theocratic government. This blogger, for one, approves of any moves U.S. leaders can make to support freedom in faraway countries. 

As seen on Twitter: “The digital protest art being created in Iran – much of it anonymously – has been absolutely brilliant.”


 

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Alex “The Molester’s Best Friend” Acosta 

10/3/22: Ex-President Blubber ended September and opened October by attacking Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao. You may remember that Chao served in his cabinet for almost the duration of his term. Now, Trump is angry because McConnell and other Senate Republicans have signed onto “Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored bills.” 

For example, the massive infrastructure bill – sometimes known as “making government work.” 

Was this willingness to vote for some of President Biden’s proposals, Trump howled on Truth Social, because Mitch,

 

hates Donald J. Trump, and knows I am strongly opposed to them, or is he doing it because he believes in the Fake and Highly Destructive New Green Deal, and is willing to take the country down with him? In any event, either reason is unacceptable. He has a DEATH WISH. Must immediately seek help and advise from his China loving wife, Coco Chow.

 

If you didn’t catch the craziness and the racism because you’re a Trump fan, and you can excuse anything, decent Republicans did. 

“Coco Chow?” 

“This is outrageous, it’s beyond the pale, every Republican ought to say so,” Scott Jennings, a former aide to McConnell, told CNN. 

“This isn’t some crazy person on the internet, this is the GOP front-runner for President [in 2024] if the Party doesn’t wake up & demand better,” wrote Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications director. “He’s not even trying to hide the racism at this point. Just despicable.” 

Astute observers, such as this handsome old blogger, have noticed an interesting trend running through the story of President Donald J. Trump. He has at various points blasted all of the following individuals, whom he chose for posts while he was in office. At various times he has labeled them losers, liars and lightweights: All nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court, including three he nominated for seats, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Attorney General Bill Barr, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who took over for Barr, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, National Security Advisor John Bolton, Vice President Mike Pence, and Secretary of Transportation Chao. There are many others, but how much patience do you have?



Alex Acosta, at right. Trump never insulted him.

 

It would seem then to be a glaring oversight that when Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta had to resign in 2019, Trump didn’t saddle him with an insulting nickname. Something like Alex “the Molester’s Best Friend” Acosta. His resignation came after news boiled up, indicating that he had cut a sweet deal with Jeffrey Epstein. That deal, in 2008, had allowed the pervert to keep attacking young women for another decade. Yet, Trump never said a word against him. 

When asked about the controversial deal, in February 2019, Trump responded: “I really don’t know too much about it. I know he’s done a great job as labor secretary, and that seems like a long time ago, but I know he’s been a fantastic labor secretary. That’s all I can really tell you about it.” 

Trump added lamely: “That’s all I know about it.” 

Another oddity of the Trump Years.

 


Donald, Melania, Jeffrey Epstein, and his sidekick, Ghislaine Maxwell.

 

FUN FACT: Recently, a clip of General Michael T. Flynn turned up on YouTube. Trump’s ill-fated first choice to serve as National Security Advisor, was explaining at a campaign event for Mark Finchem, who wants to be Arizona’s new Secretary of State, that “governors can declare war.” 

Which is wrong, by the way. 

Then Flynn warned that we were “probably going to see that.” He meant governors were going to declare war on…the United States! I think Flynn was auditioning for the role of Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1861.

 


General Flynn seems to forget which flag he served under.

 

FUN FACT #2: Seen on Twitter: a post by Mohamad Safa: “No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.” 

By contrast, scaremongers on the right would like you to believe that President Biden and all the Democrats are commies in disguise. 

That’s so far-fetched it shouldn’t require explanation. But here we go. Those of us left of center are generally nothing more than critics of a system that has tilted so far in favor of the rich. 

QAnon, by the way, is a wonderful smokescreen for fat cats on the right, who want to convince gullible individuals that only Jews and Democrats are warping the system, and trafficking in children and cannibalism for fun.

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10/4/22: While the U.S. judicial system may be flawed (every judicial system is, many of them fatally), we can be thankful that under the Fifth Amendment we cannot be forced to give testimony against ourselves.

 

Still, it might seem suspicious if multiple Trump allies implicated in an alleged plot to steal the 2020 election, keep having to show up in court, and invoke the right not to say anything about any laws they might have tried to break. The latest example would be Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. When hauled before the Jan. 6 select committee, Ward decided she’d rather not talk.

 

“Dr. Ward was deposed…and she declined to answer on every substantive question [emphasis added] and asserted her rights under the Fifth Amendment,” a lawyer for the congressional committee said.

 

Add her to the list with John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Roger Stone, and General Flynn himself.

 

Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro chose not to plead the Fifth, refusing to show up and testify in the face of a congressional subpoena. Bannon has since been sentenced to four months in jail for contempt.

 

Navarro is fighting his subpoena in court.

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10/5/22: Rejected-President Trump was speaking at the Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami s today when he decided to reminisce. And out of his mouth popped this startling claim:

 

I remember a very famous pollster, very well known, John McLaughlin, came to my office just prior to the plague coming and he said, “Sir, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came alive from the dead and they formed a president-vice president team, you would beat them by 40 percent.” That’s how good our numbers were.

 

It was hard to know which was more pathetic. The idea that McLaughlin would spin such BS. Or the idea that Trump would believe him – and repeat that BS before a live audience.

 

In fact, I remembered a story about McLaughlin, and how Republicans were warning each other not to credit his polls. He had said, during the 2014 midterms, that House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor was up by a huge margin in his battle to keep his seat in Congress, only to watch as Cantor went down in glorious flames. McLaughlin’s polling showed Cantor with a 34-point lead.

 

On Election Night, he lost by 11.

 

As The Hill explained at the time, McLaughlin had been having a truly terrible streak.

 

In 2012, his polls found GOP Senate candidates Linda McMahon of Connecticut and Tom Smith of Pennsylvania statistically tied just weeks before they both lost by double digits. A poll for former Sen. George Allen’s (R-Va.) campaign weeks before Election Day had him up 47 percent-44 percent against now-Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Mitt Romney leading in Virginia by 7 points. Romney lost by 4 points, and Allen lost by 6.

 

He also had Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.) up double digits weeks before he narrowly lost his reelection bid, Massachusetts’s Richard Tisei (R) leading Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) by 17 points less than a month before he lost, and a neck-and-neck race against Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) less than a month before she won with 68 percent of the vote in the heavily Democratic Queens district.

 

Or, as one GOP strategist put it, “I don’t understand how he wasn’t run out of the business years ago.” 

Trump believed McLaughlin, of course, because Trump is a delusional narcissist, and McLaughlin was telling him what he badly wanted to believe. 

As for Mr. Blogger, he’s a realist. He can read and understand polls. So he went back and checked the average of all polls on Real Clear Politics, for January 19, 2020, the day before the U.S. learned it had Case #1 of COVID-19. At that point, Biden was favored by 48.8% of voters, Trump by 44.2%. 

No one was asked if they’d vote for George and Abe as a ticket. 

From September 1, 2019, up until Election Day on November 3, 2020, Trump never once came close to leading in an average of all polls. 

He was going to lose – and almost every pollster, save McLaughlin, knew it. The final averages had Biden winning 51.2% of the vote, and Trump getting 44%. The actual results: Biden 51.3%, Trump 46.9%.



Could Trump beat this guy in an election?



AND THIS GUY?

Trump actually believes he could.

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10/6/22: Everyone knows that if Trump gets indicted and convicted, one Republican is waiting anxiously in the wings. Governor Ron DeSantis showed again on Thursday that he is the perfect guy to fill the ex-president’s idiot shoes. With questions arising, as to why Florida officials, particularly in Lee County, where Hurricane Ian ended up making a direct hit, delayed issuing mandatory evacuation orders as the storm bore down on the coast, the governor hit back. 

Florida officials didn’t do anything wrong. He certainly didn’t! It was those goddam reporters! 

They wanted Florida to get hammered. They wanted the hurricane to be worse! They wanted Tampa, north of Lee County, to take the direct hit. “Quite frankly,” DeSantis insisted, “you have national regime media that they wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that that’d be worse for Florida. That’s how these people think.” 

I doubt it is – since very few people in any walk of life, be they pipefitters or podiatrists or politicians, are ghouls. 

But this is how DeSantis thinks. He’s going to make a run for the presidency, and if he can score points by attacking the free press he will. 

Ron is “Trump Lite.”

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10/7/22: The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases job numbers for September. A robust 263,000 jobs are added to the U.S. economy. 

Unemployment is down again to 3.5% under President Biden – as good as President Trump ever did. 

And without the impeachments.

 

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SINCE the blogger was touring the country for most of the month of October, he has had to go back and piece this all together. That means he knows the September number would be revised upward in the November report, to 315,000 jobs added. Bureau statistics are always revised in two successive months, before they are declared final. 


Crater Lake, Oregon.


You could look at this several ways, all good, if you were Joe Biden, or a blogger who can grasp math and basic economics. 

Ignoring the roller coaster ride of the pandemic, in the first three years of the Trump presidency, only six times did he do better than Joe Biden, adding more than 263,000 jobs in a single month. Those six: February and May 2018, January and April 2019, and January and February 2020. 

If the 315,000 figure stands, when the final revision is made in December, the number of months when Trump did better will sink to four. 

(You can look it up.) 

As it stood when the September 2022 report came out, the job gains for 2022, under a Democrat, were as follows: 

January           504,000

February         714,000

March             398,000

April               368,000

May                 386,000

June                293,000

July                 537,000

August            292,000

September      263,000

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Total           3,755,000

 

That would be more jobs added than in any year under Trump – in fact, more jobs added than in his four years in office.

(Again, you can look it up.) 

Wages, year over year, were up 5% for workers; the problem of course being that inflation, year over year, was up 8.2%. That, and high gas prices, are the glaring flaws with the Biden economy.



Who has created WAY MORE JOBS than Trump? This guy.

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10/13/22: Tres Genco, 22, is a self-described “incel,” a young man who is “involuntarily celibate.” (The “incels” have their own websites where they vent about how angry and horny they are, if you aren’t an “incel” yourself, and don’t know.) 

 

An angry “incel” with a plan. 

So he decided to solve his problems in the most American way. If he couldn’t have any woman no one else could. 

If you are wondering why he might have had problems with the women in the first place, here’s the plan he hatched. He would buy an AR-15 style rifle. He would add a bump stock, to make it work like a fully automatic weapon. He would need a Glock pistol, one that would fire automatically, too. 

Next, he would do research! He would research sororities at Ohio State University. He would surveil the campus for fun. 

In online writings Genco would discuss his scheme to slaughter coeds “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge.” 

He bought boxes and boxes of ammunition. 

Fortunately, he was found out before he could act, arrested, tried, and finally convicted this week. 

Did we mention he had an AR-15 style weapon – the weapon of choice of nearly every psychopath in America? 

Well, he did.


Can't get a girl - shoot the girls???

 

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SPEAKING of psychopaths – what’s Donald J. Trump up to these days? Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews, who worked for the Orange Clown, sounded fresh warning this evening. 

I do think that he poses a threat to democracy,” Matthews said of her former boss. “I think that January 6 showed that, and that was part of my reason for resigning,” she explained in an interview on CNN. “He failed to act that day. He had every opportunity to call off the mob and condemn the violence. We’ve seen from taped testimony from several of my colleagues that folks were pleading with him to do that. And he didn’t ever pick up the phone once.” 

As for the election deniers – who still believe in Jewish space lasers – and still think Obama was born in Kenya – and – incredibly – actually think Democrats drink the blood of children mixed in a magic elixir? 

Matthews said they “truly are detached from reality.”

 

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No one in the coming Trump generation will serve. 

WE ARE jumping ahead now because we got so far behind while vacationing. We do know, there are plenty of decent Republicans and conservatives, still willing to speak the truth. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, for one, will say on November 4 that Republicans pushing the “stolen election” myth always knew it was myth. Or, as he put it, “It was always a lie. The whole thing was a lie.” 

Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL says behind closed doors, most GOP politicians who help spread the lie know the truth. 

It is, he says, a “lie meant to rile up people.” 

As the New York Daily News reported, “Crenshaw accused people in his party of saying ‘the most extreme things’ to get attention and marveled over the degree of absurdities some voters will believe.”  

In June 2022, at a conservative convention, many of Trump’s most avid supporters called for Crenshaw to be “hung for treason.” Others mocked him, calling him “Eyepatch McCain,” after another decorated combat veteran who once got under Trump’s thin, orange skin. 

For the hundredth time this blogger will note. Donald J. Trump zealously dodged the draft. His children have never served – although Barron still might, and maybe Tiffany, if she gets the bug. Don’s dad didn’t don a uniform during World War II, and his grandfather Friedrich, who came to the United States in 1885, also proved adept at avoiding putting on a uniform in defense of any flag. This blogger is too old to live to see this prediction play out: But he is betting right here, right now, that none of Don Jr.’s, or Eric’s, or Ivanka’s kids, or probably Barron’s or Tiffany’s, if they have any, will ever serve. 

Let alone lose an eye in combat, like Rep. Crenshaw. If there was ever a bigger, louder-mouthed bunch of pussy patriots than Clan Trump, this blogger hasn’t heard about them. Waving the flag in perfect safety isn’t patriotism, even if you are able to convince the gullible that it is.



His great grandfather didn't serve.

His grandfather didn't serve.

His dad definitely didn't serve (bone spurs).

He and his siblings didn't or haven't served.

Prediction: Their children won't serve, either.

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10/19/22: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, lower courts have been striking down existing gun control laws across the nation. 

In other words, we’re going to have even more guns, in even more places, in even more hands, 24/7. In New York City a law that prohibits heavy weapons in Times Square, at Yankee Stadium, and on the subways, among other places is suddenly in doubt. “Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd, buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back” takes on a different connotation if you think you won’t get back if another angry fan decides to open fire during the seventh inning stretch. 

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 6-3 majority in Bruen, said that the court must consider any limits on the right of citizens to arm themselves within the “nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” 

Even legal experts aren’t quite sure what that means. But I think, if we consider the “nation’s historical tradition,” it means if you are taking a wagon train to Oregon, you can bring your AR-15.


Bring your AR-15.
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10/20/22: Former President Trump and Future Felon Trump had a rough time in court on Thursday. 

 

“In furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the U.S.” 

First, Trump was ordered to give a deposition in the E. Jean Carol rape lawsuit – a civil matter accusing the former president of defamation. Ms. Carroll’s lawyers are also seeking a sample of Don’s DNA. 

Second, a judge in California ruled that additional emails, from Dr. John Eastman to Trump, and the reverse, are evidence of probable Trump crimes and must be turned over to the January 6 committee in Congress. 

In his ruling, the judge explained, “The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud [cited in dozens of previous legal challenges] were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public. These emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the U.S.”

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10/21/22: Friday a 31-year-old man in Dallas was arrested and charged with the murder, on October 3, of his friend, Asia Womack, 21, after she beat him in a game of basketball. 

Because. 

We all need guns in America. The more guns we have, even tucked in our basketball shorts, the safer we will be.

 

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A three-pack-a-day smoker who can’t quit. 

AS MORE AND MORE information spills out, concerning classified documents found in the search of Mar-a-Lago, Ex-President Blubber goes on the attack. We knew he hated the F.B.I. and the “Justice” Department. Now “Blubs” has started hating on the National Archives and Records Administration – a federal agency most Americans had never heard of before. 

Trump wants supporters to believe that all government agencies, including, NARA,  the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and even the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, are cogs in a vast machine, with one goal, to snare him in a witch hunt. 

There is, of course, a more obvious explanation. Trump breaks the law out of habit, like a three-pack-a-day smoker who can’t quit. 

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10/24/22: Only in America! Another bloody school shooting explodes – this time in St. Louis. 

The shooter is 19. 

He kills a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at his old school. Seven other students are wounded. 

He’s armed with an AR-15 style weapon, and carries 600 rounds of ammunition during the attack. 

Does it matter what motivated the shooter – whose name we will not bother to note? The gunman was also killed in an exchange of fire with police. 


 

Nine days earlier, police responded to a domestic argument at the shooter’s home. The rifle he used in the attack was taken away. It was returned to a relative, soon after, when it was determined that the future shooter had a legal right to own the weapon. 

Because in America, gun rights trump every other concern, including public safety and logic. (See: 10/25/22.)

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10/25/22: Yay, Second Amendment! In this country, you have the unfettered right to buy a gun for any reason, even if you’re nuts! 

You can even file the numbers off the weapons you buy, making them almost impossible to trace if you murder some other luckless American. Since when? Since a federal judge in West Virginia, following the Bruen decision (see: 10/24/22), ruled that the Founding Fathers never said anything about serial numbers on weapons. Mainly because no one in 1789 had ever thought of such a thing. 

So: A man, just released from prison, gets a gun in Dallas, Texas – because it’s easy in a state where everyone loves guns. In Texas, you are a sissy if you aren’t carrying at least two guns every time you leave the house for a jog. You should also sleep with at least one in your bed. 

The felon uses his gun to kill a nurse and a social worker in the maternity ward at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

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10/26/22: The famed investigative journalist, Bob Woodward, has decided to release the tapes of interviews he did with Donald Trump while writing his last book. In one, Trump brags about how Kim Jong-Un would only deal with him. That might be true. Still, Trump got nothing from Kim during his four years in office. 

(No less, but certainly no more than his predecessors, Bush 41, Bill Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama) 

 

“Chemistry” with a homicidal maniac. 

Kim Jong Un is, of course, a homicidal maniac. Nevertheless, Trump assured Woodward that he and Kim had “good chemistry.” This would be like FDR telling a reporter in 1940 that he had “good chemistry” with Adolf Hitler. 

Trump explained it this way to the stunned reporter: “The word chemistry. You meet somebody and you have a good chemistry. You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s all going to happen.” 

That might be good if you were hoping to have sex with the North Korean dictator. Only you were trying to get him to give up his arsenal of nuclear weapons and – chemistry or no – you got him to give up zero nukes while you were in office. 

Estimates vary, but in 2017, when Trump and Kim were working out their mutual attraction, it was estimated that North Korea held between 80,000 and 130,000 political prisoners in its labor camps. Experts described the treatment of these prisoners as “horrific,” and conditions as “barbaric.” In one case, a prisoner’s newborn was fed to camp guard dogs. As Time wrote, “murder, extermination, enslavement, torture, and sexual violence” were the rule. 

Judge Thomas Buergenthal, of the International Criminal Court, a child survivor of Auschwitz, has said that “conditions in the [North] Korean prison camps are as terrible, or even worse, than those I saw and experienced in my youth in these Nazi camps and in my long professional career in the human rights field.” 

So, sure. 

Trump and Kim had chemistry.

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10/30/22: Ex-President Blubber is fired up on this beautiful fall Sunday morning. He takes time out from reading his Bible, and skips going to church and helping the sick and the needy. 

 

“Next stop, Communism!” 

He has an urge to “truth” on Truth Social, his personal social media website. 

So, he does. 

“The Witch Hunt continues,” he truths, “and after 6 years and millions of pages of documents, they’ve got nothing. If I had what Hunter and Joe [Biden] had, it would be the Electric Chair. Our Country is Rigged, Crooked, and Evil - We must bring it back, and FAST. Next stop, Communism!” 

What particular burr was under Trump’s saddle? The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was hitting the Trump Organization with nine counts of tax fraud, conspiracy and falsifying of business records. 

“There has not been such a case (Criminal) brought in the United States before,” Trump howled, “handcuffs for the Executive, and all.” He went on to attack “‘Peekaboo” James, as he calls the New York Attorney General, and bashed her for pursuing the case “just before the Election, a NO NO. Disgraceful!!!”

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, the inexorable march to “communism” continued with Elon Musk spending $44 billion to buy Twitter. 

In politics, the “commies” were in complete control, with tech titan Peter Thiel pouring $30 million into the 2022 campaigns, in support of Republican senatorial candidates J.D. Vance and Blake Masters. Meanwhile, Sam Bankman-Fried pumped $40 million into campaigns in an effort to prop up Democrats, Bankman-Fried having piled up loot in the cryptocurrency field. 

“Next step, Communism?” 

For some reason the commies can’t stop Big Oil from piling up record profits, while the rest of us pay record prices at the pumps. ExxonMobil stacked up $20 billion in profits in the third quarter of 2022. Chevron took in more than $11 billion, Shell $9.5 billion, and BP limped in last with a measly $8 billion. 

Even better, the world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, reported making $42 billion in profits in just the third quarter. 

Meanwhile, Forbes estimates that Donald is still worth $3.2 billion (although his word is worth zero). 

The next step isn’t communism. It isn’t socialism. It isn’t even botulism. Unless we get our act together, the next hundred billion steps are all steps leading to a more bloated capitalism. 

According to another recent estimate, the U.S. now has 664 billionaires, which is up since the start of the pandemic. Combined, they control $4.18 trillion in wealth, and (adjusting for inflation) their grip on the financial nuts of the rest of us has increased seventeen-fold since 1990. 

“Next step: Communism.” 

What clueless f**k would ever believe that?



Elon Musk: "Next stop, Communism.?"
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10/31/22: An excerpt from former Vice President Mike Pence’s new book, So Help Me God, describes a scene from late November 2020, when Pence writes a “new low” in the Trump presidency was reached. 

 

“The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January.” 

Campaign lawyers had been telling the president that his chances of overturning the results of the vote were grim. During an Oval Office meeting, outside lawyers – the kind of loons who would tell Trump exactly what he wanted to hear – plugged in via phone:

 

After the campaign lawyers gave a sober and somewhat pessimistic report on the state of election challenges, the outside cast of characters went on the attack ... Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, “Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr. President.”

 

“Even in an office well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates, it was a new low .... [and] went downhill from there,” Pence writes.

 

“In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy ... The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January.”

 


Trump fans, please note.


 

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ALSO TODAY, Trump has been spewing on Truth Social again, favorite media platform of the clueless and the ill-informed. 

This time, he shouts: 




What does “get tough” mean in this context? Get tough and kill Biden supporters in a civil war? Get tough and oust all men and women of conscience from the Republican party? So that only toadies remain? Get tough, and start bending the election laws in every state the GOP controls? 

It is a near certainty that Democrats are going to get their clocks cleaned in the midterm elections. 

Because that’s how it works. People vote. In 2020, a majority of Americans thought Trump was a lousy president. 

Out he went – his lard ass given the boot by 81 million of us. He just couldn’t face up to his defeat. 

So he’s been trying to convince his followers that somehow he was cheated when he lost by seven million votes. 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: I am pleased to say that I proved wrong about the midterms. The Democrats did not get their clocks cleaned. 

More like a bit of rewinding.

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