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Hot Mess Trial
The hush money is only three days old, given yesterday was an off day and already the judge must be asking himself ‘why me?’
There was bickering Monday morning between the defense and prosecutors over various issues. The judge stated Wednesdays would be off but if delaying tactics continued, the trial might start being held on Wednesdays as well. The judgement that the trial would continue on Religious holidays but would end at 2 pm to allow for those observing the holidays to attend festivities. Donald Trump bitterly complained that he would not be allowed to attend Barton’s high school graduation. This despite that Trump did not attend any of his other kids’ graduation. The twitterverse went nuts this with implying that Barton’s dad would be there with these tweets accompanied by a picture of Justin Trudeau.
Trump appeared to have violated gag orders a few times. The judge decided to have a special hearing on this next Tuesday
Despite all this, by the end of Tuesday, seven of the 12 jurors had been selected. Things seemed to be going on schedule. The one thing that puzzled me was that while the identities of the jurors were to be kept secret, their gender, their race and their occupations were made public.
Yesterday Trump complained that his team was only allowed ten strikes of potential jurors. Trump wanted to be treated differently. Of course he does. Last night Trump posted on Truth Social a comment made by a Fox entertainer that the nasty liberals were trying to get ringers on the jury. Again a violation of the gag order
This morning already promised fireworks. It got much worse. One of the seven jurors selected requested to be taken off because friends were blowing up her phone yesterday asking if she was one of the jurors. There are not too many oncologists in NYC. Her friends added two and two and got her. The judge granted her request and excused her.
The prosecution team then raised questions of another juror who claimed to find Trump fascinating. A deeper dive into his past found concerning political issues including tearing down political posters.
All this is happening as I am chirping this The judge had hoped to have this trial completed in six weeks. This mayhem is good for Trump in his hopes that he gets a mistrial. But if that does not happen and the trial goes longer than 6 weeks, Trump will be stuck in the courtroom each day while Biden is campaigning around the country
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Messy House
Mike Johnson is House Speaker. According to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Johnson is there because Matt Gaetz did not want to be investigated for sleeping with a 17 year old. Things have gone downhill from there.
Before the Easter break, MTG said she would file a motion to have Johnson vacated from the Speakership. A number of Republican Congressmen were not happy with Moscow Marge. During the Easter break, Johnson went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Trump’s ring. Trump, in return, stated that he supported Johnson. Well, that apparently is not enough. Republican Congressman, Thomas Massie, this week said that he would support Marge, in her motion As a result, the Republican Conference is in shambles, with Members sniping at each other.
Ok. So the above seems messy. But that is nothing.
Johnson indicated that he will put to a vote, by the end of this week, motions to provide funding for Israel and Ukraine. Some Republicans, such as Moscow Marge, are upset about funding for Ukraine. Other Republicans are upset that immigration measures are not included. This despite the fact that a bipartisan Senate Committee cobbled together strong immigration legislation. However, Trump said don’t you dare consider that
It gets messier. Many Republicans want funding for Ukraine to go through. The vocal minority says if that happens they will vote Johnson out of the Speakership. However, if the Democrats vote to keep Johnson in, there will be enough votes to keep Johnson in. This will keep Johnson in until November but he will probably be primaried out for working with the Democrats. At the same time, the Democrats are afraid that if they support Johnson, their base will be become for supporting right wing extremist. But if the Democrats don’t support Johnson, then there will be no Speaker,no functioning House and the Republicans will look like they can’t govern, which they can’t.
This is all just the surface mess. It goes a lot deeper but it would just confuse more than it already is.
Enjoy the day.
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Don Snoreleone
A picture is worth a thousand words. This is Donald on day one of his hush money trial. No doubt he will be a lot more livelier when Stormy takes the stand
Donald is falling apart. I don’t think he will be able to call Biden ‘sleepy Joe’ anymore. You may have seen that in his campaign speeches, more of his sentences end up in a jumbled mess.
On Saturday night he tried to give a history lesson on Gettysburg. This included singing a shanty about not going up the hill. He also asked his loyal supporters if they noticed that Robert E. Lee has fallen out of favour. He actually asked that. It is on tape
Just bring popcorn to the couch and watch Trump fall apart this Summer.
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Melania
Today is day one of accountability for Donald Trump. Today is day one of the hush money trial.
Lost in all the furor is the effect of the trial in Donald’s third wife, Melania. The trial related hush money paid to Stormy Daniels for a one night stand with Trump while Melania was nursing four month old Barron Trump. Not only will Stormy Daniels. testifying, but Karen McDougal will also be testifying. McDougal is a former Playboy model who alleges that she had a year long affair with Donald, while he was married to Melania.
Melania has not been seen much with Donald lately. She is not standing by her man at the trial today. Her last appearance with Donald it looked like she was going to start crying. Of course there was that picture of Trump trying to enter Melania’s car at Melania’s mother’s funeral. Words were spoken, possibly as follows,
“No freaking way you come with me Donald!!!”
Melania, for the length of the trial, will have to endure the fact, that the entire world will be hearing about Donald’s sordid affairs, while married to her. Most women would probably want this to be a private thing. Melania will be seeing this explode in public.
Do I feel bad about Melania? Well, as she famously wore on her coat, one time,
“I really don’t care, do you?”
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Now What MAGA?
Hey MAGAts, I guess you are in a bit of a dilemma right now. Given that your cult leader is best buddies with Putin, you all love Putin too. No funding for Ukraine, nope.
You also know, maybe you don’t, but should know that Russia is an ally of Iran. Iran has been sending all those drones to Russia in their invasion of Ukraine.
Stay with me here. You all claim to love Israel. Well did you see the news last night? It was even on Fox. Iran, who is a friend of Putin, who is also your friend, and Putin is your friend because your hero, Tucker Carlson, says Putin is your friend. Well Iran attacked your friend, Israel. So Iran, who is friends with Putin, who is your friend, attacked your friend, Israel. What is a MAGAt to do or say. Oh, that’s right, blame Biden. Biden does not run Israel.
Your friend, Benjamin Netanyahu runs Israel. Now Benjamin has a choice. He could calm things down and not retaliate He could do that but sadly I don’t think he will. whatever.
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While Rome Burns
There are stories of the Emperor Nero playing the fiddle while three quarters of Rome burned down to the ground. Today the phrase ‘while Rome is burning’ is used for situations where disasters are occurring while those in power are just fiddling away doing nothing.
Joe Biden is in power. That is true. He wants to help fund Ukraine and to resolve the situation in Israel. Yet Trump, the Republican Congress and Netanyahu in Israel are fiddling away, trying to cling to their power while the world is literally at a powder keg
Ukraine is losing ground. Putin wants the return of the Soviet Union and its borders. Yet, morons like MTG are saying they will never fund Ukraine and they hate Ukraine. Marge, do you know what history is? Did you ever take History in school? Have you heard of Neville Chamberlain? Have you heard of the term ‘history repeating itself’. Yet you are playing silly Speaker leadership games
As bad as Ukraine is, the situation in the Middle East is far worse. Gaza is a nightmare. Over 30,000 dead and a famine growing. Hezbollah and Israel escalating strikes against each other drawing Lebanon closer to the conflict. Israeli settlers burning down Palestinian villages on the West Bank after a 14 year old Israeli boy went missing. The boy was found, dead. Iran vowing revenge on Israel after top military officials were killed. Iran threatening to close off the Straits of Hormuz. This morning Iran has seized an Israeli backed Portuguese ship The kettle is boiling and is on the verge of overflowing.
So stop the freaking fiddling around and do something quick or else the fire of Rome will seem like a little burning twig in comparison.
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Republican Circus
This is all in one week.
Kevin McCarthy, in an interview, this week, put the blame on Matt Gaetz for his ouster as House Speaker.
“Let’s get to the bottom of it. That is such a misnomer in life. Let me give you the truth about that now. And I’ll give you the truth why I’m not speaker. It’s because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old. An ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene saw an eclipse vans an earthquake and warned Americans to repent. She then doubled down on this.
Marge was not done though. She is gathering allies to ouster Mike Johnson as House Speaker accusing him of selling out and turning into a Democrat. Marge denied that another leadership circus would make it more difficult for Republicans to win the House in November
This week, Speaker Johnson brought a motion to the floor to continue authorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) He lost that motion. He lost because Donald Trump told Republicans not to pass the motion that Johnson wanted to pass. Mind boggling.
It gets worse. Mike Johnson will be together with Trump at Mar-a-Lago today. The main theme of the get together will be how the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
All this in one week.
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Dumber Still
Marge made news earlier this week warning Americans to repent given the New York earthquake and the eclipse. She claimed it was a message from God. The Jewish Space Laser girl was mocked so badly for the tweet that she took it down. Now most people, when making an atrocious boo-boo would wait for the chatter to die down and move on. But much like her cult leader Donald Trump, Marge doubled down.
“Many have mocked and scoffed at this post and even put community notes.”
She continues,
“Yes, eclipses are predictable and earthquakes happen and we know when comets are passing by, however God created all of these things and uses them to be signs for those of us who believe.”
Well Marge, if you are into signs from God, the epicentre of the New York earthquake was close to a Trump golf course. Also, America experienced a terrible plague (Covid) during the Trump presidency. Ponder that Marge.
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Trump’s Pickle
Trump is finding himself sinking deeper into his own mess. He said the following on his failing Truth Social on Monday.
“We cannot let our Country suffer any further damage by losing Elections on an issue that should always have been decided by the States, and now will be! By allowing the states to make their decision … we have taken the Abortion Issue largely out of play,”
Trump has boasted about how he was President responsible for overturning Roe vs Wade. Now, whether he wants it or not, Trump is owning it.
Republicans are already facing stormy weather with strict abortion bans in a number of states. The weather worsened with Florida’s 6 week abortion limit. It just got a whole lot worse with the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that a civil war abortion statute be implemented restricting abortions only to incidences where the mother’s life is in danger. As Kamala Harris put it,
“Arizona just rolled back the clock to a time before women could vote – and, by his own admission, there’s one person responsible: Donald Trump.”
Trump is getting attacks on all sides. His former VP, Mike Pence is attacking Trump for retreating on the issues Trump’s BFF (best friend forever for us older folks) Lindsay Graham, as well as other loyal Republicans have criticized Trump in his stance with Trump reacting angrily. With regard to Graham, Trump said that Graham was,
“doing a great disservice to the Republican Party, and to our country.”
Democrats are already proclaiming the November election to be Roevember. This is not going away. It is like on time for Trump.
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Untethered
Trump’s Presidency and the subsequent years would rightfully be termed as volatile. He has been labelled as untethered. His Presidency broke all the fundamentals. Episodes that occurred during his term would have sunk ANY other President. Despite four indictments and 91 criminal counts, Trump is the Republican nominee for President.
Trump Media is imitating the volatility of its namesake. When it went public back in late March, it has reached a height of $80 per share. This morning, it has fallen to $37 per share. Trump’s net worth has gone down by between two and three billion dollars. He lost one billion dollars in one day.
Since it went public shares have jumped up and down by more than 5% each day and by more than 10% on half those days.
Traders say that this is unheard of and has defied fundamentals. Sound familiar? The company only made four million dollars in revenue last year and lost nearly $60 million. But despite that it is still worth far more than competitors. Sound familiar again?
The wild ride, just like its namesake continues.
Bird's Chirps
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….