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Meltdown
Donald, what happened to you yesterday? You lost your temper, big time being interviewed by Kristen Welker, on NBC.
All she did was challenge you on your lies about January 6, about the California election, about your convict slush fund. You really told a whopper when she asked you that you had said that there would be no more wars during your election campaign. You did say a number of times, but yesterday you claimed you didn’t
And then you got upset and took your ball and went home, leaving halfway through the interview.
“They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. Your press is crooked and Meet the Press is crooked.”
“Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you darling. Have a good time.”
Darling? You called her darling? Well, you also called her corrupt and stupid. You called the interviewer stupid. You also did not limit it to Meet The Press, you also called CBS, ABC and CNN, corrupt.
Totally bad look Donald. Acting like a baby. You really did. You lost your cool Donald.
The pressure must really be getting to you. It is showing. Kind of warms my heart. Sorry, not sorry.
That’s all I have for today.
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What Now Vlad?
 Vladimir, comrade, how’s it hanging these days? It was just a little over four years ago that you marched the tanks into Ukraine, even had the tanks lined up on the main road to Kyiv. It would be a piece of cake you thought. Just like Crimea all over again. You even thought the Ukrainians would welcome you with open arms. Heck their leader was a comedian.
Yet, here you are four years later. I heard you’re taking to living in bunkers. Your country men aren’t that happy with you. People are using burner phones to get around your Internet crack down. It is estimated that 30,000 Russians, a month, are seriously injured or killed. 30,000, that’s a big number, Vladimir. And now long range Ukrainian drones are going deep into Russia. The other night, the Ukraine sent 500 freaking drones into Russia. You had some big to do in Saint Petersburg, and Ukraine decided to blow some of it up while you were there. Your hometown, Vladimir. That must’ve pissed you off. The sanctions are working even despite your best buddy Donald trying to help . He’s having his own little issue with Iran right now. You may have noticed.
Vladimir, maybe you and Donald should get together for a couple days and have a kind of pity party. No one understands the both of you. You’re just trying to do what’s best for your country, while ripping off your citizens of billions of dollars. Sucks to be you, Vladimir.
That’s all I got for today.
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Nursing A Trade
I could’ve done a political chirp today, but it’s too depressing and too repetitive. The Iran war continues. Trump is being Trump. Ukraine and Russia still at war. On and on and on. So bear with me.
The Oilers are trying to trade Darnell Nurse. He has just completed his fourth year of an eight year contract valued at $9.5 million a year. He is not playing at the level of a $9.5 million player. The Oilers did this to themselves. They signed Nurdr to two short-term bridge contracts so they have no choice at that time to sign Nurse to a long-term expensive contract to keep what was then a valued defenceman on the team.
His value has since gone down. He is best buddies with Connor, McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. He wants to stay an oiler. He is upset, naturally, about rumours of him being traded, of him being shopped around. He also has one more year of a no trade clause. He has to give approval to the Oilers for a trade.
The Oilers management are telling him you’re going to get traded this year or the following year after your no trade clause is gone. So, to put it bluntly, the Oiler management and Darnell Nurse are not on good terms, right now.
The Oilers stumbled to a first round exit this year. Stan Bowman made a questionable trade, trading Stuart Skinner, who is at the last year of his contract, to the Pittsburgh Penguins, for Tristan Jarry who has two years left of his contract valued at over 5 million per year. Bowman saddled the Oilers to a $5 million goaltender who is not at the top of his game for two years. If he had kept Skinner, there would been $5 million of play money to find a good goalie. Connor McDavid gave the Oilers a break by signing a two-year contract at the same amount that he had been paid for the last eight years. So Bowman threw it away by trading for Jarry
Something tells me that this is going to be a painful summer for Oilers fans. Leading to a painful season.
That’s all I have for today.
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Conscience Takes Over
The primary season is almost over, and GOP members of the House and Senate are now free to vote with their conscience instead of being afraid to be primaried out by Trump’s MAGA crazies. This was evident, yesterday, when 18 House Republicans stood up to Trump and voted to provide more funding and weaponry to Ukraine, and in the same vote, voted to increase stiffer sanctions on Russia
There was a time, ironically, led by MTG, where there was a push to stop any further assistance to Ukraine. That time apparently is over. It is ironic that Putin is facing the same problems at home, with regard to Ukraine, that Trump is with regard to Iran.
The bill is now going to be sent to the Senate where a number of Senate Republicans are also voicing their support for Ukraine. The question is now whether there’ll be enough republican votes to approve the bill. Then most likely it would have to go to Donald Trump to sign the bill. Trump is pretty angry at Republicans in the House and Senate for standing up to him. So it’s quite possible that Trump might not sign the bill off, being a snowflake that he is
That is all I have for today.i
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Checkmate
Donald, how are you at playing chess? I think you’re more of a checkers guy, aren’t you? I know you’ve been acting or trying to act like a king since your second coronation, I mean inauguration. You have faced no kings protests by millions of Americans. You really don’t give a crap about that do you? But now your own party is checkmating the king
The House, by a margin of 215 to 208 passed a resolution requiring you to seek approval for your Iran war through Congress. Four Republicans supported that resolution. It now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass there, as well, with the support of a number of Republicans. Your Republican Party is getting fed up with what’s happening in Iran. Once it passes the Senate, you have two choices. Either withdraw troops from the Middle East, or seek approval from the war, from Congress.
You have this big immigration bill in the Senate right now. Your Republican senators have not passed it yet because of this $1.8 billion convict slush fund, you keep pushing. The Senate wants reassurances that you will never ever ever ever bring it up again. You, being you, keep raising the possibility that you will bring it up again. So your Senate Republicans have pushed back.
Also, if they pass this bill, the Senate Republicans have decided not to include the $1 billion security funding that you want for your ballroom.
The Senate Republicans are also not happy with your nomination for director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. You’ve actually nominated someone who might have less intelligence experience than Gabbard.
Some people are starting to think that secretly you are a democrat trying to bring down the Republican Party. I would not put it past you, Donald.
That’s all I have for today.
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So Much Bad News
This is what we all woke up to this morning. All of this happened, either yesterday or overnight.
The Iran – US ceasefire is heading into the dumpster, with more attacks by both sides last night. Iran attacked Kuwait and Bahrain with the attack on Kuwait including attack on Kuwait’s airport, resulting in at least one fatality. Meanwhile,, the US bombed a ship heading to an Iranian port
Ukraine launched a number of drone attacks on Russian cities, last night, including the city of Saint Petersburg, where thousands of people will be attending an economic summit hosted by Vladimir Putin. Oil tanks were struck in St. Petersburg sending a cloud of dark smoke over the city.
CBS fired longtime ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, Scott Pelley, from the show last night, following a dispute between Scott Pelley, and CBS management. The show has been a Sunday night staple at CBS for years. This is the network who let go of Stephen Colbert. Ratings for ‘ 60 Minutes’ have declined since the show, and network, has begun taking a new Trump appeasing direction.
Finally, after acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, indicated that the Trump administration would drop the $1.8 billion convict slush fund, Donald Trump announced that he is still considering invoking this. Trump’s retribution campaign continues.
All of this happened in the last 24 hours. I’m not even gonna ask what else can happen, because it probably will.
That’s all I have for today.
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Bombshell
If you have been frequently social media sites, such as Facebook and Threads and X, you will see a number of Alberta separatists saying how Canada has been ripping off Alberta and Alberta will be much better off without Canada. You will see a daily deluge of separatist misinformation
Danielle Smith, who is proposing a sovereign Alberta, within Canada, whatever that means, has been all along giving nudge nudge, wink, wink support to the separatists.
The separatist wanted a referendum question on leaving Canada, this fall. Due to a host of legal issues a question will be voted on, but it basically will be a question on whether a referendum is wanted. A referendum to have a referendum. This question along with the number of other questions to be voted on the same day will cost Alberta taxpayers $100 million.
Daniel Smith, since indicating that question will be voted on, on October 19, has since stated that she will vote no on having a subsequent referendum. According to Smith, she has hopes for Canada, again, whatever that means.
In a press conference yesterday, she put a major damper on separatist misinformation. She stated that;
it will cost $400 billion to start up and independent Alberta,
it will cost $25-$50 billion a year to operate Alberta annually
Alberta to stay in NATO will have to put in their proportion of funds to NATO
Alberta will have to make trade deals with every country that they want to trade with
Alberta would have to spend money for border protection on the borders of BC and Saskatchewan
Alberta would have to start from scratch creating a military force
In other words, Alberta would be ripe for a takeover, by the US, to be a 51st state
The next few days will be interesting ones for the separatists,in seeing how they were react to the cold water thrown on them by Danielle Smith.
That’s all I have for today.
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Counting The Ways
So, Donald, what have you got going this week? Let’s see. The gas prices have gone down I guess in reaction to you saying that the agreement with Iran was almost finalized. Oh, Iran just broke off negotiations. They don’t trust you and now this Israel, incursion into Lebanon has screwed things up
Well, forget that for now. You got this freedom 250 celebration going on. What’s that? All the performers are backing down? Well that kind of sucks. So what is this gonna be a ten-day MAGA rally, with you being the main event. I guess you could always get Kid Rock.
Well for your birthday, I hear you’re gonna have a UFC fight on your front lawn. Oh no, not that too. You mean people are upset about the UFC fight on the White House lawn. Don’t they recognize class when they see it?
Well you got your name on the Kennedy Center, anyways. Oh, they forced you to take your name off. So much for the renovations too, right?
Well, at least you’ll be able to pay your friends, including the January 6 insurrectionists, off, for what they did for you. What’s that? Your own Senate is revolting against you, in that one.
You know, Donald, maybe it is better to just stay in bed, today, maybe the whole week.
That’s all I have for today.
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Can You Trust This Man?
How many times has Donald Trump said that a deal is imminent? Each time, Wall Street falls for it with index still going up and big oil falls for it with prices going down until the next flare up.
This week, Trump pushed the idea that negotiations were finalized, and an agreement just waiting to be signed. Again, not true. There was a two hour meeting Trump had with his cabinet on Friday and he sent back the agreement to Iran with changes. Of course he did.
Iran’s parliamentary secretary, commented on the trust he has for Trump and his administration,
“The soldiers of the diplomatic battlefield have no trust in the words and promises of the enemy. What matters to us is tangible achievements that we must obtain, in exchange for which we will fulfil our commitments.”
You cannot con a con and that’s what both sides are trying to do, con the other. Donald needs an agreement of some kind that looks better than the agreement that Obama reached and Trump tore up. If he does not achieve that all this will have been for nothing at the cost of American lives and American treasury.
So given that, this will continue. Trump has said that he doesn’t care about the midterms and I believe him. It is more important that he cannot be shown to have made a mistake, in his eyes. So until something else happens, this 13 week war will continue to week 14 and on and on.
That’s all I have for today.
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Backlash
Another bad week wrapping up for Donald. A federal court judge has ruled that Trump must remove his name from the Kennedy Center.
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
Trump responded to this by saying he’s been treated unfairly, and,
“I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management,”
Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund to the January 6 rioters and to friends such as Paul Manafort, Michael Lindell, and himself is facing headwinds. There were 2 Federal Court buildings on Friday, one blocking the slush fund process and another ordering Trump to respond to claims that he committed fraud in this entire process, in relation to the IRS.
Trump wants to hold a major, days, long, party to celebrate the 250 year anniversary of America’s birth. The problem is that acts lined up for the celebration have been cancelling out. So we might end up seeing days upon days of Kid Rock.
Finally, nothing has been settled with Iran. The Strait is still closed as we enter week 13 of the war. Fun times.
That is all I have for today.
Bird's Chirp
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….