Month: May 2017

At some point, one might hope there’s at least one or two Republican senators who display a shred of courage and character. To date, I haven’t observed one. Not one. They just teeter their party line in the hopes they can get their tax break passed for the most affluent Americans. It’s genuinely pathetic. But it is what it is. It’s ironic in that the GOP is the party most affiliated with the military and religious right voting bases. They must have a different Book of Corinthians than the one I’ve read. No matter what line Trump crosses, nothing seems to bother these people.

I see no Howard Baker on the horizon. John McCain and Lindsey Graham only talk then go poof into the night. BTW, I read a book of McCain’s called Profiles of Courage. He might want to read it at some point. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are collective political frauds. I can’t think of one GOP senator who is a statesman of any kind. And I have very little faith the Senate Intel Committee can go beyond political boundaries.

Anyway, this is an interesting clip from Howard Baker when he knew it was more important being an American than a Republican. He wouldn’t last a week in 2017. Not a week.

Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be the key word moving forward. Complete and total unabashed hypocrisy from the right.

Joe Scarborough loves every minute of this. It’s a ratings gold mine.

This was this morning before it was revealed Trump revealed classified info to the Russians. Imagine what tomorrow holds on the opening of Morning Joe. Who needs writers?

After making my opening statement as to why Billy Bush’s favorite sport fucking celeb should be impeached—I took a furtive pause, thought it all thru and realized Trump should stay in office. Because if he stays in office I feel almost certain nothing beyond the Gorsuch nuclear confirmation will be done between now and the mid term elections in 2018 beyond James Lankford ducking my phone calls.

Chuck Schumer should thank his lucky stars every night Trump is the one in the White House and not someone who actually might know what they’re doing. It never fails, Trump is the most chaotic, disruptive force in this whole bizarre presidency. So–I’m putting the impeachment on hold and very much hoping Sean Spicer doesn’t get fired this week.

I’ve never seen anything like this. Not even close. Even when Gerald Ford was falling down airplane ramps and hurting himself in his office—it was never this cataclysmically bad.

Never.

Just think how boring it would be without these two. Things might actually get done. Laws might get passed.

Please do not fire Sean Spicer.

Unless you’re a complete political zealot with a red R stamped on your forehead with Sean Hannity’s voice streaming in your mind none of this should be a surprise. The question remaining to be answered will be which Republicans can for the first time in nearly a decade can put their country in front of their political affiliation. To date, we never saw this once in the eight years of Obama and we certainly haven’t seen it since Caligula emerged from Cleveland as the GOP rogue candidate. We haven’t seen it from his base either. Trump is right his base loves him because he’s not Obama. He can be seen on video telling Billy Bush he tried to fuck her like a bitch. He can keep every one of his business interests while occupying the White House. He can be the first president since Nixon not to turn over his tax returns. He could probably even shoot someone in broad daylight and it wouldn’t faze any of them.

I called Senator James Lankford’s office yesterday for the third time since Caligula’s inaugural speech. I’m not sure what I think about Oklahoma’s junior senator. He’s on the Senate Intel Committee, so I’m going to try to give him an enormous benefit of the doubt and see if he can do the right thing. He seems like a nice man. My goodness, he’s a former youth minister with two daughters–yet the furniture store sport fucking video didn’t seem to faze him. We’ll see if the triumph of politics wins over doing the right thing.

He’s not Nixon. Nixon was much smarter. Nixon could name countries and continents. Nixon would never ever forget the name of the Australian prime minister. The comparisons to Nixon are somewhat off base. Nixon was actually a very interesting interview. Unless you’re into hearing an old man describe how he grabs any pussy he wants–Trump has little to say of consequence.

Caligula might hit closer to home because it coincides with how much we have rotted as a country and a culture. It’s not just Trump/Caligula, it’s some of you. I refuse to use the pronoun ‘us’ because I didn’t vote for this piece of shit, besides it’s my blog. If you voted for Trump, you’re on the dubious list. I’m not saying you’re a deplorable, but you’re someone I’d keep an eye on in a furniture store.

No Archibald Cox videos for now, it’s time to draw the parallels between Trump and Caligula.

Not really all that surprised, in fact, if form holds true, I wouldn’t at all be shocked if we drop a random bomb somewhere in the world in the next 48 hour news cycle. It’s very simple at this point, either some Republican senators at some point will standup for the constitution or they’ll just continue to use Donald Trump to get their legislative agenda passed.

Even Richard Nixon never fired an FBI director. We’ve all made the Nixon comparisons, but I’m not sure even Nixon was as insecure and dysfunctional as Caligula Lite.

His core probably thinks this is a great day and the way our constitution should work. I wonder why though Comey wasn’t dismissed in the first week of Caligula’s presidency and why the shoe dropped now?

It will be interesting to see at what point Comey makes a public statement on the Russian probe or if he stays silent.

At some point this will either be checked by the Republican controlled Congress or it won’t.

And BTW, this is why the nomination and confirmation of an extremely weak lawyer such as Jeff Sessions was and is a very big thing as to how our system works.

I’m a little stunned this caused so much concern on Morning Joe. Why is what Caligula Lite said about the Civil War any different than any other stupid things which come out of his mouth? Somebody has to be the honest adult in the room and I guess it has to be me.

The people who voted for this con artist don’t care that he has no idea whatsoever WTF he is talking about in regards to pretty much anything. If he said Katie Perry was the 12th POTUS his base wouldn’t even blink. Enough already. This just isn’t about Donald Trump at this point. It’s about the GOP and the humans who voted for this person. It’s about the people who in 2008 we’re completely on board with Sarah Palin being the Vice-President of the United States. It’s about 82% of church goers voting for this rogue huckster despite hearing him say he tried to fuck her like a bitch. They must be reading a different book of Corinthians than the one I’ve read.

This is what he is and what he ran on. Why would there be any concern now?

This was released the day Trump’s healthcare plan was passed by the GOP in the House. How ironic it was on the same day when Trump hosted a keg party at the White House for getting a bill through the House which would strip health care for around 24 million Americans, seriously reduce coverage of pre-existing conditions, and double the cost of health care for people between the ages of 50-64. Who in their right mind would celebrate this with a keg party and a photo op at the White House?

The answer is fairly simple. The person who initiated the Birther Movement and the same guy who at the age of sixty told us he genuinely tried to fuck Nancy Dell like a bitch. That guy.

So while I agree with the thrust of what George Will is saying here, I don’t think Donald Trump is disabled, I just think he’s piece of shit who honestly doesn’t care about other people who have no positive impact on his life. And that’s precisely why I didn’t and never would vote for this person to serve on my HOA board let alone POTUS.

Not much of consequence or surprise so far with these NBA playoffs. All the higher seeded teams advanced into the second round. With the exception of Houston possibly beating San Antonio, it looks very probable Golden State, LeBron, and Boston will advance to the conference finals.

Houston is the team I hope advances simply because I like Harden and enjoy watching the Rockets play. With Sam Dekker back in the flow, the Rockets now have a nine man rotation and it was quite a beating the Rockets put on the Spurs in Game 1 in San Antonio.

Hopefully, Sam Presti and his staff are watching this series because the Rockets’ supporting cast is something akin to what Presti needs to put around Russell Westbrook moving forward. You look at that Rockets’ team and they can all play both ends of the floor. No severely limited one way players per se. All nine can play, one superstar, with a veteran NBA coach who’s given a strong voice in determining his personnel.

Anyway, the Houston-San Antonio series is the one I’m locked in on in the second round. It’s the only one where I think there’s that much at play. Maybe the Washington Wizards can make their series with the Celtics interesting, but I’m not sure if they have enough to go any further.

Quite frankly, the playoffs haven’t been all that interesting. I’ve been more entertained watching Anthony Bourdain episodes past and present. This one was on the other night. It’s a classic in the series. Bourdain with Sean Beck experiencing the Waffle House Five Course experience in Charleston, South Carolina.

Houston at San Antonio tonight in what to date might classify as a big game. The NBA could use a compelling second round series. To date, Harden and the Rockets have been the most interesting team to watch this post season.