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The Conversation -- April 12, 2024
Marie: Circumstances forced me to listen to a few minutes of a Trump presser. where he informed me that there would have been peace and prosperity, health and happiness throughout the world if he had been president* these last several years. So why this? ~~~
~~~ Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago? Top News in the NYT, April 12, 2020: "Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus: ... Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government -- from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies -- identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action. The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen."
Priscilla Alvarez & Michael Williams of CNN: "Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that banned abortions in almost all cases an 'inflection point' in the fight over abortion rights and pointed the blame at Donald Trump. Harris headed to Arizona to mobilize voters who see November's election as a referendum on women's rights, one of the Biden campaign's key issues in the upcoming election. The vice president has become a go-to voice for the campaign on abortion rights and quickly announced a trip to Tucson after Tuesday's ruling."
Zach Montague of the New York Times: "President Biden canceled $7.4 billion in student loan debt on Friday as he tries to shore up support with young voters who are disproportionately affected by soaring education costs, but who may be drifting away over his policy on Israel and the war in Gaza. The latest round of relief is part of a strategy by the White House to take smaller, targeted actions for certain subsets of borrowers after the Supreme Court struck down a far more ambitious plan to wipe out $400 billion in debt last year. Mr. Biden said this week that he would make another attempt at large-scale debt forgiveness for about 30 million people, despite Republican opposition and legal challenges. But in the meantime, he has been chipping away at student debt by fixing and streamlining existing programs that have been plagued by bureaucratic and other problems for years." CNN's report is here.
Luke Broadwater & Charlie Savage of the New York Times: "The House took a critical first step on Friday toward reauthorizing a law extending an expiring warrantless surveillance law that national security officials say is crucial to fighting terrorism, voting to take it up two days after a previous attempt to pass it collapsed. Grasping to salvage the measure before the law expires next week, Speaker Mike Johnson put forward a shorter extension -- two years instead of five -- in a move that appeared to win over hard-right Republicans who blocked the bill earlier this week. On a party-line vote of 213 to 208, the House agreed to take up the new version of the legislation, which would extend a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702. That cleared the way for a debate Friday on proposed changes to the bill before a final vote on passage. The preliminary vote on Friday suggested that the measure was back on track after ... Donald J. Trump implored lawmakers this week to 'kill' FISA, complaining that government officials had used it to spy on him. Should it pass the House, the Senate would still have to clear it, sending it to President Biden for his signature." ~~~
~~~ The story has been updated: "In a major turnaround, the House on Friday passed a two-year reauthorization of an expiring warrantless surveillance law that had stalled this week amid G.O.P. resistance stoked by ... Donald J. Trump. The bill would extend a provision known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that is set to lapse next Friday.... The final vote was 273 to 147, with both parties split. One hundred and twenty-six Republicans joined 147 Democrats in favor, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats were opposed.... This week [Trump] directed lawmakers ... to 'KILL FISA,' asserting that it had been used to illegally spy on his 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump's contention was incoherent as a matter of law and policy because there are two types of FISA surveillance and the type that is expiring -- Section 702 -- has nothing to do with the type the F.B.I. used in its investigation into the links between his campaign and Russia amid Moscow's covert efforts to help him win the 2016 election." Politico's report is here.
Kevin Breuninger of CNBC: "Donald Trump on Friday urged his followers to support his social media app Truth Social, as its parent company's stock continues to sink lower. Trump in a post on that app said he believes Truth Social embodies the political 'movement' behind his 'Make America Great Again' presidential campaign slogan, adding that 'it shows the Spirit and Love of our Country.'... Trump Media's share price on Friday morning dipped below $30, a decline of more than $40 from its roaring start. It ended the trading day up 0.6%, but failed to offset an almost 20% decline on the week. Shares are down nearly 50% so far in April. Trump is nevertheless poised to reap a financial windfall from the company."
"MAGA Mike." Alex Gangitano of the Hill: "President Biden's reelection campaign unveiled a video Friday linking former President Trump with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an attempt to highlight their views on reproductive rights issues. In the video 'MAGA Mike,' first shared with The Hill, the Biden campaign complied remarks from both Republicans about reproductive rights.... The video was released days after Trump said he would not sign a national abortion ban if reelected and such a bill passed Congress, a comment that the Biden campaign quickly dismissed as a lie, citing his record on the issue." ~~~
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Richard Luscombe of the Guardian: "The sale of firearms on the internet and at gun shows in the US will in future be subject to mandatory background checks, the justice department said on Thursday as it announced a 'historic' new action to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. The closing of the so-called gun show loophole, which exempts private transactions from restrictions that apply to licensed dealers, has long been a goal of the Biden administration.... The White House estimates that 22% of guns owned by Americans were acquired without a background check and that about 23,000 more individuals will be required to be licensed as a dealer after the rule's implementation.... [Attorney General Merrick] Garland presented the rule as a hardening of the 2022 bipartisan Safer Communities Act.... 'The regulation expands the definition of who must obtain a license and conduct a background check before selling guns,' Garland said. 'It will close the gun show loophole, and it closes the fire-sale loophole by clarifying how firearms dealers who go out of business must go about liquidating their inventory.'... The new rule is the latest in a series of unilateral steps the Biden administration has taken to tighten gun laws, while at the same time highlighting the difficulty of getting legislation through Congress." ~~~
~~~ Marie: This seems like a pretty big deal to me, and I'm not sure why it hasn't received more media attention.
Alexandra Hutzler, et al., of ABC News: "Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday addressed a joint meeting of Congress, where he praised U.S. leadership on the world stage as 'indispensable.' Kishida is in Washington this week as the U.S. looks to strengthen relationships with allies in the Indo-Pacific amid the mutual threat from China, North Korea and Russia. During his speech to lawmakers, Kishida warned..., 'Without U.S. support, how long before the hopes of Ukraine would collapse under the onslaught from Moscow?... Without the presence of the United States, how long before the Indo-Pacific would face even harsher realities?'... Kishida's remarks toward Ukraine skeptics come as U.S. aid to the war-torn ally as it fights Russia's invasion is stalled in a political fight on Capitol Hill."
Besties! Clare Foran, et al., of CNN: "Speaker Mike Johnson is making an effort to emphasize close ties to ... Donald Trump as the Louisiana Republican faces the threat of a vote to strip him of the speaker's gavel. Johnson and Trump are set to appear together at Mar-a-Lago on Friday to deliver joint remarks and make an announcement on 'election integrity.' The event, which sources say was the speaker's idea, comes as ... GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia dangles the possibility of forcing a vote to oust him from the top leadership post."
Benjamin Weiser & Tracey Tully of the New York Times: "Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife, Nadine Menendez, will be tried separately in a federal bribery case, a Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday. The trial of Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, will go forward as scheduled on May 6, but Ms. Menendez's case will be delayed until the summer. The judge, Sidney H. Stein, issued his ruling after Ms. Menendez's lawyers told him that she had a 'serious medical condition' that would require surgery and a potentially extended period of treatment and recovery."
Tobi Raji of the Washington Post: "The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena Thursday to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo as part of a months-long inquiry into undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices and he promptly rejected it, calling the move 'politically motivated.' 'I am not capitulating to his lawless support of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the left's dark money effort to silence and cancel political opposition,' Leo said of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee's chairman, in a statement to The Washington Post.... With Leo's refusal, Democrats would be forced to hold a Senate vote if they wanted to seek enforcement of the subpoena in court -- a nearly impossible task in a narrowly split chamber with 60 votes needed to break a filibuster." Thanks to Ken W. for the link. CNN's report is here.
Alan Feuer & Eileen Sullivan of the New York Times: "... Trump's two co-defendants [in the documents case], Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira..., [will try on Friday] to have the charges they are facing dismissed.... In written filings, [their lawyers] have already told Judge Aileen M. Cannon ... that even though their clients may have been following orders from Mr. Trump, they could not have joined him in a plot to hide classified materials they knew nothing about or in obstructing an investigation they never knew existed.... Prosecutors have argued that motions to dismiss, like those to be discussed on Friday, are meant to raise legal issues, not to question the sufficiency of the evidence in an indictment. They have suggested that the arguments advanced by Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira are better handled as disputes at trial." ~~~
~~~ Marie: IOW, this appears to be another matter where Judge Aileen either doesn't know what she is doing or is pretending she doesn't know what she is doing, because -- as the prosecution argues -- the matters are of an evidentiary nature and should be decided by a jury, not by the judge in a pretrial ruling. Joyce Vance said on MSNBC this morning that it was "remarkable" that Cannon was holding a hearing on the motions, which should have been dismissed out of hand. ~~~
~~~ Tierney Sneed & Holmes Lybrand of CNN: "The transcript of an FBI interview made public late Thursday details how [Walt Nauta,] an aide to ... Donald Trump, characterized the boxes of sensitive documents that are now at the center of the special counsel's case into the mishandling of classified documents from the Trump White House.... [In the interview,] the former president's valet repeatedly claims that he believed Trump stored news clippings, hairspray, shampoo, picture frames and other miscellaneous materials in the boxes.... US District Judge Aileen Cannon granted Nauta permission to file a version of the transcript with minor redactions ahead of a hearing Friday where he will argue that special counsel Jack Smith's charges against him should be thrown out." Includes interview transcript.
Kaitlan Collins of CNN: "Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Donald Trump who became a critical witness in the classified documents case against the former president, no longer represents him.... According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Corcoran left Trump's legal team in recent months, a notable departure as the criminal case remains in limbo in south Florida. Corcoran's quiet exit from Trump's orbit could pose a significant issue for the former president, with the potential for prosecutors to call him as a key witness if the case goes to trial."
Calling a Crook a Crook. Filip Timotija of the Hill: "Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a 'level of corruption that we've just never seen' when talking about [Kushner's] firm's recent investments overseas.... The New York Times's [recently reported] that ... 99 percent of his investment fund's money came from foreign sources.... 'This is a guy, Jared Kushner, who had no expertise, no qualification whatsoever to be in the White House while he was there. He made it his account to work in the Gulf Arab states. He basically helped lead the cover-up for [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud]. Get him in from the cold after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.' Rhodes said Kushner securing a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia six months after leaving the White House is a way for Salman to exert influence on U.S. foreign policy if Trump returns to the Oval Office after the November election.... 'He chose to work on issues in the Middle East, and he chose to work with the Gulf Arab states, knowing that the payout would be on the back end,' Rhodes said...."
Presidential Race
No, Republicans Do Not Play Fair. Ever. Patrick Svitek of the Washington Post: "Democratic officials are looking at their options after Republican secretaries of state in Ohio and Alabama warned them that President Biden might not appear on their ballots in November because of the timing of his expected nomination at the Democratic National Convention..... The situation has created new headaches for Democrats and stoked distrust with election officials over what has long been considered an apolitical process. The chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, Randy Kelley, this week accused the GOP secretary of state, Wes Allen, of 'partisan gamesmanship,' noting that accommodations had been made for Republicans in the past when their national conventions were later in the summer.... The Biden campaign has said a possible solution is 'provisional' certification.... But Allen has rebuffed that idea, and Democrats are also exploring legislative remedies. On Thursday, a Democratic state senator in Alabama, Merika Coleman, introduced a bill that would move that state's deadline back to Aug. 23, the Friday after the Democratic National Convention ends [and would leave the decision to the whims of the GOP-controlled legislature]." ~~~
~~~ Ben Kamisar, et al., of NBC News: "It's not the first time a convention has been held in late August -- but it would be a first if any related ballot access questions weren't solved easily, without fanfare or much controversy.... The Biden campaign is resolute: It believes he'll be on every state's presidential ballot no matter what, pointing to a long history of similar issues getting solved without any fight -- including in 2020, in Alabama, Oklahoma, Illinois, Washington and Montana.... [But] John Wahl, [Alabama's] Republican Party chair, gave no indication he'd suggest Republicans work to help the Democrats. Instead, he released a statement attacking Democrats for holding their convention outside of the deadline, claiming it showed 'shocking disregard for Alabama's electoral process.'"
Martin Pengelly of the Guardian: "The Republican National Committee sent out a scripted robocall on behalf of its new co-chair Lara Trump, falsely claiming Democrats were guilty of 'massive fraud' in the 2020 election.... 'No photo IDs, unsecured ballot drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots and voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non-citizens are just a few examples of the massive fraud that took place. If Democrats have their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn't even an American citizen.'"
Aaron Pellish of CNN: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign manager said on Wednesday that New York campaign staff member Rita Palma was fired after she told GOP voters in a meeting last week that preventing President Joe Biden's victory was her 'number one priority' and encouraged them to volunteer for ... Donald Trump in Pennsylvania."
Marie: I had the teevee news on during the day yesterday, and it was pretty much all-O.J. all the time. Yet it was not until mid-afternoon that a reporter who originally covered parts of the story -- Marika Gerrard -- mentioned what I thought was a central element of the double-murder story: that it was the ultimate result of continual spousal abuse: "According to Lenore Walker, the Simpson-Brown marriage was a 'textbook example of domestic abuse.'... [Nicole] Brown described an incident in which Simpson broke her arm during a fight.... She wrote about him beating her in public, during sex, and even in front of family and friends.... Of the 62 incidents of abuse, the police were notified eight times, and Simpson was arrested once." It is not likely an accident that abuse by Black men -- Clarence Thomas, Simpson & Bill Cosby -- has done so much to advance the rights of women. The Great White Majority is still more afraid of Black men than of equally-abusive White men. Yet they don't seem to think abuse-less-than-murder is a worthy subject for teevee discussion. But the thrill of the slo-mo Bronco chase? Absolutely!
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Colorado. Oops! Left My Loaded Glock in the Bathroom. Lauren Irwin of the Hill: "A Colorado Republican state representative issued an apology after he left his loaded gun in a bathroom in the state's Capitol building. State Rep. Don Wilson (R) posted a statement dated Wednesday on the social platform X, apologizing for 'briefly' leaving his firearm unattended after the building was closed to the public.... Police said they reviewed surveillance footage of the building and saw Wilson exiting the restroom about half an hour before the gun was found [by a janitor].... Members of the public may have been in the building during the [time the gun was in the restroom].... The Colorado state Legislature is debating Senate Bill 131, which would expand the list of places prohibiting people from carrying a firearm, both concealed and open carry, to include the Capitol building. The bill was passed in the state Senate last week."
Maine. Summer Conception of NBC News: "Two Maine lawmakers are facing possible censure after one said the deadliest mass shooting in the state, in Lewiston in October, was a sign of retribution from God over the passage of a law expanding abortion access by the Democratic-led state Legislature and other 'immoral laws.'... [The] remarks drew condemnation from state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.... The Maine House is set to hold a vote on censuring [Michael] Lemelin and [Shelley] Rudnicki for their comments." ~~~
~~~ Marie: As usual, I don't think much of a screwed-up god who would murder innocent people because of the separate and supposedly immoral acts of others.
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Israel/Palestine, et al. The Washington Post's live updates of developments Friday in the Israel/Hamas war are here: "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin complained directly to his Israeli counterpart that Israel did not notify the United States before conducting a strike on an Iranian site in Syria this month, which the Pentagon sees as increasing risks to American forces in the Middle East, U.S. officials ... told The Washington Post. A U.N. team visiting Khan Younis following the withdrawal of Israeli troops reported destruction 'disproportionate to anything one can imagine,' World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.... Gen. Michael 'Erik' Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, was in Israel on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesperson said, as the allies coordinate on preparing for Iran's threatened retaliation."
Russia. Alexandra Alter of the New York Times: "During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist. Titled 'Patriot,' the memoir will be published in the United States by Knopf on Oct. 22, with a first printing of half a million copies, and a simultaneous release in multiple countries."
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Projection, as usual…
“I am not capitulating to his lawless support of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the left’s dark money effort to silence and cancel political opposition,”
Says Leonard Leo, chief architect and leader of the lawless effort by the Federalist Society to use dark money to manipulate rulings of the Supreme Court to silence and cancel political opposition, and when that proves difficult, to ensure that wildly unpopular decisions by the court, favorable to a small but extremely well heeled minority, move ahead regardless.
Thanks for clearing that up, Lenny.
The reminder of that conniving creep, Leonard Leo, got me thinking about chess.
Not in the sense that I believe he’s a chess master. Most of the bullshit pulled by sneaky snakes at Heritage and the Federalist Society succeed because we have anti-democratic traitors in congress and the Supreme Court, not because they’re geniuses.
No, I’m thinking of the slippery moves made by Loose Cannon. I’ve thought for a while that Cannon was a terrible choice for a judge, hyper partisan, in over her head, dangerously unfamiliar with the requirements of a federal judge (all of which makes her a perfect Trump judge: ignorant, super partisan, careless). That may all be true. But her recent moves smack of a sneaky sophistication completely absent from her previous rulings.
So…chess.
Don’t know if you guys have seen the Netflix series “Queen’s Gambit”, if not, check it out. It’s fabulous (even more interesting if you know chess. Unlike a lot of movies that include chess games, the moves in this series are all entirely valid and a few are downright brilliant).
The eponymous queen of the show, Beth Harmon, finds herself up against a brutally talented Russian chess master, and current world champion in the match of her life. As great as she is, Beth can use some help analyzing her opponent’s strategies (he has a battery of chess masters working behind the scenes with him). The night before the final match, sitting in a Russian hotel room, she gets a call from a bunch of her stateside chess pals, including the former US champ (whom she displaced) together, they pull apart Borgov’s game plan and devise a strategy for Beth.
Now, Aileen Cannon is no Beth Harmon. Harmon got there all on her own and scared the pants off some of the best players in the world. But I’m thinking Cannon’s been getting calls from Leo and his phalanx of slim Nazi lawyers putting together a strategy to try to counter Jack Smith’s prosecution. The idea, so far, has worked. She is in the position of being able, once a jury is seated, to pull the plug on the whole thing and get Fatty off the hook on what should be a slam dunk guilty verdict.
I guess we have a new opening: the Traitor’s Gambit.
So here’s what’s going on in the madhouse led by Bible Mike, with extra chaos from Moscow Margie.
There’s a guy in the middle of a lake. He’s drowning. Republicans on the shore, standing right next to a life preserver, look out at the drowning man and say “Sorry pal, can’t help you. I’m worried about my dishwasher.”
While Ukraine is struggling to stay afloat, Party of Traitor elected officials are gearing up for a few weeks to pass the Don’t Touch my Refrigerator Act.
I am not even kidding.
With all the problems we have to deal with, here’s the schedule for this coming Monday:
“The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, April 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:
H.R. 6192 – Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
H.R. 7673 – Liberty in Laundry Act
H.R. 7645 – Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
H.R. 7637 – Refrigerator Freedom Act
H.R. 7626 – Affordable Air Conditioning Act
H.R. 7700 – Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act”
Home fucking appliances. Liberty in fucking laundry act?? What the actual fuck! We pay these people? Money?
We’ll be getting testimony from little Johnny, whose Pop Tarts were overdone one morning. A tragedy. Some Nazi fuck will be screaming about Biden coming in to take his dishwasher. They used to shout about the black helicopters coming to take the guns. Now they’re worried that deep state commandos will be storming the kitchen cabinet looking for their blender.
While Ukraine burns.
Perdition. Perdition for every one of these motherfuckers.
@Akhilleus: I think your assessment of Loose Cannon is just right. She seems to have this in common with Trump: not very bright, generally speaking, but devotes those limited smarts to taking care of Number One.
Of course it's possible Judge Aileen has a chess master directing her moves, but -- after those initial big booboos -- whoever is the instigator of her latest moves, she seems to be keeping one step ahead of Jack Smith.
The Right cheats of course....and gets away with it.
They get away with it because they have discovered that in an effort to be fair to all, the Left long ago stacked the deck in favor of minorities, allowing the shameless Right to take advantage of those who would play by the rules.
We see it in Leonard Leo's shenanigans. He won't have to respond to a legitimate subpoena because his friends in the divided Senate will protect him. He will be held no more responsible for his actions than were the traitors in the House who fomented the Jan 6 insurrection. They all successfully hide behind the cover of institutions that favor minority government.
The deck the Right plays with also consists of piles of money that they apply to the justice system to abuse and subvert it, speeding it up when convenient, slowing it down when not...Justice is whatever suits them.
I'd modify that old line about the rich not being like you and me to say, maybe so, but the Right rich sure aren't.
OJ has left the field. For the last time.
I don’t think anyone, well, most people anyway, really believe he had nothing to do with the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Cops in TV shows are often portrayed as a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Rambo, but in the OJ case they were more like a combination of Nathan Bedford Forest and Benny Hill. Their incompetence and obvious racism helped get him off.
Those of us who remember that whole scene, from the White Bronco to the not guilty verdict recall the rather stunned surprise on the part of many white Americans who had a hard time reconciling what seemed to be his clear guilt with the unwavering support he got from many black Americans. Simpson wasn’t exactly a clear hero in black communities. He married a white woman, lived in Brentwood, didn’t do a heckuva lot for black causes. In other words he wasn’t exactly an MLK or a Malcolm. When jury members visited his home, his lawyers had to scramble to find African themed art to hang on walls which had none of that.
But…he was a rich guy, a celebrity who could afford a dream team of lawyers, the kind who typically got obviously guilty rich white guys off the hook every day. A black kid went to prison for years for an ounce of pot. A rich white guy who stole millions got a slap on the wrist and no jail time.
Think it’s an exaggeration?
Then read this, from Paul Campos on the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog today:
“Trump has done about two dozen things in the hush money case, the secret documents case, the libeling one of the women he raped case, the real estate fraud case, the overturning the election case, etc. etc., that would get any ordinary defendant jailed for contempt.
There are days when I find it almost literally impossible to believe that what’s happening in this country is actually happening.”
Me too. Another guilty, rich white celebrity who gets millions handed to him all while giving the entire Justice system the finger.
If you’re a black American seeing this shit your whole life, you’d probably support OJ too, just to see one of yours get the same easy treatment all those guilty white guys have always received.
One last thought about OJ…I asked a friend if he thought a white Bronco would make a good hearse. He thought it would.
And this time, no one would have to wonder where it was headed.
Important business going on in Congress next week: dishwashers,
laundry machines, refrigerators.
What about the week after that: mattresses and pillows?
And why do I have to pay extra for doughnut holes? Shouldn't
they be included with the doughnuts? Hey congress, get on it.
What a congress! Solving all thosse problems we didn't even know
we had.
Forrest,
I think you have something there. Maybe Comer and Jordan can convene a special investigation to get to the bottom of what the Biden crime family does with those donut holes. Prob’ly sell ‘em to the Chinese. For that matter, what happens to the air in balloons after a few days? How come they start to deflate? America used to be great. Balloons never deflated. Where does that air go? Who can we subpoena? Impeach! There must be someone we can impeach!
And where does the light go when you close the fridge door? What’s that green stuff in the leftovers? That cheese was good two months ago. What happened? Is it satan??
The tide goes in, the tide goes out. How does that happen??
All the best people. So many things to investigate.
Count me in. Disbelief that the traitors and felons win every time. I bet Jack Smith can’t believe any of it either.