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- Trump has been called “transactional”. So the pending TikTok controversy plays right into his hands. We have a multi-billion dollar platform that is immensely popular with the American people. The Biden Administration has threatened to ban TikTok from the US unless a portion of this Chinese company is sold to American interests. There apparently is a concern that private information is being gathered by the Chinese through its TikTok system. The matter is now before the US Trump Supreme Court. Imagine the deal Trump has been handed. He can negotiate huge benefits for himself, protect Musk’s “X” business, retain popularity for himself (make Biden and the Dems look bad) and possibly soften China up for future trade agreements. All those benefits are on-the-table. And–to top it all off–he has the Supreme Court in his pocket. Whatever arrangement he negotiates will be backed by the highest legal authority in America. Merry Christmas Donald.
- The Gaetz Report has been distributed. This was not a show of good faith by the GOP. Apparently someone bought a copy and threatened to leak it to the press so the GOP suddenly found its moral compass (somewhere in a drawer??) and decided to release a somewhat redacted version. Just think–Matt Gaetz was very close to being your Attorney General. We guess we now know why Trump wanted to bypass the Senate vetting and the FBI background check. KInda make you wonder what Trump’s other choices are hiding??
- Joe Biden–as expected–has been widely critiqued for commuting 37 death sentences. The GOP has stretched their comments to a possible justification of FREEING over 1,000 Jan 6 rioters. The GOP noise is intended to drown out any blowback from the release of all those clowns who assaulted police officers on TV. Now if you think requiring life sentences without the possibility of parole is equal to full pardons for a thousand people who assaulted police personnel, destroyed much of the US Capitol and threatened to hang the Vice President of the United States–THEN STOP READING THIS BLOG. You are a lost soul who cannot judge right from wrong.
- Now we know why Trump is Putin’s friend. They have something to trade. Trump wants to develop real estate in Russia and Putin wants to restore Gazprom–the Russian natural gas supplier to Europe–to full profitability. And all Trump needs to do is sacrifice the freedom of the Ukrainian people…no problem. Last year Gazprom lost $7 billion and this year it stands to lose even more as European countries have begun to use alternate fuels and buy gas from the US. So the transactional Trump says to Putin “we’ll hand you Ukraine by not funding them. Putin, you get to win the unprovoked war, impose dictatorship on Ukrainians and re-instate your gas business in Europe without paying the Ukrainians any gas transmission fees to Ukraine. How does that sound?” Trump satisfies his US supporters, builds his company and makes “nice” with a brutal dictator. And all Trump has to do is surrender the freedom of millions of Ukrainians. No problem.
- Trump is continuing to follow the Hitler playbook. He’s already announced that he’s firing Christopher Wray from his FBI Chief role. (Trump appointed him in his first term.) Now he’s blaming poor handling of the Havana syndrome (an unexplained illness) on the CIA Chief William Burns who was appointed by Joe Biden. The news media is embellishing Burn’s failure in not determining the cause of the illness. These two moves parallel the Hitler moves to remove local German police in the 1930’s and replace them with the Gestapo and the Secret Police (SS). Both replacement groups were required to take a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler. Watch how this plays out.
- We now have 11 US citizens who are “above the law”. The president-elect, Matt Gaetz, and the 9 US Supreme Court Justices. Trump will not pay for his 34 felony convictions. Matt Gaetz has obviously worked out a deal with the Dems that requires him to resign from the MAGA nut choir in the House of Representatives in exchange for not being tried and convicted of sexual trafficking and sex with a minor. Now a Federal Judge has decided that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not face the Department of Justice for accepting and failing to report millions of dollars of bribes. Subtle changes in our American society are tolerated. But obvious criminal activity totally escaping any punishment should be an abomination to all citizens. Our society is organized and maintained as a civil institution governed by rules—laws. When blatant exceptions are made the foundations of the our daily existence tremble. Who will be excused from future crimes? And will the severity of those crimes matter? Again, our silent tolerance of lawbreakers only encourages more criminality. The kid who steals a cookie from the jar and gets away with it is emboldened to take the whole jar the next time. We are dealing with children here who have an anti-democratic autocratic agenda. It needs to stop.
- We promised you a full story on the menagerie that Trump is trying to assemble for his reign. At this time we have incomplete and disturbing reflections on his nut bowl list. As soon as he forces his idiots into roles they are totally unqualified for we’ll do a review. Stay tuned.
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