Our glorious leader is now being called "Caveman" for giving in twice to Nancy Pelosi. At last, I hope, he has met his match. After regaling us with new "fake news" about the Southern border of the U.S., he allowed the Government to open again... but with the threat to throw another tantrum if money isn't allocated for his "wall" by February 15th.
His bosom buddy, Roger Stone has at last been arrested. What a sweetheart! I'm told that he has a picture of Richard Nixon tatooed onto his neck. I did see his office with its picture of Nixon on display. He also gave the Nixon victory salute to the crowds outside of the arraignment center who were shouting "Lock him up!" He was released on $250,000 bail, which he can probably afford easily.
Roger said that he would never be a "rat" for trump.. but these sleezebags often "flip" when they realize that there is a chance that their protector might be in jail too and not able to give them a pardon.
Gene Weingarten wrote a Washington Post article about his "no-effort, magic, no-diet diet." I liked the humorous article and recommend it to you. Meanwhile, let me pluck out of his article a line related to his special diet, yet, which could also be related to a famous person. You guess who.
"... Kiss goodbye that huge gelatinous tub of lard whose image has haunted you day and night."
I love the Nation magazine. I read it all, cover to cover, and work the cryptic puzzle in each issue. One of the highlights of the magazine is its poems by Calvin Trillin. I hope he will not mind me writing a copy of his latest wonderful poem.
If he can't get the wherewithal
To build at once his precious wall..
A wall that's thick, a wall that's tall,
The strongest, toughest wall of all
Then to the floor he'll surely fall,
And pound his little fists and bawl."
Dana Milbank also had a great article in Sunday's Washington Post, with the title: What If Trump Was Comic Relief?
Some of his misspellings and made up facts are already kind of funny, and the way he runs the White House is hilarious. So, the idea is to beat him at his own bumbling game and have some fun doing so. How about whoopie cushions in the oval office? Pepper in his french fries? Short sheets in the Lincoln bedroom?
Seriously though.. this is a tough time for the U.S. with this incompetent person in charge. Nobody knows what he is going to do or say next. It's time for a new deal, and I agree with most of Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley's "Blueprint for a 'We The People' Democracy."
o Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
o End partisan gerrymandering.
o Abolish the Electoral College.
o Provide a pathway for voting representation in Congress for U.S citizens of DC and Puerto Rico.
o Reinstate the full protections of the Voting Rights Act:
Allow early voting
End purges of voter lists
Re-enfranchise ex felons
Allow same-day voter registration
Establish Nation-wide automatic voter registration.
Jeff... You have my vote!
