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Cappy finds a wrestling friend with a guest dog.
A very quiet pre-xmas moment of relaxation with a bunch of dogs we were dog-sitting and our own dogs. The elder and small dogs were mostly chilling in the pen while the others with high energy ran around and lounged in various parts of the house.
Cappy and Jonah had a special bond and played together a lot.
Right near the parking lot at my Pleasant Hill office, I saw these wild turkeys playing around like they owned the road. They were fearless and graceful. You would never know there was a huge boulevard a block away.
Is Trump too dense to know that his staff basically sends him on fools’ errands so they don’t have to deal with him as much to do rallies across the country his entire term? Does he think this is normal?
Does Moscow Mitch not realize that we can see that he has a conflict of interest with his wife in the Cabinet when he’s supposed to be overseeing her boss? Does he also not think we can tell that he was manipulated by the Russian oligarchs to stop some sanctions against them for invading another country so that they would fund a PET PROJECT in his state?
Are Repugs (my term in response to the use of “Democrat” as an adjective) so dense that they don’t understand that the “lack of evidence” they are complaining about in the impeachment of Trump is caused by Trump contemptuously refusing to allow the enforcement of Congressional subpoenas for more fact witnesses and document discovery to present his “alternative” facts?
Is Bill Barr too dense to understand that we see through his IG report fiasco?
Do Repugs defending Trump with non-substantive arguments realize that he repeatedly and deliberately said to the world that he wanted two foreign countries to interfere in 2020, regardless of what happened on the fucking July 2019 phone call? No one is denying this, people?
Is Roger Stone too dense to know that we love that he’s been gagged? Is he still saying “lock HER up” with Manafort when he’s locked up?
This experiment in hiring a reality star to represent a country with no political experience is insanity. He’s completely influenced by greed, most often of which comes from foreign entities since no one in the USA would risk working with him. Reagan was no prize, but at least he was truly involved with politics and had executive experience before the former actor delved into national politics.
Thankfully I have real media and opinions to keep me from joining this cult.
Wolf just let fascist Dump apologist Marc Scott get away with repeatedly saying “Democrat” as an adjective and then Marc had the audacity to talk about the current VP’s son serving overseas while criticizing Joe Biden’s son during his VP service. Hunter should NOT have taken board memberships, but why did Wolf forget to ask Marc why he forgot to draw the comparison to the three oldest Trump kids and their completely unencumbered corruption, cozying up with Mr. Bone Saw, etc.? For shame! How Fox of you. Journalism at risk? It will indeed not survive if we don’t stand up to misleading soundbites and misdirection and be constantly wary of the tactics of alternative fact cronies.
Like many people in the majority who voted for another candidate, I strongly considered invoking my dual European citizenship and moving out of the USA after the 2016 election. That was by far the worst year of my life, having lost my mother very quickly to ovarian cancer in addition to the backward results of the onerous election season. Due to her death, my siblings and I inherited a home in Italy near our extended family. A respite from the ensuing chaos that we are now in the throes of here in the USA sounded appealing, but I do not blame one orange man. In the end, I’m glad I stayed to fight, in my own ways.
Dump45 is a symptom of ignorance and an inadequate educational system extolling mendacity, hatred of various kinds, and greed over logic and truth. I could write tomes about why Dumpist supporters should abandon their cultish admiration, but there would just be another blowhard to replace him until we collectively wake up and put through legislation and fortified means to combat minority candidates getting the White House role. White people in rural America do NOT deserve 1.5 votes. Effectively that is what the electoral college system has yielded for the USA.
Unfortunately I see no traction on an effort to replace that legacy of slavery, nor the suggestion that we increase the number of judges on SCOTUS to combat the generational damage that has already been done with stolen seats from sheer hypocrisy of the Repugs. When I say collectively wake up, I don’t mean the general “woke” movement, which I support, but more of the great swaths of our ignorant voting populace getting fed propaganda that should make a trained journalist cringe on a network and other media that purport to be actual news agencies, rather than cudgels against rationality.
Cheeto45 is at least twenty years older than me and admits to a far worse diet than I would ever sanction. I don’t know how genetically superior he thinks he is (an Aryan argument, no doubt), but when he looks himself in the mirror I know he doesn’t see Stallone of forty years ago that he tweeted his head photoshopped onto. I can only imagine what his insides look like if he really eats the way he claims to.
I actually would be fine with cutting our prosecutorial losses for the sake of the office of the presidency, letting this buffoon leave the White House without any further charges against him, whether he leaves by impeachment, quitting, or being voted out legitimately. I don’t want the backlash from his supporters if he is eviscerated legally, as he deserves, not that he is capable of exhibiting any shame. Hopefully he doesn’t have that much left of his natural life left to live anyway.
I agree with Bill Maher on about 90% of things, but despite Maher’s warnings, I have zero concern about Dump not vacating the presidency that he never seriously wanted in the first place. No matter where Dump is physically (and he’s not been known to curtail much travel when coined by taxpayers), his time will be over and he would not be transported by us anymore. At some point, whoever is sworn in as President after him, will be recognized regardless of her residence or location.
Just like Larry Kramer wrote about Reagan’s death after Larry outlived his nemesis, I will take great satisfaction in living in a world without this man. Besides the plethora of other good reasons for me to live a long, healthy life, I hope that I’m around to dance on the grave of this bitter liar and blameworthy useful idiot to the imperialist Soviet legacy and the root cause of countless avoidable deaths and injury (caged children and Kurds included). Time is on my side.