Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you Rodguy for fishing tales and political perspectives from all angles, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
8/20/19
PRESIDENT TRUMP BUYING GREENLAND
I think the news that Trump might be buying Greenland to be quite amusing. Of course all the Trump haters went bananas with this news. Mockery and snarkiness abounded. Bear in mind that they laughed at the guy who purchased Alaska and it was a great idea.
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Essentially it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done. It’s hurting Denmark very badly because they're losing almost $700 million a year carrying it," he said. "So, they carry it at great loss, and strategically for the United States, it would be nice. And, we're a big ally of Denmark and we help Denmark, and we protect Denmark."
Trump said he may be visiting Greenland in the near future, but claimed the issue was not a top priority for the administration.
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UNITED KINGDOM EXITS THE EUROPEAN UNION
I have been listening to the torture of the United Kingdom trying to get out of the European Union as the leaders flip the people the bird and ignore what they want.
Because if the elites in America are Deep State with perverts servicing their need for young girls, the Elites in Europe have had a lot of practice.
So there’s a new guy in town in England and finally he did what the loser-burger former British PM could not do.
Because the people voted it out. The United Kingdom did not want England et al controlled by Brussels any longer.
This and Hong Kong are the beginning of the people taking back their power.
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The 1972 Act is the vehicle that sees regulations flow into UK law directly from the EU’s lawmaking bodies in Brussels.
The announcement of the Act’s repeal marks a historic step in returning lawmaking powers from Brussels to the UK. We are taking back control of our laws, as the public voted for in 2016.
The repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 will take effect when Britain formally leaves the EU on October 31.
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR DURIING HURRICAN KATRINA DIES
I got a special place in my heart for former LA Governor Kathleen Blanco. She was LA’s Governor during Hurricane Katrina.
She was awful.
In fact, Hurricane Katrina was handled so horribly by all the politicos involved, to include President Dubya Bush, that I created a whole Blog dedicated to my granddaughter.
8/21/19
ITALY PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS
I don’t know much about Italy and its government. I do know that Italy and England joined forces with our marvelous and glorious FBI to help set up a spy ring inside the Trump campaign.
Now that’s not ALL of Italy, or England, or Australia as has been mentioned. But perhaps they too have wonderful federal police forces and spies that will carry out the wishes of their elite rulers.
But that will not put these countries in good stead with President Trump who no doubt who did what to who.
We have Hong Kong fighting to keep its freedom. We have England throwing out whatever that dip wad’s name is who couldn’t do Brexit even though the country voted to get out from under Belgium’s thumb.
These people are beginning to fall.
Because the common people, the ones who carry their country on their backs, are going to get their countries back.
America will soon throw over those lovely folks in our FBI, the ones I respect and admire so much but Hillary loves them more.
By the end of this year, I predict.
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Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced he will resign after his populist government lost the support of a key coalition member.
Mr Conte accused Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, of trying to ruin the ruling coalition for personal and political gain, risking financial instability for Italy.
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JEFFERY EPSTEIN WRITES WILL TWO DAYS BEFORE COMMITTIING SUICIDE.
See? Right there is proof that Epstein committed suicide….pshaw on those who think he was murdered.
Epstein listed his assets and I suspect that much of it will be divided up amongst his many victims.
Frankly I don’t care HOW Epstein died. I am just glad he’s dead. Be kind. The man burns in hell even as you read this.
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Bloomberg) — Jeffrey Epstein wrote a will just two days before his suicide, saying he had about $578 million in assets that he placed in a trust, which could complicate efforts by women who say he sexually abused them to collect damages.
Epstein, who died Aug. 10 in a federal jail cell in Manhattan, asked that Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn be appointed as executors, according to a copy of the will filed Aug. 15 with the court in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
All of his assets were transferred to the trust as of Aug. 8, two days before he died, assuring that details on how the proceeds are distributed may remain private. The will was first reported Monday by the New York Post, which also published a document detailing Epstein’s fortune in real estate, cash, equities and other assets.
8/22/19
POLITICAL MISCELLANEY
No links, could be missing some info. But below, political snippets that slipped into my ear and some of it I kept in my brain.
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Trump attacks Fox and NBC. It was this past Sunday that Trump went on a rant against Fox cable news. Let’s see, he said Greg Gutfield used to talk bad about him, he lambasted Chris Wallace. Oh…and Scarimucci, Trump had little nice things to say about him. I heard Scarimucci was terrible the entire eleven days he worked at the White House.
And yesterday he launched into a tirade of NBC, said they were worse than CNN…”and that’s not saying much,” Trump ended is tirade.
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Kaepernick is BAAAAAAACK!
Asking footballers to join him on his knees.
He doesn’t even play football. Was terrible at it.
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President Trump cancels trip to Denmark because of Greenland.
Been reading about this Greenland noise and discover that it is all about CHINA! Seems China wants to mine some kind of rare earth found in quantity in Greenland.
Oh, and also read that the Vikings named Iceland because it is really green and lush. They named Greenland that name because it’s covered with ice.
The Vikings wanted to fool people.
Seems the Denmark Prime Ministress said the idea of America buying Greenland is “absurd”. This evidently made Trump mad so he cancelled his trip.
Denmark….KING OF THE EARTH!!!
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You got to know if you need to have your doctor appear in public and declare that your brain is fully functional then you maybe shouldn’t be running for president.
But there you have it. Joe Biden’s former brain surgeon shows up on the scene and tells us, to our utter relief, that Biden’s brain is just fine.
I was so worried.
Also I heard from many sources that Biden promised President Obama he would never run for President. The Obamas are nowhere near on Biden’s side.
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Why DO Jews vote Democrat?
President Trump said that Jews who vote Democrat are on the wrong side.
My understanding is that most Jews do vote Democrat and hey, why?
And now those two lovely Muslims are so fair and fine to Israel.
Let’s watch next election and see if the Jews get a clue.
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Cartoon of week
8/23/19
JIMMY CARTER, THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER
The dog days of August begin to come to a close. Congress is off and even the politicians are quiet.
The only news to this day is the revelation that Jimmy Carter has liver cancer and it has spread. The medical deduction should be his death is close.
Jimmy Carter is not young. He has lived a fairly long life, in his 80’s I think.
He was the worst president this country ever elected.
First, there was the Iran-Contra crisis. Iran, always a friendly and loving country, took a whole bunch of Americans hostage. The very day Ronald Reagan was elected Iran released the hostages.
Now Carter did try to send in Americans to rescue the hostages but like every thing Carter did, it was a complete failure.
Then there were the wonderful gas lines, Lord how we loved those. Gasoline was in shortage and there were gas lines across the fruity plains. I remember having to get up an hour early just to sit in a long line to get gas.
And goodness, how can we forget the 18-20% home mortgage rates. Carter shut off anybody who didn’t already own a home, essentially, when the interest rates rose to eliminate their ability to pay. I remember standing in my own home, which I did own at an interest rate of around 8% at the time. I remember thanking God that I purchased my home before the interest made such a thing prohibitive.
After his presidency Carter traveled around the world, best buddies with the sweet and kind Yassar Arafat and all other dictators of the world.
Okay, so the man has cancer. I should be nice.
But let it be known that he was the worst president ever.
POLITICS BY PAT
SOLUTION FOR FORGETTING NAMES
Not much going on in this part of the woods save the fact that I constantly forget everyone’s name. anybody got any cute and efficient ideas to remember the names of those people around you that you’ve know for a few years.
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EVEN THE ROMANCE SHOWS HAVE GIRLS WITH GIRLS AND BOYS WITH BOYS
It used to be that shows such as “Bachelor/Bachelorette”, “Big Brother” , “Bachelor in Paradise” were exclusive the home of romance between a male and female.
That was their purpose, to have us silly girls out here across the fruity plain to see handsome dudes meet up with pretty females and boom, kiss and fall in love.
One can tell how the times are changing in that Big Brother this year has two guys who sleep in the same bed together. It’s only hinted that they have a bromance going on but goodness, a few years ago the females like me would snap off the TV at the notion of two men together in the same bed on one of our favorite romance-type reality shows.
And in “Bachelor in Paradise” this beautiful female can’t decide if she’s in love with her female lover she left back home or with one of the guys on the show who are smitten by her. Her name is Demi, very pretty female.
The guy who is smitten with her never makes any wise cracks about Demi and her female lover. Guys out here in the real world would be cracking up, making jokes, day-dreaming about Demi and her female friend. On “Bachelor in Paradise” the guy Demi likes is always serious, saying it doesn’t matter if Demi’s other love is male or female….yada, yada.
Folks, out here in la-la land the fact that Demi has a female friend, even though the word lesbian has not yet been mentioned….well the fact that Demi might be a lesbian would be of utmost importance to any guy interested in her romantically.
On this romantic reality show, Demi’s male love interest is very blasé about the situation.
I find it all very unbelievable.
8/24/19
PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS CHINA TO START BEING FAIR
Let us begin with the fact that after all these years as a political junkee I had no idea China was NOT being fair. Further, today I just found out that China is a member of the WTA, World Trade Association. Hell I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Oh I’d see some reference to “WT” in some news story about economics and figured there was some group out there that oversaw such as shipping, etc.
Now I have a president who is telling all the secrets and it must be why they hate him.
More….I don’t think Trump tweeting out his admonition to China that they need to stop manipulating their currency, stealing intellectual property and cheating on tariffs was a coincidence that he let out a flow of criticism on Friday.
Naturally the stock market, which starts to fall should flies be found on the ticker tape, begins to drop. But on a Friday emotions tend to get better over the weekend. As of this writing, 2:00 pm on 8/23/19, the stock market is down about 400 points.
I have my entire 401K invested in the stock market. I am a bit nervous. But it will come back.
And China?
They will be fair. It’s not too much to ask all members of the WTA to be fair and abide by the rules.
And what a bunch of wimps live in Germany and the rest of Europe that they never demanded fairness.
Cartoon of the week
