Crooked Comptroller Commuted!

Free at last!  That home confinement had to be rough.

Her victims did not agree with President Biden's act of farcy/fancy.

Supreme Court Trans Medical Care Case: Exhibit 1

 

It's your brother's world for a while longer 

We gotta dance with the devil on a river 

To beat the stream 

Call it living the dream, call it kicking the ladder 

They come to kick dirt in your face 

To call you weak and then displace you 

After carrying your baby on your back across the desert

Who knew it would be a medical desert?  

Update 12-12-24:  The Defense Authorization Bill passed by the House of Representatives "with a last-minute GOP (Red Team) provision to strip health care from military families’ transgender kids tucked into it."

           They would make a desert and call it health.....

Political Turkey Gorging: Red & Blue

The Red and Blue political teams served up major turkey over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.  Fresh off yet another Nantucket stay at Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein's estate, Blue Team President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter for any shenanigans from 2014 to 2024.  

Red Team President elect Donald Trump ladled up the French Ambassadorship for fellow father in law Charles Kushner, who's past crimes Donald pardoned in 2020.  

Before the holiday weekend ended, Trump nominated another fellow father in law, billionaire Massad Boulos for Middle East Advisor.

For the average American citizen it doesn't get more turkey than that.  I am grateful the White House has so many plums to hand out to family members.

Wray vs. Patel

FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke on 11-21-24.  His remarks included:

But when I look back over the course of my career in law enforcement, I would be hard pressed to come up with a time when so many different threats to our public safety and our national security were so elevated all at once. 

We're fighting violent crime that reached alarming levels during the pandemic and still plagues far too many communities, but we are making real progress. Last year, our Safe Streets and Violent Crime Task Forces arrested something like 50 bad guys per day, every day, all year long. 

We're also combating cyberattacks, targeting our critical infrastructure and American businesses, both big and small. In fact, when it comes to ransomware alone, we're investigating more than 100 different variants, each with scores and scores of victims. 

We're tackling the cartels pushing fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into every corner of this country, claiming countless American lives. That work includes nearly 400 investigations, and those are just the ones into cartel leadership and our seizure of enough fentanyl to kill 270 million Americans. Just in the past two years. We're also fighting to keep children the most vulnerable among us, safe from abuse and exploitation, arresting hundreds of predators and rescuing hundreds of kids every year. 

At the same time, we're rooting out foreign adversaries looking to steal our innovation, influence our elections, and export repression to our shores. When it comes to China, for instance, we've got something like 2000 active cases across every single one of our field offices. And of course, of course, we're disrupting terrorism, which remains our number one priority, a threat that was already elevated, but one that we've seen rise to a whole new level in the years since Hamas's brutal attack on Israel. In my time as director, we've successfully thwarted multiple terrorist attacks in cities and communities across this country, and each one of those could have had devastating effects. 

And we're doing this work day after day after day. And we're doing it. And we're doing it while facing challenges created by things like warrant proof encryption and violence that actually targets law enforcement at unacceptably high levels. And it's all coming at a time with the shortsighted prospect of budget cuts. The bureau is being asked to do even more.

FBI Director nominee Kashyap Patel said earlier this year:

He would "shut down" the FBI headquarters building in D.C. and "reopen it the next day as a museum of the 'deep state.'"

Former FBI and DOJ officials have repeatedly dismissed the "deep state" claims as false and politically motivated conspiracy theories.

Is it the Red Team or the Insane Red Team?  Stay tuned.

Update 12-14-24:  FBI Director Chris Wray announced he will step down prior to Donald Trumps inauguration.  Sane Red gone.  

Trump the Usurper in the Age of Sponsorship

Blue Team candidate Kamala Harris couldn't even own her teenage McDonald's employment in the recent Presidential race.  Red Team candidate Donald Trump donned an apron and dared touch the "french fry doohickey" without burning or contaminating his hands.  As Trump hip-checked his opponent's teen resume, McDonald's was in the midst of an E. coli outbreak  

Vice President J.D. Vance has had multiple sponsors, Peter Thiel, Steve Case, various other TechGods and now Donald Trump.  

It is the era of numerous high paying jobs for the politically connected.  In the olden days any one of those jobs would have been full-time.  No more.  Handsome pay comes for insiders by just showing up, thus the Age of Sponsorship.  

Elon Musk is camping at the courtly feet of the President-elect in Mara Lago.  Investors in his numerous companies are yet to speak out about not getting their money's worth.  While Musk disappoints Fidelity, Trump demands it.

What happens when the cult of personality interacts with another cult of personality?  Trump will decide.  

My guess is Trump will usurp Musk's everything, a la Rudy Giuliani.  Afterwards, will Donald spank him with a Forbes Billionaire List magazine?  

Update 11-14-24:  Kara Swisher shared a similar sentiment about the clash of cults.

John Bolton actually cares about national security and wants Trump nominees investigated prior to confirmation.

Update 11-29-24:  Donald Trump usurped his own ethics law by declaring he is above same.  It's a donarchy.

Update 11-30-24:  Trump II announced the appointment of yet another tyrannical rectum, this one for the FBI.  The Red Team will reveal if it is completely insane if they approve this sponsored pick.

Update 12-8-24:  The E Coli of US Politics, Donald Trump, usurped the image of Jill Biden to hawk his latest retail product, perfume and cologne.  It's called "Fight, fight, fight" and mostly covers any Quarter Pounder related "Fart, fart, fart."

Update 12-15-24:  Tyrannical rectum Elon Musk did the following:

As Donald Trump gears up to return to the White House, his favorite billionaire buddy, Elon Musk, is sending a warning to Republicans: Support the president-elect’s Cabinet picks, or else. Musk is now threatening to financially back a primary challenge to any Republican senator who opposes Trump’s nominees.

I'm sure the founders of our country would have wanted the legislative branch to capitulate to the executive.  TechGods?  What is this bizarre class of people?  

Update 12-21-24:  Voters got to see the Tyrannical Rectums in action as Musk and Trump combined to thwart a budget deal that would fund the government through March and avoid a Christmas shutdown.  The Blue Team did what the Reds couldn't, collaborate on the passage of a budget extension.  

Make America Gay Again

There is no joy in political Mudville today.  Petulant middle schooler Donald Trump's risk management ploy actually worked after the majority of citizens took his bizarre political ramblings with a quarry full of salt.  Come January 2025 he returns to the White House to enact the most anti-conservative policies.

Free trade was the political Red Team's mantra for decades.  Balanced budget/deficit reduction stood firmly alongside, even a mere three months ago.  Freedom was more than a strong armed invitation to be just like them.

Trump the Usurper convinced "conservative" Christians to abandon the Gospels and endorse Old Testament kings as a model for their children.  Isn't that the role for the leader of the free world, to be a model for future generations?  

Over half of U.S. voters returned a man to the White House that displays no discernable teachings from Jesus Christ, although Trump has used the name as an expletive.

The Blue Team is despondent, so the lack of joy is understandable on that side.  The Red Team is pulling out Project 2025 from under their cloak of invisibility.  The Evil Steves, Bannon and Miller, are sharpening their political shanks, trying to see how they can be deployed in a scalable high-tech digital world.  

Joy needs to return and not the Tucker Carlson maniacal version.  The joy of being outside on a crisp fall day as flocks of geese honk as they fly south for the winter.  Other creatures that stay have to endure the bitter cold.  That lesson applies to political seasons.

The Red Team gets to enrich Donald Trump by flying to Florida and entering his "court", competing for the political plums to be handed down.  The Blue Team is snowed in, angry and depressed, in what appears to be a dysfunctional family.  

The Reverend Billy Graham grew to regret his absorption into Republican politics.  

He (Graham) also repented of his forays into presidential politics, telling Christianity Today in 2011 that he "would have steered clear of politics." He said he was grateful to have ministered to the needs of "people in high places ... but looking back, I know I sometimes crossed the line, and I wouldn't do that now."

The guardrails for an out of control White House are the Supreme Court and Congress.  It's a dark day when both say to a man like Trump, thy will be done.

It's never enough for those who take and take and take.  There is no joy in the accumulation of earthly things.  Christ taught us to love God and love our neighbor.  So let's make America Gay Again by following Jesus' teachings.  Render unto Trump that which is Trump's.

Make America Gay Again.  

Update 11-25-24:  Trump waved his "Henry F. Potter" wand and shouted "Finite," thus appointing Project 2025 author Russ Vought to head the White House Office of Management & Budget.  Trump did this for the second time.  Remember Trump knows nothing about Project 2025, knows nothing about Project 2025, .... you are getting sleepy...

Update 11-29-24:  Elon Musk and President elect Donald Trump danced to The Village People's YMCA at Mara Lago on Thanksgiving.

Popovich Calls Out Trump the Usurper