No, not the shorter days of winter. I’m talking about the launch of the new session of the ‘John Roberts’ Supremely Kangaroo and Criminal Court.’ They re-launch their assault on humanity, freedom, and the Constitution starting on the first Monday of every October, and, apparently, there’s nothing anybody can do to stop them. Today is that dark day.

I imagine the bribe taking Alito and Thomas have pocketed lots of bribes, er, I guess we’re supposed to refer to them as “gifts from friends.” I don’t know why. A bribe is a bribe is a bribe. Why can’t we call them bribes? As for me and my house, we shall use the words that describe the acts. Bribes.

The current makeup of the corrupt highest court in the corrupt land includes at least four members who got their jobs by committing perjury and two (that we know of) pocketing bribes as quickly as rich people can hand them over. They sit outside the court on their lunch hours with little cardboard signs, ‘Will make rulings for money.’ And they will, too.

I’ll tell you this: I figure we all, to the extent possible, have to just ignore the “rulings” of the now-moron court until better (hopefully, FAR more honest) people are there. It’s likely going to take years before the damage they’ve done (and will continue to do) can be undone, if at all. I’m still rooting for a criminal investigation of the bribery but I haven’t heard an official peep about such a thing…

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On the brighter side, today is ALSO the day 45’s New York fraud trial starts. He’s already lost the most important bits. The business has been ruled a regular fraudster, the business licenses have been cancelled, the assets are being put into a receivership for liquidation. There are a few questions remaining. Like, how much should Trump pay? Letitia James wants $250,000,000. I can only speculate on how hard the MAGA con base is going to have to work in order to pay that off for him. (They’ll do it, though.)

Trump doesn’t have to go but he says he’s going to. Apparently, his “lawyers” aren’t being disruptive and/or stupid enough, so he has to bring pro-level disruption to the courts. He may even win a couple of these smaller fine points but his New York business is already dissolved.

People worried about him transferring the assets to someplace, or someone, else – and he tried. Letitia James ran interference. (She’s smarter than him.) Now there’s no business to transfer and the buildings aren’t his to sell. It’s important to remember that we hear all the time about Trump’s “real estate empire” in New York, which has been true, but it’s also true that Trump didn’t build the empire. His criminal forebears did. When MAGA cons started shouting about what a business genius he surely is, I kept wondering what they were talking about. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of even a SINGLE business trump has started that succeeded, if by “succeeded” you mean, “became a going concern.”

I once read in Forbes Magazine an estimate that Trump had inherited nearly $8 BILLION dollars but at the time of the article, had already managed to lose three-fourths of it. I have never seen anything from 45 that would cause me to believe he’s anything but a huckster who started with a fortune. I seriously doubt he’ll ever be able to re-build that which he has now lost.

But with Trump, lying, playing “poor me,” and whining are ALWAYS an option and the trumpster has not let this opportunity pass. Trump is complaining about the judge in the New York case citing the Palm Beach County Assessor’s valuation of $18 million for Mar-A-Lago. Trump claims, based on his “gut,” that it’s worth $612 million, because of his “brand.” (You know, the exact crime that caused him to lose it all in the first place…)

I dunno. I think his “brand” is pretty well tarnished at this point. If Mar-A-Lago IS worth $18 million without his “brand,” potential buyers are probably more like, “Okay, I’ll give you $10 mil. Your “brand” has kind of hurt the place’s reputation…” Besides, Trump is a “motivated seller…”

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But, MAGA cons still hold sway in the House. Although the government shutdown was averted for the moment, it was only for 45 days. The plan is to get the stubborn, selfish, stupid, and obstructive element of the House to get reasonable, in the next 45 days, and support America. What no person has accomplished in 45 years, Kevin McCarthy has to pull off in 45 days.

Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz, the MAGA moron “representative” from Floriduh, is set to try and recall McCarthy because McCarthy got all reasonable and stuff. I HAVE noticed other House Republicans avoiding the question, though, as though they may not really be into the idea. I suspect Gaetz will try anyway. It’s an interesting stand-off. If Gaetz does try and fails, the Freedumb Caucus will lose much of it’s force. If he doesn’t try, then McCarthy successfully called Gaetz’ bluff – and the Freedumb Caucus loses much of it’s force.

Gaetz seems to have manuvered himself into a ‘heads I lose, tails I probably lose, too’ situation. Now that’s some political skill…

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I think it’s funny that Melania is so worried that Donald might really lose it all, she renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with him. She got more money for Baron put into a trust. I assume her personal allowance went up substantially, too. I hope she’s stashing it someplace safe. As his wife, the courts may call it community property and come after that money, too. Wouldn’t it suck to have to spend that much time with Donald Trump and then not get the pay-out you contracted for all along?

Then again, that’s Trump’s proven M.O. Maybe Melania should have expected to walk away broke…