I haven’t seen much about this, yet, but I suspect it’s coming. I’ve heard that in the NY Fraud trial, Judge Engoron has ordered the trumpery organization to disclose ALL secret investors. The suspicion that he’s worth FAR less than he pretends in public has dogged this guy for a long time. Oh, but he has all those lovely buildings, right? Uh, maybe. Maybe not. Maybe, the buildings are owned by “silent” investors and managed by the Trumpery group. For a fee, of course.

I suspect we’re all about to find out why the trumpster is so submissive to Putin. If you’re not MAGA, you’ve seen 45 fawning over Putin like a child with a new puppy. The thing is, nobody can figure out why. Trump treats EVERYBODY like something that just fell out of his butt. There are two exceptions: if you can do something for him (but only WHILE you can do something for him) and if he owes you something he can’t slither out of. Like, say you’re a brutal murderer, and the leader of a country, and a large, perhaps majority shareholder in someone’s buildings. 45 isn’t likely to pull any of his shenanigans on someone like that. He just does as he’s told. And I’ve NEVER seen him do as he’s told like he does when Putin does the tellin’…

It could be Saudis. He let them get away with murder, too. Literally. But my money is on Putin…

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On the other end of the lap-dog scale, there’s still Aileen “Loose” Cannon and she’s still trying to help the defendant in the trial she’s overseeing. She recently agreed to hold up the process for her trial because Trump asked her to. Um…while she makes some ruling or something. No word on when that will be. I’d guess, quite a while from now. One of the very few people who want to see Trump beat these charges as much as Trump is Judge Cannon.

It’s rather unusual for a judge to be on the defendant’s side in the United States. The judge isn’t supposed to take sides. Then again, there’s very little about trump that is usual… or reasonable… or even rational. Okay, so he has some breathing room in the Case of the Classified Documents. Fine. This was scheduled to be his last case anyway, thanks to his obsequious acolyte, Loose Cannon.

If she doesn’t just dismiss the case, outright (something I suspect she’s just itching to do) he can show up later… from prison… in an orange jumpsuit. It turns out, our legal system can accommodate multiple trials in multiple jurisdictions…

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Hey, just a quick hit, here, but the FIRST thing Matt Gaetz did after ousting Speaker McCarthy was start fund-raising for ousting Speaker McCarthy. Ousting the Speaker of the House was just a fund-raising stunt? It’s illegal to campaign from official premises (like the floor of the House). Using official proceedings for campaign purposes seems exactly like campaigning from the floor of the House. Where is Jack Smith when you need him?

Oh, yeah, I thought this was funny. Gaetz said (threatened?) that if McCarthy managed to save his job as Speaker, he would be “working with the Democrats” – the ostensible excuse for tossing him out in the first place. But in tossing the Speaker? It was Gaetz who worked with the Democrats! Only 8 Republicans voted for the removal, all Freedumb (emphasis on “dumb”) Caucus members. The rest were Democrats who have no interest in a Republican Speaker. Matt Gaetz did the Democrats’ bidding!

Gaetz and the Democrats sitting in a tree…

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There are a LOT of people upset with old Sleepy Joe for starting up the wall of trumpery again. He said he wouldn’t, now he is. Here’s the thing. My biggest complaint about the wall was, is, and will remain that the wall won’t have any helpful effect. It quickly proved to be little more than a minor impediment to those seeking entry. Joe knows that. Perhaps getting back to the wall was part of a back-room deal to get Texas to take down their razor-wire barricades that have been killing people. Killing people for showing up seems a bit…extreme.

Also, this is campaign season. The cons are pounding him on boarder security, because that’s what they’ve got. He gives them their wall. Now what? They get what they want, so he blunts that argument. But, since we all know the wall won’t stop ’em, the immigrants will keep on immigrating. For his part, Biden says he’s only spending money that was already allocated by Trump.

Meanwhile, people keep fleeing Venezuela, especially, in droves. Venezuela has essentially collapsed. Communism, you know. At this point, communism is a proven failure. Don’t be a communist. Be a Democratic Socialist so we can have a country that works again. But I digress. Biden is re-starting a program to send people back to Venezuela. That just seems mean-spirited, to me. Kind of like watching a snail make it across the sidewalk, then picking him up and putting him back where he started.

On the other hand, NO nation (especially our rapidly collapsing country – thanks, cons!) can just absorb millions of people in such a short period of time. Like it or not, there IS a gap between doing the right thing and doing what’s possible. Let’s say you see someone drowning. You swim out to help them but, in their panic, they put up so much fight they start to pull YOU under. The moral thing was to help but now, the victim won’t let you. Is it immoral to let the person go, KNOWING how it will end? I don’t think so. TWO deaths won’t help anything.

On the other hand, many of these south of our boarder nations are struggling thanks in large part to American “nation-building.” If we contributed to the problem (and surely we did), do we not have an increased duty to help? That is, maybe you try a little harder to save the drowning victim if you’re the one who pushed him into the water in the first place.

There are no good answers but I’m a fan of trying to solve the problem at the source. If we CAN’T take them all but they CAN’T stay where they are, we have to find a way to make their homes livable, so they don’t have to leave in the first place. But we can’t do that, either. (What, more nation-building?) Sadly, that’s as close to an “answer” as I can get. I don’t know HOW to help them where they are so they don’t have to leave. So I’m curious. Imagine you’re the President. It’s your responsibility now. What would YOU do?