Oh, thank goodness. It appears our brain-drained, national embarrassment has a plan after all. He told Iran that if they don’t open the Strait of Hormuz, he was going to bomb things. Why didn’t he think of that earlier? I’m sure the idea that bombs might drop will cause the Iranians to stand down and apologize for their “offense” of reacting to having been bombed without cause before.

Well, no, of course that’s not what the Iranians are saying. THEY seem to be taking a page from Donny’s “clever and cagey” book. Why would they tell you what they’re really going to do, right? So they say they’ll bomb US assets in the region, where ever they may be. But that’s probably just clever and cagey talk, right? Iran probably wouldn’t bomb things just because somebody bombed Iran, right?

That was Donny’s clever and cagey strategy with Hormuz in the first place. A General told him not to bomb Iran because Iran could close the strait so easily. Donny, instead, listened to his “gut.” That’s the same “gut” that’s going to tell him when the war is over, by the way. His “gut” told him Iran wouldn’t close the Strait. That was all the evidence he needed. He went ahead with his plan and discovered his “gut” is a lying son-of-a-bitch…

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Hey, I think this is related to the “Israel” portion of Donny’s stupid, illegal war. There has been an uptick in attacks on synagogues. It’s hard to say, for sure, living in such a blatantly racist nation like we do, but I suspect at least some of the attacks are in protest against the actions of the Israeli government. If you think attacking a synagogue is an appropriate response to the actions of a government, stop it.

I know what politicians say. They say what they need to say to appease their voters. But the Israeli government is no more loyal to Judaism than the US government is loyal to Christianity. That is, not at all. Lip service is required. Actual practice is not. Blowing up – or driving into – synagogues is not sending a message. It’s just killing innocent people who have no more control over what’s happening in their name than you have over control of what’s happening in your name…

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Robert Mueller has died. Mueller discovered that the Russians did, in fact, interfere in the 2016 “election.” The second line of Mueller’s report read: “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” That’s pretty clear. So, obviously, Donny effing hated Mueller.

Mueller also reported this: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state.” He added, “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Mueller added that the only reason he didn’t bring criminal charges against The Felon is because he thought he couldn’t because of a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel. That suggests that if there had been no memo, there would have been charges.

Mueller also noted that Donny tried really hard to obstruct his investigation. The primary reason he wasn’t as successful as he wanted to be is because many of his staff at the time were still more loyal to the law, the country, and their own futures than to him, unlike the staff of toadies merrily destroying things today. The result was, they often declined his requests, resigning instead.

Trump told White House Counsel Don McGhan to tell Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Special Counsel Mueller, then lie about his recollection of the President’s request. That’s probably completely unrelated to Trump, when answering written questions, claiming HE couldn’t recall things more than thirty times.

By the time the Mueller Report came out, Donny had a loyal toady in control of the DOJ. Bill Barr stashed the report – illegally, mind you – on a stand-alone computer and put out a “summary” that declared Trump cleared of all charges. Mueller gave a presser in which he insisted that was NOT what his report concluded but MAGA media ran with Barr’s false message and to this day, MAGA believes Donny was exonerated. He wasn’t.

But see, that was Donny getting away with it – again. (Satan really does take care of his own.) I see it, in part, as the reason Donny is so smugly certain he’ll get away with this Trump/Epstein cover-up, too…

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Remember when Texas said they were going to redistrict to make sure Texas turned red permanently? Remember when California, in response, said, “Okay, we’ll redistrict, too, to make California blue.” Republicans really loved the ‘cheat for red’ concept but felt tricked by the ‘cheat for blue’ response. And, yes, gerrymandering IS cheating, blue or red.

Texas’s map was challenged in court and shot down as likely illegal in lower courts but finally, the corrupt Supremely Kangaroo Court stepped in and saved them. California used a careful, well-thought-out process. We had an election and passed Proposition 50. The majority approved. The new maps were put in place. Lawsuits were filed but the process was found legal so it’s going forward.

Now there’s a sheriff in Riverside, California, Chad Bianco, who is “investigating” Prop 50. He has seized 650,000 ballots. He’s trying to prove that Democrats cheated in the election by adding votes. Sure, it’s a stupid position but it’s near and dear to the MAGA heart. They’re constantly amazed that their hate-filled, horrifying, failed and irrational positions don’t resonate with more voters. The only thing their microscopic minds can imagine is that Democrats must cheat.

Democrats don’t need to cheat for things like this. Proposition 50 was a rational and predictable response to an irrational attack from red states. California didn’t start this, Texas did. I don’t even like gerrymandering. I think both gerrymandering AND the winner-take-all electoral distribution corrupt elections and disenfranchise voters. Both should be barred by law.

I don’t care who counts votes, so long as the process is transparent and repeatable. Have at it. But it turns out, Chad is a Republican and is running for Governor of the state. That seems like something of a conflict of interest, to me. It’s to his personal advantage to find some “problem” with the voting. Some people have enough integrity to pull something like that off, but I haven’t seen it from a Republican in a long, long time…