Take on the Fed Rate Cut

The Fed cut their benchmark rate today in what can only be described as a peculiar move likely influenced by a President who has been very critical of them and is looking to juice an economy heading into a re-election. It was peculiar mostly because the economy has been quite good overall although many of us are seeing cracks in the foundation.

Fed chairman's Powell sited a sluggish manufacturing and lower business investment for the reason but I think he's ignoring the elephant in the room

One main reason manufacturing is struggling is because our orange leader has dragged us into a major trade war. Not only are US goods into China now more expensive because China retaliated with their own tariffs, US Manufacturers need Chinese parts and component for the manufacturing of their products are now paying higher prices. If a US producer is now paying a 25% Duty on goods out of a China, you've directly hit their bottom line which will make their products more expensive.
So now people will be asked to pay more for a car and may not be able to afford it. And we wonder why manufacturing is down??

Want to juice your economy, drop this idiotic trade war and let manufacturing be great again

Take on the democratic field

We didn't watch the debate but do know the highlight of the night was Bernie looking like a lunatic with his hands up in the air.

Discussing this amongst a few people last night the entire thing comes down to this

There are two popular candidate, even if their ideas are wacky or boring : Bernie and Biden
There are three smart candidates: Warren, Harris and Mayor Pete, all three are incredibly smart

The wild card is Booker who has some appeal


Other than that , the rest of the guys are all washed up has beens or -in most cases- never beens.

Let's just cut to the chase and make this a six pony race. Smart of Popular. Sadly we can't seem to find one who is both

Take on Trump’s Chump 9/11 memory

Trump told a bunch of 9/11 responders that he was down at Ground Zero with them which from a germaphobe and guy who seems squeamish about just about everything is about as believable as thinking that is his real hair. He of course is the same guy who said he personally saw dozens of people celebrating after the towers fell in New Jersey while simultaneously calling in from Trump Tower to brag that's his crappy building was now the tallest in the city.

Take on Big Chris’ pants

Chris Christie was at some event with Chuck Grassley this weekend and it was quite a scene. It's hard to know what they were going, it might have been a golf outing or maybe a pie eating contest but all I know is that Christie has somehow gotten fatter since leaving office

He's kind of slimmer in the belly but now he wears these ridiculous MC Hammer pants that make him look like he's smuggling potato's into a farm house

Anyway, good luck with all of that

Take on racist Trump

Calling a neighborhood Rat infested is about as low as you can go and it's usually thrown around to disparage the people who live there while there are probably very few instances where those people are the cause -not the victims- of the infestation. There is one place where this is not true, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The president and all his cronies have infested the White House and our moral conscience for two and a half years and there isn't a rat trap big enough to catch him.

People ask if he says this stuff to signal to the bigots in his party that he's got their back but that gives him too much credit. Racist people can't help but let their racism slip out. It always happens, meet one of these guys who seems like an average normal dude and out of the blue he'll throw a comment out at you where you are just caught flat footed. But that's their game, they feel you out, beat around the bush and at some point just drop the N word.

Take on the Obama AC unit

Trump blamed Obama for putting in a terrible HVAC system in 2017 which happens to be the year after he left office. Trump said on of the reasons he goes to Bedminster is to get out of the miserable heat in the West Wing because the AC sucks and then aid she would have gone to NYC but felt it would inconvenience regular people if he had to basically close down a 10 block radius, which honestly I appreciate

Stay out of the city, please. It would cost the city a fortune and would cost me many extra hours of commuting. It's the only time I'm happy this moron is playing golf

Take on the dead duck on Rudy’s head

What the hell happened to Rudy's head? I saw a photo of him today during his divorce hearings and he went from that weird combover to the shave head to this new weird cut where he looks like a duck landed on the back of his head, a duck with Lou Dobbs hair coloring.
Nobody has fallen farther from grace than old Rudy, he's past wife 3 and onto wife 4 and apparently just spent $40k to help his new chick's son get dental work. I have to ask, what kind of dental work can possibly cost $40,000? Does this dude get a free out of breast implants with his implants?

Take on Mueller’s seven hours

Bob Mueller's seven hours of testimony gave fuel to the fire that Trump is a corrupt pig but did nothing to quell the confidence the Trump team had that they found virtually nothing in their two years of searching.
Of course we didn't expect it to end much differently especially after the release of his report which left more things unanswered than set in stone and left open too much for interpretation.

What was most disappointing and dissatisfying is that Mueller looked flustered and wasn't nearly as sharp and quick as we'd been lead to believe. That doesn't change his standing as Special Counsel but certainly didn't bolster his standing either

Anyway, Trump can't scream no collusion, no obstruction since that was the one thing Mueller did make clear and it's good to know that Trump will likely be charged when he is finally removed from office but it does beg the question, if the Special Counsel cannot indict a sitting president and really has no recourse, what is the point of this entire charade?

Take on the five permanent members of the UN Security Council

Ok, let me scare the living hell out of you. I'm not doing this as a joke or a test of the emergency broadcasting system but rather to smack you in the face with some sobering news. The heads of five permanent members of the UN Security council are now Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinging and Emmanuel Macron. If that doesn't sound like we have signed our own collective death-wish, I'm not sure what I can tell you.
When your quintet only has one trustworthy member, you know that you are in trouble, this is like asking four wolves to guard the henhouse with the only thing standing in their way a forty year old Frenchman and he's not named Napoleon


And if that concept alone doesn't scare the hell out of you, realize that the fifth Beatle might have been Le Pen

Take on Trump’s genocide solution.

Trump likes to talk in what ifs and sends out these weather balloons where he throws out these completely ludicrous ideas like...genocide.

He proposed in his Trump non-proposal proposal method to carpet A-bomb the entire country of Afghanistan.
We know that he would totally do this, if he could just be allowed to do it. It's a ten million person joke joke

What's amazing is that he does have his finger on that button and he's crazy enough to do it.

Take on the moral clarity of Mike Pence

Mike Pence will go down as one of the most courageous politician of all time. His Christian morals have been his guiding light and every decision he makes reflects the teaching of Christ in a way that people like Obama could never imagine. Pence stood up against Trump up in kind of certain and he'd hitting ways that few ever have, and I'm sure his backbone is reinforced with pages out of the Bible.

Just look at the morality in this quote of Pence about Trump and the chants. "If it happens again, he, he might, he might —he— make an effort to speak out". He announces in no uncertain terms that he and Trump will stand up against racial injustice because of Pence's certainty in his morality

Take on Rocky A$AP

Trump spent today not helping children out of
cages, not trying to bring healthcare to the country, or trying to bring equality but instead upon the request of Kanye Kardashian, he called the prime minister of Sweden to get Rocky A$AP out of trouble. I have absolutely no idea who Rocky A$AP is but I guess if he's a friend of Kanye's he's a friend of mine.
From what I can tell, this dude got into a street fight and charges have been pressed. I've never heard of that Sweden has some kind of archaic laws, so I don't think this dude would do long term hard time, so it's off that Trump would intervene. I mean if I were to get into a street fight in Belgium, I doubt any American official is coming to my defense but then again I'm not a celebrity and don't have rich and famous friends

Anyway, I can't tell you that I have any opinion of this dude getting out but tend to think that if Trump
Is on the case, it's likely not one built on anything worth fighting for.

Take on Bug Huck’s replacement

Sarah "Big Huck" Sanders was one of the most miserable lying sacks of crap we've ever encountered, so our thought was that Stephanie Grisham could only be better if for no other reason than that she was NOT Sarah Sanders.   She might be, it's hard to tell since she never gives a press briefing but she did go out of her way to speak about her opportunity meet the US Special Olympic team.  
The funny thing was she signed it off as "leading the delegation was probably the highest honor I will ever have as @secondlady"

I'm not quite sure but maybe she's telling us that's she's banging Mike Pence?!  Which you know mother will not be happy about.  Or maybe she's moving in to become the fourth Mrs Donald Trump?

It's hard to tell but one thing for sure, somebody better tell Ivana and Marla Maples because they should have rights to the First Lady and Second Lady titles

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Take on the soulless Lindsey

History won't look kindly upon this period and will see Trump for the race baiting bigot he is but nobody will be more complicit in the black eye of this presidency than Lindsey Graham who has proven over and over again that his morals lie with his master. He followed McCain around like a lapdog but McCain had morals and ethics and a heart. Somehow when he died, Lindsey's morals, ethics and scruples died right along with him because he's hitched his wagon to the Trump Train in a way that would make old John turn over in his grave

Either Graham has no soul...or Trump has some compromising photos he's dangling over his head

Take on the Trump Dump

The president started his campaign rally by saying he could be there all night since he's got nothing to do which is encouraging. When he has nothing to do he sends out a bunch of tweets and gets himself into trouble but at least the trouble he gets into is all on him. When he actually gets to the executive functioning part, is when I'm most nervous because the policy he's willing to fight for is almost always something that will harm our nation or her people

But one thing is clear, when he lashes out like he has this week, it's because he knows there is a story that is about to explode and he's masters the art of taking the air out of the room...and filling himself up with it.

Take on when George Met Kellyanne

George and Kellyanne have to having some phenomenal anger sex.  I'm talking complete sexual grudge match that's like Sting and Trudy meets Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. It's the only explanation

George has proven himself to be a complete patriot and one of the lone shining stars in a black hole of "conservative" voices along with Bill Kristol and, well, nobody.  

Kellyanne justifies Trump's tweets with a "where are you from" retort to a Jewish reporter and then trying to justify it by showing him exactly how white she is by proclaiming her love of her Italian and Irish  heritage

Anyway, she is an awful human but I have to hope thy she's rocking old George's world on a regular basis to keep it all worth his while...although at his. blood pressure and cholesterol he might not make it much longer although maybe the animal sexy time is keeping him young. 

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Take on gutless Mitt

Ladies and gentlemen, playing the part of Jeff Flake for the next six years is Mitt Romney.


It took the entire GOP more than 24 hours to so much as sneeze in the direction of Trump's "go back....where you came from" tweet and they were so tepid they could have been confused for a "happy holidays tweet". Marco Rubio basically said nothing, a couple of swing district congressmen peed in the direction of the fire and Tim Scott reminded us that he is black. Of course we all know that they are all frightened to death of Trump and can't dare think of crossing him but you figure if there is one man who'd have some balls it's a man who has spent his life on the right side of these kinds of moral issues. Mitt Romney was not my choice for president but I never thought he would have made a bad one. He seems smart, is certainly eloquent and had that rare combination of business and governing experience but most of all, he felt like a person whose moral compass was certainly pointing to true north

He's about as accomplished an American politician as there has been but he still cowers in the shadow of Trump. Whether it's him groveling for the Secretary of State job or today when he tried to condemn Trump for a basically indefensible tweet by saying it went "over the line"

Romney always just looks like he is about to grab his sack but instead tugs on Trump's.

Take on “go back..where they came from”

This really needs no commentary but it's so vile, it's so xenophobic and it's so inherently racist that had a fringe disc jockey used it, he's be out of a job but when our president does, it's just another day.
The GOP has been cowardly in their condemnation, or better yet lack of, when it comes to Trump. They've sold their souls for two justices and a tax cut and it doesn't seem to bother any of them that they are walking around without them. Our country's darkest days seem to still lie ahead because when we go from the beacon of hope, from the shining house on top of the hill to whatever this has become, we have lost.

We no longer can wave a moral flag when it comes to the rest of the world, we have that up that dark day in November..but now we must wear this period like a Scarlett letter.

I can only hope we only have a year and a half left of this, but knowing the dog whistle this kind of verbiage is to his base..I'm not holding my breath.

Take on an interesting day.

Half of the executive branch stared at men in cages who haven't showered in two weeks while the other rolled around in dirty with a spineless weasel. Mike Pence -who will be out of a job in a year and a half replaced by Ivanka- toured one of the detention centers along with Lindsey Graham and seemed not all too upset about people being housed in a way we won't even let chickens be raised. The other half stood with a guy who looks like a chicken with a brush of pubic hair on top of his head after yet another day of golf.

This is how this administration should be remembered uncaring on one side and so aloof that he doesn't understand the implications on the other.

We have lost all moral standing as a nation after this debacle We'd need to elect a ticket of Mother Teresa and Princess Di at the next election to have any hope for redemption

Take on Trump’s revolving cast.

We always assumed Trump would have a hard time keeping people to work for him, mostly because he's a self centered sociopath who will throw anybody under the bus as quickly as he'll change his mind on policy decisions. Even knowing that, the fact that he's already had 13 cabinet members depart after Acosta resigned today, is shocking. Add to that the non cabinet members and the CNN graphic looks like Hollywood Squares on steroids. It's like every week is another episode of Bewitched and we have a new Darren...if Darren was a lying sociopath himself.

We're 2 1/2 gears into this travesty and traveling around Europe most people here believe we are going to be in this mess for another 5 1/2 years as populism is a hard concept to unseat. I have to believe we are better than that but then again I never imagined we'd be here today