Day 820 Saturday April 6, 2019
576 Days to the 2020 election and 654 Days to Inauguration Day
A few days ago, maybe it was last week, the Republicans on the House Committee now chaired by Adam Schiff asked him to resign. I like that idea, but for every Republican serving. I think every meeting in which they participate should start with a request that they resign. In fact, I have a great idea. I think Mike Pense and Donald Trump should resign.
The resignation deal (it should be a deal right? I mean he is “Mr. Art of the Deal”, right?) should be as follows:
Donald J. Trump should resign immediately. In exchange he will be charged with no crimes except for the ones he picks out of a hat of all the possible crimes he could be charged with. He only has to draw five times.
Michael R. Pence will immediately be sworn in as president, and thus will be listed officially as the 46th President of the United States. His official photo will be taken and a painting of him as president will be unveiled. He will then resign and Nancy P. Pelosi will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Her job as President will be to clean up the mess these two idiots and their toadies created.
Here is a sample resignation request:
“Dear Mr/Ms/Mrs/Honorable XYZ, The American people have lost faith in your ability to govern or lead. You are therefore asked to resign immediately and give up all official and unofficial government jobs, functions and capacities, and you will not seek nor accept any such jobs, functions, or capacities either in government or in any political party or lobbying position. In exchange, you will not be charged for any crimes you committed while in office, you will be allowed to keep your pension. You must further agree to a permanent gag order and never speak in public again; not on social media, not on cable TV, no where.
Humbly submitted by a real patriot and protector of the public interest.
Signed,
“
Is that too much to ask? Maybe, we can get all of them to resign en masse if they get to keep their ill-gotten gains, and aren’t threatened with prosecution?
I dunno. I can dream.
In other news. I guess it’s news. We are watching Trump, who has packed the top of the IRS, Treasury Department and the Justice Department with toadies and flunkies now try to have a lawyer in private practice tell those entities how to run things. In a letter that is a joke from beginning to end this guy suggests that they should ignore the law, which is plainly written. The law says that the head of the House Ways and Means Committee can request the tax returns of anyone or any entity and that those returns “shall” be handed over. This isn’t up for debate. This is the law. Period. Full stop. Seeing as how the Trump administration has taken a cavalier attitude toward enforcing the law: some they enforce, others they ignore; I guess they figure they can do this with a co-equal branch of government. I don’t think so… But, I don’t know what the remedy is if they so choose to ignore the law and not hand over the documents requested. It will be interesting to see what happens.
It will also be interesting to see what the House learns from the president’s tax returns. Here are my guesses:
– He wasn’t under audit.
– He took money from Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. Much of this money will be tied to money laundering, illegal contribution schemes and bribes when compared to bank and insurance applications he has made. In other words the tax returns at a minimum will show bank and insurance fraud when compared to other documents.
– His assets will be under valued.
– His net worth will be way way under a billion dollars.
– He, his children, and his companies will show a pattern of cheating and illegality that will be breathtaking and hard to deny.
How the Republicans and toadies will try and spin this will be – well – interesting? Sad? Pitiful?
Hopefully, our institutions will hold and justice in some form will be done.
Oh yeah, then there’s the Mir-a-Lago fiasco. For $250,000 you can become a member and hang out with like minded seemingly rich fat entitled folk. It has been if not a royal road at least a super highway for Chinese people to get their picture taken with Trump. Remember the outrage of the one photo Hillary had with a person that was her equal as Secretary of State that also contributed to the Clinton Foundation? Yeah, well this is the real deal. This is buying your way in on steroids.
So they caught a Chinese national with a bunch of cell phones and thumb drive with malware on it. She said she was going to the pool to swim, except she had no swim wear. Slipped right by the security folks. Then she said she was a friend of Charlie. Charlie is a Chinese guy who has an organization that sounds like it’s part of the United Nations, but it isn’t. It’s a PR “I’ll get you close to big shots” outfit.
How was this woman found out? Why a receptionist thought something was fishy. Yup, a receptionist. Mir-a-Lago is a nightmare for the security folks because anyone can walk into the place. It’s a club. Great.
Why not have a photo booth set up and sell photos of you with Donald? Five thousand a pop. Come on. A guy’s gotta make a buck.
What’s that game where you have a plastic mat with giant colored dots on it and you spin a pointer and it shows you which colored dot you place your hands and feet on? Twister! That’s it! Watch for the legal version of that this week to play out as seemingly adult people try to deny the law and reality.
Stay tuned. It’s not over yet.
576 Days to the 2020 election and 654 Days to Inauguration Day
PS Georgia O’Keefe “Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 2”
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