May 4, 2017

How to solve Trump's "Obamacare Problem"

From Trump's perspective:

Problem 1: Obamacare must be replaced.

Problem 2: Replacing Obamacare is damn hard. The GOP has been working on it for six years and still hasn't gotten anywhere.

Problem 3: People generally like the law if you call it "The Affordable Care Act" but absolutely despise it if you call it "Obamacare."

Problem 4: In a survey of 100 Republicans, the only thing everyone could agree is wrong with it, is the name of the president who signed it.

Solution found!

April 27, 2017

Leading sovereign citizen guru convicted for fictitious financial instruments

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/oregon-promoter-convicted-making-passing-and-sending-bogus-financial-instruments-us-treasury

Winston Shrout of Hillsboro, Oregon, is one of the biggest name-brand sovereign citizens. His schtick was to issue, or to have his followers issue, homemade "International Bills of Exchange" to use to pay their debts with. One of his greatest hits was to send to a small Chicago bank a package containing a thousand of them, each purportedly worth $1 trillion, in hopes a low-level banker would accidentally process it into the system.

Last week, he was convicted on 13 felony counts of issuing massive International Bills of Exchange
(at this point things devolve into a bad vaudeville routine:
"How massive were they?"
"They were so massive that cashing out all thirteen would have required all the money in the world!"
...and on that I am not joking - the Global Domestic Product, which is the sum total of all the money in the world, is $5 trilliion LESS than Shrout's thirteen IBoEs.)
plus one misdemeanor count of not filing tax returns for twenty years.

In August he'll be sentenced, and the mandatory minimums are 25 years for each count of passing bad paper and one year for not filing his taxes. (He was not charged with the other tax-related crime - not only didn't he FILE for twenty years, he didn't PAY either.)

April 23, 2017

The REAL Donald Trump theme song!

April 4, 2017

Speaking of Gorsuch, what does Trump have on McConnell?

Gorsuch is about as bad as they come...but why is McConnell so hell-bent on putting him on the Supreme Court? There are a LOT of judges as bad as Gorsuch, or worse than him, who are more prominent than he is.

March 31, 2017

I have figured out Flynn's immunity plea

He is going to walk into Congress and paint a picture of an honest, hard-working administration that only thinks of America's best interests. After he leaves, the alt-right media will begin to bully the rest of us over how we ever could have thought that wonderful man was anything but Our Savior.

They pulled that shit with the Capone's Vault tax return, and they still have it in them.

March 30, 2017

NC legislators reach deal to repeal HB2

http://www.wral.com/lawmakers-reach-agreement-in-hb2-repeal/16614249/

March 2, 2017

I don't want Sessions to resign over Russia

If that happens, Trump will simply issue a preemptive pardon (like the one Ford gave Nixon) before jumping on a plane to Florida to grieve over the loss of his trusted advisor. Trump will then find someone even worse to replace Sessions.

Sessions needs to be taken into custody, impeached, removed from office, tried for the federal crime of perjury, and imprisoned. No double-jeopardy provisions apply since impeachment is simply a means of determining your fitness to remain in office, and its only penalty if successful is removal from that office. The odds that a Republican Congress will either entertain an impeachment hearing in the House or convict a Trump consigliere in the Senate are slim, but articles of impeachment MUST be filed on him. Our way of life depends on it.

February 27, 2017

Meet NASCAR's next star, and Donald Trump's worst nightmare

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/thatsracin/article134739089.html

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/07/25/Marketing-and-Sponsorship/~/media/D42F3CD5BC334A7287F83C5F1F3FD353.ashx

Daniel Suarez was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and is a citizen of Mexico. He decided at a very early age he wanted to be a race car driver. After kicking ass and taking names on the Mexican racing circuits, he moved to the US. Last year, he was NASCAR Xfinity Series (the second-tier series, just below what is now Monster Cup) champion - the first foreign-born NASCAR champion, while driving for the top-tier Joe Gibbs Racing organization.

At the end of last season, Gibbs' primary driver Carl Edwards retired from racing. Suarez took his seat.

Yesterday was the Daytona 500, the biggest race on the NASCAR calendar. Suarez qualified midfield (a very good spot for a guy in his first race) and was running well until he was taken out in a Lap 130 crash.

It will be a glorious day to see the First Slumlord's tweetstorm after this kid wins his first race, and it'll probably happen before midseason.

February 25, 2017

12 planes violated the Trump TFR last weekend

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local-govt--politics/feds-planes-violated-trump-air-space-over-weekend/cJ4hcf9SiyxuWtKOiUWf6H/

TFR means Temporary Flight Restriction, and you can read about the TFRs here: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2017-01-20/feds-outline-tfr-plans-trump-visits-mar-lago

They have a 30-nautical-mile radius airspace restriction around Trump's pleasure palace, with a near-absolute 10-nm radius no-fly zone in the center. Business jets can fly into Palm Beach International, but they have to be cleared at one of five "gateway airports" - Westchester County, Teterboro, Washington Dulles, Orlando International or Fort Lauderdale International Airport - before flying to Palm Beach.

So far, Trump has cost the Palm Beach aviation community a quarter-million dollars, and he's only been president five weeks.

This country is so screwed.

February 21, 2017

You realize the Milo thing is going to be twisted to help the alt-right

It is Tuesday, February 21. Milo the Troll was just canned by Breitbart "News" for claiming pederasty is a good thing.

By Friday, February 24, the entire hard right will be claiming Milo did nothing wrong, that he has Freedom of Speech and he was silenced by the "loony left" for daring to express an unpopular opinion. This Sunday's talk shows will be covered up with it. Trump will go into a tweetstorm. Congress will demand investigations. And the Conservative Man in the Street, perhaps not realizing what Milo's "unpopular opinion" was, will use this incident as further proof that Liberals Are Evil And Need To All Be Killed.