The Borgia Prezident Elekt

Can you imagine the Portrait of Herr Dumpf coming
to a White House near you. And this one won't be paid
for by the Donald J. Benevolent Society.

The Borgia Prezidente ... I think it was in the Good Old Days, the last years of the 15th Century that Pope Alexander VI was having such a Good Ole Time on Shrove Tuesday in the Vatican that he decided to postpone Lent. Now, we have a Borgia Prez ... lacking the patrician nose of Alexander but besting him in mistresses and big buildings, rumor has it. He may have such a Good Time reading his favorite Book on Inauguration Day, the Bibble, that he may cancel Habeas Corpus, and arrest Bill Maher for Seditious-sprachen and Hilary for wearin' pants and Howard for his evil thoughts. To paraphrase Matthew 6: And I say whosoever shall have bad thoughts about Drumphenkopf should be on Carl Paladino's list. Ach du lieber ... I had a dream, last night that someone came and removed both my car and my Obama/Biden sign from the front lawn. I woke up, stumbled across the room in the dark, banged my head and raised a pretty good hematoma on my ankle. Maybe Savonorola will come to my rescue before Dream becomes reality. Any case? I think I should go back to sleep ... for 1497 days ... I think it was 1497 when Lent was canceled or postponed. I hit my head pretty good and I think I'm out on a Concussion Protocol, anyhow, for the rest of the game.

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LIBERTY? DOA

WHAT IT ONCE MEANT 
TO VOTE HAS BEEN 
ALTERED ... LIKE A 
RESCUED DOG

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The Appointment of an adversarial Ambassador-type in Israel to rile up 
the PLO …. The Appointment of anti-Environment EPA head …. 
The Appointment odf a Loose Cannon for Security … 
of a KKK Sympathizer as Chief of Justice … 
But The North Carolina Coup may take the cake.

The Electorate in NC vote for a Governor with Defined Powers … 
the NC Legislature discounts their vote by changing what it means 
to be Governor of NC according to the Laws in Place when the 
election occurs. Some Jurist once said that Estoppel was the 
Last Refuge of Scoundrels … Fuck that … a new Last Refuge 
has been discovered.

Allow the Vote then Determine 
What It Meant!

     LIBERTY? DECLARED DOA

Never Having to Say "I'm Sorry" ... Now, That's: Loving Myself!

Well, you did it. You elected The Scary Clown. You elected the guy whose prose to interviewers sounds like the geniuses I remember from the 1960's who, after smoking some dope, went on free-associative rants about brilliant ideas that nobody had ever heard before ... 

"LIKE NOBODY ... LIKE EVER, MAN! 

NOBODY THOUGHT THIS EVER BEFORE.

AND WHEN I SAID IT, 

DID YOU SEE HOW MY THINGY JUST POPPED UP IN MY JEANS. 

THINK I'LL START SELLING JEANS WITH HOLES IN THEM, 

SO THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE MY GENIUS, MAN!

AND MY KID WILL SELL REALLY COOL JEWELRY!

LIKE THE CROWN JEWELS, MAN!"

Well, you did it. No. I don't think you're all Deplorables and that was a damn silly thing for Sen. Clinton to say. But it was you who elected The Scary Inarticulate Clown. Check out the NYT's interview and Scary Clown's own scattered and unhinged thoughts. To paraphrase a somewhat inebriated and somnolent French-Armenian friend waking for just a moment in the middle of a poker game he didn't belong in some 45 years ago:

I've heard more articulate farts from a Brittany Cow!

Now, I can't say that Jean-Claude really heard more articulate ... well, you know ... but you get his drift, don't you? And the folk around that table weren't all that inarticulate. Oh, and just in case you don't recall how Drumpf's lack of coherence sounds, here's a link to that NYT's  interview  ... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/28/1604773/-Trump-s-NYT-transcript ... Read-it-and-weep for our Republic. And if you don't like the Times, check out any You-Tube video from any one of the debates. You elected a crafty businessman who (In My Not-so Humble Opinion) is not likely to ever show you his Tax Returns that he promised you. You bought a pig in a poke ... who may, someday, see Russia from his Tower, especially if he hires that Pig in Lipstick. You got had and I hope you survive it. I suspect the vast majority of you are, like me, decent hard-working folk who feel blessed to have made it to a point in life where WE CAN pay taxes.

But, Oh, My God, his pronouncements ... Gag ... gag ... How to survive 48 more months of his silly expostulations ... 

"Build a Wall" (for $300 Million or so, a year, a wall around Drumpf Tower to protect Drumpfs)

"Lock 'er Up" (Forget my transgressions)

'Y'gotta Grab a Pussy or Two, Boy' (Just ask M'Boy, Rinse Pubis!)

"America First" (all too familiar for ein Drumpf)

"Make America Great Again" (yeah, put it thru the GRATER & THE GRINDER, too)

                       "Pres Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period." 

                                                                (Thanks, Donnie, I needed that)

                       (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/16/donald_trump_s_birther_tweets_in_order.html. Fascinating.)

Oh, and the latest:

'My trying to run my glorious business empire 

while turning the Presidency into a part-time gig 

has an optics problem.' 

(Oh, yeah: that pesty little optics problem. Hey. Thanks for pointing that out.

Think I missed every Presidential Ethicist noting that 'by the way' ... oh! 

... how 'bout a cool $Million to attend Coronation and meet with the In-Crowd?)

OK, Guys. I started this Blog hoping to mirror the cavalier way Donnie-Boy and his Donnie-Gals talk about others ... how they tried to ruin Jeb, Marco, Mitt, Hilary, .... with slanderous talk. Do I continue this silliness? I don't know. I didn't vote for him, you did, but he will be the President of the Country in which I live. 

You voted for a barely literate slime-bag. Sorry, I had to get that out. Once he's coronated, saying such things will be inappropriate to the Dignity deserved by the Office of POTUS and might not be safe to articulate, anyway. Maybe it's time to shut down this blog. Andy Borowitz is doing a great job over at the New Yorker ... really liked his suggestion that Trump appoint El Chapo Guzman to lead the DEA. Goldman-Sachs for Dodd-Frank ... Anti-Public School advocates for Education ... Bannon for EEOC.

A Vote for Guzman?
A vote for Law & Order

Have long fretted about teetotalers. They tend either to have religious concerns about allowing such illicit pleasures or fear that their minds will decay into paranoia with that loss of control ... Just sayin'.

Oh. And, and for the record, here's a proper Post-Brexit Brittany Cow ... proud, with cowlick and just a singular tear she sheds for the Republic:

May be my Avatar for next 4 years ...
Moo-ove On

Do You Hear What I Hear on our National Day of Gratitude

I thank you Lord, Anima Mundi or Whatever Spirits May Be for the opportunity to have lived here in the United States under the years of Democratic Rule. My people, like others, came from difficult situations and persecution. Thank you for that ... I feel Deep gratitude on this day that celebrates thanks ... Thanks for the goodness ... for the safe harbor ... for protection from tyrannical rule by despots. You have given me a place to live myself and to participate in the raising of my children-3 and grandchildren-6. 

The predictions of autocratic rule are coming to pass, I fear. The Reagent has announced that he will choose the inexperienced to reign over the People. An Old Trick to keep the power close to the throne. He has chosen folk who cannot stand up to his Highness in his Gilded Palace and Robes. People with no experience in foreign affairs will run interference diplomatically with other states ... autocratic and democratic. It is my sense, however distorted, that each person in the parade of clowns who have come to one of the Kng's Summer Residences was escorted in, required to falate the Little Blonde-Haired Boy Who Would Be King, i.e., was humiliated, and then led out "don't call us, we'll call you" style.

Donnie-Boy then announces on a Day Before Thanksgiving that he is above all others ... He can be accused of no conflicts, as he IS the state. When Cromwell accused a King of crimes against the state, he laid a foundation for future democracies, even of England. When Donnie tells that he can use the Crown to increase his own wealth and his House of Lords Parliament stands by him, we are -- there's no other way to say it -- fucked. The God and decent patriots on the Right will, I suspect, be purged. Those who have been promised Pie in the Sky of returning jobs in a World Econmy that has changed and will no longer easily support the Post-WW2 boom that allowed Detroit to provide a wage sufficient for the two cars and the house in the burbs ... those honest and decent people will be humiliated as much as the Mitt Romneys who have come to kiss the King's ring or to suck on his  Sceptre. How sad!

The good religious people who open the doors of the church each day on their Sabbath will feel
shame that they were duped by one of the False Prophets which the Testaments foresaw. The Ohio
Governor who believed in the American Way that he learned from his Postman Dad's decency will be purged. Who knows? Maybe Hard-Heads like Texas Ted will adapt. ... Still ... Muslims who came looking for Democracy will be Registered. Muslims who came to carry out Jihad will be vindicated. Those who fight in the Middle East, Africa and Asia will feel equally comforted that, indeed, the West's promise of Christian Solicitude, Kindness to the Stranger and Orphan and Widow and Disabled, equal protection under the law, .... all the promises of at the very least one of the greatest experiments in egalite et fraternite were bullshit. Our Ethic replaced by Reflections in a Pool.

I received a response to a posting this morning from two people whom I don't know. They said my rant was misplaced ... nonsense ... foolish ... Time will tell.

I responded: I hope you're right, Mr. Callesen and Mr. Bernstein ... I hope you're right ... I may be just an old man Mis-hearing when DJT says that he is above the charge of conflict of interest as President. Maybe you heard his words differently and would offer me the kindness of parsing them (his words about him, as President, being beyond the charge of conflict of interest)  so that I can tell my gathered grandchildren-6 that Next Thanksgiving will be just like this one ... for all Americans ... be they well or sick ... rich or poor ... sprintly or disabled ... or from any of the three great religions that populated cities like Córdoba in peace in the 13th Century.

Let me close by saying that I would be quiet and still if I thought Herr Drumpf but a Bully in a China Shop ... but, justified or not, I experience him more as a Hydrogen Bomb fused and ready-to-go in the presence of people and institutions that I love.

A very brief expression of thanks to my President from a Citizen Therapist ... no Senator ... no Prince ... just a guy who grew up in Bernie's Brooklyn and was graced, in our Country, to make a life for himself, his wife of 51 years, and their curious spawn.

Mr. Obama ... You have brought dignity to the Office of President of the United States and many are those, in my estimation, who respect and admire your decency and your respectful and reflective ways of thinking and being on this National Day of Gratitude. I'm one citizen but wish to say that those who gather around my youngest's, my daughter's Thanksgiving Table, today, will be forever in your debt for the past eight years during which time we have felt you represented us to ourselves and to the World as worthy of seeing each and every one of us as People in Our Own Right ... with our own devotions ... with our own ways of thinking ... and praying ... and loving. And our admiration for you extends to the First Family that you and Michelle have shared with us.

We love you, Man!

(Re)Considering the Second Amendment to the Constitution

What did Alexander Hamilton mean in 1788 when he opined?

[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude[, ] that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.

"To defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens?" What the hell? Under what circumstances would it be fit and proper for Americans not only to bear muskets but to raise more modern weaponry and use such arms against forces in their own government.

Not to take this too lightly, there is that scene in Crocodile Dundee when a thug approaches him and his lady on the streets of (was it) New York with a little switch blade. Dundee reaches behind him, draws out his ten inch blade and says something like:

"You call that a knife; this is a knife."

But back to the Second Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, 

being necessary to the security of a free State, 

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

"The right of the people to keep and bear" (and I can only suspect, when necessary, to use such) "Arms shall not be infringed." If there's no right to use, let me add, what's the purpose of bearing said arms. "Aye! That's the rub." And who was it, anyway, who said that one ought not carry or aim a gun unless one intends to use it when necessary.

So, help me: Under what circumstances is it ... what to say ... Kosher to bear arms against the government and never mind this lame "right to bear arms" ... what about the right to use arms in those situations where the government is infringing on the other Amendments or the 

Laws. Isn't that the spirit of the 2nd Amendment?

For instance, should a President call for and institute a Registry of a Specific Religious Group which seems patently against such requirements for Equal Protection Under the Law of the American Constitution, what options accrue to the Citizen? And what of the situation where the Judiciary refuses to offer an injunction against this practice? 

Now one doesn't have to be a Constitutional Theorist (I haven't asked my son who was a constitutional theorist) to recognize that such a Registry would go flatly against the First Amendment. Still ... when does the Citizen have the Right to use the arms that he rightly bears and go after said President or his or her agents? I don't know but when Trump was hinting at a Second Amendment solution to the election of HRC a couple of months ago, was he alluding to this right ... the canonical and implicit extension of the right to bear arms to a right to use them? I am not imagining that Wilkes-Booth or Sirhan or Oswald or any of the others here in USA or elsewhere should be vindicated for their acts of violence against sovereigns ... and am not in favor of violent revolution .... Still ....

I don't get it and never thought about the Second Amendment much, before. Perhaps, it only applies to members of a minority party? My Sweet Lord ... Is it possible that the NRA's membership -- as all the other swinging pendulums of our Democracy -- will swing to the Left? 

The Courts are Dead, Donnie-Boy ... Good Job

Donnie Boy, we haven't given you nearly enough credit. When you said you could get things done, you were astonishingly correct. When you said that you could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose a single voter (or something like that), you were approximating the Truth, weren't you. Or am I missing something?

Have you demonstrated that you can, at the same time, impose a provision against lobbying for 5 years after joining YOUR government to avoid any conflict of interest ... any pay-for-play and yet.

TELL ME IT's NOT SO

Have You, Your Wife and Daughter advertised  stuff on .gov sites? Tell me it's not so that Milania and Ivanka and You were advertising your packages on an official site? or did you bypass that cleverly. 

Did you really bring someone who owns a lobbying firm that deals with Turkish Interests to Security Briefings knowing that Matters-Turkey would be discussed?

Are you, indeed, trying to bring folk into your Circle of Advisors that would not officially be Cabinet Members just so they wouldn't have to pass muster in Senate Hearings? Your Son-in-Law whose Wife and Brother-in-Laws will be materially guiding your own profit? Gingrich, Bolton, Kushner, Flynn? ..... Tell me it ain't so!

And are you, indeed, free from Judicial Injunction? Is it true that Citizens have NO STANDING in courts to get in your way. I guess that explains a great deal about why you see the Second Amendment as so crucial to our Democracy; without it we can be stuck with a government that plays free and easy with the LAW for the same reason that Dogs lick their ... well, you know ... BECAUSE THEY CAN!

HEY! SOMEBODY PINCH ME AND TELL ME IT JUST AIN'T SO

Who knew that a huckster like you could find the loopholes ... AND WOULD ... to the Constitution that our brilliant Founding Fathers put together. 

We shoulda known!

You told us!