Drying-up Puddle

The Dems are angry, very angry. They would turn Washington upside down to get rid of Trump. Hell, they would turn our country upside down just to embarrass our orange-haired leader.

Yes, national polling says that the Dems might be on the cusp of winning in 2020 ... which seems to validate their many proposals: pack the Supreme Court, open our borders, increase taxes, eliminate the Electoral College, allow abortions into the fourth trimester, pay blacks reparations, destroy ICE, implement the Green New Deal, and on and on ... to prevail until we become Venezuela.

The Dems grand plot to make our president an eunuch... Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation  ... has shit the bed. And so, in spittle-flecked desperation, they are asking for an investigation Mulligan. But they seem oblivious to the fact that the American people are becoming bored with these warmed-over conspiracy leftovers. Even though the polls dispute such a conclusion ... we are learning more and more ... like just in Australia ... that polls are sucking wind. The Dems can try contempt of Congress or impeachment of Bill Barr or even Trump ... but they are likely losers.

But somehow I get the impression that all these radical proposals are acts of desperation ... a realization that, if the economy stays as good as it is now ... coupled with a win in North Korea, Iran, Venezuela or China ... Trump will be unbeatable. It’s a little like the Dems are worms caught in a drying-up puddle ... flipping around in the realization of their coming fate.

Please hear me you worms: Robert DeNiro, Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff? Squirming around in a drying-up puddle is not a winning strategy.

Headlines

Booker proposes “Office of Reproductive Freedom”

China would see blue skies ahead if it accepted US demands: Fed’s Bullard says

Wall stall: Less than two miles built!

Joe Biden: China is going to win 5G and A.I. if Trump is still president

Republican Keller wins Pennsylvania special election

America businesses in China: Tariffs are hurting us

Nevada passes National Popular vote bill in bid to upend Electoral College ...

Obama admin cut Situation Room’s feed during Russia probe meetings

Small-dollar Bernie sidles up to big money

US trade chief is expected to discuss China with officials from Japan and EU this week

NBA ratings plunge 48% ...

Ilhan Omar: ‘Ignorance is really pervasive in many parts of this country’

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Little girl and her owl ...

Russian Collusion

As James Holzhauer approaches the $2 million level on the Jeopardy quiz show, something seems a little strange to me. How come James seems to know almost every single obscure question ... but appears to step aside and allow the other contestants capture many of the simpler ones?

If I were to speculate on one solution to this puzzle, it would be that he may know all the answers and questions ahead of time ... and maybe even the locations of the Double Jeopardy answers. In all his appearances he has not missed a single Final Jeopardy question and only one Double Jeopardy one.

Yes, Holzhauer may have a photographic (eidetic) memory or may have deciphered to patterns of how the Jeopardy clues are put together. But somehow his background doesn’t suggest to me that he is the intellectual giant that his performance suggests. He seems more cagey to me. He is a gambler ... a high stakes gambler who has figured out how to beat the house. And, is ... big time.

I do not speculate on his performance out of jealousy ... only out of curiosity. I hope we  eventually figure out how this phenomenon came about.  And I also hope he (and the show) is legit ... and there is no Russian collusion involved.

Nancy

She’s pissed off at Trump ... so she pisses on America! Seems rational ...

Headlines

Republicans outraise Democrats in April fundraising

Tesla shares could drop to $10 in a worse case scenario: Morgan Stanley says

Gallup: 4 in 10 Americans embrace Socialism

Chris Wallace silent as Buttigieg trashes Fox News, lies about GOP

Beto O’Rourke: I’d ‘absolutely’ do a Fox town hall

Fed Chairman Powell: Business debt is rising but does not pose a threat to the system

Trump questions FOXNEWS after Mayor Pete showcase ...

Don Jr. rips Hunter Biden  for accepting Chinese money

Judge upholds Dem subpoena for Trump financial records

US airlines are set to carry a record number of passengers this summer

US  census vulnerable to Russian meddling: top official warns ...

Bernie: Trump a ‘schoolyard bully’

Smelling Fear

When a nervous President Clinton met with China’s President Zemin in 1997 you could almost smell Clinton’s fear ... see: Broken China and reset this video to its beginning (a flaw in the original video I couldn’t fix). And also read why Bubba looks like he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Clinton wasn’t our only shrinking-violet president. We all remember how Obama traveled the world bowing to foreign potentates ... China included. I guess it is no wonder that this same country has done so well over the last thirty years. Yes, the Democrat-led New World Order conned America into believing that once China became a developed capitalistic bastion, it would also become a huge market for our products. Didn’t happen. We became a huge market for our own products manufactured in China.

Enter stage right ... Donald Trump who doesn’t ever show fear like his presidential predecessors ... and this confounds China who wants a repeat of this shower-room posture by America. Trump refuses to bend over for Xi ... which is causing much of the world’s angst. Many of our “allies” keep dropping the soap ... wanting Trump to pick it up. He does not seem so inclined.

Fractured Definition

Jejune — the way Mel Tillis pronounces the name of our sixth month.

Headlines

Buttigieg finds friends on Fox as he calls out ‘grotesque’ Trump attacks

Google may just have hit the ‘kill switch’ on Huawei’s global smartphone ambitions

WASH POST: Americans increasingly migrating to Mexico ...

Trump calls for Biden-China probe

O’Rourke stocks campaign with Obama and Clinton alums

Trump is accelerating Europe’s political and economic reset

Yosemite looks like snow globe with summer just around the corner ...

Rapper Offset says strict abortion laws are ‘slavery’

Rocket attack near U.S. embassy in Baghdad

Trump says tariffs are causing companies to move out of China

ICE to move 225,000 illegals across country ...

Kamala Harris: ‘America’s economy is not working for working prople’

LIcense to Lie

Being a politician means that you have an absolute license to lie without recriminations. — Anon.

Broken China

What has been the genesis of our problems with China? I still remember when President Bill Clinton met the president of China, Jiang Zemin, twice back in the late 1990s during his second term ... and clearly signaling his fear of this man. Was this because of China’s secret donations to Clinton’s campaign through Charlie Trie? Or did Billy Bob sell himself out in some other nefarious way. All we know is that during his eight year reign, Clinton had the Loral Corp. teach China how to get its satellites into orbit, got China admitted into the World Trade Organization ... and gave them Most Favored Nations trading status. And I’m sure that there were other less obvious benefits that Billy Bob gave it up under the covers.

The above video ... WATCH IT, see what Clinton promised that never came about ... it was shot during Zemin’s first visit in 1997 and you, kind reader, can easily see the genesis of our false expectations and how well China duped Bubba and those who came after him in the White House ... except, of course, Donald J. Trump. Thank the Lord ...

More Ramirez

Mad Lib (with the long nose) ...

Rogues Gallery: Peter Strzok

A smirking scoundrel named Strzok

Led the Deep State as it ran amok.

With his FBI lover, Lisa Page

Went into an anti-Trump rage.

Both should end up in a cell block.

Headlines

Schwarzenegger assaulted in South Africa

China’s currency is sending a warning signal about the trade war

Biden race to the middle

Candice Owens: Big tech trying to ‘subvert a mass awakening’

Austrian government collapses over Russian scandal

A tight labor market is holding small businesses from expanding in this hot economy

Australia prime minister holds onto power ... Polls got it WRONG ...

Trump spox: Trump has said he is for three exceptions to abortion

U.S. warns airlines flying in Persian Gulf amid Iran crisis

It costs $76,623 to go to Dartmouth — here’s how much students actually pay

FOXNEWS surprising poll result: Mueller more trusted than Trump and  Barr ...

[Biden] ... Equates Trump to ‘tyrants and dictators’

Living Life

Daily life is all too often damnedly repetitious. — Anon.

Living Life

Refusing to seek out the truth amid all the cross currents of self-serving assertions is akin to avoiding a medical diagnosis because it may find a disease ... a sure path to an early grave. — Anon.

Headlines

Bernie’s mystery Soviet tapes revealed

Three states just set new lows for unemployment — that could be good for Trump in 2020

ICE to move 225,000 across country ...

Nancy Pelosi: ‘We have never not said there was a crisis’ at the border

Greg Craig’s lawyer: Nothing unusual about pushing firm to hire Manafort’s daughter

US trade talks with China have stalled: Sources

Mueller testimony off until at least June — if EVER ...

Exclusive: ‘Hate agents’ blacklist kept at Facebook ... includes Candice Owens

90% of voters want infrastructure legislation passed

Chinese state-run paper says US claims of forced tech transfers are ‘fabricated’

Study: Men afraid to mentor women after #MeToo ...

Planned Parenthood president: ‘Terrifying’ pro-life legislation

No More Heroes

Fascists protesting Fascism

For some stupid reason we are killing off all our heroes. That great general, Robert E. Lee, is now no more ... because he tried so nobly and effectively to defend his culture. John Wayne who stood so tall as a proud American is now brought down by an old interview in Playboy magazine. Richard Nixon who saved thousands of American lives by pulling off the impossible ... extracting us from the war in Vietnam  ... is vilified like few others for trying to cover for the petty crimes of his subordinates.

Many of our young bubbleheads are now trying to erase George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson’s names from our monuments, locales and universities because they owned slaves ... forgetting that these men put their own lives on the line to save the future of all of their countrymen, slaves included. Even that great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, is now under fire by our snowflakes for not making reform happen at an impossible pace.

For our current bevy of cowardly iconoclasts, please be put on notice ... before you try to pull down any more of our verified heroes ... please first show yourselves to have some noble qualities ... instead of hiding behind insipid slogans and milksop masks.

Emma Lazarus

Too bad Emma Lazarus was not more clear-eyed and pragmatic. — Anon.

Godlike Integers

In mathematics: 2+2=4 ... but 2.0+2.0 may not = 4.0

Why?

Because it could be: 2.0[4]+2.0[3] would = 4.07 or 4.1

QED

(Integers are almost godlike)

Afterthought: I’m not sure that zero cannot be signed ... IMHO +7-7 would better represent +0 ... while -7+7 would signify -0. And, if zero could not be signed, what is the meaning of the absolute value of zero.