The Reason for the Rodeo

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Just heard Senator Maxine Waters blow the whistle on the Great Shell Game that is now taking place in our White House.

She says it's obvious to her what's going on with the Kremlin Klan and 'those scumbags from the oil and gas industry'.

"They're going get the sanctions lifted so they can get the oil in Russia."

Billions and billions of dollars in oil and gas money - enough money to explain the need to get Trump in the White House at any cost. The reason he says "Wouldn't it be nice to get along with Russia?" The reason Tillerson. CEO of Exon, is in the State Department. The reason Trump won't put his assets in a blind trust. The reason he's installed so many billionaires in his cabinet who appear to be there because they want to destroy the agency they've been put in charge.

This is even the reason for going after immigrants,  closing the borders and building that damn wall, though not directly. They need a smoke screen - something to distract the voters while this shell game goes on.

As more immigrants are rounded up and deported, there will be low-level jobs open as well as high-level jobs. Without changing a thing there will be a labor shortage of staggering proportions. Everything will be disrupted. There will be protests, reactions and terror.

And the resulting chaos will prove to be the perfect smoke screen. The immigration drama will be enough to enthrall the entire country. This will keep the media busy covering the deportations and protests - while the sanctions go away and the oil companies pay massive bribes - and certain people swoop up the money and get filthy rich - the 1% of the 1% who will rule the USA and the reborn USSR.

This is it, folks, the end game.

Oil - and blood for oil.

Send In The Clowns

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We are still in the first 100 days...wasn't it just a month yesterday? How time flies. The press conference was interesting to say the least. It's not the kind of thing you want to see alone, don't let the kids watch it. It does answer one important question: How much manure can one bull sling? 

Quite a bit.

But it appears the old bull has lost some of his momentum . He's been spinning in circles for a month and getting bogged deeper and deeper in the -- mud -- he's churned up. But the old bull is spinning himself into a corner, and Uncle Sam might be in trouble. 

Count on the folks from the alphabet soup agencies to continue to investigate just how deep the ties are between our old bull and Mother Russia. Think of them as the rodeo clowns - who are also know as bullfighters. These are the guys who jump in when the bull-rider is thrown and is about to get two feet of horn where the sun never shines. 

Like this:

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This is just the first month of a four year ride. Luckily, Congress has yet to lose it's lethargy and make any moves - they've been bingeing on hate for so long they can barely twitch a limb. It must be like one long Thanksgiving for the GOP -- feasting on the carcass of their victory only to find they can't stand up any more. 

Lazy vultures.

Without a Democrat to kick around, the bloated GOP is unable to function. They've been the opposition for so long that now their collective spine has become (cranberry) jelly. 

Of course there is an exception - John McCain - pickup rider for this long rodeo event. He's back in the saddle and is swinging a catch rope to throw a loop over the old bull if need be. He can afford to make himself a target as long as the bullfighters are doing the close work. His job is to scoop up Uncle Sam if he stays on until the buzzer. 

We've got a long way to go.

The Silver Lining - Is US

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If the old saying is true - 'Every cloud has a silver lining' then Our Glorious Orange Leader has done something that never could have been predicted.

He brought politics alive in America again.

Not since the 1960's have I seen this many people look into getting involved in the political arena. Then it was the Boomers protesting the war in Vietnam. But they seemed to have gone to sleep in the 1970's when I came of age.

Then in the 1980's and 1990's nobody gave a fig about what happened. Things just slid along a greased track.

Now -- well this is beyond exciting!

Of course this is one heck of a bumpy road that we are about to embark upon. We're up against the GREAT BULL after all. But I couldn't be more cheerful.

Politics as usual is GONE. Instead we've got people waking up to the fact that they have a voice and they have power.

And the Senators are running for the freaking hills!

#KarmaIsABitchMitch

Rampaging Bull

This is a guest post from my best buddy Butch McKinley.

The alarm just went off for the 12 year old living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. A court just said "Why don't you just shove it up your ass, Buddy!!!??? This is 'Murica! Land of the free and home of the brave. Yer about to fuck up the computer industry, the IT business, kill off engineering  and in general make trouble for large numbers of businesses! So just fold your executive order up carefully with no sharp edges sticking out to cut your sphincter and park it in your ascending Colon!"

Best ruling I've ever read!
And now you know how I got bandicated (another word for 86'd) off FB.

Yer Pal,
Butch McKinley

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worry about things which are beyond the power of our will.  Epictetus.

Consumer Confidence

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The American Economy operates on a specific type of smoke and mirrors known as Consumer Confidence. If Joe or Jane Average feels that the world is a stable place, they are going to spend a little extra. Maybe buy a car, or a bigger house, or have another child.

con·sum·er con·fi·dence (noun)
a statistical measure of consumers' feelings about current and future economic conditions, used as an indicator of the overall state of the economy.
"a survey of consumer confidence showed households had suddenly turned negative about buying “big ticket” items."

So it's a notable point that the month of January ENDED the 15 year run of high consumer confidence. 

The perception of the safety of the future is under siege. Our Jane Average has already put a run on the longest lasting birth control she can her hands on - the IUD implant. Four million of those devices went into action in December of 2016 and are expected to last for the next 10 years. That's four million babies that won't be born for sure, maybe twice that over the next 8 years.

Computer sales in general are stagnant and so are iPad sales as consumers have decided to keep what they have over the Christmas shopping season. Car sales are down, too.

We're still here - the End of the World hasn't come yet. But Jane Average is getting more and more uneasy with the Big Bull rampaging through the world.

But at the National Prayer Breakfast - the old bull had to take a swipe at his old TV show. He asked everyone to pray for higher ratings. Arnold Schwarzenegger had one of his best lines ever "How about we trade jobs...so we can finally sleep comfortably again at night, eh?"