On Shovel Ready & Full Speed Ahead

 

This is too cute

A great man once observed, "Never underestimate Joe's ability to fu(k things up" .

True words were never spoken, even if it wasn't said Joe whose ability it was. Brandon was legendary for his hatred of "the smart guys" quite likely because if he was in a room with someone, they were smarter that he.

With this in mind, we turn to today's lesson. Nitwit's pre-emptive pardons have a couple of holes in them. First, as noted by better minds than mine, they only apply to Federal crimes. Second, (and this is the good one) there's a 1915 SCOTUS ruling that states acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt.

So, if the recipient of one of those pardons was brought up on charges in a state court, he has already admitted his guilt.

I believe the old Klingon proverb goes, revenge is a dish best served cold.

Free at last

Free at last, thank God Almighty, we're free at last.

I borrowed from the other man whose day this is (actually, there's a third, Robert E Lee*, in my mind the finest man this continent ever produced) to celebrate the end of the lying dogfaced pony soldier's Babylonian Presidency and his pitiful, oppressive, corrupt reign and the accession of the God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne to his rightful place as President of the United States.

As to all of Idiot's pre-empitve pardons, I doubt they're any more valid than his proclamation of the ERA as 28th Amendment.

Enough of him. He is condemned to the dustbin of history, surpassing James Buchanan (not a bad Secretary of State, though) as worst President in American history.

Enjoy your day, Mr President. You've earned it.

* Gen'l Lee's birthday was January 19th and several Southern states are observing it today.

PS As Sergeant Tyree said to Colonel Brittles, "Wish you'd'a been holdin' a full hand".

On That's all Folks & Back by Popular Demand

 

On Now & Then

On the way, in one of those once in a life time moments where dream, vision and hard work turn into a physical, tangible reality, as Trump, Melania and Barron ascend the stairs together to stand, wave and enter the door of Air Force One again.  

Below is their last wave as they left Washington four years ago, on Jan 20, 2021, with no clue as to what was yet to come, the humiliations, validations, horrors and vindications, and a "lot of rallies, can you imagine, over 900 rallies?"  That's a lot of adversity and walking up and down plane stairs while holding onto hope and a vision for change.

And now, four years later, this! Hard to imagine, yet here they are, going up them and walking into Air Force One with Trump on his way back to DC, the White House and the Presidency.  

Update:  The assigned plane they boarded today is Air Force 2, with that flight designated as "Special Air Mission 47".

On Legacy: Standing in Between, Filling the Gap, & Zero Sense

 

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A Conservative is a Lefty who's just been mugged

You may not have seen this particular little drama, but it ranks up there with Zippy and Joe the Plumber. It's starting to make the rounds, as it's quite the little slice of life.

You all remember those moments when Brandon would take an accusatory tone toward Fake News when they asked him a real question.

C'mon, man, gimme a break.

This is better. True ambush journalism, only it's the people, one woman, ambushing one of the sleazier politicos of our time. He thought he was Emperor of California. And his reaction is classic Lurch, of the "Do you know who I am" mantra, when one of the peons defied him. Only she is having none of it.

And why not? She's just lost her home, her santum sanctorum, the place where she made love to her husband, raised her kids, spent Christmases, watched the years pass with a sweet sadness, where she would spend her final days. And now it's gone.

And she's mad as Hell and somebody's going to pay.

The story goes, in the middle of WWII, the SS announced that the Jewish husbands of Gentile women would be sent to concentration camps. Word got out and said Gentile women showed up at SS HQ in Berlin to protest. 

En masse. 

Hitler's war had already taken their fathers, brothers, uncles, and probably more than a few sons. This was the last straw.

As you might imagine, the policy was dropped.

This is the same thing. This is the sound of rebellion. This is why Trump won.

On Then & Now

 

The Branco cartoon above on "What if...?" was published 8 years ago, at the start of 2016, after Trump defeated Hillary to enter his first term in office as President.  After all that's transpired since then, with Trump now on the verge of his second inauguration and Biden and his team in their final hours of salting and medaling/meddling where they still can, we're reach a point where purpose and difference can clearly be seen to matter.   

On Sold Out, Poised to Cut & Theater of the Absurd

 

"Michigan is poised to cut down hundreds of acres of forest in order to make space for a solar panel development, MLive reported Thursday.

The state will soon start competitive bidding on approximately 420 acres of forested land near Gaylord, Michigan, to clear space for a solar farm while generating revenue and advancing the state’s long-term green energy targets, according to MLive. There is some evidence suggesting that such a move would actually increase emissions, and Michigan is one of the least-sunny states in the country, according to analysis conducted by The Washington Post.

'This is pretty amazing. Michigan is not like California, it’s not like the sun is always shining there,' Dan Kish, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. 'This is the theater of the absurd, and it’s all driven by tax credits and giveaways from the federal and state government, and by mandates that the governor there has implemented.'"

"In Michigan, Democratic lawmakers last year passed legislation requiring utilities to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040. To meet that mandate, Michigan may need to devote another 209,000 acres to wind and solar energy."

It's not like Michigan's forests haven't been leveled before for the sake of profit. (Michigan lumber was used to rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire.) This time it's happening in the name of another kind of green, the behind the scenes money made from saving the earth by misusing and destroying its natural systems for profit.