Well, folks, it looks to me like another snarky snippets day, what d’you think? Those little snarky gems just keep popping onto my radar!
He’s suing someone … again … {yawn}
Who has the time or the money to engage in frivolous lawsuits that don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of winning? Apparently, the former guy, Donald Trump, has plenty of both, since he has been involved in more than 5,000 lawsuits … or is it 6,000 now? The latest? He is suing his former attorney and ‘fixer’, Michael Cohen, for … wait for it … $500 million! Yep, a half-billion greenbacks! Now, never mind that Cohen’s net worth is a mere $63 million, so Trump is basically sticking his straw in a dry well, but his solution to every single problem in his life has always been to sue, to waste the courts’ time with frivolities and inanities.
The reason for the lawsuit, according to sources, is that Cohen violated his attorney-client relationship with Trump by testifying under oath to the Manhattan grand jury that recently indicted Trump on 34 felony counts. First, there is no attorney-client privilege since Cohen is no longer Trump’s attorney. Second, Trump broke the law, Cohen was subpoenaed to testify, and he would have been in violation of the law if he had refused. Simple, right? But not for someone whose brain is surrounded by so many fat cells that it cannot get oxygen to put two and two together and come up with four.
This will end as most of Trump’s other frivolous lawsuits have, and We the People will pay for the waste of the courts’ time.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha … oh yeah, try enforcing THAT!
I’ve always thought Sarah Huckabee Sanders was something of an airhead, but now I KNOW it … I have the proof! She just signed one of the most ridiculous bills I’ve heard of in years … one that seeks to ban young people under the age of 18 from social media! 🤣🤣🤣
Nice try, Aunt Lydia!
Can you imagine even trying to enforce that one? No way, Josè!!! But she will spend taxpayer dollars on this lost cause that nobody anywhere ever believed to be enforceable. There are exceptions and all sorts of confusing language in the bill, making it a ginormous joke, even among the people of Arkansas! If I were still doing my “Idiot of the Week” posts, she would definitely qualify!
Kiss the ring …
This must be “Watch Sarah Sanders Make a Fool of Herself” week, or something, for she is again in the news, and certainly not for anything noble. Applicants for a position on any of the Arkansas state boards or commissions must fill out an application. Pretty standard stuff, until you come to one question …
Note that the answer is ‘required’ … you either pay Ms. Sanders a compliment, else “don’t call us, we’ll call you (not)”.
It’s rather sad, don’t you think, that the governor has to twist arms just to get a compliment?
But wait … before you go … there IS some good news!
Both of the Tennessee state legislators who were expelled last week from the Tennessee House of Representatives have been voted back to their seats unanimously by the commissioners in their districts! Yes, friends, both Justin Pearson and Justin Jones will continue doing the work they were elected to do last November!
Mr. Jones has already returned to his seat, having taken his oath of office again on Monday, and Mr. Pearson is expected to return sometime this week. And there isn’t a damn thing the Republicans can do about it, despite their “super-majority”. They have threatened to ‘defund’ the counties that sent these men back to work, but in doing so they would be shooting themselves in the foot … in both feet, in fact.
As Mayor Wheeler stood at a fence guarding a courthouse during another night of protest, watching the carnage these federal troops were inflicting upon his city, he was suddenly sprayed with tear gas. This, my friends, is far too much. The presence of federal troops was not called for, and in fact last Friday, Mayor Wheeler told Trump to, “keep your troops in your own buildings or have them leave our city.”
And then there is the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Larry Householder, who was arrested by the FBI in a $60 million bribery scheme! Ol’ Larry is also a republican, not surprisingly. Prosecutors accused Householder and four others of spinning up a “criminal enterprise” that collected $60 million in dark money from a struggling energy company. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, one of the few republicans for whom I have a modicum of respect, has called on Householder to resign.
He has served about 11 months of his 3-year sentence.
Whew … the news cycle these days is nuts. Much of what’s found on the news is repetitive, but one must sift through it to find the nuggets. Then, when you find the nuggets, they just make you growl. Well-meaning friends suggest from time-to-time that I tune out for a few days or even … gasp … a week! But, I cannot. I am who I am, and I am very concerned these days about what is happening behind the scenes in Washington, what are they doing that is not being reported because the media is so wrapped up in the coronavirus and the stock market?
Michael Cohen … remember him? He was Trump’s personal attorney and ‘fixer’ who pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate (Trump). He’s currently serving a three-year sentence at a federal prison camp in Otisville, New York. A cushy sort of place, with better than average food and other amenities including bocce ball, horseshoes, handball and tennis.
Bernie Madoff … remember him? He is a former market maker, investment advisor and financier who is currently serving a federal prison sentence for offenses related to the largest Ponzi scheme in history. It is estimated that he bilked investors out of some $64.8 billion and his actions were in part responsible for the 2007-2008 financial crisis. He was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison and is currently serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner, North Carolina.
The attorneys for these two men are now pleading for their release from prison, saying it is only a matter of time before the coronavirus strikes the prisons and their clients, such pure, good people, should not be subjected to a life-threatening illness. It makes me wonder … the notorious #MeToo abuser of women, Harvey Weinstein was just sentenced to 23 years in prison, and just yesterday checked in at Elmira Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. I wonder if his attorney will plead for his release based on the possibility of coronavirus finding its way into the prison?
I don’t know why it is, but I always seem to have an overload of snark in my head these days. It’s gotten so bad that when I cut a corner too close the other day and bumped my shoulder, I yelled that whatever idiot built this house must have been a republican! And when one of the kitties turned over the dish of kibble and it went all over the floor, I gave her a 10-minute lecture about the importance of neatness and told her that if she didn’t mend her ways I would give her to a republican family. So, it must be time for me to open that release valve and share my angst with you, my friends!
I’ve generally considered Chris a solid journalist, a cut above the usual Fox ‘News’ fare, and I’ve wondered why he was at Fox when I thought he would likely be welcomed with open arms by any of the legitimate news networks. Perhaps Chris is also beginning to wonder what he’s doing at Fox. As I noted in 
And speaking of Fox, one of their former executives, Bill Shines, who joined the Trump administration eight months ago as a “assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications”, whatever the heck that means, has already resigned. Why? Not because he’s fed up with Trump and his ways, but because he wants even more … he is planning to work on Trump’s campaign for 2020. (Why is there even a Trump campaign for 2020? He needs to be gone long before then!)
We already know that there were disciplinary problems associated with Trump, such as the time he attempted to shove another cadet out a second-story window. To add fuel to the fire, or more likely smoldering remains, there was Michael Cohen’s testimony last week that Trump ordered him “to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores”.
The epitome of arrogance. Now, there are two questions I leave you with today:
Speculation? Sure, but when you hide things that are relatively innocuous, people are going to speculate as to what else you’re hiding. Are there secrets being hidden with the help of his wealthy donors that would ensure his removal from office, or perhaps even ensure him a cell next to Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen? Think about it.
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