The Hanged Man

Well, here it is Sunday, I hope everybody is having an exciting weekend so far.  Yesterday, being the first Saturday in December, was our Kid's Workshop at the store: 331 kids.  Have you any idea how much noise that many kids put out?  Little hammers hitting little nails!  And just 75 feet away!
The Idiot Jerk in the White House farted out some sort of nonsense yesterday... like, maybe Flynn was fired for lying to the FBI... which doesn't jive with what he said, way back then.  Of course, that doesn't matter for his supporters since they all suffer from long term memory loss, which means anything longer than two weeks ago has already been forgotten.  Besides, they could care less since they're all going to get a big tax cut!  They know the big bucks are soon going to start flowing into their bank accounts!  Their taxes will drop dramatically!  Why they know it'll be like paying nothing at all!  Right.  Because Corporations are going to use their tax cut to create more new jobs!  Right.  Even Breitbart knows this is bullshit.  Of course, because the article is so technical and doesn't fountain right wing hatred, most readers will never get past the 2nd paragraph.  Trickle down economics has always failed.  Reaganomics totally fell apart and George H. Bush had to raise corporate taxes and it will happen again now. 
As for the Idiot Jerk in the White House?  Like a bad Tarot reading, his cards keep getting flipped over revealing the ugly truth - lies, deceits, cover-ups - we're just waiting for the Hanging Man.  Everybody pretty much knows that the Idiot Jerk was giving orders to Kushner who was giving orders to Flynn.  The Idiot Jerk is a business man, who makes business decisions that are not based on his loyalty to his country, but rather to himself.  He alone decides what's a good decision, and he has no problem in lying because his self loyalty allows him to believe his own lies.  As a businessman he knows what's happening is bad, so he lies, and he talks about how great the stock market's doing.  Looking at his past, he has had no problem in declaring bankruptcy, in fact he's done it what?  Four times?  He's made that business decision and then walked away with no regrets.  It's water over the dam.  You can bet's he and his spawn already have a contingency plan in place for when Mueller turns over the Hanging Man.

He will make a business decision and move on... most likely to Europe.  I wouldn't be surprised if there was a really nice Dachau waiting for him in the outskirts of Moscow, from which he can hobnob with the Oligarchs and brag about how many trademarks he and Ivanka scored in China.

Abandon Ship!

You know the shit is pretty stinky when those Crazy Christian White Evangelicals start to slink away from the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  You know this guy's a phony when he says he "quietly started to distance himself from the administration months ago."  I call that bullshit.  This is just the rats starting to abandon ship.
Anyway, Bannon's gone... or is he?  I'm wondering if someone didn't decide he could be of more support rallying the Idiot's Jerk's deserting base back at Breitbart.  That's makes sense, doesn't it?  Of course, Breitbart has been fumbling since there's no Hillary to Hate or Obama to Bash so maybe they think Stevie Boy's better back there, trying to start more fires.  But then there's also the bit about James Murdoch and his donation to the Anti-Defamation League.  In case you didn't know, Jimmy is Rupert's son.  It's all about the money, you know, and the last thing Fox wants to do is alienate minority viewers.  There's no way in hell they want to be associated with neo-nazis.
I also got a decent bit of cardio because last week, while on vacation, I was such a slug.
So, I went back to work yesterday and my boss, who's a 46 year old man desperately trying to look like he's 26 had the sides of his head shaved.  Dumb shit.  Age with dignity.  None of us like getting any older, and while we don't always act our years, because they smile silently of desperation, like certain hair cuts.  Some older individuals can get away with them, many can't.  I see it on a regular basis,  women with bright green hair that looks like they colored it in a tiny bathroom sink with only a single, incandescent bulb for lighting. and men with 'devil-may-care' black goatees that look as though they were painted on.  Age isn't bad if you just deal with it.

I mean, do you really want to go through your senior years looking like this?

Manilow, more Bannon, and Andromeda

So, I see Barry Manilow finally came out of the closet... at 73.  The LA Times had a silly headline about how he was worried he'd disappoint his fans, but in the end he 'made it.'  Give me a break!  I really get tired of aging pop stars and celebrities (like Richard Chamberlain) who come out in their later years and use that terrible excuse.  They're fans.  As though they suffered in silence to keep their fans happy.  The truth is he didn't just stay in the closet, he made homophobic comments.  And those fan's loyalty is pretty cheap if they're going to desert because of your orientation.  Don't these people know it would be much better if they were honest, admit to being terribly insecure individuals who are simply terrified of publicly saying "I'm gay."  I'd rather that than this 'I'm old and they're old, so it doesn't really make any difference now,' excuse.
And then there's Steve'o, and not the one who used a staple gun on himself, though this Steve'o's just as crazy.  You know, the Alt-Right Svengali who managed to have himself declared the Idiot's 'right hand man.'  Didn't take long for the turf between those two to get muddy, did it?  All sorts of shit hitting that fan, like this from Breitbart.  If Steve'o thought he was going to be the Brain Behind the Idiot, he was wrong, and while he's not yet cleaning the White House shitters, that move might be just around the corner.  And you can bet this is fueling the flames of hatred in the America Haters who just 'love' Breitbart.
And then there's Andromeda...

Reviews have not been... kind.  And, the game does have some issues.  In fact, Andromeda has so many issues there was an update on day one, and another patch is coming today, 16 days after it was released.  If you go the Mass Effect Andromeda website there is a whole laundry list of things today's patch is supposed to start to fix, including more same sex relationships.  I'm not worried, things will get fixed at Bioware's expense, of course the game I'm playing now will not be the game I would be playing 6 months from now.  That's not a very good thing to have to say.

It's... Here

The snow is here.  And it's deep.  And still snowing.  The wind is blowing it into deep drifts.  And, of course, the dogs love it.  This might give you a bit of an idea.  They go out, and then they go come, and they go out, and then they come in.  Tried to upload a video, don't know if it will work or not.  Guess will find out.  If it works, Big Seig is, of course, the bigger Boxer.  Last August he weighed in at 108, but was still growing.  Compared to him, Lily's 56 pounds is tiny.

I saw where Breitbart posted something negative about Paul Ryan.  Remember when I talked about a bloodbath?  Well, you might want to put on a rain coat and grab your umbrella.  His Trumplodite hoards may have voted the Idiot in Chief into office, but Steve Bannon's the wanna be dictator.  With his ugly soul, I suspect his ruthlessness will become more and more apparent as time goes by, and more and more True Americans will turn on this party and this rat.  He's a loser who's been riding a wave of hatred right into the rocks.  Tough shit.

Anyway, I'm off today.  Earlier I baked some drop biscuits - I suspect I'm going to be burning up a shit load of calories later when I dig out.  That's fine.

Axed

And the bodies start to fall.  A little over 3 weeks into his term, one of DT's most loyal, most strident, most vocal supporters was axed.  The purported reason is Flynn was having unsanctioned talks about sanctions with the Ruskies, however, knowing how much the Idiot in Charge panders to Putin, I suspect the communications were totally authorized.  You see, as a CEO, DT could have his subordinates talk to whomever he wanted.  He's a wheeler and dealer, remember, and there is that toasty prized of getting to be one of Putin's Pals.
Funny thing, I checked out Breitbart, (remember, it's nice to know what your enemies are thinking, and they are all so very vocal there), and while 2 or 3 voices were raised in common sense, most of them were already chasing each other around the track with the crazy baton.  There is an almost symbiotic relationship between their idiot logic and the logic of the Idiot in Chief that is difficult to ignore.  And in case you were wondering, they were blaming the FBI, and the CIA for intruding and eavesdropping on a loyal American.  Crazy is as Crazy does.

I'm sure this did not go down well with DT.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Kellyanne wasn't down on her knees, scrub rag in hand, trying to clean up after the shit storm.  And Pence?  No doubt he's been grounded.  

This is, of course, just the first head to roll.  There were be more, many, many more as the Idiot in Charge learns he is now going to be held accountable to the American People, and by that I mean the vast majority, not that minority of crazy conservatives who managed to get him into office.  The shit storm is just beginning. 

And their heads will explode

I got a text from my brother this morning which read:  "Hillary and Trump will be the nominees.  Hillary will be the next president since there's no way he can win the General Election."  I sent him back a smiley face, not so much because I was happy, but more so in that I agreed with him.  We now know who the nominees for the 2016 Presidential race will because we already know that if Trump isn't on the GOP ticket there will be riots in Cleveland.

A riot is a very ugly thing, und I think it's about time we had one!

And, of course, with Hillary running the Republican pundits who've been pissing on the Clinton name for years will go into a feeding frenzy.  Trump will run the dirtiest campaign in history, which is probably a good reason for her to be the candidate - her minions will shove it right back in his face.  Remember Cuba Gooding, Jr and "show me the money?"  You're going to hear over and over and over again "show us your taxes!"  We will get to watch Rush Limbaugh collapse with apoplexy, and Ann Coulter's peroxide roots incinerate.  Breitbart will initiate a chain reaction, neurally transmitted, self-detonating, Molotov cocktail of such hatred their eyes will turn into laser beams as all of their heads explode.

Well, maybe not laser beams, but let's be honest here, the GOP has been inbreeding their hatred for the name Clinton for so long their own self-immolation is pretty much a far gone conclusion.  And in the end all that will remain will be the ashes of a party that lost its way, and gave into the dark side.