Politics Plus

I’m feeling very tired on a hot muggy day.  The move is set for the week of 6/9.  I just took a ride in the elevator.  They fixed it yesterday afternoon.  If I can sign the lease and get the keys next week, I can go see it before moving day.  That would make me much more organized then.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:21 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Smoking Gun Evidence Of President Donald Trump’s Push To Rig The Census

The goal of the Republican Party is to create permanent, racist, fascist, totalitarian, plutocratic Republican Reich in which elections exist for show only, because the Reich controls who gets to vote. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): He broke with GOP under Nixon; hear his advice for them today

Effectively, that divides Republican Reps and Senators into three categories: complicit criminals, quivering cowards, and Amash. RESIST!!

From AlterNet: If the United States weren’t in the midst of its own “constitutional crisis,” a headline like this would be big news: “Israel Moves to Hold New Election as Netanyahu Fails to Form a Coalition.”

Seven weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a night of tremendous victory” in Israel’s election, his failure to form a government by midnight Wednesday has turned into a stunning debacle for him and thrust Israel into a new election.

Israelis will return to the ballot box in about three months, the first time in the country’s history that it has been forced to hold a new national election because of a failure to form a government after the previous one.

To maintain his parliamentarian majority, Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party needed to form a coalition government with right wing secular ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox factions. A refusal by those parties to compromise on proposed legislation about military service made that impossible. But here is a critical element of the story.

Facing possible corruption charges, Mr. Netanyahu had less political wiggle room to turn to more liberal parties and failed to assemble the 61-seat majority required to form a government.

The best thing that could happen for Israel and for Palestine is for Butcher Bibi to crash and burn. He has dragged Israel into multiple war crimes. RESIST!!

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It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Store to Door is delivering groceries mid-day and WWWendy will be here to destink the TomCat and help with chores this evening.  In addition I’m trying to coordinate the move which is next week or, at the latest, the week after.  Hump Day Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CSPAN Channel): Rep. Massie Blocks Disaster Relief Bill

Barf Bag Alert!!

As the residents of mid America suffer the effects of Republican-caused climate disasters, why is this vile Republican preventing the victims from receiving desperately-needed help? Every penny Democrats spend helping the truly needy is a penny Republicans can’t spend on welfare for billionaires! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: What is Oligarchy?

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is growing our oligarchy into a totalitarian fascist plutocracy. RESIST!!

From NY Times: Democrats accused Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, of hypocrisy on Tuesday after he said Republicans would confirm a justice to the Supreme Court if a seat opened up amid the election campaign in 2020, even after denying President Barack Obama a similar opportunity in 2016.

The senator made the remarks at a Chamber of Commerce event in Paducah, Ky., after an audience member asked what Senate Republicans would do if a Supreme Court justice died next year.

“Oh, we’d fill it,” he responded with a grin, prompting laughter from the audience.

In short, the theft of an Obama Justice for SCOTUS, replaced by a Trump Injustice for SCROTUS (Republican Anti-Constitutional VD), was a scam perpetrated by Bought Bitch Mitch, a typical Republican. Every Republican in office is one Republican too many. RESIST!!

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I overslept, so I must have needed the sleep.  I still feel pretty tired as we worked very hard yesterday, so I’ll be brief.  C2NN is still in thrall to the Care2 Glitch Monster.  I’m using the “Ad to Any” plugin to upload articles to C2NN, but I don’t know if they’re getting through.  Memorial Hugs.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:31 (average 4:49).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Reach to impeach? The battle between Pelosi vs. Trump

As long as this fight continues, Pelosi’s win count will increase, and Trump’s will be zero. Nevertheless, Pelosi needs to recognize that Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Protest Music): Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-

Ah! The memories! RESIST!!

From Alternet: China is not “stealing” American jobs.

President Trump loves to blame China for the job losses that have devastated American workers under globalization. But the truth is that Trump is blaming the wrong party. Trump’s reckless trade war against China is misguided and amounts to a colossal charade that will not solve the actual problem.

Yes, it is true that numerous American manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas to China, thereby leaving American workers jobless and suffering. But China did not steal these jobs…

…So if China is not at fault, then who is to blame for the devastation caused to American workers?

The answer is plain to see, and it lies within our own shores. The fault belongs squarely with corporate America.

It was corporate America that made these decisions. Corporate America decided to close their American plants and open new plants in China. Corporate America decided to lay off multitudes of American workers and ruin entire American communities.

The best example of this travesty is Wal-fart, who have given countless US manufacturers a choice between relocating manufacturing overseas and bankruptcy. Boycott the job exporters!  RESIST!!

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It’s a busy day here in the old tiny CatBox, preparing for the new shiny CatBox.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, with no links messages on Care2.  It’s a WWWendy day, and we’ll be swamped.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:58).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Daily Beast: [L]ong before becoming president, Donald Trump called for the jailing of his adversaries. Aided by Attorney General William Barr, he may now actually be training the full force of federal law enforcement against his enemies, real or perceived. Unlike Richard Nixon, who acted in secret, Trump is corrupting the justice system openly and publicly.

The seriousness of such a presidential abuse of power, and its potential for undermining the constitutional order, could well surpass any of the crimes detailed in the Mueller Report. Indeed, the Congress long ago recognized that such misconduct can merit impeachment.

I have nothing to add, except for this. I could not agree more. RESIST!!

From NY Times: Manipulated videos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made it seem as if she were stumbling over and slurring her words continued to spread across social media on Friday, fueled by President Trump’s feud with the Democratic leader.

One of the videos, which showed Ms. Pelosi speaking at a conference this week, appeared to be slowed down to make her speech sound continually garbled.

The video has been viewed millions of times on Facebook and was amplified by the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who shared the video Thursday night on Twitter.

Facebook’s Mark Fuckerberg was asked to remove the bogus Republican video. Of course, he refused. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. Unplug!! RESIST!!

From Alternet: Democrats in Congress are eager to have Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify publicly. But Mueller is dragging his feet — and making a big mistake.

New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Democratic chair of the House Judiciary Committee, gave his most extensive comments on the negotiations around Mueller’s pending testimony thus far Thursday night on Rachel Maddow’s show.

He said the Mueller is reluctant testify in public because he “doesn’t want to participate in anything that he might regard as a political spectacle.” Instead, Mueller would like to testify to the committee publicly. “He envisions himself, correctly, as a man of great rectitude and apolitical,” Nadler said.

My first reaction to this was simple: Tough. When Mueller was running the investigation, it was up to him to decide how public he wanted to be. Now that it’s over, if Democrats in Congress want to call him for a hearing that they use to further political talking points, that’s their choice. Mueller doesn’t get to be the ultimate arbiter of what is and isn’t political. And he’s not a flower that will wilt with too much exposure.

I agree with the author. I suspect Mueller does not want to state the reason he did not charge Trump with obstruction in public. Did Barrf tell Mueller that he would quash any charges against his Fuhrer? I have no proof, but do have a hunch. RESIST!!

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(because the verdict was overturned on a technicality) (Yes I know a chimp is an ape, not a monkey)