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RFK: a serious political hero

At 1:44 a.m., on June 6, 1968, a team of medical doctors gave up trying to save the life of a politician who suffered from a gunshot wound to his head. They declared this man dead.

Shortly after that declaration, Frank Mankiewicz stood before reporters and said, “Robert Francis Kennedy died today … he was 42 years of age.”

Mankiewicz served as RFK’s press secretary. He took no questions. He just walked away from the microphones and then let the political world try to make sense of the tragedy that befell arguably the nation’s premier political family.

Kennedy sought the presidency in 1968. He declared his candidacy in the same room his brother, John F. Kennedy, declared his own candidacy in 1960. We know what happened to JFK in November 1963 and many of RFK’s entourage feared the same thing could happen to the brother who guided JFK’s campaign to victory, served honorably as U.S. attorney general and then got elected senator from New York.

RFK was my first political hero. I miss him to this day. He’d be 101 years of age had he not been gunned down.

We cannot assess what kind of president RFK would make. He promised to end the Vietnam War. He vowed to work diligently to stem the deep racial divide in America. He wanted to improve health care. And yes, I believe he is spinning in his Arlington National Cemetery grave at the piece-by-piece dismantling of the nation’s health care system by his own son, RFK Jr. … in service to Donald Trump as secretary of health and human services.

I do believe that RFK’s victory in the 1968 California primary he was celebrating the night he was shot to death would have propelled him to victory at the Chicago Democratic convention and would have enabled him to defeat Richard Nixon in the race for the White House.

But the lunatic gunman who ambushed RFK in the hotel kitchen had other ideas. The pistol he used to kill RFK likely changed te course of U.S. history. He likely will live out his miserable life in the California prison system.

The rest of us who came of age politically in the turbulent 1960s will continue to mourn the passing of a 42-year-old politician who grew into the stature he claimed.

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Clown show adds another player

Legal scholars need not apply for any position within the Trump administration that requires knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. All you have to be is a pal to Donald J. Trump.

Todd Blanche, who once served as Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, appears to be POTUS 47’s latest pick to be attorney general. He replaces the disgraced Pam Bondi, another dedicated Trumpkin who got canned a few weeks ago.

This is what it’s come down to, as Trump seeks to find “the best people” to fill these posts.

Blanche has been acting AG since Bondi got the boot. I’ll give him credit for reportedly persuading Trump to scrap the $1.8 billion slush fund that POTUS sought to set up to pay rewards for many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

That’s not good enough, however, for Blanche to assume the role as the “people’s lawyer.”

I am left to breathe a heavy sigh of disgust.

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Crooked Donald? Stand tall!

I have been looking for a little while for a name to hang on Donald Trump. It’s kind of a nickname, but hardly a term of endearment or affection.

I now intend to refer to the individual I refuse to acknowledge publicly as my president as Donald the Crook. I might shorten it on occasion to DtheC. It’s the slush fund that Trump has set up that enrages me terribly.

You know the story, but here’s a quick refresher. Trump had sued the United States of America for $10 billion, citing some civil liberty matter involving his tax return, which he vowed to release upon election in 2016. He hasn’t done it … the dipshit! Trump recently dropped the suit,  but got a pretty shady deal out of it in return.

He has set up a $1.776 billion slush fund that he can use to pay off criminals charged and convicted in the 1/6 assault on the government. That was the event aimed at stopping the transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

There will be zero oversight on how the funds will be spent. No inspection of its handling. No one to whom Trump and his family will answer.

It’s free and clear money established for Trump and his kin to use at their discretion. Yes, Donald the Crook will be allowed to run amok with taxpayer money. Yep, the dough belongs to you and me. I don’t have much fiscal stake in the cash, as I am an old retiree in North Texas, living a quiet life spending my shrinking disposal income that is being swallowed by raging inflation caused by DtheC’s tariffs and the idiotic war he launched against Iran.

What makes DtheC’s fund so outrageous is the prospect of it going to pay for traitorous criminals who stormed the Capitol on 1/6 and injured police officers who were trying to restore order and protect officials targeted by the raging mob. DtheC says the criminals were treated badly by a government that had weaponized law enforcement.

No … it did nothing of the sort! The entire planet has seen the video of that horrifying event. These traitors deserved what they got prior to Donald the Crook pardoning them!

Now he wants to pay them? What an utter disgrace!

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Chaos reigns in wake of WH reporters shooting

Chaos and confusion, along with some alleged prevarication, has erupted in the wake of the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting in D.C.

All we know for sure is that a lunatic opened fire in the room. I won’t mention his name on this blog, following a tradition I set some time ago. The Secret Service, which was there to protect Donald and Melania Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, did its usual great job of clearing the room and securing the reported targets of the moron. These individuals are well-trained and once again, they earned their salary.

No motive is clear. Nor do we know how this heavily armed goon get so close to the party. There seems to be confusion over Trump reacted. Trump spoke to “60 Minutes” after the event and got many TV viewers confused over what went down.

Trump did declare that violence of this type is unacceptable and that it must end. Yes, Mr. POTUS … you are so right. How about some legislation that could bring this kind of violence to an end?

Trump wants to reschedule this event. Hmm. Not so fast, sir. We have plenty of questions that require thoughtful answers.

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Trump headed for an impeachment

With this blog post I am venturing tenderly onto a tree limb that is getting fuller by the hour with individuals who have said what I am going to declare.

Donald John Trump is insane! He may be certifiably so. He has gone mad. Bonkers,

I mean, can you name a president of the United States who ever has said he wanted to wipe a civilization off the face of the Earth? Can anyone find a historical reference to such utter madness? Trump said that if Iran doesn’t comply with his demands to end the war that Trump launched against Tehran that he would annihilate the population. They would be gone. All dead.

That is genocide in its rawest form, kids. And Trump has declared that he would be willing to drop the bombs to do the job.

We have established that the POTUS has made the declaration. That is an unlawful order if one has ever existed. No flag officer worth his or her honor would follow such an order. But you get my drift, yes? Of course you do!

Donald Trump need not say another word for the rest of his miserable life. He has established clearly his intention as commander in chief. He has gone ’round the bend!

Now comes the real hard part. Invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that enables Trump to be removed from office. Such an act requires Republicans to join their Democratic colleagues in moving such an act forward. Based on what we all have witnessed, there aren’t enough GOP members of Congress or members of the Cabinet to say that “enough is enough!”

I feel better now that I’ve gotten it off my chest. I take no pleasure in joining the growing chorus. But, dammit! … the guy is beyond redemption.

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Bondi is now a ‘former U.S. attorney general’

Allow me to join the millions of Americans who today are cheering the news that Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi from her post as U.S. attorney general.

I would say that “Pam, we hardly knew ye,” but that wouldn’t be true. We got to know a lot about Bondi during her year-long stint as AG. None of it good, from my perspective.

She proved to be every bit the sycophant that Trump sought when he plucked her from the ranks of Florida elected officials. She was so good at it that she should have embarrassed Trump with her hideous performances testifying — if you want to call it such — before congressional committees on matters involving Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 traitors who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

My favorite moment came when she lied under oath to a House committee, was called on that lie by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and then bellowed “Don’t you ever accuse me of committing a crime!” Wait a sec, Mme. AG. The nation just heard you commit perjury when you said the record contains “no evidence” accusing Trump of committing a crime.

It damn sure does! Lieu brought it out for public display.

If the POTUS had an ounce of shame, he would be embarrassed by Bondi’s performance as AG.

Hit the road, Pam. Me? I’m going to watch the Artemis II mission head for the moon and cheer on those four brave astronauts as they continue to bring smiles to our faces.

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Corruption anyone … anyone?

Let us revisit one of the chief concerns some of us — including yours truly — raised about whether Donald Trump’s real-life experience qualified him for the public office he sought in 2016.

I said then that Trump’s only professional experience was aimed at enriching himself. He had no public service experience under his belt. His sole aim was to make lots of money, no matter how he managed it.

Now comes this latest allegation of deep-seated corruption within the Trump administration. It has been alleged that someone within the White House is using insider-trading information to enrich themselves just prior to major policy decisions coming from inside the West Wing.

These only are allegations, but with so many of swirling around the POTUS, given his proven history of self-enrichment, they seem to have this ring of validity. They need careful examination.

The Iran war is an example of the kind of insider trading that seemingly is going on. Just prior to the president making a key announcement regarding peace talks or the suspension of bombing of Iranian targets by U.S. and Israeli jets, we hear about thousands of oil-related shares changing hands. Just like that — boom! — huge profits are taken by traders who act just prior to these announcements being made public.

Coincidence? Hmm. Seems like a huge stretch to me.

The question to which I will demand answers is this: Does any of this involve Donald Trump and his family?

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Trump’s heart is MIA

This likely isn’t an original thought, but I’ll treat it as one since it just popped into my noggin … which is that whatever is pumping blood through Donald John Trump’s overfed body cannot possibly be a human heart.

The POTUS is shown himself to be a heartless cretin with not a single ounce of decency, of compassion, of empathy toward those who are suffering over the loss of a loved one.

It’s now known throughout Planet Earth what Trump stated minutes after learning that former FBI director Robert Mueller had died: “Good,” Trump wrote on social media, “I’m glad he’s dead.”

The POTUS’s critics have been all over this ghastly statement. You can take this to the bank as well: Someone — probably many folks — are coming up with prepared remarks to deliver the day Trump leaves this world … and they likely will mirror much of what Trump said about Mueller.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought to give justification for this hideous act by suggesting that “no one knows” about the pain that Trump and his family have endured. What the hell … ? That’s supposed to justify what a president of the United States says about the death of an American patriot, a war hero and the second-longest tenured director of the nation’s federal investigative agency?

Donald Trump’s heartless behavior has been put on full display and he deserves every bit of scorn that will be thrown his way.

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Hey, Donald: Shut the f*** up!

There he goes again, exhibiting world-class boorishness before the entire world and embarrassing millions of Americans who have to live with the notion that he is our commander in chief.

He said the following today, through social media, of course, about the death of former FBI director Robert Mueller: Good, I’m glad he’s dead.

Mueller, appointed to lead the FBI by President George W. Bush and who served under President Barack Obama, died today of conplications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 81 years of age. Mueller served with distinction and high honor as a lawyer and then as FBI director, changing the agency’s mission to fighting terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

He also led the investigation into allegations that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election. He determined the Russians did so but declined to prosecute the case because the evidence was lacking for a conviction. He drew Trump’s scorn throughout the probe.

Now this response to his death. Donald Trump once again has proven he is a disgrace to the nation.

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Nothing to hide? Show us!

A thought keeps rattling around in my noggin that I just cannot shake loose … and it has everything to do with Donald Trump and his one-time bestie, the late sex trafficker and child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump keeps insisting he and Epstein only were pals, that he took no part in the sexual escapades of which Epstein was convicted. Fine, Mr. POTUS. But why in the name of full disclosure do you keep resisting calls to show us the entire catalog of files that have been dug on Epstein? If there is no “there, there,” then show us for real, Donald.

We’ve waltzed down the pea patch with Trump already. He said he broke no laws in filing his income taxes, but won’t allow us to see them. Now we hear that his name appears in those Epstein files thousands of times. He once pledged to release them all. Then he backed away.

Look, I am willing to give Trump the tiniest benefit of the doubt on this matter. I do not believe he diddled underage girls along with Epstein and any other of the perverts who’ve been singled out.

The overarching question in my mind is … what did Trump know about Epstein’s behavior and when did he know it? I believe it is important for Americans to know when a man who would become president was a BFF with a guy who would be convicted of horrifying sexual crimes against girls.

He won’t tell us anything about that. He won’t allow the public to see files that well could clear him of any criminality. He is engaging in a coverup on a scale that seems set to dwarf anything that the Nixon administration did during the Watergate scandal more than five decades ago.

Come clean, Mr. POTUS.