PUTIN THE GREAT

All the Czars and all the Commissars combined could not advance the Russian Empire as much as Putin has without even having to fire a shot.  Turkey, which stopped the southern expansion of the Russian Empire, is now firmly within the Russian orbit, and Russia has become THE Player in the Middle East,  A warm-water port, the golden aim of the Tsars?  Putin not only has annexed Crimea but has a naval base in Syria as well as numerous former U.S. airbases.  He has decimated the most powerful and potent Foreign Service, theU.S. State Department, that the world had ever seen, all without having a single Russian casualty.

NOT JUST OBAMA!

My Republican friends vigorously react to my allegation that their insistence that Obama reduce unemployment at the same time he reduced the budget deficit was racist in any way.  They say that my allegation that their lauding Trump for a hot economy at a time of exploding deficits was an example of white privilege is incorrect and they would have required the same thing of any black in the Oval Office, not just Obama!

HOW DO YOU REFER TO SOMEONE?

How do you refer to someone who was impeached but has not been yet been tried in the Senate?  Certainly not "exonerated" or absolved.  That person is referred to, as is a person who is under indictment as one who   is awaiting trial

COULD IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH OPTICS?

If Republicans are O.K. with having a trial without witnesses why are they not O.K with having a trial without Articles of Impeachment?  Could it have anything to do with optics/

ALL CITIZENS WHOULD KNOW

All U.S. citizens should know, when faced with a Senate majority leader, who, like Mitch McConnell,  refuses to bring legislative bills to the floor for votes as required by the Constitution, who sits on judicial nominations without allowing them to be acted upon and seeks to establish the rules of a Constitutionally mandated trial. is arrogating powers extra- Constitutionally.  The office of Senate majority Leader does not exist in the Constitution

PUTIN'S FOLLY

In the halls of the Kremlin, they called it Putin's Folly.  There weren't enough rubles in all of Russia to buy an American President.  Putin just smiled and continued to buy Deutschmarks which he converted to dollars and proved them all wrong. 

ANOTHER MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH

Trump's tariffs have caused another massive transfer of wealth to the wealthy.  The tariffs are paid by the importer who passes it on to the consumers through increased prices.  The increased revenue experienced by the Government doesn't last long, it is passed on to growers to compensate for lost markets owing to retaliation for high tariffs imposed on consumer items.  Note that it is not the Chinese who are paying the tariffs, it is the American public footing the bill.  Most of the recipients of compensation for not growing crops are corporate Agribusiness and not small farmers which continue to go into bankruptcy at a high rate. 

THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT BURISMA.

I keep hearing, from Republicans, of how concerned Trump was about corruption in Ukraine, because of BURISMA  hiring Hunter Biden to be a member of its Board.  Trump was in office for 60% of the time Hunter was serving on that Board but never showed the slightest concern until his father decided to run for office, in 2019 five years after.   How come Trump was unconcerned when Paul Ryan was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or when Bill Barr became head of the DOJ?  

CELL PHONES ARE TIME SAVERS!

Donald Trump is honestly puzzled at the fuss that some people make over his use of an unsecured cell phone to conduct government business.  The fact that the practice spares him from the chore of having to make reports to his handler, thus freeing up  time to perfect his golf game, seems to be lost on his critics

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

The Republican Party, will, if as expected, acquit Trump, in the Senate, after impeachment, be carrying the can for Trump's behavior, in 2020.

-What are the odds that Trump will not embarrass us again with another impeachable offense? 

-What are the odds that Putin will not call in some chips and force Trump to take some action against the interests of the United States?

-What are the odds that the trillion-dollar annual deficits that Trump is running will not so distort the financial markets that another severe financial crisis will not befall us?

I wonder if there is such a thing as Gambler's Anonymous for political parties?

NAMES THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

It takes by the finding of guilty on but a single count to remove a President from office, no matter how many counts are being charged.  While many counts facing Donald Trump are alleged to have taken place behind the doors of the White House, there is one count, upon which if impeached, was committed in public in full view of the People, and that is "obstruction of Congress".  Trump publicly ordered all employees of the Executive branch to ignore subpoenas and forbad them to turn over the documents.  If Senate Republicans acquit Trump on this count, their names will live in infamy.