Tag: pardon

Morning Muses

I can’t get too excited or surprised about Joe Biden providing a pardon for his son Hunter. What does Joe have to lose? He’s not running for President any more and he certainly does not owe the Democratic party any explanation.
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As I was reading this essay, I nodded my head as this section captured my attitude about politics, the election and Trump…

Not long after the election, I had a conversation with a relative in which she said, in so many words, that she’d given up. She wasn’t worried for herself and her husband; they would be fine, financially and otherwise, whatever Trump did; they were safe within the bubble of professional-class privilege. Yes, she was sad that her children and grandchildren would inherit a worse world now—less-free, more violent, more subject to the ravages of climate change—than would have been the case, she believed, had Trump lost, but she couldn’t take responsibility for that. If the American people were stupid enough to vote for this guy, then they deserved whatever they got, and she wasn’t going to care anymore. She would look out for her own as best she could, and that’s it.

Biden Gives Up On America Noah Millman

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At my age, I am content to have seen the best of America. I regret that this experience will not be passed down to future generations.
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Off the top of my head, a partial Cabinet I’d nominate if I was President. Sorry no Fox commentators or former employees.

Attorney General: Lynn Cheney

Secretary of Treasury: Jamie Dimon

Secretary of State: Mitt Romney

Secretary of Defense: Mark Milley

Secretary of Education: Michelle Obama

Administrator of Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Seth Godin

Secretary of Homeland Security: Chris Christie

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Phil Murphy (current NJ governor)

Director of OMB: Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Mark Cuban

Director of National Intelligence: Jethro Gibbs (I’m kidding)

Press Secretary: Kara Swisher

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It somewhat amuses me that fans urge the firing of a football coach, who has an excellent win-loss season record but makes the unforgivable mistake of losing a game to a bitter rival. But yet they will show infinite patience by re-electing politicians of poor performance, character and results.
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I think as you grow older your Christmas list gets shorter because the things you want can’t be bought. 

found on a Facebook post

“Have you no sense of decency…”

I was thinking about this complaint directed at senator Joseph McCarthy, about 70 years ago by Joseph Welch, who was an attorney for the Army during Senate hearings. I was reading and listening to some of the testimony by Stormy Daniels in today’s trial. I understand that the former president Trump was quite agitated while listening to the testimony of a porn star regarding his rendezvous and sexual affair with her.

I never understood why Trump, his lawyers, his family, and any supporters that he may have, did not try to work out a deal with the Attorney General. I don’t understand why the Republican party would not try to work out some type of exit plan as they did for Richard Nixon in 1974. It just seems to me that some type of deal could be worked out that Trump would plead guilty to certain charges, pay fines and apologize for his misbehaviors. In return for a pardon, Trump would no longer be involved in politics, specifically running for any political office. Trump would be “exiled” to Mar-a-Lago.

Instead, his wife, family, and the country are subjected to a circus, ill behavior, misdeeds, criminality, early dementia, and sexual misconduct. Why would any decent man put his family through this? Does he really want to be president that badly? I guess the answer is yes.

I understand that there were gallows humor among the press corp about what they made experience if Trump is elected president this November. I do not think it is so far-fetched that he will seek revenge on those who have mocked him and attempted to put him in jail.

There is so much talk about the potential ramifications and possible violence if Trump was ever put in jail. I wonder if people considered how things might go if he is not.

I am so tired of all this. We have so many challenges and we are wasting precious time dealing with the delusions Donald Trump.

For God sakes, please somebody make a deal and end this national nightmare…