Nice summing-up of Trumpsky's foolishness on health care

[devifemme]

"...Trump just won’t let [Repubs in Congress] let it go. First he ordered the Justice Department to get fully behind a lawsuit seeking to have the ACA struck down in its entirety, and now he’s making extravagant promises he has no intention of keeping, and which his fellow Republicans are going to pay the price for

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[meisje_viktoria]

The issue is that the Dems are tumbling over each other, they might not get the gift.

[devifemme]

Good point, dear Viktoria! I likewise worry that the Dems could screw up, not taking adequate advantage of the gift which the asshole is foolishly giving them.

I happened to watch on TV tonight the third installment of the new history of Nixon's time, "Tricky Dick" (sexual angle duly noted!). It's good in integrating the then-secret White House tape recordings into the more well-known public context.

His over-reaction to anti-Vietnam demonstrations back in the day, setting up the "plumbers" to break into the Dem headquarters! Damn, it felt EVEN more poignant, thinking about Trumpsky's criminal acts -- than I remenber from all the earlier history of Nixon's similar disregard for the "rule of law"...

Glad to hear from you again on all this sad history.

Kisses, J

[meisje_viktoria]

I did not watch it, I am kind of Nixoned out. It seems to me, that a lot of reporters, especially Rachel Maddow, keep bring up Watergate, because in my opinion, they want to be the next Woodaward & Bernstein.

Yes Trump gave them gift after gift, but the Dems seem to be still lost, and I am really confused about their focus.

[devifemme]

I know what you mean about Watergate -- Rachel just replayed the 45-year-old scene too damned often in the past decade or two. (Though I did like the movie two years ago called "The Post" -- which re-hashed the whole Woodward/ Bernstein epic!)

Ah, but Rachel did score tonight: she pulled up the March 2017 New Yorker story on the Trump Tower built (but never opened for business) in Baku, Azerbaijan -- with reported financing from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (the notorious IRG !!). She noted the story had sunk without a murmur -- but now, two years later, what does Trumpsky do?

He declares the whole damned IRG a terrorist entity (which does mean pretty severe UN sanctions -- and Tehran came out viciously against being bashed). So -- was there a "falling out among thieves"? Or did Trumpsky decide IRG wasn't going to play whatever game they'd agreed in Baku?

Hmmm...

[meisje_viktoria]

I am sure that story will be buried, as the focus will be on Trump doing Miller's bidding and putting people who will give him no lip and break the law to close the borders in the south.

Tuesday afternoon, Vero Beach

[devifemme]

Hi! Well, I'm sitting in a riverfront bar here in Vero, klling a half-hour before meeting friends for dinner. (A Tuesday night tradition here: a favorite restaurant offers half-price oysters from a secret source on the West Coast -- that is, the FLORIDA west coast...)

Oh, BTW, locals here refer to the quarter-mile-wide estuary behind the barrier island as "the river" -- but it's salt water straight from the ocean (which -- technically -- is on the OTHER side of the island, and connected by inlets every 20 miles or so -- check out the map!)

Florida is fun -- most of the time. Our place got hit in 2004 by not one but TWO hurricanes, 15 days apart! Did a bunch of damage, but we got it all fixed in about 6 months (then got our money back from the insurance 3 months after that...)

Knock on wood!

Hugs, J

Re: Tuesday afternoon, Vero Beach

[meisje_viktoria]

Weather here was great, and got in a wonder ride with my favorite steed Bruno. Sound like we both had magical days.

Re: Tuesday afternoon, Vero Beach

[devifemme]

Oooh, another response by you that I somehow missed. In the category of eating/drinking in and around Vero.

I suppose by way of a COMPLETE record, I should note I had a couple of brews with mt neighbors early last evening -- one of Vero's terrific microbreweries called "Walking Tree" (a reference to a waterside mangrove, a species with what are called "aerial roots" -- it can, in effect, replant itself, by doing so "walking")

Hugs, J