Finally finished the Mueller Report

I finally finished the Mueller Report. 

It clearly showed Russian interference in our election. It clearly showed Russia helped Trump win. It clearly showed Trump and his campaign welcomed Russian help. But it did not have proof of active conspiracy between the campaign and Russia. 

It clearly showed massive efforts by Trump to obstruct justice by attempting to intimidate and influence witnesses being questioned by Mueller, and by firing Comey and trying to fire Mueller, and by threatening and coercing the investigators. 

Does there have to be an underlying crime to justify obstruction of justice charges?  Mueller says no because the obstruction itself taints and changes the testimony and inquiry. Mueller passed the decision to prosecute obstruction to Congress. 

The nauseating corruption of this president is the stench that infuses every page of this report. 

It is easy to say that this man is a bully and you don’t like him, and then go on to say “but...fill in the blank”. But the reason we need to rid our country of him and his deeply corrupt supporters is that democracy itself is being dragged into oblivion in the cesspool of their corruption. 

Will Trump's distractions from subpoenas cause war in the Gulf?

So far, we have been lucky because the Narcissist in Chief hasn't caused a war as a way to distract the country and the Congress from his legal and financial debacles.  That luck may be running out.


Apparently, Trump has removed exceptions to Iranian oil imports from eight countries in order to cut Iranian exports of oil to zero.  I suppose that sounds really tough and brave to the Trumpster base, but it looks ridiculously stupid to me. It looks like a consequence of this is that someone has sabotaged Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Gulf - Iran? Trump is throwing matches at gasoline.  And explosions are all too possible. 


Iran has been mostly complying with the nuclear deal with Europe even though our ignorant president pulled out of that deal.  Iran is now threatening to pull out of the restrictions of that deal and go back to building nuclear materials.  How lovely it is for our remarkably foolish president to push Iran toward building nukes, just so he can get off the front pages about his violations of the constitution.


Another amazingly stupid thing that Trump has already done is pick sides in the religious wars between the Sunni Saudi Arabia and the Shiite Iran.  What?  Both sides are filled with crazed religious fundamentalist fanatics and terrorists. One side isn't good and the other side bad.  Don't pick sides, for goodness sakes! 


So, for America to pick sides in the first place and then try its best to destabilize the situation now that Trump needs headlines to distract the country from Congressional investigations into his corruption has the potential for disaster and actual deaths.


I am guessing that the war hungry John Bolton, Trump's National Security Advisor, is avidly promoting how wonderful and manly it is to be tough against Iran.  But it seems to me that Trump's real motivation is to dominate the headlines and put the Trump corruption stories on the second pages of the papers.


What a very sad turn of events.

The Fraud in the White House

We finally got some tax returns of Donald J Trump, and they were just about what informed people expected - they showed colossal losses by the real estate developer - between 1985 and 1994 he lost $1.17 BILLION.  That may have been more losses than any other American over that time.  So much for the Successful Entrepreneur myth that he built around himself.  This is not a surprise to those who actually follow the news, real news, not the stuff that gets dumped into the Right Wing media propaganda bubble.  Donald Trump is a terrible businessman.


Donald Trump is a fraud.  He is a failure, not a success.  He doesn't have great wealth, he spends like he has great wealth, and that is not the same thing.


At about that point in time he could no longer get loans from reputable American banks.  Where did his money come from?  As best I can tell he ran a money laundering operation for Russian and perhaps Saudi Arabian oligarchs.  It looks like Deutsch Bank was often the facilitator for his money laundering.


His incompetence and buffoonery is on display every day in the White House.  And that is just a continuation of his incompetence and buffoonery in business prior to his presidency. 


He seems to be very good at one thing - propaganda, bluffing, image building, pumping up his Brand.  And enough are fooled to keep him going. 


Maybe he is good at money laundering, bank fraud, and tax evasion as well.  But two things he is not good at - being a businessman and being a president.


It is no mystery why this pathetic person is sooooooooooooooo desperate to keep his tax returns away from the public eye.  We will all see that he is not a billionaire; we will all see his monumental debts; we will all see that he is nothing but a fraud and a failure. 


The Wizard of Oz was about a pathetic little man behind a curtain manipulating a grand a powerful Wizard Puppet for the world to see and bow down before.  But is was just a sham, a fraud.  And all that was there was a pathetic little man who didn't want to be seen.  A good picture of the Fraud in the White House.

It's depressing that there are so many fools in the great country.  Time for them to wake up.