SINCE THE DOJ BOWED TO TRUMP’S DEMANDS, I HAVE TO WONDER WHETHER DONNY’S PRESIDENCY OR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY IS ON BURROWED TIME?

I was sitting awaiting a hair cut and spent the entire time trying not to punch in a wall or scream my lungs out… there is no collusion… It’s been over year… Have you been in a cave sir?

YES ITS GOTTEN THIS BAD, Donald J. Trump pulls a rabbit out of his ass, concocts a conspiracy, and the Department of Justice now bows done and investigates the charges. Am I the only one who finds this latest lowering of the bar a bit frightening? Somehow the DOJ is now his personal play thing? We’ve gone from President Barack Obama supposedly wiretapping, to Trump accusing Obama of now infiltrating his campaign with not one “spy” but many. Somehow no matter what insanity Donald comes up with or whatever talking points he’s learned from his morning ritual of Fox and Friends or where ever, can now be investigated with just simply a twitter spasm in the morning, evidence be damned.  

The annoyance in all this of course is that the man and seemingly all of his associates are under investigation for numerous crimes. And all we hear as a defense are excuses for why the investigation should never have happened in the first place, not about the possible criminal or worse treasonous acts that they might have done or might still be doing. That part of the conversation is never on their lips. All they do is whine that its “fake” news and that the investigation is taking so long. Not that any of the connected dots could be real, but how much money that they are spending on it. Forgetting the millions they wasted on Hillary Clinton and the many other bogus conspiracies. Not once do we even get believable explanations as to why under every speck of dust a Russian is hiding, or now we’ve learned other foreign dignitaries are slithering. Not to mention, why is every member of the deplorable basket of losers all striking deals that will benefit only themselves, and too many of them are living like kings on the peoples dime. That’s right, who gets to pay the price, we the citizens of what was once known as The United States of America, or as it should now be called Trumpland. All those weekend getaways, the meetings taking place in Mar-a-Lago, or as they call it the Southern White house, that’s right, Donald doesn’t pay, we do, he just pockets the fees. Somehow all this canoodling with all these foreigners before he was elected has nothing to do with helping Trump get into office, and none of the meetings afterwards has anything to do with Donald and his minions pocketing millions for themselves. 

So Trump drums up a conspiracy, by alleging that there was a “spy” or several in his campaign, that were put in place by either Hillary, Barack, those damned crooked Democrats, or the FBI themselves. Perhaps that 500 lb., fatso that Trump outed as the real hacker was the James Bond in Trump’s inner circle? Except if he was so fat, how come nobody saw him? So Donny tweets, goes off on a tangent about spies in his midst, if true as he explains, this too will be yet another crime larger than Watergate perpetuated by others against his greatness. Doesn’t it get old, this never ending stream of ever growing conspiracies? Somehow each new threat on him, comes out conveniently after something on him or his minions is reported that should be the final nail in his coffin. Just like before the election with WikiLeaks, the man is magical with his timing, just as something bad on him comes out, boom. The problem we face is, he is our President now, and each time he comes out with a new one, the bar gets lowered that much further. How many more steps does it take before we have to start goose stepping on the streets of America?

So this time, the DOJ bowed a little, just wondering how far Donald has to go before the DOJ actually puts their foot down and says no, that’s one step too far. And if horrible that day occurs, I tremble at the fear of how Donald would react to it. Will that day be the day, he transforms from a President into the full blown tyrant I fear he so craves to become. Sounds paranoid huh? But as the attacks against the investigation spreads farther, the fear in me that he will overthrow our government grows louder. I mean, now that he can get the Department of Justice to jump at one of his twitter decrees, I’m wondering how soon will talk by him of halting the vote begin?  

Of course if the man was innocent as he keeps telling us all to believe, one would think that he would spend less time behaving like a guilty man and more time trying to prove to everyone why they should be happy he’s now our President. I guess I can understand why it might upset him, that there’s this cloud above my head, if I was innocent. But instead of behaving like well a President Barack Obama or even a George Walker Bush, let alone a Richard Nixon and at least act presidential, all we get is a man who insults the very meaning of being the leader of the free world. 

Whats troubling to me is that all this witch hunt garbage might be working. As I discovered while waiting for a hair cut the other day. Listening to, to put it nicely a fool, who was receiving his trim, made me want to punch the wall in front of me in. As I pretended the birds were chirping and the sun was shining, inside I was having what I guess could be called road rage. I tried not to listen to him spout off on how long the investigation has been going, how they haven’t found anything, that it was all fake, was to put it nicely unnerving. But what was worse was the way he was describing the investigation as a witch hunt, using words uttered on Fox or by Trump’s sheep’s social media posts. So Trump’s madness might have a method to it that works. The longer the investigation goes on, the more time Trump and his cronies can attempt to make it look bogus. I mean there was something, wouldn’t they have come out with something by now? And it went on for minutes, as I stewed inside trying not to go all Mueller on his sheep droppings.

How difficult is it to remember that the only ones not coming out to talk about the investigation are the people doing the investigation, that when they finish, if they finish, then we will find out what they have on him. So, so far we’ve gotten nothing from them, at least some people are doing their jobs and not spending all their time on television pitching whatever they can to try to sway public opinion, if not the rule of law. So instead we get people who are leaking Intel for and against Trump. Of course, as we’ve learned so far, with Trump’s concocted witch hunt, in the real world, real criminals are being named by the droves. Mueller’s team has already gotten 5 or 6 convictions, 15 individual indictments and 3 corporate indictments so far. 

Sadly according to the talking heads, the poll numbers for Donald and the Republicans running for office somehow are actually getting better. Beats me why. Unfortunately, the masses are getting used to Donald’s shenanigans, I guess. Listening to the fool getting a trimming, proved its working for some. Somehow all the nuttiness and horrors we’ve been living through has magically disappeared into a fake news world, and all the brain dead  sheep out there, all they want is to discuss how good the economy is supposedly doing.

It reminds me of after Barack Obama became President, and the same monsters that got us into the mess that were the reason he got elected in the first place, were now the so-called experts all over television being listened to as geniuses. Seriously, the fools that destroyed our economy and got us into a now never-ending war, were now the all seeing Gods we were all supposed to agree with. I’m still shaking my head at how many instantly fell in line with their lies. 

So what do we do now? Just lie back and take the pain till we somehow survive Trump’s tenure as President? That is if any of us do. Should we allow the monsters to win cause its getting pretty exhaustive just arguing the facts to the sheep? Should we actually forget all their treasonous acts that he and his associates might have done to become President? Or the multitude of criminal acts that he, his family and his associates might have done since entering the White House that are being revealed while the investigation is on going. With all the chatter on criminal actions, from what one see’s and listens to, apparently no matter what happens or whats revealed, Trump will probably last out his first term, if not his second. That is if he ever leaves the White House. Why do I have a bad feeling in my gut that the only way Donald is actually gonna be escorted out, is when he decides he’s had enough. Watching Donald Trump and his minions, bend the rules on a daily basis to work in their favor, I wouldn’t be too surprised if he remains President for life. Yes I wrote for life. Ironically half his pitch to the masses near the end of the campaign, was, God forbid Hillary wins, she’s gonna spend her presidency under investigation and impeachment trials, how could our nation survive that ordeal? Seems, he was right about half of the equation. Even if the true smoking gun is revealed in this saga I’m afraid nothing will stop Donald from having a crown placed upon his head before this sad time has turned into history.  

After George Walker Bush won his reelection, after taking us into a false war, I pretty much gave into the negatives. But I never was scared our democracy was in danger of disappearing. Even when Donald won his Presidency I still had hope. 8 years of the positives with Barack Obama as President can do a lot for your psyche. Unfortunately since Trump’s win, all of my worst fears have come true. As our nation has been smacked daily by a never ending stream of lies, hypocrisy, and grift by the man in charge and possibly all of his minions, this mayhem has taken me back to being the Debbie Downer I was for the eight long years of George Walker Bush’s false presidency. Need I remind you about that hanging Chad debacle.   

Now that the Republicans have all three branches of the government, all we hear from Trump is that whatever isn’t accomplished is the Democrats fault. Forgetting of course that they have all the power and the Democrats are currently like the step children sitting in the next room eating scraps. Unnervingly this week Donald was blaming the Democrats for the missing 1,500 immigrant children that ICE separated from their parents. Somehow his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who implemented this heinous procedure isn’t to blame, but President Barack Obama is. 

Donald comes out on a regular basis, almost like clockwork with a conspiracy, an attack, utter nonsense, the craziest idea you have ever heard, and whatever he says, tweets, decrees is taken as fact. Throw away all common sense and evidence, and just ruin the lives of whomever you like to get your agenda accomplished. Anything to save himself. So we get to this week’s absurdity, the FBI had a spy imbedded into Trump’s campaign, working for Hillary, the FBI, Barack Obama, or was it the DNC? A few weeks back this was a conspiracy that crazy people uttered, now we have a President demanding the Department of Justice investigate this week’s “worse than Watergate” scandal. Or as the man himself tweeted ‘‘This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!’

This latest Trump fiction of course took precedent for all the talking heads. Much like Hillary’s emails and the Benghazi waste of air time that swept away any questions on Trumps taxes, even on his health, let alone what he would actually do if elected president. Best to keep everyone on their toes. That is until we the people have had our democracy taken away out from under us, without even knowing it till its too late. The scary part in all this is I wonder whats next? I would think if I was innocent, I would want my named cleared. Not to mention his children’s. 

So now we had “Spygate” as he called it. I just shiver wondering whats to come. We went from wiretapping to having a spy imbedded into his campaign. In an instant, like most of Donald’s other accusations, this week’s came out just as another pile of crap has been reported that could upend his presidency, that is if and when the investigation is ever allowed to be completed. Well I’m happy to report, sadly for Donald, apparently his ‘spy’ conspiracy has turned into a bust, there was no spy there. And so instead we now have Trumpeters arguing what a spy is, they actually have people on air explaining what the definition of spying is, to try to make the now debunked crime, still a talking point in Donald’s favor. So Mr. Trump, if I was you, I’d sit back and relax. You should be happy that all your fears were washed away. That again, as the most paranoid President since Nixon, remember you were wrong, no one is out to get him. Whoops, I’m afraid thats incorrect, there is one person out to get Donald, and thats his own guilty conscious.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Wednesday, May 30, 2018

CAMPAIGN PROMISE FULFILLED, CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED, AND NOW HE WANTS TO BE KING!

As always with Trump, its what I want blinders on, no thought how the ramifications could hurt others. So now its a new embassy in Israel, and already 52 people are dead! Donald, those deaths are on your head sir.

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG… so Trump decided to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, what could go wrong? Or in his own words, what do you have to lose?  Go wrong! Not that I needed to tell him, but people died! Unbelievable as with everything else, whatever Donald does, he always steps in it, and sadly each time he does, people’s lives are hurt, worsened or ended. That’s what happens when you hire a man with no experience, no common sense, no compassion or heart, with a bit of insanity thrown in the mix. Oh, and I shouldn’t forget to add to the list the bad feeling that keeps growing in me, that we have a President whose toying with becoming a dictator out loud. Now I have to ponder if his possible removal from office will occur before Trump has the chance to turn our little nation into his kingdom. 

By now, it should be obvious whenever Trump says anything, it always has some hidden agenda in it. Or its his subconscious letting us know whats coming soon that we should all worry about, and of course attacking others for crimes that he himself has been committing. Not to mention when he sends out a decree on twitter and somehow that tweet becomes law. Tell me again how your one vote doesn’t matter? Again, as Trump asked, what do you have to lose? Just life as we’ve known if since we the colony’s became what is still called the United States of America. So during his comments in a rally in Elkhart, Ind., if even said in jest while talking about his triumph of the embassy opening, what he said has to concern any person who wishes our democracy remains one. No seriously! Unbelievably, during his commentary on the stomp, while reveling in his own greatness, I’m not sure if it was scripted or off the cuff, but Trump I guess joked that “The new embassy, I said ‘when is it going to be open.’ They said ‘anywhere from five to 10 years,’ “So, I said, ‘unless they give me an extension for the presidency, which I don’t think the fake news media would be too happy about. Actually they would be happy, because when I’m not here, their ratings are going to sink. So they’ll probably be very happy,” I know I may be grasping at straws, but when I heard it, I freaked out just a little. And if past is prologue it should freak you out to. He joked about extending his residency in the White House. You know like his friends, led by Vladimir have done. As the sheep in the Republican Party follow along like brainwashed minions, and one by one his decrees take away everything that actually makes America great, why is it far-fetched that the next step is King. Why not? He already has his state run television running smoothly.  

As for the opening, did they not realize what they were pulling by moving the embassy, how it would cause protests, and wide-spread clashes on the Gaza-Israel border? Did the fool not think that people would get hurt, injured, and killed, or did he not care? Considering most of the victims in all this, the people living there weren’t white, yes I’m going there, I guess they were expendable? Okay I shouldn’t be so mean, it had nothing to do with their color or their faith, maybe it had everything to do with Trump’s putting his stamp on the globe and history. Look something nobody else has ever done, screw the consequences. I’m Donald J. Trump world builder! Kneel before Drumpf!

In his quest for world dominion, I think Donald thinks this is all a game, a reality show and his moves are like the plays in a board game. He doesn’t seem to realize that his whims, have real world repercussions. Trump only see’s his view, and never considers others. In a crazy way, he’s kind of like Thanos, the big bad in the Marvel Universe. His mission to kill off 50% of the population, to save the universe. Living though another one of Trump’s plans in an odd way, feels like just another one of Thanos’ steam rolling over other worlds. Perhaps Donald doesn’t even care about anyone but himself? Look at his lack of humanity with any of the tragedies that have happened under his watch. Remember the people in Puerto Rico, he seems to have completely forgotten them. How about the victims of gun violence, silence. Anything Donald? I think Donald expected the bloodshed, but only as if it happened on his television screen. Which is why he wasn’t about to show up, and so he sent a video instead. Just like Big Brother would have done. Trump may be crazy but he’s not stupid,  he might sound nuts, but scarily I think there is some kind of plan he or someone else devised that he is following. Even the way he attacks the Mueller investigation at every turn, like with everything else, his attacks have a method, and sadly we are living in whatever game this monster is playing. If that wasn’t the reason, and I’m sticking by it, perhaps instead he was simply too cowardly to make an appearance. I mean the man faked bone spurs to get out of going off to war, you think he’s ever gonna get into a real fight or put himself into a cross hairs of real trouble? He might try to sound tough, but my feeling is if he was ever a prisoner of war, the man would crumble before the first slap was thrown.

Instead of going and crowing in the Holy land, Donald was probably too busy watching Fox and Friends, playing golf or tweeting out lies and well other lies to jet off with the family for a little vacation overseas. So he sent his daughter, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supposedly is the real brains in this historical whim, with his closeness to the Israel leader helping to broker this scheme. Not surprising, the person who probably said the biggest tone deaf comment of the entire day was Jared Kushner who said Palestinians participating in Gaza border protests are ‘part of the problem and not part of the solution.’ How do I say this Junior, look in the mirror? You guys are causing the problems, not solving it. And of course his pet Jew, Steven Mnuchin, and yes I went there. Who smiled at this very unnecessary and sadly war inducing event as if he was the cat who ate the canary.

Oh, speaking of religion, turns out that the religious leader that was invited to make the big prayer during the opening ceremony in Jerusalem for an event that never needed to be done in the first place, was as usual with Trump selections, wrong for the job. Mitt Romney, actually tweeted out a comment, that probably says it all. ‘Robert Jeffress says “you can’t be saved by being a Jew,“ and “Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell.”  He’s said the same about Islam. Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.’

So another Trump pick turns out to be a white racist douche bag, talk about something getting old. How much money do you want to bet that he also has a few Russian pals in his congregation who are in bed with Vladimir. What is that God, Vlad’s a good guy and the Democrats are the devil? Or was that lets pray and pray, that the big guy upstairs listens to confessions, and forgives as opposed to turning us sinners into pillars of salt, cause otherwise I be going to hell, Robert Jeffress. 

I must add that moving the embassy to Jerusalem, isn’t something everyone is against. In fact the senior Senator of New York, and the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just released this statement which stated “In a long overdue move, we have moved our embassy to Jerusalem. Every nation should have the right to choose its capital. I sponsored legislation to do this two decades ago, and I applaud President Trump for doing it.”.  Now I am no expert in Middle East politics, but witnessing what is occurring right now surely looks like an end run on the Palestines and the end of their power in the region. Which mean get ready for a fight, because, they won’t go down quietly. 

So I’m just trying to figure out what part of this embassy move has to do with President Barack Obama’s actions. I mean isn’t that what Donny does? Whatever his predecessor did, or wouldn’t have done, because he looked at what the ramifications of actions could cause, as opposed to conspiracy talkers online on late night cable shows that spew uneducated theories, that right now thanks to our 45th President, his whims might send the middle east into yet another war. Oh, now I get it. There you go, its because President Barack Obama wouldn’t have done this in a million years, that he decided to do it. Question answered.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Monday, May 14, 2018

QUIT KILLING THE MESSENGER, MICHELLE WOLF ISN’T THE PROBLEM

What hypocrisy, the White House and the media simply can’t take a joke, or handle the truth. Apparently the monsters trying to destroy our democracy and those who are profiting over it aren't the problem, the comedian is.  

WHY THE SUDDEN OUTRAGE OVER A FEW JOKES? It seems throwing the truth into the faces of liars and those profiting from it in a comedic act is now a crime worth destroying a persons career over. Without sounding like I’m begging, but lets not allow people’s misinterpretations of Michelle Wolf’s comedic jabs by snowflakes, hypocrites and losers, destroy her comedic voice of truth and sarcasm. It wasn’t that long a go they tried and pretty much succeeded in destroying Kathy Griffin’s career, at least for a while, when she had the audacity to make a political statement that insulted The Donald. Look at what they did to her for a photo, and lets not forget she apologized for it. But for the fans of Trump too bad, for them she went too far. Seems in the Kingdom run by Donald Drumpf, all those who dare to make fun of Heir Trump must pay with their livelihoods. Why is he allowed to attack and accuse all he wants to and never gets hurt, while everyone else gets attacked, for words or deeds that never ever get close to the crap he pulls?

Listening to the fallout over a comedic bit, as the snowflakes out there shout loudly at the outrage over jokes, which are being misinterpreted is maddening. In the age of Donald J. Trump, the fact that he and his minions, can distort reality with conspiracies and lies, and instead of being called out on it, kicked off air and drummed outta office, they get invited back for more. But the voices of resistance, reason, and humor get accused of practically every crime in the book. I must admit, when I first watched Michelle Wolf’s roast of the powers that be, I didn’t see the entire set of jokes on Trump, his minions and the media, but I witnessed most of it, about 12 minutes out of the 16. I was walking home late Saturday night and watched it on my iPhone on Youtube, and it definitely made the journey a much more interesting experience. While I can understand why some jokes offended people, and how others might find her delivery a little jarring, with a voice reminiscent of a young Roseanne Barr or Fran Drescher in The Nanny. But nothing she said was outta bounds, and every one of her targets deserved what she dealt out, especially Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s White House Press Secretary.

I do get why some might have thought her comedy set at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ dinner weren’t funny or worse, but what I don’t get is the onslaught of righteous anger? Have none of these idiots ever heard of this event before? Ever seen any of the jokes told by some of todays biggest political comedians. Every year there is outrage over a joke or ten that hits too close to home, but this year somehow seems different. The attacks on the comedic host more biting and point blank threatening. Last year, Hasan Minhaj hosted, another The Daily Show alumni, and the year before there was Larry Wilmore, and their jokes were just as biting as her’s were last night. But she’s a woman, and most importantly this time the people getting smacked for their hypocrisy happen to side with Donald. The insanity of this is we are talking about jokes which at no time ever reach the levels of vile, filth, and disgust that Trump has spewed at any number of events, sometimes on a daily pace. Half of his tweets go farther than anything she said in her routine. Plus nothing she said was a lie, unlike practically everybody associated with the Trump family singers, which are led by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You know the one with the *perfect* smoky eye. I must admit the first time I head the joke, I mistook what she said as ‘fat’ and not ‘facts’ but I instantly rewound the video to make sure I got the joke right, and thought it was a home run. This is the joke she said that has now made her a target for the sheep, “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” Now in my opinion that commentary is a perfect take down on the lying voice box of the so-called President. So Michelle Wolf, I presume trying to stem the tide trying to wash over her, came out in a tweet about it by responding to another tweet by Mika Brzezinski, who I guess misinterpreted the joke in a similar fashion that I had initially had. “Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials.”

The worse insult in all of this is that the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, the person who hired her, Margaret Talev, actually released a statement criticizing Michelle Wolf’s performance. Instead of siding with her rights to speak her mind, she sided with her detractors. Ironically the annual dinner is “billed as a celebration of freedom of the press and the First Amendment” and the idiot running it bends over to pressure from Trump who has suggested killing the annual event off for good. Seems in the age of Trump, if you speak ill of him and his minions, you need to be offed, imprisoned or more appropriately disappeared. Its like we are living in Russia, as Vladimir’s detractors and foes one by one get poisoned and killed off. 

Now to put this into perspective of what wrong with this hypocrisy, right now Sean Hannity still is seen nightly spewing the same lies and conspiracies that our President does on a daily basis. Every attack on the FBI and the Mueller investigation parroted. Still on the air only weeks after the nation was stunned of learning Michael Cohen wasn’t just Trump’s attorney but also Hannity’s. At present, there is a real possibility at least in my mind, that Sean and Donald and Michael have all been working together for years. Their verbal assaults possibly coordinated in Vladimir’s office. So why is Sean allowed to continue on air? Shouldn’t they give him a needed vacation as they investigate the possible illegalities? I mean after pretty much lying by omission by not telling his audience that he’s in bed with Michael Cohen, how on Earth can a so-called news station allow this criminal his coveted spot? Millions of people’s perceptions have been tainted by his not letting them in on who his legal counsel is. I personally know of several seemingly normal people who spout off practically word for word the bull that they have seen on his program. I understand that Fox News now claims that his show is really entertainment and not news, but his audience doesn’t seem to know it, and they don’t appear to want to trumpet the reality of the cable channels hypocrisy. So why is the joke on air named Hannity allowed to fester but Michelle Wolf telling a few jokes that some find offensive is grounds to attack her and to actually threaten to end the annual event? Seems his saying “pussy” and other vulgarities are now nothing. But anyone else’s is grounds to call for yet another comedian’s head.

Donald’s year and a half in power has started to destroy whatever common decency was left in our world, because apparently Trump can get away with anything. As he said “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” perhaps we was right? Because in this backward world we are living in, anyone else who dares to attack him or his minions gets the worse possible punishments. Look at how they attacked Hillary Clinton, look at his lies about President Barack Obama, and how he attacked pretty much everyone with insults and accusations, and nothing is ever too far for him with his fans. One hopes that one of these days the world will go back to normal again before it cracks into a million or so pieces. At least I hope people would begin to find his nonstop lies and daily insanity to be getting a bit old and repetitive, but as of now the party in power ain’t doing anything to rid themselves of their deal maker. But with the Fox News world continuing to pitch entertainment programming as if they were state run television, sadly too many sheep out there will continue to believe whatever conspiracies or lies they report as fact. 

Until Trump’s ugliness is revealed in such a way as to take away whatever spell has his minions in rapture, apparently no matter what he says or does will remove him from office. Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, keeps coming out to argue the case that we shouldn’t talk Impeachment, even as the clamor for it grows daily, because right now its just a pipe dream. Obviously until the Democrats get the majority in the Congress, nothing the Democrats do has any weight to it. But even if the Democrats do win back the majority, and somehow Trump does get impeached in the House, removing Donald is still just a fantasy to those who are suffering under his leadership. So if they somehow get past act one of the legal removal of a President, the second act in the impeachment proceedings then goes to the Senate, where a two-thirds majority vote is needed to convict a President and remove him from office. But even if the Democrats win the majority there too, getting the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster is a hard number to reach. And until something comes out that will shut up the liars and doubting Thomases the Republicans probably will never jump ship. That is until enough evidence of collusion or other crimes against the state come out and unless enough political leaders in power see the light, even if Trump gets impeached, his removal is still a long shot. We can hope that Trump makes some kind of deal with Mueller or the Congress to step down if eventually he realizes his now revealed crimes will eventually find him in prison stripes or worse on death row, depending whatever criminal acts turn out to be the ones he actually did.  

A year ago or so, Kathy Griffin sent out her fateful tweet, and was turned into a pariah in the eyes of too many, and over night went from the D-List star to Persona non grata. She and others talked about the fear that comedians now had with the current political landscape. How some had to now self-censor themselves in fear that their careers might be ruined as Kathy’s seemingly was for a while. Hopefully this tsunami against Michelle Wolf will blow over as quickly as every one of Trump’s own daily outbursts do, and the talking heads will go on to their next victim and leave her alone, and her now ascending career continues its trajectory.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Tuesday, May 1, 2018