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Campaign T — Let the story write itself

*Campaign T (or just, T) — What EFD refers to as the campaign of the Republican candidate for president of the United States of America. Here’s why I refuse to mention his name.

T read his speech last night like he was a third-grader running for class recording secretary. It seems he was even trying to sound ridiculous. Well he did sound ridiculous. Of course, he sounds ridiculous anyway. He promised everything except the moon. I’m sure he might do that on down the line. Provided he doesn’t do something foolish, which his candidacy for president and his campaign has been by and large.

But I don’t need to report all of this. I can just link and link some more. Hell, this story writes itself. Why should I wear my fingers to the bone?

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That “guy” is driving his party nuts.

Okay. I will no longer, at least until I decide I will, use the name “Donald Trump,” or “Trump,” or “The Donald,” or any such combinations including “that ass***e Trump.” In keeping with my present guidelines, I will just make a few comments on the Republican candidate for U.S. president.

It seems the headline today for political news would be “Disarray!” Yes, and make that hed in big old 72-point, bold letters.

There is no doubt plenty of dumpster fires are around for the Republicans to extinguish as the GOP candidate continues shooting off his mouth. But there is one thing continuing to work in favor of the big orange man, that is the networks — especially the cable ones — can’t stop talking about him. That he can control the news cycle has worked in his favor, such as during the primary when these networks gave him virtually free advertising.

Still, as my friend Paul in Tokyo said some time over (my) night on the What’s App chat app:

 “Yep, Meg Whitman, the dominoes are falling.”

“I’m not quite there yet,” the GOP candidate said, mocking Paul Ryan’s hesitation.

My question is where will all those former strippers — those who act as the GOP candidate’s surrogates on the news shows — go?

I know. That isn’t nice. But what the hay? I don’t like my Goebbles in short skirts (or anywhere else for that matter.)

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Hope in one hand …

It’s Monday. Oh joy. I am tired. I ache. Most of my ache remains from a fall I took more than a week ago into the bathtub while taking a shower. Yeah, don’t. My neck on the right side has hurt more in the past few weeks than I can recall in several years. X-rays were taken on my ribs and a CT scan on my neck. This was last week when I went to the VA emergency room while staying in Houston. Nothing was broken, they said. But I still hurt.

No one really cares about my aches, I know. I just think I owe those who still read my blog an excuse. On second thought, I really don’t.

But I will say this. That damned Donald Trump! I know some people like him, or see him the only alternative to Hillary Clinton. But there really is no alternative, that is, if you want your vote to represent something — like not losing.

I hope the Trump chump will not go all litigious on the political system. There is much that I hope. What’s that saying? Hope in one hand, s**t in the other?

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Clinton: No charges that we’ll hear about until infinity

Without a doubt I am likely missing a “talking-head fest” on CNN or other cable outlets right now. I could turn my television on in perhaps a flat two seconds, maybe a shorter period of time. But I ask myself, why?

One wouldn't want Hillary as your IT director. But she isn't going to jail, at least anytime soon. Government photo
One wouldn’t want Hillary as your IT director. But she isn’t going to jail, at least anytime soon. Government photo

Unless the President, who is on the campaign trail with presumed Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, made some serious gaffe or in a moment of excitement decided to expose himself “in front of God and everybody,” the topic will likely be Hillary.

FBI Director James Comey made a step-by-step statement this morning concerning what government investigators found in their long investigation over e-mails used and sent by former  Secretary Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But, said the FBI director — a Republican appointee of George W. “GW” Bush — there was nothing found in the investigation into Clinton’s e-mails other than carelessness. Certainly, nothing was found that would make a prosecutor want to proceed with criminal charges against the presidential candidate.

Of course, GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump cried foul six ways to Sunday. “The system is rigged,” whined Trump.

Trump surrogates and mouth pieces lit into the decision that most likely means Clinton will unlikely face any charges into faulty e-mail practices. And probably into the next General Election will we hear all kinds of complaints about Clinton and the “damn  e-mails,” as Independent/Democrat U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said during his campaign against Clinton for the D nomination.

But we will continue to hear about the e-mails and Benghazi from now until who knows when.

Well, I have just enough time to do a quick edit on this before I turn on the local news to see if our local TV reporters are better today than they were yesterday in covering what’s happening in our area. There’s always hope. But hope doesn’t get ya ratings!!!

Boy, do I really need a life.

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Suffering political fatigue? Just think of “Fog.”

Someone, I think it was a journalist, on National Public Radio was speaking about an interview this morning by the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. The person speaking, it might have even been Capehart, told NPR that even if Hillary Clinton is elected presidents the Republicans will continue to hound her for the email scandal and the Benghazi attacks in which U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens along with Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA security contractors, were killed by terrorists.

That is unnerving, that should Clinton win the election over presumed GOP candidate Donald Trump, the Republican congressmen and other grudge-holding party hacks, will continue to spend millions of the taxpayers’ dollars for made-up scandals — Benghazi and e-mail — intended to hurt Clinton and the Democrats.

Lynch says she was speaking about her so-called chance encounter with former President Bill Clinton when he boarded her plane and they supposedly chatted about “their grandchildren” and matters that didn’t have anything to do with the Justice Department probe of Hillary or, as Bernie Sanders said, ” … her damn e-mail!”

Of course, if the American electorate has any sense, they will reject Trump by the highest margin ever, and perhaps send a solid majority of Democrats to the Senate. Maybe even a sufficient number of Democrats will make their way to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Even so, that is depressing news, for the non-Dem-hating public to be told to expect the same old bullshit over and over ad nauseam. Of course, if we have to endure such foolishness, it will be the voters’ fault. The people elected Billy Jeff Clinton, and may just elect Hillary R. Clinton. HRC is a much better choice than Donald Trump on any day. But I think Hillary barely edges Trump when it comes to likeability.

I am not so sure as whether all Democrats are so wild about Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as a vice presidential candidate to run with Clinton. I mean, politically, she is a firebrand and seems to be a progressive in the line of Bernie Sanders, the independent/Democrat, U.S. senator from Vermont. While that might be good for political unity among the Democrats, I just think the progressive wing of the party is going where they will just end up disappointed.

A hefty Democrat majority in Congress, both House and Senate, is a requirement for pushing measures forward such as a $15 per hour minimum wage or free public college tuition. Whether either Democrat wishes have a chance in hell, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in November. And, as well as likely beyond.

I feel a major case of campaign fatigue coming on. However, I expect I will let it come and go, to paraphrase Carl Sandburg, like fog on little cat feet.

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

— “Fog” by Carl Sandburg