Of Mice and Politics

The Schloss-Blog is keeping tabs of former President Trump. Besides trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from gaining access to his papers, and besides trying to dodge bullets in investigations in New York (taxes) and Georgia (election tampering), he's backing 2022 candidates with, shall we say, backgrounds as shady as his own.

Oh, and he's selling that loser of a hotel in D.C. that has drained his finances for years.

Among the candidates he's backing is an all-star team of virtual Trump copycats and definite sycophants.

Eric Greitens is the former governor of Missouri, now running for a U.S. Senate seat there. Donald Trump has endorsed him despite allegations that during an extra-marital affair, to which he has  admitted, he tied up his mistress, who happened to be his stylist, in his house and allegedly tried to blackmail her with naked pictures if she ever spilled the beans. He's also been investigated for shady campaign financing, except, Josh Hawley, then Missouri attorney general, wound up not investigating him. Hmm...

Herschel Walker is a name familiar to everyone. The Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star is running for the Senate in Georgia and is endorsed by ... Trump, even though former senator and #COVIDiot Trumpie David Perdue (who lost in 2020 to political neophyte Jon Ossoff) is itching to run for the same seat held by Democratic Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Trump is backing Walker, who has allegedly threatened his wife's life, with a gun, and is also reportedly not as successful as he claims to be since departing the football field. In other words, like Trump, deceptive.

On the other hand, you're going to love Sean Parnell, running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. He is denying allegations that during divorce proceedings, he committed domestic abuse against his wife and even his kids. A real charmer.

Josh Mandel, meanwhile, an NJB, has remained extremely supportive throughout of Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He was briefly banned from Twitter though for making what the platform called "harmful comments" against immigrants. He's not the Nice Jewish Boy you want to bring home to meet your mother. But wouldn't you love to have him as your United States Senator?

But the grand-prize winner is Kristina Karamo. The candidate for secretary of state in Michigan, who would get to run state elections if she wins, firmly believes that Trump won the 2020 election and that Antifa is responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection, posing as stop-the-steal protesters.

Trump has also backed Republican losers Sharon Angle (Nevada) and Christine O'Donnell (Delaware). The latter ran for Vice President Joe Biden's then-vacated Senate seat.

And there's also the redistricted fight shaping up between House Republicans Alex Mooney and Dennis McKinley in West Virginia. Both have been Trump supporters, but Mooney was thumbs down on the Jan. 6 committee while McKinley supported its creation.

Guess which one Trump is backing?

Net/net, if you are a Republican who strayed even slightly from the Trump narrative, he is coming for you.

Coming for you to ruin your reputation. To take your political capital. To downgrade your political influence. Just ask Ted Cruz, a once-proud conservative Republican, who has thrown his wife, his kids, his pride under a bus in the name and service of Trump. 

Y'know,ictoria Secret  it's bad enough that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is projecting vengeance on his party's behalf for the censure of Paul ("Kill AOC") Gosar, but that McCarthy says that he holds his members to a "high standard."

If murderous videos of other House members is a "high standard," then we've just begun to see the depths to which the Republican Party has sunk. 

It's not that Democrats haven't had their duds (Maxine Waters, Cal Cunningham, Charles Rangel).But the Republican party platform now is 'Hatred." Pure and unadulterated. White supremacy. Racism. Conspiracy theories. Allegations without a trace of evidence.

But believed by millions.

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Footnote to Xmas shoppers: If you're looking for a Victoria's Secret gift for your sweetie, maybe consider a gift certificate. The popular center for Angels (a term being terminated this years) and sexy gifts says 50 percent of its usual gift merchandise just might be stuck in an offshore harbor.

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Looks like you can be 17, walk around with an AR-15, kill two people and seriously wound another, and get away with it. At least in Wisconsin.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Happy Thanksgiving. 

This Shit Is Really Happening. In America.

The Schloss-Blog is looking around America and thinking ... this shit is really happening.

Congressmen, GOP Congressmen, are receiving death threats as well as other "endearing" messages from constituents for voting to pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that is going to help every American.

Including the ones making the death threats.

It is pretty safe to say that Donald Trump has thoroughly embedded hatred into the national fabric.

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Speaking of Congress, Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) has posted a video adapted from an existing animated video in which he inserts himself killing - KILLING - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), and then turning on President Biden.

He says it's not what people are making it out to be.

It is pretty safe to say, however, that Donald Trump has embedded calls to violence into our national fabric.

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It took eight tries, but we finally have an Infrastructure Week to actually celebrate.

The first seven were all failed tries at legislation by the Trump administration. Here's the link to the list of the first seven (https://theweek.com/articles/839005/all-infrastructure-weeks-ranked).

It's pretty safe to say that Donald Trump has embedded multiple ways for economic failure into our national fabric.

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Might catch some flack for this, but watching bits, pieces and highlights of the Kyle Rittenhouse double-homicide trial, I saw a defendant break down and cry what looked to be were well-rehearsed crocodile tears.

I don't believe he has any remorse whatsoever.

What he does have is a prosecutor who screwed up.

It's pretty safe to say though that part of Donald Trump's legacy is that he inspired a 17-year old, with likely more out there, to pick up an AR-15 and run recklessly into a race-protest riot.

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COVID-19 continues to rear its ugly head across America, as cases are spiking in several statesw hile the pre-winter, pre-holiday-travel surges appears poised to launch.

In Fresno, California, cases are spiking, ICUs are over-burdened. Same in parts of California. And these are Blue States.

Meanwhile, an appeals court has blocked the Biden Administration's order for companies with more 100 employees to mandate vaccinations.

In other words, Trump's legacy of dismissing the coronavirus has left us with a generation's worth of people who will do anything to resist keeping America healthy.

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What's even more sickening about the Gosar video (see above) of him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the fact that Republican leadership in the House of Representatives (Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise), have said nothing - NOTHING - condemn it, let alone recommend sanctions against Gosar.

Donald Trump's legacy of calling for violent revenge against his political enemies lives on.

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Aaron Rodgers is a f-cking, lying #COVIDiot.

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If you've been observing any part of the trial of three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, who was jogging down a Georgia street in Any Neighborhood, USA, you know that the jury has just one Black member.

One.

In the view of the Schloss-Blog, this trial is the 21st century version of "Easy Rider" - in other words, the killing of "Easy Strider."

Trump's legacy of racial bias has become firmly embedded and emboldened into so many parts of our national fabric.

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Welcome to supply-chain inflation. Grocery, energy prices are spiking.

It's gonna' be a whole until they come down.

Maybe if Trump had attacked the virus more aggressively... maybe if the government hadn't handed out so much money to the Resignation Generation, on a bipartisan basis... who knows.

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If you have any spare Ivermectin laying around, please send it to Aaron Rodgers. He'll send you back a thank you note, a nice autographed picture and a reduced-price ticket to a Joe Rogan personal appearance somewhere.

The legacy of #COVIDiot misinformation and disinformation on social media.

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Finally, after the tragedy at the Houston Astroworld Festival concert in which eight died, you have to ask, has anyone learned their lessons from as far back as...

• The University of Wisconsin football game disaster in October, 1993, in which 73 students were crushed, 6 critically;
• The Hillsborough Stadium disaster in Sheffield, England, in which 766 people were badly injured and 97 killed;
• And The Who concert disaster in 1989 in Cincinnati, where 11 people died, so many more were injured.

And this was not the first crowd-control disaster as this Houston event.

Who does Travis Scott think he is, Donald Trump?

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show. 

 

It Doesn't Matter...

The Schloss-Blog is thinking this morning that there's a lot that doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter who's in office, your taxes are going up. Count on it.

It doesn't matter who's in office, Social Security and Medicare funding are going to decline.

Which means your taxes are going up.

It doesn't matter who's in office, the United States' national debt will continue to rise.

Until the interest on it is the largest portion of the U.S. budget.

And it already has surpassed our GNP.

It doesn't matter who's in office, our air will continue to be polluted.

Unnecessarily..

Thank you Joe Manchin.

It doesn't matter who's in office, racism will continue to rear it's ugly head,

Again.

And again.

And again.

It doesn't matter who's in office, the next Kyle Rittenhouse is out there.

With an AR-15 strapped over his shoulder.

It doesn't matter who's in office, critical race theory will continue to be an object of attack for ... no other way to say this ... racists.

It doesn't matter who's in office, conspiracy theorists continue to promote illicitly that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Why isn't he in jail yet?

It doesn't matter who's in office, your prescription costs will continue to rise.

No matter what.

So will your medical costs.

It doesn't matter who's in office, millions upon millions of people believe the conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and about coronavirus vaccine injections.

It doesn't matter who's in office, governments will continue to fund sports teams' facilities.

Because emotionally, fans want them to. And fandom overrules "brain-dom."

Yes, it doesn't matter who's in office. Because it doesn't.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.