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The World Series

Trump attended a baseball game.  He was greeted with booing when introduced, and some in the crowd chanted "Lock him up."  So sorry.

Take him out of the office
Drag him out if you must
Go back to Trump steaks and lousy hotels
Please take Eric and Junior as well
We all root root root for impeachment
If Trump's not removed it's insane
For it's one term is more than enough
You're a shame, shame, shame.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 10/28/2019

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Geography Lesson

Trump claims to be a genius with a very high IQ, but he doesn't know that Colorado does not border Mexico?

10/23/2019

Post Tortoise

Quotes from a General

President Trump fired him (after he submitted his resignation) and earlier this week reportedly called him "the world's most overrated general," but former Defense Secretary James Mattis had a few barbs of his own to sling in a speech he gave in New York on Thursday.

Delivering the keynote address at the 75th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, James Mattis — a retired four-star U.S. Marine general — said he felt he had finally "achieved greatness."

"I'm not just an overrated general, I am the greatest, the world's most overrated," he said to laughter.

"I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump, because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress," Mattis continued. "So, I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals. Frankly that sounds pretty good to me."

"I earned my spurs on the battlefield ... Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor," he said in a reference to a medical deferment for bone spurs that kept Trump from serving in the military during the Vietnam War.

But Mattis quickly moved on from the jokes and picked up a more serious tone, citing a speech that Abraham Lincoln gave in 1838 to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill.

In it, Lincoln "observed great nations crumble for one of two reasons," the first being foreign invasion, Mattis said, which the future president dismissed as "inconceivable."

The second, he said, paraphrasing Lincoln, "was corrosion from within – the rot, the viciousness, the lassitude, the ignorance."

"Anarchy is one potential consequence of all this. The other is the rise of an ambitious leader, unfettered by conscience, or precedent or decency, who would make himself supreme," he said.

In conclusion, Mattis again paraphrased Lincoln, this time that president's famous Second Inaugural speech, delivered in the closing days of the Civil War: "With malice for none and charity for all, let us restore trust in one another."

— Condensed from www.npr.org  10/17/2019

Ceasefire? Sure

A short time ago, Vice-President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an announcement that a “peace” had been brokered with Turkey over the conflict in Syria.  Trump immediately gave an impromptu talk regarding this news calling the ceasefire an “incredible outcome.”

When asked to comment on Trump’s reaction, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said:

Our president declared victory in a war that, as far as we can tell, he caused. Also declared success and reveling in the fact that he just successfully negotiated a peace settlement with an ally of ours, a NATO ally of ours. And also effectively declared mission accomplished in something that appears, by all accounts, to be only a five-day pause.

And if I have seen one thing about the way we progress in wars in this nation and around the world, nothing is accomplished when it's apparently accomplished.

Interestingly the Turkish Foreign Minister said “This is not a ceasefire.”