A Dogcatcher in Dubuque
Using
the 2016 Presidential vote as a benchmark, about 127,000,000 voters cast
ballots for the two major party candidates and another six million voted for
minor candidates. So let’s start with a 133,000,000 pool of voters. Consistently, pollsters have shown that
despite criticism of him, President Trump has hung onto the support of about
40% of the American people, which converted to the numbers above comes out to
about 53,000,000 voters. They apparently
will not be shaken.
This
puts the Republican Party in an awful position.
If they face the facts and recognize the President’s shortcomings and
vulnerabilities, they risk losing the support of about 40% of the electorate,
as defined above. That’s 53,000,000
votes nationwide! As it is, the
Democrats have more supporters numerically than do the Republicans although
demographics have resulted in at least the Senate and many State governments
remaining in Republican hands. But this
Republican strength could not withstand the desertion of these voters who are
steadfastly behind the President, until the bitter end, whenever and whatever
than might be. A Republican Party which theoretically
abandons Donald J. Trump would risk the almost certain loss of many if not most of those 53,000,000
voters and we would soon have large , insurmountable Democratic majorities in both the House and
the Senate and Democratic control of most State legislatures and governorships. That’s why it is not going to happen.
If
the Republicans spoke out publicly about what many of them personally recognize
as the President’s shortcomings, they could not win an election. That is why Senators Flake and Corker have
not run for re-election. They have had
the guts to occasionally criticize the President which automatically loses them
most of their Republican base without which they cannot win. It is Trump’s party now and no longer the
Republican Party’s party.
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| Downtown Dubuque, Iowa, Skyline |
This
is why the Senate will never vote to impeach Donald Trump, regardless of what the House does. it would be like swallowing a 'poison pill.' The Republicans know
that doing so would mean the utter and final destruction of their party which,
in the absence of those 53,000,000 Trump loyalists, couldn’t elect a dogcatcher
in Dubuque.
Jack Lippman
Real Estate Developers – Anyone Know an Honest One?
All
the real estate agents whom I know are honest, reputable people. Serving as brokers between those who want to
either purchase or sell property, they are the clean end of the industry they
share with the real estate developers who are the dirty end of that business.
To
be a successful real estate developer, one must be a shrewd bargainer, a
wheeler-dealer and a dweller on that razor’s edge separating honesty from
dishonesty. Real estate developers must
deal with landowners, farmers, local and federal laws, local politicians,
unions, contractors, suppliers, bankers, investors and brigades of lawyers and
accountants telling them how far they can safely go without getting sued or
even arrested. It is difficult for real
estate developers to keep their hands clean. Pay-offs in all directions, whatever they are
called, are common. Their business requires their surrendering any ethics they
might otherwise possess. Think back of public officials (and we have many
locally) who have been convicted of corruption, of being involved in “pay to
play” schemes, and you will find a well-lawyered real estate developer behind
the scenes. Bill and Hillary Clinton, back in Bill's days as Arkansas governor, were troubled by their involvement with the real estate developers who were developing sites for a residential project known as Whitewater. They were no different than the other shady real estate developers discussed in this piece, and they got to the Clintons!
They
live in a world where they must get, usually by borrowing, enough money or
credit to build whatever they are “developing,” be it homes or commercial or
industrial projects, pay back as little of their initial financial obligations
as possible, but not with their own money of course (they call that ‘additional
financing’), and then “get out from under” by selling out for a profit before
they move on to their next venture. They must be constantly promoting
themselves to all with whom they deal, who usually are playing the same game,
which often involves juggling at least three balls with two hands. Half-truths are their stock in trade. Just look at their sales literature. Let me ask any of you, dear readers, if you have
ever dealt with a real estate developer in any capacity, at any time in your
life, whom you can say was totally honest beyond any doubt throughout their
dealings with you. I do not believe
there are any.
The
United States elected a real estate developer to the highest office in the land
and he is slowly learning that what he got away with in his prior business
connections, he cannot get away with in the presidency. This pathetic man doesn't even know that what he is doing is wrong because he, and his father before him, knew no other way of doing things. But even 53,000,000 gullible Americans and many
of the spineless Republican Senators and Representative they put in office will
not be able to save him this time. (See posting article
immediately above.)
After all of this is over, he will be the first President in modern history not to have his papers preserved in a Presidential library. That is because this barely literate man has no papers other than those on the rollers in his bathrooms. Someone, someday, however, might publish a collection of his ‘tweets’ which might be displayed in a “Believe it or Not by Ripley” type museum. I would hope America chooses to believe it, because it really is happening.
JL
After all of this is over, he will be the first President in modern history not to have his papers preserved in a Presidential library. That is because this barely literate man has no papers other than those on the rollers in his bathrooms. Someone, someday, however, might publish a collection of his ‘tweets’ which might be displayed in a “Believe it or Not by Ripley” type museum. I would hope America chooses to believe it, because it really is happening.
JL
The
Trump Tower Meeting - Murder in Moscow
I
have said this before in earlier postings but it cannot be said often enough. When it is claimed that the subject of that
infamous Trump Tower meeting between
Donald, Jr., Manafort, Kushner and a group
of Russians prior to the 2016 election was merely “adoptions,” they are telling
the truth! (That is a rare thing for this Administration.) But that adoption matter they
were discussing was synonymous with the subject of the removal of sanctions
against Russia. Read on.
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| Meeting Attendees |
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| Murdered Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky |
When
Russian police murdered the imprisoned lawyer of Bill Browder, an American
businessman running Russian-based mutual funds, Browder proved that act was enough
of a human rights violation for our Congress to enact the Magnitsky (the
lawyer’s name) sanctions penalizing Russia.
In direct response, the Russians shut down a program enabling Americans
to adopt Russian orphans. The meeting
was about reopening that adoption program, in exchange for a modification or an
elimination of the Magnitsky sanctions, with some dirt about Hillary Clinton,
obtained via Julian Assange’s Wikileaks group, thrown in as a bonus along with the
reopening of the adoption program in exchange for the sanction relief.
Khashoggi’s
Murder and Hypocrisy - Murder in Istanbul
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| CIA Chief Gina Haspel whose Khashoggi murder testimony condemning MBS was not believed by Trump and his cohorts. |
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| Khashoggi |
Because
of the
need for cooperation with Saudi Arabia in stemming Iranian expansionism in the Middle East, it appears that in the final analysis, the heads of state
in both Israel and the United States are willing to give Saudi Arabia’s leader,
Mohammed Bin Salman, a pass on his proven complicity, if not leadership, in the
murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. CIA Chief Haspel presented solid evidence of his complicity to Congress and the Administration.
I
have indicated on several occasions in this blog that in the long run, Shiite
Iran might prove a better friend to the United States and Israel, than Sunni
Saudi Arabia is, but only after the theocratic despotism which rules Iran today
has disappeared. Sooner or later, the
Iranian people will bring that about, long before the Saudi population rids
itself of their own theocratic despotism.
Then, Iran will be able to serve as a geopolitical bulwark against
Russian expansionism into the Middle East, which is the real lurking danger to
both Israel and the United States in that region. (The nuclear development treaty which Trump scuttled was a first step in heading in this direction. Future administrations, regardless of party, will resume this trend.)
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| Two Hypocrites |
Until that day, I suppose we will have to
tolerate the hypocrisy of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, whom I am pretty
sure have discussed this matter. They
are willing to temporarily use Saudi Arabia, the adversary of both Trump’s and
Netanyanhu’s Iranian enemy, and therefore their ally of convenience, despite
the blood on that country’s leader’s hands. In international politics, one must look far beyond today in making decisions. There is a lot out there beyond the tip on ones nose that must be considered.
JL
JL
Free
Legal Advice Department
The
following countries do not have extradition treaties with the United States:
Afghanistan,
Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo
(Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast,
Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar,
Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova,
Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman,
Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab
Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam and Yemen.
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| A recently sentenced lawyer. Recognize him? |
If
your lawyer has just been sentenced to three years in prison for performing
acts at your request for which he was paid by you (i.e., doing your dirty work),
it might be a good idea for you to consider a vacation of undetermined length
in any of these places before there is an unexpected knock on your door or a
letter or Email requesting your presence in a courtroom.
JL
Subjects to be discussed in future blog postings:
Student
Loans – How they are affecting demographics?
Aging
Population – As more live longer, all over the world, who will support those
who exhaust their resources and where will they be housed?
Wealth
of the World – There is plenty of wealth in the world, and it is growing, but
existing economic systems have not distributed it equitably, resulting in political dissent, often right-leaning, and world-wide immigration challenges.
Medicare
Changes – Folks becoming eligible for Medicare in 2020 are in for some
surprises.
JL
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