Bleak Until Further Notice

Guns Weather and Politics

Good pot is legal now. That is a statement of the overall situation, not a comment on specific marijuana quality. And, we need our rainbows now more than ever, too.

We retire to our corners as the calendar is filled with trial dates and more active shooters. The plan revealed today is a brutal pace for Former’s lawyers and the trooper/sheriff/police cars that line the streets of Chapel Hill, N. Carolina lend a festivity to the news on mute they should not in anyway but do. One bullet shot has caused the shutdown in the southeastern state. Three perished this weekend in Florida, another shooter proclaimed hate crime against blacks. The mystery is gone as the “why” gives way to living with the pain we hide others simply can’t or don’t. In the same vein we have learned to live with covid, climate instability and the doomer thoughts we all have pushed to the back of the shelf. Shut the cabinet and don’t look back.

Living in a gun bath as we do, we are experiencing a no surprise rise in the visibility of hate and racial attacks. No surprise since the tirade you don’t see and even shun are the social media land mines Trump exudes with multiplicity, daily. The calls to pressure people to do what he wants. The calls go out to the population at large, and folks in specific. How many calls to Speaker McCarthy about a Biden impeachment plan? Do you doubt the perfect call only happens once and only in Georgia? Everyone is worn out.

Tanya Chutkan, judge in the Jack Smith DC case of Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election results marks the March 4, 2024 date for jury selection.

Arraignments in the Georgia case have been set today as Sept 6, 2023 by Judge Steve Jones. Trump is to appear at 9:30 am and all other 18 will follow in a duckling row at 15 minute intervals terminating around 3 pm. This first meet to deliver the charges against “the enterprise” as the group. The 19 will likely not bus together yet will band with a purpose as individuals. “The Enterprise”, what will stick? A striking name for the “Georgia 19”, “Trump’s Tarts”, “18 for 45”, too bad they’re one short of “The Treason Twenty”. Reminds me more of the internal name for the Royal Family, “The Firm”. Media will land or not with an agreed group name. We still don’t have a good decade name for 2000-2009. The o’s. What a failure in branding in the age of branding.

Mark Meadows makes the news with awards going for best attempt at wiggling out of it all. The expectations are low but present. The hearing was today and unclear as to the ruling yet. Upshot is, and I had to hear it multiple times, Meadows claims his time was all about the job. Everything he did, said and was, was POTUS POTUS POTUS POTUS all night and all day long. This makes him eligible to be heard in Federal court but more importantly, Georgia doesn’t understand what a prima donna Meadows is. They can’t tell a Federal fellow what he can and can’t do, so yeah, No Masks, what? Benghaz.., no,.. Freedommm… oh errr, Release the Kraken! and me too, no just me. “Free The Enterprise One!” That should do it. Call the guys with the merch! Let’s get some of those flags rolled out.

In other news, as if there were other news,…

Mr. Trump, this is how one takes a mugshot.

Thanks for being here. Another day, with hope, another another smile or two.