Merchan: “This is over. Hearing done.”

“Unconditional discharge”

Trump didn’t even show up but complained by magical device.

The felon has,… whatever. Well, no. The felon can’t what? They are called “Collateral Consequences”. He may care about the stigma of being a felon, but the man who hates regulations just received relative freedom and conditions as he is a felon. No incarceration. No fine. No ankle monitor. So he’s unhappy and complains, of course. ❄️ How will the FAFO moment play out?

Teflon Don, out of the pan again.

Most of the barriers felons have to navigate won’t apply to Trump. He’s already been cleared to run and take the oath of office. Not normal, we know. Other restrictions, we may have to wait and see. One that will be in the public square for comments are the revocation of alcohol licenses. Delicious yes? … the clubs, the restaurants with many stars on the menus will have to be posted BYOB. Partiers at MAL bring their own drugs anyway, so… just like in the old days of prohibition?

It could get ugly pretty fast. New Jersey. Scotland. Oooooh. Will his passport be restricted? It could be. He could be rejected at a lot of borders. Maybe just fly in and chat while in the airport? Why not? Again?

Merchan acknowledges the dirty tricks and extra judicial dance Trump has everyone he “touches” learn. It’s to Trump’s tune and no one has a choice. YMCA? He can stop already.

After Trump spoke remotely, invoking his witch hunt nonsenses etceteRA, etceteRA,… just like the real king.

“When Yul Brynner showed up to audition for The King and I, he was a 30-year-old journeyman actor, folk singer and TV director. The Russian-born Brynner had traveled the world as a circus acrobat and arrived in America in 1941 barely able to speak English. In his autobiography, Richard Rodgers recalled that at the audition, Brynner “scowled in our direction, sat down on the stage…then plunked one whacking chord on his guitar and began to howl in a strange language that no one could understand. He looked savage, he sounded savage, and there was no denying that he projected a feeling of controlled ferocity.” Uhh…and he got the part!”

Anyone see Dwight Manfredi at work in “Tulsa King”? Must watch it to understand what people go through doing “business” with Trump and now Musk has exhibited a similar tactic just more ginormous.

In the show, Dwight played by Sylvester Stallone, just sprung from 25 years hard time, doesn’t get the welcome from the mob he expected. A changed world with little respect for, you guessed it, regulations, family style. Trump is not the man changed by prison as is Manferdi, but the mechanism the mobster uses to re establish his life as a crime boss teaches volumes about the pall we live under. Also, Stallone shows he can act. Don’t at-me, he can. There are some real and poignant moments and gangerstering,… with plenty blood.

If you thought it got ugly in Springfield? Los Angelos and the push to kill woke from the gold rush state is slated to harm the largest earner in the United States. Newsom is doing just fine as the governor. First the federal government is attacked to break the states apart now Newsom, the first? to be ousted with bullshit. It’s the real and technical term. Actually, fancy bullshit.

“In 2023, California's gross domestic product (GDP) was about $3.9 trillion, comprising 14% of national GDP ($27.7 trillion). Texas and New York are the next largest state economies, at 9% and 8%, respectively. California's economy ranks fifth internationally, behind the US, China, Germany, and Japan.”

So, educating people about what good is done in CA is great. But to do so as a result of misinformation… no. Not misinformed posters, not misinformed journalists. Those who lie to make a point change the direction of life from good to worse. Watch the whole trailer. Manfredi inserts himself where there are no problems, makes problems and well, makings of a terrific show but not a terrific country.

It’s of little effect any longer to say “lie” as it’s mentioned at every turn of phrase. The word has delivered so much much for a tiny three letters it takes to spell. Pardon me if I decline to try too hard to scrub the wrongly stated, as information warriors dedicated to it have a big reach and a greater capacity to do so.

Germany $4.53 Trillion. California, $3.9 Elon has flipped, is flipping Germany fascist in worst redux ever. So, California is an easier get? Hope not. The Russian, German and barely English speaking Musk is making metaphorical fires, then telling those whose metaphorical and real home it is, hands off, do as I say, or was he will never, ever stop. Some say he also speaks Chinese. I say he knows how to say “stick em up” in the Heinz 57 languages I’m sure.

Elon Musk is busy supporting fascist rule. Hammering at getting Newsom ejected somehow. Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson saying he ruined the state. It’s all in whose word you trust from now on. Embroider that on a pillow.

Yesterday’s funeral was an embarrassment. The maneuvers to avoid Trump were obvious. Karen Pence gets the cold shoulder award for freezing out Trump 100%.

Staying stated, she shook Melania’s hand. People are saying Obama was the class monitor keeping the bully at bay and away from, primarily Kamala I think. most obviously missing? Michelle. We get her. Melania got so much consolation for it being her mother’s first anniversary of her passing. Sad, it’s true enough.

All the while, Biden. What are we going to do without him?

Biden spoke about Jimmy Carter and many times within the eulogy, I thought he was speaking to the trump problem we have. Carter couldn’t be a more antithetical figure to Trump.

And lastly, from Jimmy Carter’s official fare thee well, a most magnificent rendering of Ave Maria, Phyllis Adams and Leila Bolden.

Thanks for being here. I wouldn’t be here without you.

❤️