Saturday, March 30, 2019

Mueller-The End of the Beginning


RECAP
 Following Attorney General Barr's "summary" of the Mueller Report
  •                               Many liberals went into a disbelieving funk🙉
  •                               Publicans danced with joy.   😈                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Trumpfski Claimed 
"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.                        KEEP  AMERICA GREAT"                                                                                                   and demanded that his "persecutors" be persecuted.
” Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. “There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things—very bad things. I would say treasonous things against our country and hopefully…people that have done such harm to our country, we’ve gone through a period of really bad things happening. Those people will certainly be looked at. I’ve been looking at them for a long time and I’m saying, ‘Why haven't they been looked at?’”
                   
                              That was Sunday/Monday 242/5th March

Within three days Cyclops was able to send an email to all concluding 

                                   Trumpfski: Peaked last week.
                                                       Barr "cleared" him.
                                                      Avennati indicted
                                                      All downhill from here
And a promise to post a Trumpfski Blog

SINCE THEN

                 A.   DONALD TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING GETS NO IMMEDIATE BOOST                           REPORT DESPITE PRESIDENT'S VICTORY LAP Newsweek  3/27/19                                  
                            Morning Consult/Politico Polling on 25/26 March:                                                                  
            ·           Approval 42 percent -Disapproval 55 percent.
      ·          Trump's net approval rating was still struggling at -13   👌
      ·           "virtually identical" to the week before

Next day Quinnipiac University Poll reported
·         53  percent of voters say they will “definitely will not”   👍           
·         30 percent said they “definitely will            
·         Net-23%

              B. Excitable Democratic Impeachment talk has vanished🙊
                   Pelosi, as usual, is in control
                  That diversion firmly on back burner

             C. Trumpfski budget,cuts $18 million from Special Olympics.
                  President ducks in face of firestorm of derision😱
                  Blames “staff”----ED: I guess it’s true you just can’t get good staff                                                            these days

            D. Trumpfski reignites war on Obamacare 
                Also cuts proposed to Medicare and Medicaid  
                McConnell runs for cover💀
                “I look forward to seeing what the president is proposing and                    what he can work out with the speaker,”                          https://www.google.com/searchq=mc+connell+on+obamacare&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS767US767&oq=mc+connell+on+obamacare&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.9454j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

            E. Publican overreach outdoes even Democratic Neophyte
  •   Beyond the victory laps and Republican euphoria,“there were also stern calls for  
  •   reprisal  investigations” against the “Deep State,” 👮          and
  • “for brutal war”against its Democratic enablers                  and
  •  for a “Mueller-like figure” to investigate the FBI for allegedly working to sink the president.
  •  “nothing short of the appointment of a second special counsel—to investigate the investigation—will do”. 👮
  • To “probe Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server”. 👮                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ED: OK CYCLOPS you made that one up   CYCLOPS: Nope                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        LINDSEY GRAHAM {R} vowed to use his power as chair of the Judiciary Committee to haul before senators                                                                                                   
  •     former FBI Director James Comey and    
  •      British spy Christopher Steele—author of the infamous Trump dossier       .
                {CYCLOPS: Please ,Please say he will actually do this!!👏🙏}

F.  After initial frozen shock there has been enormous push back💪 on  Barr's “summary”

·  "What authority did he have to give his”interpretation?  👊
 “Attempted usurpation. Should not be allowed to work”
  • "What if Obama had appointed a guy a couple weeks ago,who                                         then exonerated him without making any information public?”😂
  • “The Ministry of Truth assures you no obstruction.”👺
  • "Four pages summarising 400 plus annexes !!?!🙈
  • "Why is he redacting and withholding parts of report from congress?"🙍
G. THE LETTER ITSELF                  BARR Wrote:

Mueller "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated” with Russia..and that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”
               Very lawyerly 👎careful wording  contd…

  • Mueller “ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment,”       which left Barr to usurp the decision from Congress.
  • Barr  noted  Mueller “sets out evidence on both sides of the question.”
  • He  cited Mueller   “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
·         If BARR felt that no charge be brought, why include that quote from Mueller?
·         Is it because of the volume of evidence Mueller amassed?
·         Is it because NOT exonerating Trump was a major Mueller finding?
·         Barr scrupulously bracketed the “T” in the following Mueller quote :
·         “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
·         WHY  is this not a full sentence, by what was it preceeded ?
·         It’s anyone’s guess what those words might be.
Barr also indicated “During the course of his investigation, the Special Counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action,” .He does not elaborate

To paraphrase Churchill

 This is not the End, Not even the Beginning of the End                                              But it the End of the Beginning   💀👎  

 Eighty per cent of the citizenry  believe the entire Report should be released.

Cyclops would normally judge that when Eighty of Americans agree on something ,they are almost certainly wrong.😩

                                                Not this time.                                                                                           
       



Cacophony of Emails

                          Cyclops has been in receipt of a cacophony of emails

  It seems friends, family, the hoi polloi and members of the Regiment are in need of guidance from a "higher authority". Though that last was in the context of Attorney General Barr                                                    

EMAIL  EXAMPLES   
                                                                                                          
  1.  "There have also been no blog posts. Unusual in that there's been a lot to blog about, probably too much. Anyway, hope you're well and your apnia is only affecting you during sleeping hours"

2.  "AAAAARgh Trump in the clear? Really we need your reassurance--NOW"

3.  "All the proposals in House of Commons voted NO. Cyclops what NOW?"                                                                                             https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47724037

4.   "If MPs cannot agree on any course of action and Theresa cannot lead the country anywhere, shouldn’t a                new, better defined,referendum take place?                                                                                                                          Or a new general election held                                                                                                         Or would that be too sensible?                                                                               Where has the country of “sense and sensibility” gone?                                                                 Brexit: What just happened?"
  
5.   "Tottenham are playing Liverpool on Sunday.
         If they lose again [dropped 11 points in last five premiership games]                                         and Arsenal, Man United and Chelsea win, is that the end of their season?!?"


                                   CYCLOPS' last 2 posts were on March 22nd   

         "Purim"-- On Secretary of State Pompeo's invocation of divine intervention to elect Trumpfski in order to save the Jews from the Persians.

  "Trump Announces Ban of Boeing 737 Max Flights”.Any one seen or heard from Elaine Chow recently?  

                                        ED:  Who she?               CYCLOPS:  Exactly


 Sunday evening 24th March, Attorney General Barr dropped his bombshell version of the truth. 
Why him? Where was Mueller?

CYCLOPS has yet to post--distracted by too much news,football, tax preparation and grand dad duties.
 
 
NO LONGER.  
We are stung back into the fray.
We will post on each of the above today and tomorrow
But before returning to the dreaded US Tax Forms let me express optimism,to be followed up later.

!.              Trumpfski: Peaked last week.
                                    Barr "cleared" him.
                                    Avennati indicted
                                    All downhill from here

2.            Brexit   The fat lady did not sing
                            The “people" got us into this
                            The "people' will have to get us out

3.            UK Elections:
                              Neither May nor Corbyn will fight another 
                              Election as leader-- or at all..

4.           Tottenham 
                                 May have to win the Champion League to
                                 save the season and hang on to their players.
                                  
 

Friday, March 22, 2019

PURIM :Cyclops lost for Words




                                                               Speak no evilSpeak no evil 

Cyclops assures his Jewish followers that this is NOT part of a PURIM  SPIEL

According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 

TRUMPFSKI, like Esther   ‘may have been sent by God to save Jews from Iran’

   https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/donald-trump-may-have-been-sent-by-god-to-save-jews-from-iran-suggests-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-1.481937

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/mike-pompeo-says-its-possible-donald-trump-is-a-new-esther-sent-by-god-to-save-the-jews-from-iran

You think that is weird?.......

Jim Bakker said that God told him He put Donald Trump on this earth to give the church time to prepare for the impending rapture.


Really weird?......

Last month Senior adviser and putz- in -law Jarhead  Kushner leaked that he has the   Middle Eat peace plan ready to roll  TadaHear no evilMoney mouth face
  • Having moved the US embassy to Jerusalem
  • Cut aid to Palestinian refugees
  • Unilaterally nullified the multilateral Iran Nuclear Treaty
  • Absolved Saudi Strongman bin Salman of Khashogi murder and 
  • Of Yemeni genocide
  • Taken credit for the "end of" Isis
Trumpfski has now announced that in defiance of international Conventions US recognizes Israeli Sovereignty of the Golan.
ED:                I had not realised the Israeli's wanted that?
CYCLOP:     Me neitherMan facepalming most don't care as long as its demilitarized and not a                                        threat.
                    But Netanyahu is now behind in the polls and facing indictments so                        maybe Trumpfski is trying to help out

ED :           OY VEY --  is that what you people say?

Cyclops:    Sure.
                   By the way the things that Netanyahu is being charged with would                                         not rise to the level of a minor misdemeanor in Washington.
                     
  Pesky independent law enforcement in that den of anti democratic imperialists                                    in Israel.

Weirder yet....

Trumpfski tweeted the Golan news this morning as well as claiming that
                             ” The Democrats hate Jews”
Schummer,Feinstein et al were stunned by this revelation.

Expect them all to switch parties,giving Trumpfski a veto proof Senate for his entire Mishigas .
                                    
                                        STABLE GENIUS 

Back to the "Peace Plan"                                                                                                   
 In Warsaw last month, Kushner said the White House plan would focus on border issues. 
 W.H.leaks  indicate inter alia the plan includes 
  • Jordan would give territory to the Palestinian authority
  •  In return, Jordan would get land from Saudi Arabia,
  •  Saudi would get back two Red Sea islands it gave Egypt to administer in 1950.
  • The Golan would be ceded to Israeli Sovereignty.
  • Israel would determine its borders with the new Palestinian State
Well the Golan bit was announced by tweet today.

Netanyahu is in DC next week--a good time to announce the Israel/Palestine borders.

The whole thing will be wrapped up at a Grand Peace Conference of the                                                               "Three Abrahamic Faiths minus the Shia" 
on the Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock.

So now its the 2 1/2  Abrahamic faiths

Catering for the conference will be done by New York’s Broadway Deli.
Kosher and Halal.
Bacon sandwiches cut separately 
                



Trump Announces Ban of Boeing 737 Max Flights

Trump Announces Ban of Boeing 737 Max Flights  NY TIMES


BOEING  fire lobbying firm S-3 Group-- a firm “specializing in representation of key defense contractors.”

Spokesman Sarah  Huckabee Sanders denied that the W.H. decision was influenced by the cancellation of 600,000 US flight bookings in last two days

The anticipated appointment of Elaine Chow  to the Boeing board when she leaves government is said to now be in question.
Chow is married to Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell
She previously served on the board of Enron leading up to and through its bankruptcy.

She is the Secretary of Transportation which did NOT ground the 737 8/9 X.
Trump acted AFTER safety regulators in over 40 countries had banned flights by the jets.    


When it comes to clearing the swamp Trump is gender neutral





Wednesday, March 13, 2019

No Deal No Tariffs



   UK Treasury has announced a new tariff regime in the event of a"no deal" Brexit.

This is designed "designed to minimise costs to business and consumers while protecting vulnerable industries."

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/temporary-tariff-regime-for-no-deal-brexit-published?utm_source=ff424005-3430-4a72-acf5-118e54d6683c&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate 
 
 Possibly this was done to scare Tory MPs into supporting Mays deal on the next vote but three.

It is  a stroke of negotiating genius.

A minister is quoted

If we leave without a deal, we will set the majority of our import tariffs to zero, whilst maintaining tariffs for the most sensitive industries......It represents a modest {Cyclops emphasis added-87%?} liberalisation of tariffs"

No doubt the Treasury and Downing Street are briefing furiously in order to get the credit for this wondrous new negotiating tactic.

The gist is :

  •                       Tariffs removed from 87% of goods by value.
  •                       Leaving 13%,including
  •                       Pork,beef,lamb and dairy
  •                       "Finished" vehicles  but not parts from the EU
  •                       Ceramics
  •                       Fertiliser and fuel

At the same time 
   There will not be a customs land border on the Island of Ireland

 I ask my Irish readers to get in touch asap.We see a business opportunity.
 It may not last forever and you have the contacts for labour and equipment.

Perhaps our first convoy could consist of  50 new  Renault Trucks made in Lyon

We could pack them with Italian ceramics,tiles,toilet basins ,bidets etc
  With perhaps the beef,pork and lamb carcasses in 5 or six freezer trucks
                     and the bovine excreta [fertiliser]carried separately                                                                                         
I leave the selection of the port of entry into Ireland to you and then the 50 drivers up to Belfast for on shipping to Liverpool                                                                                                                       

We could  transship the trucks with Bovine excreta directly to Downing street but we fear they may already have a surplus                                                                                                                Our reading of the press release and soundings taken at Her Majesty's Custom indicate that there is no need  to supply bandanas or eye patches as there will be no border checks.  


  Please ask the drivers NOT to fly flags or banners on the trucks, no matter how tempting that would be.                                                                                                                                                           

                                           

PS  to UK trade negotiators                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         This policy should really help in your future negotiations on bilateral trade deals
                                                    






Friday, March 8, 2019

Massage Parlours


                                                          The Trumpfski Clan    
The gift that keeps on giving


  The  founder of seedy South Florida massage parlors chain where Robert Kraft was serviced and then arrested for solicitation attended President Trump’s Super Bowl party and was substantial donor to his campaign.


     
  • Orchids of Asia Day Spa founder Li Yang, 45, posted a photo of herself watching the Patriots win the Super Bowl with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago                                                                                                                                                
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  • Yang, 45, is a frequent guest at Mar-a-Lago and has also visited The White House and Trump Tower multiple times since President Trump took office  
  •   'Leaders like you are the key to fulfilling our bold agenda to Make America Great Again,' wrote Trump in a note to Yang signed by himself and the First Lady 
  • Yang donated $81,00 to the Trump Victory Fund in 2018


Madame Yang apparently posted on her facebook page her cell phone video of the Mar-a-Lago party

                                                                                                                                                               
  ED: I thought the secret service had to vet anybody who could regularly get so close to                Trumpfski.      
CYCLOPS: I am assured that the secret service regularly vet massage parlours.                                    There is no evidence that Madame Yang has any ties to the Chinese security services

 Nor is there evidence she has any tapes of Trumpfski,Kraft and Epstein partying together.
And certainly not with Labor Secretary and ex Miami prosecutor Alexander Acosta.
.                                                   The Tres Amigos Billionaires
              
  No "golden shower" services are offered at Yang's "spa "chain        



                                          

Monday, March 4, 2019

Those Jews Again


              "Lord Falconer reopens Labour anti-semitic hate cases"

                        Sorry I just saw this  in the Times and could not resist a response.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-falconer-reopens-labour-anti-semitic-hate-cases-wr6wgdl

Nothing like bringing in an old lawyer to sort the problem.
He has already established his independence and clear thinking.
   Falconer said he does not believe Corbyn is “personally anti-semitic” Stuck out tongue winking eye
Given how intimately these two must have worked together over the years such a wholehearted endorsement of innocence comes as a great comfort.

The faith of convenience must be a wonderful thingWeary

Good chap that Falconer, Nothing platitudinous or patronising about this man.
  • “We have totally lost the confidence of the Jewish community and we have to get it back,”
  •  “They feel they are not safe . . .
  •   That is terrifying and it is existential to the Jewish community. "
  • "Jeremy is the leader of the Labour Party. I want him to be prime minister." 
  •  "This [the perception of antisemitismis preventing it."

 General Secretary Jenny Formby asked him to take on this role AFTER Tom Watson--deputy leader--had demanded to see all the files himself.

It seems Formby and Watson do not play well together.


ANYWAY  Cyclops could not resist appending his comments to the Article.
The times elfs' decision is "pending approval".  
You dear readers  get to see it anyway:

"What a disgrace!! This is a clear misogynistic put down of ALL Women.So patronising!! Why bring in an elderly male Blairite,Baron to oversee a dedicated female General Secretary,with years of dedicated service to democratic Trades Unionism? There is a much younger lawyer who could have served. I speak of Baroness Chakrabati. A Lady of great experience in these matters . I would see the choice of Falconer as extremely Ironic,but I am Jewish."

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