The (Daily) Vent 2

(Now What ?) Donald Trump has been President-Elect for just over two weeks. That being said, the casualty list keeps growing. All those that had "getting Trump" as their main campaign point, like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or Prosecutor Leticia James. It had been their stated mission to keep the former President from becoming the current President, which is exactly what happened. Therefore, promises have been broken. What Bragg has yet to do is offer his sentencing recommendation to Judge Juan Marshan. What has emerged, however, is that the Manhattan litigator could accept sentencing President Trump after he leaves Office, again. Fugitives can skirt the law by fleeing the country. A less extreme method would be Elected President.  So, in 2029, President can leave the White House and take his last flight to Leavenworth ? The next time Trump will have left Office, he will be eighty something. Will the current "rage" of the likes of Bragg and James, and th

(The Big Lie. . .) One remembers the stories. There were enough votes. Mail in ballots were still being counted. Votes had been harvested. The totals were not favorable. But he still won. He had to. That result that had been read-election night had to hold. But totals gradually shifted till the other guy prevailed. Not President-Elect Trump. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) who lost his race to Republican Dave McCormack. Like Trump in 2020, getting to the point where he was charged in Geogia by attempting to change the an Eleccion's outcome, so is the same situation with Casey. Several Democrat Counties in the Keystone State are starting their own re-count, using previously discarded ballots. The main problem is a matter of in-correctly applied signatures. Those votes could have been for Casey and in the over-all margin, McCormack's win could be reversed and that would diminish the GOP Senate Majority. McCormack had been declared Pennsylvania's new Senator by the AP. Any votes that

(Evisceration. . .)  Before it was an Oscar-Winning feature from 1970, the film Airport had been a best-selling novel, by Alex Hailey. At a make-believe Chicago, Lincoln International Airport, under the worst snowstorm in ten years, Airport General Manager, Mel Bakersfeld, had to deal with the storm, a stuck airliner, a belligerent brother-in-law, a stowaway and one with a bomb on board one of the flights, and an un-happy wife. Bakersfeld had been a nominee to run the Federal Aviation Administration, for the Kennedy Administration. Then November 22nd happened, and President Johnson had his own ideas as to the FAA head might be, and it was not Mal Bakersfeld.  Bakersfeld' wife, Cindy, who had been looking forward to the D.C, cocktail circuit, was severely disappointed that the best that her husband could manage was a backwater like Lincoln. Like Cindy Bakersfeld, a lot of people got spooked after Trump was elected and most continue to freak out. If that is putting it mildly. Some a

(Consent & Advise) To begin, much has been made of the meeting between President Biden and former President Trump. The gathering had been cordial and civil. It lasted about two hours and it was interesting that only months previously, one was incompetent and the other was Hitler and a threat to democracy. There has been some speculation that Biden, because he was smiling, he perhaps got final "revenge" for his ouster because he might have voted for Donald Trump. But the President has had recent cognitive issues so he might not have realized it. The Constitution requires that members that a President appoints to a Cabinet need the "Advise and Consent" of the Senate. North Dakota Senator John Thune has just been elected Senate Majority Leader, a Republican Majority Leader. With the GOP also in control of the House and Donald Trump will be seated again at the White House. A re-elected elected President like Trump has been assembling a Cabinet that is unlike any ev

(The Golf, Chess, & Cheese Society. . .) What ? Try the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS). That had been the outfit based at Bletchley Park and elsewhere that broke the German Enigma encryption and the resulting intelligence, by definition some of the most sensitive of the entire War, had its own classification: Ultra . Now, there is set to be a new agency to be headed by characters as eccentric as those at Bletchley Park. One is Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, Space X, and "X." The other is Vivek Ramaswamy, himself a businessman and also a billionaire, will unite in a new "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)." The stated purpose of this department is to identify government waste, and one expects the total to be trillions of dollars. Musk has said he could identify some $2 trillion almost immediately. That remains to be seen. The DOGE mandate amounts to line-item vetoes. Such an action would be ideal if one wishes to cut spending, with little to no p

(Young Turks ?) At its height, the Ottoman Empire was about the size of Rome. And, like Rome. over time internal decline and external threats whittled away Turkish territory till at the end, on the eve of the First World War, the Empire had been known as the Sick Man of Europe. That being said, there had been an effort to modernize Constantinople (Turkish Capitol) and rotate the absolute rule of the Sultan. A faction emerged called the Young Turks, a group of political insurgents that had wanted to arrest the Empire's decline. Since then, the term "Young Turk" has been used to reflect any new direction as opposed to what had been standard, President-Elect Trump has been staffing his Administration with so-called Young Turks. One can begin with Vice-President-Elect J.D. Vance23. The current Senator from Ohio. The true rags to riches story, Vance spent some time in the Marines and graduated at the top of his class from Yale. In 2023 he was elected to the Senate from Ohio. V