Yes, it is May, not April. The missus noticed that I had made my heading yesterday April 17, 2020. Jeeeez, I can’t believe we are halfway through May already. Just think— Saturday will be the two month anniversary of the Oregon Stay at Home order. Yoo hoo!! Let’s have an anniversary party!! Speaking of anniversaries, today is the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A day I will never forget, and was the last event that caused folks to walk around wearing face masks. I can still visualize the ash on the cars in the driveway and on the patio. Several months after the eruption we bought a cabin, with our Deli Barn business partner, up near Mt. Saint Helens on Swift Reservoir. The people who owned it never went back after the mountain blew. When we drove up to look at the cabin before buying it, everything up there was covered in about 8″ of ash and pumice. You talk about parties — we had some of the wildest parties ever up there and I still have scars to prove it. I suggest you never be on a small dock out on a lake on the 4th of July and have a drunken buddy come up behind you and light a bag on fire that is full of bottle rockets, M80’s and other explosives. When those first bottle rockets hit me and melted the back of my shirt resulting in a slow burn, I thought, s**t do I jump in the lake or what? The smell of burning skin, especially when it’s your own, is not fun. I can still hear those bastards laughing.
My Saturday post was a review of some of last week’s bigger stories, but how about just this weekend’s schtuff. 1) It looks like Karl Rove, one of George W.’s advisers, is in the background advising tRump’s campaign, according to Maggie Haberman of the NY Times.
Sooo, 2) Donnie Jr., who has been described as his father on steroids, posts on his Instagram account an insinuation that Joe Biden is a pedophile, something that trumpanzies will believe in a heartbeat. Junior puts a picture of Biden saying: “See you later, alligator” alongside an image of an alligator saying: “In a while, pedophile.” From Rove’s message and Junior’s post it looks like the tactic will be to go on the offensive in nasty ways to shift the attention away from tRump and onto Biden and other targets, like #Obamagate and other conspiracy theories. 3) And not to be outdone by his big brother, the other tRump son goes on Faux and says that the virus is a hoax by the Dem’s to keep his daddy from holding rallies and that it will be gone after the election is held.
4) In a late night firing on Friday, another independent Inspector General is sent down the road. Steve Linick, the State Department IG, was informed Friday night he was being replaced without cause. It’s getting difficult to keep track of the count of IG’s who have been fired by tRump, but I know it’s a bigly number. 5) It appears this one might be a result of his investigation of Secretary of State Mike Pompass. And what makes this matter worse is that Pompass went to tRump and recommended the IG be fired. “A senior State Department official confirmed that Pompeo made the recommendation that Linick be removed.”
6) On Friday night and Saturday morning Captain Clorox reposted a video of a reporter being berated by anti-lockdown protesters in New York and in the first post tweeted, “FAKE NEWS IS NOT ESSENTIAL! Then on Saturday morning he reposted the video and commented, “People can’t get enough of this. Great people.” Here we have a sitting president stoking the divisions in this country on the same day that we approached 90,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus and Americans fearing for their lives and livelihoods. Unreal.
Wow, what a weekend. What is really pathetic about each of these events is the absence of any kind of negative response from the GOP or conservative media. Why they are so afraid of this guy, I just don’t understand? The only example of someone having a set of cojones this past week came from two female reporters, who don’t even have cojones. You go girls!!
I’m really tired after all that, so think I’ll go take a nappy-poo. Keep smilin’ and remember to wear your mask out in public. And thank you Mikel Roi for your comment reminding me of the Greenneck Daredevils song about “I love my gal in her fishing waders.’ Ziggyman
Mountain Man Musings 