Month: December 2018

The New Year’s upon us and what will it bring
Regarding political new happenings?
How will the Democrats wield their new powers
And how will the Trump answer high in Trump Towers?

Nancy’s adept doing multiple tasking
Committees of oversight hard questions asking
Passing strong measures in new legislation
And standing her ground firm without hesitation

Trump is a coward, a bully at heart
He’ll fume and he’ll threaten play acting his part
But shove come to push Donald Trump will give in
And lie to his base thereby claiming a win

Expect a report coming late in the Spring
As drafted by Mueller detailing the things
He found about Trump and his offspring as well
High crimes, misdemeanors, the story he’ll tell

Impeachment proceedings will have to take place
It’s something House leadership will have to face
And what will the Senate do? That’s the big question
McConnell’s response, what will be his intention?

I expect Mitch will focus to get judges seated
Ignoring most else knowing they’ll be defeated
But pressure from Dems passing good legislation
That coupled with Mueller’s confirmed revelations

Will weaken Republican’s score at the polls
And force them to drop Trump like dropping hot coals
All this is conjecture based on premonition
To All Happy New Year and joy, this occasion

12/28/18

 

The inevitable happening didn’t take long
Some two years, or so, from inauguration
It’s what one expects when elections go wrong
Electing a charlatan to lead the nation

Up until recently most of Trump’s antics
Although disappointing and harmful in ways
We’re not so egregious to cause one to panic
And could, after Trump, be repaired in those days

But now with the legal walls closing in tighter
His closest indicted companions have squealed
The stock market’s reeling as Fed moves rates higher
And Nancy and Chuck showed they knew how to deal

So now we have entered the real danger zone
Where reckless decisions cause damage irreparable
Where key people quit, citing what Trump has done
And our allies withdraw from bonds once thought inseparable

The government’s down for Trump’s wall on the border
Five billion or bubcas, gov funding won’t flow
Trump’s stubborn position cheered on by supporters
How long this will last, truly nobody knows

Trump ordered our Syria troops to come home
Leaving our partners, the Kurds in the lurch
And in opposition to what experts know
Based on advice from the head of the Turks

The world sees the Trump losing power and weak
A signal for enemies to take advantage
Expect to see havoc that Trump will yet wreak
This danger zone we’ll have to learn how to manage

12/22/18

Trump’s Sec Def Jim Mattis in protest resigned
In protest of Trump’s foreign policy place
Spelled out in his letter to Trump that he signed
And delivered to Trump when they met face to face

In two months, or so, he will exit his cell
The last of the grownups to keep Trump in check
And how many generals will exit as well
All rather than staying aboard Trump’s train wreck?

There’s rumor that Mueller’s probes will be completed
In two to three months with a final report
Which, the AG decides how it is to be treated
Who reads it, who doesn’t, what parts to abort

William P. Barr is Trump’s pick for AG
Who once under Bush briefly held that position
He questioned Bob Mueller’s legitimacy
In a memo he meant for Trump’s consideration

It was unsolicited, kept under wraps
Barr’s job application to be next AG
It made Barr Trump’s choice who was perfect, perhaps
Except Mueller’s probes, Barr’s recusal must be

On again, off again gone again Wall
Funding five billion the Senate won’t give
A government shutdown will likely befall
The nation tomorrow as Trump’s Christmas gift

As well as the stock market falling away
It’s entered a region familiar to bears
Affecting all you who have 401k’s
Trump’s negative bonus to add Christmas cheer

12/20/18

A correction I offer of the last poelitic
Seventeen and not five are the probes of Trump’s team
The five are Trump entities, to be specific
All targets of probes, all unlawful it seems

So much new as news that it’s hard to keep track
There won’t be a government shutdown this week
Trump tweeted our Syria-based troops to bring back
Trump’s wall on the border went down to defeat

There’s really much more but my subject today
Is the equities market, what might be in store
As you know the Bull rally: nine years and some days
And then it turned volatile more than before

An index I follow is called SPX
It’s Standard and Poor’s diverse five hundred stocks
Indicative of the whole market complex
It leads the economy several-month blocks

On September twenty a new high that day
Some labeled this Bull trend a bubble extreme
Brought on by the Feds and Trump’s tax giveaway
Since then it’s been downhill, no stopping, it seems

Investors are nervous, will this bubble burst?
And when will that happen, next month or next year?
They hope for the best but they plan for the worst
And that is my message; defense time is here

12/19/18

A challenge, my dear reader, I am casting out your way
On political predictions for next year
I am interested dearly over what you have to say
In replying to the questions listed here

You can answer me by Email or by comment on the blog
Answer serious or funny as you please
And as I receive your comments I will place them in a log
After New Year them I’ll post for all to see

Investigations criminal, some five so far exist
On entities and people Trump controls
When they produce Indictments, what will Trump do to resist
Especially when his family is their goal?

The Mueller probe some time next year most likely will conclude
With evidence on solid grounds of crimes
That Trump, himself, committed, which he’ll certainly refute
Will Congress, thus, impeach him at that time?

That question presupposes Mueller will remain in place
That Trump won’t have Bob Mueller nullified
But if Trump thus succeeds, the probe’s report as such erased
How would the people, Congress then reply?

Although the Dow Jones has been shaky, highly volatile
Most think that the economy’s the tops
But there’s a finite chance, next year, in not too great a while
For this Bull trend to turn around and drop

And if that were to happen, what, then, would be Trump’s response
And what would Congress do to stem the flow?
So many questions more to pose for next year and beyond
But that’s enough for now. Please let me know

12/16/18

The pressure’s growing stronger as Trump scandals multiply
A major scandal every day it seems
And Trump was at the center in the laws he has defied
Surrounded by the crooks who were his team

Trump’s former co conspirators are either now in jail
Or waiting for their sentence from the court
And Trump keeps tweeting new excuses, all of which then fail
All full of falsehoods, frantic, wild retorts

It’s evident that Trump is worried, shaken to the core
It’s hard for him to think of matters else
As bad as things appear he knows tomorrow there’ll be more
He hates the hand he feels that fate has dealt

The things these scandals will reveal will force the House to act
High crimes and misdemeanors by the score
Impeachment by the House becomes reality in fact
Indictment of Trump’s family in store

It’s my opinion, though, that just before all this takes place
To Mueller Trump will offer up a plea
That he’ll resign as President for health, without disgrace
If Mueller let’s his family off free

12/13/18

The pieces of the puzzle have been falling into place
Michael Cohen’s plea of guilt
Trump’s involvement there was spilt
With the Russians Trump’s collusion
Helping them to spread confusion
These and many other facts are gathering apace

Indictment and impeachment are both staring Trump in face
Indictment while in office still
A Justice memo says it’s nil
Impeachment with conviction means
Removing Trump from office clean
No criminal conviction, leaving Trump off free with grace

But, then, you say, when Trump leaves office he could be indicted
He could, thereby, be convicted
Have his freedom thus restricted
But his Vice, then President,
By prearrangement evident,
Would then provide for Trump, his pal, the pardon they’d decided

The Constitution never meant for Presidents as crooks
To thwart its laws in mockery
And, thereby, getting off scot free
The Justice memo wrongly set
Indictment while still President
As not permitted. It must be removed from Justice books

12/10/18

Both Manafort’s and Cohen’s crime’s revealed for all to see
In memos filed by prosecutors, memos to the courts
Of New York’s Southern District and the District of DC
Although somewhat redacted, there was plenty to report

Manafort had lied about his many secret contacts
With Konstantine Kilimnik, in with Soviet intel
And contacts with the Trump elites, revealing Mueller’s facts
While faking his compliance with his sworn plea-bargained deal

With Mueller, Michael Cohen told of Soviet collusion
With Trump campaign officials starting back in year fifteen
Extending through elections, synergistic deep intrusion
Including Moscow Tower Trump; Trump kompromat is seen

The SDNY prosecutor wrote essentially
That Trump performed two felonies in telling Michael Cohen
To pay to hush his two sex partners so they wouldn’t be
Affecting his election, keeping all of us from knowing

Now Justice has a rule against indicting President’s
I find it inconsistent that a crooked candidate
Can break the law to help become the White House resident
And thereby be protected from becoming prison bate

12/7/18

Flynn’s sentencing memo was published tonight
By Mueller to aid as a sentencing guide
Informing the judge whether Flynn did alright
Recommending the jail time for Flynn to reside

The memo states how Flynn had broken the law
As well, the plea bargain to which he agreed
That he did cooperate, nary a flaw
Valuable info that met Mueller’s needs

Most of the memo released was redacted
On sensitive info of probes still ongoing
Explaining Flynn’s help and the way he had acted
The cable-news pundits were, thus, left unknowing

However, conclusions, a few, they did draw:
That Mueller’s not done – maybe six months or more
He’s also not worried that he’ll be withdrawn
There are still major players that he’s aiming for

I, too, have my theory of Mueller’s sly ploy
Knowing that Whitaker will read the memo
And tell it to Trump and his daughter and boys
I suspect it was written for Trump’s clan to know

12/4/18

Tic tock, tic tock
Unwinding further is the clock

As it turns out we got the word
On Rachel Maddow’s show we heard
The reason sanctions meant so much
Not just to Putin’s case as such
But also to the President
No Moscow tower built, it meant
Financing planned from Deutche Bank
Which, too, was sanctioned; that to thank
For halting funding in its tracks
Nor is it clear or known in fact
That Putin ever would approve
It was sly Putin’s clever move
To dangle there before Trump’s eyes
A tower Trump in Moscow’s sky’s
A master, Vlad, at kompromat
He hooked his fish, his man he caught
Since Trump so badly wants this tower
He’s largely under Putin’s power
And were this ever back home known
It’s out of office he’d be thrown
So Trump has done his lying best
To keep this secret from the rest
Of us, that is until this week
When Michael’s guilty plea revealed
Trump’s sordid secret; Cohen squealed

Tic tock, the mouse runs further down
Trump’s Presidency clock’s unwound