MOM’s Seat of the Pants Diplomacy: It’s for real”You Can’t Fix Stupid”*(Ron White)

The Octogenarians

SB has astutely indicated in a different communication her belief that MOM was never truly a billionaire but simply a “Biermeister” whose wealth lay in loans from Russian billionaires in exchange for laundering privileges and in various properties(highly leveraged) here in the U.S.A. and promises of Hotels to be built in Russia and various sites abroad.Thus the refusal to pony up tax returns,bank statements etc.His Big Tent is now shown to only have room for those whom he feels have something on him and nothing to lose by revealing it.His one on one shrewdness is worthless and maladaptive in an economic and geopolitical environment where balance of trade issues and deficit correction are the purview of global alliances rather than individual nations.The nonsense that went on with North Korea is now shown to be lacking in definition of denuclearization and an acceptable mode of verification.His “summit” with Putin left Putin…

View original post 112 more words

Promises and Lies

The Octogenarians

MOM promised to gut the ACA(Obamacare).Thus far most enrollees are doing well and enrollments are up.The exceptions according to the LA Times are households earning more than 400% of the Federal GOP adjusted poverty line.(about $48,560 for an individual and $100,400 for a family of four.Shortening open enrollment periods,pushing cheap inadequate health insurance plans condemn ed by the AMA,the ANA,The APHA etc because of the elimination of eligibility for preexisting conditions, the redefining of preexisting conditions so that being treated for an illness makes that condition preexisting for the next episode and on and on.
The Governor of South Carolina eliminated a 21 million $ healthcare package lest any money go to groups promoting abortion.
Health and Human Services Secretary Azar is not familiar with MOM’s “Blueprint” for lowering prescription prices.No surprise inasmuch as negotiating drug prices is permitted only to small regional Medicare outfits.Clearly were Medicare and Medicaid permitted…

View original post 55 more words

Authoritarian Use of the Military; MOM’s(akaPOTUS’) Praetorian Guard

The Octogenarians

The LA Times reports that members of the Mexican Army imprisoned by Mexico for abuse of citizens while policing have filed suit protesting that they were asked to do something for which they had no training.They will probably not succeed in their appeal since some of the crimes involve homicide.But policing is a special function requiring special training which the military is not equipped to do.Moving in the opposite direction,in the USA the National Guard has been mobilized by MOM to guard the border and to help round up migrants.Many Guard units have been withdrawn by indignant governors.Not sufficiently mollified by an agreed upon parade in his honor, MOM has ordered indicted and unindicted migrants with or without their children and a lot of children without parents onto military bases for warehousing.He has also ordered JAG lawyers to aid DOJ attorneys in indicting and processing pleas for those aliens.Are there…

View original post 121 more words