During trump's 19 minute speech, the price of oil rose $4 a barrel.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260402-oil-prices-rise-after-trump-speech-as-gold-and-silver-fall/
Tim and I went to the gym. Price of gas was $3.99 when we went in. After an hour workout, it was $4.19, which was a shock.
Pam Bondi got fired. Everybody is celebrating that. I am not. The reasons given were two-fold. The first was her handling of the Epstein case. (Personally, I think there is this idea that once she is gone, the focus at next week's hearings will be on her, not on trump.)
The second reason is that trump believed she was not moving fast enough on the prosecution of his 'enemies'.
The thing that gives me pause: from all indications, Republicans are going to get trounced at the midterms. Strongly red areas are voting in democrats during a spate of special elections. 36 Republican House incumbents have chosen not to run for reelection.
I think that Bondi was removed in favor of someone who is willing to create more chaos in the seven months before the midterms. According to Lindsey Graham that is trump's genius: maintaining unpredictability and confusion.
So...I can't really celebrate Bondi's departure. But I am glad she is gone. I will never forget this:
Today, I made two boxes from greeting cards for the gifts for my granddaughter's fairies who live on her windowsill. In just a week and a half, I am headed to my son's house to unselfishly give them a date night or two while selfishly taking granddaughter time.
Two gifts wrapped and four to go.
Two trees came down, aspen. They will be cut into logs and allowed to rest for 2 weeks. When I get back from my time away, it will be time to innocculate the logs for mushroom growing. I want to take a log up, predrilled for Rudy. He has some hand deformities, but I am sure that he can handle the rubber mallet and the pegs and daubing the paraffin. Lion's mane is believed to have medicinal properties and is prized by the Amish. It might be a nice little business of his own.
Everything is starting to green up here. It will also be time to think about begin to plant the garden.
The big stuff needs to be counterbalanced with the small stuff. I am lucky to have plenty of that.
It does seem like he is blaming and firing the women in his cabinet, doesn't it? I did listen to his speech. My mind was blown. Weird, and lies.
ReplyDeleteYour mushroom growing sounds interesting. You are always so conscious of how you can help others.
I am a little jealous that you get to go visit the fairies! (and your granddaughter <3 )
I always fear that when someone gets fired, an even worse person will get put in his/her (usually her) place. At the moment, I'm obsessing on what's going on with the US Forest Service and their disastrous plans for profiteering. Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot are rolling over in their graves!
ReplyDeleteI am finding it harder each day to assimilate the "stuff" coming over the news media from the US.
ReplyDeleteNow, mushroom logs I can deal with ...
State of the world: I would not be surprised if a large trap door opened on the southern shoreline of Iran and KingKong emerged, picked up the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier in his furry little hand and snapped it in two across his knee. No - I would not be surprised.
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it goes from unbelievable to worse.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy granddaughter time x
Is that a photo from the congressional hearing about Epstein? The dog killer was appalling. How exciting to soon be visiting your grand, the daughter of your son.
ReplyDeleteWe’re not greening yet but snow is all but gone but not yet the remnants of the glacier in our front lawn.
ReplyDeleteHave a great time with the grands!
ReplyDeleteI am seeing a chain of events, all meant to distract from the Epstein files. The problem being is that each of his events backfires which means he needs to create another event. And so here we are. I am not comparing Bondi's firing to the war in Iran but...you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteBless her heart. He left her stranded in the river of mass confusion he has created but she brought this shit on herself.
Are you using the phrase "Bless her heart" in the southern vernacular as we know it?
DeleteOh Ana! I can guarantee you that yes she absolutely is!
DeleteDebby is correct.
DeleteThe mushroom log is intriguing. I hope it is very fruitful.
ReplyDeleteThe political news continues to astound.
It seems like all choices are bad and good choices ignored.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that Graham describes Trump's penchant for chaos as his "genius." I'm not sure it's genius at all. I wouldn't even credit it for winning him the White House. He won DESPITE it.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of inoculating a log to grow mushrooms! That sounds like an interesting process. Tell us more, when the time comes!
I continue to doubt he ever won the White House. Both elections had dirty work at the crossroads. Kamala could not possibly have lost all the swing states.
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