Goin' Retro and Partying Like It's 1969

I guess that it's only befitting that thanks to a little belated karmic justice Trump should get tripped up by a little tactic used so famously by his idol and role model: Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon. It turned out that his self-styled consiglieri/fixer/sleazeball attorney, Michael Cohen, was taping their conversations unbeknownst to the Donald. And then, surprise!, it turns out that Trump really was lying about his affair with Karen McDougal, his knowledge of it, and whether or not he actually paid her off. Thanks to good chum, tabloid mogul David Pecker(wood), the owner and publisher of the National Inquirer, the story of his one-year affair with McDougal, tastefully carried out after the birth of his child, was squashed.

To paraphrase MLK, Jr., the boomerang of the universe is long, but it will eventually come back to knock you upside your combed-over head. I hope this is the beginning of many, many boomerangs of universal justice. Heck, I hope Trump faces a whole swarm of them. And, truth to be told, I'm getting a little tired of raising the hypocrisy issue when it comes to the sanctimonious right-wing's enabling of his reprehensible behavior, but I'll just summon a little energy to remind all of you one more time. The Republican Party and all of its right wing conservative supporters, donors and pundits have happily hid their shameful heads in the sand while Trump has gone about systematically shredding their so-called values and platform. As long as he can further institutionalize their guiding principles of white supremacy and social Darwinism, it's all good.

And with another Herculean effort, I'll repeat one more time that I cannot say that I'm much more pleased with the Democrats. Their establishment seems to be doing nothing more than wringing their hands about any number of ongoing Trump efforts to roll back civil and voting rights, environmental law and regulations, and worker's and women's. I won't even mention immigration, because the only major differences between Barack Obama, aka, "The Deporter in Chief," and Trump is that he barbarously imprisoned the entire families rather than barbarously separate the parents from the children. That's what is supposed to make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside about the Dems? Sheesh.

Oh wait, was that thing on? Can I pay you for not publishing that? Really? Great! Do you take cash, check or plastic?