I’m about to post a whole pile of tweets on the website about this stuff and we can start again!

Maddow is great, but I only get to see her if she put her stuff on YouTube, which she doesn’t always.

I think Cohen is more likely to flip. Manafort will probably turn out to be a Russian spy and he will be handed to them in a spy swap or something, and he’s too scared to flip because Putin will poison him is he does!

Rosenstein looks mild mannered, but he’s turning out to be really tough. Ann German tweeted me this video a couple of days ago from C-Span: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daxd1YsNEO0

Right now the betting is, who flips first, Manafort or Cohen. I am probably spelling the name wrong but Manafort is in the hottest water right now and even a judge said today, referring to Mueller’s team, you guys are just going after all this stuff on Manafort to get Trump. Well yes, that is the idea. On the other foot, Cohen is soon to be in the hotter water as they know he got additional money in 2016 during the campaign, around $700,000 or so in additional loans on things like his folks apartment in a Trump building. What was he using all the money for, more hooker pay offs or other unfortunate things that happened to Trump?

Meanwhile back at the Justice Dept. Rosenstein has told Trump’s minions in congress to stick it and he will not turn over documents they are asking for. This is the big key element of the day so we will see. The struggle for the future of the country is upon us.

I confess I haven’t read it. I really like Pinker’s work, and all I know of his hypotheses makes sense to me. But his books are just so long! Reading is quite hard for me these days, especially non-fiction as I prefer reading it via a a proper book rather than Kindle.

I get audio books when they’re available for stuff I really want to read, but they can be quite expensive. I’m contemplating getting Pinker as an audio book. The trouble with that is you miss pics/graphs etc,

Don’t despair…we’ll get our shit together, plus, you live in New Zealand! You Kiwis are very enlightened from the government down. (Though I know you have your sour souls…all religions cultivate these charlatans.) Have you read Pinker’s Enlightenment Now? It is an optimistic and erudite take on progress backed by data. Important book.

Yeah you could be right. I’m loathe to make predictions on this one as the likelihood of events taking a strange twist is so high, and there’s already little logic or reason on Trump’s side of the ledger.

Giuliani has become an ugly character of his former self and even then was not so good. He is another NY good old buddy of Trumps and that is why he is there. It shows how far down the bar that Trump must go to even get an attorney. Mueller and his crew, if allowed to proceed, will clean Trump and his lawyer’s clock. They will never allow him to be interviewed because they know it is suicide. I am thinking it is more likely that Mueller may eventually have to turn the findings over to congress and open these finding up to the public and see what happens.

Giuliani has got both Trump and Cohen in even bigger trouble by what he said, and contradicted the past statements of both. There’s also a tweet from Trump today, clearly written by Giuliani (who can’t spell either), full of legalese, about the Daniels payment. He’s making things worse, not better!

Though the situations are different, it seems to me that in relation to the Iran deal, Netanyahu is functioning somewhat like the way Rudy Giuliani functioned in his interview with Sean Hannity, in relation to the now infamous check.