FINALLY, THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DONALD TRUMP

How come Donald Trump is not in jail yet? Well, the beginning of those lawsuits and criminal depositions is occuring:

One is almost nothing, for it had to do with his guards roughing up protesters way back in 2015.
Next, or maybe even first, Summer Zervos (right), a contestant in his The Appentice calling her a liar during his 2016 presidential campaign after she accused him of unwanted kissing and groping when she was seeking career advice in 2007, a year after she appeared on his show.

Now 75 years old, E. Jean Carrol suing Trump for defamation, for slander long after he raped her in a New York City department store way back in the mid-1990s. Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear arguments in December.

Trump and three children, Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka, are being sued by a group claiming the family conned them into making bad investments. Goes back to 2005. Depositions by April and trial in 2023.
Mary Trump sued the Trump family for fraud. Donald subsequently sued Mary.

Trump has at least four lawsuits by Democratic lawmakers and the Capitol Police over the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Has to do with violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Okay, that was unfair, for to the right is Alec Baldwin from Saturday Night Live.
Also related to January 6, a lawsuit on the Voting Rights Act, by the NAACP and Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.

The People of the State of New York v. The Trump Corporation already had a unveiling when Trump's personal financial officer, Allen Weisselberg appeared in court. More subpoenas and indictments are coming. Essentially tax fraud. In many ways these are a continuing series of incidents which began in 1998. Michael Cohen will make a reappearance.

Now add the cracks beginning to show in Republican party support of his 2024 presidential run.

Back in January, 10 Republicans in the House voted to impeach him for inciting insurrection, led by Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. In the Senate it was only Mitt Romney.

The Lincoln Project will no doubt return in 2024, and there is an organized Republican Voters Against Trump who feel that he is a racist and thus unacceptable. Something called the Republican Voters listed several hundred thousand former Trump supporters who are disenchanted with him. Add the Never Trump Movement to the list.

More recently, the Renew America Movement, formed by centrist Republicans to neutralize Trump conspiracy theories, has endorsed candidates to compete against Trump Republicans.
As of this month, 25 members of Congress--five from the Senate and twenty from the House--have announced they will not seek re-election. All five Senators are Republicans. If Democrats can add just two more members to the Senate, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will become neutralized, and reconciliation can return to be effective.

This groundswell of anti-Trump activity will fracture the Republican party's attempt to win back Congress next year. While Democrats are looking like a disorganized group, they cannot be accused of being narcissistic, obsessed with revenge, liars, alienators....well, you get the point. All Democrats need is only a few Republican voters saying we can't vote for anyone who supports what he is doing, and just not show up to vote.
2024? He might be in jail.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

OSAKA EXPO: Day One

Well, the day finally came for us to go to the Osaka Expo. We were told ahead of time that the long walks would be fearful, giant lines will need to be tolerated just to get into the Expo, with those ocean breezes, it would really be cold, and so forth. Maybe it was pure luck, but we avoided all the above warnings We had a grand day, and are looking forward to Sunday, our second day at the Expo. So come along for an enjoyable ride. Our hotel is adjacent to the Tennoji Station, a very large one with several lines. We upgraded our Suica card and caught the Misosuji red line towards Umeda. Transferred to the Chuo green line at the Hommachi Station. This Osaka Metro train took us to the Yumeshima Station at the Expo site. It was a very large mob leaving the train and heading to the entrance. Took only a few minutes to get to the entrance. This mob was multiplied by at least a factor of ten of those already waiting to enter. However...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

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