Writing Now and Later

We got back to the gym yesterday for the first time in a month. Our hour on the treadmill went swimmingly and we hardly noticed the time. We were pretty sore last night but less so this morning. Just a great run overall. We found our brain wandering to the little desert merc novel we mentioned yesterday. Perhaps that's our summer sneak in. 

We can write most anything. It all comes down to what we feel we must need write. By next June we'll have published 75, The Final Storm, 76, and The Weser. What do we want to do in the autumn of 2022? It's never too early to start planning these things. What's the game plan for 2022 going onto 2023. It's probably time to update the Future Projects page. Perhaps someday, but not today. 

We see San Fan Nan has scheduled the vote on the various spending boondoggles for Thursday. We wondered if this was merely kabuki. But observers whom we trust and are generally pessimistic don't think this is kabuki. This blog believes something will pass but has no idea what. We remind reader(s) that this blog is 100% comfortable with a government shutdown. Default on the debt. Nothing will happen. Or maybe it will mean financial Armageddon.    

Yesterday morning we saw Mrs. Stroock packing up Oldest Daughter's computer. 

We asked, 'Did she forget her computer?"

'Yes.'

'I'm going to the high school, aren't I?'

'Uh-huh.'

We had a moment afterwards. 1991, parking at our high school listening to Guns N Roses. 2021, parking at our daughter's high school listening to Guns N Roses. The circle is complete.

By the way, the high school is just one of many places in town that require masks. We walked into the lobby sans mask and halfway expected to be tackled by the school cop. But as always, nobody said nothing. Passive resistance. Small acts of resistance...probably lead to nothing. But at least we're good with ourselves.

Impeach This

Plaster faced Pelosi and the House Dems are having a self congratulatory circle jerk over impeaching the president. It wasn't enough to impeach Trump once. No, they did it again with a week left in his presidency. That'll show 'em! That's worth an extra shot of vodka and estrogen, isn't it Nancy? 

Open a history book you fucking imbeciles. No one thinks the Radical Republicans did the right thing by impeaching Andrew Johnson over the Tenure of Service Act. As far as Clinton goes, well, it was a silly waste of time, wasn't it? Retards.

Cocaine Mitch has already said the Senate won't take up the articles of impeachment. That means the Dems can spend the first part of the new congress dealing with impeachment. They've got two years to do what they want and they're gonna spend weeks (months?) relitigating Trump. The GOPs will have a ball rubbing the Dem's faces in their own toxic BLM/Antifa quotes.  Well played Democrats, well played indeed. You've got something in your hair.

Oh, Liz Cheney (R-Halliburton) voted to impeach the president, did she? That war profiteer's daughter has been working with the Dems for years to keep American troops in Afghanistan. Conservatives in the house are calling for Cheney to be removed from her leadership post. The jokes write themselves. Oh look, a Cheney wants regime change! A Cheney expected she'd be welcomed as a liberator. This blog will donate to whomever primaries that establishment chump-thumper. Cheney dalenda est.

Barrett to Dems: I'm Smarter than you

We checked in on the Amy Coney Barrett hearing just in time to watch Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. We never thought he'd outdo the Brett Kavanaugh boofing interrogation, but we have to say, his half hour presentation on dark money conspiracy theories came close. We urge reader(s) to click the links and watch. 

Dick Durban, the dumbest white man in the senate, asked the judge about the effect the George Floyd killing had on her. Speaking of dummies, Senator Masie Hirono asked Barrett if she'd ever been involved in a sexual assault or harassment, etc. Corey Booker (for whom we once voted to our shame) asked Barrett to condemn white supremacy. Amy Klobuchar said she'd like to be a queen. 

These people are fucking retards.

Oh, and check out Nancy Pelosi's mental, emotional and spiritual breakdown on Wolf Blitzer yesterday. Anyone believe the Dems think they're winning? Good morning, Sunday morning, Nancy.

Dems Scream

By now reader(s) are aware that San Fran Nan is holding up small business relief and showing of her $10,000 a piece twin fridges filled with $13 a pop ice cream.

Then there's Joe Biden, in mental collapse before a befuddled and amused nation. Is this the best they could do?, ask Normal Americans. What must your average Democrat be thinking? We'd be sad, depressed, enraged. Which should concern Normal Americans. If Dems this pissed off now, what are they gonna be like after election day.

Becuase they're going to lose, and they know it, bigly. 

Which is why Dems are screaming about mail in double voting and voter suppression. Remember, these people think former Georgia Tech Offensive Lineman Stacey Abrams won the governor's race in 2018. So they're laying the groundwork for 'election irregularities'.

California Hang Your Head in Shame

San Francisco, San Francisco
California hang your head in shame
There's a Speaker from San Francisco
And Pelosi's here name

The market will drop another thousand points today because Nancy Pelosi wants to guarantee abortion funding:

The supposed bipartisanship to help the economic fallout from the Wuhan coronavirus fell apart on Sunday after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi returned to DC. Coincidence? Probably not because the minute she gets back, shows off her “wishlist,” the Democrats vote no on a bill they negotiated.

Normally we're all far Democrats having abortions, but this is not the time. Tar and Feathers.

We tweeted our own Congressman Tom Malinowski:

@Malinowski staffers, when you’re out of work next January, I could use a proofed and a reader. Message me! #NJ07

— William Stroock (@WStroock) March 23, 2020

We stopped short of asking young female staffers if they could dance, but lord, were we tempted. Were we ever tempted.

Nancy's Final Days

Just how bad was Pelosi's week?

She sat through Trump's triumphant State of the Union making faces, grinding her dentures, gesticulating toward her caucus and then....then...she almost tragically rips up the official document. Later bloggers found footage of Pelosi 'pre-tearing the docs. It was all an act. A bad one, too.

The next day Trump was acquitted. Then came Pelosi's weekly press conference, a stuttering, sputtering disaster in which she snapped at a reporter and repeated the same ludicrous claims about being sad and prayerful. Does she even realize how this sounds? No of course not. 

Good golly, the ads write themselves. They already have.

This is the worst week any speaker has ever had in our lifetime. No other Speaker could survive this. No other Speaker would have the....what's the word...I dunno. Any other Speaker would resign in disgrace. Newt did. Nancy won't, though. 

Good.

What Will Watched:...That Woman

Everyone reading this saw Pelosi tear up the president's speech. Our apolitical wife said, 'really?' A fit of pique and impotent rage. A tantrum. We kept our eyes on...that woman all night. When Pelosi wasn't chewing her dentures she was signaling the feminist harpies in her caucus. We saw Pelosi visibly restrain herself from shaking her head and, we're sure of it, interrupting the president. What was that gesture those white suited, screeching femcels made about halfway through? We thought they were doing the chomping crocodile dance but that may just be because our youngest daughter's favorite stuffed animal right now is a crocodile named Chomp. An utterly disgraceful night for...that woman. She should resign. She'll be out of a job next January anyway.

Notes, Random and Various

Still no Iowa caucus results, JFC.

John Kerry (D-Paris) is threatening to run for president. 

We wonder what stunts Amy Schumer's uncle is planning over the next 36 hours or so.

Based Lindsey Graham is back, promising an investigation into the Ukraine Hoax. It's takes him a while to get going, but never, ever make Lindsey mad.

When Trump gives the SOTU tonight he should hand San Fran Nan a pen.

Trump gets to win tonight and then win again tomorrow when he's acquitted.

Whose got Game? Mitch got Game

Yesterday Nancy Pelosi signs the impeachment articles with a dozen gold pens presented on silver platters, hands them out as souvenirs and then has the articles delivered by a Benny Hill Show cast of clowns. Meanwhile Kamala Harris (D- Under Willie Brown's Desk) is caught yucking it up before putting on her fake solemn face.

As Casey Stengel once remarked, 'Can't anybody play this game?'

Meanwhile Cocaine Mitch is promising 'witness reciprocity', Rand Paul (R-from our mother's ancestral homeland of Kentucky) is threatening GOP squishes that if they vote for Dem witnesses he'll force a vote on Hunter Biden, and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-the Great State of Tennessee. Go Vols!) says the four Democrat Senators running for president should recuse themselves. 

That is some serious game, people. If the Senate GOP were an NFL team they'd be 14-2. Slav Level 9.5/10. They're Joe Torre's New York Yankees, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, Tom Brady's New England Patriots, Wayne Gretsky's Edmonton Oilers. European reader(s) should feel free to put FIFA references in the comments below.

Bonus: Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) tells CNN to get fucked.

Wither Pelosi, Wither Impeachment

After last week's impeachment article delay fiasco can we please stop saying Nancy Pelosi is some kind of master politician and parliamentary genius?

In 2006 the Dems won the house in the sixth year of the Bush administration, under a faltering economy and in the midst of an unpopular war. If you can't win in that situation you should quit politics and run quilting bee's. The victory, by the way, was engineered by future Obama CoS Rahm Emanuel. In 2010 she muscled Obamacare through and promptly lost the House. 

This year she is hostage to AOC and The Squad. A skilled speaker would have smacked them down last spring. Pelosi let Adam Schiff convince her that leaker Eric Ciaramella could bring Trump down. Trump has outmaneuvered Pelosi and Schiff, starting by releasing the transcript which reader(s) know is perfect.

In the Senate, Mitch McConnell publicly wonders why Pelosi even thinks she has leverage here. While Pelosi and the House Dems and Impeachment implode, Cocaine Mitch confirms judges by the dozen. Now there's a master politician.

Cocaine Mitch has that Gleam in his Eye

Ho Lee Fuk is not my dry cleaner. No, it's my confusion at Nancy Pelosi' actions. No, confusion isn't the right word. Exasperation? Stupefaction? Stupid?

You tell me, people. You tell me. Because...what the fuck, man?!Having given us this impeachment travesty Mean Granny has delayed sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, for some reason.

Hotair is saying this better than we can:

Otherwise, though, count me with Allahpundit in being utterly mystified as to what Pelosi thinks she’s accomplishing with a delay tactic. The longer this goes on, the more it undermines House Democrats’ insistence on the fierce urgency of now rather than following normal due process on the witnesses Schumer wants to call. It pushes a trial more and more into the Democratic presidential (and congressional!) primaries, which begin in February, interfering with their candidates’ messaging and firing up Trump’s supporters instead. All of this will take place while there is no way at all that Democrats will get 20 Senate Republicans to cross over and support removal on the basis of these articles, and likely will lose a couple of their own in the Senate.

Let me explain this to Democrats reading this. You goddamn people know who you are. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets for the Dems.

Maybe McConnell rolls up a hundred, snorts a line at a fancy 60th floor Wall Street brockerage restaurant, Mathew McConaughey style, and says, 'Ok, Bitch. You wanna drag this shit out? Fine. Unlimited witness! We'll start with Hunter and Joe Biden. You're aready vulnerbale caucus can spent weeks, no months, answering awkard questions about the disaster you've dumped in their laps.' Then he lights a fat splif, puts on a little Cam'ron* and calls it an impeachment.

*[What the fuck? How did you even know about that-Ed]

Quiet! Granny's Stories are on!

How effed are the Dems? This effed:

That's the pic with which the BBC is fronting their impeachment story.

One anticipated the Beeb using a pic of a solemn San Fran Nan, the light shinning down from on high, not that the Commie pervs at the BBC believe in heavenly light.

Instead, there she is, chiding her caucus not to cheer and clap like a mean great aunt upset her nephew's playing is interrupting her stories.

When even the BBC is against you...

Nancy's Kobayashi Maru

By our count four House Dems have said they wouldn't vote to impeach. Eighteen have to defect in order for the vote to fail. The polls look awful for impeachment. Just wait till the public sees Jerold Nadler* (D-Crispy Cream) conduct impeachment hearings. As time advances the polls will look awfuller. 

San Fran Botoxic Nan is quite capable of losing a House majority. She ordered moderate House Dems to do a Kamikaze in support of the now failed Obamacare in 2010. Will she do the same now? Will they look at the lesson of 2010 and obey?

Back off Impeachment and the rabid, slobbering base will storm the Hill, and censure ain't gonna get the job done. Pursue impeachment and moderate voters will throw out moderate Dems. She's in the Kobayashi Maru and has no way to re program the computer.

*Second worst Jew in America.

Remulac's Finest

It's obvious Chuck and Nancy are space aliens, otherwise we would actually feel sorry for them.*

They're joint response to Trump's address was probably the most humiliating moment in American politics since Dukakis climbed aboard an M-1 tank.

So memable.

Nobody other than Federal employees care about the so-called shutdown. In fact, nobody even notices. Quoth Mrs. Stroock, 'The government is still shutdown?'

Trump's base loves everything about the shutdown. When we hear TSA employees are staging a sick out and having to find part time work our response is, Oh yeah, baby...just like that...

In one fell swoop Trump made the argument about boarder security, drugs, terrorists, criminals- all for 5.7 billion, a Federal pittance.

Amy Schumer's uncle and San Fran Nan are fighting a battle they've already lost, though they probably don't know it.

So when Nancy said no yesterday, Trump just got up and left.

Just walk away.

This is Art of the Deal 101, people.

We learned this lesson years ago car shopping with Mrs. Stroock. After a test drive we just weren't that interested in a Rav-4 and every time we were about to get up to leave the salesmen offered better terms.**

The Remulacians are dealing with a master negotiator. Trump just renegotiated NAFTA. He just re-negotiated terms with Europe. He's forced China to the table, and all that remains is to negotiate the terms of Beijing's surrender.

Does anyone really think Trump is bothered by Chuck and Nancy?

Chuck and Nancy have to make a deal, but they can't. They face a rising young caucus led by Juden hassers like AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and the incestuous Ilhan Omar who will broke no compromise whatsoever.

For the young millennial hipster demo, compromise of any kind means moral surrender. After all, look what happened at Munich, though we have no doubt whatsoever that Ms. Venezuela wouldn't get the reference.

We come from France

*So much for being the worst persons in the world.

**We ended up with a beautiful blue Jeep Liberty. We loved that car, and slapped heavy metal stickers on the back window, Zeppelin, Maiden, AC/DC.

Speaker Pelosi: The Sequel

Via Drudge (Dilly! Dilly!) Axios tells us the GOP Congressional majority is fucked in Trump's Nightmare.

Basically the Dems hold a 10 point generic ballot advantage and the average off year house swing is 32 seats against the sitting party. The Republican House majority is 24 seats. 

But Axios admits:

Republicans typically hold a built-in advantage in House elections in modern politics. The reason: a combo of congressional districts designed for a GOP edge + the fact that old, white voters outperform in off-year elections because they actually vote. But Democratic momentum looks like it could drench the map.

We saw this momentum in Britain last year with the parliamentary elections. 

The left is pissed.

But the Dems off year pickup average is not as obvious as it looks. The Dems actually gained a seat or two in '98, as did the GOP in 2002. 

In 2006, when the GOP got wiped out, the Dems gained 31 seats. They needed an unpopular president in his 6th year and a foundering war to do it.

Four years later the GOP gained 65.

We make this point because the GOP off year advantage is yuuuge. Let us not forget that at the state level the GOP has gerrymandered the fuck out of the house districts. 

Also the Dems were 0-4 in House special elections last year.

So it really comes down to motivation and turnout.

If Trump delivers he'll be fine.

If Trump doesn't, hello Speaker Granny Botoxi.

File photo possibly not Nancy Pelosi