I don’t understand how all these media pundits and loser politicians and former swamp rats, like Comey, can make money off books. Who buys them? Who wants to spend money on whatever drivel Hillary spews? I can’t imagine who would spend good money on this crap.

One of the things I like best is that Trump has the ability to work the room no matter what the room is. He’s comfortable in all situations and takes no prisoners. Today was a perfect example. He basically de-pants the President of South Africa and brought the receipts. Then in the afternoon he welcomed my National Champion Florida Gators and worked the room like a professional comedian. He just is amazing in a way no other president has been with the possible exception of JFK who also gave as good as he got.

Now the next thing I was going to add was covered by Gutfeld in his opening monologue. Namely that he has selected a cabinet of serious people who are not afraid to embarrass congressional members in committee hearings and I love it. Now as a few people have noted, it’s because they know that he has there back.

The one thing no one has mentioned that is also a big part of their ability to take on Dems is the fact that the Republicans have control of both houses and so any committee meeting is chaired by a Republican who is willing to let them answer questions and skewer the Dems. If the Democrats were in charge they would never get the chance to respond to the questions and would probably be held in contempt if they did.

Trump promised that there would be no tax on social security. At this point he didn’t deliver. While the Fox pundits continue to lie and say that the one big beautiful bill contains no tax on social security. Nothing could be further from the truth. The bill in the House contains a $4000 dollar regular deduction, not a tax credit, for social security recipients . This is a huge difference and considering that the it will be phased out through 2029 I think. And it also reduces the amount of the deduction based on income I think starting at $75 K and probably means that I will get no tax break.

First I know serendipitously that eliminating income tax on social security would reduce my income tax by over $4000 because last year I had all my tax done because I couldn’t find my W-2 from the SSA. So I got it on line and put it in and my tax went up by over $4000. And I was looking forward to Trump giving me a $4000 raise, and he may still be giving lip service to this but he didn’t get through the House.

Now just so you understand what the difference is. If you say have $100K gross income and the applicable tax rate is 15%, your tax is $15K. Now assuming your gross social security is $20K, then your tax would be $80K times 15% or $12k . You would save at least $3K. I say at least $3K because in all likelihood the tax rate would be less and you would save even more.

Now let’s compare that to what they are apparently doing. You get to deduct $4000 from your 100K and then pay tax on $96K would be 14.4K. A savings of $600! Thus the whole thing coming out of the House is just insulting and in my case wouldn’t do anything.

BTW The numbers used above are not reflective of my actual numbers.

I have ranted about this before but it’s time to indict and prosecute the law breaking Dems. Today Comey posted a picture of supposedly random seashells forming 86 – 47. Now in case you don’t know that is generally considered in the restaurant business to mean to cancel an order or option. However outside the restaurant business it means either take them out of town 8 miles and bury them 6 feet under, or that the normal grave is dug 8 feet wide and 6 feet deep. This was clearly a call to assassinate Trump. He needs to be indicted and prosecuted for this but also his multiple perjuries. He signed off on four FISA warrants that were false and lied to Congress.

Now his claim that he came across the seashells forming 86-47 is just ridiculous. I have walked a lot of beaches and seen a lot of shells and none ever formed a number or anything else. The odds that he stumbled about this are ZERO!

But continuing on on this subject, the congressmen who assaulted ICE people must be arrested and prosecuted. The evidence is on body cams and they are not above the law. AOC daring anyone to lay a hand on them is complete nonsense. She has zero power to do anything and is probably concerned because she has broken the law herself with helping illegals to avoid deportation.

The point of this rant is that the Dems will never stop their bs until several are faced with incarceration. As long as republicans continue to let them get away with defying the law, they will continue to do it. LOCK THEM UP!

The contrast between Magoo and Trump couldn’t be more evident than in foreign relations. Trump is being treated like the actual leader of the world and Magoo wasn’t even met by the leaders of the countries he visited. And they didn’t respect him.

Trump has the red carpet rolled out for him at every stop, and he is treated with respect.

Now that the real reason for this rant is because I continue to be amazed by Trump’s ease when dealing with kings and princes and other royalty. He owns the room and talks to them like he is talking to his family at dinner. His tone is always conversational. He doesn’t scream or shout or pound the table or whisper like the crypt keeper. I have discussed this before. He is just so comfortable in his own skin because he knows what he thinks and what he wants and I am a fan of the conversational tone.

As I have said before, I have been described as always using the conversational tone and it’s true but I don’t know that I could do that when dealing with heads of state. Trump can because he knows that he is their superior.

BTW Trump destroyed the nation builders and the Neocons and I don’t recall even Perino disagreeing even though she always dies on her sword for W.

This is aimed at one of you with whom I’ve had a running battle about tariffs and the stock market and inflation. As I have said previously said in the first Trump term there were tariffs and record stock market prices and no inflation. Guess what? In his second term he has also increased tariffs and the stock market has not tanked and inflation is down. I told you so.

I don’t know about you but I have several prescriptions that I take every day and I know some of you do too. Most are minimal cost and even zero. However I take Eliquis and today picked up my prescription and it is more than $90 per month and there is no generic alternative. So I hope that Trump invoking the most favored nation executive order will result in a reduction in price. I can afford it but I don’t want to pay 10X more than they pay around the world.

Btw Magoo tried to claim some credit for reducing the price of insulin. However that was done by Trump and Magoo did absolutely nothing about any other drugs. Trump is helping all of us who are old or need drugs for our health.

Last night I mentioned how I don’t recognize most of the songs on Disney night on Idol. Tonight they had day two of Disney night and the five remaining singers sang two Disney songs each. And surprisingly I actually knew all but one. However the reason is because several were not Disney songs just because they showed up on the soundtrack of some Disney movie.

I believe that for Disney songs you should have to sing songs that were written for Disney movies. Not songs that were part of the soundtrack of some movie that I have never heard of. There are literally hundreds of great songs to choose from and so it’s ridiculous for anyone to choose something else. Tonight ‘Ain’t No mountain high enough’ and ‘Born to Be Wild’ plus one more song I forget were used as Disney songs. They all predated their Disney movies by decades.

I have no problem with the final three because I could support any of the final five. However it’s interesting that the final three is one black, one white and one woman.

First I apparently extended this rant for three more years today automatically. I didn’t know that that would happen and it’s a little more expensive than before but what isn’t, and it’s well worth it to me for mental health reasons..Hopefully in three years I won’t become Magoo. I doubt that will be a problem because Magoo on his best day in his life was a small fraction of my intellect.

Next with respect to Iran, and although I screwed up a few things last week that I shouldn’t have because I’ve seen and either litigated or supervised the litigation of every part of the uranium enrichment cycle, I have still never read, heard or seen anyone point out what I did. Namely that there is zero reason that Iran would enrich uranium to the level they have except to get a nuclear weapon.

Next, I again feel old tonight because it was Disney night on Idol and I only knew two of the songs and that’s not because I had seen the movies. One was from the Lion King and the other was from Pocahontas and both were songs that became radio hits. Now to be fair I did see the live version of the Lion King at Disney World with the family.

And lastly I am thinking of turning off the comment option on my site. If I figure out how to do it. The reason is because Russian or Islamist bots are sending me 60 or more comments in Cyrillic or Arabic every day which I then have to delete and reporting them as spam is useless because they all have long names made up of letters and numbers and punctuation marks and then they just change a letter or reverse two letters or numbers and therefore they evade being spam. I don’t know why these idiots are targeting me but if you want to have the ability to comment on the site, please let me know.

Magoo has at least two multi million dollar mansions in Delaware which is a high tax state. He has an income of I believe $400K as a former president. How does he even cover his costs? The scam is over and no wants to pay him money to babble nonsense, The selling of access is over and he should end up bankrupt,