It Takes Two to Encrypt

With almost 400,000 testing COVID positive daily the stories out of India are heartbreaking, in opened up Israel where only 84 tested positive yesterday a joyful religious event turned into a tragedy when at least 44 revelers were killed in a mob crush and in Russia opposition politician Alexei Navalny who has given up his hunger strike appeared at a Zoom “show trial” hearing looking emaciated so thank goodness for Rudy Giuliani, his son Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Matt Gaetz and Roger Stone.  The gruesome characters from the Former Guy chronicles are the gift that keep giving.  Last night Rudy told Fox fish stick heir/white supremacist Tucker Carlson that he’s the victim of a political hit job, that he’s been trying for a sit down with the FBI for months to explain his exploits, that if the DOJ was serious about going after the truly guilty they would have taken that Hunter laptop sitting on his dresser with a big post it saying “take me I’m Hunter’s laptop” and anyway if he had anything incriminating he would have destroyed it months ago.  His son Andrew, who needs a job and housing so desperately that he’s teasing a run for NYS Governor, appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett show where he also attacked the FBI, those political hacks at the DOJ who are only now acting like hacks because under Former Guy Attorney General Barr the DOJ always acted in a totally apolitical way.  He echoed a bit too closely his father’s claim that the FBI refused to take the offered up Hunter laptop.  Also it turns out that Rudy, who is likely being investigated for working as an agent for some of those corrupt Ukrainians who found former Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch’s anti-corruption campaign too effective had been warned by the FBI that he was being used as a Russian tool but ignored the warnings as did Wisconsin’s Republican Senator Ron Johnson, another one the Russians used and are still using because he’s such a compliant idiot. It’s reported that Rudy may add Alan Dershowitz, who remains embroiled in the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell pedophile mess, to his legal team because why not?

On the subject of illegal sex antics, Matt Gaetz’s troubles continue to deepen. According to the Daily Beast, Gaetz’s one time BFF former Seminole County Tax Collector/Venmo guy Joel Greenfield confessed his criminal activities, including that little problem of the 17 year old he and Matt shared and compensated via Venmo in an encrypted text message to Roger Stone, part of his effort to get one of those highly sought after Former Guy pardons. Stone told Greenfield that he needed all the gruesome details so that the pardon could be properly written and that he also expected to be paid $250,000 if he managed to snare him that golden ticket.  Unfortunately for Greenfield the pardon never materialized.  Unfortunately for Gaetz and Stone, Greenfield took screen shots of his communication with Stone, totally defeating the purpose of using encrypted apps intended to hide and erase messages.  As of this moment, as far as we know, Rudy has not been indicted, Gaetz is still in Congress and Stone is still benefiting from what may or may not be an adequately written pardon but this saga has legs so who knows what comes next, certainly not the Former Guy who may be feeling a bit twitchy right about now.

Even though COVID cases are declining in the US over 50,000 Americans tested positive yesterday, most of the world is a mess and variants know no boundaries so we’re not out of the woods yet.  Keep on wearing that mask when shopping indoors, in crowds and with the unvaccinated but if you want you take it off for uncrowded, distanced outdoor activities, go for it. Have a wonderful weekend.

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