What the Flocka? 🌻🌻🌻

Espionage: To no one’s surprise, the Former Guy is doing his usual thing.  He has gone from denying that he took any secret documents to Mar a Lago to saying he did but so what and anyway that guy Barack Hussein Obama, you know the foreign born Black guy, took gazllions of documents home to Chicago and why isn’t that being investigated while also throwing in references to Hillary and Hunter as one does when deflecting.  Of course the FG is lying about everything.  He most certainly squirreled away lots of documents into Mar a Lago cubby holes and maybe one or two dead drop spots and some of those documents were so top secret that they were supposed to only be read in a SCIF, the Cone of Silence facility that we learned about in one of the earliest episodes of the FG Chronicles. As to that accusation against Obama, officials at the National Archives were so ticked off by it that they released a statement making it clear that Obama had done no such thing. For her part, Hillary who was right about everything just laughed. The FG’s current excuse is that he needed to take the documents so that he could work from home and that back when he was president he had given a standing order that anything he took for home study would be immediately declassified, ergo he had lots at Mar a Lago that was at some point super top secret but nothing there was secret anymore. Putting aside that it’s hardly believable that he “worked” from home as he barely worked when he was in the White House, that declassification order is bull, at least that’s what a number of people who would have known about it including former national secruity advisor John Bolton said this weekend. Of course, the FG’s enablers, a group that includes some in Congress and the Senate, a few Governors, former aides, the right wing media and his two of his three sons but curiously not his oldest daughter nor son in law are going with a combination of the FG is being unfairly persecuted, those documents are rightfully his and the real problem is Attorney General Merrick Garland who is till sore about being cheated out of a Supreme Court seat as well as the FBI which by the way should be defunded.  To drive that message home, someone on the FG’s team released an unredacted version of the warrant to search his premises, one that included the names of several FBI agents so that his fans could know who to attack once they dispense with the judge who signed the warrant.  That judge’s synagogue canceled in person services on Saturday over credible concerns that it was about to have a Tree of Life moment.  A few other things mentioned this weekend:  the FG placed a mob boss call to Merrick Garland’s office, one in which he implied Gotti style that he would call his ardent followers off if Garland would stop going after him; the video from the Mar a Lago security cameras, which is now in the DOJ’s hands, shows the boxes of purloined documents being shuffled in and out of the secure room that the FG’s team had agreed to keep them in; and one of the FG’s lawyers signed a statement in June that claimed that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar a Lago had been given back even though they hadn’t been, that lawyer is now in bigly trouble or should be.  Lastly, with the warrant released, the FG and his enablers are now demanding that its accompanying affadavit be released as well.  That’s the document that includes the justification for the warrant, details that are typically not released at this point in an investigation and that would also likely include names of more officials, including those “rats,” that the FG would like to see buried alongside his first wife or in the NJ Meadowlands. By the way, things appear to be heating up in NYC and Fulton County too.  On Friday a New York judge ruled that the case against the FG’s company and his erstwhile CFO Alan Weisselberg can proceed and the FG has hired a new criminal attorney to represent him in the “find me more votes” Fulton County case.  That new lawyer is Drew Findling who is known online as #BillionDollarLawyer for representing a star-studded list of hip hop clients, including Cardi B, Migos, Waka Flocka Flame, and Gucci Mane.  

Primarily Yours:  Tomorrow is judgement day for two on the FG’s enemies list.  Absent a miracle, in Wyoming Liz Cheney is expected to lose to her primary opponent, one time friend, Harriet Hageman who has been endorsed by the FG.  Current polls show Hageman out in front with 52% of the vote to Cheney’s 30%.  In Alaska, keep an eye on Senator Lisa Murkowski who is being challenged by FG supported candidate Kelly Tshibaka.  In Alaska  candidates from all parties now run on the same ballot meaning that even if Murkowski doesn’t come in first, she’s expected to make it to the November ballot where as a result of ranked choice voting she’s stands a good, though not certain chance of holding her seat.  Super spreader/former Governor/one time VP Candidate Sarah Palin is also on the Alaska ballot.  She’s running for the House seat vacated as a result of the death of Republican Don Young. The machinations of that race are hard to explain. First the candidates have to get through a special election which will determine who fills Young’s seat through the end of the year.  According to election guru Nate Silver, the Democratic candidate Mary Peltola is polling in first place with Palin battling it out for second with her remaining Republican rival Nick Begich.  If Palin comes in second, there’s a chance the Democrat could end up the special election winner due to ranked choice voting because there are many Republicans in Alaska who dislike Palin.  However, if Begich comes in second, the expectation is that he’ll beat out Democrat Peltola. Then they get to do it all over again in November.

Legislative Action:  As expected the Inflation Reduction Act, the new climate and health legislation, passed through the House with all Democrats voting for it including those on the left who wanted more and Maine’s outlier Democrat Jared Golden, who frequently votes with the Republicans, on board. All Republicans voted no.  As previously noted, out of pocket insulin expenditures will only be capped for Medicare recipients as 43 Senate Republicans refused to extend that benefit to those with private insurance.  However, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer says don’t give up hope on that just yet.  He plans to bring insulin caps back up in September, hoping that putting Republican Senators in a “burn pit” position before the November election moves a few more votes into the pro cap crowd.