Capsules of Trumpdom

This crap about having cops enforce immigration laws--as if they don't have enough to do. Please, Donald, let them concentrate on keeping the peace and solving crimes.
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Fiorella is disturbed by Trump's isolationist agenda.The more the United States stands alone in the world, the less influence it has on the world. And the more the United States is at odds with Mexico and Canada, its immediate neighbors, the less attention it will pay to shenanigans across the sea. Hello, Vladimir.
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Donald is trying to divert attention from his low inauguration turn-out and Conway's laughable invention of the term "alternate fact" by projecting again, talking about the election being rigged against him when it was actually rigged in his favor, just like he was the one guilty of all the accusations he hurled at Hillary. MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL/ WHO'S THE UGLIEST ONE OF ALL? 
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Trump supporters are aping their glorious leader's blood thirst. Vituperation and vengeance are the name of the game, and Fiorella has been one of its targets. It's hard to remain on the high road when the low road is so very low.    
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According to news leaking out of DC, the troops are not that happy. Maybe a palace coup is in the offing. We can only hope. 
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Fiorella Figures Out Putin's Plot

Putin is playing us. First he maneuvered to get rid of Hillary, a hawkish and knowledgeable candidate he couldn't control. Then he waited until just before Trump's inauguration to let it leak out that he has videos of Trump's sexual escapades in Russia during that infamous beauty pageant. Now, because we are all so involved with the mess he's put us in, he can do anything he wants without a word of restraint--retake the former USSR states, fiddle with the Middle East, and, his ultimate goal, replace the President of the United States as world leader.

Adieu to Fio's Sudden Popularity

Fiorella's stats, which had risen to 700+ pageviews per day for about a month there, have gone down to about 150 and will probably dip lower, back into the reality level for a blog that doesn't even advertise. The increase was caused by a sudden intense readership in France, which threw Fio for a loop. Was her blog being used as a school assignment to help students with colloquial English?  Was the French government looking at it to gauge American political opinion? Was it being used to encrypt secret messages, maybe from Russia to Trump? Qui sait?

(And yep, an earlier version of this blog was posted before it was supposed to be. Fio screws up from time to time.)

Trump, Trump, Trump

The United States is being invaded by Russia at the highest level, and all that Donald Trump talks about is the Mexicans who are sneaking across the border to clean our houses, mow our lawns, and produce children who make straight A's in school.
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According to recent outbursts from Trump Tower, the infamous wall will not be paid for by Mexico after all, at least not for a while. In the meantime, Trump proposes that our tax dollars fund it--because, of course, we're all running around with a couple of million rattling around in our pockets that we don't have any other use for.
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Hasn't anyone caught onto Trump's delaying tactic? He's wiggled out of several lawsuits by wearing litigants out by delays; he kept saying he'd release his tax forms, then put it off till everyone forgot about it; and now he's put off telling us what his "secret" information about the Russian hacking is. How long will he keep getting away with this?

Politics and God

As, one by one, Trump's choices for governmental positions are announced, Fiorella prays all the harder that either the recounts or the Electoral College will propel Hillary into the Presidency. What a wonderful Christmas present that would be to America.

But how in the world did Trump get this far? How did a blustering bully propel himself into being a legitimate candidate? What role did Russia play in the show? Where did the fake news stories come from? And most important, where is God?

Snowden Postscript

Edward Snowden has been holed up in the transit zone of a Russian airport for more than a month now.  Thirty-some days eating candy bars out of vending machines.  Thirty-some days in the same clothes.  Thirty-some days without a shower.  No wonder Russia doesn't want him.

Why didn't he just flee to North Korea and be done with it?