Episode 114 – You Go, Ricky! |

Fallout from the Soleimani killing continues. Trumps bans certain forms of vape products. The Democratic Presidential field is shrinking. It is looking more and more like Jeffry Epstein didn’t kill himself. And Ricky Gervais might have saved the Golden Globes.

The Saga Continues

The war of words continues between Iran and the United States.

The President of Iran responded:

So there you have it. The saber-rattling has begun

Do you remember when leaders of countries used to yell at each over the media? Now, they just Tweet at each other.

There have been some attacks. There were a missile attacks today. One in Nigeria or Yemen, one of the two, that killed an American and one at the Baghdad airport. No one is really sure if Iran is involved but you can bet they are.

By the way, this is the kind of attacks you can expect from Iran. I don’t think we should expect a huge terrorist attack. But you better believe that if another American dies, Trump is going to do something about it.

The pro-Iranian parliment voted to kick out the 5000 American troops from Iraq. This is a non-binding resolution and does not mean much at this moment because their Prime Minister has resigned. Of course the media is making a big stink out of this, but it’s not.

Pelosi is trying to limit Trump’s power when dealing with Iran. She’s ticked Trump didn’t report to Congress even if he had no legal reason to do so. She said in a letter to the House and Senate:

“This week, the House will introduce and vote on a War Powers Resolution to limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran. It reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.”

Trump, being a smart ass sent a Tweet stating that he warned Iran and Congress with this post on Sunday:

This isn’t over by a long shot. I will place bets right now another article of impeachment is in the works.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-moves-to-limit-trumps-actions-in-iran-with-war-powers-resolution-vote

Banning of Vape Products

Trump has decided to temporarily ban certain flavored juices for vape products. It is believed that the flavored oils are what is attracting our children to going out and vaping. Right now, only menthol and tobacco flavored oils are allowed.

This is in response to respiratory failure of around 100 children, leading to the deaths of almost twenty deaths.Vaping is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 and a lot of the illnesses have been linked, not to retail oils, but to black market counterfeit oils and THC products.

President Trump said last week:

This is a failure.

Though illegal, kids are still using it. A lot getting it from the black market. This will only increase dependency on the black market. This does not solve the problem.
Children who cannot get the oils will just start smoking cigarettes. The reality is that children are going to get what they want. They always have.
Again, it takes away a less unhealthy alternative to smoking. I’ve been vaping on-and-off for years. I have never had a problem. Why should kids doing something illegal affect me?

I just think it’s a bad idea to take away the freedom of the many because a few, that are doing it illegally, get hurt. You’re punishing me because some snot-nosed 16-year-old is acting like a snot-nosed 16-year-old. And a couple of hundred getting sick is not justification for the millions that have no other issues.

Oh, yeah. Nothing is going to get fixed by this

https://apnews.com/d22aed5d39273150d640e02ef89823cd

Only 47 Left

Julian Castro has suspended his campaign sighting financial issues. He also bases the problem on the DNC’s rules for candidates including the ones that determine who is allowed on the stage during debates. He believes these rules prevent diversity within the Democratic field. You knew he would bring up the race card.

What Julian forgets is he has been riding 1% since he started. He never had a chance. I guess those trans women are going to have to wait until 2024 to have those abortions.

Marianne Williamson has just fired her entire campaign staff. That’s too bad. She’s so much fun.

The Democratic candidates have announced their fundraising totals for the fourth quarter of 2019. The big winner: Donald Trump. For the Democrats:

Bernie Sanders – $34.5 million
Pete Buttigieg – $24.7 million
Joe Biden – $22.7 million
Elizabeth Warren – $21.2 million
Andrew Yang – $16.5 million
Amy Klobuchar – $11.4 million
Cory Booker – $6.6 million
Tulsi Gabbard – $3.4 million
Donald Trump – $46 million

Many Democrats dismiss Trump’s massive haul stating that, when the Democrats totals are combined, it far exceeds Trumps totals.

This assumes that people voting Democrat will vote Democrat no matter who is the nominee. That’s just not the case.

This also assumes Trump has received donations from big donors as Sanders and Warren suggest. This is also not the case.

What we can assume is that Gabbard and Booker will be the next to go and will probably miss the debate stage again.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/02/793134302/juli-n-castro-suspends-2020-campaign-as-others-announce-fundraising-numbers
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-tops-democratic-field-massive-345-million/story?id=68000913

This Just Keeps Getting Weirder

Photos were released of the Jeffry Epstein crime scene including autopsy photos of Epstein’s neck and pictures of two of the nooses made out of bed sheets.

Viewing the photos, it looks less likely Epstein killed himself and more likely he was strangled. But the whole circumstance is weird. I don’t talk about Epstein much so lets go over the facts.

Jeff Epstein is a pedophile and human trafficker. Hosted parties with huge figures such as Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

He was arrested and jailed. While in jail, he was housed with another inmate and on suicide watch. For some reason, his inmate was removed and he was taken off suicide watch. That night, he supposedly hung himself from his bed post with torn up sheets.

Here is what is weird:

He was suppose to be checked on every 15 minutes. Both guards on duty fell asleep, didn’t check on him for two hours and falsified records. Both are pending trial.
The ligature marks on his neck are inconsistent with hanging. He has broken bones around his adam’s apple which are inconsistent with hanging and consistent with strangulation.
Epstein was facing life in jail and was willing to cooperate with police. That puts a lot of people in the cross hairs of the police.
The cameras in the jail were not working. There were two of them. There was some video found though but it is unclear what that video shows.
The video that was found was lost and then found again.
The suicide note said to be found was not a suicide not.
There were two separate nooses found. Though the ligature marks were violent, no blood was found on either noose.
Dr. Michael Baden says that there are several irregularities including:
- The ligature markings don’t match the noose and,
- The body and evidence was collected incorrectly.

This case just keeps getting weirder. I am not a conspiracy guy but I think this guys was murdered and someone ain’t saying something. I hope this story doesn’t get lost because I bet there is a lot there.

The pictures that I did not show on the video cast are below. Viewer discretion is advised.