Michael Avenatti won in suit against Trump in the mid 2000s.

Until today I don't think I ever heard Trump say much about Michael Avenatti.
Considering that Avenatti took it to Trump's face with the Stormy Dainels suit, Trump was rather muted when it came to put downs thrown around at Avenatti.

While reading about Avenatti's client and the fact that the right and 4chan tried to punk him with the rumor that Avenatti was taken for a fool over his client and 4chan before the release of information and news over Avenatti's latest client, and why he shut down his twitter yesterday, I found out that Avenatti has a degree in Political Science, graduated first in his law class and did oppo research while in school.
Curious, I looked up his Wiki page and found this little nugget:

'Avenatti later joined Greene Broillet & Wheeler, a Los Angeles boutique law firm. While there, he handled a number of high-profile cases, including a $10 million defamation case against Paris Hilton,[30] settled an idea-theft lawsuit relating to the show The Apprentice and against producers Mark Burnett and Donald Trump,.....'

Soooooo, long before there was a Stormy Daniels suit Avenatti beat Trump in a suit in 2006.

Trump is familiar with this guy.

Forget the Courts for now. Focus on Congress and Senate

Even if the Republicans get their guy in next week, he can be put on the backburner for now.
Afterall, LBJ's guy, Abe Fortes was kicked off the court for corruption. We can go after Kavanaugh later.

We have to take things in steps. We are way behind the GOP in gaining control so, we need to start with the basics.
We need the Congress and hopefully Senate.
With the Congress we can conduct oversight hearings and get Trump's Tax Returns!
Begin peeling the Onion back and expose the corruption going on. Not just with Trump and his Administration but, Congresspeople who were enabling it: Nunes, i.e. Maybe McConnell. State GOPers who were helping. All the dirt will be exposed and laid bare before the people

It is of utmost importance we focus on the 2018 elections and winning.

Once we totally discredit the Republicans as corrupt and criminal, then we can start working on the courts.

As a student of 20th century history I do know that FDR faced a conservative court. The court packing scheme came about from this. But, while the courts knocked down some programs they did not destroy the New Deal and it went on to create the largest post war middle class and helped the working class unionize.

So, let's not worry. All in good time if we keep focused and not expect things to happen overnight.

Bill Cosby, Brett Kavanaugh and the Power of a Woman

Watching the waste laid by both Bill Cosby and Brett Kavanaugh to women and their hopes and dreams. Their trust and their innocence.
It leads me to think of my Niece.
V was born struggling to survive. There were things wrong with her and she got transferred to a different hospital that had the equipment to help her.
I don't remember what was wrong exactly except she struggled.
Later on it was determined, when she was 4 or 5 years old, that she had aspergers. Because of what happened in birth.
She stuggled in special ed and had very difficult elementary school years.
She had a strong and loving grandmother who helped her out until she got sick.
Early on her parents divorced and that made it harder on her. By 9 she was cutting herself, saying she hated herself.
My sister had her in therapy to deal with the special ed, aspergers and now, cutting.
It wasn't until she was a few years older that she finally told her therapist her father was sexually abusing her. Not rape but, other things.
My sister fought for her father to be put away to pay for what he did.
At this point please do not say you are sorry.
Because by the time she got to high school she was in regular classes.
Ran in Track and
Graduated Cum Laud.
She is now in Community College.
The girl has a core of steel.
Forged by her mother.

It does not matter your economic circumstances, the strikes against you. If you have a kick ass mother who will believe you, go to bat for you, fight for you and help you. Will listen, understand, be progressive and open, you will come out the other side.

Two very strong ladies with two very strong black lady kitties that they adopted very young.

Died at 26 because he could not afford his insulin

My daughter and I are friends with her ex-mother in law. She is just delightful.

Anyway, on her FB page she posted about this young man.

He had diabetes. A restaurant manager who made 35,000 a year. However, when he turned 26 he was kicked off his mom's health insurance.

His insulin cost 1,300 a month so he began to ration his insulin.

He was dead a month later.

Welcome to the land of the free, home of the brave. If you are rich and can afford health care.

Trump Supporters Say the Darndest Things

I was on Youtube and came across these short 6 part Videos called Trump Supporters Say the Darndest Things.

If you have not seen them you must as they are great for a laugh. If not eyebrow raising. Or both.

I'm posting a link to one of them and if you want to see the rest you can find them.

I know there are alot of dumb people out there but, listening to them is still hard to wrap your head around.

We owe a debt of Gratitude to Stormy Daniels and Michael Avinati

Watching Lawrence tonight and his running down of all the differing investigations into Trump's business, that his CFO is giving information to the feds and has immunity, that his former buddy from the National Enquirer has dumped him for immunity, taking his safe full of secrets along with him...ect., it hit me that the Trump's years of criminal behavior and getting away with it is coming crumbling down thanks to the Porn Star and her lawyer.
Yes, Mueller is most likely orchastrating some of this week, the fact that Stormy Daniels got a new, pugnacious lawyer who fought for her rights and took the fight to both Cohen and Trump that beginning with the raid and culminating in this historic week, all the action is coming thanks to Stormy and Michael filing a suit a few months ago.
All the action is coming out of NYC and because of the suit.
I think we all owe these two and need to say 'Thank You'

I am Making A Stereotypical Observation On How Another Woman Dresses

I am female. I, like many other women, hate when women are judged by their looks, ect.,
But....
I just have to say something about Sarah Huckabee Sanders wardrobe.
She is a professional woman who dresses terrible and totally unprofessional.
Most women in her role usually dressed like professional women with a jacket and dress or top.
Huckabee Sanders dresses in flouncy, frilly things. In odd colors.
I'm sorry it sounds so unfeminist of me but, it drives me nuts.
I don't understand why they don't have someone help her with dressing as a professional woman in tailored pantsuits or skirts and dresses with a jacket.
It can even be cool looking. Just more like a professional would wear.
Am I being too picky or wrong?

Why Trump's Supporters Believe He is Not Corrupt

According to Peter Beinart at the Atlantic, it's a matter of 'You say Tomato and I say Tom-a - t0. You say Potato and I say Pot -a - t0'

To Trump's supporters it is not about political corruption but, corruption of traditional ideas and norms. To them, the man who murdered the college girl in Iowa was more corrupt then the fact that Trump may have broke the law. To them, he is the solution not the problem.

It's again the old story of traditional gender roles and, of course, acceptable roles in race.

So, they see corruption totally different from how the rest of the country sees corruption.
Duncan Hunter is corrupt.
To them Hillary is corrupt for daring to break accepted gender roles.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/what-trumps-supporters-think-of-corruption/568147/

Trump Hotels

I heard that last night on MSNBC. I don't remember who said it but, they called the tent city Trump Hotel.

I have an idea.

Let's start calling the prisons that the immigrants and their children are being housed in Trump Hotels.

Imagine if that caught on and Trump heard people calling these Prisons Trump Hotel.
Even call the migrants and the kids, guests of his Hotel.

That would really get to him.

This is What Happens to the Kids Taken From Parents at the Border

This morning on C-span's Washington Journal the guest, Sarah Pierce from the Migrant Policy Institute, a non partisan Study Group, is on to discuss the crisis of Trump's policy of separating the kids from parents at the border.

She said the parents are automatically put into the custody of the Federal Authorities and within days are taken to a mass trial at court. Then the parents are immediately sent back to the country they came from - without being reunited with their kids.

The kids are effectively kidnapped and made orphans by Trump's Government.

Eventually they are either sent to live with sponsors - family member here in the country or put into foster care.

Many family members will not come because the Trump Administration will finger print them and send those prints to Homeland Security, given to ICE.

So we have babies and toddlers kidnapped from their parents and made orphans and dumped into the foster care system.

We have traumatized kids who the workers are not allowed to comfort or touch left in limbo for months only to be 'lost' in a system while the parents in another country are helpless and do not know what happened to their children.

This is our America today