George’s slightly off-center view of the world
“The wanton disrespect that these elected Republicans showed Mueller was perhaps the most alarming testament yet to Trump’s total conquest of the Party. In today’s G.O.P., as in Stalin’s Russia, evidently, decades of loyal public service count for nothing when the leader and his henchmen decide someone represents a threat and the apparatchiks have been ordered to take that person down.”
John Cassidy – The New Yorker
Having lived for a couple decades in Sonoma wine country, I’m familiar with the old riddle:
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business?
You start with a large fortune.
I’ve since learned that a version of this joke is also passed around among farmers and ranchers in Texas.
The failing New York Times took a deep dive into how the current occupant of the White House made his fortune. John Cassidy summarized the report in The New Yorker magazine and concluded:
He is a shameless flim-flam man with practically no regard for the truth or the quaint notion that wealthy people like him have a civic duty to pay their fair share of taxes.
