Hillary just won’t go away

 Marcus Ebenhack - American Thinker

. . ."As I like to say; how can we miss you, Hillary, if you won’t go away?

"Her latest resurrection has her calling for “deprogramming” of Trump supporters.  Calling us “deplorables” wasn’t enough.  Now we must be “deprogrammed” out of our Trump hysteria.  You have to hand it to her for doubling down on the biggest faux paus of her last campaign.  Like AOC, she’s often wrong but never in doubt.

"Two weeks ago she was accusing Donald Trump of “what psychologists call projection.”  And as always, with zero sense of irony or self-awareness.  Not to rehash the details, but her “Russian collusion” dirty political tricks against Trump in 2016 is worth mentioning in this context.  Projection?  LOL, pot meet kettle!

"For Hillary, like a shark sensing blood in the water, to resurface twice in a couple of weeks means only one thing to me.  Joe Biden is toast, Kamala Harris is… well, just hopelessly stupid.  Gavin Newsome presides over the most dysfunctional state in the union.  James Carville tells us how deep the Dem bench is and that it’s time for the next generation of Democrat Party leaders, with a straight face, but without mentioning anyone in particular.

"Democrats know they’re in dire straits.  So much so that many are hoping Michelle Obama will swoop in to save their bacon.  I don’t see this happening and given all of this, who better than Hillary to climb out of her coffin for yet another go at the brass ring?

"Remember, you heard it here first."

You knew the Babylon Bee would see the parody in Hillary, didn't you?  Elderly Woman Escapes Nursing Home, Rants About Deprogramming The Populace | Babylon Bee

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Viewers are perplexed by a CNN television interview featuring a deranged old lady who recently escaped from an elder care facility, angrily ranting about wanting to "deprogram" half of the nation's population.

" 'They must comply! Deplorables! All of ‘em!" the disheveled geriatric growled at the camera while CNN's Christiane Amanpour attempted to de-escalate the situation. "If they don't fall in line, we'll round them up and re-educate them! De-program them! Re-program them! If that doesn't work, then we'll just disappear them! Yes! Yeeeeeeessssssss! Ahahahahahahaha!"

"The CNN interview team did their best to remain calm, despite the obvious threat posed by the tottering, decrepit woman. "She may be old and frail, but you can tell she's serious," said one member of the television crew. "We heard she escaped from a nursing home nearby, but you could tell she's terrorized people in the past. Chilling, dangerous stuff. Or maybe she's just completely insane, who knows."

"The woman was later restrained by security, sedated by men in white scrubs, and thrown into the back of a waiting van to be returned to the confines of her nursing home. A spokesperson for the facility later made a statement to the press regarding the incident. "Sadly, this has become an ongoing problem with this particular patient," said Eduardo Guerrero. "She goes off her rocker a lot. She even has this crazy notion that she's actually the President of the United States, which we know full well never happened."

"At publishing time, CNN advised everyone in the country to be on the lookout, as the crazy woman was believed to making the rounds for more TV interviews."

Hillary Clinton just won't go away, could a 2024 run be looming? (bostonherald.com)

. . ."Attorney General Maura Healey, a Clinton backer, in 2018 quashed the idea of Clinton running again, saying “I don’t think it would be a good idea.” Wonder what Healey thinks of a 2024 Clinton comeback effort.

"And there are well-known tensions between Clinton and Warren, who has not given up on the idea of running again in 2024.

"So the question is, will they run from her and avoid her because she’s such lightning rod — much the same way Democrats are now running from Biden?

"I’m betting the answer is yes. Clinton has just too much baggage from her previous runs, and Democrats are looking for something new."

She Doesn't Understand How Bad She Was, And Still Won't Go Away (freebeacon.com)

. . . This was not just a bad candidate. This was a terrible candidate—the worst campaigner ever to receive a nomination. Maybe the best way to look at her new memoir is that the book represents a determined, powerfully willful effort not to understand just how bad she was.?

" A sad endlessness suffuses the list of all those Clinton blames for her loss. The nation just wasn't ready for her. Fake news undid her. The New York Times was mean to her. James Comey and the FBI were out to get her. So were Vladimir Putin and Julian Assange. Misogyny and racism. Racism and misogyny. Misogyny again, just in case we missed it the first dozen times she mentions it. The FBI again, too."

Hillary Just Won’t Go Away! | The Liberty Beacon

Why Hillary Clinton Won't ‘Just Go Away’ - The Atlantic

Why can’t the Clintons just go away? (nypost.com)

“In the Name of God, Go”: The Enduring Significance of Cromwell’s 1653 Quote | History Hit    “ 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

"These words, or some variation of them, have been invoked on three dramatic occasions in Britain’s House of Commons and are now synonymous with critiques of the country’s powerholders." . . .

Chilling then-and-now photos show where Auschwitz monsters relaxed

 Chilling then-and-now photos show where Auschwitz monsters relaxed – The First News

Party for Rudolf Höss. Left to right: Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, Josef Kramer, Rudolf Höss and Anton Thumann. Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known for his horrific experiments on prisoners, was never brought to justice, while Baer escaped arrest until 1960. The other three were executed. This was taken at a July 1944 during a party for Höss. Based on the officers visiting Solahutte, we surmise that the photographs were taken to honor Rudolf Hoess who completed his tenure as garrison senior on July 29th.

Has the gallows, on which Rudolf Hoess was hanged at Auschwitz, been moved? | Scrapbookpages Blog (wordpress.com)  "Just a short distance from Auschwitz, where the defining crime of the 20th century was being carried out, in a picturesque setting on a hill by the bend of a river was a resort for the camp’s SS guards.

"This rustic oasis of peace and leisure was where the perpetrators of the Holocaust could relax, sing and feast before getting back to the demanding task of murdering around one million Jews as well as Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and political prisoners.

"The retreat operated from 1940 until it was closed down just before the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in January 1945.

"After the war it was used as a hotel for workers from the chemical plant in Oświęcim. Not much remains of the retreat and nature is slowly reclaiming the site, which will soon be lost forever.

"This was why British Holocaust researcher and founder of the Auschwitz Study Group Michael Challoner decided to document what still remains and he has created a fascinating series of before-and-after photographs that serve as a poignant reminder of how the SS perpetrators of the Holocaust relaxed in their free time.

"The original images from the 1940s that Michael used come from a collection of photographs known as the Hoeker Album, which was revealed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 after laying for decades among the documents of an American intelligence officer who came across the album in Frankfurt after the war." . . .

The entire Timeline | Anne Frank House  230 important events that occurred between 1914 and 1980 – before, during, and after Anne Frank's lifetime.

Auschwitz leader's daughter breaks silence over her executioner father | History | News | Express.co.uk

Legal Expert Says New York Bar Should be Embarrassed by Letitia James

He accused James of being “selective” in isolating Trump and his company, since James has expressed no desire to pursue Democrats who have exhibited similar conduct.

 The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor  . . ."Fox reported, “Turley told ‘Hannity’ on Wednesday that he previously criticized James while she was running for office in 2018 after she made such boasts and pledges about litigiously pursuing Trump.”

"He cited the obvious “serious ethical problems with a prosecutor really trying to secure office on the pledge to nail one person.”

"And he called James’ claims at the time a “trophy pledge” to “bag” her target.

"The lawyer noted James had failed to cite a criminal or civil offense for which she would attack Trump.

" 'In a montage of clips played by host Sean Hannity, James previously referenced threats to ‘fundamental rights,’ Trump’s ‘abuses’ and an interest in finding whether the then-president ‘laundered money,’” the report said.

"Turley said, “[N]ot mentioning what he might be charged with, [James said] I’m just going to charge him with something.”

"He said the New York bar should see her comments, and her, as “an embarrassment.”

"He described James’ actions as the “recreational use of the laws to pursue unpopular persons.' ” . . .

Letitia James' 'trophy pledge' against Trump an 'embarrassment' to the NYS bar: Legal expert (msn.com)    "New York State Attorney General Letitia James' campaign pledge to sue former President Donald Trump and reportedly be a "real pain in the a--" to him should be considered an embarrassment, said George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley.

"Turley told "Hannity" on Wednesday that he previously criticized James while she was running for office in 2018 after she made such boasts and pledges about litigiously pursuing Trump.

"Turley said he previously wrote about his reservations that there were "serious ethical problems with a prosecutor really trying to secure office on the pledge to nail one person."

"He called James' promises a "trophy pledge" to "bag" her quarry." . . .

Kevin McCarthy, Meet Fredo Corleone, Part II –

Issues & Insights   "Back on Jan. 6 (of all dates), in explaining why the then-embattled Kevin McCarthy should be passed over as speaker of the House, your correspondent made a now-vindicated comparison between the Californian and the pathetic literary and film character Fredo (Freddy) Corleone:

(L)ike Fredo, (McCarthy) is not the Wartime Don Republicans need to counter the radical Squad’s scorched-earth transformation of America, abetted by the Uniparty’s Old Bulls.

McCarthy’s very flailing, fumbling attempts to lock down the Speakership belie the cool courage in the line of fire required to lead a raucous caucus with the narrowest of majorities.

"Now, yet another comparison between the two pitiful figures presents itself. Bitter at being shunted aside in favor of younger Michael as Don, dim-witted Fredo entered into a near-deadly conspiracy with family “frenemy” Hyman Roth.

"In the same fashion, Speaker McCarthy betrayed the conservative wing that allowed him to take power by depending on squish Republicans and a unanimous vote of his opposition to pass a 45-day clean continuing resolution keeping federal funding at its outrageously bloated fiscal 2023 levels.

"Moreover, there is virtually no prospect of matters being different 40 days hence. As Freedom Caucus conservatives warned in signaling their opposition to yet another “CR,” the threat of a government shutdown will for the 27th year in a row put budget-cutters’ backs to the wall and raise, to the boiling point, pressures for another 12 months of unaccountable spending.

"McCarthy could have avoided this impasse if he had heeded the advice of this commentator:" . . .

World reacts as Joe Biden betrays military football fans

 MSN

Nothing quite embodies the current state of the Democratic Party on immigration more than evicting veterans who want to watch a football game from hotel rooms in favor of the illegal immigrants you invited to cross the border. 

"The Army-Navy game is one of the most prestigious rivalries in college football. And yet the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval Academy have been declared losers at the hands of the crisis at the southern border.

"Some hotel reservations for those attending the Dec. 9 game in Massachusetts have been canceled due to the migrant crisis. Massachusetts had all but designated itself as a sanctuary state, with eight sanctuary cities calling the state home. Therefore, overwhelmed border communities have sent illegal immigrants to the Bay State.

"Massachusetts’s “right to shelter” law and inability to realize that encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the border by promising to be a sanctuary means you may someday have to follow through has left the state stuck. Now, hotels are having to lease rooms out to the government to accommodate the illegal immigrants arriving in the state. As a result, Army and Navy fans are having their reservations canceled.

"These aren’t just college football fans, though. The teams aren’t Alabama and Florida State. Fans of Army and Navy are typically alumni of Army and Navy, meaning they are veterans and service members. Those who aren’t are typically their families or the families of current players who will go on to become full-fledged service members. That is who Massachusetts’s sanctuary promise is denying hotel rooms for ahead of one of the most storied and most unique rivalry games in the history of college football." . . .

Los Angeles elementary schools with students as young as five will celebrate 'National Coming Out Day' with a week of LGBT lessons including an 'identity map' activity |

  Daily Mail Online

Kindergarteners will be encouraged to 'Take a Pledge to Be An Ally!' on Friday. 

"Los Angeles elementary schools with students as young as five will participate in a weeklong celebration of 'National Coming Out Day' starting Monday.

"Part of the celebrations include an 'Identity Nap' activity that is aimed at teaching 'students to think critically about identity and intersectionality.'

"A 'Week of Action Toolkit – Elementary,' was sent from sent from the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education to elementary teachers in the district.

"The toolkit reportedly outlines lesson plans that the district deems appropriate for elementary-aged students regarding LGBTQ+ topics. 

"The celebration is a stark contrast from LA's bicoastal counterparts in Florida, who have all but banned LGBTQ+ conversations in schools, including some books. 

"According to the City Journal, each day throughout the week has an assigned celebrity who aligns with the LGBTQ+ community. 

"Monday is Jazz Jennings Day, named after the notable transgender activist." . . .    

Gaetz's 'Hail Mary' Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Might Backfire for Conservatives -

But if America First conservative Jim Jordan ends up replacing McCarthy it could end up being a huge conservative victory.

David Pyne "On Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy made history by being the first House Speaker in US history to be removed from office by a Motion to Vacate by a vote of 216-210. Rep. Patrick McHenry was then appointed Speaker Pro-Tempore. No House Speaker has ever been removed mid-term. The successful coup against Speaker McCarthy was led by conservative Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who recently resigned or was expelled from the House Freedom Caucus for unknown reasons. Despite his shortcomings, McCarthy governed as the most conservative House Speaker in the last quarter century.

 "Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have long been adversaries though it is not clear exactly what caused his personal animosity for and vendetta against McCarthy. After an embarrassing fifteen votes for House Speaker over the course of five days, McCarthy made many concessions to the 20 or so House Freedom Caucus members who opposed his bid for the Speakership and honored the vast majority of them going so far as to give Gaetz some coveted House Committee assignments in a bid to placate him.

"Followers of my social media postings know that I have long been a fan of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as one of the few courageous members of the short-lived House America First Caucus. I strongly supported all attempts to oust former House Speakers John Boehner (R-OH) and Paul Ryan (R-WI) as well as Jim Jordan’s bid against Kevin McCarthy for House Minority Leader in 2018. However, I strongly opposed Gaetz’s Motion to Vacate given that McCarthy’s only failing was to negotiate the budget deal with Biden earlier this year, which was admittedly a colossal mistake due to my belief that the motion would be more likely to damage to the conservative cause in Congress than to advance it." . . .

Rep. Jim Jordan Confirms He Is Running For House Speaker – One America News Network (oann.com)

Ann Coulter Tells Gaetz What Made His Anti-McCarthy Push Inauthentic to Her (townhall.com)   "Reports are that selecting a new House speaker next week won’t go smoothly despite two solid conservative candidates in Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Steve Scalise (R-LA). The mood of House Republicans is one of anger and frustration, as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) created a potential disaster for the party. Gaetz filed the motion to vacate, which removed McCarthy, voting with Democrats to remove the now-speaker. McCarthy opted not to run for his former post to quell any further disruption." . . .

 "McCarthy should reflect on why he’s without the gavel, too—years of reported backstabbing and being overall unreliable killed him with most of his members. The votes to keep him showed that Republicans didn’t want to set a nuke off on the House floor, not necessarily because they liked the guy; his trust balance was negative. 

"Everyone shares some blame here, and Democrats can sit back and chuckle as we set up a situation where we cannibalize ourselves."

Laphonza Butler sworn in as replacement for late Sen. Dianne Feinstein

 

Laphonza Butler Wrote Letter Supporting Lenient Sentencing for Corrupt CA Politician Mark Ridley-Thomas – RedState   "In the 24 hours or so since the news broke that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had chosen Laphonza Butler to replace Dianne Feinstein in the United States Senate, the bulk of the news about the appointment has swirled around the fact that Butler has lived in Maryland for at least the last two years and wasn't even registered to vote in California. Since Butler is being appointed she doesn't face the same qualifications those who run for the office face, and simply has to be a registered voter in the state by the time she's sworn in on Wednesday. While the fact that she only lived in California from 2009 through 2020 and left the state to continue her climb up the Democrat grift ladder is maddening and insulting, it's not necessarily the issue conservatives should be focusing on when it comes to future Sen. Butler.

"She'd already remedied the voter registration issue by the time the appointment was officially announced, according to Pete Wilgoren of Los Angeles TV station KTLA." . . .

Evidence exists that shows U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is a multi-millionaire after spending just over four years in Congress.

 Fact Check: AOC Achieved Multi-Millionaire Status After Serving 4 Years in Congress? (msn.com)    Rating:  False (About this rating?)

"In September 2023, a user on X posted that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., perhaps best known simply as AOC, had achieved the status of a multi-millionaire after serving in Congress for just over four years.

"I'm more interested in how she became a multimillionaire in 4 years," the user posted (archived).

This post received thousands of likes and appeared as a response under a discussion in which X owner Elon Musk had earlier said (archived) of Ocasio-Cortez, "She's just not that smart."

Many other users repeated the same rumor about her finances in subsequent tweets, not to mention the fact that we've also received reader mail about this subject in the past.

For example, one user replied (archived), "@AOC has become a multi-millionaire since coming to Congress. Can't be too dumb, @elonmusk."

Another person posted (archived) about the congresswoman, "You have done zero good since elected and somehow on a modest politician salary you have become a multi millionaire in 4 years."

Other posts claimed Ocasio-Cortez had around $24 million (archived) or perhaps $29 million (archived) in the bank.

These examples were just a sampling of the numerous other posts (archived) making the same central claim that said Ocasio-Cortez had become a multi-millionaire in just over four years.

However, according to Ocasio-Cortez's own financial disclosures that were posted to the U.S. House website, this rumor was false.

As Reuters previously reported in August 2022, Ocasio-Cortez's financial disclosures showed that she was far from being a millionaire, much less a multi-millionaire. (Her campaign website ocasiocortez.com also mentioned this same article.)

We reviewed Ocasio-Cortez's financial disclosures from 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. (These disclosures on the U.S. House website displayed some data in ranges rather than exact dollar figures.)

According to the most recent disclosure from 2023, Ocasio-Cortez had documented that she had no more than between $1,001 and $15,000 in each of three different bank accounts. The total for these three accounts would land somewhere between $3,003 and $45,000.

She also recorded in the disclosure having between $1,001 and $15,000 in additional funds in a fourth account for a 401k plan.

Further, she noted in the disclosure that she was still paying off student loans, with an "amount of liability" landing somewhere between $15,001 and $50,000.

In other words, Ocasio-Cortez was at least $940,000 short of being a millionaire, with the maximum possible amount of the four accounts totaling $60,000, and that's before even factoring in her student loan debt.

By email, we presented the Reuters article and the financial disclosures to Ocasio-Cortez's press office and asked if they had any further comment or resources. "Nothing to add," they replied.

We previously reported on a similar false rumor that claimed Ocasio-Cortez owned one of the world's most expensive houses.

Guess Who Attended a Dinner to 'Celebrate' Karine Jean-Pierre

 Guess Who Attended a Dinner to 'Celebrate' Karine Jean-Pierre (townhall.com)

"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a dinner in her honor and according to Politico, there were plenty of people within the mainstream media who were happy to attend. 

"Big names from both the media world included: Andrea Mitchell, Joy Reid, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Karen Finney, Tasia Jackson, Kasie Hunt, and Maya Wiley. It was also not just rank-and-file reporters who were in attendance. Both the presidents of ABC News, Kimberly Godwin, and MSNBC, Rashida Jones, were there to toast to President Joe Biden's press secretary.  " . . .       

Just the presidents of ABC News and MSNBC and multiple major journalists all at a dinner party "celebrating" the current White House press secretary pic.twitter.com/9Ll1XYdbrJ

— Philip Letsou (@philipletsou) October 5, 2023

WATCH: Fox Reporters Dismantle KJP's Absurd Answers, Leading Her to Make an Even Bigger Fool of Herself – RedState    . . ."Such was the case on Monday when KJP once again chose to go toe-to-toe with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy — and that was just for starters.

"Doocy began his back-and-forth with Jean-Pierre by asking how Biden felt about the pending healthcare workers' strike:

Since President Biden is so pro-union, is he okay with 75,000 healthcare workers possibly walking off the job this week?

"KJP responded like she always responds — with pre-canned White House talking points.

What I can tell you is that — I’ve said this many times already this morning: The President believes all workers — all workers, including healthcare workers and those that make their work possible — they [sic]deserve a [sic] fair pay and they deserve fair — a fair benefit. 

I’ll have to say, like, the Treasury Department laid out recently a major report that unions and collective bargaining are good for the overall economy and help raise wages at [sic] — for everybody, whether they are a union member or not and I think that matters.

"Doocy then hit KJP with a well-thrown right hook, deftly alluding to Biden's recent 12-minute photo-op picket-line stunt with striking autoworkers in Michigan: "Would he consider joining them [healthcare workers] on the picket line if they strike?"

"That was all it took to knock KJP off her game.

 

Universities Without Freedom of Speech Are Worthless -

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

 Students leave university without aspiring at all to freedom; they leave feeling at home in slavery, even seeming delighted with it.

"For years, whenever Europeans wanted to impress guests, they would say, “I studied at Harvard.” These days, however, to impress guests and gain their respect, it is better to say, “And I didn’t study at Harvard!” The “2024 College Free Speech Rankings” by College Pulse and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) offers results that should shock us — because there seems to exist almost nothing left of the spirit in which universities were once founded by European Christian monks back in the Middle Ages, and which constituted a restricted community between students and professors to train and to teach how to think, research, and debate, activities that could never be achieved outside of an environment of freedom. It is shocking to read the report and discover that advocating that abortion is not a right or that climate change is not man made, or suggesting that the best treatment for gender transitions is a psychiatric one, is subject to immediate cancellation by both authorities and students. There is no longer any freedom in the institution that one day was born precisely to endow us with it.

"It should surprise no one that the Catholic Church was the main promoter of those primitive universities (not so different from those of today in their organization and purpose), as historian Lowrie Daly points out when he affirms that it was “the only institution in Europe that showed consistent interest in the preservation and cultivation of knowledge.” Today, evil historians have rewritten history to denigrate Christians who sowed that cultural germ in Europe, and, although the myth that the Middle Ages were the Dark Ages has triumphed, the truth is that never did so much light shine on the Old Continent. Without those universities, we would never have had a Western civilization to be proud of.

"Today, on the contrary, an alarming number of universities are competing to renounce the great purpose of the medieval university: to teach how to think, to debate freely, to achieve excellence. Today many of the most important universities in the world teach only to repeat like parrots a few stupid slogans from the Woke Catechism, the basic textbook of any faculty. Biology, philosophy, history, or art — everything is subdued and perverted under the yoke of contemporary extreme-left single thought. " . . .

Speaker Donald Trump? Yep, Trump says he's open to becoming Speaker of the House

President Trump as replacement for ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a time when the GOP is flat on its back? What could be more dramatic, more Trumpian? 

 Monica Showalter- American Thinker  . . . "He would have rivals -- Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep Steve Scalise are said to want the chair, too, and how Trump's entry would play out against their ambitions is up for grabs. Either would be good at the job, too, and Trump did note in his statement that the GOP does have talent.

"What's more, he might not even have a majority to win, given that all Democrats would vote no, the GOP majority is razor-thin and there are never-Trumps among them.

"And there's the broader picture of whether Trump would be right for this job, which requires a nerd-like focus on legislative details, and an ability to smooth ruffled feathers from various egos of all kinds, as well as get along with ideological foes. He has strengths, but probably not those strengths.

"But oh, the fun of it if it happens.

"Congress is a positive zoo of bad activity and gridlock, passing through gargantuan spending bills and feathering their nests. It's why polls show that voters can't stand Congress. 

"Trump could be quite an antidote to that, not having those kinds of conflicts of interest, let alone greed.

"Better still, he could drive the left bonkers. Imagine the expressions on the faces of the White House staff if they learn that Trump will be their Speaker of the House. It's hard to say whether they hate him or fear him more. Just the talk of Trump becoming Speaker is sure to throw them off balance and have them raving for awhile, even if it doesn't happen.

"It's worth asking whether he might even be shielded from some of the crazed prosecutors who are after him as a private citizen with some kind of immunity -- legal eagles would know.

"If it happens, it could be quite a satisfying retort to all the garbage the left has thrown at Trump and the leftist hate for the voters who voted for him.

"Fingers crossed that we can hope for the best. The cool thing about Trump is that anything can happen." . . .