All That’s Left Today

Trump CFO Weisselberg tries to defend Mercedes perk

Alan Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump organization told prosecutors that the commute to work from Long Island was difficult.. the Mercedes Benz provided by Trump in what prosecutors are calling a part of a $1.7 million dollar tax avoidance scheme made the ride so much smoother, so much more bearable for Weisselberg.. 
What really happened here is that Weisselberg fell hook, line and sinker for a "Trump loyalty trap".. in purportedly accepting these perks and not paying taxes on them Weisselberg allowed himself to become part of the Trump problem. With these perks, Weisselberg became further beholden to Trump giving Trump the ability to do whatever without fear of Weisselberg talking or disagreeing about it. 
Weisselberg isn't the only one either.. prosecutors are evidently looking into the 'arrangement' Trump had with Matthew Calamari as well..

Fox News vaccine passport policy exposes Tucker Carlson as a hypocrite

So, as it turns out, Fox News has a vaccine policy. Big surprise, right? If you do not want to wear a mask at Fox, yo have to upload your proof of vaccination into their 'workday' system. What's remarkable is that almost every night Tucker Carlson rails against the same vaccine passport policy on the air and won't even share with viewers whether or not he has been vaccinated. Why all the secrecy, Tucker? Imagine just how many lives you could save if you were vaccinated and shared that with your viewers! What's more important, making big ratings or saving lives?

Smerconish asks: "WHY won't Trump promote the vaccine?"

Smerconish answers that Trump doesn't to promote the vaccine because Trump doesn't want to alienate his supporters but with Trump, there's never just ONE answer. Trump is complex and although Smerconish is correct, there's more to it than that.. 

To pay for new legislation Biden is depending on an IRS that does its job while Republicans defund it

Every business has to get paid for the services or products they sell.. the government is no different but Republicans don't want to run the government like a business.. by defunding the IRS. Every time Biden produces new legislation Republicans scream "how are you going to pay for it?" then when Biden says he is going to simply enforce the tax law on the books by making corporations and the rich pay their fair share the Republicans scramble to ensure that won't happen. In this episode, I want to examine how that is playing out today, yesterday and over twenty years ago.. let's expose the games they play today so we can make the rich pay their fair share tomorrow.

Trump world: Fox News segment says FBI 'persecuting' Trump fans, pillow guy antics and Sacha Baron Cohen Trumps Roy Moore

In Trump world today Fox News did a segment with Julie Kelly of American Greatness where she pushed the theory that the FBI is purposefully 'persecuting' Trump fans like Robert Morss of PA. Kelly claims that Morss is going to be held in prison for a year until his trial for nothing more than being a Trump fan and trespassing on the Capitol in the January 6th riots. In reality, there's a 28 page affifavit on all the violence Morss engaged in while rioting on the capitol. Fox News along with other operatives are trying to re-write the narrative of January 6th..
Mike Lindell, aka "the pillow guy" is claiming Trump 2021 is a reality because he's seen lots of signs..
Alabama's Roy Moore just had his lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen dismissed.. I thought that Roy Moore was supposed to be a smart guy having served on the Alabama Supreme Court?

Trump CPAC Misfit Compendium: the hypocrites and denialists

It really is amazing what Republicans will say at something like CPAC when they are caught up in the spirit of the moment with like-minded denialists and hypocrites. In this Compendium I have clips from Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorne, anti vaxxers celebrating and of course, Donald Trump ranting about everything from windmills to spilling the beans on how he deals with bad polls and at the end the ultimate coping mechanism: "we won"..

Trump talks Ashli Babbit and National Guard in a desperate attempt to spin the Jan 6th insurrection

Donald Trump was on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News Sunday show trying to distract from the January 6th insurrection by drawing attention to Ashleigh Babbitt who was shot trying to enter one of the last ‘safe spaces’ in the Capitol during the Jan 6th riots. Trump even went so far as to repeat his debunked claim that he asked for 10000 National Guardsmen to be present - debunked by the non partisan organization ‘Politifact’..

Ben Shapiro has a meltdown over San Fran Gay Men's Choir parody song

Ben Shapiro is no stranger to conservative meltdowns over the "radical" left.. in this meltdown Ben rails agaonst a song that the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir posted on Youtube (subsequently removed) that, in parody, where they all sing into the greatest fears of the far right that they are coming for your children. Of course it's a parody. Of course it's done tongue-in-cheek but Ben just needs this type of an excuse to spew how that it wasn't a parody and that's exactly what gay men want to do. The Gay Men's Choir relesed a statement, in essence, looking to instill "fairness and tolerance" about gays in America- a simple statement that they have every right to make especially since gay marriage is federally recognized law now in 50 states. This alone is a good reason that children should at least be aware that marriage exists between two men or two women and telling children this does not constitute "indoctrination" as Ben Shapiro would have you believe..

Biden's bi-partisan deal on infrastructure and how this lays the groundwork for America

The New York Times is reporting that Biden has struck a deal on infrastructure with Republicans and I want to discuss this as well as how big this bill really is-- the bi-partisan $1.2T portion is just a sliver of the bill itself which is actually around $4 trillion. Let's talk about why the Republicans are willing to work with Biden and what this means for getting that portion of the bill done as well as the remainder of the infrastructure bill.. it's a big lift by any stretch. 
In summary, folks, this bill in it's totality is laying the groundwork for an America that really has to win the next 'war'.. and I don't mean war in the traditional sense here...

Gov. Parsons won't make Strickland pardon a priority but will make pardoning people no longer in prison a priority?

It's hard to believe that Kevin Strickland of Missouri has servbed almost 44 years in Missouri prison for a crime the lead witness now says was not done by Kevin Strickland. Strickland was imprisoned when he was only 18 at the time and is now going on 62 years old. 
On Rachel Maddow's show last Friday, Jackson County Missouri prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said "Governor Parsons pardoned 36 people on Memorial Day and most of those people that were pardoned were no longer in prison".. You mean to tell me that Governor Parsons won't make the pardon of an inniocent man a priority but will make it a priority to pardon people no longer even in prison? There's something wrong with that folks...