Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 29, 2020

For some of us, it’s been four years.

I just moved in my new house today

Movin’ was hard but I got squared away

Bells started ringin’ and chains rattled loud

I knew I’d moved in a haunted house

Still I made up in my mind to stay

Nothin’ was a-gonna drive me away

When I seen somethin’ that give me the creep

Had one big eye and a-two big feet

I stood right still and I did the freeze

He did the stroll right up to me

Made a noise with his feet that sound like a drum

(Say, you’ll be here when the mornin’ come?)

Robert Geddins

How many Americans (and people like me in other countries) are hoping that the next blockbuster will be “Donnie Fiasco” ?

YOUR GUY, Stantis!

Only 230,000 covid deaths.

More to come. You should be proud.

And everybody thought Halloween was Saturday.

The son of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy helped Donald Trump in 2005 secure nearly $700 million in loans to construct a skyscraper in Chicago, despite Trump’s reputation for defaulting on business loans, the New York Times reported on Tuesday evening.

According to the report, Justin Kennedy, who ran the German bank’s commercial real estate team and was close with the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, was willing to overlook Trump’s shoddy history as a debtor, getting the future president to personally guarantee $40 million of the loan.

Both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump currently work in the White House.

The Times reported that Trump was able to convince Kennedy and other top executives that “the Chicago development was a guaranteed moneymaker,” and further signaled “the Trump family’s commitment to the project” by informing the bank that Ivanka would be in charge of the operation.

Justin Kennedy’s role in helping to breathe life into Trump’s business empire before he was president has continued to breed rumors and conspiracies about the alleged “White House charm offensive” carried out by the Trump family to help convince Justice Kennedy to retire and make way for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the bench.

In Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction, finance editor of the New York Times David Enrich described how Justin Kennedy was “drawn to Trump’s risk-taking and glamour” while he was shepherding lucrative loans to Trump’s private businesses, even after the bank’s clients took massive losses when Trump’s Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt.

After Trump’s election, the family reportedly set their sights on persuading Justice Kennedy to step down so the president could appoint a second justice to the bench.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-son-of-former-supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedy-helped-trump-secure-loans-at-deutsche-bank/

If only it were just this year… In the category of Can’t Make It Up, BTS fans strike again:

No One Fights QAnon Like the Global Army of K-Pop Superfans BTS stans built the trolling blueprint for 4chan types, and they’ve proven they can disrupt it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-28/bts-k-pop-stans-are-fighting-qanon-and-maga-on-social-media

That This Nightmare Of An Election Is Even Close Screams The Need To Revamp Critical Thinking Education (abovethelaw.com)

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. — Washington Post

Too many people are addicted to Fox “News”, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin. They take it seriously, as if it were the truth, and hear everything else as noise or untrue.

I will never, as long as I live, vote for a party that is content to cut educational services the way the republicans have been. They are literally trying to make the next generation as dumb and gullible as possible to trick people into voting against their own best interests. It’s a disgusting, vile, and a downright evil thing to do.

The children of this country deserve better.

Next week will be even darker, starting on Wednesday.

As I have posted other places….“It was the best of times, It was the worst of times”…Ain’t nothing changed.

Wow, Stantis editorial toon is way out in Fox’s alternate reality.

So we’ll argue and we’ll compromise

And realize that nothing’s ever changed

For all our mutual experience

Our separate conclusions are the same

Now we are forced

To recognize our inhumanity

Our reason coexists with our insanity

And though we choose

Between reality and madness

It’s either sadness or euphoria

William Martin Joel

Year 2020 has rewritten Charles Dickens. “It was the Worst of Times. It was the best Worst of Times.”

Re: William Robbins: The 28-Oct-20 and 22-Oct-20 regular Scott cartoons pretty much sum it up.

Carmen is either voting Trump or third party. But considering that he is spreading fear about Biden, I would think he’s probably thinking the same of Biden as most of us do about Trump:

(In Scott’s mind) A vote for anyone other than Trump is a vote for Biden.

Of course, we know better. A vote for anyone other than Biden is a vote for Trump.

Looks like we’re back to the beginning. No matter how bad Trump is, no matter how bad Republicans have become, no matter the crimes and corruption staring us in the face.

In their minds, Trump is still the lesser evil.

Another item on the list of things Trump Disciples are required to believe:

You have to lie down on your back in order to tuck your shirt in.

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And they ALL believe it.