David Gilmour and $21,198,250

By Walter Einenkel

Daily Kos Staff

The legendary Pink Floyd lead guitarist David Gilmour had a record-setting auction for musical instruments last week.* According to Guinness, the 123 guitars Gilmour auctioned off made up the largest collection of guitars ever auctioned. The lot, which included the black Fender Stratocaster used during the making of the album Dark Side of the Moon and the song “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” fetched $21,198,250, becoming the “most expensive guitar collection sold at a charity auction.” Then Gilmour announced on his Twitter feed what he was doing with all that money.

David Gilmour

✔@_DavidGilmour

I am pleased to announce that all the proceeds from the #GilmourGuitars Sale at @ChristiesInc in New York tomorrow will be donated to the charity @ClientEarth. (1/5)

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Quoting 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Gilmour said that “either we choose to go on as a civilization, or we don’t.” Gilmour donated the proceeds to ClientEarth, a law-based charity that fights for climate change initiatives around the world. Shine on, Mr. Gilmour.

You can watch one of Greta’s Thunberg’s speeches below.

*Spoiler alert: I was outbid on everything.

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So was I, although I will admit that I only hit the minimum bid. And to Walter, sorry for lifting the entire post, but it was all needed.

Oh, and one more thing - that picture of Gilmour up there making his announcement on twitter looks like the inside of his boat. That might mean that he's recording again. Money - it's a hit.

Be my friend on Pokemon Go - Code 2054 5019 8436

It’s Friday so it’s time for some more CHEAP SHOTS! (Tequila!)

How very White of you Joe.

There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school.

Analyzing being a centrist (which I’m not).

I handle numbers for a living, and I’ve said many times that I just don’t see how Trump carried Ohio, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania.

In this sentence you will not find a link to The Washington Post, or The New York Times. They’re good newspapers, mostly, but they are far too biased towards the East Coast. I find that neither one of them are talking about Mayor Pete’s best moment of the night; when asked who we need to mend fences with first he pointed out that we don’t yet know who Trump will piss off between now and the end of 2020.

Chris Matthews is really a horse’s ass.

Can do what on 5^th avenue now and get away with it?

Another reason to be afraid of Americans.

You should know how to make a Tequila Sunrise. Now that the song is in your head, please note that you MUST use Agave Tequila. 95% of all Tequila sold in the U.S. is NOT Agave. It’s the shit you use to get frat boys drunk and sailors wasted at Mardi Gras. Agave tequila is a smooth, wonderful drink. All others might get you into a bar fight. Thing is, you have to search for it. In San Francisco, for example, there is only one bar that serves it. I could do without the cherry, but that’s just me.

Ingredients

1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger tequila

3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

ice cubes

1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger grenadine syrup

1 slice orange, for garnish

1 maraschino cherry for garnish

Directions

Stir or shake together tequila and orange juice. Fill a chilled 12 ounce glass with ice cubes; pour in orange juice mixture. Slowly pour in the grenadine, and allow it to settle to the bottom of the glass (be patient). Garnish with a slice of orange, and a maraschino cherry.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

More reasons to never live in Florida.

And because I love you, a fun Beatles cover by one hell of a band (and backing band):

So now Gerrymandering is legal. Fixing that.

The Supreme Court today, by a very narrow margin threw out over a century of constitutional law and now says that Gerrymandering is Constitutional on the state level. The vote was 5-4, Republican judges versus Democrats. Think that Garland nomination didn’t matter?

Tell you what. Let’s have California gerrymander the Republican party out of existence. It wouldn’t be all that hard. Then let’s see what they do.

Cheap shots (Gin today!):

I watched the debate, so, um, NO.

So I saw the photo of Oscar and Valeria, which I will not post here. Yes, I’m pissed off.

One thing I know is that Alan Dershowitz is NOT a Liberal Democrat.

Everyone should know how to make a Tom Collins. If your bartender asks, “gin or vodka?” find yourself a new bartender. GIN. ALWAYS. GIN. The other drink is called a Vodka Collins.

Ingredients:

·        1 1/2 cups ice

·        2 fluid ounces gin

·        3/4 fluid ounce lemon juice

·        1/2 fluid ounce simple syrup

1 cup ice

·        2 fluid ounces club soda

·        1 lemon wedge

Directions:

1. Fill a Collins glass with 1 1/2 cups ice, set aside in the freezer. Combine gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add 1 cup ice, cover and shake until chilled. Strain into the chilled Collins glass.
2. Top with club soda and garnish with a lemon wedge.

Please please please please please please please please!

And Because I love you, They Might Be Giants

The Mueller Report - a play in 10 acts.

Reagan was wrong. Full stop.

I know that some of you look back at the era of Ronald Reagan as the high point in Republican politics. His big message was that people could do a better job than the government – not just with their tax dollars but with everything. Land management, infrastructure, policing, fire departments, retirement – everything. He was wrong. I’ll give some examples in a moment.

The actual high point in Republican politics in the modern era was Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was progressive and had a big hand in the rebuild of this country after World War II. He made the highway system happen – yes, the highway system we all take for granted is actually a recent invention. The idea that people could just get into a car and drive to another state for a vacation is an invention of the 1950s and 1960s. And the tax rates were the highest they’ve ever been since WWII.

The first Republican in the Presidency after Eisenhower was Richard Nixon; a racist, anti-communist crook of a man, paranoid beyond belief and this eventually led to his downfall. But how did he come to be in power in the first place? Because the Democratic party was in transition itself and was weak. They had ejected a lot of people for racism, and for supporting policies that were wedged into the past while the party leadership wanted to go forward. He was also, for a time, a good liar – you should check out his speeches about the war in Vietnam while he was a candidate; he comes across like a hippie. Ford was a steward at best. Carter was a good President, but the US got its nose bloodied by the hostage crisis in Iran and between that and gas prices, something he had no control over, Carter was doomed. Reagan was next.

And now we gat back to my original point. Reagan ran on a platform of saying repeatedly that people could spend their money better than the government could. He also embraced the “Christianist” leanings that were rising in the deep south (anti-abortion, covert racism, any beliefs that didn’t follow their strict views seen as oppressing those same views) and between those two item and the problems hung around Carter’s neck he won the Presidency easily. Every Republican since that time has run on the same platform – that taxes are too high, despite the fact that they’ve been getting lower and lower since Eisenhower. You have to figure that at some point the tax cuts go too far.

That happened a while ago. During Reagan’s time. So, let’s take Reagan’s maxim and look at it more closely shall we?

Health insurance: The idea is that your own insurance is better than anything the government can do. However – Administrative and Waste make up 13.2% of the cost of private health insurance. For Medicare it’s 5.8% (Washington Post – 2017)

Infrastructure: Well shit, do you know of ANY private companies doing infrastructure? This is a government thing, and we’re spending less and less on it.

Welfare: For every $200 in benefits, about $10 is spent in overhead (inclusive). This is an efficiency rate of 5% (Source – Forbes). In private charity, that same $200 generates anywhere between 85% and 25% going to the individuals in need of the funding. In addition, while the government has a fairly impressive track record in collecting taxes to be used for welfare, on average charities receive less than 50% of the funds pledged to them (source – Charity Navigator/New York Times).

I could go on but I don’t think it’s necessary. Following Reagan were so many republicans who had convinced themselves of Reagan’s right-ness that they started getting mean about it. Keep doing what Reagan wanted no matter the cost to the people of the country. Eventually, they even seemed to forget why. I don’t see anyone quoting Reagan anymore. Only the meanness remains.

And that has given us Donald Trump, a con-man rapist bully with questionable business credentials, and Mike Pence, a man so convinced in his own right-ness that he uses the bible to back himself up, even on the idea of using the health of children kept in cages as a bargaining chip.

You don’t work with mean. You squash it. I have said repeatedly that these are men who deserve to get their asses kicked.

They have lost the path – but the path was going to get them lost anyway.

Cheap shots (Monday, so vodka – see below):

Did you know that we attacked Iran through cyberspace at the same time that Trump sent planes, then called them off? The cyber attack wasn’t called off.

Does anybody care about covering the news about our Rapist-in-Chief?

So funny I almost forgot to laugh.

They are most certainly Concentration Camps.

Vetting, very good.

For me the question is; will it be eligible for the Tonys next year?

For the life of me I can’t tell if they’re trolling or not.

I wonder how many Russian Troops are stationed in Alaska.

Tapeworm says what?

(In my finest southern belle voice) Why, I say, they are simply unraveling mah 1^st amendment rights! It’s a scandal!

Maine, it’s about goddamned time.

And TMZ breathlessly wonders if George Takei was there.

Here’s the thing. Cornyn wants that 1 white vote. Democrats should be trying to get all 10.

No ropes.

Have a Vodka drink: The 20^th Century:

1.5 oz Vodka

.75 oz Lemon Juice

.25 oz Crème de Cacao

.25 oz spiced pear liqueur

.125 oz maple syrup

1 dash chocolate biters

Combine everything in a shaker with ice and shake it to combine. Strain into a wine glass and garnish with a lemon.

And, because I love you, Manic Street Preachers:

What is it with this asshole?

So it looks like Donald Trump is in a firin’ mood again – this time going after his chief of staff for apparently not being nice enough to his wife and the head of the Department of Homeland Security because of, well, reasons. He seems to have this pathological need to be at the top of the news cycle – so when bad shit happens that comes under his watch he has to do something that shows his power and his ability to control the message.

As I write this, there is word that indictments are coming today from Robert Mueller. I don’t’ know if they’re actually going to happen or not but the day is young and I won’t be posting until early evening so who knows? Check the Cheap Shots to see for certain.

Cheap Shots (it’s Wednesday – so Gin):

Anyone else notice that Matt Drudge has deleted EVERY POST he’s ever made on twitter?

FLASH!

The intern story changes!

I will have words to say about this, but let things calm down first. Once the fire is contained.

Isn’t this where the Handmaid’s Tale began?

I fucking DARE them to take this up with a Japanese warlord.

OH, so MANY trademark violations.

I triple dirt dare you.

It’s a new record!

Florida redux, with an amazing coincidence.

The aged monkey and the dead Senator.

Backbeat BBQ, feeding the firefighters with Foo.

It was a good night

So – digesting last night’s Blue wave. Don’t be fooled by anyone saying otherwise – it was a Blue Wave. The Democrats gained 28 seats in the House of Representatives. 7 Governorships, including Michigan – which means Flint might just get real drinking water back. Kris Kobach was given his walking papers. Stacy Abrams is pushing for a runoff and just might get it. Bill Nelson of Florida is demanding a recount and meets the legal threshold to get one.  ICE-friendly sheriffs all over the country LOST. The Mississippi Senate Race, although unlikely to flip, is still headed to a runoff. The very state where the first cake for a gay wedding was refused elected a gay Governor. We have two now. 100 women in the House of Representatives. Dana Rohrabacher is out. Scott Walker is out. Two Native Americans will be in congress. Two Muslim women as well. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as well. 1.4M Floridians got the right to vote back.

Yeah, Beto didn’t win but because of his race several house seats and local to Texas races went the other way. He took down Pete Sessions without running against him. It was a blue wave. To quote Beto in his concession speech, I’m so fucking proud of you.

Okay, now the other side of the coin. Because we’re dealing with Trump, I think these next two years are going to be even worse.

There are a bunch of reasons for this, but at the top of the list is the fact that he’s an egomaniacal racist tyrant who in his own mind can never do anything wrong. His defense, EVERY TIME, is “I didn’t do it, YOU did it”. He has the id of a 2 year-old, the communication skills of a 9 year-old, and the temper of a 14 year-old whose parents took him of his meds. His reaction to finding himself the target of congressional investigations was, and I’m not making this up, “I can investigate you TOO”. His very game plan – said aloud – involves turning the House and the Senate against each other. Budget time is going to be lots of fun, let me tell you. Look for lots and lots of continuing resolutions over the next two years.

Another reason is that no matter what happens with the Meuller investigation I don’t think the house impeaches Trump. Quite simply, the votes just aren’t there in the Senate to even hold a trial. It may come down to the question of whether or not a sitting President can be arrested by courts that aren’t congress – which the constitution simply doesn’t address. And Trump won’t step down – tyrants just don’t do that. Anyone can see that what the Republicans in the Senate want is Mike Pence in the White House, but Trump will not surrender the toys. The only way he walks away willingly is if he dies.

Thirdly, Trump is going to keep holding his rallies – except now they’re going to be campaign stops for HIMSELF. I expect he’ll start them within a few days. Certainly before the new congress is installed. I expect his followers to get even louder, even meaner. Lock her up chants will include Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, and just about any other woman. I expect acts of right-wing violence in increase. Don’t expect logic. Remember – the Republicans elected a dead brothel owner to the Nevada State Assembly last night.

Fourthly, I expect the evangelical base for Trump to get even louder still. I except them to completely fail to recognize the cognitive dissonance they are creating in endorsing an actual Golden Calf, just because they get their way while he’s in power. I expect to see even more psychotic breaks in this community.

I expect racism to run rampant. Yes, there will be checks on Trump’s ability to use the Military to prevent brown people from legally entering the country, but it’s not actually going to STOP him, or stop ICE for that matter. People are just going to be forced to testify. I expect that hatred of brown people to carry over to black people, just as it has for the past two years. I expect more black lives to not matter to poorly trained police officers, many of whom are young racists themselves.

It’s nice that there are no more election e-mails, texts or ads this morning, but hang on to your butts people. The race for 2020 started last night and right now the only person on the field is Donald Trump.

Keep fighting. Last night was a great Blue Wave. But waves recede if there isn’t an ocean pushing behind them. I picked my meteor metaphor with some care. We’re trying to rid ourselves of the dinosaurs here, and it takes that kind of an impact. We had the first wave but the waves have to keep coming until they drown – until they go extinct because of the effects of US.

Don’t just ride the wave. Be the meteor.

Cheap shots (whiskey and rye, singing…)

God says no.

About to blind them with science.

Racism loses at the polls. In the comments section, not so much.

Flattop triumphs again.

I’ve warned him about this before – if the spray-tan gets into the hair it can seep in through the scalp, causing rambling and disorientation.

Come on man! Get to it!

How I found out that Sessions is out.

I have to wonder, how does he understand his various wives?

Black Lives Matter.

Holy Hell looks pretty weak to me.

And because I love you, let’s make a trip to the mirror-verse and Spock’s Beard: 

My own Ballot

So.... how am I gonna vote?

Well, I live in California, in Nancy Pelosi's district. So here's how it comes down, officially:

FEDERAL

House of Representatives - Nancy Pelosi. She was a great Speaker of the House and I want her to be that again. She's going to win this seat and has no real opposition. But the vote counts.

Senate - Diane Feinstein. I really wanted Kevin De Leon to either push her to the left or take over. But even though he won the right to challenge her he never really put up a fight. That said, if the Democrats take over the Senate she becomes the head of the Judiciary Committee. That could be spectacular.

STATE

Governor - Gavin Newsom. I've watched his career from the moment he was appointed supervisor in the City of San Francisco, to Mayor, to Lt. Governor. Yeah, he's a bit of a greaseball but he's on the right side of just about every social issue out there, which John Cox is NOT. 

Lt. Governor - Eleni Kounalakis. I find her to be the more progressive candidate.

Secretary of State - Alex Padilla. The SoS position has become important as of late, as they can purge voter rolls. For that reason alone we cannot give the keys to Mark Meuser.

Controller -  Betty Yee. Just voting the Democratic line here. Betty Yee is part of the Chinese political machine of San Francisco

Treasurer - Fiona Ma. She's got the financial experience and that's good enough for me.

Attorney General - Xavier Becerra. See my logic for Secretary of State. Good lord Steven Bailey would be a terrible choice.

Insurance Commissioner - Ricardo Lara. Because he's not Steve Poizner. Don't let Poizner's "Independent" tag fool you. He's a conservative through and through and was a terrible commissioner before. He's also said some terrible things about immigrants. Lara is a career politician moving from one job to another because of term limits, but he's not Poizner.

Board of Equalization District 2 - Malia Cohen. You need someone in charge of collecting the taxes who agrees with the taxes. Period.

State Assembly, District 19 - Phil Ting. Another whose career I've watched for a long time now. One of the good guys.

Superintendent of Public Education - Tony Thurmond. More than anything else, the person in this post needs to actually believe in public education as opposed to charter schools. 

Judges - This is all Yes or No on this ballot. I will vote yes on all of them. This keeps Donald Trump from appointing someone else.

San Francisco

I live in a district that does not have an active race for Supervisor, Mayor, or most of the other fun stuff

Assessor - Carmen Chu. She holds the job now and she's doing fine.

Public Defender - Jeff Adachi. He's running unopposed.

Community College Board - Brigette Davila. Why not.

Bart Board, District 8 - Melanie Nutter. She's a transportation planner and Bart is expanding south. 

Board of Equalization - Gabriela Lopez, Faauuga Moliga (love this guys name) and Michelle Parker.

Statewide Propositions

1 - Bonds for Housing Assistance. YES. This is a no brainer.

2 -  Bonds for housing assistance for the Mentally Ill. YES.

3 - Bonds for infrastructure for water. YES.

4 - Bonds for building children's hospitals. YES. If you vote no then fuck you.

5 - I'm not sure what the purpose of this one is other than to allow older people to not pay taxes when they sell their homes. NO.

6 - Eliminates certain taxes that are presently being used to fund road and infrastructure repairs. If you vote yes on this one then fuck you. NO.

7 - Changing Daylight Savings Time. This bill actually does nothing. It only allows us to change Daylight Savings time by 2/3 majority in the legislature IF the Federal Government changes it. Kinda pointless bill. NO.

8 - Capping charges on Kidney dialysis centers. I'll be honest with you, I don't know why the hell this is being decided by the voters. This should be in the hands of the legislature or the Insurance Commissioner. But here we are. I think the idea is a good one, but it needs tweaking. But I can't bring myself to vote against it - because that's not good enough. YES.

9 - There is no Prop 9.

10 - Repealing Costa-Hawkins. Basically what this one does is repeals limitations placed on rent control and allows local municipalities to have control over rent control again. One side calls it "the rent is too damned high" initiative and the other says "it makes a bad problem worse". Thing is, they're both wrong. For one thing it does nothing to decrease rents - it just can help to keep rent from going higher. But the "bad problem even worse" part has nothing to do with rents, but with available investment capital. If this passes investment in new construction will become more scarce for a little bit, but then people will adjust their models and investment will start up again. But again, it can help keep rents from going higher. YES.

11 - Pay for EMTs and Ambulance workers while they are on call during their down time. Everyone wants this one. YES.

12 - Looks like it makes Free-range kinda mandatory for some animals farmed or food. Hey, it's California. YES.

Local Propositions

A - Earthquake safety Bonds. YES. Think about where we live. Duh.

B - Right to Privacy. I have no idea why this is on the ballot. I'm not sure it even does anything. YES.

C - Business taxes to fund homeless services. It's a decent idea - it's not a huge tax and the biggest employer in the city supports it (Salesforce). It looks like the big argument against it is that the taxes raised would be more money than many important services in the city. That said, housing costs an awful lot in this city. So it's an apples to oranges kind of thing. Bottom line, this fund also helps low-income people how have housing not lose it. So... YES.

D - Tax on Cannabis. YES. You wanna smoke it? Pay for it. It ain't a big tax - deal with it.

E - Allocation of Hotel tax for Arts and Cultural purposes. It just sets aside moneys already in hand for arts purposes. While people can argue about whether or not this is a good allocation of the moneys the real question for me is does San Francisco want to be known as a city that supports the arts. YES. 

Break the leash. Take a step. Do more than growl.

During the 1980’s there was a comic strip by David Lynch (yes, THAT David Lynch) that ran in a number of alternative newspapers called “The Angriest Dog in the World”. It was minimalist genius – every strip the art was the same: A dog straining against its leash, growling. The first 3 panels would be in daylight, and the last at night. Different dialogue would come from the house he was chained to each week, much of it absurdist. One example is in the first panel a speech bubble that read “It doesn’t get any better than this” and the remaining three panels without dialogue at all. Like I said, minimalist genius.

But before the 1st panel would be an explanation of the whole premise: “The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.”

I feel like that a lot lately.

This was a horrible weekend to be a compassionate human being. The part-timer in the White House (see below) started blaming the victims of the attempted bombings. In in his very first statement regarding the massacre as the synagogue in Pennsylvania he wondered why they didn’t think to have armed guards.

Armed guards, at a bris. Oy.

And now today President Spray Tan is starting to put the first steps in place towards declaring martial law along the US border with Mexico. This has got to stop. The leash has to break.

We have a man in the white house show stokes up anger on a daily basis and then blames the media for a) reporting it and b) making people angry. I think he honestly believes this too. I think he doesn’t understand what media does, because all he watches if Fox News and they don’t do what the rest of the media does.

I think it’s time we take his viewing habits out of his arsenal of petty tweets and barely veiled threats. I think it’s time to take away his televised rallies, and the sycophants who advise him on policy through obviously slanted media.

It’s time – long past time – to get rid of Fox News. Like others, I am calling for a boycott of all companies who advertise on the channel.

I know that sounds daunting, but consider this: boycotts of advertiser products on Fox have brought down Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Rush Limbaugh, Gretchen Carlson, and many advertisers still shy away from Laura Ingraham. Why not the whole shebang?

Why not do some radical theater against the network? Chop down the antennae on their roof. Write letters to and protest their landlord.

By the way the landlord (i.e. owner of the building) is part of the Rockefeller empire, but for tax purposes is specifically:

1211 Avenue of the Americas REIT

1211 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY  10036

Boycott EchoStar, Galaxy 15, and DirecTV for carrying them. Tell your own cable company to drop them. Boycott local advertisers who advertise on them through cable.

On a local basis I can’t tell you who the advertisers are. Nationally here is the list of their top advertisers, along with their twitter handles. Complain to them. Bombard them with questions as to why they advertise with a channel that promotes such an unhinged platform of hate. Ask them why they support hate speech:

Keurig Green Mountain --> @Keurig
Ford --> @Ford 
Lincoln --> @LincolnMotorCo
Pfizer --> @pfizer
Liberty Mutual --> @libertymutual
Bayer AG & Monsanto --> @Bayer @BayerUS
Honda --> @Honda
Acura --> @Acura
Ace Hardware --> @acehardware
Procter & Gamble -->@ProcterGamble @Bounty @MyCascade @Charmin @Crest @DawnDish @Febreze_Fresh @downy @Gillette @GilletteVenus @OlaySkin @OralB@Pantene @Swiffer @Tide @Luvs @Pampers
Allstate --> @Allstate
Esurance --> @Esurance
Capital One -->@capitalone
Go RVing --> @GoRVing
Glaxo Smith Kline --> @GSK
Subaru -->@subaru_usa
Fiat Chrysler (Alfa Romeo, Dodge, Jeep) -->@FiatChrysler_NA – @alfa_romeo@AlfaRomeoUSA @Dodge @Jeep
Expedia -->@Expedia
Trivago --> @trivago
Lear Capital -->@LearCapital
Boehringer Ingelheim (Dulcolax, Jardiance, Zantac) -->@boehringerus @Boehringer
Tena --> @tena_us
Rakuten (Ebates) -->@RakutenToday @Ebates
Progressive --> @Progressive

The only place they can be hurt is in the pocketbook. So let’s bring the hurt. Break that leash.

Cheap Shots (Mazeltov!):

By the way, if you want to block them from reaching you on twitter, here is how to block them and over 1,100 other corporations from showing up in your twitter feed.

Steve King, the proper response is that if they were in America we’d kick them the fuck out.

Imagine that! John Roberts wants the SCOTUS to still be respected. He was being pressured to hear the case.

You are not welcome here.

If you don’t want a pipe bomb sent to you stop criticizing me, fuckers!

Of course at the salary he gets we should have expected that he’d only work part time.

Once again, Jimmy Carter is right.

Freedom!

Hell, I’d be happy if simple American Law came after hate speech.

What will Tracy Ullman do for material in her show now?

Maybe what he wanted was for them to quote the book of Jeff.

By the way, violating the Posse Comitatus Act is also an impeachable offense. Just saying.

Guts?

@theperson.

Coming soon to a constitutional crisis near you: The Rao Rule.

Ever wonder how to make a proper Old Fashioned? Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

• 1 sugar cube
• 2 to 3 dashes ​Angostura Bitters
• 2 ounces ​bourbon or rye whiskey
• Optional: ​orange peel for garnish
• Optional: maraschino cherry for garnish ​

Steps to Make It

1.      Place the sugar cube at the bottom of an old-fashioned glass.

2.      Saturate the cube with bitters and muddle.

3.      Fill the glass with ice (the larger the cubes, the better).

4.      Add the whiskey.

5.      Stir well.

6.      Garnish with an orange peel and cherry.

And because I love you, Triumph (i.e. the other great and oft-neglected power trio from Canada)