Zuckerberg!

Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of the social media giant Facebook and Mark has problems! Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica, a political firm hired by the Trump campaign, access to private data on roughly 87 million Facebook users.

Just last year Facebook faced questions and gave congress ads linked to Russian government efforts to effect the 2016 presidential campaign.

Down down down!

That’s right, Facebook was involved with Russiagate!

So now Mark must testify before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Zuckerberg is expected to strike a conciliatory tone. 

Facebook has really gone downhill these days. Will Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who has deactivated his Facebook account, cause everyone to delete their Facebook accounts?

Zuckerbots invade DC!

Here at the Strangest Adventures we prefer to take a wait and see approach. 

Let’s see how this ends.

The Porn Star and the President!

Last Friday, the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, allegedly paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to be silent about a sexual tryst with Trump. Honestly this story has been public since at least October 2016. Trump has denied the allegations but then Trump usually denies everything. Stormy Daniels denies she was paid off. At the Strangest Adventures we wonder if the WSJ  released this news “story” to distract from Trump’s latest problem. 

See, earlier last week Trump was alleged to call countries like Haiti and other nations “$hithole countries”, while at a meeting to discuss immigration reform. Dutifully the media focused intently on what Trump said. As is usual,Trump denies he said it. Then the WSJ article came the next day. Was it  a perfect distraction from $hithole Gate? Some allege it is. We remain skeptical about everything associated with Donald J.Trump but you read the stories and decide for yourself.

Meltdown!

I'm melting!

President Donald J.Trump has a problem-he is melting down. He is melting down about the investigation into Russiagate, which is the investigation that asks the question–did Russia interfere with the election of 2016 to help Trump get elected? Trump has insisted since even before his administration began there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia, but the New York Times revealed there was a connection via Donald Trump Junior. 

Is this as bad as it gets?

In July 2016 he had met with a Russian attorney that promised damaging information about the Hillary Clinton campaign. His admission of this meeting was a real bombshell, there was actually some possible proof of collusion. 

Donnie Junior in happier days

DJT Jr attempted defusing the issue by posting the content of the emails on twitter. This prompted the New York Post, a newspaper known to be friendly towards Trump, to call Donald Trump Junior an idiot. Gentlemen’s Quarterly also called DJT Jr an idiot “of Towering Proportions”. 

Oops!

Before the revelations about the meeting, many voters thought the investigation onto Russian involvement with the election of 2016 was only a distraction but now, who knows?  As a result of these revelations about the meeting Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort head to the Senate for questioning. Kushner has already testified, then DJT Jr and Manafort are scheduled for July 26, 2017. 

Another thing Trump is melting down about is Attorney General Jefferson Sessions, who had properly recused himself from involvement with the Russiagate investigation. Trump mentioned Sessions from the White House Rose Garden, recently. Trump said "I'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. Time will tell. Time will tell.” Many sources claim Trump is considering firing Jeff Sessions. This hatred of Sessions is even more puzzling considering Jeff Sessions took a major risk by becoming the first United States senator to endorse Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in February 2016. 

Republican South Carolina representative Trey Gowdy, recently offered some friendly advice to the Trump administration. He said it’s time for members of Trump's campaign to come clean about any meetings they had with Russian figures during the campaign to avoid the steady “drip, drip, drip” of information being made public about this investigation.

Certainly others have helpful advice for the Trump administration and perhaps we will hear from them in the future. For now, the future is possibly a very dark place for America. Certainly some people are deriving amusement from Russiagate but most people are not. Here at the Strangest Adventures we  are not sure what to think or what will happen next. To quote Donald J. Trump “Time will tell.” 

Trump Wins!

The Strangest Adventures and almost everyone else predicted wrong! Trump wins! Donald J. Trump, reality TV star, semi-successful real estate developer, failed salesman of many products branded with his name, has been elected POTUS. He won states that republicans had not won in decades, for an amazing upset win! But is America ready for the upcoming kakistocracy? 

The important question of the day is, will he be Candidate Trump who promised to ignore basic legal principles protecting the country and people of the United States,  including no religious qualification to enter the US, torturing suspects, starting trade wars with the rest of the world -- or are we getting a different president? President Trump? Let’s examine what Candidate Trump  promised.

Promise One- Build a wall at the Southern Border to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.         

"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively," Trump said, announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall."

Status- Unfulfillable. Already reality rears it’s ugly head (you can not  see illegal immigrants entering through a concrete wall)   and Trump says the wall may only be a fence. 

Promise Two-A Muslim ban, "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," a campaign press release said. 

Status - Uncertain, possibly abandoned- On Sunday November 2016 Rudy Giuliani explained to Jake Tapper of CNN  that what Trump is really proposing is extreme vetting of immigrants from countries with high levels of radical Islamic extremism.

Promise Three - Bring manufacturing back to the United States. 

"I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (and) I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers," he said. "I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs."

Status -Uncertain. It seems unlikely that he can bring back jobs which have been leaving since the 1970s. It seems to make more sense  to promote jobs of the future such as computers and solar power  than to try returning jobs of the past, such as coal mining and steel production but let’s see what his policies produce. 

Promise Four -Appeal and replace Obamacare. This is very popular with republicans in general but Trump is vowing to protect the two most popular provisions, Insurance can not be denied because of preexisting conditions, and people twenty six and younger can stay on their parent’s insurance.

Status - Likely however will trump really take the insurance  away from 20,000,000 Americans? Normally the opposing party takes congress 2 years after a presidential victory.

Trump was the top Mad Magazine Cover Model! 

Promise Five - Cut taxes.

Status-Likely and possible.

Promise Six - Deport 11 Million illegal immigrants. That was one of the main pillars of Trump’s campaign, he promised a special deportation force, but he’s already backed off of that promise. Now he’s only talking about deporting 2 or 3 million that might have criminal backgrounds. 

Status - Promise altered midway through the campaign. Uncertain outcome.

Promise  Seven - Lock up Hillary Clinton.  

“If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,” Trump told Clinton during a debate in October. “Because there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. And we’re going to have a special prosecutor.”   

Status- Unlikely.Donnie could follow through with this promise however it would be extremely divisive at a time when this nation needs unity. 

This is the way some people see Trump. 

There are many more promises but this is enough for now.  We will have a new president in 2017, love him or hate him.Donald J. Trump is president-Elect! Rest assured the Strangest Adventures will show him as much respect as he showed President Obama, which was no respect,  The next four years promises to be the strangest four years in American History!

Trump is the Big Loser!

The Strangest Adventures is, for the first time, making a  political prediction. The crazy election of 2016 is almost over-time for Donald Trump to lose! But let’s examine some events of this election season. Trump beat sixteen other Republican candidates to became the nominee, even though he was arguably the least qualified Republican, though Ben Carson or Carly Florin were just as unqualified. Quite an accomplishment for someone with no experience in government service in any way and having the lowest favorability ratings in US political ratings.Trump began his run by asserting that Mexico is sending illegal immigrants to the US. That is just one of many things Trump has said, many things that have been challenged by the facts. Mr. Trump has gathered many followers based on his xenophobic message, even being supported by the Kiu Klux Klan’s official newspaper, The Crusader. Also Trump receives support from his wife. his children, and Mike Pence, but not of the Republican party. Paul Ryan won’t even say Trump’s name!

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is his opponent, and seems to be the eventual victor on election day and the next President of the USA despite also having low favorability ratings among the electorate as well. For balance, the electorate can examine her lies as well, then decide. Hillary also has people supporting her run too. Her husband, former President  of the United States plus President Obama, Al Gore, former rival Bernie Sanders even Jay-Zee, Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen. Clinton’s main problems seem to revolved around her using a private email server. server while secretary of State.   The FBI decided, with only ten days until the election, to investigate her emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Anthony is the separated, soon to be ex husband of Huma Abedin, who is Hillary’s top aide. Three days before the election, the FBI ended their investigation, resulting in a stock market surge.  The Stock market had been weakened based on fears of a Trump presidency. 

At The Strangest Adventures we’ve been amused by Trump but we’re not amused to hear the possibility that he’s merely a puppet of Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin. We were not amused at his hidden mike moment with Billy Bush! It was not amusing, either when he proposed banning all people of a single religion from entering the USA. We’ll be glad to see him off of the national stage though Trump does have a large following, mostly people that would in a normal year vote Republican. We are entering a new era-what is to become of the Republican Party in this post-Trump Era? It promises to be another Strange Adventure!

Dr. Ben Carson-Candidate of 2016!

Doctor Ben Carson a surgeon of Baltimore Maryland is most famous for separating conjoined twins.  His biography is here though Politico disagrees with particular points about his history. In late 20015 Dr. Carson was polling well sometimes second to Donald Trump  but by 2016 he was lagging badly in the polls. Perhaps some things he had said in his book and in real life had changed public opinion about him. For instance he claimed that as a youth he attempted to stab someone and a belt buckle blocked his blade however CNN questions that story. Perhaps his threats to leave the Republican Party in December had some affect on his poll numbers. 

Carson also believes evolution is inspired by Satan, “I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct,” and he believes the big bang theory is a fairy tale.

Carson believes the Great Pyramids were not built for Pharaohs. "My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said  "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it."

Oh and Dr. Carson thinks America is like Nazi Germany.

Dr. Carson experienced a very bad new year on January 1^st when his campaign manager and some 20 other campaign workers quit. There was even worse news for Carson when four members of his campaign team were in a fatal car accident in Iowa. His campaign was suspended but he has begun to resume campaigning but at the Strangest Adventures we say, don’t bother. Dr. Ben Carson has done some very interesting  and wondrous  things in his life but running for president is not one of them!

The candidate actually has this painting in his house.