Episode from 1-27-2019

Let’s go more into the updates of football post season. The Rams beat the Saints and are in the Super Bowl. As for the other team, the Patriots beat the Chiefs and are also in the Super Bowl. These are the same two teams that played in the 2002 Super Bowl. Know that I hate the Patriots and am pretty sure that every time they win a game, a baby cries.

Before I get any further, know that I have not given myself enough time to write this post so I might just have to put a lot of what I want to in the next regular post instead of this one. I was busy and sick this past weekend. But let’s get to the rest of this post if I can.

After Bruce Rauner enlisted the help of Eric Grietens, Scott Walker, and Eric Holcomb to try to blame all of his problems on someone else, I wondered what would be a good name to call these four people. Well, I’m dubbing them the four horsemen. It might not be an accurate way of describing them. But it does seem that they want to wreck havoc. Unlike the actual four horsemen, instead of bringing about the end of the world as we know it, they only brought forth their own end.

Eric Grietens left first after many scandals were brought forward and he resigned within hours of a judge declaring his dark money ties fair game to investigate. Scott Walker lost reelection after a long time in such big power and is out of office now. Bruce Rauner, more unpopular than Trump somehow, was out of office just a week later, having also lost reelection. This leaves Eric Holcomb as the only person to be concerned about his political future.

I should update you again on when certain governors started their time in office since there are now new ones added to the mix. Matt Bevin of Kentucky started on December 8, 2015. Eric Holcomb of Indiana started on January 9, 2017. Kim Reynolds of Iowa started on May 24, 2017. Mike Parsons of Missouri started on June 1, 2018. Tony Evers of Wisconsin started on January 7, 2019. J. B. Pritzker of Illinois started on January 14, 2019.

By now, you should know that the government shutdown is over. That’s awesome, actually. I don’t know why it took this long. Well, apparently there were issues at airports due to lots of people not showing up to work and there were too many issues because of it. It took too long. And, making this as ridiculous as the whole thing ever was in the first place, this was the same deal that he could have had before there even was a government shutdown. This “master dealer” known as Trump basically refused to even let the slightest form of compromise happen unless he got what he wanted, which, needless to say, is not how compromise works.

The author of The Art of the Deal

Made people work without money for meals

The right leaning news

Offered terrible views

And that’s why Trump wouldn’t heel

Now going back to the movie watching that I’ve been doing, I have multiple updates about it to tell you about. For the first time ever, I’m now at five movie lists. I now have a Tuesday list of movies to watch that were added to my list in this order: The Great Race, True to the Game, Back to the Future, The Fugitive, The Land before Time, and Rogue One.

Now starting back when it was Monday two weeks ago, I watched Rush Hour and replaced it with Rush Hour 2. True to the Game was then watched and replaced by Taken. There’s actually a bit of a story behind why I own True to the Game. I would have at one point wanted to rent it, but I couldn’t so I bought it as it was Nelsen Ellis’s last movie. I wrote a review about it for my Elementary blog since he was in the cast of that show. I made some mistakes with the review as I thought that Nelsen played the main character instead of a side one that wasn’t as important. Also, the main character is Quad and not King as mentioned in the blog. Still, enjoy the review.

http://adamdeckerelementarytvshow.blogspot.com/2018/04/true-to-game-review.html

On Friday, January 18, 2019, I finally got to see the next Survivor: Borneo episode called Crack in the Alliance. Considering how Rich’s butt crack was featured in the previous episode, it is a bit odd that we are only now getting to an episode named after a crack. Since I have to update my TV blog at least once a month and I now have to roll an episode to do so, I’ll have to go to extreme lengths in order to make sure that I can always see at least one episode of this show a month when I don’t have cheats to use to update the blog on its own. I’m glad that the roll worked. But you might see me randomly not rolling for movies in order to see an episode of this show during time normally spent on that instead of on this. Hopefully, this isn’t too confusing to you.

More movie update: The Emperor’s New Groove was watched and replaced by Blast from the Past. No movie from a list was watched on Saturday. The Bourne Legacy was watched and replaced by The Best Years of our Lives. No movie from a list was watched on Monday. Back to the Future was watched and replaced by Back to the Future Part 2. No movie was watched on Friday as I was at a film score live event and correctly thought that I wouldn’t have time for one. No movie was watched on Saturday. Hancock was watched and not yet replaced as I haven’t finished watching it yet. I will tell you about more about that later in the next post.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a bomb that went off internationally that might have been supplied by the US, but Elizabeth’s team has to make sure of this first. Russell is met by a protestor outside the White House and people film what is going on. Don’t piss him off. Haven’t you seen what his character did in The Bourne Legacy? Russell goes on a rant when he arrives at the White House and people explain more of what happens.

There are potential issues with Russia, Israel, and Syria because of all this. Stevie shows the footage that was filmed of Russell to him. He gets a phone call from someone and yells that he doesn’t have an anger management problem. It’s like how I like to prove that I’m calm by yelling, “I AM CALM!” Alison is having issues with the internet and needs to put a paper online right away. I can’t make sense of some of what is going on, but I think that the main issue is with Russia as usual.

People are shown footage of a plane that was Syrian that took off from Russia with a cluster bomb from the US. This is highly complicated. Yet I have the feeling that a lot of international politics is or could be. Elizabeth seeks to find some sort of solution to the problem.

In segment two, Elizabeth talks with someone who isn’t sure that the footage is conclusive. It is a person from Syria that she is talking to. Conrad’s BFF helped make the bomb, according to Henry. There is more revealed about the internet problems as Jason was doing things with cybo currency. He explains some of what he has done. But he might be able to fix it. Stevie wants to fix the problems that Russell is having that he is getting more irritated by. Henry thinks that a knock-off was used, but that official plans of the bomb might have revealed what had happened. The issue might actually be friendly fire.

In segment three, Elizabeth talks between different diplomats. A plane that was shot down had killed Russian soldiers. Henry thinks that this was gross negligence. Russell thinks that people want to taunt the president and the secretary of state. Who even is the secretary of state in reality? I lost track. Some of the people in Elizabeth’s team realize that they are going back to the drawing board.

Stevie tries to defuse the situation with the strange woman from earlier who had gone after Russell and she seems irritated at first only to calm down when she gets a book in her hand. Books are not always a way to calm down. But I guess they can be. Jason gets into more trouble with his crypto currency. We then get a phone call from Russell to Elizabeth and she has to figure out a problem right away.

In segment four, there is a navy presence that Elizabeth and her team needs to get to stand down. We then get to Henry talking to Russell again about various things that are going on. Elizabeth then brings back the two people from the previous segment about what happened with Russia and Israel. It seemed that Syria caused the death of children and Israel caused the destruction of a Russian airplane.

In segment five, Henry talks to Conrad about doing a ban on cluster bombs. Henry then talks about some of what he doesn’t want to do with his role in office. I think that this relates to what had happened in the previous episode with the suspicious people that I can’t quite remember as well. Elizabeth then talks about wanting others to sign a ban on cluster bombs. Why not get rid of nuclear weapons while we are at it? Seriously. We should get rid of them, but I know that won’t ever happen. Cat talks about some sort of issue relating to people who lost people due to one of the attacks in this episode.

Stevie shows that Maggie, the protestor, is still having issues despite whatever had possibly worked at an earlier point. Russell talks to this person one on one. So maybe some sort of issues are resolved? We then get to Jason talking about the failure of his currency after the crisis died down. But he does have a job now that he can use to pay his parents back and briefly talks about another currency that could be used to fix problems, but it seems unlikely that it would work and his parents leave upon hearing more about what it is. There are no scenes from next time so we’ll see what happens or if there’ll even be a new episode next month. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Politics: The Top Ten Democrats Who Should Run for President in 2020

I have decided to do another brief, recurring theme for posts for this blog so I hope that you like this one. I came up with a list of ten Democrats who I think should run for president in 2020. Now this doesn’t include people that I’d like to see run that probably aren’t going to. Otherwise, I would have someone like Tim Kaine on this list. If you are a Democrat and want to run for this high office, know that even if you aren’t on the list, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t run. I was also going to make a note that if people were already in the race that would have otherwise been on this list, they wouldn’t be on it, but when it comes to those currently officially in the race for president, no one mentioned in here is yet on the list. Anyways, here goes:

#10 Terry McAuliffe: The former governor of Virginia, I am largely putting him on the list just to have a governor on this list. Everyone else on this list is or was a senator. I’ll admit that I do not know much about how outside of the fact that he might want to run for president. But I don’t think that there are any issues with him and he could be a good person, even if he’s not notable enough to me to rank higher than number 10 on this list.

#9 Michael Bennet: He’s currently a senator from Colorado. I said that I might wind up caring more about that state in the future. I’m not entirely sure if he can run for president, although I’m pretty sure that he can. He is slightly moderate which could help him with independents, but not to the point of alienating his own base. He might work, although he might not do as well since some of us wouldn’t know who he is.

#8 Cory Booker: A senator from New Jersey, he could be everything that more Democrats would want from a candidate. Something he did that helped me like him was attacking part of the ridiculousness of the Kavanaugh hearings and he went out of the way to make sure that his points were heard and got across easily. Him being a black man might also help him do better in the primary at least since I think some of us wouldn’t want a white man to challenge Trump.

#7 Kristen Gillibrand: While she is more or less already in the race, I felt that I should include her anyways to encourage her to run if she had any doubts about if she should or not. I do not think that there is anything that could ruin her chances of winning. There are other candidates who might not have a better chance without there being something they are constantly attacked about over and over again.

#6 Heidi Heitkemp: Since she doesn’t have any job currently that I know of, she’ll have all the more time to run for office if she wants to. Her being a moderate might attract some badly needed independents in the race, although it could hurt her chances of winning the primary. I do want to see a future for her politically and depending on the type of justice Brett Kavanaugh winds up being, she may have every reason to run and prove that she was right in not voting for him. She can stand up for women who can’t stand up for themselves.

#5 Bernie Sanders: He may not enter the race and some may feel that he already had his chance or is too old to run. Another problem is that he might not actually be considered a liberal since he is largely an independent. Someone even thought that he’d be a worse president than Trump, although the support Trump so what do they know? Still, if he’s able to energize the voters and do anywhere near as good as last time, then maybe he could win this time around.

#4 Joe Donnelly: Another former politician who lost reelection in the midterms last year, I do not think that he should end his political future just yet. Now there are things that could be against him that might make him unable to stand a chance at winning. He voted with Trump 75% of the time and I don’t think that a white man is who people are looking for this time around. Still, he has a secret advantage that other Democrats shouldn’t ignore: he’s pro-life. While they may not think that a pro-life candidate should be in the race and he might not have a chance with a record like that, I do know that a lot of people only vote on that issue while flat out ignoring all the others. They won’t be able to stay, “but, abortion!” as a reason to vote for whatever terrible Republican is in the race if another candidate is pro-life. Thus, a favorite talking point becomes moot and he stands a good chance of winning.

#3 Elizabeth Warren: I do fear that she might be too polarizing a figure to do well with some of the voters who can’t see past real or largely imagined issues with her. We have had far too many polarizing presidents in the recent past. Still, if the only thing that they have against her is her age or the stupid “Pocahontas” jab, then her path to victory may be easier than we think that it is. Many want to see her as president and she would be seen as a great challenge to the racism and sexism that Trump has to offer. While I don’t know if she could win over many on the right or in the middle, she may be just what those on her side might want to win.

#2 Claire McCaskill: The former senator from Missouri is one that largely on this list because I personally like her and want to see her as president. She’s enough of a moderate that she could win over people who aren’t sure about either side while also being enough of a Democrat that she wouldn’t lose any support from her own base when trying to win office. I’ll admit that she has some issues like the plane controversy that seems dumb but could easily be overblown like nearly all controversies are nowadays. Still, I don’t want her political future to be over and I want her in some office like, maybe, Missouri governor, or doing some sort of good in some other way since her not being able to help anyone anymore would be quite a bad thing.

#1 Amy Klobuchar: She, in my mind, might be the best person to run for many reasons. I do not think that she has angered her own base in any way. Nor do I think that she has any baggage or reason why she wouldn’t do well in the race outside of other candidates being more well known that she is. I’m pretty sure that she might want to run or at least hasn’t ruled out running. And all these are the reasons why I think that she should run for office.

Well, that’s about it for this post. I would have put Lisa Madigan on this list, but I don’t think that most people would know who she is nor would she be able to get over the stigma of her well hated stepfather. Kamala Harris maybe should have been on this list, but I thought that I would go with others instead. Now in case for one reason or another, you can’t think of what would be a good Democrat to vote for as you’d want to vote for a Republican instead, I should have a list of the top ten Republicans to run coming at you later in a future post. Stay tuned!

Episode from 1-13-2019

With Survivor gone until later in February, you might be wondering what I’ll be watching in that timeslot until its return. I can watch up to three different things at the same time. In fact, I could watch a fourth if the newly acquired VCR of mine is used for that purpose. But I’ve lost interest in Chicago Med. It isn’t a bad show, but it is boring enough that I don’t feel I care about it anymore.

So what am I watching then, or planning to? I plan to see Riverdale on the CW. I’ll watch the ABC shows of The Goldbergs and Schooled. I will be keeping the third slot open to watch The World’s Best, but I may not actually see it long term should I not like it for one reason or another. It might not be the type of show that I like anyways, so we’ll see what becomes of it.

Sometimes I mess up with posts and I never change these after the fact. Why am I saying this? Well, I had posted the wrong date of the previous episode’s airing. It should have said 2019 and not 2018. I do think that a lot of people get used to the new year in terms of writing it right away.

There is a potential link to my Good Wife blog that I should do or should have done in previous posts this season. You see, ever since I put the link to an episode here from the third episode of the show that I had blogged about here, I should have also included a link to other episodes or mentioned things from those blog posts in this blog. But I didn’t. Still, I might do that here in future posts.

I have created a new movie watching list on Monday. That list is: Despicable Me, Toy Story, Run Fatboy Run, Back to the Secret Garden, Free Willy, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. This is not going to be the only new list I create this year, but I’ll get to the next one that I’m creating in the next post when it will be created.

Now to the political stuff again. There’s one last election of which I need to update you about. Let’s talk about the Wisconsin senate race. In this race, Democrat Tammy Baldwin beat Republican Leah Vukmir and won reelection as a result.

This leads to all the results from all the senate races from 2018. As already revealed in previous posts, the Democrats in Missouri and Indiana lost reelection to Republicans. Florida and North Dakota also had gains by Republicans. Arizona and Nevada had gains by Democrats. No other state had seats flip outside of those six. But with the net gain of the senate being two for the Republicans, this leads to something that few on the left seem to admit or realize: blue wave 2018 never happened. Democrats would have had to have a net gain of just one senate seat for the wave to be real. Instead, they lost seats. Thus, it was not a wave. Sure, they did well in tons of areas. But it wasn’t a wave for them and it certainly wasn’t a wave for the other party either. Why do people think Republicans did good?

You might want a note on the next set of elections. The class two senators will be up in 2020, but I’m not going to get to them yet. Since I care about Kentucky elections and they will be electing a governor in 2019. Thus, the only races I will tell you about will be that election in Kentucky or the presidential race. After the Kentucky race is over, then I’ll be certain to talk about 2020 elections that I care about.

Speaking of the next presidential race, you might have heard rumors that Elizabeth Warren is in the race right now. She might be, but I think that she was just thinking about running and wasn’t actually for sure in the race right now. Still, I want her to run and maybe even win, depending on what else happens and who else is in the race. My own fear is that she might be too polarizing for some people and you’d think that we should have learned our lesson after the last time.

When I think about Elizabeth Warren

The pundits will offer their own spin

They may not like her

But it may not occur

Come 2020, she might win

Before I finish talking about Elizabeth, I thought that I’d point out that some people like to use the one Pocahontas slur in order to talk about her or otherwise insult her. If I were her, I’d start embracing that slur because an insult loses all power if you don’t take it that way and use it yourself.

Movie update: On Monday, I watched Run Fatboy Run and that is now Rush Hour. On Friday, I watched Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and that is now Tower Heist. On Saturday, I watched The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, which is a play recording, and that is now Thomas and the Magic Railroad. No movie from a list was watched on Sunday as I instead watched a home video that has my late grandmother and her family in it.

I check for games before primetime and see an Eagles versus Saints game. The Saints are barely winning by only three points. That is what is on FOX. CBS must have already aired any game that they would be showing as their shows are on time. I’ll be sticking with that for now and checking the score between breaks. I hope that I can see other postseason scores to keep you updated about them in later posts as I don’t think that I can always stay updated like I should be.

Checking the score later, I notice that the Saints have extended their lead over the Eagles. I would want the Eagles to win this round, but I’m not sure if they will be facing the Rams or a different team, not yet knowing the scores of the other three games that had already happened. Basically, if a team that I root for beats the Rams in postseason, they will then be the lowest rated of the teams that I root for unless they are the Panthers, the already lowest team that I root for, which would then be removed from the list of teams that I root for. If I do not root for this team, they would then be the next level anti-team of which I would root against under all cases unless they play a different anti-team added to the list before. Still, I’d rather not get into complicated things unless I have to.

My last check of the game reveals that the Saints won their game. A sports update shows me that the Chiefs are still in postseason while the Chargers have been eliminated. I have no idea what happened with the Rams game from earlier so we’ll see if they are still in the postseason or if I have a new anti-team to root against.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a fighter pilot in the sky. Teletubbies say goodbye. Oh, wait… (Can you believe that I just referenced that?) A Congressman is there and helps with some sort of ceremony of sorts. Henry is there and seems like he will use a plane. A possibly random guy who I think we’ve seen before but I can’t remember who he is talks about funding issues with the planes in question. Elizabeth has to convince Taiwan to buy one of the planes. It always has to relate to another country most of the time.

Daisy has a dog in a cone for some reason. She pawns the dog off on Matt possibly like how an older sibling would pawn off a job on a younger sibling. If that’s the case, then this could only end badly. We then see Elizabeth talking to different people about what to do. I’m sure that there will probably be a solution before the hour ends. Elizabeth talks to her husband after his joyride? What? Lee from China is butting his head in things again. He doesn’t want the deal to happen. People have to figure out how the leak happened and he figured this out. There are always repercussions, it seems.

In segment two, Blake is brought in to talk to people. Was he the leak? Matt talks to himself or someone or the dog. I’m not sure. I think that he got the meaning of therapy dog confused. The dog leaves, but Daisy catches it and brings it back.

Blake talks more about Gary, the person who they think was the one who leaked the info to the Chinese. Blake takes Gary out for a drink, but he seems to see through some of the trick. His place is investigated during the meantime. Gary’s sister named Megan might have been responsible for the leak in question. It turns out that they want these people to go through with the sale in a way of tricking them somehow. I’m not entirely sure what is going on.

In segment three, they talk about Foster who is what exactly? It is a company that they need to hold accountable in some way. Conrad terminates the contract. Jay informs Blake about what’s going on. It seems like Gary might be in serious trouble for brining classified information home on his laptop. We then get to Canada where Lee and Elizabeth meet with some other person. I don’t think that it was a Canadian since they didn’t say aboot right. Someone might have been taking pictures of some of the meeting in question.

Jay has to mediate in the discussion about Waffles the dog that Daisy and Matt are having. Daisy gets emotional about it. Congressman Grant has a speech about it where he lies about what’s going on. I don’t think that these are intentional lies, but maybe they are. The picture is what he sees as proof that they had some sort of cozy relationship of sorts. He doesn’t realize that they initially wanted to do the deal.

In segment four, Russell doesn’t know how things will work out. They meet with Congress and others to try to figure out how to deal with the situation going forward. Elizabeth explains about the spying that they were doing. A person explains how they don’t want the jets, although I’m not sure that he does a good job explaining it. The vote might still go forward. Gary complains about what’s going on over his dumb mistake. He talks to Blake again at the same bar as before. It seems that the vote might still move forward with a veto proof majority.

In segment five, Elizabeth explains how the deal is terrible but they don’t know what to do. All of this has some sort of link to Dwight Eisenhower. They wonder how far the corruption with Foster goes. We see a guy named James arrested at a golf game. This brings forth the end of the deal. There will be a deal of custody ownership with Waffles. Henry talks to someone that I can’t remember clearly about what had gone on and he (not Henry) might have been the person who tipped off the DOJ about the whole Foster. Elizabeth is upset that they have wound up with some of the planes that she felt that they did not need. But the episode suddenly ends there.

On the next Madam Secretary in two weeks, it turns out that actions of some sort lead to people being on the brink of war. You will see a political post of this blog next week. Will the issues of this episode be the reason for problems in the next one? I guess that we’ll see for sure later, hopefully, or maybe not. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 1-6-2018

Welcome to the first update of the year. I’m not sure if anyone other than me could have even have kept track of the alternating posts between this and the TV blog given the fact that the TV blog would have random updates outside of the Mondays it was on and this blog was updated on Tuesdays after the newest episode aired if the TV blog were on Mondays and then random posts would be updated of this blog whenever not many posts were read in the other blog after a certain amount of updates. But I have good news. There will be a post of this blog every Monday this month, regardless of if there was a new episode or not. There shouldn’t be any unusually timed updates until February.

I don’t know if I should apologize for not getting into the Rams versus Chargers updates that I should be more into the season. At least my facebook group Still a Rams fan has updates onto that on occasion. Going into postseason, The Rams are 13-3. The Chargers are 12-4. Both are in the postseason so I might want to explain more on postseason outside of just those two teams.

Remember how last season, the Rams lost half of their games at home? At a fan from the St. Louis area, this made me a bit happy inside. Well, the Chargers might have gotten that curse this season as all four of their losses during the regular season were in LA. This makes me curious how they will fare in their first postseason game against the Baltimore Ravens that will happen in Baltimore. The Chargers did not get a first round bye like the Rams so they will have to win one more game than the Rams in order to make it to the end. This could potentially mess up the whole tally of who is doing better. The Rams can win the same number of postseason games and make it farther into postseason while the Chargers can get more wins postseason and finish at the same place.

As for more of the postseason, The Colts will play the Texans, the Eagles will play the Bears, and the Seahawks will play the Cowboys. I want the Colts and Eagles to win their games. I’m not sure that I care that much about the other games. Besides the Rams, the other teams that got first round byes are the Saints, Patriots, and Chiefs. We’ll see what happens with all of the games.

Before I get to the updates of how movies have changed, I should remind you of what they will be like at the start of 2019: Friday’s list is Avatar, The Emperor’s New Groove, Fireproof, Lilo and Stitch, Night at the Museum, and Vantage Point. Saturday’s list is Absolute Power, Finding Dory, The Lion King, Minions, Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue tape, and The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood. Sunday’s list is The Bourne Legacy, Celtic Woman: Believe, Hancock, Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Going back to the Iowa governor race, the incumbent Republican Kim Reynolds became the first woman of her state to win election to the governor’s office in her own right. She beat Democrat Fred Hubbell and Libertarian Jake Porter, among others. I’m not upset that she won. I don’t know if I should be or not. What I do know is that her opponents didn’t have the experience that she did. That’s why I’m fine with her winning and someone who is more familiar with Iowa politics could inform me what they think.

When it comes to the 2018 governor elections in general, I’m a bit curious as to why we didn’t hear as much about it as we otherwise could. While we did hear in some places about Georgia’s election, we did not hear about the fact that seven seats were flipped from red to blue and none went from blue to red (although Alaska went from Independent to red). This should have been focused on more, but I guess that it wasn’t as it wasn’t a national issue. I was surprised that CBS was surprised that Scott Walker had lost when no poll that I know of had him winning.

I hope that they go back to the bombing on this show in the future. I don’t know why it was focused on in the first episode of this season, but barely mentioned ever since then. You’d think that it would be more important, it being such a major event. Hopefully, they’ll focus on it more in the future instead of some weird international situation or crisis of the week.

I’ve decided to do awards for bad politics called the Golden Gooseberry Awards. I’m going to start with the nominees of it in this post. This will be for the year 2018. I don’t yet know when the winners will be mentioned, but it will be in another regular post of this blog before the season finale. The final award will list who I believe are the ten worst politicians of the previous year.

The brainless award: Donald Trump, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham

The heartless award: Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Bret Kavanaugh

The cowardly lion award: Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake, Orin Hatch, Bob Corker

Worst Supreme Court decision: Trump versus Hawaii, Janus versus AFSCME, Husted versus Randolph Institute, Epic Systems Corp. versus Lewis

Hall of shame: Wisconsin’s lame duck session, the confirmation of Bret Kavanaugh, the shutdown over border wall funding, Brian Kemp’s voter suppression

Sadly didn’t win: Stacy Abrams, Beto O Rork, Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitcamp

Sadly left office: Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, John McCain, Heidi Heitcamp, Anthony Kennedy

Worst election winner: Josh Hawley, Brian Kemp, Michael Madigan

The sore loser award: Scott Walker

Worst Congressman: Paul Ryan

Worst senator: Mitch McConnell, Jeff Flake, Orin Hatch, Ted Cruz, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Lindsey Graham

Worst governor: Bruce Rauner, Eric Greitens, Scott Walker, Eric Holcomb

The good riddance award: Eric Greitens, Scott Walker, Bruce Rauner, Paul Ryan, Orin Hatch, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker

The dead to me award: Anthony Kennedy, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins

Worst politician: Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Michael Madigan, Eric Holcomb, Bruce Rauner, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Eric Grietens, Brian Kemp

The government has shut down because Trump is having a temper tantrum on a border wall that for some dumb reason, he can’t fund himself. Does he not have the money to fund this himself? I do have to wonder, if you polled people, just how little of them would support a wall along the Mexican border. I guess it would depend on where you live would affect your thoughts on it.

Illegals come from all sorts of places. You know that some come from the Philippines, right? That island country isn’t going to be kept out by a wall with Mexico. Plus, of the four states that border Mexico, while Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico might all be in favor of a wall, there is no way that California would be. If he doesn’t want funding for a wall, then you’d think a rationally minded person would give up the quest of it.

There’s far too much talk of a wall

And no one is having a ball

There’s a crisis on the border

With so much disorder

Because of a problem far from small

There was a lot of talk about the migrant caravan while it was coming, but nearly none after it had made it here. Meanwhile, the child separation policy that Trump had implemented and then instantly blamed on the Democrats when it was rightfully criticized, continues to cause issues such as at least two deaths of children who were separated. Just know that Obama never did this when he was in charge.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/matt-schlapp/no-donald-trumps-separation-immigrant-families-was/

I also promised that I would share this link again due to the pro pot crowd onto why they are wrong. I think that I have probably shared this before, but am not sure. I do know what confirmation bias is now and did get here this way. But if you want to join my side against pot, then share this link with anyone and everyone who irritates you with their pro pot views.

https://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/the-harmful-effects.html

Movie update: On Friday, I watched Night at the Museum and that will be replaced with its sequel: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. On Saturday, I watched Minions. That actually creates a bit of an interesting situation that was bound to happen anyways. I will be creating a new list on Mondays. I’ll explain more in the next post. Minions was replaced by Oliver and Company.  On Sunday, I ended up seeing Celtic Woman: Believe and will be replacing it with Celtic Woman: Destiny. I was originally going to put Destiny on a different list which would have caused some weird things to happen, but it will be better if it happens this way in the end.

I check CBS to see if they are airing any football games. They are airing not football. Both of them aren’t airing it. There is no football on FOX. NBC is airing football. They are airing an Eagles versus Bears game. Go Eagles! The Eagles, sadly, are losing, but neither team is above 10 points. The Eagles get a touchdown then a field goal and are now winning. We’ll see if the network’s reception stays good or not.

After turning into 60 Minutes and missing some of it that I would have liked to see, I want to see what the rest of the game is like with the score so close. It turns out that icing the kicker is successful this time around and the Bears lose as a result. They would have won had there not been a timeout. This is like when you are outbid out The Price is Right by one dollar and they win instead of you even though you had the better price first. It’s a rule of the game that gets upsetting. The Eagle’s season continues.

I wonder whether or not to watch the Golden Globes, but decide to since the Wild Card game is over at a good time. This means that today’s episode will be put on my laptop. All I can hope is that the quality of the post doesn’t suffer as a result. This might be the only time this season this happens.

That was the original plan, but NBC wasn’t coming in well where I live for the umpteenth time in my life. So I will be live watching this as usual since I’m not sure that I should be risking watching it. I guess that I will find out later what notable things happened that I would have missed anyways.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Elizabeth arriving at a jail. There is a priest there for some reason. Elizabeth unintentionally breaks the Second Commandment (or Third if you are Catholic) in front of him. Elizabeth gets her mug shot taken. Russell is upset about this and talks to Henry and Conrad about this. I can’t believe they actually did a look her up like thing on this show. They need to trend carefully and not give the Arizona governor the attention that he wants. You shouldn’t take a picture and put words on it. That’s often meme.

Stevie is still upset over a band cancelling and talks to Daisy about what’s going on with the renewal of vows. Stevie hadn’t told these people that it was the Secretary of State that they were doing things for. Cat talks to someone over the phone, worried about something and wanting to talk to someone. Mike then talks about her options about what to do and how to get out of it. She talks to Henry about what she should do. She pleads innocent and wants to stay in jail until the children are reunited with their parents. She has a plea to the people about what to do regarding the crisis at the border.

In segment two, Russell is upset as usual. He doesn’t care that Jay is on crutches. Jay wants to make sure that Elizabeth has support and it seems that everyone hates Governor Barker. A guard from one of the places leaks footage of the place and shows support for Elizabeth. Conrad talks to Governor Barker over Skype as usual and the governor refuses to change anything over a policy that Conrad had signed. Some random guy who is there wants to charge Governor Barker with kidnapping.

In segment three, Stevie makes food while booking a band. You know, I don’t think that I’ve ever been to a wedding that lacked a DJ. I went to one with a wedding singer. But he knew how to DJ too so he did that as well. Why are wedding bands a thing? It seems so weird to me. Jay talks to Daisy on the phone and then gets weird talking about a video of some sort. Elizabeth calls him from jail and talks about her special accommodations. Is Jay high? He might be high on painkillers.

Elizabeth doesn’t want there to be a showdown between president and governor. Cat hasn’t seen her father in a couple of years. Jay then talks to that one senator again. Wynn talks about legalizing pot to this senator. Will this strengthen the borders like Wynn thinks? We don’t know the position yet as the show cuts to commercial before he answers.

In segment four, Cat talks with her father who is more Hispanic than I realized. Is Sara Ramirez Hispanic? I guess I never noticed that before if she was. Cat wants to protect her father. From what, exactly? I get confused easily. Lo cento. Henry visits his wife in jail and the Arizona legislature want to pass a bill that would end the policy. The McCord family and a priest visit her. But we don’t see much yet.

In segment five, Elizabeth is in her wedding dress and the person wants photos, even though she wants it to be private. Hopefully, it will stay that way. She couldn’t remember anything in time so lets him go first in the vows. She’s then able to think of something later. Afterwards, they learn that the bill had passed and Governor Barker admitted defeat. The McCords get their official party after all, I think. And Elizabeth was freed from jail, if I didn’t make that clear before. There is a live song that Elizabeth hears from the actual singer who is there. Was she drunk?

On the next Madam Secretary, what? I did not get that. Blake might be under investigation for some sort of something or another. There is a spy of some sort. Something, something, something, dark side. Something, something, something complete. I guess that we’ll find out more about the episode later in the future, when it airs. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 12-23-2018

I’m not entirely sure yet when the next new episode of this show will air. What I do know is that it will probably air against The Golden Globes when they are on. This leads me to wonder: will I even care about The Golden Globes this year? There have been times where I ignore all but the shows that I blog about and other times where I try to record or watch all of the shows that I do in addition to The Golden Globes. If the CW shows are still on hiatus, I won’t have anything to worry about. But I might not watch the award shows at all because I’m simply losing interest in general.

As for an update on the Missouri senate race, this was one of the more disappointing results. And it wasn’t just because a Republican won a seat that a Democrat had. Josh Hawley, who won, lied a whole lot and was generally an ass in different ways. Claire McCaskill, who lost, was one of the greatest people in the whole senate. I still hope that she becomes president in the future. A lot of the losses that had happened in the senate were moderate Democrats losing to Republicans. I guess that some people just don’t want someone working with the other party when they could simply be the other party.

В этом параграфе не будет упоминаться журнал Time. Что-то, что я знаю, было то, что русские пытались взломать штаб-квартиру Клэр Маккаскилл, когда она баллотировалась на переизбрание для сената. Им не удалось попасть туда. Но Клэр проиграла переизбрание Джошу Хоули. Означает ли это, что русские помогли ему победить? Я еще не знаю. Я не думаю, что они сделали так, как я не думаю, что он нуждался бы в любой помощи. Тем не менее, с темными денежными связями, которые мы не знаем, откуда они пришли, трудно сказать наверняка, если Джош не получил незаконную помощь. Возможно, это было не из России, как у других.

I’ve said it before and I could say it again, but there are times when you might see paragraphs other than Russian in a regular blog post. I don’t think that I’ll do more than one in a single blog post. So if you see a Russian paragraph, you won’t see a Chinese paragraph. I may yet do Spanish paragraphs. There is a possibility that I will do Korean paragraphs in the future. And I might even do Latin, if there’s a reason for it that I can think of and if there is an option for it in google translate.

After I had mentioned the Indiana senate election, I had talked about my donations to various politicians this election cycle, the first time that I had ever done it. There were four donations total before the main elections. There was a fifth donation for the special senate election in Mississippi. I had hoped that Mike Espy would win. But he did not. Since two of the donations failed by virtue of the people not winning, this means that they will be reassigned for the future. In fact, the same amount will be given twice. One won’t happen again until 2024, when the class one senators are up for reelection again. The others will affect the class two senate candidates in 2020.

Now some of you my know some of my facebook habits. One of them is the election countdowns that I do from time to time. How will you know if I want someone out of office? Well, starting in 2019, I will do a rotation of sorts. If someone is up for reelection in 2020 that I want to lose, I will mention them by name. I’ll start with the main two senate elections that I care about. I’ll then mention the governor race. Then I’ll mention the lesser two senate elections that will only be on the list since two of the people I supported in 2018 lost. Then I’ll mention the presidential race before going back to the other set in the rotation again.

Note that I will certainly be supporting two senators and will change these in the lesser races no matter what. Also note that I’ll probably mention other elections that will be beyond 2020, but I won’t say for sure if those people have to be worried yet or not because I don’t know if I will donate to their opponents or not. It will depend on what happens in 2020.

You might wonder if I will mention in here other elections than the main one. Honestly, I might want to find an alternate blog for politically themed posts. In fact, it might work best if they are in a blog about the show The Good Fight. I’ll only start a blog about that for sure if I had the first season on DVD. But I could do political posts in that blog that aren’t in here. Also, you might wonder if I’d continue updates of politics in any blog if this show were to end.

I had thought that this show might be able to avoid the fate that all shows in this timeslot do. But I no longer think that that will be the case. The ratings are lower than they should be and it could be more of a problem down the line. This show could end this season and only network tradition could keep it alive. But network tradition didn’t keep Scorpion alive. There are a whole list of other blogs that could be in the future for me to create based on other TV shows. But are there any that air on CBS or the CW that could be political enough for me to make the blog partly that?

While the show Salvation was political, it has been cancelled and now I won’t be blogging about it. I did want to at one point when it was delayed to when Elementary aired, but I never did do this and I think that it worked out for the best that it didn’t exist after all.

Before I get any further, I might as well talk about the child separation policy, as I think that will be the focus of this episode somehow since I saw the name of it. And I haven’t thought about what I should do as a limerick in this post yet, so here one is.

To separate parent and child

The affects won’t be mild

For this bad idea

You’d have to be a

Person filled with bile

This is the 100^th episode of the show and seems like it might be a two parter, at least. But I’m annoyed that they are airing this the day before Christmas Eve. Don’t they know that people are celebrating the holiday of Festivus today? I should air this as a grievance on the Festivus pole. I have family over and am still taking a gamble into hoping that I can see some of the episode on that day or the next day.

They could have aired this last week. I don’t think most people would have been annoyed by the 30 minute delay because we are used to delays during Super Bowl season. I hope to record this or have the chance to watch it later online. But for OCD reasons, I have to have posted or scheduled this blog for December 24^th to keep this rotation going that I have. I’ll let you know what happens and I might not post about the whole episode, which I have done only once before in this blog.

I have the chance to check and switch between the two games that are on FOX and CBS. The game on FOX ran longer than they were expecting. It is the Bears and 49ers playing with the Bears winning. The game on CBS is between the Saints and the Steelers. The Steelers are winning. I stay with the FOX game until the end and the Bears win, unfortunately.

Switching back to the Steelers game, the Saints take the lead in the game after a touchdown of sorts that people weren’t sure of somehow. I guess that I’m not the only one confused about how football works if even those who normally watch the game didn’t realize it at first. The Saints wind up winning in the end after a close game where the Steelers tried to score, but couldn’t.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 57 minute delay. We begin with people near the Mexico border at the state of Arizona. A mother and child arrive in the United States. They are seeking asylum here. This is when the child and parent are separated. The woman learns that she is under arrest instead of being taken under asylum. The child is put on a bus with other children to a detention facility.

Elizabeth and Henry are at a dance class and are about to renew their vows. Apparently, Elizabeth was pregnant which changed the wedding plans. Can Hollywood stop doing this? I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen in real life when people get married because of that and stay together. But you shouldn’t make it seem like nearly everybody does this. Jay calls Elizabeth about the child separation policy, this version being implemented in Arizona by that state’s governor. Conrad and Elizabeth talk to him. He didn’t like the foreign policy deal that Conrad had done and wants a boarder wall. The Arizona statute might be unconstitutional. Elizabeth wants to work with the senator from Arizona to try to get their way. If this is based on real life, he’s going to die with a sense of goodness gone just like John McCain.

In segment two, Jay and Blake are at a basketball game when Jay gets accidently injured. The man who had hurt him wants pot legalized in order to help limit the power drug cartels. I think that I need to put a link in here that I got from confirmation bias about why you shouldn’t do pot. In fact, I might have put this link in my blog before. There is no preliminary injection on the issue and they have to settle it later in court. Russell thinks that the judge has bias and the judge admits to it since he wasn’t chosen for an appellate court. Matt goes on a rant with a possibly random woman about Wynn, who was the election night hook-up that Daisy had two seasons ago and the person who injured Jay in this episode. Elizabeth tries to reason with the senator, whose name I can’t remember right now. Maybe he’s not a caricature of any real person. He doesn’t want to go against his state.

The McCord kids talk about different things relating to the sort of wedding. The band she had booked has broken up at the last minute. I don’t think that I’ve been to a wedding with a band. I’ve been to one with a wedding singer who was also a DJ. Russell learns that the judge has real estate that is affected by Governor Barker of Arizona. Russell is hesitant about whether or not they should bring the information forward but Elizabeth wants to make sure that it is.

In segment three, Jay talks to the senator about his Cuban heritage and why he is against what Conrad wants. They both know Spanish. I don’t recall Jay being revealed to speak that before. I don’t like it if there are just random things brought up that weren’t important before. They talk to a different judge and seems like she’s about to side with Russell’s side, but gets information that causes her to change her mind based on another case that went to the court. Elizabeth talks to Mike, whoever that is, about the renewal of vows that she’s doing. He wants it public to increase her chances of having a run for office, but she wants it private.

The Mexican president talks about issues. It seems like there’s no solution until Henry convinces them to keep going for a solution. Elizabeth wants to visit one of these places to show her support for her allies in Mexico. Russell thinks that it could hurt her chances of running for president.

In segment four, Elizabeth arrives with Cat at a detention facility and there are protestors outside. I am so glad that we are seeing Cat for a change. A person tries to prevent them from entering the place with an ambassador, but a law means that they have to come right in and surrender their phones. Wynn then brings a gift to Daisy that has pot in it. You know, they are doing a good job at making these people look like weirdos. Elizabeth, Cat, and the ambassador see children in cages.

In segment five, we continue with Elizabeth looking at the various people there. She wants a diaper to be changed, but has issues with it. Governor Barker comes in there saying that Elizabeth is trespassing and a sheriff is here to arrest her. He wants them to leave peacefully. She shows up on live TV and she talks to people there about the center. She gets arrested on live TV. This sort of thing hasn’t happened in the US before, according to them. Sure enough, the episode is to be continued…

There are no scenes from next time so I’ll be back when the next episode is. I should have a post for all of the Mondays in January, regardless of if a new episode airs then there not. My Tuesday posts are now done then for a while. I’m glad that I was able to see this and schedule it for the next day after it had aired. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Politics: George Bush I Presidential Analysis

I thought that I would add on an introduction explaining the reintroduction of the section of this blog’s political posts which is more of a potpourri section. I wasn’t going to do that right away, but I thought that I would since I wanted to address the death of the 41^st president of the United States and tell you about him in the best way that I hope that I’m doing.

Let’s start with some facts about him. He is the most recent one term president and most recent president to have lost reelection. He was president when I was born. He helped start a tradition of leaving letters for his successor, even if his predecessor technically did it first. He is one of four people to go directly from the vice-presidency to the presidency via direct election. He is the most recent president who faced no impeachment attempts against him. There might be other facts besides that that I can’t remember right now.

Something that people aren’t lying or overblown about when they are talking about George is how he might have been the most qualified person who was elected president. (Whether or not he was the most experienced person to ever run for president is a bit debated.) He served in the military at the youngest age possible, being one of the youngest pilots ever in the navy. He was then a representative in Congress, an ambassador to the United Nations, a chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Director of the CIA.

After becoming vice-president, he was careful not to set a precedent by avoiding to land at the office the way a president would. He was the first acting president for 8 hours on 7-13-1985. He seemingly made it seem that vice-presidential debates mean absolutely nothing in politics after his poor performance in one in 1984 did little but make himself feel displeased in the campaign. He was the first person since Hoover to succeed his own party via direct election.

A remarkable feat happened during his term. The collapse of Communism, quite a good thing, had happened. Whether it just happened under his term or because of others before him, it was quite a good thing to happen to the world, outside of the few remaining countries that still have it in the end. Another good thing that happened was him helping to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.

While president, he was able to put two different people on the Supreme Court. The first was a man named David Souter. This nomination was not want George actually wanted in the end as David wound up being more liberal leaning than George was looking for. David has since left the court during the Obama administration and is still alive as of this post.

The other person he put on the court was Clarence Thomas, only the second black justice on the court who was replacing the first black justice on the court. His was a contentious fight and left him with 48 negative votes, the most negative votes ever, a record later tied by the newest justice on the court. Clarence is now the longest serving of all of the justices still on the court.

There were some controversies with his time as president and elsewhere in life. The way I see it, there were three main issues that had happened with him over the course of his time on this planet. One of them was that he nominated a man to the Supreme Court who was accused of sexual harassment. That person still got through onto the court, but it might have been a bad precedent to set.

When he was a lame duck, he pardoned people relating to the Iran-Contra Affair and thus became investigated for it himself. He was also accused of sexual harassment himself later in life, although this might have been due to misunderstandings, old man problems, or him simply wanting to put his arms around someone, but forgetting that you can’t do that when you are in a wheelchair due to their lack of reach to places arms normally could reach.

Still, I would say that George was a pretty good person and a good leader too. He might have been the most recent Republican president to be a good president when he was in office. I do not think that he had many failures, other than what I just mentioned about. I will miss him and hope that he rests in peace. I leave you with this quote from him that people need to keep in mind today if they want to be regarded well in this world.

“I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.”

(Information gathered from Wikipedia and The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents by William A. Degregorio.)

Episode from 12-9-2018

Something that was airing against this show was The Alec Baldwin show. I might have cared about it if it didn’t air against this show. But it did. Now it will be burning off the last of its episodes on Saturdays in the future since it didn’t get good enough ratings. At least it ends better than the last time he had a talk show. But it didn’t end as well as it could have. It wouldn’t be ending this soon into its first season if it was ending well. I wonder if I'll be able to see any of it before it ends. I won't be too upset if I don't.

I have the feeling that I might be talking a lot about Wisconsin in the future in this blog. With all of the crazy shit that has been going on there lately, I’m glad that I don’t live there. And I live in Illinois, so what does that say about me? You’d think that things would be going well since Republican’t Scott Walker, who was the incumbent governor since 2011, lost reelection to Democrat Tony Evers. In fact, it might have been seen as good revenge since Tony was part of education and Scott was against it.

If you’re against education

Perhaps lacking the right vocation

When you face the vote

You will not gloat

Cause your loss was a humiliation

Still, with Scott still in office until January 7^th, the lame ducks are proving to be quite vengeful, and this is despite the fact that Republican’ts will still control the general assembly after the new term starts. As soon as they learn that the governor of the state won’t be one of them, they decide that they do need checks and balances instead of someone like Scott who kept a firm choke hold on how things ran in their state. And what better way to do that then by working on what appears to be the ultimate of all of the Republican’t powers: gerrymandering.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/28/1815836/-With-a-Democrat-set-to-be-governor-Wisconsin-GOP-could-strip-his-power-to-veto-their-gerrymanders?detail=emaildkre

Often, when people do terrible things in the middle of the night, they are committing crimes. In the case of politicians from Wisconsin, they are working to get rid of the governor’s powers since they will have someone of the other party in charge. I remember being a college student and working on projects at late times during the night. A lot of college students do this. But you’d think that politicians would know better than to continue to rush through terrible legislation so quickly.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/5/1817184/-Wisconsin-Republicans-stay-up-all-night-to-pass-bills-stripping-newly-elected-Democrats-of-powers?detail=emaildkre

It turns out that people in Michigan are also doing terrible things as well. You can learn bad things from your neighbors, it seems. But it doesn’t seem like the Republicans care that they will still be in control of the state of Wisconsin. Sure, they won’t have a governor of their party anymore, but you can block any bit of progress that Tony tries to make like they did with Obama nationally. It just doesn’t seem like they were patient into waiting for this until Tony took office. Well, all I can say is that I hope that you read these links and remember the shit that happened in Wisconsin. Hopefully, people from both sides can learn not to do this sort of thing in the future.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/4/1817116/-The-very-latest-on-the-GOP-s-war-on-democracy-and-voters-in-Wisconsin-and-Michigan?detail=emaildkre

Switching things up for a bit, I realize that I might need to do a top ten video game bosses that describe Trump in the future if I can think of enough. Another one that works is Mr. Patch from Banjo Tooie. Like Trump, he is full of himself, way bigger than he should be, takes a lot to bring down, and is the star of the huge circus of the world in question that he’s a part of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJGgIvoZsw

Movie update: Now getting to the last of the movie updates from this year, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was finally finished being watched and is now The Muppets Take Manhattan. The last update of the year is that The Little Mermaid is now Lilo and Stitch. Due to Christmas taking place this month, I will be watching those movies instead of normal ones. Now there might be some more of the regular watching that I’ll do later, but I’ll only do it if I finish watching all of the Christmas things first.

Before I get to what is on before primetime, I might as well talk about the character on this show called Cat. She was introduced partway into the last season and hasn’t been featured as much as she could be. Why is she so underdeveloped? They need to do more with her character. She often isn’t on the show, which seems dumb in some ways.

When I check what is on before primetime, I see that neither of my CBS affiliates are showing football. FOX is showing an Eagles versus Cowboys game. It was a tie when I first checked it. Aw, snap! They are rival teams, if I’m remembering correctly. That’s what I remember from an episode of The Goldbergs. I haven’t seen as much as that as I would like. Since I’d root for the Eagles over the Cowboys, the Eagles wind up losing after the other team gets a touchdown.

I decide to watch the on time 60 Minutes during the meantime. I don’t check the score for a while. I do like the segment on screen addiction. It is a good thing to see after a movie earlier in the day and while I write on my laptop while watching the show with no plan to turn my laptop off until after midnight. And you have to love how social media keeps people alone in their house, connecting with each other from their private residence instead of in real life.

Checking the score again, the game is tied again and they are in overtime. Wasn’t there already a tied game in the NFL this season? I don’t know why it would be. I’d have to check place to know for sure. I hope that I find out what happens next. I’m pretty sure that the score showed the Cowboys winning in the end by three points. Checking the score later proves this as right.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with two different people being taught some sort of lesson when they both leave to exchange something that the Russian teacher doesn’t seem to like. What does the Albanian teacher think? I guess that we will see later. Jay gives a speech that Blake is present for and learns that a person is withdrawing from an agreement. Can this not be the plot of so many episodes of this show? Catalonia wants to break for independence. Elizabeth is not okay with this. Henry wants to fuck his wife, but things keep distracting them. There is a Christmas tree set up, but we will see if this relates to Christmas at all

Someone named Gordon shows up and is confused in some sort of way. I can’t tell how just yet. He is the Secretary of Defense. What? I’m confused. A random woman greets Jay and talks to him about some different things. Elizabeth is upset over an article popping up over the independence in some way. It would seem that Spain alone is against Catalonia’s independence. Is it just me, or is the plot all over the place? Another news story pops up in some way that causes more issues that I can’t currently make any sense of right now. I hope that you didn’t come here looking for a good explanation on what you didn’t understand of the episode as I don’t understand it myself.

In segment two, Russell comes in with a rant as usual. Does his character have an appearance where he doesn’t do this? He is upset over what Elizabeth has done. He upsets his assistant and there are far too many clichés in this episode. People seek out the delegates. Henry then talks to Gordon about what had happened last night. Gordon blames taking too much medication on the problem.

Blake gets confused by the tea. Why is this in the episode? This show confuses me at times. Well, nearly all of the time. Elizabeth tells Blake about what he should do next. Jay then comes back and talks about the issues that NATO has been having over the fake news story. She talks to a person about what had happened and how they can move forward now. Jay learns about how serious the issue is due to all of the stories that are circulating.

In segment three, Elizabeth’s team talks about how to best address the issue at hand. Russia is thought to be the country behind the fake news story, but Elizabeth has to make sure that they have proof before they make accusations since it could be someone else. Gordon brings up Stevie when he talks to Henry. This seems creepy. A CEO named Scott might be able to help the situation be solved.

Blake then gets something approved, but needs something else approved. Jay has issues due to fishing problems with some sort of country. Jay finds Scott dressed up as Santa. They talk over the website in question that he doesn’t want to be liable for. Scott created the website that was spreading the fake news. Only he wasn’t responsible for it, it seems. How does this relate to the kids from earlier? Does it? The servers seem to explode and start fires. They had been uploaded before being destroyed.

In segment four, Elizabeth talks to someone over Skype for the umpteenth time. There was a troll farm that was going on. I guess that I will have to see later for sure if it is a real time. The man that she talks to thinks that she just wants to blame people for what’s going on. While there aren’t a lot of issues with Democrats, one of them is that they often don’t accept responsibility for their own losses and they do just blame anything and anyone else that they can.

Blake goes crazy by rearranging the dishes in the office. I don’t quite understand it. Blake then talks to a group of people over issues that are going on. But this gets him what he wants. I did not understand that at all. Henry talks about the issues with Gordon and how he might want to use potential medicine that Stevie had used to get rid of issues. Elizabeth wonders what international issues were resolved without any conflict. The Cold War comes to mind. I think that I forgot to write about something.

In segment five, Henry talks to Gordon again with Stevie and someone else in the room. Maybe there was another guy besides Gordon who had issues with Stevie. Reese was the doctor who was doing some bad issues and medicating things that he shouldn’t have. Elizabeth talks about land and violence that had disagreements of some sort. She talks about how the Russian government was responsible and she talks to the two countries with the issue over what is going on.

We then see the students from earlier united together. They seek to plant things and work together. There are no scenes from next time so I guess that we are done with episodes for the rest of this year. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.