16 October 2025 Friday 10:30 a.m. The Office…

I’m a happy old Dude. I’m down and out. My Blog got flagged by WordPress for Malicious content. Big Frigging Deal! What dough I got saved is rolled up in a coffee can. I don’t need no money! At 72 I’m not sure I can fight my way out of a grade school gang ambush. I’m packing a weapon just in case. My boat leaks. It leaks and leaks and leaks. I love leaks!

One thing’s bugging me.

I got a verse from a old song that keeps playing over and over in my head…

“So, take a letter, Maria, address it to my wife
Say I won’t be coming home, gotta start a new life
Oh, take a letter, Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life…”

….over and over and over and over it plays…in my head it plays…I come awake in my V-berth screaming take a letter, Maria! For the love of God, Maria, take a letter!…I got no future….That’s okay! I’m a happy Old Dude! I don’t need no friggin future! Take a letter, Maria…

It’s the song that’s bugging me. The song keeps playing in my head. I can’t get rid of it…

But I’m not down and out !

I forgot. That’s right. I forgot. I’m not down and out. I remember now from my last blog post. I’m not down and out. I’m down and in! That’s right. I’m down and in here in good old Sausalito!

plenty of caribou meat to go around!

I’m singing, take a letter, maria…in my head I’m singing it. Can’t get it out of there!

tell her I won’t be coming home…gotta start a new life!

No, no, we’re all doing fine in good old Sausalito. We’re not down and out. We’re down and in. Even my ex girlfriend Sharon is doing fine, living in her car with her dog…

Well, maybe we’re not doing fine fine as in totally fine. But we’re doing just fine. We got roofs over our heads. Plenty to eat. Still getting around on two legs. Four legs in the case of Sharon’s dog.

It’s our Government that’s down and down and down and out…

That’s right, friends. Thanks to Donald Trump, the legally elected Commander In Chief, our government is going to Hell in a Handbasket.

There’s no keeping up with his crimes!

Except one organization does:

Executive Watch divided presidential abuses of power into five categories: the 5 Ps.

• Personal Grift
• Political Corruption
• Presidential Retribution
• Power Consolidation
• Policy Illegality

• 9/29/25: Google Delivers $22 Million to Trump to Settle His Frivolous Lawsuit—Just Like Other Major Companies Afraid that He’ll Otherwise Use His Office to Retaliate Against Them
• 9/20/25: The Trump Justice Department Shuts Down the FBI Case Investigating Border Czar Tom Homan for Accepting Cash Bribes
• 9/15/25: Trump’s Spectacularly Corrupt Crypto-for-Chips Deal With the U.A.E. Will Compromise National Security But Enrich Him
• 8/6/25: JD Vance Has Army Corps of Engineers Change the Flow of a River to Ensure He Has Ideal Kayaking Conditions for his 41st Birthday Celebration
• 5/27/25: Trump Sells a Pardon to a Rich Crook Who Paid a Million Bucks to Have Dinner With Him
• 5/11/25: Trump Plans to Ditch the American-Made Air Force One and Accept a $400 Million Flying Palace from the Emir of Qatar as a Bribe
• 5/5/25: Trump’s Son Opens a Private Club for Businesses to Pay for Access to his Dad
• 5/2/25: Businesses Pouring Billions Into Trump’s Memecoin Venture to Buy Influence Is the Very Definition of Graft
• 4/24/25: Trump Is Selling His Crypto Meme Coin to Anonymous Donors in a Pay-to-Play Scheme
• 4/11/25: Crooked Crypto Exchange Invests in a Trump Venture In Exchange for Having a Federal Money-Laundering Investigation Dropped
• 3/13/25: A Chinese Scammer Is Seeking a Pardon from Trump in Exchange of Investing in His Crypto Fund
• 3/11/25: Trump Uses the White House to Make a Sales Pitch for Tesla in Exchange for Campaign Cash from Musk
• 3/4/25: Trump Charges Business Leaders $5 Million to Dine with him and Potentially Pockets the Funds
• 3/2/25: Trump Uses Sovereign Crypto Fund as a Payout to Political Insiders
• 2/27/25: Cryptocurrency Scammer Pours Millions in Trump’s Venture and Gets Charges Dropped
• 2/25/25: Musk Lands a Lucrative FAA Contract While Saying He’s Stopping Government Abuse
• 2/19/25: Musk Uses His Political Power to Force Companies to Advertise on X

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• 9/24/25: After Imposing Harsh Tariffs on Brazil for Trying His Populist Ally for an Insurrection, Trump Is Pledging $20 Billion of American Taxpayer Money to Bailout His Libertarian Pal in Argentina
• 9/17/25: DOJ Disappears a Study From its Site Showing that Right-Wing Violence Is Five Times Greater than Left-Wing Violence
• 8/1/25: Trump Fires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Publishing a Report He Found Insufficiently Optimistic About the Impact of His Tariff Policies
• 7/9/25: Trump Imposes Tariffs on Brazil to Prevent His Strongman Buddy Bolsonaro from Being Prosecuted for an Attempted Coup
• 4/17/25: Treasury Official Ask IRS to Rethink Audits of the Pillow Guy and Trump’s Other ‘High Profile Friends’
• 3/28/25: The White House Fires a Federal Prosecutor Who Criticized Trump and Was Prosecuting a Trump-Supporting, Tax-Defrauding CEO
• 3/20/25: Trump Announces Shakedown Deal with Big Law Firm
• 2/17/25: Trump Abuses His Foreign Policy Powers as a Favor to ‘Manosphere’ Influencer Andrew Tate
• 2/11/25: Trump’s Pardon-for-Deportation Crackdown Deal with NYC Mayor Eric Adams
• 2/10/25: Surprise! The Most Ethically Challenged Administration Guts the Government Ethics Agency
• 2/10/25: Trump Gives the Green Light to American Companies to Engage in Corruption Abroad

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• 9/25/25: Trump’s DOJ Demands Its Attorneys Come Up With Charges It Can File Against Soros, a Longtime Bogeyman of the Right
• 9/24/25: Trump Fires U.S. Attorney for Refusing to Prosecute Trump’s Enemies and Replaces Him With a Former Personal Lawyer With No Experience or Scruples
• 9/19/25: Trump Fires U.S. Attorney for Adhering to Proper Evidentiary Standards and Refusing to Persecute the President’s Political Enemies
• 9/13/25: Trump’s Federal Housing Finance Chief Abused His Office to Dig Up False Accusations Against Fed Governor to Fire Her
• 9/11/25: Trump Uses Charlie Kirk’s Assassination to Threaten a Crackdown on His Political Opponents
• 8/26/25: Did the FBI Alert a Pro-Trump Media Organ of its Raid on John Bolton to Send a Message to Trump’s Critics?
• 8/9/25: Trump’s Commerce Department Threatens to Seize Harvard’s Patents that it Claims the University Derived from Federally Funded Research
• 8/2/25: Trump’s Allies in Congress Push For an Investigation Into Former Special Counsel Jack Smith to Help the President Carry Out His Retribution Agenda
• 7/20/25: Trump’s Illicit Threat to Jail Obama Is Meant to Rally His Supporters Around Bogus Prosecutions of Political Opponents
• 7/15/25: Trump Digs Into Schiff’s Financial Records and Threatens to Prosecute the Senator on Dubious Grounds as Payback for Impeachment
• 7/9/25: Trump’s Retribution Agenda Gets Underway With Criminal Referrals Against Officials Who Investigated Him
• 7/1/25: Trump Threatens to Arrest, Denaturalize, and Deport New York’s Democratic Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
• 6/7/25: In a Classic Authoritarian Move, Trump Threatens to Crush Musk if the Tech Tycoon Funds Democrats Now
• 6/4/25: Trump Threatens to Scrap Columbia’s Accreditation After the University Capitulated to His Previous Demands to Fight Campus Antisemitism
• 6/4/25: Trump Issues Executive Order to Invalidate Biden’s Pardons and Other Policies Based on Conspiracy Theories Even as He Sells Pardons to Corrupt Politicians and Tycoons
• 5/27/25: The Administration Suspends Visa Interviews of Foreign Students Pending Vetting Rules of Their Social Media Posts to Ensure Ideological Conformity
• 4/18/25: Trump Administration’s Campaign of Retribution Threatens Scientific Journals Not on Board with MAGA Science
• 4/16/25: Trump Threatens to Nix Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status if it Fails to Embrace His Ideological Agenda
• 4/15/25: Trump’s Counterterrorism Czar Wants to Prosecute Critics of Mass Deportation for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Terrorists
• 4/14/25: Trump Wants the FCC to Revoke CBS’ Broadcast License for Running Stories Critical of Him
• 4/11/25: Trump Orders Harvard to Implement Viewpoint Diversity or Else!
• 4/9/25: Trump’s Executive Orders Target His Own Former Aides for Challenging His ‘Stolen Election’ Conspiracy Theories
• 3/25/25: Trump Targets Another Law Firm Offering Services to His Opponents, Eviscerating the Principle of Effective Representation for All
• 3/24/25: Trump Toady Briefly Canceled a Program Handing Social Security Numbers to Newborns in a Hospital to Spite Maine’s Governor
• 3/22/25: A Trump Memo Threatens Any Lawyer Who Dares to Sue His Illegal Executive Actions
• 3/15/25: Trump Announces that Negative Coverage of Him Is Illegal and Threatens Networks
• 3/8/25: Trump Revokes the Green Card of a Pro-Palestinian Campus Activist Without Any Criminal Charges
• 3/6/25: Trump Goes After a Law Firm Just Because it Has Represented Democrats
• 2/25/25: Trump Targets the Law Firm Representing the Special Counsel Who Investigated Him
• 2/21/25: Trump DOJ Threatens Opposition Lawmakers for their Speech

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• 9/30/25: Speaking to a Room Full of Generals, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump Declares War on Major American Cities Run by Democrats
• 9/20/25: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Threatens to Revoke the Press Passes of Pentagon Reporters Who Don’t Obtain Approval Before Publishing Any Story About the Agency
• 9/18/25: The Trump Department of Defense Is Firing Non-Loyalists and Recruiting Loyalists to Create a MAGAfied Military
• 9/17/25: FCC Chief Carr Engages in State Cancellation by Getting Jimmy Kimmel Fired on the Threat of Revoking ABC’s License
• 9/15/25: Exploiting Charlie Kirk’s Killing, the Trump Administration Announces It Is Plotting a Broad Crackdown on Organizations Who Criticize the Right Or Fund Those Who Do
• 9/12/25: Pete Hegseth Polices the U.S. Military to Ensure Political Loyalty to … Charlie Kirk!
• 9/9/25: Surprise! The ‘Bias Monitor’ Who Trump Imposed on CBS Turns Out to Be a Trump Crony
• 8/31/25: Trump’s Executive Order to Change Voting Rules Is Unconstitutional and Meant to Discredit His Potential Midterm Loss
• 8/26/25: The Trump Administration Wants to Follow Communist China and Give Government Part Ownership of Defense Companies
• 8/23/25: Trump Is Planning an Illegal Military Occupation of Chicago, the Illinois Governor Pritzker Warns
• 8/22/25: Trump Borrows a Page From China’s Communist Rulers and Misuses Congressional Appropriations to Give Uncle Sam a Stake in Intel at Below Market Rate
• 8/20/25: Federal Housing Chief Abuses His Office to Dig Up Dirt on a Federal Reserve Governor Refusing to Obey Trump to Justify Firing Her
• 8/12/25: Trump Tells Goldman Sachs to Fire its Economist for Showing that Trump’s Tariffs Were Exacerbating Inflation
• 8/11/25: Trump Uses a Former DOGE Staffer’s Assault in Washington, D.C. as a Pretext to Militarily Commandeer the American Capital
• 8/7/25: Trump Wants to Tilt Congress His Way with Unconstitutional Do-Over of the Census
• 7/24/25: The Trump Administration Forces Columbia University to Pay it $200 Million and Accept its Ideological Oversight in Order to Resume Conducting Scientific Research
• 7/18/25: Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal for Daring to Report on His Lewd Birthday Card to Jeffrey Epstein
• 7/17/25: CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert Ahead of its Parent Company’s Takeover by a Trump-Friendly Owner
• 7/15/25: Secret Police and Secret Courts: The Trump Administration Withholds Names of Immigration Prosecutors, Taking a Great Leap Forward Toward a Police State
• 7/15/25: The Administration’s War on Civil Service Protections Is Continuing Unabated in a Bid to Stack Executive Agencies with Trump Puppets
• 7/4/25: Paramount Shamelessly Signs Up to Toe the Administration’s Line, Capitulating to Trump’s Corrupt Shakedown
• 7/1/25: Trump Signs Off on Military Troops Acting as the Judge, Jury, and Deportation Squad to Eject Immigrants
• 6/26/25: Trump Forces the President of State-Funded UVA to Resign for Embracing Campus Policies that Rankle MAGA
• 6/24/25: Trump’s DOJ Sues the Entire Maryland Federal Bench After its Judges Stopped His Lawless Deportations
• 6/24/25: Trump’s Personal Lawyer in the DOJ Now Up for Judgeship Actively Plotted to Disobey and Defy Court Orders Barring Lawless Deportations
• 6/22/25: Trump Deliberately Keeps Congressional Democrats in the Dark Before Military Strikes on Iran
• 6/18/25: Trump Has Seated Uncle Sam on U.S. Steel’s Board and Handed Him Veto Powers Over Private Business Decisions
• 6/12/25: Trump Abuses FTC’s Powers to Force Advertisers to Support Right-Wing Media Against Their Own Conscience
• 6/11/25: Trump Trashes America’s Bedrock Commitment to an Apolitical Military and Demands Only MAGA-Supporting Troops at His Speech
• 6/9/25: Trump Prevents Congressmen from Performing Their Oversight Function by Denying them Access to ICE Detention Centers
• 5/26/25: Trump’s Pardon Czar Hands a ‘MAGA Pardon’ to a Corrupt Sheriff Convicted for Bribery
• 5/21/25: The FTC Obliges Musk and Targets a Democrat-Aligned Group Flagging Racist Content on X
• 5/17/25: Trump Threatens ABC With an FCC Investigation for Reporting that He Solicited the Qatari Palace in the Sky as a Plane Bribe
• 5/12/25: Trump Tries to Take Over the Library of Congress Without Congressional Authorization and Put His Lackeys In Charge
• 5/9/25: ICE Agents Arrest Newark Mayor for Protesting Deportations Outside the Detention Prison in an Attempt to Intimidate Local Officials
• 4/25/25: Trump Guts the Hatch Act’s Prohibition on Government Employees Campaigning for MAGA on Official Time
• 4/25/25: Trump FBI Arrests a State Judge for Allegedly Defying the Immigration Police State
• 4/24/25: In a Classic Move From the Authoritarian Playbook, Trump Orders a Politically Motivated Investigation of a Democratic Fundraising Platform
• 4/19/25: Trump’s FCC Head Threatens to Revoke Comcast’s Licenses Over Unfavorable Coverage of Abrego Garcia’s Deportation to Salvadoran Gulag
• 4/16/25: Trump Alters His ‘Deal’ with Big Law and Wants to Extort Legal Services for Himself and His Allies
• 3/30/25: Trump Is Stacking the Press Pool With Loyalists and Crushing the Independence of the White House Press Corps
• 3/25/25: Trump’s Unconstitutional Executive Order Tries to Usurp State Control Over Election Law
• 3/17/25: The Trump Administration Forcibly Enters and Seizes Congressionally Funded Non-Profit
• 2/21/25: Trump Tells DHS to Spend Millions on Political Ads Thanking Him for Closing the Border
• 2/18/25: Trump Guts the Independence of Key Federal Agencies, Paving the Way to their Politicization
• 2/17/25: King Trump to America: I Am Beyond the Law
• 1/27/25: Trump Fires Watchdogs Who Track Public Corruption While Claiming He’s Fighting ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’
• 1/17/25: Trump Uses the Threat of FCC Action to Intimidate and Shake Down CBS
• 1/16/25: Trump Aide Dictated Terms of Facebook Overhaul
• 1/15/25: Trump Browbeats Congressional Republicans to Appoint Loyalists on Committee Assignments

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• 9/22/25: Trump’s 100K Fee Hike for High-Tech H-1B Visas Is Illegal, Unconstitutional, and Corrupt
• 9/17/25: There Is No Legal Category of a Domestic Terrorist Group But That Is Not Stopping Trump From Putting Imaginary Groups In It
• 9/16/25: South Korea Accuses the Trump Administration of Abusing the Human Rights of its Workers Detained by ICE
• 9/16/25: Attorney General Pam Bondi Threatens to Go After Critics by Deploying Non-Existent ‘Hate Speech’ Laws
• 9/3/25: The Anti-War President Blows Up 11 People in the Caribbean in Violation of International Law and Without Congressional Authorization
• 8/25/25: Trump’s Edict Banning Flag Burning Is Performative and Illegal But that Doesn’t Mean it Can’t be Used to Harass Americans
• 8/11/25: Trump’s Unconstitutional Demand to Chipmakers to Fork Over Profits to Uncle Sam in Exchange for an Export License
• 7/29/25: The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Immigrant Detainment Facility Set Up by Trump and DeSantis Is Operating Like a Black Site Free From Any Oversight or Accountability
• 7/28/25: Trump’s DOJ Went From Targeting Universities With Ideologically-Driven Investigations to Now Also Targeting Professors Who Support Their Universities’ Diversity Efforts
• 7/27/25: Immigrants Condemned by Trump to a ‘Hell on Earth’ Prison in El Salvador Describe the Torture Inflicted On Them There
• 7/25/25: The Trump Administration Has Directed FEMA to Use Half a Billion Dollars to Build Concentration Camps for Immigrants Across the United States
• 7/10/25: Whistleblower Details How Trump’s DOJ Tried to Fraudulently Frame Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Gang Member
• 7/3/25: Trump Is Failing to Enforce Congress’s Ban on TikTok, Claiming King-Like Powers to Suspend Laws He Does Not Like
• 7/1/25: The Department of Education Illegally Withholds Congressionally Allocated Funds to Humor Trump—Again
• 6/19/25: Donald Trump Once Again Violates the Law Banning TikTok for His Own Political Benefit
• 6/19/25: ICE Illegally Refuses to Allow Congressional Oversight of its Detention Centers
• 6/10/25: The Administration Unconstitutionally Tries to Usurp Congress’ Power of Purse by Illegally Freezing Mandated Federal Spending
• 6/10/25: Trump Uses the Vast Authority Granted to Him by the Supreme Court to Once Again Issue a Travel Ban and Abuse His Immigration Powers
• 6/9/25: Donald Trump Commandeers the California National Guard to Suppress Protests Against ICE Deportation Raids
• 5/12/25: Trump’s Authoritarianism Comes for the Free Market and Imposes Price Controls on Pharmaceuticals
• 5/9/25: Stephen Miller Peddles Dangerous Falsehoods that the Executive Has Sweeping Authority to Suspend Habeas Corpus and Defy Courts on Immigration
• 4/26/25: Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Comes After American Children
• 4/23/25: Trump Wants to Send Undocumented Aliens to the Salvadoran Gulag Without a Hearing
• 4/21/25: Trump’s Unlawful Campaign to Revoke Visas of International Students for Minor Offenses Is Designed to Spread Fear
• 4/14/25: Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens to El Salvador’s Gulag
• 4/13/25: The Trump Administration Is Openly Defying the Supreme Court’s Order to Bring Home Abrego Garcia After Erroneously Deporting Him to a Salvadoran Gulag
• 4/10/25: Trump Abuses ‘Emergency’ Power to Set Tariffs by Autocratic Whim
• 3/24/25: Trump Defies Congress and Eliminates a Website Requiring him to Show that he Was Spending Appropriations as Intended
• 3/20/25: Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens who Protest to the Salvadoran Gulag
• 3/17/25: The Trump Administration Defies Judge Demanding Basic Details about Those it Is Deporting
• 3/15/25: Trump Asserts Illegal Wartime Powers to Deport Immigrants in Defiance of the Court
• 3/14/25: Justice Department Wants to Barge Into Homes of Alleged Immigrant Gang Members Without a Warrant
• 3/5/25: Musk Usurps the Power of the Purse from Congress but Republicans Can Apply for Relief from Funding Cuts
• 2/21/25: Trump Punishes AP for Exercising Its Free Speech Rights
• 2/20/25: Trump Attempts an Illegal and Unconstitutional Takeover of the U.S. Postal Service
• 2/18/25: Trump DOJ Seeks to Claw Back EPA Funding by Launching a Bogus Criminal Investigation
• 2/17/25: Trump’s Anti-DEI Inquisition Targets Georgetown, a Private University
• 2/12/25: The Trump Administration Illegally Seizes New York City Funds
• 1/28/25: Trump Withholds Congressionally Mandated Spending in Defiance of the Constitution
• 1/20/25: Trump Defies the Law to Keep TikTok Alive

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Down and down and down and down and down and out!

Don’t try to read all of it here…..

I know, It’s just too damned much. Just go on with your lives as if nothing’s happening. Because for the time being there’s nothing we can do about it. Frankly, I’m sick of thinking about it.

Other wise, I’m doing fine.

Me and my pals here in good old Sausalito.

We’re doing okay!

One day at a time…

Now if I can just get rid of this

God Damn ear worm!