Catching up on my coverage of the Big Wars and Little Men

Barbara Walters died. She definitely knew how to interview crooked people, better than many in the business today. He called the 1990s a depression when the tech revolution had Wall Street and Main Street soaring, the most lucrative decade in the past 52 years.

His last Chief of Staff was pretty crooked too.

His accountant and attorney have been convicted. He claimed on his taxes he lost $52 billion from 2015 - when he announced his run - through 2020, when his term ended. He’s the only president in the past 34 years who has not been audited but kept claiming he withheld release of his tax records because he was being audited. Gee, I wonder how that could happen.

He lied to banks. He lied about charitable donations he never made. He defrauded investors, students, contractors and more, and cheated on all three wives. What he’s been most successful at is money laundering, handing out tax breaks to the top 4% who need them least, filling government posts with crooked cronies, polarizing society and fleecing his supporters.

Walters could see right through him. Just like the majority of Americans always have.

Andrew Tate picked a twitter fight from someone who didn’t even know he existed. She offered a terse reply that went viral. After his arrest in Romania for sex trafficking, she tweeted again:

Quite a few joined in with similar quips. Some of my favorites:

Then there’s this other guy with some money issues. Per Bloomberg:

Elon Musk was the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of more than $200 billion, breaching that threshold in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos.

The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer has now achieved a first of his own: becoming the only person in history to erase $200 billion from their net worth.

Musk, 51, has seen his wealth plummet to $137 billion after Tesla shares tumbled in recent weeks, including an 11% drop on Tuesday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His fortune peaked at $340 billion on Nov. 4, 2021, and he remained the world’s richest person until he was overtaken this month by Bernard Arnault, the French tycoon behind luxury-goods powerhouse LVMH.

The round-number milestone reflects just how high Musk soared during the run-up in asset prices during the easy-money pandemic era. Tesla exceeded a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time in October 2021, joining the likes of ubiquitous technology companies Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., even though its electric vehicles represented only a sliver of the overall auto market.

Tesla shares fell 65% last year. He blames the Federal Reserve. And Leftists. The other billionaire mostly blames the press for losing more billions than he ever possessed. And Leftists. Who knew billionaires could be so bad at business? Or that Leftists could control them?

Interesting background on Dr. Fauci as he worked on the AIDS epidemic as both a bedside clinician and scientist. It seems he works well under fire.

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And now I gotta catch up on our annual exercise, the War on Christmas. I mean someone HAS to stop Mariah Carey,,,