Today is Monday, July 17, 2023. In a victory for democracy, the Georgia Supreme Court today dismissed a long-shot legal bid from former president Donald Dumpf to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. This glorious news is reported in an online CNN article by Marshall Cohen entitled “Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Trump bid to shut down Fulton County probe.”

In a surprisingly unanimous decision, the nine members of the Georgia Supreme Court rendered its decision against the bloviator Dumpf, saying that the disgraced former commander in “grief” hadn’t demonstrated the “extraordinary circumstances” that would require their intervention at this time. They wrote, “(Trump) has not shown that this case presents one of those extremely rare circumstances in which this Court’s original jurisdiction should be invoked, and therefore, the petition is dismissed.” In essence, the justices said, “fuck off” to Dumpf and his legal team.

Now that one egregious possible roadblock into the investigation has been cleared by the Court’s unanimous decision, the probe can continue apace and charging decisions are expected soon in the probe, which is led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Dumpf’s legal challenges also sought a court order to block Willis from proceeding with her lawful investigation of his criminal activity in her state, which got a thumbs down from the Georgia Supreme Court as well. Therefore, Willis can now continue her investigation without worry that the soon-to-be defendant in a potential criminal proceeding can block her from pursuing justice in such a case.

The inquiry crossed a major milestone last week, with the swearing-in of a new grand jury that has the power to approve potential indictments. Willis has indicated that this could happen as soon as next month. A special-purpose grand jury in Fulton County previously heard from 75 witnesses, including Trump White House officials, former Dumpf lawyers and advisers, and election experts.

State prosecutors are also scrutinizing Dumpf’s attempts to subvert the Electoral College with a slate of “fake electors” in Georgia, as well as efforts by some Dumpf allies to breach voting systems in the state while they fruitlessly tried to prove there was massive fraud.

In a lighter vein, we have the continuing saga of screwball Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene continually making an ass of herself whenever she opens her fucking mouth, and she did not disappoint at a stupid right-wing Turning Point USA Conference in “Death”Santis’s state on Sunday when she attempted to criticize President Joe Biden and failed miserably.

An online article for AfterNet reports on the misfired attempt to cast Biden in a bad light by the moronic Greene by Maya Boddie entitled “‘Can she even spell socialism?’ MTG mocked after attack on Biden backfires.”

In her supposedly critical speech, Greene spent much of the time comparing Biden to former President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), which in itself is certainly not a bad thing at all.

She began her spiel, saying, “Lyndon B. Johnson is very similar to Joe Biden. How are they the same? They’re both Democrat socialists. Lyndon B. Johnson was the majority leader in the Senate. Does that sound familiar?”

For beginners, Biden was never the Senate majority leader, as Greene incorrectly indicated in her ridiculous speech and neither he nor LBJ self-identified as Democratic socialists. This is a figment of Greene’s imagination.

When Greene pivoted to listing LBJ’s massive social programs, she didn’t fucking realize that LBJ had the full support of most Americans in his Great Society program that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and welfare, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and big labor and labor unions. How in Greene’s peanut brain is this considered bad?

The clueless representative then heaped praise on Biden as she mentioned he has the Build Back Better initiative, “and he is still working on it.” She then cluelessly added more good news about Biden’s bold initiatives, saying that Biden has “the largest public investment and social infrastructure environmental programs that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete.” She called these programs “socialism,” a word that Republicans do not know the definition of, let alone know how to spell, as a critic of this blonde bimbo pointed out.

She also incorrectly called out a 40-year-old record inflation rate, which economists recently reported has dropped even more than expected, to the lowest level since March of 2021 in which The New York Times mentioned on July 12, only five days ago. A worrying fact for the horrible governor of the state where Greene praised Biden inadvertently is that inflation is dropping at slower rates there. I also have heard that people are leaving the state in droves.

Soon after her speech dropped, several journalists and educators mocked mercilessly the Jewish Space Laser Representative’s accidental acclamation of Biden’s agenda.

One of those critics, ex-American Physiological Society Executive Director Martin Frank replied, “I don’t see a problem with Biden seeking to complete the work of FDR and LBJ. I guess the GOP’s program involves screwing all those groups in order to benefit the rich.”

Jonathan Chait, writer at New York Magazine, teased, “The one thing that FDR and LBJ could never dream of? A secret space laser operated by the Rothschilds.”

CUNY Adjunct Assistant Professor Dr. Joseph Frusci asked, “Can she even spell socialism?” Most assuredly not!

Senior Adviser at Everytown, Dr. Annie Andrews, said, “So he is, in the great tradition of democratic presidents, helping people? Oh, the horror.”

Therefore, there you have it! Another ridiculous attempt by Greene to cast aspersions at Joe Biden that monumentally backfired. When will she ever be sent back to Georgia?

Today I had a rather nice day driving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, without Elliot who preferred to stay indoors because of the heat, to try to sell some of my books to a bookstore on North 3rd Street called Thug Book Nation. I filled a shopping bag with 11 books that I had no intention of ever reading. As my Scottsdale cousin has pointed out, if I intend to buy more books, that means I should give back an equal number either to a library or sell them to a bookstore.

This Saturday, Elliot and I hope to drive to Southport, Connecticut, to attend the annual Pequot Library book sale that begins on Friday, July 21. We missed the sale last year since we were in Europe at the time. This is considered one of the largest book sales in New England, which draws book lovers from near and far with a selection of over 100,000 items in over 50 categories. The five-day sale is held in large tents on the Great Lawn and parking lot and in the Auditorium and Reading Room of the library.

I also decided to walk into the Apple store on Bedford Avenue since my phone, an iPhone 14 Pro, suddenly changes to a black screen without warning. I did go to Verizon first on Austin Street earlier this morning after breakfast, but I was told I had a 20- to 25-minute wait, so I walked promptly out of the store. I had no intention of waiting there.

When I walked into the store, I was told I had to wait about two hours to be seen by a specialist. I gave the red-haired representative my cell phone number and walked out to find the bookstore, where I succeeded in selling six books for $1 each. The woman behind the desk left about six books in the bag, saying she was not interested in them. She gave me $5 for the books, absent $1 for a book I took from the outside cart, Beautiful Little Fools, by Jillian Cantor, which is a reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby. I took it out of the library once, I started it but never finished it. So the temptation to pay only a dollar for it was too great.

I then walked back to Bedford Avenue and had lunch at Juliette, a favorite eatery of ours. In the middle of lunch, I was surprised by the Apple store messaging me that I should be ready to be seen by a specialist in a little while. It was less than 2 hours! So I asked the waiter to give me a doggie bag for my uneaten croque monsieur and I paid my bill.

I ran back to the Apple store and was met by another young representative who told me to wait by a rear table for a specialist. Before I was seen by a specialist, I noted an associate conducting a seminar on some drawing application for children and their parents on their smartphones. I waited several minutes with other customers and was eventually seen by a young woman. Basically, she told me the black screen was not really a problem, but she reset the phone anyway and instructed me to call if the phenomenon returned at any given moment. I said thank you and left the always crowded store.

I then walked to a marvelous thrift store on Driggs Avenue called Mother of Junk. I entered the emporium and was immediately struck by how warm it was inside. I said to myself that I was not going to linger here. I spent more time than I expected; I browsed the large vinyl section of $2.99 records and selected – don’t laugh! – a two-record Doris Day set called “Hooray for Hollywood.” So it isn’t Megadeath!

It was time to drive home, as it was about 5:40 p.m. when I left Mother of Junk.

One thing I have to report on in driving to Brooklyn is the horrible traffic both ways. The traffic in New York has definitely gotten worse since the pandemic, and there is no resolution in sight. One good thing is that I found a parking spot without too much ado.

Stay safe and be well.