Okay, it’s all over the Internet machine and by gawd, it’s starting to make sense to me.  I guess that classifies me as a conspiracy theorist.

The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair all have the same story.

The theory making the rounds is that Trump’s latest campaign reshuffle isn’t really about trying to win the election. In bringing in Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, and recruiting Roger Ailes, the disgraced former head of Fox News, as an adviser, Trump is making a business play: he’s laying the groundwork for a new conservative media empire to challenge Fox.

Here’s the deal – when Trump saw he couldn’t win, he went for launching his own news network to the right of FOX. Apparently Hannity, O’Reilly, and other Fox numbskulls will leave Fox to go with Trump News.

The dream of all this is that with Hillary in the White House and a Democratic senate, there will be some angry old white guys who will follow Trump News into the bowels of hell.  Trump can claim he “won” because he’s making money and grinding the country to a halt with Hillary rants 24 hours a day.

I need to go take an aspirin and a nap.

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A group named INDECLINE, inspired by “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Hans Christian Andersen’s story about an overly confident leader without clothing, has done something funny.

They have put up 80 pound life-sized statues of Donald Trump all over America.

The group unveiled life-size statues of Trump in the nude Thursday morning in public spaces in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle.

You can see the front side here.  But, I probably wouldn’t if I was you.

Of course, cities are taking them down.

The artist, who has a full-time job, said he spent up to 25 hours each week working on the statues since they were commissioned in April. Ginger used 300 pounds of clay and silicone to create the statues and said the candidate’s mouth ended up being his biggest sculpting challenge.

He knew they were going to torn down …

“I don’t expect these things to last more than 30 or 45 minutes,” he added. “But I would love to watch some irate 65-year-old Trump supporter try to take the thing down with his bare hands.”

Yeah, that’s my idea of fun, too.

My friend Vickie is on the receiving end of some pretty cool Republican emails, which thankfully she forwards to me for my pure entertainment.

This one is about Pete, the astute vehicle service manager with inside knowledge, or a secret plan he apparently figured out on his own.

This latest one prove they finally caught on to our secret plan which we hatched at the secret meetings at The Secret Club and National Secret Day …

Here’s a very scary thought…

I had to take my vehicle to the mechanic the other day for service. The Service Manager Pete, gave me a ride home and on the way he told me his theory about the upcoming election and the next four years of U.S. government.

At first I thought it a bit far-fetched, but as I listened to him it began to make sense, scary sense…

“I believe that Hillary Clinton will win the election in November,” Pete began. “Then, sometime between November and January, Hillary will be indicted. The IRS is now investigating the Clinton Foundation and the whole e-mail thing isn’t over yet.”

“Once under indictment she won’t be able to assume the Office of the President in January. Tim Kaine, who will not actually be the Vice President because neither he nor Hillary have been inaugurated, cannot assume the Presidency.”

“The Speaker of the House can’t move up to it because there is already a sitting President and Vice President.

So President Obama, in an Executive Order citing “emergency situation,” gives himself another four years in office is the only way possible.”

Pete believes Obama has been planning this for a while now, knowing he has enough on Hillary to indict her. Had the Attorney General indicted her based on evidence from the FBI this plan wouldn’t have worked because the DNC would have quickly come up with another candidate.

If you think about it, it’s not that outrageous. Many people on the left, including the President, want Obama to stay another four years. The law prohibits him from being re-elected so the only ways he can do it is by declaring martial law and suspending the election (which would be a very negative thing for the country) or to declare himself still President because the elected candidate cannot assume her duties.

The latter makes more sense and is actually more feasible. And since it’s never been done before, it would set a precedent that would be difficult to challenge.

Of course, if Trump wins the election none of this is going to happen. But what if Pete is correct? Four more years of Obama and a mostly useless Republican House and Senate would give Obama the time he needs to continue destroying and changing the country to fit his stated goals.

I thanked Pete for the ride home – and for messing up my day. Now I’ve got more things to worry about!

Okay, who told?  I wanna know who told.

Thanks to Vickie for the heads up.

Okay, so here’s a wall-eyed snot nosed hissy fit:

Aetna health insurance company wants to merge with Humana insurance company and have a monopoly over healthcare in America.

Last month the  Justice Department blocked it after an antitrust review, saying the two deals would lead to higher prices.

Aetna says it is not making enough money and wants to merge with Humana to make more money.

Get this.  In April of 2015 —

Aetna beat earnings estimates and recorded $777.5 million of profit in the first quarter of this year, prompting the Hartford, Conn.-based health insurer to raise profit predictions for the rest of the year.

Aetna said it was able to build higher profits into its commercial and Medicare and Medicaid health plans.

And then in April of this year, they were making plenty of profit by their own admission.

Aetna Inc. became the latest health insurer to report losses on 2015 Affordable Care Act business, a dark spot as the company unveiled sharply higher profit for the fourth quarter.

The company said its overall profit leapt 38% in the final quarter of the year, as a key measure of spending on medical costs fell. The strong quarterly results were fueled largely by its government business, which includes Medicare and Medicaid.

So, when the Justice Department said they couldn’t have a monopoly on health insurance, they did what any insanely greedy corporation with “sharply” increasing overall profits:

They damn threatened to pull damn out of the damn Affordable Healthcare coverage, dammit.

They want to leave one million people uninsured because $777 million in profit for three months is not enough money for them.

What the hell?

Here’s a company controlling healthcare in America and they don’t have a damn thing to do with healthcare.  Aetna does not own a stethoscope or an MRI machine.  They do not provide healthcare.  They sit in an office and let someone with an English degree decide if they are going to pay for something a medical doctor says you need.

Screw ‘um.  The one million people they cover in the Affordable Care Act should start reporting to Aetna offices with a hacking cough and open sores.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Okay, here’s the reason why I think the leader of the Republican Party is acting so damn crazy.  He’s trying to keep you from noticing that Mike Pence is crazier than he is.  And that is scary because Trump’s stint in the White House probably won’t be picked up for a second year.

Pence is a creationist and has suggested that creationism be taught in public schools.  Pence claims …

Charles Darwin never thought of evolution as anything other than a theory. He hoped that some day it would be proven by the fossil record but did not live to see that, nor have we.

But no one is pointing out that the textbooks will need to be changed because the old theory of evolution taught for 77 years in the classrooms of America as fact is suddenly replaced by a new theory, or I hasten to add, I am sure we will be told a new fact.

I have a theory, too.  My theory is that creationists are people who did not do well at science in school and want the answer to every question on the science test to be, “You know, God.”

Thanks to Bill for the heads up.