Sioux Falls going about life as if Trump never became president

Sioux Falls, SD -- The city will be getting over the last few weeks of snow and will be blooming and spring like soon enough:

Bob and Madge Johnson were at the supermarket Friday as Bob had knocked off a little early at the funeral home. There is a burial Saturday and he will be showered and ready for that, with his suit and earmuffs to stand by the grave waiting for the hearse and the client. Madge usually sleeps in but will join him for lunch. A few new customers will come by to select a casket in the afternoon. There are some issues with Madge getting good health insurance, but what the heck, it was the same under Bush and Obama. You have to buy insurance but eventually you die. They get a good deal on grave plots. The lowest price coffins will be free for them.

Eric and Ginny McCarthy will be busy with sports on TV and are here just for beer and chips. But Ginny talked him into a veggie tray as well. Eric is 42 and will not be dealing with any Trump issues this year. He teaches auto shop at the community college.

February 29th to be Trump Day

Planning for his re-election in 2020, President Trump has demanded that a day be set aside in his honor.

Consulting the people who deal with official commemorative days, White House staff have made a deal to declare Feb 29th Donald Trump Day. Since it is not appropriate to start that with a sitting president, the day in 2020 and 2024 have been set aside as special events. Trump is closing federal offices on those days and is giving the White House staff a day off on those days. In 2028 it will be officially called Donald Trump Day. Children will do Trump crafts on Feb 28th of that year celebrating his eight years in office.

Tax relief planned!

Following the Republican tax cuts at the federal level, the president of Oklahoma “Taxpayers for freedom” Al Foster wants deep cuts in spending.

 His recent letter to a paper read: "We suggest a list of strategic budget cuts, establishing a comprehensive inventory of state functions for possible privatization, eliminating state income and sales tax exemptions, restoring tax-increment financing to its original intent, requiring every state agency and department to implement zero-based budgeting and requiring ongoing employee desk audits to decrease state employee numbers.

We have pointed the way for the Legislature to offer taxpayers needed property tax relief and to restrict spending. It is up to state senators to apply the will to accomplish these tasks."

Other details of the plan include pruning high school subjects to the essential only. “Teenage girls do not need to know about photosynthesis or the feudal system. They only want to take selfies and post on Facebook anyway. Understanding photosynthesis is not necessary for a cashier or a stocker at Shopko. If they work at Barnes and Noble, maybe. But they can read up on that in their own time.”

1 Million foreigners came in to USA despite Trump

A million came in during Trump's first year in office. Trump has been doing his best to stop foreigners. Foreigners are after all the worst that happens to America. Except the ones that came in before 2000. And those that came in and won Nobel Prizes. Other than that, foreigners are bad for us.

But it seems that immigrants are made up of foreigners and there is some kind of policy in effect allowing those foreigners to come in. Trump is going to look into what that law is. Well, his staff is, whoever is still left.

Trump was going to have the FBI and CIA help him find and tag all the criminals trying to get in, but the FBI now seems to be part of the deep state. There are probably foreigners working in there!

Unemployment not related to government

Boston -- Chief Economist of the Columbia Bank and Trust Co. Rex Harrison, 32, has just released a study that shows how unemployment works. "It's a feature of capitalism," he says. "Just like those years with overpopulations of lemmings and owls. You know, the owls have a lot of work and food as a consequence." 

So the government has nothing to do with it. There is almost nothing the US president can do. Stimulus plans only dampen it, the length of the cycle remains the same.

What about Trump?

"Oh the tax bill. Yeah, a couple of months of happy times. The market is due for a correction. But the real jobs will be fine for Trump and then the downturn will be with the 2020 term."

But we don't want Trump in there past 2020.

"Well, it would be a bad time for him. He might as well quit after four years."

Trump Doing Math with Son

President Trump had some bad press lately with the press and these shithole countries. He left for Mar-a-Lago with family for the weekend. However, Barron brought some homework with him.

"Dad, if a train leaves New York going 80 miles an hour and another train leaves Miami going 60mph, in how many hours will the pass? The distance is a total of 1300 miles."

Trump: Why would you take a train, Barron?
Barron: It's a math problem I have to turn in.
Trump: OK, so Train A goes X hours and Train B goes Y hours and they travel M-1 and M-2 miles. I saw that on National Geographic last year.
Barron: That does not help, since X and Y are the same, we only need X.
Trump: What if I have the New York train go 800 miles and I order them to stop, that's close enough.
Barron: That's too far, dad. I tried 6, 7 and 8 hours and those are too small. I think I can give the hours in decimals. Its 9 point something.
Trump: Oh.
Barron: What if I set it up as 60xT+80xT=1300. Will that do it? T is the time, dad.
Trump: Sounds good son, then solve for X and Y.
Barron: I don't need the X and Y, I just need T.
Trump: Whatever. Good work son.

Ziva shoots guy that was on NCIS episode for 10 seconds

A Pennsylvania couple is confused. Who is this guy that Ziva from NCIS shot in the last five minutes of the show, right before the Thanksgiving dinner with Ducky? He was clearly a crook. We know that because he was holding a hostage.

Peggy thinks he may have been in the show early on, right after they identified the body and went straight to his workplace. The dead guys's. There was some guy, a guy that had no name even. He was on for maybe ten seconds and a few lines of script.

Mark agrees there was some guy in that scene. Was he in the office, or was he a security guard? "Well, at lest they never made the guy that sells the coffee to McGee be the murderer. That would be really lame. But in any case he's dead now and we won't ever find out who he was trying to sell the Navy secret codes for those...vessels or what ever it was."

Peggy wants to watch another episode of Father Brown. Most of those are wrapped up nicely.