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California Representative Eric Swalwell, whose reputation as a womanizer in Congress dates from 2013, has had a busy few days. After both the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN ran stories about women alleging sexual assault against the man famed for his affair with Chinese spy Fang Fang, Swalwell on Sunday dropped out of the race for governor of California and today resigned his House seat. To even the playing field, the GOP persuaded Texas Representative Tony Gonzalez to resign as well. Swalwell was one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s golden boys. She picked him to lead the impeachment effort against President Trump during his first term. Swalwell continued his role as a Trump attack dog throughout his terms in office. The allegations against Swalwell came from four women. One, a former staff member, claimed he raped her. Swalwell has denied all allegations. Gonzalez admitted to having had an affair with a staffer who later took her life by setting herself on fire. He denies that the affair caused her suicide. [PICTURED: Representative Eric Swalwell with Christine Fang, aka Fang Fang, with whom he had a much-publicized affair. She was a fundraiser with ties to the communist regime of Xi Jinping.]

Not one to take criticism lightly, or to those who disagree with him, President Trump these past few days has taken to lambasting Pope Leo for daring to criticize his war with Iran. The Pope said the war has led to “absurd and inhuman violence.” In response, Trump basically told the Pontiff to mind his own business and called him “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.” Today the Pope said he had “no fear” of Trump. A spoken and/or written feud is one thing, but when Sir Donald takes to image creation to show himself superior to the papacy, wow! In an image posted on social media but deleted after an onslaught of criticism (deleted image shown at right), Trump depicts himself as some heavenly figure, probably as Jesus, according to many, if not most, who criticized the fakery. In the image, a floating-in-air Trump treats a patient lying down comatose. To me, the bizarre thing is that the patient resembles Jeffrey Epstein. Whoa, Nellie! Jesus bringing Epstein back to life? Trump, of course, had to distance himself from the image. In an impromptu press conference, he said the image merely depicted him as a doctor, not as

Integrity, the space capsule used in the Artemis II Moon mission, splashed down successfully in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 5-07 p.m. PT. The nine-day-plus mission marked the return of the United States to its historic space program that put the first men on the Moon. History will no doubt overlook the fact that it was Donald J. Trump, as 45th president of the United States, who got the space program going again, and by space program, I mean sending vehicles and people beyond earth’s atmosphere, which hadn’t been done since 1972 for stupid political reasons (are you listening, Demofiends?). Anyway, congratulations to everyone at NASA and to the four brave astronauts for accomplishing this historic endeavor. Let’s go — back to the moon, and this time to settle there.  

The astronauts aboard the Artemis II mooncraft are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at about 5 p.m. local time today. The splashdown caps a memorable 10-day journey going where “no one has gone before,” distance-wise anyway, and providing astronauts with a view of the backside of the Moon along with a solar eclipse. The reentry is not without its challenges. The unmanned Artemis I spacecraft, upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere, was subjected to 3,000°C of generated heat. A heat shield protected the capsule. Though scientists determined that humans could withstand the same experience because the heat shield would protect them, for Artemis II they decided to change the reentry angle to lessen the heat effect and time required for reentry. A rescue ship is already patrolling the Pacific Ocean with divers and doctors aboard, awaiting the capsule’s splashdown. Pictured is the fiery reentry of Artemis I