There’s no good way to explain to someone that you crashed their car, even though you promised to take good care of it while they were gone. I imagine someone in that scenario would endure the stages of grief, getting stuck in a state of denial. “There’s no way I backed into that light post while I was commenting on a photo someone posted on Instagram.”
However you want to recount the story in your head, the fact of the matter is that you crashed your friend’s car, and you have had to tell them. Studies suggest that honesty is the best policy, but, at the end of the day, how one goes about this is a solitary choice, not one guided by statistics or suggestions. To make it perfectly clear, I am speaking on this from experience of witnessing others endure this, and I hope to never go through such a difficult situation.
Maybe everyone should just take public transportation, here’s what you missed in the news yesterday.
Plate…Date…Grate…Great…State Of The Union
The upcoming State of the Union, delivered by President Trump, was originally set for Jan. 29, but there was a slight snafu related to that clumsy little partial shutdown of the federal government which delayed the speech just a bit. Though the President recently addressed the American public, nearly three weeks ago, and informed viewers of the dire need for a border wall to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border, he’ll get another crack at it on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.
If we utilize President Trump’s current relationship with Congress as a litmus test for how our nation is feeling, overall, the future doesn’t seem all that positive. After a nearly forty-day long government shutdown, the newly instated 116th Congress was made privy to the inconvenient truth that our President will go to any length necessary to get his points across. If it wasn’t a government shutdown, it was public threats to declare an official state of emergency so that, through some bizarre loophole, the U.S. military could be deployed as the President’s personal construction team to build his wall. But President Trump trekked onward, deciding to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria without asking permission of Congress, or really any government official for that matter.
It won’t help that as President Trump delivers his speech, he’ll be directly under the vicious glare of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has made it quite clear that she is less than pleased with the President
Can You Read This Sentence?
In other President Trump-related news, his former 2016 presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, will reportedly be receiving his sentence on March 13, following his submission of a guilty plea on Monday. Manafort was one of the first people named in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
In addition to his upcoming sentencing, Manafort will be tried later for potentially breaching his plea agreement. Per the official court filing:
“…After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitutes breaches of the agreement. The government will file a detailed sentencing submission to the Probation Department and the Court in advance of sentencing that sets forth the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies, including those after signing the plea agreement herein…”
–U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
