Monday, September 24, 2018

A Very Special Revolving Door

Once Around the (Chopping) Block

September 24, 2018

The Chrump White House is often described as a revolving door.  It is the best revolving door, utilized by, one assumes, the best people.  Many of these best people have merely moved from one position to another, the vast majority however, have simply abandoned shit.  More people left this administration in the first 20 months than any in memory, if not history.  I am not inclined to look it up, but clearly the Chrump administration is one lava-hot mess.  (Full disclosure, I did look it up and this is in fact historic in how pitiful it is.)  Mt. Kiluea has a long way to go to cause even a fraction of the devastation that has only begun to gush from the toxic Orange Gas Cloud. 


50 percent hot air, 50 percent hairspray, 50 percent unidentified toxins
Just about everyone who joined the Chrump team – some gone, some still clinging pathetically to their alleged jobs – has threatened to quit, or has been threatened with firing at some point.  And these are the best people.  No swamp.  You’re the swamp.

Several of Chrump’s best people have called him an “idiot” (Chief-of-staff John Kelly, Steve Mnuchin, ex-Chief-of-staff Reince Preibus) or a “fucking moron” (ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson).  “Like an 11-year-old child” (ex-butt-boy Steve Bannon).  “Less a person than a collection of terrible traits”, “dumb as shit” (ex-chief economic adviser Gary Cohn).  “An idiot [with the intelligence of] a kindergartener” (National Security Advisor HR McMaster).    The list goes on, but I will leave it there for now.
Here is a sample of some of the best words Chrump has used to describe some of his best people:
Steve Bannon, chief executive officer of Chrump's campaign and than Chief White House Strategist: “Sloppy Steve Bannon”, “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
Jefferson Beauregard Confederacy Racist Sessions III, first sitting (I know, it’s hard to tell) Senator to support Chrump, who became Attorney General after lying his little ass off to the Senate during his nomination hearing: “beleaguered”, “scared stiff”, “disgraceful”, “weak”.
George Papadopoulos, member of Chrump’s foreign policy advisory panel, then pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government: just a “coffee boy”.
Paul Manafort, Chrump’s campaign chairman, credited with getting Chrump over the finish line, forced out after allegations of shady Russian ties: “He was only there for a short period of time.”
Omarosa, long time Chrump lackey who said, “Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump.  Everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.” (She later left the White House and wrote a tell-all.): “Lowlife. She’s a lowlife,” “Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart.”

Don’t Let the Door Kill You on the Way Out
This Chrump revolving door is no ordinary revolving door though.  It really is more of an abattoir.  With your standard revolving door, one comes out the other side to proceed on one’s merry way, whereas when you pass through Chrump’s revolving door, you are dead meat.
And now for something completely relevant
The most recent high-ranking Chrumper to be tweeted out the door was White House Counsel, and possible “flipper” Don McGahn, whose job it is was to advise the prezident on legal matters and to safeguard the presidency – not the actual president, but the office itself.  In this case, that mainly consisted of protecting the office from the current office-holder, causing McGahn to commit the cardinal sin of telling the Cry-baby-in-chief “NO” from time to time.  This does not sit well with KFC spokes-blob Chrump, who believes it is absolutely everyone’s job to protect him from the media, the truth and the law.  McGahn, who was at one time counsel and ethics advisor to disgraced (and highly unethical) Texas congressman Tom DeLay, has also been instrumental in stacking the federal court system with right-wing, religious fanatic judges.  McGahn personally recommended Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.  To McGahn I say, don’t let the rotating knives hit you on the way out.  Though I don’t really mean it.

No one who has spent any time in the direct orbit of Donald Chrump keeps whatever reputation they might have had going in.  Even the so-called pious Mike Pence looks worse for the time he has spent as Chrump’s double-dealing, obsequious lapdog.  Once you have been had by Chrump, it will take a very long time to remove the stench.  One would be better off canoodling with an angry skunk.
What used to be a plum job and a sure-fire way to get your resume to float to the top of any binder full of women, is now a death sentence for any career.   

But Wait, There’s More
Casey Patten, owner of the 17-store hoagie chain, ‘Taylor Gourmet’, met with Chrump at a White House small business roundtable in January 2017.  It is unclear whether there were more people present at the roundtable, than were at the inauguration; let’s assume there were.  Patten thought it would be a good idea to be in a photo and video with the new prezident.  The images were then shown nationally.  According to an anonymous source familiar with the situation, Taylor Gourmet’s “sales dropped 40 percent the next day.  And it persisted and never really got any better.”
 
Hey, what the hell are you doing? Get off my lawn.
 
This poor kid, who just wanted to do a good deed and meet the prezident, simply got too close to Chrump and was subsequently abandoned by his parents, and is now in a juvenile detention center.  Even though the young lad is white, he simply came too close to Chrump and will be tainted for life.  His future now appears as bleak as that of Chrump himself – walls closing in, nowhere to hide, unemployable.  Lepers have closer friends.
Speaking of poor kids, video has emerged wherein Don, Jr. told an interviewer that one of the important things his dad told him, when he was very young (Jr. said age four, but that was clearly a lie) was, “No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. And don’t trust anyone, ever.”  To be fair, this could also be a lie.  Who the hell knows with these psychopaths?
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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Thought For The Day


I Have to Laugh To Keep From Guffawing
September 23, 2018
One of the hottest races in the 2018 midterms pits upstart Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke against the most despised man in the Senate, Ted Cruz.  In what should have been a cakewalk, Cruz the Texas Tick has become increasingly desperate as the race and his colon tighten.  Cruz is so desperate, that he has reached out to the man he called a “sniveling coward” and a “pathological liar” during the 2016 campaign – one Donald J. Chrump.  This should make for some tantalizingly awkward and irresistibly entertaining moments over the next few weeks. 
He Ain’t Worthy, He’s Our Brother

In other awesome midterm endorsement news, Arizona Republican’t Paul Gosar’s reelection bid opponent – Dr. David Brill, put out an ad featuring six – I kid you not, six – of Gosar’s siblings absolutely trashing their brother while in no uncertain terms endorsing his challenger.

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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Thought For The Day


Better Call Brett

September 22, 2018
I love all these people saying they know Brett Kavanaugh and that he would never do something like what he is very credibly accused of doing.  Has anyone heard of the Catholic Church?  Remember how they were seen as representing the word of Jesus, but were doing other stuff behind the scenes?  Remember when the Republican’t Party thought pussy-grabbing was a bad thing?  Remember when everybody loved OJ Simpson?  Bill Cosby? 
Kavanaugh, as everyone knows from the public record, has already lied repeatedly during his confirmation process (as he did during his previous confirmation process), so there is no secret to what kind of upstanding gentleman he is. 

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
 
Now we are watching as Republican'ts on the Senate Judiciary Committee are figuratively holding down Christine Blasey Ford to keep her from getting out of a threatening situation, as they attempt to cover her mouth to stop her from alerting those who might help her overcome her attackers, and alert the proper authorities.  Why does this sound so familiar?

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

The Not So Great Unraveling

Chrump and His Fellow Ravelers

September 20, 2018
Report after report indicates that behind closed doors and buckets of KFC, Donald Chrump is becoming unraveled, unglued and unhinged as pressure from various fronts mounts.  Behind closed doors?  What the hell do they call what he is doing in broad daylight? 
Have they not seen any of Chrump’s tweets?  Did they not witness the racist rant announcing his candidacy after descending his golden escalator?  Did they miss his “American Carnage” inauguration speech?  Exactly when was Chrump even slightly glued, or hinged to anything?  When did he ever seem to be in the same galaxy as sane?  If these reports are implying that he is in fact worse in private than what we see and hear every day, or that he is getting worse in general, we could all be dead by Tuesday.
Unraveling His Administration and Our Democracy
Has anyone noticed that Chrump has been firing, one by one, everyone in the Department of Justice who was involved in investigating his ties to Russian money, COLLUSION, and obstruction of justice?  Remember James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Preet Bharara, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok?  Speaking of Comey, our Very-stable-genius-in-chief offered up this gem, “If I did one mistake with Comey, I should have fired him before I got here. I should have fired him the day I won the primaries.”  Small children, and probably no small number of invertebrates, know that there might be some restrictions involved with a citizen firing an FBI director.  Though I am neither a small child nor an invertebrate, I would stake my career on this fact.  If anyone has any alternative facts in this regard, I would be interested to hear them.
It is long past time to stop pussyfooting around with the Toxic Orange Gas Cloud.  Stop acting like any of his behavior is anything other than sociopathic.  A sanitation worker would be fired for behaving like this lunatic.  Have these reporters seen any of the people with whom Chrump has surrounded himself?  Robert Mueller (I highly recommend this article) has flipped almost everyone outside his immediate family, his poll numbers are receding faster than his hairline, and he still sees himself when he looks in the mirror.  He told us he would bring in the best people.  Well maybe, but not one of them appears to be the best at what he appointed them to do.  Unless he hired them to do exactly what they are doing – destroy whatever agency they are running.  For that, I must admit, they are all over-qualified.
The “best” “people”
Now we have Brett Kavanaugh, the lying, gambling-debt-ridden, accused sexual assaulter, who the lying, neurologically impaired, admitted sexual assaulter who wants to have sex with his own daughter, has nominated to pardon him…I mean end a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body…I mean have a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Probably the best at doing his actual job is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.  At least Secessionist Sessions had the sense to recuse himself from anything dealing with the Russia investigation – he had no choice, according to the law.  If it was not for the fact that he repeatedly lied to the Senate during his confirmation hearing, the fact that he is a miserable little racist who continues to oversee the kidnapping of thousands of children with no plan to keep track of where their parents are, is busy dialing back criminal-justice reform and voting-rights protections, is ending a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to improve forensic science standards, and who thinks marijuana is as dangerous as heroin, he could grow up to be a darn good Attorney General one day.
The putz who hired Sessions for the job has been trashing his hand-picked Attorney General since day one.  Chrump recently told an interviewer, “I don't have an attorney general. It's very sad.”  How the hell do you think we feel?  We don’t have a president.  It’s very sad.  To paraphrase Dear Leader, “He is one of the dumbest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of stupidity.”*
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* He described Hurricane Florence as “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water.”  Actual quote.

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Monday, September 17, 2018

Thought For The Night


Clarence Thomas 2.Oh No
September 17, 2018
An even whiter version of the lying sexual predator, and eventual Supreme Court mute, Clarence Thomas, has made his way into Senate hearings to become yet another pro-corporate, anti-minority, anti-woman, anti-etc. Supreme Court justice.  Just what this country needs – another narrow-minded, ultra-conservative pinhead, who thinks pretends he is channeling the men who wrote the Constitution (signed 231 years ago today), overseeing our adherence to our founding document. 
Once again, a woman accuser is set to be dragged through the mud by stupid white men, as she bravely agrees to testify under oath, in a public hearing.  Despite knowing what Anita Hill was subjected to 27 years ago, Professor Christine Blasey Ford has agreed to be questioned – by some of the same men who disrespected and disregarded Anita Hill – in order to tell her story of being sexually assaulted – almost raped – by Brett Kavanaugh when the two were in high school.  The only other witness, Kavanaugh’s friend at the time, claims his buddy was innocent, with the caveat that he was so drunk that he really cannot remember much of anything. 
We already know that Kavanaugh has been repeatedly less than honest during this confirmation process, as well as during a previous confirmation process year ago.  Blasey has already passed a polygraph test.  Kavanaugh has not.  Perhaps this time justice will be served, instead of steamrolling a victim and elevating a sleazebag like Thomas…I mean Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. 

Chrump reportedly advised a friend accused of sexual impropriety, “You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women.”  This is, of course, exactly what Chrump has done some two dozen times…that we know of.  The man who nominated Kavanaugh, who won over Republican’ts by saying, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything ... grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” is standing by his man.  For now.
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Texting, Texting 1,2,3…Is This Thing On?

File Under AYFKM

September 17, 2018
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will do its first test of what they are calling the Emergency Alert System (EAS) next Thursday.  The system is designed to allow the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones. 
According to FEMA, “the EAS is a national public warning system that provides the president with the communications capability to address the nation during a national emergency.”  As if Chrump’s ability to nauseate us via television and Twitter is not bad enough.  At least you have to voluntarily access Twitter or turn on the news to be accosted by Der Furor as things now stand.  Do we really want the Child-in-chief to be able to text almost all of us at his “discretion?”
Coming soon to a phone near you
Thursday’s test message will have a header that reads "Presidential Alert," according to the agency.  If your phone is on you will twice hear a tone and vibration and then see an English-only (for now) message: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”  English only?  Was this at the direction of FEMA’s racist director, or did these orders come from higher up?  Is this really an emergency alert or a way of getting rid of people who cannot read English?  One can never tell these days. 
Bigotry and hatred are inarguably on the rise across the globe, including, in no small measure, in the United States.  In Germany, it is all but illegal to show support for Nazis, in Chrump’s Amerika, it’s presidential.  Hatred of immigrants is practically a cottage industry.
What we really need is an alert system to warn us of Chrump’s latest bout of stupidity.  He is the single most serious threat to our country and our way of life.  Just ask anyone who works for him.  Actually, you do not even have to ask – they are all telling everyone already.  All you really need, is to be paying attention.
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Thought For The Day

 
Most Successful Witch Hunt Ever

September 15, 2018
Which witch is which?  The only thing missing is eye of Newt. 
The Hunted: Papadopoulos, Cohen, Manafort, Flynn
No longer hunted, all have been caught, and turned into marched frogs.  Guilty frogs.  Cooperating, talking frogs.  Flipping frogs.  Mueller’s frogs.  Not Chrump’s attack dogs.

One more witch waiting in the wings?
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Friday, September 14, 2018

Bush v. Chrump

Oh Look, It’s George W. Bu(ll)sh(it)

September 14, 2018
The Bush family has seemed to be vigorously opposed to Donald Chrump.  Poppy Bush made clear his disdain for the Toxic Orange Gas Cloud, as did Mommy Bush.  The whole nation watched as Chrump humiliated and crushed George, Sr. favorite son Jeb.  The whole family has been clear in their contempt for the “man” who dismantled their boy Jeb, claimed he was always opposed (he wasn’t) to George, Jr.’s Iraq debacle, and disrespected their family throughout the campaign.
I spent almost three decades ignoring politics, as so many now find necessary for survival in the Time of Chrump, until the day George W. Bush was appointed to the presidency by the Supreme Court on December 12, 2000.  As it turned out, the Bush II years were quite exciting, what with face-shooting, CIA operative-outing, Haliburton-enriching, and all-around-nasty-mother-fucker Dick Cheney, the 9/11 attack, the economic collapse/Great Recession, the illegal invasion of Iraq and the ensuing destabilization of the Middle East, and knowing Vladimir Putin’s soul by looking in his eyes.
Ahhh, the good old days (It's only a paper goon)
Little George is now out on the campaign trail, giving further credence to George Washington’s prescient warning upon leaving office, that political parties would become vehicles, “by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” Common wisdom, such as it is, believes that #43 is simply looking out for his party.  This, at a time when many – though not nearly enough – Republican’ts are finally taking a moment to put country above party.  They are either leaving the party or at least speaking out against its leader.
George W. Bu(ll)sh(it): Goon, But Not Forgotten

Ultimately, George the Younger’s efforts will serve to keep Chrump in power, unless the Blue Wave materializes.  My guess is that George W is desirous of keeping Chrump in power because every moment Chrump is in office helps people forget more and more just how pathetic, ignorant, disgraceful and incompetent George W. Bush was (and continues to be).  The list of Bush II’s failures, fiascos and outright disasters is lengthy, and his stupidity was off the charts.  He did more damage to this nation than any president in our lifetime, possibly in the lifetime of this nation.  That is, until the Pork Rind-in-chief came along. 
It was hoped that the Bush II era was America hitting bottom, but Chrump has surely plumbed new, unimaginable depths of dishonesty, depravity and disgrace.
Memory Is (Not) a Funny Thing
It is thanks to Bush and his fellow travelers that the Republican’t Party has become the party of Donald Chrump.  They sowed the sickening seeds, tilled the toxic soil, watered and fed the racist base that nominated, “elected,” and continues to enable Chrump.  All in the name of endless tax cuts for the richest of the rich, killing people by gutting social safety nets, access to health care and abortion rights, praying and/or legislating away the gay, destroying the environment to increase corporate profits, dismembering voting rights and packing the Supreme Court with phony jurists who will have their backs.  This is admittedly a full menu of mishegas, but most Americans would actually prefer these malefactors take some time off or maybe jump off a cliff.
So, once more, fuck you George W. Bush.  Go paint your feet, or your dog or the back of your head.  Just STFU and stay out of the politics game.  You have done more than enough already.  Much more.  We are still cleaning up your monstrous mess.  It is easy to get carried away with the atrocity that is Chrump, but let us not forget just how staggeringly awful George W. Bush and his horrible horde was.  There was a reason so many people called him President Moron.  And that was when they were being nice.
I. Mangrey reminiscing.  Democrats are not the greatest, but seriously…

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Thought For The Day


Who Knows Why? 
September 12, 2018
 
Many children are asking, “Daddy, why is the sky blue?”

Many more children are asking, “Mommy, why is the prezident orange?” 

Many adults are asking no one in particular, “What the fuck is wrong with this guy?”
Sociopath-in-chief celebrates 9/11 in Shanksville, PA
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