Oct 20, 2017
Make A Start
Jim Jeffries, with a perspective that sounds almost universal - or should.
"I thought I was a pretty good guy, what with all the not-raping I've done..."
"I thought I was a pretty good guy, what with all the not-raping I've done..."
Today's Tweet
Need some fake news? Look no further than your nearest Self-servative Media outlet.
BTW - what this jagoff has done is illegal. And it's a federal rap. (Stolen Valor Act 2013)
And wouldn't it be nice if somebody charged DumFux News with being an accessory? Yeah but - you know - 1st Amendment. Dammit.
Fox anchor on 'Navy Seal' extolling Trump: "God bless John Garofalo"— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 20, 2017
Fox correction: “All Garofalo’s claims untrue" https://t.co/uoJDvu9lUn
How It's Done
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| Mrs Myeshia Johnson |
I think 45* tried to say what John Kelly said from the podium yesterday. I think he had Kelly's words in his head, but he said it so badly, it made him look like a jerk.
And of course, he is a jerk - there can be no mistake about that at this point.
The guy has no soul and no honor, both of which are required if you're going to have even a marginally positive effect when trying to console someone who's just suffered the worse kind of loss any of us can imagine.
Starting at about 6:00, John Kelly says it really well.
I think 45* got a warm fuzzy feeling from the way Kelly puts it, because it sounds noble, and manly, and heroic - all the things 45* desperately wishes pertained to him. But those characteristics have nothing to do with 45*, so he's always looking to appropriate them for himself without doing the work necessary to earn them.
If he'd known just a tiny bit about it, he might've pulled it off, but 45* doesn't know anything. He doesn't really want to know anything. He doesn't listen. He doesn't study. He doesn't learn. He's never prepared.
So when he needed to say the right thing in a way that gave the grieving family someone to lean on; or a reason to feel something other than their crushing sorrow, he blew it. He screwed the pooch. Again. As always.
He failed at one of the basic duties of a Commander in Chief; a leader; POTUS. The guy isn't man enough to pack a lunch for any one of those dead kids. Because he refuses to learn one fucking thing about his fucking job.
This is how it's done:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, 21st November, 1864.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
-and-
(to 21-year-old Fanny McCollough, on the death of her father, Lt Col Wm McCollough)
Executive Mansion,
Washington, December 23, 1862.
Dear Fanny
It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer, and holier sort than you have known before.
Please present my kind regards to your afflicted mother.
Your sincere friend,
A. Lincoln.
Oct 19, 2017
Today's Tweet
It keeps popping up - like some kinda zombie meme
this why #AllLivesMatter is completely irrelevant pic.twitter.com/cyENyLf5B8— iya perez (@lostsinks) July 8, 2016
Oct 18, 2017
POV
If the sight of an amazingly beautiful sunset makes you think of your god's handiwork, but you don't see that same aspect when you look at the burst pustules of small pox, then you're being selective about the list of things you consider part of your god-created universe, and you're well on your way to living the fantasy that you can make the universe into something that includes only that which matches your chosen philosophy.
Stop doing that.
hat tip = Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Oct 17, 2017
Today's Tweet
Street art meets animation
When both Facebook and Instagram are down ...— Street Art 360 (@StreetArt360) October 11, 2017
visit https://t.co/fqYYW3kJ6m ;) #streetart #facebook #instagram pic.twitter.com/cVxPLXFDDI
Oct 16, 2017
That Guy We Never Hear About
Bob Mercer's ridiculous attitudes* are everywhere you look when you get way out there to Wingnutopia. Watch out for that guy.
Charlie Pierce points up a few things we need to keep in mind:
If you accept, as Joshua Green argues in his splendid Devil's Bargain, and as events subsequent to the election have more than borne out, without Steve Bannon, it is unlikely that we would have a President* Trump to be embarrassed by in front of the entire 21st Century. And what is also clear is that, without Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the reactionary New York gozillionnaires, Bannon would be back on Giedi Prime with the rest of the Harkonnens.
a) The United States began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civl Rights Act in the 1960s
Charlie Pierce points up a few things we need to keep in mind:
At the moment, Robert Mercer is being sued by his former partner in Renaissance Technologies, a guy named David Magerman, who is not quite as enthusiastic about the Trump presidency* as the Mercers are. Documents are becoming public and, as Vanity Fair reports, some of those documents are well off the boy-howdy scale of revelatory.
You don't get Trump without Bannon, and you don't get Bannon without Bob and Rebekah Mercer.
*as lined out in Charlie's piece:
b) African Americans were doing fine in the late-1950s and early-1960s before the Civil Rights Act
c) The Civil Rights Act “infantilized” African Americas by making them dependent on government and removing any incentive to work
d) The only racist people remaining in the United States are black
e) White people have no racial animus toward African Americans anymore, and if there is any, it's not something that the government should be concerned with
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