Oct 2, 2016

Just Keep Talkin' Don

Trump says if he does a great job as president, his assets will increase in value, and so:

"...that's a conflict, but that's like a good kind of conflict, isn't it?"


He starts his bad week with a poor showing at the debate, follows it with three days of Alicia Machado and "finishes" with this little meltdown in Ohio, which included more than some vague allusion to how maybe Hillary's not been "loyal" to Bill (?) Seriously, this is the guy they're talking about when they try to warn us about wrestling with pigs.

We can parse it out and try to draw conclusions about his fragile ego and the weird workings in Trump's little brain, but I think we have to consider that he's really just following his usual pattern, which is first and always counterpunch - never brush it off and never let any of it go - Tit-For-Tat come hell or high water.


But second - and I think more to the point - there's real purpose to it. This is a guy who throws shit.  He's learned that the more shit he throws, the harder it is for anybody to sort thru it and make any sense of it.  But while we're busy trying to get our heads around the shit storm, he stays more or less off the hook because we've all spent one more week not looking into the Rape Allegations and why they postponed the hearing; not looking at The Trump Foundation being uncertified which makes Trump's own actions potential felonies; not focusing on the leak of a few pages of his tax documents from 1996 that appear to confirm that he's been stiffing us all for the last 20 years - and that's what he wants. He wants to stall and deflect and postpone, constantly doubling down on his phony Populist routine which gives him more opportunity to go on playing the rubes for suckers, putting more millions in his pocket, as he moves towards whatever he thinks is his destiny while giving us that self-satisfied comfortable feeling that we've got him all figured out - and maybe we do, but prob'ly we don't.


Oct 1, 2016

Today's Pix

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No Small Thing



It's not a ringing endorsement, but when the Rupert Street Journal Editorial Page puts up anything that isn't easily recognizable as slagging "The Libruls", it means something; it's important. 

Sep 30, 2016

Another Tweet

Today's Keith

It gets a little off into the weeds, but I'll take a Franz von Papen reference any day because it makes me go look it up and learn something new. 

Today's Tweet

Sep 29, 2016

Just Fucking Do It

A Trump Story



The anecdote is a powerful illustration for your narrative, although it can be a very misleading thing in direct debate (see Logical Fallacy - Anecdote).  But when the stories are common to the point of being legion, there's more than some probability that we've got a real problem.   And these stories are so common, even I know a guy who did some sub-contracting on The Taj Mahal, and got fucked over by Donald Trump.

Trump is the perfect example of a business ethic that says "I get to promise you whatever it takes to make the deal, but when it comes to paying the invoices that I contracted for, I intend to do only what my lawyers can't keep the law from forcing me to do at gunpoint."

When the guys at the top have their spats, and it gets expensive, and they need money to settle - guess who gets squeezed?

I worked with guys like Trump my whole career.  I watched two of the best companies ever get swamped by the shit that follows these malignant slugs like plague follows rats.

This Trump guy is weak and cheap - he has no soul and no honor.

It Starts With Entitlement


That was one very short hop away from Trump declaring himself a God-Annointed Sovereign.

Eugenics, anyone? 

Today's Keith


It really is Garbage In, Garbage Out.  If Repubs want a better GOP, they're gonna need a whole buncha better voters.

My Blogiversary

A Tweet



"When they go low, we go high."  And ya know - the Obama's are just better people than most.  Cuz me (and, I think, Luther) would most likely interpret that like this: "you go at my knees and I'm coming back for your fucking head". 

Which is kinda how it works out - the way FLOTUS does it anyway.  Glad I'm on her side.

Sep 28, 2016

Geez, These Kids

TPM:
Eric Trump on Wednesday joined Donald Trump's surrogates in applauding the Republican nominee for not bringing up Bill Clinton's sex scandals during the Monday debate, even saying that the moment is "something I’ll always remember."
"Gee - I'll always remember that time on national primetime TV, seen by 70 million Americans plus maybe twice that many around the world - I'll remember my dad deciding not to be a giant gold-plated monument to Total Douchenozzlery" .

First time for everything, I guess.  But indeed, Eric , how proud you must be - as are we all, of course.



And if you open that window just a bit, you can hear me rolling my eyes so hard I can see what's left of my brain after having to acknowledge that even people like Donald Trump are allowed to breed. 

A Quickie


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Keith Olbermann

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