More Fuckery

In case you were wondering why 45* has been kind of impatient with "his" generals about Afghanistan, wonder no more.

Raw Story, Sarah Burris:

During a panel discussion on President Donald Trump’s many conflicts of interest, Michael D’Antonio, author of The Truth About Trump, blasted his financial surplus in the wake of his presidency. 

According to the Financial Times, Blackwater founder Erik Prince — who happens to be Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s brother — has proposed a two-year plan to supply 5,000 mercenaries and close to 100 aircraft, bringing the total cost of the U.S. effort to turn round a failing war to less than $10 billion a year.

I liked it a lot better when the only guys with private armies were Bond villains.

Keith

Channeling a former (and so Etch-A-Sketched) commentator.

Used to be, anything that backfired this badly would be news in itself. But not now. 

It doesn't matter to DumFux News, because they're busy laying the groundwork for the time they'll need to wipe 45* out of everybody's memory.

And the rubes are already figuring out how they can pretend Ms Pirro had to have said that on CNN or MSNBC because now that she's gone, she must've been fired for being a Lame Stream Media spy who was paid by George Soros to degrade the noble purity of the freedom-lovers andt blah blah blah.

(I know that didn't fucking make any sense - none of it makes any fucking sense)

I get really sick of hear myself say that - when will the rubes get sick of hearing what makes me say it?

Today's GIF

God-awful.Obnoxious.Pricks.

As 45*'s base continues to solidify, boiling itself down to the essence of the absolute worst animal-instinct-driven impulses you can imagine outside the lynch mob scenes from old movies, the GOP "establishment" phonies begin to bail.

But I'm guessing there're very few who can pull it off with the precision they need to prevent crashing the whole fleet.

On The Border

John Oliver, Last Week Tonight

Today's Bible Nonsense

Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.

--Romans 1:22

The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.

--Proverbs 14:15

There's one main, very good, reason so many "Christians" can be counted on to stay supportive of a complete phony like 45*.

"Folks in the grip of really powerful denial can be rendered effectively unreachable"

(starting at about 11:20)

Today's Orwell

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself.

Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments ... of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.

--George Orwell, 1984

A Closer Look

tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:

Pundits have told us since that fateful day when Comrade Preznint Stupid won the election, a large number of white, working class Dims had changed lanes. The Villagers told us that these voters so hated Crooked Killery (“but her E-MAIL!!1!) that they voted for Hair Führer. The very serious media people told us that these voters were deserters and that they must be appeased for the Dims to ever win anything again.

Looks like that might be BS.

Shocking, I know.

BTW - tengrain is so good, he inspires his blog followers to come up with the bestly brilliantest nicknames.

Everybody - say hello to Pee Wee Goebbels:

Today's GIF

Maybe this is what they're talking about. Is this when America was great?

Today's Quote

"There has always been a section of the left, which I call the Whiny Party - the party that really doesn't wanna win. They just wanna be pure. And if they go down swinging purely, then that's fine. Well, the problem with that is it leaves behind the people who really need their help. If we're gonna have a single-payer or Medicare For All or whatever we're gonna have in healthcare, then we all have to pull together. And people who sit out or crank on some candidate because they did this or that that wasn't to their purity test are basically turning their back on the very people they pretend to represent. So I don't have a lot of patience with this wing of the progressive party." 

--Howard Dean

Redefined

Irony is when it takes a liar like 45* to reveal the truth about what the GOP has become.

Today's Tweet

We can hope.

Orange Is The New Black, White House Edition pic.twitter.com/uJ4fcbLEKR

— Cogito Ergo Sum (@dezzthehumanist) August 6, 2017

Over-Privileged Phony

John Ford illustrated some heroic American ideals by making movies that asked a few important questions:

• "How far out of your way are you willing to go to stand up for what's right?"
• "What if it means having to stand up for somebody else, and it could get your ass killed?"

Stephen Miller is asking: "How far out of your way can I make you willing to go to play the victim, so I can convince you to give me the power to rule over you?"

Vid: "sick & tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us" Trump Adv Stephen Miller pic.twitter.com/cpoSGAdOGv

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 5, 2017

Near Quote

(paraphrasing a tweet)

45*'s lawyer to Bob Mueller: 

"OK, you can give him the speeding ticket, but you're not allowed to look any further, even though the stench of rotting flesh kinda makes it obvious there's a dead body in the trunk."

Today's Pix

 

Adult Supervision

It's particularly appalling and altogether galling to know this is where we are now.

It really should be a fairly simple concept:

We have to learn how to live our lives without needing a cop, or mommy, or Jesus looking over our shoulder the whole fucking time.

On the other side is the little red flag that's gone up in the back of my brain clutter that wants me to ask why Mad Dog Mattis feels the need to put this out now. In a system with built-in Checks-n-Balances, why does the boss at the most powerful government agency on the planet think it's necessary to remind people to behave appropriately? - as though the reins were being removed.