If we lose enough of the smallest things and enough of the biggest things, we lose everything in between as well.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
This Fuckin' Guy
HuffPo (updated):
When U.S. officials claimed two weeks ago that an American aircraft carrier was heading toward waters near North Korea, it was actually sailing in the opposite direction, The New York Times and Defense News report.
“We have the best military people on Earth. And I will say this: He is doing the wrong thing,” Trump added, referring to Kim Jong Un.
But Defense News pointed out on Tuesday that photos released by the U.S. Navy showed the aircraft carrier passing through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, about 3,500 miles from the Korean Peninsula, last Saturday. It was moving away from North Korea when U.S. officials said it was moving toward the peninsula, the Times confirmed on Tuesday.
One little thing first, if I may: We can't have the best baddest butt-kickin'-est military in the world and at the same time a military that's depleted and badly in need of another $50 Billion blah blah blah. Not that any of that comes as news, but it's helpful for me to remind myself just who this 45* asshole is.
When U.S. officials claimed two weeks ago that an American aircraft carrier was heading toward waters near North Korea, it was actually sailing in the opposite direction, The New York Times and Defense News report.
But Defense News pointed out on Tuesday that photos released by the U.S. Navy showed the aircraft carrier passing through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, about 3,500 miles from the Korean Peninsula, last Saturday. It was moving away from North Korea when U.S. officials said it was moving toward the peninsula, the Times confirmed on Tuesday.
And we need to remember he's prob'ly being manipulated into getting us to spend the money on lots of cool new big-ticket MeatSpace gadgets that're mostly worthless in the CyberFight that's going on now.
So anyway, he loves to think being "unpredictable" makes him some kind of mastermind. His main tactical approach is to keep everybody off balance - including the people around him. And that can work - it's worked very well to make him one of the world's great douchenozzle promise-breakers who won't be held to account for anything by anybody.
But when you're POTUS you can't just shoot from the hip. You need the people around you to know something about what the fuck you've got in mind.
Without some level of careful consideration, everybody ends up looking stoopid; the "bad guys" catch on pretty soon (or think they have - which is the biggest problem), and before long he's "unpredictable-ing" a few hundred thousand actual people to death.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Oops
"Well, you know - he's gettin' on in years..." Wink wink. Nudge nudge. Say no more.
NO.
This is what's normal now. Just going thru the motions by rote, with no regard for the substance underpinning the symbolism.
NO.
This is what's normal now. Just going thru the motions by rote, with no regard for the substance underpinning the symbolism.
Pathetically hilarious.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 18, 2017
Did he forget? Dementia?
Unpatriotic?
Or was he expecting the Russian anthem?#TuesdayThoughts#TuesdayMotivation pic.twitter.com/eOcdYS0r7P
But it won't matter. The Right Radicals will rationalize it as another well placed jab at the Libtards. Anything that makes The Left crazy or mad enough to cry is a good thing. Anything.
For a large contingent of GOP Wingnuts - mostly driving that party now - there is no longer any clear delineation between their leader and the country he's leading. And that's a very bad sign.
This shit just gets worse.
Today's Tweet
Electronic billboard showing an error message looks like the sky has stopped working. pic.twitter.com/Cm03UYZL3r— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) April 17, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
A Good Point
Today's winning quote:
"If it were good foreign policy, Donald Trump would not be doing it." --David Frum
"If it were good foreign policy, Donald Trump would not be doing it." --David Frum
hat tip = Crooks & Liars
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Today's Tweet
Trump shoulda hired the guy that "paid" the tax marchers to organize his inauguration, then folks mighta showed up.https://t.co/yjam1vU9be— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 16, 2017
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Fox Wins
Here's the latest score card for everybody's favorite, Bullshit Mountain:
2017 Pulitzer = 0
2017 Peabody = 0
2017 Polk = 0
Thus the record that Fox News established at the very beginning in 1996 remains unblemished by recognition as an actual news organization.
2017 Pulitzer = 0
2017 Peabody = 0
2017 Polk = 0
Thus the record that Fox News established at the very beginning in 1996 remains unblemished by recognition as an actual news organization.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Today's Today
On this, the holiest of holy days, let us pause for a moment's reflection on the awesomely awesome awesomeness of god's own church on Earth.
Amen, motherfucker.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Today's Tweets
Nunes: "Thanks, Uber"— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) April 12, 2017
Uber: "Thanks, Pepsi"
Pepsi: "Thanks, United"
United: "Thanks, Spicer"
Spicer: "Thanks, Carter Page"
Carter Page: ?
Tommy Jeff's Birthday
Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743
From the Monticello website:
Thomas Jefferson was always reluctant to reveal his religious beliefs to the public, but at times he would speak to and reflect upon the public dimension of religion. He was raised as an Anglican, but was influenced by English deists such as Bolingbroke and Shaftesbury. Thus in the spirit of the Enlightenment, he made the following recommendation to his nephew Peter Carr in 1787: "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."1 In Query XVII of Notes on the State of Virginia, he clearly outlines the views which led him to play a leading role in the campaign to separate church and state and which culminated in the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom: "The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error.2 Jefferson's religious views became a major public issue during the bitter party conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the late 1790s when Jefferson was often accused of being an atheist.
From the Monticello website:
Thomas Jefferson was always reluctant to reveal his religious beliefs to the public, but at times he would speak to and reflect upon the public dimension of religion. He was raised as an Anglican, but was influenced by English deists such as Bolingbroke and Shaftesbury. Thus in the spirit of the Enlightenment, he made the following recommendation to his nephew Peter Carr in 1787: "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."1 In Query XVII of Notes on the State of Virginia, he clearly outlines the views which led him to play a leading role in the campaign to separate church and state and which culminated in the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom: "The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error.2 Jefferson's religious views became a major public issue during the bitter party conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the late 1790s when Jefferson was often accused of being an atheist.
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