The Psycho Man-Baby - America's #1 product for 5 straight decades now.
(ed note: chickenshit @SteveSebelius took the picture down - see image below)
So cute that the neighborhood kids are setting off firecrackers. But they’ll see what REAL July 4th celebrating is once I break out this bad boy: pic.twitter.com/3E5HOycnuS
The latest efforts to pretend history doesn't include a GOP that's fucked this place up to a distraction. And oh yeah - University of Tennessee researchers have found that for every 25,000 retweets (by Russian bot farms) of a Pro-Trump-related topic, Trump's poll numbers went up by about 1 point. There's no direct provable causal link (because that's how and why this shit works on us), but there's no denying that the presence of a lot more smoke should tell us there's a fucking fire going on here somewhere even if we're not allowed to see the flames.
It doesn't matter what the truth is. The right radicals are going to make shit up and slag you with it. Just like the Troopergate bullshit, and the Vince Foster bullshit, and the Swift Boat bullshit, and the Kenyan Usurper bullshit, and and and. So, none of you boogers ever played any high school football? Proving again that even a blind hog roots up an acorn once in a while, here's one of the very few life lessons my coach was actually right about. You're looping around the end, out of the backfield, going over the middle for a short pass. The ball's coming to you, and you know this much: There's a linebacker in front of you, and a safety coming from your right, and whether you catch the ball or you drop the ball, they're gonna hit you so hard your dog dies.
So get something out of it for us, and catch the fuckin' football.
They warn us about Creeping Authoritarianism. They tell us over and over that the bad guys don't ride in looking like the bad guys. "Hello. My name is Adolph, and I'll be your führer this evening. Would you like to start off with murdering some Jews?" This is the slow-rolling crisis - picking up speed. Greg Sargent, WaPo
Earlier this week, President Trump abruptly declared that his administration will keep up its efforts to rig the 2020 Census — which appears driven by naked partisan purposes — even after Justice Department lawyers waved the white flag. This sent those lawyers scrambling to come up with a new strategy to revive the fight.
We are now learning more details as to why Trump did this. And they are revealing about the real goals driving this effort to game the census, which entails trying to add a citizenship question to it, while claiming this is all about better enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
The Post reports that the president reversed his own administration’s decision “after Trump talked by phone with conservative allies who urged him not to give up the fight.”
Trump also ordered the reversal because he is “furious” over his administration’s quick surrender, officials tell The Post, adding that he believes the administration “had given up the fight too easily.”
Which raises a question: What is the true nature of this “fight” that conservative allies don’t want Trump to “give up,” and which Trump believes officials backed off from too quickly?
Does anyone here think they’re “fighting” to better enforce the Voting Rights Act? - and - Reinforcing the administration’s bad faith, newly surfaced files from a deceased GOP operative who advised officials on adding the question revealed that he viewed this as a way to confer electoral advantage on Republicans and whites. We also know that Stephen K. Bannon and Kris Kobach pushed the administration to do this early on, with Kobach piously insisting this was really about getting a more accurate count. That’s hard to believe, given that Bannon and Kobach are two of the most virulently anti-immigrant of Trump advisers.
Roberts had still given officials a way to keep the case alive, by sending it back to the lower courts, potentially leaving an opening for them to come up with a new explanation for the question to replace the “contrived” one.
But officials apparently saw this as a lost cause, and earlier this week, they confirmed they had dropped the quest to add the question. Which led to Trump angrily tweeting this was “FAKE,” forcing administration lawyers to scramble to revive the effort.
Week 137: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.
June 29, 2019
This week as Trump backed off mass deportations, public outcry grew over conditions at detention centers for migrant children. Reminiscent of Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Nazi era, the Trump regime offered limited tours of detention centers to the media — viewings that contradicted interviews of immigration lawyers and advocates who described first-hand the inhumane conditions and traumatized children. Much of the country was moved and heartbroken over a photo of a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned on the bank of the Rio Grande trying to cross to the U.S.
This week Trump headed to the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, ahead of which he attacked Japan, China, and European countries. While there, he cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and reveled in joking about 2016 election interference and attacking the free press. Trump had a second private meeting with Saudi Arabia Crown Prince MBS despite United Nations findings of his likely involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Supreme Court made two major decisions on gerrymandering and a Census citizenship question, and seemed to signal a shift towards revisiting controversial issues with the now five conservative justices. Robert Mueller agreed to testify before two House committees on July 17, as the Trump regime continued to stonewall all congressional investigations.
The whole event was chock full of dog whistles - not so much the usual racist junk he puts out, although there were plenty of nativist references.
The main point of that speech was to further invite the inference that Trump is this country and this country is Trump.
Trump is the government and the government is Trump.
And that because demagogues like Trump assert that a "divine right of supremacy" has always accrued to the United States, it must now also accrue to Trump.
That was pure Daddy State crap yesterday.
Of course, we fully expected he'd give us something we can use to mock the fuck out of him, and he didn't disappoint on that score.
(starting at 38:30)
45* will be remembered for all kinds of bad shit, but that little snippet - from a speech that was filled with fuckups and treacle and stale bromides - will be the pinnacle of why we know him to be the worst POTUS ever, and why nobody will ever have any real respect for the brain power of anyone who still supported him at this point in the game.
Ft McHendry!?!
Actually that one makes some sense, owing to 45*'s pathological need to insert his little 'd' into everything.
