Tuesday, March 21, 2017
THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING TRUMP RUSSIA TIES -- NYTimes Headline, March 21, 2017
UPDATE BELOW
NYTimes sub-headings:
"Comey's haunting news on Trump and Russia...possible election collusion..."
"Fresh News on Russia for Trump's Weary Defenders"
"FBI Confirms Inquiry On Trump Team Russia Ties
"The Untruths About Russia Are Escalating"
"GOP Responds By Changing The Subject"
David Leonhardt:
"The Ninth Week of Donald Trump's presidency began with the FBI director calling him a liar.
As Leonhardt writes, Comey didn't actually use the "L" word, but he did say that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. (BTW, Leonhardt, who's been covering Trump since the beginning of his improbable campaign for the presidency, has no qualms about calling Trump what he is: A LIAR. )
From now on, whatever comes out of Trump's mouth has to be considered a LIE, until proved otherwise.
Trump's stupid, impetuous false Tweet about President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower got him in all this swampy trouble. Can we imagine the trouble the Liar in Chief will generate in the years to come?
Many Americans voted for Trump to "drain the swamp," and now Trump and his brand new administration are wallowing in a swamp of deceptions, lies, and possible treason.
How's that swamp draining working out for you, America?
UPDATE:
Mike Littwin of The Colorado Independent:
Now that the FBI has officially called Trump a liar, what can possibly come next?'
"...the head of the FBI basically called the president a liar before a congressional committee. In modern terms, and maybe in any terms, that is unprecedented. Of course, Trump is a liar. Everyone knows he’s a liar, his hapless defenders most of all. But knowing it and hearing James Comey very publicly confirm it are two different things.
In any other time, it would have been shocking to hear Comey’s testimony. But what was truly shocking was how unremarkable it all seemed. There were no gasps. There was no one—outside of combative Sean Spicer anyway—rushing to Trump’s defense. This is exactly what everyone expected Comey to say. And yet. And yet. When Comey wasn’t putting the absurdity of Trump’s wiretap accusation to rest, he was confirming the news that the FBI was, in fact, investigating whether anyone in the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russians to, well, undermine American democracy.
And when Comey wasn’t deflecting questions about the investigation, Rep. Adam Schiff, a rare bright Democratic light, was making the circumstantial case for why the FBI should be investigating, finally asking this: “Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and nothing more than an entirely unhappy coincidence? Yes, it is possible. But it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated.”
And when Schiff wasn’t hitting the Flynn-Sessions-Manafort-Stone-Page-Russia connection, we were hearing that, of course, the British were no more likely than Obama to have planted a bug in Trump Tower. It’s hard to imagine a worse day for a president. But what we can safely predict is that worse days are coming and that the pace, if the first two months are any indication, will only quicken."
Monday, March 20, 2017
Trump's Tweets About President Obama and Wiretapping?
Trump: LIAR. LIAR. LIAR
FBI Director Comey (Kind of) Calls Trump a Liar and Says Trump-Russia Links Still Being Probed The president can't tweet himself out of this predicament.
Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Is In The Toilet He hits a new low: 37 percent, the worst in 72 years of polling for a young presidency.
Meanwhile, Trump goes golfing for the 9th time in 7 weeks:
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"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf," --Trump tweeted in October 2014. "Worse than Carter."
Trump said a year ago he’d be a very different kind of president. At an event in New Hampshire in Feb. 2016, while again complaining about Obama golfing, Trump declared that if he were in office,“I’d want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.” Soon after, he assured voters,“I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
Trump is a Liar (and Nuts)
Trump shoots off his purdy little mouth all the time accusing the media of being fake news.
That comes from a dude who, a few weeks ago, tweeted out, with absolutely no evidence to support it, the incredulous claim that the former POTUS, Barack Obama, committed a felony and had Trump's "wires tapped" at Trump Tower.
THAT WAS FAKE NEWS.
About a week later, a supposed brilliant legal mind, Andrew Napolitano, a FAUX NOOZ legal analyst, alleged on the electric teevee machine that President Obama had bypassed US spy agencies and had British intelligence do the tapping of Trump's wires. Trump had his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeat that allegation and then he blamed FAUX NOOZ for suggesting it. Blame-weasel.
THAT WAS FAKE NEWS
Trump has spread FAKE NEWS all around this country like so much horse manure, hoping something, anything, will grow from it in order to put some polish on his ridiculously turdy presidency. But this lie about a former president is disturbing because of the seriousness of the charge. Trump's and the GOP's refusal to acknowledge that the wiretapping claim is a lie will cause lasting damage to our democracy, as Josh Marshall writes in his editorial on this shameful, patently false assertion by Trump.
The truth is that Trump is a Liar. Andrew Napolitano is merely a gullible fool.
Report Confirms Fox News’ Napolitano Repeated Russian Media For His British Intelligence Conspiracy Theory
The New York Times has confirmed that Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano sourced his false allegation that former President Barack Obama asked British intelligence to spy on President Donald Trump to a discredited former CIA analyst. This analyst, Larry C. Johnson, floated the conspiracy theory on the Russian state-sponsored news network RT on March 6, the week after Trump’s original accusation that Obama was responsible for an illegal wiretap.
PM Carpenter:
Something will have to give. Our plunge into squalid pettiness and international disgrace has even the straightest of journalists, such as the Washington Post's Dan Balz, penning unconcealed condemnations of the Trump administration's baseness — and its inevitable collision with decency.
"A prudent president … would find ways to avoid needless controversy," writes Balz. "Not President Trump. He’s doing exactly the opposite, and the credibility gap continues to grow."
Adds two NYT reporters: "Trump’s agenda [has been] subsumed by problems of his own making…. [I]t has … become clear that Mr. Trump [is] an agitator incapable of responding proportionately to any slight" — or intelligently, or maturely, addressing any national problem or international predicament.
In short, it would seem that our president is clinically unhinged — bats, bonkers. After 18 months of demonstrable instabilities on the campaign trail, he has, within only two months as president, further revealed himself to be a delusional, emotionally besotted Tricky Dick staggering his way down WH halls and murmuring to ghosts.
Put even shorter: Donald J. Trump is nuts.
And if something is to give, it'll almost have be the 25th Amendment — a true gift of historic proportions.
And this:
Trump: "We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in January. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us...Everybody’s got to be covered.”
THAT WAS FAKE NEWS
White House Admits Trump ‘Insurance For Everybody’ Guarantee Isn’t Going To Happen
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
R.I.P. Chuck Berry -- IMO The Greatest Rock and Roller
Chuck Berry dies at 90.
I am so sorry to hear this. With him goes a part of my youth and my rockin' and rollin' days. He is the true King of Rock & Roll. Everyone who came after him took something from him and made rock better and better.
I've been rocking to Chuck Berry since I was Sweet Little Sixteen!
Long live Rock & Roll! Bless you Chuck Berry. Farewell, and thanks for all the music!
HAIL, HAIL ROCK AND ROLL!
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Beastly, Rude, Obnoxious
Trump was his usual beastly, rude, obnoxious self at yesterday's press briefing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling a German reporter's question "fake news," and refusing to shake Merkel's hand in a photo-op.
Trump is a national and international embarrassment for the United States. Who are the people who still support this maniac?
To repeat what was reported all over the news here and abroad: There is no evidence that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. None. Nada. This is the finding by a Republican House committee. The British did NOT engage in wiretapping Trump Tower as Sean Spicer falsely stated in his press briefing earlier this week, and the Trump administration had to apologize to Britain for repeating that lie.
Trump has embarrassed himself BIGLY with his foolish repetition of a rumor he read on some rabid right-wing fake news outlet, and in turn, embarrassed our country.
Who are the people who still support this out-of-control national embarrassment?
And now he's off for the 7th, 8th, I've lost count, weekend at his luxurious mansion to golf with his fellow billionaires at the American taxpayers' expense while collecting payment for the use of his Mar-a-Lago and pockets it.
Nice little racket you've got there Mr. Embarrassment.
And finally this:
Trump is a national and international embarrassment for the United States. Who are the people who still support this maniac?
To repeat what was reported all over the news here and abroad: There is no evidence that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. None. Nada. This is the finding by a Republican House committee. The British did NOT engage in wiretapping Trump Tower as Sean Spicer falsely stated in his press briefing earlier this week, and the Trump administration had to apologize to Britain for repeating that lie.
Trump has embarrassed himself BIGLY with his foolish repetition of a rumor he read on some rabid right-wing fake news outlet, and in turn, embarrassed our country.
Who are the people who still support this out-of-control national embarrassment?
US reporters shocked when this German reporter asked #Trump: "Why do you keep saying things you know are not true?"
And now he's off for the 7th, 8th, I've lost count, weekend at his luxurious mansion to golf with his fellow billionaires at the American taxpayers' expense while collecting payment for the use of his Mar-a-Lago and pockets it.
Nice little racket you've got there Mr. Embarrassment.
And finally this:
Friday, March 17, 2017
Oh Donny Boy
SEE BELOW FOR ANOTHER TRUMP FUBAR.
h/t PM Carpenter
FUBAR
File under "Can Trump Do ANYTHING Right?"
Trump loves to pass himself off as a devout Christian, so when asked to quote his favorite Bible verse during his campaign for the presidency, he said "Two Corinthians," which made people who know their Bible understand that Trump is a fake and knows little to nothing about the Bible. However, that didn't stop his supporters, who claim to be Christian, from adoring the phony nonsense coming out of this clown's mouth.
Today is St. Patrick's Day, a happy day for the Irish, and yesterday Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was treated to Trump's "favorite Irish proverb" as part of Trump's St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Only problem?
The "proverb" is actually a poem, and it is not Irish, it was written by a 30-year old Nigerian.
The question now is: Is Trump's staff deliberately trolling him? Trump looked like a clown again with his foolish claim of a Nigerian poem being his favorite Irish proverb.
Read it all here, and then read the witheringly funny Tweets that followed this FUBAR.
h/t PM Carpenter
FUBAR
File under "Can Trump Do ANYTHING Right?"
Trump loves to pass himself off as a devout Christian, so when asked to quote his favorite Bible verse during his campaign for the presidency, he said "Two Corinthians," which made people who know their Bible understand that Trump is a fake and knows little to nothing about the Bible. However, that didn't stop his supporters, who claim to be Christian, from adoring the phony nonsense coming out of this clown's mouth.
Today is St. Patrick's Day, a happy day for the Irish, and yesterday Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was treated to Trump's "favorite Irish proverb" as part of Trump's St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Only problem?
The "proverb" is actually a poem, and it is not Irish, it was written by a 30-year old Nigerian.
The question now is: Is Trump's staff deliberately trolling him? Trump looked like a clown again with his foolish claim of a Nigerian poem being his favorite Irish proverb.
Read it all here, and then read the witheringly funny Tweets that followed this FUBAR.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
It's Good To Be The King
UPDATE BELOW
Trump's first pass at a budget proposes eliminating funds for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It also includes cutting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a key revenue source for PBS and National Public Radio and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
"While some Republicans have voiced support for the endowments, the arts endowment in particular has been a target of conservatives for decades. After political battles over the endowments in the late 1980s and 1990s, both agencies created programs and provided grants to more artists and scholars in politically conservative parts of the country, like a rural arts initiative that benefited states like Alabama and North Dakota.
Yet endowment money still flowed strongly to liberal-leaning states and cities: New York City arts groups are the largest recipient of federal arts grants. Some advocates for the arts endowment, which doles out far less money as a percentage than many other governments around the world, have said that its importance is less about the money and more about the message that it sends about the importance of culture in the United States.
PEN America, an advocacy group made up of literary figures, has been circulating a petition in an effort to save the endowments that has already amassed 200,000 signatures, including prominent names such as Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood."
I'm not surprised.
The proposed cuts come from a Republican president whose idea of culture is judging Miss Teen and Miss Universe pageants, building casinos that look like a mausoleum in Agra, India, and living in a golden tower that would make Louis XIV embarrassed because of its overwrought, gauche bad taste.
So here's Trump's America:
Take away health care for millions of middle class and poor Americans; eliminate the endowments for the arts; bar Muslims from entering the country, all while flying every weekend to West Palm Beach, Florida, for a vacation, at a cost to the American taxpayers of $3 million a pop, and then charge his weekend jaunts at Trump's playground for the rich to the American taxpayer. Meanwhile, Melania Antoinette and her son are ensconced in Trump Tower in Manhattan, also at taxpayers' expense.
It's good to be the king, eh Donnie?
UPDATE:
Charlie Pierce at Esquire:
Every year, during the run-up to Halloween, when Jim DeMint goes to Hell's mega-mall and sits on Satan's lap, he has a list of things he wants for the holiday. The parents of the assembled demons and imps behind him in line often get frustrated because the list is so long. On Thursday, the Trump Administration released its proposed national budget.
It's been a long time coming, but DeMint and the rest of the greasy barbarians at Heritage finally got most of what they asked for. This proposed budget isn't extreme. Reagan's proposed budget in 1981 was extreme. This budget is short-sighted, cruel to the point of being sadistic, stupid to the point of pure philistinism, and shot through with the absolute and fundamentalist religious conviction that the only true functions of government are the ones that involve guns, and that the only true purpose of government is to serve the rich.
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Who in the hell zeroes out Meals on Wheels?
Who decides that a program that spends $3 million to help volunteers feed the elderly and infirm in their communities is something that the country can no longer afford? Who are the men in the meetings who make this kind of call? What are their names? Trot them out so the country knows who they are. C'mon, David Brooks, find out who they are and explain why National Greatness Conservatism has a problem with starving elderly shut-ins.
The National Endowment For The Arts? The National Endowment For The Humanities? The Corporation For Public Broadcasting? Who in the hell zeroes out the NEA, or the NEH, or the CPB? Who decides that rural museums, and Ken Burns, and Antiques Roadshow are too elitist for a country full of righteous bumpkins? I'll tell you who does. Newt Gingrich does, that's who, and 23 years ago Newt Gingrich was the superstar of the conservative movement, the intellectual anchor of the modern Right, until, of course, he became a public embarrassment. You know who else does? George Effing Will, just today, that's who. These programs did not become targets last November.
WHO IN THE HELL ZEROES OUT MEALS ON WHEELS?
I'll tell you who, Charlie. The sort of people who believe America is a hellhole and who are doing their damndest to make it so:
The Republican Party
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
TRUMP ON HEALTH CARE: He promised you everything but will deliver nothing
HERE'S THE CBO'S REPORT.
Remember how the Goopers lost their coconuts because President Obama said about Obamacare, "If you like your health care plan you can keep it?"
I have a right winger who's been coming to P.E. since President Obama's administration to remind us of that gawdawful LIE!
But he's silent on the gigantic LIES by the Liar-in-Chief, Donald J. Trump:
Trump vowed that his plan would provide “insurance for everybody” — unlike the Affordable Care Act. Insurance plans, Trump promised, would have “much lower deductibles.” And price, he said, won’t be an issue. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
From the NYTimes:
"The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday that next year 14 million fewer Americans will have insurance if the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is repealed and replaced on the terms the president is seeking. That tally would rise to 21 million in 2020 and 24 million in 2026. By then, the total number of uninsured Americans would reach 52 million.
And for what?
To give a gigantic tax cut to wealthy Americans. According to the C.B.O. the loss of health care coverage under the Republican plan stems largely from gutting Medicaid for low-income Americans, even though Mr. Trump has said he would not cut Medicaid.
Coverage would also be lost in part because insurance would become unaffordable for millions as subsidies are withdrawn, despite Mr. Trump’s claim that coverage would become “much less expensive and much better.”
President Obama on the ACA: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." That was considered an unforgivable LIE by the Goopers.
But there's silence on all these blistering lies and fake promises by the Liar-in-Chief and his administration spokesliars:
(h/t Politico)
1) “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” LIE
2) “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid” LIE
3) “We don't want anyone who currently has insurance to not have insurance.” LIE
4) “I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we’re going through.” LIE
5) “I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” More recently, Trump has promised that repeal will end with “a beautiful picture.” LIE
Jonathan Chait explains why this non-health care legislation by the GOP will be a national disaster for Americans and the GOP:
This proposal, the centerpiece of the new all-Republican government’s legislative agenda, is an expression of its shared philosophy. Donald Trump has altered the Republican stance on trade and immigration, not to mention self-enrichment by the First Family and the routine propagation of conspiracy theories by the chief executive. But he has hewed closely to the party’s conviction that the central problem in American life is a government that redistributes too much from the privileged to the underprivileged.
It remains to be seen whether enough Republicans have the courage of their convictions to follow through on this plan. Depriving millions of Americans access to medical care would impose pain more directly and widely than any legislative act in modern U.S. history.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A LIAR
Monday, March 13, 2017
The Trump Administration's Mike Flynn Scandal
Why was Mike Flynn named Trump's NSA adviser when he was an agent of a foreign government, Turkey?
Trump said he didn't *cough* know *cough.*
Mike Pence said he didn't *cough* "know" *cough* either.
Let that sink in.
Mike Flynn was working for a foreign government, Turkey, while he was on Trump's transition team and while Mike Pence was THE HEAD of Trump's transition team and then when he was named Trump's NSA adviser.
Ever hear of this in your lifetime? Neither have I.
And it stinks to the Oort Cloud.
After Mike Flynn was fired, he then registered as a foreign agent -- a lobbyist -- for Turkey.
Mike Pence didn't know? Trump didn't know?
You believe that?
Two things: If they didn't know, they're incompetent, and they damn well should have; if they did know, they're liars and should be investigated and their asses kicked out of office for lying about allowing a foreign agent as the head of NSA.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday Night Poetry by Donald J. Trump
Never forget: 81% of Evangelical Christians voted for him.
You Can Do Anything
"I did try and f*k her. She was married.
I moved on her like a bitch,
But I couldn't get there.
And she was married.
You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful.
I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss.
I don't even wait.
You can do anything--
Grab them by the pussy.
You can do anything."
Grab them by the pussy.
You can do anything."
--Donald J. Trump
45th President of the United States of America
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