Hurricane Florence

I'm sorry for the folks in North Carolina who have troglodytes representing them in their state. They should have taken to heart what astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson said:

"The great thing about science is that it is real, whether you believe it or not."

Now the folks who have idiots in their state legislature will suffer the consequences of ignoring what is real.




From The Guardian: 

 In 2012, the state now in the path of Hurricane Florence reacted to a prediction by its Coastal Resources Commission that sea levels could rise by 39 inches over the next century by passing a law that banned policies based on such forecasts. 

 The legislation drew ridicule, including a mocking segment by comedian Stephen Colbert, who said: “If your science gives you a result you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.”

Now that the North Carolina faces Hurricane Florence, it is important to remember that the state banned the use of climate science in determining public policy. This has widespread implications for infrastructure, construction, recovery, etc.

THURSDAY NIGHT LAUGHS

TRUMP'S "BEST PEOPLE"

President Porn Star Shagger bragged about what a great job he and his administration did during Hurricane Maria. He was lying again, of course.

For the record, here are the death tolls of recent hurricanes. DJT's record is deplorable.

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President Trump just said Puerto Rico was an "incredible, unsung success"

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They don't like him in Ireland, either.

President Unindicted Co-conspirator couldn't show his face in London because of the huge (2 million people) anti-Trump crowd. Now Ireland sends a signal that he's persona non grata there as well.

MAGA!

When do you suppose his cultists will get the massage?

PS: This NEVER happened during Presidenct Obama's term in office. He was always welcomed by our closest allies.

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Trump cancels Ireland trip after massive protests planned throughout Dublin

The president is still expected to attend Armistice Day celebrations in France

The French don't like Trump either. Believe me!





Actually, that's an exaggeration. Some people do  like him -- the deplorable 30 percenters adore him.

September 11, 2018

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Here's President Unindicted Co-conspirator giving us his most eloquent words on this most solemn day.  What a putz!

And here's the Goopers' preznit, pumped AF, on his way to a solemn memorial service for the Americans killed on flight 93 in Shanksville, Penn. Imagine if President Obama behaved like this on such a somber, serious occasion. The Goopers would have swallowed their faces in outrage.

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Yes. We. Can.

Saturday Night Dancing

It's been a cray-cray week. What to do but rock out on a Saturday night:

"How hard can that be? Saying Nazis are bad?"

Well, according to Bob Woodward's book, President Unindicted Co-Conspirator said it was the worst effing mistake he made when he condemned the Charlottesville white supremacist march and tried to walk back his claim that Nazis were nice people. 

#45 actually REGRETTED his condemnation of Nazis. That's who the TrumpCultists admire.

This is what President Obama (our last normal president) had to say in his speech in Urbana Illinois:



Barack Obama Makes the Case Against Trump 

 The former president has a prescription for the country. But it didn't prevent Trump’s election in the first place “The claim that everything will turn out okay because there are people inside the White House who secretly aren't following the president's orders—that is not a check,” Obama said. “I'm being serious here. That's not how our democracy is supposed to work. These people aren't elected. They are not accountable.” 

 Obama’s alternative was straightforward: “As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a fellow citizen, I am here to deliver a simple message, and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it.” 

This is not merely an abstract proposition. He has endorsed 81 candidates nationwide so far—many of them in state-level races—with more announcements expected. The former president laid out a detailed case. It was vintage Obama: earnest in its belief in the power of democratic action; carefully caveated and circumspect; and determined to steer a middle course. 

His example is important for the Democratic Party, because since Hillary Clinton’s loss, there’s no clear leader who sets a tone for the entire party. Some Democrats have recommended an all-out assault on Trump, focusing on his outrageous behavior and violations of norms, but others have worried about outrage fatigue and pushed for a greater focus on kitchen-table issues, from health care to taxes.




It was much too hard for the Evangelical Christians' POTUS to say. And when #45 was finally forced to acknowledge that the Nazis were not nice, he said it was the biggest effing mistake of his life.  MAGA!

President Unindicted Co-Conspirator...

bragged about having "unwavering faith" from a murderous, mad, Communist.

And he trashes our America presidents and military heroes.

TrumpCultists have no problem with that because they're as unAmerican and crazy as he is.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims “unwavering faith in President Trump.” Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!

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Here it is...

right from the IDIOT'S mouth. 

His wish to fundamentally change America and her Constitution to conform to his totalitarian whims:


"Donald Trump has had plenty of bad things to say about protesters over the past couple of years. 

Tuesday, in response to protests at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, he took the next step and said out loud—to the Daily Caller—that protest should be banned: 

 “I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” Trump said. “I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters. 

You don’t even know what side the protesters are on.” 

 He added: “In the old days, we used to throw them out. Today, I guess they just keep screaming.”


I have no respect or allegiance to an entity who sits in the Oval Office and is against everything the U.S. Constitution guarantees.

Here's what is needed:



Columnist Michael Cohen:
'...America doesn’t need whitewashed bread and circuses that offer symbolic paeans to American greatness. We need tangible actions, not speechwriter-crafted rhetoric. We need politics and politicians that recognize their own culpability in Trump’s ascendancy. We need a national cleansing and a larger recognition that Trump didn’t seep out of the primordial ooze. He is the logical outcome of decades of politics — and let’s be clear, overwhelmingly Republican politics — that has been small, mean, dishonest, tribal, and cowardly. .

Trump is a blight on our national politics. But he’s no aberration. Getting rid of him is a good start toward fixing what’s wrong in American politics, but to get to the nub of the issue would require traits that John McCain often demonstrated — true introspection and self-reflection. '

THE BOMBSHELL FROM THE TRUMP INSIDER

UPDATE:


Trump: now a thirty-something prez!

President Unindicted Co-Conspirator is polling at 36% approval. If he can get himself to sink lower, the Democrats will surely prevail in the House, and maybe -- a long shot -- the Senate, and the good people of this country will prevail!

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"The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making."


"Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over. The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility."



Charlie Pierce:

"Yeah, his behavior in office has shocked the hell out of me, too. Who could've guessed that a raving know-nothing with a gold commode might turn out to be a tacky president*? 

 Enough of this stuff. Stand up in the light of day and tell your stories. All of them, right from the beginning. Admit that what you're confronting now is the end result of 40 years of conservative politics and all the government-is-the-problem malfeasance you've been imbibing since you were wingnuts in swaddling. 

The fire's licking at your ankles at last. Come out of the cupboards, you boys and girls. None of you are heroes."

"We're in Crazytown."

The new Bob Woodward book on Trump, "Fear."


Below are excerpts from the Woodward book. Read these jarring statements from people who work closest to #45. 

They're horrifying. 

Yet #45's cultists refuse to see him for the ignorant lying wreck of a human being that he is. No doubt that is why they're referred to as "cultists," for only brainwashed or braindead followers would continue to support this morally diseased pig.

Report: Everybody in the White House Considers Trump an Idiot

Josh Marshall:

"[Trump] certainly shows the abusive, aggressive behavior so pervasively that it amounts to his brand. He is an habitual, compulsive, comical liar. He lacks any moral compass. He is thoroughly, indeed militantly ignorant.

I say all these things merely to make the point that it is astonishing that the country has allowed this clownish hustler to remain President for almost two years. Even if President Trump were somewhat normal in policy terms, whether on immigration, civil rights, trade, alliances, etc and even if he hadn’t conspired with a foreign government to get elected he still wouldn’t be remotely equipped to be President. And yet here we are. Some will act surprised."

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"White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly frequently lost his temper and told colleagues that he thought the president was “unhinged,” Woodward writes. In one small group meeting, Kelly said of Trump: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”

Josh Barro

✔@jbarro

What’s the old saying? “If you’re explaining that you didn’t call your boss an idiot, you’re losing”?

Jennifer Bendery

✔@jbendery

In other news, John Kelly says he didn't call Trump an idiot.

[snip]

"Few in Trump’s orbit were protected from the president’s insults. He often mocked former national security adviser H.R. McMaster behind his back, puffing up his chest and exaggerating his breathing as he impersonated the retired Army general, and once said McMaster dresses in cheap suits, “like a beer salesman.” 

 Trump told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a wealthy investor eight years his senior: “I don’t trust you. I don’t want you doing any more negotiations. … You’re past your prime.”

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A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions was a “traitor” for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

[snip]

"At a dinner with Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others, Trump lashed out at a vocal critic, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He falsely suggested that the former Navy pilot had been a coward for taking early release from a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam because of his father’s military rank and leaving others behind. 

 Mattis swiftly corrected his boss: “No, Mr. President, I think you’ve got it reversed.” The defense secretary explained that McCain, who died Aug. 25, had in fact turned down early release and was brutally tortured during his five years at the Hanoi Hilton.

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"Woodward describes several instances where Trump administration officials - chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, in particular - removed documents from the president's desk to keep Mr Trump from signing them. 

It was all part of a larger effort to insulate the administration, and the nation, from what they saw as Mr Trump's more dangerous impulses. Documents that would have allowed the president to withdraw the nation from the North American Free Trade Agreement and a trade deal with South Korea were hidden - and the US has since committed to renegotiating the pacts. Woodward describes these acts as "no less than an administrative coup d'etat".

[snip]


"I'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot," Dowd [Trump's lawyer] is quoted as telling Mueller. "And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, 'I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?'" 

 Later that month, Dowd reportedly told Trump: "Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jumpsuit." 

 When Trump protested Dowd's concerns, claiming he would be a "real good witness," Dowd reportedly contradicted that and said, "Mr. President, I'm afraid I just can't help you." 

Dowd resigned the day after that exchange, according to the book.

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There it is. The "president's" closest advisors, counselors, and aides have to keep him from harming our country because Donald J. Trump is a galloping idiot who hasn't a clue about governance or even being an American. 

And he's the POTUS?

If there were a Hell (and I don't believe in one) I would condemn all of #45's supporters to suffer there for eternity for refusing to see Trump for what he is and for allowing this travesty to continue to destroy our country. 





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I Support Colin Kaepernick and Nike

Just Do It!

All great causes start out unpopular with the masses.  Our independence from England was not wildly popular with the farmers and other Colonial folks of New England. The Civil Rights Movement was not popular with a majority of Americans when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.

I predict that support for Colin Kaepernick's protest for equality and against brutality by overzealous law enforcement will continue to grow. It already has since Kapernick's frist "take a knee" protest.

More and more Americans believe in his cause. It is righteous.

Just Do It!

Well, they are Trumpista Cultists, afterall. That explains it.

"Colin Kaepernick, the former N.F.L. quarterback who inspired a player protest movement but who has been out of a job for more than a year, has signed a new, multiyear deal with Nike that makes him a face of the 30th anniversary of the sports apparel company’s “Just Do It” campaign, Nike confirmed on Monday. 

 The first advertisement from Nike, one of the league’s top partners, debuted Monday afternoon, when Kaepernick tweeted it, assuring that his activism and the protest movement against racism and social injustice he started would continue to loom over one of the country’s most powerful sports leagues. Nike will produce new Kaepernick apparel, including a shoe and a T-shirt, and if the merchandise sells well, the value of the deal will rival those of other top N.F.L. players, according to people close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because Nike had not formally announced it. 

Nike will also donate money to Kaepernick’s “Know Your Rights” campaign. The N.F.L. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The ad and the campaign, coming a few days before the start of the N.F.L. season on Thursday, is likely to annoy the league’s top executives and its owners. 

On Thursday, Kaepernick won a victory in his grievance against the league when an arbitrator let his case, in which he accuses the league of conspiring to keep him off the field because of his activism, advance."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, 

but it bends toward justice"

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy Labor Day 2018

Labor built this country. Without it, the millionaire and billionaire corporatists would not have been able to build a thing.




And these last observations on John McCain's passing:



John McCain’s Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet

 Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter teamed up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump. McCain’s grand funeral—the Obama adviser David Axelrod called it an exercise in “civic communion”—underscored a fact that is often lost about Washington these days. The city is much more bipartisan, in some respects, than it has ever been, more united than it may currently seem, in its hatred of Donald Trump.

Some are more forthright about this than others, for understandable reasons. Others are circumspect, especially the elected Republican officials who have now publicly bowed to Trump after trying and failing to stop his ascendance in their party. But their presence at McCain’s funeral suggested that the final chapter has not yet been written in the Republican drama over what to do about the crude interloper who has taken over their party.

McCain certainly died hoping for something other than the current, slavish devotion to Trump that many Republicans on Capitol Hill now profess, and that is what his funeral was meant to remind us. Watching John Boehner and Elizabeth Warren, David Petraeus and Leon Panetta, Al Gore and Madeleine Albright and Paul Ryan glad-hand in the pre-noon hours of September 1st, there was no doubt of what their presence there, together, was meant to convey.

Garry Kasparov

✔@Kasparov63

Those who stand against Trump will move on to many different things when he's gone, but those who still support him should never be forgotten or forgiven.

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A searing rebuke to the weasely coward currently disgracing the White House:

Every important person who ever had anything to do with Senator John McCain is in the cathedral for his service:

President Obama, President George W. Bush,  President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Vice President Al Gore, V.P. Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, John Kelly, Lindsey Graham, etc., etc., even #45's daughter and her husband are there. A veritible Who's Who in importance in American governance as well as all other aspects of our American life.

Everyone EXCEPT our disgraceful, nasty, hateful, ugly loud-mouth bullying preznit, Donald J. Trump. 

He was specifically not invited.

Senator McCain's final rebuke to a horrible human being and a horrible president.




This is Brett Stevens, conservative columnist for the New York Times writing about Trump:



"An American president who, in matters of both character and conviction, was low and vapid and mean-spirited and bottomlessly dishonorable — McCain’s opposite in every respect."


George W. Bush: 

 "Above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots."