Gotham City Digest, 7/18/18
In which we promise only to prick your conscience, never your delusions.
I like being informed and having knowledge few others know. But what fascinates me is what I DON'T know. Seriously, there better be a YUGE payoff at the end of all this waiting and I won't settle for anything less than Trump getting thrown in federal prison for life.
Maria Butina offering sex in exchange for a position in an organization she was targeting? Thanks to Trump, we're living in a 60's James Bond movie.
"Montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. … They're very aggressive people. They may get aggressive, and congratulations you're in World War III." - Actual quote from one man 5th Column Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson on Fox.
And in case you need yet another reason to loath Jeff fucking Bezos and Amazon... I think this Seattle City Council member Sawant is a little too idealistic, uncompromising and not as pragmatic as she should be. After all, some compromise is essential in all politics. But I love her idea for a $500 head tax, that Amazon and Bezos viciously (and successfully) attacked. The Seattle City Council is supposed to work for the people of Seattle, not Jeff fucking Bezos.
So, we just got hit with a bill for nearly $70,000 so Donald Trump could play two rounds of golf in Scotland yet we're supposed to believe no one profited? All these greaseball grifters have done is profit off the presidency.
Every once in a great while, Donald Trump can be shamed into doing or saying something to countermand something he'd done or said that's truly shameful. We saw it in the days after Charlottesville, when he blamed "both sides" for the violence, then the next day he walked back his statements to blame just the neoNazis and white supremacists. Then the very next day at Trump Tower, with his Jewish son in law, daughter and Jewish Treasury Secretary standing right next to him, he went back and said the racists and antisemites were "very fine people".
Maria Butina offering sex in exchange for a position in an organization she was targeting? Thanks to Trump, we're living in a 60's James Bond movie.
"Montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. … They're very aggressive people. They may get aggressive, and congratulations you're in World War III." - Actual quote from one man 5th Column Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson on Fox.
And in case you need yet another reason to loath Jeff fucking Bezos and Amazon... I think this Seattle City Council member Sawant is a little too idealistic, uncompromising and not as pragmatic as she should be. After all, some compromise is essential in all politics. But I love her idea for a $500 head tax, that Amazon and Bezos viciously (and successfully) attacked. The Seattle City Council is supposed to work for the people of Seattle, not Jeff fucking Bezos.
So, we just got hit with a bill for nearly $70,000 so Donald Trump could play two rounds of golf in Scotland yet we're supposed to believe no one profited? All these greaseball grifters have done is profit off the presidency.
Every once in a great while, Donald Trump can be shamed into doing or saying something to countermand something he'd done or said that's truly shameful. We saw it in the days after Charlottesville, when he blamed "both sides" for the violence, then the next day he walked back his statements to blame just the neoNazis and white supremacists. Then the very next day at Trump Tower, with his Jewish son in law, daughter and Jewish Treasury Secretary standing right next to him, he went back and said the racists and antisemites were "very fine people".
Then there was the Vegas shooting that killed 58 people and wounded
about 850 others. Trump said he was taking strong measures then the next
day signed a ban on bump stocks and nothing else.
Then there was Helsinki, in which he sided with Putin and not his own intelligence community. When he saw the opposition on Fox, the only channel he watches, and saw his numbers tank, he yesterday said he stood by his intelligence community regarding their belief that Russia hacked the election.
Then, predictably, the very next day, today, there was THIS.
You can't fix corruption any more than you can fix stupid.
Wow, what a great time to be a Russian or Ukrainian in this country. Probation for trying to murder a toddler then hitting a cyclist, a motorist and dragging someone with her car for 10 blocks. Yet, despite a confession and all that violence, the judge considered her to be a "low risk" for more violence. So what justice did the family of the hung toddler get? Sorry, a decade of probation just wouldn't cut it for me.
Look, in these "interesting times", we can either laugh or cry. And laughing is so much more fun. This is just some of the fun fodder with which late night comedians had at Trump's expense last night, courtesy of my friend Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors.
Every other right wing president has installed fellow right wingers on the High Court in the interests of leaving long term conservative time bombs in their wake. Trump's the first who's trying to install a short-term human counter measure picked solely to protect him from Robert Mueller. And finally...
Trump Badyear Blimp stopped before IRS jihad designed to "start a second American revolution."
Then there was Helsinki, in which he sided with Putin and not his own intelligence community. When he saw the opposition on Fox, the only channel he watches, and saw his numbers tank, he yesterday said he stood by his intelligence community regarding their belief that Russia hacked the election.
Then, predictably, the very next day, today, there was THIS.
You can't fix corruption any more than you can fix stupid.
Wow, what a great time to be a Russian or Ukrainian in this country. Probation for trying to murder a toddler then hitting a cyclist, a motorist and dragging someone with her car for 10 blocks. Yet, despite a confession and all that violence, the judge considered her to be a "low risk" for more violence. So what justice did the family of the hung toddler get? Sorry, a decade of probation just wouldn't cut it for me.
Look, in these "interesting times", we can either laugh or cry. And laughing is so much more fun. This is just some of the fun fodder with which late night comedians had at Trump's expense last night, courtesy of my friend Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors.
Every other right wing president has installed fellow right wingers on the High Court in the interests of leaving long term conservative time bombs in their wake. Trump's the first who's trying to install a short-term human counter measure picked solely to protect him from Robert Mueller. And finally...
posted by jurassicpork @ Wednesday, July 18, 2018
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It sort of seems like the President says something crazy and when it turns out to be too crazy even for him, he takes it back the next day, then regrets it and half takes back the take back on Day 3. Which means I need a two-day lag time on my news, so he can figure out what his final answer is.
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