Welcome Back to Pottersville: Gotham City Digest, 11/12/18

Where we promise never to leave you alone, in the rain.

It is impossible to estimate how many billions of lives the life, work and example of Marvel's Stan Lee had positively touched and will continue to touch. And not many can claim that distinction. #RIPStanLee.

Republican brains are so incredibly abnormal, there are even physical differences from the brains of sane ordinary people.

You gotta give Rick Scott an A for ambition but a D for delusion.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, these fine, upstanding young white males are giving the Nazi salute in their suspiciously all-male class picture. Yeah, Trump owns this, too.

So, a black security guard stops a mass shooting, then the responding officer shot him dead by mistaking him for a criminal. Do the right thing and you still get shot and killed.

Oh, so now the asshole who ties up traffic every time he goes to Mar a Lago is suddenly afraid to tie up traffic outside Paris. I smell a Letterman Top Ten list coming up.

"The White House then said on Monday that Trump would not be attending Arlington National Cemetery, where past presidents have traditionally gone to pay their respects to military service members on Veterans Day. The forecast on Monday calls for a 100 percent chance of rain at the cemetery."

Next time, MAGAts, don't elect a man with cotton candy for hair.

Jesus, it took them two fucking years to discover that?

     Some highlights from President Rain Man's latest European vacation:
     "After a few hours in a Paris hotel, the White House called off Trump’s attendance at the first memorial event of the weekend, at Belleau, where 2,000 US marines were killed. The ostensible reason for the sudden cancellation: rain."
     "A display of leadership solidarity in the face of the scourge of war became once more an exercise in isolation. As other leaders walked in a phalanx along the Champs Élysées on Sunday, Trump travelled separately, by armoured limousine."
     "On early occasions he had managed a show of bonhomie in meetings with Macron but at his Élysée Palace meeting this time, he sat glumly like a pupil made to stay after school and did not respond when Macron patted him on the arm."
     "Trump looked on grimly throughout. The only moment he brightened up was when he saw Vladimir Putin approach. He flashed a goofy smile, all the more noticeable alongside Macron and Merkel who had switched their demeanour to steel resolve on spotting the Russian leader.
     Putin solemnly shook hands with them and then gave Trump a big thumbs up."

There's only one reason why this goose stepper would put this online- To boast about his White House connection, as if to say, "See? Trump loves us!" Now you know why the WH won't release its visitor logs, why they say they're "sensitive to national security." More like white nationalist insecurity.

Here's Chuck Schumer in a nutshell:

He's a bank robbery hostage with Stockholm Syndrome who's hoping the bank robbers will somehow beef up the bank's security.
This is what we have for Democrats, people. This is what you centrist assholes keep telling us to vote for. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader CC)

The news on the left coast just keeps getting better and better. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Moscow) just lost his reelection bid.

Oh, this is rich, coming from someone who lost a lawsuit that tried to impound the voting machines of an entire Florida county. Projection, thy name is Rick Scott.

First Dubai went Robocop with their robotic officers. Now they're going all Judge Dredd with experimental hoverbikes. Bonus nightmare fuel: The FAA doesn't mandate that owners need a license to fly one of these things.

On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending WWI, on Veteran's Day weekend, our Commander in Chief blew off the dead soldiers who'd died in that war because he couldn't face a security threat called drizzle.

Sorry, I refuse to see how the so-called Blue Wave lived up to its two year-long hype. Flipping state legislatures is all good and well but it doesn't make a damned bit of difference on the Hill. As I'd said Wednesday afternoon on my blog, without the Senate, the Crown Jewel in the midterms, the House can write all the articles of impeachment that they want. With a right wing Senate, those articles will never be ratified. Ever. And we have not only the corruption of Republicans to thank for losing the Senate yet again but also the laziness, apathy and sheer, utter stupidity of the American voting public that can always be depended upon to vote against its own interests.

Oh, the irony. Maybe Trump will pardon him and make Sayoc the fucking Postmaster General.

It's now known that a California court blocked a new law that had prohibited high capacity magazines. The NRA and Republicans: Fuck the will of the people. Let them die in the name of Free-dumb.

I'd bet it wouldn't be "embarrassing" to this small time right wing editor if the situation was reversed.

Yes, you read that right. Trump's about to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three dead people (Babe Ruth, Elvis and Scalia) and a billionaire donor's wife. I expect the Onion will go out of business any day now.

Yeah, THAT Judith Miller, the one who made a mockery of journalism in Iraq. When these right wing meatheads mock Ocasio-Cortez and other Socialist Democrats, they come off looking like the prep school jocks making fun of the lunch lady. It's not a real good look for them. (Another tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader CC)

Not that we can afford to talk but what the fuck was Brazil thinking last month?

"Georgia election server wiped after suit filed." Remember back in the good old days when politicians used shredders?

It's called Democracy, Skeletor. Look it up on Wikipedia.

Caleb Carr once wrote a sci fi novel entitled, Killing Time. It was about a doctored video showing the assassination of the first female president. In it was an aphorism: "Information is not necessarily knowledge."
I give you Infowars' doctored video of Jim Acosta supposedly striking the WH intern who tried to grab the microphone out of his hand, the one jumped on by Sarah Sanders.

As I'd said earlier, right wing shysters are actually suing for only certain ballots from certain places to be counted. Raise your hand if you think this is not representative democracy.

Democrats since Tuesday: "Let's thoroughly count all the votes so we'll all know who rightfully won."

Republicans since Tuesday: "Don't count all the votes in Florida and just count the ones in Republican strongholds in Arizona or we'll accuse you of stealing the elections."
They're not even trying to hide their Tammany Hall-class corruption at this point.

"We're not a mob, we just like Bob." Folks, this is perhaps the last time in American history when you'll ever see sane, normal people gather in large numbers to support a Republican.

Looks as if Mitch cancelled his longtime hit contract on Obamacare. Gee, you think us taking back the House had something to do with this? And finally...

At first, some of these state results from Tuesday look encouraging until you see Hawaii didn't even come close to cracking 40%, Louisiana barely broke 35% and nationwide we managed just 49%. You have to wonder at this point what kind of crisis would actually get Americans off their fat, pasty asses and vote in majority numbers. It's not as if Trump, who got barely 25% of the voting age public to vote for him, hasn't long since passed that tipping point.