Friday, May 31, 2019

Gotham City Digest

(In which we swear we don't have to wear football helmets 18 hours a day)

     Neocons are dusting off Eisenhower's old playbook and are now courting the Shah's son with the intention of installing another pro-corporate puppet in Tehran.

     Steve Bannon: Trump will lose supporters when they discover he’s just another non-billionaire scumbag.

     Fucking A, call his bluff, Mueller.

     Even Thad Cochran's death is all about me, Me, ME with Trumpie the Klown.

     There is absolutely no end to this gargoyle's pettiness.

     "RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL!!" In Mississippi, of all places?! Well, I'm just shocked!

     New Hampshire just got rid of the death penalty and overrode the Governor's veto. Fuck Christopher Sununu.

     Just when you think Trump can't get any pettier. The NY Times:
"A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said."

      Two words, Douchewitz-Ken Starr.

     So, it's not pollution as long as you call it "molecules of freedom." Did MiniEn just become part of MiniTru?

     Remember when he was stumbling on the campaign trail, Trump assured the goobers he wouldn't cut their Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare? Uh, yeah, about that...

     Typical Trumper- Fuck the law. Laws are for Democrats to obey. Then when they get hit with breaking the law, it's "political retribution."

     I don't fault a political candidate for trying to gobble up the early money. What I AM concerned about is where that money comes from.

     So much winning.

     Mueller's about-face on how Bill Barr brought out his own report is a stunning act of hypocrisy for those of us who thought he was a straight shooter.

     "GOP backlash"?! Who puts whom in office? To quote V for Vendetta: "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

     If I believed in God, I'd pray for RBG every day.

     I utterly fail to see how Trump's supporters can still defend this asshole even after his golf outings at his own golf clubs have cost us over $100,000,000. You'd think the optics of a so-called billionaire leader costing us so much for a silly game while he's finding endless ways to make life more difficult for them wouldn't be lost on them. But these are Trumpanzees we're talking about here.

     Killing Roe vs Wade is just the start of the war on women and the privacy of Americans in general.

     They pointedly didn't apologize for smearing Ocasio-Cortez but for taking attention away from veterans. So the Grizzlies are either fucking idiots for airing Republican propaganda without viewing it or they're lying through their teeth.

     This is the moron Trump chose to head a panel on climate change. He likened calls to combat climate change to “the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler” after telling a Jewish reporter to "shut up."

     As you can expect, Trump's Wikipedia page is a war zone.

     I usually don't have much respect for police unions but in this case I think they're standing on firm ground in demanding this asshole's resignation.

     The nerve of them. Have they so soon forgotten why the GOP broke every rule in the book to shoehorn them into the court?

     Get this: The guy who'd taken out full-page ads calling for the execution of the unconvicted Central Park 5 (who were later found not guilty) is railing against Biden for his support of the Crime Bill. Hypocrisy's a rotting corpse. Rachel Maddow said years ago that hypocrisy's the one crime in DC for which there's no punishment.

     Jason Stanley tries to define fascism.

     Good on MacKenzie Bezos. Yet it still doesn't change the fact that taxation is better than philanthropy that get massive tax write-offs. Charity can't solve wealth inequality. Never has. Never will. And philanthropy tends to benefit organizations, not individuals.

     If Trump held a rally in Madison Square Garden, this is exactly what it would be like.

     Apologies if I'm reposting this especially as this came out two years ago but this is such a cool idea.

     I honestly don't know why all towns and cities don't do this for their veterans.

     No shit. You don't need to be a legal expert to see THAT.

     Interesting. I've been closely following the UFO phenomenon for well over a decade. And I'm more than convinced the government's been hiding the truth from us since the 40's. I'm glad to see the Navy's taking it more seriously.

     More rack and ruin from this endlessly pathetic screaming Kabuki play of an administration- This is the largest cutting of civil service positions in a decade.

     Sure, Toronto, elect another Ford since the last one worked out so fucking well.

     Well, if anyone would know the definition of treason, it would be the spawn of Dick Cheney.

     Stable genius, huh? He can't even spell Biden's name correctly.

     How nice is it to be the "president's" son in law and to get a nearly billion dollar loan backed by the government? Well, about as nice as your lawyer defending you with an ethics agreement that's kept secret from the public. Here's the problem:
     Ethics agreements with Senate-confirmed appointees, of which Kushner is NOT, are historically made available to the public.

     This is the glamor puff piece Maggie Haberman wrote about Hope Hicks a week ago that got her slammed. Hicks lied to everybody, including Mueller's team. None of this was mentioned in Haberman's article. And, just for the record, Maggie, one doesn't get to "decide" whether or not to obey a Congressional subpoena. When Congress calls, you go, period.

     Forgive disabled vets' student loan debt? Betsy DeVos? Ha ha ha! Surely you jest.

     Apparently, the trick to a black man in the south getting away with threatening white Democrats is to run as a Republican.

     Another trial, another pharmaceutical company, another bribe to make the charges go away, another day of business in America.

     And you people thought I was jumping the gun by demanding impeachment for the Orange Traitor.

     Remember that Klan rally on the 25th in Ohio that we were so worried about? Yee-ah. It consisted of nine racists. 350 cops and $650,000 for that shit.

     These are the people Trump's so frightened about.

     I've admired Naomi Wolf for nearly 15 years. Therefore it is with significant pain when I say I am so glad I'm not Naomi Wolf these days.

     Corruption. It's all of a piece. Those who need to get audited the most are spared from them so the IRS can go after low-hanging fruit like struggling people with student loans.

     "The Gabbard campaign has thus far declined comment."
      Oh, I'm sure they HAVE.

     What, no Stockholm Syndrome?

     Perhaps the episode would have been more suitable for Alabama had Mr. Ratburn married his first cousin. And finally...

    No good can possibly come of this. Absolutely none. A week ago, we reached a new turning point. Trump turned a corner from which he will never come back. He gave the press a death list of people he'd like to see executed for treason, undermined his entire intelligence community by handing over state secrets to a right wing hack like Barr for the purpose of investigating the very people who'd investigated him for collusion & obstruction.
      Meanwhile, Pelosi's wringing her bony hands at the thought of impeachment even as Trump turns the presidency he stole into a dictatorship and this country into an undeclared fascist state.

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