Welcome Back to Pottersville: Gotham City Digest: #MoscowMitch edition

(We never wear ushankas to work, unlike some we can think of.)

The dark side of public education. Florida teacher gives students who didn't hand in work zeros, then gets fired. What's next, are we going to hand out diplomas just based on attendance?

How much you want to bet this was Jeffrey Epstein's night job?

True to Republican orthodoxy, Trump's trying to starve SNAP recipients, including children, of food. Meanwhile, I'll bet the GOP's just as interested in closing those countless tax loopholes being gamed by the 1% of which they're a part.

A former mayor of a town of 8000 people may be the next DNI?

Two truly great moments in signage.

Bill Barr is not the first corrupt AG and he certainly won't be the last.

And Trump goes after yet another black person and civil rights leader and it wasn't Elijah Cummings.

While incorrectly painting Baltimore, one of our most beautiful and venerated cities, as being vermin-infested, Trump apparently forgot his own Mar-a-Lago is in actuality infested with vermin and parasites and not necessarily the bipedaled 1% variety. Joy Reid didn't forget.

"I'm not considering myself a first responder..." ...nor should you.... "...But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you." No, you weren't. You were busy bragging on the radio that you had the tallest building in Manhattan (You didn't.).

It must have killed that prick to sign that bill. But I guess it would've killed him more to invite the Democrat who'd actually authored the bill. What a petty douchebag.

The scumbag that shot up that garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA on the 28th killed two kids and an adult. The AK47 knockoff he used was a 7.62 legally purchased from Nevada. Thanks, Nevada.

Here are profiles of the three victims. The next to youngest one would've been 14 this Sunday.

When life gives you lemons, as they say, make lemonade. And when a fascist gives you a partial, hyper-expensive, unnecessary wall, make see saws out of them.

I smell a childrens' book in the making, with a film option.

"The agency reportedly had no explanation for why it took 32 hours to confirm her citizenship and release her, though in that time they accused her brother, who is also a U.S. citizen, of human smuggling and tried to have him sign a document saying his sister was his cousin."

There is no way anyone can convince me that Customs and Border Protection isn't run by brain dead fascists.

This video speaks for itself. Trump is making TV anchors laugh and cry.

Michael Moore was right last November: "Democracy has no self-correcting mechanism."

Sure, let's go with an elderly faux Republican centrist again since it worked out so fucking swimmingly last time.

A study in polar opposites.

If you love the fucking police so much, pay them what you owe them.

I wish this Douchewitz creep would just leave the Democratic Party and join the GOP (Gang of Pedophiles). Here's a sample: Dershowitz once called for the age of consent to be lowered to 14.

I doubted this would make the agenda at Detroit's Democratic debates and I was right.

Please tell me how using soldiers to guard migrant chuildren isn't a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act?

You go, girl.

Trump just got kicked off the ballot in California for next year unless he releases his taxes. Which you know he won't. Way to go, Gavin and Sacramento! Rhode Island also passed a similar bill. This won't affect the race one way or the other since Hillary won California bigly and Trump has no chance of carrying it next year. But it'll affect down ballot races. Republican hangers on and wannabes who planned on riding on Trump's tattered coat tails now won't be able to with him off the ballot.

More Republican scumbaggery.

No, that's not what Jesus meant when he said to "bring the children unto me."

Trump needs a wall around his hair.

You can't possibly tell me Republicans aren't racist assholes. Listen to these three clips of Nixon and Reagan making jokes about Africans in 1971 and tell me they weren't racist.

Actual quote: “Mitch McConnell loves our country. He’s done a great job. Mitch McConnell is a man that knows less about Russia and Russia influence than even Donald Trump. And I know nothing!” Stopped clocks and all that.

Another reason why Bill O shouldn't be around writing implements, ever.

This is why we protest- To stop the evil machinery of our government when we recognize that evil.

I think it's fair to say Jake Tapper had done more yammering than any candidate on the stage Tuesday night.

"The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump"? Oh, just put a fucking gun to my head and take my money, alright?

America First, provided Saudi Arabia and the UAE agree.

Mitch McConnell is turning a proper shade of Soviet crimson over being called #MoscowMitch by "left wing pundit" Joe Scarborough.

Care to speculate how much those corporate farms spent on lobbying to get all that moolah that should've gone to struggling family farms? A lot less than they got, I can guarantee you that.

     “U.S. Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York said the Russian Federation was the ‘primary wrongdoer’ in an alleged criminal enterprise, which also included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, foreign nationals and others close to the Trump campaign.”
      What does Trumpie the Klown hear?
      Vindication!

Of course.

Another hit man contracted. Of course.

And yet more right wing scumbaggery.

664 people in Oklahoma actually voted for this murderous right wing asshole.

"Mr. Epstein did not hide his interest in tinkering with genes — and in perpetuating his own DNA.

One adherent of transhumanism said that he and Mr. Epstein discussed the financier’s interest in cryonics, an unproven science in which people’s bodies are frozen to be brought back to life in the future. Mr. Epstein told this person that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen."

Trump's America becoming great once again.

#MoscowMitch strikes again.

This right wing asshole's wife got deported, won't be able to even apply for legal reentry for ANOTHER DECADE, and STILL doesn't regret voting for Trump. You can't deal with brain dead idiots like this.

Even the Nazis didn't privatize their concentration camps.

Because that's exactly how Claire got her fat ass heaved out of the Senate last year, because she moved too far to the left. 🙄(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader CC)

Aquafina is Italian for, "I just conned you into spending $1.79 on a bottle of glorified tap water."

This was a year ago, when Maryland sold their election vendor to a Russian billionaire. Did anyone else know about this?

Big coal's coming back, huh, Donnie? Yeah, back to the unemployment line.

I put up this link earlier this year but it's worth a rerun. When people go poor, others profit, massively.

So, this was what Comrade Drumpf was doing while Northern California was burning down.

Will someone shut up this right wing cunt once and for all? I mean, seriously, the Cheneys' idea of a Western way of life is to shoot 80 year-old men in the face with a shotgun then lie about it.

These poor, suffering bastards weren't defending anything but corporate interests. So where are those corporations now that they're being deported?

"The (so-called) President said the Navy lawyers had been 'ridiculously given a Navy Achievement Medal.'" This, coming from a draft-dodging fascist scumbag who was ridiculously given a Purple Heart by a very misguided veteran.

One could make a case that Julie K. Brown is the greatest investigative reporter alive on the planet right now. And her expose of Epstein deserves next year's Pulitzer Prize. But this Nation article makes a persuasive case to why local papers are more important than ever.

Rep. Cummings' house was burglarized. Hours later, Trump attacked him and Baltimore again on Twitter.

#LeningradLindsey violated procedural rules yesterday to ram through a bill that would abolish the Flores Rule that limits migrant detentions to 3 days. In other words, Graham wants to detain migrant children indefinitely. Trump must still have that tape of Lindsey with that dead underage male hooker.

Remember when Donnie Dumbo had his Nazi rally in Cincinnati last night? Remember that pair of banners behind him that read, "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!"?

Yeah, uh, about that...
#somuchwinning

Has no one told the Pedophile in Chief that Hillary's not running in 2020? And finally...

Bobby Kennedy's granddaughter committed suicide yesterday. With all the money and resources her family had, still this happened. Read the essay she wrote about her rape, its aftereffect and how HIPAA and the school's counseling staff had failed her.