Welcome Back to Pottersville: Gothan City Digest

(A picture's worth a thousand captions but we've still got nothing for this.)

Authors Don Winslow and Stephen King put up $175,000 to be donated to St. Jude's, the same cancer hospital the Trumps bilked, if Stephanie Grisham would give the WH press corps an hour of her time.

Typically, the witch refused.

So, of course, the cops aren't looking for the guy who violated mall policy, the one WITH the gun and poor impulse control but the one WITHOUT the gun.

“According to a person who read them, the Trumps worried that a reporter might be on to them. In yet another email chain that included Don Jr. and Ivanka, the younger generation of Trumps issued the email equivalent of a knowing chuckle, saying that nobody would ever find them out, because only people on the email chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception.”

WRONG.

Trump renames NATO then rambles on about the YMCA. We're so fucked.

The scumbags brazenly want $2,000,000 per room for a building they don't even own, essentially selling the Brooklyn Bridge.

I was afraid someone shot down this plane. I didn't think it would be the Iranians. I still don't. But I assumed it would be us. How horrible is that?

Watch this video. Count the states that were stolen from Bernie, states he won. Hillary came in 3rd place in one county in WV (where Bernie took all the counties). WV, RI, Michigan, Montana. The list goes on and on.

Susan Rice- "He remains obsessed with President Obama, and it shows extreme weakness and insecurity."

And the story changes yet again.

To me, there were three certifiable geniuses who wrote for TV. Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling. And yesterday, Buck Henry just joined them above.

58 snorts in just 10 minutes. That must have been some primo powdered Adderall.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "I wish this weren't true but my diaper-wearing 20 month-old has better impulse control than this president."

Our Baghdad embassy is getting bombed by Katyusha rockets while Iragis giggle. Shock and Awe has come home to roost, ladies and gentlemen.

Ironic postscript: In case you haven't already guessed, Katyusha rockets and their launchers are made by and in Russia.

“I don’t think Chuck Schumer is very interested in my opinion since he’s just launched a website in Maine and just committed an additional $700,000 in additional negative advertising from the Majority Forward PAC. I don’t think he’s really very interested in doing anything but trying to defeat me by telling lies to the people of Maine. And you can quote me on that.”

Shorter Collins: "Because Schumer's bribing my opponent, I have no choice but to accept #MoscowMitch's bribe and go along with his rigged trial."

Killing camels because they drink too much water? Humans suck, no shit.

Has anyone told Trump what NATO stands for? Does he really think they're going to help him in the Middle East with Iran? Especially after he's trashed them for three years straight?

72% of us don't know where Iran is on an unmarked map. Among those who couldn't correctly place it, they thought Iran was in:

Central Asia.

Europe.

The Ocean.

The benefits of cutting funding for public education.

Meme o' the day.

      This racist cunt spent 10 minutes blaming Obama for Iran.
      What 44 did with Iran:
      Got them to the negotiating table & hammered out a working nuclear deal.
      Kept the Iranians from bombing our bases.
      What 45 did with Iran:
      Walked away from the deal, ergo making the Iranians walk away from it.
      Murdered their top general.
      Got our bases bombed.

And speaking of education, this article is a teacher's take on the most insidious fake news: Textbooks that gloss over or outright ignore US imperialism, which has been a hallmark of our country since the late 19th century. This article is just a very small piece of the Zinn Education Project, a very necessary counterbalance to the crap troweled out yearly by dishonest textbook publishers and the revisionist right wing scumbags on the Texas Board of Education that gets to decide what virtually the entire nation's students get to read (or not read). I should look for my old copy of Howard Zinn's A PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

I'm sure Trump and his spawn already had their doctors write up letters saying they have bone spurs.

You hear that? Zero. Zilch. Nada. So when you see bloated, upholstered ticks like Pompeo go out and say this, just remember Pompous Maximus was the one who said when he was CIA Director, "We lie, we cheat, we steal."

Our galaxy collided with Dark Matter, aka Trump's ego.

God, someone please wake me up from this nightmare. This CAN'T be true,

What is more fun than a car full of koala bears?

So, naturally, the fucking morons at Fuckbook/Instacrap shut down her account because getting popular and going viral is a big no-no if you're not a fucking Kardashian.

I'm sure Donnie Dumbo will break his neck to get on Twitter to thank Trudeau.

Another scumbag bites the dust.

The IRGC. Hm, didn't we just kill their leader? Why, yes, yes we did.

Nick Sandmann just got paid a ton of money by CNN for openly mocking a Native American. This is the state of America in the Glorious Age of Trump: Mock an old man, get paid. Murder a child, get pardoned and start a clothing line. Mock everybody else, get elected to the WH. Donnie Dumbo and Fredo are going to short stroke this until the end of the year.

This is a Goddamned shame. Wurtzel had a hell of a writing style. And she confronted a national addiction at a time when few even bothered to acknowledge much less confront it.

Keep in mind, this is coming from the executive in charge of the Facebook division officially called the "virtual and augmented reality division." Essentially, he's saying he doesn't want to hurt Trump in 2020 by clamping down on fake bullshit.

Master criminal at top of international crime wave says he "like(s) to obey the law." Oddly enough, this came just a few minutes after he got his marching orders from the Saudi defense minister.

Everything nice I ever said about her when I first began political blogging 15 years ago? I take it all back.

I don't blame my senior senator Elizabeth Warren for buckling on The View under the immense might of the mental leviathan that is Meghan McCain, a woman whose greatest intellectual achievement to date is color-coordinating her lipstick with her tops.

What a cute little bugger he is! I hope he got sent to a sanctuary where he'll be well-cared for.

Five is a big litter for tigresses. Good job, Mom!

Seriously? This fucking hag is now demanding we accept unconditionally the conclusions of an intelligence community that Trump's been hoarsely screaming for years was part of the "deep state"?

A future of debt, debt, and more debt with tiered access to a job market that'll never help them pay it off. Add endless war, no healthcare, racism, police abuse and violence, homelessness. That leaves a pretty dim and grim horizon. No kid that graduated high school last year has ever known a United States that hasn't been at war.

Good dog!

Articles like this are the problem in run-ups to war. Assholes like this just regurgitate right wing talking points with no pushback, no opposing viewpoints and no attempt to get at the truth of the matter. If Soleimani was going to attack US forces, don't you think they would've detailed that by now if the so-called plot had been derailed? Pompeo had a disaster of a press conference this morning and, once again, he refused to go into the details of this alleged plot. And Soleimani's illegal assassination is made to look like a calm, rational decision by a man that everyone else knows is completely insane. This is lazy stenography, period. And, finally...

"Think differently", eh, Jazzy Jeff? I guess when it comes between helping to save the environment and making billions a year, Amazon is just another world-eating corporate cunt.