Dancing in Circular Illogic. Chris Geidner: "In a Truth social post, Trump posts language as his own that comes from an April DOJ brief that sounded like a Truth social post. The Friday night social media rant came as Solicitor General John Sauer is asking the Supreme Court to let Trump build his ballroom now." In the social media post, Trump called the the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States "TREASONISTS."
Helene Cooper of the New York Times: “... the head of United States Central Command... on Sunday ... visit[ed] the beleaguered U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the latest American aircraft carrier to report poor living conditions and poor morale after months in the Middle East. The Lincoln, a San Diego-based carrier with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, is supporting U.S. operations in the Middle East against Iran. Democratic lawmakers have cited reports of shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues and deteriorating mental health aboard the carrier, which has been deployed for almost nine months. But Admiral Brad Cooper insisted in a statement posted on social media post that 'the Lincoln currently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health' among the Navy’s 11 active aircraft carriers. 'That doesn’t mean that all is perfect,' Admiral Cooper acknowledged a day after his visit to the carrier. He said that a long deployment at sea 'is uniquely challenging and tough, and every single one of us, including me, reacts to stressors in different ways.'” The link is a gift link.
David Lynch of the Washington Post: “The United States and Canada are moving closer to a deal to avert the imposition of punitive 50 percent tariffs on such Canadian products as hockey sticks, wine and cement.... Details remain fluid, and recent talks were contentious as both sides race to make a deal ahead of an early-Wednesday deadline. But the emerging accord could pair Canadian tariff concessions along with commitments on energy, defense and critical minerals in return for the U.S. agreeing to shelve ... Donald Trump’s new Section 338 tariffs and relax levies on steel and aluminum, according to those following the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations.... If a deal is reached, it is expected to provide momentum for the ongoing renegotiation of the North American trade deal reached in the president’s first term. An accord would also spare the administration one more legal battle over the president’s tariff powers.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: This story is insane. Grown men and women -- half of whom work for Donald Trump -- are engaged in some kind of dystopian race against time to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the Mad King to punish us little Suckers and Losers of the Realm, all because the king has torn up a treaty he previously negotiated.
Lord Advocate Kisbutt Again Pledges His Fealty to the Mad King. Matthew Choi of the Washington Post: “Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected the idea of a Justice Department independent from the White House, saying he would take into account ... Donald Trump’s views when directing federal law enforcement. 'Will I take the president of the United States’ view on something into consideration? Yes, of course. And I hope every attorney general in history would not answer that question differently,' Blanche said Sunday on NBC News’s 'Meet the Press.' Post-Watergate norms have largely shielded the Justice Department’s work from the White House’s interference, but Blanche has often defended the president’s right to weigh in on the department. In April, he told reporters the president had a 'right' and a 'duty' to offer opinions on criminal prosecutions.” The New York Times story is here; the link is a gift link. ~~~
~~~ Alexandra Marquez of NBC News: “Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday there’s a 'possibility' that the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene in dozens of cases where judges have ruled against the federal government’s efforts to gain broad access to state voter rolls ahead of November’s midterm elections. 'Absolutely, it’s a possibility,' Blanche told NBC News’ 'Meet the Press' when asked whether he’d appeal the 22 cases the Justice Department has lost so far to the Supreme Court.”
Bruce Weber of the New York Times: “Tommy John, a canny left-handed pitcher who won nearly 300 major-league games, more than half of them after recovering from the innovative, often career-saving elbow surgery that came to be known by his name, died on Saturday at his home in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. He was 83.... John pitched for 26 seasons; only Nolan Ryan lasted longer in the big leagues in the modern era.” The link is a gift link.
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Nobody Tells Trump What's Happening. Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times: “The growing complexity of the administrative state and the enlarged responsibilities of the office led presidents, beginning in earnest with Harry Truman, to create new, institutionalized processes designed to get the best and most accurate information available.... Trump, according to Haberman and Swan, has not simply junked this process in its entirety — he has set up his White House to affirm his frequently arbitrary instincts above all other considerations. He has insulated himself from opposing views and made internal dissent verboten. At no point does Trump receive neutral information; just about everything is tailored to his whims, impulses and mercurial disposition. The result is that he is isolated from reality to the extent that he is practically living in a fairy tale.... Recent controversies, from the depletion of our military’s stock of sophisticated munitions to worsening conditions on some of our naval vessels, are easier to fathom when you consider the strong odds that Trump is told precious little about the actual conditions of his war.” The link is a gift link. (Also linked yesterday.)
The White House took credit for the good news [that prescription drug prices had dropped], saying President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash drug prices were working. Some experts said a Biden-era policy that requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some popular prescription drugs is more likely to be driving down costs. -- Washington Post, third paragraph, of a story published August 13 ~~~
~~~ Why Can Nobody in the White House Read? Robert Mackey of the Guardian: “The White House flooded social media on Saturday with an image of Donald Trump showing off the recent Washington Post headline 'Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than 60 years', but failed to mention that experts cited in the article actually attributed the price drop to Joe Biden, not Trump. On its official accounts, the White House triumphantly captioned the photograph of Trump: 'POV: you bring the receipts.' Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also shared it. The image was one of several taken during a staged photo-op on Friday, when Trump approached reporters with a copy of the headline he wanted them to see. Holding up a print-out of the headline, and the first five lines of the article, the president waved the page around and encouraged the press pool to record and photograph it.... He then read the good news aloud and held up the print-out again for the cameras. 'OK, got it? Everybody have it?' he asked. 'I told you that was going to happen.'” ~~~
~~~ Marie: This is not unlike the members of Congress who show up in their districts for ribbon-cuttings for infrastructure projects they voted against. The fish rots from the head. It isn't only Trump who can't read past the headline; it's his staff. There's a reason Harry Truman had that sign on his desk, "The Buck Stops Here." BTW, I watched the video of Trump's boasting to reporters about the WashPo story. None of the reporters said, "But, sir, the report credits President Biden with the drop in drug prices, not you." Oh why can't we get a better press corps?
Now comes a realistic report on a different aspect of the Trump economy: ~~~
~~~ Paul Krugman: “Regardless of its other problems, the U.S. economy has always been a powerful engine of job creation. The 1970s, for example, were a time of stagflation and deep pessimism. Nonetheless, the nation gained almost 20 million jobs over the course of that decade. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, however, job growth has slowed to a crawl.... It’s now clear that America has entered a new, possibly permanent era of stagnant employment.... Long-run job creation is driven by growth in the supply of labor. U.S. labor supply growth has been slowing for some time, because Baby Boomers have been aging out of the work force. However, the rate of job growth has suddenly fallen further due to Trump’s harsh crackdown on immigrants. So it’s fair to call the onset of America’s current employment stagnation the 'Trump Stall'.” MB: This is one of those "claim my free post" articles, so if you want to read the whole column, you'll have to jump thru some hoops.
Middle East Allies Are Sick of Trump. Susannah George of the Washington Post: “Frustration with Washington is growing in the Persian Gulf region, where U.S. allies are increasingly concerned that ... Donald Trump is unable to manage the diplomacy necessary to secure peace with Iran, Arab and Western officials say. Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly issued threats against Iran, only to withdraw them, citing progress in talks. After months of conflict, and continuing missile and drone strikes by Iran and its proxies, three officials and a former U.S. diplomat told The Washington Post, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are now united in their aggravation with the administration. Some have begun to debate the utility of continuing to host large U.S. military installations on their territory.”
Wow! Spencer Kimball of CNBC: "The caverns that hold the U.S. strategic oil reserves could get damaged by the rapid release of stockpiles in response to the Iran war, experts warned this week as inventories hit a four-decade low. Damage to the caverns would make it more difficult to respond to future energy emergencies, the experts said. The oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is stored at 60 salt caverns thousands of feet underground at four major sites along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas. The SPR has tumbled below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled in the early 1980s, according to Department of Energy data released Monday."
Mark Satter & Connon O'Brien of Politico: “The Pentagon is shutting congressional Democrats out of classified briefings — and even Republicans are shocked by the brazen partisanship. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth trekked to Capitol Hill at least twice in recent weeks to make closed-door pitches for his record $1.5 trillion defense budget. But lawmakers in both parties say he followed an increasingly familiar pattern of excluding Democrats. The freezeout underscores the Trump administration’s hyperpartisan approach to Congress — particularly the Pentagon’s penchant for secrecy under Hegseth. Whether keeping lawmakers in the dark about the rationale behind prolonged boat strikes in the Caribbean or a decoy Air Force One flight, the administration risks jeopardizing its main priorities by cutting out key players. 'He calls himself the secretary of war, but ironically, he doesn’t want to go to war and win the argument with nearly half the members of the Senate,' said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). 'You got to engage.'” (Also linked yesterday.)
~~~ Noah Robertson & Tara Copp of the Washington Post: “The U.S. Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match ... Donald Trump’s preferred aesthetic for the warships.... The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to resemble older vessels, the officials said. The review, which has not been previously reported, is in response to Trump’s concerns about the 'look' of the new Ford-class ships, where the tower is near the rear.... The timing and extent of the Navy’s evaluation is unclear, with current and former officials cautioning that the service was concerned that such a change would require significant time and money.” A Hill story is here. Patrick & Akhilleus have some commentary in yesterday's thread about the back-to-the-future plans, plans we can all hope are merely stalling tactics.
Emiliano Mega, et al., of the New York Times: “Across Latin America, the Trump administration has deployed aggressive tactics to tighten its grip on the region. They include crippling tariffs and economic sanctions, strikes on dozens of boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, wading into foreign elections and the capture of the president of a nation in his own capital. But one of its most agile and surgical tools is also deeply personal: the U.S. visa.... Typically used in the past to keep out security threats, fight corruption or defend democratic institutions, travel permissions have been weaponized under the current State Department, experts say. The U.S. government has revoked visas to target foreign leaders, ambassadors and other officials, judges and journalists, among others — while quietly reinstating visas for some like-minded allies.... In a statement in April, the State Department announced that it had expanded its policy on restricting visas to target those in the Western Hemisphere who 'carry out activities that are adversarial to and undermine America’s interests.'” The link is a gift link.
Heather Cox Richardson points to examples of how Todd Blanche and the DOJ, along with the Treasury Department, are so corrupt. Blanche is knocking himself out enabling Trump's corruption, and Treasuryis enabling both domestic & international financial corruption. ~~~
~~~ In today's Comments, akaWendy has linked two Atlantic columns (one by Casey Michel and one by David Frum) that explain how uncommonly corrupt the Treasury's "deregulatory measure" is and how it actually is burdensome for financial institutions. MB: The Trump administration is less pro-business than it is pro-Trump-business. You can bet that Trump & his crooked family will benefit from this latest Treasury scheme. As David Frum writes, “The purported 'deregulation' is, however, a great benefit to tax evaders, drug traffickers, money launderers, and other criminals hoping to elude scrutiny of their finances. If they can locate a weak or careless or greedy financial institution, they can open accounts with imperfect information — and they now stand a much higher chance of getting away with their deception. The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition estimates that the Treasury’s action reduces the number of enterprises required to report their true ownership from 32.6 million to 11,667. The Trump administration is the most pro-crime administration in United States history — as long as the crime in question is committed by the president, his family, his donors, or his friends.” ~~~
~~~ Then, RAS points out the law that Treasury/Bessent just gutted is one that Marco Rubio very proudly cosponsored when he was a senator.
Miriam Jordan of the New York Times reports on another Trump supporter who was all enthusiastic about electing Trump so he could deport all the criminals ... but got a big surprise when Trump came after his immigrant wife, whose crime was overstaying her visa. The link is a gift link. MB: You know, it's not as if Democrats in 2024 didn't warn voters this would happen if they elected a vicious, xenophobic, racist liar as president*. It's not as if a reasonably intelligent person couldn't figure this out for himself.
As the title suggests, in "A Requiem for America's 250th Anniversary," Wajahat Ali takes a rather grim view of, as the kids say, where we're at: "Donald Trump was the inevitable result of a country that has spent its existence profiting from slavery, economic exploitation, and a military-industrial complex fed and fattened by forever wars against brown and Black people across the world.... It’s only fitting that Trump was the criminal vulgarian elected by a plurality of Americans to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday, which is more akin to a requiem for a country that chose to voluntarily kill itself." MB: His assessment seems spot on; nevertheless, I think I prefer to see the green shoots Ali declines to acknowledge.
Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times: “The Democratic National Committee formally approved sweeping changes to the party’s 2028 presidential primary calendar on Saturday, putting states that are more racially diverse at the front of the line. The order in which states vote typically plays a significant role in shaping the presidential primary — influencing both what issues are discussed and who ultimately emerges. Party officials set South Carolina first on Jan. 22, 2028, followed by Nevada (Feb. 1), New Hampshire (Feb. 8), New Mexico (Feb. 15), Michigan (Feb. 22) and Virginia on (Feb. 29).... For decades, Iowa and New Hampshire, two states with largely white populations, had started the process....
“The earliest states will play an outsize role in winnowing what is expected to be an expansive field of candidates. The order was officially set by a vote of the D.N.C. membership at a meeting in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. After those first six states vote, each on their own day, a range of states will vote on Super Tuesday in early March. The party’s new rules include stiff penalties for states that hold primaries in violation of the calendar, and for any candidates who might campaign in those states. But some uncertainty remains, especially in New Hampshire, where a state law requires its primary be the first in the nation.” The link is a gift link. Politico's story is here.
~~~ Marie: Leave it to Democrats to devise dumb rules. Why would they penalize candidates for campaigning in Iowa & New Hampshire? Candidates should be able to campaign in the Virgin Islands if that's what they want to do. (In fact, that seems like a great place to campaign in January.)
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Hawaii. The New York Times is liveblogging Hurricane Lala developments. From the pinned item at 5:00 am ET: “Hurricane Lala battered the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday evening, its eyewall grazing the island’s southern tip as damaging winds and torrential rain downed trees, flooded major roadways and ripped roofs off some homes.The Big Island, particularly the east side, was bearing the brunt of the storm so far, with thousands of people without power. On Maui and Oahu, winds began picking up as the day progressed. The center of the storm appeared likely to narrowly miss land, passing just south of the Big Island.” The link is a gift link.
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Canada. Matina Stevis-Gridneff of the New York Times: “More than 170,000 people have signed a petition to the Canadian Parliament, submitted by a Calgary resident on July 21, calling for the removal of the [U.S,] ambassador [to Canada], Pete Hoekstra. The petition asserts that Mr. Hoekstra, a faithful messenger of ... [Donald] Trump’s aggressive stance toward Canada, has harmed U.S.-Canada relations.... Just 500 signatures are legally required to bring an online petition to the Parliament floor for discussion, and this one will most likely be put forward for debate in the fall by Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada’s Green Party. The petition lays out the reasoning for Mr. Hoekstra’s removal: it argues that he has 'normalized the Trump administration’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state.' Mr. Hoekstra has reposted Mr. Trump’s 51st-state jabs on social media and has dismissed Canadians’ anger at the rhetoric as 'emotional' and inexplicable. It also states that Mr. Hoekstra has interfered in Canadian politics in a manner 'inconsistent with diplomatic protocol.' It lays out how activists from Alberta seeking to break away from the rest of the country repeatedly met with State Department officials, 'raising serious questions about U.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian unity.'” The link is a gift link. An Independent story is here.
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David Frum, for The Atlantic, writes that "Trump just raised the cost of doing honest business", making a Win for dark Money
" the Department of the Treasury has ended ownership-reporting requirements for U.S. businesses and purged the existing database of ownership information. This seemingly technical-sounding change is a huge gift to financial crooks, who can now store and launder dark money in U.S. financial institutions with less risk of detection. But the gift comes at the direct expense of banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, which now have to shoulder the burden of verifying customer data themselves.
The Treasury advertises the measure as deregulatory, lifting burdensome red tape from business owners. But the relief to honest business owners is tiny. The added burden on the financial sector is huge. The real winners here are shady business owners. In 2021, Capital One, the Trump Organization’s then-bank, closed more than 300 of the Trump Organization’s accounts on suspicion that they violated anti-money-laundering rules. The action just taken by the Treasury may best be understood as payback for those who tried to enforce the law against Donald Trump.
And on the same topic Casey Michelle, for The Atlantic, calls the changes A Green Light for Crooks
"Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country. But this week brought the biggest blow yet: The Treasury has obliterated a recent rule to deter devious shell companies, handily reopening the American economy to anyone looking to hide their illicit wealth.
On Tuesday, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that businesses formed in the United States would no longer need to disclose their actual owners, and that nearly all the data already gathered on such companies would be destroyed. This move, which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called “a victory for common sense and American small businesses,” effectively undoes years of progress in curbing devious financial networks, both domestic and foreign. It also delivers a new shelter for wealthy Americans who wish to dodge taxes and move money around undetected.
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The Trump administration has gutted the legislation and is torching nearly all of the gathered data. This cannot all be blamed on Trump or Bessent. Republican allies in Congress are busy trying to pass legislation that will formally repeal the CTA [Corporate Transparency Act], thus preventing any future administration from restarting the database.
The American economy is now open for business again for all kinds of mischief. "
People online have pointed out the fun fact that Rubio was a cosponsor of the bill,
"My “Corporate Transparency Act”, the most significant anti-corruption & money laundering law in decades & which forces anonymous shell companies to disclose their true owners is going to pass as part of the end of year defense bill."
Other than protecting the rich there is no policy that Republicans truly believe in.
"Secret CIA Campaign Hit Boats Off Galapagos
The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program, The Washington Post has learned.
In interviews with The Post, survivors said that small quadcopter drones either dropped munitions on the vessels or detonated by crashing into them. The men said they were then taken aboard a nearby ship, hooded and cuffed by armed men, and transported to El Salvador — only to be returned later without explanation to Ecuador."
Thom Tillis is happy to make a public statement that it is wrong to exclude Democrats from Defense Department briefings but, as far as I can tell, none of the spineless Republicans insisted that Democrats be included.
And where are the R alarmists on the subject of the strategic petroleum reserve levels? They are at their lowest level in four decades to keep prices low during a[n awful] war of choice. The only thing strategic about this release is to keep Rs in power. This is not for the good of the country.
Then and Now
"Trump (2024): "Gasoline will be back to $2, and maybe even less than that."
Trump (2026): "For you to pay a tiny, little bit more for your gasoline…You're at $4, it's okay, I'll never apologize.""
Climate Change
"In These Orchards, Fruit Has All But Disappeared This Year
Across the country, farmers who grow apples, peaches, and plums had catastrophic losses tied to freezes and a changing climate.
The freeze was longer and colder than any that had come before, and it completely wiped out his crop.
“It is the first time in my memory, in my life, that we have had zero percent fruit,” he said over Zoom in July. “We have found nine peaches on 12,000 trees. And even worse, it’s the whole county. It’s 40 miles of growing districts.”"
Christopher Black, on Threads, provides a summary of DEALMAKER DONALD TRUMP's carreer highlights for handy reference
Also, pinned at top is a list of where his (former) lawyers are now.
NiskyGuy,
You beat me to it. Thom Tillis is picking up on the PR utility of Susan Collins style Concern©. Just evince Concern© for something then go back to sleep. Members of the Party of Traitors care fuck all about hyper-partisanship on the part of Drunk Pete or Fatty or fucking Santa Claus (if he was one). And leave us dispense with how SHOCKED they all are at the Soused Secretary only inviting like-minded traitors into his little hidey hole for double secret circle jerk colloquies, They're about as shocked at that as they are at any of the other horrors being done in their names by the criminal enterprise masquerading as an administration.
There is no Republican Party anymore. This is a cult, a gang of crooks, grifters, and guttersnipes. And as spineless as they surely are, I'm about done with describing them that way. "Spineless" is typically used to describe a cowardly person who goes along with something even though he knows it's wrong. Do any of these fuckers actually believe, or CARE that any of what Fat Hitler is doing is wrong? I will bet in 95% of instances, they are thrilled down to their fungus covered toenails at everything he's doing. Making corruption legal? Check. Murdering Americans who don't go along with us? Check. Deporting brown people? Triple Check. Cozying up to corporate crooks? Check. Bombing Mooslims, even if it fucks us up? Check.
So, spineless? Sure, but it's not because they don't agree with what's going on. They're spineless because they aren't even pretending to do their fucking job.
To hell with all of them. And I mean the really horrible nooks and crannies of hell, the places where inhuman pain and suffering are doled out in huge quantities for all eternity. And when that happens, I'll be sure to let everyone know of my Concern©.
Emergency! Emergency! National EMERGENCY! Holy shit!
We gotta buy almost a half billion dollars worth of luxury business jets to DEPORT BROWN PEOPLE! Aieeee! And we gotta do it on a no-bid contract basis because EMERGENCY!!! Double Aieeeee!
And so DHS bought their half billion dollars worth of luxury jets....and parked them.
And there they sit. Unused.
Add to this the more than one billion dollars of taxpayer money DHS spent when the Gnome was in charge (when she wasn't off riding horses and making commercials featuring herself as the Annie Oakley of killing brown people) to purchase warehouses as part of a $38 billion scheme to deport a zillion more brown people they despise, gardeners and home health care workers and the like, moms and dads and kid, people who have been here for 30 years or more as contributing members of their communities.
According to Art Intel, "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is selling off at least seven of the 11 mega-warehouses it bought for over $1 billion to expand immigration detention capacity. Under new leadership, DHS is transferring these properties to the U.S. General Services Administration to offload the sites, abandoning controversial conversion plans after fierce local pushback and lawsuits..."
So half a billion in planes that are sitting unused at hangars, and a billion in warehouses being sold off at rock bottom prices. Pretty soon you're talkin' real money, as the old saying goes.
But, ho-hum, just another day in Fat Hitler's Turd Reich.
And all of this money is being spent on no-bid contracts to help Fatty's pals and insiders get their grubby hands on OUR money.
So...."treasonists", eh? Since that refers to someone who commits treason, a traitor who betrays their country, it can in no way be applied to sitting members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States since they are protecting American taxpayers from being robbed by a crook intent on defrauding the nation for his own purposes, that is building himself a gaudy, whorehouse dance hall bedecked with cheap gold gewgaws like a sleazy courtesan.
I'd say the treasonist here is the same one who is always betraying his country, Fat Hitler.
Of course, the latest excuse for continuing with this farce is that it's another NATIONAL EMERGENCY! Aieeeee! Why? Because we need a hidey hole for the president? And a command center for the military during really bad shit? Well gee willikers. We had one-a them places already, didn't we? At least we did until that fat fuck took a wrecking ball to the place in the dead of night so no one could say "STOP! It's not your fucking house!"
This sort of thing has become a constant. Fatty comes along and fucks things up, starts a war, blows up the East Wing, screws up the reflecting pool, slaps his name on the Kennedy Center, imposes illegal and truly stoopid tariffs, then he rings the alarm bell saying it's a national emergency and we have to fix all this shit right away, shit he blew up in the first place. It's like an arsonist who accidentally sets fire to his own house and burns down most of the neighborhood, then attacks the neighbors for not showing up fast enough to help him rebuild his house. Oh yeah, and they have to pay for the reconstruction as well. AND his new house has to be triple the size with a helipad in the backyard for the helicopter they have to buy him.
The PoT apparatchiks all line up to say "Well, sure! It's a 'mergency, alright, and we gotta pay for anything he wants, and the corporate media stands back and repeats the standard propaganda with maybe a tiny little question about how it's all going.
It's just astounding what he gets away with. But when he doesn't get what he wants right away, this instant, there's ketchup on the wall and those tiny fists pound the high-chair tray.
Now he and his flunky consigliere, White Death, are running to the Supines to bail them out. Again. Do I see a shadow docket quickie in the near future? Usually quickies are performed by hookers in the back seat. I guess it's more seemly for those quickies to take place in a wood paneled chamber. Will five bucks do the trick?
So we're running the country like an epic, prolonged "Apprentice, episode, but this time around all the script writers left the building before the show began.
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