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Whew, that was close!
Our president explains that we didn’t go to war over the drone Iran shot down because it was one of the unmanned ones. [Huffington Post]
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tempus loquendi, tempus tacendi
I agree with Speaker Pelosi that we should hold off on impeachment for the time being. We are about to get tax returns and other evidence of two things many of us have suspected all along:
(1) The president, unlike Mr. Nixon, is a crook.
(2) He was never very good at it.
(1) The president, unlike Mr. Nixon, is a crook.
(2) He was never very good at it.
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Unsurprising
The #1 pick in the NFL draft was Kyler Murray, a Black man. So the only president we’ve got congratulated the #2 pick instead. [Time]
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They knew he was a snake
I hope that when Trump leaves office, he does so in the manner that most punishes the Republican Party for the obvious blunder of trusting him. Past performance indicates that’s a good bet.
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"For if America can’t protect the weak from the ruthless, then what goddamned good is it?"
Jim Wright attempts to make sense out of what Trump said after he criminally assaulted the flag.
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Question
Why is a government shutdown that was created by the president because he is a vicious moron inspiring people to demand that we stop paying Congress for the duration?
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The dog that caught the car
Scott Alexander says that Trump’s election is a disaster for Trumpism. His keyboard to God’s screen. [Slate Star Codex]
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"Some people can't generate money, but this schmuck can't even inherit money"
Today’s two Water Is Wet stories are that Trump mocked a sexual assault survivor and that his father gave him millions of dollars that they used to defraud the IRS.
In the earlier stages of inflation, it was said that a Texas success story is the man who started with a million dollars and ran it up into a small fortune. That was what we were told about Trump, but because I am a cynical old bastard, I never believed it. Once again, that existential position has been validated.
But wait! There’s more. Everyone knows that American capitalism is a fixed game, one of the unannounced rules of which is that someone who starts with that much money cannot lose it all, no matter how stupid and incompetent he may be. But nature, as they say, treats the word “foolproof” as a dare.
Someone with a stronger stomach than I can go through the Trump story to figure out how much was sheer stupidity, how much was deliberate inattention, and how much was meanness (refusing to pay people you’ve hired because you can hire better lawyers than they can is probably bad for business as well as morally repulsive).
And still, after declaring bankruptcy at a rate lesser companies introduce new models and taking advantages of the many private laws intended to protect the likes of him from the consequences of their actions, he still wound up with the Russians bailing him out and owning his ass.
In the earlier stages of inflation, it was said that a Texas success story is the man who started with a million dollars and ran it up into a small fortune. That was what we were told about Trump, but because I am a cynical old bastard, I never believed it. Once again, that existential position has been validated.
But wait! There’s more. Everyone knows that American capitalism is a fixed game, one of the unannounced rules of which is that someone who starts with that much money cannot lose it all, no matter how stupid and incompetent he may be. But nature, as they say, treats the word “foolproof” as a dare.
Someone with a stronger stomach than I can go through the Trump story to figure out how much was sheer stupidity, how much was deliberate inattention, and how much was meanness (refusing to pay people you’ve hired because you can hire better lawyers than they can is probably bad for business as well as morally repulsive).
And still, after declaring bankruptcy at a rate lesser companies introduce new models and taking advantages of the many private laws intended to protect the likes of him from the consequences of their actions, he still wound up with the Russians bailing him out and owning his ass.
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Return
After All the President’s Men Bob Woodward spent 40 years on his ass on his laurels, writing suck-up book after suck-up book.* Charles Pierce said, “If he writes another one, I’m going to start thinking Nixon was framed.” Now he doesn’t have to. It seems Woodward should specialize in writing about evil presidents.
ETA: *As was pointed out to me on Facebook, It took several books for him to go into suck-up mode.
ETA: *As was pointed out to me on Facebook, It took several books for him to go into suck-up mode.
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A bit of hope
Has Trump finally jumped the shark? Will taking thousands of children from their parents and holding them for political ransom finally get through to the millions of white people stupid and mean enough to go along with all the other horrible things he’s done?
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Rumors
There is no truth to the rumor that the President of the United States has killed and eaten his wife.
Well, anyway, there’s no evidence.
Yet.
Well, anyway, there’s no evidence.
Yet.
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They left out the impression of the disabled guy
How the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech could have been more appropriate