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Whew, that was close!
Jun. 22nd, 2019 06:21 amOur 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]
tempus loquendi, tempus tacendi
May. 27th, 2019 07:48 amI 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.
Unsurprising
Apr. 28th, 2019 05:50 amThe #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]
Explained with pictures
Feb. 2nd, 2019 06:41 pmRep. Ted Lieu prepares a cheat sheet for the president [Twitter]
The dog that caught the car
Dec. 14th, 2018 06:26 amScott Alexander says that Trump’s election is a disaster for Trumpism. His keyboard to God’s screen. [Slate Star Codex]
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.
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.
A bit of hope
Jun. 19th, 2018 07:19 amHas 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?
