Saturday, July 1, 2017

Double down time for Donald

The day after many in his own party condemned President Trump's comments about the hosts of "Morning Joe," our president woke up this morning and shot off three more rounds at TV news media, including this gem:

Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!

This isn't just a continuing and misguided attempt at trying to sink "Morning Joe," the ratings of which are bound to jump after this debacle. Trump is telegraphing his own party that he's not going to rein it in. "Hell, no! You wanna see crazy? I'll give you crazy like you've never seen crazy!" (This is my fake news made-up quote to illustrate what might be going on in Mr. Trump's head.)

Trump also continued to gloat over CNN and to start rumors that Greta van Susteren was fired by her "out of control bosses" for refusing to hate on Trump.

Our president is also in high dudgeon over the fact that many states are refusing his request for voter info for his election integrity committee. "What have they got to hide?"

How long will Republicans put up with this man at the helm of their party? Raber says, "As long as he's got a pen."

23 comments:

  1. As long as there are significant numbers of the Republican base that support everything that Trump does, and are willing to take it out on any Republican that crosses Trump.

    Also as long as Trump has significant Republican billionaires who are willing to fund efforts to stir up the Republican base in support of Trump.

    Republicans have to worry about their base in primary season, and then the general public at election time. They are going to have a tough time going forward.

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  2. None of the atrocities perpetrated by Trump, his lackeys or the Repub Congress has surprised me yet. All was expected. The only things missing so far are a new war and an incident with a thermonuclear weapon.

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  3. The Republicans who run things will continue to support Trump as long as he will make their power consolidation possible. I guess it will take Republican voters telling Ryan and McConnell that they won't re-elect them to make them stop Trump and I don't see that happening.

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  4. The House and Senate love him! He'll easily sign any piece of nonsense that they put in front of him, any protestation to the contrary aside. He won't read what they give him. If he does, he won't understand them because he won't spend enough time to understand them.

    He is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, yet signifying nothing.

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  5. Senate patience may finally be running out because it's getting personal for the senators. When I, Trump unleashed one of his in-house PACs on Sen. Dean Heller and threatened primary opposition, 51 other senators felt a cold breeze. When he advised them to repeal now and replace later -- reversing his own diktat which has forced them to do both at once -- he exposed himself as a hindrance, not a help. On health care, the Rs seem to have decided to ignore the man in behind the cheap Chinese-made necktie and rely on him to sign whatever they place before him and call it "beautiful." In other words, they are starting to treat him -- at long last -- like the crazy uncle in the attic that he is.

    None of which changes the fact that we have a president who is seriously deranged, and we are light years away from anything -- except maybe (!?) his own boredom -- from having a way of getting rid of him.

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    1. Yah, that Heller thing reminded me of several colorful phrases my dad had for people who habitually shot themselves in the foot, non of which can be repeated here.

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    2. But, was/is the breeze cold enough to motivate them to growing spines? I think they need to have more local constituents in their faces, 24/7, than to worry about outsiders threatening them.

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  6. The president's fourth of July greeting:

    “The fake media is trying to silence us,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at the concert hall, after returning to Washington briefly from his weekend getaway at his golf club in New Jersey. “But we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president and they’re not.” So there!

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  7. And then he posted a video of himself beating up a man with a CNN logo as a face ... https://youtu.be/aw-Us1J2f4w

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  8. Yupper, it's been a mighty weird weekend. I don't eben know what this means:

    My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

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    1. But the rest of the world sees it as making AmuriKKKa grate again! Much more of this nonsense and the US will find itself as a banker but not a leader.

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  9. Interesting look at cable news networks ratings from Variety. CNN trails FOX and MSNBC, but viewership is up for all three networks. People seem to be more engaged with the news, but perhaps are seeking news that favors their own preconceived notions.

    http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cable-news-ratings-cnn-fox-news-msnbc-q2-1202479416/

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  10. Do you realize that Sean Spicer makes almost $180,000 of your taxes for defending modern presidential tweets? So does Kellyanne Conway, although it doesn't seem to have occurred to her to blow an occasional $20 on a hairdresser. With Sarah Huckabee Sanders's $165,000, more than a quarter mil of our taxes is being spent on nothing other than pretending the crazy uncle in the attic isn't having long talks with Wonder Woman action figures. No wonder we can't afford to study climate change.

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    1. "... it doesn't seem to have occurred to her to blow an occasional $20 on a hairdresser."

      Tom, Tom. Why not just say her face was bleeding heavily from a facelift?

      Many middle-aged women have problems with their hair. It becomes dry, flyaway, thin, and multi-textured.

      Some hairdressers encourage the tousled look to enhance the illusion of volume. My guess is that this is what's going on with Kellyanne.

      While I do not fight the ravages of age (I have adopted the Judi Dench undyed pixie, which led my hairdresser to observe that I am the only 63-year-old woman he knows who aspires to look 80), Kellyanne is in a job which pressures women to look youthful far past the age at which they can pull it off credibly.

      There are far worse things about Kellyanne than her hair. Her lying prevarications come to mind.

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    2. Jean, You see sexism, and there is a sexist trope there. But I see a dig at the effrontery of a tool of the unsustainable energy industry making $180,000 (plus whatever the ethics waiver she has is worth) passing herself off as a hippie.

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    3. Hippie? Conway's hair-do looks more like it comes from Charlie's Angels era.

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    4. Tom, I agree with your premise that Trump's shills are an insult to us hard-working taxpayers who have to pay their salaries. No need to drag a lady's hair into it.

      Hippie?

      I think Kellyanne's long golden hair, if anything, suggests membership in the Ann Coulter Right Wing Opportunist Club, along with Dr. Laura and Ivanka Trump.

      Kellyanne is the last person I'd accuse of being a hippie, though her arguments often sound positively drug-addled.

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    6. We have Kellyanne to thank for the phrase "alternative facts". Gee, why wasn't that phrase around when I was a kid! Though my folks wouldn't have bought it anyway. I think it is a symptom, rather than a cause, of the idea that objective truth doesn't matter if it's your peeps who are who are manufacturing their own reality.

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    7. Kellyanne's hair seems a version of all of the Trump women's hair, from Ivanka to Melania to Sarah H Sanders to Amarosa ..... it's their duty as his women to be decorative and ultra-feminine. Probably why Trump so hates Mika Brzezinski.... she dares to have short hair ;)

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  11. Being a rabid despiser of Trump, his minions and his collaborators and users, I have to watch I don't avail myself of those tropes. It's instinctual to go for the nearest weapon at hand. Trump has put me in touch with my inner beserker.

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    1. "In touch with my inner beserker". Stanley, great title for the book you should sit down and write for July 4. Not too long.

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  12. One of those Oprah/Dr. Phil type self help tomes, eh, Peggy. That's where the big bucks are, no doubt. I'll start right now.☺

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