America's Monster, tRump

Trump Refuses to Pay Mesa, Arizona $64,000 in Security Fees

June 13, 2019

October rally

64,467 for police security-related services provided by
the city of Mesa, according to a report Thursday from
the Center for Public Integrity (CPI). The cost included
police personnel for crowd and traffic control.
Mesa also "rented equipment for a temporary parking
area for 12,000 people which included barricades,
security, and towing," according to a letter from
city staff attorney Nancy Sorensen to the Trump
campaign.

March 2016 rally

CPI also found that the Trump campaign has refused to
fulfill an invoice from the city of Tucson for $81,837
for 180 officers who provided security during a
March 19, 2016, rally.

Two-faced excuse for not paying for services

#1
"We did not get what we wanted, what was promised,
and you did a lousy job."

#2
Trump campaign said it won't pay the $81,837 bill
because it never asked for the city's help in the first place.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/new...s-to-pay-mesa-64000-in-security-fees-11312045

Who lied for Trumpypants, to get out of commitments to pay for services ?

Don McGahn! Yes, that Don McGahn!

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/14/tr...to-mueller-under-oath-and-bars-his-testimony/

June 14, 2019

Trump suggests Don McGahn lied to Mueller under oath —
and bars his testimony

"It doesn't matter" what former White House counsel told
Mueller during 30 hours of testimony, president insists

Was listening to Trumpypants, and I heard his voice squeak.
There as a moment of recognition. Where had I heard that
identical squeak, from, before this ?

Christopher Walken

16 Apr 2016



(Christopher) Walken
was called Ronnie, then, and still is, by his wife and
family; he adopted the name Christopher years later, on a
whim. It was his mother who enrolled Walken and his two
brothers in dance class, dragged them into the city and put
them up for parts in live TV shows. “They used a lot of kids.
All the programmes were very family-oriented. My mother
knew that, and we’d get on the train and go to Manhattan.”
I assume he was too young to be scared?

“Oh no, I was terrified!” Walken grows suddenly animated.
“If I was given a line, I would usually forget it.”

At the weekend, he helped his father in the bakery, and
“when I got my driver’s licence, I delivered cakes”.
Walken is a rough contemporary of Donald Trump,
also from Queens – although Trump is from Jamaica
Estates, a much posher neighbourhood than immigrant
Astoria. I wonder what Walken sees when he regards
Trump; something the rest of us don’t, perhaps.
“His speech pattern is very much that particular part
of New York,” he says. “I never met him as a kid,
but he could’ve been one of those kids that I grew up
with.”

Always hustling?

“Sure. Even the hair. He’s recognisable to me.
I hope that Hillary Clinton is the next president."

"When I watch the Republicans, I don’t know how they ever –
I’ve never seen such a group. Now they’re yelling at each other
about their wives? It’s crazy. It’s high school. ‘Little Marco and
Lyin’ Ted?’ ‘You’re a bully!’ It’s not even high school.
It’s like seven-year-olds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/16/christopher-walken-i-dont-need-to-be-made-to-look-evil

Poor Ronnie Walken. He had a stage mother!
Did Donnie Trump have a stage mother, too ?

"Christopher" Walken chose to use the camera to project
a character that was inhabited by evil. He has perfected
his expression of malevolence and threat.

He is an actor, and is recognised as a artist.

June 18-25 2019

Eighty French and American indie films are in competition
in this year's 8th annual Champs Elysées Film Festival.
Films are screened at cinemas on and around ‘les Champs’,
and there will be many other events, including off-competition
screenings, premieres and events where you can meet the cast
and directors. The guests of honor include Christopher Walken,
Jeff Goldblum and Kyle McLaughlin.

Jeff Goldblum, Kyle McLachlan, Christopher Walken
Trio d’enfer au Champs-Élysées film festival

Trumpypants, OTOH, has chosen to be evil. He hides it.
He wants to appear as if he is big! He is not a big man.
He is not really tall. His own body is his clown suit.
He wears a fright wig and clown make-up.
His tiny bloated head on a huge fat body.
The tiny hands and feet. He was cursed
with a comical mismatched penis.
His suitcoat is a tent. His long neck tie
hides "his junk." Evil hidden inside the
costume of a laughable cartoon villian.

How could anyone possibly take him seriously ?
The man is a joke!

There lies the sticking point-
His jokes are evil.
The stunts that he pulls are evil.

He is not just a pile of shit.
He is diseased evil shit.
He is a source of disease.

Maggie Haberman Verified Account
@maggieNYT

NEW: The 150 casualty number did not come from a general
as the president told NBC, but came from Pentagon lawyers
drafting a worst-case scenario figure hours after an earlier
briefing of POTUS.


The 150 figure was not cleared w Shanahan

(link to NY Times)

8:01 PM - 21 Jun 2019

Urged to Launch an Attack, Trump Listened to the Skeptics
Who Said It Would Be a Costly Mistake

Meetings and memos aside, the president trusted his instincts
more than institutions and was willing to defy a roomful of
advisers.

The New York Times The New York Times @nytimes

Seung Min Kim Verified Account
@seungminkim

For those of us who like these kinds of details, the Pelosi-Trump
phone call began at approx 7:20 p.m. last night, ran for about
12 minutes

12:55 PM - 22 Jun 2019

Seung Min Kim Verified Account
@seungminkim

Pelosi had phoned Trump last night to ask him to call off
the planned raids, per person familiar with the convo

(link)

12:46 PM - 22 Jun 2019

tweet dribble July 13, 2019

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8

3 false claims in 18 words! 1) Trump doesn’t have 94% approval
among Republicans; it’s consistently high-80s. 2)
Reagan’s high was 94%. 3) The record was Bush’s 99% post-9/11.
Trump’s high ranks behind Bush/Bush/Reagan/Nixon/Eisenhower,
WaPo found in June.

(link)

4:28 PM - 13 Jul 2019

Fact Checker
Analysis

Trump says he has the ‘all-time record’ for approval among
Republicans. He ranks sixth.

Washington Post

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8 Replying to @ddale8

For months, Trump used an invented 93% approval among
Republicans. He has recently increased it to 94%.
There is often a steady inflation in his fictional figures.

4:29 PM - 13 Jul 2019

Aaron Rupar Verified Account
@atrupar

Trump has retweeted thirteen (13!) tweets from Judicial Watch
this morning. More than one per hour.

8:35 AM - 13 Jul 2019 from Washington, DC


Trump Touts His Scottish, Irish Golf Courses in Twitter Repost
(source-Bloomberg)

Amid hurricane emergency, Trump fired off dozens of tweets
promoting his golf course, skewering Andrew McCabe, and
criticizing journalists

Yahoo News 11 hours ago

Aaron Rupar Verified Account
@atrupar

It is not normal for the president to promote a private golf
club he still owns and profits from and we shouldn’t become
numb to it. The nation’s highest office shouldn’t be one big grift.

(Screengrab of tweet)

8:31 AM - 13 Jul 2019 from Washington, DC

The usual week day activities. Attention whoring, using a person
that has international recognition, as a prop.

Game of Lies

July 22, 2019

Trump apparently lied about Indian Prime Minister Modi
asking him to mediate conflict with Pakistan.

I didn’t include this at first because it wasn’t clear if
it was true or not, but Trump said during the meeting
that Modi asked him to help mediate the conflict with
Pakistan.

The Indian government quickly responded on Twitter
by saying, no, Modi had not made such a request —
and furthermore, that such an offer wasn’t welcome.

…that all outstanding issues with Pakistan are discussed
only bilaterally. Any engagement with Pakistan would
require an end to cross border terrorism.
The Shimla Agreement & the Lahore Declaration provide
the basis to resolve all issues between India & Pakistan
bilaterally.

— Raveesh Kumar (@MEAIndia) July 22, 2019

https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/he...ageous-comments-trump-just-made-to-the-press/

July 25, 2019

North Korea conducts new launches days
after Trump said ‘there’s no missile testing’

https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/no...-trump-said-theres-no-missile-testing-report/

Trumpypants used the Group European Family Vacation to
film advertising for his private property. America cringed in
embarrassment, as Trumpypants steered world leaders to his
private Florida property, and used them as stage props for
his business.

David Corn Verified Account
@DavidCornDC

This is not an Onion headline.

(link to Mother Jones)

5:15 PM - 25 Jul 2019

(Miami is less than thrilled with Dumpster-Fire Donald Dunce.)

Mother Jones Verified Account
@MotherJones

Donald Trump might use the G-7 summit to bail out
his struggling golf club

5:14 PM - 25 Jul 2019

Donald Trump might use the G-7 summit to bail out
his struggling golf club

The Trump National Doral in Miami, which has seen
revenues plummet since he took office, is on his short
list to host world leaders.

Mother Jones Mother Jones @MotherJones

Another, fucked-up day, in the continuing fucked -up American
government, under tRump.

Virginia did not want him as president, and tRump whined about it.

(Trump has long been unpopular in Virginia, the only Southern
state not to vote for him in 2016. )

Who invited tRump to Virginia ?

(Nothing in 2019 is complete without Trump Loyalist hypocrisy.)

Trump went to Jamestown, Virginia, on Tuesday to commemorate
400 years of democracy in the US at an event to mark the first meeting
of a representative legislative assembly in the western hemisphere. That
took place on 30 July1619, when George Yeardley convened the assembly
as governor of the new British colony.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/trump-black-leaders-virginia-race-baltimore-attack

BEN PAVIOUR, BYLINE:

Trump began his morning attacking Cummings, who chairs
the House Oversight Committee, the committee that has
launched a series of investigations into his administration.
The president claimed without evidence that the majority-
black city of Baltimore was corrupt.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:

Billions and billions of dollars have been given to Baltimore.
It's been misspent. It's been missing. It's been stolen.

PAVIOUR:

A short trip later and Trump was in a giant air-conditioned tent
in Jamestown about a mile from where Virginia's Assembly
met on a sweltering day 400 years ago. Those early representatives
were all white landholders. The first enslaved Africans arrived on
a trade ship a few weeks later.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/7466...t-trumps-speech-marking-jamestown-anniversary

One protester, and he escorted out by guards-

Samirah’s act was loudly booed by the audience of mostly Trump supporters
and the president subsequently complained that the press gave too much of
its attention to Samirah and not his speech.

Silent, polite, Democrats and shouting Republican tRump supporters

A small number of Democrats walked out after Delegate Ibraheem
S. Samirah's (D-Fairfax) protest.

(Which Republicans shouted "Trump, Trump. Trump, Trump," while Samirah
as escorted out ?)

While Northam and Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D)
left hours before Trump arrived. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D)
stayed.

The audience of about 700 included three former Republican governors
— George Allen, Robert McDonnell and Jim Gilmore — as well as a
group of mostly Republican state lawmakers and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.),
who introduced Trump. Former governor Gerald L. Baliles (D) also joined
them, as well as Democratic Reps. Elaine Luria and Jennifer Wexton.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...db7e10-b240-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

"There was nothing about the Jamestown 400th commemoration
event that needed to involve the President of the United States."*

*Trump was given a keynote speaker platform to spread his vile ideology
while a Palestinian-American legislator, Del. Ibraheem Samirah, was
quickly escorted out by security (while audience members chanted
“Trump! Trump!”) for bravely protesting the Trump administration’s
xenophobic and inhumane policies. Just like throughout our past, ideals
of liberty and freedom were given lip service by elites while, at the very
same event, the liberty and freedom of a person of color was snuffed out.

Thus, the silent legislators in attendance did little to stop this repeat
of the worst of our history and present society. Instead they merely
sat as witnesses to it, in essence perpetuating it.

They perpetuated a system wherein voices of white supremacism and
xenophobia were brought to the forefront (as a keynote speaker no less),
and the voices of the marginalized and oppressed were pushed into the
shadows, out of sight and out of mind – for the sake of civility, of course.
They silently sat through an event that normalized Trump, legitimized
him and, at points, even included speeches that fawned over him.

https://bluevirginia.us/2019/07/sto...ance-at-trumps-jamestown-commemoration-speech

Were native Americans invited to this celebration ?

Viginia 1614

400th anniversary of the Pocahontas–Rolfe marriage

Custalow and his tribal ancestors challenge the English myths
describing Pocahontas’s voluntary Christian conversion and
romantic love for Rolfe. As Custalow argues in his book,
kidnapped people held hostage for long periods often identify
with their kidnappers for survival, a phenomenon now labeled
the Stockholm Syndrome. Any wife and mother who is kidnapped
and held in captivity for over a year would experience psychological
trauma.

(Held aboard English ship- In 1609, Samuel Argall captained the ship Mary and John.)

According to Custalow and Daniel’s account, Pocahontas became
so depressed and withdrawn during her captivity that her captors
feared for her life. The possibility that she did not want to live
meant that ransom demands on Powhatan would not be successful.
Word of the situation was sent to the paramount Chief Powhatan
Wahunseneca, who then dispatched Pocahontas’s older sister
Mattachanna and her husband Uttamattamakin to help care for
Pocahontas.

Upon their arrival, writes Custalow, “Pocahontas confided in
Mattachanna that she had been raped.” Custalow emphasizes
that “Mattaponi sacred oral history is very clear on this.”
Custalow continues that Pocahontas also told Mattachanna
“that she believed she was pregnant.” Mattaponi oral traditions
hold that Pocahontas’s mixed-blood son Thomas was born
out of wedlock, prior to the marriage ceremony between
Pocahontas and Rolfe. There is speculation that the real
biological father and namesake was Sir Thomas Dale.

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/pocahontas-first-marriage-powhatan-side-story

“[Lincoln’s] belief in the essential role of government in the
economy as part of democracy might not fit Paul Ryan’s
understanding of what is the party of Lincoln,” he says.
“Lincoln was not a follower of Ayn Rand. Although Trump
may well be the embodiment, however a nightmare embodiment,
of Ayn Rand’s vision. So be careful what you wish for.

And thus we have reached, presumably by a federally maintained
road, the parlous state of the so-called “party of Lincoln”.
On Wednesday morning, the presumptive Republican
presidential nominee, Donald Trump, met Ryan and
other party leaders. The result was an apparent calming
of troubled waters, but Blumenthal views those in the
present day GOP who trumpet Lincoln with skepticism
and Trump himself with disdain.

In his statement against Trump a week earlier, Ryan widened
his definition of the GOP to “the party of Lincoln and Reagan
and Jack Kemp”. Blumenthal points out that Reagan
“began his 1980 campaign at the Neshoba County Fair,
[near] where three civil rights workers were murdered,
and spoke about states rights surrounded by Confederate
battle flags. So the idea of the party of Lincoln
[who defeated the Confederacy] and the party of Reagan
is a strange bracketing.”

"Lincoln became a Republican because his first party,
the Whigs, tore themselves apart over politics."

- Sidney Blumenthal

In age of Trump, Sidney Blumenthal's book on
Lincoln illuminates party history

- MartinPengelly

14 May 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nthal-lincoln-biography-hillary-clinton-trump

How did it get to Trump?

If one was inclined to reach for metaphor, you could say
it was a deal with the devil.

You could say it started with this, a plank adopted
by the Democratic national convention of 1948:

"The Democratic party commits itself to continuing efforts to
eradicate all racial, religious, and economic discrimination."

1948 Dixiecrats (motto: “segregation forever”), put forward their own
candidate for president, South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond campaigned on a platform that decried civil rights as
“infamous and iniquitous”, “totalitarian” and an attempt by the
federal government to impose “a police nation” on the land of
the free. That fall, the Dixiecrats took four deep south states
and 39 electoral votes from Harry Truman, a rippling of racist
muscle that kept the Democratic party’s egalitarian impulse
in check throughout the 1950s.

At the Democrats’ 1960 convention, African American delegates
walked out in protest over John F Kennedy’s concessions to the
Southern Segregationists.
this at a time when the Republican party, the party
of Lincoln and emancipation – and thus a 90lb weakling in most
of the south – was welcoming civil rights advocates to its
convention. Devil stamped his feet, sniffed the air.

After Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Democrat of
Texas and a son of the hardscrabble south, seized JFK’s cautious
civil rights agenda and turned it into a juggernaut.

“I think we just gave the south to the Republicans,”
he told his staff after ramming the Civil Rights Act of
1964 through Congress.

Bill Moyers knows the truth!



He was there.

His aide Bill Moyers recalled the moment in more drastic terms:
Johnson feared he had delivered the south to Republicans
“for your lifetime and mine”, a prediction whose proof,
while not yet conclusive – we are happy that Mr Moyers
is still with us – has trended ever since toward prophecy.
The first hard evidence came in the presidential election
that fall, when Johnson’s landslide victory over Barry Goldwater
saw only Arizona (Goldwater’s home state) and the old Dixiecrat
states, plus Georgia, go Republican. Goldwater had been one of
only a handful of Republican senators to vote against the Civil
Rights Act, and his nominating convention turned into a raucous
revolt against the party’s eastern establishment. Nelson Rockefeller,
millionaire governor of New York and the avatar of what’s now known
as a country club Republican, was roundly booed, hooted and dissed.
Goldwater delegates berated and shook their fists at the press, and
African American delegates were “shoved, pushed, spat on and
cursed with a liberal sprinkling of racial epithets”. Something new
and nasty was afoot; Republicans were acting like a bunch of
Dixiecrats. One black delegate had his suit jacket set on fire.
The southern caucus at the convention named its hotel headquarters
“Fort Sumter” after the starting point of the civil war. Jackie Robinson
spent several “unbelievable hours” on the convention floor, and
summed up his experience thus: “I now believe I know how it felt
to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/05/trump-reagan-nixon-republican-party-racism

2016

Ken Burns’s two-night biography “Jackie Robinson”
(WETA and MPT ) examines the life and groundbreaking
career of the baseball player who in 1947 integrated
Major League Baseball.

Lt. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was actually court-martialed in 1944!
Court-martials are military courts, usually consisting of a panel of
commissioned officers who conduct a criminal trial. There are three
types of courts-martial: Summary Court-Martial, Special Court-
Martial and General Court-Martial. Robinson faced a General
Court-Martial.

Robinson was transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion on July 24,
“where the commander signed orders to prosecute him.” On that
day, he was arrested. Rampersad says that “At 1:45 in the afternoon
on August 2, the case of The United States v. 2nd Lieutenant Jack
R. Robinson, 0-10315861, Cavalry, Company C, 758th Tank
Battalion, began.” Robinson’s fate was in the hands of nine men,
eight of them white: “One was black; another had been a UCLA
student [where Robinson had been an undergraduate].
Six votes were needed for conviction.”

Lt. Jack Roosevelt Robinson faced two charges:
“The first, a violation of Article of War No. 63, accused him
of ‘behaving with disrespect toward Capt. Gerald M. Bear, CMP,
his superior officer’ … The second charge was a violation of
Article No. 64, in this case ‘willful disobedience of lawful
command of Gerald M. Bear, CMP, his superior.’
” Three other charges were dropped before the trial began.
Testimony reveals how bravely Robinson had fought to
defend himself on the evening of the incident, including
reportedly saying quite heroically, “Look here, you son-
of-a-bitch, don’t you call me no (n-word)!” After a four-
hour trial, Robinson was exonerated: “Robinson secured
at least the four votes (secret and written) needed for his acquittal.
He was found ‘not guilty of all specifications and charges.'”

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-am.../history/was-jackie-robinson-court-martialed/

Today’s emergence of explicit white Christian identity politics
was something that Jackie Robinson, the groundbreaking
baseball star who was also an ardent Republican for most
of his life, saw firsthand in 1964.

As historian Leah Wright Rigueur chronicles extensively in
her important book "The Loneliness of the Black Republican,"
Robinson tried repeatedly to warn his pary about the fusion of
racism and limited-government arguments that Goldwater was
trying to make.

“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP,”
Robinson wrote in an opinion column published just after
Goldwater claimed his party’s nomination. “It is a new breed
which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old
as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial
prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/15/co...rs-like-bill-kristol-paved-the-way-for-trump/

Philadelphia apologizes to Jackie Robinson for the ‘unconscionable
abuse’ he once suffered there

April 1, 2016

A 1997 Philadelphia Daily News looking back at that
time concurred: “Whatever Jackie Robinson faced during
the 1947 season — and it was immense — few teams treated
him as disgracefully as the Phillies.”

Sixty-nine years later, the city is trying to make amends.
The Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution on
Thursday officially apologizing to Robinson for the
racism he confronted.

The resolution, which passed unanimously, dictated
“that City Council hereby recognize, honor and celebrate
April 15, 2016 as a day honoring the lifetime achievements
and lasting influence of Jackie Robinson, and apologizing
for the racism he faced as a player while visiting Philadelphia,”
the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Councilwoman Helen Gym, who introduced the resolution,
told the Inquirer that acknowledging a “great man” “sometimes
can start with an apology.”

The gesture was presented to Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson. He died in 1972.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-abuse-he-once-suffered-there/?noredirect=on

Jackie Robinson rejected Goldwater, in favor of Nixon

Roy Wilkins, then head of the NAACP, said that "Senator Goldwater
himself is not regarded as a racist," but that "his supporters are some
of the most outspoken racists in America."

AFL-CIO President George Meany compared Goldwater drumming
up support among racists to Hitler's rise in the 1930s and baseball
icon Jackie Robinson echoed the same sentiment:

"A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP."

"It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a
doctrine which is as old as mankind—the doctrine of racial
division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of
white supremacy. If I could couch in one single sentence
the way I felt, watching this controlled steam-roller
operation roll into high gear, I would put it this way,
I would say that I now believe I know how it felt to be
a Jew in Hitler’s Germany."

https://progressive.org/dispatches/deplorables-we-ve/

New York Times, Trump Ousts John Bolton as
National Security Adviser, Disagreements on
Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan Come to
a Head

-Peter Baker,

Sept. 10, 2019

https://www.justice-integrity.org/component/content/category/22-news-reports

bodysong comment- John R. Bolton goes back into the recycling bin.

"...within an hour, a complete different message
coming from the White House."

PBS News Hour

2 different stories were told to the press.

John Bolton Texts Media Figures To Dispute
That He Was Fired By Donald Trump

John Bolton OUT: 'You Can't Fire Me, I Quit'
- Frances Langum

9/10/2019

No sooner is John Bolton's tenure ended but he and the
so-called president start a PR war over who quit whom.

UPDATE: CNN reports that Bolton was fired because he
opposed Trump's 9-11 party at Camp David:

" Imagine getting fired for the advice "Don't throw a 9/11 party for the Taliban"

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 10, 2019

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/john-bolton-out-you-cant-fire-me-i-quit

Something Is Fishy about Trump’s John Bolton announcement
- Aaron Blake
Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix

President Trump announced Tuesday that he had effectively fired national security adviser John Bolton.

September 10, 2019

But just an hour before the announcement, the White House announced
that Bolton would be appearing at a 1:30 p.m. news conference alongside
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
If Bolton was on his way out as of Monday night, why did the White
House press office not seem to know about it at 11 a.m. Tuesday?

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/pol...-fishy-about-trumps-john-bolton-announcement/

This has been today’s episode of “Trump Lies About Everything.”

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/art...on_Says_He_Resigned._Lets_Get_Ready_to_Rumble.

"Civil War Miltary Mustache" Bolton is gone.

bodysong comment-

Where did Trumpypants Duncecap pick up such a horrible
suggestion ?

I blame Putin.

22 Aug 2016

“Somebody hits us within Isis, you wouldn’t fight back with a nuke?”
Trump asked in March. He was also reported as saying of nuclear
weapons: “If we have them, why can’t we use them?” On an interview
with MSNBC in March, his interviewer told Trump that nobody wanted
to hear that “a guy running for president of the United States talking of
maybe using nuclear weapons”. To which Trump replied:
“Then why are we making them? Why do we make them?”

Joe Scarborough claimed on Morning Joe that Trump asked an
advisor why the U.S. can’t use its nuclear weapons:

Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level
went to advise Donald Trump, and three times he asked about the use
of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked, at one point, “If we have them,
why can’t we use them?”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/nuclear-football-donald-trump

Apologies to Debbie, but Putin plays Gollum
to Trump's Sméagol (Lord of The Rings reference)

26 Aug 2019

Shortly after Trump came to power National Geographic
published an article pointing out how frequently the idea
of nuking hurricanes has been raised over the last few
decades. “It’s an appealing thought,” it said, “especially
when, during hurricane season, we’re annually reminded
of the immense destruction wrought by these storms.

“And it’s probably why, every year for the past six decades,
government agencies have received missives from concerned
citizens, urging preemptive attacks against hurricanes using
nuclear weapons.”

In the article, Nuking Hurricane: The Surprising History
of a Really Bad Idea, the magazine pointed out that the
response from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) was:

“Needless to say, this is not a good idea.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...urricanes-to-stop-them-hitting-america-report

September 11, 2019

Jim Mattis, John F. Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson
and other officials — even John Bolton — were occasionally successful
in checking Trump’s erratic impulses. But the adults are gone, and their
replacements are mainly sycophants and timeservers who are happy to
tell Trump that 2+2=22.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...abd_story.html

oh, look! A gem from the not too distant past-

March 4, 2018

“This is never … happening again!” Trump said,
using an expletive, according to two people,
one who heard him and another who was
briefed on the meeting. Neither would agree
to be identified while discussing internal
deliberations.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-...223-story.html

October 5, 2019

Since 1976, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has also been
the Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve, a world heritage site
sanctioned by UNESCO as the most pristine examples of intact
Sonoran Desert ecosystem. The otherworldly beauty of the
monument brings visitors who come to gawk at the towering
forms and hike the gravel-strewn trails . It also attracts scientists
from around the globe who study the inhabitants of the desert
and their adaptation to this this incredible environment.

And now it’s home to one of the greatest acts of ecological vandalism
in a century—carried out in an effort to hurry construction of Donald
Trump’s border fence.

Even after miles of border fence were erected in Organ Pipe Cactus
National Monument between 2012 and 2017, the striking beauty of
this Sonoran Desert jewel was preserved.

Disturbing as it was at the time, that initial fence was placed with
some care, often without disturbing ancient, towering examples
cactus within just a few feet of the fence. Images from 2017 show
a relatively low fence that, while it certainly doesn’t vanish into the
landscape, is also not a jarring disruption of the otherwise gorgeous
scenery.

Daily Kos

October 2, 2019

Bulldozers killed the cactus "grove."

Trump does not have any friends.
He uses everyone.

Cowardly Republicans face humiliation as they realize the hard way
that Trump was never their friend

Republicans on Capitol Hill feel they must remain loyal to Trump,
even at great personal expense. This is not because they think Trump
is anything but a comically evil villain. It’s because -
they, like Darth Vader’s henchmen, know that any show of defiance
means that Trump is likely to choke the life out of them from afar,
metaphorically speaking.


https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/co...e-hard-way-that-trump-was-never-their-friend/

"...many more Republicans would have to join them to reach the
two-thirds majority in the upper chamber required to convict the
president and remove him from office."

“Nobody wants to be the zebra that strays from the pack and gets
gobbled up by the lion,” a former senior administration official said
in assessing the current consensus among Senate Republicans.
“They have to hold hands and jump simultaneously … Then Trump
is immediately no longer president and the power he can exert over them
and the punishment he can inflict is, in the snap of a finger, almost completely
erased.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...2b73c0-e6ef-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html

This week, news emerged of another Trump phone call to
a foreign leader: this time, asking Australian Prime Minister
Scott Morrison to reveal his country’s role in prompting the
Mueller inquiry. Australia’s task, it seems, was to find a
smoking gun, implicating itself, and then to hand that
gun to the president.

It’s a tough request, even for a country historically happy
to accede to every U.S. demand. The main problem: There
is no smoking gun, and there is no conspiracy.

Yet even Trump himself seems to think we have questions
to answer. Back in May, when asking Attorney General
William P. Barr to investigate the FBI probe into his campaign’s
Russian connections, Trump placed Australia on the list:
“I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia
and I hope he looks at Ukraine.”

"Trump’s phone call was either pointless or — safe in the
knowledge that it would be leaked — an effort to breathe
fresh life into theories that suit the president’s domestic
agenda."

- Richard Glover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-treat-friend/

*kicks them in the arse, and calls them losers*

Did Putin kick Trump in the arse, and call Trump a loser ?

"Look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country," (John)
McCain said. "It's kleptocracy. It's corruption. It's a nation that's
really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy, and so
economic sanctions are important."

*up to their necks, in dirty Russian crime money*

It is easier to understand Presiderps Dick Cheese's reluctance to walk anywhere

Image Of Trump Stepping Out Of A Car Appears To Show
POTUS Wearing High-Heeled Shoes

Trump is now apparently wearing high-heeled shoes.

https://politicaltribune.org/image-...rs-to-show-potus-wearing-high-heeled-shoes-2/

Unverified Photo Of Trump At Rally Appears To Show
POTUS Wearing High-Heeled Shoes

At first glance of the photograph, that’s positioned behind Trump
at the podium, you notice that the back portion of his shoe features
a heel. A little weird, yea. But it’s not completely out of the question
for men’s dress shoes to feature a small heel, right?

But it’s upon closer scrutiny and thanks to my editor that you’ll
notice it’s not only the heel portion of Trump’s shoes that’s been
raised.

The man has a shoe lift under the FRONT PART OF THE SHOE!

https://politicaltribune.org/unveri...ears-to-show-potus-wearing-high-heeled-shoes/

Those, that have curiosity, and seek-
Have seen the path that Donald Trump has taken. He learned from his grandfather
and his father. He learned from men in his path, One of these men was Roy Cohn.

Closeted Roy Cohn the Subject of an Eye-Opening New Doc

- Gary Kramer

Matt Tyrnauer’s detailed and layered documentary, Where’s My Roy Cohn—
that titular quote is Trump’s—deep dives into the life and times of the singularly
hateful man. He was a “political puppeteer,” pulling strings and manipulating the
system to his advantage. He loved power and wielding it.

The film opened October 18 in the Bay Area.

Cohn may have been a self-loathing, closeted gay man,
but Where’s My Roy Cohn also asserts that he was a self-hating Jew,
rejecting his privileged family’s background and contradicting everything
he was supposed to become. His self-made man image certainly helped him.
Cohn also took a bad situation and turned it into a victory—
a technique that Trump adopted.

For viewers experiencing “45 fatigue,” Tyrnauer’s film offers no relief.
An extended section of the film addresses his relationship with the
future president, and how both men had situational ethics.
Neither would ever apologize or admit that they were wrong.
As information about the erection of New York’s Trump Tower
unfolds, Where’s My Roy Cohn generates righteous anger.

But for all of his dubious achievements, Cohn’s end was ignominious.
He was disbarred and investigated for a fraudulent codicil, lying under
oath, and other crimes. He refused to acknowledge he was gay or had
AIDS, but received special experimental treatments for the disease at
the NIH, courtesy of his friend, former president Ronald Reagan.

http://sfbaytimes.com/closeted-roy-cohn-subject-eye-opening-new-doc/

October 1, 2019

There’s never been anyone quite like Roy Cohn (1927-86),
and thank goodness for that.

He looked like Caligula (those hooded eyes!) and acted like a brat.
Put another way, he was tabloid catnip. All of which makes Tyrnauer’s
documentary very lively.

The only child of an heiress and judge, Cohn was an outer-borough
princeling, that borough being the Bronx. No one ever doubted his
brains.

The biggest problem with “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” is the documentary’s
attitude toward its subject: not its being critical, but that it so thoroughly
accepts his view of himself. Cohn wasn’t so much an ideologue or power
broker (especially not that) as he was a brand specialist, and the brand he
specialized in was Roy Cohn. He marketed an image of himself as ultimate
insider and attack-dog attorney (accurate enough, except that canine ferocity
works far better in kennels than courtrooms).

The truth-in-advertising description of what Cohn sold was something quite
different: smoke and mirrors. “He never gave up on his own myth,” the late
gossip columnist Liz Smith says in the documentary. No one promoted that
myth as effectively as he did. Until now, maybe: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
repurposes his self-mythologizing for its own, only in reverse.

The problem is that dark smoke and cracked mirrors are still smoke, still mirrors.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/mo...-inside-out/RddAGFk2MyPKhVdgRNMC5I/story.html

There are documentary portraits that pay respectful tribute to their
famous subjects, that measure their lives and accomplishments with
varying degrees of admiration and ambivalence. And then there is
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?,” which moves decidedly and unsurprisingly
in the opposite direction. Its view of the notorious attorney and power
broker Roy Cohn can be summed up in one interviewee’s unminced words:
“If you were in his presence, you knew you were in the presence of evil.”
After (or even before) seeing this absorbing, excoriating documentary,
you may find it hard to disagree.

The movie’s big 2019-ready hook is Cohn’s longtime relationship with
Donald Trump, which began around the time the Justice Department
sued Trump, his father and Trump Management for allegedly violating
the Fair Housing Act. In representing Trump, the documentary argues,
Cohn gave him an early lesson in political pugilism, teaching him to
never back down or admit wrongdoing, to manipulate the media without
shame and to lie, deny and counter-attack with relentless ferocity.

“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” — words that President Trump himself uttered
after what he perceived as an unforgivable betrayal by his then-attorney
general, Jeff Sessions — is hardly the only recent documentary to double
as a Trumpism origin story.

His crooked dealings helped build Trump Tower, a story of such multilevel
corruption that it could merit a feature-length documentary of its own.

The movie can’t fully disguise its glee as it lingers over the particulars of
Cohn’s death — or, for that matter, its all-too-convincing lament that his
spirit is still alive and well.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-09-19/wheres-my-roy-cohn-review

Real, not staged, not controlled

Rebecca Traister @rtraister

I’m of the opinion that masses of people booing the president
on one of the stupidly few occasions he’s ever been forced to
interact with them is in fact an extremely valuable moment
for our global standing & anyone who cares about America’s
reputation should thank that crowd.

9:01 AM - Oct 28, 2019