Emperor Caligula Carrot, Donald, the first of his name

[KeithD]

It's not weird. It's part of Trump's reveal that he's guilty as hell and on the run.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Instant White House Flash Mob on the South Lawn ?

Are we expected to believe 1,000 Eagle fans were in Washington, DC, ready to party with Trump, when the real Eagles celebration was in Philly ?

The time between the invite date, and the un-invite announcement did not leave many hours to organize travel plans. Who is available for a Trump flash mob ? Anti-abortionists, homophobes, naive Christian teens.

Who is in the group photo shots ?

Old men in suits, very young female assistants (pages ?) press secretaries from the White House, secretaries of Representatives ? Of Senators ? Computer techs, lobbyists, senators with no money, trying to gain points.

Who was on the South Lawn ?

“We’re all staffers,” one of them said. Jenna Webster, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is interning at the Republican National Committee, said that she had received a mass email from the White House earlier in the day, inviting her to attend the event.

gsgs comment- At any Trump rally, the people in the stands behind Trump, or directly in front of Trump are hired people. What would it be different at this propaganda rally ?

http://www.philly.com/philly/column...-national-anthem-fans-20180605.html?mobi=true




New York Times is not certain of who those people were.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/us/politics/trump-philadelphia-eagles-white-house-visit.html



Trump Turns Philadelphia Eagles Event Into 'Celebration Of America'
June 5, 20183


June 5, 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/05/6171...phia-eagles-event-into-celebration-of-america

White House released a statement accusing the Eagles of “abandoning their fans,” which was a particularly silly charge. For one thing, 25,000-30,000 of those fans had just shown up at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night to watch some Eagles players participate in a charity softball game.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head is taking his Trumpypants Toddler show on the road. The G7 countdown is hours away.

There will be no American weekend road trip for Emperor Carrot Head, and no cash collection. No ego-boost at the rally with the proles. No private golf, on his private property. No American fast food.

He will be forced to drink his bitter medicine.

All the people that he slapped in the face
with his shoe, are waiting to slap him.

Last G7 Trump was on his worst behaviour. Rude, in a bad temper, and disagreeable.


There was no one at G7 to help him play the pretend game.
No sane person treats him as if he were a real Emperor.

Emperor Carrot Head does not have a Trump hotel in Canada, no golf course. He will be staying at a very good hotel, and there is a golf course available.


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/ins...re-trump-and-trudeau-going-for-g7-summit.html


Three new reports highlight the laziness problem. First, Trump is acting cranky and resentful in anticipation of his journey to faraway Canada. “President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday. He is not exactly happy about it,” reports the Washington Post. “Trump is a homebody president, preferring to sleep in the White House — or at one of his signature properties — than in hotels, so he is generally reluctant to take long journeys.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/president-trump-still-way-too-lazy-to-do-his-job.html


There is some evidence that Trump is open to negotiating in good faith if the other side is willing to flatter him or do favors for his businesses. But those options aren’t available to most democratic leaders, who are accountable to publics that almost universally despise the American president.

Thus, for all of the pressing issues currently dividing the United States from its G7 partners, it’s unclear whether they’ll have anything to talk about in Quebec. Like a reality-show villain, Trump’s America isn’t here to make friends (or self-interested diplomacy), but rather, to engage in pre-orchestrated feuds. And for the moment, our allies have no way to vote us out of the Western alliance.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ica-isnt-going-to-the-g7-to-make-friends.html


Emperor Carrot Head hates the NFL and Canada

Why ?

He failed.

Canada is a reminder of everything that Emperor Carrot Head wants to forget.


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a41135/donald-trump-usfl/


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...legal-case-against-us-president-a7623566.html

Personal grudge ?

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-buffalo-bills-nfl-anthem-protests-670238

 

[phrodeau]

(edited)

“Trump is a homebody president, preferring to sleep in the White House — or at one of his signature properties — than in hotels, so he is generally reluctant to take long journeys."

No decent hookers in Canada.

 

[sr71plt]

Probably no Trump property to stay in there and charge the U.S. government to stay at with an extensive entourage paid with money he'll drain from social services.

 

[phrodeau]

Now Trump has expressed his desire to include Russia in trade talks, and to normalize relations with North Korea.

Anyone think an alliance between the three bullies Putin, Kim and Trump might not be a good idea?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head disrupts, derails, and delays G7

June 8, 2018

Emperor Carrot Head wanted G7 to wobble, off center

Emperor Carrot Head is not benefiting America, or earning favors for the USA by shoving the Russia issue ahead of orderly plans of G7

Carrot Head had a ready excuse to blow off the discussion on global climate change, ecological deterioration and destruction

He used up his time before he left the USA, to feed the media newstream, therefore he had to haul ass to Singapore

G6 + 1, indeed

*sigh*

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/trump-ditching-g7-early-to-hang-out-with-kim-jong-un

PETULANT, FRIENDLESS TRUMP IS DITCHING THE G7 EARLY TO HANG OUT WITH KIM JONG UN

The president’s support for inviting Russia back into the G7, just after they meddled in the election to support his campaign, will leave millions of Americans with serious questions and suspicions.” Republican Senator Ben Sasse struck a similar note, saying, “This is weak. [Vladimir] Putin is not our friend and he is not the president’s buddy. He is a thug using Soviet-style aggression to wage a shadow war against America, and our leaders should act like it."

Luckily for Trump, he won’t have to put up with anyone bitching at him about his ridiculous tariffs or suspiciously warm embrace of Russia for too long. He’s reportedly dropped out of a scheduled meeting with Macron and has announced that he’ll be leaving the summit a day early, in what we can only assume will be a major huff, so that he can hang out with a friendlier world leader: Kim Jong Un

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head, speaking to the Republicans that agreed to please him, but delayed his gratification, after much whining, pleading, demanding tones from him- led him to use his erzatz imperial Trumpypants Toddler persona-



"Bring me my tariff!"

(FFS, he said that.)


News commenter- "Trump trolled the world, today."

Washington Week
June 8, 2018

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head, will be in Las Vegas on Saturday to headline the Nevada Republican Party's convention and appear at a fundraiser. Suncoast Hotel and Casino northwest Las Vegas.

An invitation for the fundraiser offers donors a private photo reception with the president for $15,000 and a private roundtable with Trump for $50,000.

The usual junket, give a speech, pick up the cash and touch base with donors, a photo op at "roundtable discussion" (so the tax payer will be forced to pick up the expense of travel, security, ect.

Trump was scheduled to fly back to Washington around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.

https://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/pr...-discussion-during-las-vegas-visit/1257263520


Trump toady trolls get free ride to home state, on tax payer's dime. Perks, for certain.

Meanwhile, in DC


"May want to work on that logic, dad"

At the Total Wine in Annandale:

An early 30s couple have a fidgety toddler sitting in the shopping cart.
Mom walks away in exasperation.

Dad: "Look, Grace. When you're good, you get to go to the beer store. If you're not good then you don't get to go to the beer store."

http://dcist.com/2018/06/overheard_in_dc_civic_duty.php

 

[KeithD]

It's interesting that people still exist who would let themselves be photographed with Donald Trump.

 

[urguyscott]

It is interesting

It is interesting that people still desire a Soros Nazi, corrupt politician, liar, anti human rights thief and pro terrorist such as Mr. Obama and Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and their fellow gangsters as their leaders. The leftist have absolutely nothing to show for 16 years in office and nothing to look forward too. And yet people still want to listen and have their mug shots taken with them. Funny.

The American Socialist Democrat Slave Party which calls itself both Progressive Fascists and Liberal Communists does not have the respect of anyone in the world. Remember both the Communists and the Nazi Parties call themselves Socialist and that both have the same political plan of dragging the world back into the dark ages. But most of all those from the Hollywood Court Clowns to the Swamp Monsters of Washington are just one thing. Liars. Remember how Mr. Obama went around sucking the asses of all the worlds’ dictators and not one showed him any respect. They have no respect for weak stupid people. Mr. Trump uses both a big stick and a loud voice and they pop to attention. Big difference between being a corrupt thief like the Clinton’s, a weak piss ant communists like Obama and a real man and American like Trump. He scares the Democrats and Rhino Republicans as no one has since President Reagan.

The Party said that they wish that the son of the President would be kidnapped put in a cage and raped by their pervert child molesters. (And the Democrats have plenty of those.) And at the same time, with large crock tears they say it is a terrible thing (and they are the ones who created the situation) for the poor slave children they are using as shields at our southern border being “torn” away from their families. Yea, they care nothing for children. It’s just a lie like all the rest. The last batch of “children” Obama let come across were the M13 terrorists that the Democrats defend and say it is a terrible thing to call murdering cowards and rapists and terrorist “animals.” If you call them that then you would have to call all members of the Soros Nazi Party animals. It isn’t fair to animals to compare the M13 Party Guard and the political trash of Hollywood and Washington animals. After all animals have rights.

If the Democrats really cared for children and for people who their friends have driven out of their homelands, they would want a proper system of entering this country, where people don’t have to use the Democratic Slavers and pay ransom to be brought here for only one reason. To cast illegal votes as no Democrat Soros Party member could ever get elected in this country without a corrupt ballot box. That is why all the Democratic controlled states refused to take part in getting rid of voter fraud and corrupt elections. (Remember every death, every person sold into slavery, every person driven from their homes and their homeland in the world can be traced back to Obama’s policies. It is he, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Kerry who have the blood of innocents on their hands.)

Most of you have heard or seen that terrible picture of a child in a cage who was dragged in tears from his parents on the media. Anyone who would use a child like that, molest them, should be horse whipped and hung from a tree. I think all the leftist on here agree with that. Oh, and it was a fake picture set up by a Democrat and hyped by the lying left media. No surprise. And yes I agree with the leftist on here those people should be whipped and hung. It shows you how little they care for children and the truth. Mr. Clinton and his Congress pasted the laws, Mr. Obama and his Congress used the laws and now those same cruel people are saying that Mr. Trump should violate those laws and even more put the American people at risk. Both the weak little cowards of the Rhino Republicans and the Soros Slave Democrat Party who are using children to bring in slaves and gangs to help them win elections because they know the American people won’t have anything to do with them are the lowest of the low.

Look at the facts, created by the professional politicians who gain by having the slave vote. Hundreds of thousands of babies are born in the U. S. every year to illegal aliens. The parents can obtain Medicaid and food stamps (that U. S. citizens pay for) on behalf U. S. born children. Thanks to a rule changed by the Obama administration, illegal aliens with U. S. born children have been effectively exempt from deportation since 2011. (By the way you don’t see any Hollywood types or a rich fat cat politician begging to have illegal’s and drug users in their neighborhoods).

In addition, tens of thousands of babies are orn in the U. S. each year to tourists who come here to give birth and return home. In one recent year alone, about 10,000 Chinese women came to the U. S. to give birth, according to Chinese government sources. (Notice that most of the illegal’s come from countries run by “Socialists”.) All these babies are U. S. citizens.

The hospital bills for these births are almost always paid by U. S. taxpayers (another reason for Democrats to want to raise your taxes) although many of the “birthright tourists” are wealthy. (Remember the Democrats believe in the great Socialist systems such as in Cuba where their citizens live on $50 a month. So can you to pay for these programs.)

No European country grants birthright citizenship, and many countries around the world have ended it beginning in the 1980’s, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Malta, and the Dominican Republic. Try to get citizenship in China, Russia, Iran, Mexico, etc.

The great wail about “women” being molested and attacked is a great surprise to the Democrats. They came out strong against this “new” crime. But like everything else they jumped on the band wagon for it blew up in their faces. Their whole Hollywood group and many of the Washington swamp rats are the worst offenders. Look at Bill and Hillary Clinton. No one, not even their most brain dead worshipers deny old Buba is a rapist and has had sex with underage girls. And the only case Dyke Hillary ever really won was destroying a young innocent girl and getting her rapist off. The only women she has “respected” are her dyke corrupt traitors and thieves many who are now under investigation. Mrs. Clinton still kept the money her Hollywood producer gave her and is still his “friend”.

The March on Washington for Women was lead by a Chicago ISIS woman who believes women should be treated as cattle (like Hillary treated the so called media, remember how she had them roped and herded like the dump sheep and cattle they are?) If you watched it you saw how dirty and anti women rights they were. The one speech where a member of the party said; “I’m a dirty girl, as dirty as the blood on my sheet” LOL. That is the kind of women that the party uses as no real woman (which of you women like being called cunt’s in public?) would be a Democrat. That is why they voted for Mr. Trump and not Clinton.

The Democrats (and I live in CA where the Nazi Brotherhood have all but taken the state) run on “raise taxes” on the working class and poor. Remember they are the rich, the one per cent group and anyone who believes they plan to raise their taxes is brain dead. The wicked Princess of the West Nancy P. said if the Democrats take Congress they will raise taxes. A Democratic spokes person explained the economic plan of the Soros Nazi Party when he said that they wanted to bring down the economy of the country and bring back recession (Obama’s beloved eco similar to his dream state of Cuba and Venezuela). Of course the spokesperson earns $10 million dollars a year so he won’t be hurt by American families losing their homes and jobs.

Obama, a man who should be strung up from a nice tree branch for treason (oh come on you are the people who see nothing wrong with chopping off the presidents head, raping his children, killing anyone who says they are Republican, destroy freedom of speech and press, see nothing wrong with selling girls into sex slavery, so don’t give us any B. S. on what should happen to a traitor who sells out his country and the human rights of the rest of the world) did all he could do to destroy the nations police force (you have to have a corrupt state police working for the dictator and not for law and order and protection of the citizen like the FBI and DOJ) and the military. He freed terrorist and gave money and military aid to the enemies of mankind. He did it for political reasons as he was raised to be a communist. Old Dyke Hillary did it for money.

Now for those like the posters who quote the Joseph Goebbels liars of the fake media and are no better than any Nazi or Commie please point out anything that I have said that is not true. Instead you will use foul language and insults and bury your pot dead head in the sand which is the typical answer to any debate from a terrorist. (Or like Hillary you can have someone give you the questions and answers like she did in the debates and cheat. You know she cheated on her BAR and college exams. The woman is as dumb as mud. I truly believe she sat on her bathroom server taking a leak and got shocked once too often. Or like Nancy P. of CA she has had so much drugs and face lifts that every time they open their mouths a fart comes out.)

And to prove you are a good Nazi or Commie Socialist give all but $50 of your salary (if you work which I doubt) to the government, take in drug dealers and gang bangers and illegal’s into your home and feed and clothed them and provide medical treatment and anything else they need as it is your duty to do so. If you are not doing these things and Nancy P., Oprah, Gov. Brown and the Clinton’s and the rest of your “leaders” aren’t, then like them you are a liar.

By the way you all are victims of the Liberal De-education system. If you really were educated you would know that the little Nazi God Soros and his family would never live to rule as Nero of the world. Do you really think the Chinese and Russians and the Middle East Terrorist would let him and his family live to rule once they have done and spent their money to bring down the free countries of the world? If so you are as stupid as they are. I mean look at what the Nazi and Communists do to gays and so called intellectuals and minorities and women and children. But History repeats itself to dummies who fail to learn from it.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head went on his usual tour on the taxpayers dime, to pick up more cash for his "campaign." Private, closed to the press, "fundraising" event in Wisconsin.

Crumbs, from the table of The People, and the Table of China, for all of Pumpkin Klown's obsequious minor donors.

The lobby of the Pfister Hotel was teeming with Secret Service agents, guests and Republicans attending the fundraiser.

Guests and visitors were screened by airport-style metal detectors at the Wisconsin Ave. and Mason St. entrances.

At about 9 a.m., Walker and a group breezed through the lobby on the way to the event in the 7th floor ballroom. Others coming through included Paul Purcell, chairman and CEO of Robert W. Baird & Co. Local philanthropist Ted Kellner, who hosted the fundraiser, was also on hand.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...e-groundbreaking-foxconn-wisconsin/739813002/


A large contingent of local police, sheriff's deputies and Secret Service agents milled about the area awaiting Trump's departure later in the morning.

Carrot Head will be celebrating with Foxconn. The land Foxconn is building on, was facilitated through the government's use of eminent domain.

How is that for freedom ? Carrot Head's motorcade will be avoiding all of the protesters against Foxconn, and the con job.

The biggest surprise may be the appearance of Masayoshi Son. Son is the chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp. a leading Japanese bank that has financed Foxconn activities.

Gold shovels, for all of Pumpkin Klown's donors!

https://www.wisconsingazette.com/ne...cle_bc34635a-7641-11e8-baf9-9b84306e3f68.html

Your personal American property is blighted. We are giving it to China. You have no say about what happens. China is in charge, now.

https://www.wis.community/uppity-wi...lanned-during-foxconn-groundbreaking-ceremony


Nearly 40 groups representing students, environmentalists, civil rights advocates, teachers, union workers and others have organized a protest for the same time. Their counter-event will feature dozens of speakers, a marching band, singers known as the "Raging Grannies" and musicians who plan to play the ominous theme music for Darth Vader and other villains from "Star Wars."


https://www.wpr.org/trump-comes-wisconsin-foxconn-groundbreaking-walker-protestors-tow


Forget infrastructure, schools, and resources for the American tax payers. Everything will be devoted to the mighty Chinese company efforts.

Make China Great, Again! This is not your water, this is Chinese water, now.


Some lucky campaign donors split $9 million dollars!

The initial estimate for the project was $1.9 million, but the low bid came in at less than $1.4 million. The water main extension will carry water from International Drive, south of Highway 20, to Highway 11.

The initial project estimate for the work was $9.3 million. Eight bids were submitted ranging from $7.3 million to $12.3 million and the Commission recommended awarding to the low bidder, Fischer Excavating from Freeport, Illinois.

https://patch.com/wisconsin/mountpleasant/nearly-9-million-awarded-2-foxconn-water-sewer-contractors


China's record for abandoned property, is worse than Walmart's ghosts. Though Walmart property is leased to be prisons for children, recently.


Short term manufacturing is contracted, completed, and abandoned. The next contract gets a newly built manufacturing complex. Foxconn is changing their scheme mid-stream, and a new site has just been carved out.

Don't cry Illinois. China will pollute your water, too. Just wait a year, or two.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Someone has Emperor Carrot Head's number

2018/07/11

"He rots the soul of a nation"


In Trump’s case, his motivator is himself. His blindness is self-imposed. No doubt there are reasons still unknown that make him a willing participant to the ruination of his country—one that was better to him and more loyal to his interests than he ever could be in return. Trump’s modus operandi would suggest a number of possibilities; greed, mental illness, blackmail, or some other form of deviltry. Trump has no noble conundrum and he would hardly be the proposition for the Bard's interest in heroes or villains. His “fall” will not be so precipitous as unceremonious. The orange dotard hides behind a mask of ignorance, not nobility. His gift is to inspire morons:

“...For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. ..."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not so sure that Cicero hit the mark with that first line—to most of us, I believe Trump’s treachery is not at all subtle, yet his “base” of neo-nazis, racists, and other assorted deplorables hear him echo their grievances—their hatreds. Appealing to their “baseness” is the method to his madness. It is really a devilish trick to troll the depths of a person’s hidden thoughts and feelings. If Cicero is right, we all have these hidden thoughts but we do our best to suppress them. Trump plays on his base’s innermost thoughts and exploits them for his own purposes. And so,

“...He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

As we witness Trump, just this week, assault our NATO allies and blithely remark that his visit to meet Putin in Helsinki may be the easier than dealing with allies it becomes clear that we are missing the point. He is allied to Putin, whom he childishly calls our competitor. It is a tactless attempt to deny he is our enemy. Get it? Counter-intuitive Trump, a man for all treasons. As a traitor who has a skewed view of relationships, Russian interference in our election is somehow his “competitor”—a Trumpian encryption for a friend who has something on me, a friend with global benefits. After all, Trump exists to benefit himself at our expense. He is the enemy within. There is little doubt how this all ends. Badly.

The psychology of Donald Trump aside, traitors generally have inflated egos which allow them to rationalize their transgressions. They believe they are righting a historic wrong that only they can perceive. Traitors are almost always caught because of the misperception of their own virtue. Hubris blinds them of their own iniquity. Trump shares many of the traits of this archetype. As Cicero suggests, his depravity is to be more feared than a murderer. Just ask the families separated at our border. Ask those parents who have had their child ripped from them for a bogus cause manufactured for his own political well-being. Ask the children who are now imprisoned in Trump jails for Trump’s entertainment—an entertainment he savors when he advises other asylum seekers to choose between their futures and their children. Evil has rarely looked less appealing. Trump cannot be allowed to continue his presidency. He cannot be allowed to rot the soul of a nation whose purpose was to escape leaders just like him.

Let us hope that our nation can survive this fool.
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 10 and 2



Author of this opinion piece,

vjr7121

Community

Philosophy Girl would have been attracted to the person behind this handle.

Brainz!


https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/recommended?page=2

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Head has returned to his private property in New Jersey.


He escaped the protests against him, during his grand European tour. But, the protesters have plans.

Who outed the man with a plan to bring the Big Baby Trump balloon to New Jersey ?


July 20, 2018


Trump supporters tried to get 'Baby Trump' balloon activist fired from homeless shelter



Defenders of (Emperor Carrot Head) contacted his employer, alleging he was misrepresenting the organization in his activism.

However, the 29-year-old said he never brought his places of work into the protest, or named them. He believes Trump supporters may have found his employer through Facebook, and began calling and emailing the organization, where he works with homeless families.


After a meeting with his supervisors and HR representatives Friday afternoon, Jimenez-Castro showed the public support for the project and defended his activism.

"My bosses told me to keep doing what I'm doing, and I don't have to worry about any backlash," he said after the meeting. "They said, 'don't worry about Trump supporters, HR is dropping everything.'"

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.s...oon_activist_fired_from_homeless_shelter.html

Yes, there is a Trump supporter fund-raising online, because she wants to pop tge Big Baby Trump balloon.

GoFundMe is killing her accounts, as soon as they pop up.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...sey-draws-trouble_us_5b519a88e4b0b15aba8d6ff1

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Ex-White House Stenographer:
With No Official Transcript,
Trump Can Muddle The Truth


July 23, 2018

"...White House stenographers would not be needed often, because "there would be video."

This seems like a fair point," says Dorey-Stein, "unless you really know audio." The audio that's taken from media video might change or get trimmed during the editing process, she says. "We see that with music videos, so the idea of it just being like, 'Oh, of course, we can just have this on video,' it's not the same."


"In my five years with President Barack Obama, off-the-record discussions with reporters happened after work hours — not for an hour in the middle of the workday, and certainly not before an interview," she writes in the op-ed. "When a president spoke on the record with a reporter, his staff made sure to have a stenographer present so there could be an official White House transcript, just in case the reporter came out with an inaccurate quotation."

He's doing the American people a disservice," she says. "It's quite possible President Trump is actually doing it intentionally, because if there was a record of what happened, it would be hard for him to muddle the truth."

The president has had the latitude "to walk his words back," she says, "because he doesn't have a recording ... It's much easier to muddle the truth when you don't have a transcript."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/6306...-official-transcript-trump-can-muddle-the-tru

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pence promises Trump White House ‘just getting started’ as ‘Handmaids’ protest Trump and Pence

On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence addressed attendees at the America First event in Philadelphia. The speech was intended to show “what the tax cuts mean for you and your family,” according to the group.

Coming to the stage while his signature AC/DC intro song played, Pence boasted about the administration’s achievements in its first 18 months.

“Just pray for America,” Pence said later on in the speech.

Even as Pence pledged that the Trump White House was just getting started, one hundred women planned to dress as handmaids from the dystopian book and television show The Handmaid’s Tale. The demonstrators mean to call attention to administration policies against women and LGBTQ rights.

“We just felt that the visual of the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ costumes, a society in which women in Gilead are stripped of their most basic rights and their humanity, was appropriate,” Samantha Goldman, who helped plan the event, told the Inquirer.

“This nightmare must end! The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!” the group wrote on their website.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Ah, yes.

Pence filling in for his boss. Insure the tax payer will pick up the travel tab, by talking about Trump's economic "plan." A rally in a private venue. This time, it was a hotel ballroom. Private, exclusive fundraiser at the Union League. Meet and greet the local yokel Trumpite candidate.


His (Pence's) appearance as the headliner at the private campaign fundraiser later at the Union League drew less enthusiastic support. Nearly 200, some in costumes from the dystopian Hulu drama The Handmaid’s Tale, crowded near police barricades to protest the vice president and the administration in general.

“The Trump-Pence regime must go,” the women, donning scarlet dresses and white bonnets, chanted several times in unison.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...protests-union-league-20180723.html?mobi=true



Monday’s protest was organized by Goldman’s group, Refuse Fascism, in conjunction with Philadelphia’s chapter of the National Organization for Women and the Delaware County chapter of NOW


Additional Pence protests led by NextGen Pennsylvania were planned for the afternoon at City Hall.


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...otest-pence-in-philly-20180722.html?mobi=true

Red means one thing on an electoral map, but in Gilead, the dystopian, post-U.S. society in which The Handmaid’s Tale is set, it’s the color that denotes a class of women who’ve lost all civil rights and who’ve been turned into breeding stock, forced to bear children for a ruling class that can no longer reproduce on its own and uses religion to justify ritualized rape.

Out here in what’s still America, handmaid’s habits are more like the pussy hats of the Women’s March on Washington — handmade, often by those who wear them, and meant to send a message of solidarity. Their appearance may have no more effect on Pence, or on those who support him, than June and her fellow handmaids have so far had on the institutions that enslave them. They may even look a little silly. (If there’s one thing the TV Gilead has going for it that a real one probably wouldn’t, it’s first-class costume design.)

What the handmaid protesters are, though, is visible. The uniform they’re briefly adopting might represent the sum of all fears or might just be a convenient cultural reference, but it makes them easy to spot in a crowd.

And reminds those who’ll get, and appreciate, the allusion that they’re not alone.


http://www.philly.com/philly/entert...andmaids-tale-protest-20180723.html?mobi=true

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Nothing is too small, for Emperor Carrot Head to lie about.

Trump took the motorcade to Air Force One — at Joint Base Andrews — instead of flying because of "bad weather," confounding some reporters who cover him. The pool reporter noted the odd decision "on what appears to be the nicest day Washington has had all week.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/white-house-bad-weather-call-fog-trump

Hallie Jackson
@HallieJackson
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13h
Via the pool reporter today (it's @FoxNews repping the networks) who asked the White House what's up: "Was told the reason for the bad weather call is 'bad weather.' Pressed further, am told there is fog.

8:35 AM · Jul 26, 2018


Hallie Jackson
@HallieJackson
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13h
View from my office window as the White House makes a bad weather call - meaning the president will take a car to Andrews, rather than depart via his helicopter from the South Lawn where reporters can gather to shout questions at him

8:23 AM · Jul 26, 2018

(Included a picture of blue sky and thin, scattered clouds seen from between and above buildings.)

Anita Kumar
@anitakumar01
On what appears to be the nicest day Washington has had all week, the White House has informed the pool that @POTUS will motorcade to JBA because of bad weather.
8:25 AM · Jul 26, 2018


Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
July 26, 2018

10:55 AM · Jul 26, 2018

Big, pretty photo of the White House, bathed in sunlight, and baby blue sky sbove it, with wispy clouds.

Jimmy from the BX
@BloodwingBX
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12h
Replying to @anitakumar01 @maybellinecat and @POTUS
I've always said if Trump says the sky is blue I'd have to look out the window to be sure... They lie about the most easily confirmed things

 

[jp55665566]

"Bad weather" is SecretService code warning a crazed liberal, threatening violence, may be in the area.

 

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Beautiful, sunny day in DC has Emperor Carrot Head plodding for the motorcade. Stormy weather in New Jersey does not stop him from climbing into the jet, and scrambling into the helicopter.


WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump flew into Morristown Airport Friday, arriving for a weekend at his Bedminster golf course.

The smaller Air Force One landed at 5:07 p.m., according to White House pool reports. He then boarded the Marine One helicopter to Bedminster, where he landed at 5:33 p.m

Anything, to escape journalists and reporters, by holing up in fortress on private property.

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/07/another_weekend_another_trump_sighting_in_jersey.html


Dean Christesen
@deanchristesen
The New Jersey Turnpike like I’ve never seen it before. This added 2 hours to our Richmond VA-Newport RI drive

8:31 PM - Jul 27, 2018

Jim Aleski
@JimAleski
They are using snow plows to push water off the @NJTurnpike right now between exits 12 and 11... and more rain appears to be coming in from the west.

8:39 PM - Jul 27, 2018 · Carteret NJ



Lakewood News Network
@LakewoodNewsNet
VIDEO: Parts of the Garden State Parkway closed off due to flooding. #LNN

7:10 PM - Jul 27, 2018



Morristown Weather Alert: Flash Flood Watch until Friday Jul 27th, 11:00pm: ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The Flash Flood Watch for portions of northern New Jersey and northwest New Jersey will expire at 11 PM EDT this evening.

NOAA-NWS-ALERTS-NJ125AB1200F44.FlashFloodWatch.125AB1202330NJ.PHIFFAPHI.f835c2007c37c16e52e4077f684d0780 from w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
Sent: 03:34 GMT on 07-28-2018

Now, we know why the taxpayer was forced to pay for helicopter pads on private property.

 

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Is Emperor Carrot Head attempting to intimidate hot air balloons with fighter jets ? There are two hot air balloon festivals nearby.

He really does not want to see the Big Baby Trump balloon from the UK.


This is the second weekend in a row, that fighter jets were dispatched, above Emperor Carrot Head's private property.

https://www.nj.com/warren/index.ssf/2018/07/fighter_jets_over_lehigh_valley_no_trump_airspace.html


The fighter jets were seen about 11 a.m. following a loop that extended over Northampton and Bucks counties

There was no need for the military jets to intercept the aircraft, said U.S. Air Force Major Mark Lazane, public affairs officer for North American Aerospace Defense Command


Mcmurray and Lazane both deferred to the FAA for further information on the air-space violation. An FAA spokesman declined to comment Saturday

https://www.nj.com/warren/index.ssf/2018/07/fighter_jets_over_lehigh_valley_no_trump_airspace.html

FAASTeam Notice
Type: Selected ATC Notices
Notice Date: Friday, July 27, 2018
Notice Number: NOTC7927
VIP Movement Notification - Morristown, New Jersey and Bedminster, New Jersey

August 02, 2018
Morristown, New Jersey
30/10 NMR - 17,999 FT MSL

--AND--

August 02-13, 2018
Bedminster, New Jersey
30/10 NMR - 17,999 FT MSL

 

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Tre45on 2018

 

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ah, yes

Last week, another flash mob, was called to show up at Trump's photo-op with
EU Commisioner Jean-Claude Juncker. Senators had to drop what they were doing, and rush over to the Rose Garden.

What impression was Trump aiming for ? It is not as if Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker could bring his own entourage onto the "stage."

Kaitlan Collins from CNN was excluded, so that she would not spoil the ambiance of the second photo-op occasion.

There was a limited press pool, that was especially given access to the first event. Is it not odd, that she was the only member of the pool to ask a serious question ?



Some kind of "unspoken directives" at work, that FOX TV knows of ? On the theme of "This is my photo-op, about trade. Stay on topic, or be gone. Do not embarrass me in front of my international guest. OTOH, she unintentionally provided sizzle and effervescent bubbles to Trump's unexciting event.

This stunning show of force all came after CNN's Kaitlan Collins, representing five television networks as the pool reporter for the White House press corps, was banned from an open press event in the Rose Garden by Shine and press secretary Sarah Sanders for asking what they deemed inappropriate questions of the President during a pool spray earlier that day. Or, better put, doing her job.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/natio...cle_eaedfc4a-70bf-58af-be52-5ea348220672.html

 

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Another meme picture, added to the collection.

hmmmm

Hunting camo, while moving through the swamp water, in the middle of the night.

Duck Dynasty meets Swamp People, while crossing the swamp with General George Washington ? Melania is reaching into the pocket of Emperor Carrot's military bomber jacket. (She is wearing her "I Do Not Care" raincoat in camo) Emperor Carrot is standing in a small boat. Just as intelligent as staring at the eclipse with no protection. The painting flatters Emperor Carrot, as his thighs are not blubbery, and his burger belly is not pregnant.Emperor Carrot is holding up.Paul Revere's old lamp. Did they run out of batteries ? Who are they signalling ? Have they left the White House ? Are they heading for the White House ?


Who is pushing the flat bottomed boat through the mud with oars ? South Carolina Rep. Niki Haley, as UN Ambassador, seeking the depth of the mud. Ben Carson and James Mattis moving the boat. Who is holding onto a rifle ? Jeff Sessions has a rifle and a fishing rod! Mike Pence has binoculars and a rifle. Mike Pence is standing in the boat, using the flagpole to stand. Melania is using Mike Pence to steady herself. Ivanka has a headache. John Bolton is sitting on her shoulder, and Kelly Anne Conway's shoulder, with his right foot on Sarah Huckabee's thigh. He is manspreading, with Kellyanne's forearm between his thighs, holding his left thigh. John is holding his rifle with both hands. Kellyanne holds hers with just one.John Kelly has his slung over his shoulder. He has the steering oar, after all.



/end gsgs comment

Wonkette's take on the picture-

America's Greatest Artist Jon McNaughton Reboots Duck Dynasty

Mike Pence holds the flag aloft, in case Donald should get a hankering to hug it.

Toward the stern, we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders wondering why no one else in the crew has heard of oarlocks, Ivanka and Kellyanne Conway being ornamental, as women ought, and John Bolton apparently about to take a dump on them. John Kelly steers, hoping they can get up enough speed to run down an illegal immigrant baby. Due to regrettable staff changes, there is no Rex at the Tiller, son.

Please note that Donald Trump and crew are, in McNaughton's own symbology, not going to bother actually draining this swamp; instead, they will skim over it to fight some later battle, presumably elsewhere on the grounds of Lafayette Park.


Jon McNaughton, Salt Lake City's gift to the world of Great American Kitsch, has gone and committed painting with intent to do grievous bodily harm to your innards again. This time it's a very clever homage to Emanuel Leutze's 1851 "Washington Crossing the Delaware," only it's Donald Trump and select heroes from his White House staff "Crossing the Swamp," get it??? Oh, of course you get it. That's what McNaughton's all about.

With "Crossing the Swamp," McNaughton offers a brief pause from his recent trend of paintings focused on just one or two figures, is, such as "Donald Trump Rescues The Flag From Kneeling Black Thugs," "Donald Trump Beats Off Robert Mueller With Truth," and "Donald Trump Won't Let Alien Weeds Eat America Like Triffids."



https://www.wonkette.com/jon-mcnaughton

Over 240 years ago George Washington suffered through Valley Forge and crossed the Delaware River to bring an astonishing victory to the Continental Army. This led to what many thought was impossible, to defeat a despot King and his formidable army.


List of figures from left to right: Nikki Haley, James Mattis, Ben Carson, President Trump, Jeff Sessions, Mike Pence, Melania Trump, Mike Pompeo, Sarah Sanders, Ivanka Trump, John Bolton, Kellyanne Conway, John Kelly.

http://jonmcnaughton.com/crossing-the-swamp-10x15-litho/

 

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oops, my mistake. That was John Bolton's rifle stock, not Kellyanne's arm. The lithograph gets a bit smeary, if magnified too much.


Trump's 60 Minutes of Hate in Tampa Florida. Closed, private venue. Generated plenty of publicity.

philly dot com has an editorial by Will Bunch

August 2, 2018

There are some critical moments in world history that we refer to as “crossing the Rubicon” — a point of no return, like Julius Caesar’s fateful decision to cross a forbidden river into Italy with his army and launch a civil war. But in America’s agonizingly slow-motion descent into the riptides of autocracy, Trump’s Tampa rally felt more like sinking to the bottom of the Rubicon while drowning in a white, frothy backwash of conspiratorial lunacy and misdirected rage.

Something has clearly changed. Mass rallies — and their disturbing Nuremberg-on-the-Susquehanna vibe, including violence and fistfights that were applauded from the podium by the ringmaster himself — have been a staple of Trumpism from that day in June 2015 when the short-fingered vulgarian descended the Trump Tower escalators to run for the White House.

Suddenly, the mercury at Trump’s rallies is reading 1934 degrees and climbing.


There is no longer any rational reason (other than the sheer greed of higher ratings) for cable TV news to carry Trump’s rallies with live, extended coverage — not when you consider TV journalism’s stated policies of not airing hate speech and not providing a microphone for baseless, debunked conspiracy theories. It’s perfectly fine — and largely keeping with pre-Trump practices — to send a camera crew and to report, after the fact, on any kernels of actual news, and to expose and debunk the president’s false statements, which are increasing as we get deeper into his nightmare presidency.

But the growing insanity of Trump’s rallies poses a threat to the free press, which is essential for making democracy happen. Showing some editorial restraint — and not airing unedited and unfiltered falsehoods and hate speech — would hardly make the media an enemy of the American people. In fact, that would be an act of tremendous love — for the truth.

http://www.philly.com/philly/column...m-acosta-media-hatred-20180802.html?mobi=true