All the Presiderp's Sycophants

[bodysong]

Once upon a time, the remaining Republicans were asked to
"Give him (Trumpypants) a chance."

They said "Look at all the adults in the room."
"Everything will be O.K."

October 18, 2019 No Adults in the Room with Presiderp T

All the Presiderp's Sycophants

The key to survival in the Trumpypants administration —
not policy chops, not political finesse or ethical behavior.

"Flying by the Seat of the pants" responses to crisis-
The one person needed for that particular criminal
enterprise/hatchet job is hired and fired, quickly.

1000 Days Of Firings, Resignations, And Withdrawals

A Continuous Stream Of Firings And Resignations

Senate-confirmed officials nominated by President Trump continue
to leave their posts in the Trump administration

(So may temps in positions that required moving through the vetting process.
They may not be qualified, but they play one on TV, and at the palace.)

The Brookings Institution finding a turnover rate of 80 percent among
President Trump’s senior advisers

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/ne...nment-by-chaos-is-failing-the-american-people

Trumpypants has quadrupled the number of lobbyists serving in his
administration, creating countless potential conflicts of interest.

Rick Perry has a replacement waiting in place-
Ex- Lobbyist, Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette

Would you buy a used car from this man ?

Oct. 18, 2019

New Energy Secretary Fits Trend: Cabinet Dominated by Lobbyists

NY Times

Is it any wonder, that the Presiderp's Sycophants have invented a way
to justify Trumpypants awarding a no-bid contract to his own property ?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-g-7-doral-emoluments-corruption-mulvaney.html

 

[bodysong]

Stephen King ✓
Twitter › StephenKing

If I may crib from Bram Stoker, Rudy Giuliani is so low
he could put on a top hat and crawl under a rattlesnake.

2 hours ago

Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/ru...thor-stephen-king-rips-trump-lawyers-stature/

 

[seeshelly]

Something new to hate

Think into the future. Life is short. Trump will only be POTUS for the rest of this term and his next term if they don't take him out the way they took out Lincoln. That is just a few years away. Your life is slipping past you. It is clear you need someone to hate and attack. I feel bad for all these folks with Trump derangement syndrome. Even if he was as bad as you have been tricked into believing, WHO CARES? There are other things in life worth dwelling on. You need someone else to hate so that you can rant about a greater variety of people that you really know nothing about.

 

[bodysong]

Trump’s supporters are along for the ride, all the way to the bottom,
wherever that is.

- Jonathan Chait

October 18, 2019

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-g-7-doral-emoluments-corruption-mulvaney.html

 

[jaF0]

Note sure I've ever seen Slushie engage in conversation or even reply to inquiries. Just pastes and runs.

 

[bodysong]

All of the Trump Loyalists hid their hands

Feckless Fuckery

“We would never have gotten that photo had he (Trump)
not tweeted it,” said Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesman.
“It was a huge gift.”

http://www.startribune.com/viral-pho...osi/563512352/

Pelosi, at a long conference table filled almost entirely with graying white
men, lecturing the president during a contentious meeting on Syria as
others look down uncomfortably, averting their gaze.

For the record, a handful of other women were in attendance,
including Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican,
who is partly obscured by Pelosi’s outstretched arm as she
points to a glowering Trump.

- Sheryl Gay Stolberg
New York Times
October 20, 2019

10/17/19

Trump posts a massive self-own baiting Nancy Pelosi, not noticing
the men on his side of the table wishing the ground would swallow
them whole

— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) October 17, 2019

Pelosi led a House vote Wednesday to condemn Trump's decision
to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. The resolution passed by
354 votes to 60. Every Democrat voted with the resolution,
as well as more than two-thirds of Republicans.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...9QEwC3oECAkQCg

Jamie ’Grady ✓
Twitter › JamieOGrady

Trump just now: "Democrats are vicious and they stick together."
He literally just described the Republican Party of the last 25
years. No one projects better than this clown. NO ONE.

10 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, accusing the Democrats of operating
“Stalin-esque, Soviet-style” hearings, sent a letter signed by 76
other Republicans protesting “secrecy.”

Republicans didn’t find it “Stalin-esque” when they hauled 141
Clinton administration officials in for 568 hours of similar
private depositions.

October 21, 2019
-Dana Milbank

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/21/republicans-have-killed-irony/

 

[magicalmoments]

Rep Biggs and his 76 friends are morons.
Stalin didn't waste time with enquires. He just arrested people and sent them to the gulags. No charges, no subpoena, no court case, no hearings, just straight to the gulag.
Perhaps it what Biggs and his ilk need to bring them into the real world. Dickhead!

 

[bodysong]

"Moscow Mitch" McConnell and Mick Mulvaney seem to be out of Trump's favor.

Is Trump running out of replacements ?

Kellyanne Conway may get her turn.

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/22/tr...ne-conway-after-quid-pro-quo-debacle_partner/

Sean Doocey, White House Presidential Personnel Office chief, told
Trump in a Friday meeting that neither acting U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services head Ken Cuccinelli nor Acting Customs and
Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan would be able to
lead the Department of Homeland Security without Senate
confirmation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...d-security-secretary-are-not-eligible-for-job

 

[KeithD]

"Moscow Mitch" McConnell and Mick Mulvaney seem to be out of Trump's favor.

Is Trump running out of replacements ?

Kellyanne Conway may get her turn.

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/22/tr...ne-conway-after-quid-pro-quo-debacle_partner/

Sean Doocey, White House Presidential Personnel Office chief, told
Trump in a Friday meeting that neither acting U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services head Ken Cuccinelli nor Acting Customs and
Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan would be able to
lead the Department of Homeland Security without Senate
confirmation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...d-security-secretary-are-not-eligible-for-job

Kellyanne Conway is being very, very quiet. It would be amusing if she's the "Anonymous" WH official whose tell-all about Crazy Donnie, "A Warning," is coming out on November 19th.

 

[bodysong]

October 25, 2019 3:31 PM

At this point, one has to wonder-
if it's party over country for Moscow Mitch McConnell
or McConnell over country.

There doesn't seem to be an institution he's not willing to destroy,
and that very much includes the Congress.

This is "Moscow Mitch" McConnell's attempt to delegitimize
the constitutional process, and the House itself.


Let's back up a moment to the actual basis for the inquiry.

Separate out the quid pro quo of what Trump was trying do and look
at the action that did happen. Trump illegally withheld money appropriated
and designated by the Congress to Ukraine.

That happened.

The other thing Article I gives Congress is the power of the purse.
Trump wrested it away, and McConnell won't say a word in his
institution's defense. That's not new for McConnell at all.
Take Trump's emergency declaration that steals money appropriated
by the Congress to defense and other projects for Trump's vanity
project, the border wall. McConnell has refused to stand against
Trump and for the Congress on that as well.

There's pretty much nothing that Moscow Mitch won't sell out,
for no apparent purpose other than power and "winning."
To get there, he'll smash everything.

- Joan McCarter

"There's no bottom for Moscow Mitch, not even destroying
his own institution"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...cow-Mitch-even-destroying-his-own-institution

 

[JackLuis]

This Is Not America

The New York Times reported Thursday night that Attorney General Bill Barr's jaunt around the globe to chase down every weird conspiracy theory about the origins of the Russia investigation that falls out of Donald Trump's ass is now a criminal investigation, which means John Durham, the US attorney ostensibly leading the investigation, now has power to impanel a grand jury, issue subpoenas, and yes, bring criminal charges.

Against people who investigated Russia's attack on the 2016 election that helped install Donald Trump in office.

If this news is what it seems like it is, then America is on thin ice. This is Kremlin shithole banana republic stuff, which shouldn't surprise us, because a Kremlin shithole banana republic guy is president of the United States.

So is Trump just going after his political enemies and using the strong arm of the Justice Department, led by Bill Barr, his low-rent frumpy Roy Cohn stand-in, to do it? Well, it would appear that way, wouldn't it! Think about it. Trump literally thinks the men and women who have conducted these investigations have committed treason.

Well hell, if Trump can't get it from Zelenskiy, and he can't get it from Shokin, then BY GOLLY GOD, he's going to get it from his banana republic Justice Department! And they're gonna ANNOUNCE IT in the NEW YORK MOTHERFUCKIN' TIMES! So now, regardless of what's really happening behind the scenes, Trump will scream from the mountaintops, or at least from the top of his golden toilet as he tweets and shits, that the Justice Department is finally going after the REAL criminals, i.e. the folks in the FBI and CIA who thought it was bad that Trump's best friend Putin was attacking American democracy to install his dumbass shitmouthed puppet Trump in the presidency.

Exactly what he's been wanting the news to talk about all along!

Do we have to let Bill Barr back into the country?

 

[Rightguide]

Kellyanne Conway is being very, very quiet. It would be amusing if she's the "Anonymous" WH official whose tell-all about Crazy Donnie, "A Warning," is coming out on November 19th.

She was on Fox this morning.

 

[bodysong]

So many things to be afraid of!

Is Trump scared ?

10/23/19

(Trump loyalist) congressman Earl L. "Buddy" Carter on Wednesday railed
against the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump
by warning Americans that they could also be impeached.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if a government can do this to the President of the
United States, they can do this to you as well," Carter told reporters earlier
today. "You need to be scared... You need to be very scared."

He added:

"This needs to stop, it needs to stop right now. We need open government."

"This is the United States of America."

Carter's remarks came on the same day as dozens of Republican lawmakers,
led by Reps. Matt Gaetz and Steve Scalise—the House minority whip,
dramatically stormed a closed-door impeachment deposition to protest
the handling of the impeachment inquiry, led by Democrats.

https://www.newsweek.com/very-scare...ey-impeach-trump-they-can-do-this-you-1467384

 

[magicalmoments]

#15 above.
You couldn't make this shit up! If you wrote a novel along these lines people would think you were crazy.

 

[JackLuis]

Between the ones who fuck up in spades or just get thrown under the bus, Donnie is running out of "True Believers" to man his sinking ship.

 

[bodysong]

The Kurds gave Trump the location of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

He betrayed them.

Why did Trump think he could get applause at the World Series
for having Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed ?

He could have had him killed him back in March 2019.

October 28, 2019

- Doug Mataconi

That being said, there’s something unfortunate about a baseball game
being politicized like this. I’m as #NeverTrump as the next guy, but
it was unfortunate that last night’s game devolved into boos and catcalls
when the President was introduced. There was a time when events like
the World Series brought people together, and to some extent they still
do. Indeed, Nationals games, as well as Redskins games, Capitals games,
and Wizards games, are one of the few places in Washington D.C, where
people seem to forget about politics and come together to root for the
home team. In the hyperpartisan Trump Era, even that’s not possible.
Of course, it’s also true that Trump has brought much of them on himself.
His own rhetoric is incendiary and poisonous and it evokes the same
unfortunate emotions in supporters and opponents alike.

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/t...ip-greeted-by-boos-and-chants-of-lock-him-up/

The presidential limo pulled up into a tunnel below home plate,
and the president and first lady emerged shortly after 8 p.m.,
whisked into an elevator by Secret Service and up to the
luxury box.

Trump was accompanied by the first lady, his daughter Ivanka Trump
and his wife Melania

(There are four blonde women present)

President Trump is sitting between Georgia Sen. David Perdue and Melania.
Is Ivanks sitting behind daddy ?

David Perdue was chosen for photo-op - does not appear to be a weasel

Trump is still speaking with House *Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

Matt Gaetz (Fla.) seems to be Trump's favorite, at the moment

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) is needed, but least liked, in Siberia area

Steve Scalise (La.) knows baseball

attending-

Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and David Perdue (Ga.);
Texas Reps. Mac Thornberry, Kevin Brady, Kay Granger and
John Ratcliffe; and Reps. McCarthy, Steve *Scalise (La.),
Mark Meadows (N.C.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Liz Cheney (Wyo.)
and Matt Gaetz (Fla.)

World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros 2019

When the Washington Nationals hosted the Houston Astros on Friday
night, it was the first World Series game in the District since 1933.

To get the crowd to stop their enthusiastic dissent, the camera moved
the shot away from the president and to a group of five wounded veterans
also in attendance. As the fourth inning began, the D.C. crowd adapted a
MAGA rally standard, chanting, “Lock him up.” And by the right-field
foul pole during the seventh inning, fans hung an “Impeach Trump”
banner.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-booed-at-nationals-game-fans-chant-lock-him-up.html

“Veterans for Impeachment” sign behind home plate tonight

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) October 28, 2019

Peanut gallery behind Trump, and visitors on the stairs
(Was that creepy Stephen Miller The Child Killer, lurking
behind Trump ?)

 

[KeithD]

The Kurds gave Trump the location of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

He betrayed them.

Yep, this is the biggest difference between Obama on Bin Laden and Trump on al-Baghdadi (other than the revealing of the secrets of the operation). Obama sustained the capability to do this. With Trump, they had to hurry up and do it, because all of Trump's actions on Syria were taking the away the capability of doing this anytime in the future. Obama was enabling; Trump, in addition to having a big mouth and tiny brain in public disclosure, was disabling the operation.

 

[bodysong]

Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. is set to charge
nearly three times as much for a stay in its least expensive rooms
on the night of Nov. 7, when Senate Republicans are scheduled to
commence a two-day retreat on the premises.

Ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW) on Monday noticed the rate-hike and pointed out that the
president’s hotel would be openly profiting from spending by lawmakers
of his own political party.

That night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is set to begin
hosting a two-day “Save the Senate” retreat for big donors, which will
reportedly include an appearance from President Trump himself and at
least eight current Republican Senators.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...rocket-when-gops-retreat-is-held-on-premises/

 

[bodysong]

GOP 'Fracking America's Moral Bedrock' In Vindman Attacks

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/10/stephen-colbert-gop-fracking-americas

 

[bodysong]

November 5, 2019

Presiderp Pale Yam's sycophants claim to know
who the whistleblower is.

Is this a massive fishing expedition ?

(Trump loyalists have proved themselves to be liars.
Are they all telling the same lie ?)

Justin Baragona ✓
Twitter › justinbaragona

Hannity says he knows who the whistleblower is but isn't going to reveal
their name just yet. "I will play the game for a little bit and I will take the
lawyer’s threats that they’re going to sue me, it wouldn’t go anywhere."

15 hours ago

"I will play the game for a little bit and I will take the lawyer’s threats
that they’re going to sue me, it wouldn’t go anywhere."

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 5, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/05/rand-paul-whistleblower-rally-kentucky-trump/


He didn't want to break the law directly on national television
so he requested that you do
it's terribly wrong and harmful to the country
- @SenAngusKing on Sen. Rand Paul's calls for the media to out
the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry.

— New Day (@NewDay) November 5, 2019

https://www.newsweek.com/rand-pauls...erribly-wrong-harmful-country-senator-1469849

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rand-paul-inciting-violence-whistleblower-identity-1469753

Jonathan Chait and Daniel Dale are keeping track...

 

[bodysong]

Raw Story ✓
Twitter › RawStory

Rand Paul gets humiliated for wrongly claiming whistleblower
must ‘face’ Trump because ‘it’s in the Constitution

7 minutes ago

 

[JackLuis]

‘A bunch of BS’: Lindsey Graham chairs Senate Judiciary — but refuses to read any transcripts

Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he won't read any of the transcripts, and dismissed Sondland's reversal.

"I've written the whole process off ... I think this is a bunch of B.S."

But... But... Ms Lindsey you said...?

 

[JackLuis]

‘Lindsey Graham should resign if he won’t do his job’: Ex-Republican says Senator is unfit to even be a lawyer

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was blasted by a former Republican congressman on Tuesday for refusing to do his job.

Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee but has said he will not read any of the transcripts in the impeachment inquiry.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) blasted Graham on MSNBC.

“I think Lindsey Graham should resign if he’s not going to do his job,” Jolly said. “The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he said he’s not going to look at the facts of the allegations against the president of the United States, that he worked with a foreign nation to corrupt the domestic elections in 2020.”

Love the smell of Rethuglicunts burning in the twilight!

 

[bodysong]

CBS This Morning TV show sold out the American viewing public.

FOX TV -style propaganda for Trump's effort to steer elections, on CBS TV

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

On CBS This Morning,
Donald Trump Jr. laments that hard-working Americans have
"watched other countries live their American dream."

13 hours ago

Cannot believe CBS This Morning allowed Don Jr. on their show,
as much as he & Trump call them “Fake News”, now Gayle & the
others have allowed him to use them to promote his book of evil,
in which he speaks horrible things about those they hate for all
the wrong reasons.

— Anita Blount (@anitablou) November 5, 2019

Did Trump threaten and blackmail CBS into agreeing to a hands-off interview
for his son ?

‘Nauseating’: CBS slammed for ’embarrassing’ softball interview with Trump Jr

David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement November 5, 2019

https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/na...mbarrassing-softball-interview-with-trump-jr/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rump-jr-mitt-romney-cbs-interview-impeachment