33rd weak of Donald the “Short-Fingered Vulgarian.”

[JackLuis]

33rd weak of Donald the Dick starts with this.

Trump interrupts Harvey relief mission to snipe at press about the size of his hands

President Donald Trump may have managed to act somewhat more presidential on his Saturday trip to Houston, TX to meet with survivors of Hurricane Harvey, but he couldn’t resist a sideways remark at the press about a long-running gripe.

The Hill reported Saturday that while he was donning plastic gloves to help serve food to hurricane refugees, the first pair of gloves he was handed were too small.

“My hands are too big,” he said to the assembled scrum of media, referring to a long-running jab from former Spy magazine editor Graydon Carter — now the editor of Vanity Fair — who in the 1980s called Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

I though he looked funny, where is Vulgaria?

 

[JackLuis]

White House aide Omarosa being forced out by Kelly for getting Trump worked up over negative press

As part of his solidification of power, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is blocking Donald Trump confidante Omarosa Manigualt from speaking with the president because she is getting him worked up over bad news.

According to the Daily Beast, the former Apprentice contestant has been increasingly blocked from seeing the president at former General Kelly’s command in an effort to control what information is delivered to Trump.

The issue for Kelly has been preventing Omarosa — who serves as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison — and other senior staffers from sharing unvetted and dubious news articles with the president in an effort to influence Trump.

According to sources in the White House, those articles get Trump all riled up and distract him from the conducting the business at hand — with Manigualt being one of the worst offenders.

“When Gen. Kelly is talking about clamping down on access to the Oval, she’s patient zero,” one source explained,

Another source added that Kelly, “is not thrilled by any means by [Manigault]. He is, however, thrilled that he has been able to stop staffers including Omarosa from bolting into the Oval Office and triggering the president with White House [palace] intrigue stories.”

 

[JackLuis]

Twitter can’t believe Trump told a shelter full of Harvey victims to ‘Have a good time’

On Saturday afternoon, President Donald Trump made his second trip to Houston, TX in a week, perhaps hoping for a “do over” on his first visit, at which his performance was so desultory and lackluster that it was entirely overshadowed by his wife’s choice of shoes for the outing.

On his second visit, Trump touched actual Texas children, handed out styrofoam containers of food — but not without getting in a dig at the media — and did his best to play the role of a strong and competent leader who wouldn’t rack up a perfect score on the “Are You a Sociopath?” test.

And it would have worked, too, if he hadn’t stopped on the way out the door to tell everyone huddled in the shelter with the few meager belongings they have that aren’t soaked in mud, poop and toxic chemicals to “Have a good time.”

‘Never seen numbers this large’: Houston floodwater is filled with heavy metals and harmful bacteria

On Saturday, CNN aired a segment about the danger posed by contaminated floodwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned is a significant health hazard for residents.

“Countless people have waded through these floodwaters,” said CNN’s senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, “some for hours. Now the question is: What’s in it? Alligators, hordes of fire ants and some things you can’t see.”

A senior scientist from a Houston water testing lab took samples of the water, telling Cohen they expect to find “various bacteria that are sewage-related” like E. coli and fecal strep, harmful chemicals like heavy metals — including arsenic, lead and cadmium — that may have escaped from any of the toxic industrial sites in and around Houston.

A physician told Cohen that in addition to fecal bacteria, the water could be contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus, the bacteria that can lead to necrotizing fasciitis, the so called “flesh-eating” disease.

But, Donald says "Have a Good Time," folks.

 

[Hypoxia]

Twitter can’t believe Trump told a shelter full of Harvey victims to ‘Have a good time’.

This is Tromp's "Good job, Brownie!" moment. I expect zillions of memes of his face and words overlaid on disaster images, death camps, fiery crashes, executions, victims of mayhem, etc.

‘Never seen numbers this large’: Houston floodwater is filled with heavy metals and harmful bacteria

All the flooded regions need MASSIVE medical support. Infections and poisonings will be widespread. Anyone who came in contact with polluted water must be screened, not only for their own health, but to prevent spreading infection further.

Ain't none of them folks gonna "have a good time" anytime soon.

 

[JackLuis]

Rachel asks about Trump and Russian Banks connections?

NEW DETAILS EMERGE OF TRUMP BUSINESS PLAN TO BUILD MOSCOW TOWER LAST YEAR

 

[JackLuis]

‘He’s the pilot of a plane in a terrible downward spiral’: GOP consultants panicked Trump is destroying the party

President Donald Trump’s recent actions — from siding with white nationalists in Charlottesville to pardoning controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio — have some GOP consultants clutching their pearls over fears that he is destroying the GOP before the 2018 midterms — and that Trump doesn’t give a damn.

According to the Washington Post, Trump’s antics are playing well with his rabid base but even Fox News viewers are beginning to recoil from the president.

“Trump’s job-approval numbers remain mired in the 30s in most polls, and several new findings last week gave Republicans interested in expanding the party’s appeal fresh reason to worry,” the Post reports. “A Fox News survey, for example, found that majorities of voters think that Trump is ‘tearing the country apart’ and does not respect racial minorities.”

While Trump confidantes believe that the president will right a ship that is sinking due to record low poll number, those outside the president’s immediate orbit aren’t so sure.

“Voters are very skeptical it will happen,” explained former Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio. “If the president can get a tax-reform package passed, it will confound their expectations and be a huge win.”

However John Weaver, who served as chief strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) ill-fated presidential run, begs to differ.

“It’s almost as if he’s the pilot of a plane that’s in a terrible downward spiral and he’s insisting on continuing to do things to make it worse,” Weaver fretted. “You can’t govern like that, and you can’t win reelection like that, and you can’t take your party into the 2018 midterms like that.”

It's almost as if the Rethuglicans are tired of "winning?"

 

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Rachel asks about Trump and Russian Banks connections?

Sorry, I was thinking about Yank Rachell and not some other Rachel. Yank always dropped his mandolin to a blues tuning but called the chords as if they were concert pitch, which confused his sidemen. I keep an old cheap Russian mando in Yank tuning. Pretty funky.

Is there maybe a transcript of that uTube thang? I don't do uTube. And a classic mando may cost a million bucks. I could sure use a Russian bank to help there.

 

[JackLuis]

OMFG! WTF?

‘We’re going down rabbit holes’: Joy Reid panel mocks GOPer’s plan to use Assange as a Trump character witness

An AM Joy panel discussing President Donald Trump’s deepening Russia investigation problems switched gears to discuss plans by one Republican to use help from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to help the president out.

According to host Joy Reid, “Julian Assange, who we know was the conduit for the stolen DNC hacked e-mails to get to the public via Wikileaks. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California met with Julian Assange, went with this right-wing blogger to meet with him.”

“Now he claims he wants to have a private meeting with Donald Trump to tell him of Julian Assange’s self-defense claiming the information did not come from Russia,” she continued. “What do you make of this talk that he is floating, that Donald Trump should pardon Julian Assange and get whatever information he has to offer?”

Security analyst Malcolm Nance described the whole notion as bizarre.

“Assange is a foreign national living in a foreign embassy who we haven’t indicted for any crimes in the United States — what is he going to pardon him on, you know, his attempted rape in Norway?” Nance began before noting that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has already commented on Rohrabacher’s connections to Russia.

“I’ve met Congressman Rohrabacher, I have no animosity towards hi he sounds like a nice guy served the country well in the time in the military,” he continued. “But for him to go to London and meet with Julian Assange, who Mike Pompeo, the director of the CIA who referred to his agency, Wikileaks, as a non-state intelligence agency — we are now going down rabbit holes to where we may have an active campaign to cover up all the players in this game in a very haphazard amateurish fashion.”

Congressman Rohrabacher, is well know in California as a RWNJ dipshit who can't read the instructions on a boot heel.

 

[JackLuis]

South Koreans worry Trump is ‘kind of nuts’ — but they fear not having US as an ally: report

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President Donald Trump on Sunday called out South Korea for allegedly engaging in “appeasement” with North Korea — but no one should expect the government in Seoul to hit back at him publicly anytime soon.

In an interview with the Washington Post, former State Department official David Straub, who is also an expert on Korea, says that Trump is widely loathed in the country as a whole. However, given that South Korea is so dependent on the United States to help ensure its security, it seems the government has little choice but to ignore Trump’s angry Twitter rants.

“Opinion polls show South Koreans have one of the lowest rates of regard for Trump in the world and they don’t consider him to be a reasonable person,” Straub explained. “In fact, they worry he’s kind of nuts, but they still want the alliance.”

Straub also said Korean officials see Trump as an “unreasonable partner,” but they don’t want to speak out publicly against him because it would only make the situation worse than it already is.

"Widely loathed" Seems rational to me.

 

[JackLuis]

DADIC says no CC words you scientists!​

EPA public affairs official given right to veto federal grants if they mention climate change: report

Scientists and university researchers who are seeking grants from the Environmental Protection Agency are unlikely to see any funding come their way if they mentions the dreaded double-C words: climate change.

According to the Washington Post, the EPA has given veto power over grants and awards to John Konkus, who goes by the title of Deputy Associate Administrator for Public Affairs.

The Post notes that the EPA doles out hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and that those dollars are, in essence, only given with the approval of Konkus now.

Konkus has reportedly told staffers that he is empowered to look for “the double C-word” — climate change — and warned grant officers that they not to be mentioned in funding solicitations.

The report states that Konkus has already canceled close to $2 million awarded to universities and nonprofit organizations.

Deputy Assistant Dick In Charge is a more appropriate title.

Prior to serving in the EPA’s pubic affairs office, Konkus served as President Donald Trump’s Leon County, Florida, campaign chairman and as a political consultant for hire.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Of course we have it!‘: Russian lawmaker pushes Putin to reveal the pee tape

It seems it is time for the Russians to fuck over the Trumpster!

The leader of the far-right New Russia Movement, Nikita Isaev, wants to see his country’s leader “hit Donald Trump with our kompromat,” meaning the compromising material they have.

In a conversation with Russia-24, Isaev seemed to indicate Russia possesses incriminating information on the American president that he would like to see go public, The Independent reported.

When asked to verify if they have such material, Isaev exclaimed, “Of course, we have it!”

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a dossier was published alleging, among other things, that the Russian government is aware of Trump hiring prostitutes to defile a bed once slept in by former President Barack Obama.

Bring it on Comrades!

 

[JackLuis]

Putin: Trump can’t disappoint me — we’re not married

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump’s so-called bromance is not on the rocks because there was never romance to begin with, Putin told reporters on Tuesday.
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Putin refused to discuss calls in the U.S. to impeach Trump and when he was asked for a personal assessment of his American counterpart's performance as president, the Russian leader said he was anything but let down.

“As far as being disappointed or not disappointed is concerned, your question seems very naive,” Putin told one reporter, Russia’s Interfax news agency reports. “He is not my bride and I am not his bride nor groom. We deal with the business of governing.”

“I think it would be totally not right on our part to discuss possible developments of the situation inside the U.S. itself,” Putin added. “This is not our business. This is the business of the U.S.”

Come on Vlad, release the Hooker tapes!

 

[JackLuis]

Robert Reich: Trump is alienating one group he can’t afford to lose

Trump isn’t just alienating Republican senators. He’s also pissing off the executives of America’s biggest corporations, who happen to have a lot of influence over Republican members of Congress because they pay the costs of their campaigns.

Trump’s unwillingness to strongly condemn the neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists in Charlottesville caused business leaders to stampede off his advisory councils.

Now Trump’s cruel plan to end DACA, the Obama-era program that allows unauthorized immigrants who arrived in America as children to remain here, is mobilizing CEOs to make the program permanent.

A business coalition founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is lining up corporate leaders in at least 15 states to pressure members of Congress.

Meanwhile, a who’s-who of more than 400 executives have signed a petition urging Trump and Congress to protect the “dreamers.” They include CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Best Buy, Ikea and Kaiser Permanente.

“We’re also calling on Congress to finally pass the Dream Act or another permanent, legislative solution that Dreamers deserve,” wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post last week. “These young people represent the future of our country and our economy.”

CEOs are not moral leaders of American society. They’re taking action because Trump’s hatefulness is bad for business.

The Trumpanzy is fucking up like the Easter Pig!

 

[Hypoxia]

Robert Reich: Trump is alienating one group he can’t afford to lose

The Trumpanzy is fucking up like the Easter Pig!

Tromp's plan to destroy the Guppy party is proceeding apace. The rats have set upon each other, tearing with razor fangs, clawing with shit-encrusted talons. Pass the popcorn.

 

[JackLuis]

Morning Joe unloads on McConnell and Ryan for pleading impotence while Trump kills DACA

Joe Scarborough railed against the Republican-led Congress during Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” panel. No one was safe. Scarborough ripped House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) as well as Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for pretending that they are powerless against President Donald Trump ending DACA.

Commentator Mike Barnicle wondered how much longer it will take for Republican leaders to understand that Trump has no idea what he’s doing or talking about.

“If it were me, this would be my last straw,” Scarborough agreed. He went on to say that if he were in the leadership he’d tell the White House they were taking over the legislative agenda and demand he stay out of their way.

“We’re going to do what we’re going to do and then you can have pretty bill signing ceremonies,” Scarborough mocked. “Just stay out of the way. Because you don’t know what you’re doing.”

Scarborough railed against Speaker Ryan for doing nothing but tweeting. “He looks horrible! Someone around him needs to tell him he looks horrible when he talks about how shocked and stunned and deeply saddened he is by actions like this. And pretends as if he doesn’t have any power. I’m telling you, how many times can you be insulted if you’re Mitch McConnell, before you say, ‘I’m taking over.'”

Are Ryan and McConnell leaders of their party or lemmings who follow? Rodents who rave perhaps?

 

[JackLuis]

Here’s how Trump associates stumbled into Russian efforts to sway US election by seeking Moscow deal

Donald Trump and his associates may have unwittingly wandered into Russian efforts to interfere with the U.S. election by seeking a deal to build a real estate development in Moscow.

Intelligence experts said Russia had already launched active measures against American voters when Trump and his associates sought the deal, and its hackers had already broken into the Democratic National Committee’s servers, reported CNN.

Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen worked with Felix Sater, a convicted felon with Mafia ties, to secure a deal to license Trump’s name on a proposed tower in the Russian capital, starting in fall 2015 — months after he launched a Republican presidential bid.

The DNC hack took place around the same time Trump entered the GOP race, and intel experts told CNN that his business dealings with Russia gave the Kremlin leverage over him as he sought the White House.

“By doing this, Trump and his organization created multiple vulnerabilities for themselves,” said former KGB spy Jack Barsky. “Doing business with big corporations over there doesn’t mean you become an agent of their government, but it does mean you have to be really careful. There’s always the [Russian] government looming in the background.”

Cohen reached out to top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in January 2016, shortly after cybersecurity experts reported Russian trolls and bots began efforts to promote Trump on social media.

Donald Bumble Fucked his way into a Russian plot to fuck over Hillary? It's plausible.

 

[JackLuis]

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Vladimir Putin Pees On Donald Trump, Tells Him It’s Raining

Look, no matter what you saw on Reddit, there is no video of Donald Trump nibbling Vladimir Putin’s earlobes in a vat of horse urine. Never happened! Just take it from old Poots himself.

"After all, he is not my bride, and I am not his groom or fiancé. We hold public offices, and each country has its own interests."

Russia may have ratfucked our elections, but that doesn’t mean we’re going steady. Vladimir Putin has a country to plunder, and he’s got no time to react to all the stupid shit Trump says.

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[JackLuis]

Jimmy Fallon: Trump put a six-month delay on DACA so it can be Pres. Pence’s problem

Jimmy Fallon has hit out at Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, joking that the only reason there is a six-month delay is because by then it will be “President Pence’s problem.”

Pence is only marginally more popular than Trump

As President Donald Trump battles through record low approval ratings and a summer of chaos and controversy, everyone from Democrats to late-night talk-show hosts are speculating that Vice President Mike Pence could soon be taking over the top job. Voters, though, appear only marginally more impressed with the former Indiana governor than with the current president.

Just 44 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of Pence, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. That compares with the 43 percent who hold a favorable impression of Trump. Unlike his boss, though, Pence is viewed favorably by a plurality of voters, with 39 percent having an unfavorable opinion of him. Trump’s unaffordability rating stands at 50 percent. But with 17 percent—almost one in six voters—saying that have never heard of the vice president, it remains to be seen on what side of the opinion scale they will fall should Pence one day receive the extra media spotlight that comes with being in the Oval Office.

Still either is more approved than Congress!

 

[JackLuis]

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.

Multiple intelligence agencies confirmed that the militant Islamist organization and its numerous affiliates intend to carry out a massive, coordinated plan to stand aside and watch America’s increasingly rapid decline, with terrorist operatives across the globe reportedly mobilizing to take it easy, relax, and savor the spectacle as it unfolds.

“We have intercepted electronic communication indicating that al-Qaeda members are actively plotting to stay out of the way while America as we know it gradually crumbles under the weight of its own self-inflicted debt and disrepair,” FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano told the assembled press corps. “If this plan succeeds, it will leave behind a nation with a completely dysfunctional economy, collapsing infrastructure, and a catastrophic health crisis afflicting millions across the nation. We want to emphasize that this danger is very real.”

“And unfortunately, based on information we have from intelligence assets on the ground, this plot is already well under way,” he added.

Reality or Satire?

 

[JackLuis]

GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tête on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.

Not 24 hours later, the president cut a deal with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase opposed by McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Just Wednesday morning, in fact, Ryan had scoffed at the Democratic offer that Trump accepted minutes later.

In the aftermath, Republicans seethed privately and distanced themselves publicly from the deal. They were left to hope that Trump’s collaboration with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was a temporary dalliance, and not the new MO for the president.

Or as Wonkette reported:

Nancy Pelosi And Chuck Schumer Just Cock-Slapped Trump, AND HE LIKED IT

 

[JackLuis]

British reporter mind-boggled by Trump chaos: ‘Impossible to cover every single thing without going mad’

A British reporter assigned to cover the White House admits he’s struggling to keep up with the chaotic Trump presidency.

When Jon Sopel was assigned as the BBC’s North American editor in spring 2014, he and his wife were most concerned about the weather conditions in Washington, D.C. — but now he’s starting to worry about his mental health.

“It is impossible to cover every single thing happening at the moment without going mad,” Sopel wrote for the Evening Standard. Or, as someone put it to me, reporting on this President is like trying to put your mouth over a fire hydrant and catching every drop of water.”

Sopel gained attention in February after he quipped, “good one,” after the president griped about his news organization during a press conference.

“Trump’s presidency is one like no other,” he wrote. “It’s not so much that the President plays by different rules; it’s as though there are no rules … If any journalist is about to come out to Washington to cover this story, my advice is this — work on strengthening your jaw muscles. Because your jaw will be hitting the floor daily.”

“Can it carry on like this?” Sopel wondered. “I suspect it can. A former chief of staff to Obama said he was going to nominate this White House for a Tony award for most drama. Not best drama — just most. This often feels like being part of the maddest reality-TV show ever devised, and, as the promoters like to say, it’s going to run and run.

 

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British reporter mind-boggled by Trump chaos: ‘Impossible to cover every single thing without going mad’

After the War of 1812 (when the Brits torched the White House) the USA entered the bipartisan Era of Good Feelings, when Americans cooperated. Exactly two centuries later we have the exact opposite. Coincidence, or... ??

Reporting on USA politics has long revealed our national insanities, corruption, know-nothingness, and general barbarity. At least senators don't club each other to near death now, resisting temptation. Tromp makes these times exciting i.e. terrifying by his lack of self-control. Anyone remember FORBIDDEN PLANET? Tromp is like the Monster From The Id. What vile manic impulse will emerge next?

 

[JackLuis]

Fox News is now attacking Republicans

We are officially living in an alternate universe: Fox News is siding with the Democrats.

The right wing cable news outlet seems to have defected from its typical blind support of the Republican Party, and all it took was President Donald Trump striking a deal with Democrats on Wednesday to continue funding the government through the month and to provide billions of dollars in relief to victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Ever since, the network’s anchors and co-hosts have been praising the president for his support of the rebuilding efforts in Texas, as well as for Trump’s "art of the deal" in reaching an agreement with Democratic lawmakers—even though the move reportedly left GOP officials feeling "blindsided."

Lou Dobbs, the Fox Business Network anchor of Lou Dobbs Tonight, delivered a scathing rebuke of Ryan on Tuesday, saying the president "booted the hapless fool" out of the way to prevent a government shutdown.

"The president not only took RINO [Republican In Name Only] Ryan to the woodshed but eliminated any need for any Republican to ever pretend again that Ryan is a real Republican in any way or that any RINO has a political future after Mr. Trump simply booted the hapless fool of a Speaker out of the way of those trying to get the nation’s business done," Dobbs said.

 

[JackLuis]

Donald the Flop Flipper!

Trump’s alliance with Democrats is far from his first

President Donald Trump delivered a stunning rebuke to Republican leaders Wednesday when he opted to side with the Democrats' plan for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling. In doing so, he returned to the forefront a question that repeatedly surfaced during his campaign for the White House: Is Trump truly a Republican?

It is a question Republicans have been asking both privately and publicly for some time. Indeed, one notable critic, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, has even written a book about it, titled: Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle.

During the 2016 campaign, one of Trump’s chief GOP rivals, Jeb Bush, leveled the accusation that “Mr. Trump doesn’t have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican.”

There is, indeed, some truth to Bush’s contention. Trump’s political allegiance has flipped repeatedly during his time in the public eye.

As Grumpy Old Pricks clutch their pearls and fall back on their fainting couches, Trumpanzy proves he is not a purity pony but a pragmatist. If Paully and Mitch can't get anything done, the Trumpanzy will cut a deal with Dem's and get shit done!

 

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Again, a question I asked in other threads and haven't seen answered: Dums are the minority party. Any presidential deal cut with them needs a notable number of Gup votes to pass. So, who are the traitors who peeled-away from the McConnell-Ryan axis?