trump is serious!!!!!

[Lord Jim]

“Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer - it's actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!” Trump wrote on Twitter Monday morning.

Actually, Washington has become more like a septic tank, thanks to Donald Trump...

[BoSoxGal]

Trump's been arrogant and pompous for at least 50 years already . . .

[Big RR]

I'd bet a lot longer than that; jerks are usually born, not made.

[Econoline]

[Sue U]

I dunno, I might go with "The Shart of the Heel" instead.

[Guinevere]

Gail Collins made me laugh and cry this morning:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/opin ... hone-share

Pick your favorite irony:

1) Donald Trump turns out to be terrible at firing people.

2) The White House celebrates its “American Heroes Week” by banning transgender volunteers from serving in the military.

3) Thanks to the president’s harangues, we are actually starting to feel sympathy for Jeff Sessions.

I can definitely understand if you want to pick No. 2, especially since Trump just finished observing “Made in America Week” with an application to hire 70 foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago.

But let’s talk for a minute about the way our president gets rid of unwanted members of his administration. It’s a monument to passive-aggressive ineptitude. With Sessions, Trump has been broadcasting his displeasure to the world for more than a week without making the obvious follow-through.

And this was the guy who made “You’re fired!” his calling card. Clearly, he brought a lot of fiction to reality TV. Clay Aiken, a onetime contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” recently told an interviewer that Trump actually “didn’t decide who got fired on ‘Apprentice,’” and had to be fed his lines by producers.

Not exactly a shock, but watching the president in action over recent weeks, you have to wonder how he’d have functioned if he ran that show without prompting.

On Sunday, “Celebrity Apprentice” promises “fireworks” when Donald Trump tells other people he has no confidence in Rhoda, the beleaguered fashion model and ferret breeder. It will be the seventh week in which the real estate superstar has said unpleasant things about Rhoda to her friends, family and American viewers. Tension rises as contestants wait to see if their mentor will continue his strategy or send a bodyguard to deliver the bad news to Rhoda in person.

Trump’s attempts to drive Sessions out of office without actually confronting him began last week with his famous New York Times interview and then escalated through press conferences and the social media (“VERY weak”). In one tweet Trump referred to Sessions as “our beleaguered A.G.” Now “beleaguered” means under attack, and this was sort of like taking a jackhammer to the street in front of your house and then complaining to the city about potholes.

On another occasion Trump said he was “disappointed” in Sessions. This was during a press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in which the president took a few questions after praising Hariri for being “on the front lines in the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.” Carping minds noted that Hariri actually has a power-sharing arrangement with Hezbollah, which controls most of the people in his cabinet. But if you wanted a president who was going to split hairs, you should have voted for somebody else.

O.K., I know, I know.

Trump appears completely unaware that he’s beginning to look like the worst terminator in history. Introducing Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, at an event this week, the president jovially said that Price had better get the health care bill passed through Congress, “otherwise, I’ll say: ‘Tom, you’re fired.’ I’ll get somebody.”

This was at that Boy Scouts jamboree when Trump did such a great job of impersonating your Uncle Fred Who Gets Drunk at Family Dinners. How many of you think the Boy Scouts have been yearning for the day when the president would come to their big event, tell the teens that their federal government is a “sewer,” recount a long and incoherent story about a real estate developer who went off to make whoopee on his yacht, and brag incessantly about having won the election? On the plus side, Trump did not misrepresent the Scout position on Hezbollah.

Trump has been complaining a lot about Sessions’s lack of loyalty, which might have confused people who remembered that Sessions was the first senator to endorse his presidential campaign, back in February of 2016. You’d think that standing up to fellow Republicans who regarded Trump as a dangerous lunatic should have merited a little bit of long-run gratitude.


Trump cleared all that up, however, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal where he explained that Sessions’s endorsement was “not like a great loyal thing,” but merely an insignificant politician trying to feed off his star power and crowd-drawing charisma. (“He was a senator from Alabama. … He looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ‘What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me.”)

Now Trump wants Sessions gone so he can replace him with an attorney general who will fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Sessions can’t do it because he recused himself from all things Russia-related.

Mueller’s probe into the Trump camp’s relationship with Russia terrifies the president, especially if it involves an investigation of Trump family finances. So obviously, we are rooting for Sessions to stay right where he is … and, um, keep persecuting immigrants, ratchet up imprisonments for nonviolent crimes and maybe go back to his old dream of imposing the death penalty on marijuana dealers.

Well, I told you this was about irony.

[Lord Jim]

That is pretty good...

[Lord Jim]

So obviously, we are rooting for Sessions to stay right where he is …

Yet another example of Trump's awesome power to unite very politically diverse people in a common position...

Rush Limbaugh and Al Franken dancing cheek-to-cheek...

Jeff Sessions’ Unlikely Allies

President Donald Trump's unprecedented attacks on his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, have placed Democrats in the unusual position of protecting a top Cabinet official they vehemently opposed.

Senate Democrats are now actively exploring ways to impede an attempt by Trump to replace Sessions, a devout conservative who – amid concerns about the president's possible constitutional overreach – has remarkably become an unlikely symbol of the anti-Trump resistance.

Several months ago, Democrats were calling on Sessions to resign due to statements he made during his confirmation hearing about past interactions with Russian leaders.

Now, they increasingly view him as a vital bulwark needed to protect an impartial probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians.

"All Americans should be wondering: Why is the president publicly – publicly – demeaning and humiliating such a close friend and supporter, a member of his own Cabinet? They should wonder if the president is trying to pry open the office of attorney general to appoint someone during the August recess who will fire special counsel [Robert] Mueller and shut down the Russia investigation," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a floor speech Wednesday. "Let me say, if such a situation arises, Democrats would use every tool in our toolbox to stymie such a recess appointment."

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the chamber's No. 2 Democrat, said Tuesday he wants the Senate to avoid going into recess in August in order to prevent Trump from being able to replace Sessions without Senate approval.

"If we don't stand for the principle that no one in this country is above the law, then what are we? Is this a nation of laws? Is this a nation of justice?" Durbin said to MSNBC.

On Wednesday, Trump attacked Sessions for the third consecutive day this week, asking why his attorney general didn't replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe due to what Trump sees as McCabe's conflicts of interest.

Those alleged conflicts center in large part around Trump's Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and financial support steered toward McCabe's wife during a 2015 state legislative race by the political action committee of Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton friend and the Democratic governor of Virginia.

McCabe, meanwhile, helped supervise the FBI's probe into Clinton's email practices after the conclusion of his wife's campaign, and Trump's implication is that McCabe is a Clinton ally and part of the Washington "swamp" he has pledged to drain.

On Tuesday, Trump dubbed Sessions "very weak" on Clinton, in part due to his not pursuing an investigation into her use of a private email server. The day before, he slighted Sessions as "beleaguered."

But it was Trump who suggested to "60 Minutes" following his electoral victory that he didn't have much interest in pursuing a criminal probe of Clinton now that the campaign was over.

"They're good people," he said of the Clintons last November. "I don't want to hurt them."

Trump also has said publicly he's disappointed that Sessions chose to recuse himself from the federal investigation into Russian election interference. That decision elevated Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who then appointed Mueller – a former FBI director – special counsel to oversee the investigation as a "person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command."

Sessions was at the White House on Wednesday but did not see the president, according to new press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Trump wants Sessions "to lead the Department of Justice."

The growing feeling among many Democrats and assorted Trump critics is that the president is mulling getting rid of Sessions in order to replace him with an attorney general who might wrest the investigation away from Mueller and in turn give him the ax.

"This idea of the president firing him so that he can appoint, do a recess appointment, of an attorney general who can then fire Mueller, that's a constitutional crisis. That would create a constitutional crisis," Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., told MSNBC on Tuesday evening.

"I think there's going to be widespread opposition to an abrupt firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions," Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in a statement Wednesday. "Attorneys general pledged their loyalty to the United States Constitution, not to an individual president, and President Trump doesn't seem to understand that. His repeated harassment of Jeff Sessions based on his recusal suggests he just doesn't understand that."

Sessions managed to win the support of only a single Democrat – Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia – for his confirmation. Schumer even called for Sessions' resignation in March following the revelation that he failed to disclose to Congress his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

Yet one shouldn't mistake Democrats' newfound support for Sessions as sympathy.

It's just that given the surreal circumstances surrounding his current perilous political position, they understand his investigative recusal is a main reason Mueller has been allowed to quietly go about his work.

"Jeff Sessions is still a horrible attorney, and Democrats are likely to oppose everything he tries to do, from voter suppression to immigrant persecution. The recusal is likely to be among the only things on which they agree with him," says David Di Martino, a Democratic strategist and former deputy chief of staff in the Senate. "Trump has already fired two top law enforcement officials connected to this investigation and there is nothing to prevent him from firing another – except the Senate and its ability to move, stall or reject a new nominee.

"This is smart politics for the Democrats."

In one sense, it's also an ironic twist on Trump's "art of the deal," as the president has turned sworn adversaries into indirect allies.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/ar ... -criticism

[Crackpot]

Terrifying yet comforting and even true possible future trump statement:

"I singlehandedly fixed partisan gridlock in this country l" future ex president trump

[Burning Petard]

Oh what a boom time for 'irony' comedy. POTUS goes to a convocation of Boy Scouts and tells them all an off color story about a real estate tycoon and big yachts with scantily clad girls on board. Then he tweets a broad policy change for all the military citing advice from unnamed generals, but clearly none of the generals that are actually responsible for this kind of thing.

Once upon a time there was lots of mainstream attention to a book touting that all the important things in life were learned in Kindergarten. Now POTUS has demonstrated he learned all he needed to know as commander in chief in High School, when they let him carry the flag in Jr. ROTC.

snailgate

[Lord Jim]

Once again, I am compelled to say Eugene Robinson hits the nail right on the head:

The worst is yet to come

The Court of Mad King Donald is not a presidency. It is an affliction, one that saps the life out of our democratic institutions, and it must be fiercely resisted if the nation as we know it is to survive.

I wish that were hyperbole. The problem is not just that President Trump is selfish, insecure, egotistical, ignorant and unserious. [and those are his good points]It is that he neither fully grasps nor minimally respects the concept of honor, without which our governing system falls apart. He believes “honorable” means “obsequious in the service of Trump.” He believes everyone else’s motives are as base as his.

The Trump administration is, indeed, like the court of some accidental monarch who is tragically unsuited for the duties of his throne. However long it persists, we must never alloThe w ourselves to think of the Trump White House as anything but aberrant. We must fight for the norms of American governance lest we forget them in their absence.

It gets worse and worse. The past week has marked a succession of new lows.

Trump has started a sustained campaign to goad or humiliate Attorney General Jeff Sessions into resigning.

Trump has blasted Sessions on Twitter, at a news conference, in newspaper interviews and at a campaign-style rally. He has called Sessions “beleaguered” and said repeatedly how “disappointed” he is in the attorney general.

Forget, for the moment, that Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to support Trump’s campaign, giving him credibility among conservatives. Forget also that Sessions is arguably having more success than any other Cabinet member in getting Trump’s agenda implemented.

Those things aside, what kind of leader treats a lieutenant with such passive-aggressive obnoxiousness? Trump is too namby-pamby to look Sessions in the eye and say, “You’re fired.”

That’s what the president clearly is trying to summon the courage to do, however. The Post reported that Trump has been “musing” with his courtiers about the possibility of firing Sessions and naming a replacement during the August congressional recess.

Trump has no respect for the rule of law. He is enraged that Sessions recused himself from the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the election, and thus is not in a position to protect the House of Trump from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. According to the New York Times, “Sharing the president’s frustration have been people in his family, some of whom have come under scrutiny in the Russia investigation.” I’m guessing that means the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Who elected them , by the way?

Trump seeks to govern by whim and fiat. On Wednesday morning, he used Twitter to announce a ban on transgender people serving in the military, surprising his own top military leaders. A Pentagon spokesman told reporters to ask the White House for details; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters to ask the Pentagon. Was Trump trying to reignite the culture wars? Would the thousands of transgender individuals now serving in the military be purged? Was this actual policy or just a fit of indigestion?

Inside the mad king’s court, the internecine battles are becoming ever more brutal. Members of Trump’s inner circle seek his favor by leaking negative information about their rivals. This administration is more hostile to the media than any in recent memory but is also more eager to whisper juicy dirt about the ambitious courtier down the hall.

Trump’s new favorite, Anthony Scaramucci, struts around more like a chief of staff than a communications director, which is his nominal role. Late Wednesday night — after dining with Trump and his head cheerleader, Sean Hannity — Scaramucci took a metaphorical rapier to the actual chief of staff, Reince Priebus, by strongly hinting on Twitter that Priebus leaks to reporters. The next morning, Scaramucci told CNN that “if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.” And in a profanity-laden phone call to the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, Scaramucci called Priebus “a f---ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.”

Why bring in Scaramucci? Because, I fear, the mad king is girding for war. Trump is reckless enough to fire Mueller if he digs too deeply into the business dealings of the Trump Organization and the Kushner Companies.

What then? Will Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) draft and push through a new special-prosecutor statute so that Mueller can quickly be reappointed? Will House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately open debate on articles of impeachment? Will we, the people, defend our democracy?

Do not become numb to the mad king’s outrages. The worst is yet to come.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 65f66ed8f2

[Lord Jim]

And from the Conservative side, an equally great column today by Peggy Noonan...(one that is sure to really get under Il Boobce's skin...I expect this one may earn her at least one tweet...)

Unfortunately I can not post it in it's entirety, (because I refuse to pay for an online WSJ subscription, on top of all the other news subscriptions I have) but here's an article with some extensive excerpts:

I don’t know that I have ever read a more devastating takedown of a president than this one by Peggy Noonan, of Donald Trump. She annihilates him, as only a woman could, and as only a fellow New Yorker could. She knows that to liken a New York male like Donald Trump to Woody Allen (without the sense of humor) is about the lowest blow there is. But nearly every line is savage. Excerpts:

The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.

He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.

More:

The way American men used to like seeing themselves, the template they most admired, was the strong silent type celebrated in classic mid-20th century films—Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Henry Fonda. In time the style shifted, and we wound up with the nervous and chattery.

More than a decade ago the producer and writer David Chase had his Tony Soprano mourn the disappearance of the old style: “What they didn’t know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings they wouldn’t be able to shut him up!” The new style was more like that of Woody Allen. His characters couldn’t stop talking about their emotions, their resentments and needs. They were self-justifying as they acted out their cowardice and anger.

But he was a comic. It was funny. He wasn’t putting it out as a new template for maleness. Donald Trump now is like an unfunny Woody Allen.

One more:

“It’s so easy to act presidential but that’s not gonna get it done,” Mr. Trump said the other night at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. That is the opposite of the truth. The truth, six months in, is that he is not presidential and is not getting it done. His mad, blubbery petulance isn’t working for him but against him. If he were presidential he’d be getting it done—building momentum, gaining support. He’d be over 50%, not under 40%. He’d have health care, and more.

Read the whole thing, if you can handle rhetorical violence. This one is one devastating surgical strike after another, until there’s nothing left. If you can’t click through from that link, look for it on Twitter, which is how I got through the paywall.[I wish I could figure out how to that.]

It’s funny, but before I read this, I was explaining to my kids that the way Donald Trump and Anthony Scaramucci conduct themselves is the opposite of what it means to be a man. It’s how disgusting punks with no respect for themselves or anybody else behaves. Don’t be like that, ever, I said, don’t ever trust men like that, don’t look up to men like that, no matter how rich they are, and don’t ever be friends with men like that, because it will only drag you into the mud. And then along comes Peggy Noonan and says more or less the same thing, a thousand times better, and from one of the country’s biggest microphones.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... tes-trump/

Gene Robinson and Peggy Noonan singing from the same hymnal...

Yet another example of Donald Trump's extraordinary ability to build bridges across the partisan divide...

[Guinevere]

By Peggy Noonan
July 27, 2017 6:06 p.m. ET
The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.

He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.

Half the president’s tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn. “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their president.” The brutes. Actually they’ve been laboring to be loyal to him since Inauguration Day. “The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is.” True, but neither does Mr. Trump, who seems unsure of its content. In just the past two weeks, of the press, he complained: “Every story/opinion, even if should be positive, is bad!” Journalists produce “highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting.” They are “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY.” They “fabricate the facts.”

It’s all whimpering accusation and finger-pointing: Nobody’s nice to me. Why don’t they appreciate me?

His public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t strong, cool and deadly; it’s limp, lame and blubbery. “Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes,” he tweeted this week. Talk about projection.

He told the Journal’s Michael C. Bender he is disappointed in Mr. Sessions and doesn’t feel any particular loyalty toward him. “He was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ‘What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement.” Actually, Mr. Sessions supported him early and put his personal credibility on the line. In Politico, John J. Pitney Jr. of Claremont McKenna College writes: “Loyalty is about strength. It is about sticking with a person, a cause, an idea or a country even when it is costly, difficult or unpopular.” A strong man does that. A weak one would unleash his resentments and derive sadistic pleasure from their unleashing.

The way American men used to like seeing themselves, the template they most admired, was the strong silent type celebrated in classic mid-20th century films—Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Henry Fonda. In time the style shifted, and we wound up with the nervous and chattery. More than a decade ago the producer and writer David Chase had his Tony Soprano mourn the disappearance of the old style: “What they didn’t know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings they wouldn’t be able to shut him up!” The new style was more like that of Woody Allen. His characters couldn’t stop talking about their emotions, their resentments and needs. They were self-justifying as they acted out their cowardice and anger.

But he was a comic. It was funny. He wasn’t putting it out as a new template for maleness. Donald Trump now is like an unfunny Woody Allen.

Who needs a template for how to be a man? A lot of boys and young men, who’ve grown up in a culture confused about what men are and do. Who teaches them the real dignity and meaning of being a man? Mostly good fathers and teachers. Luckily Mr. Trump this week addressed the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, where he represented to them masculinity and the moral life.

“Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts, right?” But he overcame his natural reticence. We should change how we refer to Washington, he said: “We ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to perhaps ‘cesspool’ or perhaps to the word ‘sewer.’ ” Washington is not nice to him and is full of bad people. “As the Scout Law says, ‘A Scout is trustworthy, loyal—we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.” He then told them the apparently tragic story of a man who was once successful. “And in the end he failed, and he failed badly.”

Why should he inspire them, show personal height, weight and dignity, support our frail institutions? He has needs and wants—he is angry!—which supersede pesky, long-term objectives. Why put the amorphous hopes of the audience ahead of his own, more urgent needs?

His inability—not his refusal, but his inability—to embrace the public and rhetorical role of the presidency consistently and constructively is weak.

“It’s so easy to act presidential but that’s not gonna get it done,” Mr. Trump said the other night at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. That is the opposite of the truth. The truth, six months in, is that he is not presidential and is not getting it done. His mad, blubbery petulance isn’t working for him but against him. If he were presidential he’d be getting it done—building momentum, gaining support. He’d be over 50%, not under 40%. He’d have health care, and more.

We close with the observation that it’s all nonstop drama and queen-for-a-day inside this hothouse of a White House. Staffers speak in their common yet somehow colorful language of their wants, their complaints. The new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, who in his debut came across as affable and in control of himself, went on CNN Thursday to show he’ll fit right in. He’s surrounded by “nefarious, backstabbing” leakers. “The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don’t stink, and that’s me and the president.” He’s strong and well connected: “I’ve got buddies of mine in the FBI”; “ Sean Hannity is one of my closest friends.” He is constantly with the president, at dinner, on the phone, in the sauna snapping towels. I made that up. “The president and I would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are.” Chief of Staff Reince Priebus better watch it. There are people in the White House who “think it is their job to save America from this president, okay?” So they leak. But we know who they are.

He seemed to think this diarrheic diatribe was professional, the kind of thing the big boys do with their media bros. But he came across as just another drama queen for this warring, riven, incontinent White House. As Scaramucci spoke, the historian Joshua Zeitz observed wonderingly, on Twitter: “It’s Team of Rivals but for morons.”

It is. And it stinks from the top.

Meanwhile the whole world is watching, a world that contains predators. How could they not be seeing this weakness, confusion and chaos and thinking it’s a good time to cause some trouble?

Go to Twitter. Search Peggy Noonan. Her handle is @Peggynoonannyc. See the list of her tweets. Click on the link in the one called Trump is Woody Allen. Voila, it opens behind the pay wall.


"Mad blubbery petulance" may be my new favorite phrase.

[Big RR]

I don't get the Woody Allen connection--he always seemed like more of a doormat than a jerk in his films, but otherwise I enjoyed it. Personal;ly, I think Trump is just a jerk who blusters and raves to cover up his own inadequacies, of which there are many.

[Lord Jim]

Go to Twitter. Search Peggy Noonan. Her handle is @Peggynoonannyc. See the list of her tweets. Click on the link in the one called Trump is Woody Allen. Voila, it opens behind the pay wall.

Thanks Guin

(Also, thanks for posting the entire column)

[Sue U]

“It’s Team of Rivals but for morons.”

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLILGODKF;ANSDFDFN KETYT WF

Whew!

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

Go Liz!

I'm sure that about now more than a few of you are regretting that little tantrum in 1776.

[BoSoxGal]

Well in all fairness, we were dealing with a Trump-like character then, too.

[Lord Jim]

At least when he started talking and acting like Trump, they had the good sense to restrain and gag him...