trump is serious!!!!!

[Sue U]

I hear the ghost of the Sage of Baltimore laughing uproariously.

Man, ain't that the truth.

[Lord Jim]

Boobus Americanus...

[Lord Jim]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago

Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in '18. Tennessee not happy!

Laying aside the laughable absurdity of Trump's claim...That a former mayor and two term Senator (he was re-elected in 2012 with 65% of the vote) would be "constantly" seeking political advice from Donald Trump, I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that it took Il Boobce so long to get around to slamming Corker...

What Corker said about Trump... publicly questioning his mental stability and competence to be President... is worse than anything any of Trump's favorite GOP Senatorial pinatas (Graham, McCain and Flake) have said about him, and certainly far worse than anything Mitch McConnell has said publicly about him...(Trump seems to be on a mission to permanently poison his relationship with McConnell...on that growing list of GOPers on The Hill that would love to see Trump forced from Office that I've referred to, I'm sure Mitch's name is now at the top...)

[Lord Jim]

Trump Has Attacked Nearly 1 in Every 7 GOP Senators in the Last Month

With the president’s Friday morning tweet attacking Bob Corker, Trump has gone after seven GOP senators – some in private, most in public – since the end of July.

On Friday morning, President Trump went after Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Corker (R-TN) and brought up Corker’s re-election.

Corker made headlines a week ago when he said Trump “has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful.”

The attack on Corker was Trump’s second tweet targeting Senate Republicans on Friday morning alone, the first on the filibuster:

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

If Senate Republicans don't get rid of the Filibuster Rule and go to a 51% majority, few bills will be passed. 8 Dems control the Senate!
3:33 AM - Aug 25, 2017

But it’s part of a recent theme for the Republican president: calling out members of his own party, particularly senators, in public and in private.

Trump attacked Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who’s up for re-election next year, as “WEAK on borders,” while offering praise for Flake’s primary challenger, noted chemtrail conspiracy theorist Kelli Ward:

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Great to see that Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Flake Jeff Flake, who is WEAK on borders, crime and a non-factor in Senate. He's toxic!
3:56 AM - Aug 17, 2017

A week earlier, he told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “get back to work,” one of many tweets targeting McConnell this month.

Trump sent the tweet from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

He saved his strongest tweets, though, for former presidential primary opponent Lindsey Graham:

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists......

...and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can't forget his election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!
3:24 AM - Aug 17, 2017

Trump also took some veiled shots at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), became angry with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) in a phone call this month over Tillis’ bill protecting Robert Mueller, and retweeted a story on Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) “learn[ing] the hard way about the fallout from turning on Trump.”

Trump will need the GOP majority in the Senate to pass tax reform, infrastructure, and just about any other legislative priority he has for his first term.

http://ntknetwork.com/trump-has-attacke ... ast-month/

And of course to that list you can add Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, who he attacked during the healthcare bill debate...(In Murkowski's case, he also had the Sec. of The Interior call her to threaten a loss of funds for Alaska over her refusal to back the Senate bill...)

I have to tell you Don, none of this is going to be helpful come Senate Impeachment Trial time...

[ex-khobar Andy]

Retweeted by Trump. I'm sure what he meant by that was: It's OK folks, it last only a couple of minutes and then the moon fucks off and the sun is back as if it had never happened!

[Econoline]

I looooved Jim Wright's take on this meme (yesterday, on Facebook): “So what this meme actually says is: Obama is a star, a source of light and warmth and energy, without which life on earth would be impossible, and I am but a lifeless, pockmarked reflection of his brilliance, one who has cast a shadow over America.”
Perfect.

[Burning Petard]

WaPo once more buries the lead. In a personal essay about a woman from Philadelphia questioned by the NYPD and the American SS as a threat to national security, it is revealed that the POTUS is homeless and living a Starbucks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... 36c7951dc5

It is also clear in this story that the police are operating on the old-fashioned Soviet principal that opposition to Trump is clear evidence you are crazy.

snailgate

[Lord Jim]

Like many events that end up with a person in handcuffs, my story begins in a bar.

I love that opening sentence...

[Bicycle Bill]

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity

... On August 12, Trump and the world witnessed armed white supremacists in the streets and an attempted mass murder by an ISIS-preferred method.  Over the course of three working days, he figured out a way to get firmly and even defiantly on the wrong side of it all.  In a pair of transparently strained attempts at being Presidential, Trump struggled to muster a condemnation of literal fascism on the literal march; he identified the presence of “very fine people” on both the fascist and anti-fascist sides of what is honestly not a working binary, and he reserved the phrase “truly bad people” for the news media, which had been so unfair, so unfair, in their response.  By Tuesday, the issue was once again the media’s selective and slanted and dishonest treatment of him.  By Thursday morning, Trump was tweeting mournfully about the tragedy of Confederate monuments being removed from public parks.  He finally sounded like himself again.

Among the segment of the population that’s put off by things like a president refusing to forcefully condemn Nazi rioters, this has raised some uncomfortable questions about Trump’s beliefs.  Does he really share any or many of the beliefs with the racists and nationalists and racist-nationalists who made his campaign their cause, or is this a political calculation against criticizing a small but important part of his base?  Was his decision to defend statues of famous slave masters a reflection of his perspective on history, or maybe a darkly strategic reading of the national political mood?  Did he not know that what he said was historically incoherent and obviously wrong?  It’s right to wonder, but we should be past asking these questions about this man at this point.  The most significant thing to know about Donald Trump’s politics or process, his beliefs or his calculations, is that he is an asshole (emphasis mine); the only salient factor in any decision he makes is that he absolutely does not care about the interests of the parties involved except as they reflect upon him.  Start with this, and you already know a lot.  Start with this, and you already know that there are no real answers to any of these questions.

..... David Roth, writing for 'thebaffler'

-"BB"-

[Burning Petard]

I anxiously await the time when POTUS says ". . . many people . . ." and somebody finally asks him to name two.

bye the by, the Doonesbury comic strip yesterday pointed out the controversy among professional psychiatric diagnosticians as to the sanity of POTUS.

They are divided on the issue. Some say he is crazy as a march hare. Others say he is crazy as a bedbug.

snailgate

[Lord Jim]

Some say he is crazy as a march hare. Others say he is crazy as a bedbug.

Personally, I'm a subscriber to the shithouse rat school of thought...

[Econoline]

Hey, what about batshit? Batshit has a long and honorable history in the crazy game...

[Sue U]

Hey, what about batshit? Batshit has a long and honorable history in the crazy game...

Batshit crazy is more the province of people like One-L Michele Bachmann, Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin, and Christine O'Donnell, the Delaware Masturbation Witch. Trump is much more dipshit than batshit.

[Guinevere]

John Danforth, former MO Senator and UN Ambassador, ordained Episcopal priest, has a very good take on the so-called president:

His WaPo editorial

Many have said that President Trump isn’t a Republican. They are correct, but for a reason more fundamental than those usually given. Some focus on Trump’s differences from mainstream GOP policies, but the party is broad enough to embrace different views, and Trump agrees with most Republicans on many issues. Others point to the insults he regularly directs at party members and leaders, but Trump is not the first to promote self above party. The fundamental reason Trump isn’t a Republican is far bigger than words or policies. He stands in opposition to the founding principle of our party — that of a united country.

We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, and our founding principle is our commitment to holding the nation together. This brought us into being just before the Civil War. The first resolution of the platform at the party’s first national convention states in part that “the union of the States must and shall be preserved.” The issue then was whether we were one nation called the United States or an assortment of sovereign states, each free to go its own way. Lincoln believed that we were one nation, and he led us in a war to preserve the Union.

That founding principle of the party is also a founding principle of the United States. Even when we were a tiny fraction of our present size and breadth, the framers of our Constitution understood the need for holding ourselves together, whatever our differences. They created a constitutional structure and a Bill of Rights that would accommodate within one nation all manner of interests and opinions. Americans honor that principle in the national motto on the presidential seal: “e pluribus unum” — “out of many, one.” Today, the United States is far more diverse than when we were a nation of 3 million people , but the principle remains the same: We are of many different backgrounds, beliefs, races and creeds, and we are one.

The Republican Party has a long history of standing for a united country. Theodore Roosevelt raised up the ordinary people of his day and championed their cause against abusive trusts. Dwight Eisenhower used the army to integrate a Little Rock high school. George H.W. Bush signed the most important civil rights legislation in more than a quarter-century, a bill authored by Republican senators. George W. Bush stood before Congress and the nation and defended Muslims after 9/11. Our record hasn’t been perfect. When we have pushed the agenda of the Christian right, we have seemed to exclude people who don’t share our religious beliefs. We have seemed unfriendly to gay Americans. But our long history has been to uphold the dignity of all of God’s people and to build a country welcoming to all.

Now comes Trump, who is exactly what Republicans are not, who is exactly what we have opposed in our 160-year history. We are the party of the Union, and he is the most divisive president in our history. There hasn’t been a more divisive person in national politics since George Wallace.

It isn’t a matter of occasional asides, or indiscreet slips of the tongue uttered at unguarded moments. Trump is always eager to tell people that they don’t belong here, whether it’s Mexicans, Muslims, transgender people or another group. His message is, “You are not one of us,” the opposite of “e pluribus unum.” And when he has the opportunity to unite Americans, to inspire us, to call out the most hateful among us, the KKK and the neo-Nazis, he refuses.

To my fellow Republicans: We cannot allow Donald Trump to redefine the Republican Party. That is what he is doing, as long as we give the impression by our silence that his words are our words and his actions are our actions. We cannot allow that impression to go unchallenged.

As has been true since our beginning, we Republicans are the party of Lincoln, the party of the Union. We believe in our founding principle. We are proud of our illustrious history. We believe that we are an essential part of present-day American politics. Our country needs a responsibly conservative party. But our party has been corrupted by this hateful man, and it is now in peril.

In honor of our past and in belief in our future, for the sake of our party and our nation, we Republicans must disassociate ourselves from Trump by expressing our opposition to his divisive tactics and by clearly and strongly insisting that he does not represent what it means to be a Republican.

He was also a guest yesterday (and parts replayed today) on On Point, produced by WBUR Boston, and available to stream on Wbur.org.

[Bicycle Bill]

I hate to be like wes and post Youtube videos, but these are just too good to miss.




By the way, where has our little pet Trumpanzee been hiding himself lately?

-"BB"-

[Econoline]

Hmm. Maybe we *CAN* use the acronym "POTUS" to refer to Trump, after all...

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

He'd need to call a friend - Ivanka, no doubt.