Fun With The Twitter
Okay, it’s started.
Bloomberg ain’t taking crapola off Trump.
(Oh and by the way, Vladimir Putin is 5’7″ in case someone want to ruin his and Trump’s bromance.)
Novelist and adopted Texan Tim O’Brien describes the contents of Trump’s head, “There are cobwebs, a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and someone else’s credit card. Not much else.”
Yeah, but if we add a mix master on full speed right here before the state of the union address, we might get some very cool results.
Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.
Vladimir Putin is 5’7″? Really?
“Hey, Vlad- take off yer shirt and hop on that Shetland pony for a photo…”
1“Mike Bloomberg’s campaign says there is no basis for Trump’s claim…”
Speaking of claims, yesterday I watched a documentary on the Dawson City gold rush. No basis for Fred Trump having a claim there either, but he did build and operate a large establishment in the Yukon staffed almost entirely by women.
An equal opportunistic employer.
2LOL The impeached Donnie* showing every sign he knows he was not ‘exonerated’ by Moscow Mitch and the Senate Republicons. Donnie* forever impeached. If it doesn’t happen on 5th Avenue, will there ever be a crime for which the Senate will convict IQ4.5? Fasten your seatbelt, Mitch. He’s about to test the theory.
A box? Donnie* really is slipping. Taking on Bloomberg’s height. Beware Bloomberg without a box, Donnie*. All the better to kick you in the knee, if you pull the same stalking crap you did at the debate with Hilz. Biden is not my favorite Democratic candidate, but a picture of him hitting Donnie* in the nose might change my mind. Yeah, yeah, physical violence not to be encouraged, but sometimes that is what it takes to thwart a bully. Hey Messy, how’s that “be best” thingy working for you?
Sincere apologies to Mrs. Obama, the best First Lady in our history. “When they go low, we go high.” Yes, ma’am. I’m trying, I really am. But the lob shots from IQ4.5 and the treason from Moscow Mitch are a test I may fail.
3Off-topic, but here’s a good example of how Republicans are so caught up in tribal loyalty that they cannot conceive of Ds not being so also:
https://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/in-richmond-lynchburg-legislator-learns-to-beware-of-what-you/article_47d24978-0fbb-583d-8df8-c8dca9eed4ac.html
Short version: a Virginia rep put up a bill to take down a statue of the segragationist Democratic Byrd, thinking the Democratic majority would be opposed to it. Then he found they thought it was a dandy idea … and now the rep wants to withdraw the bill.
4To be fair to tRump, he probably didn’t know Putin was only 5’7″. When you are groveling at someone’s feet, it is difficult to ascertain their height.
5Just Desserts: Resistance By Wind, Cake, Shepherd, Tunnel and a Hymn To The 81%
In 2016, 81% of white evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump after hearing (among other things) an audio recording of him bragging about sexually assaulting women.
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Edit: As the ignominious GOP cover-up lumbers on, so do we the people. This week, patriots and outlaws applied their wit, grit and rage to newly creative protests, bolstering our collective spirits before an ongoing flood of idiocy and venality. At the border, even as Trump’s “great, great wall” was ingloriously downed by wind cancer and indomitable Mother Nature, officials discovered the longest, most sophisticated smuggling tunnel ever.
Almost a mile long and a painstaking 70 feet underground, the tunnel handily runs from outside Tijuana’s airport to the San Diego area. Mirroring “The Great Escape,” it boasts an extensive rail cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical panels, an elevator, a complex drainage system and a newly added spur. The massive find that “blows past (the second-largest one)” reportedly stunned border agents.
“We never really thought they had the moxie to go that far – they continue to surprise me,” said one, who helpfully added, “I would bet (that) right now they are building more tunnels.” Officials said the discovery exposes the scope of the drug problem at the border; they conveniently declined to add it also exposes the absurdity of building a damn wall in the first place.
read more: + photos of *
6https://www.commondreams.org/further/2020/01/30/just-desserts-resistance-wind-cake-shepherd-tunnel-and-hymn-81-0
Absolutely Bibilical… God speaks to Pence
OT “Truly I say to you, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crows twice, you shall deny me thrice…
An emergency physician Thursday night confronted Vice President Mike Pence at a restaurant in Iowa over the Trump administration’s newly unveiled plan to allow states to block-grant Medicaid, a move that could strip essential healthcare coverage from millions of vulnerable people.
“I work in one of the poorest counties in Michigan and my patients depend on expanded Medicaid, so how is that going to affect my patients?” Dr. Rob Davidson asked Pence at Drake Diner in Des Moines, where the vice president made an unscheduled stop.
– Strike 1 “When I told him he is putting my patients’ lives at risk, the vice president deflected and denied knowledge of the policy.” —Dr. Rob Davidson, Committee to Protect Medicare
– Strike 2 Pence expressed surprise, claiming he “hadn’t heard about cuts to Medicaid” Even though the White House plan was announced to widespread outrage just hours earlier.
– Strike 3 After Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare, summarized the details of the plan to Pence, the vice president attempted to divert the conversation to his tenure as governor of Indiana.
“I was talking about the president and your administration right now, what they’re doing,” said Davidson. “Right now, they’re cutting Medicaid… Your administration just announced this, they rolled it out today.”
The exchange, captured in a cellphone video, has received over a million views since Davidson posted it on Twitter and Youtube Thursday night. “It’s been a godsend to the patients I serve,” Davidson said of Medicaid when Pence asserted the program has “a lot of problems. “”It’s their lifeline,” Davidson said.
Can I get an Amen my brothers and sisters?
Watch: Volume / UP
7https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/31/its-their-lifeline-er-doctor-confronts-mike-pence-iowa-over-trump-medicaid-cuts
I watched the video and I was somewhat frightened by the way Pence’s henchmen were moving closer and closer to the good doctor as he spoke.
8I myself haven’t been in the Drake Diner since that night in December 1992 when a man came in with a Desert Eagle and blew off the heads of the manager and assistant manager as they stood at the cash register.
Many of us L1’s were in there studying for our first final – Legal Research and Writing. Of course how did most of the wannabe lawyers describe the man? “The Man had a REALLY BIG GUN.”
megasoid@7. Not a good week for Mikey Dense. First the doctor. Then, a pastor who would question Mikey’s ‘Christianity.’
“Rev. Andy Oliver didn’t sugarcoat his prayer in front of the majority-Republican body.” https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/umc-pastor-shocks-florida-state-house
Not a person for prayer, but Pastor Andy smoked it!
9Jane & PKM @ 8 missed that one but heard this one: Senate chaplain warns impeachment trial jurors “they will reap what they sow.”
Barry Black’s prayer generates praise and criticism:
Pastor says senators are accountable to God for their conduct
Pretty sure the Senate Chaplain just dropped a not-so-subtle “guilty” vote
Elie Honig
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@eliehonig
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/31/senate-chaplain-impeachment-prayer-reap-what-they-sow
Listen to the Hymn to the 81% in the “Just Desserts” post. As damning an accusation of hypocrisy as has ever been sung.
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2020/01/30/just-desserts-resistance-wind-cake-shepherd-tunnel-and-hymn-81-0
10Speaking of the SOU address Tuesday night; did anyone see the CNN discussion last evening in which one of the panel members predicted a meltdown by Trump during the address? I can easily envision him turning around and taunting Pelosi, calling out House members in the audience while gloating.
I think Congressional Dems need to work out a plan in event it takes this turn, like maybe all getting up and silently turning their backs to him and walking out of the chamber. His brain would explode.
11Joe Hill @8, maybe have the ladies of the Democratic Caucus wear some serious bling as in handcuffs dangling from every place women publicly wear bling? Guess the men could wear handcuffs as tie clips and lapel pins. One move. Seriously just one move toward Speaker Pelosi and the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives needs to roll Donnie* into a position to wrap him in a straight jacket.
Live action! 25 the 45 from the floor of the House at the SOTU.
12Could very well happen IF He stokes up on Adderall, forgets where he’s at and between nose snorting and sniffling, goes into his fire up his base with red meat, and off the cuff slurred words
13Joe Hill, Jane&PKM: when Richard Nixon was campaigning, the best way to get his goat was to shout “tell us the dog story again”. More than once he demanded not just that hecklers be ejected, but that they should be beaten up in the process.
And Trump has a lot less self-control or even self-awareness than Nixon did. Handcuffs as bling would be way too subtle for him. Maybe a repeat of what the Republican senators did last week: chew gum and read magazines while he’s bloviating? Especially magazines with covers that just happen to show Trump in stripes with jail bars in front of him. Y’all have the right idea, make his blood pressure skyrocket in mid-speech. We just need the right trigger to set him off. And then repeat that trigger in every public appearance he makes.
What about the baby trump balloon? Not the big Macy’s parade version but little ones that each rep can bring in and start inflating when Trump starts blithering. Then each time he lies, pop one of them with a pin. [With only 232 Democratic reps, that does mean each would have to bring in 4-5 of the balloons.]
14I hope he does something crazy. He’d be forgetting the final Senate vote the next day. If he really goes Postal at the podium maybe four GOP members can somehow try to delay the vote.
15Probably not.. but wouldn’t it be fun?
The Surly Professor, how about guests? Donnie* thought it was fun to have them at one of the debates with Sec/Sen Clinton. Perhaps the House should invite all the witnesses the Senate refused to hear, every one of the women who is awaiting justice in court courtesy of the Predator-in-Thief, maybe a crying infant or two from our southern border who won’t stop crying, and a trio of Dershowitz, Bondi and Cipollone trussed, gagged and dressed as the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” monkeys. All the while Speaker Pelosi sits there signing articles of impeachment for each and every crime Donnie* has committed; the paper shuffling alone should drive him nuts.
16We might still get our “captain queeg” (Caine Mutiny) moment at the state of the union.
17If he starts babbling threats and other incoherent bulls—
and it can’t be hidden by selective media editing.
Imagine him directing “his” AG to start investigations in to Schiff and other political opponents, while detaining them at an ICE tent jail in the desert, and then asking his good friend Bibi to unleash the Israeli spy’s and China to manufacture some evidence against his opponents plus ordering the arrest and detention at gitmo of Pelosi. ( or even enacting his braggadio of the access hollywood video on Pelosi.)
Wonder if that would even be enough for senate thugs?
Otherwise I am of the opinion that whenever he has to make an “important public” speech that his staff slip him enough tranquilizers to kill a horse hence the comments about how wooden and dull in presentation he is. Ascribed by the media as being more “presidential”.
Talking about lies and the truth coming out.
Republican Group’s New Fox News Ad Debunks GOP, Donald Trump Spin On Ukraine
A conservative group hopes its new ad campaign will educate Republican voterson the actual facts of the Ukraine scandal that prompted the House impeachmentinquiry into President Donald Trump.Republicans for the Rule of Law released its first ad, featuring footage of EUAmbassador Gordon Sondland implicating Trump during his congressionaltestimony, online Wednesday. The spot will air on Fox News’ flagship morningshow “Fox & Friends,” which Trump often tunes into, on Friday.”In the hearings this ..
Read in HuffPost: https://apple.news/ATn8_b6r-R0KqgLG_Al5jUg
Now cannot confirm it will be the truth but it is purported.
18Red- faced posted the wrong link. Apologies.
19Grab bag President fished out of storm drain?
Fresh off his dead ass from nowhere. Is Mrs.moneybags gonna finance it for you?
“Maybe I’m fucking deluding myself here,”
We’ll go with your initial assessment.
John Kerry Reportedly Weighing Joining 2020 Race as Establishment Panic Over Sanders Reaches Full Meltdown
here,”https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/02/john-kerry-reportedly-weighing-joining-2020-race-establishment-panic-over-sanders
20Surly Professor, I like the magazine idea, but they should all have copies of Time with Greta Thunberg on the cover.
There’s a vile British columnist named Katie Hopkins (imagine the spawn of Laura Ingraham and David Duke). A man named Josh Pieters trolled her good last week. Read, you’ll smile.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/youtuber-gives-fake-award-far-right
21I’m sticking with Mrs. Obama on the go high approach. For Democrats to act like children (the way Rethugs did) is not the way to go. I do like the idea of the above mention gallery guests.
22Jane&PKM@16: I defer to your more reasonable idea. Unfortunately the guests would have to be highly restrained, and even if they girn Trump wildly he’s unlikely to react.
But Buttermilk Sky@21 also has a great idea. Let’s combine them: copies of the Time person of the year in everyone’s hands, AND Greta as a guest. All she would have to do is glare at him the way she did at the UN, and he’d be unable to keep from reacting.
[Although I don’t like the idea of exposing a teenage girl to that monster’s view and animosity. She could probably handle it well, but it’s not something an old guy like myself should push on her.]
23Dondi shouldn’t throw stones about height. He almost makes 6 ft without his 3 in. lifts and the are plenty of pics of him standing with people his real size including Jeff Epstein who was also 6 ft
24well now Yang is out for me.
25Never was a fan though some of ideas sounded good.
But today it is reported that he would “investigate” giving demented donnie a blanket pardon because holding criminals responsible is just too divisive.
As birds of a feather flock together so do billionaires and their sense that the rules and laws don’t apply to them because of their wealth.
Trump’s Super Bowl interview was 8 minutes of pettiness and empty braggadocio
Trump bullied his 2020 rivals — calling them short, a communist, and a liar — and praised himself.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/2/21119306/donald-trump-super-bowl-liv-interview-hannity
26I feel it justified to state that nobody sane is going to want to call Putin vertically challenged, and use their real name. If they’re smart…
27megasoid said:
“Trump bullied his 2020 rivals — calling them short, a communist, and a liar”
But not his good friends Putin & Kim Jong Un. Had the comments been directed at either of those men, Trump would have notched an easy insult three-fer.
28Do either Putin or Bloomberg match up to Trump’s waist size?
29Doesn’t T Rump wear platform shoes???
Pot, meet Kettle.
30Morning,
If it hasn’t been mentioned before, 3rd season of short but very informative podcast episodes called TRUMP,INC.
WNYC, ProPublica.
You can go to web page too if can’t do podcasts—
Such as :Roy Cohn wrote the prenup of Ivanka and Jared.
31Family code, blurry lines, political underworkings…
Short of a miracle, despite his money, Mike Bloomberg doesn’t have much chance of winning the Democratic nomination. Since he has more money than God, he is free to spend it forming an organization to be taken over by the actual nominee, campaigning for other Democrats, and bugging the pants off Donnie. I hope he manages to get under Trump’s notoriously thin skin every day of the week and twice on Sundays, from now until Election Day. And if Bloomberg does get the nomination, I’ll vote for him.
32By the way, James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, was 5′ 4″ tall. Trump probably hasn’t heard of either.
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