He’s Got It Floored In Neutral
Sorry, I got on a tear this morning and wrote this without checking to see what El Jefe had posted. Oh well, I have another take on the same topic, so I’ll leave it. Sorry, El, for stepping on your toes. (We’re friends so I can call him by his first name.)
One of the best things in my life are lightbulbs that last five years. I am not fond of ladders and unscrewing glass things to put more glass things into it and then re-screwing the first glass thing after you remember where the hell you put the screws.
Donald Trump wants to Make Juanita Crazy Again again because he thinks those light bulbs made him look orange. Odd how the people sitting next to him don’t look orange even though they are under the same light. Donald’s orange comes from a bottle.
But, now he’s come to believe that wasting water is what made America great.
The president on Friday said he ordered a federal review of water efficiency standards in bathroom fixtures and complained that “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once” in homes with low-flow appliances.
No, that’s not due to the toilets’ operation. That’s because the people he talks to are full of crap.
Remember: when Trump says people, he means “me.”
They work fine for me.
Then, there’s this.
The president said he’s considering different standards for states with different levels of rainfall.
“There may be some areas where we’ll go the other route, desert areas, but for the most part, you have many states where they have so much water that comes down, it’s called rain, they don’t know what to do with it,” he said.
But 40 of 50 state water managers said they expected water shortages under average conditions in some portion of their state over the next decade, according to a 2014 report from the Government Accountability Office.
So you’ve got ten states, probably all blue where people aren’t full of crap, where Trump can poop.
He’s making me crazy, y’all.
He’s making us all crazy, Honey. We need to start a 12-step program to deal with it!
1Yes. Perhaps several bottles.
2state by state won’t work – too much variation in large states – how about county by county – better still, by zip code
3Maybe if he cut down on all those Big Macs he wouldn’t need a 5” sewer pipe connected to his toilet!
4Every day that ***king moron has breathed since the day in June 2015 that he descended his gilded escalator has been a question of is this the day the butterfly nets drop on his final act.
Republicons don’t want impeachment. Fine. Let them 25 the 45.
5Here’s the thing. This blue New England state gets plenty of rain (usually) but droughts aren’t uncommon. And outside the cities, we pump it out of the ground. Switching to low flow toilets made a noticeable change in the electric bill- and we only flush once (twice if it’s a big bucket of spoiled beans from the back of the fridge).
6FWIW I just replaced a 60’s era toilet and a 90s era toilet with the two button types low flow efficiency. They work a lot better than their predecessors. Even a large republican can be flushed with a single push of the button.
7Seconding (thirding?) what lazrgrl and Ralph Wiggam said.
The 7.1 earthquake last November shattered an old 3.5 gallons/flush toilet in my house. I replaced it with a new 1.3 gallons/flush toilet. The new one flushes better than the old one did.
8We’re all talking about toilets and lightbulbs and the disordered condition of trump’s brain instead of impeachment, and the thousands of people losing their food stamps, and military families living with dangerous mold because the money voted by Congress is going for WALL.
It’s working.
9… and with “dangerous mold”, Buttermilk Sky wins this weekend’s edition of Distraction Bingo. While Trump’s on the golf course where he already forgot what he Tweeted this morning.
10Ralph Wiggam @7,
Bwahaha, I see what you did there… “large republican[s]” indeed!
Let’s give all of those “large republicans” –10-15– flush button pushes in Nov 2020. Whoosh, all gone…
[hate to think of what some of them would do to my septic system though, their toxicity would kill off the gazillions of good bacteria that make a septic tank work– [All of that stuff you cityfolk never have to think about; hey, one set of my grandparents had an outhouse for a while when I was small in the country, the same for the vacation places.]
How many of y’all have ever used a domestic [USA] outhouse before? I’ll guess that very few younger than ‘geezer-range’ have ever sat on one.
11We three kings of Orangey are, obstructing justice,
we’ve traveled afar…
Happy holidays boss!
You really will be the “Quid Pro Quoted One” by the time I get back.
Your friend and bootlick, Rudy
Edit: President Donald Trump and his Republican defenders in the House continue to argue there was no “quid pro quo” with Ukraine (despite a White House call summary and testimony from numerous Trump officials indicating otherwise).
It took Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, all of two tweets to blast that talking point to smithereens.
On Thursday, Giuliani — apparently posting from somewhtere in Kyiv, where he’s currently traveling as part of his ongoing international effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens — posted tweets explicitly acknowledging a link between ongoing US assistance to Ukraine and investigations into the Biden family.
“The conversation about corruption in Ukraine was based on compelling evidence of criminal conduct by then VP Biden, in 2016, that has not been resolved and until it is will be a major obstacle … to the US assisting Ukraine with its anti-corruption reforms,” Giuliani claimed, despite the fact that no such evidence has emerged.
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In short, Giuliani tweeted the quid pro quo.
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Trump and his Republican supporters in Congress have sought to portray the efforts of the president and Giuliani to cajole the Ukrainian government into announcing investigations into the Bidens as being rooted in the president’s good-faith concerns about “corruption,” rather than his own political self-interests.
But Giuliani’s tweet reveals the hollowness of that talking point. “Corruption” is just a stand-in word for “Biden.” He doesn’t even try to hide it.
Even though Giuliani’s tweet gives up the game, White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley appeared on Fox News on Friday, still claiming that Trump “didn’t press [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky on anything other than getting to the bottom of corruption in his country. We know that.”
But if Giuliani’s tweet isn’t enough to convince you otherwise, consider that the word “corruption” doesn’t appear even once in the summaries of the Trump-Zelensky calls released by the White House.
Of course, the notion that arguably the most personally corrupt president in American history ever had good-faith concerns about corruption abroad was hard to believe from the get-go…
Some might say as hard to believe as Attorney General William Barr’s claim that he couldn’t find an available room in the Washington, DC, area for his $30,000 holiday party anywhere other than the Trump International Hotel just blocks from the White House.
Yet that event is scheduled to take place this Sunday, even as Trump and his backers continue to insist that the president is, in fact, an anti-corruption crusader.
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/6/20998714/rudy-giuliani-quid-pro-quo-tweets-ukraine-biden
12I believe this has more to do with undermining the EPA than anything else. Can you believe a billionaire would have a toilet or shower that doesn’t work?
But, yes he is totally full of crap!
13Meanwhile in matters other than how many flushes it takes whenever the doddering fool sheds another portion of his mind.
AOC come on down and receive the apologies and thanks of “moderate” corporate d’s, such as de blasio and cuomo.
14It looks like Amazon is setting up second warehouse in the NYC area with out extorting the $3 billion of welfare and subsidies from the state.
Now we need people on the ground so some new underhanded scam doesn’t succeed by politicos seeking in more welfare for jeff bezos with out telling anyone.
Buttermilk Sky says: @9, “and military families living with dangerous mold”.
It may be even worse:
In recent years military base housing management [and often ownership] has been outsourced, to the –lowest bidders– of course.
I have kids and grandkids who sometimes live in ‘on base quarters’ on some PCS assignments.
Recently one of the grandkids was diagnosed with leukemia, –and apparently isn’t the only one aboard the station– [it developed quickly, with initial opportunistic complications].
One of my first thoughts was that there could be a “cluster-effect” at work with this [CDC statistical odds of/against two or more random cases in a very small group are huge].
Next thought was of the possibility of a carcinogenic/teratogenic environmental ‘root cause’ trigger for this. Such as from improper [more ‘lowbids’] pest or yard chemical controls, various radiation sources, etc., used in and near the quarters.
Yes, as a ‘medical junkie’ I get a bunch of serious medical info [NEMJs. etc], and realize that leukemia is a tough one to attribute a cause to in most cases. But damn it… [The little one is responding well to chemo/etc treatments, which will be ongoing for a long time. It’s a tremendous burden on the parents though, they just did two recent PCSs [last one just months ago], and are now getting another crosscountry PCS in order to be near family [many thanks to the mil command].
15@Sandridge 13–Prayers coming for your grandchild (and the family) and the others diagnosed with leukemia. How awful. We as a country need to do better by our military families.
16Sandridge, I’m so sorry and so angry. I hope the little one keeps improving.
17Polls – God’s gift to MSM
Bernie Sanders Pulls Ahead in Crucial Primary
A new poll released Thursday found that Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the 2020 Democratic presidential field in California—but you wouldn’t have known it by reading the Los Angeles Times’ original headline on the survey, which mentioned Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden, but not the senator from Vermont. “Warren and Biden lose ground in California’s shifting 2020 Democratic race,” read the newspaper’s initial headline which, in the face of backlash, was later changed to, “Warren and Biden lose ground, Sanders moves ahead in California’s shifting 2020 Democratic race.”
Here are the results of this poll:
Sanders 24%
Warren 22%
Biden 14%
Buttigieg 12%
Now look at the headline.
It takes the LA Times three paragraphs to mention who is leading.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story
/2019-12-05/democrats-2020-race-california-poll
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While the Times changed its headline, it did not alter the body of the story, which doesn’t mention Sanders until the third paragraph.
“The Democratic presidential contest in California remains extremely fluid—but not enough, at least so far, to provide an opening for Michael Bloomberg,” reads the story’s lede paragraph. The poll, conducted for the Times by the U.C. Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, found that Sanders is leading the California presidential primary race at 24% support and has gained 5% since September.
Warren polled in second place at 22% (down 7% since September), Biden in third at 14% (down 6% since September), and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg in fourth at 12% (up 6% since September). The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 4%
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-pulls-ahead-in-crucial-primary/
18Question: when is this man not spiraling?
19There has to be more to the Republican complicity in shielding
20Trump’s obvious treachery than the threat of his displeasure.
I can’t help but think he has bribed or extorted them over their own misdeeds. What has he got on them?
What does Trump have on the Republicans to force them to
21defy logic in the face of irrefutable facts? Yes, he can call them names and primary them but if most of them stood up and acknowledged what’s really been going on and the danger he represents, they just might regain some self respect and national respect. Trump is playing Putin’s compromat game.
Sandridge:
22Know that every hug you give that child has an extra squidge from me.
We’re going to our granddaughter’s birthday party tomorrow. Seven. I’ll be giving her an extra squidge thinking of yours.
23Maybe he’s flushing the toilet 15 times to disguise whatever the heck he is doing on his throne .
24I used to do maintenance at a high-end apartment complex. Good pay and well organized. Every week or so we would get a call about a backed up toilet in one of the apartments. It was so regular a thing we looked into all the expected plumbing issues. We checked the drain pipe size, the water flow in the toilet, looked for any obstructions in the trap.
Only after interviewing the resident was the problem revealed. The guy was a huge country boy, ate only meat, potatoes, and Cheetos. He ate it all in huge quantities at one sitting. He was constipated all the time and would take handfuls of Ex-Lax every week or so to get some relief. This clearing of his bowels would overwhelm any normal toilet.
We had to get a special high-capacity toilet with an extra-wide trap. We had to have conversations with technicians at from several manufactures to get what we needed. The one we got was a used, obsolete, model that looked like it was built in the 60s for institutional use and want for five times what a new one goes for. Just out of curiosity we dropped a baseball through the trap. Still cheaper than 50 calls a year.
I was told I wasn’t allowed to suggest, I dunno … maybe some roughage, in his diet. The man was clearly suffering. I’m like … dude, apples are your friend. Oh-well. We solved the mystery, and the problem, and a few months later I moved on.
25Jo @16, Buttermilk Sky @17, @22, Thank y’all so much. It’s mighty hard to just accept some things of this world.
And y’all can layoff those McD’s burgers jokes :] . I’ll be eating a few more, since mom and the lil’ tyke had spent time staying at a “Ronald McDonald House”.
Early on the MDs/hospital in their rather small town [<10K], near the base, transferred him to the big city university hospital 100 miles away. The logistics involved were hellacious.
That now huge city has about the highest housing costs in the US today, they had thought of getting an apartment and commuting as needed [over a highway, not an I- expressway-type road], no way with studio apt rents near $2K+.
But thanks to a compassionate chain of command going out of 'SOP'*, they'll all be returning to a formerly-stationed at nearby NAS with on-station clinic and good hospitals just a few miles up Ocean Drive.
* The services have rather rigid procedures about PCSs, promotions resulting in moves, 'needs of the service', etc. And it's all pretty expensive.
26Maryelle above asks what Trump seems to have on the Republicans, because it can’t be more than just the fear of mean tweets.
Aside from the idea that conservatism only cares about conserving and gaining power, and the fact the GOP has always thought Nixon was railroaded, there is the fact that not only the DNC but the RNC was hacked by Russia as well.
In addition, during the GOP Primary, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that his own campaign was hacked by Russia.
For all the nonsense conspiracy lying the GOP is making about the security firm CrowdStrike, the GOP also used that firm to examine their servers as well.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate that Russia gave Trump that information from the GOP.
Remember how fast Graham went from being a “never Trumper” in the Senate to one of his biggest cheerleaders, after Trump invited him on that private golf outing with no witnesses shortly after he was inaugurated?
27Short comment: I think one of the reasons for Trump leaving the NATO meeting early (aside from getting his wittle fee-fees hurt) is his total inability to hold a normal conversation with people who don’t suck up to him.
28Sandridge, the money that was earmarked for handling those plumbing problems on the base were seized during the “national emergency” and spent on the Wall.
29Doing something to help makes me feel better about the terrible present situation.
Says here in the Houston Chronicle that Beto is working to flip the lower house of the Texas Legislature:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Democrat-Beto-O-Rourke-turns-his-attention-to-14876379.php
and here’s their site
https://flipthetxhouse.com/
Nothing will stop me from donating to Juanita’s grassroots GOTV efforts, but I wondered if Juanita herownself and El Jefe think that Beto’s PAC, called “Flip The Texas House”, will be effective and thus a good place to send some of my limited funds.
If the answer is “yes”, I’ll shill for it in the comment section of a couple other blogs that comprise a bunch of Democratic activists.
30Joel, this afternoon I’m headed to Austin for a week and will meet with other activists. I might get some insider information. I’ll let y’all know.
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