January 08, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
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Dotard45 spoke? Am guessing we’re not under Martial Law, since you didn’t mention it, Ms. JJ. Will attempt to catch the Democratic rebuttal, if that can be done without being subjected to rabid snippets of Donnie.
1CBS reported: Secretary of State Pompeo told King Abdullah of Jordan he saw an early draft of the president’s address to the nation tonight and told the entourage “He’ll make a lot of news,” and then he laughed.
The US Secretary of State goofing around with foreign government officials about a speech the US President has yet to make….. That is a disquieting breach of ethics and protocol…..it’s not quite as funny as billions lost during shut down, employees being unpaid, or… killing and dismembering a journalist in a consulate, but still, fake national emergencies to keep Mueller off the front pages and patronize Anne Coulter and FOX…. are pretty damn funny????
2No drinking games.
But as I have said I fear that doddering don and his band of incompetent liars would conflate a “National emergency” with “Martial law”.
And from what I have read about s. texas ranchers along the border martial law might be required to seize their land for a mafia (because so many of his contracters and business partners are mobbed up and we know he will “direct” all contracts to his friends) built “wall”
Side light with new wave of legislation sweeping country when will drinking games be replaced with “toking” games?
3Oh…re tonight’s drinking game…a neighbor suggested we turn off the volume to read Trump’s speech via Closed Caption so we don’t have to deal with listening to him while primal screaming the paint off the walls.
Neither of us are drinkers but do live in LEGALIZED weed state (of bliss) = one toke per lie – watching the animated tiny hands of our stable genius without having to hear him just might be a good thing just like Martha Stewart’s cooking with pot tv series with Snoop Dawg. Bottom line: absolutely dread the speech and results/reactions + fallout. Dashing out to buy munchies!
4Oh, is it over?
5AK: It ain’t over ’til the Fat Boy tweets.
6@Susan on the Left Coast #3
You beat me to it.
“Neither of us are drinkers but do live in LEGALIZED weed state (of bliss) = one toke per lie – ”
I just asked when drinking games would be replaced with toking games.
7Obviously I am behind the curve.
For those who can’t abide The Donald’s speech…Stormy Daniels just announced: “If you’re looking for anything even remotely worth watching tonight at 9pm EST, I will be folding laundry in my underwear for 8 minutes on Instagram live.”
8“Your thoughts on Trump’s speech?”
If I dared to write them here you wouldn’t even bother to send me a cautionary email, you’d ban my sorry butt from the Salon forever, due to my hyper-extremely profane words, suggestions, thoughts and preyers.
As far as ‘drinking’, that sounds like a damned good idea, haven’t had as much as a beer in a month or two. Think that I’ll whomp up a stiff rum drink esta noche to help blunt the excruciating pain of listening to our esteemed Pendejo-in-Chief tonight…
Viva Donnei,!! Viva RAT45!!! Viva Vlad!
I sure hope that the Valleyites in good ol’ McAllen, Texas give SOBOTUS a very warm ‘welcome’ on his Thursday visit down there. IYKWIM
9I refuse to give the Cheeto-faced Traitor any more of my time than I absolutely have to.
10Go, Stormy! She’s certainly going to be more entertaining and less dangerous (except maybe to Donnie) than eight minutes of crazy from Trump. Even if there’s a script on the teleprompter, he’s bound to veer off it into cloud-cuckoo-land. Are the networks going to cut him off after eight minutes, or let him blather on indefinitely?
11I have a prior pressing engagement to watch our grass grow. I will have to wait and watch snippets from the punditry tomorrow. That is, if I can stand to do so.
12Continuous Pepto-Bismol chugging until the SOB is off the tube!
13My little bride and I weighed our options and decided that our favorite Bahama Buck’s, the one near one of our kid’s house, is about an hour round trip away. So we’re gonna be off soon and will listen to Pandora on the trip, then read what other patrons post here after subjecting themselves to a shower of brain bleach.
14Given a choice between watching Trump attempting to inspire the nation or going hunting with Dick Cheney . . .
Well, with Cheney, you would at least have the chance to duck.
15One toke per lie? You may not walk away from that bet.
16In hope of finding something on television that reflects truth and reality, I have decided to watch WWE SMACK DOWN LIVE tonight.
17Was looking to program my TV to switch to the Okole’s speech channel.
18Looked at all the local channels and the only one that listed the ‘address’ was the local Fox channel (ch 29, San Antonio). For exactly 8 minutes, so you know the Dems ain’t gettin’ any airtime there.
All right, the PBS channel (9 here) has both RAT45 and the Democratic response. Plus analysis.
19Oh gawd, there the asshole is…
I am busy eating the remains of the Christmas cookies and my hubby is in the other room listening to the orange buffoon spewing his nonsense. I think my cookies are so much better than what that buffoon is saying.
20Wow! I sure have been critical of Sen. Schumer before, but he gave a great response to SOBOTUS tonight.
21Schumer was serious, focused, composed, and definitely wasn’t his usual wishywashy handwaving wandering gaze self tonight.
Helluva job Chuck! Nancy too, but Schumer covered a lot more territory and emphatically.
That certainly didn’t take long. I muted the TV, found the music station and poured a glass of wine. Then I looked up and saw Chuck and Nancy and unmuted the TV. I thought they were both quite concise and on point. Take that, Orange Foolius!
22Humpty Trumpty sat on his Wall
Humpty Trumpty fell hard on the media’s thrall
All the King’s aides and all the king’s base
Were covered in semi digested burgers and chicken parts, y’all.
MSM also caught quite a bit in the face.
23Trump used the speech to do two fundraising letters.
This was:
1) Ego “Pay attention to me now!”
2) Distraction (Muller indictments, SCOTUS ruling in favor of Muller and accidental Manafort revelations), all but the later he was aware of via his acting AG. and keep in mind he knows how potentially damning that info is.
3) A fundraiser that is ostensibly for his campaign but which will in reality be used to cover legal fees.
Aside from that, he is BORING and his schtic is old.
24This whole thing was just a campaign fundraiser. His supporters are dumb enough to send him money.
https://www.democraticunderground.org/100211644376
25The only shortcoming that Pelosi and Schumer had in their great Pendejo rebuttals:
26That they didn’t work in a deep jibe against Comrade Bonespurs about how many illegal workers that the Trump Organization employs in its’ many different businesses, from the hotels and condos to the golf clubs and winery, etc. The Trumps actively seek out and employ hundreds of undocumented workers, the better to profit from the cheaper labor supply.
That might have given pause to even the most rabid MAGAot. Naaaahhh, those yo-yos have all been sealed into freezer bags.
Ran to the computer afterwards, looked up my U.S. Representative’s Congressional web site, clicked on the “email me” link, and wrote:
“Saw THE speech. Impeach the em eff!!”
27All I could focus on was the sound of Trump’s breathing! After every few words he’d suck in some air through his nose, quite loudly too. It was very distracting. I think being forced to read from a teleprompter throws everything off for him. He’s used to yelling and he couldn’t do that tonight.
28My drinking game was simple: I went to a Mexican restaurant, enjoyed some enchiladas and a margarita, and watched sports on the TV in the bar. I find that’s the best thing to do whenever the *Resident thinks he’s got anything worth saying!
29An anecdotal story of how people are being affected by the shutdown: My sister works for the Park Service and has been furloughed for the duration. No pay. Yet she is paying the mortgage on the house she lost in Irma AND rental housing.
Federal workers are being held hostage for a wall that only 31% of Americans support.
30Personally I couldn’t watch him. I watched YouTube video of a cat that lived and loved living in a coop with chickens. Just thought watching- that’s what WE are all about!!
31Much ado about nothing. Trump said nothing that he hadn’t said before, except this time he read it in a monotone from a teleprompter in the Oval Office: fear, more fear, wall, barrier, fence, drugs, bad people, wall, Democrats to blame, illegal immigrants do bad things. It was the standard Trumpian mix of lies, half-truths, and the fantasy about Mexico “indirectly” paying for the wall.
Schumer and Pelosi were better in the Democratic rebuttal, but the whole thing was a snoozefest. The wall, in whatever form, will not be built. The government shutdown is still ongoing, and nothing said tonight brings it any closer to being over.
32Question becomes with this complete failure of a speech will the demented one swing for the fences in some obscene manner to recover his mojo?
Does failure make him more dangerous?
33K:
34Thirty years ago I woulda been the first one playing the toking game with you.
And the first one deciding I needed a nap.
But the answer to your last two questions is yes.
Unequivocally.
I didn’t watch. I chose to use my time watching old Criminal Minds episodes on ION. Fake mayhem is worlds better than the mental mayhem POTUS offers.
35Didn’t watch speech but the important news is that Murkowski has joined Gardner & Collins in calling for end of shutdown. Hair Twitler’s poor performance will not win him or his policies any new fans.
36D response was stiff but content was excellent. There are a lot of amusing memes about Nancy and Chuck as Mom and Dad, disappointed but not mad, but that just makes their response look better. Go, Ds!
Drumpf’s speech sounded exactly like my oxygen concentrator because that it what I listened to last night. No tv. No radio and the computer was shut down for the night.
37I was afraid that my TV would be endangered by my foot, so I didn’t watch Rumping spouting his sh!t.
38I watched and could only think about gun control after so many were killed in schools, churches, malls etc. Then I looked at the WaPo and saw that Mac Thiessen wrote about how wonderful his speech was. Made me want to barf.
3986’d the ironing. I hate to do shirts anyway. Watched instead a terrific film about Winston Churchill on a PBS station. Best use of time ever!
40Watched very old British mysteries…..there is only so much that this old woman can stand. It upsets my tummy when I hear it talk.
41Anyone who can listen to Agent Orange speak, and take one toke per lie? Needs better stuff.
42Every time he tells the truth, I take a shot.
43Been sober for 2 years now.
Watched the speech & rebuttal scarfing down a huge plate of cookies straight from the oven. I really needed a sugar hit to get through listening to the liar-in-chief.
No surprises from the Orange Buffoon — more lies, more demonizing immigrants, more fear, fear,fear. The rebuttal was calm and showed that there are still some adults in DC.
Speaking of adults, some of the Rep senators are starting to talk about breaking ranks. I called my senators (sadly both are Rs) and let them know how I felt about the stupid wall and urged them to put the pressure on the Turtle to vote on the House bills to re-open the government. Calling our senators & letting them know exactly how we feel might just move the needle a bit towards sanity. Or not.
44I think I will have to take a drink every time Trump tells the truth. Then I could stop drinking through this mess of a President.
45Wow, talk about anticlimactic.
After all the sturm und drang, the “speech” was a torpid reiteration of all Trump’s anti-immigrant talking points, dating all the way back to the escalator. Surprisingly, he never strayed from the Teleprompter, and will therefore probably be hailed yet again as finally Acting Presidential. I’m not sure what exactly caused this sudden display of rational behavior, irrational content aside. My first guess is Valium. They should keep feeding it to him.
The Democratic response was a bit generic. But given that it had to be written before Trump’s appearance, that was inevitable.
All in all, not worth the hyperbolic media coverage preceding it for the last few days. I’m sure Trump and his cronies loved punking everyone with their hints about declaring a national emergency. Though possibly they only dropped the idea at the last minute. Anyway, it was certainly not worth having the network program schedules messed up for the rest of the evening. Why couldn’t he have done it last week, when everything was still in reruns?
Final verdict: Meh. And relief that, for the moment, no crazy-ass declarations or actions.
46Mike Pompeo was telling people yesterday that the speech would be incredibly newsworthy; I got the impression he was hinting that Trump would declare the emergency he was threatening. Instead he gave a lifeless rehash of his one liners. Like a rally speech without the shouting. I have to wonder if he was not persuaded to tone it down at the last minute.
47“BookMaker, an offshore gambling house that claims 30 years in the business, is laying odds on how many times President Trump will lie when he addresses the nation at 9 p.m.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-lies-gambling-speech-odds-35-bet-20190108-story.html
48Fran Seyer- Australian mysteries here, on Acorn or Britbox or one of those escapism networks. Then when it was safe (and we knew the hero survived) we turned on Rachel Maddow for the analysis.
49Those immigrants sound like some dangerous dudes — violent criminals, narcos, terrorists. If I were trump I’d quit hiring them to work at my businesses and getting them fake green cards.
I admire the way so many of y’all watched the whole nine minutes. I watched a Charlie Chaplin movie on-demand — thanks, TCM!
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