October 20, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Trumplethinskin sent out a fundraising letter this morning. Get a load of this crapola.
Trump called Hillary puppet last night? Was I confused about who was talking?
I thought it was the other way around and so did CNN.
Either he’s delusional or he thinks his supporters are. Probably both. Bigly.
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She called him Putin’s puppet and he, offscreen, yelled, “You’re the puppet! You’re the puppet!” I swear I had a flashback to recess in about the third grade. It was sad.
Yeah, he’s an “independent thinker”– independent of facts, logic, and maturity. And thought.
1Well, you know, start up of hate radio does take a lot of money.
2hmmm, I guess he’s not a “wallstreet” billionaire – just a run of the mill billionaire?
3I am getting 3 or 4 Trump mails a day, Some of them are more funny than others. What they all say is This con is almost over And we want to milk it for the last penny you suckers have. $35 for a black trump card. $100 to hire poll watchers.
4What a deal. My answer is, as we say in this part of AZ.
The pigeons aren’t flying that low today.
Oh, and Drumpf is Putin’s lap dog, as well as his puppet.
Mr. Trump really scored in the debate when he said, “I am rubber–you are glue!”
5Sorry Juanita Jean, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. As much as I dislike Trump, he’s spot on there. The hacked e-mails even include appointees suggested by Wall St. Can you say “Regulatory Capture”?
For comparison and contrast, the previous biggest-ever financial/political scandal in U.S. history was the S&L scandal. The regulators at that time–over the objections of both Reagan and Bush administrations–filed 30,000+ referrals for criminal prosecution, and the Justice Dept. prosecuted 1200+ cases with a 90% conviction rate.
They got really big fish, too. Mike Milken and Charles Keating, to name two.
Fast forward to the sub-prime / derivatives meltdown that ended the Bush 43 administration and began Obama’s first term. It’s roughly 70 times larger than the S&L mess.
Care to guess how many referrals for criminal prosecution from the Obama regulators? Answer: zero.
This was arguably the largest crime in human history (U.S. net worth declined 40% in the wake of Lehman’s bankruptcy), but we’ve witnessed only about a dozen prosecutions, all small fish. The big criminals are walking around free.
Guess how Obama got his list of appointees (like Eric Holder)? Same way as Hillary…a list from Wall St.
6Sadly, true. But, Bernie and Warren.
7So hoping to get another Trump fundraising letter. I send them back stuffed with junk mail. I have been saving a letter from
8The First Lady addressed to Dear Democrat that I would really like to use.
Yes, he did call Clinton a puppet–AFTER she called him Putin’s puppet (interruptive rejoinder: SHE’s the puppet). Just sayin’. It’s called projection. That’s all he does.
9@Adam Eran, have to agree, Adam.
I’ve been around since long before that ’80’s S&L meltdown. Knew people who, for an extra 1/2% point interest return on their money, kept (all of, fools) their money in S&L’s that sank (and average interest rates were already pretty high, especially compared to today; they were just greedy fools who had to get just a little bit more, without fully considering the risks).
No FDIC coverage either. Congress and the Reagan admin were criminal in the way that happened, it was intentional.
But still the suckers keep falling for such come-ons. Some of them became teabaggers and are solid Trump fanatics…
10Hey, remember Neil Bush and the Silver S&L? Did he ever go to jail?
11“No FDIC coverage”? It was called the FSLIC at the time (since merged) but depositor didn’t lose the big money. It was the people who bought bonds from Milken & Keating…and of course the banks/S&Ls themselves who went belly up.
Total bill for the bailout: $150 billion ($500 billion if you count the interest). We spent that bailing out only one bank (IndyMAC) in Southern California in the more recent scandal.
Anyway, laying the blame at the feet of those pursuing higher yields ignores too much here. De-regulation (a la Jimmie Carter) is what Reagan hoped would save S&L bacon, but it made an average bank scandal into a horrible mess.
Let’s not forget that the D’s showed the R’s how to do it. By “it” I mean everything from stealing elections (JFK, LBJ’s senate seat) to “Fiscal Responsibility[tm]” (Edmund Muskie) to deregulating (Carter, Clinton).
I wish I could be like Ms. Juanita and be totally confident electing Democrats would be a good thing…but given that Nixon was the last liberal president, I kind of doubt even that.
12Puppets may be featured prominently on SNL this week.
13maggie, (Silverado S&L)
14BWAHAHAHAHA.
I think Neil Baby went on to even bigger scams and grifts. He was pushing crap schoolbooks and software everywhere (esp. FL&TX). Had a good run with bro Dumbya’s “No Child Left Behind” (No Grift Left Unexploited) policies forced on the states.
Putin’s Lap dog, call’s Clinton a Puppet. LOL
15Oh maryelle, great idea on the puppets! SNL is at its best in election years, especially since Tina Fey and Amy Poehler showed how it’s done. Puppets, nasty women, dark conspiracy theories about rigged elections, “wrong”, especially will likely be featured. The last skit, with the Mangled Apricot Hellbeast flitting around behind, beside and in front of her was lol funny.
The Mangled Apricot Hellbeast used to lie every 3 minutes, 15 seconds his mouth was open. I’d say he’s at least halved that by now.
(Dan Akroyd’s Nixon on SNL was outstanding.)
16With Trump it gets harder and harder to keep track of who’s the puppet, the clown, or ventriloquist.
Make America Vaudeville Again.
17@Adam Eran,
“No FDIC coverage”? It was called the FSLIC at the time…” (my mistake) What I meant was that some S&L’s chose to opt out of that federal coverage at the time (yes, it was possible to do that), and charmed their depositors with a higher interest on deposits. Presumably passing the ‘saved’ FSLIC insurance premium savings on to them.
A dodge to be sure, but there were a lot of dumb, greedy clucks who took the bait/chance for a lousy 1/2% more return (over the, IIRC, avg 8-10% returns back then).
They got burned badly, think of most of your 401K/life savings, up in smoke, gone. Really disastrous for the older ones, like a pension raid.
I don’t think the feds ever made them whole, so they blamed …the feds, not their own greedy 1/2%asses.
Whining about self-inflicted wounds is genetic with the Repukes.
18@Adam Eran, “LBJ’s senate seat…”
Heheh, I’ve actually worked in Duval County, TX, near/around San Diego, TX; Boss Parr country (The Duke of Duval).
And adjacent Brooks County, Falfurrias, Jim Wells County too, with the infamous ‘Box 13’ in Alice (actually worked in all of SoTX counties).
A whole ‘nuther unfathomable world for y’all non-South Texans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duval_County,_Texas
19https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wells_County,_Texas
@Adam Eran
re:”Hacked emails”
To me the content of emails hacked by the intelligence arm of an autocracy and leaked by an organization headed by a criminal is, at best, “tainted” and therefore, not believable.
20Tina Fey on Hillary Clinton last time: People say Hillary’s a bitch. Yeah– she is. And so am I. And so is this one.
Amy Poehler: Yep. Deal with it.
Fey: Bitches get stuff done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3vAVhaIEIk
21(start at 2’50”)
Somebody else wrote that. And he’s projecting.
22Micr –
Hear, hear!
Anyone who can hack emails can certainly edit them. Or even fabricate them.
Though I do think that what’s been leaked so far seems pretty genuine. There are some disillusioning things in there. But Hillary is still our best choice, judging by both competence and integrity. Trump hasn’t really zeroed in on any of the WL contents, I think mainly just because it’s too extensive and complex for him to process with his petulant little brain.
His Iraq comments during the debate? Omigod – it was like someone had run over the briefing book with a lawn mower, and he was just reading off from little shreds of paper – no order or context.
Hillary has a big, well-stocked, disciplined brain, and I truly believe that she wants what’s best for this country. She’s not my default choice for president – she’s my choice, period.
23November 8: A night I wanna party like it’s 19-64 [burst of Prince instrumental from “1999”]!
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