With Trump Gone, We’re Back to Normal: Fake Dem Scandals
You remember all those scandals under Obama, right? You know the ones – Obama’s tan suit scandal, Michelle’s bare armed dress scandal, Obama’s “Religion and Guns” scandal. Those “scandals” occupied weeks and hundreds of hours of air time in RW media, breathlessly reporting on how so many Bible thumping “Christians” we aghast at how the Obamas could be so tone deaf and insensitive to them and white supremacists. During the Rein of Trump, all those outrages were explained away when Trump (an actual criminal) did everything from extorting a foreign government to leading an insurrection to take down the federal government. Now that he’s off to Mar a Lago, the outrage switch has been turned back on. Here are this week’s “scandals” caused by the Biden presidency:
- The “Chinese handler” scandal: Rumors began circulating on Twitter and RW media on inauguration day when talk started about an Asian man who was everywhere Biden went, telling him what to do at every step. He was immediately dubbed the “Chinese handler” with all kinds of talk about how Biden was being controlled by “Communist China”. Turns out that this Asian man was not Chinese at all, but of Korean descent, and the head of the Secret Service presidential detail on Inauguration day. His name is David Cho, and, funny enough, he received the Department of Homeland Security’s exceptional service gold medal. The award was given to him “for tireless and direct participation in high-level negotiations” during the second summit between former President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam. What a scandal.
- The Rolex watch scandal: The NYTimes pointed out that, rather than a Timex or other cheap watch, Biden dared to break presidential tradition and wear a Rolex. Gasp. #bidenrolex and #bidenwrist starting appearing on Twitter and other social media, shocked that Biden would wear such an elite watch. Never mind that Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Reagan, and latter day Obama also wore Rolex watches.
- The Biden wears an earpiece scandal returns: On Inauguration day the stupidest rumor mongering returned on Twitter, claiming that, because he’s in rapid mental decline, he must wear an earpiece where a handler instructs him how to behave. There was some video floating around social media where Biden is walking through a door at the Capitol with Dr. Jill when, spotting Marines at the door says off-handedly to her, “Those are good looking Marines”. That was immediately picked up by the Q-types who interpreted that he said, “Salute the Marines”. When he didn’t salute, they immediately concluded that he just repeated the instructions in his earpiece but didn’t actually do it, obviously because of his mental decline. Stupid, right? Again, Twitter and other social media blew up to the point that the Washington Post Fact Checker debunked it and gave it 4 Pinocchios.
This is only the beginning. As the Q types have now figured out that Trump actually did play them for chumps, rather than disowning RW bullshit, they have just shifted back to old, pre-Trump bullshit. If it’s anti-Dem, they just assume it must be right. And here we go again, round and round to nowhere.
You left out the biggest scandal of all the un-American Dijon mustard scandal
1They are so predictable.
2Trump could have exchanged state secrets with a communist Chinese operative (a real Chinese) for a Rolex, and Republicans and Fox News would have just said, “do you know how much a Rolex costs? That’s a savvy trade. It proves he’s a good businessman.”
3Hopefully the mainstream media won’t start in on the “did Biden order the wrong cheese on his Philly Cheesesteak” stories. Given the dreaded Pelaton Bike reporting, this may be a forlorn hope…
4You do not have to go to the interwebs for that. Ingraham says he announced in his inaugural speech that he’s ending girls’ sports.
5RE: “The Rolex watch scandal”
As a bit of a watch watcher with a modest collection of them myself, I can assure y’all that President Biden’s ungodly scandalous possession of that particular Rolex wristwatch is in fact, an extremely frugal choice.
President Biden’s absolutely scandalous ‘Oyster Perpetual Datejust 41’ Rolex, at a mere $7,900, is priced near the very –bottom tier– of the Rolex universe. It’s a rather plain model with only two complications [date, self-winding movement], a Reference 126300, Calibre 3235.
I have no doubt that he will soon have a Rolex President reference series, which start around $20,000 and go to $1/200K+ [among many others, President Biden actually has a personal watch collection of his own, like many do].
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Biden’s watch that got the RWNJs into a tizzy:
Oyster Perpetual Datejust 41 in Oystersteel features a bright blue dial and a Jubilee bracelet:
DATEJUST 41 Oyster, 41 mm, Oystersteel $7,900:
https://www.rolex.com/watches/datejust/m126300-0002.html
Selection of Rolex from a large [unofficial] dealer [sometimes discounts slightly], priced l-h:
https://www.jomashop.com/watches-for-men.html?manufacturer=Rolex&p=3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex
PS– Paul Newman’s famous 1968 Rolex Daytona sold at auction a few years ago for $17.75 million.
6President Biden could probably get a mil or two for his ‘scandalous’ Rolex now. That would chap some RW’er asscheeks.
Sandridge: if Biden sells his watch for $1M and then donates the money to food banks or women’s shelters instead of gold toilets or a new mail order bride, that will lead to snide comments from the RWNJs that he is not a good businessman like Trump.
Did everyone else see that Bernie Sanders has sweatshirts and hoodies out for $45, with the now-famous meme photo of him sitting on a folding chair with mittens? In typical Sanders fashion the proceeds are going to a Vermont food pantry. See, that proves he’s a socialist/communist!
7Perhaps the best defense in the faux scandal wars is to throw the wolves of whimper some red meat. No. Seriously no. No poisoning the meat. Bathe it in eau de confusion which is akin to catnip to them. It’s the rumor mill version of placing them in a trash can and telling them to pee in the corner.
In other words, concern troll the hell out of them.
Lead them with the riddle, who is dumber, Donnie or Messy. Then throw them a high inside curve with smoke. Who is smarter President Biden or First Lady Biden. The scandal material will write itself …
8Am I the only one who noticed that Lady Gaga and J Lo ALSO wore earpieces?!? It’s a fricking Conspiracy!
9Maybe its just me, but perhaps now that Twitler is no longer Occupying OUR whitehouse, maybe the Media could stop looking to Twitter for news items? what if, now I’m going out on a limb here, we just let folks tweat about all they want, and who cares whats trending for 20 Minutes, or has traction for a day or two, and devote news coverage to actual news.With all the challenges facing our Country right now, what is trending on Social media at any particular moment is less than fluff journalism – much like it was coming out of 45’s account. The adults are back in the room, Media needs to catch up… lets let the rethugs crawl back into their Mothers basements and talk amonst themselves between trips to the pharmacy for their oxy refills, Courtesy of Yurtle McConnell…. Keep up drugged and stupid and tweeting……
10We’re already embroiled in the Biden’s-exercise-bike-is-a-cybersecurity-risk scandal. For four years anyone in search of classified information needed only hang around the dining room at Mar a Lago or hack Trump’s phone, but now the national security is compromised. If the Democrats had lost even one seat in Georgia they’d already be holding hearings on Pelotongate. Republicans are nothing if not predictable.
11Fun Fact: The New York Times has a “Reader Feedback” section at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/homepage/contact-newsroom.html.
If enough of complain, maybe they’ll shut down their coverage of silly non-issues of the “Democrats aren’t really the party of EveryMan because (insert trivial fact here)” type.
12RepubAnon, that will not work. In many respects, the NYT is a small, local paper; and the local biz is fashion. The editors and reporters really, really care about this, to a degree that it once cost me a good shot at a job.
A friend at the Times arranged for me to try out here. Knowing what a redneck I am, he cautioned me, “If they ask you what you would change about the paper, do not say you would add comics.”
He did not add: “And don’t make fun of the absorption with weird fashion.”
Which I did, telling the interviewer I thought the paper devoted far too much effort to the goings-on on the Upper East Side.
When my friend debriefed me, I told him that and his face fell. It turned out that the fondest desire of the assistant managing editor who interviewed me was to become part of UES society.
If Biden wore a Mickey Mouse watch, the Times would have devoted just as much energy to that story.
13I hope that Biden and his team, as well as all Dems, have learned not to give air to any of this BS. If asked, just look at the camera and say, “pfffft. With all the problems we have, you’re gonna pretend to worry about THAT malarkey?” Just shut it right down.
14Haters gotta hate!
15(and grifters gotta grift)
psst did you know Biden was having a secret affair with Melania? Everybody says so …
Yesterday in the Chronicle, talking about these rumors, they said the people spreading them should be dressed in the Muumuus of Hypocrisy! I love it; now when I hear about Cruz, Crenshaw or any other RWNJs, I’m going to picture them in a muumuu!
16Expect that the former fake president will try to start up his rallies again after the senate impeachment trial. Not sure it will matter if he’s found guilty or acquitted because he’s addicted to their adulation. As noted above, he’ll have plenty of new crazy Q and other cultist conspiracies to regurgitate. Question is, who will fund it, who will show up and who will cover it as news anymore.
17And then there’s his legal issues in NY coming like freight trains. Hopefully those will run over him and shut him the eff.. up for good. And his cult, too.
Harry Eagar @ #13
The NYT has great national news coverage, but I agree, large portions of their paper can be downright provincial, as in the narrow-minded definition of the word. Definitely their fashion reporting. But then again, I’m sitting here in cargo shorts & a tee shirt.
If you ended up at the Maui News as your fallback, I appreciated your contributions there. I always considered you their best writer.
18Now for something somewhat different:
When do we push to have Fear Leader’s indictments revealed? Do we have to gently remind our Reps & Senators? Or is it time to attack the “Russian hoax” with a response to the Faux Corp types first? Now might be a great time to point out that everyone who refused to certify the votes is stating the election officials are (at best) incompetent, the voters for Biden were criminals(?) or at least complicit, and the legal system is completely broken. Why do we have to take the insults without response…
19Old Fart @19 …
I was sort of hoping the various prosecutors would wait at least through the weekend before opening sealed indictments or bringing issues to a grand jury for their consideration and action. Biden deserved to be able to get into the White House, get a few of his nominees in place (and clarify who the Acting would be), and possibly get the first round of Executive Orders going.
So, I think those additional worries for Trump could be served any time now. Probably can find out when his tee time is and find him at his course at the designated time.
20Just to add a little Fruede with Hair Furor’s Schaden: The DailyKos has an article on how the bad economics are getting a whoooooole lot worse…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/24/2011602/-The-traitor-and-the-evil-spawn-are-completely-and-totally-f-cked-more-than-I-thought
21The Rolex was his son Beau’s, he wears it as a reminder.
22Also, these folks have no shame.
The Surly Professor @7, I was thinking that if Biden were to auction the watch that he’d donate the proceeds.
Deb @22, Hadn’t heard that, but if so then the watch remains with President Biden.
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Now, we’re seeing hints of it: Since we should now be able to keep the Rethugs and RWNJs on the defensive, rather than offense, it’s high time for some shadowy groups and departments within the Biden administration and Democratic Party to monitor Rethug actions and utterances [like the ‘watch’ crap, etc] and be prepared to instantly strike back with both barrels.
These task forces can range from just dishing out snark, sarcasm, and trollery right in the Rethugs faces, to having much more serious tools to hammer them with.
Assuming that President Biden’s Rolex is available [or something else suitable, he has a number of other nice watches], an announcement of a charity auction for it, due to it’s sudden notoriety, would be soon scheduled. The whole spectacle would be a solid backhand to the petty-assed Thugs, and generate a huge amount of interest and goodwill.
The Dems could start a whole new charitable industry just stuffing the Rethug’s own words and actions down their throats.
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23Don’t anybody put up with the Rethugs shit anymore. They get nasty, as has been usual forever, smash ’em in the face. They get crappy over something like “The Rolex”, whack ’em in the head with a ball bat, kick ’em in the nutz, and shove a pointy-toed boot up their asses.
Don’t get mad, get even.
Hit ’em again, Harder.
Turn the other cheek, theirs, with a swift kick.
Rick @ 13 Thank you.
24It seems that the MAGAts, after lurching into Qanon territory, have discovered the sovereign citizen lunacy. Donald Trump will be sworn in again as president on March 4, putting an end to the Biden fraud. That’s their latest brainwave.
For those who have not encountered those particular nutcases, here’s some salient features: a court has no standing if it features the US flag with a gold fringe (that means it’s strictly a maritime court). The US is not a country, but a secret law in 1871 made it into a corporation. March 4 is the real inauguration date, because the law / constitutional amendment that changed it to January was passed in 1933, the same year that the US went off the gold standard and started instead used US citizens as collateral for loans. I have no idea how a corporation can have “citizens”, but there it is.
Uh, after that it gets even more Loony Toons. However, expect some argument that Biden’s inaug was invalid because the flags had gold fringes, or similar stuff.
25If you have one unfringed flag, is that enough? Or do they all have to be uniform?
Also, too, I thought the highest real level of officialdom was county sheriff.
26The Surly Professor @25, The thing that caught my attention watching EX-prez tRump speak at JBA before he and spawn boarded AF-1 for the last effing time, was that all the flags behind him had gold-damned fringes on them.
Time for the “Rapid Ratbastard Response Teams ©” to roll.
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