So now North Korea is littering the Sea of Japan once again with missile litter and all DT can talk about is another birther-like accusation against Obama. And tweeting pictures of Pelosi and Schumer with Putin. And yelling at his staff for not defending his lies.
You’ve got someone crazier than you are intent on building a ballistic missile than can take out Santa Monica. Focus!
Didn’t he?
TERRIBLE. Just learned Obama hired people who killed #KimJungUn’s brother. Sad.
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boss, his personal lawyers/bannon/family/russky friends are on a fishing mission to find out how much of their communications are on record. too busy worrying about what they might of said that got recorded to even consider little kim. it’s to their advantage bigly to hear that nothing was heard while plotting business/taxes/campaign crimes. so far they’ve gotten assurances from clapper and comey that there was no order for a fisa tap on trump specifically. they’ll keep at this until they find out just who was/is the target of that order. a side benefit is the distraction element.
Don’t buy into the bullshit that we “need” to go to war. I guarantee not a single male Trump will be headed to the frontlines when they start one.
In Conversation:David Letterman
“If I still had a show,” says the 69-year-old, dressed in a baggy sweater and cargo pants and sitting high above midtown Manhattan in a conference room at his publicist’s offices, “people would have to come and take me off the stage. ‘Dave, that’s enough about Trump. We’ve run out of tape.’ It’s all I’d be talking about. I’d be exhausted.”
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By 2012, you’re making fun of his hair apparatus and explaining to him that his ties were being made in China.
I always regarded him as, if you’re going to have New York City, you gotta have a Donald Trump. He was a joke of a wealthy guy. We didn’t take him seriously. He’d sit down, and I would just start making fun of him. He never had any retort. He was big and doughy, and you could beat him up. He seemed to have a good time, and the audience loved it, and that was Donald Trump. Beyond that, I remember a friend in the PR business told me that he knew for a fact — this was three or four presidential campaigns ago — that Donald Trump would never run for president; he was just monkeying around for the publicity. So I assumed that was the story and now it turns out he’s the president. Now, who owns New York?
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….I’m tired of people being bewildered about everything he says: “I can’t believe he said that.” We gotta stop that and instead figure out ways to protect ourselves from him. We know he’s crazy. We gotta take care of ourselves here now.
How? Is comedy useful for that?
Comedy’s one of the ways that we can protect ourselves. Alec Baldwin deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sadly, he’s not going to get it from this president.
Can you explain that a bit more? How does satire protect us from Donald Trump?
The man has such thin skin that if you keep pressure on him — I remember there was a
Actually, it was the other way around. In a 2007 playoff game, a swarm of midges from Lake Erie caused Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain to blow the game with a few wild pitches.
baseball game in Cleveland, and a swarm of flies came on the field and the batters were doing this [mimes swatting at flies] while the pitcher was throwing 100 miles an hour. Well, that’s Alec Baldwin and Saturday Night Live. It’s distracting the batter. Eventually Trump’s going to take a fastball off the sternum and have to leave the game.
There’s this idea that reducing Trump to a punchline could make him seem harmless or helps to normalize him. Is there any validity to that argument?
I guess it’s a possibility. On the other hand, Donald Trump can be Donald Trump, but if he doesn’t help the people that need help, then he’s just a jerk. That press conference that he held berating the news media? I mean, how do you build a dictatorship? First, you undermine the press: “The only truth you’re going to hear is from me.” And he hires the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Steve Bannon, to be his little buddy. Bannon looks like a guy who goes to lunch, gets drunk, and comes back to the office: “Steve, could you have just one drink?” “Fuck you.” How is a white supremacist the chief adviser to our president? Did anybody look that up? I don’t know. How’s this interview going? Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here? Don’t I seem like I’m full of something?
Craig – that is the question that has bothered me for all these six weeks. Literally nothing outside of the floater’s alternate world is covered. Over the weekend there were a couple of tweets which stated that foreign entities were recording Russians and the floater’s people, and not just the campaign issue. I took those as shots across the bow. The American intelligence agencies are not going to be the source of news, it will be from others. Others not restricted by U.S. laws or regulations.
Where is Pence the pure? He is anywhere but near the floater, no stains on him. Any word from him about the last insanity? Scarborough has more to say than the Veep. It is time to check on the political betting sites for the latest odds on #46 appearing soon.
a ha! dr Watson, we may have a way to get the drumpf deposed under oath. at which time, he will undoubtedly lie.
from nbc via msn:
Although the law provides a great deal of leeway for political speech, that protection is not all encompassing. And because of the way Trump has leveled unsubstantiated accusations at Obama, he may have libeled his predecessor.
“He’s basically stating that Mr. Obama committed crimes, and to state that somebody has committed a crime when it’s false is clearly defamatory,” said Benjamin Zipursky, who teaches defamation law at Fordham University Law School in New York.
“The question is: Is there enough evidence of serious reckless disregard to send that case to a jury?” Zipursky added. “I don’t know what a court would decide on that, but there is some evidence of recklessness.”
It’s difficult for public figures to win libel cases. Most courts rule against them because the assumption is that they have chosen to make their lives an open book, which means people will talk about them. But past Supreme Court cases have created a basic standard that seeks to answer two legal questions:
Was the statement false?
Did the person know it was false or was he or she reckless about whether it was false?
The answer to both questions must be yes, and that could be a difficult conclusion to draw.
“What the plaintiff has to show is that the defendant has said, written or tweeted something that is a false statement of fact that harms the reputation of the defendant, and because Obama is a public official, you have to show that it was done with some sort of intent to harm,” said Jay Wexler, a professor of constitutional law at Boston University Law School.
On the subject of the day: I know it is a very big ocean, but what happens if one of those missiles sinks a passing cruise ship?
Now we all know that Trump is either crazy or crazy like a fox. Either way he doesn’t belong in the office he holds. What actions can be taken other than the constant accusations of same (love the flies image) that can force either 25th or impeachment actions?
So yesterday Sarah Huckabee Sanders was spokespersonning with Martha Radditz and looking like the absolute idiot she has every right to be considering that she’s the daughter of Huckleberry. Radditz put it perfectly – “If, if, if….” She (SHS) was as dumb seeming as Kelliaranne without the ability to word fog the interviewer to make (in this case) her forget what her question was.
hayden on no. korea, trump and crises du jour
https://youtu.be/xtQcHdRxH_8
So Clapper said there was no warrant sought against trumpf, Hayden said Obama couldn’t have sought one and Comey has asked DoJ to support denial of the drumpf tweet storm allegations (BTW, good luck with that, Jim).
trumpf will soon be singing “They’re Coming to Take me Away“
from tpm:
Democrats To Ask For Info On Contact Between WH Counsel And DOJ
“In our experience, it is highly unusual for the White House to seek access to a government application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. In almost any circumstance, it would be inappropriate to ask for that information if the President and his associates are related to the underlying investigation,” the Democrats wrote in a letter to McGahn to be sent on Monday.
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“Perhaps more troubling, this reported contact between your office and law enforcement officials comes on top of several other reports of similar contacts between the White House and both the Department of Justice and the FBI,” the Democrats wrote.
“If these reports are accurate, then these communications are both inappropriate and in violation of Department of Justice guidance. Since the Carter Administration, the Department has had guidelines in place to limit communications between the White House and career investigators and prosecutors, ‘to insure, to the extent possible, that improper considerations will not enter into our legal judgments,'” the Democratic lawmakers added in their letter.
They asked McGhan for information on any contacts between White House staff and the Justice Department or FBI about probes into Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. The lawmakers plan to send a similar letter to the FBI.
abc news: Supreme Court scraps case on transgender bathroom rights
N Korea is getting bolder by the minute, probably because they know we have a lunatic in the WH who really can’t be bothered by world events when he has wild tweets to get out. I wonder if the IC even briefed him about it. The last time NK acted up they had to brief him at a get-together at mara-lazy-o and he couldn’t even take a moment to leave the table and go somewhere private. We’re in deep do-do!
Right now Trump is concerned about domestic stuff. Which is good from a foreign policy pov.
Now that McMasters has replaced Flynn adults seem to be in charge of the place.
From what I’ve read I like what Tillerson is doing at the State Department, He is an experienced executive and in this bunch of goof balls it shows. He is doing what a good executive does, listening to the experienced folks under him and getting knowledge before he opens his mouth. He is pushing back against budget cut at State too. There by supporting his people.
The problem is that N Korea is just as much of an attention seeker as Trump and if Trump doesn’t give them some attention for their misbehavior then they will escalate until he has to pay attention.
The key to controling NK is China and as always they come at a price. Trump will have to modify his anti trade rants at least as it applies to China. Chna has a huge inferiority complex and they will demand respect that is obvious and up front.
Jack
What I said about Tillerson…..
Never mind
Jack
Jack
How are you? Anything we can do?
Sarah Hucksterbee Sanders – about to be fired for being too fat
I’m wondering why they seemed to think daughter of huckabee would represent them well out there in sunday TV land…..was it the Southernness? The accent?
accent sounded a bit forced, by the way
An intended audience quite over the heads of the medians and their minions?
Obviously inexperienced, and ms rad predictably chewed up her story…..
a little too pat, as some of the old gamblers used to say…….
Getting sued for libel? That is certainly in Trump’s “wheelhouse”(what a stupid and misused word) Trump sues people all the time for this offense so he is familiar with the legal definition.
In the meantimes another broken promise to US labor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-reverses-pledge-to-mandate-us-steel-for-keystone_us_58bbae99e4b0fa65b844b451?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Where is Melanoma when he starts up those early morning tweet storms — if she and he are so hot????????????
The NY Times is running a defense of the Condom. It is a pile of poop. She is the biggest misogynist on the planet and the article is full of alternative facts
Letterman’s got him pegged.
There were a lot of great navy movies……….
The Sea-Bees even got into one…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coca-cola-pool-boy-ad_us_58b990a2e4b05cf0f4000ccf
Fake news?
Alex Jones Tells Trump To Use Violence Against His Opponents
Jones To Trump: “You Must Go On The Offense. This Is War. You Think George Washington Kicked The Redcoats’ Ass Just With Information? No.”
jack, otoh vanity fair said some nice things only 2 hrs ago in their story
The Curious Silver Lining of Rex Tillerson’s Exile
As Russian intrigues roil Washington, Tillerson—who knows Vladimir Putin better than just about anyone—has remained unscathed.
and here he is announcing the revised ban. interesting that drumpf let someone else have the limelight.
He got so much limelight ‘e ain’ know what f’do wit ‘um.
If I were president I’d have to get a lot more sleep than he does……
And I would NEVER leave the house…….I’d get severe agoraphobia……
Hey Rex how was your trip to Mexico…got a check yet?
Well……..Camp David, maybe…….
We haven’t had apolitical bombshell explode for 24hours. I await the latest with bated breath. The tension is killing me.
Billions of terrified people around the globe are all wondering if something is finally going right.
Reports coming out of the Korean Republic say that king kim has executed five “high ranking” officials, besides bumping off his brother. Everybody in the kingdom, from his wife and the top generals to the street sweepers and sewer muckers must be looking over their shoulders, worrying how they should perform their work duties, walk around, and tie their shoes to please his divine omniscient majesty.
The king himself is well off his diet, as recent pictures show. They say that generals are very nutritious.
the week reports
Gold Star father Khizr Khan has canceled an upcoming speech in Toronto after being told that his “travel privileges are being reviewed,” CTV’s Rosa Hwang reports. Khan and his wife were born in Pakistan, but Khizr has been an American citizen for more than 30 years.
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In a statement, Khan said: “This turn of events is not just of deep concern to me but to all my fellow Americans who cherish our freedom to travel abroad. I have not been given any reason as to why.”
trump has few historical role models of his type, even in the history of roman emperors. caligula comes to mind. nero. hadrian. elagabalus. kalaphates, in Constantinople. The Emperor Ferdinand’s coronation address was short and illuminating, Ich bin der Kaiser, und ich will Knuedeln. I am the Emperor, and I want noodles. At least Ferdie was harmless.
I suspect that the deadbeat is following in the footsteps of kalaphates, he who pushed the Empress Zoe out of the way and briefly took the title Emperor, tried it on, and thought it fit beautifully. Bigly mistake.
Sturg, beware the squirrels, chipmunks and raccoons – there’re things in the woods around Camp David to be afraid of. Better stay in.
Gaius Marius right before the stroke……
Well……I’m not president and I’m not trump so I get to go outside a lot…….
Well – duh. My thinking is slowed down for a bit here. Mr. Peabody must have learned from his Russian friends that they were under surveillance and had been for years. And that included him and his stooges. And that finally sunk in. But with his hate of people of color (black, brown, etc) and his continuing hate of Obama he had to blast away with his tweeting from the throne at 3am. So we have stupid doing stupid and baying at the moon.
For those of us who truly love old classic movies, this is a sad one. Robert Osborne long time host of Turner Classic Movies passes away at 84. He was always so warm, genial and knowledgeable no matter what was showing.
Download PDF for healthcare bill. They are allowing a whole 48 hours before the vote to adopt
Repeal & Replace
David Duke @DrDavidDuke
Trump truly understands that the media is at war against him, our heritage and our people! There is no compromise with these vicious enemies
9:38 AM – 22 Nov 2016
Jamie: Sad news about RO, thanks for sharing. Love the sentiment at the end of the article. I didn’t even know he was gay either.
David Pakman just did a vid that Session’s visit w/Russian ambassador was paid for by the trump campaign and someone who was there says they talked about the election! He needs to resign.
michael V kalphates, for 4 months king of kings, by the grace of god lord of the earth – then blind, noseless, and destitute, for the rest of his life. Don’t ever mess with Harald Sigurdson.
Yup, Robert Osborne radiated warm and sunny, even if the movie was Anna Karenina, American Tragedy, or Eraser Head.