Luckily, the authors of our Constitution didn’t mean the presidency to be the dominant branch of government. Some just wanted the title to be “Chief Magistrate” but abandoned that argument in tribute to George Washington, who actually rejected other calls for loftier titles than President.
Trump’s meltdown of a press conference today, the events of the past few days and indeed the entire opening months of his time in office has led to a moment where we can truly say that for all intents and purposes we don’t actually have a president.
Because the “Deep State” — as his alt-right pals call it — has him surrounded. And all he can do is blaspheme and bluster on his twitter account. Or stand in front of his Trump Tower elevators and brag about the Virginia winery he owns.
His military ignores his tweets on transgenders in service. His own party in Congress pays less and less attention to him. The intelligence community and many in the Justice Department despise him, and are obviously undermining his authority.
Unwittingly Trump has taken us back to what most of our founders intended, a Chief Magistrate subservient to Congress, which was created by Article ONE of the Constitution for a reason.
[Cross-posted via HuffPost]
Happy to be alt-left handed.
Gut check Republicans: Are you the party of Lincoln or Trump? Because you can’t have both.
Lock him up. Lock ’em all up. Do NYC and Washington DC own any tumbrels ?
30% – 64% by Sunday ?
OMG!… I guess I missed a lot today. Chose to get together with girlfriends…. go to lunch… play some cards. The batshitcrazyone just got batshitcrazier. Sheeeeesh…..
I love your analysis, Craig, and it gives me some comfort–if Kelly can keep him from blowing us up. Oh lordy, how long is this going to go on?
How awful trump used the Heather Heyer’s Mother to further his nazi protection and his greedy ego by mentioning her response to his finally mentioning the alt-right culpability in the weekend violence. Briefly today there was a retweet by trump from a white supremacist condemning Heather for being 32 with no children…(not a whiter breeder.) It was deleted along with the trump train mowing down CNN. Short bursts of tweets to let the alt-right know trump is in their corner. Meanwhile, peanut sessions goes after the alt-left.
I felt the anger today in watching that disgusting display at trash tower. Maybe he will stay there…lock him up in the tower and we will be free of the fake president.
PG does his usual – he picks out a detail to focus on and uses it as his argument for everything
He is a strawman kind of guy. It is beside the point if both sides had weapons – the point is one of the groups supports white supremacy and worse PG seems ok with it
The digital world has made is so easy to find out who is left on the trump manufacturing council. michael dell remains and he is the easiest human to find. michael@dell.com. We need to start employing economic sanctions on the companies that support trump. Many American corporations supported the nazis in WWII and very few citizens know about that…different times now with the digital world…it can be used for good. The power of the keyboard!
How can trump defend this (fox news story)
Justin Moore, the leader of the Grand Dragon for the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told WBTV’s Steve Crump in a voicemail that he was “glad” Heyer was killed and others were injured in the vehicle attack.
“I’m sorta glad that them people got hit and I’m glad that girl died,” Moore said. “They were a bunch of communists out there protesting against somebody’s freedom of speech, so it doesn’t bother me that they got hurt at all.”
“I think we’re going to see more stuff like this happening at white nationalist events,” Moore added.
Good work BW
I sent my email to Michael at Dell
There goes the sword dance, don’t look me in the eye tillerson releases religious freedom report.
From the article —
The report did not address Trump’s attempt this year to temporarily suspend refugee admissions and his decision to impose a lower cap on the number of those admissions. The report states that resettlement is a “vital tool for providing refugees protection.”
hi Joy. Here’s hoping Kelly is hiding the nuclear codes in his sock drawer.
The venue, the body language , the remarks. This was not the excercise of any recognized or legitimate method of governance. Instead it had all trappings of a Don King title bout promotion. If we are not all frightened by the prospect we should be.
On second thought it was a title bout. The old fat never was has been Donald Trump and the wheezing over the hill wannabe media who couldn’t land a punch on a dime store manaquin. The odds are about even for the contestants, but as for the country, we are so screwed.
Store food, store water and pass the ammunition!
Hi Joy Make yourself at home.
Ya know the problem is his Republican base supports his bigotry. As I’ve said before Those working class union workers didn’t vote for Trump for economic reasons. They voted for Obama because they were scared shitless in 2008 that their soft union job and pension were going to disappear. lol but Obama saved them and they could go back to their bigoted selves. They are still out there and believe every bit of bigot troll bait, they love it. So Trump stays until the Republicans reject him and so far they are willing to ride out the storm. Nothing you liberals can do about it.
Jack
So, Trump’s complaint is that Heather Heyer didn’t have a permit to get killed?
This whole Trump thing is so fricking familiar, we experienced the bigotry, the irrational hatred, the personal attacks and libelous lies lol We were just lucky they weren’t tech savvy and didn’t put it all out on twitter.
Why did it happen? Partly, we wanted a park for children that were mostly Hispanic and black, But what set it off was when we got a $20,000 grant for the neighborhood association. Most was for swings in the park but to get the grant we wrote in leadership training in Spanish. When we told them about that the shit hit the fan and they did something unheard of. they gave the money back.
So libertarians are wrong, bigotry trumps money.
Most of you know the rest of the story and several of you helped. We have been very successful in our small way.
Those folks are still out there and we often attend the same meetings, It may be small of me and cost me karma points but if they are there and we have a success story to tell, I stand up and let the world know. It irritates them when I do. We have taken to privately calling it “stick it to a bigot”
It is the only way I know to fight the assholes
I’m tempted to call our upcoming fund raising campaign “The stick it to a bigot campaign” Problem is most folks wouldn’t get it.
Our next “stick it to a bigot” campaign, officially called ” the reading room project” is scheduled to start August 25th, details to follow. We are getting all formal and stuff. McCoy Friends Y Amigos is now a recognized 501c3 charitable organization so any contribution is tax deductible.
We are getting so legal I’m starting to get all itchy.
Jack
OK a Mrs Jack funny.
You know we got all them people coming in wearin’ them head scarves?
You know what we call them?
Neighbor, };-)
Good one for national joke day, Mrs. Jack…keep-up the good work.
The repug chairman for Dona Ana county (my county) in NM is out for his trump-like tweet.
Drive-out the vermin….no room for nazi-like behavior in my America. trump must go, too.
guiliani falls, the aging trump supporter has problem with catchers knee.
joy, a joy to see you on the trail.
eerie irony from pbs:
Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments
At the center of the “Unite the Right” rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville last weekend was a protest of the city’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have made monuments to the Confederate commanding general a flashpoint — at times marching to keep them standing.
But Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.
“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”
Lee died in 1870, just five years after the Civil War ended, contributing to his rise as a romantic symbol of the “lost cause” for some white southerners.
But while he was alive, Lee stressed his belief that the country should move past the war. He swore allegiance to the Union and publicly decried southern separatism, whether militant or symbolic.
[….]
In his writings, Lee cited multiple reasons for opposing such monuments, questioning the cost of a potential Stonewall Jackson monument, for example. But underlying it all was one rationale: That the war had ended, and the South needed to move on and avoid more upheaval.
“As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,” Lee wrote of an 1866 proposal, “my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.”
The retired Confederate leader, a West Point graduate, was influenced by his knowledge of history.
“Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker,” Horn said. “He was worried that by keeping these symbols alive, it would keep the divisions alive.”
[……story continues…]
I was traveling yesterday and spent some time listening to SFB’s presser. God damn. When he started in on the permit shit I started yelling at the radio. And his drawing the false equivalence between RELee & SJackson and ole GeorgeW & TommyJ.. really? In SFB’s nazi mind there’s no distinction between the two founders who owned slaves and the two most famous generals who led a secession revolt against the country to in the name of that then illegal practice? Look, I’m a southern boy who grew up in the center of southern racism and now lives in Stonewall Jackson’s hometown. I walk past his statue on the courthouse square to get lunch next door to his birthplace (which is a spot covered over with a federal bankruptcy court now). I think they have some sort of commemoration on his birthday although in the 25 years I’ve been here I’ve never gone to it or heard anyone talk about it. No one’s talking about pulling the statue down. Now SFB’s suggesting that removing statues of traitors is the start of a slippery slope to removal of statues of the founding fathers? You’re right Craig, it would be nice if he was only a stupid drunk.
Long ago I learned to never watch dog and pony shows live. Too much trouble going out and buying a replacement for the destroyed television.
As blogs and twitter blew up with lots and lots of angst I tried to figure out why the man would commit political suicide. He has now put another step in the staircase the republicans have to climb to run for office. “Are you a SFB supporter? Do you think he is right that normal people who hate nazis and the kkk are the equivalent of nazis and kkk?”
At what point will the republicans get the guy out of the WH? Office pools should be started to guess next week’s poll numbers. Will he finally break thirty percent?
For S&Grins I just scanned through various news channels. All except one are talking about what SFB did yesterday. The one that has other topics, “Is being benched bullying?”. Your guess should start with the letter “F”.
Cecillia Wang
@WangCecillia
8h
VICE News reporting on the white supremacists’ plans. This is a must-watch. esquire.com/news-politics/…
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a57009/charlottesville-vice-documentary/
politicians and all media should be reminding the citizenry during these next days while monuments are being removed, contemplated to be removed and fought over that
Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.
“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.” [see pbs site]
if folks really wish to honor lee than they should support, not protest, the removal of such relics. move them to museums, confederate graveyards or private properties at the very least.
another story from pbs “Years-long probe into Texas white supremacist gangs ends with 89th and final conviction”
[….]
While Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League considers the 89 convictions to be a success, he does not think it necessarily means the case has “decimated” those white supremacist groups. The best authorities can do is hinder or slow down the criminal activities of the ABT or the Aryan Circle, he said. This is because these groups, for much of their history, have primarily conducted all manner of crimes — from drugs, burglary rings and identity theft to hate crimes and murder — in prison.
The Southern Poverty Law Center points out that a 2012 report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates ABT membership in the Texas prison system at 2,600 members, with another 180 in federal prisons. Other estimates, SPLC says, places the total number at 3,500, including 1,000 members out on the streets.
Convicted ABT members who go to prison could continue their illegal activity there; the group was founded in the early 1980s by people within the prison system, Pitcavage said.
“Putting an ABT gang member behind bars does not have the same effect as putting a KKK member behind bars,” Pitcavage said.
ABT and other white supremacist prison gangs didn’t really have a street presence until the 21st century, he added, saying that they are just as active on the streets as they are behind bars.
patd,
The solution of removing statues sounds like what I wrote Monday concerning the Baltic States & their problem of Communist memorials. Their solution is brilliant & presents their past openly.
excerpt from ny times via msn: Trump Asks, ‘What About the Alt-Left?’ Here’s an Answer.
[….]
But overall, far-right extremist plots have been far more deadly than far-left plots (and Islamist plots eclipsed both) in the past 25 years, according to a breakdown of two terrorism databases by Alex Nowrasteh, an analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute.
White nationalists; militia movements; anti-Muslim attackers; I.R.S. building and abortion clinic bombers; and other right-wing groups were responsible for 12 times as many fatalities and 36 times as many injuries as communists; socialists; animal rights and environmental activists; anti-white- and Black Lives Matter-inspired attackers; and other left-wing groups.
Of the nearly 1,500 individuals in a University of Maryland study of radicalization from 1948 to 2013, 43 percent espoused far-right ideologies, compared to 21 percent for the far left. Far-right individuals were more likely to commit violence against people, while those on the far left were more likely to commit property damage.
“We find that the right groups and the jihadi groups are more violent on the left,” said Gary LaFree, one the researchers and the director of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The data set is in the process of being updated, so it does not reflect current state of extremism, Professor LaFree cautioned, but “in general, we’ve been seeing this fairly robust trend in right-wing cases.”
All of the experts contacted by The Times stressed that extremism ebbs and flows, based on the presence of a charismatic leader, incremental changes in society, seismic events like an election or war, among other factors.
The far left was far more active and violent in the 1970s, while the far right and, specifically, militia movements resurged in the 1980s. A decade later, environmental terrorists became active. And jihadist attacks dominated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The extreme left has not been nearly as organized” in recent decades, said Brent Smith, the director of Terrorism Research Center at the University of Arkansas. “Leaders of the extreme left died off and they’re floundering without leadership.”
Michiko Kakutani
@michikokakutani
6h
Winston Churchill: “I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.” twitter.com/brianklaas/sta…
Mitt Romney
@MittRomney
12h
No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.
The United States internalizes everything. Me! Mine! The sun revolves around us!
It’s a big world out there & we can learn from other countries mistakes & solutions. Our problems are not unique; just different actors on a different stage but it’s the same play that’s been performed since time began.
sjwny, you might be interested in the transcript of pbs newshour story “The shifting history of Confederate monuments”… here’s some of the interview with historian and author Edward Ayers. He’s written a number of books on the Civil War and the South and spent many years on the faculty at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was also president of the University of Richmond from 2007 to 2015.
[..ayers discusses historical backgrounds earlier in this interview….]
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Do you think that there is a way that we can keep any of these monuments, but wrap them in enough context so that a modern audience can appreciate what they stand for? Because there are so many people around the country who now argue, take them all down.
EDWARD AYERS: Yes, I think that both of those are legitimate arguments in different times and places.
It is a fact that, if people understood why these monuments were put up when they were and who put them up, for what rationale, it could play an instructive role. If people understood there is not such a thing called history, and it never changes, and then we just honor it or not, but recognize that every generation is going to see these events of 150 years ago through different eyes.
And, you know, through the generations since the civil rights movement, it’s harder and harder for the older story of the Confederacy as merely a defense of states’ rights against the federal government to stand. But, as we have seen, some people want to hold on to that story for their own purposes today.
So, can the monuments speak to us? Yes, they can. But you have to be very careful about recognizing the story that they tell.
cnbc White House Chief of Staff John Kelly hangs his head during heated Charlottesville press conference
Assuming that Trumps approval ratings somewhere south of smallpox, what is he likely to accomplish legislatively between now and the end of the year?
The debt ceiling will need to be raised, tax reform is in the works, infrastructure are all in the works. With the exception of the debt ceiling, these are large undertakings that will eat up time and probably all if any goodwill he has with congress. For republicans scrambling to save their seats 2018 has already begun, come January it will be all about electioneering.
I don’t see a major legislative victory on the horizon for Trump or the GOP.
What am I missing?
Poor Rudy. Tough guy. Bullshit. Who his age doesn’t have knee problems? What a hero….and I’m a jet pilot. Sorry, but whaddafuggingidiot.
and at nbc via msn: He ‘Went Rogue’: President Trump’s Staff Left Stunned
looking at body language in both photos, gotta wonder how long the general will be able to stomach it…
Soup nazis and others
Trumka out also
There were fine people on both sides, and Hitler loved his dog.
Churchill, Almost always right when it counted.
Romney almost always too late when it counts.Where is the rest of the GOP?
Trump is not a normal president, deserving of all the niceties usually accorded to presidents. Former presidents and candidates GOP and Dem alike need to speak up and take the gloves off. The welfare of the country as well as the health and legacy of the office that they held, demand it. Leadership is not a four or an eight year proposition it is an obligation that transcends the office and lasts a lifetime.
Sturg,
The exception that proves the rule.
He was there when England needed him. We need somebody like him now.our situation is equally dire.
Jace ….ha….I took it out cause he came thru in the clutch and Gallipoli has no bearing on what you said.
I was just showing off and being contrary for no good reason……:-)
Mrs Jack (who has worked closely with a number of retired military officers) pointed out that Kelly knows what his posture is conveying and it was a significant statement.
After all he has been trained to stand up straight, look ahead and take what ever comes.
Jack
One of the great campaign lines of all time.
“Rudy Giuliani, a noun a verb and nine eleven.” Joe Biden.
God I miss that guy!
It used to be when someone talked about Nazis or Hitler on a blog you almost always saw the refrain “Goodwin’s Law” immediately posted. Now these words are bandied about on the evening news.
I may live in a one horse town, but I have run into many Republicans running for some office at the local post office over the years. Next time that happens my first question will be… “what do you think of people at a rally wearing swastikas?” If they don’t like it…. tough shit.
Sturg,
Not to worry I thought about Gallipoli as I was writing it. Not one of his finest moments to say the least.
Your contrariness is one one of the things that make your comments such fun to read. Always well placed and well timed.?
Question, if congress won’t pass the debt ceiling, does SF order the minting of the trillion dollar coin? Seriously, you gotta’ pay for that wall somehow and Mexico has given no indication that the check is in the mail.
prof Godwin himself has come out with a statement regarding his “law”……
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59919eb5e4b0909642986356
Ex- Mexico Pres has made delightful reading on Twitter for his relentless mocking of PG
V. Fox
Remember to wear something purple today.
I think we should all join David Duke in praising Trump’s courage yesterday. It is not easy in this political climate to come out of the closet and declare your support for racism and bigotry. We should thank Trump because now it is clear, we know where he stands. So do all Republicans, they can’t hide behind the curtain any more. We need to quit worrying about Trump and his twitter feed. Now is the time to hold all Republicans at all levels accountable. It is their party they are the ones who chose a racist for a leader. It is their job to fix it.
So Renee, I think you need to change the phrase a little bit from “what do you think” to “what are you going to do”.
Because it is no longer a debate of “is there racism at the highest levels” that is an established fact. The question is are you ok with it or are you going to fix the problem. The fix has to start on the grass roots level.
Jack
Jack,
Truer words were never spoken.
Good on you!?
The next thing to ask the Republicans if you don’t support it and can’t fix , why are you still giving it legitimacy by associating with it?
https://youtu.be/MJzdgZ1lOTA
Allow me me to state my feelings clearly and unequivocally ‘nuf said!
Jack, I join jace in adopting the truth of your words, and jace, I love the SF short form for SFB/DS/DA/ so called “president.
Jack,
Republicans spent eight years answering that question. “Many sides”included the Nations first Aferican American president. They don’t know any different. Now they can finally put away the dog whistles and say just what’s on their mind without fear of condemnation.
Jennifer Rubins, conservative columnist for WaPo wrote a tough piece along the same vein.
Jack,
Thanks for the Rubins link.
Diogenes looked for just one honest man, Rubin seeks many. I fear that her task may be difficult if not impossible. I commend her however for making the case.
Lots of good words all around but will they translate into actions? Thinking about what I can do, that really means something, other than pound a keyboard.
I wonder what SFB thinks when his people call him out for letting Ivanka marry a Jew
SFB is ignorant and dangerous.
It’s never easy to shed a despot- they never give up power willingly.
I’m trying to think of what we can do to make the goopers get rid of SFB
If you’re trying to conjure up a scenario where the guys with sticks and cardboard signs beat the guys with private arsenals of high-powered weapons, you’re engaged in a futile thought-exercise.
Your police forces and military are stacked with White Supremacists- all very dull people, because the “best and brightest” don’t sign up for work like that in this country. They’ll draw on the citizenry and laugh about it, later.
I think every gooper should be asked if they agree with SFB’s position
I don’t think counter demos are the answer — we need some great ads to convince the goopers they are going to hell on high speed rail if they don’t do something.
First they tried to take away health care
Now …it’s about making American white
Honestly, KGC, the republicans do not give a fuck. The party is inherently racist, to its core.
Blink, I’d like to associate myself with your 12:29 comment. Thank you for speaking plainly.
I think that’s true still they are vulnerable to public pressure and they are the ones that have to get rid of him
It’s business as usual, where I’m from. If people around me know what’s going on (many don’t), they don’t care enough to do anything about it, and won’t, until it effects them, personally, which will be, of course, too late.
It’s over- we squandered it.
We need genius tv ads about why SFB must go. There is plenty of money to fund them and plenty of evidence of on purpose or accidentally racist things he has said over the years.
Even when it was proved the teenagers were wrongfully convicted in the central park case he said they should remain in jail.
odd conversation around the lunch table today regarding the twit dying while in office.
only agreement was that it better be on camera during a presser like yesterday where he was obviously apoplectic to the point of cardiac arrest so his followers know he wasn’t done in by his anti-followers. big argument as to how soon: too early into term might make him a martyr, later risks all the bad his blunders will cause.
very macabre table talk but demise should be no surprise in the case of a male in his seventies, overweight and temperamentally unsound. however, if it happens off-stage, there will be armed nasties roaming the streets breaking things shouting vile slogans and cooking up conspiracies.
Craig. Back to your original post today. What you say is certainly true about the Founders and having the Congress direct the new country is a possibility and was uppermost in the minds of those attending the Constitutional Convention. However, in my reading of the literature surrounding the Convention, starting with David McCullough ‘s 1776 and the seminal work by Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia, there is an alternative reason why Article I is about the duties and responsibilities of the Congress. The delegates had just lived under the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the newly formed United States, for more than seven years, and before that the Continental Congress. So, when the delegates arrived thinking they were going to merely amend the Articles and not thinking they were going to produce a whole new form of government, they started deliberations about what they knew, a Congress. Separation of powers was not introduced into the deliberations for many weeks after the convention started. And, historians have rightly pointed out, that both the Continental Congress and the government under the Articles was wholly unworkable. IMHO, leaving the governance of the modern United States to the Congress alone would likewise fail for a lack of leadership, which only an executive officer can provide. Now, ask me if I’m in a favor of a Parliamentary system, I would jump on the chance of trying one in the US. Not going to happen, but one can always dream of different ways of governing.
“I’m in a favor of a Parliamentary system” -eprof2
agreed
hmmm, on 2nd thought there already are armed nasties roaming the streets breaking things shouting vile slogans and cooking up conspiracies and he’s not even dead yet.
eprof, Woodrow Wilson agreed with you about a parliamentary system.
Cowardly GOPers silent about Trump’s racism should at least quit wondering why they don’t get black votes. This is why.
Therein lies the rub. Republicans aren’t “cowardly”, they are complicit. Republicans support racism, full-stop.
wapo: Trump’s business advisory councils disband as chief executives repudiate president over Charlottesville views
President Trump’s relationship with the American business community suffered a major setback on Wednesday as the president was forced to shut down his major business advisory councils after corporate leaders repudiated his comments on the violence in Charlottesville this weekend.
a view from garrison Keillor
But let us, good people, not grant significance to crazy people. This is a gang of freaks that social media gives the power to unite — in a nation of 323 million, you can Google the secret words and get 700 sociopaths to come to Charlottesville. This is not a meaningful phenomenon. You could also get 700 people who are getting messages from Lucifer through their dental fillings or 700 apocalyptic Episcopalians who know the world will end on Thursday.
The young Teutons who converged are actors in a fantasy, men who got kicked out of Civil War re-enactments for over-enthusiasm. Maybe we create a special place for them in a wilderness canyon out West where they could goosestep and Sieg Heil, express their whiteness, feel uber Alles, feast on knockwurst, light each other’s Pupser, the whole schmegeggy. Mr. Angry Eyebrows can chopper in and visit them there with his sidekick Mr. Mask. In 2020, assuming the White House allows an election, let’s get a president who is civil and has a sense of humor.
Keillor needs to venture outside of Lake Woebegon and see that there’s nothing fantastic about America’s culture of racism.
The number is 62 million, Garrison, not 700.
Half of the rest are hypocrites, working for the money-machine, worshipping at the alter of Consumption, concerned more with their possessions and fineries than with the welfare of their fellow humans- they’ll buckle under light pressure.
How is it that a yard accessory company and a hockey team can show more leadership than our president?
mojo this a.m. says it’s very clear that “trump officially is the President of white nationalists”
So Renee, I think you need to change the phrase a little bit from “what do you think” to “what are you going to do”.
Jack… great idea.
In the meantime… I picked a ton of late season blueberries this morning and just picked a whole mess of string beans from our garden for tonight’s dinner. I’m not letting good food go to waste just because SFB is an asshole.
bink, garrison mused how easy it is with social media nowadays to google and get 700 “sociopaths” to come to Charlottesville on a moments notice to do mayhem and murder. he wasn’t id-ing how many racial bigots and anti-Semitic scumbags in total there are. your figure of 62 million might even be underestimating that crowd.
renee, how can you think of wonderful stuff like blueberries at a time when we are all supposed to be wearing sackcloth, gnashing our teeth, beating our breasts in anger and running around in circles trying to sound more pious than the next guy? ummm, blueberry cobbler… 🙂
nevermind
nytimes via msn:
As F.B.I. director, James B. Comey had widespread support from his agents, according to internal survey data released Wednesday that contradicts President Trump’s claim that he fired Mr. Comey in part because agents had lost confidence in him.
Mr. Comey’s firing is among many topics now under investigation by the Justice Department special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. Trump and his aides have offered changing explanations for why he fired Mr. Comey, who was overseeing the investigation into Mr. Trump’s associates and possible links to Russia’s election interference.
The F.B.I. released the results of three years of internal questionnaires in response to a public records request by The New York Times. The surveys revealed that agents around the country gave the F.B.I. leadership high marks — 4.01 on a scale of 5 — in this year’s survey. The F.B.I. considers scores over 3.81 an indication of success.
Really…….it’s just like watching the OJ trial….in slow motion…..
and the slow bronco chase for that matter
Just can’t un-look.
Maybe he’s just calling out. “Olly-Olly-Oxen-Free.”
It’s an apt analogy, Mr Sturgeone.
Let’s not forget though that all of his outrageous behavior is calculated to take our minds off of russian sabotage and espionage in confessed pussypincher’s campaign and his misadministration.
Didja see that kid driving into those people? Livin the dream, man….
yeah, that’s one of the reasons I watch……I don’t want to miss a single particle of Mueller.
The trumperor and king kim have both bent down to kiss lord xi’s cheeks.
This means that trumpoleon has made China GREAT again; he made a thousand flowers bloom.
Lock him up.
I’ve seen a lot of dudes on the tv since 1952……looking forward to adding Mueller to the list
“Obama would have been better off focusing on educating theAmerican people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn’t realisehow dim-witted and ignorant his audience is. Benjamin Franklin saidthat the system would fail because of the corruption of the people andthat happened under Bush.”
Vidal adds menacingly: “Don’t ever make the mistake with people likeme thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if therewere, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by badbehaviour. I expect it.”
From a nice long interview with a modern day Cassandra, Gore Vidal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/09/30/gore-vidal-well-have-dictatorship-soon-us
trump bowed to xi’s authority. This makes commieChina the Premier Political Authority in the Universe.
commieChina ought to give king li’l kim a medal for the service rendered.
Patd- you’re awesome, and this forum would be nothing without your contributions. Thanks, as always.
Hard to beat this
Columbia, SC
I can’t play the brass instruments…..they’da probably shot me right off.
Onliest time I ever played the brass was once when I lived next door to an old feller who had a field full of donkeys…..I was living in a 30′ Holiday Rambler at the time and didn’t have a whole lot to do from day to day, being independently wealthy, ( credit cards )…..so somehow I wound up with this thing, a bass trombone and every now and then I’d get it out and honk on it and the donkeys would go slap-fool crazy……but don’t never let your dog into a field full of donkeys……unbeknownst to the dog, donkeys have an immortal hatred of dogs…..my buddie’s Chesapeake retriever ( a big dog, gotta head like an adolescent bear) got in with em one day hoping to have a little dog-fun and those critters tried to murder him….. They were not afraid and didnt skitter away…..Once old Dorg figured out he’d made a huge mistake and tried to run for it those Donkeys was on his ass…. They’d follow right behind and try to swipe his back legs out from under him….if he’d gone down itta been Coitains……lucky, they were out of practise…….old dorg cleared the fence at 60 mph and was never again curious to play with the Donks……..
I’ve got a tape somewhere of the Donks braying their approval of my trombone solo….. I’ll try to dig it up.
You ain’t HAD applause till you’ve had it from a field full of donkeys.
Interesting thoughts, of which I have had many during the last many months, of what will happen if pence becomes #46? Will he purge WH immediately of the SFB cult followers? Will he toss out all the idiots the SFB has put into place in the departments? Will he call the leaders of the Congress to the WH
for a prayer meetinger I mean a come to jesus meetinger I mean to get the budget going meeting?Although touched on several times during the day the one most important moment happened today. SFB lost. He lost big. He lost loud. He lost with those he wishes he was one of. The so called business council groups quit. He says he closed them, but they were done well before he closed them. This is a huge kick in the balls to him.
These people represented everything he pretended he was. Important people running important companies. He has never been in that cohort. He was a clan or mob leader. With mobs, American or Russian, owning him after his business failures, he became the equivalent of a towel holder in a house of ill repute. He is in debt to the mobs and Putin.
So, what has happened in the last twenty-four hours is a total shift in the presidency of #45. He shot his wad, or he shot his rod, either of those refer to shooting your muzzle loader in the heat of battle, first forgetting to put a ball in the barrel, the second to leaving the tamping rod in after tamping down the ball. SFB shot it all and he had no ammunition. Worse he declared himself president of the confederacy the kkk and nazis. I will never write those in capitals anymore.
Waiting for that melodic donkey music. ?
Pog…..donkeys in a free field sing as if the angels were directly involved.
BB, right you are. SFB’s lament -Ready, fire, aim. Shit, I hit my foot, again.
One donkey
They had it all over these guys…..
It’s a little slice of minor hell when you realize that all of your really nice recorded material exists only on cassette tape………
SJ…..couldn’t find any purple……..but how’s the weather in the Catskills early September? I thought I used to have my grandmother’s paisley shawl, but all I could find in the deep dark bottom of that cedar chest was a mink stole……soon I intend to make a hat from it…..
I figure…..if someone sprays red paint on it…….more insulation.
And they could see me in the woods.
Elvis’ and Ricky Nelson’s guitarist, James Burton called into Imus today……he’s in Germany with some kind of offshoot of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet…..they’ll replay it Friday…..it was swell.
James is a pretty decent guitar player.
According to Wapo, turns out two permits were issued for gatherings at nearby parks for the “counter protesters” and the city said they did not need a permit to go where the racists were protesting- something about freedom of speech or something.
Hi Sturgeone,
I wore purple to work; trust others here did too in honor of Heather. Thought about how others across this nation were doing the same thing. A simple act of solidarity against evil & in remembrance of a life cut short by an act of hatred.
Hey, i live on the eastside, permit? we don’t need no stinkin permit. I had a neighbor add a whole second story to his bungalow one weekend. Never got a permit! Around here only assholes worry about someone getting a permit.
But come to think about it, the only one worrying about a permit in VA qualifies.
Jack
“he became the equivalent of a towel holder in a house of ill repute. He is in debt to the mobs and Putin.”
Blue Bronc,
classic and priceless. Well done!
Donald Trump, the Fredo Corleone of the Putin crime family.
Sturg,
If only our donkeys in congress showed that much spunk. Color me laughing my ass off.
Basic fact, I’m a missouri country boy and I know it. why didn’t the media look at it. You don’t do business in new jersey unless the mob is involved. You don’t borrow money from the Russians unless the russian mob is involved, Just facts of life. Trump has been mobed up most of his life.
Jack
This last week reminded me of a conversation I had with a fellow neighborhood leader who happened to be African American. He wasn’t much worried about Trump. I told him that the last time we became this virulent anti immigrant was in the 1920’s. At that time we passed laws that banned immigration but we lynched blacks.
Just sayin’
If I were black or Jew I would start worrying.
Jack
Trust my fellow man? no not really, why do you ask?
federalist writer denise c. mcallister finds the punching of charles murray by an anti-racist equivalent to the murder Ms Heyer by nazis. This demonstrates the pro-murder depravity of mccallister, the pimp nature of the federalist, and the amoral cynicism of Conservatives* generally.
http://qoshe.com/the-federalist/d-c-mcallister/white-supremacists-were-not-the-only-thugs-tearing/1450405
*ripofflicans
A little music to put you to sleep
Jack,
Nice choice.
jace
Xrep
I read another federalist writer who basically slammed that one down. Basically said that it was a klan/ nazi rally and any real conservative/teaparty type would condemn it. even had the poster for the event to prove his point. Looks like there is a bit of conflict over at the federalist about how to deal with the racist wing of the conservative movement.
Jack
My favorite John Prine song and favorite Bonnie Raitt performance. And I absolutely love both of them.
Jace
One of the reason mrs jack and I hit it off was on our first date she put on a John Prine cd and i knew the words to all the songs. And bonnie does that one better than any body else. imo
Pogo
It is a good one but…. For best I like, ” hello in there”, then there is” grandpa was a carpenter”, Saddle in the rain…..
Ok did John ever write a bad one? oh oh oh , don’t forget Paradise
Jack
seriously its bed time
Thanks, Mr Jack.
I take it back regarding the federalist writer who put nazi apologist d. c. mcallister down, but only that one.
Prine & the Raitts, good people that make (made) great music. sigh.
eProf & Bink
Add me to the coalition of the willing for a Parliamentary System. Of course it would take a whole new Constitutional Convention and that would open up a can of worms no one would like to contemplate. As an alternative, the elimination of gerrymandering in all states and a reformation of the Electoral College would go a long way to correcting some of the problems of our current system.
The present tory government in London is a good argument against a parliament. So are the parliaments of Israel, India, and Pakistan.