Politicus USA
In a meeting with Trump, Bill Gates says he was puzzled by the fact that the president referred to himself in the third person. #Trump #inners #BillGates
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“When I walked in, his first sentence kind of threw me off,” Gates recalls. “He said, ‘Trump hears that you don’t like what Trump is doing.’ And I thought wow, but you’re Trump. I don’t know if the third-party form was what was expected. You know: Gates says, but Gates knows that you’re not doing things right.”
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. Watergate didn’t focus on Nixon and did not result in an indictment of Nixon. Nor was Nixon impeached. It, like the Comey, then Mueller investigation, resulted in indictments and convictions of the president’s inner circle of advisors and implicated the president’s knowledge and consent to the criminal activity of that inner circle. The difference in this case is that trumps inner circle includes his family. Every new indictment and every new conviction casts shade on the 2016 election and gets one step closer to his kids. That is what he’s concerned about, and that is why he keeps railing against the investigation. It’s moving in on his kids and reveals the possibility that his election was indeed thanks to his kids’ and advisers’ criminality. And you know it.
Oh, and lest I forget, Trump’s biggest threat personally is Heather Zervos and her lawsuit. Bill Clinton and Paula Jones ring any bells? Remember, the damning questions weren’t about Paula Jones.
Trump likes Seinfeld & the “Jimmy” episode.
here’s the link for that piece by
politicususa: Bill Gates Reveals Trump Obsessed Over STDs, Referred To Himself In Third Person When They Met
and here’s a copy of the tweet which hopefully includes the video:
In a meeting with Trump, Bill Gates says he was puzzled by the fact that the president referred to himself in the third person.
#Trump#inners#BillGates0:27
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and buckle up…. expecting wild tweets from the twit this morning in response to above
sorry about that tweet vid not showing up. here’s some of it from the chris hayes show
Donny doing 3rd person sounds like Dobby
Gates said SFB asked if HPV was the same as HIV. Twice. A SWAG is that SFB had a test done and was positive for something that he probably now considers a girl thing.
Trees falling over blocking streets. Six days of rain and people are playing bumper cars, blocking streets.
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fewdaysof sun would nice.Doesn’t know the difference between and STD and a foreign workers visa — someone should tell the crab companies in Maryland who are going under because they don’t have employees
and said they felt like it wasn’t Dotard’s fault and if he knew he would do something — yeah like what send in penicillin?
More like this please – anything that puts on full display the idiocy of this administration and their enablers
Do you think Ivanka will do as well in jail as Martha Stewart did?
People are often so judgemental and think they aren’t. A friend’s boyfriend announced that young black men would do so much better if they wore suits and pulled their pants up. Because I like my friend I didn’t say anything but someone else pointed out that almost everyone they know who wears a suit and tie to work wishes they could go in a hoodie and jeans
Twice this year, we have had delays in repairs because of false clues to the problem. With out solar at the time it went out – we didn’t realize the battery charger wasn’t working so we thought the problem was the batteries. Our neighbor who is a solar contractor said he thought the problem was in the line from the house to the panels –but Mr C’s son convinced that couldn’t be true — it was the batteries he said. So new batteries and six month later it was the line from the panels to the house.
Our car started overheating and the choices finally appeared to be a leak in the radiator or head gasket (yikes) we started looking at cars for sale. They replaced the overflow tank but it didn’t correct the overheating or the leaking. In the end,it was the water pump -the leak and everything but the pump was working intermittingly so hard to figure out but they finally got there.
So we live way out in a very rural area with dirt roads and it’s also very hilly. We had the car towed and when the truck came — he refused to drive all the way to our parking area because of some overhanging branches –whimp.
So, Cheeto hasn’t started using the total “we” yet?
How can he have unprotected sex with a porn star, allegedly and among others, and be germophobic?
Another day, another school shooting.
I know some will point out the obvious about Texas and it’s gun culture… but Jesus… it’s kids.
Sheriff says at least 8 were killed after a shooting at Texas’ Santa Fe High School
Possibly explosives, too.
They stopped a kid up here last week. He was casing the mall & interacted with an FBI informant. Crazy world. Lost people.
slept all morning, woke up to another shooting, tempted to go back to sleep, but have physical therapy in an hour
Sturg, got your post for tomorrow. All set. Thanks.
We have had so much rain that algae is growing on my wood deck, making it as slick as wet ice. I bounced off the deck very poorly.
Another school shooting, number 22 for the year, and the greedy old pervert “leaders” are quiet. SFB is not worth used tp.
“Doesn’t know the difference between and STD and a foreign workers visa “
kgc, you must have had one of those laurel/yanny events when you heard gates- audio was pretty bad on the vid– he said HPV (for Human papillomavirus) not H2B (or H1B – foreign worker program designations). but you’re dead on that the twit is out to lunch on any of the above.
one of the few worthy read stories coming out of all that wedding folderol across the pond.
the guardian:
‘A total fairytale’: how Meghan Markle’s dog went from kill shelter to royal life
In just a few days he went from the kill list at an animal shelter to featuring in Instagram posts that racked up thousands of views.
This weekend, as Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry, Guy the beagle will launch into another chapter of his rather charmed life, as he officially becomes part of the royal family.
“It’s a total fairytale,” said Alison Preiss of Pet Valu, the Ontario pet store where the rescue dog was adopted by Markle in 2015.
“Here is this dog that was in a shelter, nobody wanted him, and through this wonderful adoption he’s now living in a palace, running around with the royal family.”
Guy’s unlikely journey began after a shelter in the US sent an email to Dolores Doherty, who runs an Ontario-based organisation, A Dog’s Dream Rescue, which saves beagles slated to be put down in the US and brings them to Canada to be adopted.
This time, a shelter in Kentucky was asking if she would be interested in a 17lb beagle that had been found in the woods. After he had spent days at the shelter, nobody had come forward to adopt him, and the dog was on the euthanasia list. “I always say yes,” said Doherty. “I can’t say no. I’m a sucker.”
A network of volunteers helped transport the dog more than 500 miles to the Canadian border, each of them driving him for one hour before handing him over to the next waiting car.
He hadn’t even been in Canada for a full day when Doherty brought him to an adoption event on the outskirts of Toronto. “He was just sitting there with those big beagle sad eyes, looking so depressed. He was irresistible,” said Doherty.
Dozens of people had turned up to meet the 20 or so dogs up for adoption, including Markle, who at the time was living in Toronto while her TV series Suits was being filmed.
Doherty – who had never heard of Suits – had no inkling of Markle’s celebrity status.
The first hint of Markle’s fame came after Doherty said she would have to carry out a home visit to confirm some of the details listed in her application, such as the fenced-in backyard. Markle said it wouldn’t be a problem – but asked her to make an appointment for security reasons.
Doherty never made it to Markle’s house. Instead, she followed Guy’s new life on Instagram, delighting in snaps of the beagle as he strolled the streets
of Toronto next to Markle or curled up beside her at home, napping.
After news broke of Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry, Doherty revelled in the idea that one of her dogs would now be joining the royal family. “It’s just beyond my wildest imagination,” she said. “How is that for a rags to riches story from a good old Kentucky beagle?”
In November, Prince Harry’s communication secretary confirmed that Guy had moved to the UK and was living with Markle. Her other dog, Bogart, is believed to be too old to make the journey across the Atlantic and is staying with Markle’s close friends.
While Guy now ranks as the most famous of her rescue dogs, he’s far from the only one with a remarkable story, Doherty said.
Of the 1,600 or so dogs her organisation has rescued in the past seven years, some have gone on to become cancer detection dogs while a few support people who have depression or panic attacks. Others have found work as detection dogs along the Canada-US border.
“The dogs that have come up here have really impacted a lot of lives,” she said. “So there’s a lot of happy endings, but his certainly is the most outstanding.”
msn:
In a video captured by the Daily Mail (which can be viewed below), Queen Elizabeth II speeds off in the back of a Range Rover toward Windsor on Friday, one day before the royal wedding. But who’s the good boy hitching a ride, sitting next to her and pressing his little face against the window? Why, according to Lainey Gossip, it appears to be none other than Meghan Markle’s dog, Guy.
Yay, it worked.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! !
melancholia trump held prisoner in Enquirer Office ?
Nosey people demand to know.
x-r, so glad you enjoyed it.
and for an encore, a picture of the cinderfella guy himself
My little blog is really weird…….it will go along with 2 or 3 hits per day and then today it’s 175 hits, all from Poland.
Sturg, I had to block all IP addresses in Poland, they tend to be trouble makers.
Alas, tomorrow another sickening display of Americans fawning over undeserving monarchs. Luckily I have plenty of movies stored on the DVR, and there’s the Preakness at 6:20 PM ET on NBC, coverage starts at 2:30 PM.
I got nothing against the Royals except maybe that I ain’t one……I could use the dough…….
Maybe the calculus behind the Guiliani hire was to put an even bigger asshole than Trump before the American public, to deflect anger and ridicule away from our criminal President. It’s as if there is a concerted effort to normalize asshole-ry.
”Dad, we’re being bogged down by the weight of this Russia and Cohen stuff, we need a bigger asshole than you to deflect attention away from those issues.”
”You’re so smart and beautiful, Dear, and I’d totally date you if you weren’t my daughter, but who is a bigger asshole than me?!”
”Um, Rudy Guiliani?”
”Fantastic! Tremendous! Plus, we know he’s available!”
No apparent mental health issues anyone noticed. No use of a semiauto assault style rifle. School resource officer shot and wounded. Kinda gets it down to the nut – guns available, kids killed.
Poobah, I will watch none of it along with you. Grass needs to be cut, sheets need to be washed. Something else will come up I’m sure.
Imagine the wedding band for that crew…….must be a doozy of a gig…….but I don’t go to weddings, much less watch ’em on TV……..only way I go to one is you gotta pay me……
Haha…….oncet I played a wedding and the march down the aisle pianist didnt show and they enlisted me for the bit…..No charts, so I had to do it from whatever I could remember of how it went, which was woefully minimal……
There’s a social significance to a mixed-race American divorcee marrying a Western European prince. Besides, it’s a misnomer to label them “monarchs”, they don’t rule anything- they are more like mascots: reminders of a time when Britan ruled the world, like the United States did. The UK is just farther along that progression.
I guess time will tell who the faces of our former glory will be, but the smart money is on those Kardashians!
Although my ancestors were proactive (in the Revolutionary Army) in tossing the Brits out in the late 1700’s, it turns out I am related, through marriage, to the QEII. I am not sending a card, no need to restart a brawl which we finished in 1812-15 when we sort of kicked ’em out a second time.
Right now SFB and his mob are tap dancing as fast as they can. I hope they break a leg or two.
“No apparent mental health issues anyone noticed.“
There were red flags- profiles of the shooter are being posted, now- i won’t link them, because —— that kid.
For those that claim Japheth:
“Yes, you are probably descended from royalty. So is everyone else.”
https://www.popsci.com/descended-from-royalty
^a good read, actually an excerpt from a book, made the rounds on the news portals a few months back.
Bink: “more like mascots”
That could change someday. Britain has no Constitution.
This epidemic of school shootings by young men is a consequence of our vapid, narcissistic society that esteems things like ambition and success and consumption over qualities like character and compassion and selflessness. Young men who see that they don’t fit that standard, and realize they never will, feel powerless and insignificant, but their society has indoctrinated them from a very early age that what they can’t have, they should take, and so they do with the means available to them- guns, and plenty of them.
We did the ancestry dot com deal and I found out Im descended from an Ancient Greek called Mediocrates…….turns out he dodged the draft during the Peloponnesian war……
Haha, sturge.
Hey, CC, did Prince Charles steal your lunch money 50 years ago, or something? In case you hadn’t noticed, we are ruled LEGITIMATELY by criminal facists, the election of whom you mused, and i’m paraphrasing, would “wake up those Washington D.C. elites who have forgotten about the middle class”. Worth it?
We’ve lost all claim to moral superiority. Two people who seem to love each other getting married isn’t even close to the worst news, this week.
Little Johnny
from a friend in Twitter, @BobPoe
“More students killed on campus than soldiers killed in combat so far this year.
Let that sink in”
Still boning up for my Catskills comedian gig …..
“Take my joke—Please!”
That good ol’ Constitution of ours is getting 30 kids murdered, a month, btw.
Fake facebook accounts with viral lies multiply after texas shooting.
In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter’s name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a “Hillary 2016” hat.
But some social media watchers said they were still surprised at the speed with which the Santa Fe shooting descended into information warfare. Sampson said he watched the clock after the suspect was first named by police to see how long it would take for a fake Facebook account to be created in the suspect’s name: less than 20 minutes.
Facebook said this week it had disabled more than 500 million fake accounts on the social network in the first three months of the year, although it contended tens of millions more were probably still online.
Hamilton 68 dashboard.
I’m descended from Horniguy the Traveling Salesman, the Father of Eurasia.
Don’t think I could think of something serious to say even if you fickin’ paid me to.
Grand Gorge Tars, Grand Gorge Tars
You’ll feel like you can ride forever on a
Grand Gorge Tar
[voice over]
Remember! Bald on yore haid is ONE thing…..but bald on yore TARS is DANGEROUS!
lotsa fiddles and banjos
You just have to shovel them words on in there on the second line.
like Roger Miller woulda.
Bless his old heart.
“Oodle-lolly, Oodle-lolly, Golly what a day.”
My kind of Royals play in Kansas City.
Craig – one of my big issues is that Americans in War is hidden. Not even a sentence on page B-8. Most people do not even know troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq. Along with Syria, Africa and Korea. There is a great ignorance placed upon the good citizens of the United States. How do we raise awareness? I cannot think of any possible way, as deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are noted in the news but do not have the power to pop over what SFB does in his pathetic antics everyday.
Craig, this is all IMO.
There are monarchs and then there are monarchs. In your lifetime there has been one, in mine, two. The first was a tubercular feller named George. He was called to the throne when his brother gave up the gig in favor of a New Yorker named Simpson. He and his missus were told that there was no room for their kind in the UK, so they went into exile.
George was quite a guy. He recognized that he wasn’t trained for the job, that his empire was splitting-up, and if Hitler had his way, the national crop would be kraut instead of bitter. So, he hired Winston to be his P.M. The war started and he sent many of the country’s little children to Canada. Not his kids, though. He put Lizzie to work as an Army truck driver–a good way to spend her teen years. Her sister Maggie probably shined boots in front of the fireplace.
What I’m saying is, through their example, that family led those blokes through one hell of a difficult period.
Not long after the War, George gave his kid away in marriage, sent them off to Africa on their honeymoon, then kicked the bucket. His kid, not much over twenty, was now the Queen and has been ever since.
You and many of the people around here weren’t around during the 50’s when she supported our involvement in the Far East, or gracefully presided over the shedding of the South Asian countries from the Realm as well as those in much of Africa. Many of those countries still retain her as their titular head out of respect and a need for roots.
So, here I am, a feller whose American roots were planted in the 1630s, with family members who fought on our side in the Revolution from both sides of my family, saying that I am looking forward to this wedding.
yeah… I think I’ll find something to do tomorrow too… like clip my toenails or wash all my underwear.
and I’ll also be watching that witch… Good Magic…
The last word in “lonesome” is me.
—Roger Miller
Thanks for sending something I can’t use…..Received your invitation to the blues.
in the summertime, when all the trees and leaves are green, and the redbirds sing, I’ll be blue—-cause you don’t want my love.
Check out “Royal Wives at War” if you get a chance to catch it on PBS, Flatus. A historian at the end makes a point that Britain, and the “Western World” at large owe Simpson a debt of gratitude for saving both from the potentially catastrophic reign of Edward VIII.
The wallis Simpson guy never ever thought they would accept his abdication……he thought to the very end of the affair that he could King his way thru it.
Had he not been such a nazi at precisely the wrong time……he mighta made it.
BW -Clearly, Suckerburg doesn’t have a handle on FB.
Maybe there should be a 7-day waiting period to get a FB account.
I will be up at 4am to watch the wedding. It’s about the dress, etc., although nobody will ever compare to Lady Diana Spencer tumbling out of her coach like a giant, cabbage rose in that dress. I got up at 3am for that one.
I’m kind of looking forward, historically speaking, to a Charles, III.
Flatus, just because Brits have been lucky with benevolent royals in recent history doesn’t mean that will continue. They have no constitutional protections against a populist tyrant disbanding Parliament. Imagine a Trump in the line of succesion. There would be no Bob Mueller to the rescue.
Charles I
“They have no constitutional protections against a populist tyrant disbanding Parliament“
…and we have no consitutional protections against a criminal President actively undermining the rule of law while holding office. Don’t tell me we do- he’s still in office, and he’s still breaking the law to enrich himself and punish his enemies, every day.
They have their mythology, we have ours- whose is better is subjective. Honestly, your continued derision of the British monarchs is baffling after our nation willingly installed a gilded, aspiring king and his brood of empty-headed hustlers to rule us.
So we threw off the yoke, and more power to us for it. Yes, ancestrioids on the revolution and the civil plague years.
But so far historically they are us and we is them, unless Ya find a Pitcairn’s Island somewhere….(and ya know how that turned out.)
So buck up, me laddie; face the music and pay the piper.
Onliest reason we succeeded was they had a narcissistic moron on the throne with power.
Don’t know his actual syndrome but it was something which caused him to be extremely stupid about shit. And not like he didn’t have wise and capable advisors around him.
THE MARCH OF FOLLY, by Barbara W Tuchman.
Sturgeone’s Pick: Book of the Year, 2018
Haha……..Amirica seceded from the union.
In order to secede from the union, you have to be able to win the war.
—-Seneca
haha just kidding, it was Sun Sue.
actually, I think it was Bertrand Russel.
No, that seems to have been from the Athenians’ speeches to the envoys of the people on the island of Melos. 416 BC.
…actually that was just a mistranslation. Turns out, the Melians were just asking for directions, and while the Athenians wanted to help, they couldn’t agree on the proper route.
…fast forward, 2434 years later: Trump. Thanks, Thucydides!
You can’t have a guy who goes around town in the dead of night knocking all the little peckers off the little pecker statues on everybody’s front gate leading the invasion of Sicily, fahchrissakes.
Bad week for wikileaks. From reuters — ecuador withdraws extra security for assange. putin sent a message by poisoning another in Britain….assange should worry. He always claimed during the presidential 2016 election that hillary had a drone target on him thinking russia had his back…instead russia has a target on his back.
Moreno has described Assange’s situation as “a stone in his shoe.”
And Mr. Mueller subpoenas 2 stone associates.
Reuters reported earlier this week that FBI agents working for Mueller delivered two subpoenas to Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter expert who worked for Stone during the 2016 campaign, and that agents told him Mueller’s team wanted to question him about Stone and WikiLeaks. Later this week — the subpoena was recently served on John Kakanis, 30, who has worked as a driver, accountant and operative for Stone.
Kakanis has been briefly questioned by the FBI on the topics of possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the WikiLeaks website, its founder Julian Assange, and the hacker or hackers who call themselves Guccifer 2.0, one of the people with knowledge of the matter said.
During the 2016 Republican primaries, a Stone political action committee paid more than $130,000 to an entity called “Citroen Associates” for “voter fraud research and documentation” and “research services consulting,” according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Florida state records identify the owner of Citroen Associates as John P. Kakanis.
(another $130,000 payment, just like stormy)
Mistranslation, right…….Cause every time those Athenians got the chance they’d always try to help their neighbors out by showing them how democracy works…….
They really hit their stride when they showed Socrates how democracy works…….course, they were all schizophrenic so it was different back then.
Old Soc says, “Fuck dis—I’m outa heah……”
BW, how much do you reckon the Russians have been paying the Ecuadoreans to ‘host’ Assange all these years? Question is, what chemical will be used to ‘neutralize’ Assange as his feet hit the sidewalk?
Flatus —
from wikipedia
Ecuador–Russia relations is the bilateral foreign relations between Ecuador and Russia. Ecuador has an embassy in Moscow, and Russia has an embassy in Quito.
Ecuador was one of the countries that offered Edward Snowden political asylum while he was in Moscow‘s Sheremetyevo Airport.
From global security
Ecuador and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations in 1969, but it was not until 1972, when Ecuador joined OPEC, that the Soviets showed much interest in Ecuador. By the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union maintained an embassy in Quito rivaling in importance that of the United States.
Russia and Ecuador have enjoyed close relationship over a decade as Rafael Correa’s government moved the country away from the US. In February 2017, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Guillaume Long told Sputnik that the relations between Russia and Ecuador had a strategic character, adding that such a cooperation promoted the idea of a multipolar world. Russia and Ecuador signed a deal on cooperation against money laundering and financing of terrorism. Moscow and Quito are also finalizing agreements on extradition and transfer of prisoners.
“Onliest reason we succeeded was they had a narcissistic moron on the throne with power.”
Hmmmm. Sturg there’s something very familiar feeling about that. Did GIII also have a golden “throne “?
Moreno the current prez of Ecuador was VP under Correa.
It looks like a beautiful day for a wedding!