Dotty about the Potty

Brace yourselves for the next few days as the country goes down the toilet literally. Sophisticated frivolity will be flushed away by bathroom humor due to an overgrown toddler’s poop problem.
For example, this from

Trump’s Weird Toilet and Paper Habits, Together at Last (nymag.com)

As my colleague Jonathan Chait wrote in January 2021, when we look back, “We may conclude that the Trump administration was the story of a group of people fixated with control over their toilets.” Trump reportedly loved showing off bathrooms to White House visitors. He hired Matthew Whitaker, who before his brief stint as acting attorney general marketed a toilet for men whose genitals could not be accommodated by standard-size commodes. And Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner erected a porta-potty in their swanky D.C. neighborhood, and eventually rented a nearby apartment, because they would not let Secret Service members relieve themselves in their home.

Most memorably, Trump once delivered a bizarre monologue on the inadequacy of today’s bathroom fixtures. “People are flushing toilets ten times, 15 times, as opposed to once,” he asserted, as absolutely no one nodded in agreement.

Could Trump’s fondness for paper-flushing be the key that unlocks all of these perplexing incidents? Was the former president so enamored with the White House bathrooms because their toilets allow for superior document disposal? Did he hire Whitaker because he needed his expertise on fitting huge literal junk in the toilet? Did Javanka bar the Secret Service from their lavatories because they didn’t want to expose an elaborate flushing operation? Was Trump hitting that toilet lever ten to 15 times because he couldn’t make his giant wad of tear-stained love letters to various dictators disappear? The mind reels!

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You can tell me my fixation on this literal toilet humor is juvenile, but unlike Trump I refuse to be shamed. I intend to wring all the enjoyment I can out of this metaphorically crappy period in American history.


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Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

48 thoughts on “Dotty about the Potty”

  2. White House staffers accuse Trump of clogging toilets with printed papers, Florida Senate passes a bill to ban teaching sexuality in schools, and a bored Russian security guard defaces a $1 million painting

  3. According to a book by the highly-esteemed Maggi Haberman of the New York Times the White House engineer would frequently be called in to unclog Trump’s toilet because he had a habit of flushing paperwork down it, President Biden is at work trying to roll back the changes that Donald made to toilet and shower regulations, Trump has stayed in touch with Kim Jong Un, wingnut congressman Ronny Jackson is once again questioning President Biden’s mental fitness, Melania is teaming up with social media app Parler, a security guard at a Russian art gallery decided to use a pen to draw eyes on a painting worth millions of dollars, ….

  6. Pentagon under fire for blocking journalist embeds around Ukraine | TheHill

    Pentagon press secretary John Kirby was grilled multiple times this week by reporters in the Pentagon’s briefing room and on television over the decision, which he claimed was to make room for diplomacy between Western and Russian officials, an effort that has so far faltered.  

    “There’s a lot of factors that go into deciding how we handle media access. Some of these decisions are very difficult to make. We take it very seriously and right now we’re trying to balance a lot of factors in terms of the time and space for diplomacy,” Kirby told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” late Wednesday. 

    But with more than 100,000 Kremlin troops already placed at Ukraine’s border, including roughly 2,000 more added in the past 24 hours, a full-scale invasion could come in a matter of weeks, according to U.S. officials. 

    With such an impending threat, journalists argue, it’s imperative to have reporters placed alongside the 3,000 U.S. troops being sent to Eastern Europe to ensure full transparency. 

    “U.S. journalists, Pentagon reporters have been embedded with military troops…during all these recent conflicts in recent years. I don’t understand why you don’t want some transparency,” Blitzer told Kirby. 

    Blitzer is not the only journalist to press the issue. 

    [continues]

     

  8. Punchline to Joke #237 at the joke tellers club. 
    “Hey Charlie, here’s the guy who crapped in your tuba.”

  11. Uncle Willard has already stepped up and told her she’s full of crap. If she’s listening to her dear uncle it will be soon. I just hope her parting line is “I’ve had enough of this shit.”

  12. Parody of composer, songwriter Mike Batt’s “If You Were a Sailboat” (Original sung by Katie Melua) Executive Producers for Parody Project: Don Caron and Jerry Pender

  13. After reading this thread… why do I feel like I’m in an episode of South Park…  🙂

  14. Because you just can’t fix stupid –
     

    Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Nancy Pelosi of running ‘gazpacho police’

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) confused gazpacho with the Nazi gestapo in comments targeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who she falsely claims has police officers roaming the halls of the Capitol and spying on Republicans.
    Source: CNN

  15. ” It took me a long time to tell the difference between my elbow and a hot rock ”
    Steve McQueen  in the Magnificent Seven
     
    Rep. Greene  still can’t tell the difference between cold tomato soup and Nazis .

  17. Alright, I’m getting confused.  Rat said 6 more weeks of winter last week.  It’s 65 here today.  Competing messages from NOAA re: a warming planet and a rodent scared of its shadow who thinks it’s winter again.  Today in East Bumfuck, NOAA wins out.

  19. Scariest inflation news. Rents ticked up in January, rising 0.5%, fastest pace since 2001. That’s a fixed cost, can always buy less food but gotta pay your rent

  20. Tell me about it.  Here’s the thing with rent and everything else. Many were out of work. Many received an additional $600/week. Many more, out of work or not, received stimulus money. Some, not all, hourly workers saw a wage increase.

    Business owners weren’t going to have slight wage increases impact their companies’ budgets, nor were they going to take the financial hit themselves. So, they passed it on to the consumer or renter.

    Greedy MF-ers who don’t understand that if folks could get ahead, they might put money toward education or into a big box item. Now, a loaf of bread is $6.00. Electricity is more expensive, too. (Thanks, Greg.) I shudder to think what rent increases will be here. A friend’s mother saw a $300/month increase. She’s on a fixed income. Another friend is either moving in with her mother or her ex-husband because of the rent hike. Price gouging!

  21. What’s up with apartment and house demand increasing?  So many died.  Newborns don’t buy or rent.  

  22. I think Republicans like inflation.  It’ll do wonders for them in the midterms.  Republicans don’t care if families are struggling, starving, or even homeless.

  24. I gotta wonder how many MAGAgots are being laid off in Michigan and the surrounding country . 
    Nothing like goring your own oxen . 
    One other item , these trucks doing the blockages can’t be fleet rigs. They may be trapped in the mess , but owner operators are totin’ notes on their rigs.  Trust me. This thing costs a lot of money everyday . 
    It surely  warms Putin’s black heart. 

  26. the guardian

    A reporter asked Jake Sullivan whether the Biden administration feels obligated to provide underlying intelligence to justify officials’ claims about the imminent threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    The reporter nodded to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when faulty US intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was used to justify a massive military operation.

    Sullivan argued that there was a “fundamental distinction” between the invasion of Iraq and the crisis in Ukraine, saying the US was now attempting to prevent a bloody war.

    “In the situation in Iraq, intelligence was used and deployed from this very podium to start a war,” Sullivan said. “We are trying to stop a war, to prevent a war, to avert a war.”

    Sullivan also noted that Americans can see for themselves that Russia is building up its troop presence along Ukraine’s borders, unlike when the US falsely claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

    “You can believe your own eyes that the Russians have put in place the capabilities to conduct a massive military operation against Ukraine should they choose to do so,” Sullivan said.

  27. Rent –
    I rented this place at Smelter Town when I moved off the mountain in 72′ for $5 a month .  It was a “fixer-upper” . After the landlord saw my improvements he doubled the rent  to 10 bucks. 
    I did some of my best work there.  Loved every minute of it. 
    Gas was around 30 cents a gallon. 

  28. at same guardian link above a few minutes ago:

    Joe Biden has just left the White House and boarded Marine One to start the trip to Camp David, where he will spend the weekend.

    As the president walked out to the helicopter, reporters shouted questions about the imminent threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine, as the White House warns an invasion could occur during the Beijing Olympics.

    But the US president did not answer any questions.

    putie’s about to push the button

  29. Putting on the Ritz parody – Putin on the Blitz. A musical geopolitical parody of Putin’s latest political moves with Ukraine.

  30. The thing about Nixon , and now ………….  the Yellow 45 took his hot rotten Lincoln , and mowed down all the guard rails. 
    Take that Presidential Records Act,  I have more teeth in my head , than it has on the books. 
    And I eat crushed pineapple and oat meal for breakfast. 

  31. If I was a Russian thug , I’d be funding as much political  grift  here as I would in Ukraine.  The more fecal matter in the fan the better. 
     

  32. I sure hope we can turn the lights off in Belarus, as fast as Putin can turn the power off in Houston. 
    We already have the  word of the year  ……. ” Hybrid Warfare “. 
    No need for a fleet of B-29’s  to bomb cities  just destroy their will to fight, water supplies can be shut off with a few key strokes. 
     
    Boy do I hate it when ever Toto gets sucked out of Kansas . 

  33. I fear that Putin thinks that Joe is more Chamberlin than Churchill. 
    I am starting to think that.  This gig is aging him at warp speed. 

  34. Meanwhile  –
    The James Webb  telescope is doing exactly what it’s designed to do. 
    This irony of what we can , and what we are never fails to baffle me. 
    We have never done a machine this complex , and had it work so well .
    All to see the very start of where we came from. 
     
    There is Big Medicine at work here .  

  36. CRT –

    Gov. Noem would like a ‘true memorial’ at Wounded Knee

    by: Eric Mayer

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Kristi Noem would like to see what she called a “true memorial” at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. 
    Noem brought up her hopes for the historic site in response to a question about how a bill aimed at “protecting students and employees from Critical Race Theory” would affect teaching history about the massacre at Wounded Knee. 

    https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/gov-noem-would-like-a-true-memorial-at-wounded-knee/

    The 7th Calvary used Gatlin guns at Wounded Knee, on old men women and children .
     Note the words in this bill  –
     
    “protecting students and employees from Critical Race Theory”
     
    That would be saving them from the truth. 
     
     

     

  37. CRT –
    Saving American school kids from history so they don’t “feel” bad about them selves. 
    It’s gonna take a big set of scissors  to do that . 
     
    I mean slaves built the Capital .
    These laws  are Orwellian  in it’s purest form. 
     
    But that’s not the point , it’s the Wedge  to run on  that somehow your kids are being taught  something “Un- American” .
     
     
    When in fact , yes we did do that to those people.  A lot . 

  41. Let’s see, a SFB wannabe has some issues with her history of evil, conflating food and Naziis.  I am wondering what is going to happen with her mouth when she is mixing up food and East German Stasi?  Will we have a strudel talk?

  42. Bob plays the Buddy Hall here om March 8th……………… 
     
     
    Thickets run from $156 to $1399 .
     
    He nearly ran over me  in Estes  one night on the “Rolling Thunder ” tour. 
     
    I would like to shake his hand , I shook Allie’s hand .

  43. He plays Albeque  on the 6th  , and here on the 8th. 
    I got a shot  on the 7th .  He’s gonna want to see Buddy’s headstone. 
     

  46. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/politics/biden-administration-russia-intelligence/index.html

    “The hope is that the Russians are surprised about the allied knowledge of these things, and that they have an internal reaction,” a senior Western intelligence official told CNN. “Usually, what you’d expect to see would be the Russians wondering if they have a mole.”

    “Last week, spokespeople for multiple US agencies said the US had intelligence showing Russia planned to release a scripted video showing staged attacks by Ukrainian forces to drum up a pretext for military action.”

    So, if someone parks a tank right outside your backyard, and then they say you attacked them so they can attack you with the tank they just happen to handy, folks are supposed to believe the guy with the tank? Nah. That’s some weak tea Vlad.

  47. https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/ottawa-trucker-freedom-convoy-exposed-donation/

    “The donation site used by truckers in Ottawa who are currently protesting against national vaccine mandates has fixed a security lapse that exposed passports and driver licenses of donors.”

    “…GiveSendGo became the primary donation service for the so-called “Freedom Convoy” last week after GoFundMe froze millions of dollars in donations, citing police reports of violence and harassment…”

    “A fundraising page on GoFundMe reached about $7.9 million in donations before the crowdsourcing giant stepped in to block the campaign…”

    “…GiveSendGo said it had processed more than $4.5 million in donations for the Freedom Convoy protesters during its first day of the company hosting the campaign.”

    “…a person working in the security space found an exposed Amazon-hosted S3 bucket containing over 50 gigabytes of files, including passports and driver licenses that were collected during the donation process.”

    “S3 buckets are used for storing files, documents or even entire websites in Amazon’s cloud…”

    “The exposed bucket had over a thousand photos and scans of passports and driver licenses uploaded since February 4, when the Freedom Convoy’s page was first set up on GiveSendGo. The filenames suggest that the identity documents were uploaded during the payments process, which some financial institutions require before they can process a person’s payment or donation.”

    Always follow the money. This isn’t just truck drivers, there is some big money being funneled to fuel this mess.

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