55 thoughts on “Trump Defenders”

  2. Pat
    Right now, I’ve set myself to writing “The Grand Gorge Tires Polka”.   It’s going to wind up on every jukebox in the Catskills. I just don’t have time for frivolous endeavor.

  3. wapo:   ‘A Presidency of one’ 

    As the impeachment drama has unfolded over the past week, a series of disclosures has illuminated President Trump’s command over key federal agencies, revealing how he has compelled them to pursue his personal and political goals, investigate his enemies and lend legitimacy to his theories about the 2016 election.
    The Justice Department has prioritized a probe that the president hopes will discredit a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him win. As part of that effort, Attorney General William P. Barr has met overseas with foreign intelligence officials to enlist their aid in “investigating the investigators,” as the right’s rallying cry goes, and dig into the president’s suspicions.
    The State Department, meanwhile, has been investigating the email records of as many as 130 current and former department officials who sent messages to the private email account of Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Trump’s 2016 opponent. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defied Congress on Tuesday by attempting to block the depositions of five department employees called to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

    […]

    In each of these instances, the president or administration officials have strongly defended their conduct as proper and above board.
    But taken together, they illustrate the sweeping reach of Trump’s power and the culture he has spawned inside the government. The president’s personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss’s obsessions.
    “I’m not sure there are many, if any, left who view as their responsibility trying to help educate, moderate, enlighten and persuade — or even advise in many cases,” the former senior official said. “There’s a new ethos: This is a presidency of one.”
    “It’s Trump unleashed, unchained, unhinged,” this official added. “He continues to go further and further and further, and now I don’t think there’s anybody telling him, ‘No.’ ”

    [continues]

  4. sturge,  that polka project could be a novel, autobio and a musical composition;  all of the above and you’ve hit a trifecta.

  5. It’s a radio ad jingle which might lead to a mascot of some sort or another who might do who knows what.

  7. Just saw Spicey’s disco routine from DWTS. Worse than last week’s effort. Think a middle aged chubby Tony Manero with no sense of rhythm who can’t dance a move.  But he had a white three piece suit and black shirt. 🙄
     
    And does anyone else find it ironic that Nixon’s impeachment inquiry was driven in part by a recording of discussions about trying to gather dirt on his political opponent?  

  8. @realDonaldTrump
    As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the….
    …People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!

     

    coup alright, but he’s got it backwards.  to paraphrase the song:  

    he’s for coup and the coup is you. 
    nobody near him to see him or hear him.
    no friends, just relations taking their rations
    for him alone.

  9. another day, another scandal

    politico:  A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms

    House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
    It’s a previously unreported part of a broader examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties.
    “Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump pays attention to this…. It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him.”

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  10. the hill:

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is scheduled to join Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) on Wednesday morning for her weekly news conference with reporters. 
    The two lawmakers are expected to address the House’s impeachment inquiry, which was launched last week.  
    The inquiry comes amid a whistleblower complaint accusing President Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son for Trump’s personal gain. 
    The news conference is set to begin at 10:45 a.m.

  14. Just saw the Bernie announcement.

    Kamala first out with comments:  Thinking of Bernie Sanders today and wishing him a speedy recovery. If there’s one thing I know about him, he’s a fighter and I look forward to seeing him on the campaign trail soon.

     

    And then Liz Warren: Bruce, Team Warren, and I are sending all our best wishes for a speedy recovery to @BernieSanders. I hope to see my friend back on the campaign trail very soon.

  16. Sorry to hear about Bernie.  It’s what I said, age is a thing. The older you get the more stuff goes wrong.  You get hit with the unexpected. Unfortunately, it’s just how it is.
     
    Sanders has heart stent surgery after chest discomfort

  18. Hey, if you had impeachment hearing updates everyday, along with potential hearing schedules, i’d appreciate it, and it might bring some extra eyeballs to your blog.  Just a thought

  19. If you wish to be an old man long, you must begin to be an old man early. 
    —-Cicero
    Need you in the senate, Bern, so quit screwing around.

  20. Not surprised about Bernie, he has been looking like  walking heart attack for some time.
    As I’m not running for political office all I can say is good riddance and don’t let the door hit you in the back side.
    So do the Bernie Bros find a new lost cause or hang on to their love of Bernie. Inquiring minds……..
    Jack

  21. And no, I don’t want him back in the Senate, Retire Bernie,   getthe f***outofhere. 
    Yeah I know, that’s being mean to a poor old man. But some poor old men………
     
    Jack

  22. A picture from Saturdays play in the mud tulip planting event at the park. 
    My sister Diana supervising an energetic crew.
     

  29. caligula was a great guy too. He built some very classy buildings. He was going to build a border wall and make the Marcomanni pay for it, but those sneaky holdover bureaucrats from tiberius’ Administration kept causing trouble. Also, caligula was unlucky in love, ‘though the gods know he tried. People griped that he erected a golden home for Bucephalos, and gossiped about an affair between them, but cal was just horsing around.
     

  30. Bink, when it come to the Senate, Bernie is a cipher, a big zero. In all his years he has never learned how to work with the senate.
    A good counter example is Ted Kennedy, in the 70’s and early 80’s he had earned the reputation of being a loose cannon, pain in the ass. Someone you couldn’t work with.  He changed and started building coalitions to get his legislation passed. By the time he died he was a well respected member of the senate.   
    If  Elizabeth Warren doesn’t become President she could be a good successor to Kennedy, if she follows the Kennedy path with the rest of her career. But if she were to follow the Bernie model then she would continue to be an isolated gadfly, whose main accomplishment would be naming post offices.
    Jack

  31. So they are letting Trump be Trump. 
    Sounds good.
    BTW there is nobody left in the Trump administration who has the balls to invoke the 25th amendment.
    It impeachment or suffer.
    Jack

  32. A. Are the present republican senators more or less noble and patriotic than the republican senators of 1974, who pushed richard nixon from office ? 
    B. What frightens the ripper senators facing 2020 elections more, being primaried by trumpies, or running in the general election as the pro-crime & pro-russia candidate ? 

  34. It’s Septimius Severus you gotta worry about.
     
    If we all share the common goal of vomiting out this toxic administration, it’s probably best not to alienate Berniecrats, whose votes and enthusiasm will be needed to that end, but you do you.

    He’s done, now- no need to shit on him, anymore.

  35. today’s query: when did the word “jock” as used in jock strap become a must-be-bleeped profanity?

    why was that particular word and not “bullshit” a no-no in the know-no prez’s  no-no mind?

     

  36. said in oval office:

    “He can’t — you know there’s an expression, he couldn’t carry his blank strap”
    “I won’t say it, because they’ll say it was so terrible to say, but that guy couldn’t carry his blank strap, do you understand that?”

     

    but twit had tweeted earlier:

    @realDonaldTrump

     

     

    The Do Nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our Country, not wasting everyone’s time and energy on BULLSHIT, which is what they have been doing ever since I got overwhelmingly elected in 2016, 223-306. Get a better candidate this time, you’ll need it!

     

  37. Yeah, I was coming back from a hearing and listened to the press conference.  The Finnish president shoudl get a medal for suffering through that unhinged nonsense from SFB.  What a goddam idiot.  

  38. So embarrassed to see Finland’s fine president endure our lunatic president today. Sorry @FinnEmbassyDC maybe we should sacrifice an Olympic game or something to make amends. We owe you a national apology for this fiasco.

  40. The Dow has dropped 1100 points since September 13 and is back where it was around September 3.  In the past month it has gained that 1100 points and lost them. Yippee /S

    (P.S. – loves me that edit button)

  41. Poobah, honest to god – If brains were dynamite SFB wouldn’t have enough explosive power in that huge skull of his to blow his nose,

  42. From what I have read, it sounds like SFB did his full blown Loony-Tunes act in front of a real president.  In Finland he would be acting like  Olla kaikki muumit laaksossa (not all the Moomins in the field – Moomins are a Finn thing)

  43. Jacob Burckhardt, writing in Die Zeit Constantins des Grossens stated that there appeared to be a disease of the mind that all who sat upon the throne following Marcus Aurelius contracted, whether or not of the same family, class, region, mother language, or training, all the way down to Constantine and his sons, two hundred fifty years later. I disagree, believing the entire string from Augustus to Constantine XI Dragases Paleologos was murderously insane. To my mind, the best of the bunch was Julian (The Apostate) and he was crazy enough to get himself totally dead, at Charax, in only two years in command.  
     
    By any chance did trump ever go to a museum and sit on an Imperial chair ?

  45. Wiki
    Plot summaryEdit
    Julian was the last direct relative of Constantine the Great to take up the purple, his father being Constantine’s half-brother. As emperor, he attempted to destroy the influence of the Christian church. His goals were to bring back firstly the worship of the old Roman pantheon, secondly other religions including Judaism (he attempts to restore the Jewish Temple), and thirdly – with special emphasis upon the growing crisis on Rome’s frontiers – Mithraism, a mystery religion that had been popular among Roman soldiers.

  47. Sturg…  Vidal’s  “Julian” was one of the best reads of my life.  I found a dog-eared used copy at a small local fair several years ago.  It was almost falling apart.  I treasure it.

  48. Thanks, Mr Sturgeon,
    The actual Julian attempted to give all religions equal standing under the Roman Law. Those who didn’t follow the pagan gods would not have to make sacrifices to the pagan gods. Those who weren’t Christians wouldn’t have to tithe to Constantine’s church. 
    The Christians won out through the support of the emperors, so they got to write our (their) histories, and burn the other folks histories. I our (their) histories, Julian is an ungrateful turncoat and hater of Jesus (they mean the Church heirophants)  
    The book was Vidal’s best, imo. 

  49. Bernie’s lips were blue at the last debate.   It’s time for him to take care of his health. Forward with Warren.
    Republicans know no shame.  They are un-American.  They are anti-democracy. Any claiming to be Christian while supporting this lying slimebag are clearly lying slimebags themselves.
    Live From Golgotha is another good one by GV.

  51. Pence…  🙄 useless idiot of Trumpco. The guy is dumashit.  And SFB?  … WaPo (not the New York Times…

     

    Trump rides a roller coaster of grievance, victimhood and braggadocio as Finland’s leader looks on
    The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights

    President Trump arrives with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö for Tuesday’s joint news conference at the White House. (Chris Kleponis/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
    President Trump arrives with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö for Tuesday’s joint news conference at the White House. (Chris Kleponis/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

    Oct. 2, 2019 at 7:55 p.m. EDT

    The rowdy, meandering and combative news conference Wednesday began with President Trump marveling at the media.

    “Look at all the press that you attract,” he told Finnish President Sauli Niinistö as the two men faced a room of reporters. “Do you believe this? Very impressive.”
    It ended with Trump excoriating the press as “corrupt people” who undermine U.S. democracy.

    (Continues, as always)

    Stupid ass 

  52. “The president of Finland should have handed SFB a broom”  LOLOL
     
    It’s getting depressing watching all those old, white men line up behind that old, white SFB.  
     
     
     

  53. Where are all of the Bible thumping, God fearing, tight assed evangelicals when the SFB is ranting and obscene and swearing?  Disgusting!!! Crickets!

  54. Remember the video of saddam enjoying a cigar at the ba’ath party meeting, as member after member is hauled out and shot ? The mass of the party sits paralyzed by fear, all praying that their ‘great leader’ won’t be able to read their own particular thoughts. 
    That oil & gas company was also linked to deripaska and manafort, and they are linked to trump.
    That’s what the republican congressional hamsters look like now. 
     

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