Trump 10: Orange Voldemort Rises

[legion]

1 hour ago, LeftCoastLurker said:

OK, so here's my idea. For every a**hat senator who voted for DeVos any children or grandchildren they have should be required to:

1. attend public school OR

2. attend a public charter school OR

3. attend a private school they can afford based on the median income for their home state

Should also apply to the Orange one.

And not for just one day either!! How is the NEA reacting to this? [Teachers union?} Seriously would like to know how lead educators are responding to this. I haven't seen anything yet on various sites.

[47of74]

11 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

I'm so fucking done. White  people kill people of color is a shrug "oh well ..look at the good that came out of it"... GOOD...THERE WAS NO FUCKING GOOD. Sorry for the shouting.  Kind people envited that KKK sick freak into their church ..into their hearts and he murdered them. I don't think I can get any more furious. I couldn't get all the way thought this clilp.  Too much hyperventilating.  My daughter just came home from school.  I have to appear calm while I reach for the Xanax.  I'm going to a social action meeting at my local UU Church even though I'm not a member.  

Yeah, the party of personal responsibility is never about that when it's certain white males.  They love to get on their high horses about personal responsibility when it involves women, minorities, or anyone to the left of Himmler, but when they or certain whites are involved they fucking forget all  about personal  responsibility.

If I was the Pope in addition to the Beatitudes the verses about not judging others would be done on a regular basis.

[legion]

28 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

I'm so fucking done. White  people kill people of color is a shrug "oh well ..look at the good that came out of it"... GOOD...THERE WAS NO FUCKING GOOD. Sorry for the shouting.  Kind people envited that KKK sick freak into their church ..into their hearts and he murdered them. I don't think I can get any more furious. I couldn't get all the way thought this clilp.  Too much hyperventilating.  My daughter just came home from school.  I have to appear calm while I reach for the Xanax.  I'm going to a social action meeting at my local UU Church even though I'm not a member.  

No, you'll be back tomorrow just like I will. Take your kid for a walk. Seriously, go outside and just enjoy her. Take her to the store and buy her something, or play a game, read a book or if she is a teen just hang out for a bit with her. FK this stuff! It will be here tomorrow. And so will I:] [smiles]

[GreyhoundFan]

"The Trump team’s list of 78 ‘underreported’ terrorist attacks is a mess". If you click on the highlighted sections, they are annotated. Some interesting stuff. I'm only including the non "list" part of the article. The list is worth reading. Drumpf is  alleging the media didn't report on San Bernardino or Orlando. Seriously. Also, the typos and spelling make it look like a sick child wrote it.

Spoiler

In response to their boss's allegation that the media has been ignoring terrorist attacks, the White House released a list of 78 of them that it feels have been given short shrift.

It's a bit of a mess.

Dozens of typos, odd inclusions and odd exclusions are the norm in this apparently hastily assembled list. Also:

As Philip Bump notes, many of these attacks didn't result in multiple -- or any -- fatalities

As Morning Mix notes, they don't include attacks on non-Western victims

The document makes repeat reference to "ISIL," despite Trump and the White House preferring "ISIS." (And the difference is important. Barack Obama referred to ISIL for a specific reason.)

 

 

"Shoker! Rediculous chocker Trump attaks and dishoners English with ever-dummer spellings."

Spoiler

The English language was unprepared for the attak. It was destined to loose. And, inevitably, it chocked.

The Trump White House on Monday night, attempting to demonstrate that the media had ignored terrorism, released a list of 78 “underreported” attacks. The list didn’t expose anything new about terrorist attacks, but it did reveal a previously underreported assault by the Trump administration on the conventions of written English.

Twenty-seven times, the White House memo misspelled “attacker” or “attackers” as “attaker” or “attakers.” San Bernardino lost its second “r.” “Denmark” became “Denmakr.”

I wish I could say this attack was unprecedented — or, as President Trump spells it, unpresidented. But I cannot say that. Nothing has distinguished Trump, his aides and his loyal supporters more than their shared struggle with spelling.

The morning after his inauguration, Trump tweeted: “I am honered to serve you, the great American People, as your 45th President of the United States!”

The honer is all ours, sir — just as it was exactly a year ago when you tweeted: “Every poll said I won the debate last night. Great honer!”

Soon after the latest honer boner, Trump received his first international visitor, the British prime minister, and the Trump White House, in its official schedule, spelled her name wrong not once and not twice but thrice. Theresa May became Teresa May. Britons noticed the gaffe, as well they would: Teresa May is the name of a former British soft-porn actress and busty nude model.

During the transition, Trump thundered on Twitter in a tweet that was so unpresidential it might be Freudian: “China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act.”

But what was really unprecedented was Trump’s tweet on Hillary Clinton that included three misspellings in the space of 140 characters: “Hillary Clinton should not be given national security briefings in that she is a lose cannon with extraordinarily bad judgement & insticts.”

My insticts say Trump should enable auto-correct.

That might have prevented him from labeling Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a “lightweight chocker” and “always a chocker” after the senator choked in a GOP presidential debate.

Trump’s spelling chock was no shock. He attacked another primary opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), by tweeting: “Big shoker! People do not like Ted.”

It was no shoker, by contrast, that Trump also tweeted that Cruz “will loose big to Hillary.”

Again and again, Trump loosed his way. Ridiculous became “rediculous,” Phoenix became “Phoneix” (a felicitous phonics failure), and many paid attention when Trump proclaimed that he was not “bought and payed for.”

Trump let the sun set on basketball’s Bobby Knight, knighting him “Bobby Night.” And he put Barack Obama into military housing with an extra “r,” turning the then-president into Barrack.

One might be tempted to say Trump’s misspellings and those of his aides are evidence of a lack of education or an indication that they are not so bright. The constant barrage of misspelled invective on social media from Trump’s most ardent supporters suggests the same (though this may be because they are Russian).

Such labeling is particularly tempting when Trump makes one of his mistakes in the process of insulting somebody else’s intelligence — such as when he called MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell “one of the dummer people on television” or when he again used the un­or­tho­dox spelling of “judgement” in a tweet accusing Clinton of “stupidity.”

But such allegations would be the work of coastal elites who went to establishment institutions called “schools” where they studied elitist subjects such as “English.” In Trump’s case, the trouble is likely not intelligence but his habitual sloppiness and recklessness. He apparently generates his executive orders with similar abandon (or perhaps that should be spelled a-Bannon). What I fear is that he will be equally careless with his foreign policy, giving little thought before, say, attacking Denmark.

If such an attack occurs, his request for a declaration of war practically writes itself. A proposed draft:

My Fellow Americans: You may be shoked by my military attak on the Kingdom of Denmakr. You may think it is rediculous and one of the dummer things I have done, and I admit it is unpresidented to bomb a peaceful nation. But my insticts and my judgement say we cannot afford to loose, for it would bring dishoner. And so we do not go gently into that good knight. We send our troops from their baracks until Denmakr’s aggressions are payed for. Only then will Copenhagen rise like the Phoneix. We will not falter, we will not fail — and we will not chock.

To quote Agent Orange: SAD!

[Cartmann99]

Trump throws his weight around again:

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During a meeting at the White House with county sheriffs, Trump said he would “destroy” the career of a Texas state legislator who had proposed restrictions on seizures of property belonging to suspected criminals.

“Do you want to give his name?” Trump asked Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson after he complained about the legislator. “We’ll destroy his career.”

If you thought that money might be the reason behind all this, go get yourself a cookie!

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Police departments have often used the proceeds from seizing suspects’ cash and belongings to fund part of their budgets. They have said the seizures help deter crime.

“We’ve got a state senator in Texas who was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we could receive that forfeiture money,” Eavenson told Trump. “I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation passed.”

Lawmakers and libertarian think tanks seeking to curtail the practice have said the asset seizures restrict constitutional due process rights protecting private property.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-07/trump-quips-he-d-destroy-career-of-lawmaker-who-irked-sheriff

If you click on through, you'll see that there are actually two state senators who are working across the aisle on the legislation to require a conviction before authorities can seize assets. In the current climate, these two people will probably be receiving death threats very soon. 

[GreyhoundFan]

4 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Trump throws his weight around again:

If you thought that money might be the reason behind all this, go get yourself a cookie!

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-07/trump-quips-he-d-destroy-career-of-lawmaker-who-irked-sheriff

If you click on through, you'll see that there are actually two state senators who are working across the aisle on the legislation to require a conviction before authorities can seize assets. In the current climate, these two people will probably be receiving death threats very soon. 

That's scary. I can see some crazed Branch Trumpvidian pulling out a gun because it would endear them to Drumpf.

 

I did not realize this: "Congress has the power to obtain and release Trump’s tax returns"

Spoiler

Though our new president may not realize it, Congress has the power to obtain his tax returns and reveal them to the public without his consent, including returns under audit. As just urged by Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.), legislators seeking information on President Trump’s possible conflicts of interest should immediately exercise this authority rather than wait for the passage of new veto-proof legislation — a highly uncertain prospect — that would have the same effect.

The ability of Congress to disclose confidential tax information was added to the law almost 100 years ago. Since the Civil War, when it began requiring taxpayers to submit private information to the government to comply with the tax laws, Congress has struggled to balance the privacy interests of taxpayers with the public’s right to know. Eventually, Congress decided that tax information should remain confidential except in two situations. First, it authorized the president to determine whether any tax information could be disclosed. And, in 1924, it gave the same power to certain congressional committees.

Congress’s right to reveal tax information independent of the president’s authority proved extremely important in 1973 and 1974, when President Richard Nixon became entangled in a controversy involving his claim of a sizable charitable deduction for giving his official papers to the National Archives. Nixon initially stonewalled the inquiries, including making his famous statement that “I am not a crook.” When the pressure increased, he contended correctly that the IRS had already audited the pertinent returns and not ordered any change.

But a leak subsequently revealed that Nixon, despite having income of more than $200,000, had paid about the same amount of tax as families with incomes under $10,000. Outrage at this revelation eventually led Nixon to seek review of his taxes from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, which delegated the task to its respected nonpartisan staff. The staff ultimately found that Nixon owed almost $500,000 in additional taxes over four years — roughly one-half of his net worth at the time. Because of the importance of the matter to the nation, the Joint Committee exercised its authority and voted 9-to-1 (three Republicans joined six Democrats) to release the staff report, including Nixon’s confidential tax return information, to the public.

Following Watergate, Congress changed the law to eliminate the president’s ability to order a disclosure. But it retained the right of its tax committees to do so as long as a disclosure serves a legitimate committee purpose. Such a disclosure must be in the public’s interest, but today’s understandable concerns about Trump’s potential conflicts of interest would seem clearly to justify a congressional effort to obtain, investigate and possibly disclose to the public his tax information.

Moreover, as illustrated by the Nixon episode, disclosure would serve the additional purpose of assuring the American public that the new president is not receiving preferential treatment from the IRS. In Nixon’s case, there were allegations — eventually included in one of the articles of impeachment against him — that the president attempted to use the IRS for unlawful purposes. In the present situation, repeated attacks on the agency have weakened it and perhaps left it vulnerable to undue influence from higher-ups. Full disclosure could disabuse the public of any concern that the IRS is giving the president a free pass.

Any investigation and disclosure might be made unnecessary if Trump simply took the steps needed to remove even an appearance of a possible conflict of interest. He should consider this option if he remains keen on protecting the secrecy of his tax information.

Of course, that won't happen with McConnell and Ryan in charge at the Capitol. They'll just put their heads down and continue screwing the American public.

[legion]

11 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"The Trump team’s list of 78 ‘underreported’ terrorist attacks is a mess". If you click on the highlighted sections, they are annotated. Some interesting stuff. I'm only including the non "list" part of the article. The list is worth reading. Drumpf is  alleging the media didn't report on San Bernardino or Orlando. Seriously. Also, the typos and spelling make it look like a sick child wrote it.

  Reveal hidden contents

In response to their boss's allegation that the media has been ignoring terrorist attacks, the White House released a list of 78 of them that it feels have been given short shrift.

It's a bit of a mess.

Dozens of typos, odd inclusions and odd exclusions are the norm in this apparently hastily assembled list. Also:

As Philip Bump notes, many of these attacks didn't result in multiple -- or any -- fatalities

As Morning Mix notes, they don't include attacks on non-Western victims

The document makes repeat reference to "ISIL," despite Trump and the White House preferring "ISIS." (And the difference is important. Barack Obama referred to ISIL for a specific reason.)

 

 

"Shoker! Rediculous chocker Trump attaks and dishoners English with ever-dummer spellings."

  Reveal hidden contents

The English language was unprepared for the attak. It was destined to loose. And, inevitably, it chocked.

The Trump White House on Monday night, attempting to demonstrate that the media had ignored terrorism, released a list of 78 “underreported” attacks. The list didn’t expose anything new about terrorist attacks, but it did reveal a previously underreported assault by the Trump administration on the conventions of written English.

Twenty-seven times, the White House memo misspelled “attacker” or “attackers” as “attaker” or “attakers.” San Bernardino lost its second “r.” “Denmark” became “Denmakr.”

I wish I could say this attack was unprecedented — or, as President Trump spells it, unpresidented. But I cannot say that. Nothing has distinguished Trump, his aides and his loyal supporters more than their shared struggle with spelling.

The morning after his inauguration, Trump tweeted: “I am honered to serve you, the great American People, as your 45th President of the United States!”

The honer is all ours, sir — just as it was exactly a year ago when you tweeted: “Every poll said I won the debate last night. Great honer!”

Soon after the latest honer boner, Trump received his first international visitor, the British prime minister, and the Trump White House, in its official schedule, spelled her name wrong not once and not twice but thrice. Theresa May became Teresa May. Britons noticed the gaffe, as well they would: Teresa May is the name of a former British soft-porn actress and busty nude model.

During the transition, Trump thundered on Twitter in a tweet that was so unpresidential it might be Freudian: “China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act.”

But what was really unprecedented was Trump’s tweet on Hillary Clinton that included three misspellings in the space of 140 characters: “Hillary Clinton should not be given national security briefings in that she is a lose cannon with extraordinarily bad judgement & insticts.”

My insticts say Trump should enable auto-correct.

That might have prevented him from labeling Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a “lightweight chocker” and “always a chocker” after the senator choked in a GOP presidential debate.

Trump’s spelling chock was no shock. He attacked another primary opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), by tweeting: “Big shoker! People do not like Ted.”

It was no shoker, by contrast, that Trump also tweeted that Cruz “will loose big to Hillary.”

Again and again, Trump loosed his way. Ridiculous became “rediculous,” Phoenix became “Phoneix” (a felicitous phonics failure), and many paid attention when Trump proclaimed that he was not “bought and payed for.”

Trump let the sun set on basketball’s Bobby Knight, knighting him “Bobby Night.” And he put Barack Obama into military housing with an extra “r,” turning the then-president into Barrack.

One might be tempted to say Trump’s misspellings and those of his aides are evidence of a lack of education or an indication that they are not so bright. The constant barrage of misspelled invective on social media from Trump’s most ardent supporters suggests the same (though this may be because they are Russian).

Such labeling is particularly tempting when Trump makes one of his mistakes in the process of insulting somebody else’s intelligence — such as when he called MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell “one of the dummer people on television” or when he again used the un­or­tho­dox spelling of “judgement” in a tweet accusing Clinton of “stupidity.”

But such allegations would be the work of coastal elites who went to establishment institutions called “schools” where they studied elitist subjects such as “English.” In Trump’s case, the trouble is likely not intelligence but his habitual sloppiness and recklessness. He apparently generates his executive orders with similar abandon (or perhaps that should be spelled a-Bannon). What I fear is that he will be equally careless with his foreign policy, giving little thought before, say, attacking Denmark.

If such an attack occurs, his request for a declaration of war practically writes itself. A proposed draft:

My Fellow Americans: You may be shoked by my military attak on the Kingdom of Denmakr. You may think it is rediculous and one of the dummer things I have done, and I admit it is unpresidented to bomb a peaceful nation. But my insticts and my judgement say we cannot afford to loose, for it would bring dishoner. And so we do not go gently into that good knight. We send our troops from their baracks until Denmakr’s aggressions are payed for. Only then will Copenhagen rise like the Phoneix. We will not falter, we will not fail — and we will not chock.

To quote Agent Orange: SAD!

Media didn't report on San Benardino or Orlando, so how did I find out about it here in the valley of Oregon. Osmosis maybe, it couldn't be that my local station carried the AP reports Naa. 4 years of this shit to look forward to. I am sooo thrilled [all sarcasm memes go here]

[47of74]

Just wait until Agent Orange finds out that a couple black Patriots have decided to skip the WH invite...

mic.com/articles/167843/one-by-one-black-new-england-patriots-players-are-refusing-to-visit-donald-trumps-white-house#.WIOVshXxj

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"I'm not going to the White House," the Patriots' Devin McCourty told Time in a text message Monday. "Basic reason for me is I don't feel accepted in the White House. With the president having so many strong opinions and prejudices I believe certain people might feel accepted there while others won't."

McCourty joined tight end Martellus Bennett, who confirmed on Sunday that he also would not make the White House trip, after first announcing his decision to skip it the week prior.

"It is what it is," Bennett said after the Patriots' victory, according to the Dallas Morning News. "People know how I feel about it." Bennett has previously told reporters, "I don't support the guy in the [White House]."

Bennett and McCourty's decision to refuse an invite from the president diverges sharply from their organization's most prominent white members. Quarterback Tom Brady, head coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft are all good friends with Trump. In late 2015, Brady was filmed with Trump's signature "Make America Great Again" in his locker.

I wager it won't be too long before we hear the whiny noises of Branch Trumpvidians throwing a fit over this.

[Destiny]

"The Trump team’s list of 78 ‘underreported’ terrorist attacks is a mess". If you click on the highlighted sections, they are annotated. Some interesting stuff. I'm only including the non "list" part of the article. The list is worth reading. Drumpf is  alleging the media didn't report on San Bernardino or Orlando. Seriously. Also, the typos and spelling make it look like a sick child wrote it.

Seriously? Fuck the actual fucking fuck off Cheeto. I know someone who died in the SB attacks. I went to the vigils. It was reported on plenty. Stop using people's tragedy for your shitshow.

Fuck you very much.

[Gemini]

http://news.sky.com/story/british-mother-tells-trump-my-daughters-killing-was-not-a-terror-attack-10759415

"In an open letter to Donald Trump, Miss Ayliffe-Chung's mother Rosie said she would not allow her daughter's death "to further this insane persecution of innocent people".

 

How dare this despicable little man use a woman's death to further his his hate campaign, with no thought or regard for her relatives!

so much respect for Rosie for standing up to him. To lose a daughter is unimaginable, to have her death turned into a grotesque political campaign is just beyond evil. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Poor widdle Omarosa doesn't like when "fat" people hurt her feelings: "Omarosa and her bridesmaids went shopping — and an ugly, political scene erupted"

Spoiler

On Saturday, Omarosa Manigault, a White House communications director, was spotted at the posh Tyson’s Corner Center in Virginia, shopping for bridesmaids’s dresses. The former “Apprentice” villain, who announced her engagement to Florida pastor John Allen Newman last summer and will appear in an episode of TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress,” was with a cohort of five bridesmaids.

But not everyone happily perusing the shops at the high-end mall was a member of Team Omarosa.

At around 6 p.m. Manigault told Nordstrom employees that two unidentified women had been harassing her, according to a tipster who witnessed the incident.

“These fat ladies won’t stop following me,” our source recalled Manigault telling staffers in the department store’s cosmetics section.

The situation escalated from there.

“They were letting her have it,” added the tipster, who was also in the cosmetics section at the time. One of the women allegedly shouted “Trump’s whore” at Manigault, who in 2004 starred on the debut season of “Apprentice” and joined Trump’s political campaign as the head of African American outreach last summer.

Manigault, an ordained minister once dubbed “the most hated reality star of all time,” asked that security be called. Nordstrom’s “loss prevention” team (retail parlance for security) promptly responded and attempted to de-escalate the situation which, according to our source, was witnessed by about a dozen onlookers.

The 43-year-old bride-to-be, who injured her left foot during last month’s inauguration and is currently walking with the assistance of a cane and an orthopedic boot, was eventually escorted to her car. The women who confronted the reality star turned staffer were asked to leave the store and complied.

The White House confirmed on Monday that Manigault was confronted by two women and security was eventually called to escort her to her car.

Nordstrom also confirmed Saturday’s brouhaha. All in all, last week wasn’t a win for Trump/Nordstrom relations. Last Thursday the department store announced that it would no longer carry Ivanka Trump’s fashion line.

 

And...since having a woman portray Sean Spicer upset the Orange Toxic Megacolon, Twitter is pushing for Rosie O'Donnell to play Bannon, and she said she'd do it!

Spoiler

Rosie O’Donnell, perhaps President Trump’s ultimate nemesis, answered the call within one minute. Twitter had decided that she should play White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon on “Saturday Night Live,” and O’Donnell understood the idea almost instantly.

After Politico reported Monday evening that the White House was rattled by Melissa McCarthy’s impression of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Twitter lit up with casting recommendations. How best to tweak Trump’s alleged discomfort with a woman impersonating his male spokesman? Send in more women.

“Dear @nbcsnl,” tweeted Republican strategist Rick Wilson, “if you want to cause @realDonaldTrump and the entire alt-reich to stroke out, have [Leslie] Jones play Trump.” Last summer Jones, an African American cast member who specializes in loudmouthed volatility, was targeted and harassed by Twitter trolls — including white supremacists — who were ostensibly upset by the all-female “Ghostbusters” reboot.

“Ok seriously I have never seen such narcissist attitude,” Jones tweeted during Trump’s first debate with Clinton in September. “He can’t answer without praising himself first.”

O’Donnell and Trump have feuded since 2006, when the former co-host of “The View” ribbed him for his response to a situation involving an underage Miss USA winner who was caught drinking and using drugs. “He annoys me on a multitude of levels,” O’Donnell said on the air. “He’s the moral authority? Left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair. … Donald: Sit and spin, my friend. I don’t enjoy him.” She then mocked him for his bankruptcies and challenged the notion that he’s a self-made man.

Trump has never been able to let go of this public slight. Remember: The first shocking moment of the presidential campaign, nine years after Rosie’s remarks, involved O’Donnell. In a Republican presidential debate in August 2015, when Fox News Channel moderator Megyn Kelly quoted Trump as referring to women as “fat pigs” and “slobs,” Trump raised an index finger to interrupt and clarified: “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” The audience gasped, whooped and laughed. It was clear then that this would be no ordinary campaign.

And now we’ve come full circle. Trump is president and O’Donnell is underemployed. Last night, though, she was trending on D.C. Twitter within hours of the Politico report and is standing by to do her duty — just as Tina Fey was in 2008 when the public agreed that she should play Sarah Palin. Liberal firebrand Michael Moore has been saying for weeks that Trump’s biggest weakness is being mocked by comedy. On Tuesday morning, Moore drew a direct line from Chevy Chase’s bumbling Gerald Ford in 1975 to McCarthy’s Spicer in 2017.

TV writer Alan Sepinwall suggested that “SNL” go “full drag king on the whole administration,” that Alec Baldwin surrender the Trump character to a rotating cast of women such as Meryl Streep. (Why stop there? How about Rachel Dratch as chief of staff Reince Priebus? “SNL” hosting veteran Candice Bergen as national security adviser Michael Flynn?) Streep, who got under the president’s skin with her lacerating speech at the Golden Globes last month, has never hosted “SNL” — but she already has played Trump.

Back in June, Streep donned a fat suit, orange makeup and an absurdly long red tie at a benefit for the Public Theater in New York. She and Christine Baranski, as Hillary Clinton, sang a song from the musical “Kiss Me, Kate.”

Will SNL hear the amateur casting agents on Twitter? Maybe. It already has at least once: A Facebook campaign in 2010 catapulted Betty White, then 88, into the hosting spot — which resulted in the show’s biggest TV audience in two years.

I don't like Rosie, but I would love to see her as Bannon.

[onekidanddone]

19 minutes ago, legion said:

Media didn't report on San Benardino or Orlando, so how did I find out about it here in the valley of Oregon. Osmosis maybe, it couldn't be that my local station carried the AP reports Naa. 4 years of this shit to look forward to. I am sooo thrilled [all sarcasm memes go here]

Bengazi!  E-mails! Monica  Lewinsky aaaaaaand Bowling Green.... rinse lather, repeat 

6 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Poor widdle Omarosa doesn't like when "fat" people hurt her feelings: "Omarosa and her bridesmaids went shopping — and an ugly, political scene erupted"

  Reveal hidden contents

On Saturday, Omarosa Manigault, a White House communications director, was spotted at the posh Tyson’s Corner Center in Virginia, shopping for bridesmaids’s dresses. The former “Apprentice” villain, who announced her engagement to Florida pastor John Allen Newman last summer and will appear in an episode of TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress,” was with a cohort of five bridesmaids.

But not everyone happily perusing the shops at the high-end mall was a member of Team Omarosa.

At around 6 p.m. Manigault told Nordstrom employees that two unidentified women had been harassing her, according to a tipster who witnessed the incident.

“These fat ladies won’t stop following me,” our source recalled Manigault telling staffers in the department store’s cosmetics section.

The situation escalated from there.

“They were letting her have it,” added the tipster, who was also in the cosmetics section at the time. One of the women allegedly shouted “Trump’s whore” at Manigault, who in 2004 starred on the debut season of “Apprentice” and joined Trump’s political campaign as the head of African American outreach last summer.

Manigault, an ordained minister once dubbed “the most hated reality star of all time,” asked that security be called. Nordstrom’s “loss prevention” team (retail parlance for security) promptly responded and attempted to de-escalate the situation which, according to our source, was witnessed by about a dozen onlookers.

The 43-year-old bride-to-be, who injured her left foot during last month’s inauguration and is currently walking with the assistance of a cane and an orthopedic boot, was eventually escorted to her car. The women who confronted the reality star turned staffer were asked to leave the store and complied.

The White House confirmed on Monday that Manigault was confronted by two women and security was eventually called to escort her to her car.

Nordstrom also confirmed Saturday’s brouhaha. All in all, last week wasn’t a win for Trump/Nordstrom relations. Last Thursday the department store announced that it would no longer carry Ivanka Trump’s fashion line.

 

And...since having a woman portray Sean Spicer upset the Orange Toxic Megacolon, Twitter is pushing for Rosie O'Donnell to play Bannon, and she said she'd do it!

  Reveal hidden contents

Rosie O’Donnell, perhaps President Trump’s ultimate nemesis, answered the call within one minute. Twitter had decided that she should play White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon on “Saturday Night Live,” and O’Donnell understood the idea almost instantly.

After Politico reported Monday evening that the White House was rattled by Melissa McCarthy’s impression of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Twitter lit up with casting recommendations. How best to tweak Trump’s alleged discomfort with a woman impersonating his male spokesman? Send in more women.

“Dear @nbcsnl,” tweeted Republican strategist Rick Wilson, “if you want to cause @realDonaldTrump and the entire alt-reich to stroke out, have [Leslie] Jones play Trump.” Last summer Jones, an African American cast member who specializes in loudmouthed volatility, was targeted and harassed by Twitter trolls — including white supremacists — who were ostensibly upset by the all-female “Ghostbusters” reboot.

“Ok seriously I have never seen such narcissist attitude,” Jones tweeted during Trump’s first debate with Clinton in September. “He can’t answer without praising himself first.”

O’Donnell and Trump have feuded since 2006, when the former co-host of “The View” ribbed him for his response to a situation involving an underage Miss USA winner who was caught drinking and using drugs. “He annoys me on a multitude of levels,” O’Donnell said on the air. “He’s the moral authority? Left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair. … Donald: Sit and spin, my friend. I don’t enjoy him.” She then mocked him for his bankruptcies and challenged the notion that he’s a self-made man.

Trump has never been able to let go of this public slight. Remember: The first shocking moment of the presidential campaign, nine years after Rosie’s remarks, involved O’Donnell. In a Republican presidential debate in August 2015, when Fox News Channel moderator Megyn Kelly quoted Trump as referring to women as “fat pigs” and “slobs,” Trump raised an index finger to interrupt and clarified: “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” The audience gasped, whooped and laughed. It was clear then that this would be no ordinary campaign.

And now we’ve come full circle. Trump is president and O’Donnell is underemployed. Last night, though, she was trending on D.C. Twitter within hours of the Politico report and is standing by to do her duty — just as Tina Fey was in 2008 when the public agreed that she should play Sarah Palin. Liberal firebrand Michael Moore has been saying for weeks that Trump’s biggest weakness is being mocked by comedy. On Tuesday morning, Moore drew a direct line from Chevy Chase’s bumbling Gerald Ford in 1975 to McCarthy’s Spicer in 2017.

TV writer Alan Sepinwall suggested that “SNL” go “full drag king on the whole administration,” that Alec Baldwin surrender the Trump character to a rotating cast of women such as Meryl Streep. (Why stop there? How about Rachel Dratch as chief of staff Reince Priebus? “SNL” hosting veteran Candice Bergen as national security adviser Michael Flynn?) Streep, who got under the president’s skin with her lacerating speech at the Golden Globes last month, has never hosted “SNL” — but she already has played Trump.

Back in June, Streep donned a fat suit, orange makeup and an absurdly long red tie at a benefit for the Public Theater in New York. She and Christine Baranski, as Hillary Clinton, sang a song from the musical “Kiss Me, Kate.”

Will SNL hear the amateur casting agents on Twitter? Maybe. It already has at least once: A Facebook campaign in 2010 catapulted Betty White, then 88, into the hosting spot — which resulted in the show’s biggest TV audience in two years.

I don't like Rosie, but I would love to see her as Bannon.

Not a Rosie fan either... but hey lets "Bring it on".  Satire, according to my husband, is covered under free speech.  So while we still have it, lets use it.

[47of74]

I'm just gonna set this right here....

http://wreckingbannon.com/

Click on it with caution, possible nightmare fuel ahead...

[AuntK]

1 hour ago, iweartanktops said:

This just pushed me over the edge.

Check out @deray's Tweet:

 

What an ASSHOLE! Why do Wisconsin voters keep sending assholes to Congress? We're just not gonna worry about our homegrown white supremacist terrorists because they've got a free pass right now with orange Hitler and the grand wizard of breitbart in the White House! We need to worry about these Syrian college students, professors, doctors and 5-year-olds coming into this country!

It's almost like Congress has gotten even worse to match the looney tunes in the White House!  And the Trumpsters are still talking shit about Obama!  President Obama - please come back!!! I don't know if my heart and liver can handle 4 years of this shit!

[legion]

14 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

I'm just gonna set this right here....

http://wreckingbannon.com/

Click on it with caution, possible nightmare fuel ahead...

Its pretty damn sad when we post stuff about the president [or his staff] and now have to include potential trigger warnings. damn. I'm going back to my prayer closet for today. [actually just gonna hang out with my mutts ;}  ] See you all tomorrow.

[Howl]

The travel ban hearing is going on right now on CNN (audio).  The government side is being argued first, but the judges hearing the case don't seem to be having any of it and are arguing back vigorously. 

OK, the Washing State Solicitor General is arguing and is also being raked across the coals. 

 

[Howl]

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Police departments have often used the proceeds from seizing suspects’ cash and belongings to fund part of their budgets.

Dirty little secret in Texas.  Yup, forfeiture without due process without any charges or conviction whatsoever.  It's as simple as, you have it, we want it.  What could possibly go wrong? 

I know it happens in other states as well, especially with large amounts of cash. In other contexts, it could be described as robbery. 

Here a WaPo article about it: Forfeiture Without Due Process

[47of74]

19 minutes ago, Howl said:

The travel ban hearing is going on right now on CNN (audio).  The government side is being argued first, but the judges hearing the case don't seem to be having any of it and are arguing back vigorously. 

OK, the Washing State Solicitor General is arguing and is also being raked across the coals. 

 

That's part of the deal, you make your case to the appellate level judges about why they should or should not overturn the decision of the lower court, and they pick apart your arguments.  One of my professors said that many lawyers go in with outlines of what they want to argue but the courts often veer off in other directions and the lawyers just have to go with the flow.

[GreyhoundFan]

38 minutes ago, Howl said:

The travel ban hearing is going on right now on CNN (audio).  The government side is being argued first, but the judges hearing the case don't seem to be having any of it and are arguing back vigorously. 

OK, the Washing State Solicitor General is arguing and is also being raked across the coals. 

 

The WaPo wrote that appeals court judges tend to be equally harsh in questioning both sides.

 

On a lighter note, a funny (or maybe not so funny) article about how thin Trumplethinskin's skin is: "Melissa McCarthy on SNL shows the power comedians have under a Trump presidency"

Spoiler

No attempt to ridicule Donald Trump’s controversies — from his remarks about Mexicans to the “Access Hollywood” tape — could derail his successful road to the White House.

Trump acknowledged as much a year ago when he spoke about supporters so loyal that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

But that was candidate Trump. Now Trump is running the government as a president who cares very deeply about appearances — so much so that a “Saturday Night Live” sketch could affect how he does it.

Melissa McCarthy’s frustrated, unhinged parody of White House press secretary Sean Spicer on last weekend’s SNL unsettled the White House and bothered Trump, and her performance was seen as potentially hurting Spicer’s longevity in the job, Politico reported, citing people close to the president.

Yes, a late-night comedian’s performance could affect what Trump does as president — and this is exciting some anti-Trump comedians.

“I was just so excited to hear he was upset about it, because it feels like comedy is a weapon that we can use against them, that they don’t have,” said standup comedian Nikki Glaser.

McCarthy lampooned one of the most visible members of Trump’s White House, one who already faces scrutiny by the president himself. Trump watches Spicer’s press briefings and summons him later in the day for praise and criticism, the New York Times reported, citing a West Wing aide.

Image matters to Trump. Per that same Times story, Trump has directed staff to hold as many events as possible in the Oval Office, where he is obsessed with the decor. The window dressings were changed to gold curtains on Day One of his presidency. He’s used the phrase “central casting” to describe generals, potential running mates and possible Cabinet secretaries. During the transition, he sought to fill the most visible administration roles with not only those who can do the job, but people who also look the part.

“Presentation is very important because you’re representing America not only on the national stage, but also the international stage, depending on the position,” Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller told The Washington Post in December.

Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of Trump on SNL got under his skin when he was a candidate, a president-elect and now as president. Trump has repeatedly discussed and tweeted about Baldwin’s impersonation, calling it mean-spirited and biased.

Late-night comics lampooning a president is nothing new, particularly on SNL. The NBC show has done a better job with some White House occupants than others, but if any other heads of state were upset by these portrayals, they kept their criticism private.

Not Trump. And this signals an opening for professional comics opposed to his agenda.

“This is the world’s greatest roast with the most serious consequences in the history of our country,” said longtime standup comic Andy Kindler, who roasts the comedy industry in an annual address at the Just For Laughs festival. “This is a classic situation where the more the target shows weakness, the more the target needs to be prodded. That’s why I think Alec Baldwin is having the time of his life.”

“His comebacks are so weak,” Kindler added of Trump. “I hope it keeps going. I hope it makes him resign.”

For Trump, the most problematic aspect of the SNL Spicer sketch was that a woman played Spicer, according to Politico. As a top Trump donor told the outlet, “Trump doesn’t like his people to look weak.” This speaks volumes about Trump’s concept of weakness and strength — particularly since the cross-gender casting isn’t what made the “Sean Spicer Press Conference” go viral. It was because the sketch was incredibly funny, thanks to McCarthy’s comedic mastery.

“I literally couldn’t believe, just on a technical level, how brilliant it was,” said Kindler. “Even if he had thick skin, it would have affected him because it was just so devastating.”

SNL has always had a wide audience, which likely helped the sketch cross beyond any confines of a liberal bubble. The show is having its strongest ratings in 22 years, with this season drawing in an average of 10.6 million viewers, according to preliminary numbers reported by Variety.

Plus, the Spicer sketch was just high-quality comedy.

“It was just so strong comedically: her performance, the writing, and it permeated through both sides,” Glaser said. “If it’s funny enough, it’ll get through.”

McCarthy has a track record of playing angry characters well. On Saturday, she showed her comedic prowess in a live sketch that stretched beyond seven minutes and combined wild gesticulations, yelling and prop comedy all while embodying a character so effectively that many audience members at first didn’t recognize who was under all that hair and makeup.

Trump’s focus on the cross-gender casting shows he may have missed the joke, one about a White House spokesman making hilariously illogical defenses and shouting down reporters.

“He can’t laugh it off. He doesn’t get comedy — it’s being misinterpreted by him, but it’s great it’s angering him so much,” said Glaser.

The Spicer sketch also showed the comedic potential to joke about politics beyond just Trump. Kindler recalled the Watergate scandal and how the jokes moved beyond Nixon to include people like his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman. “The more intense it gets,” Kindler said, “the more familiar you get with these people.”

But this dynamic, of jokes affecting Trump, is a double-edged sword for those who stand opposed to the president. He could react in ways they don’t want.

Glaser pointed to President Barack Obama’s jokes at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner about a possible Trump presidency. Some believe this may have inadvertently encouraged him to run for president, although it’s a narrative Trump has denied.

“Comedy got us into this,” she said. Still, “there are bullies on their side, but we can bully them with comedy — it’s just outsmarting them with comedy.”

I read that Alec Baldwin is hosting this coming Saturday Night. I bet the ratings will be through the roof. I hope it gives Agent Orange an ulcer.

[Howl]

I love it when the entire twitterati twits on Frump.  Zing! 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trumpism is all tantrums, all the time"

Spoiler

No one should have been surprised when President Trump raged that the “so-called judge” who blocked his travel ban should be blamed “if something happens.” It is clear by now that the leader of the free world has the emotional maturity of a 2-year-old who kicks, punches and holds his breath when he can’t have ice cream.

He dismisses anything he doesn’t want to hear as “fake news,” which is the equivalent of holding his hands over his ears. A poll showing that most people disapprove of the ban? Photographic evidence that the crowd for his inauguration was less than historic? Fake! All fake!

Trump’s supporters may convince themselves that the tantrums are part of a clever act. But if they were, Trump’s closest aides wouldn’t be leaking like walking colanders to what he calls the “dishonest media.” It appears they can’t get the president to sit for a briefing or read a memo, so they send messages to him via the newspaper stories that are clipped for him to read and the cable channels he obsessively watches.

Trump’s temperament is at least an issue and potentially a crisis, not just for the nation but also for the world. In one of his introductory phone calls with foreign leaders, he even managed to ruffle feathers with Australia, which is a hard thing to do. What kind of leader accuses one of our most steadfast allies of trying to send the “next Boston bombers” to the United States? A leader utterly lacking in self-control, apparently.

I realize there is some method to go along with all the madness. I understand that Trump wants to be disruptive and has disdain for traditional norms. I know he believes he has a mandate to radically change U.S. immigration policy, defend what he sees as Western values and project his vision of American strength.

But how does feuding with Australia further those ends? What rational purpose is served by lashing out at a federal judge for fulfilling his constitutional role? Why did he spend his first week in office trying to deny the fact that his inaugural crowd, while of quite respectable size, was much smaller than either of President Barack Obama’s?

Trump’s assault on the concept of an independent judiciary can be seen as something out of Orwell. “What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?” Trump tweeted on Saturday. In one efficient sentence, the president trashed the concept of separation of powers and falsely alleged that prior administrations had let just anyone into the country.

So should that tweet be read as a deliberate attempt to encourage fear as a way of grabbing more power? Or was it simply Trump’s prekindergarten reflex to hit back at anyone who hits him?

I think it was probably the latter. I’ve seen no indication that Trump is able to control his need to retaliate. We saw it throughout his campaign, and 70-year-old men usually don’t change.

Those in his inner circle obviously know that the way to accomplish their own goals, and to stay in Trump’s favor, is to indulge his impulses in hopes of being able to channel them in a given direction. Those who speak for the White House, including press secretary Sean Spicer, are required to emulate Trump’s air of wounded pugnacity. And yes, Melissa McCarthy’s portrayal of Spicer on “Saturday Night Live” may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all year.

Thus far, senior advisers Stephen K. Bannon and Stephen Miller — both from the nationalistic, protectionist, anti-immigration alt-right — have proved most skillful at the game of intrigue in Trump’s court. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has had less success in getting the president to pursue a traditional Republican agenda, though he is likely to get the deregulation and tax cuts his party wants. Kellyanne Conway’s overreach with “alternative facts” and “the Bowling Green massacre” seem to have pleased, not irked, her boss. Son-in-law Jared Kushner has had little apparent impact thus far, but he can play the long game because he’s family and doesn’t have to worry about being fired.

But make no mistake: We are talking about the rising and falling fortunes of courtiers who, with flattery and whispers and flowery professions of fealty, serve the unpredictable whims of their liege lord. The next four years promise to be a history lesson in the sort of thing that caused American democracy to be born.

Best quote: "It is clear by now that the leader of the free world has the emotional maturity of a 2-year-old who kicks, punches and holds his breath when he can’t have ice cream." How true.

[LeftCoastLurker]

Trump transition officials told Puzder that the previous rules for vetting and strict ethics no longer applied. “The view in the transition was that’s the old model,” said one GOP official involved with Puzder’s nomination.

Yep...the old model!

[onekidanddone]

4 hours ago, legion said:

No, you'll be back tomorrow just like I will. Take your kid for a walk. Seriously, go outside and just enjoy her. Take her to the store and buy her something, or play a game, read a book or if she is a teen just hang out for a bit with her. FK this stuff! It will be here tomorrow. And so will I:] [smiles]

Yes I'm back. My kid is thirteen.  If I tired to take her  for a walk she would sink under the pavement with embarrassment.  Hummm that has some merit.   She asked me to buy her a yearbook.  So I went on line and did that. 

[MarblesMom]

I dunno about all of you, but the red and green buttons are not enough to let me emote.  

I "need" a jaw dropped emoji and a WTF emoji and a Hell In a Handbasket emoji.  Perhaps an Idiocracy emoji, too.

[Destiny]

I dunno about all of you, but the red and green buttons are not enough to let me emote.  
I "need" a jaw dropped emoji and a WTF emoji and a Hell In a Handbasket emoji.  Perhaps an Idiocracy emoji, too.

Find me some and I'll make it happen.