Author: momdude

At his love fest today, attended by several thousand hand-picked sycophants, Trump mentioned, as an example of terrorism, the incident “last night in Sweden.”

Let’s make this very clear to start:

There was NO incident last night in Sweden.

This is the third imaginary, made-up, 100% fictional, totally bogus, high-grade, industrial sized, complete bullshit “terror incident” that this Administration has pulled out of thin air already.

There was no terror attack in Atlanta.

There was no Bowling Green Massacre.

There was no terror incident in Sweden last night.

Two thoughts:

First, if the President of the United States is convinced that every single news organization on the planet, from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to MSNBC to NPR to Fox News to Pravda to the BBC to Reuters to the Los Angeles Times are ALL conspiring together to spread “fake news,” and doing it well enough so that they’re all spreading the exact same stories, all designed solely to make him look bad and batshit crazy, then the President of the United States is clinically insane and paranoid and needs to immediately be removed from office under the provisions of the 25th Amendment.

Secondly, if this Administration is this blatently lying openly and often about make believe terror incidents in the past and overseas, how long will it be before they lie about imaginary terror incidents today and in this country, claiming that the vast global conspiracy of the mainstream media (see above) is covering up every single word of it? Further, when they make that lie (and they will), what will stop them from using it as an excuse to start shredding civil liberties or declaring martial law?

That’s the difference between 1939 and 2017. Trump doesn’t need a Reichstag fire. He can make up whatever bullshit story he wants, his psychotic fascist followers will believe every word, and our gutless Congress won’t even bother to try to stop him.

Still reeling after the batshit crazy rant that our current Leader of the Free World had yesterday. Well over an hour of incoherent ranting and raving, insults, lies, outright bullshit – all to prove (in his mind and in his mind alone) that he’s not ranting and raving.

How many times did he mention Hillary? A dozen? More? (Have I mentioned that I don’t give a fuck about what you think Hillary or Obama or Bernie did or didn’t do or might have done or could do? Oh, yes, I did.)

How many times did he call the press dishonest, liars, disgraceful, and on and on and on? Too many to count.

How many times did he whine like a spoiled two-year old about “the mess” he inherited? (Which is a total, provable, easily debunked, 100% LIE, but we digress.) Eight? Ten?

How many times did he blame everyone on the planet, both foreign and domestic, for every conceivable ill while never, ever accepting any blame or responsibility? Who could sit through this debacle enough times to keep track, and why would anyone want to do that to themselves?

On the other hand, despite industrial sized dollops of braggadocio and bluster, how many facts did he give about his programs?

Zero.

How many statistics did he give to back up his outrageous and bizarre claims?

Zero.

How many examples did he share to show how right he was and how wrong everyone else was?

Zero.

How many sentences did he utter that wouldn’t have a second grade English teacher writhing in agony over the mangled grammar, run on and rambling sentences, and totally incoherent trains of thought?

Zero.

Congratulations to everyone who voted for this abomination. I’m sure there were a good number of his most loyal and devoted followers who crawled out from under their rocks and would follow him to the gates of Hell. (Actually, there’s an idea I could get behind!) But it’s the majority of his voters who simply drank the Kool-Aid being sprayed out by the GOP machine who I blame the most.

“How bad could he be?”

“He’ll change!”

“He doesn’t really mean that!”

Welcome to the nightmare, you fucking idiots.

Watch Trump’s “press conference” today, if you can stomach it.

From the New York Times:

“Over the objections of some top advisers who wanted to steer him away from confrontation, Mr. Trump demanded to face the media, determined to reject the narrative that his administration is sinking into chaos, scandal and incompetence.”

How’s that working?

Watch that press conference and see if you think he was able to reject that narrative, or if he in fact confirmed it beyond any reasonable doubt.

The man can not put together a coherent thought at a 1st grade level.

He’s paranoid. He’s egomaniacal. He’s fucking insane.

Watch that press conference and tell me if you can’t see Humphrey Bogart, sweating on the witness stand, pulling those ball bearings out of his pocket and rolling them around in his hand, all the time getting crazier and more bizarre in his rantings about his disloyal crew, how they stole the strawberry ice cream from behind his back, how they called him “Old Yellow Stain,” how they were very disloyal to him…

Only two differences here:

First, Captain Queeg comes to realize that he’s been baited into going off the deep end and displaying his mental illness for all to see. Trump will never do that.

Secondly, our “Old Yellow Stain” wears his on his head and thinks it makes him look “mah-valous!“

First of all, yes, I have a fair number of right-wing friends. My “bubble” is quite a bit thinner than many folks these days.

But to all of my right-wing friends, many of whom I spoke to this last weekend while trying desperately to avoid conversations about politics because I would like to remain friends, I have to ask:

Why do you keep spouting off on:

1. “Obama would have been doing this and screwing us over for that…”
2. “At least it’s not Hillary in there, God alone knows what sort of disaster she would have us in!”
3. “Do you believe Bernie, still going off with that Communist bullshit of his? You lost, shut up!”

Let’s focus here. What’s going on in the White House and current Administration today – not before the election, not in the Obama Administration – TODAY, is not in any way, shape, or form related to any argument about Obama, Hillary, Bernie, or any of those other straw men you keep throwing up to avoid actually answering the questions.

History is being made every day, and while you keep wanting to celebrate and ignore facts, in a few years, or a few months, or later this week, facts that you keep calling “fake news” when you know damn well that they’re 100% true but you’re so far into denial that you can’t tell what’s real and not, those facts are going to come out, are already starting to come out, and it’s going to become clear that not only were members of the Trump Administration and staff illegally and brazenly selling their souls and this country to the Russians, but that Trump himself was in on it from the beginning.

It’s called “treason,” folks.

So history’s going to look back and you’re either going to be standing on the side that fought for the Constitution and the country, or you’re going to be backing the greatest traitors in world history.

We don’t give a fuck what you think Obama would be doing.

We don’t give a fuck what you think Hillary would be doing.

We don’t give a fuck what you think Bernie would do.

WHICH. SIDE. ARE. YOU. ON?

History’s watching.

Some veterans group led by a retired Major General (VoteVets.org), presumably a group that could be classified as being a bit more on the Conservative side than not, today had a thing I saw a couple of times on social media, both FaceBook and Twitter.

The gist of it is that they’ve finally twigged to the fact that the current Administration is bursting at the seams with people who are in bed with Putin and the Russians, including the National Security Advisor.

Here’s the funniest line of their meme:

“What did the President know, and when did he know it?”

Really, guys? REALLY?

Looking back at the news reports that were coming out this last summer, months and months before the election, I can find one news report after another that talks about Trump’s involvement with the Russians and Putin on a personal basis.

If VoteVets.org is taking bets on that question, I would like to put $100 down on “Trump knew everything, and he started the ball rolling on Day One.”

This fish rots from the head down – assume that Trump knew about it from the very beginning, when the Russians approached him with half a billion dollars in loans when the US banks wouldn’t loan him another dime.

Assume that the Russians were the ones funneling people like Flynn and Tillerson into the Trump camp to “help” his campaign.

Assume that Trump’s close advisers were in regular contact with Russian intelligence during his campaign and bet that there were at least a few of those contacts and phone calls that included Trump himself.

Start with those assumptions and you’ll start out a lot closer to the truth than not.

Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser, is apparently out of a job in the White House tonight.

Not surprisingly, he’s not out because he was being paid in the past by the Russians after being cashiered by the Army. Nor is he out because he had highly irregular and unethical conversations with the Russians during the transition period after the election. Nor is he out because of a couple dozen other things that would have eliminated him in any sane Administration.

No, Trump and Pence knew about those things and either didn’t care, or considered them to be pluses on his resume.

But he apparently lied to Pence and others about those phone calls, which led Pence to defend him in the press. Now that it’s become clear that Flynn has been talking to the Russians even when he was swearing that he wasn’t, and it now Pence looks stupid for defending him, he’s gone.

It’s telling that you can test the grey areas of treason from inside the inner circle of this Regime and it’s not an issue – but make your boss look stupid (as opposed to him making himself look stupid, which only happens when he’s breathing) and your ass is grass.

That’s one down, a zillion more to go!

They say that ignorance is bliss, and I’m finding out just how true it is and how seductive that bliss can be.

For reasons that have nothing to do with politics (I run a couple of different accounting departments, one as my day job, one as a volunteer on weekends – and I’m getting ready for my annual audits coming at me like a freight train) I have barely looked at Twitter, the news, or any of the insanity coming out of Washington, D.C.

Or Florida. Who can keep track?

It’s probably important to remember that, as passionately as I despise the Cheeto-In-Chief and almost every single one of the toadies, white supremacists, sycophants, and anarchists he’s surrounded himself with, and as passionately as those toadies, white supremacists, sycophants, and anarchists hate everything that I believe in, there is a significant portion of the population out there that couldn’t care less. They might even be mostly unaware there there’s a problem or an issue.

There are people out there who don’t listen to the news, ever, and haven’t read a newspaper since they were forced to in some civics class back in high school. (They probably haven’t read anything other than the back of a cereal box since high school, but that’s a discussion for another day.)

Are those people happier? Tough to say.

One of my favorite books of all time is “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, made into the Oscar-winning movie “Charly.” As gut-wrenching as the end of that story is, because we on the outside looking in KNOW what Charlie Gordon had and what he’s lost, Charlie doesn’t know, doesn’t care, and is perfectly happy.

Some might think that would indicate that being smart is overrated.

I would argue that being happy is overrated if that’s the price.

But it sure is desirable. Sucks to be us.

The hypocrisy is so thick that you could cut it with a knife when you see that The Trumpencritter is off in Florida playing golf again this weekend, the second in a row, less than a month into his Presidency.

Given the number of times he tweeted and complained during the Obama administration about Obama’s vacations and time on the golf course, you would think that even a self-centered egomaniac of his magnitude would be able to see the irony of him doing the same thing – an order of magnitude more often and earlier in his administration.

You would, of course, be wrong.

So this weekend, instead of being off in Florida with his wife, who apparently can’t stand to be in the same state with him, and raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally by having the Federal government pay for the use of the resort which he owns, he’s off with the Prime Minister of Japan. He’s still raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally by having the Federal government pay for the use of the resort which he owns – priorities, people! Priorities!

Let’s not forget what the number one goal of the Trump Administration is – to make Donald Trump insanely filthy rich by looting the US Treasury of every nickle he can get, either directly by making the taxpayer pay to use or guard or maintain a Trump property, or indirectly by making his billionaire buddies even more billions while fucking over the American public to pay for it.

Yes, all of this is blatantly illegal, corrupt, and for the moment something he knows that he’ll get away with because the GOP “leadership” in both the House and Senate don’t have any sign of having even 1% of the necessary courage, morals, or backbone to do anything about it.

You know what’s missing? Obama tweeting to complain about how much time Trump is spending on vacation and playing golf.

Oh, right, my bad. I forgot that Obama has more class, dignity, and morality in his toenail clippings than Trump will ever have in his entire life.

So his Cheetoness was most upset at last week’s SNL not because it made wicked fun of Sean Spicer, but because it was a woman that made fun of him – and a fat woman at that!

Now Rosie O’Donnell is teasing us with the idea that she could do an equally wicked impression of Steve Bannon.

This will make the Trumpencritter’s head explode like something from “Scanners.”

This will get ratings for SNL that will rival the Super Bowl, the moon landing, and the last episode of “M*A*S*H.” (Combined.)

This might just be the thing that pushes the fascists in the White House to try to completely shred the First Amendment, which even a 9-0 hard right-wing Republican Supreme Court probably wouldn’t allow, which could in turn lead to all sort of highly impeachable offenses and jail time for lots of fascists.

Please, please, PLEASE do it, Rosie!!

While we’re busy celebrating the 9th Circuit Court’s decision to give the Trumpencritter a lesson in checks and balances (didn’t they show “Schoolhouse Rock” in that fancy, private boarding school?), let’s not forget that we still haven’t seen Trump’s tax returns.

It’s not old news. It’s a festering wound. It may very well also be a smoking gun.

Trump is the only major party Presidential candidate in decades to not release his tax returns. He said it was because he was being audited. That’s a lie on two levels – he wasn’t being audited and even if he was there would be no reason he couldn’t release the returns.

So despite all of the demands, His AssHoliness has stonewalled and refused to release anything.

Hey, he’s never had to do anything in his life that he didn’t want to do, why should he start now?

We’re long past the point where it’s become as obvious as day following night that he’s got something to hide in there, and given all of the information that the press has put together from other sources, it’s quite possibly monstrously huge.

Key would be to know how much he and his companies owe the Russians. It’s no secret that after multiple bankruptcies and a reputation of not honoring his deals or paying his contractors, there’s not a US bank that would touch him with a ten-foot pole. There is evidence that the Russian oligarchs stepped in a few years back and propped up his “empire,” possibly to the tune of over $600,000,000.

Wouldn’t YOU want to know if your President owed $600M to the Russian banks which were being controlled by Putin? Wouldn’t YOU think there was a good chance that a conflict of interest existed there? Wouldn’t YOU think that would be an impeachable offense, especially since Trump has repeatedly denied it?

Somewhere deep in the bowels of the IRS, there’s some low-paid contractor or staff person who has access to those files.

Whoever you are, it’s time to become the greatest patriot since Abraham Lincoln. Turn over that rock and let us all get a good look at the cesspool that Trump should have shown to us eight months ago.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I pledge $500 right here, right now to the legal defense fund of whoever steps up and pushes that button.

It’s hero time.