Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019
Trump & the White Nationists! Nah! No way!
When will this nightmare end? Please Mr. Mueller, Congress or anyone...make this nightmare end!
Friday, March 15, 2019
Friday, March 1, 2019
The Dems versus the Donnie in 2020?
[Applause?]
Question:
Which Democrat has the best chance of beating 45???
Free college tuition?
Medicare for all?
Tax break for the middle class?
Slavery reparations? Huh? WTF?
No! No! No!
Who can best restore America's standing in the world?
Who can best restore dignity/decency/honesty to the White House?
Who can best bridge/repair the divide that 45 has caused/spread across America?
YES! YES! YES!
BTW…If 45 is still in the White House by the next election, this country is in deep shit!
Saturday, February 16, 2019
"Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
Friday, February 15, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Sunday, January 6, 2019
The wall! The wall! The wall!
I want my wall!
Why can't I have my wall????
Monday, December 31, 2018
Sunday, December 30, 2018
The Trump Foundation!
"A Shocking Pattern of Illegality"!
The Donald J. Trump Foundation, once billed as the charitable arm of the president’s financial empire, agreed to dissolve on Tuesday and give away all its remaining assets under court supervision as part of an ongoing investigation and lawsuit by the New York attorney general.
More details at The New York Times...aka..."Fake Media"!
The foundation was accused by the attorney general, Barbara Underwood, of “functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” and of engaging in “a shocking pattern of illegality” that included unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Six Essential Traits for a President!
In her book "Leadership in Turbulent Times", Pulitzer Prize winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, lists six essential traits for a president:
- Empathy - the caravans are coming! Build my wall!
- Resilence - Fake news! Fake news!
- Communication - TWEETS 24/7!
- Openess - liar, liar, pants on fire!
- Impulse Control - Hello Syria? Gov't shutdown! Yeah!
- Relaxation - Mar-a-Largo! New Years Eve bash costing us taxpayers!
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Sunday, November 4, 2018
The terrorists are coming!
From the Washington Post:
"The total price of President Trump’s military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures."
...BUT, Barbed Wire can be a beautiful sight!
Friday, November 2, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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