37th Weak Of Donald the Dickish!

[Hypoxia]

Trump Twitter spasm undermines Tillerson’s attempt to cool tensions with North Korea

Donald don't be dickish with people that have Nukes! You dumb fuck!

Tromp's arrogant defensive juvenile mind is easily played by folks who have actually run stuff, who know how to manipulate and confound.

I vaguely recall a famous battle where Julius Caesar's army maneuvered around an enemy, never coming in contact, only circling, circling, till the enemy found itself cut off from water, supplies, sanctuary, retreat, everything, and so surrendered without a spear flung or a sword waved.

Tromp is being circled. Does he know it yet? His aides calling headhunters seem to sense it.

 

[JackLuis]

Tuesday news.

‘Poor excuse for a human being’: Internet recoils after Trump whines Puerto Rico hurricane wrecked budget

During a discussion with Puerto Rican officials, President Donald Trump blamed the U.S. territory for the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. He explained that the crisis has thrown “the budget out of whack.” He qualified it saying, “I hate to tell you,” however. Twitter users were furious, taking to the social media site to lampoon the president for callous cruelty to those desperate to survive a natural disaster.

See the outrage below:

Yet Trump has caused the nation to spend ~ $71 million to play golf in the 37 weeks since he was installed!

Resist, Oppose Impeach, Today!​

 

[Hypoxia]

Public Service Announcement: You have over 3 more years of this.....good luck, citizens.

Pessimist: Oh shit, another 40 months of this maelstrom.
Optimist: Oh fuck, I HOPE we survive 40 more months.

Will Tromp remain in office another 40 months, or even 4 months? Stress and bullshit levels continue to rise. We shudder and wonder, "Fuck me, what can he do next?" Even worse, "What will happen with him?" Various prospects:

* He'll have a stroke or other debilitating medical condition. Like a bullet.
* He'll be removed by impeachment (unlikely), 25th, or military coup.
* He'll announce on 20 Jan 2018 that one year was enough. Sayonara.
* He'll smell the approaching indictments and head for refuge in Crimea.
* He'll stage or exploit a catastrophe and invoke martial law. Forever.
* He'll manage to start a nuclear war that destroys humanity. Ouch.
* He'll provoke his base to come out shooting for another US civil war.
* He'll announce the sale of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands to Russia.
* Gups will magically get a veto-proof majority and render him irrelevant.
* With Gorsuch, SCOTUS rulings will grant Tromp supreme authority.
* That orange wig will come to life and devour him from the top down.
* He'll cure cancer and be sainted by the Vatican. Big bribes for that.

Let's see how it plays out. I'm going week-by-week. Obliteration is possible so why bother planning? Eat, drink, fuck Mary and Harry; party hearty, y'all.

 

[sr71plt]

In my media monitoring work overseas, I covered the assassinations of Egypt's Anwar as-Sadat, India's Indira Gandhi, and Israel's Yitzak Rabin, all of whom were shot by fanatic once devotees. Trump and his fanatical followers are taking a familiar path.

 

[JackLuis]

Did Commander-in-Chief Trump confuse the Air Force and Coast Guard?

Hours without being a National Embarrassment 0!

Well, they do both wear blue...

President Donald Trump lavished the Coast Guard with kudos during his Tuesday visit to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, piling on the praise until being politely informed he was actually addressing a representative of the Air Force.

“A lot of people got to see the real Coast Guard during this incredible trouble, and especially I think here and in Texas was incredible what they did. So thank you all very much.... We appreciate it. Really appreciate it,” Trump said during a briefing on hurricane recovery efforts held at Luis Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

“Would you like to say something on behalf of your men and women?” the commander-in-chief then asked.

“Sir, I’m representing the Air Force,” came the response.

The following line, per an official White House transcript: “THE PRESIDENT: No, I know that.”

Shortly after Trump began enthusing about the phenomenally expensive F-35, which is technically not invisible, Bloomberg News noted Trump’s chief of staff, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, headed over to whisper in the president’s ear.

It was one of several moments described as slightly awkward during the president's visit to Puerto Rico, where he also kiddingly informed the weather-ravaged commonwealth, "You've thrown our budget a little out of whack."

I think the Grumpy Old Pricks are probably feeling very stupid now, they could'a had JEB or Marco up there.

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pence’s chief of staff threatens to ‘purge’ anti-Trump Republicans: report

During a Republican National Committee meeting on Tuesday morning, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff posited that the party could better unify around President Donald Trump if they “purge” those who oppose him.

According to audio obtained by Politico, Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers asked rich donors to “imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him? If — and this sounds crass — we can purge the handful of people who continue to work to defeat him.”

Ayers, who has worked with Pence since his gubernatorial re-election campaign, told donors that they should push congresspeople to “change the current leadership in both the Senate and the House” by cutting off funding and threatening to recruit and give money to opponents.

They could build a gulag in North Dakota too! Imagine Ryan and McConnell shivering in the driving blizzards, cursing Silver Mike!

 

[sr71plt]

Whatever ultimately gets Trump, really, really needs to take out Pence too.

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Trump tells ‘your friends on Wall Street’ they’ll have to ‘wave goodbye’ to Puerto Rico’s debt

In an interview with Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera during his four-hour trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump once again blamed the island territory for their debt in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

“They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we’re going to have to wipe that out,” he said. “You’re going to say goodbye to that, I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that.”

Trump has brought up the territory’s debt multiple times since Maria hit the island, including earlier on Tuesday when he told citizens they have “thrown the budget out of whack.”

Trump knows about bankruptcy and stiffing investors. He may have stepped off the edge though, if he thinks that Wall Street will let him fuck over them after they bought off Congress all these years!

 

[sr71plt]

Trump knows about bankruptcy and stiffing investors. He may have stepped off the edge though, if he thinks that Wall Street will let him fuck over them after they bought off Congress all these years!

Since everything in Trump's mind is about Trump, he's mostly smarting that a golf course he took over in Puerto Rico still went under to the tune of nearly $33 million. Most likely none of that his money, though.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-puerto-rico-golf-course/

 

[Hypoxia]

Since everything in Trump's mind is about Trump, he's mostly smarting that a golf course he took over in Puerto Rico still went under to the tune of nearly $33 million. Most likely none of that his money, though.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-puerto-rico-golf-course/

I see reports that it was PR gov't backed loans. Another report said the place was financially underwater when he 'bought' it so it's not all his fault. Whatever. YAID (yet another indicative deal).

WATCH: Trump tells ‘your friends on Wall Street’ they’ll have to ‘wave goodbye’ to Puerto Rico’s debt



Trump knows about bankruptcy and stiffing investors. He may have stepped off the edge though, if he thinks that Wall Street will let him fuck over them after they bought off Congress all these years!

Will it be a clout battle, or nastier? Let's see how Wall Street fights off Tromp's Russian mafiya owners. Will Goldman Sachs bring a knife to an AK47 shootout?

Puerto Rico: Assign blame where it's due. PR is ruled by Congress, which established the parameters of PR's crisis. Change in tax code killed off biotech industries. Jones Act keeps prices high. Territorial gov't is forced to borrow rather than raise revenues to balance the budget. Yada yada.

Congress fucks PR. Tromp fucks PR. Nature fucks PR. Everything fucks PR. I think back to AMERICA from West Side Story, set in NYC:

guy: I think I'll go back to San Juan
chorus: I know a boat you can go on
guy: Everyone there will give big cheer
chorus: Everyone there will have moved here!​

That's already the story. Everyone on PR with the chops to make it elsewhere has gone elsewhere. Jobs are kaput. Money is kaput. USA, like European former empires, is learning the colonial legacy. When the colonies go bad, the colonized folks head your way.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Simply cannot address his visit to Puerto Rico. The fucking loon.

 

[JackLuis]

Aw The Back Tracking Begins

White House says Puerto Rico must fix its debt problem: CNN interview

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday backed away from U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments a day earlier calling for the storm-hit island’s debt to be wiped out.

In an interview on CNN, the Office of Management and Budget director said Trump was referring to Puerto Rico’s need to fix its own debt issues through its oversight board.

“I wouldn’t take it word for word,” Mulvaney said of Trump’s comments late Tuesday.

No, we didn't belive it either, Mick. Everyone knew he was bullshitting, he had his mouth open.

 

[Hypoxia]

White House says Puerto Rico must fix its debt problem: CNN interview

No, we didn't belive it either, Mick. Everyone knew he was bullshitting, he had his mouth open.

PR can't fix its debt problem because it's caused by Congress, which ain't gonna fix its mess anytime soon. All non-States (DC and the territories) are direct congressional responsibility. They won't own up. More than most of us, they're fucked.

As usual, anything emerging from DJT's mouth or tweeting fingers must be considered false until proved false. (Being proven true is most unlikely.)

 

[JackLuis]

Donald Trump’s bizarre passion for cruelty

Donald Trump seems addicted to violence.

It shapes his language, politics and policies.

He revels in a public discourse that threatens, humiliates and bullies.

He has used language as a weapon to humiliate women, a reporter with a disability, Pope Francis and any political opponent who criticizes him. He has publicly humiliated members of his own cabinet and party, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a terminally ill John McCain, not to mention the insults and lies he perpetrated against former FBI Director James Comey after firing him.

Trump has humiliated world leaders with insulting and belittling language. He not only insulted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with the war-like moniker “Rocket Man,” he appeared before the United Nations and blithely threatened to address the nuclear standoff with North Korea by wiping out its 25 million inhabitants.

He has attacked the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico for pleading for help in the aftermath of a hurricane that has devastated the island and left many Puerto Ricans without homes or drinking water.

He has emboldened and tacitly supported the violent actions of white supremacists, and during the presidential campaign encouraged right-wing thugs to attack dissenters — especially people of colour. He stated that he would pay the legal costs of a supporter who attacked a black protester.

During his presidential campaign, he endorsed state torture and pandered to the spectacle of violence that his adoring crowds treated like theatre as they shouted and screamed for more.

And that is just the tip of the penis that is Donald J.

 

[JackLuis]

US anti-bias law does not protect transgender workers: Justice Dept

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AG-Jeff-Sessions-2-300x161.jpg​

The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not.

The memo sent to U.S. Attorneys’ offices on Wednesday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only prohibits discrimination on the basis of a worker’s biological sex, and not their gender identity.

Sessions rescinded an Obama administration memo from 2014 that said Title VII does protect transgender people, a position also taken by several federal appeals courts in recent years.

Department spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement the government cannot expand the law beyond what Congress had intended.

“Unfortunately, the last administration abandoned that fundamental principle, which necessitated today’s action,” he said.

The law does not prohibit discrimination against smug RednecKKK pencil dicks. Feel free to send them packing.

 

[JackLuis]

Israeli newspaper Haaretz asks if Trump is a ‘moron’ or ‘just an obnoxious racist’ in searing essay

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a scathing op-ed piece on Thursday asking whether President Donald Trump is — as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson allegedly said — a “f*cking moron” or whether he’s “just racist and obnoxious.”

“The U.S. president has shot himself in the foot so regularly that it is only natural to assume he may not be the sharpest pencil in the box,” he said. From the Comey firing to the bevy of loud, indiscreet attorneys hired by the White House to Trump’s “ham-handed” attempt to explain away his eldest son’s meeting with Russian operatives, the president can’t — as one conservative pundit said — stop tripping over his own “you-know-what.”

Shalev discussed Josh Marshall’s theory of “Trump’s razor” — a satirical take on “Occam’s razor,” the theory that the simplest explanation is almost always correct. “Trump’s razor” states that when faced with multiple explanations for a Trump phenomenon, “the stupidest is always the right one.”

“But even if we assume that Trump is far from stupid, and definitely not a ‘moron,’” Shalev concluded, “most people would agree that both his election and his presidency are an insult to America’s intelligence, as well as the world’s.”

 

[JackLuis]

‘Very much a racist’: Former ‘Apprentice’ producer claims secret Trump tapes are ‘unfathomably despicable’

“We recorded constantly, we went into the boardroom to set up discussions about how and who should get fired [on the show] without talking and saying directly who got fired, so there was a big ,long exchange, all of which was recorded,” Pruitt explained to NPR. “Out of those exchanges came some really unfathomably despicable words said by this guy who is a TV star. I heard it, I watched it and those things are somewhere in some warehouse.”

In addition to remarks about women, Pruitt said that Trump made remarks that were ”very much a racist issue” directed at African-Americans, Jewish groups and other minorities.

“When you heard these things there’s the audible gasp that is quickly followed by a cough and then you just sort of carry on,” he recalled.

Pruitt also lamented that “a cultural icon emerged because we weren’t necessarily truthful about our portrayal.”

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Jake Tapper slams Trump’s latest ‘fake news’ tirade with the perfect question

CNN host Jake Tapper read off a tweet from Donald Trump during Thursday’s episode of “The Lead.” The president demanded that the media be held accountable for “made up” information and news.

“Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” Trump tweeted early Thursday.

Tapper was quick to agree and say that the news absolutely should be held to the standard of verifying the reality of news. However, he noted, “does President Trump have that same responsibility?”

“Apparently not,” concluded Headline News host S.E. Cupp. “The president feels as though he is in the unique position of verifying news. We saw it when it came to the Rex Tillerson quote. ‘I didn’t verify it,’ he also wasn’t in the room. And we had multiple sources confirming it. That’s the way American journalism works.”

She went on to say that this is a bigger problem because Trump is actively working to “undermine the stability and the trust of the free press.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ‘furious’ that Tillerson overshadowed his Vegas trip — so he may replace him with CIA director: report

As the 37th weak of the Trumpanzy, Donald the Despicable Dick, ends comes this story:

President Donald Trump is reportedly still fuming about his secretary of state calling him a “moron.”

Axios reports that Trump is considering forcing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson out of his administration and replacing him with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo, whom Trump is reportedly more comfortable dealing with on a regular basis.

Axios’ sources say that Trump is furious that Tillerson didn’t explicitly deny that he called Trump a “moron” this week, and that any hope of getting the two men to come to some kind of understanding has been completely dashed.

“Insiders say Trump’s relationship with Tillerson is broken beyond repair,” Axios reports. “We’re told Trump was furious that Tillerson didn’t try to blunt the story about him calling the president a ‘moron,’ by just going out and denying it.”

Trump was also reportedly angry that Tillerson’s “moron” comment overshadowed footage of him trying to comfort shooting victims in Las Vegas.

“After what Trump considered a strong trip to Vegas, he seethed when he got back and saw Tillerson’s gaffe dominating cable-news coverage,” Axios writes. “Everywhere he flipped, there was Tillerson’s face instead of his.”

So Long Rex, it's been good to know you!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Of course he would pick Pompeo, a little right wing lap dog if there ever was one.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

gsgs comment- Had a difficult time with interpreting Stephen Colbert's skit, last night. It was funny, but disturbing. I did not know that the "suicide pact" was a real occurrence.



Top Trump Cabinet Members Have “Suicide Pact” to Prevent Trump From Firing Them


October 5, 2017


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/art...uicide_Pact_to_Prevent_Trump_From_Firing_Them

"In a sense, Tillerson faces a paradox: To be effective as secretary of state, he must communicate better with the country and the world; but to maintain the confidence of this prickly president, he must avoid comments that seem to question the president’s personality or policies."

"Tillerson, like everyone else in Trump’s world, is living under a volcano."

David Ignatius
October 4, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...sed-trumps-ring-today/?utm_term=.e393747bba32

 

[phrodeau]

gsgs comment- Had a difficult time with interpreting Stephen Colbert's skit, last night. It was funny, but disturbing. I did not know that the "suicide pact" was a real occurrence.



Top Trump Cabinet Members Have “Suicide Pact” to Prevent Trump From Firing Them


October 5, 2017


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/art...uicide_Pact_to_Prevent_Trump_From_Firing_Them

"In a sense, Tillerson faces a paradox: To be effective as secretary of state, he must communicate better with the country and the world; but to maintain the confidence of this prickly president, he must avoid comments that seem to question the president’s personality or policies."

"Tillerson, like everyone else in Trump’s world, is living under a volcano."

David Ignatius
October 4, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...sed-trumps-ring-today/?utm_term=.e393747bba32

Suicide pacts never work in Washington. Everyone has numerous ways to weasel out of them.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm not aware of any such suicide pacts existing in Washington before--or needed.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Morongate ?

October 6, 2017


Axios reports that not only is Trump’s confidence in Tillerson “broken beyond repair,” the president is floating a succession plan to move CIA director Mike Pompeo into Tillerson’s job.

"...all three cabinet secretaries vow to leave in the event that the president makes moves against one of them.”

Trump loyalist, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin -

"...has publicly affirmed Trump’s rants about Charlottesville and the NFL protests, which have disgusted even many otherwise pliant Republicans."

"...the question becomes whether the three use the threat to safeguard Tillerson’s job, or whether the cabinet is about to see a mass exodus.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/is-trump-about-to-trigger-a-cabinet-suicide-pact.html

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans shaking in their boots after Trump calls Schumer begging for help on healthcare

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are anxious after President Donald Trump on Friday called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to discuss health care reform.

“The initial reaction among some Republicans was consternation, even though they didn’t know the upshot of the call,” Mike Allen and Jonathan Swan report for Axios.

A “well-wired” Republican told Axios that the failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act means President Trump, “can move without hesitation or ideological impediment to make a deal.”

The same source predicted it would “depress” Republican turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, “as Trump voters are further disconnected from the Congressional wing.”

Despite the early speculation on the political outcome, the report notes, “it’s not known what Trump proposed or how Schumer responded.”

Now Rethuglicans are worried that Trump is 'crazy', as if there is a question? IS Trump so worried about a triumph that he would be willing to sell the Republican Party down the river to make himself look "Presidential"?