39th Weak of the Trumpanzy!

[JackLuis]

‘His brain doesn’t work correctly’: Olbermann calls Trump ‘f*cking crazy’ after latest gibberish-laden speech

According to commentator Keith Olbermann, if you set aside all of President Donald Trump’s attempts to appear presidential, you come to realize that the leader of the free world is “f*cking crazy.”

On his latest “Resistance” broadcast, Olbermann said it is time to ignore Trump’s stab at fashioning U.S. policy and listen to the words of a man whose ‘brain does not work correctly.”

Calling Trump’s presidential tenure “nine months of America held hostage,” the acerbic commentator pointed out that Trump seems to live in a separate reality.

“This has been my premise since I wrote a lengthy piece for Vanity Fair last July, called ‘Could Trump pass a sanity test?'” Olbermann recalled. “Spoiler alert: It doesn’t seem like he could.”

“And it is reflected in my book that is being published now, ‘Trump is F-ing Crazy,'” he explained. “The title was not picked for shock value. The title was picked because Trump is F-ing crazy. He said he met with the president of the Virgin Islands. He is the president of the Virgin Islands.”

“He claims he came up with term ‘fake.’ The quote was, ‘I guess some other people have used it, perhaps, over the years. But I’ve never noticed it,'” Olbermann read with a dead-pan face. “This sums him up. ‘Fake’ is a term first used by petty criminals in England in 1775 and he never noticed it, really.”

“The problem here is that this isn’t just ego,” he explained. “Believing you have invented things that have existed well before you were born can be a symptom of a variety of psychological disturbances.”

Olbermann went on to suggest Trump may be bi-polar, saying those afflicted, “literally invent their own words and take umbrage when you don’t understand what they mean.”

“And ‘bigly’ umbrage,” he puckishly added.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The president is without shame’: Anderson Cooper concludes ‘nothing is off limits’ for Trump’s petulance

As the scandal continues to grow over Donald Trump using deceased service members as a political football, CNN host Anderson Cooper concluded that the president has no shame.

“The thing about Donald Trump that we’ve learned is it’s always about him and he can never be wrong,” former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod noted. “Those two qualities ultimately will defeat him, but in the meantime, it’s a shame for the country and these families and it’s a shame that he would sully his predecessors this way.”

“The president himself is without shame,” Cooper replied. “There’s nothing off limits when it comes to when he feels he’s being attacked or asked a question.”

“What does it mean for the presidency as an institution?” Cooper asked David Gergen, who served in the Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton administrations.

“I don’t know where this compulsion come from, it must be a place of deep insecurity on his part,” Gergen suggested. “He has this compulsion when he’s facing criticism and must be feeling embarrassed about it to lash out at others and to blame others.”

Impeach Donald the dick today!

 

[sr71plt]

The Republican leadership in Congress has no shame, either. It takes a senator who is dying and would be too old to run again anyway to show Republicans what it means to have courage and responsibility to the nation.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. lawmaker who was President Donald Trump’s pick for drug czar withdrew on Tuesday after a report he spearheaded a bill that hurt the government’s ability to crack down on opioid makers flooding the market with the addictive painkillers.

Trump had pegged Representative Tom Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania, to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy, as the administration faces an epidemic of opioid overdoses that is killing tens of thousands of Americans annually. The position required Senate confirmation.

Trump wrote on Twitter: “Rep. Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar. Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman!”

Marino worked as a federal prosecutor under Republican former President George W. Bush, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2010 and served on Trump’s transition team after the Republican president was elected last November.

Marino said in a statement he had decided to “remove the distraction my nomination has created to the utterly vital mission of this premier agency.”

He defended his role in helping pass the bill that was criticized for weakening attempts to rein in opioid use. He said the legislation would help create “a balanced solution for ensuring those who genuinely needed access to certain medications were able to do so, while also empowering the Drug Enforcement Agency to enforce the law and prevent the sale and abuse of prescription drugs.”

The Washington Post and the CBS program “60 Minutes” published an investigation on Sunday that showed Marino had worked to weaken federal efforts to slow the flow of opioid drugs.

The legislation championed by Marino, which was passed by Congress and signed into law last year by Democratic President Barack Obama, was the product of a drug industry quest to weaken the DEA’s authority to stem the flow of painkillers to the black market, according to the report.

The law made it almost impossible for the DEA to freeze suspicious narcotics shipments, according to government documents cited by the Post.

Jeffy boy want to kill medical Weed, 'cause Messicans! But he's okay with Big Pharma pushing narcotics.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Utterly despicable’: Morning Joe rips Trump’s ‘lack of humanity’ for thoughtless regard for slain troops

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[JackLuis]

Trump accuses Dem lawmaker of ‘totally fabricating’ comments to soldier’s widow in early morning rage tweet

resident Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) after she accused him of making insensitive comments to the widow of slain U.S. Army Sgt. David Johnson.

“Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof),” Trump wrote. “Sad!”

I wish the widow had responded, "Yes, Mr. President, my husband was a brave man who volunteered to fight for his country, unlike some draft dodging cripple dicks who shirked their responsibilities and expected other to bare the burden of service."

That would be a tape I'd like to hear spread all over the news media.

 

[sr71plt]

The fall soldier's mother has confirm Trump said what he said. But, *yawn*, the Republicans in Congress and his minions (including Kelly) in the White House are looking the other way, because . . .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...my-son’/ar-AAtG7Ew?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Bush just delivered a stunning 16-minute repudiation of Trumpism — without ever mentioning his name

The Shrub turns Presidential!

Former President George W. Bush warned Thursday that the United States of America was being ripped apart by external and internal strife — citing both Russian operations and white supremacists.

“Parts of Europe have developed an identity crisis,” Bush said in a speech sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York. “We have seen insolvency, economic stagnation, youth unemployment, anger about immigration, resurgent ethno-nationalism and questions about the meaning and durability of the European Union. America is not immune.”

“In recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined, our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs, the American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach to some who feel left behind in a changing economy, discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts, our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication, there are some signs that the intensity of support for democracy itself has waned — especially among the young.”

It is hard to believe that "W" would be preferred to The Trumpanzy if he hadn't a war criminal for a Veep. Trump is making me miss 'W'!

‘The face of the Resistance’: Internet gobsmacked after George W. Bush delivers ‘remarkable’ anti-Trump screed

 

[phrodeau]

Maybe if Bush had said, "There are some signs that the intensity of support for democracy itself has waned — especially among the seventy-one-year-olds."

 

[jaF0]

“In recent decades ... "

He smacked the Rs in general since they have run Congress for that long.

 

[Hypoxia]

How are Faux Newz, Breitfart, and InfoWarz covering this?

 

[JackLuis]

Maddow connects the dots on how Trump adding Chad to his travel ban may have gotten soldiers killed in Niger

When President Donald Trump’s White House instituted the travel ban and randomly added the African country of Chad to the list, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow says it may have destabilized the region. That lack of allied troops could have then been the cause of the deaths of the four soldiers killed two weeks ago in Niger.

Maddow began by walking through the extensive history of the groups of African and French fighters who have managed to battle Islamic extremists like ISIS and Boko Haram in central Africa and actually win. Most of these groups are headquartered in Chad, because the best of the best soldiers managed to run out the majority of the terrorist groups.

Yet, somehow, Chad ended up on Trump’s travel ban list. When it did, there was an uproar of foreign policy experts who warned this was a terrible decision because it would destabilize the region and isolate American troops fighting there. Both the State and Defense Departments were also opposed to Trump’s decision to put Chad on the list, because they knew it would cause military problems in the area. But the Trump administration demanded it.

Wednesday Americans learned the official excuse for why the Trump administration decided to pull out of Chad. According to The Guardian, it was because the country didn’t send a sample passport that proved it couldn’t be faked. Chad had to stop issuing passports for six months because the country ran out of the forgery proof passport paper. They asked the Trump administration if they could send a recently printed passport but the Trump administration said no. So, they didn’t send their passport example to the Trump administration and the Trump administration put them on the ban list, ignoring the closest military ally in the region.

The Pentagon prepared a statement for Trump on the incident, but Trump has not made that statement as of yet.

A Trumpanzy should be the new phrase for a stupid screw up.

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, hope the NYTimes or WPost connect all those dots in a newspaper article.

 

[JackLuis]

Pentagon probing troubling questions after deadly Niger ambush

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, troubled by a lack of information two weeks after an ambush on a special operations patrol in Niger left four U.S. soldiers dead, is demanding a timeline of what is known about the attack, as a team of investigators sent to West Africa begins its work.

The growing list of unanswered questions and inability to construct a precise account of the Oct. 4 incident has exacerbated a public relations nightmare for the White House, which is now embroiled in controversy over President Donald Trump's belated and seemingly clumsy response this week to console grieving military families.

"We need to find out what happened and why," White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, whose son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

At the Pentagon, Mattis suggested to reporters that he would say little pending results of the investigation. "We at the Department of Defense like to know what we're talking about before we talk," he said. "And so we don't have all the accurate information yet. We will release it as rapidly as we get it."

Cluster fuckery suspected in the Niger incident! Intell fuck up,no back up, and confusion on the ground? WTF, Over.

 

[JackLuis]

Winston Chruchill’s grandson thinks Donald Trump is a ‘daft twerp’

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s grandson slammed U.S. President Donald Trump on Twitter Friday, calling Trump a “daft twerp” for his comments blaming Islamic immigrants for crime in Britain.

According to The Hill, Nicholas Soames — grandson of the World War II-era prime minister and current conservative member of Parliament — was responding to an early morning tweet from Trump that said, “Just out report: “United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.” Not good, we must keep America safe!”

Soames’ reply was curt and to the point, “#Thenfixguncontrolyoudafttwerp.”

The prime minister’s grandson is not the only Briton to lash out of Trump after his anti-Islamic tweet. Many U.K. social media users lambasted Trump, urging him to “butt out” of things he doesn’t understand.

The British are so understated in their criticism of the Trumpanzy. They should have used the proper term "Fucking Moron."

 

[JackLuis]

‘An intervention is really needed here’: Nancy Pelosi calls out Trump for his continuous lies

For months, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been hesitant about joining some of her colleagues who are advocating outright for President Donald Trump's impeachment. Now, she's ready to discuss another I-word option for dealing with the volatile president: intervention.

"I think an intervention is really needed here," she told Chelsea Handler during an episode of the comedian's talk show released Friday. "We have to make sure the president knows what he’s talking about.... What are the facts?"

Pelosi, a Democrat representing California, came prepared with a prime example of Trump flubbing—or simply ignoring—the truth. She brought up his meeting with House and Senate leaders just after his inauguration in January. Pelosi said she sat down at the table, ready for Trump to give an important speech, and was disappointed.

“What is he going to say? Will he quote the Bible? Will he quote our founders? What poetry might he talk about in order to talk about the momentous nature of the occasion? And what’d he say? ‘You know I won the popular vote,’" Pelosi told Handler in a clip surfaced by The Hill. "To which I said: That’s not true."

 

[JackLuis]

Neil Gorsuch is already alienating his colleagues in the Supreme Court left and right

Long after his presidency is over and Trump has finally shuffled off this mortal coil, Neil Gorsuch will likely still be sitting on the Supreme Court, much to the delight of American conservatives. Gorsuch’s fellow Supreme Court justices do not appear to share their glee. Multiple reports indicate that almost from the moment he was confirmed, the dyed-in-the-wool constructionist has rubbed members of the court the wrong way—and not just the liberals on the bench.

Last month, Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker cataloged all of the judicial norms and practices the Trump appointee has violated during his brief tenure. He has dominated oral arguments where new associates are expected to defer to their seniors, penned condescending dissents challenging the wisdom of a court whose justices claim more than 140 years of experience between them, and barely concealed his contempt for Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, a landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Gorsuch has also broken SCOTUS’ unwritten rule that no justice embarrass the high court with any kind of overt political advocacy. In less than a year of service, he has delivered speeches at the conservative Fund for American Studies (at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, no less), as well as at the University of Louisville, where he was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (McConnell was instrumental in blocking the appointment of Merrick Garland, whom Gorsuch ultimately supplanted.)

Will Gorsuck be Hillary's legacy? If she had done her job Gorsuck would not be on the court. Perhaps years from now will we look back and say that Gorsuck was Mitch's pick, or blame it on The Trumpanzy? Enough blame for all of them.

Earlier this week, NPR’s Nina Totenberg, who has covered the court for decades, told the Supreme Court podcast First Mondays that Kagan has “really taken him on” in conference. “It’s [been] a pretty tough battle,” she said, “and it’s going to get tougher.”

“Why is Totenberg’s reporting here so extraordinary?” asks Mark Joseph Stern of Slate. “Because it’s astonishing that any reporter would hear details from conference, let alone score some genuinely juicy scuttlebutt…If rumors leak about a justice’s behavior in conference—and they basically never do—it is almost certainly a justice who leaked them. And when justices leak—which again, happens very rarely—they do so on purpose.”

Gorsuch is an illegitimate justice occupying a stolen Supreme Court seat. If he leaves behind a legacy of corporate plunder and institutional rot, he will have honored the man who nominated him.

So ended the 39th weak of the Trumpanzy, sad, flaccid, and weak.