DesertDog:
Being a Democrat. Duh.
Or appointing one to SCOTUS.
Speaking of which, Mitch McConnell just proved yet again, for anyone who had any doubt, that he is utterly unprincipled and opportunistic: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-scotus/index.html
Every time you think he can’t get any more embarrassing, he does:
White House Wanted USS John McCain “Out of Sight” During Trump Japan Visit
The White House wanted the U.S. Navy to move “out of sight” a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain, a war hero who became a frequent target of President Trump’s ire, ahead of the president’s visit to Japan last week, according to an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal …
There were discussions within the U.S. military over the past week about how to handle the warship, another U.S. official said. The ship is being repaired after a 2017 collision, and any ship undergoing such repair or maintenance would be difficult to move, officials said. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the president’s trip, according to photos reviewed by the Journal, and sailors were directed to remove any coverings from the ship that bore its name. After the tarp was taken down, a barge was moved closer to the ship, obscuring its name. Sailors on the ship, who typically wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Mr. Trump’s visit, people familiar with the matter said…
Words fail me.
CPO Shirley McCain was ordered belowdeck until Air Force One left Japanese airspace.
Shirley? You can’t be serious.
He is, and stop calling him Mr. President.
Monty
May 30, 2019, 4:58am
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I guess someone forgot that the Sailors’ uniforms have the ship’s name on a tab on the sleeve.
Well, face it. Sometimes it’s easier to get whatever enrages a toddler out of his sight than endure it tantrum.
Aren’t a lot of sailors proud of their ships? I wonder what they thought about covering up the name with a tarp?
You wouldn’t even see the name unless you were facing the stern and close enough to read it painted there. What a bunch of petty, ignorant idjits we have in the White House these days.
bobot
May 30, 2019, 5:01pm
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They maybe thought: "Gee, those McCains sure have a strong history of military service, which I respect, but then again, Trump has MAGA!!!
enipla
May 30, 2019, 5:02pm
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El_Kabong:
Don’t you mean moran?
He is a moron, he is fluent in moran so he can communicate with his supporters.
And a Navy that denies fearing to piss off the idjit(s)—but there seems to be evidence to the contrary:
The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that a request was made to hide the USS John S. McCain during President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to Japan.
“A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain, however, all ships remained in their normal configuration during the President’s visit,” Rear Admiral Charlie Brown, chief of information…
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that it had reviewed an email to Navy and Air Force officials dated May 15 that included the direction “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight” for Trump’s Japan visit.
So the tarp and the barge were just there obscuring the name by accident?
I don’t know what’s worse: a branch of the military quaking in their boots lest they trigger the C-in-C’s tantrum, or a branch of the military doing the quaking, and then misleading the public about the matter.
Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called Trumponomics , both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-trickle-down-arthur-laffer
Defensive_Indifference:
Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called Trumponomics , both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award.
Trump Giving Medal Of Freedom To ‘Trickle Down’ Evangelist Laffer
The co-author is Stephen Moore, Trump’s Fed pick who withdrew after his anti-women musings were revisited.
I found this review:
An Insider Book Tries to Praise Trump, But Instead Exposes His Corruption
Trumponomics is a damning exposé of the corrupt bargain between Donald Trump and the party’s wealthy insiders. The odd thing is that the book is not intended as an exposé at all, but as an auto-hagiography written by three Republican policy entrepreneurs who helped win Trump over and shape his program, and are so lacking in self-awareness that they earnestly believe they are defending both Trump and his partners.
The authors of Trumponomics are Larry Kudlow (who left in the middle of its writing to accept a job as director of the National Economic Council), Stephen Moore, and Arthur Laffer. The three fervently propound supply-side economics, a doctrine that holds that economic performance hinges largely on maintaining low tax rates on the rich. In the 1990s, the supply-siders insisted Bill Clinton’s increase in the top tax rate would create a recession and cause revenue to plummet. The following decade, they heralded the Bush tax cuts as the elixir that had brought in a glorious new era of prosperity. Moore wrote Bullish on Bush: How George Bush’s Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger , and Kudlow wrote the foreward to The Bush Boom .
Their record of being wrong about everything is so incomprehensibly vast it is astonishing they have retained their positions of influence over a major party. Trumponomics inadvertently clarifies how an economist who was declaring the U.S. housing market to be perfectly sound and on its way up in July 2008 secured a job as chief economist to the president of the United States as a matter of course.
jshore
June 2, 2019, 12:58am
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Defensive_Indifference:
Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called Trumponomics , both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award.
Trump Giving Medal Of Freedom To ‘Trickle Down’ Evangelist Laffer
From the citation: “Arthur B. Laffer, the ‘Father of Supply-Side Economics,’ is one of the most influential economists in American history.”
Well, who can argue with that? The influence of his ideas is responsible for the looting of the federal treasury to the tune of several trillion dollars. That’s trillion with a T…Yup, if that’s not influential, I don’t know what is.
Mark Alan Stamaty, cartoonist for the Village Voice, was already mocking the Laffer Curve back in 1984, with his strip about the “Giggle Wiggle.”
I wish I could make a link to that particular strip, because the depiction of the wild-haired lunatic “Professor Giggle” was a masterpiece of underground satiric political art. I can still picture it 35 years later.
Ukulele_Ike:
Mark Alan Stamaty, cartoonist for the Village Voice, was already mocking the Laffer Curve back in 1984, with his strip about the “Giggle Wiggle.”
I wish I could make a link to that particular strip, because the depiction of the wild-haired lunatic “Professor Giggle” was a masterpiece of underground satiric political art. I can still picture it 35 years later.
Martin Gardner, who at the time was still writing his [I[Mathematical Games* column in [I[Scientific American*, also lambasted the absurd simplicity and stupidity of the Laffer Curve, suggesting it be replaced with the more realistic “Technosnarl”
A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus” | Los Angeles Review of Books !
Did anyone ever mention that the Laffer Curve drawing looked exactly like a…tongue?
And which assholes it was going to be licking?
