The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

That actually sounds quite plausible.

It was in a rage about the pain of his scalp-reduction surgery by Ivana’s preferred plastic surgeon that she alleged he raped her, though she retracted the claim later.

Part of it is still in Bill the Cat.

I suspect some of it may be in Bill’s diaper.

Trump is now requiring federal food aid boxes all include a letter from him, on WH letterhead.

The new mandate has sent food banks and other nonprofits scrambling as they worry distributing the boxes with the letters could be misconstrued as election activity, according to interviews with nearly a dozen nonprofit and industry leaders.

"These guys should be handing out food and instead they’re talking to campaign attorneys because of these damn letters,” said Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm, and a longtime player in Democratic politics.“It’s a brazen attempt at vote buying targeted at the neediest.”

I didn’t know Fix-a-Flat was so expensive.

Whoof.

Okay this will cost a little and be labor-intensive, but it’s time to get replacement cardboard cartons and repack the food in those.

Or invest in a shredder and use the letters as packing material.

I think Trump just lost the airline worker vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/01/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus#airlines-furlough-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-as-aid-deal-expires

Furloughs of more than 30,000 workers by United Airlines and American Airlines began Thursday after Congress was unable to come up with a fresh aid package for the industry.

One of my Facebook friends is a retired media personality; he suggested using the letters as emergency toilet paper.

In an Op-ed on CNN, Ted Cruz argues why the Republicans need to rush in and confirm a new Supreme Court justice;

It boils down to:

  • We can do it now, because we can. So we must. Republicans hold the presidency and the Senate. Because we can do it, that makes it different from last time, when we stopped the other party from doing it.

  • We need to appoint a new Justice right away, because we are going to contest the results of the upcoming election, no matter what the voters say. We must have a compliant and highly partisan justice who we know will rule in our favor, even before any of the facts are known or votes have been counted.

  • Therefore, if we don’t appoint a partisan justice to the supreme court now, the entire country will be lost.

I doubt he ever had it.

Trump has the white guy who’s pissed off that he can get fired for telling racist and sexist jokes.

As bad as Trump is, let’s not forget how odious the Ted Cruz’s of the world are. Depending on the day, I still sometimes feel that we are better off having elected Trump than Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz would probably be more skillful at uniting factions of the right together than Trump has been. He’d give smirking wink-and-nod ‘apologies’ to right wing extremists while unifying more mainstream elements of the party under the banner of banning abortion.

If the 2016 senate had simply said, “You don’t have the votes* to appoint a SCOTUS, so you can’t do it.” Then they’d have been assholes, but at least consistent.

Instead, they came up with all sorts of principled reasons as to why a president shouldn’t get a nominee in their last year of office. And, by throwing those principles out, they show themselves to be lacking principle.

*and of course, the reason for this is because they probably did have the votes. It would not have taken very many republican senators to come over, and Garland was a pretty moderate choice. He almost certainly would have been confirmed if there had been a vote.

Indeed. This is why Cruz is such a disingenuous hypocritical asshole.

Among the reasons, that is.

Grand High Republican Muckitimucks learn the life lesson “When you lie down with Trump, you get up with bedbugs”:

Not necessarily surprising, though.

A more telling metric will be Republicans and right-leaning independents who intend to show up on election day. We’ll probably be hearing more about that statistic these last few weeks.

One thing I will say about mail-ins: the stronger the mail-in voting is for Dems, the more critical it will be for Republicans to express their intention to vote on election day itself. Republicans will probably need to dominate election day voting, whatever “dominate” means.

A couple of weeks ago I tried a couple of times to submit an Amazon review for this product.

They keep rejecting it, so I thought I might post it here.


Workable toilet paper substitute for people living in a failed state that can’t ensure the availability of basic life necessities.

The paper is really thin and sort of greasy to the touch, just like Donald Trumps moral fiber. If this money was a person it would probably bang a porn star that reminded him of his daughter while his wife was giving birth. And it’s slightly sticky, which is disturbing. I hope that’s hairspray from Trump rubbing them on his head because the alternative is too icky to contemplate.

The resemblance to Trump is mind-blowing. I’m not talking about the picture - which fails to accurately portray the President’s advanced age and obesity. I’m talking about the very heart and soul of this product.

This product is tacky, low class and so sleazy it leaves a grimy film on anything it comes into contact with, much like the scrum left in the wake of White House press secretaries. Saddam Hussein rejected the design as tawdry and Kim Jong Un said it was a little too megalomaniacal for his taste.

The artwork on these counterfeits reaches a truly despotic level of self-aggrandizement. Nothing says dictatorship like big gold-plated banknotes that are absolutely worthless. It’s a true harbinger of a dystopian future.

What really makes this product the soul of Trump is that it’s a LIAR. This product LIES! It totally lies its proverbial backside off. It claims to be worth more than a million times its true value! Much like Donald Trump’s word, it’s totally worthless no matter what anyone says. There is no better way to celebrate the worlds greatest con artist than with a big pile of obviously counterfeit money!

If someone gives you this bill and shakes your hand, count your fingers afterwards. You probably won’t have ten.

Putin’s implant?

I believe you totally underestimate Trump. He is a very devious person who is free of any moral values or remorse.