The diplomat that resigned during the Bush administration when Bush pressed for war and invasion also pointed out that we are being led by idiots and that even current and just now former diplomats are dissenting.
HWMNBN spent his time at the National Prayer Breakfast by asking people to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger because his ratings on The Apprentice are lower than when he was on it.
According to Fox News, anonymous intelligence officials believe that “Iran-backed Houthi rebels” attacked a Saudi warship on Monday. Fox says these officials believe that the attack was either intended for a US ship or was a practice run for a later attack on a US ship.
I detect the distinct aroma of bullshit around this story. But with Iran “on notice”, it won’t take much for Trump to justify touching off some cruise missiles or shooting down an airliner or something.
The Houthi are not even very close to the Iranian regime, they are Shia but Zaidi, it is only a marriage of convenience for the Saudi back the Sunni extremists.
And how is it that any american can take seriously this president who uses a public meeting to engage in feuding over his former television show?
This is an embarrassment already for you in these first weeks, it is something so clownlike that if it had been made as a movie you would say it was non believable and anti american prejudice. and you are living it live.
I can not believe this is even a partisan question now.
You, my friend, have put your finger right on the main issue.
We’ve gone from a president who was the epitome of class, decorum, civility, intelligence, without one breath of scandal in his personal or professional life (whether or not you agreed with his politics) in two weeks to a clownish buffoon who brags about his ignorance, who can’t open his mouth without lying, and who doesn’t hesitate to insult our allies using his diarrhea-of-the-fingers Twitter account. The man is both a joke and seriously mentally ill.
Those of us who still have full use of our mental faculties cannot believe that his people take him seriously. Okay, those dumb hicks out in the sticks (oops! not PC!) maybe, but his colleagues in Congress, people with intelligence, education, experience, and one assumes, perspective-- they’re just letting all of this slide.
Because they want some things from him: a conservative Supreme Court justice, and elimination of as many Obama-era restrictions on business, development, safety, preservation of the environment, protection of civil rights, and constraints on corruption as they can accomplish. I suspect that once they get some of these things done, they’ll dump him like the yesterday’s trash that he is.
But until then, it will take decades to undo the damage. Hell, if the Congressional Republicans have their way, Democrats will never have a majority in Congress or another President (this accomplished by gerrymandering and voting restrictions), and the damage will continue until they’re filthy fucking rich and the USA as we know it is no more.
I think I’ll stiock to Stephen Colbert for my news. In his latest episode we lean that the short-fingered “Christian” used his prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like Schwarzenegger’s response.
We also learn that one reason the Trump team is so infatuated with Alternate Facts is that the Trump is too senescent to remember ordinary facts. He thinks Gorsuch is already on Scotus. Yesterday he thought Frederick Douglass was still alive.