The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues

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I dunno about the Floriduh elections, yet by no means is the NY seat a guaranteed Dem win. It’s upstate, which skews widely republican (and often MAGA - there is still some light between the two) yet it’s on the border near Vermont. I hope all three win for the Dems yet I’d really hate if my home state kept the thugs in charge.

Probably the opening lines to a chapter of one of his ghost-written books.

Then, "I saw all these bodies, and then I noticed those bodies were gorgeous. They had silk tights on, and they were all ballerinas, and women from Broadway. And men. I didn’t find those particular bodies as attractive to be honest.”

Close call there, although when Trump says “to be honest” it generally means the opposite.

They were not men - they were Top Cats: Benny the Ball, Choo-Choo, Fancy-Fancy and Top Cat himself. All very cute cats.

I only saw moments of the movie, yet living in NYC I heard enough. For years it was Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and it was like the only fucking thing on Broadway was Cats. Wasn’t the lead Rum-tum-tugga a male cat? Was he not also handsome and a good singer like Lee Greenwood?

n a break with the past, the center would be doing some shows not affiliated Actors’ Equity, the union representing actors. The person said that the change ‘opens us up for a whole bunch of more options as well as a lot more money.’"

Again, fuck with the unions in NYC and it will start costing more than $30,000 to move a piano. All the unions respect eachother and most New Yorkers will boycott any productions at the former Kennedy Center.

Also on the president’s mind was the center’s annual awards ceremony, which he boycotted during his first term because “several artists being honored criticized him.”

Revenge! The driving motivation in this malevolent prics life.

Trump continued, “I have enough publicity. They’ll say, ‘Trump wants to be the host.’ I don’t want to. But I want this thing to be successful.”

Aww, c’mon, “Sir, you would be a terrific host, the greatest and non-gayest host ever!. You will drive the gayness out of this Center like that Saint guy in Ireland drove the demons into the Sea!”

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The Federal Student Loan Debt Resolution site is still up. For now.

https://myeddebt.ed.gov/borrower/#/home

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MAGA!!

The United States ranked 24th, one spot lower than last year, continuing its downward trajectory from a high of 11th place in 2012, when the survey began.

Asked for comment, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responded:

It is, and has always been, the policy of this administration to dedicate itself to the ongoing enshittification of these Stygian third-world countries like Sierra Leone, Yemen, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to ensure that we maintain our rightful place in these critically important world rankings.

[Or maybe those were my words, not hers]

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Come on, you know Trump will claim to have never even heard of ‘gulf’ before. "No one knew this game could be so hard, I had big strong coddies coming up to me with tears in their eyes, saying, “Sir, you’ve made this “gulf” of America the best sport ever, no one will ever be better at it than you!”

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This seems like the right moment to remark that golfo, in Spanish, when used as an adjective, means crook.

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I can concur with Finland #1 as I lived in Helsinki for a day and they are indeed the “cup of human kindness” and very nice. Like most countries, they appreciate when you try to greet them in their (in the case of Finland, incredibly difficult) language and will courteously cut you off with a smile and speak in English.

On that trip, my next stop was to go to St. Petersburg for the fourth time to marry my wife, who taught English and I’ve only influenced her with New York City talk, Irish talk (good Craic!) and other garb-I mean rubbish that both the Irish and British speak. To their credit, there are nice people in St. Petersburg.

New York City itself deserves a better reputation than it gets. “No, you want the 6 - that’s the green 4,5,6 but you want the 6” etc…

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Drat. My main point in my prior post was not to talk up Finland, St. Petersburg or even NYC, but to quote, without the stuttering, Randy Bachman regarding the downward trajectory:

Baby, you ain’t see nothing yet

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Maybe Trump has a secret fantasy about the cast of Cats:

Chris: Jesus titty-f***ing Christ. I could’ve sworn she was telling the truth.
Gary: That’s why they call it acting. Come on, we gotta find Lisa.
Chris [not moving]: I was nineteen years old when the musical Cats came to our town. [Gary stops and listens] I couldn’t wait to see it. After the show I was asked if I wanted to go meet some of the performers backstage. Man, I was thrilled. But when I got back there, they were drunk and out of control. Rumpus Cat and Macavity kept feeling up my leg. I tried to leave, but, Rumpleteazer held me down, and… I was raped by Mr. Mistoffelees.
Gary: That’s why you don’t trust actors.

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I checked and the US has a trade deficit of $10B with sub-saharan Africa. They’re making out like bandits!

We need mines and textile factories in the US to have worse pay and conditions than in the Congo, so they’ll import from America, instead of exploiting us like this. MAGA!

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I remember the advertising. “Cats: Now, and forever!” I figured I had time to see it.

Forever ended a lot sooner than I imagined.

So I went to see the hypnotist The Amazing Alexander. It was much better than Cats. I am going to see it again and again.

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:in_hole: :clap:

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Oh Trey and Matt the (South Park / Team America - World Police / Book of Mormon / Bigger, longer and uncut “Blame Canada!”) / showed up in dresses to the academy awards totally tripping) guys.

I am going to believe (for now - then forget) if those are real Cats/character names, yet I will choose to believe that all really happened.

All I know is Rum-tum-tugga and I think he was usually a handsome black guy with a deep bass voice. And everyone in that cast is likely a SAG (screen actors guild) union member or whatever the Broadway equivalent is (Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)

“To be honest”, I did not wish to have sex with him. Those ballerina girls in tights, Mrrrow!

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I feel like we’re burying the lede here.

Trump is a Furry.

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And Israel is still in the top 10, despite just living through the worst two years in our nation’s history. I swear to God, we’re the only people in the world capable of being happy out of spite.

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Well, of course he is. Would you have sex with him if you had to SEE him?

(Disclaimer: I don’t really know how Furries work, so if my reply doesn’t make any sense, that’s why.)

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Beg pardon for parody or satire, yet as today was the first good car-washing day I could not help but write my acceptance speech…

thunderous applause

Coriolanus: Thank, you, thank you, thank you so much for honoring me as Best Actor in the very First Trump Center Awards…

Even more thunderous applause as all stand, turn towards Trump’s box and extend their arms in praise for a sustained period

Coriolanus: lowering his arm Indeed, this gold statuette of our great President I hold in my hand, as recognition of my role in “Andrew Jackson: The Musical” would not be possible were it not for President Trump and his major contribution to the Arts…

thunderous, yet wearying applause as the guy accepting the award is apparently mid-sentence and not done yet

Coriolanus (continuing) …and I would also praise with the greatest praise, the man, whom I refer to as Musk-The-Bard, for whom without his unwithering funds the socialist unions would have made our endeavor impossible…

Again thunderous applause as all stand, turn towards Musk’s box and extend their arms in praise, who raises his arm in the correct manner for a sustained period and only till he lowers his arm does the audience take their seats and audibly sigh as this award-winning-type guy is not done talking yet

Coriolanus: Were it not for Andrew Jackson, Florida might still be occupied by faithless Seminole Indians or even a Spanish or Mexican Colony lusty boos yet now it has Disney World and our greatest President’s resort “Mar-a-Lago” cheering

I would also like to thank Alan Smithee for writing the score, directing *starts getting cut off by instrumental version of Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’

Coriolanus: (mostly drowned out): I too sing God Bless the USA and inaudible as he’s ushered off the stage

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That’s why they’re trying to bring back child labor. “Dig, baby, dig!”

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You married your wife four times???

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Ha! My fourth trip there, 2011, and it is a lovely city. Marriage is entirely civil (if you later want to go to an Orthodox Church - go ahead).

So just the once. I’ve told my mother (in NY) I’m not going to a dictatorship in either the USA or Russia. (I might - if there’s a route that doesn’t go through Turkey - accompany my wife to sell her flat and close out estate stuff after her dad died in November - yet I’ll be going as Irish and will try and keep my mouth shut and stay out of the Gulag)

ETA: And when she came to NYC, we went to the top of 30 Rockefeller where you can see the Empire State Building (no 3 hour line) and the puny Chrysler building. Staten Island Ferry for free to see the Statue of Liberty, MOMA, the Cloisters and Shakespeare in the Park (Amy Adams, Into the Woods) and on another visit “Wicked”

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Oui, mon Général!