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As usual, the thing Trump wants everybody to focus on is sidetracked by his actual tweet. Vietnam? Seriously MangoMan? You really want to go there? Thatâs the takeawayâŠComing from a guy that couldnât be bothered to serve his country, sacrifice a fucking thing in his life, throughout his life for anyone or anything greater than his own smug self-interest. Vietnam?? I canât believe this is the hill he wants to die on, yet again, this morning.
Vietnam??
On a daily basis, Trump presents Democrats with easy messaging opportunities. Itâs up to the Dems to take advantage of them. I would think Tammy Duckworth could present an effective response.
"Iâve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. Itâs scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era âŠit is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.â
âI think Iâve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. Iâve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. Iâve had tremendous success. I think Iâve done a lot,â Trump told ABC. (7/30/16)
Wow. Noted Purple Heart recipient and smarter-than-the-generals war hero Comrade Coir Coif is reduced to attacking Blumenthalâs military record. The irony is suffocating.
In other news âŠ
Those were tweeted around 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon.
It is good that Little Donnie Trump has shared his one skill with us. He is an expert on lies. He knows lies better than most on the play ground. He has lied about everything in his life. e lies when the truth would serve him better. Bring up a lie that someone else told, and admitted to years ago to discredit that person is so excellent.
Lying Little Donnie Trump should tend to the bail of straw in his own eye before he goes after the speck in someone elseâs eye.
Come on, Judge Gorsuch â come clean, denounce the so-called âpresidentâ and his anti-American ways. If you donât remove your nomination, you have no integrity, dude.
If you locked William Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Hunter Thompson, Louis Carroll and Ken Kesey in a room and told them to collaborate on a fictional novel about some insanely improbable Presidential reign of idiocy they couldnât come up with this shit weâre watching.
OK. Enough of this horseshit. Weâre less than 3 weeks in, when do we seriously start talking about the 25th Amendment, section 4 of which states the following:
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue . . . .
I mean, seriously, the so-called President of the United States is seriously emotionally ill. At what point do the Republicans, from Pence on down, begin to conclude that the risk to the country is more important than the embarrassment?
The plot thickens and I canât imagine that PP wonât withdraw this nomination under some pretense because his feelings are hurt. And really, for this so called president to criticize Blumenthal for not serving in Vietnam, there are no words. But the good news is PPâs âinsanely angry.â Thatâs it, guy, raise your BP level to some insane number, collapse, fall on the floor and die.
Iâd add Richard Condon.
Maybe the addition of Franz Kafka, Rod Serling and Edgar Allan Poe would help.
The comments were even more extensive than had been reported last night.
Shortly after Trumpâs tweet went live, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse confirmed to MSNBCâs Morning Joe that Gorsuch had made the remarks, adding that the judge got âpretty passionate about it.â Additionally, Sasse said, Gorsuch remarked that âAny attack on brothers or sisters of the robe is an attack on all judges.â
Game on. Letâs do this. If Gorsuch sucks up to Trump and tries to deny these comments, we could see a nominee lying to Congress during his confirmation hearing when he has Senators testifying against him in open session. Or an orphaned nominee.
To be fair, Blue, Trump didnât criticize Blumenthal for not serving, he criticized him for lying when he said he did. That said, the substance of your outrage is equally on target: that Trump with a straight face can accuse anyone of lying is beyond redemption.
I think Josh pretty much nailed it on the head in his editorial on the subject. Gorsuch is caught between Trumpâs demands for complete loyalty to him, and Gorsuchâs own life long loyalty to the Judicial Branch.
If Gorsuch tries to distance himself from his private comments, the Dems are going to beat him over the head and they will filibuster, forcing McConnell to abolish it entirely (which he will do).
The problem with that scenario of course, is it creates an even bigger dark cloud of Gorsuchâs seat. He will always be viewed as tainted (not in the least because its Garlandâs seat). That creates even more distrust in the SCOTUS and further undermines its authority going forward.
Its almost like a Bannon plan playing out or somethingâŠ
OT a bit. I was half listening (mostly not listening) to Gov. Malloy (CT) discussing our snow storm. Toward the end of the âstay the hell off the roads, dumbassesâ presser apparently someone asked about Trumpâs tweeting. Malloyâs response was someone should take Trumpâs phone away as he (trump) gives the impression of being unhinged. paraphrasing on my part.
The orange hell beast calling anyone out for lying is pure comedy.
OT: Speaking of False New: the US ambassador in spe to the EU is Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Financial Times, London, Feb. 9, 2017 has a full exposĂ©. He appears to be something of a snobâŠ
Mr Malloch claims that his PBS documentary Doing Virtuous Business âwas nominated for an Emmy Awardâ. WFYI, the production company behind the documentary, said the film had been submitted for a Lower Great Lakes Chapter Regional Emmy but not nominated.
Mr Malloch also says that he was âknighted in the Sovereign Order of St John by the Queen, Elizabeth II herselfâ and âto my family and closest friends, I am therefore known as Sir Tedâ. But while he received the medal of St John in 2005, it was as a âserving brotherâ â a grade roughly equivalent to an MBE, a British honour several ranks lower than a knighthood. It does not carry a right to a title and members do not attend an investiture with the Queen.
Mr Malloch also wrote that he was âmade a laird by Lord Lyon of Scotland and given a personal coat of arms with a fancy Latin inscriptionâ. However, the Clerk and Keeper of the Records at the court of the Lord Lyon said: âThe Lord Lyon does not, nor could he, create a person a laird . . . It would certainly be incorrect [for Mr Malloch] to say that âhe was made a laird by the Lord Lyon King of Armsâ.â Mr Malloch told the FT that he had a scroll showing his position as laird.
those damn monarchies leave a paper trail, donât they ?