The moron in the Oval Office can’t seem to keep from showing us how dumb he actually is and he does it on an almost hourly basis. Last Monday he announced that Alabama was in the path of hurricane Dorian, thereby illustrating that he knows nothing of what was going on with the highly covered storm, which was moving north off the east coast and even less of geography.
And to add to that, despite his aides telling everyone that he is getting constant briefings on the storm, he acts like no one ever heard of a category #5storm. I guess he thinks that the Bahamas enduring a category #5 hurricane somehow adds to the prestige of his tottering administration.
But just to prove he always has our best interests at heart, Trump cancelled his trip to Poland this weekend to memorialize the 80thanniversary of the beginning of WWII. Naturally he congratulated the Poles for being invaded and then went back to the hurricane business at home, which he conducted with 18 holes of golf. Has there ever been anyone as out of touch with reality?
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Watched an interview today between Stuart Varney on Fox Business arguing with Joe Walsh, GOP presidential candidate, in which Varney, a demented British twit, absolutely refuses to acknowledge that Trump lied when he claimed that he was having phone conversations with the Chinese over tariffs. This after Trump’s own White House staff denied that these calls ever happened. Varney, a demented fugitive from reality, holds onto the big lie that Trump has never lied. This is an idiot who sits in front of millions of viewers and utters pronouncements that would get the average man locked in a loony bin, yet he has his own program on Fox News. No wonder Britain is doing Brexit. There must be a national epidemic of dumb.
Then just to prove what an unmitigated asshole Varney is, Trump comes out last week with the news that hurricane Dorian is going to hit Alabama. That causes the US Weather Service to put out a bulletin that nothing is hitting Alabama so Trump, instead of apologizing for disseminating false information, doubles down on his lie.
The trouble here is that Varney, who comes from the land that developed our language, has failed to attempt to engage in any exercise to understand it. But Varney isn’t alone. There is a whole segment of the far Right that now completely denies that Trump lies, despite the Washington Post exposing over 12,000 lies told by him since he took office. I guess Kellyanne Conway got her alternative world after all.
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I sat today and watched four people in a discussion make fun of Donald Trump. And they were all Republicans. Obviously they were not Trumpians but still it was shocking. I’m pretty old, I go all the way back to FDR but I had never, before the administration of George Bush, seen an American president mocked. People had disagreed with presidents all the time. Some people hated particular presidents and many thought the worst of them but before Bush I had never seen on made fun of. Now Donald has Trumped him.
Bush deserved it, brought it on himself which when you think about it is the only way it can come about. Bush was dumb and lazy. It was easy to make fun of him. Cheney was hated but no one ever made fun of him. Now we have Trump and Pence, a bi-fecta of dumb and lazy. But Trump goes all the others one or more better. He’s not only lazy and stupid; he’s self-aggrandizing, greedy, dishonest and egomaniacal.
The discussion I watched had to do with the way he’s being played by almost everyone on the international scene, starting with Putin, moving on to Kim and running along to all our friends and enemies before stopping at the doors of the Saudi’s and Bibi Netanyahu.
The discussion also dealt with the fact that Trump deals with any sort of negative references in the manner of a four-year-old, meaning one who hasn’t yet reached the age of reason. He never considers what will help the nation or even what is good for him: he just strikes out angrily even though this often hurts his position or his wants.
He blundered into a problem with declaring that Alabama was in the path of Dorian. Okay, despite the attacks about it from the Left, it was really no big deal. All he had to do was say he made a mistake or just ignore the whole thing and it would have died a death of loneliness and gone away but he couldn’t do that. Like a small child he couldn’t left it go, he had to strike back, which he did at least three more times, making it into a huge deal that only left him looking like an idiot and a fool, especially when some dumb tool in his office drew a line with a sharpie around part of Alabama on a map that he displayed in a TV interview. All for nothing! All because he reacts like a small, very slow-witted child.
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Okay, so those of us who are from NY already knew from years of experience that Trump was a cheap crook and a grifter and we understood that those who didn’t know him would be slow to grasp this. A lot of people voted for Trump because they were sick of getting screwed by the politicians they had been electing and they jumped at a chance to elect a guy who wasn’t a professional politician. So what they got was an amateur politician who was also a cheap crook and grifter.
But after two and a half years of watching this clown screw up the country far worse than even the crooked politicians they voted against, many of them refuse to admit to what they put in the Oval Office.
So just to prove that he really is a cheap crook and grifter Trump has embarked on a series of moves that nail him squarely with that title.
The House Oversight Committee has been confronted with evidence that US Air Force transport planes delivering supplies to the Middle East, which normally made refueling stops in US bases in Ramstein, Germany or Rota, Spain, were suddenly rerouted in October 2017 to Prestwick Airport, near Donald Trump’s resort at Turnberry in Scotland. The use of the civilian airport resulted in increased refueling fees of over $11 million.
The crews from the planes were then transported to Trump’s resort where they were housed at reduced rates, which were still considerably higher than the Marriot or such hotels they were normally housed in and they then had to sit still for the egregiously higher prices for food and amenities at the Trump resort. They subsequently complained that their allowances didn’t covet the increased expenses.
Trump’s Turnberry Resort lost $4.5million in 2017 but regained $3 million in fees in 2018 partially due to the forced presence of our airmen.
The Prestwick airport had been on the brink of collapse. It was bought up by the Scottish government for $1 just to keep it alive and it is integral to the life of Trump’s Turnberry, so forcing US planes to land there and pay higher fuel fees is helping to keep Prestwick and Turnberry alive. Look closely friends; this is how cheap crooks and grifters operate. Trump is once again trying to line his pockets with money from your taxes.
But that wasn’t enough for Trump, the cheap crook and grifter, mainly because it never is. Trump has continually tried to tell our military that he is their friend. With friends like him, who needs enemies? This friend of our military has spent the least few months stealing money from them to build his idiotic, useless wall.
Over $3 billion has been taken from the Pentagon budget that had been allocated to repairs to naval buildings, ships and equipment, some of them critical to the safety of those who use them. Of course that wasn’t enough for the greedy bastard so additional money was taken from schools at Fort Campbell and Andrews air force bases; money that had been allocated for day care and additional classroom space for the children of American troops who have been deployed to combat areas. That’s your tax money, allocated by congress to the specific areas from which it is now being stolen by Trump and the petty crooks under his command in order to make it look like he is fulfilling his campaign lies, lies that even the Republicans with complete control of the government knew were not worth spending pennies on.
Even now Trump lies about how much wall his people have built. The truth is that they haven’t built one inch. They have been doing repairs on old walls and fencing that existed before Trump was even elected. But no new wall has been built, probably because contrary to Trump’s promises, Mexico hasn’t kicked in with a single peso to build it.
But why is everyone so surprised? The man we are discussing has, since his election, gradually turned into a mentally challenged four-year-old. Behind closed doors and strictly off the record, mainly because they are too cowardly to step forward, GOP insiders are terrified about his recent behavior. When asked about his latest quibble with reality over hurricane Dorian and its threat to Alabama, a Business Insider strategist said, “You should ask a psychiatrist about that.”
Another was quoted, “There’s just no getting through to him, and you can kiss your plans for the day goodbye because you’re basically stuck looking after a four year old. No one knows what to expect now.”
Yet another stated that: “No one knows what to expect from him anymore. His mood changes from one minute to the next based on some headline or Tweet and the next thing you know his entire schedule is tossed out the window because he’s losing his shit.”
So that’s what we have running the country now. If that’s okay, if you think that’ works for you, vote for him again. If you want a sane president, get your ass out of bed on November 8th2020 and vote for anyone or anything but Trump. If you get your way, maybe the nation can survive.