Cartoon and article excerpt below from the 2/14/2020 edition of The Week. I know someone who subscribes and they give me the magazine when they're finished with it.
So now that the "GOP" has given it's stamp of approval to Dotard's cheating efforts, the extortion of Ukraine is back on. According to what I've heard Ukraine is on board with an investigation of the Bidens. It isn't Ukraine that has a corruption problem, it is the United States. President Zelensky, knowing this, has no choice but to cooperate. He has to play for the pay.
Dotard, who has already claimed "I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president", tweeted recently in regards to how he is the de facto King of the United States.
...biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail". Peter Baker @nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2020
Comments attached to the Minus post as follows...
Thought Criminal: But Trump isn't a king... oh, wait. (1/31/2020 at 7:43pm).
Thersites: Well soon see, won't we? :) (2/1/2020 at 12:24pm).
Franco Aragosta: Trump is a true Gift from God, as was Our Lord an Saviour, Jesus Christ. It ain't no easy role to play. Jess look at how them two guys was treated. Ainchoo glad, that unlike me youse guys is jess mayda common clay? Hi shore is a lot sayfer. (2/1/2020 at 3:11pm).
That is truly disturbing. Especially the Franco comment (did he just suffer a stroke?). Dotard isn't just the king, he is a "gift from God".
Note that Rusty does not dispute the Anonymous assertion that Dotard is a fascist and is (completing) our transformation into an oligarchy. He welcomes it. Now, you may say Rusty's comment is disingenuous, but I disagree. These people absolutely would prefer a king to a president. So long as it's a king that pisses off the Left like Dotard does.
Although, in a second term, they'd probably like to see Dotard move on from pissing off the Left to punishing the Left. Dotard is eager to prosecute, convict and imprison his enemies. Magturds like Franco dream of mass murdering those who disagree with him politically.
In a (God forbid) Dotard second term, I believe trials (and convictions of Obama administration officials) that autocracy fans like Minus desires are definitely a possibility. Rudy is busy gathering the Russian-manufactured "evidence" and feeding it directly to Toady Barr.
The host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" read excerpts from the book.
"There was no doubt that Deutsche Bank had extensive business dealings with Russia, and those dealings included acting as a conduit for dirty money to get out of Russia and into the western financial system".
"Deutsche, of course, was the only reliable connection that Trump, his family, and his company had to the mainstream banking world. And Eric Trump had blurted that Russians financed the family's golf projects — even though it was Deutsche who had made the Doral loans. Perhaps this was more than a coincidence. Maybe Deutsche was what connected Trump to Russia. The rumor that had been ricocheting around Washington, New York and London was that VTB had in the recent past funneled dirty money to Trump via Deutsche".
Below is a video of the 2/17/2020 interview via YouTube.
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of NY who used to be a Republican (before he switched to identifying as an Independent) now says he is a Democrat. And he wants Democratic primary voters to chose him to run against Dotard Drumpf as the Democratic standard-bearer. I'm opposed to the former Republican using his incredible wealth to buy the nomination.
Yet, because Bloomberg has decided that he's now a Democrat, I'm supposed to defend him, I guess. As you may have heard, audio has recently come out in which Bloomberg talks about how Stop and Frisk is great. In the video below Bloomberg says "95% of your murders and murder victims fit one MO. You can take the description, xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities 16 to 25". As per Politico "The clip seems to have originated from Bloomberg's speech at an Aspen Institute event in February 2015".
In reaction to this audio, the pro-Dotard blogger Minus FJ (using his "Joe Conservative" sockpuppet) posted the following comment.
That's funny. Previously Minus claimed that, to be a White Nationalist, the person being accused must be shown to have said something like "I like White Nationalism". This was during a discussion where I claimed that Dotard is a White Nationalist and we know this because he hired Steve Bannon and (specifically) Stephen Miller.
Dervish Sanders: ...Stephen Miller IS working hard to advance White Nationalist agenda. Why the White Nationalists will vote for Dotard. He wants their votes and is working for their votes.
Minus FJ: Jews are not White NationLists.
So Jews aren't White Nationalists? Except for Michael Bloomberg. Because he says he's a Democrat, obviously. That's per the huge hypocrite Minus. I never said a Jew couldn't be a White Nationalist. I did say a Jew shouldn't be a White Nationalist. Regardless, Stephen Miller is. His words and actions make that clear. Plus he was outed by Katie McHugh, a former editor for Breitbart News, who says "Miller privately showed his true colors and pushed white supremacist ideals echoing his hardline views on restricting immigration to her in order to get them on Breitbart's website".
So here we have an adviser who is basically in charge of the Dotard administration's immigration policy, versus comments from a former Republican that he's walked back. Even if Bloomberg is only saying NOW that he went to far with Stop and Frisk. Now that he needs the African American vote. At least he is saying it was a mistake. Unlike Dotard, who STILL supports Stop And Frisk.
Stop and frisk works. Instead of criticizing @NY_POLICE Chief Ray Kelly, New Yorkers should be thanking him for keeping NY safe.
The hypocrite-in-chief, despite defending Stop and Frisk, now says Bloomberg's comments (in the 2015 audio) mean he is a "total racist". Dotard later deleted the tweet. Because he was embarrassed in regards to the obvious hypocrisy? I doubt it, given that hypocrisy is something that doesn't faze Dotard or his supporters. In the least. Explaining why Minus jumped on the audio and declared Bloomberg a "White Nationalist Leader" and that Mike's comments (made before he transformed into a Democrat) represent the DNC reverting to it's "KKK roots". In a later WYD comment Minus refers to Mike as "Klansbrother Bloomberg".
Certainly there is a lot to criticize Bloomberg for when it comes to this audio. It definitely makes his conversion on Stop and Frisk that much harder to believe. Impossible even. But has he said "I like White Nationalism". Or, "I like the KKK". NO, Minus. He hasn't. Plus he's Jewish. Case closed. Bloomberg isn't a White Nationalist or a member of the KKK. Not that I think he should therefore be the Democratic potus nominee.
He should not. He's good on gun issues and has the right views on climate change and a woman's right to choose. If he wants to spend his megabucks to support the Democratic potus nominee, I say go ahead. Although he should stay out of the primary. I don't want him to either be the nominee or to put his thumb on the scale in support of his nominee of choice (a moderate Democrat).
As for unrepentant racist comments, there are plenty of examples I could give that prove Dotard is a "total racist" and definitely not "the least racist person there is anywhere in the world".
Politifact rates this claim as "pants on fire". ThinkProgress points out that "the graphic claims that 81% of whites are killed by blacks. The actual percentage, based on the latest data from the FBI, is 14 percent". Obviously the graphic stat is way off. Also (as per ThinkProgress) "the image began spreading on Twitter when it was posted by a neo-Nazi who uses a swastika as his avatar".
Wow! That's strange. That Dotard would retweet a racist meme that was posted by a neo-Nazi. Or not strange or surprising AT ALL. Given that Nazis are very fine people, according to Dotard. btw, Dotard supporters (and others) claim that Dotard was referring to people (who wanted the statue of Robert E. Lee to remain in place) did so for reasons other than racism. The cultural and historical significance of the statues, that they are proud of their heritage, etc. Regarding these claims... I say bullshit. There were zero "very fine people" at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on August 11 to 12, 2017. None (as per Wikipedia it "was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally").
So, while Bloomberg did support the racist Stop and Frisk, he no longer does. If he says this for political expediency or if he conversion is real, he still repudiates it. And has apologized. Unlike the lying Dotard, the real "total racist". As well as an actual "White Nationalist Leader". As proven by the advisers he brought with him to the White House (Bannon and Miller, among others). In conclusion... Minus can get bent.
The following music video opened the 2/6/2020 airing of NBC's Late Night with Stephen Colbert (episode 875).
One lone republican senator had the integrity and the guts to vote to impeach the obviously guilty Dotard. Although Romney only voted guilty in regards to Article 1 (Abuse of Power) and not Article 2 (Obstruction of Congress). Apparently Romney thought it was just fine for Dotard to refuse to cooperate AT ALL with the House's inquiry. Nevertheless, I congratulate Romney for his vote. A vote that Romney says was guided by his faith. Although the orange ignoramus had the temerity to say (at the National Prayer breakfast on 2/6/2020), "I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong".
What Romney did was right, you tool of Satan. btw, I refer to Dotard as a tool of Satan because I believe he is. Following the sacrilege of Dotard using a prayer breakfast to attack those who "wronged" him, Jimmy Kimmel aired footage of Dotard holding up a copy of USA Today with a large font heading reading "acquitted". Although Kimmel's team digitally edited the heading to read "Evil Wins". A header which accurately describes how I feel about what happened. Another accurate heading could have been "Putin Wins", but "Evil Wins" is even more accurate, IMO.
Luckily there were no Democratic defectors. All 45 Democratic Senators voted guilty on both articles of impeachment. btw, it is time for Susan Collins to go. First she said she thought Dotard had learned his lesson and that he wouldn't engage in similar behavior in the future. Then she modified her comment (when it quickly became apparent that wasn't going to happen), saying her words were aspirational and that she hoped Dotard would stop cheating. What a gutless dodo. Collins also knew that Brett Kavanaugh isn't for upholding Roe v Wade, but voted to confirm him anyway. Despite allegedly being pro-choice.
Every other republican senator decided they would be OK with going down in the history books as gutless enablers of a Putin-installed predisent. "I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests" Fiona Hillimplored during her testimony before a joint House committee on 10/14/2019. LOL. It's funny because falsehoods that advance Putin's interests comprised the bulk of the GOP defense of Dotard.
In wrapping up his case against Dotard, House manager Adam Schiff said "I do not ask you to convict him because truth or right or decency matters nothing to him. But because we have proven our case and it matters to you. Right matters to you. You are decent. He is not who you are". Unfortunately Schiff was wrong in his assessment of Senate Republicans. The Senate Republicans who voted to acquit ARE like Dotard. Truth, decency and what is right does NOT matter to them. What primarily matters to them is that republican voters inexplicably approve of their horrible Putin-puppeted leader.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert presents: Secret Asset Man [A modified version of 1966's Secret Agent Man written by PF Sloan and Steve Barri, originally performed by Johnny Rivers] 1:48.
[spoken]
President Trump's victory lap included several jabs at Romney on social media, including a video released on Twitter, calling the senator from Utah a quote "Democrat secret asset".
[Music starts]
There's a man who leads a life of plainness.
Who voted to convict an ignoramus.
Sometimes tows the party line.
But went his own way this one time.
Odds are he'll be banned from Mar-A-Lago.
Secret asset man. Secret asset man.
You look like a stock photo in a store-bought picture frame.
Beware the orange faces that you find.
A hair transplant can't hide a stupid mind.
Your ties are made of silk, your favorite drink is milk. You can add it to your decaf macchiato.
Secret asset man. Secret asset man.
You voted with your conscience, you are a good Mor-man.
[song ends]
YouTube description: After Sen. Mitt Romney voted to convict President Trump in his impeachment trial, Trump called the Senator a "Secret Asset Man" for the Democrats. Little did he know, the nickname also comes with a catchy song.
Explaining his vote for a no witnesses shame trial trial, one of my senators, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, said (on the 2/2/2020 airing of Meet the Press with Chuck Todd) "he shouldn't have done it. And I say he shouldn't have done it. And now I think it's up to the American people to say... OK, good economy, lower taxes, conservative judges, behavior that I might not like (a call to Ukraine) -- weigh that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and pick a president".
So Republicans (those who at least acknowledge that what Dotard did is wrong and aren't full in with narratives that originated in Russia) are willing to overlook Dotard's corruption (and the rest of their party's complicity in pushing Putin's conspiracy theories) because they are getting everything else they want. F*ck you, Lamar.
I'm OK with the American people deciding in the upcoming election (given that you completely failed to do your Constitutional duty) but the election is going to be rigged. The Senate told Dotard (with it's "acquittal") that cheating is not an impeachable offense, guaranteeing that Dotard will do ALL he can to "win" again.
By cheating as much as possible to retain the White House. With help from Putin as well as any other foreign power that decides they'd rather have the (manipulable low IQ) Dotard retain the American presidency (North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Israel's corrupt leader, Erdoğan of Turkey, Bolsonaro of Brazil, the Philippines Duterte, etc). It's going to be a free-for-all this election season. Surely a reason why the pro-Dotard blogger Minus FJ is positive "Trump is going nowhere" (a comment he made using his Joe Conservative sockpuppet).
