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Hopefully, there are still enough Americans with working brains who see through this ridiculous charade…this hollow, embarrassingly Orwellian parody playing out before our eyes…embraced and now being mutually exploited by the oligarchs and their bought and paid for media that they’ve
instructed to legitimize, normalize and help deflect…
It might all be exceedingly comical, if it weren’t all so insidious and dangerous …and unequivocally and irreparably damaging to this country and its psyche in the long and short term…
A shallow, dumb, erratic, petty, juvenile, narcissistic sociopath whose entire existence is a blurry indiscernible ball of whiny, needy, empty bluster and shallow stagecraft ….and desperate to distract attention from his many glaring iniquities and serious conflicts – including his dubious associations and treasonous collusion with the Russians who still own him and control many who surround him…And desperately seeking the universal validation and adulation he craves beyond that conditionally doled out to him by his mostly psychopathic, sycophantic, hollow, racist, agenda-driven, hate-filled white supremacist base….but most importantly, entirely obsessed with one-upping, ‘outdoing’ and completely destroying not just the legacy and stellar reputation of the brilliant, world-beloved and immensely popular and historic President he continues to unhealthily obsesses over and has envied and stalked for years, but the man himself..
Just last week, it was crickets from the same fake buffoon who in typical shallow reality t.v style was yesterday playing to the cameras with his ‘beautiful babies killed’ theatrics…
Crickets as American airstrikes in Mosul, Iraq last week killed scores of civilians — including some ‘beautiful babies’…perhaps as many as 200 by account…and the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003. And the reports of these civilian deaths in Mosul came immediately after two recent incidents in Syria, where in response to the buffoon’s desire to score a quick ‘win’ to stop his fast downward spiral in the polls, American air strikes sloppily ordered by him, struck and killed dozens of civilians..
Don’t let them distract, deflect from the ongoing bastardization of our democracy and the decimation of our country as we know it…
Don’t let them normalize and legitimize and absolve and elevate the Putin-owned buffoon who most definitely got permission and guidance from …and even most likely was first approached by, and probably conspired and coordinated with the Kremlin to put on this little show tonight in Syria…to appear to create distance between them – to throw off easily fooled Americans…and more importantly, to fake ‘assert’ independence from Putin, to contradict and hopefully, discredit ongoing investigations..
Never forget…the media isn’t moral, high-minded or independent…it’s all oligarch-owned…and concerned entirely and most importantly, with the corporate interests of the oligarchs who own them…
The media and all the paid bobbleheads and spin-masters and ‘strategists’ are all owned and controlled too by the very same handful of self-serving, self-interested agenda-driven oligarchs from whom they get their marching orders…which us why you find the same ‘contributors’ from one hour to the next, one t.v station and program to the next, offering mealy-mouthed and entirely contradictory opinions from their last appearance an hour before…
Neil Gorsuch. Corporate-owned tool. The worst of the worst kind of tool. Non-negotiable. Important to the ends of the oligarch corporate agenda…effectively sold to the ‘pro-life’ ‘christian’ right wing as one of theirs…Marching orders to media, get behind and push him. No coincidence that the gushing and carefully caliberated words and faces of as many disparate media types were featured in the million dollar ads ‘urging’ a swift confirmation by congress…but in essence, just another low-grade psy-ops on silly Americans..
Today, McConnell and the republicans did their masters bidding, and blew up 200+ years of congressional rules just to install a singular, handpicked corporate puppet…a guy most of them really don’t know…in response to an order from the oligarchs. A non-negotiable one.
But God is still in charge…and he’s not even nearly done….even if these folks busy playing God don’t know it yet…He’s got a few surprises left …
Until then, Neil Gorsuch will always be an interloper …with several asterisks permanently attached…
And as with the buffoon, no matter how hard the media tries to sell and legitimize him…unendingly bombarding us with prefacing of his name with the unearned title….we will never acknowledge either…
It will still always be an illegitimate Putin-installed puppet illegally invading, desecrating and holding the People’s House hostage…and it’ll always and forever be Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court seat…
P.S: Bravo! And well-done to the emerging bright lights in our party, who’ve done their part well these past several weeks…Adam Schiff, Jeff Merkeley…etc. you’ve given us hope…
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/850184772978606080
Of course Russia had to sign off on the desperate plan to score a contrived ‘win’ for their flailing buffoon..
These Quadruplet brothers were all accepted to Harvard and Yale.
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170406172544-02-ohio-quadruplets-colleges-exlarge-169.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/us/ohio-quadruplets-colleges-trnd/
Breaking: More than 50 Tomahawk missiles launched against Syria.
https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/850115187361423361
https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/850115743148650497
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/850146907699785735
https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/850101494170910721
https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters/status/850064492344070146
😂👌
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/849975168021692418
https://twitter.com/TMannWSJ/status/849972375890350081
https://twitter.com/MattMurph24/status/850119784083619841
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/850067084864303104
“…I know that he (Jared Kushner) spent a lot of time trying to convince a lot of us that Michael Flynn was a great choice…and so was Rudy Giuliani…so there’s your answer…”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcG196akNII&t=4m57s&feature=youtu.be
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/850117089985785856
https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/850123564854517760
https://twitter.com/Basseyworld/status/850125594893463552
U.S. land agency website drops hiking photo to give coal top billing
Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:31 p.m. CDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s public lands website has revealed a new face, a wall of coal, as the Trump administration underscores its promotion of an industry that has seen its hardest times since the Bee Gees topped music charts.
The Bureau of Land Management, charged with overseeing programs on vast swathes of public lands, including cattle grazing, coal leasing and recreation, changed the banner photo on its home page sometime Wednesday or on Thursday by mid-afternoon, web archives show.
The banner of the agency, an arm of the Interior Department, is now dominated by a photo of a man and his truck dwarfed by a coal vein in Wyoming, the country’s top coal-producing state.
Previously, the main photo featured two backpackers – a man and a boy – on a vast mountain range gazing into the sunset.
The image switch, first reported by Mashable.com, came after President Donald Trump signed an order last week to dismantle former President Barack Obama’s climate policies. The order included a reversal of a ban on coal leasing on public lands, where 40 percent of the country’s coal is produced.
http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2017/apr/06/us-land-agency-website-drops-hiking-photo-to-give-coal-top-billing/
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/850107292292968449
https://twitter.com/JKH2/status/850117010616971264
https://twitter.com/MikeElgan/status/850092279960289280
But he’s ‘rich’ …so go right ahead and keep plundering …it’s perfectly fine now for taxpayers to keep carrying the phony, shameless, always have been cash-poor, grifters …
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/850110011414073345
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/850101847406903296
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/850097431782019072
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/850105361843539969
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/850127753852727298
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/849962898046812160
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/850125948511031296
Of course they are…
The grifting pretenders who’ve illegally invaded our White House are drunk on delusions of grandeur and the false sense of Secret Service as bit players for the buffoon-family shallow stagecraft…the contrived and grandiose images and falsities bolstered and somehow legitimized by Secret Service stationed all around them…as the buffoon and his brood huff and puff around hoping to be validated and legitimized…
So brazen! These people have no shame. They’ll try it right in your face…but not today, Satan!
https://twitter.com/MoniqueMellon/status/850007357941854211
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/850077400033570816
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/850082060723204099
And so it begins..
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/850117426247237636
Mitch McConnell is a demon from hell.
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/850039925160464384
uh uh uh
https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/850112109253971969
Fake ass heifer!
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/849581431806459904
I keep thinking that Trump is looking for a war thinking it will boost his approval rating.
This chick has no heart (yawn). Totally fake and phony and insincere.
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/850048465002541057
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/850036380076044292
https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/850028285841027072
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/850034881686122496
https://twitter.com/theGrio/status/850030586588798976
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/850025012052602884
To quote Ametia, they are complicit in doing the devil’s work.
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/850024210785284096
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/850024208612683778
https://twitter.com/politico/status/849940757507166208
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/850008052623437826
Ouch
Just ouch
https://mobile.twitter.com/undefined/status/850001087163650049
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/849982931833679878
BEYOND about time. BUT TRUMP THO!
Breaking News: House Intel Chair Devin Nunes stepping away from Russia probe
* Stepping back from a singular focus on Donald Trump, Alex Pareene writes about how “The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face.”
From Quick Takes:
* Career professionals in DOJ’s Civil Rights Division are likely reeling at the thought that AG Sessions plans to “review” (more likely decimate) much of the work they’ve done in cities like Ferguson, Baltimore and Chicago on police reform. Former acting head of the division Vanita Gupta and senior counsel Corey Stoughton articulated what many of them are not able to say publicly.
Session’s intent is to decimate the Civil Rights Division, to make it non-functional in defending the civil rights of those harmed or killed by police. There is probably no other reason why Sessions was selected.
To do this job on behalf of Trump and the GOP, you would have to be a hard core white supremacist down to the marrow in your bones.
Trump’s Foreign Policy Mess
by Martin Longman April 5, 2017 4:44 PM
David Usborne doesn’t think that Xi Jinping will be moved “by the usual golf-and-cocktails Mar-a-Lago treatment,” and in fact believes that it’s a terrible idea for Trump to be meeting with him at this point in time. One main reason for this is that it’s pretty obvious that our president isn’t even remotely prepared.
In Tillerson’s case, he has an excuse because he read that statement between naps.
More seriously, it’s a bad time to talk to China because one of the top topics on the agenda will be what to do about North Korea, and to do that properly, Trump needs to consult very closely with South Korea. But South Korea is currently experiencing a change in government after former president Park Geun-hye was first impeached and then arrested on (among others) charges of “bribery, abuse of power, coercion and leaking government secrets.
Donald Trump Will Never Get What He Wants
by Nancy LeTourneau April 5, 2017 3:43 PM
Perhaps because of my background as a therapist, I think it is important to sometimes look beyond the political games and understand what is going on inside a politician’s head. Never has that been more true of a president than Donald Trump. If we simply analyze his posturing from a political perspective, we’ll miss the story.
Something Martin just wrote triggered my thoughts in that direction: “the Washington Establishment didn’t accept him irrespective of which party they represented.” I was reminded of a fascinating piece Garrison Keillor wrote about Trump during the election, which basically explored what goes on inside Trump’s head.
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Trump has always felt like he is “bush league” in a world of Manhattanites. Even the Washington Establishment rejected him – no matter how much money he donated to their causes/campaigns. The voices inside his head (predominantly his father Fred Trump and Roy Cohn) are constantly questioning his legitimacy and telling him to view every situation as a battle to the death. No amount of money he could make or attention he could garner ever silenced those voices.
In the end, the calculation that Trump made was that winning the presidency was the one thing that would finally validate him. After all, you can’t get any bigger than POTUS.
But it didn’t work.
That’s why yesterday, three months after the election and in the midst of failure on health care, initial work on tax reform, another missile test in North Korea, the use of chemical weapons by Assad in Syria and an ongoing counter-intelligence investigation by the FBI into his campaign, Donald Trump wanted to talk about how bigly he won.
Black people need to stop going in these meetings w/ Trump & kissing his ass, then they wouldn’t have to scramble & make corrections about what was said. Why would Elijah Cummings even think Trump would be a great president? Why even go there with that ISH? Just stop playing games, dammit.
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/849966251631939586
TELL THAT TRUTH, SG2!!!
If you don’t go meet him..then you don’t have to correct yourself.
SIMPLE.
It really should be apparent to even the kindest of souls that Trump is a force of evil. No good will come of this and those who believe they can talk to him and reason with him and beg him to do right by the people are, at this point, delusional enough to be sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
Exactly. These folks are walking a tightrope when it comes to this devil. Eventually, it appears they are all complicit in doing the devils work.
Trump pushes laughable claim about a leading congressional Dem
04/06/17 08:40 AM—UPDATED 04/06/17 09:00 AM
By Steve Benen
Before we get into what Donald Trump said yesterday about Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), some context is in order.
Less than a month into his presidency, Trump declared at a White House press0 conference how eager he was to meet with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. “I actually thought I had a meeting with Congressman Cummings, and he was all excited,” Trump claimed. “And then he said, ‘Well, I can’t move, it might be bad for me politically. I can’t have that meeting.”
Cummings soon after explained that Trump simply made all of this up. “I have no idea why President Trump would make up a story about me like he did today,” the Maryland Democrat said.
The following week, Trump and Cummings did meet, and according to the congressman, Cummings told the president some things he didn’t want to hear.
Reflecting on the conversation, Trump seems to remember the meeting very differently. Here’s what he told the New York Times yesterday:
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So what did the congressman say? The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reported:
[Cummings] explained in a statement to [the Washington Post]: “During my meeting with the president and on several occasions since then, I have said repeatedly that he could be a great president if … if … he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”
This is Trump’s fabulism in action. He hears a comment like that, lops off the all-important “if” part, and takes it as a compliment. And then he takes that perceived compliment and amplifies it by a factor of about four; “great president” becomes “great presidents in the history of the country.”
The question, as with all of Trump’s falsehoods, is whether it’s subconscious or deliberate – the “Stupid or Liar” theory. Either he doesn’t comprehend what Cummings was saying to him – which is a big problem in a president – or he chooses to completely misrepresent it – which is a big problem in a president.
Trump faces foreign policy tests he doesn’t know how to pass
04/06/17 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
At a White House press conference yesterday alongside Jordan’s King Abdullah, Donald Trump was asked about Iranian support for the Syrian regime. The president responded by complaining about the Iran nuclear deal, which in context, didn’t make any sense. At the same event, asked about his administration’s plans for U.S. policy towards Syria, Trump’s answer was even stranger.
“I don’t have to have one specific way, and if the world changes, I go the same way,” he said. “I don’t change. Well, I do change.”
Soon after, BuzzFeed reported that officials in Trump’s Defense Department “were left confused” by what, exactly, the president intends to do.
It’s one thing when you and I have no idea what Trump’s intentions are, but as Rachel explained on the show last night, when officials in his own administration can’t figure out what their boss wants to do, there’s a much larger problem.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/5/17
Senators demand answers on new EPA policy
Rachel Maddow follows up on the exclusive revelation of what appears to be internal EPA memos on removing environment regulations, noting that three senators are now seeking answers on the specifics of the new policy the memos describe.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/5/17
White House story on Bannon NSC move perplexes
Jennifer Jacobs, White House reporter for Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about the removal of Steve Bannon from the National Security Council and how the Donald Trump White House explains the change.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/5/17
‘Careening incompetence’ of Trump administration risks crisis
Rachel Maddow remarks on the “clown car of incompetent catastrophe” that is the Donald Trump administration and expresses concern for how important matters of national security will be handled.
A judge has ordered Kansas’ secretary of state to turn over notes he was holding during a photo-op with Donald Trump https://t.co/WVcxNYoTKF pic.twitter.com/xkflhv80LV
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 5, 2017
This cracked me up
https://mobile.twitter.com/undefined/status/849758182813704192
Well . .The Congresswoman is telling the absolute truth.
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone.