You know that absolutely NOBODY takes you seriously when even your doctor gets ridiculed on late night TV shows.
During my favorite part of he show, Weekend Update, the mocking continued.
Is there ANYBODY that Kate McKinnon cannot play on television?
This was almost as good as her Jeff Sessions.
Next up, Stormy Daniels.
Yep, we all "got a Stormy" alright. Lucky us.
Trump recently made the comment that he will win reelection because cable news shows, and reporters, will not want to see him leave office, because they make money writing about him.
That of course is bullshit.
However I have to imagine that late night comedy will certainly shed a tear or two when he is dragged kicking and screaming from the Oval Office.
Nah, just kidding. They will probably be applauding right along with the rest of us.
Jessica Chastain's monologue was good too. Go Kate, Cecily, Beck, Pete, Aidy, Leslie, Melissa, and Heidi!
ReplyDeleteOh the spin... CBS face the nation of liars. Eddie Munster ryan was there and stupid glasses Mcvane is there and both are flappin' there lying lips like a couple of shiny con artist. The dangerous games they play are so boring and simple minded. Truly gross to watch paid servants lie cheat and steal from 90% of Americans. Should we fire them?
ReplyDeleteTip of the hat that you can even watch that crap. Meet The Press, Face The Nation, I'm done with all of it.
Delete@7:06 I 'left' those 'Sons' of the press' years ago...
DeleteRight now those Sunday talk shows should be featuring Democrats, not Trump sycophants.
DeleteBeaglemom
Chris Wallace kneecaps Mick Mulvaney for shutdown hypocrisy: ‘You supported holding the government hostage’
ReplyDelete...“You blame Democrats,” Wallace observed. “But back in 2013, you supported holding the government hostage on this question of Obamacare.”
“Why was that legitimate then — the right reason to have a fight — but it’s not legitimate now,” the Fox News host wondered.
Mulvaney argued that times are different because Democrats support everything in the bill to open the government, even though the resolution does not include a solution for so-called Dreamers.
“They were asking us to vote to fund Obamacare,” Mulvaney complained. “Something that was very difficult for Republicans to do and we wouldn’t vote for it.”
“Sir, I think that’s a debating point,” Wallace interrupted. “You [Republicans] shut down the government in 2013… because you didn’t like Obamacare. You wanted to shut down the government again in 2015 because you didn’t like Planned Parenthood. They [Democrats] are willing to shut down the government because they want a solution [for Dreamers].”
“The point is that both them then and you now are willing to shut down the government because they support or oppose a policy,” Wallace said.
Watch the video below from Fox News.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/chris-wallace-kneecaps-mick-mulvaney-for-shutdown-hypocrisy-you-supported-holding-the-government-hostage/
White House publicity stunt showing Trump pretending to work backfires
ReplyDeletehttps://shareblue.com/white-house-photos-backfire/
$tupid 'WHITE HAT' lOOk>
Delete"rump’s laughable attempt to shield himself from blame cannot erase the FACT that this is exactly the
“gOOd $hutdown” he was looking for."
House Republicans have introduced a bill that would criminalize Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program recipients (“Dreamers”) who fall below certain income metrics.
ReplyDeleteIn effect, and explicitly, this equates to a criminalization of poverty–for Dreamers alone–because the income metrics used in the bill are based off of federal poverty levels.
https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/republican-house-bill-would-criminalize-poverty-for-dreamers/
How Republican of them! The next requirement will be that Dreamers belong to the upper tier of the "1% club," which I believe Trump does not belong to.
DeleteBeaglemom
Wow, that's certainly an indictment of educaiton in the US, becuase Dreamers mostly have many years of US education.
DeleteI detest the Republicans in the U.S. Congress - most especially McConnell. They are going to lose their seats when they run for reelection - if they have the balls to even do so!
DeleteWhat an anti-American group - most assuredly toward any human being that is not white!
I'm delighted Shummer is speaking out against them! They are the party (to include Trump) that will be responsible for the shut down of our government in the history books! Glad to see too that Americans are rising up against them throughout our country and world! Trump is detested everywhere!
Donald Trump Owns This Shutdown
ReplyDeleteThe president is so AWOL, he might as well be golfing at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump had planned to spend the first anniversary of his inauguration in his happy place, Mar-a-Lago, the gold-plated palace where a mere president can pretend to be a monarch. Unfortunately for Trump, presidents are expected to remain in Washington when the government shuts down. That Trump did not recognize this until the crisis was at hand shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. This president is not merely unfit for office; he is so uninterested in feigning fitness that he cannot be bothered to focus on the most basic responsibilities he swore on January 20, 2017, to faithfully execute.
It is often suggested that Trump tweets obnoxiously and speaks outrageously in order to distract the American people—or at least the White House press corps—from the serious issues at hand. Perhaps. But the more likely story is that Trump himself is too distracted to focus on those issues—be they the budgetary matters that great presidents master, the societal concerns that great presidents address, the disasters that great presidents seek to avert. There is nothing “great” about this grifter’s failed presidency; it has simply confirmed that his 2016 campaign slogan was, like the rest of his promises, a lie. He is not even the mediocre manager that the stupidest pundits imagined he might be.
Trump is simply the son of privilege he has always been, steering whatever he touches toward financial or moral bankruptcy and then blaming everyone else for the crash.
The buck never stops with this president, so there was never any chance that he would demonstrate leadership sufficient to prevent a shutdown.
...Without a president who is capable of leading the party that controls the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, petty hacks who have never cared about anything more about satisfying campaign donors, will continue to run their games. Those games are so destructive—to the hundreds of millions of Americans who rely on government, to the necessary work of setting budget priorities, to America’s image in the world—that they demand a political response. Small deals will be made in coming weeks and months to restore a measure of normalcy. But it will be a brutal measure, crueler and harsher at each turn.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-owns-this-shutdown/
"Paul Ryan, the youngest speaker of the House since 1869, featured as vice president on Mitt Romney’s presidential bid in 2012. A staunch republican since his college days, Ryan helped pass various bipartisan budget cuts and advocates a policy of American Responsibility. Born and raised in a Catholic family, his religion still plays a heavy part in his political decision-making. In terms of other influences, Paul Ryan credits Ayn Rand’s objectivism for getting him interested in politics; while her views got him interested in politics, he later rejected them in favor of the milder views of Thomas Aquinas. Keeping his reading choices in mind, his educational choices might be obvious. We will be exploring his education in this entry of EduInReview.
DeletePaul Ryan spent his earliest school days at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Janesville. For his freshman year, he moved on to Joseph A. Craig High School. Quite active in school and community, he spent much of his free time playing track and soccer. In addition, he was elected both prom king and class president. After his graduation, Ryan chose to pursue a degree in economics and political science at Miami University. College did not see an end to his dedication to extracurricular activities. In his four years of undergraduate, he joined the College Republicans, became a member of Delta Tau Delta, interned at the local government office, and volunteered on John Boehner’s campaign. After Ryan’s graduation in 1992, he accepted a position for legislative aide to local Senator Bob Kasten. In 1999, he became the US Representative for Wisconsin’s first congressional district. His star just kept rising. Now, as stated earlier, he holds the title of 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives."
https://thinkprogress.org/paul-ryan-says-he-fantasized-about-cutting-health-care-for-the-poor-at-his-college-keggers-7aa0accc928b/
drink that KKKooolll Aid Suckers with Jell-O SHOTs!
Just goes to show you how religious Catholics really are. All that feeding the poor and healing the sick is just bullshit to them.
DeletePaul Ryan doesn't sway me at all and they saying (polls show) that he will not be reelected in Wisconsin, should he run again!
DeleteHe and Trump can't 'go away' fast enough.
Ryan is a racist too - just like his dictator leader whom he follows and obeys like a 'dog'!
Why are the Catholic politicians always the worst? And, racist to boot!
DeleteWhite House changes public voicemail to say Democrats holding government ‘hostage’
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/369994-white-house-changes-public-voicemail-to-say-democrats-holding-government
ALT-RIGHT IS FRACTURED, VIOLENT HEADED INTO TRUMP'S SECOND YEAR
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-fractured-violent-headed-trump-second-year-785552
On Saturday, the president was left alternately defiant and angry, self-pitying and frustrated. He argued to aides that he did not deserve the blame he was taking, but without a credible deal on the table, there was little for him to do. Irritated to have missed his big event in Florida, Mr. Trump spent much of his day watching old TV clips of him berating President Barack Obama for a lack of leadership during the 2013 government shutdown, a White House aide said, seeming content to sit back and watch the show.
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/trump-blames-shutdown-27ba14ba14ec/
HAH! Well, dumpster, you can watch those videos all you want. President Obama weathered the 2008 economic meltdown straight out of the gate, and what are you doing?? Uh huh. Incompetent LOSER.
DeletePresident Obama's leadership has run circles around that of the Trump's 'whatever you want to name it!?".
DeleteThe overweight idiot is trying to hang on by his finger tips and he's losing his grip! He's in a downward spiral!
Obama's "leadership"?
Deletesorry, must have missed that leadership part.
dotard>"Problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top and the president’s the leader and he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead. And he doesn’t do that. In 25 years and 50 years and 100 years from now, when the government — they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States. Who was the president at that time? They’re not going to be talking who the head of the House was, the head of the Senate."
Delete"He told Greta Van Susteren the same thing"
"Trump again attempted to pit the military against the Democrats, but Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a disable veteran, was having none of it on Saturday evening. “I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger,”"
"Calling an official White House phone number yields a message that says the call cannot be answered because “congressional Democrats are holding government funding hostage.”
"In fact, it seems that Trump sees the shutdown as a positive thing for his administration. He called it a “nice present” from Democrats on Twitter Saturday morning. And on Saturday evening, Eric Trump, who is ostensibly focused on running the Trump business and not being a White House surrogate, told Fox News, “Honestly, I think it’s a good thing for us.”
LOL.
DeleteIs that a closed circuit TV and they are just showing him a loop of clips they put together?
Seems like that’s what this “presidency” has come to. Using the boob tube to molify the Boob in Chief to control his tantrums and outbursts.
I loved this youtube about t.v.! As Short as a commercial...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvopTuwykew
'Steven Paul Judd discovers television and the monkeys from The Wizard of OZ all in one day in this animated short. Judd is Kiowa and Choctaw, a filmmaker, celebrated artist and writer best know for his mash-ups of Native experiences and American pop culture. His work ranges from screenplays to paintings, prints, photography, and t-shirt/house ware designs. Steven, the man, the myth, the Indigenous Hulk.'
1st Nation Americans
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-isnt-nuts-hes-just-a-really-horrible-person-leading-psychiatrist/
ReplyDelete"As the chair of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV Task Force, he helped draft the criteria defining narcissistic personality disorder and other mental illnesses."
"Allen’s description of Trump as a man who is mentally fit but morally bankrupt deserves some turning over, in part because it doesn’t let the president off the hook." ". There has to be an ultimate political reckoning for those behaviors—hopefully, one that ends with Trump not just being removed from office, but also held accountable for alleged crimes and betrayals."
"Allen calls out the “societal disease” that helped sweep Trump into office, but stops short of historicizing it as a foundational virtue of a country established in slavery and genocide instead of a recently emergent issue. If Trump is a “bad person” because of his unabashed racism, misogyny, homophobia and Islamophobia—the defining traits of his public persona and presidential candidacy—then a vote for Trump, and thus those positions, says something significant about the morality of Trump voters." "The idea that narcissistic personality disorder could serve as a political weapon to remove him from office under the 25th Amendment is absurd"
" the criteria of a narcissistic personality disorder require a whole series of narcissistic behaviors and attitudes. All of which Trump displays with magnificent extravagance, but it also requires that there be, as a result, clinically significant distress or impairment. Trump is a great causer of distress in others. He’s creating horrible impairment in our democracy, but there’s no evidence to indicate that he would meet the grounds of clinically significant distress or impairment to himself."We desperately have to contain this dangerous, impulsive, irritable, ignorant, despicable president."
"We’re medicalizing bad behavior. Only a small portion of bad behaviors are done by people who are mentally ill.
"Clinton says, there’s a deplorable element to Trump’s support. It’s fueled by an underlying racism, misogyny, LGBT prejudice, anti-Semitism"
$elf-proclaimed evangelicals "we have four groups supporting him. The deplorables, the disadvantaged, the deceived religious, and the cynical."
"Another thing about Trump’s support is it’s completely dependent on Rupert Murdoch.in fact, controls the political fate of America."four defenses of democracy.
Congress,The courts,The media, WE THE PEOPLE"
"Congress should be passing a bill that makes clear to Trump that only they can declare war. It’s an article in the Constitution. It’s been ignored by presidents since World War II. To our detriment, we’ve been in a lot of stupid wars because of that. It’s time that Congress make clear to this unstable president that it—not he—is responsible for declaring WAR."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-isnt-nuts-hes-just-a-really-horrible-person-leading-psychiatrist/
‘President Miller’s’ Shutdown: Yes, Republicans Will Be Blamed—and They Should Be
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/president-millers-shutdown-yes-republicans-will-be-blamedand-they-should-be
The Trump Shutdown Unmasks A Weak President Who Has Surrendered the Reins of Control
ReplyDelete...By surrendering the reins during tense negotiations, Trump has destroyed the “dealmaker” image he spent a lifetime crafting out of being born rich, starring in a reality TV show as a dealmaker, and exploiting the value of his name in licensing deals around the world.
This Trump – the real Trump – the one running the most powerful country in the world, can’t be negotiated with because not only is he like “Jell-o” as Democratic Leader Senator Chuck Schumer said, but he isn’t even in charge.
Trump has surrendered the reins of his presidency — perhaps to anyone willing to do the work. This is the President who was reportedly most upset to miss the party celebrating the anniversary of his inauguration for a job he doesn’t seem too keen on actually doing.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/the-trump-shutdown-reveals-that-the-president-has-surrendered-the-reins-of-control.html
Jennifer Rubin had very little good to say about Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday morning after viewing a clip of the House Speaker brushing off concerns over an ad run by the Trump campaign saying Democrats will be “complicit” in murders if they refuse to fund President Donald Trump’s border wall.
ReplyDeleteFollowing the clip of Ryan and White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short appearing to dismiss the ad, the Washington Post columnist lit into both men.
“Well, first of all, Paul Ryan continues his unblemished record as a spineless moral midget,” Rubin asserted. “The man could not take a stand against racism if his life depended upon it. He is all in with this president and it’s a good reason why I think the Republican Party is, frankly, going into oblivion. It wouldn’t have killed him to denounce that ad and then go on with his talking points.”
Rubin wasn’t done.
“As far as Mark Short goes, my gosh, what a pathetic answer,” she continued, alluding to Short’s disavowal of the ad. “‘The president is an outside group.’ In some sense that’s true because he is in his own world, but that’s beside the point. I think the Republicans are desperate to pump up their base. What is the Republican Party all about these days? It’s race. That’s what they talk about and it’s not that hard to figure out.”
“We all know what the solution is,” she suggested. “If you put up the Lindsey Graham/Dick Durbin compromise measure it would pass overwhelmingly. Ryan will put it on the floor, but Mitch McConnell won’t put it on the floor, so who really is keeping the government closed?”
Watch the video below via MSNBC:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/msnbc-conservative-flays-spineless-paul-ryan-he-couldnt-stand-against-racism-if-his-life-depended-on-it/
Did the White House Change Outgoing Message on Comment Line to Blame Democrats?
ReplyDeleteThe unprecedented finger-pointing took place amid a government shutdown and looming government worker furloughs.
https://www.snopes.com/white-house-comment-line-trump/
SNL! NOthing Matters AnyMORE:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=ZJkc_C5-Cd8
Looks like I missed an outstanding segment of SNL. Do they do reruns - anyone know?
ReplyDeleteYouTube and Google is your friend.
DeleteEx-RNC chair: "This shutdown rests at the feet of the GOP" http://hill.cm/8V6iDGF
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/thehill/status/954873441227870209
"Took in a Saturday matinee of "The Post” - it was terrific. 5 stars plus. Movies don’t get any better than this. In my mind it deserves to sweep the Oscars. I was skeptical before seeing it, but it exceeded my expectations and even my hopes.
ReplyDeleteThe film is not only is superb entertainment, it’s an important film for citizens everywhere—of all political persuasions—to see and contemplate, especially at this time in our history."
FB>"We begin our #SundaySalon today with our discussion of WHAT UNITES US by starting at the beginning - to quote The Sound of Music, “a very good place to start.” In the book it’s the preface with the theme of Dan Rather traveling on night flights and thinking about the direction of his nation and its people.
An excerpt -
“The taproot for this book was developed over my numerous journeys these many years. If I were to plot on a map my countless flight paths crisscrossing the United States, it would look like a thread stitching our great union together. Along the way, I have forged my own relationship with America, not only from the stories I have reported and the people I have met, but also during those many hours while I waited for sleep that only sometimes came. I look out the window at lights far below or, more often than not, just darkness. We are still a land of wide open spaces. As our great and diverse republic passes below me, I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and wonder: Who are we? Where are we going?
....We hear often of America’s destiny. All around Washington we see marble temples and monuments to our democracy. They look so solid and seem so rooted in history that we imagine them permanent features on the landscape. Never mind that those buildings, when compared to the life span of other nations, are but new construction. They were built to infuse a sense of awe and purpose in the populace of an improbable country. They are only as permanent as our ideals. And if we lose a sense of humility, we risk losing everything.
The true foundations for those buildings are not brick and stone, but our Constitution, our rule of law, our traditions, our work ethic, our empathy, our pragmatism, and our basic decency. As I have seen over the years, when we cultivate these instincts, we soar. When we sow seeds of division, hatred, and small-mindedness, we falter. As a wave of anxiety sweeps our nation, as big challenges loom before us, I feel an urgency.
America at its best is a wonderful, diverse, and spirited chorus. When we sing together, our message is amplified and it can shake the heavens. The songbook for our democracy is infused with our history, the joy of our glories and the pain of our failures. Its music and lyrics can and must be taught to those who will come after us.”
The discussion question today:
How have your journeys shaped your relationship with the United States? What have you learned from the people you have met?
We would love to hear from both Americans and foreign visitors." Dan the man Rather
"People see dysfunction and blame who they know. And who is the most famous person in the universe, and which party does he command like an army of dogs?
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans are blaming the Democrats. The Democrats are blaming the Republicans.
Sotto voce, many Republicans, particularly in the Senate, are blaming the President, and his co-President Stephen Miller. Miller’s role in placing a Semtex charge under the tenuous DACA deal at the heart of this budget frenzy is a sign of his overwhelming power in this White House."
OUT-STANDING!
ReplyDelete"Capt. Daniel Hall, 30, and Capt. Vinny Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots, were married at the New York military academy’s picturesque chapel"
“We couldn’t tell the truth for fear of what would happen to us,” Franchino told The Times. “So we put it in our minds that we were never going to say we were gay, we were never going to get made fun of, and we were certainly never going to get kicked out of the Army.”
Congress repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” in September 2011, clearing the way for the pair the pair to come out and go on their first date, which happened in 2012."
"Franchino said that although he’s been through a lot with his new husband, nothing was worse than when he had to hide his identity."“But despite what we’ve been through, nothing was worse than having served during the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ years.” HOOAH!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/west-point-marries-first-active-duty-same-sex-couple/