Good morning. What’s up in Trump world?
What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Whatever it is, its mom should have told it to stop slouching.
My dad called me this morning to let me know that one of Charles Grassley’s aides had to resign for sexual harassment
<Been</u> born.
Donald Trump.
The grandson of a whoremonger.
William Butler Yeats, 1919:
Pure prophecy.
AG
You seem to have a problem with sex work, is that correct?
Yes.
I do not like whores beonging to any of the 7+ sexes, nor do I like the corporate, cultural or political versions thereof. They are not to be trusted> Why? Because they will sell their most personal beliefs and belongings to the highest bidder.
Why do you ask?
AG
I suppose there are people who would think what you say makes sense, if they share some of the same hate and anger as you are filled with.
To me its another confirmation of the deep disrespect you radiate, while feeling entitled to being respected yourself.
Its a sad display of ugliness.
Also, none of your words seems to apply to the sex workers that i know.
If anything i consider them more knowledgeable and honest on average than you are.
Great.
Keep on with the good company.
AZ
Thank you for realizing that sexworkers are just people, like you and me.
It took some effort but i am always happy when someone lets go of their irrational preconceptions and harmful stigmas that cause damage to innocent people. Of course society wont change that easily, since there always will be a large part of it thats invested in pretending to be morally superior to others, for whatever reason, but its a small step forward.
The ‘G’ key and the ‘Z’ key aren’t anywhere near each other — how did you mistype your own initials?
Why do you ask?
AG
Trying to figure out if you were drunk.
Why do you want to know?
AG
Because it would explain some of the idiocy.
Oh.
Thank you.
You convict yourself.
AG
P.S. And…no. I was not “drunk” at 2:15 PM on a Saturday morning/afternoon/brunch. I had worked a difficult 5 set gig the night before, come home late and taken a couple of hours to cool off, gone to sleep, awakened late in the morning and…having a daytime off until yet another difficult gig…settled in with my coffee and breakfast to see what you assholes were spewing.
You really are a mainstream DemRat, aren’t you.
No wonder you can’t beat the likes of Donald Trump!!!
WTFU!!!
AG (STYNPWXYZVNGTRSWAVNBJIUUYRTD)
Feeling tense these days, Arthur?
Ah, who could blame you. It’s a bad time for the radical conservative movement. Given that you are a dedicated evangelist for Ron Paul, the imminent smashing of your Republican Party at the ballot box must be so painful.
But hey, you’ve gotten a lot out of your support for Trump. The Judiciary is in the middle of taking apart civil rights for everyone other than straight white males. It’s the moment you’ve thirsted for all these years.
Arthur, remember right after the Obergfell decision when you wrote that if Americans insisted on enforcements of same sex marriage rights, the Americans fighting for these civil rights would be the ones responsible when, not if, people with LGBTQ orientations were beaten in the streets and in their homes?
My God, that was a very exciting fantasy you spun back then. The fight to get Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court must cause you to mess your drawers on the regular.
I never “mess my drawers,” fool.
That’s where I keep my socks!!!
AG
P.S. A group…or perhaps better, a cadre…of people (or quite possibly bots) on this site have tried everything in their power to discourage criticism of the Democratic Party as it stands today. They automatically downrate such posts and have endlessly attacked several posters as liars, fools, pro-Trump trolls and/or spreaders of Russian propaganda. When effectively rebutted, they simply ignore the rebuttal and repeat the same attacks. These McCarthyite tactics are intended to exhaust the patience of the attacked posters and discourage others from reading or posting similar material. It has worked on a few posters, who have simply given up. It has not worked on me. I initially answered their attacks with attempts at reason. After realizing that this was a total waste of time, I have pretty much stopped replying to them. My comments and articles on this site are my replies. Read what I have to say; consider what they have to say and how it is said, and then make up your own minds. Thank you-AG
wah wah wah wah
WATB
the following statement to many of my replies to your “standalone articles” (LOL!) and comments…for the benefit of new readers here. It applies to the comment this replies to as well:
*[ref.]
Your entire “argument”:
Eloquent.
Thank you.
With enemies like you, who needs friends?
AG
. . . gets you (as usual) the appropriate repetition of the already-supplied conclusive refutation:
This question is over the line.
If you think his questions and comments are idiotic, ignore them.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
When night falls, they gather
On hill tops and ridge edges,
Black silhouettes outlined by
Star and moon light,
To ask, to plead,
Are we alone? Are we the only ones?
Their howls seek an answer,
A break of the silence.
But it’s fear that compels them,
Fear of the silence,
And fear of the answer.
Please forgive my incomplete education and let me know the author of these lines.
On a hike in Sierra Nevada, I met a woman with three llamas, a dog, and a wolf. All rescued animals. They were a most unlikely pack.
In the hottest part of the afternoon, we sat together in a shady spot by a creek. She was not a talkative person, but her care for the animals – and her joy in hiking the High Sierra, was marvelous.
However, I was left with the strong impression that the wolf was the smartest one of the bunch. Those eyes! Of course, I’m personifying, and my encounter was probably loaded with preconceptions from literature and film. But wow! What a creature!
Trump is signalling strongly as of Friday Night that he’s absolutely intending to do more than just fire Rosenstein, but “clean house” at the Justice Department.
That exchange prompted Leon Panetta to say that Trump “needs to be careful” because firing the Asst. Attorney General in order to order his replacement to fire Mueller or to suppress the investigation by refusing to permit Mueller to investigate any more, or bring any prosecutions of Trump’s family would be blatant obstruction of justice.
Which, of course, it would in any sane county. However, if it were fully litigated, I’m quite sure Trump’s crazed, and craven loyalists on the S.Ct. would back him up and rule that the President is a de facto dictator who cannot be prosecuted for any crime in office.
Fortunately, if he does this the Republicans will lose the Senate too. They’re going to lose the House either way it appears now.
So,hopefully, Trump never gets to conduct his Night of the Long Knives because if he fires Mueller, there will massive leaks of the Mueller report.
You can bet your ass he’s already thought of this situation and he’s not going to blindly let Trump just fire him and suppress all the evidence they’ve been gathering for all these months. He’s got to have a report already drafted and ready to go right now.
But, as events advance, he modifies that report and updates it to include further pieces of evidence he’s gathered from Cohen and Manafort’s cooperation. All that will leak out immediately.
The GOP will scream at Democrats that they didn’t think obstruction of justice warranted Bill Clinton’s impeachment since they didn’t vote for it, and these Republicans don’t think that Trump’s obstruction of justice does either. So there!
Democrats will argue that Trump’s behavior is what we are judging here, it’s not 1998! And on we go.
Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned!
Ask not for whom the bone bones,
it bones for thee.
Snort!
Slouching towards Washington, surely?
My Irish heritage and literary taste has always drawn me to Yates.