UPDATE, 4:32 AM: GRAB JENNIFER GRIFFIN BY THE PUSSY! OFF WITH HER HEAD!
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“Trump’s insistence that he would never say anything disparaging about a military veteran or the military more generally is belied by, well, facts. In 2015, shortly after he had officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race, Trump said this of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” McCain was shot down and kept captive by the North Vietnamese for more than five years. The wounds he suffered as a result of the torture he endured during his captivity left him unable to raise his arms over his head — among other maladies — for the rest of his life.
In the wake of Gold Star father Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 — in which Khan suggested Trump had never sacrificed anything in life — the billionaire businessman suggested that Hillary Clinton’s speechwriters had actually written the speech and that Khan’s wife, who stood silently by her husband, was not allowed to speak. As for Khan’s claim that Trump had never sacrificed, the Republican nominee responded this way: “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.”
Following the death of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger in 2017, the slain soldier’s wife (and a Florida Democratic congresswoman) said that Trump had told her on a phone call that her husband “knew what he had signed up for.” Trump denied the claim.
Last fall, Trump referred to his former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a highly decorated Marine, as “the world’s most overrated general.”While campaigning in Iowa in November 2015, Trump said, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.”There’s more — much more — but you get the idea. Trump has in the past been willing to critique military veterans as well as prisoners of war.
Now, that is not proof — at all! — that he said and did what The Atlantic piece alleges. But the context here is not favorable for Trump.”
사랑하는 지도자 없이는 우리는 아무것도 아닙니다!
사랑하는 지도자 없이는 우리는 아무것도 아닙니다!
As the illustrious spectacle of twenty-first century American politics rolls on.
When Clinton said that she wished Trump could have been presidential, I thought: I wish he could have been human.
I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies. I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.
But he never did. For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.
Team Trump’s ticket to succeed his administration. He’ll have to grant Katie American native-born citizenship first, but I’m sure he can do that.
His retweet of a Trump Forever video sparked the geniuses at the Lincoln Project. (Scroll down for both videos.)
And a-one and a-two. When the Genius of the Carpathians meets the Genius of Bergen meets the Lincoln Project, great things happen.
Couldn’t have done it without the original tweet from Trump. Keep ’em coming.
… fickle.
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Sing it!
Donald è mobile…
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[English translation.]
Donald is fickle
Like a feather in the wind,
He changes his voice — and his mind.
Always sweet,
Pretty face,
In tears or in laughter — he is always lying.
Recite The Credo with me.
… that Mount Rushmore was America’s grandest outcropping of kitsch.
No, no, they’d say! I went there in the fourth grade with my family and we all thought it was awesome!
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WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. If it takes a Go Fund Me page; if it takes bake sales all over this land, my lord, all over this land; if it takes sacrifice sacrifice and more sacrifice, this has got to happen.
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Will it be as great as Carhenge? No. But it will be great.
… in feras.
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He does tend to stir the creative imagination. Also really great writing. This, says Scathing Online Schoolmarm, is unbeatable. Highlights from a tightly organized, tonally controlled, brilliantly concise, little masterpiece:
no pollster left to lie to him
listened to the lethal quackery
harmful and bizarre
result of a country run by a crackpot
dereliction of duty, son.
fevered with viral hot spots.
Of late, Trump has been itching for a riot.
Nixon is a notch higher in the hell-scape
He’s Trump with a pious veneer
a timely bootlick.
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And see what he’s about in his final paragraph? See all the ys, all the ee sounds that come off the page? The writer knows how to make prose poetic, and therefore much more coherent and powerful.
But there’s another image, equally satisfying. Trump could play one last gambit in the dictator’s checklist and refuse to leave office on Jan. 20 — election or no election — as required by the Constitution. If he does this, a weary nation would be rewarded with a presidential perp walk, as Trump is escorted out of the White House and into infamy by the military police.
If you lack the alliteration, assonance, perfect-wordism, and tonal cool this writer enjoys in abundance, sorry. Not everybody gets the style goodies. But you can learn a lot by reading him carefully.
One of America’s most prominent conservatives, Steven G. Calabresi, is calling for impeachment and removal, asap.
It would have been nice if Trump had postponed going full Kanye West until after the election. Unfortunately, he is breaking apart far faster than one might have anticipated, and this endangers us all.
Say what you will about our Genius of the Carpathians; he has inspired some of our best political writing, like this short piece from Peter Wehner.
(Wehner’s stylish marriage of crude and cruel brings to mind Vladimir Nabokov’s elegant description of Don Quixote: “a cruel and crude old book.”)
Also some of our best political advertisements, like this Seinfeld takeoff.
Trump in ‘fragile’ mood and may drop out of 2020 race if poll numbers don’t improve, GOP insiders tell Fox News
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No doubt wags up and down this land are sharpening their pencils as they sketch out Trump Finds Out He Can’t Win versions of this much-parodied bit of film.
Republicans up and down the ballot have also galvanized around a central 2020 messaging strategy focused on branding Democrats as far-left lovers of socialism. Months of that groundwork is now, at least in part, set back by the president’s own comments.