What Does A Traitor Do When He Loses? He Starts A Constitutional Crisis!

"If Donald Trump's newly installed political hack of an acting attorney general takes action against special counsel Robert Mueller, the Democratic House of Representatives will bring Robert Mueller to testify publicly about exactly how the acting attorney general has interfered in his investigation. And the Democratic House of Representatives will move to impeach the president of the United States for obstruction of justice.  They will do it, they will have to, they will have no choice. The new members of the House will demand it."  - Lawrence O'Donnell, last night, 'The Last Word'

As Rachel Maddow put it last night, generally when a sitting president's party loses big in the midterms, he adopts a conciliatory - not combative - tone afterwards.  This hasn't been the case after the Dems yesterday reclaimed nearly a third (333) of all the state legislature positions lost in the Obama years, as well as recapturing the House. The House, let us be clear, confers full investigatory as well as impeachment powers. Any sane or normal, i.e. non-traitor president faced with this, therefore would have not adopted a bellicose tone the day after. He'd have bent over backwards to be a Mensch instead of an asshole.  This is why the WaPo proclaimed today that "Washington has now entered the prelude to a state of war".   Peace? You want peace? Not with Trump at the helm!

That is the nature of the depraved, deranged creature we have occupying the White House, as he defiles and divides the nation.   This is a despicable orange maggot who not only threatened the new Dem House if it launched any kind of long overdue probes ("I'll investigate them too!" ) but also fired the first shot in a looming constitutional crisis.

What  did he do? He fired current AG Jeff Sessions, and then -  in a blatant display of high thuggery and disrespect for law-  he appointed a two-bit political hack and Trump loyalist instead of the next man in line of succession, Rod Rosenstein.  The stooge and puppet appointed is  Matthew Whitaker , a name that will now live on in infamy. Why?  Because he shares the same gangster mentality as Trump, and a gangster attitude that says one is above the law, because you are backed by those who would corrupt the law. Why else accept an appointment for which all DOJ rules state he ought to recuse himself? Well, because now - after blabbing his intent as a pundit - he is in the very position to kneecap the Mueller probe he targeted.  This is why Trump dumped Sessions and inserted this jag off.  As MSNBC legal specialist Ari Melber put it last night ('Last Word'):

"It is very real tonight that we have public evidence that Donald Trump and Mr. Whitaker share one priority, which is overseeing the Justice Department to kneecap the Mueller probe and not recuse. His one beef with Sessions was that he recused. Whitaker has also said as a pundit there are ways to kneecap the Mueller probe by defunding it or putting pressure on it."

Is Whitaker's failure to reject the appointment surprising - based on glaring conflicts of interest-  not to mention prejudgments and broadcast intent to stop Mueller? Nope. Not when you have thug DNA in every fiber of your being. Thanks to primo investigatory work by The UK Guardian we now know this new acting attorney general was part of a company accused by the U.S. government of running a multimillion-dollar scam. In it, Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May this year to pay a $26m settlement following legal action by federal authorities, which said it tricked aspiring inventors.

In other words, we have here not only a puppet stooge but a sleaze bag. Court filings in the case against World Patent Marketing - according to the Guardian --  show that Whitaker received regular payments of $1,875 from the Florida-based company, and sent a threatening email to a victim of the alleged scam.  Whitaker publicly vouched for the company, claiming in a December 2014 statement that they “go beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translate those words into action”.

Whitaker’s role in the alleged scam was first reported by the Miami New Times in August 2017, shortly before he joined the Trump administration as a senior aide to Sessions.  This linkage itself came after shamelessly touting his willingness - as a so-so CNN pundit - to go to bat for Trump against Mueller if he needed him. Voila! Whitaker gets a nice cushy job at Justice as Session's puppet....err right hand man.

World Patent Marketing and its founder, Scott Cooper, were sued by the Federal Trade Commission in March last year. The government said it had “operated an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars”.  The company was accused of tricking hopeful inventors into paying it thousands of dollars to obtain patents and licensing deals for their inventions. In fact, they “failed to fulfill almost every promise they make to consumers”, the complaint said.

Emails filed to federal court show that in August 2015, Whitaker cited his former role as a federal prosecutor in a threatening email to a customer of World Patent Marketing who had complained about the company to the Better Business Bureau. Whitaker is shown below with Scott Cooper:

In May, a judgment requiring World Patent Marketing to pay the government $25,987,192 was entered against the company by a federal court in southern Florida. Whitaker was not named among the defendants in the case.

Now the relevant details in regard to Dotard's continued treason and obstruction of justice, of which this appointment reeks...in spades.  Two weeks ago I predicted two things to Janice: 1) The Dems would retake the House in a blue wave (though the exact definition would be subjective) and 2) Realizing a Democratic controlled House meant possible impeachment and reinforced protection for Mueller, Trump would a) get rid of AG Sessions and b) appoint a Nunes clone in his place to run interference against Mueller.

This is exactly what Traitor Trump has done with Whitaker's criminal appointment:  flouting the statutes for succession at DOJ.   In doing so let us understand, Trump has also taken the media's attention off his midterm losses and onto this disruptive act of a self destructive madman.   What can Whitaker do? Well, a lot to make Mueller's probe and life miserable if he wanted, and for at least 7 months - by which end point he either needs to be confirmed in the Senate, or vacate.  In the meantime, according to  Sarah Isgur Flores, a DOJ spokeswoman, in an email: “The acting attorney general is in charge of all matters under the purview of the Department of Justice.”

One thing Whitaker has openly proposed, by which standard he definitely needs to recuse himself, is pulling back funding for Mueller.  Yes, he has publicly proposed choking off funding for Mueller’s investigation and wrote an article for CNN last year declaring that the special counsel was “going too far” and needed to be brought under control.  According to Whitaker:

"The president is absolutely correct,  Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing.”

So not only does the Traitor have a willing pawn to issue a 'get out of jail free' card on the Supreme Court in the person of Bawling Brett Kavanaugh, e.g.

He now has a surplus toady, a 2nd "Devin Nunes" if you will, running interference for him as acting AG.  (Though as Lawrence O' Donnell correctly warned last night, if Whitaker has any ruminations about interfering in any way - even via lowballing Mueller's funding - he had better think twice because he also will be investigated for obstruction of justice.)

The whole thing smacks of a blatant,  in your face act of desperation and crass thuggishness fully worthy of impeachment proceedings. (Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, said Trump’s replacement of Sessions with Whitaker was arguably an impeachable offence in itself. “This rule of law crisis has been a slow-motion train wreck for a long time,” said Prof. Tribe).

The aim is clear: To use a pet puppet and political loyalist to derail or defund the Mueller probe. This ain't astrophysics, folks.  It shouldn't take a Mensa-level IQ to spot what's going on here, and how it is tied to the Ds midterm success, now acknowledged as the 'blue wave' it is, i.e.

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2018 Elections

It Was a Blue Wave Election—And the Republicans Are Feeling the Fallout

Fortunately, at least some Reeps appear to have found spines and good sense and are warning the Dotard not to do anything else. Senator Susan Collins was among the first Republicans to warn: “It is imperative that the Administration not impede the Mueller investigation … Special Counsel Mueller must be allowed to complete his work without interference."

Mitt Romney, who won the race on Tuesday to become a senator for Utah, aimed his first broadside at Trump, tweeting: “It is imperative that the important work of the Justice Department continues, and that the Mueller investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded.”

WSJ columnist Dan Henninger today ('Trump 2.0 Begins', p. A19) finally conceded in one of his least objectionable offerings: "Trump will have trouble reassembling his 2016  coalition unless his behavior changes." 

Seriously? First, Trump will never change his behavior. He is a perverse, authoritarian narcissist for whom everything is about him. Asking or expecting Dotard to change his behavior is about as sensible as expecting the Pope will become a Buddhist monk tomorrow.  Second, this "coalition" was never real in the first place, at least in terms of getting the presidency for Trump.   On Nov. 8, 2016 MOST Americans rejected Dotard, by almost 3 million votes. In other words, the candidate who came in second in the vote was awarded the presidency through the outdated and anti-democratic institution of the Electoral College.  As Lawrence O'Donnell put it: "American voters did not want Donald Trump to be president".  So in fact there never really was a "winning" coalition, and even if one strenuously argues the EC is legit, it did not function as the Founders intended, i.e. in allowing an unqualified demagogue through.   See e.g.

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/09/had-electoral-college-done-its-job.html

The fact is that the Blue wave was the embodiment of the majority of Americans' disapproval of the Dotard residency from the day it began. This majority has been waiting patiently, mainly in a resistance movement to deliver its verdict. It did on Tuesday, with a number of results still being counted.

Meanwhile, Moveon.org and other progressives activated a plan for mass protests across the United States, starting today at 5 p.m. in all time zones.  John Brennan, former CIA chief, also predicted that it was likely Mueller had already completed his report for the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, who was yesterday relieved of his duty overseeing the investigation into Russian election interference and any collusion with the Trump campaign.

As I told Janice yesterday - and have the same advice for blog readers:  "Buckle your seat belts and hang on because we are a long way from any domestic tranquility!" 

If you are tired of the chaos and division, maybe you need to consider moving to Canada.

See also:
Fierce Critic of Mueller Probe Now Has Power to Sabotage the Investigation

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Will Bunch

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2018 Elections | Donald Trump

Trump Appealed to the Very Worst in America. Too Often, It Worked.

And:

Donald Trump Jr. Told Friends He Could Be Indicted This Week — and the President Is 'Depressed' About the Possibility: Report

Gaslight King Trump Drives Unhinged "Mob is coming for ya" Rhetoric Out of Utter Desperation

One of the king of gaslights' recent comments to a MAGA mob went;

"You don't give matches to an arsonist and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob."

Which, seriously, is the sort of linguistic lickspittle only a certified moron  or Reeptard would swallow, but from the looks of things our nation harbors millions of them.  In any case, as yesterday's Denver Post editorial pointed out, such rhetoric and demagoguery is downright dangerous as it attempts to paint the political opposition as sinister and violent enemies which  - according to the same Post editorial - "is rich when you consider all the Tea Party members who brought loaded rifles to ACA rallies"  i.e. some 7-8 years ago.

But hey, in the demented Dotard era of inverse reality where lies become truths, and truths lies, that's about how it rolls....downward.  And the only way to put this nation back on a course of sanity will be for millions to vote to ensure at least one house of congress is D-controlled, to put a check on Dotard's most dangerous impulses.

As the Post editorial also notes, it's no secret why Trump and the GOP are resorting to this political gas lighting maneuver. Basically, they "are getting no traction"  either out of their tax cuts or the Kavanaugh  fiasco.  In each case, the  polls show a clear majority of Americans - not the Trumpites, obviously- object to the tax cuts as well as Kavanaugh's confirmation.

But that hasn't stopped a blitz of propaganda to try to get Americans to believe that instead, it is the left and Dems out to destroy the country.  If  you truly believe that horse manure ask yourself why Trump was in Montana at a rally whipping up a crowd of his "ghoulish followers"  (in the words of WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin) applauding Repuke slimeball Greg Gianforte who body slammed a Guardian reporter 5 months ago, e.g.

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2017/05/gop-gangster-bum-greg-gianforte-body.html

If you're convinced that applauding body slamming of a reporter who merely asked a Reep congressional candidate a health question is about democracy - and the real thugs are on the left - there's not much I can do or write to change your mind. How to say it? You've imbibed the Dotard -GOP  kool aid.

As a further clear example of inversion, it takes some colossal chutzpah to write, as WSJ hack Dan Henninger did last week ('You Cannot Be Civil') that Hillary  "has aligned herself with Trump's view of the Democratic party". Say what?   Henninger clarifies:

"Mr Trump has been using his rallies to denounce the 'radical Democrats' as an angry mob and on Tuesday Mrs. Clinton told CNN 'You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about."

Which is perfectly rational and true.  I mean, why make nicey with guttersnipes and knavish knuckledraggers whose only accomplishment has been to insert a bestial, shit -eating mutt into the White House?   A demented degenerate who insults women on his Twitter account like he lies with impunity to his masses of deplorables at his insane brown shirt rallies.

That Trump is no icon of civility ought to be obvious. The swine-in-chief has repeatedly accused women of having “fat, ugly” faces and of repelling voters because of their looks. He called one woman a “crazed, crying lowlife” and said another was a “dog” who had the “face of a pig.” He said Hillary Clinton’s bathroom break during a 2015 presidential debate was “too disgusting” to talk about. He has repeatedly mocked women for being overweight.

Omarosa Manigault Newman was described by Trump as "that dog" and a "crazed, crying lowlife".

Trump  described Stephanie Clifford as “Horseface” in a tweet last Tuesday, adding her to a long list of women he has attacked by demeaning their looks, mocking their bodily functions or comparing them to animals.  Trump’s verbal assault came as he gloated about a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a defamation suit filed by Ms. Clifford, who is known professionally as Stormy Daniels. Ms. Clifford’s lawyer responded by calling the president “a disgusting misogynist.” 

Needless to say the swine's antics and infantile rhetoric disgraces and defiles the office of the presidency - which may now take a generation to clean up. Even Republicans are getting fed up, as the midterms loom.  “To say this is unbecoming of any man, let alone the POTUS, is a vast understatement,” tweeted Representative Ryan A. Costello, a Pennsylvania Republican.

When Trump attacks women, as he did with Ms. Clifford in his tweet last Tuesday, he often goes after their faces. As he battled his rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,  Trump made fun of Carly Fiorina’s face on television, saying that people wouldn’t vote for the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard because of her looks.

“Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” 

Well, it beats the brat face of a  died blonde, mop topped,  orange Orangutan!

Trump, for his part, has continued to make crude comments about women’s bodies since taking office, repeatedly testing the limits of the public’s acceptance of a president’s locker-room vocabulary.  Incredibly, the WSJ's Henninger actually believes Dotard's incivility to women, his total depraved nastiness and misogyny,  is somehow on a par with the women who "shrieked" during Kavanaugh's confirmation. He is totally deluded and we can aver this is false equivalence on steroids.

Deluded hack that he is, Henninger also ruminated on "exactly when the Democrats shifted the national focus from Trump and onto their own behavior."

"Their own behavior"?  As if on any remote par with Trump's and the GOP's?   You need  a better class of anti-hallucinatory med, chief!

Henninger, like a dog worrying a used up bone,  asserts this occurred with the Kavanaugh confirmation farce, failing to appreciate that the "shrieking from the gallery" he associates with incivility and the "mob" was actually the anguished collective cry of women (many assault victims themselves) scorned by the assembled GOP, Judiciary Committee  Senators. I refer here to the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and others.  They insulted not only Christine Blasey Ford but all female victims of sexual assault, diminishing their experiences and attacking them as victims for coming forward.

 It was clear Christine Ford didn't trust the bullies and buffoons of the Senate GOP to do any proper investigation, and by the end of the two months that was obvious. Hell, the pair of  elderly GOP Senate Judiciary Bozos  - Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch- didn't even pick up on Kavanaugh's assorted lies.  (I suspect they willfully ignored them.)  Hatch himself had the noxious gall to claim Dr. Ford was "mixed up".

What Henninger attributes to incivility then, was actually a fervent cry for justice in the face of a confirmation farce perpetrated by a clique of entitled white male assholes.    That Henninger doesn't recognize this indicates he is one himself, and has a vested interest in abetting this narrative.  Well, hell, of course they all do, given they've gotten no traction on their illustrious tax cuts - which now 61 percent recognize as no good for the country.  As one retired AF vet wrote in a recent letter to the CS Indy:

"Corporations and their wealthy CEOs have been rewarded with these tax breaks while we work paycheck to paycheck, our health care gets gutted, our retirements are threatened, and our workplaces made less safe."

That is a citizen who has his head screwed on straight.

Henninger also fumbles badly insisting the rage shown wasn't real but "mostly a practiced act".    He also conspiratorially ties it to the "San Francisco Democrats which stand for the party of the unelectable Left".  Well, he will see just how "unelectable" the Dems are next month, namely on November 6th - when all the women insulted by the Repukes' brash behavior cast their ballots.

  Be civil?  This is laughable for anyone - especially an unapologetic PR scribe like Henninger -   to demand of the  left or Dems when the latter are the sole bulwark against Trumpism and chaos - undermining and defiling all democratic norms.  Even worse, normalizing this degenerate behavior at the expense of an outrage-benumbed populace which finds it ever more difficult to keep up even with daily news, far less Trump's litany of transgressions.

And yet to read Lance Morrow's WSJ claptrap ('We've Grown Accustomed To Trump', p. A19, today) is to wring one's hands in despair that we've already crossed that Rubicon.  He claims for example:

"Trump's peculiarities don't seem unusual when compared with the extreme bizarreness, not to mention pathology, on the Left".

Adding, as if in mindless afterthought:

"People can get used to the strangest things, once the novelty has passed."

Seriously, you brainless nincompoop?  So an unhinged, rabid mutt that cages infants, praises thugs who body slam reporters, and adulates a retrograde,  Mideast oil kingdom that chops up journalists is not unusual and vermin to be ostracized.? Merely something "one can get used to once the novelty has passed".  Heaven, or whatever influence out there, help us if that is now to be accepted. We're already nine tenths down the same rabbit hole (actually a contracted mind virus)  that mutated the Weimar Republic into the Nazi  Reich.

But Morrow wasn't finished, leaving the most off -the -wall remarks until near the end, even invoking the Stockholm syndrome, in which kidnap victims begin to cooperate and even admire their captors.  He writes:

"Familiarity and the passage of time may breed a certain kind of acquiescence, even grudging acceptance.  We see a touch of the Stockholm syndrome.

My guess is that the variations on Stockholm syndrome will play a role in the minds of independent voters in the 2018 midterms, producing a slightly friendlier inclination toward Mr. Trump and anyway, toward Republicans."

In other words, this hack is predicting an entire swath of voters - by virtue of exposure and "familiarity" to Dotard's excesses -  will  "acquiesce"  and mutate into a form of kidnapped victims. In such a condition, like compliant captives, they will be more inclined to vote Trump and the GOP.  If this is indeed the case, and I hope to hell independents have more self awareness and intelligence than that, we are truly in "duck's guts" - to use the Bajan phrase.

But it's clear to me that Morrow, who I once admired when he wrote sensibly for TIME, has now devolved into a whore for the WSJ-FOX News axis.  Evident by his shameless peddling this "Left is pathological" bunkum, as well as a Stockholm syndrome kind of submission to an insane, autocratic dingbat.  Further, his judgment can no longer be trusted if he - like Henninger- resorts to such egregious (and outrageous) false equivalence, and acceptance of the gross, deranged and disreputable.

The masterful trick attempted by Morrow as well as Henninger and their pals at FOX News -  and Dotard himself -  has been to portray themselves  as the aggrieved little victims when their obnoxious side of enabling thugs controls congress, the presidency and now the highest court.  Worse, with each passing day, as the Post editorial described, they are wreaking untold havoc on the nation's democratic norms. Thereby the danger is increasing that as time goes on this despicable behavior will become  as accepted as whipped cream on strawberry shortcake.

 At the same time those who seek to express their views are derided as "the mob" and anarchists, or "radicals, when the  protesters  of Kavanaugh were merely exercising their free speech rights. But see, this is the nature of authoritarian and fascist rule: it criminalizes and marginalizes all speech and behavior intended as  rigorous criticism of the reigning cabal or autocrats. Ask the Philippines' Duterte or Turkey's Erdogan, or even better the Saudi Prince Trump loves so much - who had WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi chopped up into tiny pieces and then bagged at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. What was Khashoggi's "crime"?  Criticizing the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his anti-democratic moves, including house arrest of members of the same Saudi family! See e.g.  Mr. Khashoggi's final column.

That incident alone - as well as Trump's self admitted fondness for tyrants -   ought to convince you his lot are not on the side of democracy. Oh no.  And no, it is emphatically not a case of  "Americans not processing Trump correctly" - as WSJ idiot Holman Jenkins Jr. claimed in his eponymous op-ed today.

To say the coming election is epochal and historic is to put it mildly.  If, in fact, the lawless, Reep party maintains its control of all branches of government we will have entered a parlous, perilous period indeed. Perhaps the most perilous in the nation's history.  This is given that in such a case the protection of traitor Trump will be doubled down on even as the GOOps are emboldened to enact even more vile policies, including extending their budget busting tax cuts to impoverish the next generation and cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

In addition, such a ghastly scenario would mean, in the words of David  Leonhardt's NY Times piece:

"Total victory for the G.O.P. would mean Trump unleashed."

In Leonhardt's own words:

"It would be validation for Trump, who could then brag that he had defied the experts once again. It would mean he had outperformed Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman, all of whom suffered drubbings in the first midterm election of their presidency. It would embolden Trump to push even harder toward the America he wants — where corporate oversight is scant, climate change is ignored, voting rights are abridged, health care is a privilege, judicial independence is a fiction and the truth is whatever he says it is."

So multiply all the craziness, all the chaos and vileness,  by about one hundred, and you'd get some idea what we'd be in for.

Flat bottom line?  There will have to be a blue wave large enough to at least flip the House to the Dems, or we are all in deep trouble.  If you think the past two years was a nightmare, imagine a nightmare on hallucinogenic steroids!

Update:  Oct. 22 -  As if Dotard's "crazy Dem mobs" wasn't enough, the deranged fucker is now trying to harness the Honduras-originating caravan through Mexico - headed toward the U.S. - into the mix, scribbling on his Twitter:

"The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party. Change the immigration laws NOW!

1:14 PM - Oct 21, 2018

Again, this misfit maggot creates hysteria out of strawmen for his fool base, given the Dems have nothing to do with the caravan.  It is composed of thousands seeking only to escape the relentless gang violence in their homeland.  But having exhausted issues to rev up his cult of toadies and morons, this is all he is left with - incendiary rhetoric along the lines of "this mob of foreigners is coming for ya and the Dems are behind it."  Even more reason, as if we needed any more, to be sure to put a check on this asshole via a D-congress.  . 

See also:

Trump Openly Celebrates the Assault of a Journalist While Campaigning in Montana

Excerpt:

On Thursday, Trump made it clear he's not ashamed of Gianforte's actions — he's proud of them.
"By the way, never wrestle him," Trump said of Gianforte at the campaign rally. "You understand that? Never. Any guy that can do a bodyslam, he's my kind of ... he's my guy. I shouldn't say this. But there's nothing to be embarrassed about!"


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P.M. Carpenter

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Imagining Trump On An Even Worse Day

The Kavanaugh Circus Will Anger Reeptards & Generate A "Red Wave" Next Month? Poppycock and Twaddle!

The corporate media now appears to be chocked full of entries claiming - in the wake of Kavanaugh's questioning by Senate Dems -  that there is a "surge in GOP enthusiasm that could recalibrate the political landscape to the Democrats' disfavor".  Do not believe this malarkey for one solitary second.  There is nothing, NADA, that is going to stop or diminish the Blue tidal wave now building to epic proportions   especially as educated and sensible women across the land have seen and heard how one of their own (Christine Blasey Ford) was so contemptuously treated by the Reptiles.

But it seems all the weenies and milk toast, entitled white males have crawled out from their parents' basements to start whining and crying about how the women are grinding their miserable butts under their high heels. Well, in a way this is true - but more arising from male failures -  including at the college level where females are not only demonstrating significantly greater attendance but graduating with better degrees and at higher rates.  See e.g.

At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust - The New York Times

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Why Men Are the New Minority in College - The Atlantic

Of course, the whiners and bloviators in the media - like Sean Hannity and Lush Limburger - want you to believe all these poor guys are the victims of an academic structure and system that ensures female success but obliterates it for males.  Well, cry me a river and please pass the world's smallest violin and I can play a little dirge.  The real problem, of course, is not any male victimization by the women - but rather the women righteously working their butts off to get ahead while the guys head for the keggers at frat parties.

But it's petulant male grievances of this type that we are supposed to believe were hatched amidst the animus of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing.  Also, that the recent Kavanaugh circus (crafted by the Reepturds, mind you)  is causing all the entitled little males to get their dander up enough to outvote  the millions of raging women next month.  Don't believe it! These guys will still be playing Grand Theft Auto in their moms' basements while they also pout and cry on some dreggy Reddit forum - maybe dedicated to the incels.

What is undeniable is that millions of young, college educated women - mainly in suburbs, but also beyond them - are furious at the patriarchy on display last Friday in ramming through Kavanaugh  - which commentator John Oliver described as "A 'fuck you!' to all women watching".  Especially those women who've been marked as survivors of sexual assault by some over eager young ape with loose paws. Those women - an estimated 25- 30 million-   are now holding their fire but ready to unleash it at the polls.  They won't hold back.

The display by the Reeptard Right was beyond the pale in painting themselves as the aggrieved victims despite controlling both houses of congress, the presidency and now the Supreme Court.  Especially enraging was Dotard claiming the whole thing with Dr. Ford was a "democratic hoax" when the only hoax is the criminal one this Russian stooge traitor tool - who ought to be hung by the neck,
 
is perpetrating on all of us - while having the audacity to appoint the Reptilian turd Brett Kavanaugh to the highest court.  We also know Dotard coached him to be a "whiny little bitch" in the words of Bill Maher (Friday night, on Real Time)  to get through.   As for the bitch fest claim (e.g. by Republican strategist Alice Stewart) that "Democrats were willing to use Dr. Ford's testimony to launch character assassinations on Judge Kavanaugh" - that's total horse pockey.  Indeed, as journalist Rebecca Traister explained last night on 'All In', the Repukes brought the whole acrimonious process on themselves (in 'he said, she said' format) by not interrogating all parties, and especially only offering up a sham FBI investigation.

Look, in the words of former Senate Judiciary staffer Lisa Graves (last night) everyone in the country who isn't a partisan knows the GOP Senators who rammed Kavanaugh's confirmation through  "participated in one of the biggest whitewashes in American history"  Hell, I'd say at least on a par with the bogus Warren Commission which used the lone nut rubbish to whitewash the JFK assassination.

When protesters then erupted, as they had every right to - the people sensing a railroad job - the high and mighty white Reepo patriarchs proclaimed they were the last bastions of "law and order" standing in the way of anarchy! Bull fucking shit! THEY were the ones using lawless minority rule to divide the country in ways not seen since the Civil War.

Even more egregious and outrageous was the Traitor -in-chief yesterday, spouting the following unadulterated bullshit in the packed East Room of the White House:

"On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception.”

Adding,  like the insufferable maggot he is:

"What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency, and due process. Our country, a man or woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty."

And then capping it with another lie:

“And with that, I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent."

Except it wasn't a trial, you fuckfaced orange baboon, so he can't be 'proven' innocent! It was basically a JOB interview (as journalist Soledad O'Brien explained on Real Time) for one of the most important jobs in the land!  So the miserable, swine ratfucker thereby rubbed more salt in open national wounds instead of healing them. But what do you expect from a traitor who ought to have been swinging from a tree by now as opposed to inserting a guy into the highest court  with the potential to give him a 'get out of jail free' card in the Mueller probe?

All this followed the growing media narrative (e.g.. as expressed in an AP release in The Denver Post Monday) that  "internal polling - by GOP operatives-  has shown that Kavanaugh's acrimonious confirmation has given the party a much needed boost, with GOP voters viewing Democrats as overzealous partisans".

The implication by these operatives being that the Dem takeover of the House is now at risk given the Red "tide"   (like the toxic one now killing sea life in FLA) will wash in and overcome the blue wave. Horse manure!  Then, according to another AP report, a poll late Monday "suggested independents view the Democrats' response to Kavanaugh even more dimly than Republicans."  Well, if such a poll exists it's either statistically skewed - or- the claimed "independents" are really morons or Reepos in disguise. I just don't buy it.

All the most reliable polling now shows the Dems with a huge gender gap advantage - female voters up to 30 points for Dem candidates - with white (mainly non-college educated)  males tilting 9 points toward their favorite Reeptards.   This spells disaster for the GOP in a month and they KNOW it! That is why they are spinning this yarn about a "recalibrated political landscape" that even has Nate Silver biting. (Silver now gives the Dems only a 50-50 chance of retaking the House).

It is clear to this observer that all this huff and puff by the assorted Republican operatives is merely meant to try to pump up the GOP's forlorn loser base, while also attempting to depress Democratic energy and turnout. (Especially as so many in the media, even MSNBC's Steve Kornacki, repeat some form of this hog swill.)

But I take the position that the farce we witnessed this past weekend will only amplify the Democratic Party's pull with female voters, including independents and moderates who may have previously voted Republican.  As pollster Geoff Carlin put it (ibid.):

"Kavanaugh's confirmation will leave a lot of outraged and energized women in its wake"

And those millions of  outraged, energized women are just itching to make their displeasure known at the ballot box next month!

Above all what the whole Kavanaugh ordeal shows is that political party DOES matter! One party clearly is the one for reality and checks and balances - the other is indifferent to those, and intent on propping up a Russian tool.  It beggars the imagination to think any citizen - especially a young,  would- be voter - could argue that "parties don't matter".  The Kavanaugh atrocity perpetrated by the Reepturds proves that they do

See also:

From Kavanaugh to November

And: :

Kavanaugh Is Confirmed. Only Mass Organizing Will Save Us Now.

And:

For Trump supporters,'the cruelty is the point': Adam Serwer for The Atlantic 

Are "Reptilian Aliens" Controlling Earthly Events And Entering Our Political Domain Via High Officials?

If one closely examines frozen images of Brett Kavanaugh's visage during yesterday afternoon's Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing - especially when he has his fangs bared (in between crying) - there is definitely a Reptilian resemblance.  Could it be Brett is one of the Reptilians from Draco that many believe are intruding into Earth's political environment these days? Who knows, especially after his histrionics yesterday afternoon.  But I leave it an open question for some to consider.  Hmmm.....Reptilians, Republicans.  There is a kind of concordance!  But is it real?  

Let's proceed further!

According to one review (by Michael Salia)  of the book Alien World Order:

" Len Kasten provides a coherent account of the history and imperialistic activities of Reptilian extraterrestrials on Earth and the Milky Way galaxy over millennia, using the work of Robert Morning Sky, Stuart Swerdlow, Alex Collier, and other primary sources. The scope of Reptilian influence over human elites and society is breathtaking and provides an explanation for many of the historical ills afflicting humanity. Kasten peels back the layers of secrecy even further to reveal the dire situation we collectively face today--where our political leaders are vassals for imperialistic Reptilian aliens--and the need for an informed citizenry to take back their sovereign destiny."

Okay, first let's settle down and grasp that the possibility of an advanced reptilian (or "post-dinosauroid") species is not totally out of the question, Indeed, paleontologist Dale Russell - Curator of vertebrae fossils at the National Museums of Canada, actually arrived at a feasible advanced reptilian hominid, e.g.


This entity was based on, first, investigating an alter-paleohistory of what would have unfolded on Earth had the dinosaur-killing asteroid 65 million years ago, never struck. Russell argues that had the dinos then survived, they would have gotten smarter and also displaced the much smaller mammals then beginning to emerge. Ultimately, the evolution would have led to a "large brained, reptilian biped with enormous eyes, three -fingered hands and even a navel". (Source: 'The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia', pp. 103-04)  The latter also would have had to develop the capability for live birth, as opposed to egg laying.

But - is it rational to make a major leap from such possibility to claiming an advanced guard of Reptilian aliens is living among us - presumably arrived from distant planets - and interfering in our lives and politics?   I somehow doubt it, though watching Kavanaugh intermittently bare his inner reptile yesterday makes one wonder.

Following on, if Kasten's arguments are to be believed, we on Earth have been lulled into electing Reptilian aliens or  confirming and nominating their collaborators into high office,  thereby influencing events.   This had me wondering if  the Kasten cult would even pin Pizzagate on the Reptilian overlords.   But don't for a moment think that this  crackpot conspiracy ideation is accepted by only a few. In fact, in a WaPo piece from 5 years ago (written by Philip Bump) we learn:

"As 12 million Americans "know," the United States government is run by lizard people (or, to be scientifically accurate, reptilians."

Don't howl with laughter yet. The best is yet to come. Breaking down the malarkey from one book by David Icke, Bump writes:

"Thousands of years ago, the reptilian beings [from the constellations Orion, Sirius, and Draco] intervened on planet Earth and began interbreeding with humans. Not physically, however, but rather through the manipulation of the human coding, or DNA. Icke states that it is no coincidence that humans have fundamental reptilian genetics within their brain."

First let's clarify that Sirius is not a constellation but a star. As for Orion and Draco let's  try to grasp  that all constellations are merely coincidental patterns of stars at widely differing distances. They do not form a coherent, bound whole, in other words.   They are purely random, temporary configurations, on to which humans  have superimposed imaginary images: bull, lion, crab, fish or whatever. Even as I write these words, the stars which make up the zodiacal constellations are speeding in different directions. There really is no such thing as a fixed star, on scales of cosmic time anyway. In about one hundred thousand years, none of the star patterns seen today will even remotely resemble a "Lion", or "Archer" or "Bull" or anything else

Second,  this "fundamental reptilian" aspect simply refers to an ancient brain region left mostly intact by the process of evolution. No reptilian meddling needed.

Bump also lists the assorted attributes by which one can tell if a person has merged with or been influenced by a reptilian. The common signs (according to one source:

-  predominance of green or hazel eyes that change color like a chameleon, but also blue eyes"

-  true red or reddish hair"

-  "low blood pressure"

- a sense of not belonging to the human race"

-  "UFO connections"

-  "love of space and science"

-  ""unexplained scars on body"

-  "capability to disrupt electrical appliances"

- "alien contacts"

-  "deep compassion for fate of mankind"

So wait.  I have 7 of the listed attributes, does that make me a reptilian alien?  I seriously doubt it. (Janice does too.)

Bump goes on:

"Good list! So let's see if we can pinpoint our lizard overlords based on these hints. For example: Who has eyes that are green or hazel or blue but which may change to be different colors? Maybe you"

He then follows up by applying the criteria list to known politicos and ends up with the following lizard people:  Barack Obama (who also has a knack for killing flies), Joe Biden, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Donald Rumsfeld.

As one examines the names and the purported reptilian evidence, it is easy to see it's all based on subjective dot connection (i.e. Obama is found to slap away often at flies, emulating the typical lizard). In other words, it doesn't add up to anything.  My advice? Treat the Reptilian overlord conspiracy about the same way you'd treat Pizzagate.

Is Brett Kavanagh  a Reptilian alien then? Nope. Just your garden variety, pussy-grabbing asshole who's hoping a bunch of R (for Republican, not reptile)  assholes put him on the high court.

Senate Confirmation Hearing Descends Into Partisan Knife Fight In P.M. - As Kavanaugh Bawls

"BWAHAHAHHAA! Them Dems Is So Disgusting.....!  WAAHHH!"

Question:  When 11 angry, entitled white men with  ‘R’ after their name channel their hate and frustrations into a heavyset female prosecutor to take down a fragile, female sex assault victim – so THEY don’t look bad- what do you get?  Ans.: A Battle Axe!

 And so it was Thursday that the Senate confirmation hearings for accused sexual molester Brett Kavanaugh descended into a full fledged farce,  when the 11 male members passed on their responsibility for questions to Rachel Mitchell – a Maricopa County AZ  prosecutor.  The strategy in using this woman was clear: The Repukes wanted a battering ram – or even battle axe- to tear down the victim’s defenses and render looking like either a phony or fraud.   It didn’t work!  As MSNBC cohosts Lester Holt and Casey Hunt –put it, Mitchell didn’t lay so much as a mitten on courageous Christine Ford.

Speaking in no nonsense, but emotional overtones, Dr. Ford made her sobering opening statement and followed it up by her compelling revelations as well as the impact of the whole thing on her life and her family.   Most appalling was her reference to being called “some of the most vile names imaginable” as well as being  subjected to a barrage of death threats from clearly mentally deficient degenerates.  Rather than face such a woman – bowed but unbroken – the Republican Senate Judiciary misfits chose to use a female avatar (Rachel Mitchell) to do their questioning for them. So terrified were they of the negative optics – for THEM – of besting up on a traumatized woman.

So the pussies had to get another woman to do their dirty work for them – a puppet trick if ever there was one.  In fact, the whole time I was watching Mitchell’s grilling of Dr. Ford (the first three questions) it was plain to see they were all marked by legalistic mumbo-jumbo framing, and hyper fine splitting of terms - all designed to trap Dr. Ford into perjury or inconsistencies.

Mitchell’s dual role itself almost invited a kind of schizoid approach given she had to play both defense lawyer and prosecutor.   The problem was that the “prosecutor” came out way too much when interviewing Dr. Ford and the defense lawyer came out way too much to favor Kavanaugh. In this way the whole event could be seen as one long grandstanding show designed to confer false credibility on “Booze ‘em& Bang ‘em” Brett.  This in order to expedite an unholy rush to judgment,….errr ….confirmation of the arch liar and pussy grabber, for tomorrow.
So no wonder John Clune, a Boulder CO attorney for Deborah Ramirez referred to the Senate hearing bluntly:

“This feels like a setup, designed to obstruct the truth  and guarantee a political outcome.”

 In other words, just like the Warren Commission- concocted by LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover.  But in this case, the lies and M.O. were exposed from the get go.  This was especially in the P.M. session when the Reepturds and Kavanaugh dropped any pretense of an apolitical, non-partisan process and turned full rabid rat on the 10 Committee Democrats  - depicting them as the uber villains.

Led by the likes of  Southern Chauvinist Drama Queen Lindsey Graham - pitching his own hissy fits and squawking ‘mob rule” – even as he whined "this is the worst process I've ever seen". Etc.  But we know that what he really meant was too such transparency and democracy had found its way through the hoopla and nonsense.    But the whiny little bitch's biggest outburst was left for last, when he screamed in a high pitched, falsetto voice:


"Boy, so y'all really want power! I hope to God ya never get it!"


Totally failing to grasp, amidst his scripted convulsions, that HIS lot has failed to use ANY power, i.e. in checks and balances, to stop Trump's excesses. So yeah, someone with balls has to take the reins, Little Lindsey.

As for Janice's reaction to Graham's selective hysteria - well I dare not repeat it in a family -oriented blog. :(

Chuck Grassley, the octogenarian Reeptard fossil overseeing this farce,  belched earlier with a gusto that nearly invited a myocardial infarction:

“The goal is to depoliticize the process and get to the truth instead of grandstanding.”

REALLY?  Could have fooled me, Chuckie, old boy!

Cutting out all the fulsome codswallop let serious observers agree that the aged imp had to know the design of this “hearing’ was specifically to accomplish what he didn’t want: politicization AND grandstanding.  That occurred the second he and his Reepo swine decided to forgo an FBI investigation focused on Dr. Ford's further claims – and instead offer up a “he said, she said” circus.

We also know this is true because generally an FBI first pass investigation NEVER delves into a
candidate's high school years - unless red alarm bells go off as they did here. But those alarms delivered the justification for Grassley, Hatch and Co. to obfuscate and spin using their predominant numbers on the Committee. 

But. Whoa,  Nellie! The afternoon scene  devolved into a full -on partisan knife fight,  even eclipsing Lindsey Graham's drama queen displays.  This as the 11 Reeps - unable to tolerate any further pussy footing -  finally took the reins from Rachel Mitchell's hands, leaving her to sit and stew. Predictably,  they literally went ape shit barking in rage at the Dems for their unseemly efforts to tear "a good man" (actually, Bill Clinton's chief inquisitor)  down. Meanwhile, their boy toy Brett didn't help the situation by alternately going "livid and tearful" according to a Financial Times observer.  Brett bawled and howled at various points how he'd never be able to coach his daughter's team again and his family had been dragged through the mud.   Oh, and he might never be able to teach at Hah-vahd again, poor thing. Well, shoulda thought about that when you were a young, entitled punk at Georgetown Prep, mate. 

The spectacle was the most maudlin and sickening since Edward Muskie was reduced to tears in a presidential campaign decades ago (he was the  Dem VP pick at the time). By any standard, the unhinged drama on display this afternoon ought to sink Kavanaugh's chances -  but don't bet on it. The Repukes lost all sense of shame as  well as irony long ago when they opted to get into bed with Donnie Dotard - aka the pussy- grabber- in- chief.

 The American people deserved much better than what they got today, but like the Warren Commission 54  years earlier, the powers- that- be believe the people must be treated as fragile infants for their own good.  Thus, like the WC we got another fraud and farce, only this time for thankfully less money wasted in the end!  That's a 'W' considering Kavanaugh's checkered past, as more voices have made his impacts on them known.

 Yes, the Reeptards may ram this tainted, tear jerking scumball through tomorrow, but in the court of public opinion it will be a fail - and they will pay even more heavily in November. 

See also:
Voting Matters, But Staying Engaged Matters More
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Update - Sept. 29th:

It now appears GOP  Senate Judiciary Committee member Jeff Flake has balked at being the 11th vote for the general Senate confirmation to go forward. Flake, after being confronted by two female activists in an elevator, has now requested that the FBI extend an investigation into Kavanaugh's HS background.  Trump, incredibly, has likewise approved the move, giving the FBI a week to complete the investigation.