Showing posts with label Laura Ingraham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Ingraham. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

No One With A Working Brain Should Be Tuned Into Trump's Hogswill Tonight!


The human swine hybrid named Dotard Trump plans to give a prime time address tonight on the "border crisis",  likely as a prelude to declaring a "national emergency".  For pulling this domestic terror con he really needs to be hung, and the sooner the better.

"I wish that the networks had not granted Trump time to do this address.It just seems like another big nothing burger.  He's trying to do a dog and pony show around nothing.  This is all just a manufactured outrage.  This "border insecurity" is all just fake news that this administration has made up,  There's no evidence anything they suggest is going awry.  And this administration is causing the humanitarian crisis by their border policies."  - Aisha Moodie-Mills, All-In last night

As  MILLIONS of federal employees, including  contract workers, struggle to pay their bills, and even buy food, e.g.

The human-swine hybrid named Trump confirmed his debased  biological ancestry and bona fides with his latest bogus proposal to the Dems:  offering $800 m in "humanitarian funds" for the crisis he helped create, As  the most recent NY Times editorial described it:

"As the government shutdown over President Trump’s demand for border-wall funding moves through week three, the administration is looking to cut a deal with Democrats by emphasizing the deepening humanitarian crisis at the border — a crisis caused in large part by this administration’s inhumane policies, political grandstanding and managerial incompetence.

In a letter Sunday to lawmakers, the White House laid out its latest proposal for addressing the border tumult. The administration called for more immigration and Border Patrol agents, more detention beds and, of course, $5.7 billion to build 234 new miles of border wall. The White House also demanded an additional $800 million for “urgent humanitarian needs,” such as medical support, transportation and temporary facilities for processing and housing detainees."

Of course, this is an insult and non-starter - dead on arrival -  and merely discloses Trump's lack of serious conviction or will to halt the domestic terror his shutdown is inflicting on millions. It is a proposal the Dems need to toss into the nearest dumpster.  Trump cares more about how soon he can return to Mar-a-lago for golf than solving any humanitarian crisis (that HE created).  He's a swine, a feral, humanoid pig who has no remote notions of morality, decency or reflection and who lacks even the most rudimentary intellect.  Hell, he doesn't even read his daily briefs!

 But it does explain how Trump could actually claim with a straight face  "the government workers are okay with this" and  brag he "has been where  they are", referring to the shut out federal employees.  This coverage included one father featured in an WSJ piece today (p. A3) with a child who has cerebral palsy, and 3 other kids, now with no income at all.  In fact, both of these are among the among the 1,000 or so he plans to reel off tonight in a planned prime time lie-fest dealing with a "border crisis". Do not believe this bullshit for one second. There is NO   "border crisis", period.   It''s all manufactured by Dotard's right media loudmouths - who are running the country into the ground using Trump as a willing pawn in this domestic terror shutdown.

Even before tonight's planned, odious propaganda spectacle, when Dotard Donnie  announced he would make a public case for $5.7 bn in funding to build a border wall, the lies from his minions were flying fast and furious. First, you had Trumpie Liar Princess Sara Huckleberry Sanders making a fool out of herself in an interview with FOX News' Chris Wallace.   This was in regard to her stupid (and checkable) claim that "4,000 terrorists had crossed  the southern border" in the past year. Wallace immediately took down the inbred, lying cow,  noting the figure actually referenced those coming via multiple ports of call, especially into U.S. airports,  i.e. who were on terror screening watch lists. In fact, an NBC investigation reported last night disclosed only SIX immigrants identified on the terrorist screening watch list in the past 6 months entering via the southern border.  So it's all manufactured hysteria. 

 Even this isn't necessarily  any cause for concern.  As security specialist Julia Ainsley noted last night, one can find one's name on such a screening list for any number of reasons. It doesn't mean the person is a terrorist.  She also added:  "This completely contradicts what we've heard from White House officials on why they want their border wall. and for their reason for shutting down the government to get that wall."

Then we had the craven mutt Mick Mulvaney trying to assert lamely, the Dems were to blame for the impasse over the shutdown because they were using "stalling tactics".   Remember, this is the same, 2-faced,  infernal maggot who three years ago referred to Trump as a "terrible human being".  See e.g.


Dec 15, 2018



Compounding this manufactured farce of a crisis, we also beheld "Real Donald Trump" ruminating on an intended visit to the border on Thursday, his lapdog Sanders  announcing the visit on Twitter. It is not yet known which part of the 1,989-mile border Drumpf plans to visit or what he plans to do there.   But whatever it is, we know it'll be designed to magnify imagined evils, incite outrage in his drooling base, and invent "terrorist"  border incursions to try to distract citizens from the fact this guy is a criminal who merits the noose.

Meanwhile, as a first act, the newly-empowered House Democrats passed legislation last week to re-open the government while congressional leaders and the administration continued to debate border security. But Senate majority leader Bitch McConnell asserted again  he would not take up legislation without his master Dotard's benediction. He'd rather see TSA workers kicked out of their homes via foreclosures, thousands of air traffic controllers stressed to the limit as they try to focus on flights while worried over finances,  as well as 38 million poor losing their food stamps.   Here's another fact for the Trumpie scum to process: Zillow, the real estate site, estimates a total of $438 million in unpaid rent and  mortgage payments this month - thanks to Trump's shutdown.

House Democrats have vowed to pass a series of smaller spending bills that would individually fund federal agencies, a strategy that is unlikely to move Republican leadership. Senate Democrats are, meanwhile, threatening to block any legislation that does not reopen the federal government as a way to pressure McConnell to bring up a government funding bill for a vote in the Senate.
Over the weekend we also had the spectacle of Mikey Pence convening senior administration officials  and congressional aides for a series of meetings - totally flouting the formal process (which demands the presence of Pelosi and Schumer).  One anonymous Democratic aide said there was no progress made. But again, that aide wasn't  qualified to speak for the Dem leaders, Schumer or Pelosi.   Though it isn't surprising no progress was made, given Pence is the 2nd Liar- in -Chief.
At the briefing on Monday, reporters also asked lapdog Pence why Trump’s $5.7bn demand is so much more than the administration sought only a few months ago. He replied: “Things have gotten a lot worse.”  Which, of course, is bullshit. They've only "gotten worse" since the Right wing media rabble, including the harpy Ann Coulter,  pompous porker Rush Limbaugh and Lyin' Laura Ingraham, began turning up the anti-immigration heat and calling Trump "gutless" if he didn't do the stupid border wall as he promised his dimwit base.
The worst aspect of this whole fucking charade which is now impacting millions of lives?  The fact we now know the "wall" was invented by Trump's then advisers as a mnemonic when he was planning his campaign run.  They needed some quick and dirty device to keep Trump's  diminished brain focused on immigration and figured a "wall" was the best bet.  "Just keep repeating 'wall, wall' wall'...".  See e.g.
Wifey and I plan to watch a bunch of stuff we have on our DVR list tonight, including newly launched episodes of 'The Resident', and 'Manifest' - as well as the new History channel series, 'Project Blue Book'.  What we emphatically won't be watching is the Turd named Trump making fools of millions with his pathological lies, hyped up manufactured threats,  and con games delivered with bombast and egomania. We suggest others do the same, as opposed to exposing vulnerable minds to the Trump brand of psychological effluent. 

Don't buy it?  The fucking Trump bunch, as reported in the WaPo, didn't even realize the extent of consequences this shutdown would have!   According to the report: "Officials said they were now focused on the scope of the consequences and what they could do about it."  NOW focused on the scope? Why was this? Because these degenerates had no clue as to the workings of government!  Even think tank specialist Norm Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute ) felt compelled last night to assign a new term for this vile administration, a kakistocracy:


Excerpt:

"Obsessed with race, Donald Trump has weaponized and racialized the culture wars by using racially charged language to legitimate white supremacist ideologies and pit his supporters against protesting Black athletes, undocumented Latino immigrants, dark-skinned immigrants, and other people of color whom he routinely insults and punishes through race-based policies. Trump has claimed that “laziness is a trait in blacks,” according to one of his former employees, and he has called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Meanwhile he stated in December 2015 that a judge hearing a case about Trump University was “biased” because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.” These comments are a small sampling of Trump’s racist remarks."

Monday, December 31, 2018

As Trump's Shutdown Mutates Into Domestic Terror Dems Need To Resist The Swine's Threats

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The Toddler Swine- in -Chief, unable to impose his feral will, now resorts to brinksmanship and a 'wrecking ball' to try to get his way.  Dems need to let him go down sucking shit and not reward his extortion.

"He's dynamited the institution of the presidency. He doesn't see himself as being part of a long line of presidents....Instead he sees the presidency as an extension of his own personality".  - Historian Douglas Brinkley'Trump Takes Wrecking Ball To How Washington Works',  The Denver Post, yesterday, p. 6A

"Trump's booby traps now ensnare the nation. He orders chaotic withdrawals of U.S. forces from Syria that have allies reeling and adversaries rejoicing...He forces a government shutdown over 1/10 th of 1 percent of the budget - a spectacle Sen. Bob Corker called 'made up' and 'juvenile'....Meanwhile markets continue plunging because of Trump's trade war and attacks on the Federal Reserve."  -  Dana Milbank, Denver Post, p. 1D, yesterday)

"The GOP and Trump absolutely own this government shutdown!  Hundreds of thousands of government employees are without pay over the holidays while this president hides in the White House with his temper tantrum, wanting to spend billions for a silly fence,"  -  Edward Talbot, letter to editor, The Denver Post.

"As an American... I do not want to be associated in any way with the last country that built a wall"  .. Robyn Weber, letter to Editor, Denver Post yesterday, p. 3D)


WARNING:  Extreme polemic ahead! Do not read if you are overly sensitive, desire false civility, believe 'both sides are wrong'  or embrace political correctness!

As most of us know, it is standard procedure among most law enforcement agencies not to reward terrorists or hostage takers with payouts.  The reason is simple: Though the refusal to give in may likely cost lives, it is much worse to reward such vile behavior and encourage further hostage taking, terror in the future.  The exact same holds true with the current domestic terrorist named Donald Drumpf occupying the Oval Office. The selfsame mutt threatening all manner of mayhem - and even trying to blame the Dems for the deaths of two migrant kids.

Over the weekend this 2-legged maggot slimeball doubled down on his wall insanity, talking at Democrats but not with them in a series of confrontational tweets. Let us again register for the record that this demented fucker does not want a wall, he wants a fight - an open political fight (or reality show) - in which he is seen as being the winner.   If this asshole truly wanted a wall for "security" - as political commentator Ezra Klein noted two weeks ago-   he'd have signed off on the $25 billion offered over the summer. He didn't do that, crapping all over the deal instead.  Just like barely a week ago he saw himself  harshly criticized in the Reich media  by Limbuagh, Coulter, Ingraham & company and then turned around and crapped on a CR that was voted on by 100-0 in the Senate. He rejected the continuing resolution because a gaggle of right wing lowbrows and blowhards blew a gasket and called little Donnie Dotard names ("gutless").

While a mentally functional and normal president would never have tuned into these degenerates in the first place, that's not Trump's way given all he does these days is watch cable TV (FOX). Oh, and tweet bullshit and lies.   In the latest outburst, typical of the dyspeptic, lying shithead he is,  he tweeted,  seemingly  impervious to mounting criticism over his lack of outreach, much less mental stability:

"I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security"

Well, you can wait until Hell freezes over and "Satan" turns into the Abominable Snowman!  Because you are the turd that wanted this fiasco, and now you have to live with it. NO one is going to give you a buck more for your fucked up "wall".  Oh, did I say Trump has issues with his mental stability? Yeah, but we've known that for donkey's years.

But since a turd never loses its ordure nature - even when separated from the source-  no one will be surprised that on Saturday afternoon, Trump tried a more inflammatory tactic: “Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try!”

In any other universe, that is to say one where the rules are followed, and political or domestic terrorists are held to account, Trump would be in a rubber room at Bellevue by now.  He'd be strapped down to a table, bound in a strait jacket and administered electro-convulsive shock therapy.  But since we are in a parallel world where only norms - not laws - exist, he is instead able to project insults, threats and terror from the White House where he's holed up like a rabid rat. 

Speaking of rodents, Dotard has kept out of the public eye (like all such vermin, as well as cockroaches) since he triggered this shutdown. That was except for a 29- hour surreptitious trip to Iraq to brag lies to the troops  they were going to get a "10 percent pay raise".    He lied like he lied to Pelosi and Schumer he was going to "own" the shutdown, take the blame for it, then when the heat got turned up - turned imp and blamed the Dems.  (Newsflash to Mueller: It's now time to take out the trash.)


Still, one of the sadder aspects of this whole sordid mess is how the mainstream media is as yet unable to outright say  WHO the guilty party is. So we see and hear bollocks like:


"The blame game goes on!  Each side blames the other for the consequent government shutdown, the effects of which grow more severe."

Or.  "And the constant back and forth between Trump and the Dems never seems to end."

Which makes one wonder if the press, media are retarded, temporarily blind,  gobsmacked by Trump or just plain lazy.   Obviously, it is Trump who is to blame and he even took ownership for a shutdown before it happened!  See e.g.


That televised interlude 2 weeks ago makes it clear as glass where the blame lies, so why does the media play the useless and cynical  'two sides' game?   This is all on Trump!  He wanted it, he got it, now he has to live with it, and no amount of lying or distraction or threats will get the miserable maggot swine out of it. See e.g.




by Cody Fenwick | December 31, 2018 - 7:03am | permalink


It is true there is increasing collateral damage from Trump's political terror and  hostage taking. About 800,000 federal employees are either at home or working without pay on "furlough", but that's merely the tip of the looming iceberg. Federal payments to some farmers hit by Trump’s trade war with China will be put on hold from next week. The work of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is increasingly affected, and 14,000 are soon to be furloughed - never mind a major toxic spill may occur.  Oh, and for those millions of other federal workers, including 1.2 m   grantees and  4 m full time contractors who will have to pay their rents soon, here's a chestnut to process:  The Trumpie Scum have suggested these workers "trade their services for rent".    As Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees' Union put it on CNN Saturday: "I think it's disgusting. It's wrong to treat human beings that way!  Well, Tony, look at how this walking, talking cockroach treated child migrants, confining them in cages. They were humans too, right?
 

By the end of another month, many more agencies will be affected    As this hostage -taking terror by Trump goes on there will be many more casualties:  "500,000 Postal employees, 1.3 million active duty personnel, and the 4.5 million Americans whose jobs depend on the spending of the federal workforce."  (Paul Light, WSJ, 'The Hidden Cost of a Government Shutdown',  December 28, p. A15)

Another disgusting lie spouted by the slime is that it is mostly all Democrats affected. Do not believe this twaddle for a nanosecond. The victims are across the political spectrum, and it's millions not just the "800,000" the media repeatedly parrots. (See the WSJ piece cited in the previous paragraph.) Trump is nothing if not an equal opportunity  terrorist who waylays the military men and women as well as EPA scientists, post office workers and the janitors in the various agencies. 

While I can certainly sympathize with all of these Trump victims, they are basically in the same position as hostages taken by a demented terrorist.  The difference is that in this case the terrorist happens to (unjustifiably) hold the office of the president of the United States.  Still, he IS a terrorist as every act he's done in the past 8 months shows. In fact, not only a terrorist but a traitor who has served as a Manchurian candidate for Putin, as well as a tool for Turkey's autocrat Recip Erdogan.   In other words, he is a worm, a slime and active refuse- but with hostages nonetheless.

Sadly, this terrorist cannot be rewarded any more than if it was a high level ISIS vermin who'd taken prisoners.  That means, above all, the Democrats cannot give into his insane demands, not now, not ever.  However long this thing drags on, it is up to Trump and the Republicans to end it. Pelosi will send a gov't opening bill to the Senate this week and if Mitch McConnell doesn't get a veto-proof majority to sign it, it's also on him. He cannot claim innocence or try to fob the blame on the Dems.

For those federal workers at risk, I suggest bombarding the White House with calls and emails to cease and desist this perfidy. I also suggest emailing, calling or writing the terrorist Right wing clique who put Trump up to this shit.  That includes Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Fox and Friends.   Serious, committed citizens might also give Mick Mulvaney a piece of their mind too.

On Friday, Mulvaney, told Fox News: “There’s not a single Democrat talking to the president … about this deal.”    Mulvaney also sought to pin blame on the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, whom the administration has sought to portray as a prisoner of the left of her party. But neither Trump nor anyone from his administration has spoken to Pelosi since the 11 December Oval Office meeting. Justin Goodman, a spokesman for the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, told reporters: “For the White House to try and blame anyone but the president for this shutdown doesn’t pass the laugh test.”
Mulvaney, of course, is hoist on his own petard as Paul C. Light (WSJ, ibid.) makes clear regarding Mulvaney's knowledge of the "blended  federal workforce".  This is given he approved last year's "analytic perspectives" on the 2019 budget. These "delineated the two federal workforces: the contractors and the regular federal workers"So, as it turns out Mulvaney is a rat as well  and accessory after the fact in Trump's shutdown terrorism, given (ibid.):

"Not mentioning the indirect workforce reveals just how much the administration wants to minimize the effect of an indefinite shutdown in the eyes of the public.....Meanwhile, Mulvaney can only hope that Wall Street doesn't notice the threat to economic performance.""

So just as Drumpf's odious lies and malfeasance in office must be exposed, so must Mulvaney's PR moves to try to minimize the shutdown effects.  That not only are millions of jobs at risk, but the income from them and the economic benefits to the communities in which they're found.

It is now in every patriot's interest to inveigh against these unAmerican interlopers- the entire sordid axis from Trump, to Mulvaney to the Right wing media that egged them on to do a shutdown. 

Above all, it is important to keep reminding friends, acquaintances and others this is TRUMP'S shutdown. He wanted it and he now owns it.  It is up to him to man up and end the hostage taking of ALL federal workers!

Disclaimer:  No, I do not suffer from the mythical "Trump Derangement Syndrome". I am a fully rational as well as thinking American patriot - descendant of Revolutionary War ancestors - who is  prepared to call out the Trump infestation for what it is.  No euphemisms, no politically correct bullshit and no passes for what Drumpf  is doing to this nation!


Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Polemics = Political Blog Posts? You Better Believe It!

Image result for brane space, Eric Alterman
Paul Ryan repeatedly depicted as 'Eddie Munster' crying because he can't cut "entitlements". Right: depiction of Mick Mulvaney as a talking rat after taking over Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and wrecking it.
Trump pitching a fit after claiming Obama bugged him, right: sucking at Bannon's teats
Trump -- above left- depicted as Hitler signing executive order.   Giuliani as Nosferatu (the Vampire)

Polemic(def.):   Writing that features contentious rhetoric that is intended to support a specific position by aggressive depiction and undermining of the opposition.

As the Trump-Reich wing driven government shutdown enters its 2nd week, there is more than ever the need to skewer these wretched maggots even as one more and more sees and hears the idiocy "both sides are to blame". Uh no, they are not! Only one side merits blame: Trump who actually wanted this fiasco, and the Right wing media axis that egged him on to go through with it (see previous post).  That said, this more than ever reinforces the need to attack the other side using polemics.

On occasion I've been asked, especially by wifey (and friends), why so many of my political posts lean toward polemics, say as opposed to an "objective" discussion of opponents' policies.  I always reply the same way:  Their own Right wing media system refuses to do that, so why should I help prop up that benighted system by kowtowing to a fake objectivity?  In other words, these fools need tearing down, not validation. If the Reich media tilts perceptions then perhaps polemical posts can help in some small way  to counter the effect their grubby fingers have on the perceptual scales.

According to Eric Alterman, a media specialist writing in a recent issue of the Nation: ('Asymmetric Warfare: Far Right Media Isn't Playing By The Same Rules', Dec. 31, p. 6)  there exists a vast media "asymmetry" between how the supposed mainstream (and even many bloggers) portray the news and how the Right's media mavens do it. Specifically,  the primary consequence of this media asymmetry is a propaganda feedback loop. This loop, once established – as it is via FOX, Limbaugh, Breitbart etc. -   “lowers the costs of lying and increases the costs of resisting in the name of truth”.

In other words, it requires vastly more energy, and time -consuming investigation, as well as  endless scrutiny to knock down all the lies spewed out daily and metastasizing like so many mind viruses in the media ecosphere.   Now, since we already KNOW that 99.9 percent of what the Right media generates amounts to lies, then it make more sense simply to attack  all of their production as propaganda.  Also, take down their  screeching sock puppets (e.g. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, Laura Ingraham et cl) as liars and manipulators from the get go.  No need for "scrutiny" because their past misdeeds and overstretch, like Steve Bannon's and Dotard's, precede them,. So why not just go straight for the jugular to skewer the emitted propaganda, using hard hitting criticism as well as imagery (see above graphics) from the outset?

Thus,  nearly all my political blog posts embody a uniformly oppositional point of view,  and yes, "contentious rhetoric" because I believe one cannot fight the Right's media axis properly using namby-pamby rhetoric, cowardly hedging or politically correct weasel words. 

To make his case, Alterman  cites the book 'Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, And Radicalization In American Politics’ (by Yokai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts of Harvard University) and I’d say there isn't  a more profound take concerning how the American media consumer is being bamboozled with propaganda.  This is in reference to an asymmetric media environment wherein the Right’s crazies hold all the advantages and the regular media competes with one "hand" tied behind it.   Contrary to the usual malarkey  - which the mainstream media itself often recycles- the 3 authors found (op. cit.):

No Left Right division, but rather a division between the Right and the rest of the media ecosystem. The Right wing of the media ecosystem behaves precisely as the echo chamber models predict, exhibiting: high insularity, susceptibility to information cascades, rumor, conspiracy theory and drift toward more extreme versions of itself.

They also observed (ibid.):

"Even core right wing sites that do claim to follow journalistic norms, Fox News and The Daily Caller, do not in fact do so."

In other words, they abide by no known rules of  journalism, despite now accounting for an ever increasing share of political news sources and consumers.  An example, as Alterman writes, "During the 2016 election, the racist, inflammatory Breitbart was the third most frequently shared news source on Facebook, after The New York Times and CNN."

Of course, that stat is pathetic and discloses way too many Americans  unable to distinguish propaganda from real news.

Now, do my blog posts deliver real news? Yes, to the extent I cross check whatever comes over my transom (email alerts), whether from the New York Times. WSJ, Daily Kos, Financial Times or other sources.  If cross checking reveals major discrepancies then that item is not included or referenced. Hence, real news not alternative facts, is delivered but I do not refrain from taking a definite viewpoint on that news.  Or indeed, on any cited editorials, whether from The WSJ (on Trump and his behavior) or from The Denver Post, say on fracking or recent midterm voting amendments.

And always I am on the lookout to skewer (with appropriate imagery or cartoons)  anything that looks remotely hinky, sketchy or outrageous.  Am I justified in this "loaded" approach?  Damned straight!  As Alterman himself notes: The most important contribution of 'Network Propaganda'  has been to reveal that the mainstream media "have made themselves complicit in this system". 

That is, quoting from the book, "when one side systematically produces propaganda and has no internal checks then the insistence on maintaining neutrality creates a fiction that  there are two legitimate sides to this story".

Hence:

"To say this side says 'x' and this side says 'not-x' systematically reinforces and amplifies the lies."

My approach, in my political blog posts, is to call the other side out as liars and manipulators from the get go, no 'two sides' bunkum.  Hence,  I am not going to even pretend a hint of "objectivity" - which has merely been used by the corporate (often hedge-fund owned) media, to avoid doing their due diligence.

The upshot here is that if you arrive at this blog to read political (or economic) posts you should know exactly what you are going to get  It is going to be 100 percent anti-Trump, anti-FOX News, anti- Republican policy and no in- between.   If you prefer a false balance instead, well I am sure there are hundreds of media sources and other blogs to meet that requirement.  You just won't find it here at Brane Space.