Why is it, in old movies...

If you put a hanky over the phone mic it completely disguises your voice?

Today: "Sam? Is that you? You sound like you're talking through a handkerchief. Got a cold?"

Trump's trip: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

I can hardly wait.
I just hope he doesn't get us in another war.

Tucker Carlson. He of the permanently knitted eyebrows.

He has those two vertical wrinkles (creases?) at eyebrow level, on each side of his nose.

You can just tell that the boy is CONCERNED!

He is REALLY CONCENTRATING on whatever trumped up (no pun intended) outrage that he's currently outraged about.

Tucker and Coulter...making the bucks from their true believers.

REPUBLICAN UBER ALLES!

That's where we are now.
Is there ANY question, any question AT ALL, that the Republicans are party before country?
There is no doubt in my mind.

Another letter to Brad, my congressman. A regular feature?

I think I'll start sharing all of these.
MY congressman is Bradley Byrne.
(R) 1st District, Alabama

This is Brad.
Ain't he a good looking dude?
He loves tRump.
I write him letters.
Here's the latest.

Dear Brad,

Man!
It sure is looking bad for the home team, hunh?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it went nuke.
And I’m not talking about the North Koreans, which is scary enough.

The president of the United States of America, the leader(?) of the Free World, hobnobbing, backslapping, and grinning with TWO Russian operatives?
Good thing he allowed no U.S. reporters or photographers in the room to record THAT!
Oh, wait.
He DID allow a photographer from TASS?
“Tass is owned by the Government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia,
Tass has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus around the world.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_News_Agency_TASS

Son, I think we’re in some deep doo doo now.
Way deep.

I think it might be a good time to begin to distance yourself from this train wreck.
At this point I think you could STILL give yourself some plausible deniability.
Barely.

Listen, it’s never to late to see the error of your ways, do a mea culpa, and try for redemption.
What have you got to lose?

Yur bud,
(trof)

tRump's condition: Dunning-Kruger effect?

Sounds right to me.

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low-ability suffer from illusory superiority, by mistakenly assessing their ability as greater than their actual capability. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability people to recognize their ineptitude. Without that, they cannot accurately evaluate their actual competence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dear Brad: A letter to my congressman

Bradley Byrne is the rep from the 1st district of Alabama.
I write him "Dear Brad" letters.
He doesn't reply.


Dear Brad,

Now it appears that our Dear Leader has compromised an ally re highly classified intel info he gave the Russian ambassador.
Quite inadvertently, I’m sure.
That’s the problem.
Bless his heart, he just doesn’t KNOW what’s important and likely to cause SERIOUS ramifications throughout the world.

I know that he said during the campaign that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and his people would still support and vote for him.
At the time I thought it was a hyperbolic throwaway line, but now I see that it is actually true.
I guess you have to have some grudging admiration for someone who can screw up the country and the world so badly and still have 35 or 36 percent of those polled support him.
I imagine Hitler may have had the same numbers in the last few days of WWII.
AS Dear Leader would tweet: “Sad”.

You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I asked you if you represented EVERYONE in the 1st district, or just the Republicans.
You never answered my question, so I guess that’s an answer in and of itself.
You know I DID vote for you.
You were the lesser of two...well..’undesirables’? by far.
Dean Young scares the pants off of most of us.
Democrats in Baldwin County ORGANIZED to Get Out The Vote for you to keep that madman out of office.
I guess you should hope that someone with a less commitment to the PARTY as opposed to the NATION doesn’t challenge you.
You know where we’ll go if that should happen.

Best regards,
trof

From a right wing retired FBI agent today:

We were at a friend's brunch.
I asked him if he was in touch with his former colleagues.
"Yes, I belong to the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI."
'How do they feel about the firing of Comey?"
"Good riddance. Everyone hated him. And McCabe, too. He won't be in there long."

Unh hunh.
OK.

Now look at this:
http://www.socxfbi.org/
Comey's farewell letter is on the home page.

And this:
Link from their website; http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-fbi-trump-238247
FBI agent groups dispute Trump’s rationale for Comey firing
‘His support within the rank and file of the FBI is overwhelming.’

Conclusion: My 'friend' is a lying bastid.

The Spicer bush ornament

The difference between Obama and tRump:

From reddit