February 11, 2020

"Fire Chuck Todd" trending on Twitter because of his

Comments on Sanders supporters.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/chuck-todd-should-apologize-and-resign-msnbc-anchor-blasted-for-nazi-smear-on-leading-democrat/

February 11, 2020

Update: more than 100 US troops suffering brain injuries from Trump's attack on Iran

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-tbi-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-100-u-s-troops-diagnosed-with-brain-injuries-from-iran-attack-officials-idUSKBN2041ZK

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday disclosed a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, with the number of service members diagnosed climbing to over 100.

No U.S. troops were killed or faced immediate bodily injury when Iran fired missiles at the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. killing of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike at the Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.

The missile attacks capped a spiral of violence that had started in late December. Both sides have refrained from further military escalation, but the mounting number of U.S. casualties could increase scrutiny on the Trump administration’s approach to Iran.

Reuters was first to report earlier on Monday that there were over 100 cases of TBI, up from the 64 previously reported last month.

The Pentagon, in a statement, confirmed that so far 109 U.S. service members had been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury. It added that 76 of them had returned to duty.

More at link

February 11, 2020

Trump ignores reporters on so lawn

https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1226982750864859136?s=20

February 10, 2020

Nola Mardi Gras trump float. X-rated

https://twitter.com/yoruguaenusa/status/1226546035771813888?s=20

February 10, 2020

Weird. Guess Pence meant last (Democratic) Speaker of the House??

https://twitter.com/karenamyatt/status/1226764635266785281?s=20

February 10, 2020

BUSTED:Melania Trump Lied Under Oath in 2013 About Graduating From College With a 'Bachelor's in Art

https://twitter.com/NightlyPolitics/status/1226641166369615874

Melania was involved in a lawsuit for her failed skincare line.

UNDER OATH, Melania said she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture

February 9, 2020

Great Bloomberg ad. Odd thing! Bloomberg attacking trump not other Dems!

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1226650650240483328?s=20

February 9, 2020

Collins, tried to stop Trump from firing Sondland, the GOP donor. No effort on Vindman.p

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2.9.20

Happy Sunday. There are 268 days until the presidential election. Barr is working with Rudy to wreck Biden, Trump goes into full mad king mode and oof about that picture.

Note: Well that’s a bummer. It turns out that just taking a Saturday off is not a hard reset for politics and democracy. So yeah, the same horrifying suck ass problems crippling our country on Friday are still here today. Damnit! Don’t worry. We’ll keep trying by always taking Saturday off to sleep in. Maybe one of these days we’ll awake to Sunday show hosts who remember that Javanka made $82 million while working in the White House last year. Maybe it will be CBS remembering they’re allowed to ask Lindsey Graham tough questions. Or maybe, just maybe, one of these days Sunday show reporters will actually try to hold politicians to account for the endless abuses and offenses coming out of the White House. Yeah, it’s a lot to hope for, but we are nothing if not eternal optimists. Have a great Sunday, everybody. Except the Sunday show hosts. They should go to the corner and think about how much they blow.

Note two: We are here all damn day for Speaker Pelosi calling out Moscow Mitch and the rest of the Senate chickenshits. More: Washington Post

More confessions

Speaking of Lindsey and the Sunday shows, Trump’s bootlicking buttlick straight up confessed on Face the Nation that AG Bill Barr has set up an investigation that will allow DOJ to “verify” the dirt Rudy has been getting on the Bidens in Ukraine from pro-Kremlin sources. Lindsey even went as far as to use Trump’s words, calling Rudy, who is supposedly under investigation, a crime-fighter. Lindsey only went quiet when he was asked who’s paying Rudy. This whole thing stinks, and we are obviously becoming Russia with better blue jeans. It will be a real shame to watch this week as the Capitol Hill press corps gives Republican senators a pass on all of this. More: CBS News

Don’t tell Susan

Or any of the other Republican senators who were deeply offended at the suggestion that Trump threatens people, but Trump is carrying out his petty retribution quickly and in plain sight. On Friday, the U.S. hit a new low (this happens daily now) as Lt. Col. Alex Vindman and his brother were both fired and escorted to the gates of the White House. Trump took to twitter to continue to smear the man who still carries shrapnel from a roadside bomb in Iraq, putting the lieutenant colonel’s rank in quotes and attacking his reputation. Also Friday, Trump fired Gordon Sondland, who was a totally useless tool. The NYT reports that a few Republican senators, including Susan Collins, tried to stop Trump from firing Sondland, the GOP donor. They made no such effort for Vindman. Trump’s purge likely isn’t done yet as WaPo says he wants to fire the IG too and the deranged orange idiot was on twitter Sunday morning unloading on Romney and Manchin. Fourth of July is totally gonna suck this year. More: Washington Post, Washington Post II, CNN, New York Times, Associated Press

Reality bites

Even in the inverted port-a-potty that is Trumpland, there are the things that make us laugh. And the picture of Trump looking like an Oompa Loompa’s butthole as he walked across the South Lawn left our sides hurting. And while normally we have to laugh at the mutant president’s shithouse rat crazy appearance and just hope that he knows we’re laughing at him, this weekend we got some satisfaction as the big orange dumb ass tweeted that the picture was fake and he doesn’t really look like that. And it’s just so delicious because the picture wasn’t fake at all and that’s really what he looks like and holy shit this person is the president and has the nuclear codes and this is really scary and suddenly we can’t breathe we can’t breathe pick a spot on the wall and stare at it and count backwards from a hundred and look at the picture again and breathe and remember that anyone who looks that fucking ridiculous is not someone you should be afraid of. Sorry about that. It happens sometimes. More: Buzzfeed News, The Daily Beast

Today’s clips

The Veterans Affairs Department’s inspector general is reviewing a request from a top House leader to investigate allegations that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie sought to dig up dirt on one of the congressman’s aides after she said she was sexually assaulted at VA’s Washington hospital. More: Washington Post

A bill banning the sale of assault-style weapons and possession of high-capacity magazines cleared a House committee Friday, drawing such an angry reaction from gun rights activists that the panel’s chairman had Capitol Police clear the room. More: Washington Post

The Trump administration is now considering a draft executive order, “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” that would direct the use of traditional or classical architectural styles for nearly all new federal buildings and renovations. More: New York Times

Two U.S. troops were killed and six others wounded in an attack Saturday in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, a military official said. More: NBC News

The budget proposal President Trump will release Monday is expected to lay bare how much he has adjusted to the political and practical limits of Washington, with some of his biggest campaign promises from 2016 cast aside and replaced with more limited policy ambitions. More: Washington Post

Bill Taylor -- the former top US diplomat in Ukraine who served as a key witness in the House impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump -- denounced attacks on former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch as "unconscionable" and said that he thought Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was under pressure not to back her. More: CNN

Vice President Mike Pence defended deficit expansion under the Trump administration during a CNBC interview Friday, saying that debt and deficits are secondary concerns compared to economic growth. More: CNBC


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February 8, 2020

RIP - Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA

https://news.yahoo.com/actor-comedian-orson-bean-91-114135652.html

Dallas Frederick Burrows, he never lost the Yankee accent that proved a perfect complement to the dry, laconic storytelling that established him as popular humorist. He had picked the stage name Orson Bean “because it sounded funny.”

His father, George, was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and Bean recalled later that his “house was filled with causes.”

February 8, 2020

Little Marco takes Friday night "defending trump on Twitter" shift

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1225952796853329924