He's like Ernst Rohm, but without the ability to street brawl and beer hall putsch.

He'll cut you up exquisitely in a live blog from his hair and nail salon, though.

It's as if Rohm got knocked out on the street by an anti-nazi German, and woke up thinking he was Hedda Hopper.

Plus, he's a big border jumper. I'm losing track of which country he's doing his goose stepping Paris hilton impression from. A most undesirable foreign national alien.

2 Points on Pittsburgh City Activism:

1) I've been out of the loop on the multi-day protests around Antwon Rose's getting murdered. Though I've been involved in anti-police brutality protests around here for decades, from Jonny Gammage, Stoney Bey, Deron Grimmitt, Jerry Jackson, Duane Dixon, Jordan Miles. Signed onto group signon sheets and petitions during rally protest actions for most of those murders/assaults.

The current protests are within walking distance of me, but there is a lack of unified long term organizational structure in responding to the decades old problem of police murder and brutality here, no unified list or historic overview of past actions and what worked, and the civilian police review board is toothless. Sure, the anti-police-murderer protestors are doing fine without me, but I'd show up if info got to me on time.

I suppose the rallies are organized via tweet and facebook, so I'm out of the loop there. Unfortunate that the famous 'activist' Mel P. is in the loop, though, to the extent that he was interviewed at the unscheduled march / sit in on channel 2 yesterday. He's a fucking jackanape and has always worked for the far right authorities. I told some honcho in political labor that, a few months ago, when ADA and the Washington County Labor Federation had me come out to back Lamb over Saccone.



2) The DSA around here popped up out of thin air. They're the 5th or 6th socialist group to pop up around here, since I moved back to the city in the early '90's. Those others mostly popped up, then vanished. I did enjoy Ms. Innamorato using targeted ads on Majority Report in her run against Mr. Costa.

Her state house district decided to go with her over Costa, more power to her, and them. But I was disturbed by the puff piece front cover story that Pittsburgh's City Paper ran on the group 9/20/17. It told demonstrable falsehoods about the group, origins and strength / membership #s.

That same CP edition amusingly had a favorable review of 'actor/labor activist' Mel P.'s work in a play about the Homestead 1892 Strike.

It basically said that Mel did a very convincing job acting like he was one of the Mellon family's anti-labor flunkies. I pointed that out to organized labor and the local IWW chapter, at the time.

He's chaff, anti-guided missile chaff. Anti-radar chaff. So's Vice.

So's Donny Deutsch. So's Sam Nunberg.

Distracting and spinning from Cohen and tRump's little problem.

He's sending a message to his right wing repug congresscritter 'allies'.

He'll crush anyone who gets out of line, thwarts or disagrees with him in the smallest way.

And telling them that 'official reality' is that he attacked their colleague, and they loved and approved it. Telling them he can decree what reality is.

In his head, he figured his 'joke' would be a great laugh and applause line. It bombed, so he tells congress's repugs that he's officially changing the record. He remembers the true reality that everyone said 'you're great, doing great things'.

He's always lied about reality, for his entire life, for a living, for fun.

Good. Everybody should nut punch that mutt everywhere they can.

While Ratzinger squats in the Vatican, ready to become anti-pope.

Don't worry Bill Donohue will be along to condemn Bannon, presently.

Burke is a swine put in by JPII and Ratzinger. Knights of Malta.

So again, Mercer is probably a Bircher. The question is whether Bannon and Conway are birchers or opus dei.

True, but it's odd that simultaneously he's shameless.

He looks like a freak and clown all the time. Every stupid face he makes, every fonky honky thing he does in public.

He is completely self aware of his public image, and dresses like a clown in bad fitting suits to hide his fat, in ridiculous ties to hide his fat, with fake tan make up, with that ridiculous shock wig hairdo that takes hours to sculpt.

He knows he's tan, svelt, with a full head of hair, knows he's the most desireable specimen. And spends all his time covering up evidence to the contrary.

He shows no self awareness when he's sniffling, strutting like Mussolini, bing-binging verbally, he comes off really goofy and spastic all the time in public appearances. But he's focused like a laser on 'how he looks.'

I knew Hans Von S would be in there. Forgot Jesse Richman's name.

He was the guy who had 'proof' that 5 mil illegals voted, so dRumpf actually 'won the popular vote'. Then he disappeared after getting all kinds of attention on big media outfits, where he said he had no proof, but was gonna come up with it.

I just did a search online for him, his lying claim lives on, in a zillion 'news' stories on the daily caller, judicial watch, spectator, redstate, etc. sites. All the proof the nazis need, their 'news' sites say it's true.

WaPo published an excellent debunk, but that's just one search result in a sea of bircher bullshit:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/19/trump-thinks-non-citizens-are-deciding-elections-we-debunked-the-research-hes-citing/?noredirect=on

I remember Sleepy's bank of cyprus laundromat for russkie oligarchs and kgb mob guys.

Engel and Maddow are great.

There was a laughable article from the NYT 3/6/17, about how Ross was trying to clean up the russians at his bank.

But Mother Jones reported that he actually joined with an oligarch and ex-KGB guy to run the bank.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trump-commerce-pick-wilbur-ross-financial-ties-russians/

"Ross was appointed vice-chairman at the bank after his investment in 2014, a post he shared with a deposit holder-turned-shareholder, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, referred to in Russian media as a former KGB official and Putin ally. According to the bank’s annual reports, the two attended two board meetings together in 2014 and as many as five together in 2015 before Strzhalkovsky’s May 2015 resignation from the board. One of the questions that has been posed to Ross by Democratic senators is whether he ever had contact with Strzhalkovsky.

One of Ross’s first big decisions at the bank was the appointment of former Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann as chairman, whom he chose in part because of Ackermann’s “huge Rolodex”, according to a 2014 Bloomberg interview.

Ackermann’s ties to Russia were especially strong, including a warm relationship with Putin and Herman Gref of Sberbank."

Nothing more pathetic than a whiny nazi.

And, although 'tRump rages' and 'tRump lashes out' are excellent all purpose phrases that can be constantly used in reporting on our current situation, I suggest that media switch over, universally, to 'tRump blubbers'.

It's much more all encompassing. Also, he's kind of fat.