Damage Report
I just read a funny article published today, September 27, 2017, on CNN's website. It was written by five authors: Jim Acosta, Jeff Zeleny, Elizabeth Landers, Kaitlan Collins, and Kevin Liptak. That a short article requires five authors is a question in itself, but I figure that one of them, Acosta perhaps since his name appears first, wrote the article (which needed proofreading before publication), while the other four gathered the information--and what information it is, since it deals with President Trump's psychology as well as the groupthink mentality in his administration, even as White House personnel continue to leak, a no-no that led to the replacement of Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with dour retired General John Kelly, who made it clear that leaking would not be tolerated. He apparently doesn't realize that corrupt systems contain their own downfalls.
The article, titled "Trump infuriated after backing Alabama loser," starts out with the President returning to Washington on Air Force One. He had just been attending "a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan." A fundraiser for desperate Puerto Ricans whose island at night now looks like North Korea from space? A fundraiser for the Texan and Floridian victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma?
The fundraiser, actually, was for the 2020 Trump reelection campaign committee. 75% of money raised would go to that, while 25% would be sent to the Republican National Committee. In other words, money for scum. Make America Great Again by ignoring everyone in need.
An "infuriated" Trump watched Fox News Channel on the plane taxpayers pay to operate. The Alabama senatorial election was called by a wide margin for Roy Moore over the President's endorsed candidate, Luther Strange.
Trump, according to "officials and informal advisers," i.e. leakers, vented "at his political team and...Mitch McConnell, who had consolidated establishment GOP support behind Strange."
McConnell had pushed for Strange, getting Trump to endorse and campaign for him. As the election neared, Trump wobbled, saying at a rally in Alabama that "if Roy Moore wins, I'll fight for him." He vacillated about Strange, saying, "Maybe he'll win, maybe he won't."
According to officials and informal advisers (Ivanka Trump among them?) around the President, he "fretted the endorsement made him appear weak, cowed by an establishment that he's openly rebuffed during his own campaign."
If you've gotten this far without laughing at our President, you may be a Trump supporter.
Recently departed from the White House, right wing fascist pro-Nazi Breitbart leader Steve Bannon pissed on Trump's convictions by holding his own rally for Strange's opponent, Roy Moore.
Strange has supported Trump's agenda. Trump loves loyalty (if it flows his way).
Trump was willing to make the "Strange" mistake, due to the man's loyalty, but still felt, Trump-wise, that "his team had largely failed him."
"He [Trump] went to bed 'embarrassed and pissed' following the election loss, according to a person familiar with his mindset." (Did Melania Trump leak this tidbit?)
McConnell is on Trump's shit list, apparently, and he feels "outdone" by Bannon. Fingers in the White House are pointing at people to blame, though none apparently are willing to put a spotlight on the brains of the whole operation, the man whose "brand" gets hurt, according to the article, by "losing."
Late last night, Trump erased recent history, deleting favorable tweets about Luther Strange, replacing them with this one about the victor, Moore:
"Spoke to Roy Moore of Alabama last night for the first time. Sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He will help to #MAGA! [meaning Make America Great Again!]"
Of Strange he wrote, "...started way back & ran a good race."
Enter Orwellian White House mouthpiece, Kellyanne Conway, who said of Moore's upsetting victory, "The result was not unexpected, and even though the polls are often wrong, the result was not unexpected." In other words, the result was expected. Nonetheless, she added that the race "validated" Trump's strategy. In other words, whatever the fuck happens, let's call it Trump's strategy, whether it's nuclear war with North Korea, letting Puerto Rico go to Hell, or Trump's having to watch NFL owners disagree with him by supporting their players in their protests during pre-game performances of the National Anthem. Chaos works that way; Trump's spokespersons, like Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, push the idea that Donald Trump actually has a command of the difficulties of his job, when he's actually making it up as he goes along.
Conway added further that "other Republican senators who have supported Trump's agenda can expect similar shows of support from the President." She went on to say that the Moore-Strange race echoed last year's atmosphere of anti-establisment support for Trump. Thus, she conflates Trump's and Strange's failure with the victorious 2016 Trump, attempting to make it seem as if this new screw up in Alabama is part of some plan carried out by competent strategists. Her promise, too, for the pro-Trump agenda senators getting the opportunity to have Trump's backing, as did Luther Strange, sounds more like a prediction of future election day losses for those Trump-supported senators.
Trump, as he often does, gave his own inferiority complex and self-hatred away when he wrote in the above two tweets his characterizations of the the two campaigns. Moore's he called "fantastic." Strange's was merely "good."
Two influential men campaigned for Strange and Moore near the end: Donald Trump for the former, Steve Bannon for the latter. Trump had to concede that Bannon's man had done a "fantastic" job, while his own man had been "good."
Compared to Bannon when it comes to political campaigning and propaganda, Trump is weaker, and he knows it. His angry outbursts (such as when, according to sworn testimony in first wife Ivana Trump's divorce deposition, he beat and raped her after getting a bad haircut) tend to come when things aren't going his way. The White House still leaks--John Kelly, therefore, isn't doing what he was brought in to do regarding that matter. The place is dysfunctional, the most loyal servants are also the most craven. Hitler in the Berlin bunker was also surrounded by such people, many of whom had a diminishing sense of reality.
"Embarrassed and pissed," Trump went to bed last night. At least he has a comfortable place to sleep, unlike three and a half million American citizens in Puerto Rico.
Vic Neptune
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Gibbering Mouthers
I haven't written in this blog for a short while, but I've written in the other blog: Screen Screed: Thoughts on Movies From a Lifelong Eater of Cinema. Check it out. The same writer wrote it, so if you like this political/current events blog it makes sense that you'll like the movie blog.
This morning before going to work I endured, out of curiosity, twenty minutes of Joy Reid's softball interview on MSNBC with Hillary Clinton. Turns out that Clinton is convinced she lost, teleologically speaking, because of the James Comey letter. I guess American voters didn't find her repulsive--they weren't sick of her after a quarter of a century.
It's interesting that even after the Access Hollywood audio recording from 2005 was released in early October 2016, Hillary Clinton still couldn't beat a man who bragged about his aggressive creepy prowess with unwilling women. The man who said of one of his alleged conquests, "I moved on her like a bitch!"
Joy Reid pointed out that Clinton was harassed in social media, called the "C Word," the "B Word." Cunt, bitch, were the two words Reid was referring to. Harassment on social media is a common thing for people in show business, on YouTube, in politics. What getting harassed in that manner has to do with not bothering to campaign in Wisconsin (a delicate victory for Trump that seriously helped him win the election) is anybody's guess. Only a shitty candidate with boneheaded advisors would ignore a vital state like Wisconsin and instead concentrate on trying to win over Republican voters dissatisfied with Trump, a strategy confirmed after the election by Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.
Clinton, stuck on this failed method, spoke hopefully of the Democrats' need to win over Republican congressmen and -women and Republican senators who might be persuadable in the health care issue, which burns brightly again as yet another attempt is made by the GOP to deprive over twenty million people of health care. She offered her view of Bernie Sanders' recent announcement of going for Medicare for all, a measure that, if it ever passes, will bring the United States into the First World.
"We shouldn't be concentrating on anything but defeating this latest attempt by the Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare," said Clinton. Sanders and his politician supporters on this measure (including many who regard themselves as 2020 presidential candidates and probably don't want to seem like the shits they really are when it comes to this vital issue) can surely make a commitment to Medicare for all while also condemning and fighting the sociopathic Republicans who want to viciously destroy the lives of millions of Americans, something they apparently have in common with Kim Jong-un.
The truth is, Hillary Clinton is against Medicare for all, i.e. Single Payer. I won't call her a cunt or a bitch, but she is a wealthy out of touch piece of shit, schlepping her new book full of excuses as to why she lost while Bernie Sanders (who, unlike her, is popular) tries to help the poor and beaten down people of this country. This is the same Bernie Sanders who, during the campaign season last year, said proudly that he doesn't count Henry Kissinger among his friends. Hillary and the war criminal Kissinger are friends.
Hillary Clinton, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, do not represent the interests of the younger generations whose voting habits will favor people more like Sanders and other Progressives. The old guard of Baby Boomers running things in this country is "cracking at the seams," as it's put in King Crimson's song, "Epitaph."
Trump's braying voice, meanwhile, reveals his sick fuck brutality every day. He declared at the United Nations that if the U.S. or its allies are threatened by North Korea, "we will totally destroy North Korea." By displaying a willingness to murder 25 million people, he revealed that surpassing Adolf Hitler's killing record may be one of his goals in life.
From the macro to the micro, Trump has gone after Black athletes, attacking in Twitter Stephen Curry, the champion basketball player (and one of the most popular athletes in the country) after Curry said he had no intention of visiting the White House for the traditional NBA champion team meet and greet with the President. Lebron James, NBA mega-superstar of these times, backed up Curry, calling the President a "bum."
Trump has also made football his target, taking on Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, the quarterback who kneeled during the National Anthem to protest the institutionalized mistreatment of people of color in America. It's his First Amendment right to do so, but Trump at a rally two nights ago jabbed his stubby finger at the air, called Kaepernick a "son of a bitch," and opined to the jackals in his audience what a great thing it would be if the NFL owners (thirty-one of whom are White multi-millionaires or billionaires out of thirty-two) were to fire anyone who refuses "to honor our flag and National Anthem."
Trump proves his patriotic spirit (the thing that shows love of country) by backing a bill that would deprive many millions of people of health care, making it unaffordable, making many thousands (at least) die.
Jemele Hill of ESPN tweeted that Trump is a white supremacist. The White House demanded an apology from ESPN. That corporate body replied they were handling the matter in-house. Even Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the soulless Trump worshipper and Press Secretary, said that what Hill wrote was "horrible" and that she should be fired. I thought that Republicans are against government interference in the business of corporations?
A little story came out about Trump's Administration, finding that it's the most male-dominated Administration in recent history, with four-fifths of the positions held by men. Trump is not sexist, though. We know this because on the Access Hollywood recording Trump says that when you're famous, you can "do whatever you want [to women]...Grab em by the pussy."
That's the gross puddle of America's bad karma that Hillary Clinton lost the election to.
Vic Neptune
This morning before going to work I endured, out of curiosity, twenty minutes of Joy Reid's softball interview on MSNBC with Hillary Clinton. Turns out that Clinton is convinced she lost, teleologically speaking, because of the James Comey letter. I guess American voters didn't find her repulsive--they weren't sick of her after a quarter of a century.
It's interesting that even after the Access Hollywood audio recording from 2005 was released in early October 2016, Hillary Clinton still couldn't beat a man who bragged about his aggressive creepy prowess with unwilling women. The man who said of one of his alleged conquests, "I moved on her like a bitch!"
Joy Reid pointed out that Clinton was harassed in social media, called the "C Word," the "B Word." Cunt, bitch, were the two words Reid was referring to. Harassment on social media is a common thing for people in show business, on YouTube, in politics. What getting harassed in that manner has to do with not bothering to campaign in Wisconsin (a delicate victory for Trump that seriously helped him win the election) is anybody's guess. Only a shitty candidate with boneheaded advisors would ignore a vital state like Wisconsin and instead concentrate on trying to win over Republican voters dissatisfied with Trump, a strategy confirmed after the election by Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.
Clinton, stuck on this failed method, spoke hopefully of the Democrats' need to win over Republican congressmen and -women and Republican senators who might be persuadable in the health care issue, which burns brightly again as yet another attempt is made by the GOP to deprive over twenty million people of health care. She offered her view of Bernie Sanders' recent announcement of going for Medicare for all, a measure that, if it ever passes, will bring the United States into the First World.
"We shouldn't be concentrating on anything but defeating this latest attempt by the Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare," said Clinton. Sanders and his politician supporters on this measure (including many who regard themselves as 2020 presidential candidates and probably don't want to seem like the shits they really are when it comes to this vital issue) can surely make a commitment to Medicare for all while also condemning and fighting the sociopathic Republicans who want to viciously destroy the lives of millions of Americans, something they apparently have in common with Kim Jong-un.
The truth is, Hillary Clinton is against Medicare for all, i.e. Single Payer. I won't call her a cunt or a bitch, but she is a wealthy out of touch piece of shit, schlepping her new book full of excuses as to why she lost while Bernie Sanders (who, unlike her, is popular) tries to help the poor and beaten down people of this country. This is the same Bernie Sanders who, during the campaign season last year, said proudly that he doesn't count Henry Kissinger among his friends. Hillary and the war criminal Kissinger are friends.
Hillary Clinton, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, do not represent the interests of the younger generations whose voting habits will favor people more like Sanders and other Progressives. The old guard of Baby Boomers running things in this country is "cracking at the seams," as it's put in King Crimson's song, "Epitaph."
Trump's braying voice, meanwhile, reveals his sick fuck brutality every day. He declared at the United Nations that if the U.S. or its allies are threatened by North Korea, "we will totally destroy North Korea." By displaying a willingness to murder 25 million people, he revealed that surpassing Adolf Hitler's killing record may be one of his goals in life.
From the macro to the micro, Trump has gone after Black athletes, attacking in Twitter Stephen Curry, the champion basketball player (and one of the most popular athletes in the country) after Curry said he had no intention of visiting the White House for the traditional NBA champion team meet and greet with the President. Lebron James, NBA mega-superstar of these times, backed up Curry, calling the President a "bum."
Trump has also made football his target, taking on Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, the quarterback who kneeled during the National Anthem to protest the institutionalized mistreatment of people of color in America. It's his First Amendment right to do so, but Trump at a rally two nights ago jabbed his stubby finger at the air, called Kaepernick a "son of a bitch," and opined to the jackals in his audience what a great thing it would be if the NFL owners (thirty-one of whom are White multi-millionaires or billionaires out of thirty-two) were to fire anyone who refuses "to honor our flag and National Anthem."
Trump proves his patriotic spirit (the thing that shows love of country) by backing a bill that would deprive many millions of people of health care, making it unaffordable, making many thousands (at least) die.
Jemele Hill of ESPN tweeted that Trump is a white supremacist. The White House demanded an apology from ESPN. That corporate body replied they were handling the matter in-house. Even Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the soulless Trump worshipper and Press Secretary, said that what Hill wrote was "horrible" and that she should be fired. I thought that Republicans are against government interference in the business of corporations?
A little story came out about Trump's Administration, finding that it's the most male-dominated Administration in recent history, with four-fifths of the positions held by men. Trump is not sexist, though. We know this because on the Access Hollywood recording Trump says that when you're famous, you can "do whatever you want [to women]...Grab em by the pussy."
That's the gross puddle of America's bad karma that Hillary Clinton lost the election to.
Vic Neptune
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Donald Trump's Penis: The Sunset Years
I make connections. I see one thing and it reminds me of something else, so I wonder about the combination, even if the two things might not be related. I think some more about the combination and sometimes see similarities to ponder, maybe even some cause and effect.
In this way today, I began thinking of a subject that led me to contemplating something most people wouldn't want to think about: Donald Trump's penis.
First, considering the President's overwhelming ego, how could he, a power-mongering Alpha Male (a blowhard obsessed with his own masculinity), not be obsessed with his own penis? Most men, including me, are at least fond of their own penises. Trump has spoken proudly, during a Republican debate (!) of his penis. "There's no problem there, believe me," he announced to millions of viewers. That he made this claim indicates to me there's a good chance there is a problem, and I'm not talking about the size issues people like to joke about.
My first connecting thought, as explained above, wasn't about Trump's penis, but something he said in a sound bite where he used the same phrase three times in answering a question about whether or not the United States will go to war with North Korea (i.e. do something that will lead to the kinds of scenarios seen in popular apocalyptic television shows), leading me to wonder if he takes drugs. Could it be that his behaviors (impulsivity, pressure to speak, short attention span, inability to hold back from blurting rude comments) have something to do with drug addiction? If so, he's masked this aspect of his personal life well, even as his outward persona so obviously shows anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear a demented man with severe mental problems that have never been dealt with, by him or by health care professionals.
Celebrities who are supposed to be "with it," aren't often allowed by those around them the space and time to collapse and be real, to go nuts if they need to. I think it took Britney Spears so long to be properly diagnosed and medicated because many of the people around her (some of them vampires just using her) couldn't continue living off of her largesse and fame if she went bonkers. Eventually, she did display psychotic behavior in public, bringing a horrible amount of mocking attention from news media people who, like society at large, have no sympathy for the mentally ill, although it's a common enough malady that it's likely most news people know family members and friends who have such problems.
It's just not talked about. Unlike with someone missing a leg from a tour of duty in Iraq, a mentally ill person looks normal physically, so it doesn't seem there's anything wrong, but all it takes, in Trump's case, is an application of the imagination to wonder about what might be going on in the head of a man so insecure about himself, his body, his sexuality and masculinity and potency, that he can't help announcing to the world that his cock works and it's a big one.
Trump's golden helmet, his hairdo, is made possible by the drug Propecia (also known as Finasteride). It prevents hair loss, grows hair and helps men who aren't comfortable with their own personalities deal with going out in public. We know from first wife Ivana Trump's divorce deposition that her husband, after getting a bad haircut, beat and raped her during their marriage. Trump's hair and his sub-normally sized hands, subjects he often brings up, are of enormous importance to his sense of self-worth.
Propecia's side effects can include loss of interest in sex, impotence, ejaculatory delay, dizziness, feeling like one might pass out, swelling of hands and feet, and other possibilities. It's the sexual mention above that I'm interested in for the purpose of this post, although it's interesting to note the President's exhaustion during his first foreign trip from Saudi Arabia to Sicily.
Many years of taking Propecia, of losing sexual potency and effectiveness, of experiencing reduced sex drive, has, if this applies to Trump, led him to either seek alternatives with testosterone-based sex drive boosting drugs, or not. Shall we assume that Donald Trump, a lifetime womanizer by his own admission, has never tried to recover his sexual potency, the hard-ons and orgasms quashed by Propecia?
Being a man myself, I assume that getting a boner and being able to ejaculate is also important to Donald Trump, but what if he can't? He's put his focus on improving the visible, the fleshy bone thing above the neckline of his crappy suits--his head with its puffy skin and dyed blonde Propecia hairdo that looks like something a dying Roman emperor would wear to the Coliseum during the Roman Empire's final century.
Note: I don't make fun of homely people because they're homely. I only do it when they're also rich sociopathic scumbags.
Donald Trump is a proven chronic liar. If he boasts of his penis, "There's nothing wrong there, believe me," he means there's something wrong. Given that we know he's a Propecia user, it's likely his cock doesn't work, a different angle of approach from the usual "Donald Trump has a small penis" put-down.
If it doesn't work and maybe hasn't worked in years, the joy of having a normally functional penis is not something Trump experiences anymore, making Melania Trump even more of a trophy wife, a display item elevating her husband's ego even as he doesn't really give a shit about her.
For many years we heard comedians remark that Trump's hair is mostly toupee. Turns out that with Propecia, it's actually just an abnormal growth that gets funnier and weirder looking the closer one gets to it. Say what you want about Kim Jong-Un, at least his hair is tight on his head and neatly ordered.
Vic Neptune
I make connections. I see one thing and it reminds me of something else, so I wonder about the combination, even if the two things might not be related. I think some more about the combination and sometimes see similarities to ponder, maybe even some cause and effect.
In this way today, I began thinking of a subject that led me to contemplating something most people wouldn't want to think about: Donald Trump's penis.
First, considering the President's overwhelming ego, how could he, a power-mongering Alpha Male (a blowhard obsessed with his own masculinity), not be obsessed with his own penis? Most men, including me, are at least fond of their own penises. Trump has spoken proudly, during a Republican debate (!) of his penis. "There's no problem there, believe me," he announced to millions of viewers. That he made this claim indicates to me there's a good chance there is a problem, and I'm not talking about the size issues people like to joke about.
My first connecting thought, as explained above, wasn't about Trump's penis, but something he said in a sound bite where he used the same phrase three times in answering a question about whether or not the United States will go to war with North Korea (i.e. do something that will lead to the kinds of scenarios seen in popular apocalyptic television shows), leading me to wonder if he takes drugs. Could it be that his behaviors (impulsivity, pressure to speak, short attention span, inability to hold back from blurting rude comments) have something to do with drug addiction? If so, he's masked this aspect of his personal life well, even as his outward persona so obviously shows anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear a demented man with severe mental problems that have never been dealt with, by him or by health care professionals.
Celebrities who are supposed to be "with it," aren't often allowed by those around them the space and time to collapse and be real, to go nuts if they need to. I think it took Britney Spears so long to be properly diagnosed and medicated because many of the people around her (some of them vampires just using her) couldn't continue living off of her largesse and fame if she went bonkers. Eventually, she did display psychotic behavior in public, bringing a horrible amount of mocking attention from news media people who, like society at large, have no sympathy for the mentally ill, although it's a common enough malady that it's likely most news people know family members and friends who have such problems.
It's just not talked about. Unlike with someone missing a leg from a tour of duty in Iraq, a mentally ill person looks normal physically, so it doesn't seem there's anything wrong, but all it takes, in Trump's case, is an application of the imagination to wonder about what might be going on in the head of a man so insecure about himself, his body, his sexuality and masculinity and potency, that he can't help announcing to the world that his cock works and it's a big one.
Trump's golden helmet, his hairdo, is made possible by the drug Propecia (also known as Finasteride). It prevents hair loss, grows hair and helps men who aren't comfortable with their own personalities deal with going out in public. We know from first wife Ivana Trump's divorce deposition that her husband, after getting a bad haircut, beat and raped her during their marriage. Trump's hair and his sub-normally sized hands, subjects he often brings up, are of enormous importance to his sense of self-worth.
Propecia's side effects can include loss of interest in sex, impotence, ejaculatory delay, dizziness, feeling like one might pass out, swelling of hands and feet, and other possibilities. It's the sexual mention above that I'm interested in for the purpose of this post, although it's interesting to note the President's exhaustion during his first foreign trip from Saudi Arabia to Sicily.
Many years of taking Propecia, of losing sexual potency and effectiveness, of experiencing reduced sex drive, has, if this applies to Trump, led him to either seek alternatives with testosterone-based sex drive boosting drugs, or not. Shall we assume that Donald Trump, a lifetime womanizer by his own admission, has never tried to recover his sexual potency, the hard-ons and orgasms quashed by Propecia?
Being a man myself, I assume that getting a boner and being able to ejaculate is also important to Donald Trump, but what if he can't? He's put his focus on improving the visible, the fleshy bone thing above the neckline of his crappy suits--his head with its puffy skin and dyed blonde Propecia hairdo that looks like something a dying Roman emperor would wear to the Coliseum during the Roman Empire's final century.
Note: I don't make fun of homely people because they're homely. I only do it when they're also rich sociopathic scumbags.
Donald Trump is a proven chronic liar. If he boasts of his penis, "There's nothing wrong there, believe me," he means there's something wrong. Given that we know he's a Propecia user, it's likely his cock doesn't work, a different angle of approach from the usual "Donald Trump has a small penis" put-down.
If it doesn't work and maybe hasn't worked in years, the joy of having a normally functional penis is not something Trump experiences anymore, making Melania Trump even more of a trophy wife, a display item elevating her husband's ego even as he doesn't really give a shit about her.
For many years we heard comedians remark that Trump's hair is mostly toupee. Turns out that with Propecia, it's actually just an abnormal growth that gets funnier and weirder looking the closer one gets to it. Say what you want about Kim Jong-Un, at least his hair is tight on his head and neatly ordered.
Vic Neptune
Monday, September 4, 2017
Catastrophe
President Trump and his wife have visited flood-stricken southeast Texas twice and Louisiana once. Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Harvey was, to use Trump's tweeted word, "Historic." He also used the word, "Wow!"
In Corpus Christi, Texas, during the first visit, he spoke into a megaphone (a la George W. Bush on the ruins of the World Trade Center) to a crowd of cheering supporters, making "a show of compassion"--the trip's purpose--into a ragged rally. I figure that the people who showed up to see him bray his message about the people of the Great State of Texas, their courage and altruism (traits found worldwide actually, whenever disasters occur, including in the aftermaths of U.S. airstrikes), were either taking a needed break from sorting through their possessions in their rain-damaged houses, or were among the Trump faithful who can't regard the man critically, even when he ignores the excesses of the KKK.
The Corpus Christi crowd chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" This is the go-to slogan that seems to hearten Americans in their simple-minded moments, as when a crowd chanted the same thing outside the White House the night we found out that Obama had assassinated Osama bin Laden.
Such enthusiasm directed at Trump greases his interior wheels. He loved the crowd size. I saw on weather charts this past week that some parts of Texas received forty-three inches of rain in a single twenty-four hour period. Trump on his second visit, to Houston this time (this from the September 4, 2017 L.A. Times), remarked to journalists that, "We saw a lot of happiness. It's been really nice. It's been a wonderful thing. As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing. I think even for the country to watch it, for the world to watch. It's been beautiful."
There's more, which illuminates the sick fuck nature of the nation's forty-fifth President:
"Asked what people had said to him, Trump replied, 'They're really happy with what's going on. It's been something that's very well received [the hurricane? the emergency response? Melania's ass in those tight expensive pants?]."
An actual human being in touch with reality, Devon Harris, a construction worker, remarked, "Is he going to help? Can he help? I lost my home. My job is gone. My tools are gone. My car is gone. My life is gone. What is Trump going to do?"
"Later, the Trumps put on plastic gloves and helped hand out lunch boxes--hot dogs, potato chips, applesauce."
"The Trumps later stopped at...a large suburban church doubling as a relief center. [Trump] handed out plastic buckets and cardboard boxes of supplies to motorists..."
"[After the church visit], the Trumps loaded about a half dozen cars and trucks. 'Hey can you handle this?' Trump said to the first recipient...'There's a lot of stuff in here. You're all set.'"
"'It's good exercise,'"Trump said as the man drove off."
I'd like to note here that this is the only time that Donald Trump has ever worked.
Vice President Pence, before Trump went there the first time, "rolled up his sleeves" and cleared some branches, said all the right things, came across as a functioning and psychologically balanced person. What wasn't mentioned in mainstream news media was how in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, then Congressman Pence argued on the floor of the House for cutting Medicare and Social Security to pay for Katrina's devastation. Pence visiting southeast Texas after Harvey may have seemed laudable but don't forget, he's a son of a bitch with a cold heart. A Christian, too, but a bad one.
When Devon Harris, quoted above, asked, "What is Trump going to do?" he asked that question, I suspect, because Trump's own words about the hurricane, the "Historic" rainfall, the recovery and rebuilding, are so vague, which is typical of the man's personality and his deficient use of the English language.
Trump saw happiness in the shelter housing people driven there by absolute necessity. He, a rich fuck who will never want for anything, except proper crowd sizes, bigger hands, and a time machine to go back in time to prevent Robert Mueller's birth, saw a roomful of desperate people being polite because the President of the United States and his glamorous wife were suddenly among them.
The biggest rainfall in the history of the United States, the enormous damage it's caused to heavily populated zones and to the energy industry located there, alligators and wood debris covered with fire ants in the water, people getting electrocuted from current passing through water, thousands of pets separated from their owners, jobs and lives lost, homes destroyed, water becoming stagnant and not draining fast enough, all this and more leads our leader to proclaim it to be "a wonderful thing for the world to watch."
Yes, Trump, maybe so, if you hate your own country.
Vic Neptune
President Trump and his wife have visited flood-stricken southeast Texas twice and Louisiana once. Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Harvey was, to use Trump's tweeted word, "Historic." He also used the word, "Wow!"
In Corpus Christi, Texas, during the first visit, he spoke into a megaphone (a la George W. Bush on the ruins of the World Trade Center) to a crowd of cheering supporters, making "a show of compassion"--the trip's purpose--into a ragged rally. I figure that the people who showed up to see him bray his message about the people of the Great State of Texas, their courage and altruism (traits found worldwide actually, whenever disasters occur, including in the aftermaths of U.S. airstrikes), were either taking a needed break from sorting through their possessions in their rain-damaged houses, or were among the Trump faithful who can't regard the man critically, even when he ignores the excesses of the KKK.
The Corpus Christi crowd chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" This is the go-to slogan that seems to hearten Americans in their simple-minded moments, as when a crowd chanted the same thing outside the White House the night we found out that Obama had assassinated Osama bin Laden.
Such enthusiasm directed at Trump greases his interior wheels. He loved the crowd size. I saw on weather charts this past week that some parts of Texas received forty-three inches of rain in a single twenty-four hour period. Trump on his second visit, to Houston this time (this from the September 4, 2017 L.A. Times), remarked to journalists that, "We saw a lot of happiness. It's been really nice. It's been a wonderful thing. As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing. I think even for the country to watch it, for the world to watch. It's been beautiful."
There's more, which illuminates the sick fuck nature of the nation's forty-fifth President:
"Asked what people had said to him, Trump replied, 'They're really happy with what's going on. It's been something that's very well received [the hurricane? the emergency response? Melania's ass in those tight expensive pants?]."
An actual human being in touch with reality, Devon Harris, a construction worker, remarked, "Is he going to help? Can he help? I lost my home. My job is gone. My tools are gone. My car is gone. My life is gone. What is Trump going to do?"
"Later, the Trumps put on plastic gloves and helped hand out lunch boxes--hot dogs, potato chips, applesauce."
"The Trumps later stopped at...a large suburban church doubling as a relief center. [Trump] handed out plastic buckets and cardboard boxes of supplies to motorists..."
"[After the church visit], the Trumps loaded about a half dozen cars and trucks. 'Hey can you handle this?' Trump said to the first recipient...'There's a lot of stuff in here. You're all set.'"
"'It's good exercise,'"Trump said as the man drove off."
I'd like to note here that this is the only time that Donald Trump has ever worked.
Vice President Pence, before Trump went there the first time, "rolled up his sleeves" and cleared some branches, said all the right things, came across as a functioning and psychologically balanced person. What wasn't mentioned in mainstream news media was how in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, then Congressman Pence argued on the floor of the House for cutting Medicare and Social Security to pay for Katrina's devastation. Pence visiting southeast Texas after Harvey may have seemed laudable but don't forget, he's a son of a bitch with a cold heart. A Christian, too, but a bad one.
When Devon Harris, quoted above, asked, "What is Trump going to do?" he asked that question, I suspect, because Trump's own words about the hurricane, the "Historic" rainfall, the recovery and rebuilding, are so vague, which is typical of the man's personality and his deficient use of the English language.
Trump saw happiness in the shelter housing people driven there by absolute necessity. He, a rich fuck who will never want for anything, except proper crowd sizes, bigger hands, and a time machine to go back in time to prevent Robert Mueller's birth, saw a roomful of desperate people being polite because the President of the United States and his glamorous wife were suddenly among them.
The biggest rainfall in the history of the United States, the enormous damage it's caused to heavily populated zones and to the energy industry located there, alligators and wood debris covered with fire ants in the water, people getting electrocuted from current passing through water, thousands of pets separated from their owners, jobs and lives lost, homes destroyed, water becoming stagnant and not draining fast enough, all this and more leads our leader to proclaim it to be "a wonderful thing for the world to watch."
Yes, Trump, maybe so, if you hate your own country.
Vic Neptune
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