Shameless
"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to," wrote Mark Twain. The sense that we did something awful is what separates is from the bears and crocodiles and whatever species Trump belongs to.
This week began with an extended Twitter-preen over the "Super Bowl" ratings he gets for his daily Five O'clock Follies. That people are tuning in to hear from Anthony Fauci or even Deborah Birx would never occur to him. And rather than share the stage with more experts, he presented the CEO of MyPillow to thank him for leading us out of the godlessness of Obamadom. This idiot, whose name is Lindell, is complaining that the "evil" media made him look like an idiot by covering his Trumpian handjob. I know what he can do with HisPillow.
I have never been a fan of Howard Stern, the misogynistic self-named "King of All Media," but when he's right, he's right: "As far as Donald's concerned, Donald thinks he's the best president there ever was. I can honestly tell you that Donald doesn't give one shit about public service." It would be unfair to call Stern the Frankenstein who stitched "Donald" together and turned it loose, just because he booked the creature so often on his show. Stern is more like Igor the assistant, poking it with a torch and encouraging its worst impulses.
They'd better empty a couple of MAGAchurches and bus the bumpkins to a stadium for a hate rally soon, because Trump is losing it. Instead of a sea of upturned, slack-jawed faces screaming for Democratic blood, he has to look at unsmiling reporters who often have hardball, or at least change-up, questions. For instance:
John Karl: "And everybody who needs one will be able to get a ventilator?"
Trump: "Look, don't be a cutie pie, OK?...We had a bad testing system. We had a bad stockpile system...So I wouldn't tell me what you're telling -- you know, like being a wise guy."
It was a yes-or-no question.
Yamiche Alcindor: "My question to you is, how is that going to impact -- "
Trump: "Excuse me. You didn't hear me. That's why you used to work for the Times and now you work for somebody else. Look, let me tell you something. Be nice, don't be threatening."
In other words, don't be a black woman. But he seems to have gained respect for the "failing New York Times" since they wrote about his spectacular overnights.
To a question from Jim Acosta he responded, "It's why people just don't want to listen to CNN anymore. Instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that you should ask a real question." Acosta wanted to know his response to Americans, no more than half the country I'm sure, who think he got this wrong. Having already lost his credentials once, Acosta showed up on Anderson Cooper's show to report, "This was a different Donald Trump tonight. I think he gets it." Cooper was unconvinced.
Don't expect Acosta to ask about the supplies sent to China in February, or the death count of over three thousand, or anything else that might trigger the Leader anytime soon.
Trump is too devoted to America and too devoid of self-pity to say so ---
Let me start again. Trump is still too angry to acknowledge that he was, and forever will be, impeached. It was up to Moscow Mitch to put the blame for all this grief where it belongs. No, not China for once. Trump was so distracted by the impeachment that he could barely comprehend what "global pandemic" means. Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
Of course, he wasn't too distracted to continue his decades-long feud with Native Americans and their casinos, like the one the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe are trying to build in Massachusetts. The governor of New Mexico warned him that the rate of infection on the reservations is spiking and that "it could wipe out those tribal nations." Trump: "Wow, that's something," and a vague promise about opening an old army hospital.
He wasn't too distracted to remember his goals: 1. Re-election. 2. Destroy everything Obama-related. The regime is not allowing a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act just because people are out of work and may face horrific medical bills. Because it's really Obamacare! Also in the crosshairs: the Clean Car Standards of 2010-2012, which were making the air too healthy back when people were driving around. Better mileage, vote Trump.
As a "wartime president," Trump's first responsibility is the troops. So it's good to read that after nearly a week, the Navy is evacuating most of the crew from the carrier Theodore Roosevelt, anchored off Guam, where nearly a hundred sailors have tested coronavirus positive. Eventually. "It will take some time," says Acting Secretary Modly. Meanwhile, they can continue to share their far from spacious quarters. After all, it's not a cruise ship. No word on other American warships all over the world, but it's hard to believe their situation is very different.
As you know, Russia has always been our ally against Eastasia, and Russia is sending tons of medical supplies to the US because its COVID-19 problem is almost non-existent. Actually this is a fairly transparent lie, according to the mayor of Moscow, but he's on the way out, probably a window. Russia sent a bunch of stuff to Italy labeled "From Russia With Love" (that Russian sense of humor!). According to La Stampa, officials called it "eighty percent useless." So ours will probably wind up on the Navajo reservation.
We're on a track to lose at least 100,000 Americans to this disease, by conservative expert estimate. Everything is falling apart, from the census to the economy. But if it's any consolation, Her Majesty's Government appears to be equally overwhelmed. And while we can restore competence by January, barring a no-confidence vote they're stuck with BloJo for five long years. As Alan Bennett used to say in Beyond the Fringe, there's always someone worse off than yourself.
The cruelest month has begun.
This week began with an extended Twitter-preen over the "Super Bowl" ratings he gets for his daily Five O'clock Follies. That people are tuning in to hear from Anthony Fauci or even Deborah Birx would never occur to him. And rather than share the stage with more experts, he presented the CEO of MyPillow to thank him for leading us out of the godlessness of Obamadom. This idiot, whose name is Lindell, is complaining that the "evil" media made him look like an idiot by covering his Trumpian handjob. I know what he can do with HisPillow.
I have never been a fan of Howard Stern, the misogynistic self-named "King of All Media," but when he's right, he's right: "As far as Donald's concerned, Donald thinks he's the best president there ever was. I can honestly tell you that Donald doesn't give one shit about public service." It would be unfair to call Stern the Frankenstein who stitched "Donald" together and turned it loose, just because he booked the creature so often on his show. Stern is more like Igor the assistant, poking it with a torch and encouraging its worst impulses.
They'd better empty a couple of MAGAchurches and bus the bumpkins to a stadium for a hate rally soon, because Trump is losing it. Instead of a sea of upturned, slack-jawed faces screaming for Democratic blood, he has to look at unsmiling reporters who often have hardball, or at least change-up, questions. For instance:
John Karl: "And everybody who needs one will be able to get a ventilator?"
Trump: "Look, don't be a cutie pie, OK?...We had a bad testing system. We had a bad stockpile system...So I wouldn't tell me what you're telling -- you know, like being a wise guy."
It was a yes-or-no question.
Yamiche Alcindor: "My question to you is, how is that going to impact -- "
Trump: "Excuse me. You didn't hear me. That's why you used to work for the Times and now you work for somebody else. Look, let me tell you something. Be nice, don't be threatening."
In other words, don't be a black woman. But he seems to have gained respect for the "failing New York Times" since they wrote about his spectacular overnights.
To a question from Jim Acosta he responded, "It's why people just don't want to listen to CNN anymore. Instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that you should ask a real question." Acosta wanted to know his response to Americans, no more than half the country I'm sure, who think he got this wrong. Having already lost his credentials once, Acosta showed up on Anderson Cooper's show to report, "This was a different Donald Trump tonight. I think he gets it." Cooper was unconvinced.
Don't expect Acosta to ask about the supplies sent to China in February, or the death count of over three thousand, or anything else that might trigger the Leader anytime soon.
Trump is too devoted to America and too devoid of self-pity to say so ---
Let me start again. Trump is still too angry to acknowledge that he was, and forever will be, impeached. It was up to Moscow Mitch to put the blame for all this grief where it belongs. No, not China for once. Trump was so distracted by the impeachment that he could barely comprehend what "global pandemic" means. Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
Of course, he wasn't too distracted to continue his decades-long feud with Native Americans and their casinos, like the one the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe are trying to build in Massachusetts. The governor of New Mexico warned him that the rate of infection on the reservations is spiking and that "it could wipe out those tribal nations." Trump: "Wow, that's something," and a vague promise about opening an old army hospital.
He wasn't too distracted to remember his goals: 1. Re-election. 2. Destroy everything Obama-related. The regime is not allowing a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act just because people are out of work and may face horrific medical bills. Because it's really Obamacare! Also in the crosshairs: the Clean Car Standards of 2010-2012, which were making the air too healthy back when people were driving around. Better mileage, vote Trump.
As a "wartime president," Trump's first responsibility is the troops. So it's good to read that after nearly a week, the Navy is evacuating most of the crew from the carrier Theodore Roosevelt, anchored off Guam, where nearly a hundred sailors have tested coronavirus positive. Eventually. "It will take some time," says Acting Secretary Modly. Meanwhile, they can continue to share their far from spacious quarters. After all, it's not a cruise ship. No word on other American warships all over the world, but it's hard to believe their situation is very different.
As you know, Russia has always been our ally against Eastasia, and Russia is sending tons of medical supplies to the US because its COVID-19 problem is almost non-existent. Actually this is a fairly transparent lie, according to the mayor of Moscow, but he's on the way out, probably a window. Russia sent a bunch of stuff to Italy labeled "From Russia With Love" (that Russian sense of humor!). According to La Stampa, officials called it "eighty percent useless." So ours will probably wind up on the Navajo reservation.
We're on a track to lose at least 100,000 Americans to this disease, by conservative expert estimate. Everything is falling apart, from the census to the economy. But if it's any consolation, Her Majesty's Government appears to be equally overwhelmed. And while we can restore competence by January, barring a no-confidence vote they're stuck with BloJo for five long years. As Alan Bennett used to say in Beyond the Fringe, there's always someone worse off than yourself.
The cruelest month has begun.
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