Sundazed Summary & Mess Media

Judging from the online content at liberal web pages, nothing significant occurred this week except the CNN debate on Thursday. 

The once-respected New York Times should start discontinuing operation as a major mainstream news media source. Despite its reputation as a liberal newspaper, the NYT has been fluffing the Waste of Shit and TRashdUMP while trying to destroy Joe, and I'm tired of it.

Here's the deal as I see it: We survived four years of a corrupt, incompetent mental case playing a so-called precedent (sic), and he's no longer the unknown commodity who campaigned in 2016 as a washed-up, has-been TV reality show performer. We know from that whole repulsive ordeal the W/S (as Putin's puppet) is the most dangerous threat American democracy is currently facing.

On the other hand, Joe's in the process of completing his first term in the White House. We've had many opportunities to watch him function as a national leader, and see what he's been able to accomplish despite resistance from TRashdUMP and a few people in his own party - and despite the enormous mess the W/S left for him to clean up.

Forty of the 44 people who served as senior staff members during the Waste of Shit's term are NOT supporting his effort to cause much worse destruction in the future, and that in itself should motivate the NYT to demand the immediate termination of his campaign. 

I expect it's in the Waste of Shit's nature to make most American voters remember distinctly why they hated him in 2020. What has he done since then to change their minds? As a reality show guy, he's all about amusing his devoted fans for TV ratings. And as a narcissistic sociopath, he will never be qualified and suitable to hold any position in government.

Q NOTES # 805: Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

Apologies to Kris Kristofferson, who wrote the song.

(A) I read an interesting commentary @ Palmer Report that made what I consider an important point: Trumplickans constantly worry about horrible problems that don't actually exist in the real world, but go out of their way to avoid dealing with horrible problems that are killing us, literally or figuratively.

Trumplickans are currently struggling with these urgent horrible problems:

• The 2020 election was fraudulently stolen from Donnie Phlunk (No, it wasn't).
• Critical Race Theory is taught in public K-12 schools. (No, it isn't).
• White replacement is happening. (No, it's not).
  
• Public schools are covertly grooming "normal" children to become gay or transgender. (No, they aren't).
• Abortion, marriage, and gender rights present a greater threat to America than Russia does. (They don't. That's just craziness).
  

(B) It might be exaggeration to call it a matter of common sense, but it should now be fairly obvious that Phlunk's current scam is as follows: He'll hang around the edges, hinting that he's running without establishing an official 2024 presidential campaign. This will allow him to rake in as much $$$ in public donations as possible, while pocketing every dime for his unregulated personal use.

This is the kind of shady Phlunk crap the mainstream media outlets ignore, rather than explore.

(C) Schmo Brooks, who crawled under the radar for a long time, is now recognized as one of the Trumplickans who will always rank in the top quartile of Rottenest People in Congress. Like most of the other band members, Schmo can't resist an opportunity to say something stupid on TV, and he's done it again by insisting unrestricted gun ownership is necessary to ensure Americans will be equipped to overthrow a tyrannical federal government. 

This is a tired attempt to link the NRA to the 2nd amendment's "well-regulated militia" condition. What Mo didn't say is that if tyranny comes, it will be in the form of a fascist dictatorship enabled by Trumplickans in public office, and that he's already been exposed as one of the fascists. Most of those gun crazies will be defending the fascist state, not defeating it.

Q NOTES # 606: Short Cuts 72

Tucker Carlson isn't really a damned idiot, but he makes good money playing one on TV for the entertainment of actual idiots who watch Fox News.

Speaking of things that are a pain in the ass, daylight saving time makes it onto my list of irritations that aren't exclusively linked to the Trumplican party. In the summer, the damned days are long and hot enough without tacking on an additional hour of sunshine. I've noticed that since Dim Doohickey announced he would run for precedent (sic) in 2016, the whole country has been going downhill. Now a fight is being provoked by people who want to make daylight saving time a permanent, every single goddamned day of the year thing. Finding ways to fuck things up even more than they already are is a principal aspect of life in the era of Trumplican-ism.

Politics makes strange bedfellows? It took a disaster like Dim Doohickey to make Rep. Liz Cheney look like an acceptable (D) temporary ally . I hope she can eventually persuade more people on her side to follow her lead.

One reason this country is having trouble getting past the Doohickey nightmare is that every day, another terrible thing that worthless asshole did is discovered or revealed. It seems like the list is endless.

Being responsible for an endless list of terrible things has apparently become an example set by The Big Crapper for wastes of space like Greg a Butt to emulate.

Trumplican trash dumps like Greg a Butt consider banning books from school libraries to be part of their effort to transform America into a paradise where nearly everyone is a white christian (deliberately not capitalized) who conforms to standards of morality approved by Trumplicans (all of whom are fascists, christian dominion activists, domestic terrorists, or mental defectives). I can't imagine wanting to live in a country where Doohickey, a Butt, Rafael (Ted) Cruz, and Louie Gohmert are symbols of everything good.

The Rude Pundit has probably written everything that needs to be written about Joe Manchin this week. What is that guy's fuckin' problem?

That judge in the Rittenhouse murder trial seems determined to tip the verdict in the defendant's favor, and isn't even trying to conceal his prejudice. It would be cool if the little prick is convicted in spite of the judge's conduct.

It's somewhat ironic that Dim Doohickey wasted four years trying to avoid every legitimate duty that comes with being the precedent (sic). Most of his time was spent watching cable news channels on TV, loitering around Mar a Loogie, playing hours and hours of golf, and of course, staging campaign pep rallies. In short, being a reality show president. Now that he's only a president in his diseased mind, he wants to direct foreign policy through his "envoy ambassador" (not a real thing in this situation). Can we please convict and punish this asshole for even a few of the things he's done (or is doing) illegally?

Q-NOTES, DAY 223

They're kidding, aren't they? With less than two weeks to go until election day 2020, there are media people who believe Cheez Whiz has found a New Tone because he was not quite as big an asshole in the final debate as he was in the first one. The media bear much of the responsibility for the damage Cheezy's done since 2017 because they've insisted on treating him as a normal president instead of the demented, depraved mental case he really is.

It's official: Cheezy isn't a president, he's a disease.

He can't win Pennsylvania, so Cheezy's doing everything he can to steal it. Meanwhile, Joe's in Pennsylvania, giving fat boy the proverbial kick in the groin he deserves.

I concluded long ago that America has way more of those right-wing evangelical lunatics than it needs.  

DAILY KOS @ some favorable early voting patterns in Texas. And any good news from Florida is worth a link. 

Mid-Week Update

Fox News is really uncomfortable about showing things that might offend the Pustule of the United States, Sharpie Suxass.

Suppose every property in the world in which the Pustule has an investment is vacated and remains empty because the public is afraid they're potential targets for retaliatory bombing. Could that possibly get his attention?

Which of the following words does NOT describe Sharpie:

A) Incompetent
B) Corrupt
C) Sociopath
D) Stupid
E) Repulsive

Trick question! ALL of those words describe him!

When even right-wing scumbags like Rand Paul and Mike Lee are loudly critical, you can be sure little Lindsey Graham will still be belly-crawling in the slime trail Sharpie leaves behind him.

We need to set the record straight once and for all: People who OPPOSE Sharpie don't hate America. People who SUPPORT him do. Sharpie works for Russia, and his fans are fine with that.

He speaks, they report.

Robert Mueller went public this morning, with his first (and maybe only) televised statement regarding the investigation of Donny Stink Eye's conspiracy with Russia and obstruction of justice. It's interesting to me that Fox News is reporting the facts as they are, rather than as Stink Eye wants them to be. That's a welcome change of pace, and may be temporary. If it's not, Stink Eye better brace himself for some very rough months ahead.

Added 4:03 PM: The Democratic candidates that I'm inclined to support (Harris, Warren, Castro, O'Rourke, et al) are already coming out in support of impeachment. The two that excite me the least (Biden and Bernie) are still on hold.

The horror, the horror...

Last week, Democratic voters elected a bunch of new members to the House of Representatives, and some of them were NOT old, white, christian men. To an asshole like Laura Ingraham, this is proof that the world is definitely coming to an end.

The Trumpettes again? Why?

Kos discusses the tendency of American news media to devote constant attention to the Trumpettes. I'll admit the first two or three stories I read about them were somewhat interesting, but mostly the stories just confirmed what I already believed. It's time to move on. Those assholes are irredeemable and aren't furnishing anything we need, so fuck 'em.

More about the hardcore Trumpettes, and why no intelligent person should give a shit about them or their fucking problems.

Normalizing the abnormal

It's somewhat interesting that the New York Times, long considered a main pillar of the so-called liberal media, is now printing stories making American Nazis seem like your next-door neighbor who votes Republican. You know, like normal people. As a result, real, honest-to-god liberal media are exposing and criticizing the New York Times. I bring this up because I personally believe the mainstream media in this country are as responsible as the Russians for enabling a corrupt, incompetent sociopath like Donnie Dog's Ass to steal the 2016 election.

In addition to treating Donnie to billions of dollars worth of free publicity, the major media outlets largely ignored his psychotic behavior and suggested that, as a "successful" real estate tycoon, his experience qualified him to hold the most powerful elected office on the planet. As in "Maybe he's no better than Hillary Clinton, but he's definitely no worse either."

Odds and Ends

If anyone wants to make a case against American superiority, the viewers of Fox News should be Exhibit 1A or 1B.

This is funny: Rafael (Ted) Cruz may be getting a primary challenge from the religious right.

Puke

Crooks and Liars summarizes the latest scam Donnie Two Scoops pulled out of his ass today -- a staged 'cabinet meeting' in which 'administration officials' went around the table, taking turns giving Donnie the verbal equivalent of a hand job. This would have been sickening if it had occurred privately, but it was shown on TV for god's sake.

Deciding who to hate most is very hard to do these days:

• Donnie Two Scoops, for demanding this phony crap?
• The members of the 'administration' who eagerly degrade themselves, especially Mike Pence?
• The networks that decide to put this bullshit on TV as newsworthy events?
• The worthless fucking dead-end trash who eat this shit up and form the cable news audience?

The easiest choice is to hate them all equally, so that's what I do.

Poor Fox News

More litigation against Fox News, with racial discrimination joining sexual harassment on their list of offenses. Is anybody surprised? And if so, why?

Obviously ~

The media made it possible for Cornholio to become the so-called precedent (sic), and now they have one final opportunity to atone and make it up to America. Maybe they'll take advantage of it.

Added 2:30 PM Monday 24 April: Cornholio likes the idea of shutting down the federal government. First, he's pretty sure it'll put the brakes on those investigations of his Russian connection. Even better is MORE FREE TIME FOR GOLF! Hooray for a shutdown!

Added 7:10 PM Monday 24 April: It's comforting to know 73 percent of the people agree with me that an independent investigation of Cornholio is definitely in order.

The mook never understood that actually being a precedent (sic) is much more complicated than pretending to be a hotshot executive on a TV reality show.

Pressed conference

The so-called president held another so-called press conference today. I didn't see any of it on the television, but watched a few 90-second video clips and read the reviews online.

Porky Prick spent part of 2015 and almost all of 2016 as a presidential candidate, and during those months, studies revealed that roughly eight out of ten things the asshole said were not true. A lot of that was attributed to deliberate flagrant lying, with some of the rest resulting from his stunning lack of knowledge and resistance to learning. And finally, some of the false statements stemmed from the fact that his vocabulary and communication skills are equivalent to those of an average 3rd grader.

The so-called president whined a lot about the media and how he and his mob are being persecuted. A lot of gibberish that made no sense even when I read a transcript of the statement. The only thing this bullshit session accomplished was to prove that the press is wasting their time and ours, and Porky is probably lying more now because the stakes are higher and the pressure is building.

The Decline and Fall of Civilization

Answer:

• High profile celebrity trials
• Scandals involving some type of disgusting behavior
• Any incident involving mass murder
• Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, major forest fires, etc.
• Donald Trump

Question:

What are five things cable television can't survive without?

Media Bias

Crooks and Liars reports an exchange between a former CIA director and a current ABC News talking head which sums up the reason I snort whenever a right-wing asshole complains about the liberal media bias on network TV.

MSNBC used to be an oasis in the news media desert, and even they've started leaning toward the darkness too often to suit me.

Media

The mainstream American news media stopped being worth a damn after the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. Every year since Nixon resigned, they've been incrementally slipping into irrelevance. Here's how bad it's gotten: A right-wing political hack appears on some cable news talk show and pukes up every crazy talking point in his repertoire. The Associated Press quotes him and reports his TV bullshit like it's actually news. Then most newspapers run the wire service story, especially small-time rags like the one in my town.

It can easily be argued that Trump wouldn't be the GOP nominee if the mainstream media hadn't presented him with millions of dollars worth of free publicity, and had instead exposed him as a fat, lying fuck operating a marathon scam.

Maybe the media people will get off their worthless asses and do their jobs for a change, and Trump will get the painful kick in the groin he's deserved for about ten years. But first, they'll need to stop trembling and worrying about being accused of liberal bias.

The Etch A Sketch Blunder ?

It's an indication of how far into the dumper the GOP primaries have sunk that people are dithering over the Etch A Sketch gaffe.

Willard Romney is old enough that he probably decided to be a Republican back in the old days when most members of that party weren't as crazy as shithouse rats. His old man was a moderate Republican, if memory serves. George Romney was a little before my time in terms of my interest in politics.

Anyway, Willard is a Republican virtually from birth. His family has a ton of money, and Willard is ambitious, so why not run for president like the Old Man did ? The problem is, the Republican Party that Willard's dad represented no longer exists. It moved out to the trailer park and spends its time watching the 700 Club and NASCAR on TV.

Willard can't switch parties at this late date and will have to run as a Republican. To win the nomination, he'll need the support of a majority of GOP primary voters, and they're the craziest of the shithouse rats. To make it worse, every other Republican in the race except Huntsman is a prime example of everything that sucks about the modern GOP. The only way it could be worse would be if Palin was also running. To compete, Willard has to convince the trailer trash that he's at least as nutty as Perry, Bachmann, Newt and Santorum, if not nuttier.

I think the disgusting Romney we're seeing is the result of his pragmatic strategy to win the nomination, at least I hope it is. Nearly every presidential candidate I can recall has steered a relatively moderate course in the general election. Goldwater might be an exception, maybe a few others. Hell, even George W. called himself a compassionate conservative. So the aide who made the Etch A Sketch reference was probably just being honest, and I'm not treating the "gaffe" as a big deal. I think it's sad that Willard has to pretend to be a fucking asshole to win the nomination, but at least he's not REALLY a fucking asshole like Insantorum and Newter. That's my position until he proves I'm wrong.

New Hampshire

I watched about 30 minutes of MSNBC's coverage of the New Hampshire primary results tonight. No surprise that Mitts won, followed by Pappy and my personal choice, Huntsman. Newter and S-Rick tied for fourth with about 10 percent each, and Perrito was sucking hind tit as usual with less than 2 percent. Moochele Bachman got more than 200 votes, which proves something, I guess.

Chris Matthews was talking with NBC analyst Chuck Todd and former RNC chairman Michael Steele, and as usual the chat turned to whether or not Romney can be stopped, and by whom. Todd and Steele agreed that of course he could be stopped. Maybe by Rick Perry in South Carolina.

Huh ? Perry ? Are you kidding me ? Hasn't a stake been driven through his heart yet ?

It's obvious that cable news channels like MSNBC want to squeeze every possible ratings point out of this turd, and they'll try to keep suckers like me tuned in by hinting that every big development in the campaign so far is actually meaningless, and that the next event is the big one that could turn everything upside down. See, South Carolina is tailor-made for Rick Perry's brand of... well, whatever brand of bullshit Perry is shoveling these days. See, Perry is the only true Christian left in the bunch -- everybody else is a Mormon or a Catholic. That's the kind of thing that counts in a bean patch like South Carolina.

I've watched college football games in which one team is behind by 14 points with less than five minutes remaining in the 4th quarter, and one of the announcers will remind us that the game's not over because the trailing team has an explosive offense and is capable of scoring quickly. The explosive offense has produced 10 points in 55 minutes, and I'm supposed to believe it'll score 14 more in less than five ?

Perry's behind by two TDs and the clock is running, but keep watching because he has a cannon for an arm, folks... or so say people whose salaries are determined largely by the number of eyeballs watching the commercials on their channel.

Latest Sarah Sighting

Today I was browsing at the Barnes & Noble newsstand and spotted an entire magazine devoted to Sarah Palin. On the cover, in large font: "Sarah Palin -- Can she save America ?" As I wrote on Facebook, this is the one question to which everyone believes they have the correct answer.

I wasn't bored enough to skim through the Palin magazine, which sells for nine bucks, but I think I got the basic idea behind its marketing. I've decided that virtually all Palin supporters fall into one of two categories: (A) those who think her raw sex appeal is icing on the cake, or (B) those who think her hardcore right-wing political beliefs are icing on the cake.