I’m relieved that I have the start of the month routine behind me, because I have a busy week coming up. I have an appointment on Wednesday that will interfere with delivery from Store to Door, so I’ll have to use Amazon Prime Now instead. That’s always complicated. Then on Friday, I have semi-annual fasting labs for Megan, my PCP. I better get as much rest as I can over the weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:32 (average 5:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Are Jared Kushner’s Businesses Tied To President Donald Trump Policies?
They’re doing it to pay for 666 5th Ave. And I looked, and behold an orange horse: and his name that sat on him was Trump, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): President Trump’s top 5 claims, updated
Barf Bag Alert!!
When Trump is awake and not lying, the Pope is not Catholic, and no bears, anywhere, are shitting in the woods. RESIST!!
From Think Progress: President Donald Trump proposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports on Thursday. On Friday he further claimed [Fuhrer delinked] that “trade wars are good.”
What the president seemingly fails to understand, of course, is that tariffs are not taxes, and Trump’s attempt to protect American industries in this manner is much more likely to harm American consumers than anything else.
Trump reportedly made his tariff proposal public without first alerting his advisers at the Treasury, State, or Defense Departments. His chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, adamantly opposes tariff increases and trade wars, complicating things even further.
So Trump is relying, it appears, mainly on his own knowledge to make major shifts in his administration’s economic and infrastructure policies, despite the fact that his understanding of the subject is relatively thin. When Trump talks about the economy, for instance, he touts stock market gains but neglects to mention slower-than-normal job growth, corporations spending very little on bonuses, and stagnant wages, among other problems.
Trump has made plenty of other comments in the past to buff up his own credentials — all of which sound more than a bit awkward now, given his hasty announcement on Friday.
1. He’s a financial genius
“I agree [that I am a financial genius],” Trump tweeted in November 2014, quoting one of his Twitter followers.
I shared one absurd boast from Resident Idiot. Click through for the other fourteen. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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5:20 Can’t look it up to see whether it’s toxic.
MSNBC – And the stupidest thing is that he has failed so many times and lost so much of OUR money in the process, and is STILL being allowed to keep trying.
WaPo – Of course we are not the highest taxed. The highest taxed nations in the world are Socialist countries which DELIVER services for those taxes, so people are HAPPY there. His “Tax Cut” is only for billionaires, so it’s not a cut at all for the rest of us. He does make it easy to tell when he is lying – it’s when his mouth is open.
TP – Oh, thank you for addressing this. It’s important. Rumor has it, BTW, that he did this to piss off a couple of his advisers. Pissing off the whoole world was just a bonus.
Cartoon – Horrifying. Can’t we all get along? Apparently not.
JD, it does not matter if it is toxic . . . there won’t be any butterfly fricassée today!
MSNBC: Mind boggling! Love your comment, Tom. Spot on !!
BBA: Good gawd, was reading somewhere, (CRS), that he lies on average 5-6x’s a day!!! Liar!!
TP: He should get that NPD checked out, and get rid of the hot air, he’s ruining the environment. What a cad.
Cartoon: We were living in CA when this happened. We were horrified at what happened, and remember the riots in LA after the acquittals of the 3 officers, and the jury deadlock on one officer. Horrible. Just horrible. May you Rest in Peace, Mr. King.
Yes, get some rest! You take good care of yourself, enjoy your evening, and Thanks, Tom.
Yes, they caused almost as much damage as white people do celebrating a winning football game.
The problem with tariffs is they are a two-edged sword. Impose tariffs on imports from other countries, they will set up their own against our exports. Sauce for the goose…
Sadly – very sadly – it’s clear (especially with republicans at the helm) we can’t!
MSNBC: For U.S. foreign policy to follow the route of punishment and vengeance for perceived slights to a family member, Kushner in this case, would be standard Modus Operandi for our very sick puppy POTUS.
WaPoChannel: He does have more emptiness than anyone else, just ask that young shooting victim who spoke to him in the hospital: Utterly unimpressed!
TP: Despite his boasts, he has no damned idea about what he is doing, If he is “…relying on his own knowledge,” one must invoke the heuristic (rule of thumb): “Garbage in, garbage out.”
Rodney King: R.I.P.
Puzzle — 4:23 No butterfly fricassée today Puddy Tat!
MSNBC — Good parody of Revelation 6:8 and quite fitting! May this be the end times of this conflicted and chaotic régime. Maybe Kushner will get cell #666 in prison.
Washington Post — Drumpf said “I don’t like pinocchios”. My advice to Drumpf: then don’t lie, deceive or generally screw with the facts.
Think Progress — Drumpf is an arrogant and ignorant person who only knows how to do 2 things relatively well: pussy grabbing and lying. I say relatively well because he even screws that up by getting caught!
MSNBC: Stupidity and arrogance, which leads them to believe they can do anything they want and get away with it, those are the most important assets of the people in the White House who are ‘running the country’. And remember, Drumpf may have been voted into this position by a minority, but voted for nevertheless; Jared, Ivanka and all those others who got into positions of power through Drumpf’s nepotism, weren’t ever elected. The Drumpf clan abusing their positions to better themselves financially is a crime and should be dealt with as such, but even if a president is exempt from those laws himself, he – as their boss, as directly responsible for them being there and as an accomplice in their abuse of their positions should be held accountable, i.e. prosecuted too.
WP: Drumpf doesn’t like to get Pinocchios? My goodness, this heartless wooden NRA puppet IS Pinocchio!
TP: Oh, please, spare me the a repeat of the empty bragging and exaggerated chest-beating of a malignant narcissist. All of us knew it for what it was during his campaign: puffed-up lies from a deluded egotist, but sadly 65 million Americans chose to believe him. And the GOP has enabled him since he parked his butt behind an empty desk in the Ovan Office. So why would he change his tune?
As for Gary Cohn: he said he’d resign if Drumpf put tariffs on steel and aluminium against his advise. So what is he still doing in the White House as chief economic adviser?
Good luck with a busy week ahead, TomCat. Get your batteries recharged as much as possible.
Thanks all. Rushing Hugs.