Republicans on Parade – 1/23/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:23 am Politics

Jan 232019

Here is the one hundred forty-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. The winner is Republican pseudo-Christian Senator Joni "Pig Nuts" Ernst [R-IA]. She is so honored for the extreme hypocrisy of divorcing her husband for blocking her her quest to become her Fuhrer’s VP.

According to a divorce court filing, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) claims one of the reasons she wishes to part ways with her husband is because she believes he thwarted her ambition to become President Donald Trump’s running mate in 2016.

The Guardian reports that Ernst’s attorneys filed a supporting affidavit in her battle with her husband, Gail, stating, “In the summer of 2016, I was interviewed by Candidate Trump to be vice president of the United States. I turned Candidate Trump down, knowing it wasn’t the right thing for me or my family.

“I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family,” she said of her husband of 26 years.

The report states that Ernst met with Trump on July 4th, 2016 and discussed the job before telling Politico, “I made that very clear to him that I’m focused on Iowa. I feel that I have a lot more to do in the United States Senate. And Iowa is where my heart is.”

Now, in her divorce filing, Ernst is singing a different tune and putting the blame on her husband, complaining her husband “ … hated any successes I had and would belittle me and get angry any time I achieved a goal.”…

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This is Joni Pig Nuts’ second parade. She earned her first for extreme TEAbuggery in August 2014.

Here is the campaign ad that made her Joni Pig Nuts.

Here are the two area’s of hypocrisy. She ran as a Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian, claiming she was under her husband’s authority. While, if she has really been abused, I have to support her decision to divorce, she has openly condemned Democrats for divorcing. Second she ran on frugality, bus she whines that she cannot be part of the most greedy profligate administration in US history.

Finally, we should get a report on Joni Pig Nuts’ husband. Given her proclivity to snip-snip, could the reason she’s divorcing him be that she destroyed his usefulness to her?

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 1/23/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:23 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jan 232019

It’s another busy day here at the CatBox. Anne from CCC is stopping by to pick up the paperwork for my application. Store to Door is delivering groceries. I’ll have to put them away. WWWendy comes this evening to de-stink the putrid TomCat and help with chores. Tomorrow I go back to the Heights for my formal application. Please expect no more than an Open Thread and no links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:32 (average 6:16). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Media blame "both sides" for Trump’s government shutdown

Media-wide this is quite true, but to be fair, note that their only example for MSNBC was from a guest, not a host, on the network’s only conservative show. They have reported accurately, describing it as a Republican shutdown. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Unraveling President Trump’s top 5 claims | The Fact Checker

Dang! I must have the gift of prophecy. I predicted that all five claims would be lies! RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: In blistering remarks aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ann Coulter demanded on Tuesday that she be allowed to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address.

“Nancy Pelosi should stop playing politics with the State of the Union,” Coulter told reporters. “Tradition dictates that I deliver that speech next week, and I intend to do just that.”

The conservative pundit scoffed at congressional Democrats’ condition that she reopen the government before being able to deliver the State of the Union.

“Clearly, since becoming Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has let power go to her head,” Coulter said.

Coulter indicated that she would use the State of the Union to speak to the American people not only about the border wall but also about her plans for the economy, trade, and America’s role in nato.

Dang Andy! If she makes Putin’s Pervert open the government, let the Coultergeist give the speech. RESIST!!

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Who is Anastasia Vashukevich?

Posted by TomCat at 12:08 pm Politics

Jan 222019

Last night, I tuned in to Rachel and watched, as I was working. She started talking about Anastasia Vashukevich. Who is Anastasia Vashukevich? I had never heard of her before. Nineteen minutes later I knew that, unless we overcome the Republican Reich, what happened to her, could also happen to anyone in this nation, who possesses evidence of the Republican Fuhrer’s crimes.

A model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings shedding light on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was detained at a Moscow airport Thursday on prostitution allegations, the police said.

The model, Anastasia Vashukevich, had been deported from Thailand earlier in the day after spending nine months in prison on charges of conspiracy and soliciting prostitution.

She was booked to fly to Minsk, Belarus, but was detained along with three others traveling with her as she changed planes at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, according to her husband and another person traveling with her.

No evidence has emerged of the tape that Vashukevich claimed showed contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians. Her arrest in Moscow was unexpected and blocked her from possibly talking to dozens of journalists waiting for her in the airport’s arrivals zone.

Gregory Kogan, a close friend of Vashukevich, asserted that Russian and Belarusan diplomats in Thailand had pledged the group would be safe if they left for Russia or flew via Moscow…

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Here is the 19 minute video, from Rachel Maddow, who fills in all the details.

Note the abject terror that poor girl is demonstrating. One does not react that way without having been subjected to considerable abuse. No wonder the Republican Reich has never stopped campaigning to make torture legal here. That’s part of why their party must be destroyed.

It’s not just Trump. The entire Republican Reich shares the guilt for the torture this girl has suffered so Republicans can hide their treason.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 1/22/2018

Posted by TomCat at 12:07 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jan 222019

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Now I get to take care of the paperwork that got missed over apartment paperwork. I’ll get to rest three days after they nail the lid on.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:43 (average 4:16). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Pence’s Trump-MLK Comparison Doesn’t Add Up

The notion that pseudo-pious Pence would compare that Nazi pervert with MLK is so vile that it could only from a Republican. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Government worker who voted for Trump: I feel betrayed

Damn Republican fool! There’s a reason you feel betrayed. Trump and the Republican Reich betrayed you. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is a criminal conspiracy. RESIST!!

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In Memory of Dr. MLK

Posted by TomCat at 8:47 am Politics

Jan 212019

It was a pleasure to work with Dr. King on Vietnam Summer. Of all the people I have met in my life, he stands head and shoulders above the rest. This is last year’s article. It is even more applicable today.

Normally, I would wish you a Happy Martin Luther King Day, but my conscience will not allow it at a time when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have trashed so much of what he accomplished, and today, Dr. King would grieve. But he would also…

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 1/21/2019

Posted by TomCat at 8:46 am Open Thread, Politics

Jan 212019

Even though it’s a holiday, it’s a busy day here in the CatBox, as I have documentation to collect for the housing application. No rest for the weary!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:53 (average 5:10). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid

I would have no trouble supporting her for President, I still prefer Liz, but do so with no opposition to Kamala. RESIST!!

From Alternet: On Monday, viewers of “Fox & Friends” were startled by a graphic that flashed briefly on screen implying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.

The image showed a picture of Justice Ginsburg’s face, with the caption: “SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG 1933-2019”:…

…The graphic, which presumably shocked a number of viewers, quickly led to an on-air apology from “Fox & Friends” hosts, who say it was a control room error. “We don’t want to make it seem anything other than that was a mistake,” said Steve Doocy. “It was an accident.”

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Why should the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, even have prepared this graphic? The rabid, bloodthirsty bastards are having a Nazi wet dream in anticipation of that event. Health and long life to the incomparable RBG! RESIST!!

From Crooks and Liars: Remember when America had a President that wasn’t a Russian asset? I’m old enough to remember when our President didn’t suck up to dictators or put children in cages. When the anxiety of life under Trump overwhelms you, here are 5 movies to help you escape reality for a couple of hours.

Trump and his crew make Watergate seem like a children’s story. But if you want to remember the “good old days” of Watergate, there’s no better movie than All the President’s Men.

The story of how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovered the conspiracy to cover up the Watergate scandal has many parallels to the Trump era. Richard Nixon was an egomaniac who thought he was above the law, and he broke many laws to cover up his crimes. While Nixon didn’t work with a hostile foreign power to undermine America, the scandals of Trump administration have similar characters and crimes from that time period.

All the President’s Men is currently on Cinemax, or you can find it on Amazon Prime or on iTunes.

I think I’ll watch at least three, I shared one. Click through for the other four. RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 1/20/2019

Posted by TomCat at 11:14 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jan 202019

I’s a very busy day here in the CatBox. WWWendy is making meatloaf, while I write, and we have lots of chores to do. This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 4:44). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (SNL Channel): Deal or No Deal Cold Open

Dang! Is this really satire? It looks more real than anything on Faux Noise. RESIST!!

From The Independent: The mother of a boy filmed harassing a Native American man along with his friends at a rally in Washington DC has blamed “black Muslims” for the confrontation, without providing any evidence for the claim.

The teenager was among a group of students wearing Make America Great Again hats who were criticised for intimidating the musician Nathan Phillips, surrounding him to jeer and chant “build the wall, build the wall”.

But his mother claimed “black Muslims” had been harassing the group of Donald Trump supporters from the private, all-male Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky.

Bullshit!! RESIST!!

From Washington Post:

President Trump on Saturday offered Democrats three years of deportation protections for some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, a proposal immediately rejected by Democrats and derided by conservatives as amnesty.

Aiming to end the 29-day partial government shutdown, Trump outlined his plan in a White House address in which he sought to revive negotiations with Democrats, who responded that they would not engage in immigration talks until he reopened the government.

Trump proposed offering a reprieve on his attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from some Latin American and African nations, in exchange for building hundreds of miles of barriers on the southern U.S. border and hiring thousands of new law enforcement agents to be deployed there.

Democrats are right to reject this. Trump killed DACA and TPS by executive order. Now, he’s offering only part of what he took away. That’s blackmail, not negotiation. RESIST!!

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Bill Maher from 1/18

Posted by TomCat at 10:09 am Politics

Jan 192019

It’s that time of week again, so here are four excellent video clips from Bill’s show last night, his first this year. Enjoy!

Monologue: Shutdown Showdown

Spoiler alert: There is penetration. Dinky Donny has Pootie [R-RU] in his pooter! I appreciate Bill’s shout-out for the teachers. "No TV until you do your homework." Love it!

Marshawn Lynch