Friday Fun: Trump’s “TP Emergency Alert” & More

 Posted by at 8:13 am  Politics
Oct 052018
 

While not giving up hope, it’s looking like our country will be stuck with not only the WORST PRESIDENT EVAH in the White House, but now also the WORST JUSTICE EVAH on the Supreme Court.

Of course the pundits have declared that the problem lies with the Democrats …

But before we leave Brett Kava-NAH, let’s enjoy one last laugh at his expense with a limerick:

Did everyone get their “Presidential Emergency Alert” from Twitler this week?  Well, it seems there are a couple of bugs because not everyone got the same message from him …

At least for his daughter Tiffany it was a hallmark …

But to be honest about it …

Some of us did not react kindly to getting the alert …

And some of us were lucky in getting an exceptionally truthful one …

Democrat Martin Heinrich, who is running for US Senate in New Mexico, got a very helpful reminder …

But not as helpful as the one solely directed to Twitler himself …

Yup, this will surely be one of the few highlights of Twitler’s (shortened) time in office …

Apparently not only does the entire United Nations think it’s perfectly fine to laugh at Trump – but so does his own Secret Service …

And as one sage pundit noted, Trump brought his entire Presidential Library on board on the bottom of one shoe.

But I know this is the Presidential Alert we’re all waiting for:

 

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Monthly Report for September 2018

 Posted by at 1:20 pm  Monthly Report, Politics
Oct 042018
 

Compared to August, September results were down in every category.  I don’t know why.

Here is our latest summary:

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Reported period

Month Sep 2018

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Sep 2018 – 00:01

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Sep 2018 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

4,539

 

36,621

(8.06 visits/visitor)

177,017

(4.83 Pages/Visit)

382,731

(10.45 Hits/Visit)

18.69 GB

(535.22 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

744,676

889,829

20.98 GB

Reported period

Month Sep 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Sep 2017 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Sep 2017 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

8,742

 

27,465

(3.14 visits/visitor)

101,767

(3.7 Pages/Visit)

236,376

(8.6 Hits/Visit)

7.69 GB

(293.69 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

421,101

484,020

11.33 GB

Compared with last September, we are way down in Uniques, and up in all other categories.  Fewer visitors doing much more is a win.

Here is August’s ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  This is eight months’ traffic.  Clustrmap is broken and I’m looking for a fix.

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ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

Republicans on Parade – 9/10/2018 9/10/2018 1,066
Grassley and the Pervert 9/16/2018 615
Monthly Report for August 2018 9/4/2018 573
Republicans on Parade – 9/2/2018 9/12/2018 568
Labor Day 9/3/2018 943

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article.  All were from this year.   All were from September.  I wrote all five.  I would have been happier to see more of our other authors’ work represented here.  JD, Nameless, Lona and Squatch have written fine articles.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Google 3,247
Care2   2,295
Facebook 228

Google was up from last month.  Care2 was down.  We do not link to Facebook.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/

We had 6 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 2 from August.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We still need to improve this.  Since May, I cleaned up our blog roll and found most of the sites either were gone or had not published for years. Now I still need to visit the few who remain.

As of midnight October 1, we had 8,511 articles and 101,887comments.

Nobody won a Big Mouth Award last month.  From now on, Big Mouth winners at 10,000 levels will have their choice of a PP mug or a PP T Shirt.  Staff will remain eligible to be winners at the 1,000 levels,  Winners at prize winning levels will be the first non-staff commenter.  If any staff member wants a mug or a T Shirt, let me know.  Pat B has received her rewards.  Here are the Mug Shots she sent:

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I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author in August 2017 to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.

We now have just 33 das, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of our nation from the fascist Reich that possesses all three branches of government.  Please do every thing you can.

Thank you for your support here, and kudos for all the good you do, everywhere you do it.

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Open Thread – 10/4/2018

 Posted by at 1:18 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 042018
 

It’s a chilly day here at the CatBox.  I just finished writing the Monthly Report and that wore me out.  Wish me lots of Zs.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:21 (average 5:13).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Sen. Jeff Merkley: ‘Absurd’ There’s Only Going To Be One Copy Of FBI Report

 

Jeff was on this before we knew Kavanookie was a pervert. Dozens of Democrats won’t even get to see the cover-up. Jeff and Oregon lead the way. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): News reports and personal accounts contradict Kavanaugh’s defenses of himself

 

That’s over a dozen lies under oath. To disqualify, all it takes is one lie.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Voting early has grown increasingly popular across the country in recent years, and in some states, the early voting period for the Nov. 2018 midterms has already begun. Below, courtesy Ballotpedia, you can see when early voting starts and ends in all of the states where it’s available.

STATE

START

END

STATE

START

END

Alaska

22-Oct

5-Nov

Montana

9-Oct

5-Nov

Alabama

None

 

North Carolina

17-Oct

3-Nov

Arkansas

22-Oct

5-Nov

North Dakota

27-Sep

5-Nov

Arizona

10-Oct

2-Nov

Nebraska

9-Oct

5-Nov

California

8-Oct

5-Nov

New Hampshire

None

 

Colorado

5-Oct

6-Nov

New Jersey

22-Sep

5-Nov

Connecticut

None

 

New Mexico

20-Oct

3-Nov

Delaware

None

 

Nevada

20-Oct

2-Nov

Florida

27-Oct

3-Nov

New York

None

 

Georgia

15-Oct

2-Nov

Ohio

10-Oct

5-Nov

Hawaii

23-Oct

3-Nov

Oklahoma

1-Nov

3-Nov

Iowa

8-Oct

5-Nov

Oregon

17-Oct

6-Nov

Idaho

22-Oct

2-Nov

Pennsylvania

None

 

Illinois

27-Sep

5-Nov

Rhode Island

None

 

Indiana

10-Oct

5-Nov

South Carolina

None

 

Kansas

17-Oct

5-Nov

South Dakota

21-Sep

5-Nov

Kentucky

None

 

Tennessee

17-Oct

1-Nov

Louisiana

23-Oct

30-Oct

Texas

22-Oct

2-Nov

Massachusetts

22-Oct

2-Nov

Utah

23-Oct

2-Nov

Maryland

25-Oct

1-Nov

Virginia

None

 

Maine

8-Oct

1-Nov

Vermont

21-Sep

5-Nov

Michigan

None

 

Washington

19-Oct

6-Nov

Minnesota

21-Sep

5-Nov

Wisconsin

Varies by locality

 

Missouri

None

 

West Virginia

24-Oct

3-Nov

Mississippi

None

 

Wyoming

27-Sep

5-Nov

RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Fuhrer Financial Fraud

 Posted by at 12:28 pm  Politics
Oct 032018
 

As long as I’ve heard of him, Donald Trump, aka Fuhrer Drumphenfarten, has proclaimed his financial prowess as a self-made billionaire often and loud.  It turns out that his financial prowess is on the same level as the other prowess about which he brags, but Stormy tells it like it is.  It isn’t there.  The NY Times has revealed that he got it all from his daddy.  No, I don’t mean Putin [R-RU].  I mean Fred.

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Donald J. Trump built a business empire and won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help. “I built what I built myself,” the president has repeatedly said.

But an investigation by The New York Times has revealed that Donald Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire. What’s more, much of this money came to Mr. Trump through dubious tax schemes he participated in during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, The Times found.

In all, the president’s parents transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate on gifts and inheritances that was in place at the time. Helped by a variety of tax dodges, the Trumps paid $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax returns show.

The president declined requests over several weeks to comment for this article… [emphasis added]

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He cheated us out of millions.  Should we be surprised that he cheated us out of the White House.

Rachel Maddow has much more.

I trust we have not heard the last of this one.  The Republican Reich could not have picked a poster fiend more emblematic of who and what they are.

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Open Thread – 10/3/2018

 Posted by at 12:28 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 032018
 

It’s a busy day here in the the CatBox.  I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so I’ll need to unload and stash them.  It’s actually a bit chilly here, and I’m enjoying that.  I made the graphic and collected the data I’ll need for tomorrow’s monthly report.  ClustrMap is on the fritz and I have no idea why.  WWWendy is back on schedule so she comes this evening to destink the TomCat.  My plan is to finish my work shortly after lunch, as I’m still quite tired.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:17 (average 5:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? (I ate a big bowl of killer green cloud chili last night, hoping to blow that Sasquatch back, long enough for me to get that dawg!)

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

Put this together with Kavanookie’s statements about her and we have a tag-team of perverts. Putting Kavanookie on SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) would be no worse than giving the seat to Trump. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Georgia’s Republican Senator David Perdue, known around these parts for being a millionaire who loves bailouts and outsourcing American jobs, was walking through Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport when he was approached by three women. According to The Cut, the three women, including two identified as sexual-assault survivors, wanted to ask Sen. Perdue to stand up for women by demanding a thorough investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The three women — sexual-assault survivors Patti Serrano and Jennifer Epps-Addison, of the Center for Popular Democracy advocacy group, along with Arizona State Representative Isela Blanc — also asked Perdue whether he supports a full FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh.

Perdue tried to ignore the women, and then told one of them not to touch him when she put out her hand to introduce herself. Perdue proceeded to make a beeline for an airport bathroom. Maybe an appropriate Republican motto could be “Republicans: angry and afraid of women … since forever.”

That a thoroughly Republican thing to do! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees, a rare acknowledgment that it was feeling squeezed by political pressure and a tight labor market. The raises apply for part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies.

The company said it would also lobby Washington to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been set at $7.25 for almost a decade.

The new wages will apply to more than 250,000 Amazon employees, including those at the grocery chain Whole Foods, as well as the more than 100,000 seasonal employees it plans to hire for the holiday season. The change will not apply to contract workers. It goes into effect on Nov. 1.

“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, said in a statement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.”

Kudos to Jeff Bezos and amazon.com. I’d rather pay a little more, if that means more for workers. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Pervert Kavanookie Update

 Posted by at 1:52 pm  Politics
Oct 022018
 

From what I understand, the White House has removed restrictions on the FBI investigation, but I hear rumblings on TV that Bought Bitch Mitch may still have his thumb on the scales.  Time will tell, but  this article may already be out of date.  In the interim, here’s what I thought I knew and some of the stories coming out about Pervert Trump’s Pervert.

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The White House authorized the F.B.I. to expand its abbreviated investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh by interviewing anyone it deems necessary as long as the review is finished by the end of the week, according to two people briefed on the matter.

At an event on Monday celebrating a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, President Trump said he instructed his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, over the weekend to instruct the F.B.I. to carry out an open investigation, but the president included the caveat that the inquiry should accommodate the desires of Senate Republicans.

The new directive came after a backlash from Democrats, who criticized the White House for limiting the scope of the bureau’s investigation into Judge Kavanaugh, Mr. Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. The F.B.I. has already interviewed the four witnesses it was originally asked to question, and on Monday it reached out to others.

The broadening inquiry produced an unusual spectacle as friends and classmates from Judge Kavanaugh’s past provided dueling portraits of the nominee in his younger days — either a good-natured student incapable of the alleged behavior or a stumbling drunk who could easily have blacked out and forgotten inappropriate behavior at alcohol-soaked parties… [emphasis added]

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Graphic credit: Daily Kos

Joy Read has more on new stories including an attempt by Pervert Kavanookie to silence Debbie Ramirez.

Keep calling your Senators every day!

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Open Thread – 10/2/2018

 Posted by at 1:51 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 022018
 

It’s a relatively cool day, here at the CatBox, but the sun is on the wall, so I’ll have to break soon to button-up and turn on the A/C.  This morning I was busy doing my normal research, preparing football reports, and finalizing my shopping list, so tomorrow I’ll prepare the graphics and collect the data for September’s Monthly Report.  Then I’ll post it on Thursday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Agony:

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My guys played a superior game against a superior team, and they should have won.  In KC’s game winning drive, they were 3rd and 7 on the 46, when the play clock expired a full second before the snap.  Denver’s defense relaxed, expecting the delay of game call, and Mahomes passed to Harris moving the ball to the eleven.  The official, who was supposed to be watching admitted that he muffed the call, but there’s no replay for a missed penalty. That mistake probably cost Denver the game.  That damn stinking Orb really F’d up!

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest for our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

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Congrats to Wendy, Patty Monster and me for winning.

Standings:

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Kudos to Pam, me, and Patty Monster for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From Huffington Post: Harvard Law School dean John F. Manning informed students last week that, although he couldn’t say whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would still be teaching his January class, called The Supreme Court Since 2005, the school was still taking its students’ concerns seriously. But now the school has told students that Kavanaugh’s course, which he’s been teaching since 2009, would not be offered in 2019.

He’s too dishonest to teach at Harvard, but he’s good enough for Republicans. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: In the Rose Garden outside the White House, Donald Trump announced a renewed North American Free Trade Agreement, which he is trying to rebrand with the new name: U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Toooooooootally different, see?

He turned to questions from the gathered White House reporters and Donald Trump being Donald Trump, he just couldn’t help but insult Cecilia Vega of ABC News, who was trying to ask a question. And of course his gathered bros, including Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin, laughed it up. WATCH:

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

Talk about misogyny! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: As the F.B.I. hurries to complete its supplemental background check of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, twenty million witnesses have come forward claiming that they saw Kavanaugh lie under oath.

According to the witnesses, they can remember the place where they saw Kavanaugh lie, a hearing room in the United States Senate, and the exact date and time, this past Thursday afternoon.

Despite the striking similarity of their stories, the twenty million witnesses to Kavanaugh’s mendacity said that they were having trouble getting in touch with the F.B.I., even though lying to the Senate is a federal crime and thus within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.

“I called my local F.B.I. office and was told to call the Bureau’s toll-free tip line,” Harland Dorrinson, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, said. “I did that, but the mailbox for Kavanaugh tips was full.”

Dang, Andy! You underestimated the total big time! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Poll Results – 10/1/2018

 Posted by at 12:53 pm  Blog News, Politics
Oct 012018
 

Here are the results of our “Trump Desperation or Stupidity?" poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

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And here are your comments:

Showing comments 1–15 of 15.

 

Posted by Jim Phillips  September 24, 2018 at 10:08 am. From:  CA (US)  

 

Both Stupidly & Desperation. Unfortunately, this was not an answer available. sigh…

 

Posted by gene  September 24, 2018 at 5:51 am. From:  MN (US)   

 

Went with mostly desperation because I think he feels the walls closing in and knows he is caught, that it’s a matter of time before all that’s he’s done is public and he ends up in prison. Though he is indeed stupid. He’s more like a cornered rat to me right now.

 

Posted by Edie  September 21, 2018 at 10:40 am. From:  KY (US)    

 

I voted all stupidity because that is how he handles everything, IN My Opinion.

 

Posted by Mopvyzo USA  September 21, 2018 at 2:25 am. From:  NC (US)   

 

Mostly stupidity. Because is a stupid old man.

 

Posted by Mitch D.  September 14, 2018 at 10:03 am. From:  NJ (US)    

 

I vote for "All stupidity," thinking of the Dunning-Kreuger Effect," in which one is too dumb to know how dumb he/she is. Add this to his grandiosity, and you have a wonderful recipe for supreme idiocy!

 

Posted by BarbCat in reply to Mitch D.  September 14, 2018 at 10:56 am. From:  NC (US)   

 

Trump has to be the most idiotic US President of all time.

 

Posted by Lynn Squance  September 4, 2018 at 12:54 am. From:  BC (CA)    

 

I am 50/50.  Drumpf is so full of BS, he does not know if he is punched, bored or stapled! He thinks he is invincible, just like the narcissist he is. But I believe he is desperate too because he is like a dog with a bone . . . he keeps gnawing on various bones as if that will change things. And some of those bones are totally irrational. He can’t be gone soon enough!!!

 

Posted by dave c  September 3, 2018 at 9:52 am. From:  MN (US)   

 

50/50, I think he is incredibly stupid!

 

Posted by gene  September 2, 2018 at 1:47 am. From:  MN (US)   

 

Oh, I’m in the minority here. I went with total desperation because that’s what I see. I think he knows the walls are closing in on him and it shows in his increasingly unhinged tweets. Still mean as a snake though, no insult intended to snakes.

 

Posted by Lona Goudswaard  September 1, 2018 at 4:52 pm. From:  (AU)    

 

Like anyone with mental disorders (yes, plural) Drumpf has days of some lucidity and on those days he realizes he’s in deep sh$t and acts in desperation because he hasn’t a clue what to do about it. Can’t call another bankruptcy, close the door and leave others to clean up the mess, right? On other days, his insanity/dementia takes over and he truly believes himself above the law. I have no idea what the ratio between lucid and insane days is, but at the moment it seems about 50/50. But that could swing either way at any moment.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName  September 1, 2018 at 2:44 pm. From:  MO (US)    

 

Desperation – at least over 90%.

He’s done this $hit for decades and has gotten away with it.

He knows he’s a cornered animal & the walls are closing in – and he doesn’t have a CLUE on what to do other than what’s worked in the past: LIE his ass off & incite violence & try to change the topic.

 

Posted by Nita L  September 1, 2018 at 12:23 pm. From: TX (US)    

 

This is a difficult question. I picked equally because I think he is running scared but he also thinks he is above the law.

 

Posted by Pat B  September 1, 2018 at 11:24 am. From:  TX (US)    

 

Good question. Settled for equally.

So many negative behaviors emanating from him, and his complete disregard for the office of the President. Shameful behavior, and the more this investigation uncovers, the more desperate he will become.

 

Posted by Diane  September 1, 2018 at 10:24 am. From:  PA (US)    

 

I say 50/50. He’s too stupid to realize just how much trouble he’s in and to the extent he’s broken laws. All kinds of laws.

Desperation because he can’t threaten to sue his way out of the situation he’s in.

 

Posted by Joanne D  September 1, 2018 at 10:08 am. From: CO (US)    

 

Wow, this is a good one. I actually think it’s probably a little more one than the other, but I have no idea how much or even which way. Or maybe I shouldn’t say I have NO idea – I have plenty of ideas, but I keep changing them around. So I just settled for both equally.

I voted Most desperation.  He is incompetent because he is a psychotic sociopath.  Nevertheless he is cunning in the most malignant sense of the word.

The new poll is up.  Don’t forget to vote in it.

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