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And here I thought that Bugs was going to serve up some bourbon to what, slow down his spin rate? Where DID the Tasmanian Devil get that whirling dervish meme?
For bonus points, do you believe that the Tasmanian Devil could have first coexisted and, secondly, cooperated with Wile E. Coyote to secure an ACME Safe drop caper that would have actually put an end to the Roadrunner?
I knew Tasmania was near Australia, and I knew about the devil.
The same can be said for many humans.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_devil
Although it is usually solitary, it sometimes eats with other devils and defecates in a communal location.
Look at that SOB. My instinct would be to speed up to get clear of 'em.
The Tasmanian devil is probably best known internationally as the inspiration for the Looney Tunes cartoon character the Tasmanian Devil, or "Taz" in 1954. Little known at the time, the loud hyperactive cartoon character has little in common with the real life animal.[200] After a few shorts between 1957 and 1964, the character was retired until the 1990s, when he gained his own show, Taz-Mania, and again became popular.[201]
In 1997, a newspaper report noted that Warner Bros. had "trademarked the character and registered the name Tasmanian Devil", and that this trademark "was policed", including an eight-year legal case to allow a Tasmanian company to call a fishing lure "Tasmanian Devil". Debate followed, and a delegation from the Tasmanian government met with Warner Bros.[202]
Ray Groom, the Tourism Minister, later announced that a "verbal agreement" had been reached. An annual fee would be paid to Warner Bros. in return for the Government of Tasmania being able to use the image of Taz for "marketing purposes". This agreement later disappeared.[203] In 2006, Warner Bros. permitted the Government of Tasmania to sell stuffed toys of Taz with profits funnelled into research on DFTD.[204]
There is a DC Comics superhero called Tasmanian Devil who is a member of the Global Guardians team.[205] Snarl, a character in the Transformers Beast Wars storyline, had the alternate form of a Tasmanian devil.[206] Tasmanian Kid from Beast Wars II could also transform into a Tasmanian devil.[207]
I never have to add anything to the end of the Sig Digit stories, the writer is always up to the task.
IF I add anything to a post I put it in italics
7 northern white rhino eggs
This weekend, scientists in Italy took frozen sperm previously removed from two of the planet’s last living male northern white rhinos (both of whom have since died) and used it to try to artificially fertilize eggs taken from the last two living females of the species. They hope to create as many as seven embryos, with a goal of creating a herd of at least five of the animals that could be returned to their natural habit. What did you do over the weekend? [Associated Press]
Fox & Friends Offered Comically Dumb Defenses of Trump's G7 Grift
The Symbiosis of Stupid continues.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28829376/donald-trump-g7-doral-fox-and-friends-defend/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=082719&utm_campaign=nl17850295&src=nl
By Jack Holmes
Aug 27, 2019
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. That's essentially the relationship between Donald Trump, American president, and his State TV network, Fox News. Normally, the propaganda arm of an authoritarian regime is run in-house, but in the U-S-of-A, none of that is necessary.
The profit motive is enough to power the cable network's absolute allegiance to Trump and his movement, as the two engage in a Symbiosis of Stupid and keep millions of American eyeballs glued to the screen as viewers are fed a steady diet of resentment and all-American mythology. Fox gets advertiser cash. Trump gets a dependable political base rarely exposed to information which might pop his balloon.
Trump also gets cash, of course, if a little less directly. The president is monetizing his office on a daunting scale, as he maintains his business interests while running the country. Trump resigned from the Trump Organization and put his holdings in a trust, but it's controlled by his family and a close associate and they give him regular updates on the business—including, presumably, who's putting money into it.
This has produced a constant stream of conflicts of interest, where the public cannot be sure that a decision on, say, our policy towards Saudi Arabia was made because it's in the American people's interest or because the Saudis are putting money in Trump's pocket.
The folks at the Fox News Channel normally just ignore this state of affairs as part of The Back Scratch, but after the president brazenly campaigned for the next G7 to be held at his resort outside Miami, the Fox & Friends went on the offensive.
After all, here was the president essentially demanding that foreign leaders—not to mention their hundreds of staff members and all the media types who will come along—spend money at his failing business. Did you know Doral's net operating income has dropped 69 percent in two years? No wonder Trump wants Boris Johnson to hit the buffet. Anyway, here are the Friends defending all this:
Brian Kilmeade says the Trump Doral resort is "the perfect site" for the next G7 summit. pic.twitter.com/NriuxbisQW
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 27, 2019
Why is it "the perfect site"? Because the president said so, I guess. Yesterday, our fearless leader argued the resort has "tremendous acreage," and a lot of rooms, and it's close to the airport, although he had to sneak in a lie about that last part. "You’ll only have a five-minute drive, which is good," he whispered to Angela Merkel, even if, according to MarketWatch, it's actually a 16-to-30-minute drive, depending on traffic.
He just couldn't resist. Had to make the sale. He is right about one thing, though: Miami International Airport does indeed "take planes from everywhere."
Brian Kilmeade pointed out, "He would want to do it there anyway, whether he owned it or not," then, after five seconds, joked (?) "Trump Tower is not available." This might be funny if the president did not pretty much exclusively travel to places with his name on them, a giant advertisement paid for with taxpayer cash.
The Fox & Friends seem to think this state of affairs is tip-top, maybe because they accept anything Trump says because he's the one saying it.
Ainsley Earhardt took Trump's claim—that there was a legitimate procurement process in which 12 sites were considered—at face value, and Doocy thought he was backing it up when he shared that "the Secret Service did inform the Doral, Florida, police department two months ago that the resort was one of about a dozen potential venues for the summit."
This does not actually prove that any other sites were seriously considered, but it does operate on the premise we're supposed to believe it's merely a coincidence that Trump's government ended up settling on Trump's struggling business. And we haven't even gotten into the president's obligation to avoid even the appearance of impropriety or corruption.
All of that is just window dressing, though. Doocy made it crystal clear how this works elsewhere:
Steve Doocy dismisses criticism that Trump is violating the emoluments clause: "I'm sure the president has asked the lawyers, 'hey, how can I donate this, how can we possibly work around it?'" pic.twitter.com/DfeT3gjh6P
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 27, 2019
That's Journalism 101: Assume powerful people are doing the right thing. No need to look into it. Also, even if he were to donate the immediate proceeds, the whole thing would be an advertisement for his private business specifically aimed at foreign actors. One fairly straightforward way out of this would be to hold the event at a property that is not owned by the president.
But Doocy could not resist making the opposite of his intended argument in the next breath. The fact that it will be insufferably hot in Miami around the time Trump wants to hold the event there is evidence the decision was made without regard to the suitability of the conditions.
This is like when FIFA, a fantastically corrupt organization that ran on bribes and payoffs for decades, awarded the 2022 World Cup—an event held in summertime—to Qatar, where the average high is 106 degrees in July.
They are probably going to have to move the tournament to the winter, which will disrupt the world's major club leagues. The comically ill-suited features of the venue suggest there was impropriety for anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex.
Of course, the explanation for the performative obliviousness from these three might well have been summed up long ago by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
He also has stupid in his DNA. Dominant gene.
Pic Of The Moment: Super-Smart Trump Explains How He Would Have Stopped Putin From Invading Crimea
5. With the right...whatever. Such a genius, why didn't Obama think of that?
'WTF Ever...' should be the epitaph on his one term presidency. Just a sad albeit tragic mistake in the long march of U.S. history.
For a time the arc of the moral universe has bended toward fear, ignorance and breathtaking stupidity, instead of toward justice.
Time to restore the trajectory.
3. Trump, "They took Crimea during his term."
And because of that along with invasion of the Ukraine and the shooting down of
Malaysia Airline #17 Obama put sanctions that tied up about 80% of Putin's money.
Trump and McConnell have worked to weaken those sanctions.
I think his entire presidency marks him as a 'bad guest' of the U.S.
The World of Incredible Coincidence
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he handed them highly classified information in a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he has done everything in his power to undermine investigations into his possible collusion is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he stood on a stage in Helsinki and took Putin’s ‘word for it’ over the overwhelming evidence presented by our own intelligence agencies of Russia’s attack on the 2016 election is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he, his family members, his staff and his GOP enablers repeatedly lied about contacts with the Russians – until those contacts were proven and rendered undeniable – is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he has never spoken a word against Putin – but instead has praised him at every opportunity – is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he has refused to reveal anything about his one-on-one meetings with Putin – going so far as to confiscate and destroy the translators’ notes of such meetings – is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he and his administration have tried (and sometimes succeeded) in lifting sanctions on Russian oligarchs is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he covered-up/lied about his ongoing efforts to build a Trump hotel in Moscow – a highly lucrative project that represents billions of dollars flowing into Trump’s personal bank account – is just an incredible coincidence.
Trump did not collude with the Russians. The fact that he is now insisting that Russia be invited back into the G-7, thus ignoring what got them booted from what was once the G-8 in the first place, is just an incredible coincidence.
It is ALL just coincidence. There is no reason to believe that Trump has been compromised in any way by the Russians, no reason to believe that he is Putin’s stooge, no reason to believe that his unwavering support of Putin has anything to do with Vlad’s having this “pResident’s” political and financial balls in a vise.
If you believe in incredible coincidences, Trump is a shining example of how such coincidences can be easily explained away – as long as you also believe that what you hear isn't really what you've heard, what you see isn't really what you've seen, and facts simply don’t matter at all.
It is settled fact that Russia is our enemy - just as it is a proven fact that they did everything possible to put Trump in the White House. To dismiss Trump's oh-so-obvious kow-towing to Putin as an 'incredible coincidence' is as ludicrous as dismissing acknowledged facts as 'fake news'.
There is nothing that "pResident Trump" has said or done that hasn't put Russia's interests ahead of the interests of the US, or ahead of the interests of the global community.
The only real coincidence happening here is that the low-info, low IQ, brain-dead voters are the only group that believes in incredible coincidences - which, given their ignorance, is not a coincidence at all.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212412759
Impossible Burger 2.0: How does it taste, is it safe and where can you get it?
This plant-based burger looks and tastes like real beef, but is there a catch?
I don't eat red meat very often anymore so I'm agnostic on this subject. That said, I may try the 2.0 when it makes it's way into the supermarket.
By
Amanda Capritto
| August 5, 2019 1:09 PM PDT
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/impossible-burger-everything-you-need-to-know/
Traditional meat-free burgers are made from some combination of soy, beans and lentils and texture is nothing like beef. The Impossible Burger is here to change that.
The Impossible Burger from Impossible Foods has everything a meat lover looks for in a burger: a slightly pink middle, juicy dribbles, a smoky flavor and the ability to get the characteristically charred crust that only a grilled burger can offer.
This meatless patty even bleeds like beef.
In fact, vegetarian CNET reporter Joan E. Solsman found it to be so meatlike that she couldn't even finish a sample. After not eating beef for more than a decade, she mumbled through a mouthful: "It's kind of grossing me out."
The other thing that might put you off about this cool, meatless burger? It's created in a lab, not in green pastures.
Read more: Impossible Burger vs Beyond Meat Burger: Which one is the better burger? | There's a new meatless burger on the market
https://www.cnet.com/news/beyond-meat-vs-impossible-burger-whats-the-difference/
Clarity and a relative slap on the hands relative to J&J revenue, income and assets. I guess.
J&J headquarters at One Johnson & Johnson Plaza in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Revenue US$81.58 billion (2018)
Operating income US$21.40 billion (2018)
Net income US$15.29 billion (2018)
Total assets US$152.95 billion (2018)
I Hereby Order You to Look at Just How Thirsty for That Canada Dry Melania Is
Monday, August 26th, 2019
http://showercapblog.com/i-hereby-order-you-to-look-at-just-how-thirsty-for-that-canada-dry-melania-is/
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal
Once upon a time, they laughed at Warren Harding for pitching a “return to normalcy” but motherFUCK I would give my left arm, my eye teeth, a kidney, and half my comic book collection* for some goddamn normalcy right now.
I want to sprinkle normalcy on my breakfast cereal, sew it into the lining of my winter coat, and dip my balls in it. But I don’t get to do that, do I?
David Koch is surely dealing with something straight out of Greek mythology by now, don’tcha think? Like, he could probably get that eagle to stop devouring his liver every day, but there are all these ethereal lobbyists and shady underworld dark money groups who fund an intricate network of super PACS and media outlets designed to suppress the anti-liver-devouring vote, and isn’t that just a shame?
Seems Team Treasonweasel is fumin’ mad at A$AP Rocky for refusing to devote his life to the Fascist Farthuffer’s re-election in gratitude, thus magically delivering the African-American vote to the Very Fine People.
It’s adorable, in a sort of KKKabbage Patch KKKids sort of way, that these clowns imagine a single rapper’s endorsement would somehow wash away the decades of bigotry, from the Central Park Five to inciting white supremacist terrorists, but then these are the very same political geniuses who fantasized about legions of Democrats forgetting all about the concentration camps and the tax scam and the attempts to steal health care from millions if he only pardoned our One True Lord and Savior…Rod Blagojevich.
Meanwhile, somebody in the Department of Justice is sending out e-mails to immigration judges with links to white nationalist websites, and Stephen Miller is still one of the most powerful creeps on Earth, so I don’t think this is a one-rapper job, kids.
And the They Shoulda Stopped Handed Out Rights in the 18th Century Administration sent a brief to the Supreme Court asking them to forever enshrine the right of bigoted jagoffs to fire people just for being LGBTQ, and let’s all give the Log Cabin Republicans a really cinematic standing ovation for their decision to endorse the very turdwaffle who wants to make them second-class citizens in their own country.
Hey Trump may not be very good at being president or closing umbrellas or dressing like an adult, but credit where it’s due, Government Cheese Goebbels truly excels at inspiring the shittiest people in America to be as shitty as they can possibly be.
And while the terrorist mass-shooters grab all the headlines, don’t sleep on the likes of 67-year-old Jean Cramer, running for the Marysville, Michigan city council on a “keep the town white as a Leave it to Beaver rerun” platform. Jean wants you to know that she’s not racist, oh and by the way she also opposes interracial marriage. But for sure not racist.
The trade war with China is going pretty much exactly as you’d expect under the command of President All the Bad Kids From Willy Wonka Rolled Up in One. The dumb fuck just keeps getting baited into raising tariffs, or, as they are known here in the absurdist hellscape we call real life, TAXES ON AMERICAN CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES, and then bragging about all the money he’s stealing from us.
And of course the Chinese keep retaliating, because they’re not the ones facing a fed-up-as-fuck electorate in a little over a year with no positive arguments to make beyond “even I’m not dumb enough to fuck up the economy Obama left me…yet.”
In his responding tantrum, Strawberry Shartcake casually attempted to nationalize the entire American economy on Twitter, “ordering” companies to stop doing business with China. It’s that perfect collision of wannabe tyranny and pathetic impotence that just screams “Donald Trump.”
In a bid to sleep at the foot of the Turd Emperor’s bed tonight, Snivelling Lackey Lindsey Graham had an order of his own for the American people; “accept the pain” of a doddering dolt reaching directly into your pocket to set your money on fire for no reason beyond bullheaded pride as he meddles with economic forces he literally does not fucking understand.
Probably the only South Carolinian who’s happy to hear that particular message from their senior Senator is Jaime Harrison.
Meanwhile, the Shart of the Deal continues to believe he can bluff his way through this shit, apparently fabricating phone calls where the Chinese begged him for a deal. And while I’m sure that impresses the drooling idiot in the MAGA cap and QAnon t-shirt, it means precisely jack shit at the actual negotiating table.
Let me spoil this for you bro: they’re going to wait you out, micro-target swing state economies to make you electorally radioactive, and then sort things out whoever comes next, which should be fine so long as it isn’t that Williamson woman, right?
The weekend brought us the annual Shameapalooza known as the G7 summit, which shines the brightest possible spotlight on the Dopey Dotard with Diminutive Digits’ many, many, defects.
Watching him lumbering alongside actual, competent, world leaders, as they effortlessly outclass him, and oh-so-blatantly manipulate him with disposable flattery, practically shatters my spine with embarrassment shivers. It’s like watching Juilliard auditions, and suddenly some dipshit waddles out on stage and starts making armpit fart sounds.
Oh, and he tried to get his boss, that Putin fella, readmitted to the club, because it gets kinda boring without someone to talk about murdering journalists with.
Because he is a loser who nobody fears or respects, he failed spectacularly, so he’s back to square one on the problem of paying Vlad back for the whole “getting him elected” thing, since Mulvaney keeps insisting he isn’t allowed to cede control of California to Russia.
Irritated at the insufficient opportunities to rub his peers’ noses in his imaginary successes, President Gas Station Urinal Cake even skipped out entirely on the last day’s climate change meeting. Look, he had to sorta almost work for the whole weekend, in rooms that didn’t even have Fux Nooz on, so he was pretty tuckered out, poor lil’ guy.
And now he’s invited the G7 back to his place for Emoluments Clause Violations and Chill, I guess because he wants to make it easier for his wife and daughter to take turns pushing Justin Trudeau into their bedrooms.
Still going for the cheapest available grift; I bet he came back from France with a suitcase full of hotel towels.
Capping off the weekend’s buffet of humiliation, Axios broke the news that on more than one occasion, Circus Peanut Sydney Greenstreet broached the idea of stopping hurricanes by dropping nuclear bombs on them.
Y’know what? Fuck you, shitbag. You’ve gone too far this time. I work my ass off trying to write gags for this little blog o’ mine, and comic overstatement has always been a reliable tool in the box, but you’ve taken that away from me with your seemingly infinite capacity for ridiculousness.
Nuking hurricanes? Buying Greenland? These are the sorts of conversations that tend to happen around the Ninja Turtles arcade machine at Chuck E. Cheese, AMONG TEN YEAR OLD BOYS.
If I were to write “President Trump ordered the Coast Guard to combat global warming by dumping 60 tons of Hostess Sno Balls into the Atlantic Ocean,” people might chuckle, but they’d still google it real quick to make sure it wasn’t real.
Sad news for Steve King, whose re-election campaign has less money than a passably-organized Girl Scout troupe a week after the Thin Mints drop, I guess because I Lost My Committee Assignments for Hanging Out with Austrian Nazis and Also Rape and Incest are Highly Underrated Kinda Like the Deep Purple of Sexual Atrocities doesn’t turn out to be the greatest fundraising pitch. Anyway, fuck Steve King.
Deadbeat Dad/Mega-Racist Shitsack Joe Walsh announced a primary challenge to the Tangelo-Tinted Taint Tumor from whatever right-wing nutcase alternate dimension he inhabits.
I see a lot of folks saying this is a bad thing, because Walsh is also utter trash (and he is), but when you’re cleaning out the Augean Stables, anyone who feels like grabbing a shovel is welcome.
Like, if I went to the doctor tomorrow, and they found a tumor in my lower intestine, and that tumor wanted to primary Donald Trump, I’d ask “would you shut down the concentration camps?” before “benign or malignant?”
And Withered Hate Raisin Joe Arpaio, on the anniversary of receiving his historically undeserved pardon from Hairplug Himmler, announced a bid to seek his old job as Maricopa Country Sheriff, because he misses violating human rights, I guess.
If we don’t get to see him rotting in prison, I suppose another humiliating election defeat, dragging Trump and McSally down in Arizona along with him, is the next best thing.
In the tradition of ending the blog on a high note, here’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg, looking like she could still juggle steam shovels after her latest cancer scare. If we can all manage to be 1/8th as tough as the Notorious RBG, we’ll take this country back in no time.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-health/index.html
That’s just about all I can take for tonight, Resisters. I’m piñata full of madness, and I will now wander my neighborhood in search of children with sticks. Be well.
*Not the Steranko Nick Fury stuff, of course.
PBS reporter calls Trump a liar to his face
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212411521
“Why do you [keep repeating] the misleading statement that Russia outsmarted President Obama when other countries have said that the reason why Russia was kicked out was very clearly because they annexed Crimea. Why keep repeating what some people would see as a clear lie?”
Because like most fact challenged dummies changing the subject from 'he doesn't own anything' to climate change denial snark is the default logical fallacy move.
https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/obamas-marthas-vineyard-estate-15-million-2865341/
Barack and Michelle Obama Are About to Buy This Sprawling $15 Million Martha’s Vineyard Estate
The former first family has been renting the compound, which is owned by Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, all summer long.
By Bryan Hood on August 23, 2019
Looks to me like sufficient distance, foliage and topical rise from shore to door to buy time for the roughly 3-4 additional decades the Obamas' lives may play out.
And if we luck out and never elect a science illiterate GOP president again, one who suppresses scientific documents and skips meetings, in the interim we might just turn the tide, so to speak.
And then their kids can inherit some price appreciated property that remains above sea level.
The two-wing house’s stark white interior features seven bedrooms, including a master suite with a fireplace and its own sundeck, eight and a half baths, a modern chef’s kitchen, multiple “spacious and dramatic” sitting and entertainment spaces, along with an elegant circular dining room that overlooks the grounds. Outside there’s a garden, an outdoor fireplace, a pool, and a jacuzzi on the second-floor balcony.
According to previous reports, Grousbeck has been trying to sell the estate, located near the island’s South Beach district, for four years. When the businessman first put the home on the market in August 2015, it was listed with a sky-high asking price of $22.5 million.
Assuming the sale goes through, this won’t be the first big real estate investment the Obamas have made since Barack left office in January 2017. The couple, who already owned a home in Chicago, purchased a striking, 8,200-square foot home in Washington, D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood for $8.1 million in May of 2017.
Trump Blasts Media for Reporting Things He Says
By Andy Borowitz
August 11, 2016
Note the date. Even Borowitz probably had no real idea how well the joke would hold up to the reality that has unfolded.
Photograph by Joe Raedle / Getty
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, tore into the media on Thursday for what he called its “extremely unfair practice” of reporting the things he says.
“I’ll say something at a rally and I look out and see all these TV cameras taking every word down,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “No one in politics has ever been subjected to this kind of treatment.”
“It’s unbelievable and, frankly, very unethical,” he added.
At a rally in Florida, the candidate lashed out at a TV cameraman whom he caught in the act of recording his words for broadcasting purposes.
“Look at him over there, picking up everything I’m saying, folks,” Trump shouted. “Get him out of here.”
In his interview with Fox, Trump hinted that he might drop out of this fall’s televised Presidential debates if the media continues its practice of reporting the things he says.
“I’ve always said that I would be willing to debate if I’m treated fairly,” Trump told Hannity. “But if the media keeps recording everything I say, word for word, and then playing it back so that everyone in the country hears exactly what I said, I would consider that very, very unfair.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blasts-media-for-reporting-things-he-says?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Borowitz_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_082619&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d70d24c17c6adf3edd69&cndid=24399211&esrc=NYR_BOROWITZ_BLOG&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz
Obama owns expensive homes both in Chicago and in D.C.
He also owns Trump in the presidential rankings.
The G7 Is Just Another Stage for a Presidential Sh*tshow
Donald Trump skipped a climate session and his spokesperson appeared to lie about it. But no worries, he's reportedly got a plan: nuke the hurricanes.
Heads Of Government Attend G7 Summit
Jeff Mitchell / Getty Images
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28815033/president-trump-g7-climate-amazon-nuke-hurricanes/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=082619&src=nl&utm_campaign=17878872
By Jack Holmes
Aug 26, 2019
At a time when the issues facing our planet and our species require a daunting level of global cooperation, the United States has a leader who is almost entirely hostile to that cooperation.
Donald Trump, American president, graced the G7 this weekend following a week of surely unprecedented presidential insanity. But it wasn't the week prior that prompted France and the other nations who showed up in Biarritz to abandon any hope of crafting a joint statement before the summit even began.
According to the Washington Post, this weekend has been further evidence that "other world leaders are growing more comfortable separating themselves from the United States on policy issues."
The president, of course, says there is Tremendous Unity. "I think we have a lot of things," he said in response to a question on where the G7 nations share the most common ground. "I think really the unity, the fact that we're all getting along so well is one of the big takes from this. We really have good relationships. And we're doing a lot about a lot." There's unity with regard to the unity, you see. Unfortunately, this unity did not extend to a global crisis that threatens human civilization as we know it.
The "Special Relationship" is in good hands, though the stairs could be a problem.
What do you say governor, think we can make it down without ending up in an Anglo-Saxon heap at the foot of the stairs?
I don't know Boris, think I'll wait for the Melania or the SS.
The G7 held a climate session this Monday morning amid an escalating fiasco in the Amazon rainforest, and the American president simply did not show up. He's got bigger fish to fry, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told reporters: "The President had scheduled meetings and bilaterals with Germany and India, so a senior member of the Administration attended in his stead.”
Except, as CNN's Daniel Dale reports, the leaders of both those countries—Angela Merkel and Narendra Modi, respectively—attended the climate session. So did every other national leader at the conference. Trump's scheduled sit-downs with Merkel and Modi were either side of the climate session. There was no timing conflict, at least on paper. This appears to be, and this is shocking, a lie.
Never fear, however. The president didn't skip the climate talks because he doesn't give a shit, or because even the most sweeping global concerns must be translated into petty personal affairs to earn his attention. (Please ignore that he passive-aggressively re-ignited his feud with the prime minister of, checks notes, Canada, or that he is already planning out how to make some cash off next year's G7 by holding it at his golf club in Miami.) He didn't need to go to the session because he's already got this climate thing figured out.
Even if you disregard this abominable sentence construction—"we are right now having"—and the fact that "clean air and clean water" are separate fucking issues from the greenhouse effect that is destabilizing our planet, there's also the problem that even this claim is a lie.
The United States does not have cleaner air or water than any other country, and they're not cleaner than ever—another common Trump claim when asked about climate change (which, again, is a separate issue).
Air and water quality have worsened since 2016, a decline which you may have deduced coincides with Donald Trump entering office. In 2017, his first year, the number of "unhealthy days for ozone and fine particle pollution" in 35 major cities spiked 20 percent year-over-year.
In fairness to the president, however, it's not at all clear that anyone in a position of major power or influence is taking the climate crisis seriously enough. Take the Amazon, for instance. The sprawling rainforest produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen and functions as a giant carbon sink to soak up the CO2 that we're pumping into the atmosphere, and which is imperiling the future of our species.
According to The Intercept, "Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret." Sounds bad!
G7 Summit in France
Everything’s going great.
So, what was the response from the other G7 leaders—a group of actual human adults who are theoretically capable of devoting attention to issues that don't directly and immediately affect them, and also Boris Johnson? They agreed to fork over $20 million.
That seems like a lot of money until you remember the world has pledged via donations $1.2 billion to rebuild the Notre Dame, a very nice cathedral which soaks up zero carbon dioxide.
It probably cost more than $20 million to hold this event and get all the delegations there. Granted, it's hard to get a bunch of countries to agree on anything, but you'd think "breathing" is something we can all see is important.
(Things aren't much better domestically, either: the Democratic National Committee voted down a proposal this weekend to hold a presidential debate on climate change. Because who needs to hear from the candidates, in greater depth, about this existential crisis for humanity? It's a side issue! Niche!)
Maybe we're all worried for no reason, however. President Good Brain is on it, at least when it comes to one product of the climate crisis: the savagely powerful storms that will slam into our coastlines thanks to warmer water that produces stronger winds and more extreme precipitation events.
Donald Trump, American president, has a plan—at least according to Axios, which reports on a behind-closed-doors proposal so manifestly insane that it's hard to believe, even for the guy who proclaimed last week that, as a nation, "We have great mental illness."
President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.
Behind the scenes: During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?" according to one source who was there. "They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" the source added, paraphrasing the president's remarks.
This really does seem impossibly dumb, and the president has called it Fake News—not that that means anything. But then we see that a senior White House official defended the idea to Axios!
A different senior administration official, who has been briefed on the president's hurricane bombing suggestion, defended Trump's idea and said it was no cause for alarm. "His goal — to keep a catastrophic hurricane from hitting the mainland — is not bad," the official said. "His objective is not bad."
"What people near the president do is they say 'I love a president who asks questions like that, who’s willing to ask tough questions.' ... It takes strong people to respond to him in the right way when stuff like this comes up. For me, alarm bells weren't going off when I heard about it, but I did think somebody is going to use this to feed into 'the president is crazy' narrative."
This poor sap missed the memo. Your boss is going to yell Fake News, buddy, there's no need to defend the thing he'll say didn't happen. Meanwhile, another official served up a non-denial-denial.
A senior administration official said, "We don't comment on private discussions that the president may or may not have had with his national security team."
Axios offers that this idea has been percolating since the Eisenhower era, though it has not garnered Presidential Consideration since the '50s, at least that we know of.
Luckily, even if nuking the hurricanes is on the table, we can trust our president as a man of restraint. On Monday, he declared—and not for the first time—that he would not (not!) perpetrate a genocide in Afghanistan that would result in 10 million deaths. Apparently that was under consideration, too.
IS there a MeTV at 87.7 FM, or anywhere else on the dial?
About a year ago I stumbled on to 87.7 MeTV FM on my car radio.
Mostly 70's and 80's music, with a few 60's & 50's dropped in. Continual and commercial-free until they promo the station at the half hour.
Now here's the fun. The name of the artist and song appear on your info screen and sometimes the year of release appears immediately, sometimes not until toward the end of the song.
They've never stated such but I believe they are trying to get the driver and passengers involved in a guessing game about the year of release.
If you're like me, and the song resonates because of what it evokes about events in your life at the time of the song, you will nail it to the year, maybe a year either side of it.
Sometimes it's tricky for songs at the very end or very beginning of a decade because the transition to sounds that define the music of the decade have not yet emerged. Late 50's early 60's, for example.
It's Chicago based and I don't know if or how widely it is syndicated.
Think of what nice respite, or not, a song like this is. It's one that had me drive about 3-4 miles without remembering how I got there. :)
Saw it live this morning and again later. It didn't improve with a second viewing.
If there were still circuses Nuch and Kud could trail the elephants in the parade and shovel their shit.
I love it. We've got The Nuch and Kudlow effectively serving as 'Trump whisperers'; diviners of what he meant by what he said, what we HEARD him say. Can't believe our lyin' ears, I guess.
I wonder if they've removed the mirrors in their homes because they can no longer bear to look at themselves?
The great crackup: Trump is coming even more undone
By Rick Wilson
Put a fork in it. He's done.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212408422
Thanks for that graphic. I dropped it on a Trumpanzee on another board in response to a typically inane post.
Brilliant. Your ability to cope with reality is deteriorating as rapidly as Trump's emotional state. I like the symmetry.
No one who objectively looks at the words and behavior of this jackass does not see the truth in the depiction below.
In fact it takes a herculean effort, mental somersaults that rival the real ones performed by Simone Biles, to lay aside whatever moral or common sense you have of what is right, wrong, appropriate, intelligent, effective or just plain decent.
The dumb prick brings exactly NONE of those sensibilities or character traits to the table.
Adolf Hitler Endorses Labeling AntiFa A ‘Terrorist Organization’
by James Schlarmann
HELL, HELL — Former German President, and, still pretty much the worst human being to ever exist, Adolf Hitler, held a press conference today from Hell. During the presser, Mr. Hitler gave some general updates on the state of his still-virulent anti-Semitism.
“Just to be clear, damen und sanfte dämonen, my pure and unadulterated hatred for them will never, ever die. No matter how many times Satan puts his hot poker in my puckered, fascist farfegnugen,” Hitler told the reporters.
Saying the word “fascism,” put it in the former dictator’s mind to bring up something he’d heard about on Hell’s current events TV channel, from its host Sean Hannity. Part of Mr. Hannity’s soul contract with Satan is that he has to do the broadcasts, even before he’s died. Reportedly, Mr. Hannity has said the “fame, money, and access to suck Trump’s dick both on the air and off,” were enough for him to accept the contract’s terms gleefully.
“Oh, das reminds me,” Hitler said, “I read that my tubby, orange facsimile is considering labeling the group known as AntiFa as a terrorist organization. I cannot express my full and complete endorsement strongly enough, meine lugenpresse of evil! To fascists, there is nothing worse than a group of people who anti-fascist, you see. It’s…really not that fucking hard a concept I’m trying to explain here, is it?”
Hitler continued to explain why he, a fascist, is in favor of the American president labeling an anti-fascist organization a terror group.
“I mean…hello? I was probably the world’s most famous fascist and was defeated by an American president, so of course it would taste extra sweet for an American president to be pro-fascism,” Hitler said, giddiness in his tone.
“What a spectacular reversal of fortune that would be for an American president to be pro-fascism! I think I might be coming around on that slobby pig poser. Oh, don’t get me wrong. He still doesn’t have die hoden to really dig in on the whole camp thing, but it would sure bring a smile to my face if he did it, and I’d have to give him credit where credit’s due.”
Mr. Hitler ended the press conference, but not before making a personal plea to the president to follow-through on his threat.
“I just want to say something to him, directly, if I might, because I know Fox News carries these updates for me on that Jesse Watters’ kid’s program,” Hitler began. “Please, sir, I cannot tell you what a warm, fuzzy feeling I’d feel in the lump of literal shit that is where my human heart might otherwise be for you to label AntiFa a terror group. If I may, sir, it’s only logical. I know I’ve always been very personally terrified of them, and the word ‘terrorism’ sounds a lot like terrified to me.”
Hitler did mention that there was one thing about the American president he’d like to change.
“You know, I’d say he’s pretty close to getting my endorsement for 2020, but he’s gotta ditch Bibi Netanyahu, because, I mean, hi…
Reportedly, the president found himself “quite honored” by Hitler’s ringing, resounding endorsement.
“Hey, you know, say what you will about the guy,” the president was overheard while urinating in the urinal he had installed and painted to look like Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office, “but he was a brilliant military guy, okay? Also a pretty great strategist. And, I might add, quite good at negotiating for land, so, you know, if I may…look out Denmark! I kid, I kid! Probably. Maybe. Maybe probably not…who cares? Tax cuts! Crooked! America! Greenland! Ivanka’s twat!”
https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/dolf-endorses/
Don't Lose Sight of President Good Brain's Insane F*cking Week
David Koch is dead and the Amazon's on fire, but the President of the United States had back-to-back episodes again.
By Jack Holmes
Aug 23, 2019
Friday will be a banner day for Very Civil People, who will insist you say nice things about the billionaire guy who funded denial of the climate crisis for decades in order to stuff even more cash in his pockets, then died while both the Amazon and the Arctic were on fire.
Meanwhile, the same Greenland you've heard so much about this week lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day earlier this month. How many human beings bear more responsibility than the Kochs for imperiling the planet as a habitat for human civilization as we know it? Have a nice trip south, David.
Many of those same Very Civil People will express concern today about the Amazon—and with good reason, according to The Intercept: "Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret." Considering the Amazon produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen, and functions as a giant carbon sink, that sounds pretty bad!
Brazil and its authoritarian leader, who has an explicit program of exploiting the Amazon, deserve our attention. Jair Bolsonaro can fuck right off as well. But don't lose sight of what the authoritarian leader we call our very own was up to this week. It might be a banner day for people who think it's rude to tell the truth about the dead assholes who will miss the worst consequences of what they wrought on the world. But it's been a banner week for Donald Trump, American president, and his brain.
The President* Has Gone as Soft as Church Music
Just this morning, the president delivered a proclamation stating that, "Our great American companies are hereby ordered" to stop dealing with China (!). He also declared the chairman of the Federal Reserve, whom he himself appointed, was an enemy of the state.
But remember when the president endorsed the idea he is King of Israel and the Second Coming of God? And then he said Jewish people who vote for Democrats—that is, the 70-to-80 percent of American Jews who don't support him—are guilty of "disloyalty" to Israel?
And then he accused Rashida Tlaib of anti-Semitism? And then he started screaming, "WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?" And then he canceled a diplomatic trip to Denmark because the prime minister was rude in saying she wouldn't sell him Greenland?
And then he demanded Russia be reinstated in the G8, and said they were only thrown out because they "outsmarted" Obama, when in fact it was because they'd invaded Ukraine? And then he declared he was The Chosen One, looking to the heavens as he said it, who'd been tapped by the almighty to launch a trade war against China?
And then he joked, again, about serving more than the constitutionally mandated two terms in office? And then he threatened to release detained ISIS fighters into Europe? And then he talked about how much the El Paso and Dayton shooting victims loved him? And then he responded to a question on gun control by saying, among other things, that, "We have great mental illness?" And then he trollishly suggested he'd revoke birthright citizenship—a constitutional mandate—via executive order?
It's here where you might insert the snipe about how Republicans shit their pants about Obama's executive orders, but what's even the point anymore?
No one, except a few highly credulous media types, even entertains the pretense that the Republican Party is a group of principled actors who value small government or limits to executive power or fiscal responsibility anymore.
It's about power, and Trump has it, so they're all in line behind him. Senator Tom Cotton, who's sniffing around the authoritarian throne for when Trump someday abdicates, actually tried to claim credit for the national embarrassment that was The Greenland Episode. Shame is dead.
It's all that much more alarming because, beyond the narcissistic spasms above, our fearless leader seems to be having trouble pronouncing even basic words.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28797134/president-trump-greenland-chosen-one-insane-week/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=082319&utm_campaign=%7B%E2%80%98nl%E2%80%99%2B%28blast.id%29%7D&src=nl
The brain is doing fuckin' swell. But no need to worry. While the world's most powerful man is thrashing about on the White House lawn, the same parasites who thrived in conservative politics during David Koch's Obama-era glory days are slithering through the Executive Branch.
They're pursuing the same scorched-earth campaign of deregulation they always have—regardless of what scientists or other experts in the field have to say, and regardless of the consequences for human health—while a deranged Fox News Grandpa rants and raves through yet another ChopperTalk. And few of these people will have to deal with the worst consequences of it all. They'll be dead, like David.
Kids say the darndest things.
There's that and her hidden desire, her hope, that someone in the shop tries to grab her ass.
Lindsey Graham volunteers to remain behind in Afghanistan and fight Taliban if troops withdraw
By Whiskey Fueled Tirade
REENVILLE, S.C. –Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.] released a video statement on YouTube today in which he assured voters he would stay in Afghanistan and fight the Taliban after the last U.S. forces withdraw from the country.
In the video, Graham is seen wearing a “Grunt Style” t-shirt and sitting in a pickup truck, ranting for several hours about everything from long waiting room times at the VA to why Captain Marvel would have never made it through Ranger school unless they lowered the standards.
At one point, Graham says, “If the president orders the troops out of Afghanistan, I will deploy and fight the Taliban until they’re all dead or they surrender unconditionally.”
“This isn’t a nation of quitters,” Graham yelled hoarsely into the camera. “We’ve only been there for a couple decades. I lived dedication and commitment as a battle-tested leader during the weeks I spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. And let me tell you this, the men and women of the great state of South Carolina, from the F-16 factory in Greenville to the MRE plant in Mullins, are prepared to support the troops in Afghanistan for as long as necessary.”
In addition to serving as a senator, Graham is retired colonel and Bronze Star recipient. He left the Air Force Reserve after more than 30 years. Graham’s statement refers to the nearly five months he spent deployed as a Judge Advocate General, widely regarded as the service’s “Delta Force.”
Graham’s video announcement follows his warning to President Trump last week that completely withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan could lead to the country becoming a safe-haven for terrorist groups “as bad as Pakistan, Syria, or parts of the United States.”
While defense industry proponents agree that leaving a small contingent of several hundred thousand troops could prevent another 9/11-style attack on American soil, critics like Democratic presidential hopeful and fellow combat veteran Pete Buttigieg argue that the 18 years spent in Afghanistan have yielded little security gains and that troops should be withdrawn immediately.
“During my time in Afghanistan, I didn’t know if I would ever make it home,” Buttigieg told reporters. “All the Air Force transport aircraft kept ‘breaking down’ in Rota [Spain] and I had to wait for days at a Green Bean near the passenger terminal drinking lattes made with shelf-stable milk. It was horrible.”
“But my seven months there as a Naval Reserve intelligence officer gave me the foreign policy experience to say confidently that we need to withdraw troops completely and immediately, no matter the second and third-order effects I haven’t considered.”
Sources close to Graham say he has already made preparations to deploy, such as purchasing a 2007 Toyota Hilux, stocking up on logs of Copenhagen and Rip It energy drinks, and downloading several terabytes of porn to an external hard drive.
Graham’s video ends with him shooting in three-gun competitions, flipping tractor tires on a farm, and firing an M240L from the hip while wearing American flag silkies.
Duffel Blog reporters Paul Sharpe, Lieutenant Dan, and Justin Coates contributed to this article.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/08/lindsey-graham-volunteers-to-remain-behind-in-afghanistan-and-fight-taliban-if-troops-withdraw/
Wait'll he sees The Huck and The Mooch parodied on SNL this season.
Fruit fly life span for the latter and way past the sell by date for the former.
The gifts that will keep on giving.
Oh, He’s Developing a Messiah Complex & Questioning Jews’ Loyalty? I’m Sure This Ends Well.
And, as foretold, here it is.....
Posted this on my FF site. Maybe a bit arcane for all but FF ballers and Cold Play fans. But you'll get it.
When I Ruled ....
I won the league last years, so 'when'....
by MONSTERS - Aug 22, 2019 09:38 pm ET
Capon, you still haven't learned that 'probably' just doesn't cut it on this board.
We all have the same Internet, but not all of us have the credulousness that leaves us prey to the most easily disprovable bullshit opined/pulled out of the asses and posted by Trumpanzees here. Stop it.
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A man punched her and tried to steal her cellphone — then quickly realized he was messing with a Golden Gloves boxer.
By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas
Chicago Tribune |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-golden-glove-boxer-fights-off-attacker-20190822-ocmcc7e7ofhbxelpcbcjci5ywq-story.html
Aug 22, 2019 | 5:12 PM
Chicago boxer Claire Quinn was on the way to the gym last weekend, planning on sparring in the ring, when she ended up in a street fight in Bucktown.
A teenager asked Quinn for directions to the Nike store as she walked in the 1600 block of North Damen Avenue about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Moments later, an older man came up from behind and sucker punched her in the head, demanding her cellphone.
But the blow didn’t stop Quinn, a Golden Gloves champion with a 6-0 record this year.
“I was like, ‘Aw, heck no,’ ” she said by phone Thursday from Florida, where she went to stay with her parents while recuperating from a concussion from the attack. “He punched me the one time really hard, and then after that I just kept throwing my right hand into his groin.”
Good. For. Her.
Her right is her dominant arm — the one responsible for four knockouts this year. It didn’t fail her. The two exchanged five or six punches apiece while the man tried to grab the phone she kept clutched in her left hand. He finally gave up and ran off empty-handed.
“Eventually I connected enough that he stumbled away from me,” Quinn said from a salon where she was having her nails — fingers and toes — painted a bright yellow shade called “Never a Dulles Moment,” which she said, “seemed to be the perfect shade under the circumstances.”
Police confirmed the attack, which was first reported by Block Club Chicago. The man and the teenager were later seen fleeing in a green sedan, according to Chicago police spokeswoman Kellie Bartoli, who said no arrests have been made.
Quinn, 26, doesn’t think she was an obvious target. She wasn’t carrying a purse, wasn’t wearing headphones and wasn’t dressed up. “I don’t wear my nice workout clothes on sparring days because I don’t want to get blood on Lululemons,” she joked.
But the muggers probably thought she would be easy to rob because she seemed “Midwestern nice” and answered the teen’s question about getting to the Nike store about a block away, Quinn said.
“One of the reasons I love Chicago is, if you are lost, someone will help you," she said. "I’m not a mean person but after this — literally, all I said to them is, ‘It’s a block away,’ and with that simple statement they decided I was their target. That’s something I’m going to remember.
"I hate it, but I feel like from now on I’m not going to respond, I’m just going to keep walking,” she said.
Quinn, who fights in the 152-pound weight class, said it never crossed her mind to hand over her iPhone. Her first thought was, “You’ve got to be kidding me. A man literally thought he could assault me and get away with it. I was angry and wanted to make him regret picking/targeting me. A motto I live by: ‘Do no harm but take no s---."
A pregnant woman ran to her aid and, along with others, helped her to a nearby cafe where she waited for police and paramedics. She declined an ambulance ride to a hospital for evaluation, but awoke Monday with a headache and blurred vision and went to see a doctor, who told her she had a concussion — something she’s never had from boxing.
She hopes to be back in the ring as soon as October, with a goal of competing nationally in 2020.
“The sooner I can get back into the gym, the more life will feel normal," she said. “It’s like my second home. ... There’s always something to work on. Boxing’s very technical. Punching a guy in the groin wasn’t very technical, but it did the job.”
The native Floridian, who has lived in the city since attending and graduating from Columbia College Chicago, said she took up boxing in 2015 after gaining weight following knee surgery. Her father is into combat sports and suggested she try boxing.
She became so good so quickly she now works at the gym where she trains, Unanimous Boxing Gym in Logan Square, coaching women. She has been undefeated this year under a trio of coaches, including Trinidad Garcia, the gym’s owner. She was supposed to have a match Friday night, but had to cancel because of her injury, he said.
“It takes a special kind of person to be able to do what she did," Garcia said. "I know many fighters, mostly men, that wouldn’t have been able to do close to what she did. She went all out and I’m very, very proud of her.”
While police credited Quinn with fighting off her attackers, they cautioned against fighting back. “We always advise safety over property,” Bartoli said.
Garcia, who has a 9-year-old daughter, agreed and spoke with his child after she said she’d fight back like Quinn did.
“I said, ‘No, you would run first.’ And if Claire didn’t get thrown to the ground with the guy immediately lunging at her, I would say she should’ve run first, too," Garcia said. “You run and you live to run another day.
But that’s not what happened, she was stuck there on the ground and I think it was her natural reaction to go full force. I’m glad she did and thank God she had the tools she needed to succeed — she’s so physically strong.”
Even before the attack, Quinn was planning to help launch a free 12-week program called the FightHer Project, which should be offered next year at the gym’s second location and will be aimed at 13- to 17-year-old girls interested in boxing, with the overall goal of empowering women.
Even with her training, Quinn said the attack was traumatic and she keeps replaying it in her mind, most often as she tries to fall asleep. But it doesn’t change how she feels about her adopted home.
“Chicago is stuck with me," she said.