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Monday, March 27, 2017

Nero Takes to the Twitter Again

This is what I picture the White House looks like right now...











What on earth was on Fox News tonight?
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The Daily Combover - March 27, 2017


With the word allegation no longer necessary when paired with words like corruption, scandal, disfunction, Putinphile, golden showers, etc. Trump's approval continues to fall.  Today it hit a Trump-record low of 36%.  We are nearing President George W. Bush 25% territory. Recall that the last Midterm election (2006) held in which the sitting President (Bush) was under 40%, despite the long odds against them, the Democrats swept to power.

Trump's response to all that losing? Tap convicted felon Charles Kushner's son, Jared, to run the government "like a company." Aside from the obvious -- that the country is about to be run by an unelected 35-year old dillettante married to Trump's daughter, the entire country now hinges upon Kushner's ability to lead. Let's review Jared's corporate experience:



1. In 2006, at the age of 25, Jared took some $10 million of his father's dirty money and purchased the New York Observer, a thriving cultural icon in New York.

2. He attempted to turn it into a national media platform by pushing out the editorial staff and then eventually dropping "New York" from the title, leaving it as the Observer.

3. After a decade of mismanagement and financial losses, the Observer ceased to print and switched to a fully digital format.

4. That's about it.

Kushner, like his corrupt felon of a father, has made several property deals over the last decade. Including a recent deal with Chinese investors for $400 million (far greater than market value) following Trump ceasing his critique of Chinese currency manipulation.

So there you have it, son-of-a-felon-convicted-for-bribery-money-laundering-and-corruption, Jared Kushner is bringing his family's lessons in crime to the White House to do a job that the Chicago Tribune describes as a "new job he likely doesn't understand."

Impeachment can't come soon enough.

Catch you on the flip side.
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Trump's Plan B




It appears that if Trump can't destroy this country through legislation, he's going to try to do it through nepotis executive order.

Trump is apparently convinced there’s only one reason why the Republican health insurance debacle debac’d. It’s not because there was a group of Republicans who are so entrenched in saying “no” that they forgot there was another response. It’s not because the entire Republican Party has been put in place with the purpose of making government fail (and they’re darn good at it) not writing legislation that can pass.
No, sweet Republican harmony failed to settle over DC because the Great Dealmaker’s dealmaker chose to spend last week carving slopes in Colorado. Now that Kushner has come in from the cold, Trump will get him to rearrange all the deck chairs in his regime without having to talk to Congress at all.

This should scare the heebie-jeebies out of me, but it doesn't as much as it would've two months ago. This feels like a Hail Mary pass, and not only do those not succeed often when you have a good quarterback, in this case the quarterback has a noodle arm, has his cleats untied, is wearing his helmet backwards, and as a bonus, has a terrible history with football.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Earworm of the Afternoon -- Between the Lines



I like it when we talk about love
I like it when you talk about love
You always were my favorite drug
Even when we used to take drugs
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BA-DA-BA-BA-BA...

... I'm lovin' it!



This war between Trump and, well, everyone, is escalating quickly:


So, since Friday afternoon, Trump has blamed the Democrats, Paul Ryan (and, by extension, Republican Congressional leadership), the Club for Growth, and the Heritage Foundation. He's not leaving himself with very many allies.

We're getting close to an isolated Trump at Mar-a-Lago storing his own piss in jars, not because of germophobia, like Howard Hughes, but to remind himself of his glory days in Moscow.


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Saturday, March 25, 2017

Proxy War!!!


 
I don't expect to see these guys next to each other again anytime soon...


I asked this on Twitter earlier today:



For the record, I was going to take the "over" on three days. However:


And what did future Supreme Court nominee "Judge" Jeanine Pirro have to say at 9 PM?


Essentially, "GTFO, Paul Ryan."

I guess I should've taken the "under."
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Earworm of the Afternoon -- Waterloo


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"We’re Going to Be Living with Obamacare for the Foreseeable Future"



I'm really surprised to be able to use that title today (thank you, not-long-for-being-Speaker Ryan). It all felt like a whirlwind, and it was an incredible group effort. The people of America are somehow saving America:

“It was the town halls, and the stories, that convinced me that people might actually stop this bill,” said Tom Perriello, a former Democratic congressman now running an insurgent campaign for governor of Virginia, with his career-ending vote for the ACA front and center.
The outsider approach to lobbying grew from there, in ways that quickly came to worry Republicans. Indivisible-affiliated groups advertised congressional town halls and flooded them. Like the Jan. 14 rallies, the town hall tactic mirrored what the tea party movement did in 2009. Like the Democrats of that year, many Republicans responded glibly, blaming out-of-state (or district) rabble-rousers and searching for the invisible hand of George Soros.

The fact that so many people participated in this process makes it feel extra good.

About ten days ago, I wrote the following:

Back to Obamacare, the Republicans really shot themselves in the foot by not having a repeal bill ready to go in January, they gave enough time for the public to become aware of the Republicans' true intentions and to focus on what's actually in the bill now, and also for Congressional Republicans to fear for their electoral lives as a consequence of a repeal.
I'm not ready to gloat; in fact, no matter what happens, I don't see myself gloating much until November 2018, at best. But it is very fair to say that Jim DeMint wasn't that far off -- Obamacare might prove to be someone's Waterloo, but it won't be Obama's.:

OK, I'm ready to gloat just a little.

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Friday, March 24, 2017

The Daily Combover - March 24, 2017

Trump wants you to know how disappointed he is in you. It's your fault dear readers. You should have pushed the Democrats to vote for the AHCA. It was obviously an improvement over the ACA and was far too liberal for the GOP. It was only kicking 14 to 52 million people off of their health insurance. That isn't even close to eliminating healthcare. But those Democrats will be on their knees crawling back to Dear Leader soon enough, begging, "Please Mr. Trump, save us from the ACA."



I, for one, am surprised the GOP collapsed so quickly. We knew they would have challenges governing, but they had innumerable dress rehearsals of repealing the ACA.

Trump, on the other hand, doesn't seem to care. He's too busy congratulating Charter for only announcing to cut 4,800 of TWC's 24,800 jobs during the merger:

Could the news get any better for Trump?

Woo hoo!!! $8 billion for 35 jobs!

Wait a second... Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just write each of those 35 people a check for $1.4 million (their expected lifetime earnings)?

Oh right, but then the Trump family would have never gotten that Russian steel payoff.

The weekend can't come soon enough for the Fontange Fuhrer.

Catch you on the flipside.
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NANCY SMASH (and JUMP)!

We can feel legitimately good today. I'm going to try to leave this in lieu of posting for the next few hours...


It's on loop, both on this site and in my head!
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