January, 2018 archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
For the Trumplers, it’s all about the color of the skin, not about the content of the character.
One dark-skinned Arizonian who was asked if he was in the country “illegally” was Rep. Eric Descheenie (D-Chinle).
Rep. Descheenie is a Navajo lawmaker.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And another gun fires itself . . . .
Reports indicate the victim stated he was holding* a handgun when it suddenly discharged. This resulted in the ring finger on his left hand almost completely detaching.
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One suspects that “fondling” would be a more precise term.
Consumer Predation Agency 0
The Trumpling continues.
Watchdog groups are up in arms because, under Mulvaney, the CFPB has put on hold a rule that would restrict payday lenders and their high-interest-rate loans. The agency has also dropped a lawsuit against online lenders charging 900 percent interest rates. Critics say these moves are payback for campaign contributions to Mulvaney when he was a congressman representing South Carolina.
Much more at the link.
Path to Pariah 0
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No Immunity 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that it can happen here (an almost has). Here’s a bit:
Well, if Trump’s rise proves nothing else, it proves that it could happen here. It even shows how. Meaning that, more than any other single event, his presidency has forced us to see our vulnerability to new media manipulation and disinformation. Tweet by agonizing tweet, he has embodied the frightening possibilities of this new idea that truth can be whatever you need it to be.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Anyone can stumble over politeness.
Armed and Ingenous 0
Washington State is currently considering a bill to regulate bump stocks, such as the one used in the Law Vegas shooting. The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat is not sanguine about its chances of passage.
It was a 20-minute tour of the absurd rhetorical lengths to which the gun-rights crowd will go to try shooting down even the most modest attempts at slowing the country’s mass-shooting carnage.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is child’s play.
The rifle was loaded and unloaded multiple times, but at one point the gun fired when the boys thought it was unloaded.
“Unfortunately, there was still one round in the chamber and the rifle discharged,” Dreckman said.
The 8-year-old boy was hit in the face below the left nostril.
. . . and another gun that fired itself.
The Stink 0
I have wondered before in these electrons which is most corrupt, the IOC, FIFA, or the NCAA.
My question has been answered.
The Genius Has Left the Stable 0
In the Bangor Daily News, Robert Klose makes the case that Donald Trump is a genius, in one particular way. Here’s a bit of the piece (emphasis added):
Refer again to my comment about a genius being someone who possesses exceptional abilities or insights in a specific field. In Trump’s case, it is his genius for reading people. An inveterate New Yorker, he knew better than to lay his toxic bait in the cities, where urbanites had long ago pegged him as a charlatan. Rather, he went on safari and found appetites for his vulgar hogwash in the rural American underbelly.
