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Silencer 0

Title:  How To Get Donald Trump To Shut Up.  Image:  Tape recorder labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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All the President’s Minions 0

Title:  The Search for the New York Times Op-Ed Author Continues.  Image: Three men, Donalt Trump, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a table.  Three men a labeled variously

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The Big Blow(hard) 0

Donald Trump says,

What scares me most is that I am certain that Donald Trump believes what he says at the moment he says it, even if he said the exact opposite two minutes earlier (which he also believed the moment he said it). The man is unmoored from fact or truth.

In related news, Florence has already overflowed–all over my in box: Every pol who has my name on a mailing list is sending me advice on how to prepare for Florence to show how much he or she cares about my money.

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Thar He Blows It! 0

Donald Trump, his nose extended like Pinocchio's and bearing a roll of paper towels like the ones he threw in Puerto Rico, says,

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In related news, Jay Bookman opines that Donald Trump is a Cat 5 narcissist.

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Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture; it’s Republican pollcy:

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“Man Trump” 0

Image of computer monitor displaying a Linux man(ual) page reading as follows:Trump.  New Command 2017.  Name:  Trump--replacement for systemd.  Description:  On an en-US locale:  tries to harden firewall rules to prevent non-ASCI data entering the machine for .ir, .ly, .so, .sy, .ye domains.  Creats a firewall to block entry from .mx domains (note:  those are all internet country codes--look them up).  Changes database collations such that queries always return

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Aside:

Man(ual) pages are extensive help files present on all *nix operating systems. To see one for [some command], enter “man [some command]” on the command line and the man page will display.

Some of them are much better written than others. Like encyclopedias, they are lousy for learning, but useful for reference.

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Trumpling the Testimony 0

Witness in court with hand on Bible to Bailiff:  Whoa, whoa, whoa.   the whole WHAT? . . . and nothing but the WHAT!? . . . Sounds like a perjury trap too me.

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Fear Itself 0

From the web page:

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump calling for an investigation into the New York Times’ anonymous op-ed and slamming Bob Woodward’s book about the chaos in the White House.

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UnPresidented 0

Edwin Yoder, Jr., comments on Donald Trump’s manner of governance. A snippet:

The White House gossip may not be reliable and may or may not signal mental pathology. But the common denominator is a monstrous egotism and chronic bad manners. It seems not to occur to Trump that McMaster, one of several discarded National Security advisers, as a lifelong public servant may not be able to afford thousand-dollar suits, or that Deep South drawls don’t necessarily signal dimwittedness.

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Wind Bags vs. Wind 0

Shorter Will Bunch: Outlawing discussions of climate change won’t keep the seas from rising.

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Smear Campaign 0

Donald Trump watching Barack Obama's speech and saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Running the Government Like a Business” 0

Headline of the Day:

Opinion: If Trump were a CEO, his board would have fired him by now

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“The history of the present King . . . is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations” 0

Founding Fathers writing Declaration of Independence as Donald Trump says,

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Get Me Rewrite! 0

Suggested New Title for Bob Woodward's book,

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Officer at a desk in the Pentagon holding a phone to colleague:  It's the President.  He wants to know whether he can use waterboarding to find out the author of that Op-Ed in the New York Times.

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It’s Karmalicious 0

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The Weaponization of Stupid 0

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Gutless Wonders (Updated) 0

Dick Polman reminds us that Ben Sasse (like many other Republicans who claim to be skeptical of Donald Trump) are as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, signifying nothing.

Addendum:

Werner Herzog’s Bear has more.

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Profiles in Discourage, Real Big Men Dept. 0

Title:  The Anonymous Resistance.  Image:  Nazi saying,

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Better Call Brett, Reprise 0

Brett Kavanaugh, on the left, saying,

One more time, experiments fail, even noble ones.

Image via Job’s Anger.

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