The week started on a very somber note with the funeral of John McCain continuing at the Washington cathedral. Eulogies by Megan McCain, Joe Leiberman, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, were all very genuine, personal, and heartfelt glimpses into an incredible life of service to the American people. It was hard to not shed a tear at the genuine love for this man. Of course they each injected a jab at the current administration, and Megan’s anger came through stating that “America has no need to be great again, America has always been great” really stood out as the quote of the week. She is obviously very hurt that her father was treated so badly by Trump in the waning days of his life, that she had to get that out. It would have been easy, and respectful of Trump to ignore the statements of grieving friends and family, and give them some space, but even though he was golfing at his club, he couldn’t let it go. He had to tweet “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” as a thin skinned self defence. Even though he doesn’t need to be an asshole, he cant help himself.
Over the long weekend for labour day, he continued to golf and tweet about anything that crossed his mind. More on Hillary, and how if you are attached to her in any way, you can get away with murder, which Trump surprisingly has not implicated her in yet. I’m sure he will save that for later. More bullshit on the Steele Dossier etc. You could almost feel that the Bob Woodward book that was going to start releasing snippets from was looming large in his mind , and he was starting to lose it. He knew that it would be bad. He attacked Trumka, the leader of the AFL-CIO as a Dem, and he did poorly on television, as that is what is truly important to this knucklehead. He heaped praise on Tiger Woods, for his kind words about the president, like Tiger could say anything else, and is probably bound by an NDA, due to the joint effort building another Trump golf course in Dubai.
Tuesday began a week that would quickly become a category 5 hurricane, that started with the Senate judiciary committee to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. This came in tandem with the release of some parts of the Bob Woodward book. It was all the media could do to cover both, as the Senate hearings became a political shit show. Horse were spent delaying the hearing with dozens of questions being asked by Democrats, and the gallery one by one getting ejected for disrupting the proceedings. What I saw looked like the Republicans had all the power, and the Democrats looked childish. I am sure they will push Kavanaugh through no matter what. If the shoe was on the other foot the Republicans would be apoplectic at having 42,000 pages of documents dumped on them the day before, and being expected to have all of them studied and processed for the next day. Eventually the hearings took flight, and they proceeded as you would think. I watched two days of softball questions from Republicans and tough questions from Democrats. Realistically I learned absolutely nothing of substance from any answers, and he dodged most bullets without harm. While all of this was going on the rest of the coverage was about the released quotes from the Woodward book. A lot of stuff was not very surprising, other items were enlightening. I think that the frightening part for the Whitehouse was that this book was by an extremely credible author, instead of the likes of Michael Wolfe, or Omarosa, which both were shot down as either made up, or just the writings of a disgruntled ex employee. Woodward’s name carries credibility. The fact that it is a daily shit show was not that groundbreaking, but finding out that people like Gary Cohen felt the need to remove letters from the presidents desk in the interest of national security was shocking. The quotes from Kelly, and Mattis, about Trump having the intellect of a 5th or 6th grader, and Trump being a fucking moron, are not surprising, as they have been quoted in the past saying similar things. Of course they released a quote from Trump about poor old Jeff Sessions, he was “mentally retarded “, and a “dumb southerner”, which I’m sure if any of this gets out to his base, may push some away from Trump. Alabama loves Jeff and are rightly proud to be southerners. Most of the base do not care what Trump says or does, but I am sure there a few out there that will not be happy having a silver spoon yankee pick on their native son. The Whitehouse took to the different media platforms in the afternoon to of course tell the world that it was all fake news, made up by an actual Pulitzer prize winning author, and that Bob Woodward was a hack journalist. It all rings so hollow now as it is used daily by them. Oh lordy, this time there are tapes to back up all the interviews. I can not wait to purchase the book next week, as apparently they haven’t released the really good stuff.
Wednesday was spent refuting all claims in the book as false. He tweeted no less than 10 times about the subject, and had several of his staff release formal letters saying it was all untrue. The most untruthful administration in the history of the world saying it’s all a fabrication. It is just way too much, and watching Trump, he really looks like he is unraveling. Then to pump things up to category 5 shitstorm, a New York Times op-ed came out from a high level member of the Trump administration. This seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. This made him crazy, and he couldn’t pass a microphone or camera without spouting off about the “gutless coward”. The anonymous person basically told the world that Trump is detached from reality, has no understanding of foreign policy, nor does he care, is unfeeling, and undiplomatic. He is not fit to be president, and that this person is working from the inside to keep the administration from imploding and the orange buffoon from entering the nuclear launch codes. In my opinion, noble, but would carry more weight if this person would come out of the shadows, resign, and give the op-ed some tangible credence. Let someone else inside keep the ship right. Trump demanded not me letters from all surrounding him in the Whitehouse, and at last count, the number was up to 29 of his toadies, and minions. All letters had to be printed and delivered to “dear leader” , as I’m sure he is checking each one off his list of suspects. Something to keep in mind you bonehead Donald, Mark Felt swore he was not Deep throat until his death in 2005, so people are not always forthright with their statements of innocence. As I’m sure Trump knows, lying is very easy. Trump even used a ceremony recognizing state and local law enforcement to spot off about this, and not surprisingly the Republican law enforcement officers, got all lathered up and hooted and hollered for him, attacking the fake news again. These officers should be reprimanded for showing partisan support, of the paranoid ramblings of a failing president. Seeing law enforcement take a partisan side, especially one ensconced in hatred, really gives one a better understanding of where Colin Kaepernick is coming from, and the other NFL protesters. There really is two layers of law enforcement the correct and proper rule of law, and the bash their heads in law that these ass clowns feel they are entitled to dole out. Very sad, but true.
Thursday, more Kavanaugh hearings, more of hedging, dodging and waving, with little more insite into the man. He can remember the punctuation on some documents, but cant recall important meetings. A little insite on his understanding of reproductive sciences, calling birth control abortion inducing drugs? Plan B, does not allow fertilization to take place, so not really an accurate description. He is a catholic, some some latitude given, but to sit on the highest bench in the land that presides over such rulings as Roe v Wade, you better do your homework. Of course on the Trump trainwreck, there was rumbling of the 25th amendment again, but let’s face it, there is not a chance Pence, or Congress will ever enact that on their own leader. The don’t have the intestinal fortitude. Trump is off to Billings Montana for another one of his circle jerk rallies. This time he really appeared to be medicated, and twice he tried to pronounce anonymous, but came out as amonymous. I think his aides are slipping him meds in his diet cokes before he gets off the plane, so he doesn’t come off as unfit.
Friday, has been a bit calmer, as he has spent the day on the move, going to 2 more circle jerk rallies in South Dakota, where I’m sure, he’ll spout the same shit as yesterday. We did get to see Obama speak on behalf of the democratic party today, and boy do I miss his uplifting speeches. It is interesting if you split screen Trump, and Obama, it is enlightening, uplifting, sense of good and positive from Obama, and dark, fearful threatening lies from Trump. It truly is night and day. Trump now wants Jeff Sessions to start an investigation into the anonymous person for treason in the op-ed even though nothing of national security was leaked. Again his pettiness overtaking common sense, so I’m sure Sessions will once again ignore the morons request. Trump of course could not help himself on stupid comments regarding the ongoing NAFTA negotiations, telling us that he could be the ruination of Canada if he feels like it, and pulls the deal. Will be interesting to see if Congress will allow this. Canada is still the enemy to him, and Kim Jong Un still is held in the highest regard. Sad but true.
Hope you enjoyed, we can look forward to another category 5 week next week, I’m sure.
Take care.
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Neil's review on U.S. politics 