Ewwwwww.

So, Donnie “didn’t really like” Jeffy Epstein, eh? Was “never a fan” of him. Had a “falling out” with him.

O RLY, Donnie?

Notice how handsy Donnie gets with all those cute young blondes at the party. He doesn’t even care if there’s a camera catching his gropes. He looks like he’s literally trying to grab ’em by the pussy, just as he later bragged (on a hot mike!) to Billy Bush.

And then, pay attention to how cozy he gets with Jeffy-poo later on, when he arrives. And how he’s constantly whispering to him and pointing at women. It’s like he’s already scouting out the prospects for his pimp buddy, isn’t it?

Whatever’s going on there, it’s not a “fun-loving bachelor lifestyle”, as the reporter so euphemistically calls it. This is a grotty divorced man in his forties, pawing at girls who would probably rather just dance than suffer his or any other old man’s slobbery attentions. It all sure as hell looks like a sexual assault to me.

Why isn’t he being impeached yet? It’s not as though there weren’t ample grounds. From his blatant criminality, to his racism, to all of this, there’s more than enough for a prosecutor to go on.

It’s all just gross. It’s undignified as hell. And unpresidential as fuck. And his idiot fans are still eating it all up. He could drop his pants and shit in his hands in front of them, and they’d all still clamor for a bite of that sweet, sweet dung. And if you told them they were eating feces, they’d just point the finger and say “No, YOU are! He’s a good Christian man! Why are you trying to bring him down?”

Too bad there’s no way of impeaching THEM, while we’re at it. Because the credulous, the gullible, and the Hardcore Stupid are at least in part responsible for the banana-Republican shithole that the US of Amnesia has become. They’re the same dim bulbs who voted for Dubya and his daddy’s oil wars, even though anyone with an eye could see that he was dumb as a brick and way out of his element in politics (or anyplace else where adult responsibility was called for). They’re also the same who thought Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible for election (nope, sorry, that was his father; the Obama who was president was born in Hawaii.) And they’re the same dumb bunch who are now making plans to storm Area 51, because they think there’s something there to see (other than secret military aircraft in the testing phases, nope, nada.)

Basically, they’re what you get when you starve public education to give billionaires tax breaks. Or, in the case of Donnie and Jeffy-poo, maybe it’s just guys who want to be billionaires, but who can’t cut that much mustard and are lousy at actual deal-making, so they just settle for raping and pimping teenage girls instead, and blackmailing their high-powered buddies with the secret photos.

And I can hardly wait to see how they all collapse over what comes out in discovery once Jeffy’s next trial begins.

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Gammon McInnes “pranks” David Pakman?

Uh oh. Looks like the laugh’s on HIM, not DP:

Nobody’s heard of Gammon’s show…until now, apparently. And he didn’t have the guts to invite David to his show in person? Some Proud Boy HE is.

And now, as usual, his dick and ass are both hanging out on the air. In public. On the record…

How embarrassing.

PS: Here’s Sam Seder on the subject…

Sam brings up the $5000 that Gammon apparently offered David to appear on his show. Where does he get that money? Who is financing these professional white supremacists?

One thing is clear: No matter how much money these fascists have to throw around, Sam won’t be going for any amount of it.

I hear that Right-Wing Mandela might be interested, though.

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Jeffrey Epstein had WHAT?

All those CDs of nude photos of young girls aren’t the only shocking thing found at the home of Donnie’s crooked, pimpy pal:

Yup, that’s right. He had a SAUDI PASSPORT:

The government revealed the expansion of the case at the day’s bail hearing. In searching the defendant’s house, investigators found an old passport with Epstein picture and a fake name that listed Saudi Arabia as the location of his residence, the prosecutor said.

The judge was surprised at this revelation, NBC News reported, asking the attorney, “Say again?”

Yeah, those would be MY words, too. Who would have a Saudi passport if they weren’t a Saudi citizen? And why? And it dates back to the 1980s. What was he doing back then that would have him carrying such a document?

I’m not surprised that it wasn’t in his own name, though. Just the overall pattern of crookedness about this guy makes that much inevitable. As do these salient details:

Diamonds were also reportedly found along with the passport in a safe.

Rossmiller argued that Epstein is an “extraordinary flight risk.” The financier’s lawyers are arguing for his release and have proposed a set of conditions, including turning over his legitimate passport, that would allow him to remain in his own house pending trial. Epstein has been in jail since he was arrested on July 6.

To consider Epstein bail application, the government said it would like to better understand his finances.

Given the age of that fake Saudi passport, I’d say they have several decades’ worth of combing to do. And since he IS a major flight risk (he owns a whole fucking island in the Caribbean, for God’s sake!), he should remain in custody for the foreseeable future.

On suicide watch, even, so that he can’t spare himself the ignominy of it all. Because there are details coming out, and oh boy, are they grotty:

Eyeballs in the walls, a nude woman mannequin swinging from a chandelier, a mural of himself as a federal prisoner (complete with penitentiary setting!), and — ew — a chessboard whose figures were all modelled on his “staffers”, in their underwear.

Suffice to say I can’t wait to hear if anyone besides the girls was on those CDs full of nude girl photos. And who, besides him, it could have been.

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Comedy. (I think.)

What if you “played the Nazi card”, as the far right calls it when anyone calls them out on their fascism, in an actual fascist country and era, namely Nazi Germany?

Well, you might get something like this:

Only, um, it wouldn’t be this funny. Or, uh, funny at all.

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Music for a Sunday: João Gilberto, RIP

In memory of the great bossanovista, who left us yesterday at age 88:

There are so many of his compositions I could have picked, but this one pretty much sums up his musical philosophy. The female singer is his first wife, Astrud Weinert; João himself comes in on the second verse. The lyrics he sings translate as follows:

“A little corner, a guitar,
This love, a song,
To make happy those who love each other…
Plenty of calm to think,
Plenty of time to dream,
And from the window a view of Corcovado,
the Redeemer, oh how lovely!
I want my life to be like this always,
With you right here beside me,
Until the old flame goes out…
And I who was sad,
Disgruntled with this world,
When I met you, I came to know
What is happiness, my love.”

Obrigada, João.

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STFU, Brad Trost.

Okay, there’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s resist the urge to burn the whole damn suitcase, and dig in:

First off, this is not a film “telling the truth”, it’s FICTION. The real story has already been told, and it’s not so cut-and-dried. It’s also not pretty. Abby Johnson, the woman who allegedly had a “moment of truth”, only changed sides because the anti-choicers (who are well funded by all the usual right-wing suspects) were offering her money to pay down her debts:

Johnson’s decision to join the Coalition for Life, the same anti-abortion group that had picketed her clinic for years, was “completely opportunistic,” Kaminczak told the Observer.

“She called me two weeks before this whole thing broke,” Kaminczak said, “and she told me she was thinking about going to the coalition. She had been having serious money problems—she’d been talking about bankruptcy—and she told me that Shawn [Carney] had promised her $3,000 speaking gigs if she came over.”

In short: Abby’s romanticized “epiphany” was fiction, made up to conceal her embarrassing reality.

Secondly, abortion isn’t an “industry”, it’s a SURGERY. Sometimes, it’s not even that; it’s just a couple of pills and a wait. It’s not even highly profitable; quite the opposite, in fact. But the anti-choice side IS an industry, and a very lucrative one at that. $3000 US per speaking appearance isn’t exactly chicken feed, except to the very wealthy men funding the anti-choice crapaganda industry. They can afford it, and it’s clear that they don’t miss the money.

Which brings me to third: This is a man, opining on something that concerns him not in the least. A man of the Religious Reich. All eager to control women’s bodies and sex lives, but you never hear boo out of him over male supremacist porn (which “Unplanned” in fact is), or sex aids that are aimed at men, or even Viagra. He’s all up in the ladybusiness. Why is that? Oh, surely not because flinging anti-choice red meat to his credulous constituents in rural Saskatchewan is a sure way to get elected, and re-elected, right up until he decides to cash in and go for that sweet, sweet parliamentary pension, eh?

And finally: “Unplanned” isn’t “controversial”, I’ll give him that. It is quite uncontroversially a piece of garbage. It’s built not only on Abby Johnson’s own lies, but on the same unscientific hogwash the anti-choice industry has been spewing for years. And he’s crowing over it like a rooster on a dungheap.

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In which Donnie totally tells on himself

That’s right, y’all…Donnie just took total responsibility for the homeless problem in the US!

And, even dumber: He thinks it only started two years ago. Funny, but I seem to recall it being a problem long before that. I mean, the ’80s alone were full of songs about it:

(Yes, that’s Imogene Coca, playing a bag lady!)

Most hysterically, though, Donnie is upset because it happens in San Francisco, and he thinks he has property there? No, Donnie, that’s not YOUR property. It’s your creditors’ property, because you owe them money, and if you don’t pay up, you forfeit that property. In other words: It doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the Deutsche Bank. And maybe the Mafia.

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Donnie’s big parade is a yuuuuuge flop

Oh, the embarrassment and ignominy:

Welp, so much for the dictatorial tank parade on the glorious 4th. And this after they scrambled so hard to give away tickets, too!

The Washington Post reported the administration has been desperately attempting to confirm more attendees for the president’s 6:30 p.m. speech during the Fourth of July event at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial as they struggle to allocate tickets for the VIP sections.

There are also fears the public may choose to stay away from the free event, which does not require a ticket, as the predicted bad weather and traditional free concert on the other end of the Mall could also impact the audience size.

The Trump administration will be desperate not to have a recurrence of Trump’s 2017 inauguration ceremony which, despite White House claims, was attended by far fewer people than Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration.

Well, this makes THAT one look downright boisterous by comparison, because literally no one was there.

And maybe Donnie should be thankful that it was sparsely attended, because then at least there were fewer people to catch his latest blunders:

Trump generally steered clear of the inflammatory and partisan rhetoric that has marked his campaign speeches, according to a Los Angeles Times account of the July 4 event.

But alert Twitter users caught one bizarre gaffe by Trump during the speech, in which he seemed to get his time periods of American history mixed up, describing the Battle of Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War, but saying that the army at that time “took over the airports.”

“The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown,” Trump said, as quoted by CNN correspondent Daniel Dale via Twitter. “It took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.”

Yup, that was our own Canadian phenom, Daniel Dale…thorn in the side to the Brothers Frod, and now to Donnie as well, catching him in the act of anachronism:

The surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia — the event that ended the American Revolution — took place on November 13, 1781, according to History.com. But the Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane, did not make the world’s first self-powered flight until 1903.

History’s first airport, College Park Airport College Park, Maryland — which has since become known as “the cradle of aviation” — opened six years later, in 1909, according to the Airport Technology site.

[…]

Twitter users quickly jumped all over Trump’s puzzling “took over the airports” remark, with one commenting, “I think his speech writer just dropped it in there to see if Trump would catch it in time, before saying it…. Gotcha.”

Nothing like embarrassing yourself in front of your neighbors to the north, eh Donnie?

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Headline Howler: Can the WaPo even count?

I mean, even a grade schooler can see that Bernie was right. And 8 million people isn’t exactly chicken feed.

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Ford Fest MAGAt is a cringefest

Oh gawd, get a load of this:

“There’s more important things” than healthcare and education? Well, we know just how much value Drumpf Hat Guy puts on education, because he clearly slept through Social Studies (are they still even teaching it anymore?)

But hey, if buck-a-beer at the convenience store matters to you, or boozy tailgating at football games, or going faster on the major highways, hey, have at it. Just don’t expect any hospital beds to be open for you if you get the shit beaten out of you in a drunken brawl, or if you smuck up on the suddenly-much-faster 401.

The majority of Ontario did NOT vote for this, in any case.

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