“No one would perceive that as a threat”

Jul 2nd, 2017 9:18 am | By

Trump’s tweet about CNN is making headlines because it’s a threat of violence. The Washington Post for instance:

A day after defending his use of social media as befitting a “modern day” president, President Trump appeared to promote violence against CNN in a tweet.

Trump, who is on vacation at his Bedminster golf resort, posted on Twitter an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, but with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his opponent. In the clip, Trump is shown slamming the CNN avatar to the ground and pounding him with simulated punches and elbows to the head. Trump added the hastags #FraudNewsCNN and #FNN, for “fraud news network.”

He’s unfit. Period. … Read the rest

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Still lower

Jul 2nd, 2017 8:04 am | By

Today in Trump. Worse than ever, I’m afraid.

Some late yesterday first.

Yes, and a harsh indictment of our society, politics, discourse, education system, and much else that fact is…but bracket that, and it’s still the case that winning the election is not the same thing as succeeding in the job. Tragically and horribly and shamefully, Trump … Read the rest

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The clenched fist of truth

Jul 1st, 2017 4:58 pm | By

Think Progress provides a transcript of that fascist video of Dana Loesch barking at us about the libbruls. Do watch it in addition, because mere words on the screen can’t convey the menacing venom of her delivery. The way she emphasizes “they” over and over again for instance is chilling.

They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance. All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia and smash windows,

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They

Jul 1st, 2017 12:32 pm | By

Well this is terrifying.

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The cornered animal

Jul 1st, 2017 12:20 pm | By

I generally avoid Maureen Dowd, but she summons some eloquence on the Monster in Chief:

The 71-year-old president’s pathological inability to let go of slights; his strongman reflex to be the aggressor and bite back like a cornered animal, without regard for societal norms; his lack of self-awareness about the power he commands and the proportionality of his responses; his grotesque hunger for flattery and taste for Tony Soprano tactics; his Pravda partnership with David Pecker, the head honcho at The National Enquirer, which has been giving Trump the Il Duce treatment while sliming his political opponents, the “Morning Joe” anchors and Megyn Kelly — these are all matters that should alarm men and women equally.

Trump has moved

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Dispatches from the White House

Jul 1st, 2017 11:32 am | By

Still ringing the same bells.

He thinks Trudeau likes him. He always thinks people like him if they’re not openly rude to him. For awhile he was telling us Obama liked him, because Obama was polite to him in their meeting. Yeah, right, Don, Obama likes you in spite of the whole birther thing. Sure he does.

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