Will The Movie About The Trump Campaign Be A Spy Thriller? A Tale Of A Crime Family? A Tragedy? A Comedy? All Of The Above?

 

2 bullshit artists the public is done with

Ultimately, Trump will lose in less than two weeks because most Americans are sick of him (some literally with COVID and some just of his rotten persona) and because we're in serious times and serious times call for... well, not a self-serving clown. His non-response to a pandemic that has sickened over eight-and-a-half million Americans and killed over 227,000 of us has made most voters sit up and take notice. But there are other factors that have played into what is shaping up to be the biggest repudiation of an incumbent president since Herbert Hoover.

Some of those reasons are big-- like the unemployment number and Trump's inability to force McConnell and the Republican Senate to agree to a pandemic relief bill. Or how Trump's own campaign attorneys have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Biden campaign-- and just $50 to the Trump campaign. Others are, by themselves, barekly a blip on the radar-- like Trump's latest bankruptcy: his campaign.

Mike Murphy is a well-known GOP political operative who worked for John McCain, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lamar Alexander to name a few, In an interview with NBC News about how Trump wasted a billion dollars of his contributors' money yesterday, Murphy noted that the Trump campaign "spent their money on unnecessary overhead, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous activity by the campaign staff and vanity ads way too early. You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly.”

Then there's the whole "strategy" behind Trump's desperate super-spreader rallies. side from the fact that he should eventually be charged with negligent homicide, the whole endeavor is a tragic joke. Nancy Cook gave away the punchline at Politico yesterday. With the Orange Blob yearning for "the magic of his 2016 upstart campaign: the multi-rally days, crisscrossing the country in a Trump-branded plane, the screaming crowds... he’s designed a 2016 redux in 2020 to recapture that spirit, casting off the constraints of a pandemic, his own presidency and even the advice of some of his own advisers."

Trump views rallies in battleground states as the linchpin of his closing argument, a means to excite his supporters and ensure they vote on Nov. 3. But many Republicans close to the White House, former senior administration officials and political advisers say the rallies are largely a way to keep the unscripted and undisciplined president occupied, since they do little to persuade new Trump voters. Rallies, they note, do not woo senior citizens, independents or suburban women, many of whom have moved away from the Trump ticket this election cycle. Most of Trump’s rallies are no longer televised nationally as they once were.

And with coronavirus infection rates climbing, the Trump rallies often draw negative headlines in local news markets because the packed events defy public health guidelines, featuring few masks and almost no social distancing. After Trump’s recent rallies in Bemidji and Duluth, Minnesota-- both in counties the Trump campaign hopes to win-- local health authorities connected roughly 24 new Covid-19 cases to the rallies and protests outside of them.

...[T]he rallies offer the president his own form of soothing, along with a major ego boost in the middle of a tough campaign, said aides, advisers and allies. Trump feeds off the energy of a crowd regardless of whether the appearance makes the most political sense or can help him make gains against Biden in states like Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.

“Trump thinks, ‘I have the rallies to prove that I am the greatest. No one can attract crowds like me,’” said Tony Schwartz, the author and Trump critic who ghost wrote The Art of the Deal and just published a memoir titled Dealing with the Devil: My Mother, Trump and Me. “It is like taking a shot of testosterone to pump himself up, particularly now.”

One of the funniest, though, is how the planned October surprise-- a Trump-Putin-Giuliani con-job of a Ukraine scandal that is the defining moment in American politics on the right-wing fringe, but not taken seriously by any normal people-- went awry. The cooked-up evidence is likely to wind up on a rap sheet when Giuliani is eventually prosecuted.





And it has already spun off an hilarious sub-plot: Giuliani the Trump-like pervert. Catherine Shoard exposed the latest Giuliani caper for Guardian readers. Borat is in the house-- and Rudy missed the chance to sneak out the back door! Giuliani's reputation of is already in tatters, to put it mildly, but Shoard contends that it "could be set for a further blow with the release of highly embarrassing footage in Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat." The film is being released Friday and in it, Rudy "is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist."

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

...Word of the incident first emerged on 7 July, when Giuliani called New York police to report the intrusion of an unusually-dressed man.

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.

“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away,” Giuliani said. The police found no crime had been committed.

Giuliani continued: “I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

Viewers may be less convinced that Baron Cohen, reprising his role as the bumbling reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and Maria Bakalova, who plays his daughter, Tutar, had no success.

In the film Borat is dispatched by the Kazakh government back to the US to present a bribe to an ally of Donald Trump in order to ingratiate his country with the administration. After the monkey earmarked for the gift is indisposed, Borat’s supposedly underage offspring becomes the replacement present.

Even before he reaches into his trousers, Giuliani does not appear to acquit himself especially impressively during the encounter. Flattered and flirtatious, he drinks scotch, coughs, fails to socially distance and claims Trump’s speedy actions in the spring saved a million Americans from dying of Covid. He also agrees-- in theory at least-- to eat a bat with his interviewer.

Giuliani has become a key figure in the late stages of the US presidential election after obtaining a laptop hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden and left at a repair shop in Delaware.

His efforts to unearth political dirt on Trump’s rival for the White House mean that the film’s mortifying footage can be seen as an attempt to undermine Giuliani’s credibility. The film, released on Amazon Prime less than a fortnight before the election, ends with an instruction for viewers to vote.

Rushin’ To Destruction, Part 11-- Selected Braindead Borats Of The Republican Party

-by Noah

When we think of lunatic, severely mentally unbalanced Republicans, it’s easy to start at the top. Sure there’s Trump and his whole damn family, there’s the ever-obsequious Lindsey Graham, there are has-been stars like Newtie Gingrich who desperately cling to Trump’s dangling red tie and still grab some small exposure from time to time, there are republican media luminaries like Sean Hannity and Alex Jones, there’s most definitely Louis Gohmert and Bug-Eyed Drooling Rudy Giuliani who looks more like Nosferatu with each passing day… but these cretins aren’t getting any younger, so what about the future? Well, rest assured! For every demented Graham or Giuliani, there’s a hundred up and comers of all ages in the republican minor league pipeline. Below are just a few who are awaiting their chance at republican stardom. The auditions are endless. Just keep in mind, we may laugh at these people but they are a clear and present danger to what’s left of civilization.

1. Rep. Barry Hovis: Since so much republican “thought” revolves around matters related to sex and sexuality when it comes to other people’s lives, I thought why not start with a Missouri Republican state representative named Barry Hovis. Remember the “If it’s a legitimate rape” guy, Rep. Todd Akin, also of Missouri? Well, this year, Hovis took republican thought on rape up a notch. Republicans will always consider Hovis their hero for coming up with the concept of... wait for it…consensual rape! You can decide for yourself what Hovis’s flash of brilliance means about his own dating history. If I was a Republican, I might dwell on it longer, much longer, but, on to the next loon!

2. Rep. Moe Brooks: Moe Brooks, who hails from Alabama (Say no more!) is the latest republican in the House of Representatives to declare himself an entrant into the Who Wants To Be The Next Louie Gohmert contest. Yes, he’s that dumb. Brooks has a novel explanation for rising sea levels. It’s an explanation that has nothing to do with ice melting in places like Antarctica or Greenland. It doesn’t even involve a massive increase in over-sized cruise ships or dead polar bear carcasses displacing water. Brooks says sea levels are rising due to rocks falling in the water. Never mind that rocks have always fallen into the water, he’s sticking to his brilliant observation: “Eureka! It’s the rocks!” And not the rocks in his head. Put this assclown in concussion protocol, pronto!

3. Daryl Metcalfe: Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe has no time for that “crazy talk” about things like pollution and climate change. He just knows, I mean knows that if we do something about excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, well, his vegetable garden will suffer bigly. Hey, Daryl, what happens when we’re all dead due to a lack of air to breathe? Who’s gonna eat your vegetables? Certainly not you!

4. Mark Taylor: Taylor is best known as a right-wing conspiracy theorist (nut) who makes a living appearing on any Republican radio show that will have him; in other words, just about all of them. Taylor may be best known for his claim that Sen. John McCain did not die from brain cancer but was executed by a military tribunal. More recently, Taylor has been urging President Trump to start making some arrests of high profile democrats or run the risk of Trump-supporting militia groups acting first. Taylor predicts that these arrests will happen soon and that Trump will put “thousands of high-level cannibalistic satanic pedophiles” on trial. Taylor has a suggested list that includes President Obama and, of course, Hillary Clinton, who, as all republicans know, runs a child sex ring out of the basement of a suburban Maryland pizza parlor. Note: The claims of pedophilia, cannibalism, and Satan worship are a very current thing among Republicans. You can add to that human sacrifice. Such things are an obsession with Republicans these days. Self-styled Republican “journalist, “Liz Crokin has stuffed her YouTube channel with similar tales of pedos ands Satanism and agrees with Taylor that arrests are in order. She seems to be losing her faith in republican favorite QAnon. It’s something to do with the republican mind and why one becomes a Republican in the first place. Read on!

5. Rep. Phil Roe and broadcaster Chris McDonald: I’m presenting these two kooks as a pair because, well, they a dedicated brothers in kookdom. Phil Roe is the kook that several thousand fellow Tennessee wackos chose to represent them in Washington. Roe has been a guest on McDonald’s McFiles radio show many times in the past year and has reciprocated by having McDonald pay him visits in his office in the Capitol Building. He calls McDonald a true “patriot and friend.” It’s always great to know how Republicans define patriotism.

Like most Republicans these days, Chris McDonald is a conspiracy theorist who shares Roe’s world view and claims that to oppose Trump is to oppose God himself.

Interestingly, McDonald’s special obsession seems to be accusing political enemies of being pedophiles. In that sense, he shares a lot with Mark Taylor. McDonald, whose physical appearance strongly resembles something out of the dark corners of “Blue Velvet” or a Roger Corman film, says that President Obama speaks in pedophile code (I guess being “from Kenya” just wasn’t enough). More recently, McDonald has told his devoted Republican listeners that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is a pedophile.

In a way, Schiff gets off easy. To McDonald, actor Tom Hanks is not just a pedophile but a “high-level Satanist” who partakes in “human sacrifice.” I’m not sure what, if anything, Hanks did in McDonalds’s mind to deserver the accusations. I guess he just considers Hanks to be one o’ those “Hollywood liberals. But wait, there’s more; McDonald says that Rep. Ilhan Omar should be removed from her elected office and should not be allowed in the House Of Representatives because she is a potential suicide bomber.

My research has not turned up any feelings that McDonald or his congressional pal might hold for the rabidly pro-Trump and pro-FOX “News” pipe bomber who sent pipe bombs to high profile media people and leading Democratic Party figures. Draw your own conclusions.

2018 In Review: Gen. John Kelly Is Out. Mick Mulvaney Is In. Who’s Next? The Whole World Is Watching, Part 2

by Noah

Gen. John Kelly is gone. Trump's former Chief of Staff, a man of such low character that only the character of Trump himself could make his look better by comparison, had finally had enough. Working with the criminally insane has to be one of the most stressful jobs imaginable and as bad as he is, and was, who knows what horrors Kelly might have managed to derail. Imagine how bad an act has to be for someone like Kelly to disapprove of it.

Mick Mulvaney is the new White House Chief Of Staff, make that Acting Chief Of Staff. It’s Mulvaney’s third administration job in less than two years. He’s reportedly not even leaving his Office Of Budget Management job. Why? Simple; Trumpanzee is his own Chief Of Staff because he is immune to management. That, together with the stench of corruption that comes with the Chief Of Staff job is good reason not to give up your day job. Oh, and he better lawyer up. That need comes with the job.

Trump was having trouble getting anyone to take the job so he just drafted Mulvaney over from the Office Of Budget Management. Las Vegas is probably already adjusting the odds as to how long Mulvaney will last but one can only shudder at what Mulvaney will prove to be like. It's a case of how low can you go. After all, this White House Chief of Staff thing hasn't exactly been going in the right direction. If you remember, Trump's first Chief of Staff, before Kelly, was former Republican Party head Reince Priebus. We thought that was sick and it was, but then came a man who, unlike Priebus, made absolutely no attempt to disguise his evil. Kelly most blatantly revealed it in his white supremacy, but that's a big reason why he got the job in the first place. That is the nature of the Trump White House. Rest assured, it will remain so.

As I write this, Kelly still has never apologized for his race-based attacks on Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson but why would we expect the kind of cretin Kelly is to do so? As soon as Kelly announced he was leaving, questions abounded. Why did he quit? Did he quit or was he fired? Was he fired in a petulant screaming fit? Does it matter? Who will change the Diaper Don's diapers now?

Before Mulvaney took the job, Mike Pence’s Chief Of Staff, Nick Ayers was “the new Chief Of Staff” for Trump but he didn’t even make it to the first day.

I have to admit that the question of who will soon replace Mulvaney has set my mind in motion. Who wants to be invited down to the oval bunker? How much of a masochist do you have to be? Better BYOCC (Bring your own cyanide caps).

The first name that comes to me is Jared Kushner. He’s family and Trumpanzee already has him sticking his face into just about everything. But what about Kellyanne Conway? Could it be the return of Spicy or The Mooch? A team of Spicy and The Mooch? Mike Huckabee? Some screaming FOX loon like Jeanine Pirro? Sean Hannity already lives up Trump's fat ass. How about a waitress from Mar-A-Lago? Rudy Giuliani? Carl Spackler?Ann Coultergeist? Annette Haven? Annie Sprinkle? Some Russian who doesn't speak a word of English? Borat for real? He’d get along great with Trump. Stay tuned!