President Super-Spreader Does Nevada

Trump's hate rally in Henderson, Nevada Sunday night was another super-spreader event in a state struggling with a dangerous second spike. Yesterday, Nevada reported another 277 cases of COVID-19, bringing the state's total to 73,814, a terrible 23,964 cases per million Nevadans, the 11th worst in the country. The Real Clear Politics polling average shows Trump losing Nevada by 6 points-- Biden 46.5% to Trump 40.5%. Hillary-- having run up a big margin in Clark County (Las Vegas) and having won Washoe County (Reno) narrowly-- beat Trump in the Silver State 539,260 (47.9%) to 512,058 (45.5%).

Sunday night, Governor Sisolak (D) was not at the rally. He was on Twitter letting Nevadans know what a selfish and reckless move Trump's packed, largely maskless rally was.

NBC reported that there were thousands of people packed indoors and violating state pandemic laws. "Henderson authorities said in a statement late Sunday that officials warned the event organizer in writing and verbally that they must obey the governor's directives, which include not gathering in groups larger than 50 people, wearing face coverings and social distancing. In response to criticism the campaign received for holding the indoor rally, Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign 2020 communications director, said in a statement, 'If you can join tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets, gamble in a casino, or burn down small businesses in riots, you can gather peacefully under the 1st Amendment to hear from the president of the United States.' The president had also held a rally on Saturday on the tarmac of Nevada’s Minden-Tahoe Airport where most people were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing. Reacting to the rally Sunday night, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted that the president is 'deliberately killing people.' Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) tweeted Monday, "Trump is using his position of power to spread COVID-19. People died after his last indoor rally.'"

And not wasn't on Democrats who were outraged by COVID-Mary's rallies. NBC reported that "Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary to President George W. Bush, tweeted Monday, 'Indoor rallies are irresponsible. Covid-19 is real and this was a bad idea.' The anti-Trump group of Republicans called The Lincoln Project tweeted, 'Thinking about how Donald Trump knew that coronavirus was airborne and deadly, and still chose to have an indoor rally.'"

Former Jeb Bush Communications Director, Tim Miller, who now writes for the conservative Bulwark labeled the rally in Henderson reckless, atrocious and deceitful, noting that "the spittle was flying [and] so were the lies." He downgraded the event from super-spreader to mini-spreader because so few people turned out, noting it "was Trump’s first indoor rally since the Tulsa disaster that cost Brad Parscale his job and after which Herman Cain lost his life. This latest public-health monstrosity came on the heels of the president, at a separate maskless gathering earlier in the weekend, mocking his opponent Joe Biden for having followed responsible social-distancing protocols."

For those who have been beaten down by the Trumpian disaster porn, rallies such as this don’t really make a mark any longer. The cable networks and even the three C-SPANs landed on the BORRRRING side of the ledger: None of them chose to air the event. And for political junkies and Trump-watchers, these rallies increasingly have the feel of a boring nostalgia act with a lead singer halfheartedly crooning his old hits. And there’s something to be said for that.

But it is important to take a moment to shake yourself free from the blunting effect of the orange Trumpian film that has subsumed our daily lives (and here in northern California, our atmosphere). Seen with fresh eyes, the Henderson rally was truly a shocking and unimaginably wheels-off undertaking given that it came amid a pandemic that is still killing a thousand Americans a day and with wildfires making much of the West Coast uninhabitable.

And so over the course of the president’s interminable harangue, I began to jot down the moments that stood out, beginning with his foray into the insane #Obamagate conspiracy. As Trump began a side-bar about Obama supposedly being caught spying on him, he eyed an attendee who was beginning a “Lock Him Up” chant. He then egged on the overwhelmingly unmasked crowd into a frenzy in which they projected airborne spittle throughout the building in an attempt to will to life the fantasy that their wannabe strongman president might jail his predecessor, the first black president, for an imaginary crime.

This was not the only coronavirus projectile laden with racial invective emitted by the attendees. Following the removal of a protester-- presumably a Black Lives Matter activist, although it wasn’t clear from the video-- the crowd began bellowing that oh-so-clever parlay: All Lives Matter. All Lives Matter.

(At this point it should be noted that the CDC recommends a good way to lessen your coronavirus risk is to avoid gatherings with singing or shouting. If you are going to be in such a location, they recommend a mask.)

In addition to basking in the two racist chants, the president said that his opponent is a Communist (“c-word”) who would eliminate the suburbs and allow anarchists to burn down Hispanic businesses. He fabricated a charge about the Democratic governor of Nevada tampering with ballots, declared that football is “boring as hell,” made fun of Chris Cuomo’s ratings, “joked” about running for a third term, and said flag burners should go to jail for one year. He shouted “I love the Hispanics,” lied about what was said at the DNC, reintroduced the bigoted dog-whistle use of and exaggerated emphasis on the middle name of Barack Hussein Obama (which he had told Bob Woodward he only does in private), said that NASA was almost closed before he got into office and had grass growing on the runways (?), and he once again implied support for extrajudicial killings by U.S. marshals. The only time he acknowledged that his campaign event was running afoul of state regs was when he ambiguously implied that he would help attendees if the governor comes after them. He never recommended that the attendees take any health precautions, despite the advance team building in a nice six-foot bubble between him and his fans.

...Everything about it was fucking appalling.

In fact it was so appalling that it would stand out as the single most appalling and reckless political event hosted by any presidential nominee in my lifetime before yesterday by a long shot, if you just didn’t count anything else that Donald Trump did.

And that’s the problem. Somewhere along the way he removed many people’s ability to be appalled. We have become numbed. Too many regional news outlets either won’t cover the event at all or will have headlines like “Donald Trump Makes Appeal to Hispanics At Nevada Rally.” The national Democrats will let Gov. Sisolak get in his licks, but otherwise move onto something else.

Just because we have become immune to his behavior doesn’t mean it should be treated as if it is one side of a two-sided coin. Just because he lies so cavalierly doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it. Just because his oh-so-unsubtle race-baiting is part and parcel of his presidency doesn’t mean we should just let All Lives Matter chants pass by the wayside. Just because we have become bored by our #takes and have run out of new and clever angles for analyzing our malign president doesn’t mean we should say nothing at all.

All the president’s grotesqueries matter. This is just the latest.

Amanda Carpenter is another #NeverTrump Republican-- former communications director for Ted Cruz and speechwriter for neo-Nazi Jim DeMint-- and she was more interested in obsessing over how so many Republican elites are abandoning Trump. Her Bulwark column Monday was all about "the breaking points for these various White House staffers, cabinet secretaries, political advisers, and others-- the moment when each decided he or she just couldn’t stick with Trump anymore. Because we can learn a lot about Trump and the overall effect he is having on our country by studying what made these individuals-- from revered military leaders to Trump’s sleazy surrogates-- finally snap." Let's look at one example-- "Mad Dog."

Of the men and women who have served Trump and gone on to publicly speak against him, perhaps no one’s words carry more weight than Trump’s former defense secretary James Mattis. Theoretically, the “warrior monk” General “Mad Dog” Mattis, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, who once led Central Command, should have been a good fit inside the Trump administration.

But Trump is a reckless force that not even a military general with 40 years experience could counsel. Mattis walked out on Trump in December 2018 when the president ignored his advice and abruptly pulled troops out of the Middle East. Mattis is quoted in Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, as saying, “When I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else, that’s when I quit.”

That’s not the only deep disagreement he’s had with the president, though. When Trump used military force to disperse protesters in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, Mattis took the rare step of issuing a public statement on the matter, putting it in no uncertain terms that Trump has crossed an intolerable line.

Mattis said he was “angry and appalled” at the president’s actions, and “We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society.” He went on, “We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.” Then he called for the adoption of a “new path” that could only be interpreted as one leading away from Trump.

Carpenter concluded by noting that "Trump pushes people to take unethical, dangerous, and even criminal actions for his benefit. That’s just who Trump is. He tries to corrupt those around him. This is why-- in addition to the desire to sell books-- so many people have been coming out in recent weeks to explain their disenchantment with Trump. They know that if he gets a second term, he will keep corrupting America, too."

Rushin’ To Destruction, 2019 In Review Part 9-- Quotes From The Front

-by Noah

1. Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

President Trump has a different leadership style and the results speak for themselves. While he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive president in history.

Sarah, you are to be commended for being able to pack such a staggering amount of bullshit into such a brief statement. I note that, just a few days before, you claimed, with a straight face, that Trump was chosen by God. Charlie Manson’s girls said the same about their guy.

2. Donald Trump:

An economic miracle is taking place in the United States and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation.

Donnie, I’d like to remind you of what another crook of a president, Richard Nixon, said back in 1974 when he had put himself in a similar predicament:

I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough.

Both presidents were speaking during their State Of The Union addresses. Trump’s 2020 address promises to be a real ratings winner, complete with pardoned war criminals in the Be Best seats in the House.

3. More Donald Trump: 

Speaking of State Of The Union speechifying, here’s more President Mental Case during his 2019 “speech:”

If I had not been elected President of the Untied State, we would right now in my opinion be in a major war with North Korea.

4. $enator Tom Cotton:

Not surprisingly, the Republican $enator from Arkansas has a disgraceful defense of his idol’s tariffs and how they hurt American farmers. He sees nothing shameful about using our dead war heroes in the cause. This is one sick asshole.

There will be some sacrifice on the part of Americans, I grant you that. But also I would say that sacrifice is pretty minimal compared to the sacrifices that our soldiers make overseas, that our fallen heroes who are laid to rest in Arlington make.

Well, Tom Cotton, how about you make a sacrifice. Maybe you’d like to sacrifice some money from whatever bribes you’ve taken in this year under the guise of “campaign contributions” or otherwise. Or, maybe you could donate a couple of your limbs. C’mon, Tom, at least a kidney and a few fingers!

5. Republican Strategist Rick Tyler:

Back in March, Tyler claimed to be upset at what he’d just heard from Trump at CPAC, an annual confab of conservatives. He also claimed to be upset and even surprised about the enthusiastic reception that his boy received.

I thought of saying conservative nutjobs but, really, the word nutjobs isn’t necessary. It’s a give now whenever describing today’s conservatives. Tyler, who obviously lacks the ability or desire to be honest with himself, would like us to forget that it is conservatives who nominated Trump to head their party, nominate far right judges, push a white supremacy agenda, push the biggest tax scam of all time, etc.

It’s interesting about CPAC. It used to be the confab of conservatives who would get together once a year but it’s not CPAC anymore, it hasn’t been since 2016. It’s now Trump-pac and should be TPAC. The people there talk about pro-tariffs, anti-justice, anti-law enforcement, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, pro-Russia, pro-autocrat. It’s unrecognizable what Donald Trump has done to the party and what he’s done to the conservative movement. It’s a shame.

Let’s hear it for the sincerity of conservatives everywhere.

6. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise: 

As the meme above shows Scalise, a republican from Louisiana, is a top-level hypocrite. In July, he took exception to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley staging a July press conference to call for the impeachment of his beloved president.

We expressed our disagreements in a respectful way.

Scalise said he felt that “The Squad” was being disrespectful but he was, of course, wrong. “The Squad” was being respectful of the Constitution and the oath that they swore, something Scalise and his kind seem incapable of. Scalise’s own squad certainly wasn’t at all respectful of President Obama when they called him a liar, even during one of his State Of The Union speeches, and sent each other emails with picture of President Obama with a bone in his nose or carrying a watermelon, plus going on FOX “News” to push their birther conspriracy.

7. Donald Trump, Again:

We’re doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich. I gave a tremendous tax cut and they’re loaded up with money.

Really? Are all those MAGA hat-wearing loons at his rallies feeling loaded up with money? Really? The saddest and most frightening thing is that they hear this from their god Trump and they cheer.

8. Stephanie Grisham, Current White House Press Secretary:

Stephanie Grisham is a one-woman insane quote machine. For whatever reasons, she doesn’t appear in public like her predecessor, but she’s at least the equal of Sarah Huckabee Sanders when it comes to “the crazy.”

I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great president.

Saturday Night Live Has It's Fingers Crossed, But Does Arkansas Deserve Governor Sarah Huckabee?

Most Americans see Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a professional liar. She’s a regular Saturday Night Live character always sure to earn some laughs. But if her native state of Arkansas, people see her not as a pathetic liar and a walking joke, but as their next governor. When Trumpanzee accepted her resignation, he suggested she run for governor or one of the poorest and least educated states in the country. The daughter of governor, she was already looking into that by then.

Today CBS News reported that her team had already polled the state and found it a slam dunk— both in the GOP primary and in the general election. Remember, Arkansas is now one of the reddest states in the union. Trump beat the state’s former First Lady in 2016, 684,872 (60.5%) to 380,494 (33.6%) Hillary won only 8 of the state’s 75 counties. The PVI is R+15, even worse than Alabama and Tennessee. Once of the bluest states in the Union, only Republicans get elected there now and the Democratic Party is moribund and withered. Of the 35 state senators, just 9 are Democrats and the House is now 76 Republican to 24 Democrats. The state’s entire delegation to Washington is also Republican.

CBS News reported that “The results of the poll, conducted several weeks ago, showed Sanders ‘crushing’ any potential Republican rivals, including current Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin who has been eyeing a run, according to sources. Those close to Sanders confirm she is ‘seriously considering’ a run for political office, and specifically the governor's seat after Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson's term ends. However, Sanders is adamant she will not make a final decision on whether to run for the seat that her father Mike Huckabee once for at least two years. The next gubernatorial race will be in 2022… If Sanders does decide to run for governor in 2022, she would have the support of President Trump and a network of formidable supporters waiting in the wings.” By then Trump is likely to be out of the White House and likely to be dealing with legal problems.

"Huckabee is still a magic name in Arkansas," said Rollins, who was President Ronald Reagan's campaign manager in the 1984 election and is currently co-chairman of the pro-Trump Great America PAC. "If she wants to run she will be tough to beat."

"She has 100% name ID, the strong backing of the president and deep ties back home," Raj Shah, Sanders' former principal deputy press secretary, told CBS News. "She would be an instant frontrunner the moment she jumped into the race."

"And having worked alongside her, I've seen her unique ability to connect and carry a message. Sarah would be very hard to beat," he added.

Leading up to Sanders' decision to leave the White House, the president had been asking Sanders whether she was going to run for governor, and had even playfully started calling her "governor."

Griffin, the current lieutenant governor and a likely 2022 gubernatorial candidate, has been angrily calling contacts in Washington and Arkansas, fuming over Sander's possible entrance into the race, according to sources who have received his calls.

"There are probably a number of Democrats who would love to step up and challenge Sarah Huckabee Sanders if she was going to be the nominee," state Democratic Party Chairman Michael John Gray told the Associated Press.

Sanders last day at the White House will be at the end of June. The very next day,  she and her young family will return home to Arkansas.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

I hope that it will be that I showed up every day and I did the very best job that I could to put forward the president's message... to do the best job that I could to answer questions. To be transparent and honest throughout that process and do everything I could to make America a little better that day than it was the day before.

Cue the laughter. Throw the tomatoes. That was republican icon and be best liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying how she wanted to be remembered back in December just before Christmas, a kind of Christmas present of laughter to, or more importantly, at America. Now she's quitting and it's Bring On The Next Goon time.

Even those who have dedicated their lives to evil have a breaking point, sometimes. Was her boss's treasonous "collusion please" interview with George Stephanopoulos the bridge too far? Hard to believe since SHS had already shown that she's a true believer and had no problem making up alternate realities to protect dear leader. It's not like she ever disagreed with him on anything but, there is the cumulative burden of having to be a lightning rod for one such as Trump, every damn day after damn day. She'd already cut down her public appearances three months ago. That led some people to wonder if she had a physical health issue to go with her more obvious mental health problems.

So what now, for Sarah? Will she now go work for Judge Roy Moore in Alabama? While I see her as ending up on some Florida carny row biting the heads of chickens, the story is that SHS is going back to the shithole state from which she came, aka Arkansas. Trump tweeted that she should run for governor. Certainly, the bar is low enough, but maybe she'll just go back home and join her brother in torturing dogs, or, join her father in being a top champion of homophobia. Perhaps she could be a press secretary for a local KKK chapter. The vistas are wide open for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And, she'll have no problem getting service in the restaurants in Little Rock.

And I hope to be remembered as a virgin.
- Stormy Daniels, in her eye-rolling response to Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

And you were wondering how Sarah can possibly still have a job at the White House!

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Well, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is all set for Halloween, but isn't she always? I don't mean that in a cruel sense. It's more of an awe thing. But, here she is in tonight's meme, dressed as the redacted Mueller report. It's even "better" than that 1947 table cloth thing she sometimes wears. Who knew wearing Jail Jammies at the White House was a thing, but, it is damn appropriate! I don't know who dresses her but that person should get some sort of Emmy Award when the prizes for this way too long running TV series are handed out.

Why is it that everyone in the Trump administration always looks like they're dressed for Halloween? There's Trump himself, of course, with that orange skin, the freaky-deaky hair, and that saggy sick white skin around his eyes. Then there was Sean "Spicy" Spicer who dressed like a bush on the White House lawn, Steve Bannon dressed as a scarecrow... Stephen Miller? I have no idea what that one's supposed to be but it sure looks hideous and it's more than that close resemblance to Goebbels. Mike Pence? He may be the best example of the horrific deformity of a soul being reflected in the outward appearance of a human being. Kellyanne Conway? C'mon! This is a freakshow, a real zoo, right? Freaks come out at night, and daytime, too! If you saw Don Jr. on the street and didn't know who he was, you'd just say to yourself, "poor guy." And don't forget that wacko Dr. Bornstein. Where do they get these people? Just think of the ones we never see. Think of what people they must keep hidden in the dark, damp, spider-infested corners of the White House that we never get to see in front of the cameras. It's probably one big Gahan Wilson cartoon inside 1600. If Trump ever leaves office, I hope Tim Burton makes the movie.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Look at that worshipful gaze! It's the look of a woman in the full flower of love in the springtime! The object of her affections can do no wrong! It's love, baby!

It's also the look of a classic cultist. I've see pictures of Squeaky Fromme and Charlie Manson that have this same look. All that's missing is the swastika carved into Trump's combed-over forehead, but rest assured, Sarah Huckabee Sanders sees it there and bows down before it whether it's physically there or not. If Sarah had any friends or relatives of sound mind, they'd be trying an intervention.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Presidential Spokesgoon Sarah Huckabee Sanders: She was gone for 81 days, but White House Communications Director Bill Shine was "relocated" and out from the White House attic closet, a closet like the one her parents must have kept her in for the first 18 years of her life, came Sarah to show the assembled press folks her mastery of depraved lunacy. Once again, Trump had need of her. To him, and maybe to him only, things just weren't insane enough since her disappearance. Once again, he needed "The Specialist." He needed the one person who can almost match him in his arrogance and babbling insanity. It was as if her role was to emphasize that there would be at least 6 more weeks of Devil propelled mayhem. At least. 6x6x6 in fact.

It's almost as if the Trump White House has their own version of The Bat Signal, only it throws the image of a cackling witch across the Washington sky. In any event, on Monday, there she was, hair washed, trimmed, uncaked and unknotted, face washed, and ready to go. Trump had new tropes to project on to others, most obviously the one about Democrats hating Jews. She vomited it out there as if her head, if that is her head, was doing high speed 360 degree spins that no priest in the world could stop. She even combined the "Democrats hate Jews" with "Democrats Rip Babies From Their Wombs." All in one sentence. She relished her evil. You could see Goebbels on her shoulder, egging her on. She stopped just short of telling the assembled press corps that democrats eat fetuses but you could tell it was right on the tip of her multi-forked demon tongue. Maybe next time.

The press? Why are they even there? They get all dressed up for this. Nice professional business clothes. I've seen geeks bite the heads off of live chickens on carny rows in places like Florida and Alabama. Believe me, you don't have to get dressed up. If the press shows up at all, the next time they should dress with the respect that Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserves. Cut-off sweatpants and a mustard-stained tie-dye Bugs Bunny t-shirt will do the trick. Bring some cotton candy. Don't ask questions. Just watch. Just stare at her until she gets so frustrated and flustered that she loses it completely and the Secret Service carts her away on a wagon. It can't happen soon enough.

Oh, and Donald, if you're reading this; I couldn't help but notice that Sarah's hands are bigger than yours. Much bigger. How does that make you feel? Do you wanna talk about that?

2018 In Review - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Punches Her Own Ticket To Hell. The Whole World Is Watching, Part 1

by Noah

This marks the first installment of my annual year in review which has been going on for about 10 years now. As I write this, I have no precise idea as to how many installments there will be this year. The news of the ongoing societal debacle just keeps on coming! For this year, I’ve chosen a title that relates to an earlier period of domestic chaos, and, yes, though I realize that not everybody is watching, far more people than the usual number of people are, both outside our borders and within, but not nearly enough to effect any significant change yet. You know what they say about power corrupting. Willful blindness has much the same result.

So now, Part 1. Ordinarily, I would just continue to use or create memes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders just for my Midnight Meme posts, but SHS does deserve special year-end treatment. She does deserve to be one of those freaks who gets singled out just because of who and what she is, and the malignancy that she has made of herself all year. She has to be one of the most completely ludicrous creatures ever to smear the TV screen as she slid across it like a slug in 2018. All year long, she has been an affront to reality. Her complete soullessness and rabid dishonesty are a thing to behold, but only if you have a strong mind and stomach. Was she home-schooled in the art of the lie? If so, she failed but she gets an A+ for effort. She is the face and voice of the Trump administration almost as much as the madman himself. It makes sense to start my year in review with a look at just one of her mind-boggling, breath-sucking statements of lunacy.

Huckabee Sanders is more than just proof of what typical Republicans are. She also leads one to suspect that inbreeding in the Ozarks is not a thing of the past. That would explain a lot but what explains her compulsion to lie. If her boss ever saw that her lying ability almost competes with his, he would can her out of jealousy. It can’t just be the money with Sarah. That would be damning but it has to be more. No, SHS is so far gone or such a malevolent cretin that it has to be more than the money. So, no Sarah, I won’t call you just a tasteless republican whore for Trump. You are much worse than that.

Sarah has pushed it way too far. The final blow came today, a cold day in December when I read this headline in HUFF-PO: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wants To Be Remembered For Being 'Transparent And Honest'.

I’m so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read the above headline. My computer might have short-circuited as I sprayed my drink. Obviously, self-awareness is not one of Sarah’s strong points, if there are any at all. It’s a minor miracle that the Internet can handle her daily statements without crashing down to a week-long halt as it is. But, immediately all sorts of things I myself might want to be remembered for if I was half the lunatic Sarah is rushed to the forefront of my mind. SHS unleashed a torrent from my sub-conscious mind! No, I didn’t think of a thousand ways to kill her. That would be mean, justifiable probably, but mean. I had to make a note of them all. Some of these things are more realistic than others. If she can indulge in such ridiculous requests, so can us all. Here be mine! They are every bit as realistic as her wish to be remembered for honesty and transparency.

• I would like to be remembered for being the first person on the Moon.
• I would like to be remembered even more for being the first person on Mars
• I would like to be remembered as the person who worked out the so far elusive Theory of Everything, the hypothetical all-encompassing framework of all relationships of the physical universe. Sarah Huckabee Sanders might as well be claiming the same thing as the things she claims every day. It would be just as believable.
• I would like to be remembered for coming up with an easy home remedy for curing cancer but then Big PhRMA would kill me so…

OK. That’s it for science. SHS doesn’t believe in science anyway. No one at the Trump White House does. So here are some additional things I’d like to be remembered for. As far, far fetched as they are, they all have more of a chance of actually coming to pass as Sarah Huckabee Sanders or any current White House employee of republican politician for that matter being remembered for honesty; treason and white supremacy views, yes, but honesty? Not a chance.

• I would like to be remembered as the guy who succeeded Roger Maris playing right field for the New York Yankees and breaking his home run record. Oh well, I wasn’t quite old enough at the time anyway.
• I would like to be remembered for being the person who could really get pigs to not only fly but fly coast to coast in 1 hour or less, or maybe magic carpets. That might be more useful.
• I really want to be remembered for attending a Trump rally and, with a wave of my hand, make his hair disappear. Then, with the next wave, all of his clothes, His cult followers would, of course, say how much they love his new clothes.
• I would love to be remembered as the guy who obtained the gift of invisibility and roamed around the White House and the offices of Republican senators and congressmen sending objects through the air, pouring drinks on them as they spoke their bullcrap on live TV, giving them wedgies, etc. Things would get really great when they called in their phony “men of god” in an attempt to rectify the situation.

OK. None of the above from my lists are realistic. See, I am being transparent and honest. Sarah needs to aim a little bit lower. I did that by the time I finished high school. The path she mentions is forever lost to her. Sarah, if you’re reading this (or somebody is reading it to you), it’s not too late to turn over a new leaf in what’s left of your mind. After all, your boss is all about raking.

And speaking of Sarah being an affront to reality:

The Emperor Has No Mind

by Noah

Nixon was pretty damn bad. We knew he was a bad guy. He’d given some signs of mental instability too, perhaps most notably with his 1962 “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore” speech. Sadly we did 6 years later. But, it wasn’t until he was heading for his exit that we learned just how wacked out he was. Now we have Donald Trump. Like with Nixon, the signs were there before he got "elected" President. It was even more obvious, but his voters went to the parade and saw what they wanted to see and saw what they were told to see by the corporate media.

What we have here in Donald Trump and his supporters is a variation of the old Emperor Has No Clothes thing. He acts like he should be bowed down to by all, as if he was an emperor or dictator. His enablers and supporters look at him and they refuse to see the reality that their "president" is stark, raving mad and could destroy us all, including them, if he isn’t stopped. A madman can lose his mind but that doesn’t mean he can’t plot his trajectory, and ours, every day.

Crazy as he is, he is able to deliberately create chaos. He does it in order to achieve a result. History and comic books are full of truly evil and demented people like Donald Trump. Consider Trump a real life example of The Joker from the Batman comics, a twisted man bent on creating mayhem simply for his own gratification and personal gain.

On Wednesday, the day after the elections turned over the control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats, Trump was fuming and panic stricken over what he correctly saw as a rapidly coming future of at least some level of reckoning. For the first time in his life, at least since he and his father lost a racial bias court case or two in New York, Trump stands to face, if not some accountability, some high profile exposure of his misdeeds and criminality. He knows that his obsequious cabana boy, California Rep. Devin Nunes, is no longer in charge of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Come January, California's Rep. Adam Schiff will be.

So, what was a sniveling caged rat in a freaked out panic state of feverish mental illness like Donald Trump to do? Ever the marketing man, he knew a smokescreen, a distraction was required and it had to be an elaborate one. He would hold a long and rambling press conference. Don’t look over there! Look here! He would pretend the takeover of the House was meaningless, almost never happened. Takeover? What takeover? Ditto for the losses of governorships and state legislatures. He would play up the Senate victories and he would display his vile, virulent pettiness and mock those in his own party who lost House and Senate races as getting what they deserved for not embracing and praising him at every opportunity. He would, once again, attack the press as “the enemy of the people” when it is only the perceived enemy of himself. His mobster-style message to all was “If you don’t kiss my ring and kiss my ass, then bad things will happen to you.“ In so doing, he once again displayed his massive insecurities and psychosis; something a person in full control of their mind would never do, certainly not live on national TV.

As if to deliberately reveal how far gone Trump’s aides are, one of them was heard to say words to the effect that “this is going to be great” as Trump waddled into the room to give his version of the theater of the absurd. What followed could just be titled “President Crazy Pants Loses It On National TV For An Hour And A Half” or, perhaps, “The Crackup Of A President” or some thing similar.

It backfired. Trump could not control his mind and he went off the deep end. He went way too far. He was more than confrontational, petulant and belligerent as he fumbled at his podium and stalked around it aimlessly like a deranged street person. His mental illness is in full bloom now. It's more out in the open than ever before. Only his support group of fellow crazies could possibly look at the actual film of the press conference and see it otherwise and they did. FOX “News” reported that CNN reporter Jim Acosta “strong-armed” a female intern who Trump had sent to seize his microphone. Nothing could be further from the truth of course, as film of the entire incident clearly shows, but FOX “News” and their White House partner showed the public a doctored version of the film of the incident that had been made by another one of Trumpanzee’s favorite “news” outlets, Alex Jones’ Infowars. When you’re afflicted with Republican Insanity Syndrome, the truth is not the truth.

The White House’s presentation of the Alex Jones video recreation of the Acosta incident did nothing to change the minds of sane people but it was a real Goebbels moment. In tandem with their presentation of genuinely fake news, however, the White House revoked Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials. Trump sent out Sarah Huckabbee Sanders to lie to the world about what everyone had seen with their own eyes on live TV; and lie she did with all of her customary great fervor; falsely accusing Acosta of putting his hands on the female intern. It was a perfect manifestation of the Republican “truth is not the truth” way of life. That girl Sarah was born to lie! But, born of what, who knows?

I’m actually happy for Acosta. I know he must be disappointed and frustrated at the turn of events but I know I wouldn’t want the job of visiting an insane asylum every day forever. Having to constantly look in on the insane likes of sociopaths like Stephen Miller, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, John Kelly and all the rest of Trump’s servile toadies is bound to take its toll. It has to be one of the very most depressing jobs in journalism, right up there with seeing kids in cages, reporting on people who are doomed to die simply because they can’t afford proper medical care, or listening to Eric and Donnie Jr. talk.

Once the whole press conference debacle blew up in their faces, Trump and his White House needed yet another “event” to redirect the spotlight yet again. They came up with a doozy, they pulled out AG Jeff Sessions’ resignation “at your request” letter. Yeah, that’s going over real big, just like Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre. Sessions is now free to go home to Alabama and bake swastika cookies for the rest of his days, but odds are, he will try to run for the Senate. Oh joy!

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Sunday Thoughts:

I feel bad that I've been ignoring Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She works so hard at being what she is. And, so since it's Sunday, I offer this prayer:

Dear Lord,

Please forgive me for ignoring Sarah the last several weeks. It's not that I haven't been noticing her depraved attitude and pathologically nihilistic behavior. It's just that there have been so many other bozo eruptions coming from Washington. Hell (forgive me again) I don't know how even you can keep up with them all!

I don't know what your purpose in even having people like Sarah on our Earth could possibly be, but, hey, that's why you are God and I am not. Obviously, you're quite a sick practical joker. I can understand why you hate us but please have mercy oh Lord! Forgive us our transgressions! Give us the rare intelligence and moral strength to rid our land of such pestilence. Mind you, unleashing a plague millions of Washington's famously huge and aggressive rats upon the real vermin of the city wouldn't be a bad idea either; perfectly acceptable in fact. Could we have the rats drop from the ceiling onto her podium while she's lying, please?

Thank you for listening oh Lord,

Noah

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Dateline Washington:

The White House today proudly issued two new photographs taken during President Trump's recent extremely successful European Tour. Said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of the first photo:

The photo of President Trump with President Putin shows the world that these two fine men share more than just their titles. As you can see, our president and the Russian president have similar fashion sense and get along fabulously. As President Trump has said on more than one occasion, there is nothing wrong with making friends, especially Russian friends. That's a good thing, a very good thing. Believe me.

Asked to comment on the second photo of President Trump with various NATO leaders, Sanders had this to say:

The photo of our president in Stroller One shows how well-liked President Trump is in the world community. World leaders will do anything to help our leader of the free world. Also, I would like to point out that, contrary to you in the the fake news media say, the photo proves that President Trump is thoroughly in support of alternative forms of energy.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Sunday Thoughts:

Can you imagine finding out that Sarah Huckabee Sanders could be your kid's Sunday School teacher? This is a woman who cited Romans 13 (the same verse was used to justify slavery and Hitler's Nazi movement) as biblical proof that it was perfectly OK to rip babies from their mother's arms and tell them that they will never see their child again. Sanders would, therefore, likely bring a new interpretation to the Matthew 19 Jesus quote "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Think twice before you'd let your kid walk off with Sanders. She's a walking, talking Halloween movie in more ways than one.

The man who raised Ms. SHS is, of course, Rev. Mike Huckabee. That doesn't just explain her lack of character. It also raises a big red flag. The biggest red flag, a tremendous red flag. There are role models and there are reverse role models. Sunday School just isn't what it used to be. Be aware. Her bible is obviously not your bible. And you thought it was only the priests that might adversely affect your child's well-being. If you see this woman, say something.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

There's been so much chatter about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her visit to the highly rated Red Hen in Lexington, VA. the last few days. Reservations even ticked up and the place is now booked for 4 solid weeks thanks to supporter reaction to the grossly immature tweets of Sanders and her boss but, now, according to Friday morning reports, the restaurant will close until July 5th so things can cool down. The Red Hen’s owner, Stephanie Wilkinson has also decided to leave her position as the director of local business group Main Street Lexington so as not to hurt the interests of other local businesses. Laughably, Trump supporters have been protesting outside the restaurant calling for, get this- tolerance and civility! Like I always say, republicans have no sense of irony. The republican brand is intolerance to its core. Their president can’t go 5 minutes without being uncivil to someone somewhere.

For me, it all boils down to this:

Dear Sarah Huckabee Sanders,

What goes around comes around.

With all due respect,

Noah

Not to worry, DWT readers. I have zero respect for the putrid, fetid likes of Ms. Sanders. All of my adult life (and even before) the phrase "with all due respect" has meant "respect if any is due" which, in this case, none is, and any respect that Sarah may have once had because of her position has been irresponsibly frittered away.

My sympathies go to the owner of The Red Hen. She was in a very real dilemma. On the one hand, she probably didn't want a repeat of Kristjen Nielsen's being shouted out of a restaurant. On the other hand, it was blatantly obvious about how the rest of the restaurant's staff felt. There's also the moral issue. Plus, would you want to go down in history as a person who welcomed a person who models herself after Josef Goebbels, another pathological liar of evil intent, to your place of business?

The Red Hen did Sarah Huckabee Sanders a big favor. I know that, had I been working in the kitchen, Sarah's happy meal would have had a little something extra in it before it left the kitchen. Perhaps the manager knew this and Sanders owes her a thank you. Personally, I would have probably pissed in her soup or done something similar while the air mysteriously left all four tires of her car as it sat in the parking lot. With only a hint of a smirk, I don't mind being the instrument of karmic payback.

Next time, Sarah, why not stay home and bake a cake or a half-dozen pies for dinner. You could even stay at the office and chomp down a few buckets of KFC with sides of mashed potatoes with your boss. If you do have to eat out, may I suggest that Chick-fil-A would welcome someone like you with wide-open arms?

Does It Surprise You To Know That Eating At An Over-Priced Trump Restaurant Is Like Eating Off The Floor Of A Public Toilet?

You'll have to click on the image before you figure out how to react if you see any of them in a restaurant

The ugly imbecile and illegitimate "president" of the U.S.-- who had millions of votes less than Hillary Clinton, the people's choice and who was helped by a foreign power (Russia) who wanted to cripple America by installing an incompetent moron-- is, in case you forgot, a gaslighting racist. In true Goebbels fashion, he repeated his ridiculous projection that Maxine Waters is "an extraordinarily low IQ person," which she isn't... but he is.

After the heroic ostracism of Huckabee's vile daughter at the Red Hen in Virginia-- which followed public humiliations of White House Nazi Stephen Miller and of child kidnapper Kirstjen Nielsen at other restaurants-- Congresswoman Waters told her supporters at a rally in Los Angeles, "if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." Trump immediately tried to twist that from a call to disturb his Cabinet enablers to an attack against all Trump supporters, another in a long list of lies.

Meanwhile, Trump, who owns filthy restaurants and hotels that are always being fined for health-code violations, decided to project his sickening and unsafe establishments onto the Red Hen. "The Red Hen Restaurant," he lied like a spoiled 6-year old, "should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside." His own restaurants may look good-- if faux glitzy-- on the outside by are virtually sewers on the inside.

In contrast to Trump's pigstyes, Virginia authorities found no violations when they visited the Red Hen in Lexington in February and gave the Red Hen their top possible health-risk rating. All of Trump's restaurants fail health inspections regularly and you actually take your health into your hands by eating anything served by his filthy kitchens. The most recent inspection at his DC hotel found 10 health-code violations, including raw meat stored above ready-to-eat foods and containers of flour stored next to a hand sink that lacked a splash guard. Inspectors also found that the hotel was operating a number of on-site kitchens without city permits. When inspectors dropped by for a follow-up inspection 3 months later, they found that Trumpanzee's hotel had failed to correct the violations and alerted the public that eating there was risky. Even with an inspector in the kitchen one Trump employee, the report states, "dropped an empty pan on the floor and then put it inside a refrigerator" without washing it or even wiping it.

Mar-a-Lago is even worse-- getting 51 health code violations in the last 5 years, not counting the 30 violations at the beach club. The notoriously filthy Doral golf club in Florida was really disgusting and unsafe, with 524 violations in the last 5 years-- some extremely serious-- for which Trump was fined. There were dozens of cockroaches all over the kitchen-- some dead and some alive-- as well as "slimy/mold-like build-up” everywhere in the kitchen.

Would you patronize a restaurant that served people like these?

Republican Trump Enablers Getting Kicked Out Of Restaurants

Hitler thought it up but he could never have done it on his own. He needed enablers and rubber stamps. Same with Trump, of course. So far, as far as we know, only 3 of Trump's henchmen-- Stephen Miller, Kirstjen Nielsen and Sarah Huckabee Sanders-- have been publicly humiliated and thrown out of restaurants.

A couple of days ago, Ben Fearnow, writing for Newsweek reported that Trump's immigration policy architect Stephen Miller was "heckled and called a “fascist” by patrons at a Mexican restaurant in Washington."

Two days before Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was ridiculed by protestors at MXDC Cocina Mexicana, Miller was approached by customers asking if the “real-life fascist” would beg for money for “new cages.” The “zero tolerance” immigration hard-liner had the Espita Mezcaleria encounter Sunday amid intense backlash against a now-reversed policy to separate migrant children from their families. Both Nielsen and Miller’s Mexican restaurant incidents have prompted a deluge of self-proclaimed supporters of President Donald Trump to hit both D.C. establishments with one-star reviews and nasty comments.

...Miller, who was previously communications director for then-Senator Jeff Sessions, called the Trump administration’s policy to separate children from parents who illegally cross the U.S. border a “simple decision,” the New York Times reported. Miller’s vocal and unequivocal stance on immigration culminated with a Wednesday story from the Splinter News website that revealed his cell phone number that caused the publication to be banned briefly from Twitter.

DHS Secretary Nielsen’s Mexican restaurant run-in at DXDC Cocina Mexicana Tuesday evening saw patrons and protesters shouting “shame” and “end Texas concentration camps” as she dined at the D.C. establishment. A barrage of negative, one-star reviews have since littered DXDC Cocina Mexicana’s Google, Yelp and other online review pages for allowing the “leftist anarchists” to disrupt Nielsen’s dinner.

Huckabee's daughter tweeted early this morning that the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia kicked her out of his restaurant Friday night. According to the owner, she was kicked out on moral grounds (and after the staff voted to do so)-- the exact right reason she should have been! We need a lot more of that from courageous American patriots.

I remember years and years ago I was sitting and having dinner when an old friend and his friends walked in and sat down at a table near ours. In a few minutes he noticed another table with 3 gay guys and bigoted Republican hypocrite Ann Coulter. My friend started exploding at her, loudly and very pointedly. I can't remember if he left (I don't think so) or she left (I do think so). It was a gay restaurant in WEHO. He's a deputy mayor of Los Angeles now.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

It's hard for me to listen to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. When I see her on my TV, I can't change the channel fast enough. I wish my remote had some sort of instant voice command feature that responds to me growling "Screw you Sarah," or similar. Sometimes, I even think that Trumpanzee is just trolling us by putting her out there every day. He probably puts her out there knowing that she absorbs a lot of hate that might otherwise be directed at him. Not to worry Donnie Short Hands, there's plenty of hate for you. You are a supreme generator of hate, the best, most tremendous generator of hate. There will always be plenty for you, even after you're gone. You are a magnet.

But Sarah; I see Sarah and I hear the Deliverance theme song. I also see her representing the lack of intellectual capacity that comes with being a conservative. This White House, most of all, has demonstrated once and for all how conservatives can only think on one level or in one direction at a time. It's inconceivable to people like those who currently infest the White House and Congress that people can think on two levels at once.

No, Sarah, as the meme says, we can multitask. You have it sideways. In fact, we hate you and your fascist, mentally ill boss because we love this country. We don't think like you and the rest of your Republican kind. Republicans march in lock step, loving their Trumpanzee, their Pences, their Ryans, their McConnells, their other conspiracy wackos, their "very fine people"... We would never regard the National Enquirer as the paper of record. Sarah, I just have one question for you tonight. I listen to your twisted, lying spew and I wonder; how often have you been raiding Dr. Ronny Jackson's candy cabinet?

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

-by Noah

Yeah, they do say the eyes are windows to the soul! So, I guess she's perfect for the Trumpanzee White House.

But... the last time I saw eyes like these, they belonged to a geek that was on a straw-covered stage, wearing a Pillsbury Flour sack, and biting the heads off of live chickens on a carny row in Florida. Funny thing is, the geek had a bit of an Arkansas accent.