Tweet a Twit
July 15, 2019 at 9:00 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Global warming, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Ann E. Marimow (Washington Post), Federal Appeals Court, Larry Neumeister (Associated Press), President Chump, Trump, Twitter
President Chump (Drawing from Dover Pictura, Fantasy Vector Designs, copyright 2010 by Dover Publications, Inc., used with permission.)
A Federal court recognized that President Chump often uses his tweets for official statements, and therefore ruled that because of the First Amendment to the Constitution, President Chump cannot block comments by the public on his twitter page.
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The ruling is described in an article by Larry Neumeister (Associated Press), and in an article by Ann E. Marimow (Washington Post).
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This ruling provides a precious channel for the public to:
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– refute President Chump’s lies and ignorant assertions, almost immediately after the twit has tweeted them, and before they can gain traction;
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– do so where Chump’s followers cannot avoid seeing the evidence that Chump is wrong;
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– provide ammunition that others can use in political and legal actions.
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Here are examples of comments to Chump’s tweets that thepoliblog – thanks to the court’s ruling – has been able to post on Chump’s twitter time-line (@realDonaldTrump):
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@realDonaldTrump, #PresidentChump, are you proud of what you tried to do to Vera Coking? (See here and here ) And YOU call OTHER people NASTY!
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#PresidentChump = President John Barron = President John Baron = President John Miller.
You pretended to the New York Times to be other people having insider information about the wealth and victories of Donald Trump. That was ACTUAL Fake News!
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Horrible abuses? #PresidentChump, you claim that you didn’t rape E. Jean Carroll because “she’s not my type”. Look at the photo in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll. In the mid-1990s she WAS your type. Lyin’ Donald Trump.
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#PresidentChump, you claim that you didn’t rape E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.
Your denial is less convincing now that you are doing the same thing to Lady Liberty.
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The United States WAS the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth before
you became #PresidentChump. You didn’t Make America Great Again,
you Made America Second Rate Again.
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The most harmful immigrants so far have been the ancestors of
#PresidentChump, and Rupert Murdoch.
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#PresidentChump, in 2002 you said of Jeffrey Epstein “… he likes beautiful women
as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” How young did you know about?
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thepoliblog is not the only person who uses the term President Chump.
While using twitter, you can find the many tweets that use that term by searching for that term, and also by searching for #PresidentChump.
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If you, too, adopt this term, you will help to turn it into a meme that will weaken Chump’s ability to damage the United States and other open, humane societies.
Mitch McConnell is Not a Patriotic American
July 1, 2019 at 8:52 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom | Leave a comment
Mitch McConnell at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
Any patriotic American would want to expose foreign interference in American elections, and would want to do everything possible to defend against future interference.
Mitch McConnell does the opposite.
It follows, by air-tight logic, that Mitch McConnell is not a patriotic American.
Mitch McConnell is instead like Devin Nunes. Mitch McConnell is like Jim Jordan. Each of them tries to obstruct efforts to characterize and to defend against Putin’s interference in American elections. Hence none of them are patriotic Americans.
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It is hypocritical of Mitch McConnell to participate in the celebration of the 4th of July.
If he were honest, Mitch McConnell would renounce his American citizenship, and would become a citizen of Russia.
But Mitch McConnell is not honest.
Do the citizens of Kentucky realize what they have done?
Official portrait of Vladimir Putin (2006). This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is copyrighted.
Healthcare For All versus Medicare for All
June 29, 2019 at 3:10 pm | Posted in Enemies of Freedom, Fairness, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Democratic Primaries, Health Care, Healthcare For All, Medicare for All
U.S. Air Force surgeons Dr. Patrick Miller (left), Dr. Michael Hughes (right), and surgical technician SrA Ray Wilson from the 379th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, repair the ruptured achilles tendon of a servicemember on March 11, 2003. The doctors are performing this surgey at a field hospital in a forward-deployed location.
For people who are currently satisfied with their health insurance, forcing them to replace their insurance by Medicare would be a coercive version of Health Care For All. A non-coercive Health Care For All would include the option of private insurance.
People who are currently satisfied with their health insurance are numerous, and a larger percentage of them vote than do those in the general population.
For this large bloc of people, insisting upon Medicare For All would be a show-stopper, in the sense that these people (myself included) cannot vote for any candidate who insists on Medicare For All, no matter how many other good positions are espoused by that candidate.
By insisting upon Medicare For All, a candidate needlessly loses a very significant number of votes.
President Chump: A Contest
June 28, 2019 at 3:03 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Climate change, Conceited, Crime and punishment, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Fairness, Global warming, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: E. Jean Carroll, President Chump, rape, Statue of Liberty, Trump
Scary Clown, photographed by Graeme Maclean in 2005.
The skillfull, aristrocratic hippie poet Lord Byron was described as being “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”
That was astute but exaggerated in Byron’s case. It is an apt and unexaggerated characterization of America’s sleaziest, most dishonest, and stupidest President: President Chump.
There is new evidence evidence that President Chump is indeed the Creepy Clown in the White House: here1, here2, here3, here4, here5:
Here are a few tweets (here) about this episode, followed by a suggestion for a political cartoon based upon this incident, and then the announcement of a contest to draw the best version of that political cartoon:
– If what E. Jean Carroll says is true, #PresidentChump attempted rape.
He should be tried.
If convicted, he should go to jail, and should be required to register as a sex offender.
– #PresidentChump claims the he didn’t rape E. Jean Carroll because
she “is not my type”.
Pause for a moment, to digest what Chump’s statement says about his character.
– #PresidentChump claims that he didn’t rape E. Jean Carroll because
“she’s not my type”. But Lady Liberty (the Statue of Liberty) is not his type either, and that hasn’t prevented Chump’s repeated attempts to penetrate her.
This would be a good two-panel cartoon:
Panel 1: Chump in 1995 or 1996, with his pants down and his back toward us, thrusting at E. Jean Carroll.
Panel 2: Chump in 2019, with his pants down (his rear end fatter and droopier than before) and his back toward us, thrusting at Lady Liberty.
If Chump’s campaign in 2020 wanted an honest emblem, that cartoon would be it.
Thepoliblog hereby announces a contest to produce the best version of that two-panel cartoon.
The winner – or winners – would reap no financial award, but would reap recognition and satisfaction, in having struck a forceful blow for humanity.
To enter, in the comments section of this blog indicate the URL of your entry.
Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on July 4
June 19, 2019 at 4:07 pm | Posted in Conceited, Disinformation, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Eugene Robinson, July 4, Lincoln Memorial, President Chump, Trump, Washington Post
Daniel Chester French’s statue at the Lincoln Memorial of Abraham Lincoln; photo by Jeff Kubina.
President Chump has inserted himself into this year’s July 4 celebration on the Mall.
That is clever, but evil.
Chump will be there to propagandize and mis-inform, not to elevate and inspire.
The Lincoln Memorial is a memorial to freedom, and July 4 is a date that memorializes freedom, unity, and rigorously thought-out principled choices.
Chump – an enemy of American values and of the free world – will pollute that place and that date by his presence, and by his words, and by his whole cast of mind.
If you will be near the Lincoln Memorial when Chump speaks, you might like to:
Bring a sign:
…………President Chump!
…………The Creepy Clown in the White House
…………Don’t Trumpollute the Lincoln Memorial!
…………President Chump, Enemy of the Free World
Chant:
…………..President Chump! President Chump!
…………………….Take him to the dump!
………….President Chump! Lock him up!
Each time he lies or advocates evil:
——–Boo loudly
——–shout “Liar!, Liar!”
If any entrepreneur is clever enough to be selling miniature Trump Baby balloons:
——–Jiggle yours, especially if the balloon is where Chump can’t avoid seeing it.
You might want to arrive early, to be close to the Lincoln Memorial,
so that cameras filming from the Memorial will show your balloon and signs.
Bring water!
Eugene Robinson, in an insightful column in the Washington Post, explains well the irony of Chump’s presence at this event. Here is a quote from Robinson’s column:
On Feb. 24, Trump posted this alarming tweet: “HOLD THE DATE!
We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C.,
on July 4th. It will be called ‘A Salute To America’ and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!”
Note the signature pretentiousness of Chump’s tweet: “the biggest“, and “your favorite President, me!” Notice also the other characteristic of Chump’s statements: the self-serving attempt to pre-empt the way you think about the importance of his speech, and how you categorize him.
Scary Clown, photographed by Graeme Maclean in 2005.
The Microphone Eaters
June 7, 2019 at 8:47 pm | Posted in Humor | Leave a comment
Huey Lewis performing at at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, FL on September 27, 2006; photo by Carl Lender at https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/ .
If you were the microphone in the picture above, wouldn’t you be terrified?
All of the singer’s belligerence – all of the singer’s vehemence – would be directed at you.
Wouldn’t you be revolted?
All of the singer’s drool would be directed at you. Yuck!
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In the past, singers did not appear to be trying to eat the microphone. They maintained a respectful distance. They treated the microphone as a fellow human being, rather than as food.
Chuck Berry on the television program The Midnight Special. Photo by NBC Television.
But that courtesy has vanished, as have so many other courtesies.
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Some rock concerts feature more than one singer. If the same microphone is used by all of them, each singer will be trying to eat the same microphone that all of the previous singers had tried to eat.
Is the microphone sterilized between singers? It should be.
If the same microphone is used by all, the probability that each singer catches a communicable disease will equal the number of previous speakers, times the probability that a random singer has a communicable disease.
Medical data on the singers would therefore enable us to measure the probability that rock singers have communicable diseases.
Wouldn’t that be usedul?
Religious or Moral Exemptions for Health Care Workers
May 3, 2019 at 5:34 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Fairness | Leave a commentTags: abortion, aid in dying, Amy Goldstein, Ariana Eunjung Cha, assisted suicide, birth control, Center for American Progress, Dennis Herrera, Louise Melling, Paige Winfield Cunningham, President Chump, Roger Severino, Sarah Lovenheim, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, sterilization, The National Women's Law Center, The Weldon Amendment, Trump, Washington Post, Xavier Becerra
U.S. Air Force surgeons Dr. Patrick Miller (left), Dr. Michael Hughes (right), and surgical technician SrA Ray Wilson from the 379th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, repair the ruptured achilles tendon of a servicemember on March 11, 2003. The doctors are performing this surgey at a field hospital in a forward-deployed location.
President Chump has just delighted religious conservatives by issuing a rule that will shield doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers who do not want to provide abortions, sterilizations, assisted suicide, unspecified provisions in Advance Directives (presumably statements such as “I do not want medical efforts to keep me alive if …”), compulsary vaccination (!), compulsary hearing screening, and compulsary treatment for mental health problems, and who do not want to even be obliged to tell or counsel patients about abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide.
Three informative news articles on this topic are here (by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Amy Goldstein), here (by Ariana Eunjung Cha), and here (by Paige Winfield Cunningham).
This is a short-sighted approach. It should lead to particular types of discrimination in hiring and employment.
In deciding whether to hire, or to re-assign or fire, or to promote a health-care worker, an employer has both the right and the duty to know whether the person is willing to perform all of the duties that are part of a given position, or is willing to perform only some of them. If only some of them, the employer has both the right and the duty to know which activities the employee will not perform.
The employer cannot wait for an emergency to obtain that information. The employer needs to know that information immediately, to ensure that all likely needs are adequately staffed by those who are willing to meet those needs. Any employer of health care workers therefore needs to require signed, witnessed statements by existing employees as well as by potential future employees.
The situation here is very much like that for concientious objectors in military service, except that heath care workers are typically not drafted into their health care roles.
The Weldon Amendment denies federal funds to Federal agencies, state agencies, and local governments if those government entities discriminate “on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions”. But that does not constrain non-govermental hospitals and medical practices.
This issue will inevitably be brought before the Supreme Court.
President Chump at Valley Forge
December 25, 2018 at 8:21 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Fairness, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Eugene Robinson, George Washington, Philip Rucker, President Chump, Trump, Valley Forge, Washington Post
Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge, John Ward Dunsmore, 1906
Shortly after noon on December 24, President Chump tweeted:
“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security.”
(Philip Rucker, in the Washington Post. The original tweet is here.)
This comes on top of President Chump’s repeated whining deceptive unpatriotic claim that the investigation of Putin’s interference in the US election in 2016 is “a witch hunt”.
All of these statements reek of self pity, and of trying to deflect blame.
Hence they reek of fear.
Can you imagine George Washington whining with self pity like that? Even during the cold, resource-starved, discouraging winter at Valley Forge?
Can you imagine George Washington trying to deflect blame?
President Chump – the weakest President we have ever had.
Because of his bottomless insecurity, President Chump claims superlatives whenever possible. But he did not realize that by his tweets he was inadvertantly claiming to be the ‘weakest President’.
Here are truthful superlatives that apply to President Chump:
– The largest number of whining tweets.
– The Whiner in Chief.
– The Chief Whino.
Eugene Robinson, in the Washington Post, has concisely summarized America’s greatest current problem:
“The chaos all around us is what happens when the nation elects an incompetent, narcissistic, impulsive and amoral man as president.”
“It is difficult, at the moment, to fully assess the damage Trump is wreaking. We have never had a president like him, so history is a poor guide. For his racism, we can perhaps look back to Woodrow Wilson; his general unfitness to hold the nation’s highest office recalls the hapless Andrew Johnson. Maybe Andrew Jackson was as impetuous, maybe Richard M. Nixon as venal.”
In connection with Andrew Jackson, “impetuous” should be expanded to “impetuous and cruel”. With that extension, the statement still applies to President Chump.
Mitch McConnell’s Conflict of Interest
October 14, 2018 at 5:37 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Dysfunctional Politics, Fairness, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: conflict of interest, Elaine Chao, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, President Chump, Trump, U.S. Constitution
Mitch McConnell at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
Mitch McConnell has a conflict of interest.
Elaine Chao, Trump’s Secretary of the Department of Transportation.
His wife, Elaine Chao, is Secretary of Transportation in President Chump’s Cabinet. Hence she is a member of the Trump Regime.
This explains why McConnell suddenly stopped barking at Trump, and now wags his tail instead.
This is a clear conflict of interest: a member of Congress is the spouse of a member of the executive branch. That undercuts the effectiveness of the Constitution’s deliberate separation of powers, which was intended to have each of the three branches of government prevent abuses and mistakes by the other two branches.
Instead of trying to temper the effects of his conflict of interest, McConnell has embraced them.
When Mitch McConnell refused to do his duty when Merrick Garland was nominated for the Supreme Court, he had abandoned most of his principles, but not all of them.
Now he has abandoned the rest.
Merrick Garland. This photograph was provided to the press by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2016 on the occasion of Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States by US President Barack Obama. At the time Garland was chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, having served as a federal judge on the court since 1997.
The New York Times Should Sue President Chump
October 8, 2018 at 8:08 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth | Leave a commentTags: Charles Harder, David A. Fahrenthold, David Barstow, Paul Farhi, President Chump, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, The New York Times, Trump, Washington Post
Upside-down version of Trump Sr. at Citizens United Freedom Summit in Greenville South Carolina May 2015, photo by Michael Vadon.
President Trump is his official name, but President Chump is his descriptive name.
Chump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, recently threatened that Chump might sue the New York Times for its explosive revelations about Chump’s tax dodges, and those of his father. Tuesday, October 2. David Fahrenthold’s article in the Washington Post is a useful summary, and includes two enlightening videos.
Also galling to Chump was the Times’ evidence that he was not at all a self-made man, but had a huge financial leg up, from his father.
As Paul Farhi notes in an article in the Washington Post, Chump often threatens to sue and then does not sue – exactly the behavior expended of a habitual bully such as himself.
My own reading is that Chump is especially unlikely to sue in this case, because doing so would subject his tax forms to scrutiny by a judge and a jury, and would force the revelation to the public of at least summaries of what he wants to hide.
The shenanigans in Chump’s tax forms are the reason that he never delivered on his repeated promises during the 2016 Presidential campaign that he would release his tax forms.
The New York Times should sue President Chump for libelling the professional integrity and due diligence of its reporters and editors, and the consequent damage the Times’ credibility and reputation, and to the credibility and reputation of the reporters and editors who worked on the story.
If the Times sued Chump, much of what Chump wants to hide would be revealed.
To sue would be the patriotic thing for the New York Times to do, as well as the direct way to undo Chump’s damage to the Times.
Besides defending the Times’ reputation, taking Chump to court would reap widespread public good will, and probably a significant number of new online subscribers.
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