Tweets by thepoliblog – 2
January 27, 2020 at 4:26 pm | Posted in Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Fairness, Global warming, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Chuck Schumer, Cipollone, Cory Booker, Dan Balz, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, E. J. Dionne Jr., Erin Chou, Eugene Robinson, Fiona Hill, Group of Seven, impeach, Jim Acosta, Jim Jordan, Joe Biden, John Delaney, John McCain, Kamala Harris, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Louis Gohmert, Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Narendra Modi, Pete Buttigieg, President Chump, Puerto Rico, Putin, Rudi Giuliani, Sekulow, Stepanie Grisham, Stephanie Grisham, Ted Lieu, Tom Perez, tweet, Twitter, US Congress, US Senate
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Here are newer tweets by thepoliblog.
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2019-08-23
#PresidentChump, you said that Xi Jingping is an enemy of the United States.
Xi is not the only enemy head of state.
Putin is another.
You are the third, and worst.
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2019-09-06
[@SpeakerPelosi, who noted that Chump opposed energy-efficient light bulbs.]
Who bought #PresidentChump this time?
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2019-09-06
[@SenSchumer]
If McConnell will only bring up bills that #PresidentChump supports,
then he is violating the Constitution by undermining its checks and balances.
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2019-09-09
After the Group of Seven met, the other leaders said,
“The US is not sending us their best.
It sent us an ignorant, insecure, bigoted groper and would-be rapist.“
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2019-09-09
[@drerinchou (Dr. Erin Chou)]
The Straight Pride marchers are as insecure as President Chump.
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2019-09-09
[@SenSchumer]
Trump is Putin’s chihuahua, and McConnell is Trump’s chihuahua.
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2019-10-09
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, ]@RepAdamSchiff, @SenSchumer
#PresidentChump claimed that he was worried about corruption in Ukraine.
But he didn’t say “I need you to do the right thing.”
He said, “I would like you to do us a favor though”. He asked for corruption.
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2019-10-19
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @RepAdamSchiff, @SenSchumer]
Why does #PresidentChump want to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty?
The editors of the Washington Post say that the treaty “monitors the conflict
in eastern Ukraine being fueled by Russia.”
Chump wants to aid Putin.
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2019-10-25
Medicare for all would be a Government monopoly of healthcare.
It would become like the VA at its worst, with no alternative.
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2019-10-25
To undo #PresidentChump’s damage:
Biden, who is electable, humane, and knowledgeable,
backed up by Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg (one as VP and one in the Cabinet),
and John Delaney, Cory Booker, and other good candidates in the Cabinet.
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2019-10-26
[@realDonaldTrump]
#PresidentChump, why isn’t your Twitter tag @realJohnBarron?
In pretending to be someone else, you tried to create REAL fake news!
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2019-11-22
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
Today’s Washington Post described Bernie Sanders as “staunchly liberal”.
Sanders is not liberal, he is statist. He is not a democratic socialist,
because he doesn’t like democracy.
Sanders wants Gov’t to be the only source of everything,
with no alternatives, no choice.
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2019-11-22
McConnell blocked sanctions on Russia
because after McC’s wife joined #PresidentChump’s administration,
McConnell ceased to be on our side. He became #MoscowMitch.
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2019-11-24
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
Fiona Hill’s words apply to Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy:
they “promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests”.
To help #PresidentChump, they have to help Putin. So they do.
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2019-12-02
@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez, @SenSchumer
Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy: Putin’s mouthpieces in the House.
Either unknowingly or knowingly. Stupid or disloyal or both. #Putin’sMouthpieces.
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2019-12-02
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump wants to build a #ChumpTower in one or more cities in Russia.
That is why he finds it convenient to believe Putin rather than the CIA.
President Chump is one of #Putin’sMouthpieces.
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2019-12-06
#PresidentChump was mocked at the NATO conference because he doesn’t favor
the free world. He is not the leader of the free world.
President Chump Made America Second Rate Again.
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2019-12-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump, you send asylum seekers back to dangerous areas.
Should Spain in the 1930s and 1940s have deported those who snuck into Spain to flee the Nazis and Vichy France? How was that different from refugees from gangs?
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2019-12-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump’s deferrment from the draft resulted from
a diagnosis of heel spurs made by a doctor whose office was rented from Fred Trump.
Chump’s walking never shows any effect of heel spurs.
Chump, prove that you really had heel spurs.
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2019-12-19
McConnell promises to lie under oath during Trump’s trial by the Senate.
Isn’t that impeachable? Cannot McConnel be at least censured?
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2019-12-20
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
President Chump’s post-impeachment message to Nancy Pelosi proves it:
#PresidentChump is a psychopath.
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2019-12-24
[@Spea[kerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @SenSchumer]
If McConnell blocks #PresidentChump’s Trump’s conviction on the current
bills of impeachment, Chump can be re-impeached on other counts.
This justifies Congress’ calls for hitherto refused testimony and information.
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2019-12-24
[@Eugene_Robinson]
As Eugene Robinson noted, Mark Galli’s editorial in Christianity Today said,
“Mr. Trump did not have a serious opportunity to offer his side of the story …”
#PresidentChump was offered that opportunity, but refused it.
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2019-12-24
Mahatma Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru would both be aghast at what that bigot Modi has done.
Narendra Modi spits on what India once stood for.
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2019-12-24
[comment to to a tweet by Jim Acosta about Trump’s claims about windmills]
#PresidentChump is too stupid to know when he sounds stupid.
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2019-12-26
A rare opportunity for #Republican Senators: #PresidentChump’s impeachment.
Return to classical Republicanism. Reclaim your honor.
Disassociate from #MoscowMitch.
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2019-12-26
#Republican Senators: switch back from Putin’s side to the American side:
expel the creepy clown in the White House.
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2019-12-26
If enough #Republican Senators vote to expel the creepy clown in the White
House, then neither the Chump nor his base would have a well-defined target.
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2020-01-07
[@LindseyGrahamSC]
Lindsey Graham, why did you stop being a patriot?
The answer: you thought it would boost your chance of being re-elected.
John McCain would have been ashamed of you. You should be, too.
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2020-01-07
@LindseyGrahamSC]
In the history books, you will be grouped with Devin Nunes and Louis Gohmert.
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2020-01-13
[@TomPerez, @Eugene_Robinson]
#PresidentChump: defective as a human being, and is destructive to America and to the free world.
But if Sanders becomes the Democratic candidate I will leave blank the Presidential line on the ballot.
Sanders would be as bad as Trump, but in a different way.
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See Heathcare For All? Yes! But Beware Medicare For All
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Erin Chou’s tweet that
“I’m puzzled by the growing number of so-called vegan products being peddled by Burger King and others. If I were a vegan, why would I want to support a business whose core is based on cruelty and slaughter?”]
Let them transition. Every increase in humaneness has been gradual.
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Nancy Pelosi’s tweet that
“After this weekend’s 6.0 earthquake, we continue to pray for our fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico. Trump Admin must quickly approve Governor’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration and stop withholding Congressionally appropriated funds to recover from 2017 hurricanes.”]
He’s withholding the Congressionally appropriated funds because he wants a favor, though.
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Jim Acosta’s tweet that
“Grisham defends Trump’s tweet of Schumer and Pelosi in traditional Muslim clothing: “I think the president is making clear that the democrats have been parroting Iranian talking points and almost taking the side of terrorists and those who were out to kill the Americans.”
Stephanie Grisham, the taxpayer funded Press Secretary, does not do her job.
Instead she creates disinformation.
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2020-01-16
[@Eugene_Robinson, @EJDionne]
E.J. Dionne Jr’s op-ed today mentioned “Rudi Giuliani’s unseemly efforts to undermine
our own ambassador to Ukraine”.
Giuliani’s actions were illegal for a US Citizen.
Lock him up!
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2020-01-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @danbalz]
Another #NeverSanders voter!
Make that #NeverSanders, #NeverTrump.
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2020-01-19
[A a comment to Ted Lieu tweet about Devin Nunes]
Nunes can’t change the fact that he will go down in history as one of Putin’s mouthpieces.
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2020-01-24
Every time McConnell is mentioned in connection with #Trump’s trial,
recall that McConnell’s wife is in Trump’s Cabinet.
Conflict of Interest!
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2020-01-24
[A comment on a tweet by Jim Acosta that
“Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn spent hours attacking Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key National Security Council aide who testified before Congress on the Ukraine scandal, on Twitter, including questioning the Purple Heart recipient’s patriotism”]
That proves that Marsha Blackburn is not a true patriot, and opposes those who are.
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2020-01-25
Washington Post headline: “defense [of #trump] will focus on Bidens”
Note the attempt to change the subject. Note the utter irrelevance.
This proves that Cipollone and Sekulow have no case – NOTHING!
Prevent Abuse by the Senate Majority Leader
September 27, 2019 at 8:13 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Fairness | Leave a commentTags: Constitution, Mitch McConnell, Senate
Mitch McConnell at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore. (For more imformation see Post 141 in theploblog’s index of posts.)
Mitch McConnell abuses his position as the Majority Leader of the Senate.
Mitch McConnell has declared himself to be the Senate’s Grim Reaper, a position not forseen in the Constitution.
He has declared that the Senate shall not even consider any bill that the President wouldn’t sign, thereby rendering empty the Constitution’s provision for Congress to overturn a Presidential veto – a central ingredient of the Constitution’s mandating of checks and balances, including Comgressional oversight of the Executive.
McConnell has unilaterally declared that no nomination by a President will be considered during that President’s last year, if that President was from the opposing party. He sneered that no such restriction would apply to a similar nomination by a President belonging to McConnell’s own party.
McConnell has obstructed efforts to protect the integrity of American elections.
McConnell has obstructed efforts to prevent sensible limitations on access to weapons that enable mass killings, despite the large majority of Americans that now favor such limitations.
The Senate Majority leader has too much power.
The writers of the Constitution never foresaw the possibility of this type of abuse of power by a Senator, and certainly wouldn’t have wanted it to occur.
Either the rules of the Senate must be changed to prevent this sort of abuse, or the Constitution must be amended to do so.
The rule should be that within 10 days of receiving a bill passed by the House or a nomination from the President, the whole availible body of the Senate shall vote on whether to have debates and a vote to approve or to disapprove the bill from the House, or the nomination by the President. This first vote does not require the Senators to have studied the prospective bill or candidate: they need only to have a rough sense of what the bill is about, or a rough sense of the nominee’s background. If at least 40% of the Senate votes to debate and then vote upon the House bill or on the Presidential nomination, the debate and the legally-binding vote shall occur in a timely fashion. Those who voted for the debate and the binding vote shall schedule the date for the binding vote, allowing adequate time for Senators to scrutinize the bill or to interview the candidate. The Majority Leader of the Senate shall have no special role in setting that date, and may participate in setting that date only if having voted for the debate and binding vote to occur.
Most of the procedures in a legislative body should be independent of which party currently dominates the membership of that body. Of course the outcomes of many of votes will be determined by the majority. But not all outcomes will ne determined that way: legislators have the right to not always vote the party line. McConnell’s rule takes away some of that freedom of conscience, and assumes that all voting will be by unchanging blocks.
Mitch McConnell has chosen to become one of the major villains in American history.
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.
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.
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.
Kavanaugh’s Rage Is Not Evidence of His Innocence
October 4, 2018 at 5:54 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Judicial Misjudgment, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, Brittney Martin and David A. Fahrenthold, Christine Blasey Ford, David Ignatius, E.J. Dionne Jr., Eugene Robinson, Lori Rozsa, Molly Roberts, Sarah Kaufman, Shamus Khan, Suniya S. Luthar, US Supreme Court, Washington Post
Photo in 1887 of the actor Richard Mansfield, by Henry Van der Weyde (1838-1924; London,
There is intense disagreement about Brett Kavanaugh’s fitness to become one of the Justices on the Supreme Court.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on September 27, 2018, the committee and the world tried to decide whether to believe Christine Blasey Ford’s assertion that a drunken Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a party when she was 15 years old, or whether to believe Kavanaugh’s denial.
Both Ford and Kavanaugh showed strong emotions during the hearing.
This post is about the interpretation of Kavanaugh’s rage, frustration, and dread.
Some Senators and others have interpreted Kavanaugh’s rage as evidence of his innocence. It is not.
About the diverse interpretations, see this article by Lori Rozsa , Brittney Martin and David A. Farenthold.
Kavanaugh’s rage is because the unwritten rules of entitlement that he absorbed as a teenager were violated: he was not allowed to escape being held accountable for acts for which only the less privileged were supposed to be held accountable.
Those rules said that anyone of his social class, of his wealth, with his connections, with his accomplishments and talent, would never suffer the consequences of breaking the rules that apply to lesser mortals.
These unwritten rules are exposed by Shamus Khan, in a revealing article in the Washington Post. Khan explains why Kavanaugh lies so readily, and so self-righteously. Khan also notes that privilege also makes some kids callous – a notable feature of Kavanaughs judicial rulings, of his work for George W. Bush. It would also lower his internal barriers to sexually abusing others. As noted in an article by Suniyah S. Luthar, those same unwritten rules, combined with greater resources, explain the surprising fact that rich kids are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol than are middle class kids or disadvantaged kids. That was another striking feature of the Kavanaugh’s behavior during high school and college.
Parenthetically, similar violations of expectations of special status underlie the rage of white supremicists and of male supremicists.
Kavanaugh also exhibited frustration. Based on media reports and on the current distribution of power between the two political parties, Kavanaugh had become convinced that his bid for a judgeship on the Supreme Court was unstoppable. But now his ascension to the Supreme Court is leaking away, and he doesn’t know how to stop the leak.
At the hearing, Kavanaugh also radiated dread. He knows that his wife and his daughters will no longer look up to him and trust him. He knows that friends and colleagues will re-evaluate him.
It is not just Kavanaugh’s past behavior that is at issue. His present behavior is problematic.
During the Senate hearing, Kavanaugh lied repeatedly, while under oath.
Eugene Robinson and David Ignatius give valuable insights about Kavanaugh’s lies and character.
Molly Roberts shows why it is quite believable that Christine Blasey Ford vividly remembers who attacker was, and who was laughing, while having difficulty remembering other details about the party at which Kavanaugh assaulted her.
Kavanaugh tried to evade answering inconvenient questions by attempting to change the subject (as Trump does). Kavanaugh tries to change a troublesome question about himself into an analogous question about his questioner.
Here is an example of his Kavanaugh’s deflection of an inconvenient question, as quoted from an article in the Washington Post by Sarah L. Kaufman
“He went back to being combative, even at times overly hot, inappropriate and rude. He challenged Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on her questions about whether he’d ever drunk so much his memory was affected. “Have you?” he said.”
A qualified judge would never have put up with a deflecting, topic-changing non-answer like that.
Kavanaugh also tried to claim that the accusations against him were part of a conspiracy. That was another misleading attempt at changing the subject. The time-line of Ford’s accusation refutes Kavanaugh’s claim, as is demonstrated by an editorial in the Washington Post.
Altogether, Kavanaugh’s behavior at the hearing was behavior he would not tolerate from any party who was appearing before him at a trial at which he was the Judge.
Kavanaugh lied repeatedly during the Senate hearing. He lied while under oath. E.J. Dionne Jr. has provided a superb account of Kavanaugh’s lies, and why Kavanaugh is unfit to be a judge. His article has links to extensive compilations of Kavanaugh’s lies. Eugene Robinson also has a penetrating account of Kavanaugh’s lies at the hearing, and how it shows Kavanaugh’s unfitness for serving as a judge.
Kavanaugh’s unjustified sense of entitlement, his lies in the Senate hearing, and his tactic of avoiding answering unwelcome questions by trying to change the subject, are all un-judgelike. They disqualify him from the Supreme Court.
His presence on the Supreme Court would further degrade respect for the Supreme Court’s decisions.
His defects also disqualify Kavanaugh from serving a a judge on any court, including the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which is the court he now serves on.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, why have you so sullied your judicial legacy, by recommending someone as unfit as Brett M. Kavanaugh?
Trumpkin Chumpkin for Halloween
September 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: and Trudeau, and Xi Jinping, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump Jr., Halloween, Hillary Clinton, John Baron, John Barron, John Miller, Macron, Merkel, New York Times, President Chump, President Obama, Putin's chihuahua, Rodrigo Duterte, Sergey Kislyak, Sergey Lavrov, Trump, Washington Post
A Trumpkin, a President Chumpkin, full of lies, cruelty, arrogance and ignorance. By thepoliblog .
Note the Trumpkin Chumpkin’s realistic features:
Lies issuing from both sides of his mouth.
Cruel teeth. This abominable person separates children from their parents, and then locks them up in a pantry, for later consumption.
Demented eyes, each looking anywhere except at the facts.
A nose for what his “base” wants to hear, regardless of its falsity.
President Chump tried to pin the label of treason on the anonymous White House official who wrote the OpEd in the New York Times.
Chump, it might be treason to your brand, but it is not treason to the United States.
Chump, treason is what occurred when you talked with Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak in what had formerly been the Oval Office of the White House, in May 2017. You pollute every person and every organization you touch. As long as your presence continues to pollute the White House, the Oval Office is transformed into the Offal Office, the Awful Office.
From President Chump’s mouth to Putin’s ear, via Lavrov and Kislyak.
Treason is Donald Jr’s “I love it!” in anticipation of the June 9, 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in 2016, where he expected to obtain damaging information that Russia had obtained about Hillary Clinton. Given Don’s expectations, his participation was treasonous, because he his statement indicates that he would have been willing to broadcast information obtained by Russian Intelligence Services: information whose broadcast was desired by Russian Intelligence Services, and whose broadcast would have constituted Russian interference in an American election. Don was therefore hoping to collude with a foreign power.
Treason is also Trump fabricating a cover-up story for Donald Jr about that meeting: Trump had Don Jr. claim that the discussion in Trump Tower was about American adoptions of Russian children, not about Don Jr. expected the meeting to discuss, nor about what it actually did discuss.
Treason is Presudent Chump attempting to abort and otherwise impede an investigation of Putin’s interference in the US Presidential election in 2016.
Treason is candidate Trump calling out, “Russia, if you’re listening …” In that July 27, 2016 statement, Trump begged for collusion by Russia, to help Trump win the Presidential election.
An instructive article by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post chronicles the remarkably many people who President Chump has accused of treason. Recall the story of the Emperor with no clothes, who had been flattered into believing that he was stunningly dressed. If that Emperor had been President Chump, he would have charged with treason the person who yelled out the truth.
President Chump often screams “Fake News!”, to devalue unfavorable news.
What a hypocrite!
He deliberately generates fake news. Pretending to sometimes be John Miller, sometimes be John Barron, and sometimes to be John Baron, he told lies about himself to the news media.
President Chump accused President Obama of spending to much time playing golf!
What a hypocrite!
Candidate Chump and President Chump tries to pin the label lyin’ on Hillary Clinton and on everyone else who opposes him.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the biggest liar of them all?
Lets return to President Chump’s inability to distinguish between loyalty to himself and loyalty to the country.
This inability is due in part to Chump’s fragile ego. To preserve his self-esteme, Chump hides the fragility of his ego from himself by being an ego-maniac, who sees the world as revolving about himself.
But Chump’s inability to distinguish between loyalty to himself and loyalty to the country also because President Chump is the President who would be King.
Chump thought that being the President meant being a non-hereditary King – not a constitutional monarch, but like Henry VIII. Henry VIII didn’t have to to distinguish between loyalty to himself and loyalty to his country.
Chump boasts that while a student he didn’t read the assigned texts. He is proud of having gotten through by guessing, and takes that to be proof of a superior intelligence. So Chump didn’t know that the US President is not a King.
Chump’s desire to be an old-school King is why he admires authoritarian leaders like Putin, Duterte, and Xi. It is also why Chump thinks that Obama, Merkel, and May are weak.
Chump’s preference for authoritarian leaders is one reason for Chump having become Putin’s chihuahua.
Another reason is that Russian investors close to Putin bailed Trump out of his company’s latest bankrupcy. Putin bought Trump, and Trump knows it.
President Chump’s preference for authoritarian leaders is why he – unlike previous Presidents – is not the leader of the free world. The present leaders of the free world are Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau.
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