Truth be told, the men of MAGA would kill for an Amazon documentary that brings to life the stills from Melania Knauss's British GQ photo shoot. That was where Mels showed off her only assets to their best advantage lolling on furs and ornamented with diamonds (and little else) in her famous boyfriend's 727 jet.
I'd like to see a counter documentary to the one about Melania, featuring her nude and semi-nude photos, her recorded comments about Christmas -- “I’m working ... my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?” Her visit to the border wearing the jacket with the message "I really don't care, do you?" And maybe something about her "genius" visa.
Great minds think alike - that's two of us who demand an encore of the sourpuss First Lady's nudie pix. That was all I could think of when I saw the photos of her at Buckingham Palace with the Queen. I bet the royals reacted the same way.
The casual mendacity of Patel started only one minute and 4O seconds from the time of the oath administered by the doddering octogenarian from Iowa - claimed “people like me” were the targets of Amin’s genocide in Uganda. Check it out on YouTube if you don’t believe me.I’m having trouble getting the word out about the gravity of lying about mass killings from a prospective head of FBI.
"Ugandan Asians: 50 years since their expulsion from Uganda"
Published Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
"On 4 August 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin, who had seized power in a military coup the previous year, ordered the expulsion of his country’s Asian population and gave them 90 days to leave the country. This reportedly followed a dream in which he had been instructed by God to expel them. Amin alleged, in the words of a contemporary report, that Uganda’s Asians had been “sabotaging Uganda’s economy, deliberately retarding economic progress, fostering widespread corruption and treacherously refraining from integrating in the Ugandan way of life”. He denounced the minority as economic “bloodsuckers” and warned that any remaining after the deadline risked being imprisoned in camps. Uganda’s Asian community, although representing only a small minority of the population at the time, was estimated to be responsible for around 90% of Uganda’s tax revenues. The expulsion of so many economically active individuals would come to have profound economic consequences for the country."
So of course Patel upgraded ethnic-cleansing mass expulsions into a genocide. He can't help lying.
Patel may be a scumbag, but chances are a person of South Asian ancestry named "Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel" would have gotten the heave-ho from Idi Amin. If only we could do the same, not for racial reasons, obviously, but because Kashyap is a miserable human being and ugly as sin to boot.
Now that we know DOGE and company is dumb enough to put an unsecured server on the internet, it's only a matter of time before someone finds where they have squirreled away all our PII data and starts exposing it. My one hope is that someone on our side finds the IRS data first and exposes Trump, Musk, Bezos, etc.
1) I don’t know what’s worse – Patel lying in his confirmation hearing or the fact that the Senators know that he’s lying and don’t care enough to do anything about it (and, of course, Trump knows that they know). I guess I’ll answer my own question – it’s that they don’t care because it means that Patel will become head of the FBI.
2) Re: Cash Bonanza: I suppose many readers will remember the scene from Idiocracy where one cabinet official keeps adding the phrase “brought to you by Carl’s Junior” at the end of everything that he says. And when the protagonist asks him why he is doing that, he replies “because they pay me every time I say it”. How much different is that obvious grift from the obvious grift of $40M to Melania Trump for her documentary and (what’s much worse) the $10M “sponsorships” she reportedly sought? How quaint the Clinton “pay-for-play” scandal seems now (and remember that there was never any evidence at all that Clinton actually did anything wrong; but the simple idea that she “might” have gotten money based on her office was enough to send Republicans into a tizzy).
I used to think that Melania was a reluctant participant in the Trump phenomenon. And I guess that could have been true at one time. But, boy, has she learned from the master how to maximize her profits. Just think what real good that money could have done.
What a complete heaping pile of embarrassing sleaze!
Resigning is not enough. Refuse to comply with illegal actions. Get legal help make every illegal act be taken to SCOTS. Aling the way get every illegal action delayed by the lower courts.
I don’t know this lady who resigned, but if fighting until the end cost you some income later she is unlikely to be depauperate: she is a capable lawyer and manager.
So Patel is a pathological liar--just like the man who nominated him. It would be great to hear that some Republican Senators developed a spine but I think spinelessness is the order of the day.
The US crossed a red line when Trump pardoned people who beat up cops and the Republican Congress remained silent.
Tim - you can add another lie ( under oath, one minute and 40 seconds in after Sen Grassley swears him in) where he claims that Idi Amin slaughtered people “ that looked like me”. Never happened. Indians were deported, Africans slaughtered. Big difference
I’m old enough to remember when a nominee lying under oath to the Senate was a bridge too far for any Senator, regardless of party. If Patel’s nomination is confirmed, the Senate will have hit rock bottom.
RE: Kash Patel, the FBI and "It is simply madness to put a man such as that atop the bureau."
Golly, Tim... considering that Kash Patel is to the truth about anything and everything just as a brain-addled former(?) drug using, science denying crackpot is to the responsible best medical practices concerning the health and well-being of a third of a billion Americans, and that wacked-out bear-carcass jokester having now been judged fit for the job by a deliberate act of The Greatest Deliberative Body in the World and duly sworn in... at the risk of repeating myself:
Golly, Tim. I just don't see the problem. All those Republicans in the U.S. Senate who will sit in judgement of his nomination only have the country's best interests at heart.
(I'll leave it to the gentle reader of this as to whether or not that last line was my best effort at a Kash Patel impersonation.)
It does sort of feel like the argument about the qualities of people in Trump's cabinet is over before it starts because the person with whom the buck (supposedly) stops is a pathologically-lying, mentally ill rapist felon. And America at large seems fine with that.
Lack of consequences for the False Messiah in a country built on rule of law is the contagion that now emboldens pathological liars like KP. Ignoring subpoenas, stalling in the courts and outright lying to the Senate are badges of honor now. Apparently, they all sleep well at night, even Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins et al.
Truth be told, the men of MAGA would kill for an Amazon documentary that brings to life the stills from Melania Knauss's British GQ photo shoot. That was where Mels showed off her only assets to their best advantage lolling on furs and ornamented with diamonds (and little else) in her famous boyfriend's 727 jet.
I'd like to see a counter documentary to the one about Melania, featuring her nude and semi-nude photos, her recorded comments about Christmas -- “I’m working ... my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?” Her visit to the border wearing the jacket with the message "I really don't care, do you?" And maybe something about her "genius" visa.
Great minds think alike - that's two of us who demand an encore of the sourpuss First Lady's nudie pix. That was all I could think of when I saw the photos of her at Buckingham Palace with the Queen. I bet the royals reacted the same way.
The casual mendacity of Patel started only one minute and 4O seconds from the time of the oath administered by the doddering octogenarian from Iowa - claimed “people like me” were the targets of Amin’s genocide in Uganda. Check it out on YouTube if you don’t believe me.I’m having trouble getting the word out about the gravity of lying about mass killings from a prospective head of FBI.
Forward to Horseface Grassley
UK Parliament
House of Lords Library
"Ugandan Asians: 50 years since their expulsion from Uganda"
Published Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
"On 4 August 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin, who had seized power in a military coup the previous year, ordered the expulsion of his country’s Asian population and gave them 90 days to leave the country. This reportedly followed a dream in which he had been instructed by God to expel them. Amin alleged, in the words of a contemporary report, that Uganda’s Asians had been “sabotaging Uganda’s economy, deliberately retarding economic progress, fostering widespread corruption and treacherously refraining from integrating in the Ugandan way of life”. He denounced the minority as economic “bloodsuckers” and warned that any remaining after the deadline risked being imprisoned in camps. Uganda’s Asian community, although representing only a small minority of the population at the time, was estimated to be responsible for around 90% of Uganda’s tax revenues. The expulsion of so many economically active individuals would come to have profound economic consequences for the country."
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/ugandan-asians-50-years-since-their-expulsion-from-uganda/
So of course Patel upgraded ethnic-cleansing mass expulsions into a genocide. He can't help lying.
Patel may be a scumbag, but chances are a person of South Asian ancestry named "Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel" would have gotten the heave-ho from Idi Amin. If only we could do the same, not for racial reasons, obviously, but because Kashyap is a miserable human being and ugly as sin to boot.
Cheers
"Yesterday, the Republican Senate confirmed as secretary of health and human services a left-wing avatar..."
RFK, Jr., Eric Adams ... Can we FINALLY stop calling the MAGA cult "conservative"???
Now that we know DOGE and company is dumb enough to put an unsecured server on the internet, it's only a matter of time before someone finds where they have squirreled away all our PII data and starts exposing it. My one hope is that someone on our side finds the IRS data first and exposes Trump, Musk, Bezos, etc.
Trump and his minions are endeavoring to make average Americans Uhealthy, Unwealthy and Unwise
(apologies to Mr Franklin)
A few comments...
1) I don’t know what’s worse – Patel lying in his confirmation hearing or the fact that the Senators know that he’s lying and don’t care enough to do anything about it (and, of course, Trump knows that they know). I guess I’ll answer my own question – it’s that they don’t care because it means that Patel will become head of the FBI.
2) Re: Cash Bonanza: I suppose many readers will remember the scene from Idiocracy where one cabinet official keeps adding the phrase “brought to you by Carl’s Junior” at the end of everything that he says. And when the protagonist asks him why he is doing that, he replies “because they pay me every time I say it”. How much different is that obvious grift from the obvious grift of $40M to Melania Trump for her documentary and (what’s much worse) the $10M “sponsorships” she reportedly sought? How quaint the Clinton “pay-for-play” scandal seems now (and remember that there was never any evidence at all that Clinton actually did anything wrong; but the simple idea that she “might” have gotten money based on her office was enough to send Republicans into a tizzy).
I used to think that Melania was a reluctant participant in the Trump phenomenon. And I guess that could have been true at one time. But, boy, has she learned from the master how to maximize her profits. Just think what real good that money could have done.
What a complete heaping pile of embarrassing sleaze!
No, it was never true. She's been on the make (and take) since she slithered into this country.
Resigning is not enough. Refuse to comply with illegal actions. Get legal help make every illegal act be taken to SCOTS. Aling the way get every illegal action delayed by the lower courts.
I don’t know this lady who resigned, but if fighting until the end cost you some income later she is unlikely to be depauperate: she is a capable lawyer and manager.
So Patel is a pathological liar--just like the man who nominated him. It would be great to hear that some Republican Senators developed a spine but I think spinelessness is the order of the day.
The US crossed a red line when Trump pardoned people who beat up cops and the Republican Congress remained silent.
Tim - you can add another lie ( under oath, one minute and 40 seconds in after Sen Grassley swears him in) where he claims that Idi Amin slaughtered people “ that looked like me”. Never happened. Indians were deported, Africans slaughtered. Big difference
I thought lying and criminality were the hallmarks of MAGAdom and required for credibility within the MAGA World. Did I miss something?
The first principle of Trumpian apologetics was that Trump's indifference to rules was a strength.
Exactly.
I’m old enough to remember when a nominee lying under oath to the Senate was a bridge too far for any Senator, regardless of party. If Patel’s nomination is confirmed, the Senate will have hit rock bottom.
I don’t think there’s any doubt at this point.
I'd say that they're already there, but as with Trump himself we've learned there apparently is no actual bottom to hit.
I bet 90 of the senators know it. Trump is blackmailing and bribing them. The new normal!
There are several that know RFK jr will result in additional childhood deaths but they caved in anyway. They could have insisted on better
RE: Kash Patel, the FBI and "It is simply madness to put a man such as that atop the bureau."
Golly, Tim... considering that Kash Patel is to the truth about anything and everything just as a brain-addled former(?) drug using, science denying crackpot is to the responsible best medical practices concerning the health and well-being of a third of a billion Americans, and that wacked-out bear-carcass jokester having now been judged fit for the job by a deliberate act of The Greatest Deliberative Body in the World and duly sworn in... at the risk of repeating myself:
Golly, Tim. I just don't see the problem. All those Republicans in the U.S. Senate who will sit in judgement of his nomination only have the country's best interests at heart.
(I'll leave it to the gentle reader of this as to whether or not that last line was my best effort at a Kash Patel impersonation.)
Kash Patel is another case of "He's horrible - but is he any worse than the person who nominated him?"
It does sort of feel like the argument about the qualities of people in Trump's cabinet is over before it starts because the person with whom the buck (supposedly) stops is a pathologically-lying, mentally ill rapist felon. And America at large seems fine with that.
Hmm, I misread “doge.gov” as “doge.goy” … and I am quite correct, thank you.
Lack of consequences for the False Messiah in a country built on rule of law is the contagion that now emboldens pathological liars like KP. Ignoring subpoenas, stalling in the courts and outright lying to the Senate are badges of honor now. Apparently, they all sleep well at night, even Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins et al.
Kash Patel, “the proverbial we” — young X Musk, the prodigious wee.