Waffle Buffet

[McCamy Taylor]

There has never been a better time to be a political pundit, paid or unpaid. The Trump administration keeps tossing out straight lines such as "alternative facts", an unfortunate choice of words that has led to wit, mockery, derision and best of all George Orwell's 1984 shooting straight to number one at Amazon, proof that the American public recognizes "Newspeak" when it hears it.

Now, they have resorted to Bullying (a big no no if you claim to be a Bandit King, as Trump does.) The members of the press have been told to "keep their mouths shut." Oh my! I can feel a 1001 different sarcastic responses at my fingertips. Which will I type? Something about the First Amendment? Too easy. How about a quote from one of the Founders. Trump is always talking about "American values."

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
― Thomas Paine

But wait! There's more. It gets better.

“That’s why you have no power,” Mr. Bannon added. “You were humiliated.”

How old is Mr. Bannon? Born in 1953, he should be old enough to remember what happened to the president whose AG threatened to put media mogul Katy Graham's "tit through a wringer." And that was just a single newspaper, the Washington Post. A paper's whose finest hour came when Nixon exited the White House in disgrace. Every reporter wants to be Woodward and Bernstein. Every newspaper wants to be the WaPo circa 1974. And thanks to Trump, they all have a shot! Or, to put it another way, in language that any true Bandit King should recognize "Them's fightin' words." The press made Mr. Trump and they can tear him apart again. Gleefully. And there is absolutely nothing they love better than court battles over freedom of the press. "You can't buy publicity like that."

But my favorite Trump straight line of the day came as they retracted their pledge to slap a great big 20% import tax of goods brought in from other countries. Oh no, we are told, they did not mean that they were actually going to impose that tax. They just meant to say that this tax is one of many possibilities on the "buffet..."

(Sorry. I can't help myself.) Is that a waffle buffet?

[shenmue]

1. Mmmm, waffles

[physioex]

2. Yes...that does look tastey.

[mercuryblues]

3. Did somebody say waffles?

After the trolling Trump is getting from Mexico, I can't wait for his 4AM tweets.

[TomJulie]

4. YUMMY!!!!!

Waffles and bacon and more. Dang, that sounds good.

My wife and I buy those bags of already cooked buttermilk pancakes in the frozen food section at WallyMart occasionally. The 1st time we were skeptical as to how good they'd be. We were surprised. Get em hot in microwave put some Land-O-Lakes butter and some good syrup with bacon....Life is good!