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February 14, 2019

"Got shot by Cupid once. Broke the little bugger's back." . . . Please come CAPTION Donald Trump!!!




PresiDented Donald ("Card or cash?" ) Trump is saying: "Nothing says love so much as an over-night stay at a suite in a Trump Hotel. . . At $15,000 a night, she'll be sure to know how very much she means to you."
February 11, 2019

"In the tank for Trump? Ridiculous!!!" . . Please come CAPTION Alan Dershowitz!!!



Alan ("Trump's so manly I p*ss myself" ) Dershowitz is saying: "As the Constitution and U.S. law makes clear, it's not extortion if the letter is part of an on-going negotiation or it is made public or if a portion of the so-called threat has already been carried out, just as it's not murder if a Saudi crown prince orders it and it occurs on foreign soil. . . . In my opinion, Mr. Bezo's has opened himself up to counter suits, libel, and charges of spreading false information with an attempt to further enrich himself. . . . It's only due to the good graces of The National Enquirer and the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, that's he's not in jail at this moment serving the first year of a ten-year sentence. . . . I say that objectively. . . . I have no horse in this race."



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Above CAPTION based on the following This Week interview with the gab-for-hire ("I'm not cheap, but I may be easy" ) spud:

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/alan-dershowitz-embarrasses-himself
February 10, 2019

Profiles in Crazy, XLVIII. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!




PresiDented Donald ("I'll take the low road" ) Trump is saying: "And on this day of remembrance, we will honor those we have come here to remember, especially for their greatness and courage but for so much else as well. Especially how much they have done for us, not the least of which was giving us their example of courage in the face of what they confronted right before them. I know I'll never forget what we have all come to remember. Not for a second."
February 8, 2019

"Time, of course, is of the essence." . . . Please come CAPTION Acting A.G. Matt Whitaker!!!




Matt ("Let me show you how the theory of corruption just doesn't do it justice" ) Whitaker just finished saying: "I realize you only have five minutes, Mr. Chairman, so I'll be brief. . . . But there is no why to answer that question without looking into my background and understanding how I developed the strong moral code which allowed me to be so successful in my many roles as father, girl's baseball coach, P.T.A. member of the year in 1994, federal prosecutor, home owner, responsible operator of vehicles, firearm owner, contributor to Field and Stream, writer of multiple letters to my local paper in Pisswash, Tennessee, and so forth. It all began in second grade when I saw Mikey, the class bully, . . . . (blah, blah, blah) . . . and to this day that Holy Bible of my mother's remains my most valued possession. . . . Then in middle school . . . opps, I see your five minutes is up, sorry."





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Above CAPTION based on this spud's on-going testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, 2.8.19.
February 7, 2019

The pudgy arm of the law. . . .Please come CAPTION Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker!!!



Acting Attorney General ("Don't I get a badge or nothing?" ) Matt Whitaker is saying: "It just doesn't make sense. How can Congress subpoena me? I'm the law. Does it make sense to think that you can subpoena the law? . . They're simply uninformed."





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Above CAPTION based on Whitaker's threatened defiance of congress as condensed at DU:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142261139

February 5, 2019

"Well, I'm not starving if that's what you mean." . . . Please come CAPTION Howard Schultz!!!



Howard ("I even sometimes pump the gas for my own limo" ) Schultz just finished saying: "No, I don't think people of means, what you call 'billionaires,' have undue influence in politics. After all, whatever little money I have represents the people since they are the ones who gave it to me. . . . Try to start thinking outside the box sometime."



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Above CAPTION loosely based on the snippet of an interview linked at Crooks and Liars:

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/howard-schultz-has-sadz-about-being-called
February 1, 2019

Profiles in Crazy, XLVII. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!



PresiDented Donald ("This is my millennium" ) Trump is saying: "That's right, Maggie, but not only did Rosenstein tell me I'm not a target of the Mueller instigation, but that the final report will praise everything I've done during the past twenty-four months. . . . They're even thinking about a statue on The Mall; . . . would you believe it?"




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Above CAPTION based on the NY Times interview of 1.31.19 as covered by The Hill:

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/427991-trump-says-rosenstein-assured-him-he-is-not-a-mueller-target

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About skip fox

I am retired, now a professor emeritus at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where I taught in the English department for 37 years. I've written 4 chapbooks and 5 full-sized books (all listed as poetry though many include other genres as well), including _Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991-2012 (Univ. of New Orleans Press, 2012). I've also written a 500+ page bibliography of three contemporary poets: Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Robert Duncan. I am writing now, both fiction and poetry, more now than ever. My first vote for President of the United States was for Dick Gregory in 1968 (Bowling Green, Ohio). Favorite quote: "It's easy to be an idealist if you don't have to mind the evidence, but no one said it was supposed to be easy" (Richard LaPauvre).
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