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peggysue2's JournalThe Flunky Nominees Just Keep A-Coming
There’s something to be said about an Administration in meltdown, a group so toxic that no one with a real reputation or genuine set of professional credentials is willing to hop aboard the Runaway Train. This has been demonstrated repeatedly with a number of nominees, even the Trumpster’s legal team, 3rd tier at best.
And now we have yet another embarrassment: the candidate for leading the Indian Health Services Agency. Robert Weaver, a 39-year old member of Quapaw Tribe claims he is qualified to head the agency serving 2 million Native Americans in 26 hospitals and clinics with a budget of roughly $6 billion. His resume’ indicated a history of supervisory and management positions from 1997-2006 at St John’s Medical Center, Joplin, MO.
Only problem?
No one recalls the dude working at the hospital in anything beyond an entrance-level capacity. As for his employment records? Well, coincidentally both his personal records and those of the hospital were destroyed by the tornado that ripped through Joplin in 2011.
There’s also some question about his educational qualifications. As in, did he ever graduate from Southern Missouri State University with a major in International Business. Or why a business degree would substitute for a medical degree, a requirement for former Agency heads.
Oh, happy days!
These people really have no shame.
Full article from WJS can be found here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-nominee-to-lead-indian-health-services-faces-claims-of-misrepresentation-1515170335
Dumped Like A Dog. What Does Trump Have Against Dogs?
According to the Trumpster’s latest tweet storm, Sloppy Steve Bannon was dumped like a dog from his WH position, then begged and cried in the aftermath.
Variations on the Trumpster’s simile usage: Mitt Romney choked like a dog when he lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama. Keith Olbermann reminded me that Trump said Marco Rubio sweated like a dog during his infamous water-bottle rebuttal to President Obama’s STOU address.
Somewhat confounding, of course, since dogs don’t sweat.
There are other references to individuals begging for money—like a dog—though in all my doggy experiences I’ve never seen a canine begging for dollars. For attention, yes. For food, absolutely. Never cash. Presumably Kristin Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson . . . like a dog.
Really?
Mr Smart, Stable Genius appears to be hung up on the dog analogies without understanding the nature of dogs. Or anything else.
Puppies are loyal to a fault, seeking the love and approval of even the most despicable human beings. Hitler loved his dogs and they loved him right back. Dogs are devoid of judgments about their owners. Whether you’re sick, old, beautiful or downright ugly, fat or thin, rich or poor, your dog doesn’t care and will adore you regardless. Bad breath or BO? No biggie because any dog worth his/her salt will outdo you in that department. Whatever smalls bad or unusual, dogs generally love. Because it’s all about the nose.
So what is the Trumpster’s real beef with the dog world?
Well, I’ve read he’s a germaphobe. He might think dogs are dirty, germ-laden creatures invading his space. Of course, the truth is that we’re all swarming with bacteria, actually share the world, a symbiotic relationship with our unseen but very prevalent cousins. Try reading “I Contain Multitudes, the Microbes Within Us” by Ed Yong for a wakeup tutorial.
But then, The Donald would need to read a book, believe in science, catch up to the Enlightenment.
Dogs love unconditionally, demonstrate joy with complete and utter abandon. Anyone coming home after work (or even a 15-minute absence) to their dog knows what I’m talking about. All a pooch asks in return is a square meal, a roof to share, some gentle pats on the head and a scratch behind the ears. These traits are obviously foreign to the Trumpster and his ilk who demand obedience and obeisance in all things, no questions asked. I can easily imagine The Donald believing that dogs are suckers, inferior creatures serving no useful purpose beyond objects to be kicked, choked, cheated on and/or dumped. His sons appear to think that animals in the wild exist for their own amusement and blood sport.
Here’s a newsflash for The Donald and his clan:
You can’t pay, intimidate or threaten anyone to to love you more than a dog loves on his or her worst day. And Americans love their dogs right back. So watch it on the inane dog references.
Because words matter. And your words could end up biting you in the ass. Like a pack of dogs. Or their irritated, disgusted owners.
Btw, I don’t know if Bob Mueller owns a dog but he does have a ‘pit bull’ named Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor with expertise in bringing down N.Y Mob bosses, Enron crooks and more recently oversaw that pre-dawn raid of Paul Manafort’s Virginia home. The Trumpster may disrespect the dog world in general but he and his enablers do fear the breed-specific instincts of Weissmann, his persistent, never-let-go prosecutorial skills.
Oh, the irony!
Our Post-Literate Presidency
The stunning reveals of Michael Wolff’s expose’ is the center point of nearly every article I’ve read this morning. But none was quite as shocking to me than Wolff’s statement here:
Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate .?.?. . Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited. Others concluded that he didn’t read because he didn’t have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate—total television.
Let that sink in—The Donald is ‘postliterate—total television.
Of course, that factoid begs the question: exactly what is the Trumpster, Tweeter extraordinaire, watching on television? Where is he getting his ‘facts’ and slant?
Matthew Gertz over at Politico asked the same question. All these tweet storms, the rat-a-tat-tat nature of the Trumpsters’ concerns, rages, perpetual attacks appear erratic and all over the board. Unless you check Fox News programming, which Gertz did over a 3-month period, only to find that tweet after tweet could be lined up with the networks ‘beef-of-the-moment.’
I’m sure a lot of people would say, Duh. We knew that already. Where’s the surprise?
Here’s Gertz explaining:
Everyone has a theory about Trump’s hyper-aggressive early morning tweetstorms. Some think they are a deliberate ploy the president uses to distract the press from his administration’s potential weaknesses, or to frame the public debate to his liking. Others warn his rapid shifts from one topic to another indicate mental instability.
But my many hours following the president’s tweets for Media Matters for America, the progressive media watchdog organization, have convinced me the truth is often much simpler: The president is just live-tweeting Fox, particularly the network’s Trump-loving morning show, Fox & Friends.
So, here we have a man installed in the WH, handed the extraordinary powers of the Executive Branch of the United States and his working knowledge comes from a propaganda-driven network blasting out ideological nonsense 24/7. The man sits in front of the TV—he has three in his bedroom. He consumes Fox-laden news—probably has ‘fake news’ CNN and MSNBC running in the background—while wolfing down cheeseburgers. Then he makes decisions that ultimately affect the entire world. As Gertz describes it: "we’ve been experiencing a continuous Trump/Fox feedback loop for months."
But certainly the Trumpster has advisors to tap, experts to outline, analyze and discuss the weighty issues of the world, you might ask?
Michael Wolff speaks to that:
But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else’s. What’s more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.
This Know-Nothing, the post-literate Trump, trusts his own take/opinion over anyone else’s. And this is one of his key attributes as a populist because according to the spin, educated men or women are not to be admired or emulated. Their very education, their intellectual natures mark them as members of the dreaded ‘elite.’
Instead what we have squatting in the White House is someone arrogantly ignorant, an entitled asshole and flimflam artist all rolled into the shape of a human being.
Hooray for us!!!
Is there any doubt this creature needs to be ejected from the WH, sooner rather than later, or that the Republican Party never be permitted to pretend they were hoodwinked, hijacked, taken for a ride?
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
Excerpts for Wolff and Gertz here:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolffs-withering-portrait-of-president-donald-trump
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248
Rush Limbaugh Defends The Trumpsters My Nuclear Button is Bigger than Yours Strategy
Of course, he did. According to Rush, Trump is a brilliant strategist, fighting lunacy with lunacy and leaving Kim Jong-un confused and disoriented. Which is just what we want for a dictator with nuclear capabilities.
Including our own.
During his show on Tuesday, Rush declared:
“Trump’s brilliant. He knows who he’s dealing with and how to reach them. And if you’re dealing with lunatics and if you’re dealing with the insane, throw it back at ’em. You know, throw a little unpredictability and lunaticism back at them. And it discombobulates ’em — and in fact it is. Kim Jong-un is confused. Kim Jong-un doesn’t know how to deal with Trump.”
It’s hard to keep up with the daily crazy, which I believe is a feature, not a bug. How better to keep the public from reacting to re-opening all continental waters to off-shore drilling. Because we’ve all gotten over the Deepwater Horizon disaster; too bad the Gulf hasn’t. Or Session reneging on the burgeoning pot industry or one more DOJ investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails because Eye of the Newt says these departments must be obedient or the Electoral Fraud Commission being disbanded but the data collected being turned over to ICE, etc., etc
Our last 24 hours has been totally consumed by Michael Wolff’s tell-all book detailing West Wing shenanigans. The book will be released tomorrow, four days early. Timing is everything! Who knows what’s been percolating behind the scenes? Maybe the fact Pakistan is turning to China since Trump has called for pulling any and all security funding to the country. Who needs ‘em right? It’s America First. America Alone. America Isolated in the Trumpster’s paranoia. If you don’t hop on the Trump train you won’t be invited to the party. As many UN members found out last week.
Rush refers to the Trumpster’s posture towards North Korea situation as the Madman’s Theory of foreign policy. David Frum has keyed it as foreign policy for three-year olds. I favor the latter description although it could be foreign policy for the forever distracted. Which could prove lethal not only to the Oval Office but the world itself. Then even a Rush Limbaugh echo chamber would be obliterated, forever silenced.
Oh, happy days! 2018 is off to a rip-roaring start.
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