As Bannon joins Priebus, Scaramucci, Spicer, and Flynn in the White House dustbin, a reminder that my girl Omarosa is laying low and still cashing that paycheck.
Category Archives: Political Theatre
Melania’s Stuff…
Dig the expression on Melania’s face during this meeting. She’s wondering, “Is he going to blow up the world? Isn’t all my stuff in the world?”
And you know Melania didn’t want to be at that meeting. Do you know what women like Melania do all day in New York? It does not involve meetings like this.
High Finance…
If you make $500K a year, you could could give your friend a lift to the airport for $10 a something, declare that as Temporary Uber Driver income and qualify for the extra $4K in tax cuts. And if you do this if you’re just shy of $1 million, you’ve earned yourself the starting salary of a public school teacher.
Maybe this is why drivers put up with Uber.
Health Scare 2…
DOCTOR: “I’m flattered you’ve spent 40% of your income to see me, but maybe you want to consider reinvesting that money into, well, food and shelter? It might help with the malnutrition and frost bite. That’ll be a $200 co-pay for this visit. Now please don’t die outside my office. It’s just depressing.”
Priorities…
“Except your aunt with breast cancer is just a person and we’re talking about a Ferrari 250 GT Spyder! I love driving it. It’s so choice! If you have the means I highly recommend you picking one up. Anyway, what were we talking about?”
Health Scare..
At least this isn’t North Korea where people die for something absurd like stealing a poster… instead of for serious crimes like selling cigarettes or CDS on street corners or playing with toys guns or for having broken taillights.
The old lady is lucky, though, because once the Senate health bill passes, she’ll likely only afford a plan that covers one officer throwing her out of a public space. No, actually, looking at the fine print, the deductible is so high, she’ll have no choice to be drag herself out the building on her own.
Let’s not forget *Trump* is president…
There is this trap, I think, that many are falling into of treating Donald Trump like a run-of-the-mill lousy Republican president who is rubber stamping Paul Ryan’s awful domestic agenda. If this were Marco Rubio/Ted Cruz or even Jeb! and we were faced with an inhumane ACA repeal, I’d take more comfort from last night’s results in Georgia and South Carolina. But let’s remember that Trump is a president who is currently under FBI investigation, who fired the FBI Director and possibly obstructed justice, whose National Security Adviser and son-in-law might have committed light treasons. He also tweets unhinged gibberish late at night. Karen Handel didn’t repudiate him but rather embraced him. If core Republicans still back him, then the craven GOP will continue to do so. That’s why an upset last night would have been a key event or turning point. It also might have helped derail the passage of the ACA repeal but that also now seems unlikely. If a party that is in bed with a mobster and steadily starts to behave in ways that makes it clear they were mobsters all along are still winning special elections against non-mobsters, that’s a problem and an indictment of the country. I’d like to think that if Hillary Clinton were in the same situation as Trump, even a Nancy Pelosi district might have been lost in a special election no matter the Democratic advantage. If anything, we certainly should just focus on improving our performance in 2018 and defeating Trump in 2020 because impeachment is fantasy and re-election is not entirely off the table.
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Making Nice with Nazis…
“Oh my god, there are Nazis marching in the streets!”
“Well, don’t punch them!”
“OK, well, I’m going to publicly identify them!”
“Wait, that might endanger their lives!”
“Are you kidding me? We’re talking about flippin’ Nazis! Oh fine, I’ll privately contact their employers.”
“What? You would deprive a Nazi of their livelihood? Would you like someone to do that to you because you’re gay and were at a Pride parade! Or were black and talking to a Jewish person about fried chicken?”
“That is so completely not the same thing.”
“I am fine with minorities existing. Why can’t you tolerate Nazis?”
“OK, I think now you want me punch to *you*.”
Posted by Stephen Robinson on August 15, 2017 in Political Theatre, Social Commentary
Tags: charlottesville, Nazis, trump