Rob Rogers for May 06, 2020

If that’s not stupidity then its insanity. There really aren’t any other options.

In the backwardsland alternate “reality” of the Donald Trump Twilight Zone administration, this is how they think of Abraham Lincoln:

Getting asked tough follow-up questions is worse than getting shot in the back of the head while watching a play with your wife.

A Trump supporter (and this is real) holding a sign that says, “The party of Lincoln” in one hand and a KKKonfederate battle flag in the other — literally the flag that was carried by traitors waging armed rebellion against Abraham Lincoln and which Lincoln crushed in humiliating defeat. The KKKonfederate battle flag is literally the flag of treason (waging armed rebellion against the United States is one of two definitions of treason in the Constitution) that represents slavery, oppression and white supremacy.

Remember, a large part of Trump’s base believes Lincoln got what he deserved.

Bonespurs has put a bullet in thousands, with his stupidity.

Amen! What’s really scary is he will no doubt be re-elected by is following stupids.

Today’s update:

 World Records in Ball Dropping

2001-08-06 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US” • Bush did nothing.

2001-09-11 • 5 weeks after PDB • 9/11 attacks • Death toll: 2,977

2020-01-07 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.” • Trump did nothing.

2020-03-11 • WHO declared a global pandemic.

2020-04-15 • Trump suspended US funding of WHO.

2020-05-06 • 17 weeks after PDB • US death toll: 72,271

1955-1975 • 20 years (for comparison) • Vietnam War • US deaths: 58,220

After all, Trump having a hangnail is SO MUCH worse that someone else having cancer AND a heart attack.

Trump – the face of the Pity Party.

Does he remember how the press on the ‘right’ treated Obama? I didn’t think so.

I think that’s about how I summed up Rumpy’s whining a day or two ago, no?

Today’s word, boys and girls, is “pissant”. The fourth estate’s range of treatment of the pissant currently occupying the White House (aka the Shite House) is probably similar, if not identical, to its treatment of Lincoln. Both men (I use the word “men” loosely regarding the pissant) have been both vilified and sanctified by different members of the fourth estate (I use the words “fourth estate” loosely regarding its members which sanctify the pissant).

Booth used a single shot muzzle loading deringer, not a revolver.

And what’s REALLY SCARY is that this Deluded, Psychotic, Narcissistic Sociopathic ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS!!!

What’s worse than getting shot in the back of the head? Oh right, being asked questions by journalists. Oh the pain, oh boo hoo.

Someone needs to create a coloring book that will explain to Trump and his supporters that the job of the press is to REPORT on what is said and done. If you say and do intelligent and kind things, they will REPORT on that. If you say and do utterly insane crap, well . . . that’s what they’ll REPORT. They are LITERALLY repeating the words that come out of YOUR mouth, ya moron!

JWB used a Derringer, not a revolver.

John Wilkes Booth was not a member of “the press”, but I doubt that Trump has enough smarts to think of that as a loophole in what he said.

Psycho Trump is so jealous.

VOTE

Such an idiot.

Since Trump sees himself as Lincoln…just give him a ticket to the Ford Theatre.

As if the press didn’t treat Lincoln badly—-with much less justification. Dana Milbank’s comments are enlightening in this respect, given that Trump is damaging national unity and Lincoln was trying to maintain it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/05/i-believe-i-am-treated-worse-trump-says-as-if/

I guess his biggest complaint is that the Trump Memorial won’t be as impressive as Lincoln’s (or even Jefferson’s). Unless he builds it himself, of course. Hey, it worked for the Egyptian Pharaohs. /TS

Trump mentioning Lincoln in the same sentence is laughable, and delusional. The only thing Trump has in common with Lincoln is they both would wear a hat. Everything else is the complete opposite.

Steve Schmidt makes it clear that the real cause of the American cratering economy is not the virus but Trump’s incompetence.

“And when we look at the economy,” Schmidt said. “I think it’s important to understand the economy did not collapse because of the coronavirus and it is not collapsed in other countries around the world. It collapsed because of the ineptitude of the governmental response to it and he’s making it worse.”

I wonder how many Americans know that voting for Trump has made many foreigners question the pedestal they once had Americans on. It turns out they can make colossal mistakes as well.

“What the country has been saddled with is a level of ineptitude and incompetence,” Steve said. “That makes our allies tremble and our adversaries cheer.”

I do believe one can and should express themselves without fearing reprisal; however, the South’s refusal to accept defeat and to honor their treasonous past with Confederate flags and statues would be if Americans of British heritage who were Loyalists to the crown erected monuments to their defeated heroes – our enemy – after the War of Independence. A statue to Cornwallis in Yorktown? A monument to King George III in DC? Unthinkable, right?…

His treatment in the press is the only thing that Trump has earned…

A quick little excerpt from the Dana Milbank column martens mentioned above—and a quick THANKS to martens! Here we go: "Allow me to share some frank thoughts about the president:The orangutan in the White House is less refined than a savage. He is a fool, an irresolute, vacillating imbecile. He is an idiot, of low intellectual capacity. He is a barbarian, a yahoo, a gorilla — the original gorilla — and an unshapely man. He is horrid-looking, a scoundrel, a creature fit, evidently, for petty treasons. [note from Godfreydaniel: Ask Trump’s owner, Vlad Putin, if he is satisfied with only PETTY treasons, and then ask yourself: What comes next?] He is dishonest. He is unjust. He has no principle, no respect for law. In his administrative madness, on his unconstitutional crusade, he uses the power of government to crush. His presidency is despotism, a dictatorship, a monstrous usurpation, a criminal wrong and an act of national suicide. The American people are in no mood to reelect a man to the highest office whose daily language is indecent. His speech is coarse, colloquial, devoid of ease and grace, and bristling with outrages against the simplest rules of syntax. His silly remarks are flat and dishwatery utterances. It wouldn’t be easy to produce anything more dull and commonplace — awkwardly expressed and slipshod, so loose-jointed, so puerile. Lacking in dignity or patriotism, his words would have caused a Washington to mourn and would have inspired a Jefferson, Madison or Jackson with contempt. [note from Godfreydaniel: These include the words Trump reads off the teleprompter, written FOR him by his brain, Stephen Miller, in addition to his off-the-cuff mindless blatherings.]

Aw, shucks, you caught me! I was hoping you lot wouldn’t read the whole column. The above were written (originally) about LINCOLN. But they mesh so well with Trump, though in Trump’s case are a matter of objective reality, whereas in Lincoln’s case they were the ravings of (at best) imbeciles and (at worst) traitors. A final word from Mr. Milbank: “But the review produced something unexpected, too: As wrong as Lincoln’s newspaper critics were in judging the 16th president, they were eerily prescient in anticipating the failings of the 45th.”

For the love of all that is holy, pray that Trump is not assasinated but is VOTED OUT! in 2020! Killing him would make him a martyr and the 39% would be worshiping him forever and a day.

Dumb Donny says…………………………………..

“If fascism comes, it will not be identified with any ‘shirt’ movement, nor with an ‘insignia,’ but it will probably be ’wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.” – James Waterman Wise, Jr., 1936

Technically speaking, Booth used a single shot percussion derringer.

What is an AR 14? I carried an AR 15 in vietnam, and previous to that a Korean war rifle that weighed 8 pounds.