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Bob Woodward criticizes CNN's Acosta lawsuit, says media's 'emotionally unhinged' about Trump

We know the failure of an "md" leads the emotionally unhinged category

 

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MELANIA’S BAD SIDE CAN BE A DRAG
https://claytoonz.com/2018/11/14/melanias-bad-side-can-be-a-drag/

Melania Trump is not the first First Lady to influence her husband, the president of the United States. It’s not unusual, unique, or strange.

Sarah Polk helped her husband craft speeches and wrote letters for him. Sarah Fillmore helped create the White House library, which Trump still doesn’t know is in there. Caroline Harrison, a proponent of women’s rights and historic preservation was the first president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution while she was serving as First Lady. Woodrow Wilson didn’t see anything unless his wife, Edith, approved, as she made daily decisions about what items should or should not be taken to him. Eleanor Roosevelt fought for the New Deal and women’s and civil rights while in the White House. Betty Ford was an advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment and the legalization of abortion (Time called her the country’s “Fighting First Lady,” and many conservatives wanted her to resign, though I don’t know how that would work). Betty even delivered her husband’s concession speech. Rosalynn Carter sat in on cabinet meetings. Hillary Clinton was appointed by her husband to the Task Force on National Health Care Reform and became and still is a national villain to gaslighted Republicans. Nancy Reagan coordinated her husband’s schedule with an astrological chart, claimed Donald Regan, who was fired as Chief-of-Staff for disagreeing with her.

Normally, a First Lady’s influence on the staff is leaked out from White House insiders and not blasted in a press release stating the equivalent of “I hate their rancid ass and it should be kicked to the curb.” That’s basically what the East Wing issued yesterday in calling for the ouster of deputy national security adviser Mira R. Ricardel. The West Wing issued a response that they they had no control over the East Wing. There’s more drama between these wings than left and right Twix.

The statement read, “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.” No. There wasn’t a “meow” at the end, but she did tweet later about World Kindness Day. Here’s the weirdest part; Ricardel hasn’t been fired yet.

Ricardel is John Bolton’s deputy, because that much xenophobia needs an assistant. Three current and two former White House officials said Tuesday that Ricardel had berated people in meetings, yelled at professional staff, argued with the first lady and spread rumors about Defense Secretary James Mattis. Now, I wanna know the Mattis rumors. They can’t be any worse than the president’s Mario-Mushroom rumor.

Chief-of-Staff John Kelly has been pushing for Ricardel’s ouster, but Melania may be pushing for his too.

There are rampant rumors that Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are also on the poop list.

Melania told ABC News in an interview last month that there are some White House advisers she doesn’t trust. It’s nice to know we’re not the only ones except, I don’t trust any of them.

Maybe it’s good for us that Melania is influencing who should stay and go. But, perhaps she should focus on the East Wing a bit more than the West Wing. Not because she’s a woman, but because she has started a campaign she hasn’t engaged in. Her anti-bullying campaign is stark hypocrisy and a national joke since her husband is the most sexist bully this side of Biff Tannen. It would be like Ivanka leading an anti-nepotism campaign.

Personally, I’m looking forward to the future firing and their replacements and their future firings. I’m also hoping Trump acts as his own Chief-of-Staff for a while. But to be honest, I’m also a big fan of train wrecks.

I’m going out right now to buy Melania an astrological chart.

 

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WASHINGTON -- A D.C. man who was arrested on Friday on gun charges allegedly had social media ties to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and told relatives that the victims of the shooting “deserved it.”

That’s according to court records on Jeffrey R. Clark, who resides in the Bloomingdale neighborhood.

Clark appeared in U.S. Court in D.C. on Tuesday where he was ordered held without bond. He faces two charges: one federal count of unlawful possession of firearms by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance and one District of Columbia count of possessing high-capacity magazines.

The Washington Post first reported on Clark’s arrest.

According to court documents, Clark was linked via social media to Robert Bowers, the man accused of killing 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, on the network Gab.

Gab has been the subject of much scrutiny since the shooting as Bowers was a frequent user of it and posted hateful messages on it.

Charging documents indicate that Jeffrey Clark called Bowers a “hero” in one of his posts on it and used slurs against Jewish people.

 

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Jim Acosta isn't disliked because of his 'hard questions' but because he doesn't ask any real ones

 

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What is wrong with the Republican Party? Basically, everything. But it fundamentally comes down to the fact that its agenda, which is tax cuts for the rich and benefit reductions for everyone else, isn’t what most Americans want.

Republicans have resorted to every trick they can think of to get around this problem. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, ginning up cross-cultural resentments, and chiseling on the truth until they ended up as out-and-out liars trying to bamboozle just enough people to squeak through one more time. They were pretty much out of cons to pull on the electorate in 2016, when who should show up but one of the great con artists in American history!

This explains why the party collapsed wholesale and fell into Donald Trump’s outstretched little hands. Republicans couldn’t fall back on their principles, because they had abandoned those a long way back. Trump was their only play, and so they played ball. But the Trump playbook works only one way. You either keep the steamroller rolling over the obstacles that democracy puts in your way, to some version of authoritarianism, or you falter and let democracy clean up the mess.

Which brings us to today. And explains the frustration and fury President Trump is reportedly stewing in. He can declare that 2018 was his perfect victory all he wants, but he knows otherwise. Toto has pulled the curtain back on him, and what we see now are small hands frantically working the dials and pulleys to little effect. Small hands, and now we also see the very small man. He has only bad choices. He can start to play nice, but it’s a little late for that. A playacting, nice Trump doesn’t appeal to anybody, base or bitter enemy. And it also is not who he is. Alternatively, he can try to double down once more into vitriol and venom, but that act has worn out its welcome in suburban America, which the Republicans need.

Which brings us to the Republicans. The dike of full-government control has been breached, and now accountability is knocking, and their last hope of perceived invincibility and inevitability is demolished. Trump will no doubt try to come up with yet another new variation of his old con game. The Trump Steaks are high. But his problem, and the GOP problem, is the one often attributed to the party’s father: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

Republicans have been living the past two years on junk-bond-financed borrowed time.