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[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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Lol, she's still not the president

Can't see what/who you're responding to, but I can guess who "she" is. Many corporations and countries have already stopped the flow of bribe money, I mean donations, to the Clinton Foundation. She's pretty much finished as a political power.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Russian President Vladimir Putin are anti-democratic and authoritarian rulers. President Trump admires them all.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Stop counting on Secretary of Defense James Mattis or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stop a nuclear war if Donald Trump wants one, says Bill Perry. They couldn’t.

Perry, who served as secretary of defense for President Bill Clinton, is a 90-year-old arm-waving apostle of doom—“the possibility of an apocalypse thrust itself upon me,” he told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast. He says nuclear war has “become more probable in the last year, partly because of President Trump,” and partly due to events beyond the president’s control. He thinks Trump doesn’t understand the North Koreans, and doesn’t understand what his rhetoric is doing.

That the president and his Cabinet secretaries are so often putting out conflicting messages makes the situation worse. And though Perry subscribes to the idea that Mattis and Tillerson are a “stabilizing influence,” he said that with this president, “I’m not really comfortable with anybody.”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans wrote bathroom laws to protect our children from sexual predators.

Now, the same people who go into full-blown snowflake meltdown when there’s not a Christmas design on their Starbucks coffee cup are perfectly fine with sticking a pedophile in the Senate. It’s OK because he’s accepted Jesus. There is still some coffee outrage over this Roy Moore scandal. Keurig stopped advertising on Sean Hannity’s fake news show because he kinda endorsed Republican pedophilia. Republicans have responded by destroying their Keurig coffee machine.

People are destroying coffee machines that cost anywhere from $100 to $300. Why don’t you just protest by mailing an envelope full of cash to Keurig? That makes about as much sense. By the way, did you know the coffee pods those machines use are not biodegradable and environmentalists hate them? Yeah, you conservatives can’t win for nothing. Being stupid hurts.

A fifth woman revealed yesterday that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted her. The mainstream Republican Party and even Ted Cruz are now all calling for Moore to drop out of the race. Alabama Republicans, on the other hand, are standing by their man.

Republican logic has been all over the place with this issue.

Evangelicals have spent the past four decades calling themselves the “moral majority,” yet, over 80% of them voted for the orange pussy grabber for president. Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over consensual sex and had to go through three Speakers of the House to do it, as the first two of those turds had sex scandals. And, we found out years later the third one was a pedophile.

Part of the GOP defense of Moore is to talk about other sex scandals, from Clinton to Harvey Weinstein, to Louis C.K. Hell, some are even griping about Joe Biden’s shoulder massages.

Five women have accused Moore of dating teenage girls and of sexual assault. The accusers are backed up by over 30 sources. Others have come out to say it was well-known at the time that Mr. Moore dated teenage girls while he was in his early thirties. The guy would hang out at the mall and high school football games. Eventually, he got banned from the mall for being a Creepy McCreeperson and a stranger danger. Moore has defended himself with the lame excuses that he didn’t “generally” date teenage girls, and that he never dated one without their mother’s permission. He says he doesn’t remember the new accuser or the restaurant where he attacked her, yet she provided her high school yearbook he signed where he also included the name of the restaurant. But, Moore’s supporters don’t believe any of that.

What they do believe, without any evidence, is that The Washington Post paid these women to come forward and it’s all financed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They wonder why these women, who are being publicly shamed by Breitbart and in their communities, being chased into hiding, and who Moore is threatening to sue, didn’t make their revelations sooner.

For what it’s worth, adults don’t sign high school yearbooks unless they’re teachers. I know I haven’t signed one since I left high school. Hell, I didn’t sign that many when I was in school. I wasn’t really popular.

During the recent campaign for Virginia’s governor, the Republican candidate Ed Gillespie ran a lot of race-baiting commercials. Along with those, he ran one accusing Democrat Ralph Northam of being in favor of restoring rights to pedophiles. One person was busted for child pornography right after his rights were restored, and Gillespie’s campaign used that to paint Northam, a pediatrician, as a friend to pedophiles as if he was driving the van with free candy. Voters saw through the lie and made Northam our next governor.

Meanwhile, in Alabama, Republicans are telling people to vote for the pedophile. And, there’s a chance the pedophile might win.

I’m really glad I live in Virginia and not Alabama.

Creative Notes: I took longer than I wanted to with this cartoon. I started around 3:00 AM. I didn’t like the lettering so I redid it. Then I didn’t like the elephants, so I drew them over. Then, I still didn’t like the lettering so I did that again. And then, I realized I still hated the elephants, so I drew them again. And then, I hated some of the colors, so I redid that…and then, the sun came out and eventually 10:00 AM rolled around.

I make it sound like I have high standards but it’s probably more like an obsessive-compulsive disorder…and a lot of coffee.

Speaking of coffee, there’s a Keurig in my house and I had never tried it. All the talk yesterday got my curiosity up, so housemate’s girlfriend showed me how to use it. It was delicious. I didn’t try one as a lame way of sticking it to conservatives. I really wanted to try one. By the way, did you know that Keurig is the most hated thing in Washington state? I think it has to do with being environmental and snooty about their coffee, and not because the people of Washington love pedophiles.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

If ever there was a real-life conundrum equivalent to the paradoxical sentence “I always lie,” it’s when President Trump says he believes Vladimir Putin.

What does it mean? What CAN it mean? Here we have two known liars, who are enemies, or friends, or accomplices, who lead countries that are in a highly adversarial relationship, but one of whom is known to have aided the other, with or without the other’s knowledge and/or active cooperation, not because he liked the other, but just to derail and demolish American democracy, a project that is well underway.

“I really believe… he means it,” declared Trump, when Putin denied the facts known to Trump, and then he went on to add that Putin is insulted by being questioned about it. Imagine!

Imagine is all you can do, because trying to follow a trail of reality through this formulation is like trying to find your way home after the birds ate all the breadcrumbs you left as a trail.

At best you are left with mulling possibilities, since the assertions, as made, don’t make a particle of sense. U.S. intelligence agencies have said that the Russians interfered in our election. So either Trump doesn’t believe that, or he believes that Putin didn’t know about what his own intelligence services were up to, or Putin doesn’t believe HIS intelligence services, or Trump is lying when he says he believes Putin’s lies to be true. Got that?

So what are the possibilities? Trump is acting like Putin has something on him. Why else would Trump continue to cut slack for an adversarial leader known to have attacked our election process? But Trump denies that Putin has anything on him! How to resolve this? I know, let’s ask Putin whether Putin believes Trump when Trump denies Putin has anything on him. And then check back with Trump to verify.

The one certainty is that we have left the world of reality as we used to know it, and this is what Putin wanted. I believe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2017/11/14/what-could-it-possibly-mean-for-trump-to-say-he-believes-putin/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a048037775a6 (Opinion | What could it possibly mean for Trump to say he believes Putin?)

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]