Good morning from my Hunker-Bunker overlooking the Puget Sound in West Seattle, not to be confused with the rest of Seattle — over there, across the Duwamish River. We ain’t the same. We’re a bit more uppity and Yuppity.
I’m going to apologize ahead of time for all the negativity on Trump this morning. It’s what dominates the “news” this morning, and I can either post it now, or trickle it out slowly over the next two weeks. I’m going for the ripping of the bandaid off to minimize the pain.
I promise I will try to post non-political crap next time. (no, my fingers aren’t crossed)
We have less than two weeks before we officially vote for POTUS and the political party that will run this joint for the next two years. I think I can speak for the majority of people — worldwide — in saying that we cannot wait for this whole ordeal to be settled and over with so as a people, we can get on with our ordinary lives without all the toxic bullshit.
I can hope, can’t I?
Wouldn’t it be cool if we only hold political campaigns ever four years — for no more than sixty days? Any other time to campaign outside that sixty-day window would be illegal? Imagine the peace and quiet we’d enjoy…
… Yup. Wishful thinking at its best.
Let’s get busy with it, shall we?
Trump Picks the Finest People
It’s funny that most of the people that Trump surrounded himself with in his last term as POTUS have all turned against him. Some are fairly quiet in their disapproval of Trump, and others are hair-on-fire warning people that we shouldn’t be trying to reinstall this trainwreck in office again. John Kelly, Trump’s longest-lasting Chief of Staff is loudly warning people of the danger of re-electing Donald Trump to office again.
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator
John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff.
With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.
Private Vanessa Guillén, a soldier at Fort Hood, was beaten to death by a fellow soldier and his girlfriend in April 2020. The girlfriend burned Guillén’s body, which was discovered buried near the base two months later. Trump invited Guillén’s family to the White House and pledged to personally help them with the costs.
“If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that,” he said. “I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”
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Five months later, the U.S. Army concluded there were several “leadership failures” at Fort Hood, which had been a tough assignment for women soldiers. The report irked Trump, who was miffed by the punishments doled out to the base’s leadership. Then, less than a month after losing the presidential election, Trump asked how much Guillén’s funeral cost:
In an Oval Office meeting on December 4, 2020, officials gathered to discuss a separate national-security issue. Toward the end of the discussion, Trump asked for an update on the McCarthy investigation. Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense (Trump had fired his predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet, “Mark Esper has been terminated”), was in attendance, along with Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?”
According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.
Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
Khawam, the family attorney, told me she sent the bill to the White House, but no money was ever received by the family from Trump. Some of the costs, Khawam said, were covered by the Army (which offered, she said, to allow Guillén to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery) and some were covered by donations. Ultimately, Guillén was buried in Houston.
Trump said Hitler ‘did some good things,’ former chief of staff says
Former President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for embracing some of the rhetoric of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the campaign trail, praised the genocidal German dictator while he was in the White House, his former chief of staff and other top aides told CNN.
“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” retired Marine Gen. John Kelly said. “It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater.”
Kelly said Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive 2024 nominee, admired the loyalty of Nazi leaders and generals to Hitler, aspiring to receive the same loyalty from the U.S. military’s highest ranking officers.
“He would ask about the loyalty issues and about how, when I pointed out to him the German generals as a group were not loyal to him, and in fact tried to assassinate him a few times, and he didn’t know that,” Kelly said. “He truly believed, when he brought us generals in, that we would be loyal — that we would do anything he wanted us to do.”
This is not the first time Trump has made comments that seem to praise the most awful characters in human history. We know that he’s been fascinated with authoritarians and dictators of all stripes, and has even lamented on wanting to be an authoritarian dictator himself, with absolute, unfettered power.
Blame the Jews
Trump Says Jewish Voters Would Have ‘Lot to Do With a Loss’
Republican nominee Donald Trump told an antisemitism summit that Jewish voters could be to blame if he ultimately lost the presidential election and complained that he had not “been treated right” after his support of Israel.
“In my opinion the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump said at the event hosted by Republican donor Miriam Adelson. “It’s only because of the Democrat hold, or curse, on you.”
Trump went on to repeatedly suggest his backing for Israel should result in more political support among Jewish Americans, and at one point conflated Jewish Americans with the state of Israel itself.
“More than any people on Earth, Israel has to defeat her,” he said, adding that “there’s no way that I should be getting 40% of the vote — I’m the one who is protecting you.”
The most dangerous job in the world
Hezbollah’s presumed new leader confirmed dead days after taking charge
Hezbollah’s presumed new leader Hashem Safieddine has been confirmed dead by the Israeli military – just days after taking over from his cousin, who was killed in an airstrike last month.
Safieddine, who served as head of Hezbollah’s executive council, is believed to have been killed along with the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence division and 25 other members.
His predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, led the terror group for three decades before being killed in an Israeli air raid on its headquarters in southern Beirut on September 27.
The Temporary Lull
Arrests for illegal US-Mexico border crossing falls to more than four-year low
Arrests for illegally crossing the US border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low, authorities said Tuesday. It was likely the last monthly gauge during a presidential campaign in which Republican nominee Donald Trump has made immigration a signature issue.
The border patrol made 53,858 arrests, down from 58,009 in August and the lowest tally since August 2020, when arrests totaled 47,283, according to US Customs and Border Protection.
Mexicans accounted for nearly half of the arrests, becoming a greater part of the mix. In December, when arrests reached an all-time high of 250,000, Mexicans made up fewer than one in four. Arrests for other major nationalities seen at the border, including Guatemalans, Hondurans, Colombians and Ecuadoreans, have plunged this year.
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
RE: Arnold Palmer’s Big Dick
Triggering Linsey
Trump honestly believes that kids are getting transgender surgery in school
Today’s Public Service Announcement:
Trump’s Self Persecution
Trump in the PGA Showers
Obama in Las Vegas
When Trump takes office, he’s sure to have Obama at the top of the list of people he plans on arresting and prosecuting.
Obama ROASTS Trump like a pig in a spit
(Starts at 59:00)
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