Michelle Wolf, guest comedian at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, roasting some of her own kind (women) who are members of the current administration:

On Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "An Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women. Whose "smokey eye" makeup is made from the ashes of burnt facts."
On Ivanka Trump - "about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons."
On KellyAnne Conway - "An inveterate liar. if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get KelleyAnne under it?"

Some of her more biting comments were aimed at those present. The reporters themselves. To include: "Trump has helped you sell your papers your books and your T.V. You helped create this monster and are profiting from him."

That I even read this article is another reason why I try to stay away from the news these days. Anyway, some in the media seem disappointed with Ms. Wolf's routine. About it being mean-spirited and tacky. Offensive.

Really? Maybe a little context will help: consider the environment set up by the current administration. Trump has done and said some of the skuzziest things of any president in history. He puts the "low life" in low-life. I'm even willing to give him credit for single handedly creating "trickle-down class-less-ness." He is a walking talking festering-sore.

And somebody is unhappy with a comedian having a little fun at our expense? This is her opportunity to make a splash. Her fifteen minutes. If that involves laughing at our stupidity for (almost) electing Herr Trumph president, then good for her. Seems to me it all fits quite nicely.

You have to expect things to become "tacky", if for no other reason than to keep up with the Prez. It's the new playbook. There is no longer any "too low" to go. No bar to lower. Comrade Donald has made very sure of that. Over and over and over again. He drained the swamp and opened the sewer and turned loose the diseased rats he surrounds himself with. We're all swimming in it now, every day. We are covered in icky sticky tackiness, used to the stench. It is the new normal.
And that, is truly sad.

And, exactly as helpful as an empty box of tampons.

Dear President Emmanuel Macron,

If you ever get tired of the top job in France please consider coming over and being a candidate for leader here. You seem to truly understand what this Country is supposed to mean, and have the dignity to make America great again. Sure, there's that pesky requirement the President be born in the States. But thanks to Comrade Trump we already have a fresh-off-the-boat first lady. And like Donnie says - it's ONLY the Constitution, anyway. Fake rules, you know. (of course we have to consider the possibility he arbitrarily decides to ban short, French guys who marry women old enough to be their mother. Which would make exactly as much sense as his Muslim ban (short French guys who marry older women are all scary and terrorists)) Mmm.

Anyway, thanks for visiting. Maybe you reminded Congress what a leader with more than half a molecule of class looks and acts like. You certainly speak better English than Herr Trumph. It was fun listening to you torch him while knowing he didn't have a clue.

Thanks again.   

Sieg Heil!! and greetings from the United States of Trump. But on to this evening's history reminder: The framers of the US Constitution built in measures to ensure each of the three branches of government are kept in check. This essentially to protect the people from their leaders. To prevent any of the three divisions from becoming too powerful lest we fall into dictatorship or anarchy. This after several thousand years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The people who put together the U.S. Constitution wanted to try something else. It was a good idea.

Your current president is testing those protections. Like a child, searching for boundaries. Trying to determine just how far he can go, how much he can get away with before someone finally calls bullshit. So far the built-in measures have provided, at least at the domestic level, some limits to the damage he has caused.  Example - A third federal judge ruled on Tuesday against the Trump Administration's campaign to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented immigrants, ordering the administration to not only continue processing applications but also to resume accepting new applications. U.S. District Judge John Bates of the District of Columbia Circuit was withering in his 60-page ruling, calling the administration's attempt to end the program known as DACA, "arbitrary, capricious, virtually unexplainable and - unlawful."   The Trump Administration immediately went into full-on 4-year old child pout mode and attacked the ruling as unfair.
Sieg-fucking-heil Adolph Trump.    

Thanks to the founding fathers its possible Trump hasn't yet broken anything so much that it can't be fixed. This is very clearly not for lack of trying (and he still has plenty of time.)   

The Constitution is in place to protect us from our government. What the Constitution is not able to do, however, is protect us from ourselves. To wit -
Donald Trump was elected president. An almost majority actually voted for him.

Questions, and just a few of the most obvious here - how is it possible that ANY woman supports Trump? Seriously. And yet many do. How could anyone with even a morsel of Hispanic background feel anything other than disgust and anger? Or how can a human being of color continue to cheer him on? How can anyone who has family friends or has even only heard of someone who has been in the military maybe even given their all for this country, how could anyone like that be in favor of this draft dodging veteran slamming whimpering little coward of a traitor? How is it that people with education levels beyond that of first grade voted for this guy? How is it that anyone who professes faith in pretty much any religion, maybe particularly "Conservative Christians", how can those people support Trump and still be able to look themselves in a mirror? No judgment (believe me, I'm not what anyone would call a bible-thumper). I'm just wondering how something like that can happen. Or.....how can anyone with anything even remotely resembling a moral compass see anything other than a weak, lying, thieving whore who can't stick to the same script for more than about ten minutes? How is it that so many people sold themselves out for this guy?

And those are just a few of the more obvious questions. Yet somehow, an almost majority of voters, an almost majority of such people put him into office. He almost really won. And more still - how do all these people continue to support him even as every day, every single day he finds new ways to show all what a fuck-up he is? Your president has already cemented his name in history as the commander in chief who most actively tried to destroy the USA. Only question remaining is, will he succeed? As it is he is still only well on his way to shredding the place. Isn't quite there, but certainly making progress. Even if we survive him it may be decades before the carnage can be repaired. Foreign policy alone will take a monumental effort to fix even if he stops tearing it down today. His latest attempt to destroy the world economy using kindergarten level economic theory (create a trade war for no reason other than he can and it will cause still more chaos and distraction from the truth, a trade war we can only lose) has reasonable odds to put us into a full-on 30's style depression.

That he was elected at all is sad commentary on us, people. That he remains in office absolutely defies logic. And yet here we are.

Some of reading this are Trump supporters.
Do I think you are idiots?  While it would be easy to say - of course I do..........but I am willing to consider the possibility not all of you are. You're welcome. I suppose another reason you support him could be on account of you letting him play you. Letting him prey on your anger, your hate. That you have been duped, used, and otherwise made a fool of.
Though even if you let yourself realize it you will quickly push it aside. All part of the disgusting human condition he exploited to get your vote.

What's maybe most frustrating with this debacle is it all comes down to the little fact that, without daddy's money and influence the very highest position this pathetic clown would have attained, and this only if someone did him a favor, would be night manager at McDonald's in Toadfuck, Oklahoma. And without all his lawyers and reality stars and porn mistresses and utterly unqualified family members and the other low-life leaches and hanger-ons he surrounds himself with - your so-called president would have failed at even that.

He is an embarrassment to this country.
He is an embarrassment to you.
All of us, you me every one of us should be ashamed to be Americans. And not a single one of us has the right to do what we are doing to negate the efforts of those who came before us and gave so much.

That so many still don't see such simple truth is beyond rational thought.

Correction:  do I think people who support Trump are idiots?  Of course I do. I have a functioning brain.  

I am tired of putting up these posts.   The therapeutic value is gone.  The pathetic joke otherwise known as the United States of America is no longer funny. 

You me and everyone else needs to hope the people who put together the founding documents of this country were thorough enough to withstand a festering sore the size of your president. 

"Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?"
Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is openly pondering that issue to include warnings about today's authoritarian rulers in Eastern Europe, North Korea, Turkey and Russia. And the United States of America. Ms. Albright goes on to describe how Hitler and Mussolini came to power in the 20th century.
Albright, who was born in Czechoslovakia and fled with her family after the Nazis occupied the country in 1939, notes that the United States has traditionally been viewed as a nation that opposes authoritarianism and supports democratic principles and human rights, but that perception is changing — because of the actions of President Trump.

When asked is she thinks Trump is a fascist, Albright responds with “………Trump is the most anti-democratic leader that I have studied in American history. His attacks on the judiciary, undisguised attempts to suppress the media, interference in the economy, dismal human rights actions all of it amounts to something much different than democracy."

It is not O.K. to stick your head in the sand and hope this isn’t happening. History is crowded with examples of the results of that strategy. When someone who fled the death squads of Nazi Germany, when that someone went on to hold many positions in our government to include Secretary of State, when that person is openly voicing fears of a repeat of history – you listen. You take notice. Covering your ears closing your eyes tight and humming real loud is not going to make this go away. That approach amounts to being accessory to the disaster. It makes you against America.

Far too many before us have given their all to provide and protect our way of life. You, me none of us has the right to turn our back on this and let it go. What is happening is wrong, and on a scale that threatens everything. To stand idly by is not only not good for the County, it is being activity Anti-American. You are helping to put all of us into harms way.

reminder - all this whining comes from someone, me,
who didn't give a wit about politics until about 16 months ago. Clearly I do now and it is based on well-founded concern for the future of my country. Your president has shown himself certainly to be unstable, probably unwell. And you decided to let him play you like a puppet. He is a parasite, feeding off your anger, hate, feeding off your fear. He is using that to turn his supporters into enemies of the state. He is stoking Anti-American sentiment. He is certainly not making America great again.
He is dismantling it.

Look at history. There is nothing new under the sun. People, societies have been in similar situations before. Over and over again. What is happening with this current heap of human filth is nothing new. Based on this and how it has turned out time and time again - there is a rapidly increasing chance things will not end well this time, either.

And if it does all go to pieces tomorrow or whenever and you wonder who to blame - look in the mirror. It will have been you who stood by and did nothing as it happened.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The real issue here is anger and hate and fear and frustration. The real issue is ugly human nature. Trump, along with Bannon and the rest of his merry pack of parasites just happened to be able to tap into all that negative energy.

It's a shame, really that we can't ever seem to, even once, try to rise above it. Try to stop history from repeating itself. Then maybe we could stop banging our heads against the wall on our path to self-destruction. That will never happen but, you know. it's still a happy thought.

"Trump Deploys National Guard to Secure Border with Mexico and Make America Safe;" "Law to Mandate Pictures of President, VP at Post Offices" ; "Trump Tells Baltic Presidents not to Call on American Reporters - No More Fake News"; "Trump Continues Attacks on Media"; "Trump Continues Attacks on Amazon"; "Trump Lashes Out at "little" CNN Executive"; "17 States Sue Trump Administration"; "Trump's Trade War Threatens U.S., World Economies"; ""All It Takes is One Mistake" - Worries Over Sending Troops to Border"; "Stock Market Convulsing as Trade War Heats Up"; "World's Two Biggest Economies at Brink of Most Perilous Trade Conflict Since World War II"; "Mueller Questions Russian Oligarchs on Campaign Contributions to Trump"; "China, Russia Pledge Military Cooperation Against U.S., West"; "Stormy Daniels Sues to Prevent Arbitration";

Sampling of today's headlines. Not even a particularly busy day.

This is the new normal. And we've become numb to it. Constant drone in the background now. Every day brings new drama with his constant and frantic attempts to avoid attention on the important issues. Every day and against all odds he somehow finds a way to stoop even lower. Every day, making our country.........less. Making us weaker. Continuing his obvious mission to make you and me and our country the laughing stock of the planet.

Your president continues to represent a clear and present danger to this Country. To the world.
It isn't right. None of this, is right. It is destructive, it is dangerous, it is utterly devoid of class, dignity. If I wasn't so worried about your low-life nutjob president blowing up the whole place I might be embarrassed to death.

Impeach. Invoke.