Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Glub, glub, glub...

2 June 2017 update: but wait, there's moar! I just uploaded the latest from Randy Rainbow, and it's a li'l beauty! Scroll down to the bottom of y'day's m00bies and have a listen--it's the perfect cap to this madcap week.

1 June 2017 update: holy covfefe, Batman!

Hello, it's me again, Margaret--didja miss me?
heh heh heehhhhhh...!


Srsly--what the covfefe?!

If y'all are nice to me, mebbe I'll throw in a few of the funniest #covfefe tweets from yesterday. (I threw in a teeny li'l easter egg y'day evening...didja see it?)

One sad-but-honest Tweep lamented that #covfefe got a bazillion more hits than the awful car bombing that actually killed actual people in Kabul, Afghanistan.

And, yes, that is true.

There were also plenty of hits for Kathy Griffin's stunt posing with a tRump mask with fake blood on it. Liberals pounced on Ms. Griffin, who immediately did something that neither tRump nor any Republican has ever done: she posted a heartfelt and convincing apology, taking full responsibility for her actions. No mansplaining--just "I crossed the line...I moved the line and then crossed it...." And she looked unmistakably upset in her video. Not smug, like a Republican would.

Of course, Republicans ignored it--probably because the whole notion of apologizing for misdeeds and taking responsibility for their actions is so foreign to them. Both the words and the sincerity in Ms. Griffin's apology must've sounded like a foreign language to them...


And then...there was this:


As you can see from the timestamp, tRump posted this crazy tweet shortly after midnight...and the tweet was allowed to stay up until well into the morning--apparently, his night handlers nodded off. I saw the tweet around 8 or 9 eastern time--it was only taken down some time after that.

But after the tweet posted, before it was deleted, teh intert00bz freaked--people thought tRump had stroked out and died on the toilet while taking a dump. I shit you not.

tRump being tRump, instead of being gracious and honest, like Kathy Griffin, he posted this nonsplanation:



When asked about the mysterious tweet later, spicey sphincter gave this explanation:

"The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."

Is it any wonder that the press corps laughed at him?

And then the fun really began.

I mean, everyone knows that tRump is st00pit. Everyone knows that tRump is ignorant. Everyone knows that tRump is a narcissist who can't admit fault. Everyone knows that tRump spouts nonsense while pretending it's genius.

But his covfefe...

Friends, it was just the laugh we all needed.

Yes, I know that innocent people were murdered in Kabul.

Yes, I know that tRump is fundamentally destroying this country behind our backs while we're all trying to boot him out via tRump-Russia.

Yes, I know that the n00z sucks ass and that tRump and the Teathuglikkkants are responsible.

Yes, I know that tRump and the Teathuglikkkants won't stop until they've murdered us all in our beds, either by denying us medical coverage, poisoning our food, starving us to death, or getting us all nuked.

Yes, I know that life today is anything but a laughing matter.

BUT HIS COVFEFE...!

Friends, since I had already failed the polyester test* yesterday from having stayed up way too late blogging for your comfort and convenience, I was a ripe target for the attack of the covfefe. Everywhere I went...from the train...to the building...to the office...in the office...I was quietly dying with stifled laughter at the creative hilariousness of the Twitterverse.

I think that all the bad news made all of us susceptible to the charms of covfefe. Like watching Hannity's advertisers dump him in real time as we tweeted them to stop funding the torture of Seth Rich's family, there was something magical about watching the glory of covfefe unfold in real time. Covfefe was the shot in the arm we both needed and deserved as we carry on The Resistance.

So, even though tRump seems determined to fry the planet while ISIS bombs its own small corner of it, and even though poor Kathy Griffin is in the doghouse for a while (again), there is hope. Europe, Canada, and the more intelligent mayors of our cities will continue to honor the Paris Accord to reduce global warming. And we will always have this moment...of covfefe.


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*The polyester test: if you're sleep deprAved, the word "polyester" makes you giggle uncontrollably. Dammit, I just wrote and thus read the word "polyester" and am now giggling uncontrollably. I must have gone to bed too late again last night. Dammit. Hehe!

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 Bill Moyers: Six Things Trump's FCC Chairman Doesn't Want You to Know about Net Neutrality
...Damning stuff.

WSJ: Mike Flynn's Pro-Turkey Work: An Unfinished Documentary to Boost Turkey's Image
...It was worth over $500k to the Turkish.

WaPo: Which Trump associates are being investigated by Congress? A running list.
...Handy!

The Hill: Men investigating Ivanka Trump brand in China arrested, missing
...So much for Princess Ivanka's compassion for workers' rights, especially in her Chinese sweatshops. Let them eat champagne popsicles!

WaPo: Another deadly consequence of climate change: The spread of dangerous diseases

Bill Moyers: The Airport Lawyers Who Stood Up to Trump Are Under Attack

Bill Moyers: A Timeline: Pence's Role in the White House's Russia-Related Mess
...The q-tip in the suit, as some smart Tweep called penis pence, is up to his pencil neck in tRump-Russia dreck. The funny part? penis pence is already campaigning for president in 2020. I tweeted, "Hey, VP--not only is the corpse not cold yet, but it's not even dead yet. Back stab much? You know how realDonaldTrump loves loyalty..."

The Daily Beast: Trump Aides 'Dreading' a Return of 'Trainwreck" Corey Lewandowski

Political Dig: <3 loyalty...="" p=""><3 loyalty....="" p="">BREAKING: Man Arrested With Assault Weapons At Trump Hotel In D.C. Is Actually A Trump Backer
<3 loyalty...="" p=""><3 loyalty....="" p="">...Friends, Blogger has something stuck in its craw, and I don't have time to debug it tonight since I'm already failing the polyester test. Grrr.

 Marie Claire: What Donald Trump's Russia Investigation Really Means for America
...Friends, this is an important piece by Sarah Kendzior. Pls don't miss it! tRump really is destroying our country from the inside out, and what he is doing will affect you now and for years to come. And not in a good way. For more insightful articles on tRump-Russia, go to SarahKendzior.com.

Gizmodo: Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server with No Password 
Holy phuque! What, isn't this, like, the second time in a year or so that Booz Allen has compromised sensitive government data? Cheez...!

Bill Moyers: Enabling a Dangerous President: Rosenstein's Regrettable Role
...Add to that a little RawStory: Enabling a dangerous president: Pence was there
<3 loyalty...="" p=""><3 loyalty....="" p="">   
<3 loyalty....="" p="">WaPo: Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York City
<3 loyalty....="" p="">...Friends, this is some bad, bad juju going down. A week or three ago, PEWtin warned that there would be consequences for not "returning" these spy facilities, which Obama took away under the sanctions for skr00ing with the  2016 election, to Russia. Pewtie only had to say "boo" to his bae tRump, who gladly turned the facilities back over to PEWtin so that he can go back to spying on the NSA. I'm tellin' ya, this is some bad, BAD juju...! Why, you might almost think that PEWtin had, oh, I dunno, like, a dossier on tRump or something...

The Moscow Times: Welcome to The Machine: Inside the Secretive World of RT
...A lot of lefties, like my own beloved Thom Hartmann, get sucked into working for RT, but the Kremlin only gives them so much leeway in presenting their stories. "That's not the angle we take here, comrade."

Bill Moyers: The Other Special Prosecutor We Need
...This is for all of tRump's corruption, which costs us dearly. tRump is draining our treasury into his own pockets and shutting down local businesses, thus stifling local economies...effectively draining the money out of them, too. The tRump junta's cashing in on the White House is a filthy scandal all its disgusting own.

Palmer Report: Special Counsel Robert Mueller can seize Donald Trump's tax returns and it's possible he already has
...I'll sleep better tonight thinking about this and hoping that Mueller already has them.

Daily Kos: The Hunting of Hillary: A conversation with Joe Conason
...I grieve to think of what we could have had.

Slate: The New York Times is blaming the wrong person for Trump's D.C. Hotel Exploitation

The Guardian: Nigel Farage is 'person of interest' in FBI investigation into Trump and Russia
...Remember when Farage visited Wikileaks's Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy and pretended he couldn't recall making that visit? Farage is up to his neck in tRump-Russia dreck.

The Hill: Dem: Sessions, Kislyak story may be 'big time perjury'

Bloomberg: Trump's Pennsylvania Mastermind Sees Lobbying Boom in Washington

Roll Call: Taxpayers May Have Overpaid for EpiPens by a Billion Dollars

POLITICO: Russia escalates spy games after years of U.S. neglect

HuffPo: While You Obsessed Over Trump's Scandals, He's Fundamentally Changed the Country

MoJo: A Guide to the Key Players in the Trump-Russia Scandal
...Programs, programs! Gitcher program here...can't keep track of the game withoutcher program...! If you follow the blawg, you know I keep up with this stuff, and there were some names in there that even I didn't recognize!

RawStory: Ex-Breitbart employee: There's now a 'concrete paper trail' showing that Bannon still runs Breitbart from the White House
...This is one article of a group that tell the story--ban'em has tRump's permission to use Breitbart as the propaganda arm of the White House.

CNBC: Hillary Clinton says 'Americans' guided Russia's attack on her campaign
<3 loyalty...="" p="">... Twitter user rvawonk Caroline O. says that Breitbart did the damage. Malcolm Nance backs up the story in his book "The Plot to Hack America." Friends, this is neither sour grapes nor conspiracy theory--it's for-real conspiracy, and our democracy hangs in the balance!
<3 loyalty...="" p="">Salon: Here's how much economic damage President Trump's alleged corruption could be doing
<3 loyalty...="" p="">...He could be shrinking the economy by a cool grand for each and every American each year. Get out your checkbooks! I hope you can absorb that much--my dad and I can't.

The Daily Beast: Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff From White House Ethics Rules
...Silly pee-on--ethics are only for Democrats!

WaPo: Trump's unsupported claim he has 'received awards on the environment'
<3 loyalty...="" p="">...tRump is such a goddamned liar...!

CityLab: 5 Ways U.S. Cities Can Fight Climate Change Without the Paris Accord
<3 loyalty...="" p="">
<3 loyalty....="" p="">CNN: First on CNN: Senators asked Comey to investigate Sessions ...Lying KKKeebler elf is up to his wrinkled old neck in tRump-Russia dreck.

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ICYMI:

 
 

 
 
 
 

I'm gonna loop this til it loses all meaning...oh wait.


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Relax--have a covfefe!

Ah, the covfefe is strong with this one...

Brilliant!!!














 ...I replied, saying that I had titled my latest blawg post "Glub, glub, glub," but, if I'd known, I'd have titled it "covfefe."







I love them all, but I think this may just be my fave:
 



Here's Randi Rhodes's fave:
 
And then there were the tee shirt ideas, of which these offer only a small sample (mine being the fourth in the list):
 
Got covfefe?
You had me at covfefe
The wind whispered "covfefe"
Ask me what "covfefe" means
Covfefe: your guess is as good as mine
 
Alt_Dept of Labor is selling these and other great Resistance tees to benefit ACLU!
 
And then there was HRC with zero fucks left to give responding to yet another moronic tweet from orange twAtler himself:
 
 
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30 May 2017 post:


Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

I know I'm not the only one who sees the morning n00z--or Twitter feed--in two uncomfortable ways:

1. Damage report

2. Trying to drink from a firehose

...glub, glub, glub.

Friends, there's just too much going on for me to hit it all.

Probably the biggest pisser today is Jared Kushner's illicit security clearance.

Yeah, I gno--Sessions needs his clearance revoked, too, because, like Kushner, he committed fraud by lying about his Russian contacts on his security clearance form: the SF (or Standard Form) 86, or SF-86 for short.

Kushner's offense is worse than Sessions's--I gno, right?--for at least two reasons I can think of without even taking my sleepy neurons out of first gear:

1. Kushner lied about his debt by failing to mention that he owes $1 BILLION.

Business Insider: Jared Kushner didn't disclose ties to Soros, Thiel, Goldman Sachs

We ordinary folks are denied security clearances or have our clearances revoked for much smaller debts. Hell--I've heard of people losing their clearances if they've ever let debts go to collections agencies. That's, what, 90 days overdue? 120? And you can lose your clearance and thus your job--and the possibility of ever working in a cleared position again--over it.

The problem with debt is that it gives someone who is NOT the United States of America leverage over you. They can threaten to call in their marker unless you do [insert unsavory action that is advantageous to your creditor here].

For example, Turkey pwned Flynn, so they told Flynn to manipulate tRump's foreign policy to favor Turkey...and Flynn did as he was asked...and tRump did as Flynn asked. And PEWtin pwns tRump, so when PEWtin tells tRump to host his spies or dismantle NATO, tRump unblinkingly complies.

tRump junta debt thus makes America a LOT LESS safe because it puts us at the mercy of our greatest adversary: Russia.

N00z flash: Russia is NOT our friend, people!

2. During the transition, Kushner contacted the Russians to set up a COVERT, ENCRYPTED communications channel TO Russia IN a Russian facility.

In other words, Kushner wanted to be able to talk TO PEWtin WITHOUT anyone in OUR government knowing...like our military, our intelligence, our oversight...!

Friends, there is no innocent way to spin this.

There's only one word for it: ESPIONAGE.

The Atlantic: Report: Jared Kushner Asked Kislyak for Use of Russian Communications Facilities 

What the FUCK does Kushner have to hide that he has to go to OUR ENEMY--THE ENEMY THAT JUST ATTACKED OUR ELECTION--and ask them for a secret, encrypted channel in their facility that he can use to talk to their president?!??

Even Russian spy-master Kislyak was "taken aback" by the request.

I've posted more about this and the rest of the madness we now call "current events" in the headlines below.

Friends, I've spent 27 of my 30 years as a professional engineer working in DoD. I've sacrificed good pay, vacations, comfort, prestige, and much, much more because I thought this goddamned country was worth defending. I followed every protocol and conned over every training so's to make myself the best possible protector of this nation's sensitive information with a view toward bringing its men and women in uniform home safely from wherever our varyingly fascist, adventurist government sent them.

But tRump and his junta make a joke of everything I and others like me have done with our careers.

Isn't it ironic that benedict dumbald rages about White House leaks when HE'S the leaker?

Friends, every last one of these traitors from orange twAtler on down through and possibly including Orrin Hatch deserve to be impeached and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for taking PEWtin's money and unblinkingly doing his bidding.

Like destroying NATO in one short visit from one stubby-fingered ugly (and fat) American.

I am so mad I could spit nails--preferably right in the orange, loofa-faced shitgibbon's orange loofa face.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!

SMH.

Srsly, friends--there are no words. Can we as a nation even recover from all the destruction that tRump and the Greedy Oligarch PEWtin dickheads are wreaking on us all day every day?

I wonder.

With that nasty thot, allow me to slawg on with le blawg.
 
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Have you ever noticed how tRump's twitter rants coincide with PEWtin's press releases?
Why, it's almost as if PEWtin is pulling tRump's strings and telling him what to say when!
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Choo choo time headlines

NY Times: Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows
...The short answer is "yes," but the analysis is helpful.

CNN: Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake
...Walp, friends, Comey got what he wanted. I wonder if he isn't clapping his hands and chuckling with glee at the imminent destruction of our democracy, our civil society, our alliances abroad, our civil liberties, our environment...

Reuters: Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian Envoy -- Sources

WaPo: Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin

Business Insider: 'This is serious': Jared Kushner reportedly tried to set up a secret Trump-Russia back channel
..."Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House adviser, was willing to go extraordinary lengths to establish a secret line of communication between the Trump administration and Russian government officials, The Washington Post reported on Friday."

WaPo: Jared Kushner trying to secretly talk to the Russians is the biggest billow of smoke yet

NY Times: Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia

WSJ: How Alleged Russian Hacker Teamed Up With Florida GOP Operative

WaPo: So much water pulsed through melting glacier, it warped the Earth's crust

WaPo: Trump's latest tantrum will hurt hundreds of thousands of people. Here's how.
...This article is about the tax bill intended to cut taxes for the already-rich while denying health care to millions of innocent, hard-working Americans. tRump wants to sabotage Obamacare in order to make the poison we know as tRumpcare look less noxious.

OPB: 2 People Dead In Train Attack In Portland
...tRump never did acknowledge the American heroes who gave their lives defending teenage Muslim girls from their American Christian extremist attacker. Hateful fuck.

IB Times: Trump Administration Conflicts Of Interest: How Gary Cohn Could Sell US Infrastructure to Goldman Sachs

New Yorker: How Worried Should Jared Kushner Be?

Clearance Jobs: Consequences of Lying or Withholding Information During a Background Investigation
...Don't take my word for it--what Kushner and Sessions did, both of them, is CRIMINAL. Teaser: "Lying on your clearance application can earn you fines of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment up to five years–and what else?"

Business Insider: Reaction to Jared Kushner backchannel plan with Russia
"'This is off the map': Former intelligence officials say the reported Kushner-Russia plan is unlike anything they've ever seen."

Here's an excerpt:

Scott Olson, a recently retired FBI agent who ran counterintelligence operations and spent more than 20 years at the bureau, agreed that it is not unusual for low-level staffers to work between governments and bypass bureaucracy to exchange views and build consensus in advance of higher-level negotiations.

But what Kushner appears to have done is "substantially different, in two ways," he said.
"First, he is not seeking a back-channel for a low-level staff exchange," Olson said. "He wants high-level direct-contact communication. This is extremely dangerous because it results in verbal (and therefore undocumented and unwitnessed) agreements, which are binding on governments. Free governments do not work this way. They can't. If they do, they are no longer free."

Here's another excerpt:

"GOOD GRIEF. This is serious," Robert Deitz, a veteran of the NSA and the CIA who worked under the Clinton and Bush administrations, said in an email of the latest developments.

"This raises a bunch of problematic issues. First, of course, is the Logan Act,  which prohibits private individuals conducting negotiations on behalf of the US government with foreign governments. Second, it tends to reinforce the notion that Trump's various actions about Comey do constitute obstruction."

"In other words, there is now motive added to conduct," Deitz said. "This is a big problem for the President."

Still not convinced that this is a Big Fucking Deal? Here's one last excerpt...then go click through and read the whole article.

"If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power" while trying to subvert normal state channels, "you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor," said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA for more than two decades. "That is what I spent my life getting foreigners to do with me, for the US government." [emphasis mine]

MoJo: Trump's Behavior in Europe Has Made the World Cringe. Here's What's Really on the Line at the G7.
    
Fortune: Donald Trump's Long, Strange History of Using Fake Names
    
WaPo: With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week
    
Some e-cards: White Supremacist Asks Muslim Lawyer Why There Is No 'Christian ISIS.' Gets Schooled.
...Click through for some great, pithy tweets. (And, no, I didn't just lisp.)

Vox: The suddenly relevant debate about whether a president can be prosecuted

Business Insider: Michael Hayden: Kushner meeting why Trump officials were 'unmaksed' 
Teaser: "Former CIA Director: 'Now we know' why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been 'unmasked.'"

Excerpts:

Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, told CNN on Saturday that the reported content of Jared Kushner's conversations with Russia's ambassador in December may have motivated former national security adviser Susan Rice to request his name to be unmasked in intelligence reports.

And this, regarding Kushner's request for the covert communications channel to the Kremlin:

Kislyak reportedly passed along that request to Moscow, in a phone call that was promptly intercepted by US intelligence agencies during their routine eavesdropping of foreign agents on US soil. Kislyak's call, which apparently described an attempt to bypass the US' national security and intelligence apparatus, would have gone into an intelligence report and been distributed among top government officials like Rice.

It also would have raised a big red flag, Hayden said. He was unequivocal when asked if he would have sought to unmask the US person cited by Kislyak as having proposed a secret backchannel to Russia.

"Oh my, yes," Hayden told Business Insider on Saturday. "Anyone would have."

The Santa Barbara Independent: Trump's Censorship of Science

RawStory: MSNBC host stunned when spy catcher insists Jared Kushner is 'absolutely' a Russian agent.
..Not only is Jared Kushner undoubtedly a Russian agent, but he gets tRump's daily intelligence briefs because tRump won't take them. Let THAT sink in for a minute and see if you sleep tonight!

Timeline.com: There was a Russian spy in the FBI for 15 years, and even he warned of (Russian) election tampering 
...Filthy spy Robert Hannsen, who would be celebrated as a god by today's GOP standards, was in the FBI for 15 years...and warned that the Russians wanted to tamper with our elections...in exactly the ways we just saw the bastards do. Don't believe it? Here's the CIA record...just look under "Soviet Active Measures": https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP11M01338R000400470089-2.pdf

Daily Kos: The really bad in the Trumpcare CBO report? Social Security will save $3 billion because dead people
...Yup--on p. 33 of the CBO report on tRumpcare, it says that there will be fewer insurance pay-outs because more people will die because fewer people will be insured (i.e., able to afford insurance). Yay, savings! And it's important savings--money, not human lives. No wonder the Greedy Oligarchs (of) PEWtin cum soooooo hard....

The Guardian: Portland Republican James Buchal says party should use militia groups for protection after racial attacks
...Yes, you read that right: because of recent racist attacks, Republicans want to be protected FROM their constituents BY racist attackers (aka militias)! What could go wrong?

BoingBoing: 1927 news report: Donald Trump's dad arrested in KKK riot
...Granted, fRed tRump may just have been an innocent bystander...and I may just have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you...

Cincinnati.com: ICE arrests undocumented man as wife, lawyer watch
...What have we become? Animals treat their own better than we do.

Reuters: Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy -- sources
..."U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters."

McClatchy D.C. Bureau: Here's why the feds are looking at Jared Kushner

The Nation: Trump Is a Cornered Megalomaniac—and That's a Grave Danger to the Country

Fast Company: Trump's Panama Problem
  
The Guardian: Close friend of Trump investigated over alleged €170m tax evasion
...You can tell a lot about a man like tRump by the company he keeps. Like fellow tax evader Thomas Barrack.

Bill Moyers: Down the Memory Hole — Trump's United States of Amnesia
...tRump thinks he can throw reality down the memory hole. Luckily for us, there's the Wayback Machine.

ABC News: FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say
...Friends, this is an important story. If Uday and Qusay let the FBI investigate the attempted hack of the tRump organization, it could give the FBI access to all manner of evidence for the government's criminal and counter-espionage investigations of tRump during and after the transition. This, of course, means that hackers can go to town on the tRump organization because Uday and Qusay have no choice but NOT to report any such attacks! Ya think maybe the FBI made up the attack to get Uday and Qusay to let them in...? I don't think the FBI is that clever at the moment.

MarketWatch: It's time to plan an escape route, for you and your money, from Trumpland
...Unfortunately for me, I think I'm stuck here. Fortunately, I'm ready to stand and fight.

MoJo: The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal

MoJo: Trump Is Already Guilty of Aiding Putin's Attack on America

New York Magazine: Russians Think Trump Might Be a Russian Asset, and They May Be Right

Newsweek: Nearly Half of Donald Trump's Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts
...Friends, this matters because tRumPEWtin is using bots and fake accounts to sow confusion and manufacture legitimacy and consent. DON'T FALL FOR IT! Use only trusted sources--and Snopes early and often!

Political Wire: Russia Investigation Expands to Include Trump Lawyer

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Friends, please visit the links below to check out these great n00z sources. I may post some selections next time. Or not. You never know with me.
 
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Carter Page's father's
NY energy company
works in Russia.
You can't do that
without PEWtin's permission.
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M00bies!

From the description box: "Lee Camp tears into Donald Trump for his continued reckless behavior. This time it’s concerning Trump’s selling of $460 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia over the next 10 years. Lee points out that Trump is not only continuing to arm one of the most repressive regimes on the planet to the teeth, but that he’s also completely contradicting himself. Lee delves into the tragedy and vicious human-rights violations currently happening in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and largely funded by the U.S."



Devious fucking twink.




St00pit greedy Russian asset twink.


Amazing.










Oh snap, son--Dot Calm lurved "Evita" and would have lurved this!

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If Christianity doesn't make you a better person,
what good is it?
-- Dot Calm's shadow, in response to
rampant hypocrisy, abuse, and misbehavior
among Christians and their leaders
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Well, friends, that's it for today. Until we meet again, don't forget to RESIST with Resistbot:

text "Resist" to 50409

And check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website so you can protect your online privacy:
https://www.eff.org/

Remember to boycott all the tRump shills on the boycott list below and tell them why.

And don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
  
Randi Rhodes's Homework page
DCReport.org
Open Secrets
Democratic Coalition Against Trump
MaddowBlog
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Democratic Underground
Boing Boing
Vox
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
God, the Good Lord Above
...skip the media outlets in the boycott list below unless you want trump propaganda. And TELL their advertisers WHY you are boycotting those media outlets!

On the lighter side:
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
      
And check out these great YouTube channels:
...or, if you just want something mindless and fun, try Tested

Also, don't forget to add these to your Twitter feed if you haven't already:
 
@joyannreid
@georgetakei
@malcolmnance

And now you can add me, too!

@dotcalmsshadow

And don't forget to follow

@AlexJonescopy

unless, as he says, you're a total globalist. "It's not a parody account--it's performance art!" He also urges us to retweet everything he says unless we want the globalists to win. (Srsly, friends--he's a riot. Don't drink coffee while reading his tweets.)

Peas, friends. Take care of yourselves for me. Trust me--you're worth it! And go have a Fireball and some chocolate while you still can, will ya? Time is short now that the mouth of trump hell has opened...
  
- Dot Calm's shadow

Consider the preemptive Blogger phuqued-up phormatting disclaimer to be in effect. Grrr.
-- Dot Calm's shadow
      
 
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Boycott List

Boycott media!

Don't bother with these media outlets any more unless you want trump propaganda--these media outlets have whored themselves out to trump for access for the low, low price of "fancy" cocktails and a "fancy" dinner, consisting of Donald's shriveled orange acorn dick, at chump's "fancy" (aka FAKE PLASTIC, just like everything else about trump and his FAKE PLASTIC family) "resort" in Florida. What an upstanding, responsible response to trump's denying press conferences since 27 July 2016...retch. So much for comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable, and speaking truth to power to keep that power reined in and in check...!
  • Axios
  • Bloomberg
  • Breitbart because duh--according to AlterNet, Howard Dean Lends Voice to Consumer Activist Group Hitting Breitbart in the Wallet—And It's Working
  • CNN
  • FOX because of course
  • MSNBC (includes Joe Scarborough, but Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes may still be OK as long as their corporate overlords allow it)
  • NBC (they also have the reality TV show conflict of interest--and they just hired a couple of FUX Noise escapees, so beware a hard swing to the far, far right)
  • POLITICO--their top editor(s) went and paid to party with trump, so now more and more trump propaganda has been showing up there, to my infinite disgust
Don't forget to contact these media outlets and their ADVERTISERS and TELL them all why you're boycotting them! So what if we spend a little less money overall? The money we save now may give us enough breathing room to jump ship before trump crashes the economy.

Boycott vendors that support trump, sell trump shit, and otherwise pander to hate!

Boycott Victoria's Secret--they kick out shoppers who are guilty of shopping while Black!
    
Here's a twofer: let's save our money for when dump tanks the economy and grab the trumpussy grabber-in-thief where it hurts most--by his wallet!

Want to boycott trump? There's an app for that!

And here's a list of trump companies.

There's also a spreadsheet of trump supporters and vendors that carry trump merch that includes the vendors below.
Don't forget New Balance, who praised and supported trump: 1 (800) 595-9138.

Here's the list from Mindy Fischer, featuring 28 vendors that sell trump merchandise. BOYCOTT them all and TELL them why!

6pm
Contact info: (888) 676-2660, HQ- (702) 943-7777
cs@6pm.com

Amazon--pressure them to DUMP BREITBART, while you're at it!
Contact info: (888) 280-4331 HQ- (206) 266-1000
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html?skip=true

Belk
Contact info: (866) 235-5443 HQ- (704) 357-1000
http://www.belkfeedback.com/(X(1)S(sbbxm3z11e1guxbtctk2wdkc))/Index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Bloomingdale's
Contact info: (800) 777-0000 HQ- (212) 705-2000
http://survey.medallia.com/?blm-tuwyt-com

Bluefly
Contact info: (877) 258-3359 HQ- (212) 944-8000
flyrep@bluefly.com

The Bon-Ton
Contact info: (800) 233-7626 HQ- (800) 937-5449
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

Bed Bath and Beyond
Contact info: (800) 462-3966 HQ- (908) 688-0888
https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/selfservice/ContactUs?…

Burlington Coat Factory
Contact info: (855) 355-2875 HQ- (609) 387-7800
http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/contactus.aspx

Carson's 
Contact info: (800) 945-4438 HQ- (317) 971-6200
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

Century 21 department store
Contact info: (877) 350-2121 HQ- (888) 221-2551
https://www.c21stores.com/contact

Dillard's
Contact info: (800) 345-5273 HQ- (501) 376-5200
http://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContactUs

DSW Shoes
Contact info: (866) 379-7463 HQ- (614) 237-7100
http://www.dsw.com/dsw_shoes/customer_service/send_email.jsp

Hudson’s Bay
Contact info: (800) 521-2364 HQ- (800) 521-2364
https://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

HSN
Contact info: (800) 284-3900 HQ- (727) 872-1000
https://www.hsn.com/cs/email_us/default.aspx

Jet
Contact Info: (855) 538-4323 HQ- (844) 538-2255
help@jet.com

Joss &amp; Main
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php

Lord &amp; Taylor
Contact info: (800) 223-7440 HQ- (212) 391-3344
https://www.lordandtaylor.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

Macy’s
Contact info: (800) 289-6229 HQ- (513) 579-7000
http://survey.medallia.com/?mcy-tuwyt-com

Marshalls and TJ Maxx
Contact info: (888) 627-7425 HQ- (508) 390-1000
https://www.marshallsonline.com/contact-us

Neiman Marcus WE WON! Needless Mark-up DUMPED TRUMP, w00t!
Contact info: (888) 888-4757 HQ- (562) 463-9333
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/assistance/contactUs.jsp

Nordstrom WE WON! Nordstrom DUMPED TRUMP, w00t!
Contact info: (888) 282-6060 HQ- (206) 628-2111
https://nordstrom.custhelp.com/app/ask/incidents.c$sent_queueid/12

Overstock.com
Contact info: (800) 843-2446 HQ- (801) 947-3100
https://help.overstock.com/app/ask

Perfumania
Contact info: (866) 557-2368 HQ- (800) 228-3489
http://perfumaniaholdings.com/contact

Saks Off Fifth
Contact info: (877) 551-7257 HQ- (212) 320-4700
https://www.saksoff5th.com/contactus

Stein Mart
Contact info: (888) 783-4662 HQ- (904) 346-1500
http://ir.steinmart.com/contactus.cfm

Wayfair
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php

Winners
Contact info: (514) 788 4949 HQ- (905) 405-8000
https://www.winners.ca/en/contact

Zappos
Contact info: (800) 927-7671 HQ- (702) 943-7777
https://secure-www.zappos.com/contact

Zulily
Contact info: (877) 779-5615 HQ- (206) 724-0500
http://www.zulily.com/contacts

OK, friends--let's get busy!

Oh, and don't forget to #covfefe...hehehehehehehe!