The ramp up to the May 15 testimony of Robert Mueller has all of the Republi-cants running around like the proverbial decapitated chickens, dishing up more than the usual dosage of Trump mania. This is the tweet that kicked it off today.
Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stollen two years of my (our) Presidency (Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2019
which of course prompted the usual optics about how great the economy is. The economy has been growing steadily for 100 months, since Obama foreclosed the possibility of a Second Great Depression, but you’ll never hear the figures put in that context. Oh, no, this is some miracle that Trump alone hath wrought. So, all of that nonsense was expected. But this tweet by Jerry Falwell is something else altogether.
After the best week ever for @realDonaldTrump – no obstruction, no collusion, NYT admits @BarackObama did spy on his campaign, & the economy is soaring. I now support reparations-Trump should have 2 yrs added to his 1st term as pay back for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup
— Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) May 5, 2019
So, just for the sake of argument — WHAT exactly do we need to make reparations to Trump for? We stole something from him? Two years, to be precise, and how is that calculated? He was owed a presidency without any interference or hindrance of any kind (and this is a new description of that particular job, whoa doggies) And because Trump conspired with a foreign power to steal the election, and an investigation was launched into that matter, Falwell logically concludes that Trump is owed restitution? For his “two years, that we will never get back” to be precise?
In other words, Trump deserves to be compensated with extra time in the White House, because his illegal actions were investigated and that investigation took two years. Ergo, investigation equals victimization? So, if the drug dealer down the street is investigated for six months to determine whether he was part of a cartel smuggling heroin, the drug dealer is entitled to six months additional time living in his apartment, or six months car payments waived — or what? Can anybody follow this? No, of course you can’t, because it’s sheer idiocy. Actually, what is is, is sophistry, which is “the use of fallacious arguments, with the intention of deceiving.” Which makes it vintage Falwell and vintage Trump.
Now, the thought process is familiar, insofar as one more time, Trump is the victim, I get that part. But look at Falwell’s tweet a little more closely. “The New York Times admitted that Barack Obama did spy on the campaign.” Now, this is the “Fake News New York Times,” we’re talking about, right? Who gives a damn what they say, they’re fake news? And this was Trump’s best week yet? Why, because he had to sue only TWO banks to block a subpoena of his financial records? Oh, it must be because he got to talk to his BFF in the Kremlin for one and a half hours. Yes, that makes sense. He’s still walking on sunshine, because Vlad took his call. Or, maybe it’s his best week because he sold Pompeo and Bolton down the river, like he sold the entire intelligence community when he spoke with Putin in Helsinki.
And by the by, “stollen” is a German pastry. Unless Trump was talking about Stalin, and that’s a possibility, too, as deranged as this diatribe is. Now, here’s a recipe for stollen a la Trump.
Recipe for stollen:
Take one 72-year-old fruitcake
Mix in white supremacy
Sprinkle with Fox conspiracy theoriesBest served with a side of delusion pic.twitter.com/GknNd5euNt
— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) May 5, 2019
Actually, stollen is a dish best served with a cup of covfefe.
Want to know what I think is really going on here? Falwell’s fellow evangelical wingnut, Franklin Graham, screwed up so magnificently with his hell fire and brimstone attack on Pete Buttigieg that even the Charlotte Observer wrote a scathing editorial, “The Glorious, Growing Irrelevance of Franklin Graham.” Falwell wants to bump off Graham as Evangelical Sycophant in Chief so that he can deliver the spiritual address at Trump’s inauguration, (heaven forfend that that should come to pass) or any other meaningful convocations which may occur between now and then. With Graham’s star plummeting, look for Jerry Falwell’s lips to be glued to Trump’s ass so tight that not even the Jaws of Life can pry them apart. That’s my take on it. And when the day comes that editorials are being written on Donald Trump’s “glorious, growing irrelevance,” Jerry Falwell will not be defending him, he’ll be out playing with the pool boy. Mark my words.
“Actually, stollen is a dish best served with a cup of covfefe.”
And hamberders, don’t forget the hamberders.
HA! Yes, nothing like a good hamberder and cup of covfefe. Many are the truck stops in business that do those two things right.
What a kiss ass, he makes me want to throw up.
He’s after Graham’s job, I’m sure of it. The higher Falwell gets in evangelical circles, the more he can charge for tuition.
Lying azz kisser gonna lie and kiss azz.
*nods*
I loved his validation of the New York Times. You don’t hear that from this crowd. They really should make up their minds one way or the other.
Falwell’s lips glued to Trump’s ass? Naw. He, Graham, Rudy G., Sanders, Conway and others are a living version of that “Humancentipad” from SouthPark where they (and others) are surgically attached mouth to asshole to Trump. Shit get’s passed though each person until it finally gets spewed out in a nasty stream of diarrheattic pronouncements from whomever is the last one in the chain – they keep getting surgically re-arranged of course.
As for that NYT “story” as I read though it I grew increasingly appalled and realized it was probably the work of that smug little prick Michael Schmidt & sure enough when I scrolled up to check the byline his name was there – then later his mug was on TV giving Trump his version of oral sex via “journalism.”
Good catch. I didn’t think to do that, because I was so floored by the fact that NYT was being presented as an authority, which is dead opposite of everything I hear from this crowd. I had trouble wrapping my head around that one, but Schmidt in the mix makes sense.
Jerry Falwell Jr. is one of the biggest pieces of un-Christian garbage on earth. He sold his soul to the devil (Trump) a long time ago. By this standard, Bill Clinton should have been given an extra decade.
And Obama made President For Life.
The concept is a scream. Think about it for a moment. What would be the standard of proof for a president to be entitled to demand reparations? Obstruction over a nominee? A conspiracy about the president’s birth certificate? What exactly? This is something SNL should do a parody on.
How innocent we were about the Bill/Monica imbroglio. I said at the time that it was reckless of Clinton, but in retrospect, Clinton looks like a schoolboy, a saintly one at that, next to Trump.
Clinton would be in office forever if he got reparations for all the mud slung at him.
I’m just curious as to WHAT “two years” Falwell means. Trump’s GOP enablers were in COMPLETE charge of BOTH houses of Congress from Jan 20, 2017 (when Trump became Presinfant) until Jan 2, 2019 (the last day of the 115th Congress) and, for the life of me, I don’t recall any real work being done that stopped Trump from doing what Trump wanted to do. Mueller was doing the job that he was assigned to do to investigate legitimate questions regarding the 2016 election (and everyone–including Falwell–knows that had Hillary won the Electoral College and was to take office on 1/20/17, the GOP Congress would’ve spent every single hour of every single day, beginning on 1/3/17, ensuring that absolutely no stone would be left unturned in working to undermine her administration; hell, I can’t imagine she’d even have a single person working for her if they had to be confirmed by the Senate).
The right-wing has built up this myth of a “coup” but the reality is that the government is working the way it SHOULD; it’s just that now that the GOP doesn’t have both houses of Congress, they don’t like it. When the GOP was obstructing Obama at every turn (including stealing a Supreme Court seat), the right-wing was beyond giddy; now that Trump doesn’t have a rubber-stamp Congress, suddenly the right-wing is making up shit about a “coup.”
That’s the beauty of this off-the-wall comment, is how totally nuts it is. The inference is that somehow the Mueller investigation was so big and powerful that it a) caused Trump’s insane foreign policy b) caused Trump to love tyrants round the world c) caused Trump to disrespect transgender people d) caused Trump to make every single mistake he ever made. It reminds me of a little kid that breaks something and says, “Look what you made me do.”
And actually, I have a more personal relationship with this kind of idiotic thinking. My freshman year of college I broke up with my boyfriend, whom I had dated since my junior year of high school. He, too, came up with this line of argument, “I wasted three years.” I said, (and I was only 18, but I had common sense,) “nothing was wasted. The good times are still good memories. What are you saying, no situation in life has validity, unless it is perfect and lasts forever?”
This is the first thing I thought of when I read Trump’s tweet. Then I knew how bad it was. The 72 year old sitting *resident has the maturity of the childish 19 year old boy that I sent packing decades ago. Blew my mind, I’ll say that.
Hmm. We can be fair as liberals…let’s approach this in a spirit of compromise. Counteroffer – Trump can have a two year term at the end, just not in the Oval Office. How about Riker’s?
See…compromise.
Very fair compromise, has my endorsement.
I look for this chickenshit to lay VERY low when–not if, WHEN–this whole sorry episode wraps up. I didn’t like his dad. I sure as hell don’t like him.
The evangelicals may wash down the drain along with Trump. If you read that link to the editorial on Graham, citing his “recent shovel of moral manure,” you’ll see that he did himself far more damage than good by declaring Buttigieg a sinner. Then Graham attempted to walk it all back by saying “everybody is a sinner.” It was amusing watching him flail.
American citizens should get the last two years of their lives back because of the tRump/Putin successful coup. And Obama should get another eight years because of the non-stop obstruction by the rancid repugs. And maybe John McCain should get back those five years he spent in confinement as well as the time since he died. While we’re at it, I’d like to get back the 50 years I spent working for a living. So unfair. What kind of drugs are these morans using?
This is all true, using the yardstick of their “logic.” Wouldn’t it be great if we could all get back years of our lives affected by disagreements with other people? I can think of ten years, spent with two different men, that I wouldn’t mind having back myself. What a shame life doesn’t work that way, isn’t it?
Presidents are management – they don’t get overtime. Or reparations, expecially when it’s their own party that’s been running the show.
Ain’t it grand? If you just sit and think about this idiotic comment, even routinely, all kinds of reasons come to mind why it’s so absurd.
Of all the idiocy I’ve witnessed in this administration, I think the hardest concept to stomach, for me at least, has been this notion that somehow the standards should be different for Trump. For some reason, whatever other presidents have had to deal with routinely, simply should not apply. I’ll never get it if I live to be 100.
The standards are different for Trump, he and his GOP enablers have backed themselves into a corner with no other way out other than to continue their ‘ongoing criminal enterprise’ so as to run out the clock, because he knows and Mitch knows and all the rest of them know, his lazy fat ass will get slapped with multiple indictments before one foot gets out of the WH, so he has to win re-election at any cost, you know it.