Whatever Mike Waltz’s abilities, and he may have some for ought that I know, he is not a good liar. In fact, he’s a horrifically bad liar. I don’t know who advises or *handles* him (people at his level always have some kind of a public relations consultant) but they are also doing a terrible job. Or, it may be worse than that. He may have people counseling him to do the right thing and he won’t. So this childish charade will continue for a while.
But just for entertainment’s sake, let’s humor Waltz and examine his theory. Waltz’s theory now is that Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in.” So cell phones now operate like vacuum cleaners, or wait a minute, I got it: black holes. Cell phones create, or maybe *channel* black holes and black holes summon the phone fairies and the wicked phone fairy will punish you if you’ve been a bad boy by sucking the wrong person onto a call. Somebody get Waltz on the phone, and tell him you’ve got a whacko consultant that understands his theory and can explain it to the world and give him my number. Call Anderson Cooper, too, he’s as confused as we are.
I don’t know how a contact gets on your phone without you entering the contact on the phone. But I guess, by magic, now we learn that numbers can get sucked in. Be careful now: if this is true — and we would never impugn the veracity of anybody involved with the Trump administration, right? — then you could be talking to your divorce lawyer and your ex is sucked into the call. Or you could be talking to a bill collector and then your cousin, who is loaning you some of her lotto winnings, gets sucked into the call. I mean this is horrific to contemplate, who can get sucked in.
Say, is there some way we could protect against callers getting sucked in? Like, maybe wrap the phones in cotton candy or something? Are there voo doo dolls that you can buy, specifically for the purpose of chasing away the phone succubi (no pun intended) who hover nearby, invisible and waiting for a vulnerable moment to take over your phone and fuck up your life?
Life in Trump world. Donald of course, with his executive prowess has it covered. “It’s all a witch hunt.”
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You’d think they’d be better at all the lying, now they’ve done so much of it.
They’re just too stupid to learn I guess.
I do know from experience that a cell phone number (maybe land line numbers, too) can be reassigned if it’s been out of use for a while. I once called the number that a new client had given me. As I entered the digits, the name of a former client (in my contact list) appeared. Apparently she had stopped using that number years ago, and it happened to be assigned to the new person. (What are the odds, right?)
So maybe that’s what Waltz was clumsily trying to suggest. But, in true Trumpian fashion, he refused to say whom he really WANTED to add to the text chain.
The idiocy levels are off the chart. Mikey, you aTbd your dude bros just assumed that JG refers to the Fox News bimbo with the same initials. This would all die down a lot quicker if you just admitted you screwed up and are worji to.make sure it never happens again–and then make sure it does. Get advice from experts which do not include Evil.Myskrat and his little racist, misogynist minions.