4/8/19: The dickishness of Donald J. Trump knows no bounds. Speaking to
the Republican Jewish Coalition over the weekend, he goes out of his way to
bash Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been faulted for tone-deaf remarks about Israel.
Or, as Republicans see it: “anti-Semitic” comments.
We’ll put that issue aside and focus on the dick.
“Special thanks to Representative Omar of Minnesota,” Trump tells his audience in mocking
fashion. “Oh, I forgot. She doesn’t like Israel. I forgot. I’m so sorry.”
See what a comedian he is.
This comes a day after Patrick W. Carlineo Jr.,
55, of Addison, New York, was charged with making a threatening call to Rep.
Omar’s office. In that call he asked a staffer, “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why
are you working for her, she’s a (expletive) terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in
her (expletive) skull.”
According to Fox News, “Carlineo told the FBI
that he is a patriot, ‘loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in
our government,’ according to a criminal complaint.”
Of course, he loves the president. (See:
4/2/19, and how Trump has mastered the art of spreading hate.)
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Rep. Omar.
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“Conversations
with colleagues.”
IN TERMS OF TRUMP’S PLAN to replace Obamacare, we’re finally getting
somewhere, which in this case is nowhere.
Trump has been telling everyone that he has a group of four
GOP senators working on a great new plan. Sadly, Sen. Rick Scott told reporters
that any plan would have to come from the White House. Sen. Mitt Romney said
only that he and his colleagues were “working on health care thoughts.” Sen.
John Barrasso had nothing substantive to offer but did suggest that Democrats
wanted a “complete government takeover of health care,” which is technically
just bitching about the other side, not actually planning. That left only Sen.
Bill Cassidy to talk about the new plan, which he said boiled down to
“conversations with colleagues.”
Yeah.
The GOP has got nothing.
POSTSCRIPT: Congress today approved a seven-state agreement to reduce use of water from the
Colorado River. Populations in Arizona and other states that agreed to the deal
are growing. Drought has spread at the same time. So something had to be done
before spigots ran dry.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers continue to ignore or deny
the dangers of climate change, rail against energy-saving lightbulbs, and complain
vociferously about reduced-flush toilets.
Who, after all, can forget Sen. Rand Paul’s impassioned
defense of old-fashioned toilets, because, he insisted, low-flush toilets
didn’t work?
That, my fellow Americans, is the Republican approach to all
environmental issues, reduced to a nutso nutshell. There’s a kind of, “You can
pry my cold, dead hand off the toilet lever” vibe at work. For Sen. James
Inhofe, it’s the “look, I made a snowball,” approach. Or, in the case of
President Trump, a “save the hairspray” focus. It’s pathetic, really. And our
children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren will all live
to realize it was a huge mistake.
Forty million Americans rely on the Colorado River for water;
and key reservoirs like Lake Mead have fallen below 40 percent capacity.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (8/12/20): The Department of
Energy decides to address the “big issues,” sixteen months later, easing rules
implemented in 1992, regarding shower heads. Those rules limited water pressure to 2.5 gallons per minute.
Since Trump’s every thought centers on himself,
as president he began complaining that he couldn’t wash his “beautiful hair”
effectively anymore. “So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you
take a shower longer? Because my hair - I don’t know about you, but it has to
be perfect.”
Drought in the West? Not a problem. That awful
coif. Yeah. Fix it with more water.
We can also look back fondly on the day the
president claimed low-flush toilets didn’t work and he had to keep banging on
the lever, ten times, even fifteen, like a pigeon in a lab experiment pecking
at a lever to get more food. You had to ask yourself: What was the man putting
in his toilet? (See: 12/7/19.)
BLOGGER’S NOTE #2 (5/15/22): The story of shrinking water supplies
grows more worrisome yearly. In August 2021, Lake Mead had dropped to 35% of
capacity, and the decline only continued. By May 2022, water levels had fallen 150 feet, and an intake valve that supplied
water to 2.2 million people living in Southern Nevada was now above the water line.
FOR EVEN MORE FUN, CONSIDER THE NEAR TOTAL DISAPPEARANCE OF
THE ARAL SEA (BELOW) – ANOTHER WARNING REGARDING HUMANITY’S ABILITY TO IGNORE LOOMING
PROBLEMS.
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The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world. Now: rusting fishing boats. |
