August 26, 2019: President Trump Is an Active Threat to the Health of the Planet

 

8/26/19: President Trump wraps up his trip to the G-7 summit and the other six leaders are happy to know he’ll be heading home. 

 

An active threat to the health of our planet. 

We find, for example, that there was an empty seat when the heads of Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, and France met to discuss climate change. Lard Ass Trump skipped out. 

To say that the current President of the United States is clueless where climate change is concerned would be polite. He’s not just clueless. After two-and-a-half years in office, with all the best science at his fingertips, he’s as dumb as he was on the day that he took an oath to uphold the Constitution. (He doesn’t get that, either.) Worse, he’s an active threat to the health of our planet. 

As recently as March 2019, he was tweeting – typically – about a story he saw on Fox & Friends:

 

Who knew! More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was good! Naturally, it was the job of the hosts of Fox & Friends to buy Moore’s spiel. And since Trump loves the show more than applesauce, he bought Moore’s spiel, too. 

Then 32,400 dupes retweeted the “news.” 

Greenpeace quickly issued a statement. Moore was not a founder of Greenpeace. Nor has he been a person who speaks for Greenpeace for 30 years. Rather, “he is a spokesperson for the Nuclear Industry.” 

Patrick Moore often misrepresents himself in the media as an environmental “expert” or even an “environmentalist,” while offering anti-environmental opinions on a wide range of issues and taking a distinctly anti-environmental stance. He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.

 

Moore is, to talking about climate change, as President Trump would be to acting as your marriage counselor.

 

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Stephanie Grisham, left.

SPEAKING OF FRAUDS, this seems like the perfect time to mention Stephanie Grisham, newest White House Press Secretary. Her “credentials” for the job are impressive. For starters, she’s a Press Secretary who likes talking to the press even less than her predecessor, Pinocchio Sanders. She hasn’t had a single on-camera briefing in two months on the job. She did, however, find time to sit down for an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s Eric Bolling. 

Sinclair, if you’re into good journalism, is the cable TV giant that requires hosts on all its local channels to read from the same right-wing scripts every night. 

It’s creepy, if you’ve never watched. 

As for Bolling, he’s a former Fox News guy who had to leave amid accusations of sexual harassment, a surprisingly common problem at Fox. (See: Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Bill Shine, et. al.)

 

Grisham, herself, has a few skeletons rattling in her closet. As The New York Times reports, 

Her career history contains red flags that most administrations might deem troubling. They include losing a private-sector job after being accused of cheating on expense reports, a later job loss over plagiarism charges and two arrests for driving under the influence, the second while working on Mr. Trump’s campaign.

 

Speaking of plagiarism, Grisham was working as spokesperson for the First Lady, when Mrs. Trump was caught, rather embarrassingly, giving a speech using lines cribbed from Michelle Obama.

 

If, like most Trump fans, you think The New York Times is “Fake News,” you can dig around and find details about Grisham’s brushes with the law at AZCentral: 

On Jan. 9, 2013, when she was working for [Tom] Horne [Arizona Attorney General], Gilbert [Arizona] police arrested Grisham on suspicion of driving under the influence and driving faster than reasonable, records show.

 

She planned to go to trial and the matter dragged out for more than a year before she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving in August 2014. She spent a night in jail and was placed on two years’ probation.

 

The case returned to court twice over Grisham’s failure to pay the $779 in fines and her not completing a session with Mothers Against Drunk Driving [emphasis added] about the impact of impaired driving.

 

Grisham failed to learn her lessons and was back in court on similar charges after going to work for Team Trump. 

On Dec. 5, 2015, months after joining the Trump campaign, Grisham found trouble again.

 

Scottsdale police arrested her that night on suspicion of DUI and driving without her headlights on shortly after midnight.

 

She failed to show in court on Jan. 19, 2016, a day when Trump received the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Ames, Iowa. Her absence in court cost Grisham her driver’s license for a month.

 

Grisham pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI in July 2016, days before her attendance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Trump officially became the GOP nominee.

 

As part of that case, she had to pay nearly $1,600 in fines and fees, records show.

Two weeks after Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, Grisham failed to appear in Scottsdale court again. That was the day Trump convened a meeting with national media figures at Trump Tower in New York to shred them for coverage of his campaign.

 

Grisham finished paying her debt in the case on Jan. 9, 2017, less than two weeks before Trump was sworn into office. 

 

Grisham has also been divorced twice, and what with her ethical lapses and legal issues, you figure she’s exactly the kind of upstanding individual you would expect to find working for President Trump.

September 3, 2019: Trump Gets Mad at Weathermen and Weatherwomen - Plus, Gay Conversion Hypocrisy

 

9/3/19: We learn that President Trump went golfing twice this past weekend. The White House had been trying to make it appear as if he was focused on hurricane preparedness, like a real leader. 

Press Secretary Grisham did her best to waltz round the topic when asked by reporters. (See: 8/31/19.) 

At the same time, Trump got mad after he said Alabama was one of several states likely to get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian. The National Weather Service quickly corrected his mistake and assured Alabamians they were safe. 

ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl then fact-checked the president and Trump got mad because facts made him look bad. 

So: he picked a fight with the weathermen and weatherwomen.

 

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“Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful, because it’s false advertising.” 

McKrae Game

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Mr. Game.

IN OTHER NEWS conservatives won’t like, McKrae Game, who ran the nation’s largest “gay conversion” ministry for twenty years, has come out and admitted he’s gay. He says he’s sorry for all the gays who had to suffer through his conversion sessions. “Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” he admits, “because it’s false advertising.” 

Game joins the likes of David Matheson, once a prominent “gay conversion” expert who turned out to be…gay…Norman Goldwasser, big proponent of making the choice to quit being gay, who posted on gay hookup websites…and got caught…Rev. Ted Haggard, who had to resign as president of the National Evangelicals Association…after a male prostitute said he smoked meth with Haggard and was paid for having sex…and assorted hypocrites on the right.

November 16, 2019: White House Press Secretary Avoids Press Briefings!

 

11/16/19: President Trump arrives at Walter Reed Hospital at 2:45 p.m. We are told he’s there to get an early start on his annual checkup, scheduled for February. 

White House Fable Maker Stephanie Grisham issues a statement explaining the accelerated timing. “Anticipating a very busy 2020, the President is taking advantage of a free weekend here in Washington, D.C., to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam at Walter Reed.” 

Grisham likes to issue “statements” because if she gave a press conference, she’d get asked a whole flock of questions she’d have trouble answering, unless she lied. Since taking over for Pinocchio Sanders on June 25, as official “White House Press Secretary,” Ms. Grisham has not held a press briefing.

 

She has found time to buzz over to Fox News and do interviews, complete with actual questions – easy ones – at least a dozen times. She has also visited with Eric Bolling, last seen harassing female co-workers at Fox, currently shilling for Sinclair Broadcasting. Finally, she squeezed in an interview with One America News, a cable channel that makes Fox seem positively liberal.  

As of November 16, 250 days (including time when Pinocchio Sanders was still bouncing around the White House) have passed since the last White House press briefing.

 

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NOT MUCH else happening on a cold Saturday in November. The Dow Jones did close above 28,000 on Friday. 

That’s good. 

Even better, this morning the Great Firewall of Trump (see comparison to Communist China) was breached. Mark Sandys of the Office of Management and Budget appeared to testify in a closed door session, despite White House efforts to block him. Sandys is said to have information about how the decision to withhold nearly $400 million in vital military aid to Ukraine was made. Based on what we’ve heard from witnesses, and read in transcripts, so far, you figure Acting White House Chief of Enabling Mick Mulvaney has his fingerprints all over this.

 

Speaking of witnesses, Don Jr. proves that, like father, like son, he’s a giant asshole on Twitter.