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Stay safe, stick together. Baumgardner isn't the highest-ranked sexual harrasser in office. Stay upwind.
Earwig of the day
To tune of Wild Thing:
Trump stink
You make my nose shrink.
You make everything
Rancid.
Trump stink.
I want to hold my nose.
I need to burn my clothes!
Trump stink, I think I hate you.
And now I know for sure!
Sorry, CHB.
The Trumpstink Report combines the powers of simplicity and repetition to fight fascism and freikorps goonery. It is supported by the great majority of polsters, and by every American who ever got caught downwind of the Fart Joke President.
Whatever happens, never, ever, pull his
finger, no matter how long he begs.
Stay upwind, America.
Today's selection from the Trump Store
Signature Citrus Mango Body Wash
A favorite of us Deplorables here at the trailer park after an afternoon shooting the AR 15.
Mango's a very pleasant scent, but I don't think it's strong enough to wash away the Trumpstink. Maybe tomato juice would do the trick, like when you get skunked.
It may not be very effective on Trumpstink, but does a great job on gunpowder residue.
The stuff I'm smoking lately (marijuana concentrates) is nastier than Trumpstink. It's called Citrus Power Bomb. However, I switched to New York Tang for now in honor of my BIL visiting from New York. It's much milder.
I'm still happy that cannabis is legal, and it should remain so.
How is that Jill Stein thing working out for you, Dust Puppy?
If you want to drop by my double wide about 3pm, allyn, a few of us boys are going to pop open a PBR .
V – with all your new-found riches from the estate tax reform Drumpf fought so hard for I think you should step up your game in the beer department!
Great. Now I can buy more ammo.
…and maybe get you one of those high-def tvs at
WalmartAmazon that work so well with that whiz-bang CenturyLink connection? I hear the blonde girls on FauxNews looks extra purdy on those screens (especially after a six-pack of PBR).duplicate
Sounds like Mr. Scott Pruitt is trying to develop a reputation to make him stand out in a Trump-world.
– reputation of opposing a Federal agency.
– actual court cases filed to oppose the agency.
– appointment and unapologetic explanation of his opposition to an agency.
– nominating subordinates who also oppose the agency.
– reassigning career subordinates who would be in a position to become whistleblowers. BONUS! Many of them are Native American, so he's making the agency White again.
– cozying up to lobbyists who oppose the agency.
– getting "friendly" treatment from those who oppose the agency.
– giving raises to subordinates who oppose the agency — even AFTER the Sad!-ministration said he should not do it.
– using resources to limit any chance of exposure for explicitly opposing the agency (his "cone of silence" phone booth)
– using resources to limit any chance of talking to those who would bother him about his efforts to oppose the mission of his agency (first class tickets, security detachment)
– supporting a budget request that would cut the agency 30% or so in a year.
– arbitrarily suspending existing regulations that demand environmental protection. When challenged in court, insist on fighting at every level.
– suspending scheduled expansion of regulations and blocking consideration of future regulations (because they could increase environmental protection).
– taking away existing resources that could be used to advocate for environmental protection.
– prohibit subordinates from testifying about research.
– Set up standards that would block FUTURE research.
Am I forgetting anything?
You forgot reconfiguring the EPA website to make it almost impossible to find current research data on climate or pollution. The data is still there, although less and less of it is being compiled or the research funded.
However, it is a real scramble to find anything useful. Scientists mirrored the epa.gov website on Jan 19 (day before inauguration). Compare the two. I can't post links since I'm at work on lunch break – but it's heartbreaking.
It will be a long haul to bring everything back on line if/when we get a Democrat in the White House again. Republicans have basically said that they don't care if the climate is changing, as long as they get their campaign donations in.
Cory Gardner, working the Kochs with both hands.
Cory Gardner urges Trump to use a new NAFTA deal to make it harder to add federal regulations
FYI — for anyone (MJ55, V'ger, DavidThi, …) wanting more info on the state of the newspaper biz, you should follow Corey Hutchins of the Colorado Independent.
He quotes a Westword article exploring the future of the Post. Turns out the end game for Anschutz in this matter is — he bought the complete rights to the Rocky Mountain News back in 2009, so if/when the Denver Post goes belly up, he'll be able to start up the "new" Rocky, sans union contracts and other baggage that would come with saving the Post. His crystal ball has always been pretty accurate (e.g. shortly after laying fiber-optic cable along his railroad right of ways — the roots of QWEST — he unloaded his computer timeshare biz at the top of the market in 1983 to the idiot McDonnell family who ran the company into the ground just 3 years later).
Also, Corey is moderating an open-to-the-public panel discussion on the state of newspapers on April 12 at the Antlers Hilton in Colorado Springs.
Good stuff, Davie. I will follow Corey Hutchins and Julie Reynolds. Also Newsmatters.
Yikes, I dug into one of the links and see what is next for the Denver Post:
California is half of Alden's revenue, and are getting decimated. They project that it will only take 2 – 3 years before Alden completely sucks the marrow from their bones.
I don’t suppose any of the stable geniuses at Fox & Friends who run this country have yet explained to Stormy’s john any of the potential problems that might arise when our uniformed military start shooting unarmed foreign national women and children? . . .
What could possibly go wrong?
We are soon to find out, I’m afraid . . .
(. . . but I’m sure there’ll be a few new and novel ways that we couldn’t even begin to imagine.)
I mean, name my one time in the history of, maybe, ever, when anything bad has happened after adding lots more guns and bullets into the mix?? . . . See, you can’t do it.