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Today is Tomorrow’s Shadow

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Because I like my violence limited to what I see on television or read about in books, for cathartic reasons I watched the video of Nancy Pelosi bitch slap Donald Trump all around the place yesterday, with even the oft times execrable Chuck Schumer showing traces of a spine. It was, of course, an awful performance for Trump. He came off as hostile, uninformed, and just generally like the ass that he is. His sycophants loved it, but they’re fucking idiots and a small minority of the country.

At the same time, you could see beginning of the bluster and the braggadocio wearing off. With the Cohen sentencing today, the daily bombshells from SDNY and Mueller, and everything else, I think even Trump is beginning to realize he is nearing the end. I hope I am not being too optimistic, but even this sunshining dullard, with his peaks lifted by viewing the musings of his mutual masturbation society at Fox news and a steady stream whatever amphetamines they are feeding him, is beginning to notice. I think yesterday was the first time anyone has EVER stood up to him (and of course it took a fucking woman to do it), and it finally dawned on him that he’s not in charge of his own fate anymore. He’s going to need something beyond money and bluster and white privilege, and he’s never had to go beyond that triumvirate to succeed before.

We’re not quite ready for Sister Helen Prejean to make an appearance, but I think we are to the point where even Trump is starting is starting to realize he is a dead man walking and no longer in control of his density. As they say, the past is yesterday today and tomorrow belongs to the living.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    Chuck Todd is the fucking worst. And Andrew Sullivan should go somewhere remote and fuck himself off to death.

  4. 4.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Correction: Didn’t leave the residence at all.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    Andrew Sullivan’s family in the UK are all pro-Brexit, apparently. Can we never see him ever again, please.

  6. 6.

    BretH

    “even Trump is starting is starting to realize he is a dead man walking and no longer in control of his density.”

    So true.

  10. 10.

    Martin

    Trump takes another shot at California The largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam is in Orange County. About 7% of the population here. Most of my Vietnamese students are children of a war refugee. I have one employee who is. Would probably be fair to say that one or more of the seats we flipped in OC wouldn’t have flipped if a big chunk of the Vietnamese population were deported.

  12. 12.

    Frankensteinbeck

    I think yesterday was the first time anyone has EVER stood up to him

    Hillary humiliated him in nationally televised debates twice. He was sputtering and incoherent at the end of both. Why do you think he’s still obsessed with her?

  13. 13.

    MattF

    I think the question now is how much will Trump pull down when he sinks. The Republican party, the Trump family, and the Evangelical political block are all deeply underwater– drowning, not waving– at this point. I’d be OK with it stopping there, but who knows?

  14. 14.

    Lapassionara

    That smile on her face is priceless! Like the cat who caught the canary.

    OT, but I am enraged by the news that T is now going after Vietnamese naturalized citizens, to take away their citizenship. These are the boat people! Jeez.

  15. 15.

    MazeDancer

    He’s going to need something beyond money and bluster and white privilege, and he’s never had to go beyond that triumvirate to succeed before.

    That’s some ace writing there, Mr. Cole.

    And how many men did I grow up with – why, yes, in the South – who fit that description? All of them, Katie. Most of them not aware of their privilege.

  16. 16.

    khead

    The proof that Trump is rhetorically fighting for it is vital—especially if he never actually delivers it.

    This line from the article at the first link is truly craptacular.

  17. 17.

    Vhh

    Trump lost control of his fat boy DENSITY long ago. Now he’s losing control of his DESTINY as well.

  18. 18.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I think even Trump is beginning to realize he is nearing the end.

    I think yesterday it was clear Trump is retreating into fantasy land, one of the things both Pelosi and Schumer called Trump on was Trump trying to claim the midterm was this awful defeat for the Democrats.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    IDK who Matt Lewis (linked in OP) is but he just called Trump “refreshing.” Struggling for an analogy here and can only come up with “sarin made my bathroom smell like a mountain meadow.”

  23. 23.

    debbie

    This interview with Arizona conservative “journalist,” Chris Buskirk, on NPR this morning was maddening. There’s both audio and transcript.

    I almost drove off the road on this one:

    MARTIN: It is new that President Trump has been implicated, that the Southern District of New York can point to the fact that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to make these payments. And that’s a crime under campaign finance laws.

    BUSKIRK: Yeah. Yes. Well, let me – just let me hit on that directly. So I guess I say it’s nothing new because I don’t think that there’s anybody who seriously thought that this was – that the president was not in some way involved in what he is now (unintelligible). And I understand that it’s a bit of a change in the story is that these were not – that these were personal payments. They didn’t have anything to do with the campaign. That’s something, I’m sure, that’s going to be litigated both probably in court and also in the court of public opinion. But I…

    MARTIN: You’re saying his supporters understood or believed that then-candidate Trump was making these payments, and it didn’t bother them.

    BUSKIRK: I – that’s exactly what I’m saying, is that with Donald Trump, we had somebody that people knew didn’t drink, didn’t smoke. And I think everybody knew what his particular vice was. And it was baked in the cake.

    Talking about enabling!

  24. 24.

    lamh36

    Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how quiet Chump Jr has been on da twitters. Used to be he was always talking bullshit, ,but seems he’s been mighty quiet since the Mueller news lately.

  25. 25.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Cheryl Rofer: Well my bet is Trump will never resign, just go into an eternal sulk in some hideout while claiming he’s still president.

  26. 26.

    rikyrah

    @Martin:
    One of my oldest friends is a refugee from Vietnam. Her family came here with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Her husband’s family too.
    This is outrageous ??

  29. 29.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:
    Trump has always lived in a fantasy land. It’s a narcissist thing. The truth is whatever they want it to be, and facts that conflict are wrong, someone unfairly persecuting them, or both. What disturbed me was how he kept repeating ‘border security’ over and over and over. Another reminder that grandpa is no longer the sharpest potato in the shed.

  30. 30.

    HeleninEire

    Had a great conversation about what “home” means with one of my Irish friends tonight. I am happy here. I have a good job, great friends, and a fantastic apartment in the best part of the city. But after more than 2 years I don’t feel “settled.” Martin talked about all the Irish in the 50s who left for a better life in England and then returned. This is home they said.

    NY. Forest Hills, Queens is home. It’s where I feel “settled.”

  31. 31.

    Mike in DC

    Keep in mind that everything on the right is a lagging indicator–rw media, then Trump supporters, then the GOP senate caucus. We will be 6 months past Trump’s political sell by date when the Republican senators find their spines(or not).

  33. 33.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Frankensteinbeck: My thought was at some level Trump figured this was BS to keep the suckers happy, but it seems like now he believes it too. The bit to me that it was obvious Trump is losing touch is who Trump was treating the whole meeting like a Celebrity Apprentice show episode were he needs to give his latest contestants their tasks or he will fire them, not these two people are leading the opposition and he needs to find a compromise with them. It’s the short term memory that goes with dementia, not the long term.

  34. 34.

    Mart

    @Martin: I travel a lot and I am vegetarian. The SOB better not screw with my google-map query “nearby Vietnamese restaurant” where I can find awesome vege food in almost every corner of the country. (No fish sauce of course.)

  35. 35.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    My thought was at some level Trump figured this was BS to keep the suckers happy, but it seems like now he believes it too.

    That’s a big problem with conservatives in general. They drink their own Kool-Aid. With narcissists like Trump, though, there’s never a strong line dividing intentional lies from what they believe to begin with. The only world that exists is themselves, their fears and desires.

  36. 36.

    HeleninEire

    @NotMax: Yes. I thought I could bring home with me. Nope. There is a saying, sorry if I get it wrong “Wherever you are, there you go.”

  42. 42.

    eemom

    I’m not so sure he won’t ever resign. I think he might if somebody with highly evolved manipulation skills manages to persuade him that doing so will be a net plus for his infinite ego.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    @eemom:

    I agree. Resigning is giving up. Giving up is not in his nature. My worry is what damage will he arbitrarily inflict in his final days in office.

  44. 44.

    Mike in DC

    I vastly prefer removal to resignation. Followed by indictment, trial, conviction and ultimately incarceration.

  45. 45.

    Gvg

    Well maybe after he is out of office, he will convince himself he is still President. I won’t even care as long as he has no power over people again.

  48. 48.

    Gvg

    @Mike in DC: that would be better for future prevention. Also he needs to lose most money and assets because that will deter some of the potential troublemakers of the future.
    Trump is incapable of learning. It’s future crooked politicians I want to scare.

  50. 50.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @eemom:
    PELOSI: President Trump, you can show your statesmanship. You will go down in history for your grace and perspicuity.

    TRUMP: Can I stay in Trump Tower?

    SCHUMER: The borough of Manhattan would be delighted to host you for the rest of your life. (Does not mention ankle bracelet, elevator that is unavailable on those floors, alarms on the exits to stairways)

    PELOSI: Think of the deals you will be able to make as a past United States President!

    TRUMP: And Ivanka?

    SCHUMER: She will be there with you and your family, Mr. President.

  51. 51.

    ruemara

    @eemom: I think if it can phrased that we’re the losers who never appreciated him, he’d break up with us. And pundits HAVE to stop saying being president means he can’t be indicted. He can. Nothing but tradition is stopping him being indicted. He & the GOP have flouted traditions for years. It’s time to do the same.

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    @ruemara:

    And pundits HAVE to stop saying being president means he can’t be indicted.

    I really don’t understand why this is such a thing with them. We are through the looking glass. Not ordinary times, and not a normal president. Very possibly an illegitimate one.

    It’s interesting how it is such a drumbeat, and came up so quickly. They’re borging us.

  54. 54.

    TenguPhule

    @Elizabelle:

    I really don’t understand why this is such a thing with them.

    DOJ policy. Never mind its not so much a rule as it is a guideline.

    These folks have never matured past Nixon.

  55. 55.

    Aleta

    Not mentioned here, but the Clean Water Act also requires fracking companies to limit and test for, guard against, pollution of water supplies caused by fracking. This is (not just for the base as the NYT leads with) also a gift to energy companies, just like last week’s opening of protected lands to fracking and mineral exploration is.

    On Tuesday, in the Trump administration’s latest assault on the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back Clean Water Act protections that have helped make America’s rivers and streams fishable and swimmable, in the process threatening drinking-water supplies across the country.
    …
    in 1977, the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the regulation of wetlands, determined that the Clean Water Act protected all rivers and streams, as well as their tributaries, even if those waterways flowed only during certain times of the year or after it rained or snowed. The former are known as intermittent streams, the latter, ephemeral streams.

    The agencies also determined that many wetlands adjacent to those rivers and streams, as well as wetlands next to their headwaters, deserved federal protection as well. Adjacent wetlands provide habitat for migratory birds and filter pollution from rivers and streams, much like a strainer protects a sink from clogging.

    After a lengthy review during the Obama administration, which relied upon extensive input from the E.P.A.’s scientific advisory board, the agency and the Corps of Engineers determined in 2015 that protecting navigable rivers and streams required that the Clean Water Act extend to the entire tributary system, including adjacent wetlands, just as the 1977 rule required. For the first time, the agencies imposed distance limitations on what wetlands would receive protection.

    The resulting rule made ecological and practical sense, reflecting sound science: Wetlands protect water quality in tributaries, which in turn protect water quality in downstream rivers and streams. Nonetheless, industry and property rights groups, joined by several states, immediately challenged the rule, arguing that it expanded Clean Water Act jurisdiction improperly to include ephemeral streams and isolated wetlands. Environmental groups also challenged the rule, claiming that there was no scientific basis for the distance limitations.

  56. 56.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Corner Stone:

    Chuck Todd is the fucking worst. And Andrew Sullivan should go somewhere remote and fuck himself off to death.

    TFW you agree with Corner Stone

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    @HeleninEire:

    This is an older adage, but Lois McMaster Bujold has used it in her books:

    Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

    And when one of her heroes’ fathers threatened to throw him and his wife out of their shared house, the hero’s response was, “My home is not a place, it is people. Sir.”

  59. 59.

    MCA1

    Cole, this: “even this sunshining dullard, with his peaks lifted by viewing the musings of his mutual masturbation society at Fox news and a steady stream [of] [sic] whatever amphetamines they are feeding him, is beginning to notice”

    was downright Betty Crackeresque. That’s about the highest praise one could get for their writing ’round your blog. Well said, good sir!

    Others covered it yesterday, but the astounding thing to me is that this cretin managed to snow all his believers into thinking he really knew his way around a negotiation. Was America’s foremost expert at it, in fact. I mean, that was legitimately his biggest selling point for himself during the campaign. “I’ll build the most tremendous team of the best people and they’ll help me win win win win win every day because I’m the greatest dealmaker the world has ever known.” While in reality, he’s a fucking abysmal negotiator. The art of the deal, my ass.

  63. 63.

    sukabi

    yesterday was the first time anyone has EVER stood up to him (and of course it took a fucking woman to do it)

    Actually there was a nice preacher lady during the pres. campaign that walked up to him and told him to knock off the campaigning in her church, that wasn’t what they were there for. Drumpf did a meek yes mam and backed off.

  65. 65.

    Kattails

    Why am I seeing a “Miss Asia Date.com–You deserve to be loved” in my ads, especially since I blocked it once already as inappropriate?
    Whoops, now it’s disappeared and Cat’s Pride litter is in its place, which at least makes some kind of sense for my life.
    Oh, and seeing Nancy happy makes me happy, yes it does.

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