Good morning to all.
HOW DID SHE DO IT?
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glorydaz
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A great read to start out my morning. Thanks GM.
As for George W, the Bush family will never forgive the "low energy Jeb" comment on the campaign trail. Same with McCain on the "not a hero" comment. One thing you gotta say for Trump, he knows how to get under someone's skin. :chuckle:
Grosnik is upset and answering his own posts again.
It's easy enough to get under his skin...
Decades Later, 'Spy' Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump
Andersen: When Spy began, it was a very New York-focused thing, and he, maybe above others ... he wasn't familiar then. He was kind of brand new. And it was the '80s, late '80s, and he was, he epitomized so much of the sudden ostentation —
Carter: The brashness and ostentation —
Andersen: The vulgarity —
Carter: Vulgarity of New York in the '80s, yeah.
Andersen: I mean, New York, '80s, Donald Trump — that, until now, could have been the illustration in the dictionary. And because he has loved then, and loves — like nobody I've ever seen, in a kind of addict way — public attention, he started rising to the bait and talking back to us.
On repeatedly describing Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian"
Carter: Well, we'd come up with these epithets, and there was a certain writer we called a "bosomy dirty book writer." ... It was just the repetition that made them stick a bit back in the day.
Andersen: And we had tried other epithets. We tried "Queens-born casino operator."
Carter: Yeah, yeah, yeah —
Andersen: A couple of others, but it was —
Carter: It was the juvenileness of the "short-fingered vulgarian."
Andersen: Yes. The short-fingered vulgarian: The combination of smart — "vulgarian" — and "short-fingered," just a stupid, ad hominem physical description.
On Trump's reaction
Carter: [Trump] blames me for this more than Kurt. He'll send me pictures, tear sheets from magazines, and he did it as recently as [last] April. With a gold Sharpie, he'll circle his fingers and in his handwriting say, "See, not so short." And this April when he sent me one, I just — I should have held on to the thing, but I sent it right back by messenger with a note, a card stapled to the top, saying, "Actually, quite short." And I know it just gives him absolute fits. And now that it's become sort of part of the whole campaign rhetoric, I'm sure he wants to just kill me — with those little hands.
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/07/4692...y-magazine-founders-continue-to-torment-trump
Trump's obsessive search for the federal parks employee who made public a picture of his poorly-attended inauguration is a classic, as is his spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars in an attempt to find out if any EPA employees don't like him:
E.P.A. Contractor Has Spent Past Year Scouring the Agency for Anti-Trump Officials
One of the top executives of a consulting firm that the Environmental Protection Agency has recently hired to help it with media affairs has spent the past year investigating agency employees who have been critical of the Trump administration, federal records show.
The firm, Definers Public Affairs, based in Virginia, specializes in conducting opposition research, meaning that it seeks to find damaging information on political or corporate rivals.
A vice president for the firm, Allan Blutstein, federal records show, has submitted at least 40 Freedom of Information Act requests to the E.P.A. since President Trump was sworn in. Many of those requests target employees known to be questioning management at the E.P.A. since Scott Pruitt, the agency’s administrator, was confirmed.
Mr. Blutstein, in an interview, said he was taking aim at “resistance” figures in the federal government, adding that he hoped to discover whether they had done anything that might embarrass them or hurt their cause.
“I wondered if they were emailing critical things about the agency on government time and how frequently they were corresponding about this,” he said. “And did they do anything that would be useful for Republicans.”
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Jahan Wilcox, a spokesman at the E.P.A., said the decision to hire Definers, which signed a $120,000 no-bid contract to monitor and collect news coverage about the agency, was solely financial. The E.P.A. previously contracted with Bulletin Intelligence L.L.C. for media services at a rate of $207,000 a year. That contract was open to other bids.
“Definers was awarded the contract to do our press clips at a rate that is $87,000 cheaper than our previous vendor and they are providing no other services,” Mr. Wilcox said in an emailed statement. “If you have questions regarding how Definers operates, we encourage you to contact them.”
The contract, which was awarded this month, is part of an unconventional news media operation that Mr. Pruitt has set up at the agency as he tries to get a handle on the coverage of him by newspapers, including The New York Times, and criticism by Democrats in Congress and environmental groups. The decision to award the contract was first reported by Mother Jones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-foia.html?_r=0
Trump is a guy who cannot stand the least criticism without
If it bothers you that much, fire off a complaint to "The Archdiocese of Rome", itself
If I think it's a good post sometimes I do that. Got a problem with that?
And deprive everyone of the entertainment?
Realize it or not, I really don't bother reading your "Tirades" against our beloved President. And, if the truth be told, no doubt, several others on TOL, follow my course of action, as well.
Barb, I know "Class" when I encounter it. The exact opposite of class is self-explanatory in your case.
Although I'm fairly certain, Rome would find your complaint, quite amusing.
Barb and his ilk have a brand of hatred that defies logic and reason.
These "types" suffer from a national ailment known as "Soreloseritis." Hillary was supposed to win the election and somehow was rejected. These "folks" have been unable to accept the conclusion and continue to weep and wimper like a small child who was refused a Cookie.