Boris was also behind the Gaetz selection, and had no problem doing and end-around Susie Wiles:
NYT (Nov 15): "Mr. Epshteyn, a physically imposing man who wears three-piece suits, has flexed his power in other ways as well. While the incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was traveling to and from a conference featuring some of Mr. Trump’s donors over the weekend and on Monday, Mr. Epshteyn finalized a push for Mr. Trump’s eventual pick for White House counsel, William McGinley, according to two people briefed on the matter.
And he ran one of his most audacious plays yet this week. He was a key behind-the-scenes advocate for Mr. Trump’s decision to announce Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida as his choice for attorney general. Mr. Epshteyn made his case aboard the round-trip flights on Mr. Trump’s airplane from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Washington on Wednesday, according to two people with knowledge of what happened.
pfffft....please...this will be the least-remembered scandal of trump regime 2.0...despite eric trump's faux outrage, the only problem the trump family has with this is that bore-us-dahling wasnt kicking the proper tribute up to the crappo di tutti crappi, which i'm sure was made clear to BFE--bore-us fucking ephsteyn isnt going anywhere
This article was difficult to follow. Maybe I'm just dumb. I read Wonkette every day and this is the first time this happened. I reread this twice and it's not clear info.
[Eric Trump] said: “My father’s been incredibly clear: You do not, you do not do that under any circumstance. And believe me, there will be repercussions if somebody was.”
So, Boris "Fucking" Epshteyn will be the next Sec. of Defense if a handful of Republicans decide they don't want an unqualified rapist as Sec. Def?
Obviously you never owned a hotel, hospital, fire station, casino, or cop shop. Christians get Xmas off, Jews get New Year's off, & Muslims get Eid off. Atheists get Festivus off. Worshipers of the Roman pantheon get Saturnalia off. Buddhists get Bodhi Day off. Hindus get Pancha Ganapati off. North Korean mercenaries in Ukraine get their heads shot off, courtesy of all those deities. Zoroastrians get Maidyarem Gahanbar off.
Now that Bobo's little grifting enterprise has been found out he's going to have to move on to seizing all the degenerate art in museums and private collections to sell abroad.
meanwhile, the main things we import from the great white north are building supplies, gas, and pharmaceuticals, and food from mexico. boy, are his dumb supporters going to run into the closed-screen-door of reality. hard.
Tariffs on Canada. Canada is where lots of our lumber comes from. Lumber is made of wood. Doe this mean we are going to get more videos of right wing influencers buying a wood? Like Ben Shapiro did that one time. Is that the programing that will replace NPR and PBS once DOGE is done with them?
This article gave me what Oprah likes to call an aha moment. This may be obvious to the rest of you but I didn’t realize until now the defining image of this administration. It is suckers being shoved into vans and threatened to perform or else, then said suckers giving a big fuck you to THAT guy and his goons, either passively or aggressively, because they suck big boobyknocker skinbag goosacs. Yeah. I said it.
I, along with half the country, have been tearing my hair, having nightmares, preparing the sackcloth and ashes, etc.
But there is another way to look at it. Prior to this election, it was customary that after the election the opposing sides showed some unity for the sake of the country (at least, made a show of it, and for at least a few months). Hence the "honeymoon" period of a new president - traditionally 100 days.
Personally I believed that the ruling party was trying to do its best for the country, even if I thought their methods (and even their goals) were wrong. Many times, even when Nixon was in the W.H. I would try to see how this [terrible thing they just did] was intended for the good of the country.
This kind of thinking puts a big strain on a person. It got worse with each succeeding Republican administration.
Now the Donald has relieved me of this strain. It is obvious he is trying to do the best for Donald Trump, the country be damned. I no longer have to look for the hidden interpretation of what he is doing. It is plain that it is ALL wrong, evil and destructive.
When I built a house in 2007, virtually all of the lumber came from Canada. Unless there's a carve-out for forest products, prepare to pay a lot more for that house you've been waiting to build.
That's okay. This administration's solution to the housing crisis is to deport lots of people. Or maybe the bird flu PLUS the deportations PLUS the declining birth rates as the gals stop having dangersex with penis-people.
Like the beautiful Gal Gadot told the beautiful Chris Pine: “When it comes to procreation, men are essential, but for pleasure, not necessary.”
I'm pretty much ready for the toothless hordes to drop dead of bird flu (yep, it's coming) due to the spectacular mismanagement of the oncoming Hitler Stupes administration. Germany didn't get to be the tidy progressive country it became until it got smashed to pieces after sucking up to some maniac who promptly spent his remaining days trying to satisfy the fever dreams in his syphilitic brain and setting the world on fire.
The only flaw in this scenario is that there won't be any Marshall Plan for us after the crash.
Boris was also behind the Gaetz selection, and had no problem doing and end-around Susie Wiles:
NYT (Nov 15): "Mr. Epshteyn, a physically imposing man who wears three-piece suits, has flexed his power in other ways as well. While the incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was traveling to and from a conference featuring some of Mr. Trump’s donors over the weekend and on Monday, Mr. Epshteyn finalized a push for Mr. Trump’s eventual pick for White House counsel, William McGinley, according to two people briefed on the matter.
And he ran one of his most audacious plays yet this week. He was a key behind-the-scenes advocate for Mr. Trump’s decision to announce Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida as his choice for attorney general. Mr. Epshteyn made his case aboard the round-trip flights on Mr. Trump’s airplane from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Washington on Wednesday, according to two people with knowledge of what happened.
pfffft....please...this will be the least-remembered scandal of trump regime 2.0...despite eric trump's faux outrage, the only problem the trump family has with this is that bore-us-dahling wasnt kicking the proper tribute up to the crappo di tutti crappi, which i'm sure was made clear to BFE--bore-us fucking ephsteyn isnt going anywhere
If any laws were broke, Trump will just pardon those who broke them.
𝑀𝑟. 𝐸𝑝𝑠ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑦𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑀𝑟. 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒” 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝐸𝑝𝑠ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑦𝑛,” 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠.
I'm Gumby, dammit!
This article was difficult to follow. Maybe I'm just dumb. I read Wonkette every day and this is the first time this happened. I reread this twice and it's not clear info.
that's because I'm a terrible writer and did not make any sense.
You have a black on red star now? Is that special just for communists?
No, wait, my star is black on red, too. I used to just be a pen-nib person. I guess I'm a communist also, too!
Welcome, Comrade.
Now give half your Halloween candy to the lazy kid who couldn't be bothered to go out trick-or-treating.
All of this would be tremendously entertaining if it weren't reality with all of our lives hanging in the balance.
[Eric Trump] said: “My father’s been incredibly clear: You do not, you do not do that under any circumstance. And believe me, there will be repercussions if somebody was.”
So, Boris "Fucking" Epshteyn will be the next Sec. of Defense if a handful of Republicans decide they don't want an unqualified rapist as Sec. Def?
Now, I think this would all look a lot different if they had a bunch more highly qualified rapists available.
If that happened, and I was Boris, I'd be incredibly offended. It's just sloppy seconds.
If this is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving (T minus two) what are we supposed to be doing? Or are we doing it?
Order a pizza and read non-comments on The Wonk. You're half-way there.
Obviously you never owned a hotel, hospital, fire station, casino, or cop shop. Christians get Xmas off, Jews get New Year's off, & Muslims get Eid off. Atheists get Festivus off. Worshipers of the Roman pantheon get Saturnalia off. Buddhists get Bodhi Day off. Hindus get Pancha Ganapati off. North Korean mercenaries in Ukraine get their heads shot off, courtesy of all those deities. Zoroastrians get Maidyarem Gahanbar off.
Now that Bobo's little grifting enterprise has been found out he's going to have to move on to seizing all the degenerate art in museums and private collections to sell abroad.
what happened to "100% TARIFF ON CHINAS!!!"?
meanwhile, the main things we import from the great white north are building supplies, gas, and pharmaceuticals, and food from mexico. boy, are his dumb supporters going to run into the closed-screen-door of reality. hard.
Remember when they got so pissed because they weren't allowed to go out to Home Depot and buy their spring gardening supplies?
These people all make John Gotti look like a brilliant effing SAINT.
Tariffs on Canada. Canada is where lots of our lumber comes from. Lumber is made of wood. Doe this mean we are going to get more videos of right wing influencers buying a wood? Like Ben Shapiro did that one time. Is that the programing that will replace NPR and PBS once DOGE is done with them?
Buying wood is the only way that many of them can GET wood.
Well, that and underage girls.
jeff guckert comeback when?
Ooh ooh pick me Mr Kotta!
This article gave me what Oprah likes to call an aha moment. This may be obvious to the rest of you but I didn’t realize until now the defining image of this administration. It is suckers being shoved into vans and threatened to perform or else, then said suckers giving a big fuck you to THAT guy and his goons, either passively or aggressively, because they suck big boobyknocker skinbag goosacs. Yeah. I said it.
Oh, fail-son numero dose layin' down the law. Haha, I said "law". It's funny cuz there is no more law.
I, along with half the country, have been tearing my hair, having nightmares, preparing the sackcloth and ashes, etc.
But there is another way to look at it. Prior to this election, it was customary that after the election the opposing sides showed some unity for the sake of the country (at least, made a show of it, and for at least a few months). Hence the "honeymoon" period of a new president - traditionally 100 days.
Personally I believed that the ruling party was trying to do its best for the country, even if I thought their methods (and even their goals) were wrong. Many times, even when Nixon was in the W.H. I would try to see how this [terrible thing they just did] was intended for the good of the country.
This kind of thinking puts a big strain on a person. It got worse with each succeeding Republican administration.
Now the Donald has relieved me of this strain. It is obvious he is trying to do the best for Donald Trump, the country be damned. I no longer have to look for the hidden interpretation of what he is doing. It is plain that it is ALL wrong, evil and destructive.
When I built a house in 2007, virtually all of the lumber came from Canada. Unless there's a carve-out for forest products, prepare to pay a lot more for that house you've been waiting to build.
Boris Epshtyn can get you that carve-out.
Just as soon as he gets done getting a carve-out for the US Farm Groups from mass deportation.
That's okay. This administration's solution to the housing crisis is to deport lots of people. Or maybe the bird flu PLUS the deportations PLUS the declining birth rates as the gals stop having dangersex with penis-people.
Like the beautiful Gal Gadot told the beautiful Chris Pine: “When it comes to procreation, men are essential, but for pleasure, not necessary.”
I'm pretty much ready for the toothless hordes to drop dead of bird flu (yep, it's coming) due to the spectacular mismanagement of the oncoming Hitler Stupes administration. Germany didn't get to be the tidy progressive country it became until it got smashed to pieces after sucking up to some maniac who promptly spent his remaining days trying to satisfy the fever dreams in his syphilitic brain and setting the world on fire.
The only flaw in this scenario is that there won't be any Marshall Plan for us after the crash.