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By Zepp<\/a> <\/span> on Sunday, April 29, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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April 29th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n

First off, I watched Michelle Wolf\u2019s performance at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, and I wasn\u2019t impressed. She shouted her lines, had no sense of timing, and in general reminded me of a nervous eighth grader giving a speech for the first time. As a result, a lot of lines that could have been funny fell flat. Not all of them, of course; and some hit home to judge from the howls from the far right and their lunatic leader.<\/p>\n

Anyone who didn\u2019t see it is going to be surprised to learn that she never did criticize Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her personal appearance. That\u2019s a media meme started by Maggie Haberman, and Haberman is full of shit. Wolf compared Sanders to a character from \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d but it had more to do with the dishonest and fascistic deportment of the character than how the character looked.<\/p>\n

Wolf called Sanders a liar three times in a minute half, which neatly matches the number of lies per minute that Sanders often utters during her \u2018press briefings\u2019. It\u2019s impossible to watch her and not think of Baghdad Bob, or Tokyo Rose, or Lord Haw Haw. She is a propagandist, a paid liar for a demented president, and that\u2019s all she is. Indeed, some of the reporters on the cable stations who are flapping and twittering over how a comedian could be so mean have called Trump and Sanders liars on their own shows.<\/p>\n

So why the faux outrage? Consider this quote from Wolf from the routine at the dinner:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you,\u201d she added. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric. But he has helped you. He\u2019s helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster and now you\u2019re profiting off of him. And if you\u2019re going to profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money because he doesn\u2019t have any.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pointed out the incestuous relationship between Trump and the commercial media. He may be destroying the country, and may kill us all, but gawd, he is just so fucking PROFITABLE! For corporate stooges posing as reporters, he\u2019s just too good to pass up. He\u2019s their meal ticket, and all Wolf did was point that out.<\/p>\n

So where was the Coward-in-chief during all this? Out in the boonies, whipping a pack of MAGAts into an anti-media frenzy, of course. One Gary Busey wannabee was screaming at reporters, calling them filthy degenerates after the rally. In the name of America, of course. Because screaming epithets at the free press is so all-American.<\/p>\n

By the way, the latest ratings of countries by freedom of the press just came out. America was 45th<\/sup>. They were ahead of Russia and China (both south of 175) and North Korea.<\/p>\n

Forty fifth. Land of the free, folks. Land of the free. Have you noticed you never hear patriots yelling about how great America is because it has freedom any more? Now it\u2019s because America fights the most wars, or has the most billionaires, or has rock and roll. The explanations for what makes America great are getting increasingly idiotic as the people who actually made America great have died off and been replaced by Trumpkins.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian \u2018lawyer\u2019 who met with Donald Trump Junior to discuss adopting orphans (an important source of protein for Trumps, one assumes) came out and said she was actually a government operative, which basically means she is a Russian spy. It was out of the blue. Trump\u2019s lawyers (and the word \u2018lawyer\u2019 should be in quotes when discussing either Trump or Putin, since so many seem to be incompetent, spies, mob torpedoes, or all of the above) promptly told Mueller\u2019s people they were blocking information about a mysterious call Don Junior got before that meeting. Mueller, no doubt, was wearing an expression identical to that of a child regarding the particular shape of the largest present under the Christmas tree. I\u2019m guessing that between the self-immolation Trump performed during that lunatic call to Fox and Friends and that little tidbit of information, Mueller\u2019s office is going to be even busier this week. I\u2019m sure Mueller will make those poor orphans his top priority.<\/p>\n

You heard about Trump being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, of course. Granted, anyone can be nominated, and past nominees include Rush Limbaugh and George W. Bush, which shows the bar can be set very low.<\/p>\n

Trump is trying to take credit for the talks between the two Koreas, which mostly occurred despite him, rather than because of any diplomatic brilliance his people in Korea, which he doesn\u2019t have, might have shown. Unless you count Mike Pompeo, who traveled as a private citizen and quite illegally to suggest to the two sides that they do what they were planning to do anyway.<\/p>\n

Trump, of course, took credit for it, and his mindless followers adulated that this truly was a worshipful event, and Trump must be given the Nobel Peace Prize, the Steinbeck Award, a place on Mount Rushmore, and a baby\u2019s arm, holding an apple. Republicans love that kind of shit; they\u2019re a lot like the Communists during the Stalin era that way.<\/p>\n

But then John Bolton lifted his porn \u2018stache and said that the US was considering the \u201cLibya option\u201d with North Korea. That was a US incursion that overthrew the Ghaddafi regime (which was already toppling) and resulted in the lynching of Ghaddafi. It was quite nasty, as most lynchings are.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t imagine Kim Jong Un was too amused to hear this, and he would be well within his rights if he made having Bolton hanged by his mustache a provision for the disarmament talks going forward. Of course, since he accidentally destroyed his nuclear testing facility, causing it to cave in, maybe he\u2019ll just ignore John. It\u2019s something the rest of us try to do, so he needn\u2019t feel so alone.<\/p>\n

Maybe Trump will send him some orphans and Michelle Wolf as sex slaves to make up for John\u2019s little gaffe. Oh, and Rachel Maddow, because fake media.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the all-American way, you know.<\/p>\n

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