August 23rd, 2018<\/p>\n
Did you spill your popcorn following the Travesty of the Donald this week? Leave it. Things are going to get fast and furious, and you aren\u2019t going to have time to make more popcorn.
\nPecker! That\u2019s what this complex of scandals was missing! A corrupt pseudo-journalist named Pecker turning on Trump. Now this David Pecker is a newspaper man in much the same way that Trump is a president: he has the power, and the accoutrements pertaining thereto, but he\u2019s still just a dangerous joke.
\nHe\u2019s the owner of the supermarket tabloid, the National Enquirer. Long the province of psychics, bat-boys, and endless scandalous (and almost always false) rumors, it branched out into politics in the 1990s, breathlessly detailing secret meetings between Bill Clinton and space aliens. It was unbelievably stupid, but it put Clinton in a bad light (space aliens, really) so it became a new bible for the types of morons who think the notion that Earth is a big old ball just hanging in space is just a conspiracy by scientists to make us all not love Jesus. The Ray-de-oh is broke, so they can\u2019t listen to tINFOil WARS.
\nSo when you have a candidate come along who bangs porn stars, and is possibly a Russian agent and might have had hookers put on a golden shower show for him, you would think the National Enquirer would expand to 500 pages weekly just to keep up with all the lurid scum flowing from this walking sewer of a candidate.
\nUm, no. They didn\u2019t. In fact they went out of their way to protect him, buying up tell-all stories from women who got paid not to discuss having sex with Trump, and starting an unending stream of attacks on Hillary.
\nRachel Maddow tonight showed a bakers\u2019 dozen covers from the NE, putting Trump in a god-like light, and blasting Hillary Clinton over and over.
\nInterestingly, much of what they accused Clinton of was things we know Trump was doing. She was corrupt, swindled people, kowtowed to foreign agencies, was secretly a lesbian who banged porn stars, ran a fake charity, and lied a lot. It was part of the standard right wing propaganda: protect your candidate from his own ruinous behavior by accusing his opponent of the same things. It confuses the cows in the supermarket line.
\nInterestingly, the tab also accused Hillary of being far sicker and more senile than she looked, and having a severe drug problem. Was that part of the same pattern? Are these Trump problems being projected?
\nYou know, things with this administration phase between ‘chilling’ and ‘ridiculous’ so fast and so often it’s frequently hard to tell which is which.\u00a0 But this one involves long-time scandal rag ‘National Enquirer’ covering up for a corrupt politician on multiple sex scandals, so let’s call it ‘ridiculous.’
\nIn any event, Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal (who seem to be getting very fed up with Trump these days) reported that Pecker and his Vice President and Chief Content Officer, Dylan Howard, were granted immunity in return for some nice long chats (30 hours worth?) with Robert Mueller\u2019s people. There are lurid rumors of a safe in Pecker\u2019s office that is crammed with hundreds of stories the NE has covered Trump on.
\nTrump is openly musing a pardon for Manafort trial even as the second one looms. This, by itself, is a federal felony by Trump, an open move to obstruct justice. Mueller probably grinned mirthlessly and added it to his very long list.
\nCohen is going to have some nice long chats with the Special Counsel\u2019s office himself. Apparently he\u2019s not too fond of Captain Pissmop any more and wants to share more items. One line in the court proceedings where he entered his pleas might give a clue as to what he wants to discuss: \u201cThe $50,000 represented a claimed payment for \u2018tech services,\u2019 which in fact related to work COHEN had solicited\u00a0from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.\u201d
\nOK, here\u2019s the thing: The Trump campaign detailed all their spending in regards to computer servers, use and communications.
\nExcept this. There\u2019s a hint the \u2018tech service\u2019 in question was based in Russia.
\nIf there was direct clandestine communication between the Trump campaign and Russia during the campaign, even the corrupt, venal, cowardly and unpatriotic Republicans in Congress will have to abandon their dreams of enslaving the American people and cut their losses\u2014and Trump\u2019s throat.
\nIf you have any popcorn left, hang on to it tightly, no matter what your dog suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 23rd, 2018 Did you spill your popcorn following the Travesty of the Donald this week? Leave it. Things are going to get fast and furious, and you aren\u2019t going to have time to make more popcorn. Pecker! That\u2019s what this complex of scandals was missing! A corrupt pseudo-journalist named Pecker turning on Trump. Now … <\/p>\n