Come Heller high water …
- Politico this week reported that Trump uses an unencrypted cell phone because encrypted phones are “too inconvenient.” Apparently, it’s not considered much of a security risk, though, since he tweets out everything that comes into his fool head anyway.
Wait, isn’t he the same guy who said Hillary’s private email server was the greatest crime ever perpetrated upon this country? Why, yes he is. Lock him up.- The Trump administration also commissioned commemorative coins to celebrate the Trump-Kim summit, which might not even happen now. I desperately want one to complete my “Crazy-Ass Crap That Didn’t Happen” collection, which currently includes a 2011 Rapture coin and a Y2K lapel pin.
- Wait, wasn’t Trump the guy who was going to win the Nobel Peace Prize for de-nuking North Korea? Why, yes he was.
- The best news of the week was the sinkhole opening up on the White House lawn, which is funny as hell. But I have a question: If the earth swallows him, will it spit him back?
- According to White House insiders, Trump doesn’t write all of his tweets. Staffers write some of them, complete with grammatical errors and random CAPITALIZATION to throw people off. I think I can tell when he writes them, though. There’s an extra spin of crazy in his tweets. You can’t imitate true crazy, which is why you know this column is always written by moi.
- And finally in Trump news, a New York judge has ruled that Trump can’t block people from reading his Twitter feed because it’s a “designated public forum.” I’m frankly a little hurt that I’ve never been blocked, despite all the mean, horrible things I’ve written about the man. What’s a guy got to do? I want this badge of honor, dammit.
- I would buy one of those foam mattresses just to watch it unfold itself when it comes out of the box.
- Any other Tiger fans tiring of Miggy’s pouting? Grow up, dude. Not everyone has to love you. And stop hiding on the disabled list. Your team – to literally everyone’s surprise – could actually win the division.
- The Michigan High School Athletic Association says the state is experiencing a referee shortage because of all the bad behavior on the part of spectators, parents and coaches. I don’t blame officials for staying away. We take sports way too seriously in this society. We’re also angrier than we’ve ever been. It’s a bad combination. Who needs it?
- The surest sign that spring has finally arrived isn’t the flowers, it’s the ice cream stands.
- Speaking of spring, I missed World Naked Gardening Day, which was May 6. I’d have participated but May 6 is pretty cold in Michigan. It’d be more like World Shrinkage Day here.
- Hasbro has filed paperwork to trademark the scent of Play-Doh, which describes it as a “sweet, slightly musky vanilla fragrance with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted wheat-based dough.” Really? I just thought it smelled like clay. Their description made me hungry, though.
- “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein.
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Excellent column Andy!
Thank you for this Trump-bashing lead! I was frustrated by your MSU-bashing last column, because I had to stay within your MSU limits.
It looks as if Trump wants to start a war with Iran. And maybe another war with North Korea. Two big, tragic, unnecessary wars! Just because Trump wants to fight. Because he thinks of war as an abstract concept, rather than a real-life tragedy.
We are in big trouble now.
You never have to stay within the lines.
Andy Heller – You are such a precious little, thumb sucking, fake news spewing, butthurt, tears flowing, little snowflake. Personally I see little question in why you don’t earn a living as a “journalist” any more. I don’t think you have posted a unique take on anything political in years. It is almost exclusively the same BS I see from other libtarded blogs. I hope you are better at your day job than the lack of creativity and lack of effort you exhibit here on the regular.
P.S. – Hillary lost…. Get over it.
Working Dud! You twit! You are the guy who has no original ideas! You dope! You do not engage or discuss. You just insult, and repeat old insults. Please go away.
What a loser…. Veiled threats to mail grenades to someone who does not share your politics. By the way genius, the US has not used a “pineapple” style fragmentation grenade (Mk 2) for about 50 years. If your going to make terrorist threats, at least try to do so in a modern, intelligent fashion.
P.S. Nobody cares where you live.
I am sorry I wrote that, Dad. I thought it was clever, but it is just stupid. I am trying to ask Andrew to delete it.
Andy, I would check Working Dad’s IP to ensure he isn’t a Russian troll. This is definitely a copy and paste response.
Of course it’s also possible that he just has no original defense. In that case I would say to Working Dad; You got scammed and you know it. Digging in your heals and living in denial is bad for your health. The sooner you acknowledge it to yourself, the sooner you can get over it. We have all been scammed one way or another before. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. These people are professionals, they know how to trick you. So just admit you made a mistake, learn from it and never let it happen again. You will be much happier when you do.
Its much easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.
They’ll never admit it. Too much of their personal identity is tied up in it, which is rather sad if you think about it.
I gotta give it up for the creativity and rhythm of that insult string: “precious little, thumb sucking, fake news spewing, butthurt, tears flowing, little snowflake.” But thumb-sucking should have a hyphen. Same for fake news-spewing. And maybe a comma after precious. If you’re going to do it, do it right. Oh, and butt-hurt, not butthurt.
You can always tell when dad is off his meds. He should get a pill box to keep himself on schedule.
Where did this “thumb-sucking” descriptor come from? All of a sudden, all the RWNJ’s are using it. Must’ve been the Epithet of the Day on Fox and I missed it. Like I miss everything else on Fox. Or are we on to Breitbart now?
It’s the new “snowflake.” The terms are churned out (like everything else they regurgitate) from Hannity, Limbaugh and the Russians. It still kills me that the party that wraps itself in the flag is defending a guy who was elected because of our arch enemy. What super patriots.
A quote from James Clapper today.
“To me, it just exceeds logic and credulity that (the Russians) didn’t affect the election, and it’s my belief they actually turned it.”
And, let us not forget he’s a draft dodger. The Veterans love him because he wraps himself in the flag but he has done nothing for this country.
Not all veterans love him. And those who do are white. Our military is very diverse. They don’t love him because he drapes himself in the flag. They love him because he caters to their bigoted views.
Being a veteran doesn’t mean smart or in touch with the constitution. The only real requirements to join the military are ohysical. They actually prefer the recruits be ignorant, because it’s easier to break them down and build them back up the way the military wants.
Robert Mueller is a Vietnam veteran with a purple heart and three medals with valor, but Trump’s base hates him and calls him the enemy. Hypocrites.
Hannity……. what a spewer of conspiracy theories, far right wing propaganda, and sheer hate for anyone who does not agree with, and follow, his spiteful ways.
I have watched Hannity a few times just to hear his spin on the latest news coming out of the White House.
The point of view from Hannity during his opening monologue is eye opening, it makes me concerned that fragile citizens viewing his show may actually believe what he says is true.
What is of real concern to me is quite frequently the nonsense spewed by Hannity at 9:00 PM is often re-spewed the following morning via tweets from the fibber in chief.
It’s projection. The trumpers are very angry and defensive people. Everyday they are reminded of what fools they are. That means a lot of Working Dads out there are curled up in a fetal position and sucking their thumbs.
I bought one of those mattresses in a box. Love the mattress but was a little disappointed when I opened it up. It just kinda sat there and took its time to get to full size. It actually took twenty four hours to get to full size! Nothing spectacular.
It is official, the summit with North Korea will not happen. Oh man…he was really looking forward to that Nobel Peace Prize. Better luck next time.
Are we getting tired of all the winning yet?
In my old-man lifetime, we have had thirteen total Presidents.
Seven of them have been good: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, GHW Bush, Obama.
Two are debatable: Reagan and Clinton.
The others have been bad or awful: Johnson, Nixon, GW Bush, Trump.
Trump is awful. War with both Iran and North Korea? Encouraging tolerance of racism. Bragging tolerance of sexual assault. Furtherance of greed. Enshrinement of dopey, bullying irrationality. More.
I will agree for the most part, but Johnson was a mixed bag. He held the country in the aftermath of JFK’s assasination, and pushed through civil rights and Medicare legislation. On the other hand he totally botched Vietnam.
Yeah. I was going to ask what is so bad about Johnson. Didn’t he do something for teachers too? The war was a disaster, he got bad advice on how to handle it. That is definitely an ugly mark on him, but I am not sure he falls into the awful category.
G.W. and Nixon were bad. Trump is on a whole other level that surpasses the others by miles. Nevermind Iran and North Korea, he may incite a civil war among Americans, and sit back and watch it with glee.
Fred and Tommy – Lyndon Johnson was involved in a some very good things: Health Care, Civil Rights, the War on Poverty… But, the way he handled the Vietnam War wipes away all his good. He ramped up the unnecessary war, stayed in it, directed it, and lost it. He destroyed Vietnam and the USA.
He dropped more bombs on Vietnam than we dropped on Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan combined, for no particular reason. He ripped American society in half, and it has not healed even now. I lived through the American side here in the USA. I know and knew many people, both American and Vietnamese, who lived through the Vietnamese side, and some who did not live through it. Millions of deaths and oceans of misery are on the head of Lyndon Johnson.
Hey Tom-munist, terroristic threats, even on this insignificant blog , are not funny or clever. Sadly, neither you nor little Napoleon have the balls to keep such bilge visible for everybody to read. If you post it, OWN IT. This isn’t about being ‘off meds’ , it’s a serious lack of emotional stability. Get a hobby, volunteer, go shake your fist at some clouds, but get the hell away from your keyboard. You can’t handle the responsibility.
Oh Dear. Did Tom scare you? Do you need a tissue you little hypocrite snowflake?
Blah blah blah. If your crony Working Dad said it you would have stuck up for him.