Come Heller high water …
- Trump’s true genius is his ability to constantly top himself with something ever more outrageous. Have you noticed? Just as you’re getting a good mad on about what he said yesterday, he says or does something stupider today, and you’re stuck with this wad of unexpressed anger. As a columnist it’s maddening. Slow down, Don. I can’t type as fast as you tweet, OK?
- An NBC story says what caused Tillerson to call Trump a moron was a meeting where Trump indicated he wanted 10 times the nukes than we already have. Trump says the story is false, which means it’s absolutely true. He hasn’t said why he thinks we need so many nukes, but I get the sense it’s because he’s the guy who smashes spiders 10 times just to make sure they’re dead.
- Amazing, isn’t it, that a guy who sat out the Vietnam War with “bad feet” now wants to go to war with everybody.
- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said this week “Everyone should stand for the National Anthem.” And I’d agree if this were Russia.
- He won’t make it a rule, though. He’d be crazy to. The players would just find another way to protest like sticking their tongues out and hopping on one foot. Water finds a way. So does the human spirit. The NFL loves money – they’ll just fine players and give the money to charity. You watch.
- And by the way, while you were distracted by the anthem nonsense, Trump’s EPA – the Environmental Protection Agency (my god, the irony in the name) – announced it was “ending the war on coal” by ending a rule limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. I can hear polar bears weeping all the way from here. Can’t wait til next hurricane season either.
- In other distracting but irresistible news, Trump claimed this week that he invented the term fake news. He didn’t. But he certainly puts the F in it.
- Congress may ask the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban bump stocks, the kit used by the Las Vegas killer that turns semi-automatic weapons into fully automatics. For a quick second, I thought, “OK, that’s progress.” But all it really means is Congress A) Doesn’t want to have to vote on a gun control measure, and B) It’s essentially them saying guns that can spit 90-120 rounds a minute, like the AR-15, the preferred weapon of mass murderers everywhere, are fine but they draw the line at 400 to 800 rounds. “Taking 20 minutes to kill 58 people and wound another 550 more, that’s one thing. But taking 10 minutes to do it? Too far, man. Too far.” But why? Aren’t we entitled to all weapons at all times in all quantities? I want my bazooka and Sherman tank.
- I like comedian Chris Rock’s solution to the gun problem: “You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars.”
- Pence should pay back taxpayers for his anthem stunt, by the way. And that nonsense about not dignifying the protesters with his presence? Please. He and the Grabber-in-Chief don’t dignify anything with their presence. They taint it.
- “Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.” – Ayn Rand.
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Ayn Rand says it all, right?
“Taint”
I’ve stopped becoming outraged at what Trump says. From day to day his insanity grows.
His ego cannot be satisfied without acclaim for actions he didn’t even take. It is truly amazing to watch an egomaniac at work.
Sometimes I wonder if Trump isn’t on a mission to see his approval ratings in the single digits, so he can call it a victory that has never been done before.
…or maybe he is just looking for an out? “You don’t like me, so I am leavin'”
I would pay a fortune to see the Trump/Tillerson IQ test match up…
…but I would have a better chance of seeing Trump’s tax returns than his IQ score.
I’ll leave you with these final thoughts:
Similarities between Stephen Paddock (Las Vegas shooter) and Donald Trump (The President of the United States…yes really.)
Both are/were vile, raging narcissistic casino dwellers with a lot of money and a history of treating women badly.
Stephen Paddock stocked up on rifles, ammo and explosives with a plan to create chaos and kill hundreds of people.
Donald Trump is already creating chaos and wants to increase his nuclear arsenal tenfold. What are his plans? I wonder….
Crazy people do crazy things and don’t care whose lives they destroy in the process. Donald Trump is not sane.
Hit the nail on the head Fred. He’s nuts.
It amazes me that this President still has people that support him. He will start a war just to bring everyone down the tubes with him.
Even Steve Bannon, one of his strongest supporters says he only has about a 30% chance of finishing his first term. Hopefully he’s right.
I find it funny that Andrew Heller finds the name of the EPA funny when Presdient Trump is in office, but it was ok while obamma was in office. Have you looked at you looked at how much you are paying in energy costs? I have my bills from before obamma was in office. The energy usage has stayed about the same, but the cost has gone up. Why is that? Did you not listen to obamma when he was running for office in 2008? He stated that under his rule that energy costs would necessarily go up. Guess what, they have gone up. Under obamma solar panels making companies came into being with a lot of money from the government, then all of a sudden they went out of business, keeping all the taxpayers money.
Almost the lame steam media stories that they report on President Trump are in the negative range, there are very few positive stories.
As for the NFL, who by the way is a tax exempt corporation, goodell is considering changing the rules about activities during the playing Anthem. I guess those that are protesting the behavior of the players by cancelling their season tickets, cancelling the subscriptions on cable and satellite stations, not buying nfl sporting goods and other actions are starting to have an effect. Funny leftists call for a boycott of a company is ok, but let the right do the same thing it all of a sudden is a bad idea according to the left.
I read your comments for the laughs. I wonder what incoherent nonsense you will spew tomorrow.
EPA stands for Environmental PROTECTION Agency. There is no environment protection under Trump. There, now you are in on the joke.
Gas was over four dollars a gallon in July of 08. Who was in office then?
Please learn how to properly spell AND put sentences together before insulting Mr Heller and President Obama.
Regarding the National Anthem controversy: (…the players would only find another way to protest like sticking their tongues out and hopping on one foot.)…At first I laughed, then I thought this is a very real possibility, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Trump isn’t crazy, we are. How long will we allow this to go on? We are the laughing stock of the world. With this and all the sexual scandals, immigration, health care, the list goes on, it is a real bad time for America to have this kind of leadership.
Living in the USA now is a lot like being in Junior High. Dim-witted bullies, catty Mean Girls, and bad-grammar gym teachers are in charge of the whole society. Every day, we have to put up with stale, disingenuous, bogus assertions and pronouncements from our leaders on Health, Guns, Immigration, Economics, Puerto Rico..
We have to live within their preposterous made-up limitations on thought and life. We are expected to pretend they have valid positions, when we know most of what they say is a batch of already-disproven, irrational, ignorant, selfish, greedy cliches.
This is a tiresome, dispiriting way for Americans to live. I hope we can graduate from this hellish Junior High soon, or that our current leaders will decide to drop out of school.
What a bunch of liberal crybabies that we have here. They have no problem smearing President Trump and other republicans with all sorts of smear stories and so forth. However, when republicans fight back and making comments against obamma they will and have a hissy fit and get their panties knotted in a bunch.
To fred EPA does stand for environmental protection agency. Sometimes under obamma they caused some damage. I cannot remember where it was that agency reps breached a levee that was being used to hold a mine’s pond sludge in check. Somehow they did something wrong and the levee broke. It contaminated a few streams and a river, plus the drinking supply for some native American tribes in the west. Lame stream media focused on it for a couple of days, when they found out that the epa reps were at fault the media buried the story.
Then in Califoria, Governor Jerry “moonbean” Brown stopped the farmers in one area from water from some river to water their food products (carrots, cabbage, green peppers and other veggies) in order to protect some sort of fish. Guess what folks species have been going extinct for millions of years and the human race has had nothing to do with these extinctions. Over 95% of them happened before humans became prominent on this planet.
For Bridgett, if my writings are upsetting you, I think that I will now go and start figuring out some new ways to miswrite my musings. I have spell checker on. even with spell checker misteaks can happen.
What’s a moonbean?
What about the 4 dollar a gallon gas when Bush was in office? You never answered that one.
Well put, Jim lll. The hate that liberals have for us and President Trump would be unbelieveable if I hadn’t seen some of it before. But this is hate like never before. God help us all.
I am SO sick of seeing the right-wing cliche posts on Andrew Heller’s lovely little blog! Nothing analytical, nothing insightful, nothing original. Just a big blanket of silly blah-blah. Go away, please.
Kind of like the hate you had for Obama and Liberals.
Repeal and replace the Second Amendment!
Ya know… All this furor about the Las Vegas shooting is over-blown. There were 22,000 people down there at that concert, and the shooter only killed 58 of them. That is only 26 one-hundredths of one percent! Peanuts. If assault weapons really were a significant threat, we would have seen a more significant result. Another example of bleeding-heart liberal exaggeration.
What else is over-blown is the talk about “Bump Stocks” Without that gizmo, his aim might had been better.
what do you know fred is correct for once. the NRA wants atf to review bump stocks.
I am pro 2nd amendment, but I see no need for a bump stock. OF course, as some posters on some other web sites have stated that if you have rope, belt or some other type of device you can build a form of a bump stock. The higher the rate of fire the worse your aim gets. Plus there is the fact the more rounds you fire through the barrel, the faster you will burn the barrel. Seems strange, but true. If a barrel gets to hot it will start to warp. Then you have the problem of “cook off” . That is where you release the trigger the weapon keeps on firing, it will continue to fire until it runs out of ammo. If you have a semiautomatic, magazine fed weapon it will stop firing when it is out of ammo. If you have a belt fed weapon it will continue to fire until it runs out of ammo.
To Jim says, yes gas is finally down below 4 dollars a gallon. obamma did his best to keep gas prices higher but he failed. Now the stock market is climbing higher than it ever has under President Trump. Under obamma it was not doing to good.
Ask yourself how I know that about rifles.
Wrong. Gas prices came down under Obama. They are starting to go up again. You do realize trump has investments in oil right? Why do you insist on lying to yourself? What will it take for you to admit you were wrong?
YouGuys!!! This post was supposed to be the ultimate in Black Humor or Over-the -Top Sarcasm. Did anybody even get it?
What? You mean you weren’t serious?
Trump was even congratulating Houston that only sixteen people died in hurricane Harvey. Said what a good job they did compared to thousands in Katrina. Tillerson was right. What a moron. Let’s see if we can get it under ten In the next hurricane.
Something is definitely wrong with a person who has seen the effects of the recent hurricanes, Las Vegas, California fires, and they still don’t show a lick of humbleness….believe me.