Day 751 Sunday January 27, 2019 842 Days to Go
Ann Coulter was on Bill Maher last night and as predicted she brought up stuff that was irrelevant to the conversation and that most people don’t know anything about as a means for justifying her position.
She also used a novel defense for why she was on your side (the other people that make up America, not the new immigrants, but everyone in Bill’s audience.) And she threw in a few alternate facts, which apparently must be true if you keep repeating them and don’t let anyone else talk. Am I right? Am I right? Am I right? Am I right? Geesh.
There was a dichotomy in her argument. Amazing, I know. Believe me on the one hand, but don’t believe that. What is this Meatloaf’s song repurposed? I do anything for this but I won’t do that?
Okay. Let’s get in the weeds. First she said people are pouring over the border. They aren’t. (She they are. No they aren’t, Yes, they are. No, they aren’t. Scaramuc Scaramuc. Wait he’s on the masked singer now right? No? It’s the other idiotic show? Oh. Got it.)
Okay, with no supporting evidence Ann claims “they” are pouring over the border and – wait for it – “they” are taking away your jobs, and, and, this is why your wages are low. To add to this she lathers on that she’s on your side, not the Koch brothers who are trying to let immigrants cross the border so they can employ them to clean out their horse stable or pools. No, sorry, do landscaping. And by the way walls work. Look at Israel. They have a wall to keep the mad Palestinian bombers out and it’s working!!! Yipee Kayay MFer!
Hold on. Wait a second. According to every government statistic I’ve seen no one is pouring over our borders. And as has been pointed out over and over again, most of the illegal immigration, if you want to call it that is from people overstaying their visas. Those folks tend to come by plane. Hey, I got it. Let’s shutdown all incoming flights. Oh, we tried that yesterday? Didn’t work? Hum.
It’s interesting that Ann points out that the walls Israel has erected work to keep out bombers from Palestine. In fact, what they do is to suppress the Palestinian population period. Most Palestinians work in Israel and they are now put through hell to get to their jobs if they can. When anything happens in a Palestinian area Israel invades and the first thing they do is to shoot out the water tanks on top of all the buildings. Why denying people water is a good idea is beyond me. Also, under various Israeli governments they have seized Palestinian land and since 1967 have been building on that land and kicking the people who lived there, sometimes for decades if not centuries, out. For some reason, this pisses people off. What happens? Well, every once in awhile a guy goes crazy in Israel and starts stabbing people. Somehow, and I can’t explain this, but those patchwork of walls and those shoot out water tanks strategy don’t stop those random pissed off knife attacks.
Why didn’t Ann use The Great Wall of China instead? Oh, it didn’t work? Right. Or how about those walls the people in Central Asia put up around their cities to stop Genghis Khan? Oh right, he built a bigger wall around their cities and then rained arrows and rockets down on them. Hum. Now, granted there are cases where walls have protected people. They are usually in cities, before modern artillery came into play. Role tape, the fall of Constantinople. Boom. One huge cannon and the wall was done.
Hey. Wait. That’s not the point is it? The wall works on our souther border. That’s the point right? Oh wait. There’s a hole that someone blew in that wall and drove cars and trucks through, just recently. No one was watching. Hum. Seems like a problem. Do we need a bigger better wall, or someone to watch the wall?
Then there was no discussion of the damage this shutdown to protect us by building a wall causes to the country at large, but there was the comment that Trump ran on the slogan of building the wall and Mexico was going to pay for it. Coulter’s point was he should do what he promised. When asked about the Mexico paying for it she demurred and said he didn’t say they were going to pay for it right away. Then she mumbled about tariffs and indirect ways they would end up paying for it. Yeah. Right. But here’s where the argument gets bizarre. Not that it isn’t already, but hey, it can get bizarrer. When she was asked about the other things Trump said that were lies, fabrications, and wacky. They were dismissed as “puffery,” and “no one was seriously believing him.” Wait? What? It’s like the problem of the thermos bottle. It keeps cold things cold and hot things hot. How do it know?
Okay, so I guess we have to depend on the Ann Coulter of the right wing world to tell us which things are puffery and which we should shutdown the government for until we get them?
Meanwhile, we can consider the question of Trump and whether or not he’s a Russian asset. Given his behavior towards Russia and Putin, what else could one conclude? (Ann says the Soviet Union is gone so they aren’t a threat anymore. Okay. Case closed.)
There are also stories coming out that Mike Pence lied. When has he not? I mean is there anytime you can remember that anything Pence said was shown later to not only not be true but to be shown that he knew at the time he was saying this BS that it wasn’t true? It’s one thing to not tell the truth and not know that is isn’t true. That you can claim you were misinformed (He’s used that one.) Or that you didn’t know at the time, (I think, he’s used that one too.) But when you tell something that isn’t true and you know at the time it isn’t true, it’s a lie. Mike seems to excel in that department. This time it’s about Russia and his involvement, his lying about Mike Flynn, and Pence’s ties to Russia.
Oh yes, and there is the question about Roger Stone and WikiLeaks. This Coulter dismissed by asking how do we know it’s the Trump campaign he was helping and not his digging as an investigative reporter for InfoWars? Well, how do we know, indeed, Ann? How about this? There’s a twenty four page indictment listing the connections between Stone, Trump, the Trump campaign, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, Guccifer 2.0 of the Russian GRU, and the go betweens Stone used to try to hide what he was doing? Nowhere in the indictment does it say that Stone was doing investigative reporting for perineum ass wipe promoter Alex Jones of InfoWars. I wonder why? Oh, I got an idea. Maybe, that’s because that wasn’t what he was doing? Because there is no evidence that he was being an investigative reporter? Because the only time he might have claimed to be an investigative reporter, and I don’t know if he has, is because he was trying to cover up what he was really doing?
On to Mike Pence. Mikey might be in trouble. Everyone seems to have forgotten that it was reported that Mike Pence was argued for as a running mate by Paul Manafort. Why? Not sure. There’s also a lot of “what did Mike know and when did he know it?” stuff. The second biggest liar in Washington after the president is the vice-president. I can’t think of a single time Mike has spoken on any substantive issue and not lied.
This follows a trail of dirty dealing going back to his time in Indiana as governor. He and Kasich both used subterfuge, force, and underhandedness to close abortion clinics inn their states. Any All-American “gee I’m just a regular guy” stuff is bull shit. Now it’s come out that the state of Indiana had to spend twenty million dollars to clean up the old gas stations that the Pence family left behind. Hey, I’m sure it’s all legal. Nothing to see here.
In truly good news I turn to science. You know that wacky “belief” system that has revolutionized our lives. Alzheimer’s disease is a scourge that affects brain function, mainly in older people. A few weeks ago I read an article about a scientist who has not been able to get funding for the research he wants to do related to Alzheimer’s. In the scientific community the thinking is that a build up of plaque in the brain causes Alzheimer’s. There has been twenty or thirty years of research done with this as the underlying premise. This scientist asked himself if there might be some other cause because after all this effort there was little to show in the way of progress. He discovered that the brain seemed to be throwing a web over itself to defend itself from a bacteria and that the resulting plaque was left after the web went away, and presumably the bacteria had gone too. He couldn’t get funding because all the limited funding went to plaque research. Yesterday I read an article that said that gingivitis, the stuff that causes gum disease, is a bacteria and that researchers have found a similar bacteria in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s. They also have correlated that lab rats with gingivitis have a higher incidence of Alzheimer’s or is it the other way around? Or as our president would say if he read: Healthy Teeth – Healthy Brain.
Maybe we should check the White House staff for gum rot.
Just sayin’.
842 Days to Go
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