DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 15, 2024
Justin Trudeau Fidel’s Son? The latest from the syphilis-addled brain of Le Grand Orange:
OTTAWA — Two former Canadian lawmakers are calling on former President Donald Trump to apologize for reviving and circulating a long-debunked rumor that is “vile, vulgar, and deeply offensive.”
Their move comes after Trump falsely claims that Canada’s prime minister is the son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Save America,” the former president’s new photo book that also provides commentary.
Trump writes in his new coffee-table book that Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, was “somehow associated” with Castro and notes that “a lot of people say that Justin is his son.”
The former president adds: “He swears that he isn’t but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, and has become a Communist just like Castro.”
Trump’s new coffee-table book? There’s a song for that:
Trump Predicted Rethugs Would Be ‘Easy To Break’. He was correct:
In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches with Donald Trump. He was in the early phase of his first campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since. We would hop around his various clubs, buildings, holding rooms, limos, planes, golf carts, and mob scenes, Trump disgorging his usual bluster, slander, flattery, and obvious lies. The diatribes were exhausting and disjointed.
But I was struck by one theme that Trump kept pounding on over and over: that he was used to dealing with “brutal, vicious killers”—by which he meant his fellow ruthless operators in showbiz, real estate, casinos, and other big-boy industries. In contrast, he told me, politicians are saps and weaklings.
“I will roll over them,” he boasted, referring to the flaccid field of Republican challengers he was about to debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that September. They were “puppets,” “not strong people.” He welcomed their contempt, he told me, because that would make his turning them into supplicants all the more humiliating.
“They might speak badly about me now, but they won’t later,” Trump said. They like to say they are “public servants,” he added, his voice dripping with derision at the word servant. But they would eventually submit to him and fear him. They would “evolve,” as they say in politics. “It will be very easy; I can make them evolve,” Trump told me. “They will evolve.”
Like most people who’d been around politics for a while, I was dubious. And wrong. They evolved.
Good article, worth reading.
Halfway-decent Open thread. You’ve already read it.
What do you want to talk about?
Here are some of my (tempered by being wrong) takes from the primary and looking down the road a bit.
– DEGOP anti-trans/anti-McBride mania might not be as unhinged as I thought. Ramone on the top of the ticket will have no stomach for going into gutter and with Trump fading, maybe national donors will view this as a bad investment. That said, many unscrupulous a-holes will use this races to try and line their pockets.
– What’s next for BHL? He whole identity is wrapped up in going for the next office. Does the Delaware way have some corporate job for her to cool her heals for a while, similar to Carney’s make work job after losing to Markell?
– Caneco really ran a great race (which started way back when he challenged the execrable Bill Bell). He worked hard (chaired the 9th RD), leveraged anti-warehouse sentiment, and was patient – has set himself up to take out Kevin Hensley next time. In the meantime, he and Carter are going to change the NC Council for the better.
– It is going to be interesting to see what happens in Leg Hall as the WFP revolution marches on. Worth noting that the WFP candidates are not only good at getting but are adept at staying elected. Morrison is the case study for the impotence of the Delaware Way pushback.
A couple more–I was wrong about Colin Bonini. He won that Kentco primary for register or recorder of something. Still has to beat a D in November, though. Don’t think he will.
People are REALLY tired of George Smiley’s schtick. Michael Brown barely ran a campaign and almost took him out. Smiley is more of a character than a councilman at this point.
I think more people should be talking about the fact that if Trump is elected (and I do NOT want that), JD Vance as vice president is next in line. Trump is 78. Suppose he dies in office? Vance is espousing a viral right wing Catholic agenda. As an emancipated Catholic (I don’t say former as I have emancipated myself) , think about it . Do we want this? Is this what America is about ? Is this inclusion? Is this representative of egalitarian values? I don’t think so. I think it’s very scary. Please, more people, TALK about this.
And let’s not forget that the US was founded on religious tolerance, so why are we letting the religious right try to make US a christian country? Separation of church and state anyone, anyone? Does this mean that we need an asterisk on the Statue of Liberty’s words:
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
With the exception of Native Americans, who definitely have been marginalized, every citizens in the US is either an immigrant or descended from immigrants. Stop pretending otherwise, looking at you Republican “leadership.”
That would make a good ad:
“Donald Trump is 78 years old.” (over clips of Trump saying something senile).
“J.D. Vance wants to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.” (followed by longer montage of J.D. saying weird creepy stuff).
“Not fit for office at any age.”
Right-wingers have been saying for many years that Castro is Trudeau’s father. They have photo collections where they post photos of Castro and Trudeau from various angles and they do look alike.
That being said, this is nothing more than a way to bash Trudeau. Yes, his mother had severe bipolar disorder and had some extramarital relations. So what? Trudeau looks a lot more like his dad than Castro.
Trudeau still sucks, however. Neoliberal shitstain, IMO.