MAGAworld will lose its shit

Rather, lose it more.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Biden silenced critics of his mental sharpness on Monday by correctly identifying Peter Doocy of Fox News.

After Doocy asked the President a question, Biden made an impressive display of his mental acuity by conclusively demonstrating that he knew who Doocy was.

While some have questioned whether Biden, who is seventy-nine, has the cognitive powers necessary to serve as President, his spot-on description of the Fox White House correspondent seemed to put those doubts to rest.

“The President was faced with a cognitive test—‘Who is Peter Doocy?’—and he nailed it,” one observer said. “This leaves ‘person, woman, man, camera, TV’ in the dust.”

  New Yorker

It's bi-partisan!

UPDATE:  Doocy took it in stride, tho...

Jesus Christ

Our country has been hacked and we don't even yet know the extent of the damage; over 300,000 of our fellow citizens have died unnecessarily from a rampant disease; and this is what Trump is tweeting.

Why in god's name is he still ragging on John McCain????

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Indeed

McSally Unendorsement

On this page, a few weeks before he announced it, we endorsed the idea of Gov. Ducey appointing Martha McSally to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of John McCain.

[...]

Her voting record hasn’t exactly mirrored her rhetoric when she’s here, however, such as voting with the White House to move funding from military bases, such as Fort Huachuca, in favor of building a border wall. She’s also voted in favor of cutting medical coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.

Those are policy issues with which we disagree, but disagreeing over policy is how our government should operate. We can respect someone who stays true to his or her principles, even when we disagree over policy.

And then there was last Thursday.

While walking to a conference room, McSally was asked a question by CNN reporter Manu Raju.

“Senator McSally, should the Senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial?”

McSally’s reponse was, to say the least, surprising.

“Manu, you’re a liberal hack. I’m not talking to you.”

Raju’s question was fair, given the Democrats’ push for evidence and witnesses at the impeachment trial of President Trump.

[...]

Again, it’s reasonable to disagree with policy.

What is not reasonable is name-calling like a third-grader on the playground.

McSally herself released a video one of her staffers recorded of the exchange — a recording that started well before Raju asked his question, which makes us think that McSally’s response was preplanned, no matter what Raju was going to ask.

And given that the McSally video was immediately used for fund-raising and to solicit support from the president — it did — we tend to think that was all a campaign ploy. After all, McSally is behind Democrat Mark Kelly in the polls and is lagging behind him in fund-raising, so she needs to do something.

[...]

Appealing to the hardcore 30 percent that supports Trump no matter what evidence turns up, or what even he himself says, may be her only chance for a hail-Mary win over Kelly.

[...]

We thought she was a principled person who would take a position one way or the other and stand up for what she believes is right. Not everyone would agree with whichever side she fell on, but we would respect her holding to her beliefs.

We didn’t expect her to be revealed as a political opportunist, willing to debase herself and dismiss her constituency in the dying hopes of holding on to a seat she couldn’t win on her own.

  Eastern Arizona Courier

Ouch.

Navy finally admits the truth

The US Navy acknowledged Friday that a request had been made regarding the USS John S. McCain in relation to President Donald Trump's visit to Japan, but said the ship ended up remaining in its normal configuration.

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"A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain, however, all ships remained in their normal configuration during the President's visit," Rear Adm. Charlie Brown, chief of Navy information, said in a statement. "There were also no intentional efforts to explicitly exclude Sailors assigned to USS John S. McCain."

Brown added that the Navy is "fully cooperating with the review of this matter tasked by" acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.

Two Navy officials told CNN on Wednesday that the White House Military Office had asked lower-level US Navy officials about keeping the ship out of view -- an impractical request as the ship was under repair, one of the officials said. "Once leadership heard about it, they said knock it off," a senior Navy official told CNN.
The ship ultimately was not moved nor was the name obscured, said Cmdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the 7th Fleet. [...]

"Our business is to run military operations and not to become politicized," Shanahan told reporters at a Singapore news conference. "I'll wait until I get a full explanation of the facts before I pass judgment on the situation, but our job is to run the military."

  CNN

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 6/4:

Wrong

Wrong.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Behind the scenes at the USS John McCain debacle

Navy denial update

 [...]



Excerpts from the referenced article:

A senior Navy official confirmed he was aware that someone at the White House sent a message to service officials in the Pacific requesting that the USS John McCain be kept out of the picture while the president was there. That led to photographs taken Friday of a tarp obscuring the McCain name, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

When senior Navy officials grasped what was happening, they directed Navy personnel who were present to stop, the senior official said. The tarp was removed on Saturday, before Trump’s visit, he added.

[...]

The Journal reported that acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan knew of the White House’s concerns and approved military officials’ efforts to obscure it from view. But Shanahan, speaking to reporters Thursday in Indonesia, denied that account.

“What I read this morning was the first I heard about it,” he said.

[...]

The crew of the McCain also was not invited to Trump’s visit, which occurred on the USS Wasp. But a Navy official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was because the crew was released from duty for the long holiday weekend, along with sailors from another ship, the USS Stethem.

A senior White House official also confirmed that they did not want the destroyer with the McCain name seen in photographs. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the president was not involved in the planning, but the request was made to keep Trump from being upset during the visit.

[...]

Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Navy spokesman, said that images of the tarp covering the ship are from Friday, and it was taken down Saturday.

“All ships remained in normal configuration during the President’s visit,” he said in an email, challenging the suggestion that a barge was moved to block it.

  WaPo

Jesus.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



UPDATE:

UPDATE:

Sad!

UPDATE 6/1:  The Navy finally admits the truth.

About that Navy denial...

President Trump on Thursday defended the reported decision by military officials to obscure the USS McCain during his trip to Japan, saying whoever made the order was "well meaning."

  The Hill

It was ham-handed and disrespectful to the ship's personnel, Senator John McCain, and the US Military, is what it was.

Officials were aware of the concern about the USS John McCain and approved measures so it would be hidden during Trump's state visit, an official told the Journal.

The Washington Post and New York Times later confirmed The Journal's reporting. None of the outlets reported that Trump was involved in making the request, and he has denied knowledge of the decision.

But, as Michael Cohen has said, he makes his desires known without issuing orders.

UPDATE:



The article he refers to.

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UPDATE:



Wrong.

Who the fuck knows anything any more?

Well, Trump believed it was.  He tweeted he had nothing to do with it.

Also...



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  He's now saying the act was well meaning.  So, I guess it happened, Navy Chief of Information.  (Both the Washington Post and New York Times confirmed the report by the Wall Street Journal.)

UPDATE 6/1:  The Navy finally admits the truth of it.

UPDATE 6/4:

Yeah, yeah, sure

Innocent as a babe in arms.

So, now that you know, why no condemnation of the move?  Do you want to find out who made the decision?  Have a little talk with them?

UPDATE:



Then why is Trump tweeting he had nothing to do with it?



UPDATE:  He's now saying the act was well meaning.  So, I guess it happened, Navy Chief of Information.  (Both the Washington Post and New York Times confirmed the report by the Wall Street Journal.)

Jesus Christ, the big baby

Not to mention...these men are part of the military of which he is the commander in chief.  He's disrespecting them.  They didn't name their ship.

And WHAT THE FUCK?!  It's AN AMERICAN MILITARY VESSEL, FFS.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Right on cue...



Anybody getting a reprimand?

I didn't think so.

UPDATE:



Uhhhhh...

Ambitions

They're definitely working on it.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Go ahead and say it

OK, I'll say it for you, Mr. "I-like-people-who-weren't-captured" Turdhead:  

John McCain.

No one can stop him

President Trump in an interview broadcast Friday criticized Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for giving the FBI a controversial dossier "for very evil purposes," keeping up a week-long series of criticisms of the dead senator that has roiled the Republican Party.

[...]

“If you realize, about three days ago it came out that his main person gave to the FBI the fake news dossier. It was a fake and a fraud, it was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. They gave it to John McCain, who gave it to the FBI for very evil purposes. That’s not good,” the president told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in the interview aired Friday.

[...]

“He was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. What he did to the Republican Party and to the nation and to sick people who could have had great healthcare was not good. So I’m not a fan of John McCain and that’s fine,” he said.

  The Hill

That's fine, but you need to shut your piehole about how much you hate him.

The president insisted his beef with the deceased senator was started by the media.

“I didn’t bring this up, you just brought it up,” he told Bartiromo. “When they ask me the question, I answer the question. But you people bring it up, I don’t bring it up. I’m not a fan.”

We know exactly what you are.

We need some indictments today.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

D'oh

Not only was Trump's whinging about not getting a thank you for "giving" John McCain the funeral that he wanted pathetic, vain, petty and disgusting, turns out it was a lie.




...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Despicable Donald Dumped on by National Cathedral

Listen to that speech.  It's worse than the tweet responses would indicate.

BTW, he was also disinvited to attend the funeral.



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Not only was Trump's whinging about not getting a thank you for "giving" John McCain the funeral that he wanted pathetic, vain, petty and disgusting, turns out it was a lie.

Despicable Donald

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Such a dick

One dick to another...



The answer to Southpaw's question is: never.

He's doing this, I think, because Meghan McCain publicly took issue on national TV with an earlier crack he took at her father, and now he's doubling down to show her who's top dog.  I hope when - or should I say if? - this asshole is out of office, no one in international or mainstream media ever prints another word about him and his sleazy family.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He doesn't like people who were captured

That war wasn't about him.  I'm surprised he agreed to have that Kim Jong Un summit meeting in Viet Nam in the first place, considering his faked medical condition to get him out of serving and the obvious comparisons and jokes it would engender.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.