the rich asshole threatens to ‘close up’ country if border wall isn’t built
President the rich asshole threatened to “close up our country” if he doesn’t get his long-promised wall on the nation’s southern border.
“We are fixing and building walls, but we need much more money,” he said at a Cleveland event touting his tax law Saturday. “We may have to close up our country to get this straight, because we either have a country or we don’t.”
The 48-minute “tax roundtable” featured local workers, business owners and GOP candidates, with frequent off-the-cuff interjections from the president.
The buildup to Ohio’s Republican primary, scheduled for Tuesday, has seen candidates for governor and U.S. Senate vying to “out-the rich asshole” each other to appeal to conservative voters.
the rich asshole also attended a private GOP fundraiser that raked in $3 million Saturday, the White House said.
Watch: Stormy Daniels appears on Saturday Night Live’s cold open as Cohen and the rich asshole try to get their lies straight
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The actual real-life Stormy Daniels made an appearance on Saturday Night Livetonight, joining game of phone tag featuring almost everyone involved in the unfurling the rich asshole scandal for the cold-open.
The sketch started with Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen going to a payphone to call the rich asshole and Rudy Giuliani.
“Hey what’s up, Amigo? How you holding up in prison?” the rich asshole asks Cohen.
“I’m not in prison,” Cohen says.
“Oh, give it a couple weeks,” the rich asshole says.
“Guys can we please just decide on one lie and stick to it?” Cohen asks.
In order to get their lies straight they need to talk to a low of people—including Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Jimmy Fallon and Scarlett Johansson appeared as Jared and Ivanka.
And then Stormy shows up—the real-life Stormy—to deliver a memorable performance.
Watch below.
‘Callous, thin-skinned, ego-driven’: Watch nihilistic Fox News commentator admit he loves the rich asshole because’s awful
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Terry Schappert is an occasional Fox News commentator who was trained to serve in the Special Forces. He left before 9/11 though he was deployed “in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Schappert also does occasional appearances on Greg Gutfeld‘s Fox News show, where tonight he stepped up to say something hinted at by young male Fox News types like Gutfeld and the frat-bro Jesse Watters.
Namely, that some rich asshole is an awful, awful person.
Or, as Schappert put it: “A guy who is callous, thin-skinned, ego-driven.”
You might think that would make Schappert dislike the rich asshole, and pine for a president like Obama. But, as others have written, the rich asshole’s disgustingness is actually his appeal to nihilistic white men who feel left behind by an evolving society that wants them to play games with female protagonists and get consent before performing sex acts.
As author Dale Beran put it: “the rich asshole’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him.” Supporting the rich asshole is an act of “utter contemptuous despair”—though it’s rare to find a man who’ll admit that.
Except for Schappert.
“I call some rich asshole the flash-bang cannon,” he said, echoing Ted Cruz. “the rich asshole’s a flash-bang and it’s funny to watch how he has crushed these people—and they needed to be crushed. Dems and Republicans, media and academics.”
Watch below.
Watch: Fox News’ Judge Jeanine slams Jeff Sessions in unhinged conspiracy rant about Comey and Russian uranium
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Judge Jeanine Pirro had Rudy Giuliani on her show Saturday night, which was appointment viewing given the way the president’s new personal attorney upended the news cycle after his appearance on Sean Hannity’s show.
But Pirro opened her show by targeting the president’s Department of Justice—including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and top deputy Rod Rosenstein.
She called Sessions “dithering, unsure, insecure, uncertain, spineless, timid.”
She then launched into Rod Rosenstein suggesting that he was part of a long-ago debunked conspiracy about Russian uranium.
“His interest is to protect Hillary uranium,” Pirro said, saying that he had “more power than the president himself.”
“It’s time to end the Mueller-Comey-Rosenstein cabal once and for all,” she said.
Watch below.
Watch: Teacher of the year reads the speech the rich asshole banned on Van Jones
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Mandy Manning is the nation’s teacher of the year.
The Spokane, Washington high school teacher handed the president letters from refugees and wrote a speech about her experience helping vulnerable students, which the rich asshole would not allow the press pool to witness.
So Van Jones gave Manning a chance to read the speech on his CNN show Saturday afternoon.
“Get uncomfortable, challenge your own perceptions to find clarity,” she said. “Be fearless, be kind, meet someone new.”
Watch below.
some rich asshole just lied about his brutal poll numbers again
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some rich asshole is the least popular president of all time. But he is not willing to admit that yet.
Today in Cleveland, the rich asshole again bragged about his job approval numbers, which he falsely claimed were better than Obama’s.
“We just had a poll, 51 or 52, which came out, you know, very nicely,” the rich asshole said. “Then I turn on like, you know, one of the networks and I see, ‘some rich asshole, who’s not very popular…’ I’m saying, ‘What are you talking about?’”
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According to Five Thirty Eight, when tracks all of the major presidential polls, the rich asshole’s highest number is 51 from Rasmussen, which consistently gives him higher marks than every other poll. Even that one poll doesn’t have him at 52, as he claimed.
Not only is the rich asshole not popular, he is extremely unpopular with those who disapprove of him. Polls show his opponents are much more enthusiastic in their dislike than his supporters are in their approval.
Rudy Giuliani has hit rock bottom
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To be a prelapsarian conservative in America today — as that creed was understood before 2016 — means getting used to heartbreak. One after another, conservatives that I have admired and respected — Paul D. Ryan, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Bill Bennett, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Scott Walker and many others — have failed the rich asshole test. They have sacrificed their purported principles to curry favor with a populist demagogue who is turning the Republican Party into the American version of France’s National Front.
The most conspicuous Republican to fall from grace — and he had a long way to fall because he once reached such a lofty pinnacle — is Rudolph W. Giuliani. He has gone, in Joe Scarborough’s biting but accurate phrase, from “America’s mayor” to the rich asshole’s chump. But not even the gaudy, post-9/11 phrase “America’s mayor” can convey the true depth of Giuliani’s achievement, especially to a non-New Yorker.
Giuliani, more than any other individual, made New York what it is today: one of the safest, richest and most dynamic cities in the world. There is not in Manhattan today a single “bad” neighborhood — every part of the borough is thriving, and Brooklyn is catching up fast.
This was not the case when Giuliani became mayor in 1994, the very year I moved to New York. Back then the city was being asphyxiated by crime, economic malaise, racial tensions, graffiti, garbage, dysfunctional but expensive government and myriad other ills. Those were the days when the middle class was fleeing the city, jobs were disappearing, people were afraid to walk through Central Park, and drivers routinely put signs in the window of their cars proclaiming “no radio” to ward off thieves. I haven’t seen a single such sign in years and I think nothing of strolling through Central Park — or anyplace else. New York is now a magnet for talented newcomers from all over the world, and if New Yorkers are being driven out, it’s due to high real-estate prices, not urban decay.
The mayors who have come since Giuliani — Michael Bloomberg and now Bill de Blasio — have done a good job of maintaining the quality of life and even improving it while smoothing off some of the rough edges of the Giuliani approach. But the quality-of-life revolution started under Giuliani’s uncompromising leadership. The numbers tell the story: In 1993, the year that Giuliani was elected, there were 1,946 murders. In 2001, the last year of his mayoralty, the number was down to 649. That’s a decline of more than 66 percent. It’s true that crime was also dropping across the country, but it seemed to fall further and faster in New York City than anywhere else.
It wasn’t all Giuliani’s doing: His predecessor, David Dinkins, hired more cops, and Giuliani’s first police chief, William Bratton, improved the effectiveness of the NYPD by using a statistic-driven approach called CompStat to deploy cops where they were needed most. But it was Giuliani who provided the political cover for the NYPD to take a tough-on-crime approach that initially drew criticism (some of it warranted) from minority communities. One can only imagine what Mayor Giuliani would have said if someone had called the cops “stormtroopers” — the epithet that he has now applied to his former law-enforcement colleagues who are investigating the president’s personal lawyer. Giuliani also restored fiscal sanity by reducing taxes and spending and cutting welfare rolls in half.
It was one of the most spectacular achievements in governance in modern America. Just as Ronald Reagan dispelled the widespread impression that America was in terminal decline, so Giuliani dispelled that same impression about America’s largest city.
Not only was Giuliani an exceptionally able leader, but he was also, despite his intemperate style, a political moderate. He is a supporter of immigration, abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. He celebrated diversity and denounced as “inhumane” a 1994 California initiative that cut off undocumented immigrants from access to state services such as public schools.
Giuliani was so impressive that I considered supporting his presidential campaign in 2008. Instead, I went to work as a foreign-policy adviser for John McCain, but my admiration for “America’s mayor” remained undiminished — until Giuliani decided in 2016 to become an apologist for a candidate who had spent a lifetime obliterating the kind of ethical redlines that he had spent his own career enforcing.
What happened? Giuliani, like the rest of us, always had character flaws; in his case, they include arrogance, vanity, vindictiveness, self-righteousness, intolerance of criticism and lapses in judgment. As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s, he launched high-profile prosecutions of Wall Street figures that were later thrown out of court.
My theory is that the rich asshole, the most deeply flawed individual ever to occupy the Oval Office, exposes and magnifies the flaws of his followers. Like so many other Republicans, Giuliani has failed the rich asshole test. He is far from alone: Hardly any prominent Republican will emerge from this sorry epoch with reputation intact.
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