She plays in the WNBA
Day: September 9, 2020
… including Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton”
This is Trump playing his distraction game, of course. So many negatives are piling up on him this week that he’s trying to change the subject with some outrageous but relatively innocuous controversy, in the hope that the media will report less about Woodward, Cohen and the whistleblower. If people rant about the far-fetched and imaginary prospect of Tom Cotton in the Supreme Court, an obvious red herring, they will have that much less time to rant about Trump’s COVID lies. You may have noticed that the latest shenanigans have already pushed his financials and tax returns out of the news cycle.
Reporters are generally unfocused and easily manipulated, so this tactic usually works for Trump. You’d think people would get wise to his tricks, but they never seem to.
Sounds dumb – but is actually interesting because some of the matches are uncanny.
It appears that as the lawyers were battling, the judge stepped down from his perch and hit the wrestlers’ lawyer over the head with a chair.
Ironically, he caused brain damage.
“Among the plaintiffs were Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, Joseph “Road Warrior Animal” Laurinaitis, Paul “Mr. Wonderful” Orndorff, Chris “King Kong Bundy” Pallies and Harry Masayoshi Fujiwara, known as Mr. Fuji.”
Snuka and Fuji are dead. Both had advanced cases of CTE. Bundy is also dead.
Really weird: It’s not a Japanese man.
A very brief flash from Rose McIver in episode 4 of Woke. (Sample below)
Selena Gomez in Allure Magazine BTS, 9/9/20
A few new revelations:
The book describes Mr. Trump hiring “a Faux-Bama, or fake Obama, to record a video where Trump ritualistically belittled the first Black president and then fired him, a kind of fantasy fulfillment that it was hard to imagine any adult would spend serious money living out.”
Trump’s coordination with the National Enquirer was more extensive than previously known. According to Cohen, Trump’s involvement with the National Enquirer included personal day-to-day supervision of stories on his Republican rivals. The book specifically mentions Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
Deborah Ann Woll keeps things pretty well covered, but this is a pretty lusty sex scene from True Blood
“Senior DHS official alleges in whistleblower complaint that he was told to stop providing intelligence analysis on threat of Russian interference”
This Tweet contains the essence of the story:
I mean. This alone is a red siren revelation. pic.twitter.com/Qn5Dr9batC
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 9, 2020
WaPo makes a big deal out of the fact that Trump knew COVID was deadly and much worse than a flu, but was telling the country a different story.
I found that less interesting than some other aspects of Woodward’s presentation:
Kim said his meetings with Trump were a “precious memory” that underscored how the “deep and special friendship between us will work as a magical force.”
Coats: “He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
Trump: “My fucking generals are a bunch of pussies.”
Woodward asked Trump about whether white people should be feeling some responsibility to better “understand the anger and pain” felt by Blacks in America. “No,” Trump replied, in his own sensitive way, “I don’t feel that at all.”
Pretty cool! But I can say with certainty that I will not be crossing this. I would rather have Moby Dick read to me by Gilbert Gottfried and Jason Lee.
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” Officially Coming to an End
But not yet. There is still one more complete season.