No. CXXXIV.ii EXTRA! Counting Our Blessings?

WaPo: An overview of the firings, resignations and withdrawn nominations of the Trump White House (Paywall)

Michael Flynn, Katie Walsh, Reinhold Priebus.

Steve Bannon is just the latest to leave us.

Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, the scary MOOCH.

Who will be last to flee the White Hooch?

Several dozen C.E.O. bro's

saw the Emperor was not wearing clothes.

Walter Shaub, Michael Short and Mike Corallo.

The body count grows at The Trump Foul Corral-o.

No. CXXXIV.i: EXTRA! Presidential Power (a statement from the desk of the President of the Untied States of America, President Donald J. Trump, President of the Untied States of America)

Since the office I work in an ellipse,

I've decided to cancel next Monday's eclipse.

If that does not work, it is in my powers

to order instead coast-to-coast showers.

If I can't stop the moon blotting the sun,

what is the point, where is the fun?

I'm here to end U.S. decline.

Just believe what I tell you and things'll be fine.

To those who oppose, I say watch where you tread:

I'm practicing saying, "Off with their heads!”

No. CXXXIV: A Note To Our Reader(s)

After a week of cocktails Romanov...
too tired to rhyme...need a day off.
Therefore, in lieu of a new rhymed "McGuffin"
here is NBC's Late Night Ms. Amber Ruffin.

No. CXXXIII.i: EXTRA! Nonsense On Pedestals

To "celebrate history" it would be absurd
to put up a statue of King George the Third.
One simple fact, there is no debate here:
Confederate statues celebrate traitors.
Yes, it's our history, but come on now, Donald.
Do you see statues of Benedict Arnold?
(Never examined in these discourses:
why Southerners worship dead losers on horses.)
And, however hard you may sleuth,
even Dixie lacks statues of John Wilkes Booth.

No. CXXXIII: The President From Hell

The president's unwell,

he's made a living hell.

Heigh-ho the derry-o,

the president's unwell.

The man, he has no soul

and lacks all self-control.

Heigh-ho the derry-o,

this man, he has no soul.

The man is indiscrete.

Repeatedly he tweets

ungrammatic rambling bleats.

The president doth tweet.

The president doth flirt

with white hoods and brown shirts.

Even when not chasing skirt,

the president doth flirt.

HE LOST THE CEO's!

HE. LOST. THE. C. E. O.'s!

A PRESIDENT FROM GOP

LOST THE CEO's!?

Analysis will find

he is out of his mind.

Pence enlist the Twenty-Fifth*

and put this mess behind.

____________

*Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. 

—U.S. Constitution, Amendment XXV, Section 4

No. CXXXII: On The Other (Small) Hand

AP: Trump's denouncement disappoints, angers white nationalists

President Donald Trump's condemnation of hate groups - two days after his initially equivocal response to a deadly attack at a rally in Virginia - disappointed and even angered some of the white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who supported and felt emboldened by his presidential campaign.

WSJ: Trump Says ‘Both Sides’ to Blame in Charlottesville Violence, Reversing Monday’s Stance (Paywall)

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke swiftly praised the president for his remarks.

What sort of premises

can make a nemesis

of MY good friends

the white supremacists?

They see, generally,

Bobby Lee as their hero,

an oath-breaking traitor

who made the South greater.

This so-called assault

was not their fault.

They have to attack

any Jew, brown or black.

They hate "fake news"
but like a few Jews...
like that boy Jared
Ivanka married.

They are AMERICANS!

Not drug-dealing Mexicans!

Not Muslim terrorists!

Not TV satirists!

You'd put them in pillories

like they were Hillarys?

Don't tell me they're bad.

You'll make me “sad”.

No. CXXXI: The McConnell-Ryan Quandry

Does GOP Congress have grounds divorce...
what with Trump on his collusion course?
McConnell and Ryan for better or worse
sold him their souls. #Perverse.

Better or worse? Trump's blather for wars.
(What's the "deal" with the bladders of Russian whores?)
Does it make a diff? The DJI soars
as Trump bathes in the base. (Which he adores.)

His businesses thriving, he's ever greedier
for money and fame. Attacking "fake" media,
becoming neediest from only needier,
his entry "the best" in Wikipedia.

Have McConnell and Ryan destroyed their careers
crocheting a silk purse from this pig's ear?
Will they remove him or make him jump?
Or are we stuck with Hail To The Lump?

No. CXXX.ii: EXTRA! Sent From The Tent (or Bannon Go Yurt)

NYT: Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster (Paywall)

Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.  

Time to ban Bannon?

His date's expired.

So bad is he,

Murdoch wants him fired!

Now that it's printed,

it can not happen.

And, besides,

Donald likes Bannon.

He one hundred percent agrees with his views

and if he fires him this won't be "fake news"!

No. CXXX.i: EXTRA! Prayer Of Thanks (August 14, 2017)

NYT: The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of (Paywall)

“He didn’t attack us,” crowed The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website, about Mr. Trump’s statement after the two days of racist demonstrations. “Refused to answer a question about White Nationalists supporting him. No condemnation at all. When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room. Really, really good. God bless him. 

WSJ: The Poison of Identity Politics (Paywall)

As so often with Mr. Trump, his original statement missed an opportunity to speak like a unifying political leader.

Let us give thanks unto the Lord
The New York Times' editorial board 

is ignored

               along with the (today) infernal

editorial page of THE Wall Street Journal

WaPo: Trump denounces KKK, neo-Nazis two days after Charlottesville unrest (Paywall)

The president spoke from the White House in an effort to tamp down criticism from Democrats and some Republicans that he had not been forceful enough in his comments Saturday.

To my alt-right pals:
the CAUSE is not lost
when I issued my follow-up
my fingers were crossed

As late as this morning
I thought things were fine
'til Javanka told me:
"Condemn THEM, or we'll resign"

So ignore what I "said"
I think you're beautiful
whatever I "say"
it's business as usual

No. CXXX: With Love From Me To You

친애하는 트럼프 도널드 존, 이제 정말! 어서! 당신은 내 비트를 훔쳐있어! 열광 너에 똥? 동료 익살 광대, 사랑, 김정은

Translation:

Dear Trump Donald John,

Now really! Come on!
You're stealing my bit!
The crazed ranting shit?

Your fellow buffoon,
with love, 

Kim Jong Un


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