Once again I was going to take the week off because of, y’know, emotional stuff. But I can’t, because as much as we have been saying that Trump’s election means the end of the world, this week he genuinely took a major step toward, well, ending the world.
1). We’ll always not have Paris. So far, Trump has been batting zero in his array of loopy campaign promises. The Muslim ban has failed at every judicial level, the Mexican wall construction is blocked, Hillary Clinton will not be going to jail in our lifetimes. But he has now managed to carry through on the single most dangerous promise he made: to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, the keystone to Obama’s progress toward endeavoring to save the planet. Now technically the pullout can’t occur for several years yet. In point of fact, we won’t actually withdraw until the day after Election Day in 2020, which means that if the right person (i.e., a sane person) manages to take back the office, this insane decision can be minimized. Trump, meanwhile, in his classic stupidity, declared that he was elected to represent Pittsburgh, not Paris. Naturally he chose Pittsburgh because he liked the alliteration. But the facts of the world once again didn’t support him, because Pittsburgh actually voted 60-40 for Hillary. So since Hillary voters, being presumably sane, don’t believe for a second that global warming is a Chinese fabrication, then by his own words, Trump should immediately reverse his position to honor the voters’ wishes. Which naturally he won’t do, because for Trump, it’s not about doing what the voters want, or what the law requires, or what’s good for the planet. It’s all about satisfying his demented supporters and his ego, and not in that order.
So where the hëll is Senate oversight and their endeavors to keep an eye on his twisted priorities? Funny you should ask.
2). You can’t touch this. The White House is completely stonewalling any Democratic attempts at oversight. Democratic requests for material required for oversight are being turned down flat as the Trumpies institute a brand spanking new rule: all oversight requests must come from committee chairmen, all of whom are naturally GOP and aren’t asking. This is making the Dems completely nuts. Granted, the Obama White House could be slow when it was the GOP endlessly asking for oversight materials, but there was never an issuance of a flat stonewalling policy aimed at the opposition party. So apparently Trump cannot build his Mexican wall, but that is not deterring him from throwing up walls internally in yet another attempt to bring the government to a crashing halt, all to his benefit.
Did he do anything right?. Well, his poll numbers went up five percent because naturally his base approved of his foreign trip, despite the array of goofs, blunders and obnoxious behavior that has served to crumble America’s dominance as a world leader. So that’s good…I guess.
PAD
Updated at 11:48–The mayors of 61 cities and governors of three states–New York, California and Washington–have stated they will ignore Trump and continue to enforce the agreements in the Paris Climate accords. And one of the Mayors? The Mayor of Pittsburgh.
• 
One little thing more : as a wordsmith yourself, maybe you can answer the question many people have this week :
What the heck does “Covfefe” mean ? Because I have absolutely no idea. But of course, English is just the third language I learned at school, and I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t quite master all its intricacie.
It’s just a typo, something he typed and sent by accident. People are just having fun with it.
But Jim, a “typo” suggests there was a REAL word he intended to use.
Does anyone know what THAT word was SUPPOSED to be?
A “typo” is “moive” (one of my most common typos) and I’m pretty certain most people could figure out what the correct word should be if the word’s read in context. (EG, “No one pays attention to a plot hole the size of a galaxy in a Marvel moive, but let there be a minor inconsistency with a DC one, people won’t shut up about it.”) But whatever tRump was trying to say, he covfefed it up.
But let’s not think, for even half a second, that “covfefe” is the new “Smurf.” (Twitterfingers isn’t that smart.)
We can’t know for certain what Trump meant when he typed covfefe but we can make a good guess.
.
What Trump tweeted said “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” That’s almost certainly a typo; if it were a deliberate coinage or some other attempt to be clever on Trump’s part he and his minions would be taking credit for this brilliant word use.
.
If it’s a typo, one part which is almost certainly wrong is the f following the v. I can’t think of any word with that letter sequence.
.
So it’s likely he was trying to type a word starting with ‘cov’ and lost it mentally after the v. Is there a reasonably common word starting with those letters which would make sense in that sentence?
.
Yes, there is: “coverage”.
.
So I think the most reasonable and the most likely explanation is that he intended to write a sentence which started “Despite the constant negative press coverage” but in the middle of typing the word coverage his brain and his typing hand disconnected and the fingers typed fefe on autopilot.
.
At some point his brain woke up enough to send an instruction to his hand to do whatever it is one does to send a tweet out (something he’s likely done often enough it doesn’t take too much conscious thought to do). Then his brain went back to sleep and he had no idea what the tweet he sent out actually said (if he even consciously knew he’d sent it out) until hours later when it was pointed out to him.
“Then his brain went back to sleep”
.
Hard to go back to a place you never leave.
The REPUBLICAN governor of Massachusetts joined in on that.
Also, Trump should’ve said “Paris, Texas, not Paris, France” – alliterative and I bet they voted for him.
By the way, PAD. I haven’t seen it addressed anywhere (or maybe I just haven’t seen it wherever it was addressed) but what’s up with “The Dark Tower” in comic form?
I know the last several series/volumes would have a couple of “skip” months before the next series came out, but we’re now at 6 months with no new DT solicitation. I just heard about the film a month or so ago and just saw the trailer a couple of days ago (okay–I haven’t been to the theater in about a month) and I figured, with the film opening in August, that we’d get a new solicitation when the new Previews came out–but nothing.
Is there a licensing issue involved or is Marvel just holding off until after the film opens or should we expect new Dark Tower volumes only in OGN format? Or, is this a “I can’t discuss it now” matter?
We’re only a few months in and the çlûšŧërfûçk is showing no signs of abating.
And now… THIS.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-foundation-funneled-dollar100k-in-donations-into-revenue-for-trump-organization-report/ar-BBCaVP7?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp