The Shambling Mound's Fifth Week

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

The lurching continues! The week began with the savvy explanation by Lord Dampnut that the media is the enemy of the people. Several individuals made the point that describing a press independent of the government in such a way is usually a rather totalitarian attitude. Still, having decided that media is the enemy he did hold his first post-election rally which some suggest looked suggestive of a 2020 election campaign. Personally I think it was narcassistic cry for affirmation.

The following day, the "enemy of the people" was presenting reports that Lord Dampnut's team had been working on a plan to use the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied the report as "100 per cent false" on Twitter (here it is, however it soon emerged that the memo had been circulating and had been under consideration for at least three weeks.

Clearly it is impossible to get through a week without an opportunity for comic ridicule, so the following day the baffling suggestion of terrorist attacks "last night" in Sweden led provided not only a request for clarification from the Swedish government but also the opportunity for Swedes themselves to offer suggestions.

Returning to bravado the week ended with Lord Dampnut's proposal to rebuild the United State's nuclear arsenal to be "top of the pack". So rather than encourage other countries to reduce their arsenals, the suggestion is to start a new nuclear arm's race. For those who live through the 1980s and witnessed to gradual removal of the threat of nuclear was in that period, the prospect is frankly terrifying. Still, Lord Dampnut did promise to have a plan to defeat ISIS in thirty days. Perhaps this is it, more nukes. What could possibly go wrong?

Comments

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or he's been having a quieter week this week?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, not with the stuff that broke on Friday. Looks like some now want a special prosecutor to investigate Trump's Russian connections and not to leave it to Congressional committee investigations, especially with the revelation White House officials called Congressional officials and trying to persuade them there wasn't anything to the stories. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/25/top-republican-says-special-prosecutor-should-investigate-russian-meddling-in-trumps-election/?utm_term=.0baeb975697b (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/25/top-republican-says-special-prosecutor-should-investigate-russian-meddling-in-trumps-election/?utm_term=.0baeb975697b)) Then the White House had a group hand of hand picked group of reporters in a briefing ... Reporters from The Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, the BBC and The Huffington Post were among those shut out of the briefing. Aides to Mr. Spicer admitted only reporters from a group of news organizations that, the White House said, had been previously confirmed (cf: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html))

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Depends how you define "quiet".

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I think someone gave the Donald some good advice: you have to hamstring the press. And the Fourth Estate in new boots and in the form of Brietbart has replaced Roops and Roger as the gateway.

You couldn't make it up.