RED WAVE!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2018
ADDED: The new, totally terse tweet came a few after this series of tweets, which I'm reprinting to give you a more fleshed out view of our President's public display over yesterday's voting:
1. "5 for 5!"
2. "The Republicans have now won 8 out of 9 House Seats, yet if you listen to the Fake News Media you would think we are being clobbered. Why can’t they play it straight, so unfair to the Republican Party and in particular, your favorite President!"
3. "As long as I campaign and/or support Senate and House candidates (within reason), they will win! I LOVE the people, & they certainly seem to like the job I’m doing. If I find the time, in between China, Iran, the Economy and much more, which I must, we will have a giant Red Wave!"
4. "Congratulations to @LenaEpstein of Michigan on a job well done. Also, thanks for your great support!"
Striking photograph of Epstein at her Twitter page:
She won the GOP primary in Michigan's 11th District. The Detroit Free Press has this:
Epstein was all but unknown in political circles before 2016, when she helped to engineer President Trump's successful Michigan campaign, the first won by a Republican presidential nominee in the state since 1988...
"Lena definitely ran as the Trump candidate. Others (in the Republican field) attempted to but didn't have the natural connection," said Republican consultant John Truscott..... Truscott said that while the 11th district has traditionally been Republican, it only marginally backed Trump in 2016...
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"(within reason),"
We are having a red tide down here in the SWF. Not a fan.
-XC
People thought that "=" implied equal. Does "Blue Wave" or "Red Wave" contain or express a content or intent ambiguity?
People are known to burn flags, open abortion fields, or force refugee crises for hash tags.
I expect neither. A No Wave.
FTR, yesterday I noted that it was gonna be a "red wave" either way.
Odd that the R's got the commie color. (Although, this was reversed w/ the media first went w/ the red/blue political colors.)
2 Words? Sad!
Trump no a-me (5)
na-n go-ku no-n-da (7)
ho-to-to-gi-su (5)
Translated:
how many gallons
of Trump's rain did you drink,
cuckoo?
You can replace "rain" with "Kool-Aid" if you want to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Dang, that picture is of a striking young woman. Put her up against Nancy Pelosi, please!
I won't celebrate anything until after the November elections. The Democrats have illustrated the dangers of premature gloating.
I chuckled at the "in particular, your favorite President!"
I can't say "he's just trolling his opponents now," because it's been obvious from Day 1 that he enjoys trolling his opponents. But he sure does enjoy it.
Red wave? Stem that crimson tide.
If by "striking" you mean "seriously f'ing hot", I agree she is striking.
WAY better looking than Occasional Cortex, but the media will only fawn over the latter's looks, of that I have no doubt.
Well, most of the really hot young women in politics tend to be Republicans, for some reason. The vast majority of leftist women involved in politics would make Don Juan turn gay.
That doesn't include Hollywood whores, who as far as I can tell are liberal because if they aren't, they will lose their job. More of that famous liberal tolerance, after all.
Re: exiledonmainstreet:
I won't celebrate anything until after the November elections. The Democrats have illustrated the dangers of premature gloating.
I cannot believe how, after they just got burned for gloating about how they were going to abolish the filibuster for supreme court justices at the first sign of Republican opposition to Clinton's nominees, Democrats' supporters are now twirling their moustaches about how they're going to pack the supreme court as soon as people let them have power again. They can't help themselves!
I see her as Delcroix's Liberty Leading the People.
This isn't exactly Seahawks burning flags, but it is photoshopped?
https://www.facebook.com/LenaforCongress/photos/share-and-encourage-your-friends-and-family-to-like-our-page-if-they-love-americ/707432889445883/
Right?
Boobs.
Lena Epstein... natural born feminine female and leader.
Looks like an SNL parodoy. But, it seems real.
Trad Guy is gonna nut two seconds after seeing the full image.
He is either voluntarily conserving energy or forgot to purchase carbon credits.
I don't think she's hot, but the boobs are the picture.
She's high-maintenance. I have a trained eye.
Lena was running in the U.S. Senate primary. Then Dave Trott quit (announced he would not run again) and Lena jumped into this race.
I'm not sure, but she may have outspent the rest of the field combined, to get her 31% plurality.
I am astonished at the winner of the Dems' primary. Haley Stevens (never heard of her before this year) beat a respected mainstream Democrat, Tim Greimel, who is the State House Minority Leader. I thought the Dems could win this district (R+4) with Greimel. But that's not going to happen now. I think they just made it easier for Epstein.
This is going to be one of the best Congressional races to watch in the entire country. This one is a perfect bellwether for control of Congress. Watch what happens in MI-11. If Lena Epstein loses, that is a cataclysm for Republicans. Because (a) this is a perfect example of a Midwestern suburban swing district; (b) it tilts mildly Republican, and should be won by any competent Republican; (c) Lena Epstein is a true Trump believer and will rise or fall with Trump.
Dang, that picture is of a striking young woman. Put her up against Nancy Pelosi, please!
Put her up against me, please!
Her parents' golf club wouldn't let Epstein hold a fundraising dinner there, because Trump.
Still. Political dinner at a golf club? Weird.
"This one is a perfect bellwether for control of Congress."
Yes, it will be a good test for moderate suburban Republicans: do they prefer to express their distaste for Trump by giving power to Dems, or do they prefer to advance a more Republican agenda by supporting a Republican majority?
Striking photograph of Epstein at her Twitter page...
Let's take a closer look at those stars...
"Stevens, meanwhile, has touted her service as chief of staff to former President Obama's auto task force, which arranged financing — and structured bankruptcies — in 2009 that were widely credited with saving General Motors and what is now Fiat Chrysler."
girl has gots cronies
At first glance I thought the photo was of Sandra Bullock.
JohnAnnArbor said...
Her parents' golf club wouldn't let Epstein hold a fundraising dinner there, because Trump.
Still. Political dinner at a golf club? Weird.
Franklin Hills Country Club. The A-Number-One-Top-of-the-Heap Jewish Country Club in all of Michigan. A supremely fine, very private club; with one of the very best Donald Ross golf courses in the Midwest. Routinely rated as the best hidden gem in the state. (Very, very little guest play.) Max Fisher (Ohio State University Fisher College of Business) was a member with a home on the course.
The idea was to raise some family/Jewish money for Lena. And it wasn't, and wouldn't be, the only political fundraiser catered at FHCC. That the club scheduled it, and then canceled it, was a terrible move. They should have avoided scheduling it if anybody felt it might be a problem, or they should have kept it on the schedule once they decided to accept the catering engagement. It was a rare case of terrible, incompetent management by FHCC. But it shows how deeply divisive Trump is, among country club Republicans and even Jewish country club Republicans.
"Max Fisher (THE Ohio State University Fisher College of Business) was a member with a home on the course."
Just a quick correction....
(They are going through THE investigation wringer right now, coach-wise...)
Some pregnant women exude a special hotness. Probably God's way of keeping our attention level high while going through the process. But if this is from last year why is she using this photo and not a post-partum pic? It seems a tad dated, although it is an awfully nice photo.
She's high maintenance. I have a trained eye" said Mr Hardin.
I know I shouldn't fall for such an evident lure, but really, one has to ask:
- Where exactly is the line for "low maintenance" in Hardin terms?
- Trained? There's a school of likeminded fellows out there?
JohnAnnArbor said...
"Max Fisher (THE Ohio State University Fisher College of Business) was a member with a home on the course."
Just a quick correction....
(They are going through THE investigation wringer right now, coach-wise...)
lol. You're right of course. Not that it matters to me. Max actually played football for the Buckeyes. He was surrounded by so many Michigan alums at Franklin Hills, I think he made that OSU B-school naming gift just to piss them off.
There's something about her that stands out.
Where exactly is the line for "low maintenance" in Hardin terms?
How about “Does things girls like to do with her girlfriends instead of insisting on dragging him along.” That would be a start. Would that be sexist to expect?
“Doesn’t complain when he does stuff guys like to do with the guys once in a while.” Is that sexist to expect?
“Respects the work he does around the house, yard work, car maintenance, etc without discounting it to zero because if he doesn’t hate doing it, he must be having fun.” Is that a sexist thing to expect?
“Enjoys sex with him and regularly partakes.” Is that a sexist thing to expect?
Nothing about “trained” here. Maybe you think the Stepford Wives was a male fantasy, not male bashing.
Doh! Althouse hid the baby.
If the Sarsour connection to the New Mexican Compound leader and/or his father is correct (not sure yet if its fake news and even Drudge seems reluctant to run with it) then its one of the more bizarre stories of the year (its super bizarre anyway) and good for Trump.
This is the reason that Sarah Palin had to be destroyed: Only the Left is allowed to have visually engaging women. Anyone else must be torn down.
Push up bra
All the tasteless leering by the usual suspects is enough to make me puke. The trashy breast jokes are what's wrong with Trump's America. The male commenters should be neutered and chained to a pole like the dogs they are.
"But it shows how deeply divisive Trump is, among country club Republicans and even Jewish country club Republicans."
But why? Trump has mostly governed like a conservative Republican, and he is strongly pro-Israel.
Only the tariffs deviate from GOP orthodoxy, and even they, for now, are mostly tools in fight. Russia is a mixed bag: bad optics at Helsinki, mostly sensible actions where it mattered. Sure, you could complain about high spending--but few Republicans in power have taken that seriously, so it would be unfair to criticize Trump for it.
Of course, he is brash and rude. Some people might take offense and vote to express their good taste.
But a vote against the Trump-supported candidate would result in policies much worse from a Republican point of view. So country-club Republicans who oppose Trump are dividing themselves from the Republican alternative. Doesn't seem rational--if, in fact, they prefer the more Republican alternative.
Jealousy is never a good look, Trumpit.
I find it hilarious he calls himself "your favorite president". That seems like something I would want to do.
Lena's ads were very Trump-forward. And they were good, because they showed her interacting with people in a normal way, and not in a political-ad looking way.
The two guys running for governor who hated on Trump constantly didn't win. The guy who was the most Trump-forward did.
And we'll have a black Senate candidate. Can he beat the very middling Stabenow?
Has LLR Chuck begun his attacks on John James yet?
I thought he might because, lets face it, to LLR Chuck that John James might bear too much of a resemblance to Ben Carson.
Worse, he is a military vet, decorated, like Ronny Jackson, and we all saw how much Chuck relished attacking him.
Maybee: "And we'll have a black Senate candidate. Can he beat the very middling Stabenow?"
Not if LLR Chuck has anything to say about it.
Sebastian: "Doesn't seem rational--if, in fact, they prefer the more Republican alternative."
Ding ding ding!
Spoiler: They don't.
LLR Chuck: " It was a rare case of terrible, incompetent management by FHCC. But it shows how deeply divisive Trump is, among country club Republicans and even Jewish country club Republicans."
VANITY FAIR
"How Donald Trump Beat Palm Beach Society and Won the Fight for Mar-a-Lago"
"This was the genteel and closed world of private clubs in Palm Beach prior to the arrival of Donald Trump. Ironically, because of their tight restrictions and penchant for keeping people out, they became the Achilles’ heel that enabled Trump to alter the exclusionary culture of Palm Beach forever.
Getting nowhere with the Town Council on his Mar-a-Lago subdivision proposal, Trump needed a “fix-it person,” says Richard Rampell, the head of a prominent local accounting firm and the brother of the attorney who would help clear the way for Trump into Palm Beach, Paul Rampell. “So Trump meets with my brother, and my brother comes up with an idea to convert Mar-a-Lago into a private club that is open to everyone,” Richard Rampell tells me. At the time, Palm Beach’s Waspy private clubs had what he calls an open secret: as Trump claimed, they didn’t admit Jews or African-Americans.
With the specter of his lawsuit still hanging over the council, it voted 4--1 to approve Trump’s plan, and those who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, become members of the other clubs now had a club of their own."
Need I say it?
I will anyway: Just like Hitler.
C'mon Trumpit ... tell us how you REALLY feel.
this is a rather fact dense analysis, much more than weve seen in the dossier, or the times and journal derivatives:
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2018/03/
@Sebastien,
You make as much sense as a big zit on a big tit. You're a big nitwit. Stop trying to sound intelligent, and knowledgeable. You come off as a shill on the PrEP pill. You are infected already with the Big Lie of Trumpism. You swallowed the GOP Kool-Aid, and have sunken so low that you have your head buried between to two boobs - Trump & the GOP.
The trashy breast jokes are what's wrong with Trump's America.
Yep, never heard any of THOSE before 2016.
"Yes, it will be a good test for moderate suburban Republicans: do they prefer to express their distaste for Trump by giving power to Dems, or do they prefer to advance a more Republican agenda by supporting a Republican majority?"
I think the big question is whether suburban moderates tell their neighbors and friends that they are supporting Trump's Republican Party. I tend to keep it under my hat, if only to avoid unproductive argument.
Wait, Jessica Valenti is now a Republican?
Drago: I will anyway: Just like Hitler.
Trump’s letting the Joos and Blacks into a club is the best explanation I’ve seen for Chuck’s TDS.
Take that Amanda Marcotte!
"You really have to use your breast power responsibly."
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-really-have-to-use-your-breast.html
"Trump’s letting the Joos and Blacks into a club is the best explanation I’ve seen for Chuck’s TDS."
Being part Jewish and part Black, I find your comment especially offensive.
Pookie Number 2: "Trump’s letting the Joos and Blacks into a club is the best explanation I’ve seen for Chuck’s TDS."
Had Trump gotten Sammy Davis Jr into Mar a Lago LLR Chuck's head would literally have exploded.
"They're comin' right at us!!"
I assume the self-proclaimed feminists will be along any second now to explain why Lena Epstein is not a real woman.
Big Mike: "I assume the self-proclaimed feminists will be along any second now to explain why Lena Epstein is not a real woman"
Nah.
They'll farm that duty out to the LLR's.
It's not trashy breast jokes, just an analysis of why that photo. The breasts are being used.
Had Trump gotten Sammy Davis Jr into Mar a Lago LLR Chuck's head would literally have exploded.
Wait! You mean Chuck doesn’t approve of short, one-eyed men who can dance and crack jokes?
The face is too round for Sandra Bullock. I did notice Kate Beckinsale in The Trials of Cate McCall looked a lot like SB the other night, however. One I bailed out of halfway through.
I do that when I see scriptwriters working in the plot and don't want to sit through when I expect next.
The breasts are being used.
I prefer the term deployed.
"You really have to use your breast power responsibly."
A feminine female's breasts should be registered as political and social agents regulated by the FEC. There may also be cause to regulate them by the FDA, too.
Breasts are an integrated feature of feminine females. Their use, or rather presentation, is a moot point. The only regulation required for a civil society is a suitable cover that obscures detail, not form, and masculine males capable of self-moderating, responsible behavior.
Nice mudflaps.
"But it shows how deeply divisive Trump is, among country club Republicans and even Jewish country club Republicans."
A perfect indication of the core political conflict here today.
Mutual hatred along class lines. This is very bad policy for "country club Republicans".
You can't have Alexanders without a Phalanx, no chiefs without Indians.
Or in ancient Roman terms, this is what the Roman Senate did to get themselves a Gaius Marius.
Learn from history.
Big Mike: "Wait! You mean Chuck doesn’t approve of short, one-eyed men who can dance and crack jokes?"
It's worse than that.
If you are black and speak well of Trump, Chuck is likely to accuse you of performing in blackface...
Earnest Prole said...
Nice mudflaps.
Here's something Wyoming Libraries did back in '07; it was for their vocational books
bookflap girl
This blog has descended to more snark and sarcasm dressed as humor and mud throwing, about 75%, it seems, than anything else. The posts on serious subjects with serious opinions and comments are much more enjoyable and edifying. It sure would be nice if we could clean it up a bit.
Trumpit @ 5:17: "Trump’s letting the Joos and Blacks into a club is the best explanation I’ve seen for Chuck’s TDS."
'Being part Jewish and part Black, I find your comment especially offensive'.
First class evidence of Trumpit's moby credentials (and a fine sense of irony and humor, I hope)
'Being part Jewish and part Black, I find your comment especially offensive'.
I understood the entity known as Trumpit was half-Haitian and half equestrian.
Being part Jewish and part Black, I find your comment especially offensive.
Which is the front part and which the back part ?
She wears her breasts well.
Buwaya: "I understood the entity known as Trumpit was half-Haitian and half equestrian."
My Uncle was murdered by a half-jewish, half-haitian, half-equestrian, half-corned beef sandwich you callous bastard!
With the spicey mustard!!!!
(Note to self: get dinner)...
WE need to make Cynthia Nixon and her anti- Immigration and Customs insanity the center of the 2018 election. She needs to be the crazy poster girl.
The posting of this picture has made its points.
News media not talking about the Islamic supremacists found abusing children in the NM desert.
Radical Islamist forcing children to learn how to be school shooters.
Cynthia wants more.
"Cynthia wants more."
So does Inga.
i don't know this lena chick has big tits and all; but did you see the gut on her??
She better find some weigh to lose that!
"half-corned beef sandwich you callous bastard!
With the spicey mustard!!!!"
And Trumpit was also half vegetarian IIRC.
You are making me hungry however.
Veni, video, vici.
It's not like the Kardashian girls would make such an unseemly display of their Secondary Sexual Characteristics.
Video is just the present of vidi.
It's either a very old photo or photoshopped. Of that, I am quite certain.
Right wing spin is that Gates is done for as star witness against manafort
Transscript
Etbass, I once noted my lament about how certain posts about late night rating chasers saying cock holster draw like 100s of comments while other posts don't. It did lead to a subsequent post about Van M (yey yey), but more importantly (to self absorbed me) was some guy told me I was a foolish wank or some such. Probably sorta true.
In any case who knows why this time is filled with such bitterness and reproach. Maybe things will improve towards social civility rather than more snark and contempt with that new NYT editor hire. I noticed the Althouse post that got the most comments today descended into that subject quickly. Likely there was a lot of good faith discourse and well reasoned nods about who, whom and it's different when we do it and whataboutism and framing of the proper contextual analysis etc etc etc worlds without end
I do apologize in that I tried to add a little "quip" about rhhardin's ways - god love him - and renowned high standards (has there ever been a non- Hathaway film he didn't bail on halfway through?) which was taken the wrong way by Tim in Vt.
We live in a world of half baked thoughts. Maybe it was always so, only now it is on the interwebs. A world where the Prime Minister of Canada sends out a tweet to reprimand the Saudis and boom it leads to immediate trade repercussions. Identified contempt and smugness and thin skinnedness all around it appears. The showiness of tactics without seeming long-term strategic thought.
Some might say Trudeau was trying to imitate Trump. If so, why on this point, and why done this way? Where I live, the people that (generally) defend Trudeau have (generally) expressed open disgust with Trump.
Meanwhile in BC the statue levellers are pulling down a statue of the country's first Prime Minister with their Mayors support because the statue makes an identified cohort of indigenous people uncomfortable. If I was a snarky Saudi prince, hmmmm, I know what I would tweet back to Ottawa to set the cat among the pigeons.
“News media not talking about the Islamic supremacists found abusing children in the NM desert.
Radical Islamist forcing children to learn how to be school shooters.”
And I just saw a report that activist Linda Sarsour has ties to one of the men in the group. She has called him her “mentor.”
And Trumpit was also half vegetarian IIRC.
The best I can figure is that he is half wit.
Lena Epstein for Congress
A heads-up: she is feminine female. Avert your eyes, if you must.
Sirraj Wihaj sr was the unindicted co conspirator in the first wtc bomber, naturaLou deblasio relies on him for
counsel
What I learned from watching the news is that Democrats win even when they lose and Republicans lose even when they win. - Somebody.
She's full figured definitely and she's accomplished much more than the other broke girl, ocasio Cortez, who had a terrible night yesterday.
"You really have to use your breast power responsibly."
Society already regulates open carry. Should women be licensed for concealed carry?
Seriously, a feminine female's breasts are known to cause mass disruption, a source of envy (Breast Privilege) for the less endowed, and are first-order forcings of anthropogenic local warming and climate change, sometimes catastrophic.
Stevens the democrats was part of the obama apparat directing the auto industry after tarp and the bankruptcy gm and Chrysler still had to undergo.
Big Mike said...
Had Trump gotten Sammy Davis Jr into Mar a Lago LLR Chuck's head would literally have exploded.
Wait! You mean Chuck doesn’t approve of short, one-eyed men who can dance and crack jokes?
You know that old joke? I've told that old one a thousand times. It is supposedly a true story.
Sammy Davis Jr. was playing golf with his Rat Pack buddies. Sammy was not a good golfer, and did not have an established handicap with the USGA. Dean Martin was a good golfer. (A 6 handicap at one time, and he played to it.) Frank Sinatra was an aspiring golfer; he had a handicap of some number but was not really good.
On the first tee, as they were trying to make a game and lay down some bets, somebody asked Sammy what his handicap was. Sammy said, "I'm a one-eyed Jewish black man. That's my handicap."
Rimshot in the remake, the made don Cheadle the rough analogue for sammys character and they made him british.
Epstein is a fake and a phony. Another liberal trying to ride conservative coattails into office.
This is not conjecture--wife tried to volunteer for her campaign when she was running for Senator. She's a total fraud.
"Tried"?
Yet she chaired trumps campaign in the region.
Lena did a Jessica Valenti. Shrug. You will find a lot more Conservative women doing this since the gloves are now off.
Trumpit is upset that as a half centaur, most of zher junk is in the trunk, and hence can't compete, being a horse's ass.
At least that is the best I can get from zher blathering. That and there are suggestions zhe wishes she was a Palomino centaur.
Actually, I don't bother reading Trumpit, since I am not into hate speech and that is all she seems to blather.
I write about what I like: idiot Leftists saying stupid things and Republican Women doing a Jessica Valenti.
This bothers Trumpit and she keeps saying neigh.
That's a killer bra. You can't get those at Walmart.
A heads-up: she is feminine female. Avert your eyes, if you must.
Everything's fun and games until someone's eye gets poked out.
At the end of the day, Trump and Republicans won a lot. The money spent, the narrowness of the margin doesn't matter. The seats taken matter.
So far, the Dems are not flying high. For 'the most hated Prezident EVAH', one would think he would be actually...you know...LOSING.
He isn't. Ergo, what lesson should we take from this? None that Chuck or Inga find palatable.
Every election is a nail biter. Every election costs too much money. So saying that THIS is different (as opposed to Bush winning by 500+ votes) is ridiculous.
It isn't any wonder that Dems want to change the rules. The Rules state that one needs to be POPULAR to win. That they have a MESSAGE that people actually WANT.
The Press, save a few small bastions, hates Trump. Hollywood hates Trump. Liberal celebrities hate Trump. The Academy hates Trump.
The Message that Liberal Democrats are trying to put out is getting out loud and clear...and you are still losing.
Hmm.
But stay true to your inner Marxist, at least until 2020.
Where exactly is the line for "low maintenance" in Hardin terms?
Soap? Rhhardin eats dog food - has boasted of it.
"John James might bear too much of a resemblance to Ben Carson."
Well, if he doesn't win, Chuck can arrange a position for him as Undersecretary in the Department of black People
The compound is close to where the shoe-bomber and other pre-9/11 terrorists are in prison.
Curious.
Not to the hack pro-D/ anti-ICE press.
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