First of Many
In the first of many cancellations to come PGA will strip Trump Bedminster of 2022 PGA Championship.
The PGA of America will strip Donald Trump of the 2022 PGA Championship, which is scheduled to be held at Trump National Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
In a blistering column that says the golf world must sever all ties with Trump, Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch said the PGA has been debating for two years the need to move the major championship and, once Trump is out of office, will announce the tournament will be played elsewhere.
Golfweek Column Excerpts
When historians eventually tally the cost of the Donald Trump era, the manifold indecencies of which culminated in Wednesday’s sacking of the United States Capitol during a failed insurrection, golf will not be counted among its casualties.
The game will instead be portrayed as Trump’s refuge, something he did while ignoring a pandemic that has claimed 365,000 lives, refusing to acknowledge a resounding electoral defeat, and inciting feeble-minded fascists to violence that left five people dead at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
That’s the best case scenario.
Whatever the future holds for Donald Trump after the noon hour on January 20, the events of January 6 that left five people dead ought to make him a pariah everywhere. Including in golf. This game should not be the familiar bosom to which he can safely retreat while fending off indictments. He is finally and deservedly being expelled from civic life. He needs to be driven from golf, too.
Are You Willing to Die For Trump?
Flashback December 8, 2020. I asked Are You Willing to Die For Trump?
And this ladies and gentlemen, are how democracies fall to be replaced with dictatorships. Apparently the Arizona GOP has decided to cast aside the US constitution in favor of a failed narcissist. Our forefathers would be horrified.
— Todd R. (@ToddRelyea) December 8, 2020
Ashli Babbitt Was
Here is The Sorry Saga of Ashli Babbitt Shot in the Capitol
Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in the capitol building riots. Trump supporters are appalled. Why should they be?
1776 All Over Again
- “Nothing will stop us….they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!” Babbitt tweeted the day before she died.
- In another tweet, she called for Vice President Pence to resign and to be prosecuted for treason, presumably for not being supportive enough of Trump’s calls to overturn the election.
- In the days before the shooting, Babbitt retweeted a number of messages from demonstrators headed to D.C. for the protests on Wednesday. One read: “It will be 1776 all over again…. only bigger and better.”
The above from Chaotic Moments in the Capitol.
If Babbitt was Antifa, Trump cultists would be cheering her death.
Question of the Day: Do we or don’t we use force against domestic terrorists breaking into the Capitol?
Placing the Blame
- Start with the perpetrators who broke into the capitol. Of course, that includes Ashli Babbitt.
- Second, blame Trump for promising a “wild” January 6.
- Third, blame people like Rudy Giuliani and others who encouraged others to break the law then stood like goons on the sidelines letting others do their dirty work.
Regarding the “others” in point three, we can safely add @Ali, #StopTheSteal, and @AZGop to the list of those encouraging a fight.
Be There, Be Wild
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” That was one of several Trump Tweets on December 19 promoting the day.
Yes, Mr. President, it was “wild”. Are you happy?
Shunned Like a Pariah
Trump is now shunned like the pariah he is.
This announcement by Golfweek is as welcome as it was predictable.
Trump is Now Toxic
Recall my comment on January 8: Trump is Now Toxic.
Trump’s legacy is sealed. He will be viewed as the anarchist holding the match.
All that’s left for Trump is a pile of lawsuits, some of which might put him in prison.
Diehard Cultists
On Twitter, someone replied that my comments “will not age well.”
Such is the belief of diehard cultists who believe they are still standing on the deck of the “Good Ship Trump”.
There is no ship left. It has sunk. The ship that once existed was mostly made of rotten, worm-infested wood. Praise its demise.
Mish
Dow Chemical announces no more money for seditious politicians.
It’s only a matter of time before this man is in bankruptcy court. He ruined his brand catering to white trash like we saw raid the Capitol as they killed a cop with their cell phone cameras on while literally smearing crap in the halls of Congress.
The funny thing is these people can’t afford to keep his brands profitable. They aren’t even the Holiday Inn Express types.
Harsh.
These people have set the liberty movement back decades with their need for selfies and other acts of stupidity.
Trump has an open invite. He’s been there before. He’ on a first name basis with the judge
And exactly how was the election scammed? You are delusional. Even William Barr has come out and said no widespread election fraud.
….and exactly how did Russia interfere in the 2016 elections, like some pretend ?
I am not arguing that Russia interred in the 2016 elections. As I said before you are delusional. Stop drinking the Kool aid. It will make you batshit crazy.
Just look at what drinking the Kool aid has done to Rudy Giuliani. You have been warned.
Compared with other demonstrations by BLM and Antifa, ‘the storming’ of The Sacred Temple of Corruption, was rather peaceful… Let go of your blatant, false, gullible, pathetic Indignation…..It is not because a well organised election scam can t be proven that it didn t take place…
Here’s a lesson in idioms for you…
Recently a Chicago lawyer told a judge he was “a few french fries short of a happy meal.” This launched a discussion on the LawMarketing Listerv of ways to say that someone was “dumb as a box of rocks.”
Trial lawyer Stephen Babcock of the Babcock Law Firm, LLC, in Baton Rouge, LA, contributed this awesome list of 127 metaphors:
12 shy of a dozen
A bad spot on the disk.
A couple of open splices.
A few beers short of a six-pack.
A few bricks shy of a load.
A few cans short of a six pack.
A loose chip on the micro processor.
A quart low.
About as sharp as a bowl of jello.
About as sharp as a bowling ball.
About as sharp as a sack of wet leather.
About fifteen cents short.
About three cents short of a dollar.
All booster – no payload.
All crown – no filling.
All the lights don’t shine in his marquis
As thick as two short planks.
Attic’s a little dusty.
Back burners not fully operating.
Been playing with his wand too much.
Body by Fisher – brains by Mattel
CPU not connected to the bus.
Car’s only got three wheels, and one’s going flat.
Doesn’t have all his dogs barking.
Doesn’t have all of his groceries in the same bag.
Doesn’t have all the dots on his dice.
Doesn’t have both oars in the water.
Doesn’t know if his biscuits are all done.
Doesn’t know which side of the toast the butter is on.
Doesn’t have enough sandwiches for a picnic.
Driving with two wheels in the sand.
Echoes between the ears.
Elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.
Got a few tiles missing from his Space Shuttle.
Got one boot stuck in the sand.
Got the mental agility of a soap dish.
Had a head crash.
Half a bubble off plumb.
Has a mind like a sieve
Has a room temperature IQ.
Hasn’t got all his china in the cupboard.
He ain’t wrapped too tight.
He has both oars on the same side of the boat!
He has signs on both ears saying Space for Rent
He is playing hockey with a warped puck
He isn’t playing with a full deck.
He left the store without all of his groceries.
He parked his head and forgot where he left it.
He’s a couple of volts below threshold
He’s about as smart as bait…
He’s flying on one engine.
He’s got a mind like a steel trap – anything entering gets crushed and mangled
He’s got a mind like a steel trap–full of mice.
He’s got the attention span of an overripe grapefruit.
He’s not running on full thrusters.
He’s reading off a empty disk
He’s running at 400 baud
He’s two tacos short of a combination plate.
He’s working with an unformatted disk
Her antenna doesn’t pick up all the channels.
His elevator is stuck between floors.
His little red choo choo done jumped the track.
His receiver is off the hook.
His skylight leaks a little.
His/her dialing thumb must be broken.
The porch light is on, but there’s nobody home
If (his/her) IQ was 2 points higher (he/she) would be a rock.
If brains were dynamite he couldn’t blow his hat off.
If he were any more stupid, he would have to be watered twice a week.
In the shopping mall of the mind, he’s in the toy department.
Leads 3 & 4 (RS-232) permanently connected to ground.
Light not buring too bright.
Lights are on but no one’s home
Loose wire to headset/ringer.
Lugnuts rattling in the hubcaps.
Mainspring’s wound too tight.
Missing a few catalog cards.
Missing a few gears.
Mouth is in gear, brain is in neutral.
Nice house not much furniture.
Nice house, nobody home.
No one at the throttle.
Not firing on all four (six) (eight) cylinders.
Not playing with a full deck? hell he’s not even in the game!
Not too tightly wrapped.
Nothing between the stethoscopes.
Oil doesn’t reach his dipstick
On the batting end of a no-hitter.
One shingle shy a roof.
Only got one oar in the water.
Only playing with 51 cards.
Over the Rainbow
Paddling with one oar.
Paralyzed from the neck up.
Pin 8 is floating.
Raw cookie dough.
Renewable energy source for hot air balloons.
Riding a tippy canoe.
Running on empty.
Sailboat fuel for brains.
Sending back packets, but the checksums are wrong.
She was minus so many buttons …
Six shy of a dozen.
Skating on the wrong side of the ice.
Some bugs in his software.
Some drink form the fountain of knowledge, but he just gargled.
Someone blew out his pilot light
Surfing in Nebraska
Teflon brain (nothing sticks)
The brains of a house plant
The caboose seems to be pulling the engine.
The carnival has closed.
The cheese has slid off his cracker.
The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn’t coming.
The going got weird and he turned pro.
The smoke doesn’t make it to the top of his chimney.
The synapses are about that far apart.
There’s a leak in his ceiling
Too much yardage between the goal posts.
Vacancy on the top floor.
Was hiding behind the door when they passed out brains.
Was napping in the pile the day that God was cracking nuts.
When he plays poker, it’s hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if the ace is missing from his deck altogether.
You can hear the wind whistling through his ears.
You probably like to do everything the hard way… like making love while standing up in a hammock.
Your clock doesn’t have all its numbers.
‘well organized’. This is a widely held opinion shading into belief. May be a conceptual error. Its a problem where a widely held feeling/position becomes a ‘conspiracy’ or ‘organized’. I think an awful lot of the vote harvesting/matching/replacing etc was on a grassroots individual level, much of it without major oversight. Its interesting to note that an enormous amount of affidavits (signed by individuals) pointed out other individuals engaged in illicit behavior. I suspect too many of the ‘volunteers’ were overly passionate! Note that this may be my own prejudice as a draftees response to army officers requesting ‘volunteers’.
The insurrection was MUCH uglier than it looked. We are learning more about:
-Plans for grabbing Electoral College votes
-Participants with Police/Military background
-Taliban style videotape confessions / executions of Congress members
Not a bloodless Coup – its treason
….you would say that wouldn t ?
yes
Marriott et al are taking a stand and doing what’s morally right
And for the dwindling posts griping about Mish sticking to finance market talk ( because $ > home-country-democracy ) :
Anda I have put up with a lot of bullshit from you but this takes the cake. If someone was smashing windows breaking into your house would you say, Oh, it’s just my house?
I have had enough
It appears the event planning company used for the rally at the senate last week has ties to Paul Manafort. The central figure in the story committed suicide.
Reading the whole thread this looks like the suicide happen after the failed coup attempt. Putin has direct ties to the company that planned the event to overthrow the government in the Ukraine and now the US.
Full story from AP
When riding the tiger becomes dangerous…
From the Meijer interview…
And then one of the saddest things is I had colleagues who, when it came time to recognize reality and vote to certify Arizona and Pennsylvania in the Electoral College, they knew in their heart of hearts that they should’ve voted to certify, but some had legitimate concerns about the safety of their families. They felt that that vote would put their families in danger.
Really? You heard that?
Yeah.
I think many Republicans must be being threatened. I would not at all be surprised if Trump and his loyalists were getting support from Russia for doing all this. The cyberattack and now this in the last 2 weeks. It makes you wonder what else is coming in the next few weeks. What the power grid goes down on inauguration day ?
Interview with new Rep Peter Meijer (R-Michigan)–first week in DC..
…It’s very clear that that how the president acted towards this whole scenario, his actions leading up to yesterday and especially his unwillingness to come to grips with the reality, is continuing to perpetuate this fraud, this deception that is rankly unfit.”…
…The first week has been one to remember. We live in interesting times. Definitely didn’t expect to be donning a smoke-inhalation hood and having to get down under some chairs because there were concerns that they might start shooting into the House chambers, getting evacuated from the House chambers and running around corridors to try to find a secure location, not knowing what was going on, who was where, and what was happening. So obviously it was chaotic on that front, and then just the fact that finding pipe bombs all over the place—I think there were several of those at the DNC, RNC, I think one on the Capitol grounds. Dudes breaking in with zip ties—you bring zip ties to take hostages, right?
I spent three years in between Iraq in the military and in Afghanistan, where my job was to basically be paranoid about all the ways that humanitarian aid workers could die, and try to protect them from those worst-case scenarios. So I tend to have a pretty dark imagination in terms of the possibilities that could occur. But that’s not how I wanted my first week to be as a member of the House of Representatives….
….By and large, we saw some order. But this is manifestly clear: There was an utter breakdown in security and protocols. And we did get to some places throughout the day where all of a sudden a group of 30 or 40 lawmakers, and we’d look around and realize that there were no Capitol Police. There was no nobody, no law enforcement folks with us. OK, this isn’t good.
So I think by and large folks kept their calm, but in that moment you don’t know what may happen. And then, frankly, it obviously had a tragic ending. Besides just the assault on our democracy and then four people dying, dozens of law enforcement personnel injured, several still in the hospital in serious condition, it could have been a lot worse. And that was, I think, the outcome that we were fearing….
…Well, in terms of the people who stormed the Capitol, I think coup gives a sense of strategy and intelligence and forethought that none of the people involved deserve. Insurrection in terms of trying to disrupt the functioning of the government, sedition in terms of acting in a way to try to violently overthrow: Those terms fit. When it comes to the president’s behavior, again, he certainly bears a share of the responsibility for what happened.
We have to remember this mob stormed the Capitol at the exact time that the electoral college votes were being counted to confirm a new president. Their goal was to stop the so called steal. And still those spineless Republicans stand behind Trump – see no evil, hear no evil. Shameful, shameful, shameful. They all have blood on their hands with the exception of a few, most notably Romney.
Are you willing to die for Bill Clinton?
I don’t remember willingness to die for a POTUS being a thing with past presidents. Maybe a little with GWB after 9/11, but otherwise not. Anyone willing to die for a politician needs to reevaluate their life.
Is this some sort of whataboutism?
“Anyone willing to die for a politician needs to reevaluate their life.”
YES
Dying for a President (elected king) is not very symbolic of a free people, even if it is by choice. Agreed that anyone willing to die for a politician needs to reevaluate their life.
literal Hitler; dictator; fascists; insurrection; storming the capital; sacking DC; wide-spread conspiracy; war against domestic terrorism; new Patriot Act 2.0
— just a little overwrought? —
Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.
I expect Trump’s bank accounts to be frozen on the afternoon of January 20th.
not sure about that but deutsche bank probably has a letter saying they won’t lend donald trump any new funds or extend any loans set to go out
“Question of the Day: Do we or don’t we use force against domestic terrorists breaking into the Capitol?”
Odd question, like the building is worth something. Who is we, and why look for wider support for your decision ? It’s lethal force in this case also, i.e. is it o.k. to kill an unarmed person for breaking into a public building . I guess the US ran short of people to call terrorist, and found out it was itself ?
It’s not the building, clown.
I guess reasoning is not your strong point
Guy breaking into a store when no-one is there…ho-hum
Flash mob takes apart a store….pretty serious
Armed robbery of a bank–very serious
Armed mob carrying rope and zip-ties breaks into federal building where a good part of the presidential sucession line is in the building, with the mob chanting for hanging Pence and Pelosi…its as serious as it can get.
Some bozo coming in through a window they smashed.
Yup–a rightful target.
Don’t be such a pathetic tool.
Anda I have put up with a lot of bullshit from you but this takes the cake. If someone was smashing windows breaking into your house would you say, Oh, like my house is worth something.
I have had enough
I’m guessing a remake of Caddyshack with Trump in the Ted Knight role and Ivanka as Lacy Underalls is not gonna happen now.
On the Lighter Side
Yep, my Tweet posted – The Ashli_Babbitt link by me would not post either.
“Took hours before they got the approval of the additional national guard.”
This issue came up in a Tweet I made a bit ago. Let’s see if it posts.
Still not clear what happened only they had to get Pence involved
twitter.com/ashli_babbitt
The account is there. Curiously, it contains nothing. As if she has no mind of her own.
All the stuff attributed to her is not correct. But it is there. She Re-Tweeted it, not said herself.
Given the rumblings fron RWNJ, there will need to be a massive police presence in DC and elsewhere.
“Shoot to kill” will be on the menu if there is a repeat of last week.
This morning, “The next two weeks are probably the most important two weeks in the history of America,” said Rev. Tim Remington of Idaho, “I pray the army of the Lord is ready.”
Barry R McCaffrey
@mccaffreyr3
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3h
Given the security threat to the inauguration…. the ceremony should be moved to a more protected location like the Capitol Dome. NOT a signal of weakness. I’ve seen a lot of combat. I’m still alive because I react immediately to signs of danger.
Shomari Stone
@shomaristone
@nbcwashington
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4h
JUST IN: The mayor of Washington, D.C., has asked federal officials to CANCEL permits for demonstrations and plan to protect federal property around Inauguration Day “given the new threats from insurgent acts of domestic terrorists.” :
There are no precautions the Feds would take that I would disapprove of.
Thanks for these comments, Mish. I’ve been having panic attacks all day, and your confidence gives me comfort.
Even before this mess:
Just a prediction though it may be a bit of a salient point. Trump’s DC hotel is toast. He got his traffic because it was well known he appreciated the gesture. He won’t be President and lobbyists and politicians will likely consider staying there toxic
“lobbyists and politicians will likely consider staying there toxic”
Duh.
That would have been true no matter when/how he left office.
“Hi, I am here to snuggle up to [insert Democrat name] office holder”
“Welcome to DC, where are staying?”
“Dumpy’s hotel”
“Bye, Felicia”
This is an interesting question. Obviously many will never want to stay at a Trump hotel. A smaller number will want even more to stay at one. If he has 5% of the market now, and 90% won’t stay there, but 7% will prefer to stay there, his business could actually improve. It’s very difficult for me to guess what will happen. You’d think it would fall, but you can’t be sure.
He owns a lot of golf courses and those are the only ones he plays.
The golf course have been losing money as it is. This will make them bleed. The country has too many golf courses and many of his properties are cash flow negative. Take away something like the PGA which is a huge draw and they lose their economic viability. I suspect he sells a bunch in hopes they can be redeveloped as homes
Even before this mess:
“Do we or don’t we use force against domestic terrorists breaking into the Capitol?”
Lock and load, full metal jacket. Shoot to kill with extreme prejudice.
the problem is the law doen’t quite know how to deal with domestic terrorists. the fbi is limited in their ability to say monitor social media . freedom of speech thing, so domestic terrorists have a huge leg up on their international counter-parts. the laws need to be modernized and better balance privacy and safety concerns.
the question is at what point is force justified. its tricky. when they simply broke in they were trespassers. the best way to stop it is before they get in while its in the planning stage.
now we know that there was some serious planning going on for January 6th. This wasn’t spontaneous. The FBI simply failed to know what was being planned. Had they known a proper response could have been planned.. Again an epic intelligence failure. Nobody wants to shoot these people. The goal is to be ahead of the curve nd make arrest. The police on January 6th didn’t have the resources to stop the violence and make arrests. Took hours before they got the approval of the additional national guard. And the police given the right equipment. There should have been more fencing, police on horse, you name it
Knowing what we know NOW, henceforth live ammo and stern warnings. Disregard said warning and meet your maker.
This is being made way too complicated.
The United States Government is the most powerful sovereign in the world. It MUST defend its sovereignty. Our lives depend on it.
These delusional fantasist cultists who think this is 1775 and they’re up against British imperial forces have exactly ZERO chance of upending the USG. If they wanted to succeed, they should have continued electing their kind to high office. They know it’s a Lost Cause, their specialty, so they must be exterminated.
Yes. More killing. More wars on more terrorists. Laxer definitions of terrorism. Really lining things up for a better world with more humanity.
A sufficiently strong sovereign should not have to kill. The subversive Trump has brought us to the brink by design and action.
a ”strong sovereign” with 50 mln ”deplorables” on food stamps….
Sure, no argument there. The poor will always be with us someone once said.