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Showing posts with label Jamal Khashoggi. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

A Magic Eight Ball would have taken a firmer stance (One Bedroom, Zero Bath Starter Tent)


Today the president also pardoned Saudi Arabia. The CIA is preparing a report that is expected to tie the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the president got out in front of the CIA today and released a statement on Khashoggi’s killing.

It starts out with a calm reassuring message: “The world is a very dangerous place!” It is now! Apparently you can kill a Washington Post journalist and the president don’t give a damn, because Trump’s official presidential decision on who is a resolute, “I dunno.” Trump wrote, “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event. Maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t!”

Did Donald Trump just knowingly provide cover for a murderous autocrat? Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t. Someone wrote that down. Someone actually typed that -- “Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.” That statement informs us in no way. A Magic Eight Ball would have taken a firmer stance.

Colbert as Trump, “Look things are not knowable. We live in a quantum state of flux, where time and matter coexist in  interdimensional plasma in which all possible pasts and futures simultaneously manifest on the space-time continuum. And in that infinite multi-verse of non-congruent para-data, we must consider the possibility that I do weigh 239 pounds.” --Stephen Colbert

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”





Tuesday, July 19, 2022

a fist bump makes it look like he just hit a home run in the company softball game (and … BOOM go the ethics)


July 2022

“Meanwhile, Joe Biden toured the Middle East and met with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom Biden once referred to as a ‘pariah’ for his role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. This was always going to be a touchy trip because the crown prince is infamously, and I’m putting it delicately here, a murderer. But on the other hand, gas is $5 a gallon, so …” —Stephen Colbert

“It was important that Biden put a lot of thought into how he would greet MBS. Biden opted for a fist bump instead of the standard handshake, and … boom go the ethics.” —Stephen Colbert

“Now, I know you did that because you didn’t want to be seen shaking his hand, but a fist bump is way worse. At least with a handshake you might think, ‘Well, it’s two world leaders, like it or not, but that’s standard enough.’ But a fist bump makes it look like he just hit a home run in the company softball game.” —Seth Meyers

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/03/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”


 

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Dirty Deeds -- who I believe was Stormy Daniels co-star (I'm not seeing it...)


Today there has been a decision the landmark case of Donald Trump v. Gettin’ Caught. Because here in New York City, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison. Now, a little tip for Cohen: In your first day in prison, walk up to the biggest guy in the yard and pay him $130,000. --Stephen Colbert

Michael Cohen said, “I felt it was my duty to cover up Trump’s dirty deeds.” There you have it. Right there from Cohen. Trump did Dirty Deeds -- who I believe was Stormy Daniels co-star. --Stephen Colbert

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”


Thursday, November 22, 2018

It starts out with a calm reassuring message (A Magic Eight Ball would have taken a firmer stance)


Today the president also pardoned Saudi Arabia. The CIA is preparing a report that is expected to tie the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the president got out in front of the CIA today and released a statement on Khashoggi’s killing. 

It starts out with a calm reassuring message: “The world is a very dangerous place!” It is now! Apparently you can kill a Washington Post journalist and the president don’t give a damn, because Trump’s official presidential decision on who is a resolute, “I dunno.” 

Trump wrote, “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event. Maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t!” 

Did Donald Trump just knowingly provide cover for a murderous autocrat? Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t. Someone wrote that down. Someone actually typed that -- “Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.” 

That statement informs us in no way. A Magic Eight Ball would have taken a firmer stance. Colbert as Trump, “Look things are not knowable. We live in a quantum state of flux, where time and matter coexist in interdimensional plasma in which all possible pasts and futures simultaneously manifest on the space-time continuum. And in that infinite multi-verse of non-congruent para-data, we must consider the possibility that I do weigh 239 pounds.” --Stephen Colbert

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”

Friday, November 2, 2018

Any interrogation that includes fifteen men and a bone saw, how does that go right? (that is where the similarities end)


In a 60 Minutes interview Donald Trump was asked about some very serious foreign policy issues to which he responded, “I’m not a baby! I know these things.” You know. How all president’s respond to tough questions. Trump was like, “Sure I may throw tantrums, communicate mostly in gibberish, and occasionally wet the bed, but that is where the similarities end.” --James Corden

This afternoon CNN reported that Saudi Arabia is planning to admit that Jamal Khashoggi’s death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong. Let me ask a question: Any interrogation that includes fifteen men and a bone saw, how does that go right? --Stephen Colbert

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”