Twit Tweet, Thwap

Twit tweet:

We have been duped into viewing politicians as royalty when our Founders intended them to be only temp public servants. Complaints @realDonaldTrump is not “presidential” are because he acts like one of us-exactly why our Founders fought in Rev War to win independence from royalty

— Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) August 16, 2018

Thwap:

What part of irony escapes you?

Oh. Wait.

All of it. https://t.co/bUY91HD7Qt

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 17, 2018

Jerry Falwell: “[Trump] acts like one of us.” Who among us hasn’t cheated on our third wife with a porn star and then paid her off?

— The Dude 🎳 (@SrEconomist) August 17, 2018

I'll give you a dollar if you can find me a Pharisee who has any form of a sense of humor.

— Trump Thoughts (@TrumpDotDotDot) August 17, 2018

If you want to compare yourself to that lying, adulterous, childish, spiteful, dishonest, egotistical cretin go ahead but leave the rest of us out of it.

— Karen (@andersonk49) August 16, 2018

And, for the win:

I assume the way trump is like you is that both of you were disappointments to your fathers.

— Lynette Craig (@biglcraig62) August 16, 2018

Monday Reading

As always, please go to the links for the full articles.

Has he tried Dewey, Cheatham and Howe?

As President Trump heads into one of the most critical phases of the special counsel’s investigation, his personal legal team has shrunk to essentially just one member, and he is struggling to find any top lawyers willing to represent him. 

Working for a president is usually seen as a dream job. But leading white-collar lawyers in Washington and New York have repeatedly spurned overtures to take over the defense of Mr. Trump, a mercurial client who often ignores his advisers’ guidance. In some cases, lawyers’ firms have blocked any talks, fearing a backlash that would hurt business. 

The president lost two lawyers in just the past four days, including one who had been on board for less than a week. 

Joseph diGenova, a longtime Washington lawyer who has pushed theories on Fox News that the F.B.I. made up evidence against Mr. Trump, left the team on Sunday. He had been hired last Monday, three days before the head of the president’s personal legal team, John Dowd, quit after determining that the president was not listening to his advice. Mr. Trump had also considered hiring Mr. diGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing, but she will also not join the team. 

That leaves the president with just one personal lawyer who is working full time on the special counsel’s investigation as Mr. Trump is facing one of the most significant decisions related to it: whether to sit for an interview.

That lawyer, Jay Sekulow, is a conservative commentator who made his name on religious freedom cases. Mr. Sekulow is in talks with other lawyers about joining the team, although it is not clear how far those discussions have progressed. 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's A- Team against (heehee) lawyer / grifter Jay Sekulow. That's just not fair (and fittingly so!).

Yet another reason to loathe these hypocritical gargoyles:

Televangelist Frances Swaggart, the wife of Jimmy Swaggart, on Monday suggested that the students who participated in the March for Our Lives over the weekend were like ‘demonic’ Nazis and Adolf Hitler. 

During the Frances & Friends program, Swaggart reacted to an estimated 800,000 people who called for gun control by marching in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. 

“People have got to address the fact that kids today are being put in school where there’s no morals,” the television evangelist announced. “Because we’ve taken God out of the school. And there’s no resistance then to anything that Satan throws these kids’ way.” 

“Today’s gun control and confiscation rally was nothing new,” she added, reading from a paper provided by a fellow panelist. “Nazis and leftists have been using children for decades in their attempts to take guns away from law-abiding citizens.”

Bibi (Rump's Israeli cheerleader) been bad:

Israeli police questioned Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday over his alleged dealings with the country’s largest telecommunication company, a police spokesman said, one of three corruption cases weighing on the prime minister’s political future.  

It was the second time Netanyahu has been questioned in the investigation into allegations he awarded regulatory favours to Bezeq Telecom Israel in return for favourable coverage on a news site the company’s owner controls. [snip]

Two former Netanyahu confidants have agreed to turn state’s witness in the case. One is Shlomo Filber, the former director general of the Communications Ministry; the other is Nir Hefetz, a former Netanyahu spokesman.  

A nice, fitting honor:

The ashes of Professor Stephen Hawking will be interred next to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton at Westminster Abbey, it has been revealed. 

The renowned theoretical physicist's final resting place will also be near that of Charles Darwin, who was buried there in 1882. 

Prof Hawking, who had motor neurone disease, died on 14 March, aged 76, at his home in Cambridge.

That piece was found at Infidel 753's link round-up, which has dozens more places to visit. Check it out.

Pictures Of The Day - Pew Pew! Ride That Horsey!

Here's Roy "Less Is" Moore, the Talibangelist Alabammy Republican voters in their wisdom selected as their Senatorial candidate yesterday:


(Getty Images)

Q.1.  Where do you put the coin in to get the little horsey to rock back and forth?
Q.2.  How many horses' asses do you see in this picture?


(CBS News)

"'Scuse me while I whip this out." Hey, that's not much of a penis compensator there, Roy!

As Adam Silverman at Balloon Juice put it:

Your Alabama GOP senatorial runoff winner is cowboy cosplayer and teeny weeny wheel gun aficionado Judge Roy Moore – the Last Law West of Ashkelon.

That sounds about right.

"The Talibangelist Times?"

Talibangelist squirrel Pat Robertson is reportedly considering making an offer to buy the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. Robertson, who has endorsed Rudy Toot Tooty for preznit (how's that coming along, Pat?), apparently has enough cash from his easily-led 700 Club flock to make the bid for the Virginian-Pilot, whose worth is unknown but has a 186,000 circulation in Tidewater Virginia. Reportedly, Robertson had problems with the newspaper in the past for delving into his shady business dealings and operations of his fundamentalist Regent University. If he succeeds in his quest, expect to see the likes of this and that in the editorial pages.

(h/t to Right Wing Watch)

Talibangelists Under Scrutiny

Iowa Rethug Sen. Charles Grassley, after evidence of rampant greed and lavish spending among prominent talibangelists became impossible to ignore, has now begun an investigation to determine whether such entities should continue to receive tax-exempt status. The specific holy-rollers being asked to turn over financial records by December are: "faith healer" Benny Hinn, Christian book author Joyce Meyer, Randy and Paula White (Without Walls International Church), Kenneth and Gloria Copeland (Kenneth Copeland Ministries), Eddie Long (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), and Creflo (!) and Taffi (!) Dollar (!) of World Changers Church International (perhaps that's supposed to be Money Changers Church International?).

Allegations include the groups' leaders dipping into contributions to fund lavish lifestyles, with amenities such as private jets, Rolls Royces, cosmetic surgery, and multi-million dollar homes. The preachers mostly claim these as "blessings from God." Meanwhile, let us recall the Biblical injunction that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven.