Transmillennial

This morning some Trumpkin yahoo sent me a link to this story . The few reporters who chose to attend huddled under umbrellas, with ponchos over their computers. Many others chose to remain at a hotel press filing center. At one point during his 10-minute speech, Trump made light of the driving rain in a cool 55 degrees Fahrenheit, telling one guest under an overhang, "You look so comfortable up there under shelter as we are getting drenched." The aforementioned right-wing rag provided a link to Sky News . The Sky news video is heavily cropped, but I found the original. Better yet, I found the official White House video. The quoted sentence is at 6:55 into the video. There's something very off, though. Where is the driving, drenching rain? The President's hair is dry at the very beginning of the video, right through to the end. There is no water dripping off the leaves. There are a few raindrops on Trump''s coat, towards the middle of the...

...has, it turns out a long history of jackassery. Way back in the 1990s, as Texas Health Commissioner, he was fired for "racially insensitive comments", caught on tape ... Archer can be heard referring several times to Montgomery's race and said, "you are fair (skinned) as a black woman, you get certain privileges in white culture that others don't get for that." Archer can be heard making references to "lynching" and suggesting Montgomery used her brain to advance her career and "that's what white people do." Before that he suggested hispanic teenagers want to be pregnant . This article summarizes his bizarre behavior in the job. Ignoring all this, Fortenberry took this guy on as chief-of-staff . And now he's back threatening my UNL faculty colleague Ari Kohen for his private behavior, and even wasting the Chancellor's time compaining about his Facebook 'likes'. And obliquely threatening to set the internet d...