Media: Abusers Donald and JD fit the pattern

It didn't take Convicted Felon Donald Trump urging violence on an unidentified female at his Coachella rally for us to know he and his mini-me JD Vance are all about violence and blaming women.  

 

 

So, don't tell me I

Haven't been good to you

Don't tell me I

Have never been there for you

Just tell me why

Nothing is good enough

-- "Good Enough," written by Sarah McLachlan, first appears on FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY

Nothing is ever good enough for abusers and, at the end of the day, that's all Donald and JD are.

Alex Galbraith (SALON) notes, "JD Vance really doesn't like being fact-checked."   

 

Abusers always resist fact checking.  "You had it coming" and "You made me do it," for example, never will hold up to a fact check.  Abusers don't just physically harm people, they also justify their abuse and that requires lying.  

Sunday, the eye liner addicted Tele-Tubby lost it on ABC's THIS WEEK when moderator Martha Raddatz called out his lies that cities were being overtaken by Venezuelan gangs.  Days before, he couldn't conceal his anger and disdain when, for a NEW YORK TIMES podcast, Lulu Garcia-Navarro refused to let him off and instead made it very clear he was refusing to answer the question she was asking: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

He refused to answer.  She asked it five times.  And he refused to answer.

Neither man likes the truth.  Steve Benen (MSNBC) notes that Donald is having a fit over the film THE APPRENTICE:

It’s unlikely that Donald Trump has seen “The Apprentice,” a movie that chronicles his early rise, but he evidently doesn’t care for it. The Hill reported:

Former President Trump is slamming “The Apprentice,” calling the film about his early rise in New York “fake and classless.” “It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country,” Trump wrote in an early morning Truth Social post on Monday.

The 150-word missive, published shortly before 1 a.m. eastern, covered some predictable ground, including the Republican expressing hope that the film will “bomb.”

But there was one sentence in the online piece that stood out for me: “So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want.”

Does the film show him raping Ivana?  Court documents back that claim -- court documents Ivana's attorneys filed -- so if that's got him upset?  What do they say?  "Truth hurts."

And it really does hurt for Donald and JD.  The two itch and scratch and whine.  Over and over.

Bob Woodward's WAR comes out Tuesday.  Advance publicity and reporting on the book notes that Donald sent his reach-around-buddy Vladimir Putin a Covid testing machine.  If you're late on that story, Nadine Yousif (BBC NEWS) reported last week, "A new book by veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump secretly sent coveted Covid-19 testing machines to Vladimir Putin for personal use when they were in short supply, a claim angrily dismissed by the Trump campaign."  And, yes, Donald did deny it but the Kremlin confirmed it. Last Friday, three governors joined together to issue the following statement:

Today, Governors Gretchen Whitmer, Tony Evers, and JB Pritzker issued a joint statement following new reporting that former President Trump sent COVID-19 supplies to Russian President Vladimir Putin while rebuffing American pleas for assistance.

  

“Four years ago, during the very worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Governors of our states, we were engaged in a 24/7 effort to obtain critical medical supplies for our people.  It was a terrifying time, and the federal government abandoned us to fend for ourselves. No one knew how deadly the pandemic would turn out to be, and our hospitals were struggling to treat patients and protect their staff. 

  

“The federal government, under the leadership of then-President Donald Trump, had completely abdicated responsibility. They ignored our requests for help to get testing kits, ventilators, and N-95 masks. As we grappled with worldwide shortages, the former President flat out refused to deploy the Defense Production Act to manufacture these critical supplies here at home, putting our people at the mercy of price gouging foreign suppliers.  

  

“Putting pride and partisanship aside, individually and as a group, we repeatedly requested that President Trump step up and come to our constituents’ aid in the way only the federal government could.  We were repeatedly rebuffed, mocked, and told there were no supplies to be had. In desperation, we turned to private companies, using money from our state treasuries to purchase what our people needed.

  

“Now we are reading reports that during this unprecedented and historic public health crisis, while Americans were dying and desperate for life saving supplies, former President Trump was personally sending testing kits to Russian President Vladimir Putin. For that, we demand answers. President Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin has been well documented, and this recent report demonstrates how, yet again, Trump is putting a foreign dictator before Americans, threatening our national security in the process. 

  

“Putin’s wish is Trump’s command.

  

“Former President Trump betrayed us. Americans suffered during the pandemic. 1.2 million Americans died, many because they did not have access to adequate supplies at a critical time. Donald Trump must explain why he put his personal friendship with Putin, a ruthless dictator and war criminal, over the American people.”

He did betray the American people.  And Putin realized that.  Putin told him not to make it public.  Trump wasn't smart enough to do it on the down-low until Putin explained that people would be outraged over this action.  So Trump agreed to be silent about it.  But he also agreed to do it because the American people were not his priority -- the health of Vladimir Putin was. 

Typical abuser behavior, by the way.  Worrying what outsiders think of him and not what the people he's abusing think of him.

When an abuser is 'fact checked' (confronted), they respond with rage.  And don't we see that over and over when it comes to Donald and JD?

The coverage of Bob Woodward's book?  Asked about it, JD erupted.  The author of a laughable tome that slams the people he grew up with was asked about Donald sending COVID tests to Vlad and Miss Sassy immediately went into attack mode.  Showing off the most outrageous male bitchy since the death of Paul Lynde, the tubby little cross dresser raged, "I honestly didn't know that Bob Woodward was still alive until you just asked me that question.  And that's -- what little I know about Bob Woodward is that he is -- I'm going to use -- I'm going to use a word here.  He is a hack.  The guy is a hack."

That's an answer?  

That's an abuser raging.

And, for the record, Bob Woodward is not a hack.  He's written over 20 best sellers.  He and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal.

More to the point, JD was doing 'journalism' in Iraq, remember?  While others carried guns and patrolled and fought, baby Vance hunkered over the keyboard and wrote an article or two.  That's all he could manage.  The brave little toaster -- er, warrior.  And he wants to call out Bob Woodward as a hack?

It's laughable.  And we should all laugh in JD's face because Miss Sassy can't handle that anymore than Donald can.

Back to Steve Benen:

In recent days, of course, the former president hasn’t just lashed out at those responsible for “The Apprentice” movie. He’s also launched a bizarre campaign against CBS and “60 Minutes,” accusing the outlet and the news program of a “scandal” that does not exist.

Trump has nevertheless repeatedly called for CBS to lose its broadcast license — an appeal that doesn’t actually make sense — a point he seemed especially excited about over the weekend. On Friday night, for example, the Republican said “60 Minutes” should be “taken off the air,” and a day later, he suggested during a Newsmax interview that the government should somehow pull CBS from the airwaves.

 

 And did I mention that Trump said in reference to The New York Times: "Wait until you see what I’m going to do with them"? Because that happened last week, too.

And before insisting CBS should lose its license, Donald was demanding ABC's broadcast license be "revoked."

It's a war on journalism which is a war on the people.  And, please note, self-billed 'defenders' of free speech -- Glory Hole Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Swirley Turley and Matt I Am One Sick F**k Taibbi -- don't say one word.  Because they've never really defended free speech.  They've only defended right-wingers' hateful attacks.

Well that's not true.  Matt Taibbi has also defended lying.  He did that when confronted with the damage and threats the Donald's lying keeps prompting.  He said to oppose that lying was to be anti-free speech.  He also likes to pretend he's studied the law -- he hasn't -- and to jump on those who bring up that you can't "yell fire in a crowded theater."

Long before Matt Taibbi returned to the US and to dragging his knuckles here, we had explained that 'law.'  It's a standard with regards to free speech.  During WWI, there were people opposed to the draft who were telling others to resist the draft.  We happen to agree with that sentiment, by the way.  It stems from SCHENCK V UNITED STATES, heard by the Supreme Court in 1919.  The unanimous ruling, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was later (1969) slivered down to limiting speech if it was thought it might incite a riot or a similar action.

And, for the record, that is what Donald and JD are doing.

Donald's been doing it over and over since January 6th when he incited the DC riot -- planned to incite and did.  The two grifters are doing it with regards to FEMA. Christopher Cann and Josh Meyer (USA TODAY) report:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency temporarily halted some aid operations over the weekend in parts of western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene because of threats targeting government workers, local officials said.

The threats caused FEMA employees to temporarily stop accepting in-person applications for federal assistance in some of North Carolina's mountain communities, according to a statement posted Sunday on social media by the Ashe County Emergency Management Department, which said FEMA employees would not be staffed in the towns of Lansing or Riverview.

"It is our understanding that all FEMA reps in NC were stood down due to threats occurring in some counties (not Ashe) but we have not received any official correspondence on this issue from FEMA," the post said. Later Sunday, the Ashe County Emergency Management Department said FEMA would begin accepting in-person applications for assistance on Monday.

Ashe County Sheriff B. Phil Howell said in a statement FEMA had "paused their process" because of "threats made against them." He urged residents to "stay calm and steady," adding, "Help folks and please don't stir the pot."

In Rutherford County, about 90 miles south of Ashe County, federal emergency response personnel paused operations Saturday and moved to a different area because of reported threats from a" so-called "armed militia," The Washington Post reported, citing an email sent to multiple federal agencies.

This is what grifters Donald and JD have spawned and, no, that doesn't pass for free speech.  They're endangering lives -- the lives of FEMA workers and the lives of people in need of assistance. 

Aaron Blake (WASHINGTON POST) explains:

For weeks, misinformation about the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Hurricane Helene response has spread far and wide on social media platforms — with more than a helpful nudge from Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the relaxed moderation policies of Musk’s platform, X.

[. . .]

It’s now the second time in a month that a Trump-fueled conspiracy theory has preceded apparent threats made in the relevant area — with the last one being Trump’s false claims about Haitian migrants stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Each time, local Republican officials have sought to combat the conspiracy theories and warned of the harm they could do.

Both instances reinforce the potential danger of Trump’s conspiratorial bent and willingness to deploy such misinformation and political tactics even in tense and tragic situations. Trump unleashed a torrent of similar misinformation early in the coronavirus pandemic and after the 2020 election as he sought to overturn the results — the latter of which culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Most prominent among the Helene conspiracy theories has been that FEMA has blocked materials and seized property from affected areas. Rutherford County is a focal point of such theories, with users falsely claiming that the government aimed to seize lithium deposits in Chimney Rock in Rutherford County.

This is the destruction that JD and Donald bring on because they're controlling, manipulative and vicious and cruel.  Women will be most likely to recognize what they're doing because those are text book moves carried about by domestic abusers.  And women know that nothing Vance and Trump do is good enough because their behavior is abusive -- always abusive.