Papa Doc for Life! --- Free Parking 3/7/2018

[WhiteTara]

http://eureka.news/free-parking-23/

What a week. Putin threatened the entire world with nuclear strikes and it barely caused a murmur on the news.

Trump declared a trade war and already the blowback is affecting our economy; Mexico buys corn from Brazil instead of the US, a major appliance manufacturer has stopped plans to build a quarter of a billion dollar plant in the U.S., and the EU has placed 100% tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

But there were some winners, too. Trump’s advisor Carl Icahn saved millions by serendipitously divesting from steel and his Russian friend (handler?) Oleg Deripaska jumped from aluminum to nickel and palladium right before Trump announced those steel and aluminum tariffs. Lucky them! You and I, however, are going to pay as inflation hits like a ton of bricks since everything is going to cost more from cars to beer. Lucky us!

Republicon Senate leader Mitch McConnell is bent on teaching those whippersnapper kids who is boss; he shelved gun control debate and moved to banking reform. That of course, means removing regulations that keep banks from stealing our money.

Puerto Rico was plunged into darkness again as their fragile electric grid collapsed, and there is no relief in sight for their misery.

At 405 days into his presidency, Trump spent his 100th day at Mar-a-Lago at our expense; so far to the tune of about a $100 million dollars. Ben Carson spent $31,000 on a dining room set after cutting $6 billion from housing for those in need.

Meanwhile, we find that Trump’s chief advisor, son-in-law Jared, has been using his office to reward countries who favor him with money and to punish those who do not. His other trusted advisor, daughter Ivanka, is being investigated for illegal money laundering in Panama, and the understaffed White House is still shedding personnel like a dog sheds fur in summer.

Crises abound the world over that requires a United State president who is a true leader; instead we have a man consumed with his hair, FOX teevee and celebrity Twitter fights; now he wants to be our Papa Doc for Life.

[orangecrush]

1. Kick and Rec

[CentralMass]

2. Do you remember Idi Amin Dada ? Who proclaimed himself .

‘His Excellency, President for Life Field Marshall Al Hadj Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC. Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular’.

https://brutallyhonest.io/potpourri/7-insane-dictators/1484

Idi Amin Dada: Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the ‘Butcher of Uganda’ for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s, is possibly the most notorious of all Africa’s post-independence dictators.7 Insane Dictators You Probably Didn’t Know , Idi Amin Dada Roughly half a million people lost their lives due to extrajudicial killings and genocide during this time. He banned all Asians from Uganda because the daughter of an important Asian family refused to marry him. His expulsion of all Indian and Pakistani citizens in 1972—along with increasing military expenditures—brought about the country’s economic decline, the impact of which lasted decades. He awarded himself many titles and honours, eventually styling himself as ‘His Excellency, President for Life Field Marshall Al Hadj Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC. Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular’. This made him one of the most powerful men in the world, in his own mind at least. He is known to have married at least six women throughout his life, one of whom was found dead, her body horrifically mutilated, after falling pregnant to another man. Amin is also thought to have fathered as many as 43 children. Never brought to justice for his heinous crimes, Amin lived out the remainder of his life in Saudi Arabia.

[WhiteTara]

3. Yes, I remember him. The ghoulish joke

at the time, was never accept a dinner invitation from Amin, you are on the menu. Not really funny.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. This was.....still is?

“You American people, you have no sense of humor!”

Specifically 1:02

[Gabi Hayes]

4. If you havent seen this, the parallels will boggle your bean

Dada, indeed

you have to see this to believe it—megalomaniac, surrounded by fawning, venal, feckless buffoons:

Side note—�I saw IAD when it first came out, with the “star” of this movie
(before it was made):

The original Dawn of the Dead.....David Emge was friends with George Romero....you never see this version anymore

[CentralMass]

5. +1