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Okay this interview with former Georgia now Egyptian gymnast Sandra Elsadek is such a train wreck that I need to share some quotes. But please please watch the interview, start at 5.33 in the video and... if you find yourself in the nightmare of her meandering through her travel home from African champs skip ahead...

For context her father is Egyptian and her mother is from Brazil. My comments are in [brackets]. I'm not going to quote the actual line but she appears not to know that there is a third Egyptian woman qualified to Worlds through the World Cups.

This interview is a TRAIN WRECK.

Elsadek: I just finished my fifth year of eligibility at Georgia and I was like hey Ryan if you find me another way to get me eligibility let me know. A joke obviously there is nothing left for me. He goes, 'Well do you have citizenship in another country and I was like yeah actually I do. And he was like oh well we could try that.' And I was like oh my gosh, thinking he was joking like he was just saying that. And then later that night he sends me a text and he's like if you're really serious about this competing for another country let me know we'll sit down and come up with a plan and I was like oh my gosh...

Elsadek: I found an email on the internet. I was just looking up Egyptian National Team and I found this email and I couldn't find any other email. And I'm like oh well I'll guess I'll try it who knows if it will work. I drafted an email and it had all my videos from my past year from all my events and I sent it over and I told them what my dream was and what I'd like to accomplish and like is there any way we can make it work."

[To be clear she only competed VT/BB/FX for Georgia, she had 3 weeks to come up with an elite bars routine. Her D score is a 2.7. But that's okay we'll find out later she doesn't know how elite scores work...]

Elsadek: I hadn't done bars in months and I have to do all around in this in this umum in this whole thing. We had three weeks to scrap a bars routine together basically which was crazy.

Elsadek: There were some minor mistakes here and there but it was my first time competing All Around in over a year. I was happy with it Ryan was really good at pushing me to be prepared. He's very big on being prepared and disciplined...

Elsadek: The transition of you have to put your foot up before pass like in the corner in elite. Oh my gosh I don't know why that tripped me up so much. Because my foot would lift up and I'd start on the wrong the wrong foot it took me a while to get that one.

[Katherine over here trying to figure out how that works with like... having a foot on the ground ...]

Gobourne: How does it feel like to compete for your home country and what does it mean to you personally. Elsadek: I mean I'd say it's a really big honor. I don't know it's something you can't really describe. But having my dad with me that first week when I was in Cairo he would come to my practices and just seeing how like the smile on his face because he's here showing me his country that I had never been to before.

Gobourne: Can you tell us about the support and the resources available to gymnasts in Egypt compared to your experiences in the United States? Elsadek: Honestly they have a really good support system. They have a trainer, they live at a village, it's like the Olympic training center for national teams and the girls live there. I mean the men's team the women's team, so many sports live at this village and then the gym is like 10 steps away. So it's really cool they have a whole set up you know they get fed there they have their trainer they're living all together. The gym's right across they have pits they really hae a great set up and the resources are awesome.

[So why do they need you.... Egypt has one of the largest women's programs in the world...]

Elsadek: The girls are really good at speaking English so when I first got there I was trying to make conversation because I didn't know them yet and they knew exactly what I was saying which was really great...

[In fairness she goes on to say that her worry that she wouldn't be able to communicate with them was her fault... because she doesn't speak Arabic.]

Elsadek: My goal going into this was to hit 4 for 4 and qualify for Worlds because that's how you keep the ball rolling with this journey. Thankfully I was able to hit 4 for 4 and qualify for Worlds. So the next step is to go to Worlds and hit 4 for 4 and also qualify hopefully for the Paris Olympics.

[... she didn't hit 4 for 4. She got a 9.966 bars score... I don't care if you didn't fall a sub 10 score in elite is not a hit...]

Elsadek: I don't understand the scoring, at all, like elite scoring. Ryan's been helping me with your D score and your execution and all this stuff. I don't really understand it so I think that helped a lot because I didn't know I was just going...

Elsadek: The dollar's worth a lot there. I was ubering, I was Talabat ... Talabat is like their ubereats and it was so fast and it was so cheap. It was like two dollars for a whole meal with a dessert...

[I guess she wasn't eating with the other Egyptian women despite living in their national team center where they were eating...]

Elsadek: I had my college floor routine. They had beautiful floor routines, all their floor routines tell stories. My routine is just like la da da and I'm just like dancing and I feel like they're all looking at me going who is this girl and where is her story? My floor music right now is Pepas. Like that fun party sound basically. Their music was all kind of like spanish-y, like Tango. I loved it, it was beautiful. Some of them were like darker, have a hard and that's when they'd really hit it was just so good to watch. I want that. I want what you guys have. I'm over here dancing like a fool because college is so different. College is so flashy and show off and Elite is so tell me a story and elegant. I'm so sorry guys.

[What they have Sandra, is dance training... but I'll give her this in this mess of an interview... she recognized that her floor is a problem.]

Elsadek: I went up and asked one of the people at the hotel that was also running the competition, do you guys have like an uber eats here? He looked at me and was like "What's wrong with you? Why do you speak good English?" And I'm like that's because I'm from America. "But you're competing for Egypt?" But it was funny because they're just like why do you speak good English. Well that's because it's all I speak.

[The moment that I can feel the dislike radiating off this South African meet volunteer even hearing her retelling of this story... which she has no clue about.]

#Youtube

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Seth Meyers Impersonates Bernie Sanders To Brutally Mock Ryan Zinke's Cowboy Rant

Seth Meyers Impersonates Bernie Sanders To Brutally Mock Ryan Zinke’s Cowboy Rant

Seth Meyers mocked the heck out Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) on Wednesday for his conspiracy theory about cowboys ― and the “Late Night” host rounded up his own impression of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to help. (Watch the video below.) “There is no doubt the federal government deep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water,” the far-right…

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quarantine tag game

I was tagged by (nobody really, just saw it and felt like doing it)

ARE YOU STAYING HOME FROM WORK/SCHOOL? Yes, I am able to do my care managing job from home

IF YOU’RE STAYING HOME, WHO IS THERE WITH YOU? Parents and older brother (but my dad and brother are still both going out to their jobs, corrections & retail)

ARE YOU A HOMEBODY? Yes, but it does kind of suck to do all my work where I normally am just able to chill. I don’t really have anything to complain about, though. People have it a lot worse than me. 

AN EVENT THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT GOT CANCELLED? Was going to go see Avi Kaplan perform in Burlington, VT (at least I hadn’t bought a ticket yet)

WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY? Mom and I watched a documentary last night (Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War). Last weekend, we watched Big Eden (!!!) and Triple Frontier. I’ve also watched Hook, A Little Princess, and Obvious Child within the past week or so. 

WHAT SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING? Re-watching The Borgias. I’m not a YouTube person, but I’m finally getting into Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara’s new Watcher channel. Grey’s Anatomy, Superstore, and Schitt’s Creek are all done for the season/forever in the next couple weeks, so I might watch Sandition now that I’ve read it. 

WHAT MUSIC ARE YOU LISTENING TO? Just downloaded Delta Rae’s new album, The Light! It is joyous and ecstatic and breathtaking!

WHAT ARE YOU READING? I typically don’t read two books at once, but I am reading both Frog Music by Emma Donoghue and 1493 by Charles C. Mann. 

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF-CARE? Trying to eat some more fruits and vegetables? Honestly, not much. 

Tagging: anyone who wants to do this

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[pcwpolwrestling]

Extreme Election Night 2020 Preview

(PCW 15th Year Celebration- Taped Earlier This Year)

The Scene: A meeting room inside a hotel.  At the front of the room, PCW Owner Dawn McGill stand behind a podium with a sign in front that reads “PCW 15 years.”  She’s dressed nicely for the occasion.

PCW Owner Dawn McGill

Dawn McGill: Welcome to the fifteenth year of Political Championship Wrestling.

The camera pans around the hall at the politicos from both sides – all whom played major roles in PCW over the past fifteen years – as they applaud.

There’s ‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove who claps his hands and then points to his temple to make sure everyone knows he’s a *BLEEP*-ing genius.

The Clinton Political Pitbulls (James Carville, Terry McAuliffe, and Sidney Blumenthal).

’The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin (AK-American Patriots).

Rahm Emanuel- he’s about the drop an F-Bomb but realizes he’s on camera so he doesn’t.

‘Screamin’ Howard Dean (VT-Progressive Alliance)…

Howard Dean: YEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

…who’s sitting uncomfortably close to one Alan Simpson (WY-American Patriots)…

Alan Simpson: STOP YELLING IN MY *BLEEP*-DAMN EAR!

…Mitch McConnell (KY-American Patriots) stands and claps…

Mitch McConnell: Spending obscene amounts of cash in order to gain influence with our leaders is a First Amendment right!

…Nancy Pelosi (CA-Progressive Alliance).  She hides behind of wall of bodyguards.  Get it?  Hiding behind a wall.  A wall of bodyguards?

Then there’s a quick shot of the PCW Hall of Famers on hand: ‘Not Just Unbearable…Not Just Intolerable…He is…’ Justin Sufferable, PCW tag team legends The Flyin’ Martini Brothers (Independent), ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido, and ‘The Original Rookie Sensation’ Starz N. Stripes (Kevin Scott)

Back to McGill up front.

Dawn McGill: Let’s now welcome the living former PCW CEO’s.  First, Jimmy Carter.

John Denver’s ‘Thank God I’m a Country Boy’ heralds the entrance of 96 year old Jimmy Carter (GA-Progressive Alliance) as he’s wheeled into the hall.

Dawn McGill: Bill Clinton.

Clinton (AR-Progressive Alliance) strides out as a video plays of an old episode of ‘Bill Clinton’s Hot Tub’ plays…

VIDEO: Bill Clinton’s Hot Tub – November 2nd, 2010 episode of Extreme Political TV Clinton glumly sits in his hot tub…alone and flanked by two Secret Service men.  Off to the side of the hot tub lies a ladybug costume that he had brought anticipating that Christine O’Donnell was going to be his guest on the show.

Bill Clinton: I don’t know what else I could have done.  I even brought her a ladybug costume just so she’ll feel comfortable.   *sigh*

Secret Service Agent 1: I don’t think Miss O’Donnell is coming sir.

Bill Clinton: This makes me profoundly sad.  (bites lip)  I feel my pain.

==

Dawn McGill: George W. Bush.

Dawn watches as George W. Bush’s (TX-American Patriots) perpetually off-key mariachi band leads former CEO George W. Bush to the ring with another horribly played, but rousing, rendition of “Hail to the Chief.”

Dawn’s face contorts and cringes every time the off-key mariachi band hits a particularly sour note.

Dawn McGill: Barack Obama.

*flute and clarinet flourish*

Two men come out and unroll a white carpet to the ring steps. Dancers then dance. Ballet dancers…ballet? Little children walk up the white carpet and drop rose petals. Someone lets loose some pigeons…we’re still not sure just how they’ll get out of the building.  Former PCW CEO Barack Obama (IL-Progressive Alliance) appears with his former Aide de Camp Joe ‘the Big F-ing Deal’  Biden (DE-Progressive Alliance) by his side.

Dawn McGill: And our current CEO, Donald Trump.

PCW CEO Donald Trump (NY-American Patriots) comes out on stage.

The supporters chant “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” which merges with the melody of the Imperial March and becomes:

♫ TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMP

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP♫

♫ TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMP

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP♫

After Trump sits down at the dias with the rest of the other former CEO’s, McGill continues.

Dawn McGill: Tonight is not about politics as usual.

As she speaks, the caterers roll out a huge cake.

Dawn McGill: Tonight is about celebrating what we have in common and what binds us together.

Close up to the item sitting on top of said cake- it’s a giant briefcase with money overflowing from inside of it.

Dawn McGill: It’s about…all of us…

As the caterers situate where the cake is to go, one of them bumps into the cart.  The giant briefcase starts to sway back and forth.

Dawn McGill: …It’s about the people…

Finally, the briefcase slides off the top and falls towards the floor.

Close up- Mitch McConnell.  His eyes light up and drool forms on the edge of his mouth.

Dawn McGill: …because we may have our differences…

The briefcase hits the floor and opens up.  There’s a lot of cash inside and some of it spills out onto the floor.

Close up- Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton: Ohhhh baby.

Everyone looks around at each other.

Dawn McGill: …in the end, we all share a common thread the binds us all together…

Silence…several seconds of silence.

Bill Clinton’s gaze meets up with James Carville.  Clinton nods and winks.  Carville smiles and then…

George W. Bush: Wait for it.

At once, Carville and everyone else shoot up from their chairs and dives towards the open briefcase.  McConnell jumps in.  Pelosi’s ‘wall’ of bodyguards barge in and try to plow a path to the cash.

Also wading in: John Boehner (OH-American Patriots), Harry Reid (NV-Progressive Alliance), and Paul Ryan (WI-American Patriots) and people from both sides of the aisle attempt to burrow their way through the pile of humanity.

Rahm Emanuel (IL-Progressive Alliance) runs down and starts dropping people left and right with F-Bombs.

Close up of Jimmy Carter’s reaction to the scramble for cash: disappointment and disgust.

Unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWWWW!  HE’S BITING!  HE’S BITING!

Close up- it’s James Carville.

Close up of George W. Bush’s reaction: whimsical smile.

W taps Clinton on the shoulder.

George W. Bush: Not a whole lot of strat-tee-ger-ree goin’ on here.

Bill Clinton: Nope.

Another unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWWWW!  WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!

Close up- it’s ‘The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin.  She’s not biting though.  She’s using a power drill to get to the bottom of the pile.

Sarah Palin: DRILL BABY DRILL!

Another unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: AAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!

Close up of Barack Obama’s reaction: rising above the fray.

Barack Obama: *I* would not do that.

Obama turns to Biden.

Barack Obama: But *I* also know you’re just itching for a fight.

Joe Biden: You know it.

Barack Obama: Go for it.

Biden leaps over the table and literally cannonballs into the pile of humanity.

A third unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWW!  DAMMIT! WHO KEEPS BITING?

Close up- it’s Alan Simpson- Simpson’s not after the money, he’s just being his usual irascible and ornery self.

W leans in towards Bill Clinton.

George W. Bush: Where’s Hillary?

Close up of the pile.  Two legs wearing white pants stick out of the huge pile.

George W. Bush: Oh.  Never mind.

Trump shakes his head.

Close up- Dawn McGill at the podium.  She rolls her eyes and takes a sip from her drink.

McGill’s POV: both sides scratch, claw, gouge, use steel folding chairs, regular chairs, and anything else that can be used as a weapon- all to get at the cash in the briefcase.

She sighs and rests her chin on her hand propped up by her elbow on the podium as the chaos continues…

Political Championship Wrestling Preview of Extreme Election Night 2020 Hack’s Rusty Nail Saloon Wauseon, Ohio Sunday December 27th, 2020

Johnny Suave (voiceover): “To say that the last year have been frustrating for Dawn McGill would be an understatement of epic proportion.  Having her show taken off the air and having to endure the Star Chamber of Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler and their investigation had been not only tough on her but the PCW talent as well.  Yes, house shows continued to be run but PCW was off television.  As 2019 came to a close, Dawn fired off a shot across the bow when a PCW Christmas show suddenly aired causing a few eyebrows to be raised.  The show featured PCW mainstays Rah and Halitosis headlining against The Professional Bad Guys- Hans Grueber and Carl Vreski in a Nakotomi Towers Death Match.”

(REPLAY: PCW Christmas Show- December 2019) Grueber and Vreski send Rah over the top rope to the floor.  Grueber slides out and pulls something out from underneath the ring.  It’s an eight foot by four foot piece of glass.

Johnny Suave: What the hell is he doing?

What he’s doing is setting up the piece of glass in the corner and motioning Vreski to do something with it.  Vreski doesn’t quite understand what Grueber wants him to do and shrugs.

Grueber again motions to the glass- Vreski still doesn’t know what he’s got in mind.  He shrugs again.

Now agitated, Greuber makes an exaggerated motion pointing at the glass.

Again, Vreski doesn’t quite get it.

Finally…

Hans Grueber: SHOOT…THE GLASS!

Grueber positions Halitosis in front of the glass.  Vreski finally gets it.

Carl Vreski: Ohhhhhhhh!

Vreski rushes forward and spears Halitosis right through it, sending glass flying all over the place.

Johnny Suave: Whoa!

Crowd: HOLY *BLEEP*…HOLY *BLEEP*

Johnny Suave: Hey, that’s Laura Bergman looking on.  She’s Halitosis’s wife.

…

Rah hits a bulldog and drops ax handles on the back of Vreski.  Then he takes Vreski’s chain and wraps it around his neck.  Vreski frantically tries to get away.  He tries to throw himself out of the ring but the chain catches and hangs him up.

Rah drags Vreski back to the ring and signals it time to sacrifice him to the Temple of the Sunshine God.  He looks over at his faithful worshipers-

…and they’re not paying attention to what he’s doing.

Rolling his eyes, Rah looks over at McGill- she’s looking at her compact and redoing her lipstick that got mussed up when she Singapore caned Vreski.

Sighing, Rah then turns to the fans at ringside and finally receives the adulation he’s looking for.  He places Vreski’s head between his legs and looks towards the heavens with arms stretched out soaking in the praise and worship of the fans. After receiving the necessary strength, Rah picks Vreski up and drives him down onto the canvas with the Eye of RAHHHHHH (jackknife powerbomb).

Rah walks with a deliberate gait over to Vreski.  He should pin him right then and there but something catches the eyes of the Sunshine God.  In the stands, he sees Hans Grueber with a firm grip on the hand of one Laura Bergman and dragging her up the steps towards the top with him.  A few feet below, Halitosis, bloodied and just a mess, climbs up the steps a few feet behind them.  Rah watches as Grueber reaches the top and sees Joe coming for him.  He threatens to throw Laura off the back of the stands if he takes another step forward.

Laura stomps on Grueber’s foot.  Halitosis lurches forward and unleashes his lethal breath of death on Grueber.  Grueber clutches his throat at the stench and gets perilously close to the edge.  Laura shoves Grueber over the edge but the German grabs on to Laura’s wrist as he topples over and begins to pull her down with him – Joe grabs Laura and holds on for dear life.

Grueber has a hold of her watch.  He tries to reach up with his free hand as Laura feverishly loosens the watchband.  It slips off her wrist and…

Grueber falls and crashes through two tables that’s been conveniently set up below him.

Johnny Suave: I wonder who put those tables up?

Quick cut to Dawn McGill, filing her nails behind the stands and nodding at her handiwork as Grueber lays in the wreckage of the tables.

*             *             *

Johnny Suave (voiceover): “So as 2020 arrived, McGill was ready to say the hell with it and pull the trigger.  Then she was unceremoniously hauled before the Pelosi-Schiff-Nadler hearings again.”

*             *             *

(PCW Headquarters-Washington D.C. -February 2020)

Johnny Suave (voiceover): “The hearing with the express purpose of determining whether or not Dawn McGill would be removed as the Executive Director of Political Championship Wrestling.  Now, you may be asking yourself: Wait a second.  I thought she owned PCW. Well, let’s go back a few months to May of 2019.”

[REPLAY: 5/2/2019-Donald Trump (R-NY)] The CEO of Political Championship Wrestling Donald Trump explains why the Red Brand and Blue Brand went dark, shows were cancelled, and why PCW ran replays of shows from ten years ago over the past two weeks. Short and to the point, Trump states the current method of doing business with three brands wasn’t working so, he felt it was time to make a change.

Trump reaches under the podium and pulls out an Infinity Gauntlet (ie…the very same Infinity Gauntlet featured in the recent Avengers movie). He places said Infinity Gauntlet on his right hand. Trump raises his hand in the air.

Then he attaches a red stone to the gauntlet. Then he snaps his fingers and says Red Brand is no more. The press- except for most of the Fox News contingent – let out a loud cheer.

Trump then attaches a blue stone to the gauntlet and snaps his fingers and proclaims the Blue Brand. No more. The press- except for most of the Fox News contingent – groan.

Then Trump attaches a white and black stone with PCW written on it to the gauntlet. But this time he doesn’t snap his fingers. Trump announces he made PCW owner Dawn McGill a generous offer for PCW that sets her up for life and she accepted.

So what does that mean? McGill’s investment in trying to keep PCW alive just paid off for her in a big, big way. The Red and Blue Brand will consolidate under PCW. So, who will lead PCW going forward?

Dawn McGill comes out followed by PCW Hall of Famers “No Frills’ Chris Escondido and Justin Sufferable. McGill shakes Trump’s hand as does Escondido and Sufferable.

There’s a disturbance and male voice shouts out: “GET THAT GAUNTLET! THE FATE OF THE POLITICAL UNIVERSE DEPENDS ON IT!”

Suddenly, Captain America (aka Chris Evans dressed in costume), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.- in costume), and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson- in costume) rush towards Trump and his Infinity Gauntlet that’s made the Red Brand and Blue Brand specific shows disappear.

But before they can reach him: Escondido steps in to kick Evans in the balls. He then power slams Evans.

Sufferable chops Downey Jr. with an open hand and drives him to the floor with the Lou Thesz press.

McGill stops Larson in her tracks with a Spinning Heel kick and then follows with the McGill Bomb (sit-out powerbomb).

(END VIDEO)

Sitting at a table cutting a solitary figure with a glass of water placed next to her elbow, Executive Director Dawn McGill faced the stern glare of one Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA).  She wasn’t happy to be there and made sure both Pelosi and Schiff knew it in her opening statement.

Dawn McGill: I said this before but let me make this clear to the Establishment…PCW is not here for you. PCW is here for…THEM…the fans.

Pelosi called the hearing to order following McGill’s opening remarks and Schiff announced that the minutes will be waived.   He announced that he will proceed with questions towards the Executive Director of PCW.

Schiff doesn’t waste time cutting to the chase- he wants to know about the deal Donald Trump made with her in May 2019.

McGill responded directly that the deal was a basic business transaction to bring PCW back under the political universe umbrella while rewarding her for her hard work over the past five years trying to keep PCW alive.

Schiff fired back that he believed it’s easy to connect the dots.  He demands to know if there was any quid pro pro- McGill sold PCW in return for Trump putting an end the Red and Blue Brand shows.

Brushing off Schiff’s challenging demeanor, McGill smiled and then recalled the intense reaction of the Progressive Alliance – most notably Jerry Nadler’s (D-NY) Oversight committee – to the deal made.  Her description of the response was

“predictable.”

McGill also made sure to recognize that the American Patriots didn’t take the news so well either.

Schiff continued to press the issue and asked if McGill took into consideration that Trump could be breaking the law by making a deal with her.

With a bemused grin, McGill asked which particular law Schiff was referring to.

Schiff said that’s what they’re trying to find out.

Dawn McGill: Oh? Is that kind of like passing a bill just to see what exactly is in the bill?

Pelosi was not amused.  She brought up the fact that McGill hired back Russian referee Corrina Romanov after previous PCW CEO Barack Obama had fired her after Extreme Election Night 2016 as a striking example of the ‘poor judgment’ McGill has.

McGill retorted she couldn’t help that elements remained inside the Progressive Alliance who still blamed Romanov for Trump defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Before Pelosi can respond to that, McGill also threw in for good measure the fact that Pelosi also continued to be chapped at her because she refused to back down and give in to her demand that the 2020 CEO candidates return to the old way where their candidates would hire surrogate wrestlers to wrestle in their place- unlike in 2016.

Pelosi made sure to reference the match at 2008’s Extreme Election Night between then-champion Starz N. Stripes (now Kevin Scott) – representing John McCain- and challenger O’Beck Bahama- representing Barack Obama- perhaps one the greatest matches ever in PCW history.  She implored McGill to be reasonable and allow a return to that very system.

McGill remained steadfast.  She told Pelosi that both sides have allowed others to fight their battles for too long and maintained 2020 would have the same format of 2016.

Pelosi strenuously objected and called her a puppet- one more reason why she should be impeach- . . . er .  .  . removed as the Executive Director of PCW.

Nancy Pelosi: The people vying to become the next CEO of the Political Universe are not ‘ordinary’ men and women and should not be treated as such.

McGill fired back that regardless of what special privileges she feels they are owed, the fact remained that they are ‘people’ and should be subject to the same rules everyone else is.

Schiff responded it didn’t matter.

Adam Schiff: We’ve received two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion, so profound – and disgusting – that decorum prohibits listing them here.

Schiff declared there is a solution to this problem- the removal of Dawn McGill followed by strict oversight of PCW by Schiff’s and Nadler’s committee.

McGill’s response?

Dawn McGill: Yeah, that’s not happening.

Pelosi threatened McGill that oversight is coming whether she likes it or not and if need be they will personally take control of PCW to ensure that there’s appropriate oversight.

Dawn McGill: Oh?  Like the one Joe Biden was proposing?

(VIDEO: 6/10/2019 PCW Extreme Political TV) Joe Biden’s voice: Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Joe Biden, former Aide de Camp to former PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL) and the  twenty-second candidate to declare for the 2020 race, comes out.

He strolls out to the ring and stands behind McGill.

Joe Biden: If I become the next CEO of the Political Universe in 2020, I plan on taking a more ‘hands-on’ approach than Donald Trump has.

As he talks, Biden puts his hands on McGill’s shoulders- much to her surprise…and annoyance.

Joe Biden: Not to say that Ms. McGill-

Dawn McGill (pointedly): Miss!

Joe Biden: …has done a bad job of running PCW…

Biden rubs McGill’s shoulders.

Joe Biden: …but we need a different approach than the one offered by Donald Trump. I plan on bringing a new vision to bring us closer together…

His hands start moving down- much to McGill’s alarm. She finally turns around and whispers something in Biden’s ear.

Joe Biden: …huh?

McGill continues to whisper something to Biden.

Joe Biden: If I don’t stop doing that you’re going to do what?

McGill rolls her eyes and explains to him again what the problem is and what will happen if he doesn’t stop.

Joe Biden: I’m sorry but that seems physically impossible to do- to yourself.

Dawn McGill: How bad do you want to find out?

Biden wisely removes said hands from McGill’s person. (END VIDEO)

Dawn McGill: Yeah. Again, not happening.

Nadler accused her of ‘obstruction’ of his oversight.

Pelosi again threatened to take matters into her own hands if McGill did not acquiesce to her demand.

McGill called herself a businesswoman – an ordinary person trying to make ends meet in an increasingly toxic atmosphere by politicians just like Pelosi and Schiff.

Dawn McGill: Perhaps if Joe didn’t send Hunter Biden to try to buy my silence after he got all handsy on me-

Pelosi quickly cut her off.

Nancy Pelosi: Well, I think we’ve heard enough.

Jerry Nadler: I agree.

Adam Schiff: Let’s finish this damn thing right now!

Dawn McGill: Yes.  Let’s finish this now.

McGill stood up from her chair.

Dawn McGill: We’re not going to sit here and take this from you anymore.  If Dianne Feinstein can leave early, we’re going to leave too.

McGill turned and motioned to the PCW supporters in the hearing room who suddenly prepared to take their leave.

Dawn McGill: Ladies?  Gentlemen?  We’re done here.

And with that, they began to exit from the hearing room while humming ‘The Star Spangled Banner’- kind of like this…

This, of course, pissed off Pelosi and Schiff to no end.

Nancy Pelosi: Where do you think you’re going?  You’re not walking out on this one!

But they were.  The PCW supporters continued to exit as Schiff banged the gavel on the table and tried to restore order.

Nancy Pelosi: You’ve bought it this time.  You’re finished!

More supporters left while Schiff continued to bang the gavel down on the table.

Nancy Pelosi: I’m taking you down.  I’m taking ALL of you down.

And more supporters streamed from the hearing room.

Nancy Pelosi: No more PCW.

McGill bent down and furiously scribbled away on a sheet of paper.  Finally she glanced up and faced Pelosi.

Dawn McGill: And just to clarify. When Trump ‘purchased’ PCW, he bought the right to air and produce the show. *I* still own the PCW name. *I* still own the shows and intellectual property. *I* still own the pay per views.

She held up the paper.

Dawn McGill: And with my signature right here on this sheet of paper, I just reclaimed my right to air and produce PCW shows as I see fit.

Pelosi and Schiff’s jaws dropped.

Dawn McGill: You can call this…a wres-xit.

Then she turned and left with the rest.

*             *             *

Johnny Suave (voiceover): “But then COVID happened and like many small businesses, McGill and PCW found themselves shut down while larger, corporate wrestling organizations continued to run.  After running a few house shows in January and February, PCW went dark in 2020.  But that didn’t mean there were forces in play intending to put on Extreme Election 2020 without her.  George Moros and the Coke Brothers- big time billionaires with money to burn on political things- announced in September they planned to run an Extreme Election Night 2020 show in November 2020.  There was just one problem- the nanosecond Dawn McGill caught wind of this scheme, she marched right into a courthouse and initiated legal action.  Suffice to say, Moros and the Coke Brothers were not pleased with her response.  You see, McGill, Moros, and the Coke Brothers had butted heads before…”

(VIDEO: February 2019-After PCW’s D.C. Armory Supershow) It’s late.  The fans have left.  The wrestlers have left.  PCW Owner Dawn McGill finally walks out of the D.C. Armory two and a half hours after the show ends.  She gets into her rental vehicle and pulls out of the parking lot.

Dawn heads north on 19th Street SE and stops at the light at East Capitol Street NE.  Traffic is light and she’s the only one stopped at the intersection.

Her mind occupied, she did not see the pair of headlights coming up fast behind her.

But she felt the impact when the vehicle slammed into the back of her car.  Dawn gets pitched forward but the airbag immediately deploys and the seat belt holds firm.

Four men exit the large SUV equipped with a heavy duty front bumper that easily absorbed the collision.  One man rips open the driver’s door and another one helps him pull a dazed McGill out of the car.  A third man swoops in and places a strip of duct tape over her mouth.  The fourth yanks her arms behind her back and zipties her wrists together.

They drag her back to the SUV and throw her into the back seat.  It’s there she finds out who’s behind this.

The Coke Brothers and George Moros.  Financiers of both factions.

George Moros: We all need to have a little talk here.

Then a cloth hood is placed over her head.

Of course, McGill would respond at the next PCW Extreme Political TV show.

(VIDEO: 2/17/2019-PCW Extreme Political TV) Dawn McGill: I so did not expect to spend my Saturday night after the show ziptied in the back of a SUV.

The crowd boos.  McGill tells them it’s okay.  The Establishment got pissed off at her so she got to go for a little ride around Washington D.C. while Coke Brothers and George Moros tried to intimidate her.

More boos from the PCW fans.

McGill explains the Cokes and Moros were a little upset that PCW got to keep running while the Red and Blue shows were shut down…they impressed on her that PCW could be squashed like a little bug like many other small time, mom and pop, undercapitalized businesses are when they run up against the big boys.

Dawn McGill: They basically wanted me to back down and go away because I was ‘distracting’ people away from their ‘business’…their high priced wrestlers paid for by their high priced money masters.  I told them they could kiss my ass.  Oh…and I also told them they could go *BLEEP* themselves.

The PCW fans stand up and let out a loud, loud cheer,

McGill says that contrary to the spin and the media’s narratives, PCW is doing a lot better than anyone could have imagined.  A lot better.

Dawn McGill: We’re proving that you don’t need corporate money to succeed.  We’re proving that you don’t need a governmental bureaucracy to succeed.  All we need is an equal playing field.  All we want is for everyone to play under the same set of rules.  No special dispensations.  One set of rules for EVERYONE no matter WHO you are!  We’re building PCW from the ground up and we’re doing it ourselves!

The crowd stands and cheers when McGill proclaims that ‘we ain’t going nowhere!’ and *BLEEP* the Establishment!

Johnny Suave (voiceover): “McGill prevailed over Moros and the Coke Brothers and she made sure PCW Extreme Election Night 2020 did in fact take place on November 3rd, 2020.  How would it go?  We’ll find out soon enough.  Thursday December 31st.  PCW presents Extreme Election Night 2020.  Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden.”

PCW EXTREME ELECTION NIGHT 2020

MAIN EVENT: Donald Trump (American Patriots) vs. Joe Biden (Progressive Alliance)- winner becomes the CEO of PCW for the next four years.

PCW TITLE MATCH: ‘Starz N. Stripes’ Kevin Scott (American Patriots) vs. ‘Mr. Hollywood’ Kevin Daniels vs. ‘Prairie Populist’ William Daniels Bryan (American Heartland Coalition)

PCW WOMEN’S TITLE MATCH: Kathryn Randall Collins (Progressive Alliance) vs. ‘Alaskan Rogue’ Sierra Whalen (American Patriots) vs.  ‘Extreme Pizza Delivery Girl’ Tessa Martin (American Heartland Coalition)

PCW TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Jill Berg Enterprises: P.M.C. Banks and Kirk Walstreit (American Patriots) vs. The Green World Order: GreenPete and ‘Vengeful Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee (Progressive Alliance) vs. The Vice Squad: Al Cahall and Nic Koteen (American Heartland Coalition)

PLUS:

ARIZONA SENATE MEDALLION MATCH: Martha McSally (American Patriots) vs. Mark Kelly (Progressive Alliance)

MICHIGAN SENATE MEDALLION MATCH: Gary Peters (Progressive Alliance) vs. John James (American Patriots)

SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE MEDALLION MATCH: Lindsey Graham (American Patriots) vs. Jaime Harrison (Progressive Alliance)

#politics #political #conservative #liberal #moderate #independent #republican #democrat #election 2020 #2020 election #Donald Trump #joe biden

[askaphmaine]

(For that meme thingy majigy) Stay behind me

//I don’t know who you meant, as I’ve drawn three characters in relation to your blog, so I’ll do all three! This will be interesting, as my three are typically protective and ready to fight at all times. I also mostly used fights as a base.       -Ryan//

Delaware:

Maine: Okay, but he’s shorter than her, which makes the scene hilarious. In an actual fight, chances are she’d respond by pushing him behind her. Maine can be very protective, even if she doesn’t necessarily like you. She’d be annoyed that he thought she couldn’t protect herself and would et him know it. If it’s something she admits he has more expertise in or the mission is more covert, she’d allow him to move her, though she’d be unhappy with it. She’d also remind him that while she may not be good with non-fighting missions, she’s still more intimidating and will be a better shield than he is.

New Hampshire: He’d let it happen, though more out of confusion than anything else. NH is pretty strong and a good fighter, so someone other than Maine and VT trying to protect him is a weird and foreign concept to him. Once he’s sure there’s an actual fight, he’d literally pick Delaware up and move him back behind NH.

Vermont: Short-stack is pushing him behind? Now that’d be hilarious to him. He’d humor Delaware but once things get serious, so would VT. Like the other two, VT is protective of his allies, regardless if he likes them or not. He doesn’t know if Delaware is a fighter or not and he’s not willing to take the risk to find out.

Maryland:

Maine: She’d let the other girl do so but would be silently threatening the other people behind Maryland’s back. If any fighting breaks out, she’d hop in and fight at once and give Maryland a scolding after, reminding her that she’s fought for most of her life. She’s annoyed that she was moved but also somewhat understanding, as she does tend to fight first, ask questions never. Still annoyed, though.

New Hampshire: NH would not be pleased and would rather be in front of Maryland to protect her and he’d do so without hesitation should a fight break out. He was raised to protect woman and children first and it’s a hard habit to let go of. More covert missions would require him to hang back, but he’d made his displeasure known.

Vermont: Similar to NH, VT would rather be the one pushing her behind him. He’s better with people than the other two, so he’d feel somewhat useless if she did that to him. With that said, he wouldn’t put up much of a fuss either. He knows that he has to let it go and is willing to do so. If a fights starts though, all bets are off.

Jefferson:

Maine: She’d be more lenient to Jefferson than Maryland or Delaware. He’s a lot younger than than she is (I think he is, at least) and doesn’t quite understand how she acts or what she’s done. To her, it’s more like a kid trying to protect her (Which is funny, because I draw him around 16-17 and her around 21-ish, so they look pretty close in age). However, she’d be ready to move in, should a fight actually break out. Especially as he’s pretty similar to her when she was younger, with wanting to be their own state and all. 

             If one doesn’t then he can handle himself just fine, though she does think he should be able to hold his own in any fight. She also just doesn’t give him the chance to fight when she’s around. (She has a softish spot for Jefferson. He’s basically a kid to her and reminds her of herself. She won’t let him get hurt but she also acknowledge that he’s better with people than she is and will let him try to defend her.)

New Hampshire: Not as lenient as Maine is but he’d let Jefferson try. He’s still basically a kid and sometimes kids need to feel like they’re able to protect something. NH gets it. However, he also knows Maine would have his head if Jefferson got hurt on his watch and would be on guard in case he needs help.

Vermont: He’d try and move back beside Jefferson, no hesitation. Jefferson’s a kid. He needs to protect the kid! He and NH were raised to protect woman and children, so even though Jefferson looks older, VT would not feel right if he let the reverse happen. Even if nothing happens, he’d rather put up with Jefferson arguing with him than let someone he thinks of as a child get hurt.

TLDR; Delaware would either deal with some jokes or annoyance, Maryland would be pushed right back in attempts to protect her, Jefferson is treated like a 5 year old

#aph maine #aph new hampshire #aph vermont #aph delaware #aph maryland #aph jefferson state #info post #ask meme #flyingsassysaddles #long post #maine has a soft spot for people a lot younger than her and people who remind her of herself #MaineJefferson

[jiangsspace]

Jung Hoseok | Gifts

Pairing : Jung Hoseok x reader

Word count : 1.1 K

Genre : fluff

"I'm coming over after I pick up the food", his voice was roughly heard over the phone. He had just finished his practice with the boys for the upcoming comeback and he was anxious to spend some time with you after an exhausting day of dancing, recording and making the last polishing touches to the album. He had spent the entire day perfecting his dancing and helping the others nail their parts as he was the one who learnt the routine the easiest.

You were wrapped in your blue Ryan blanket surrounded by the Hip Hop Monsters hoping they would protect you from the fictional killer. You were watching a horror movie while tightly squeezing the J-Hope hip hop monster against your chest anticipating the killer's next move. As the kitchen knife plunged into the back of the unexpecting victim you let out a loud yelp and flapped your arms scared out of your wits.

The credits started rolling and you wiped the sweat from your forehead and sighed in exhaustion. The hip hop monsters bounced as you got off from the sofa and dropped the blanket over the plushies. Walking in the lit apartment you stumble to the bathroom your back clinging to the wall not taking your chances with a murderer waiting to strike you. Once in the bathroom you wash your face with cold water and apply your night cream around your eyes and the T-zone. You put some music on to relax and start swaying your hips in sync with the beat. You are so captivated by the vocals and the melody that you don't hear the front door opening and closing with a slight thump.

Hoseok puts his keys in the porcelain bowl which is on the wooden table in the hallway. He whistles happily with the takeout food in his careful hold. He discards his jacket and shoes and advances towards the kitchen searching for you in the process. He places the food on the kitchen counter and turns towards your bedroom where he hears a soft melody. He smiles striding towards the sound waiting to close you in a loving and tired embrace and perhaps stealing a kiss. But as soon as he comes into view with your swaying backside he is greeted with a totally different reaction. One he wasn't hoping. Your eyes meet through the bathroom mirror but he clearly startled you as you let out one loud scream and turned around frantically panting your lungs out. He raises his hands and his eyes widen as he takes a step back. Eventually you calm down and realize it was only Hoseok.

"I thought you were a murderer coming to get me", you confess walking towards his now open arms. Red creeping up your face you snuggle into his shirt which faintly smells of sweat. You distance yourself looking up to his face and notice the dark circles around his eyes even though he smiles like nothing could be wrong in the world. You pout and take his hand to the living room seating him down on the couch. You gesture for him to stay still and go to the kitchen to heat some food for the both of you.

"How was your day?" he questions flicking through the channels. Nothing being interesting he turns the television off and turns to look at you. He grabs the plushies and puts them in age order according to the members. Meanwhile you are done with the food and come meet him with a tray full of his favorite dishes that he picked up like he said he would. Frowning you ask why he wanted spicy noodles only to receive a nonchalant shrug of the shoulders. He doesn't say anything because he is too busy with the plushies. You place the tray on the table and hand him his soup and spoon. He starts slurping and you follow his lead filling the room with an amazing smell and slurping sounds.

You rub your belly and declare the conception of your food baby which sends Hoseok in a fit of laughter accompanied by the seal clapping. You stand up to clear the meal but Hoseok stops you and does it in your stead. You protest but his determined look gives no room for negotiation so you let him and sink back into the sofa you two bought together. It was the only color you both agreed on and it was just inside your budget.

"I brought you these as well", he states from the hallway bringing an ARMY.ZIP+ bag full of what you presumed was other merchandise. He hands you the bag with a bright smile. It was your turn to laugh hysterically with Hoseok joining you soon after. You ask him why he brought you all of this through the laughter.

"Isn't this supposed to go to the fans?" He shakes his head and explains they are sample products not meant to be released to the public. With a smile on your face you reveal the contents of the bag by shaking them onto your lap. He had brought you hats, headbands, necklaces, ring sets, a wrist watch, a water bottle, two mini figures of him, pens and erasers as well as socks and shirts with BTS written all over them. You can't help but giggle with all of the merchandise on your lap. Hoseok quickly goes to retrieve something from his backpack and comes back to you with a sly smile.

"This is not meant to hint at you in any way, but I also brought this. We weren't allowed to take any, but I thought of you and took one when no one was looking, although I think one of the stylists saw me", he speaks with a hint of embarrassment in his voice as he reveals what he had been hiding behind his back. It was the BTS x VT cosmetics collaboration sun screen cushion. You sat there stunned not because he had brought you sun protection but because he had disobeyed orders.

"I can't use it if you took it without permission. What are people going to say?", you whine pushing his hand away but he refuses to take no for an answer. He places the product on the table next to you and gives you a tender but firm kiss.

"Just take it. I went through a lot of trouble to bring you all of this", he whispers cooing into your ear to accept the gifts he had gotten you. You giggle as he licks and kisses your neck while you play with the hem of his black shirt.

"My theory is you just want me to wear all of these clothes as a BTS clothes ambassador", you two laugh before heading towards the bedroom to get the good night's sleep you both deserve. You fall asleep with him in your arms his face snuggling your breasts.

#bts #bts hoseok #bts jhope #bts oneshot #bts imagine #bts scenario #bts fanfic #bts fanfiction #jhope #hoseok #imagine #scenario #fanfic #fanfiction #jiangsspace

[rumor-weed]

He's beauty, he's grace, he's slipping on popcorn grease all over the place...

#the fact that archibald was like 'yeah I might come out for a giant sized thing of popcorn with extra butter' #veggietales #ryan watches vt #veggie tales

[dylan-stableford-blog]

Former Obama chief of staff: The president cannot, does not and did not order a wiretap

The chief of staff for former President Barack Obama says President Trump’s claim that former Obama ordered wiretapping at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 the election is just plain wrong.

“The president cannot order a wiretap,” Denis McDonough, who served as Obama’s chief of staff throughout his second term, said on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday. “The president does not order a wiretap. The president did not order a wiretap.”

McDonough pointed to Obama’s official response to Trump’s charge.

“A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”

“The president cannot order a wiretap, does not order a wiretap and did not order a wiretap." — Obama's Chief of Staff @DenisMcDonough. pic.twitter.com/XNZ2w2R85f

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) March 16, 2017

At his weekly press briefing Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan was asked if he believes Trump’s assertion that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

“We’ve seen no evidence of that,” Ryan replied.

On Wednesday, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee investigating Trump’s explosive allegation, said he has yet to see any evidence, either.

“That evidence still remains the same,” Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters at a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill. “We don’t have any evidence that that took place.”

Trump leveled leveled the claim against his predecessor on Twitter earlier this month.

“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump declared.

“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” he added.

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

Trump refused to provide proof when given the chance on Wednesday, telling Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that he has “some very good stuff,” that the White House is “in the process of putting it together” and that “it’s going to be very demonstrative.”

“Let’s see whether or not I prove it,” Trump said. “I just don’t choose to do it right now.”

Trump said he first learned about the alleged wiretapping through media reports, including a New York Times article that mentioned “wiretapped communications” between Russian officials and “at least three Trump campaign advisers” and a Fox News report the day before he leveled his explosive charge.

“I’ve been reading about things,” Trump told Carlson. “I watched your friend Bret Baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening, and wiretapping. I said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a lot of wiretapping being talked about.’ I’ve been seeing a lot of things.”

“Why not wait to tweet about it until you can prove it?” Carlson asked Trump. “Don’t you devalue your words when you can’t provide evidence?”

“Well, because the New York Times wrote about it,” Trump replied. “Not that I respect the New York Times. I call it ‘the failing New York Times.'”

But the Times did not report that Trump or his aides were the target of the surveillance, nor did it say that the communications were intercepted at Trump Tower.

Trump also repeated White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s argument that the president wasn’t specifically referring to wiretapping when he tweeted it.

“Don’t forget, when I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes,” Trump said. “That really covers, because wiretapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. But that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that’s a very important thing. But wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.”

Nunes also said that whether Trump is telling the truth depends on how literally you take his tweets.

“I think the challenge here is, President Obama wouldn’t physically go over and wiretap Trump Tower,” he said. “So now you have to decide, Are you going to take the tweets literally? And if you are, then clearly the president is wrong.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Trump owes Obama and the American people an apology.

“I don’t know why President Trump makes these outlandish statements,” Leahy said on CNN Thursday. “He knows they’re not true. He knows he’s not telling the truth. He ought to apologize.”

Read more from Yahoo News:

‘Microwaves that turn into cameras’: Kellyanne Conway defends Trump claim

Trump slams Snoop for shooting clown likeness in music video

House Intel Committee chairman: ‘We don’t have any evidence’

At Bernie Sanders’ town hall, America’s opioid crisis goes on dark display

A prescription for ‘Trump-induced anxiety disorder,’ straight from Hollywood

#sean spicer #fox news #_author:Dylan Stableford #_revsp:Yahoo! News #wiretapping #barack obama #_lmsid:a077000000CFoGyAAL #trump tower #new york times #twitter #white house #_uuid:239bf695-7f48-3cb3-bd47-945cc72a48b9 #president obama #wiretap #tucker carlson #donald trump

[pcwpolwrestling]

PCW 14 Commercial

PCW Owner Dawn McGill stand behind a podium with a sign in front that reads “PCW 14 years.”

PCW Owner Dawn McGill

Dawn McGill: Welcome to the fourteenth year of Political Championship Wrestling.

The camera pans around the hall at the politicos from both sides – all whom played major roles in PCW over the past fourteen years – as they applaud.

‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove

There’s ‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove who claps his hands and then points to his temple to make sure everyone knows he’s a *BLEEP*-ing genius.

The Clinton Political Pitbulls (James Carville, Terry McAuliffe, and Sidney Blumenthal).

Sarah Palin

’The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin (AK-American Patriots).

Rahm Emanuel aka…Rahm-bo

Rahm Emanuel- he’s about the drop an F-Bomb but realizes he’s on camera- so he doesn’t.

‘Screamin’ Howard Dean (VT-Progressive Alliance)…

Howard Dean: YEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

…who’s sitting uncomfortably close to one Alan Simpson (WY-American Patriots)…

Alan Simpson

Alan Simpson: STOP YELLING IN MY *BLEEP*-DAMN EAR!

…Mitch McConnell (KY-American Patriots) stands and claps…

Mitch McConnell: Spending obscene amounts of cash in order to gain influence with our leaders is a First Amendment right!

…Nancy Pelosi (CA-Progressive Alliance). She hides behind of wall of bodyguards. Get it? Hiding behind a wall. A wall of bodyguards?

Back to McGill up front.

Dawn McGill: Let’s now welcome the living former PCW CEO’s. First, Jimmy Carter.

John Denver’s ‘Thank God I’m a Country Boy’ heralds the entrance of 94 year old Jimmy Carter (GA-Progressive Alliance) as he’s wheeled into the hall.

Dawn McGill: Bill Clinton.

Clinton (AR-Progressive Alliance) strides out as a video plays of an old episode of ‘Bill Clinton’s Hot Tub’ plays…

VIDEO: Bill Clinton’s Hot Tub – November 2nd, 2010 episode of Extreme Political TV

Bill Clinton glumly sits in his hot tub…alone and flanked by two Secret Service men.  Off to the side of the hot tub lies a ladybug costume that he had brought anticipating that Christine O’Donnell was going to be his guest on the show.

Bill Clinton: I don’t know what else I could have done.  I even brought her a ladybug costume just so she’ll feel comfortable.   *sigh*

Secret Service Agent 1: I don’t think Miss O’Donnell is coming sir.

Bill Clinton: This makes me profoundly sad.  (bites lip)  I feel my pain.

Lady’s voice: WAIT!  WAIT!

It’s former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas.

Helen Thomas: I’ll guest on your show!

Bill Clinton’s face melts in horror when Thomas whips off her robe in front of him.

Bill Clinton: Oh…my….God…

Thomas jumps into the hot tub with him.

Bill Clinton: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Dawn McGill: George W. Bush.

Dawn watches as George W. Bush’s (TX-American Patriots) perpetually off-key mariachi band leads former CEO George W. Bush to the ring with another horribly played, but rousing, rendition of “Hail to the Chief.”

Dawn’s face contorts and cringes every time the off-key mariachi band hits a particularly sour note.

Dawn McGill: Barack Obama.

*flute and clarinet flourish*

Two men come out and unroll a white carpet to the ring steps. Dancers then dance. Ballet dancers…ballet? Little children walk up the white carpet and drop rose petals. Someone lets loose some pigeons…we’re still not sure just how they’ll get out of the building.  Former PCW CEO Barack Obama (IL-Progressive Alliance) appears with his former Aide de Camp Joe ‘the Big F-ing Deal’  Biden (DE-Progressive Alliance) by his side.

Dawn McGill: And our current CEO, Donald Trump.

*”Imperial March” – Star Wars*

PCW CEO Donald Trump

PCW CEO Donald Trump (NY-American Patriots) comes out on stage.

The supporters chant “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” which merges with the melody of the Imperial March and becomes:

♫ TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP♫

♫ TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP.

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP

TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMMMMP♫

After Trump sits down at the dias with the rest of the other former CEO’s, McGill continues.

Dawn McGill: Tonight is not about politics as usual.

As she speaks, the caterers roll out a huge cake.

Dawn McGill: Tonight is about celebrating what we have in common and what binds us together.

Close up to the item sitting on top of said cake- it’s a giant briefcase with money overflowing from inside of it.

Dawn McGill: It’s about…all of us…

As the caterers situate where the cake is to go, one of them bumps into the cart. The giant briefcase starts to sway back and forth.

Dawn McGill: …It’s about the people…

Finally, the briefcase slides off the top and falls towards the floor.

Close up- Mitch McConnell. His eyes light up and drool forms on the edge of his mouth.

Dawn McGill: …because we may have our differences…

The briefcase hits the floor and opens up. There’s a lot of cash inside and some of it spills out onto the floor.

Close up- Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton: Ohhhh baby.

Everyone looks around at each other.

Dawn McGill: …in the end, we all share a common thread the binds us all together…

Silence…several seconds of silence.

Bill Clinton’s gaze meets up with James Carville. Clinton nods and winks. Carville smiles and then…

ALL: MONEYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

At once, Carville and everyone else shoot up from their chairs and dives towards the open briefcase. McConnell jumps in. Pelosi’s ‘wall’ of bodyguards barge in and try to plow a path to the cash.

Also wading in: John Boehner (OH-American Patriots), Harry Reid (NV-Progressive Alliance), and Paul Ryan (WI-American Patriots) and people from both sides of the aisle attempt to burrow their way through the pile of humanity.

Rahm Emanuel (IL-Progressive Alliance) runs down and starts dropping people left and right with F-Bombs.

Close up of Jimmy Carter’s reaction to the scramble for cash: disappointment and disgust.

Unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWWWW! HE’S BITING! HE’S BITING!

Close up- it’s James Carville.

Close up of George W. Bush’s reaction: whimsical smile.

W taps Clinton on the shoulder.

George W. Bush: Not a whole lot of stra-tee-ger-ree goin’ on here.

Bill Clinton: Nope.

Another unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWWWW! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!

Close up- it’s ‘The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin. She’s not biting though. She’s using a power drill to get to the bottom of the pile.

Sarah Palin: DRILL BABY DRILL!

Another unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: AAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!

Close up of Barack Obama’s reaction: rising above the fray.

Barack Obama: *I* would not do that.

Obama turns to Biden.

Barack Obama: But *I* also know you’re just itching for a fight.

Joe Biden: You know it.

Barack Obama: Go for it.

Biden leaps over the table and literally cannonballs into the pile of humanity.

A third unidentifiable person in the middle of the scrum: OWWW! DAMMIT! WHO KEEPS BITING?

Close up- it’s Alan Simpson- Simpson’s not after the money, he’s just being his usual irascible and ornery self.

W leans in towards Bill Clinton.

George W. Bush: Where’s Hillary?

Close up of the pile. Two legs wearing white pants stick out of the huge pile.

George W. Bush: Oh. Never mind.

Trump shakes his head.

Close up- Dawn McGill at the podium. She rolls her eyes and takes a sip from her drink.

McGill’s POV: both sides scratch, claw, gouge, use steel folding chairs, regular chairs, and anything else that can be used as a weapon- all to get at the cash in the briefcase.

Yet another undentifiable person somewhere in the middle of the scrum: BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU’RE PUTTING THAT DRILL, SARAH!

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Trump uttered what many supporters consider blasphemy. Here’s why most will probably forgive him

( Evangelicals who support this POTUS have lost all credibility with me. Don't preach the 10 Commandments while at the same time your dear leader has broken every one of them on numerous occasions and continues to do so.)

By Julie Zauzmer | Published September 14 at 7:00 AM ET | Washington Post | Posted September 15, 2019 9::00 AM ET

President Trump has had trouble with a number of the Ten Commandments.

There’s the adultery. There’s the prohibition against giving false witness, for a man who has made more than 12,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency.

And then there’s this commandment: Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain.

That’s the one the president violated again on Thursday night, when he joked about “goddamn windmills” while talking with House Republicans in Baltimore about energy policy.

For some of the president’s evangelical supporters, Trump’s occasional use of the word “goddamn” is a bridge too far, even for a president whose behavior they’ve grown accustomed to excusing as they fervently support his policies.

“I certainly do not condone taking the Lord’s name in vain. There is a whole commandment dedicated to prohibiting that,” said the Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Texas megachurch leader who is one of Trump’s most outspoken evangelical advisers and supporters. “I think it’s very offensive to use the Lord’s name in vain. I can take just about everything else, except that,” when it comes to off-color language.

Trump has been urged in the past to cease using this particular word. A state senator from West Virginia, Paul Hardesty, told Politico in August that he got calls from three constituents after one Trump rally alone. He wrote a letter to the White House: “Never utter those words again.”

At that rally, the president had told a North Carolina crowd about the Islamic State, “They’ll be hit so goddamn hard,” and had recalled warning a businessman, “If you don’t support me, you’re going to be so goddamn poor.”

This was the same Greenville rally at which Trump’s supporters chanted “send her back” about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a chant Democrats decried as racist. But it was the blasphemy that spurred some West Virginians to call their Trump-supporting state senator to ask him to do something about the president’s language.

That’s not surprising to Timothy Jay, a retired psychology professor who made it his business for 40 years to be the world’s leading expert on swear words.

“I’ve done surveys where I ask people: What’s the most offensive word?” Jay said. “Some [religious] women would say the word ‘f---,’ but they wouldn’t say ‘Jesus Christ.’ Some of my interviewees have said, ‘We could say ‘f---’ and ‘s---’ at home, but we weren’t allowed to use profane language.”

Profanity, Jay notes, is not the same as obscenity. An obscenity is a crude term for a bodily function. Profanity demeans something from the sacred realm — for example, misusing the words ‘hell’ or ‘damn,’ which in some Christian interpretations ought to be reserved for talking only about God’s role in judging the dead.

Blasphemy is a specific type of profanity — an insult to God.

American culture tends to consider obscenities to be more taboo. An f-bomb sounds much more crude to most listeners than “hell” or “goddamn” or an exclamation of “Jesus Christ.”

“Theologically, that’s backwards,” said Karen Swallow Prior, an English professor at Liberty University, the conservative evangelical school in Virginia. “You can look at any culture and see what it values by its swear words. Whatever it is that it values most, those are the things that will have words related to them that are verboten.”

In other words, she said, Christians ought to hold the sacred in much higher esteem than the body or sex acts — and thus to care much more about words that demean the sacred. When she teaches her students at Liberty about the plays “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Death of a Salesman,” shows replete with sexual expressions and coarse arguments, she lectures: “As Christians, the most offensive thing probably should be Willy Loman’s taking of the Lord’s name in vain throughout the play.”

She noted that Christian squeamishness about vulgar bodily terms arises out of the Victorian era, not the early church, and can change with the times. “Martin Luther had quite a mouth,” she said.

Jeffress agreed that profanity is more problematic than other crass language. Asked to compare Trump’s use of “goddamn” to his infamous reference to certain nations as “shithole countries” — a statement which several evangelical pastors did condemn — Jeffress said the worse offense was the profanity.

“I would never condone taking the Lord’s name in vain,” he said. “When it comes to other types of foul language, that’s a concern, but it’s certainly not the major concern when we’re in a virtual battle for the soul of the nation.”

Language aside, Trump remains highly popular among evangelical voters. Almost 70 percent of white evangelicals told Pew Research Center this year that they approve of his performance in office. Most evangelicals support him for appointing conservative Supreme Court justices, restricting abortion access and LGBT rights, favoring Israel and other policy priorities.

Jeffress said he hears from pastors and congregants in conservative parts of the country who are concerned about Trump’s language, including the insults he uses on Twitter. But the president is not losing their votes, the evangelical leader said.

“He enjoys a tremendous amount of support from people of faith not because of his language, but in spite of his language,” Jeffress said. “Most Americans did not oppose the salty language of General Patton. All they cared about was that he led us to victory. Many Christians believe we are in a war … for the culture, a war for the soul of America.”

In his speech in Baltimore on Thursday, Trump came out swinging against many of his favorite targets, including his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and several of his prospective 2020 rivals, for whom he engaged in another of his favorite rhetorical moves: name-calling. He referred to “Sleepy Joe,” “Crazy Bernie” and “Pocahontas.”

He arrived at the profanity when he turned to criticizing wind power, with an incorrect description of the technology.

“The energy is intermittent. If you happen to be watching the Democrat debate and the wind isn’t blowing, you’re not going to see the debate. ‘Charlie, what the hell happened to this debate?’ He says, ‘Darling, the wind isn’t blowing. The goddamn windmill stopped,’” Trump said to the Republican congressmen, who laughed.

Wind power does not stop powering appliances when the wind stops blowing.

Trump is not alone in the 2020 field in employing strong language once considered unfit for polite discussion. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) have all said “damn” in Democratic debates. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Andrew Yang and Julián Castro have all used obscenities in debates, interviews or tweets.

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke has become so well-known for cursing on the campaign trail that his campaign sells official $30 T-shirts that use the words “hell” and “f*cked up.”

But Jay, the expert who has published decades of research studies on swearing, says that Democrats remain deeply cautious about one taboo when it comes to language: terms that are offensive on the basis of gender or race.

That’s another taboo that Trump has long ago crossed.