Apparently the Fake News Awards were cancelled due to Stormy weather.
I’ve been just shaking my head and laughing over the revelations about Donald Trump’s year-long tryst with porn star Stormy Daniels. Not only was this a year after the birth of his youngest child — yes, a father was cheating on his wife and kids to sleep with a porn star! — but the various kinks just keep coming out. The latest: Trump demanded that she spank him with a rolled up copy of Forbes Magazine. Presumably because he’d been a very bad boy.
Stormy apparently mentioned stuff like this to multiple people over the years. And then she clammed up. She was paid off with $130K to keep her quiet. And this money was laundered through a shell company to allow plausible deniability. Donald Trump can honestly state that he didn’t pay off Stormy Daniels to stay quiet. Because he didn’t. Essential Consultants LLC did. And “Peggy Peterson”, who apparently is Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s oh so pretty alter ego.
Now, if Obama had been alleged to have an affair with a porn star immediately after his wife had given birth to his youngest child, Republicans everywhere would be outraged. And that shell company? They would have immediately started impeachment proceedings alleging money laundering. So where’s their outrage today?
[Crickets]
IOKIYR, I guess.
— Badtux the IOKIYR Penguin
Badtux the Snarky Penguin 
In the “It’s a Small, Small World” department, I’ve been reading a chat thread featuring people who have knowledge of “Stormy” under her real name. It’s on a members-only discussion forum composed mostly of horse-riders. My deceased sister was an active participant on the forum; many of her real-life friends also chime in there, and I met a bunch of them at her ash-scattering last year. Since I have my sis’s sign-on, I eaveslurk there to see what they’re yabbering about. Most are mildly left-wing, as was my sister, but reading their thoughts gets me a little outside the thought-bubble of my usual sources for what Americans are thinking.
“Stormy” is a horse-owner IRL. She was involved in a dispute with some horse farm operator in Texas a few years ago, circa 2011 or 2013, IIRC. “Stormy” alleged that the farm owner had done all sorts of shonky things such as shanghai’ing people’s horses by taking them to riding events without the owners’ knowledge, letting student riders use others’ horses without permission (kinda like letting a driving student practice in YOUR car) plus some serious stuff about neglecting horses so badly that they died. I think one of Daniels’ carked it when it was caught in a flooded field.
I didn’t read the entire discussion about this. Most of it was on ANOTHER forum called “Chronicle of the Horse.” The people in my sister’s chat board overlap with that one, and they sometimes use THEIR board to yak about what’s happening on the other forum. Horse people! It’s quite the sub-culture…
The back-and-forth over Daniels’ issue went on for at least 11 pages. Some of the participants knew of her porn background and slagged her off for that, apparently. I only squizzed part of her original post. I have better things to do than get deep in the weeds! Her accusations about this supposedly negligent horse farm operator came across as indignant but not strident. They didn’t strike me as being wack like what comes from the mouths of the lunatics I encounter at work. A few people on my sister’s forum had first-hand knowledge of that farm operator’s business practices, and they agreed with “Stormy” that the woman ran a shady operation. So score one for Daniels’ credibility there. It always seems strange to see that people in the headlines, especially those in a skeevy line of work like the sex trade, have “real” lives and do mundane things like owning horses.
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In other thoughts (since it’s 6 a.m. here and I’m awake, because I automatically get up at 0500 as a result of working so many early shifts) I reckon that it’s significant that Rupert Mordor’s WSJ wrote this story. Other media apparently knew about the issue, but none had the balls (or wanted to pay the lawyers) that it would take to run with it. So does this mean Rupes (or one of his kids who’s running the show) wants to stick the knife in Twitler? Anything like THIS issue is not going to be green-lighted by some lower-level editor, not without approval from way up the chain of command. Is it a way of cracking the whip over Trumplusconi to keep his bunga-bunga arse in line, or is it a sign that king-maker Mordorch intends to defenestrate the fuckwit?
And since “Stormy” says there WAS real sex, and some of President* Shithole’s other accusers have said he stuck his tiny-fingered todger into them, I stand corrected. I thought that dickhead’s germ phobia would have prevented him doing that. The drive behind sex lust is stronger than phobia…
Lastly, the Daniels fucking is supposed to have happened shortly after Melanoma popped out one of the scumbag’s spawn. I could see why he’d be trying to grab some new pussy after that, not that that excuses anything. Face it — when a woman has recently given birth, even though I’d bet it was done done by C-section so as not to stretch the plumbing and lessen its value, they are usually uninterested in sex for a while. Hormonal changes as the body resets and the stress of having a highly dependent human life to look after (even if you DO have hired help!) change a woman’s priorities. Maybe it gave the Slovakian Nekkid-Picture Queen a much-needed excuse to avoid Mr. Blowhard in the bedroom, too. For a man-baby in need of affirmation like Shithole-for-Brains, I reckon he was desperate for females to tell him what a big man (in many ways) he was. So queue the sex workers!
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Bukko, you should have your own BLOG! I LOLed (while crying that such a creature is POTUS)
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