Curious Standards

There is a reasonable possibility that Donald Trump is considering former CIA Director and general David Petraeus for Secretary of State--and for what it's worth, I really think I like him as a pick better than I do Rudy Giuliani (who I just see as a very bad fit all around--not a diplomatic guy!) or Mitt Romney (who, based on what KellyAnn Conway has been telegraphing, and the open idea that Romney should have to crawl a little bit in abject penitence for defying Team Trump--makes me want to yell at him: Run away Mitt! Run far away! They are coming for your dignity!)

But can we admit it's just a little bananas that Trump is considering someone who FBI Director Comey explained has violated the rules regarding handling classified information way worse than anything Hillary Clinton ever did?

Because I think this would be important. Hillary Clinton was the subject of chants to "lock her up", and calls from the RNC Convention demonizing her and making a case against her because of her email server, from people like Rudolph Giuliani and NJ Governor Chris Christie. But what Petraeus did is okay in Trumplandia--he is still fine for a sensitive cabinet role. And Gen. Michael Flynn, who was tapped for National Security Adviser, was also reckless as heck regarding "forbidden" communications. He's fine, too.

I bring this up because even though Donald Trump was, as some might term it, "gracious" about not prosecuting Hillary Clinton over her emails anymore (like this would actually be up to him?) it's still being held over her head as if he might take an interest. Call it the "potato peeler of Damocles", perhaps. At anytime, if he finds her dangerous, he'll consider using the Department of Justice to just skin her. (Which, I don't hesitate to add, isn't how a Chief Executive should be using the Justice Dept. at all!)

Is it because they are military men that they get the pass? Conservatives? Is it because there's just this something about HRC that makes what might be considered "bucking the rules" or "making mistakes" for Flynn and Petraeus, a federal case about shadiness when it pertains to Hillary Clinton?

I don't know--it just looks like one hell of a double standard.

Carly the Incoherent

Given the general tone that 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has taken with respects to Hillary Clinton, her cheap shot that she, Fiorina, unlike Clinton, likes to spend time with her husband is not really shocking, just tacky and personal. But when interviewed on it by Chris Matthews, she went from tacky to just plain incoherent:



Now, this doesn't make sense:

“There are so many other things we could talk about like the fact that Mrs. Clinton wants to go to the White House — she’s qualified for the big house,” Fiorina said as she dropped all pretense of fake smiling for the camera.”She should be prosecuted. She has not been prosecuted for things that took a great warrior out of office, David Petraeus.”

Huh? So Hillary Clinton doesn't like being with her husband, because she stayed with him despite his affairs, but she is responsible for David Petreaus not being CIA Director....because he had an affair.

Fiorina should probably leave Hillary Clinton's personal life alone, and maybe give up her falsehoods about her various good general friends.

Maybe she should go spend more time with her spouse?

Heh Heh Propinquity--Pat Robertson and the Ten Commandments

See, although your Old Testament might show that adultery is one of the ten things God said you really, really, shouldn't do, Pat Robertson, like the anything goes hippy scoundrel he is, understands why if you were General Petraeus, you'd really want to hit that ass. Because really, what choice do you even have, if you are a man with a penis? Like, free will and shit?

BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! You are a dude with a penis. Shut up you should tap that hell out of that.  Pat  Robertson says and it's not like he's a sleazeball plutocrat; patrirachy-reinforcing peddler of nonsense from the dangers of Halloween candy to the susceptibility of all us for living where the gays and Democrats and feminists and all'em can make God send Hurrycanes! Like 9/11's.  For giving money to the ACLU and getting divorced and all the things that--

Okay--long story short, Pat Robertson has been blaming shit on me, personally, as the person who ended my marriage, started practicing witchcraft, and taking birth control. I'm kind of fed up with it. I went to atheism--no good.  I switched to PFAW for my donations--nada. And yet somehow, I think adultery is bad faith you shouldn't have with your spouse--you should totally talk it out and see where you stand on that--

Robertson is all like "Men cheat".

Who's permissive?