[Washington Examiner] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called his lieutenant in the United States back from Washington to discuss a potential "irreversible deterioration in relations," according to a senior Russian diplomat.
"We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.
U.S. intelligence agencies this week accused Russian intelligence operatives of disseminating claims "aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump," including through media outlets and "prominent U.S. individuals" aligned with Trump’s team. That conclusion, which dovetails with sanctions issued by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the 2020 campaign, set the table for the most pronounced display of discord between the U.S. and Russia of Biden’s nascent administration.
"He will pay a price," Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a televised interview that aired Wednesday. "We had a long talk, he and I. I know him relatively well, and the conversation started off, I said, 'I know you, and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.’"
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But of course China did not interfere. Nor did they funnel $ to the dnc through pay to play kickback schemes. Nor did they launch the virus at the world. Nope. None of that actually happened.
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How can we complain that Joe is soft on Russia and China? Look, he just called Putin a bad name. That will show him!
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Kabuki.
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Hunter & Joe Biden, their allegiance to Ukraine against Putin, bribed in full with millions in their personal accounts. To hell with Russia, to hell with the American people, they say!
[NYPOST] In an interview Wednesday, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....... said he believes President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... is "a killer," vowing that the Russian would "pay a price" for his US election meddling efforts.The commander-in-chief made the remarks to ABC’s "Good Morning America" after being asked about a report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence that implicated the Kremlin in efforts to undermine US elections and divide American society.
"He will pay a price. We had a long talk, he and I, I know him relatively well," the 46th president said. "And the conversation started off, I said, ’I know you and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.'"
Asked by "GMA" anchor George Stephanopoulos about his previous comment that he did not believe the Russian president had a soul, Biden confirmed those remarks.
"I did say that to him, yes, and his response was, ’We understand one another.’ I wasn’t being a wise guy, I was alone with him in his office and that’s how it came about."
Joe Biden backing 'Putin is a killer' claim is 'tantrum of powerlessness' [RT] Explosive comments made by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , in which he suggested his Russian counterpart is "a killer," have ignited a diplomatic row, as Moscow’s chief parliamentarian said the remarks constitute an attack on the country.
In a statement posted to Telegram, the speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that "Biden has insulted the citizens of our country with his statement" about Vladimir Putin. "This is a tantrum that comes from powerlessness. Putin is our president, attacking him is an attack on our country," he added.
Volodin contrasted the tone of the criticism to that of previous US presidents, who, despite often overseeing tense relations with Russia, and the USSR before it, maintained mutual respect. Even former president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... , he claimed, "despite the decisions that were being made on sanctions, maintained rhetoric appropriate to the level of head of state."
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he argued, "Biden’s statement today is beyond common sense. This is no way for the leader of a country that claims to be a bearer of democratic principles and morality to behave."
The American president made the remarks in an interview on Wednesday with the ABC news channel. He was asked by chief anchor George Stephanopoulos whether he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin was "a killer.""Mmm-hmm, I do," Biden replied.
Biden said he had warned Putin earlier this year that he would take action if evidence was found of Russian interference in the 2020 US election. "He will pay a price," Biden said. "We had a long talk, he and I ... I know him relatively well. And the conversation started off, and I said, ’I know you and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.’"
Earlier this week, a joint report by Washington’s spy agencies declared that Russia had attempted to influence the 2020 vote with the aim of "denigrating President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...... ’s candidacy and the Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US."
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It's what, 200 miles from NATO territory in Estonia to Moscow? Easy-peasy. A quick regime change, just like Iraq.
And yes, for the naysayers, we will be bringing winter coats this time.
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A multi-nation meta-joke combining stereotypes: "Let us declare war on Moldavia! / Negative, they will rebuild faster than we can destroy their homes! / Then let us declare war on China! / Negative, they will reproduce faster than we can kill them! / Then let us declare war on stupid yankees! / Mr. President, we ARE the stupid yankees..."
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Such a tough guy. This is the blithering BS artist who threatened to take Trump outside for a fistfight, the asshole who fabricates imaginary tough buddies and rough episodes.
No you don't, you pathetic fabulist. You met him once. But Putin understands you and your weaseling assholery better than you will ever understand him.
Putin ran rings around your old boss, that other empty suit, and he'll wrongfoot you without you even knowing it.
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1. Putin IS a killer
2. Zhou Bei-Den is that confused child who can't help blurting out the truth (...on occasion)..
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So Joe helps the Russian economy by abetting an increase in the price of oil...fails to stand up to China and North Korea...but at least he called Putin names! That will show them!
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Putin, Lavrov and their ambassador to the United States are having a good laugh and toasting our decline with vodka right now.
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Joe thinks it's March, 2017 and that was Hillary who just prodded him.
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Joe's one of these pathetic old guys who still thinks he's a tough guy in his own mind. If he didn't have security around him for most of the last fifty years, somebody would've kicked his ass a long time ago.
[DAILYWIRE] An audio recording that forced multiple major news outlets to issue corrections to stories that attributed fraudulent quotes to former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... was reportedly found on the device of the chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state’s office.Trump made a call to the chief investigator, La Belle Frances Watson, on Dec. 23 to discuss alleged fraud in the 2020 election, asking her to look into votes cast in Fulton County, Georgia, especially. Reports of the call published the next month by The Washington Post, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , and others quoted Trump as telling Watson to "find the fraud" and claiming she would be a "national hero" if she did.
An audio recording of the call published last week showed that Trump made neither statement, debunking news outlets’ claims that were sourced back to a single anonymous source.
The recording of the call was obtained through an open records request to the Georgia secretary of state’s office. Officials reportedly located the file in a trash folder on Watson’s device, according to CNN. As the outlet reported on Monday:
The lesson, dear Reader, is that if you simply must lie, cheat, and/or steal, regularly delete the contents of your computer’s trash folder.
[EpochTimes] An official in the Georgia secretary of state’s office was the only source for at least one story that falsely claimed former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... told an investigator with the office to "find the fraud."
Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, relayed details of the conversation to The Washington Post, an official with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office confirmed to The Epoch Times.
Fuchs was not on the call herself. She was told about the conversation by La Belle Frances Watson, the investigator.
A recording of the call recently emerged from a records request, showing that the Post and a slew of other outlets had falsely reported Trump uttering several phrases.
The office of Raffensperger, a Republican, says Fuchs did not present details of the conversation as verbatim.
"The Secretary of State’s Office’s first reports of its investigator’s phone conversation with President Trump relied on the investigator’s recollection. Information about the content of the call was never presented as a word-for-word transcript," a spokesperson with the office told The Epoch Times via email.
The Post said that it "misquoted" Trump, "based on information provided by a source." It also outed Fuchs as its source, after previously describing her as an individual familiar with the call.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in its correction used similar wording in explaining that it "erroneously reported" that Trump pressured Watson to "find the fraud," and that if she did, she would be a national hero.
CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... offered an editor’s note in stating that its initial version "presented paraphrasing of the President’s comments to the Georgia elections investigator as direct quotes."
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and the Post declined to answer questions about the reporting, such as whether they would commit to no longer using Fuchs as a source. CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and Rooters didn’t return inquiries. Among the outlets, all have updated their original articles except for Rooters.
All of the outlets reported on the conversation by relying on a single source, who appears to have been Fuchs in every case.
Several generations ago, news hounds largely couldn’t pursue stories without at least two sources, Andrew Schotz with the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee told The Epoch Times.
Raffensperger’s office is defending the leaking of call details, arguing that while news outlets falsely reported several Trump quotes, the substance of the recollection was accurate.
"After hearing the tape, it’s clear that her recollection accurately portrayed the president’s assertions that there was fraud to uncover and that she would receive praise for doing it," a front man said, referring to Watson.
That sentiment was echoed by news outlets in their updates: most offered editor’s notes instead of corrections and painstakingly outlined how Trump had uttered phrases similar to what they had originally reported, indicating journalists felt their initial stories were largely correct.
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It sure is odd , (NOT Really ☺),
that the USA TODAY/Gannett Co.,
which owns 100+ other large local
newspapers is not reporting this fact.
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Will anyone lose their Ga. State Job over this?
An absolute politically disseminated lie, then denial that caused great embarrassment to the Ga. Sec of States Office and its trust / credibility?
[Red State] Joe Biden did a pre-taped interview with George Stephanopoulos which aired this morning on "Good Morning America."
We’ve already covered a few of the stories out of the interview including about his comments on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and whether he should resign and his comments on the illegal immigration crisis that his comments and policies helped to encourage.
But he also spoke about encouraging people to get vaccines during the interview.
"I just don’t understand this sort of macho thing about, "I’m not gonna get the vaccine. I have a right as an American, my freedom to not do it,"’ Biden said during the interview with Stephanopoulos. ’Well, why don’t you be a patriot? Protect other people."
He doesn’t understand the concept of freedom, really? Yes, Joe Biden, people have the freedom not to get the vaccine if they don’t want it. If you don’t understand that, you’re missing a rather critical part of being an American. There are people on both sides of the aisle who are not inclined to get the vaccine, that’s up to them and Biden really is the last one who should be questioning anyone’s patriotism.
Maybe, speaking of patriotism, he should demonstrate a little of it, by showing concern over releasing illegal aliens who have the virus into the country, as he has reportedly been doing? As Fox’s Peter Doocy explained during a press briefing exchange with Jen Psaki last week, 9% of those released in the Brownsville area, 204 people, were released into the country with the virus. Maybe that could be just a bit problematic? And it’s completely inconsistent with the narrative he’s pushing on the virus.
Seems that’s more concerning than that some folks might decide that for a variety of reasons they might not take the vaccine.
Then we could also point out how Kamala Harris and some of the other Democrats during the campaign talked down a possible vaccine and said they wouldn’t be trust a vaccine under President Donald Trump. So was Kamala Harris being unpatriotic here, Joe?
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I'm not refusing the vaccine, just being generous and letting other, more deserving people get it first. Maybe by summer, once I can set the schedule and choose the vaccine...
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Out hitching, Joyce made a poor choice:
A toff of mellifluous voice!
Well, he snuffed and he sneezed
And was rough as he pleased.
"You see, Joyce, my Rolls Royce... and my choice."
Quite a notorious case, though in the end all concerned had a good laugh when forensic evidence revealed the "victim" to be a trans clone of the cross-dressing accused.
[PJ] CBS Evening News, citing unnamed sources, reports that the Department of Homeland Security has detained more than 13,000 unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden’s inauguration. What was becoming a more orderly, if still unruly, border across 2020 is now in crisis — CBS reports, even using that word the Biden administration has avoided, in its video package, which you can watch in the tweet.
[UPI] Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued the Biden administration Wednesday, saying the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package signed last week forces states to choose between receiving funding and lowering taxes.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeks a preliminary injunction against part of the American Rescue Plan Act. Yost said Congress exceeded its authority when it added the so-called tax mandate to the stimulus plan "at the last minute."
"The federal government should be encouraging states to innovate and grow business, not holding vital relief funding hostage to its preferred pro-tax policies," Yost said.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Last June, the city of Portland, Oregon, hopped on the "defund the police" bandwagon. Now, it is flooded with gun violence, and the mayor is already backtracking from his support for the cuts.
Mayor Ted Wheeler ...the incompetent but trendy leftist mayor of Portland... has requested $2 million in emergency funding for the police department, pointing directly to the surge in gun violence. At this point last year, Portland had seen just one homicide. This year, that number is 20, with 208 shootings in the city so far.
Wheeler backed the Portland City Council’s decision to cut $15 million from the police budget last June, which included disbanding police units that investigate gun violence. Predictably, that move backfired in a city that saw 100 consecutive days of violent mostly peaceful rioting last year.
Riots are back once again in the city, thanks to Wheeler’s spinelessness. Rioters have once again targeted a federal courthouse in the city, a reprise of the violent mostly peaceful storming of the courthouse last July. In June, it was reported that the city lost around $24 million due to the riots. Damage to federal buildings totals roughly $2.3 million.
Portland, like Minneapolis, doesn’t have and never did have an overpolicing problem. The city has an underpolicing problem, compounded by cowardly city leaders who pander to anti-police activists. Portland city leaders, just like their Minneapolis counterparts, humored these leftist ideologues while turning a blind eye to riots. Now, they reap the whirlwind in the form of a surge in violent mostly peaceful crime.
And this is Portland, so there is no Republican to blame for this issue. Wheeler is a Democrat. So are the city council members, with one independent who was endorsed by the council’s Democratic members. Gov. Kate Brown, who said that former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... was "provoking confrontation for political purposes" by protecting the courthouse, is a Democrat. So is President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...... , who currently has federal agents trying to protect the courthouse.
Nor is there any plausible way to blame the availability of guns in Oregon or in neighboring states. Guns are exactly as available today as they were before this 2,000% surge in murders.
This is what happens when people who are tasked with actually running a city embrace ridiculous ideologies to please activists. I would say that Portland residents deserve better, but this is the leadership they chose for their city. Given the failures of Wheeler and the city council to this point, the voters are the only ones who can change course.
If the 2020 election is any indication, it won’t be happening any time soon.
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Everyone of these lamebrained politicians who promoted or supported these moronic policies need to be tossed out of office ASAP from the local level to national level.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... on Wednesday condemned the fatal shootings of eight people — including six Asian women — at Atlanta-area massage parlors as "domestic terrorism.""We have to be clear here that what we saw here was nothing less than domestic terrorism," de Blasio said at the top of his City Hall press briefing.
The mayor called the Tuesday evening shootings "really troubling" and "something I think for so many New Yorkers is causing them a lot of pain and a lot of fear right now — the horrible attacks in Atlanta — the murder of innocent people simply because they were Asian American."
"People killed in their workplaces, going about their lives simply because of their ethnicity and a systematic effort to harm people," Hizzoner said, adding, "To see this hatred, to see it take such a violent mostly peaceful form, is extraordinarily distressing."
Instead the murderer turned out to believe he has a sex addiction, and blames the prostitutes for his problem. It has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with a young person being an idiot. From NBC:
Earlier Wednesday, authorities said the suspect told investigators that he had a sexual addiction and saw the businesses as a temptation he needed to eliminate.
The details, shared by law enforcement officers during a morning news conference with Atlanta's mayor and other top officials, were cited as a potential motive for why the gunman went on a two-county shooting spree Tuesday evening.
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Has De Blah Blah commented on Gramma Killer yet?
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I'm sure the shooter will get more sex than he can handle in prison. Probably not the kind he was hoping for but then he made the choice.
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The questions nobody is asking are: Were these women smuggled into the United States to become sex slaves? If so, who is responsible and when will they be apprehended? What, exactly, is their immigration status? Did Atlanta authorities ever inspect this "massage parlor"? Was it not, in fact, a whore house? Isn't that why Kamala Harris is so concerned? Finally, are mass shootings by deranged gunmen, which were definitely on the decline under the Trump administration, going to make a come back now that we have a Democrat back in the White House?
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^^^^
All rhetorical questions
no need to answer
time to move along
Next
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Did Atlanta authorities ever inspect this "massage parlor"?
No, but Robert Kraft gave it high marks
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Abu I’m about 5 Mike’s from the 2 in ATL. Everyone knows what’s going on in these “facilities”.
The women are promised a free flight, upon arrival their paperwork is taken by the madam and they are basically indentured workers until the costs are worked off.
[NYPOST] During the last administration it was hard to go a week or even a day without someone decrying a supposedly appalling "attack" on members of the press by President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... . These assaults largely consisted of Trump objecting to loaded questions and other gasbaggery from members of the fourth estate.
We expect politicians with partisan agendas to spar with journalists. Not so much members of the armed forces speaking in their official capacity, which is what happened last week after Tucker Carlson of Fox News dared to comment about the role of women in the military. The Second Marine Expeditionary Force responded with a snotty, childish tweet, telling Carlson: "Come back when you’ve served and been pregnant." Generals, other currently serving officers and the Pentagon’s press secretary joined in the ensuing sortie.
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It has been said that criminals do not think like normal people. So don't try to figure them out.
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Its been woke before people used the word. Since the integration of females out of the old auxiliary corps into main stream. Ask the company and platoon leaders to tell the truth. While tens of thousands of females have served honorably and effectively, a great and disproportionate number fail to perform. However, the 'brass' say shut up and deal with it. It finally came to a boil when the Middle East field commander said he'd court martial the next female that got pregnant causing all the hearts to flutter in the Capitol. Get pregnant, get out of hardship and danger.
For those who do not know. If a female gets pregnant they're removed from theater and assigned lesser duties. Someone else has to cover or be deployed with little or no notice. Units not in theater usually have to go short handed. Some commanders prefer to let them stay back in garrison rather than having to deal with problems that arise in the field.
But suck it up buttercups, cause the big boys said make it work.
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When this politicized military is ordered to deploy against "domestic terrorists", you just better hope the woke president's administration doesn't deem you to be a domestic terrorist just because you comment on Rantburg. They'll all be recent immigrants from Third World countries and they will follow the woke president's orders without question.
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Yes it should.
What do we do about it?
How do we get our republic back?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.......
[RT] Explosive comments made by US President 
...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family......
[DAILYWIRE] An audio recording that forced multiple major news outlets to issue corrections to stories that attributed fraudulent quotes to former President 
[Red State] Joe Biden did a pre-taped interview with George Stephanopoulos which aired this morning on "Good Morning America."
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
