Ever read about the attempted Morgan/DuPont coup d’etat against
FDR in the 1930’s? The super rich botched that one by mistakenly thinking that a famous war hero would join their cause. He instead turned them in. They learned a lesson or two there I guess….notice how Trump belittles the war hero John McCain? Odd coincidence I guess.

I expect that Trump may try to do something particularly heinous, even for him, in the near future, as the intelligence agencies and the walls of the White House close in on him. His life long cavorting with Eastern Europeans is just a little too weird for my taste, and his ability to rally loyalists to his cause is reason to keep your eyes open. It is like he is the Ghost of king George, come back to reinstall a monarchy in Murka.

Eventually we may get to a point where they alienate enough people in a memorable enough way that they remember it all the way to a series of election times. Or not. Distractions can be made to order these days.

Trump probably thinks he can get away with abusing her by firing her and then merely waving his magic little Donald wand and calling any of her upcoming claims fake news. But on the other hand, she might just have the ability to spring a critical leak in his little boat.

Also, there is the hormonal aspect. When a male baboon is bested in a fight, their testosterone level typically plummets, and one way that they will try to restore their testosterone level is by beating up a lesser baboon. In view of the public humiliation Trump received in the Moore battle, he had a real need to get a T boost. And he is a baboon. So Omarosa had to go.

Plus, firing a black woman is probably real red meat to his base.

Also, we don’t know what she might have overheard in the scheming room when Steve Miller and the boys tried to pull the Alabama senate seat out of the roaring inferno that that contest became. Something made her uncomfortable and it sounds like some highly inappropriate and embarassing racism might have reared its nasty little head in there.

Its fun to speculate. Good time to get some popcorn going.

She’s not an important player at all. By all accounts she didn’t have a job and was simply kept around for some reason nobody understood. The fact that she wasn’t allowed to let her little hissy fit get her to complain to the president shows how insignificant she was.

Her write a tell-all? Have you heard her try to speak? A book without any words having more than two syllables wouldn’t sell.

It’s what slut-shaming means. If you accuse Donald Trump of slut-shaming, then you are attacking him for criticizing Gillibrand’s promiscuity.

I think your definition is too narrow. An angry person going for a slut-shaming attack may well go for a double punch:
– first claiming its target is a slut
– and then criticize her for being one.

Your definition would be better anyway if you added “implied” before “promiscuity”.
One key point from feminists about slut-shaming is that the part about the target acting slutty is very often in the eye of the beholder. Double standards*, guilty before proven innocent, and all that.

* seriously, reproaching a politician to be “begging” for funds? Isn’t it part of the job?

That comment does seem to qualify as a content-free sound bite. Sounds good, no-calories, makes no sense, distracts from more important things. Reich wingers defend Bannon almost as much and irrationally as they defend Trump.

This would be a good time to look into why some people are more susceptible to sociopaths and their woo than others. It looks like about a third of the country have this particular susceptibility. Dangerous numbers.

Roy Moore is apparently hoping for a recount. There is no small irony then in this story:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/12/alabama-court-gives-last-minute-order-that-could-impede-recount-procedure

… Left committing hate crimes to blame on Republicans.

Creating hate crimes how?