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Ahh, Poor Babies. HBO Is Annoyed With President Trump

"On November 5th, the United States will reimpose sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal on Iran's energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and banking sectors," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today.

"The administration's efforts to change Iranian behavior are far broader, far deeper.  There are many other lines of effort.  We're simply focused on this line of effort today because of the significance of November 5th."

President Trump was focused on sanctions as well, following up on Pompeo's comments by tweeting a Game of Thrones-style image of himself with the words "Sanctions Are Coming."

If you’re not a fan of the HBO blockbuster, the tweet was a play on the show’s tagline “Winter Is Coming” signaling the arrival of a wintry hell and an ancient race of humanoid ice creatures who pose a threat to every living thing in Westeros.

The President’s tweet pissed off HBO causing them to issue a statement saying, “We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes.”

Asked if HBO planned to take legal action, network spokesman Jeff Cusson told CNBC there were "no further steps."

A little later, the official White House Twitter account clarified the President’s earlier tweet.

The United States has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda! https://t.co/0yuYgpvq5i

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 2, 2018

Even though Maisie Williams, who portrays Arya Stark and Sophie Turner, who portrays her sister Sansa in the hit show both tweeted their disgust, it should be noted Game of Thrones is itself a show depicting extreme corruption and politics.

Even the twice-failed presidential candidate, Granny Clinton, compared herself to another character, Cersei Lannister, in her flop of a memoir, “What Happened.”

And then the Daily Wire mocked Elizabeth Warren to a fare-thee-well:

This will really hurt her claim to the throne of Westeros. pic.twitter.com/lH3hqNJvqF

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 2, 2018

In 2012, HBO was forced to apologize for a grisly scene in which President George W. Bush’s head was shown sitting atop a barbarian’s spike.  "We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste," the cable channel said in a statement. "We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent, careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production."

NOTE FROM OUR ATTORNEY:  If the babies at HBO assert “there are no other steps” to be taken against the President’s GOT imagery, I guess the only thing I have to concern myself with are the mullahs I pissed off with this Photoshop™.

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The Dumbest Human Being In Congress

At some point in everyone’s life we are saddled with a burden.  The citizens of Texas’s 18th Congressional District have been saddled with Sheila Jackson Lee since 1995.

Jackson Lee is the undisputed poster child for utter stupidity.  Three years ago she suggested to congressional colleagues the US Constitution was 400 years old.  The Washington Times noted her remarks.  “Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what it is not.”

(The US Constitution was formally adopted on Sept. 17, 1787 and ratified on June 21, 1788.)

The graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School has a cascade of gaffes.  The one I find particularly laughable goes back to her second year as a congresswoman.  It was 1997.  Lee was visiting the Mars Pathfinder Operations Center.  While there, Ms. Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking photographs of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969.  Of course, Armstrong planted the flag on the Moon.

On Friday, Lee vehemently declared her intention to get rid of President Trump for failing to act quickly enough to counteract Russian’s election meddling and framed the president’s most recent Tweets as a step backward in the long march toward equality for women.

Blustering before Fox Business TV cameras, the Texas Democrat asserted the 25th Amendment “lets Congress remove incompetent presidents."

"Let me just explain. The 25th Amendment is utilized when a president is perceived to be incompetent or unable to do his or her job.  He is incompatible with the office and the leadership of this country," she said. "And yes, the idea that his continuous assault on women only compounds the fact that I would ask him, it's a job that he does not seemingly like, he needs to resign."

.@JacksonLeeTX18 calling on the resignation of @POTUS: "The 25th Amendment is utilized when a president is perceived to be incompetent." pic.twitter.com/8Mbi29yz4W

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) June 30, 2017

The very definition of incompetence is a congresswoman who believes the Constitution is 400 years old and Neil Armstrong planted the American flag on Mars.  She’s an embarrassment right along with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) who expressed concern in 2010 that stationing 8,000 Marines on the island of Guam would cause the small island to “tip over and capsize.”