Donny's ranting on Truth Social about how Israel never goaded him into attacking Iran, and he's whining about how his terrible approval numbers are rigged
Because the call home won’t be from the Good Lord, it’ll be coming from Lucifer who appears to be living up to his name and torturing us before the 🍊🤡🐖y’s name gets to the top of his “Call them Home” list
I worked in that building when I was 20 when it was known as The Tishman Bldg in the 1970s and was modern for its time. It was when Fifth Avenue was still beautiful with wonderful old deco office buildings and beautiful stores. I loved working there. The entire bldg had a textured aluminum facade and at night it lit up with a red 666 on top. . Air Italia had it's own space on the ground floor, B. Dalton bookstore, a fancy clothing store called Ted Lapidus..Fountain inside. If you've ever seen the movie "Klute" with Jane Fonda from the 1970s there is a shot of her walking through the lobby. I think it had pink marble walls and black marble floors. ...Warner Bros who made the movie had their offices and a screening room there. . They had a beautiful restaurant on the top floor called "Top of the Sixes" whose view was second only to "The Rainbow Room" on the top of Rockefeller Center. When my Dad came into the city when I was working there, he would take me there for drinks and dinner as a treat. i could never have afforded it. It made me.sick to know Kushner bought it, and of course, ruined it. Removed the facade that made it unique, covered in souless glass, tacky stores. I'm sure there is Saudi or Middle Eastern Money he needed to bail him out...he made the WORST DEAL.EVER. They changed the address to 660 Fifth. Cheap looking. So glad I have my memories..
While we don't need a Prof to tell us it is a global catastrophe, his theory fits well with what we are seeing going on. I got 3 messages from this. I need to work to GOTV. I need to get off of fossil fuels in all ways that I can. I need to protest the war.
My dear departed aunt used to say this to her kids when she realized they were getting the best of her. She never disciplined them so they did what they pleased, sassed her, talked down to her while acting all innocent. That’s my take on it.
Well, we all know he's adjective-challenged, so it fits. He's also dumber than dirt, so he'll always be adjective-challenged. And not very nice himself either, for that matter.
Frank -now IF I believed, I'd like this more than I do, and I freaking LOVE it. :) One of my favourite John Denver songs I used to sing at the top of my lungs in the car; while painting; any and everywhere, lol.
I'd prefer the smiting I saw in an AI video - the one where he claimed he 'thought he was a doctor' and someone else added to it. Perhaps if someone forwarded it to frump he'd believe it was real and keel over? One can always hope?
That is why I said I thought Trump was at the wrestling to keep him out of the way during the negotiations. Then I heard that Bibi called Vance in the middle and things went downhill from there. So, two leaders who can be guaranteed to mess things up. Marco was there with Trump to babysit.
They even called up the daughters to keep him sweet. Poor Liddle M. He's still waiting for Daddy to drop Cuba into his hands. I doubt that will happen, he's too far gone now.
By BIG STRONG MEN with glycerine tears in their eyes - all ready to punch him the fuck OUT if he makes a move towards the door - is whom I'd choose to 'baby' sit. Definitely agree with you about him needing 'minded'.
I was certainly glad. If Trump is sundowning as Jeff says, then that might explain why his craziness is most prolific on Truth Social at night. I would like to see him locked up at night with something that he thinks is Truth Social, but really isn't. The world would benefit from him not being able to make pronouncements at night. We also need to ensure that the next non MAGA president shuts Truth Social down.
Shuts down Truth Social, does away with the Board of Peace and the money it extorted, take his name off the Kennedy Center, and follows up on all the insider trading breadcrumb trails that the BBC has reported. So many things need to be shut down and investigated that they will be hiring lawyers like crazy.
Let's face it - Donnie Dipshit is raging at anyone who happens to be in the room because he is still so miffed that Mother Nature so slighted his magnificence with that tiny orange toadstool she endowed him with... Can't you just imagine the other boys in the locker room in Jr. High sniggering at him and calling him 'Needle Dick the bug fucker'?
Yup! AND of course he still believes the old trope about black men being far more - ahem, 'endowed' so has carried his HUGE jealousy of Barack Obama from his 'birthing' days right up to today. I usually describe his deep resentment and jealousy as being about Barack's cool, his class, intelligence and intellectualism but deep down we KNOW that for donnie dimwit it's about his tiny little peepee not measuring up. ;)
No doubt about that - a concoction of stimulants, like Adderall, dementia fighting meds, steroids, antidepressants, and narcotics. Likely not all at once, but one can sense what meds at specific times. When he's kinda "nice" & jovial: narcotics & antidepressants, etc.
I was given a steroid of some sort to fight the bad side efx from chemotherapy, and have never been as juiced, nuts. Eventually requested that they not include them. Too much. And I'm an old hippie - did about every drug known to man at some stage of HS & college. They're keeping him "propped up," for as long as possible - the heritage goons, tech bros & putin assets are the ones running the shit-show. S. Miller & Wiles are taking their cues from those guys. Perhaps the most evil group of fuckers ever to have been assembled - destroying all our once trusted institutions & services, draining the Treasury, and burning down our Democracy. Dread taking our chances "with the couch fucker." He's Thiel's bitch, and Peter Thiel is unwell; has some very fucked up views about humanity and Democracy (gift link):
To be sure. Europe is starting to sound the alarm about him, but I don't know what they can do. Capitalism allows for evil wealthy people to be in the game.
Project 2025 going in circles now, a straight line if JD were in charge. Trump is a haphazardly wired time bomb. JD would be a bomb that has a detonator placed for a particular time and purpose. Neither option is optimal, but at least we wouldn't have to follow a completely unpredictable timeline with Trump out of the picture.
The Vanity Fair article about Wiles made it seem that SHE ran the show with miller (and 3 others) as her 'deputies'. Frankly, I think she's being hornswoggled by miller's vileness, although she THINKS she's in charge. I've never done those drugs but can easily see that he's being kept coked up when they need him to be. At some point in time - probably to Howard Stern, he admitted to doing coke (at Studio 54) - when it was 'nothing'. Most folks then knew full well he blew out his nose. The one he has now isn't the same shape, Rebuilt. ALL of these crazy fuckers have - at some point, been drugged up and now imagine they're better than everyone else: orange fuckwit, bobby brainworms, Thiel, etc. I'M not so worried about couchfuck mcgee (Jeff's so apt name for him) because the magats do NOT love him at all and won't switch to him, especially now that the orange one is showing his dislike for vance. THEN there's the fact of his being married to a Hindu woman and has - - gasp brown children with her. The magats will turn on him like rabid dogs. MY biggest worry is the idea of a 'dynasty' despite how incredibly stupid the entire kkklan of frumpists are proving to be. While some have actual college credits/degrees, their inability to LEARN anything beyond daddy's 'instructions' is frightening. magat cultists WILL vote for another frump. It's our job to ensure that never happens.
Get headaches worrying about who is actually running this shitshow. Believe it's safe to assume Trump is not, except when he's told to. Imagine it's like the scene in Network, where Ned Beatty screams at Peter Finch - "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!"
That performance is SO GOOD! I'm a huge fan of Ned's - love him in Homicide, Life on the Street (which is being rerun on Dish Network). He was AS excellent playing Detective Stan Bohlander as he was in every role he took on, This one - in Network was above and beyond, though. Knowing that it was written 50 years ago is astounding - when 'corporations' were our 'owners' (shades of George Carlin). Frump wouldn't get any of it - nor would he care. ALL that malignant narcissist cares about is stuffing his pockets with AS much money as he can possibly steal from US. The 'greed is good' crew really imagined they'd get to stay in charge forever and a day. well, Virginia just proved that they are SO wrong and WE (as Robert de Niro said) want our Country back - and come November WE Democrats will have a majority in Congress. Frump was stupid enough to start this gerrymandering garbage, so now we're showing him how WE can do it far better. Fuck frump and his thugs and goons, we refuse to allow them to destroy us.
LSD, I think, as that would explain a lot. This sure feels like an acid trip to me. In the 70's I ate too many mushrooms and saw the devil and I never did any psychedelic's again, but damn I think I'm on them now because lucifer is in charge.
Aaah, never thought of that one since I never touched the stuff BUT I've been calling it frump's 'magical mystery world'. What's going on inside that big, fat orange pumpkin noggin of his is NOT for the faint of heart to see or even imagine. When he's grinning like a jackass while sitting like a sack of potatoes at the Resolute Desk - you can tell he's on 'something' juicy and has NO IDEA where he is - what Century he's in OR what Planet he's on. Probably imagines Ivanka is only 10 and wants to bounce her on his knee - again. The language he uses OUT LOUD and caught on camera by the PRESS is the dead giveaway that he's off in another world. The Iranians and their Lego vids are hilariously taking full advantage of his insanity.
Just like it was in his first time being prez. The staff were drug addicts and I imagine that the same is true with these people too. A literal cesspool!
I'm sure he's on a whole cocktail of meds, none of which can help the fact that he's a personality disordered, stark raving mad lunatic with Sun Down syndrome.
If you will also notice he has had fewer "rallies" (i. e. ego-stroking events) lately? He had the one in AZ where the attendance was WAY DOWN but I really can't remember another MAGA rally recently-maybe his keepers have finally realized those days are long over and the turnout in AZ was the nail in the coffin...
Jeff: notice that in the photo of Obama's Situation Room - Joe Biden is also sitting to Barack's right AND Hillary Clinton has her hand covering her mouth - clearly upset by what they're all watching. These are SERIOUS people, paying attention to a SERIOUS event involving Seal Team 6 who were risking it ALL going in to either capture or kill Bin Laden - the mastermind of 9/11. The number of American Military lives at risk was terrifying to them despite all precautions being taken and our best military minds giving the go-ahead. Earlier that Evening was the Correspondents' Dinner when Barack Obama teased frump about how his 'apprentice' would have kept him up at night - all this while he was taking care of REAL and SERIOUS Government business, not screaming like a fucking toddler. frump was seething, stewing over his imagined 'insult' - still is, which is why he plans to show up at the Correspondents' Dinner. What a maroon. Does he somehow think he's somehow cowed ALL of the Press enough so no one laughs at him again?
He does remind me of Hitler, but Hitler's doctor was treating his "depressions" do we say bipolar mania with cocaine and some toxins. Nothing that is evidence based to day for treating depressions, except for people self medicating their depressions and bipolar disorder with Cocaine.
LSD is a treatment for cases of depression that are not effectively treated by other medication. Can you imagine the orange menace on acid? His “ballroom”/bunker would need to be padded with rubber walls, ceilings, and floors. When will his hangers on invoke the 25th? They have to be crazier than shit house rats themselves if they can’t see the 25th as their own way out.
Noel Casler said Trump was huffing Adderall all the time during his apprentice filming, couldn’t remember his lines, nor read a teleprompter. Cutting Adderall with Cocaine is a thing, Donny should probably mix in some Ketamine like his pal Elon does Linda.
Everyone hates the smokey eyed odious cretin… he’s Thiels oquettish paramour, which is all he’s ever going to be Linda. I suppose he’s next in line, but the thought leaves a foul taste in my mouth.
Jeff, as of 10:30 Am, Roll Call (they keep a database of his tweets/untruths) has the felon tweeting twice today. 1 is just a retweet. the 2nd is about Israel. But it wasn't authored by him. It doesn't even read like he said "put this in there!" no, it's too calm & the punctuation, grammar etc is too good. Anyone can throw in some all caps & copy/paste from his previous tweets. Doesn't make it his.
Thing is now Donroe can say some truly outrageous thing that he actually needs to retract and then it will come out that it was a staffer with access to his account 😂 « I never said anything about bombing bridges. It was that TRAITOR RINO HEGSETH » or whatever.
When its something that gets criticized he probably says its an aid. I wouldn't doubt that he has voice activated text or an actual aid who does the texting while shouts.
Well, surely he doesn't want anybody to think he can be manipulated! Especially now that people are beginning to speak out against BeeBee's genocides (Gaza and Lebanon) without being boiled in oil for antisemitism--surely Donny couldn't be manipulated by somebody nobody *likes* anymore!
Since all roads lead to Putin, I suspect he’s behind bibi & trump’s war on Iran. Not that that absolves either of them nor does it negate that Putin may have used bibi to push trump.
Lolz poor little weak Donnie can’t sleep because he has to convince the world that he is not an old broke down criminal coward who rapes little girls and is not respected and about to be thrown on the trash heap
Love the Iranian Lego movies! Nailed it!
Also love Mark Carney not putting up with one ounce of Donnie’s bullshit Nailed it too!
Veneze-who? He never heard of her. The oil companies got some gold for their troubles so I think they are doing something down there but who knows. Will have to dig into Reuters or the BBC to find out the scoop because the American press is worthless right now.
Israel didn't have to "goad" him. All they had to do was softly suggest that if he defeated Iran, he would go down in History as the most effective President ever. Just pushing his vanity buttons. Well, they got the "history" part right...
What's always struck me about that pic of Obama in the Situation Room with his team is how he's NOT center stage. He's in thick of it, but off to the side, allowing the military professional to take the lead on a military operation.
God I miss him. I remember saying, when he got elected, "Thank God because GWB is the worst president we could ever have." The universe then said, "Hold my beer. In fact, hold an entire brewery."
Once upon a time, America had a thoughtful, urbane, compassionate, morally upright, benevolent, intelligent leader. And the conservatives hated him and did every fucking thing they could to obstruct and undermine him. They derided his inclusion of the US in the multilateral Iran nuclear treaty as weak. They ridiculed his assertions on the necessity of affordable healthcare and education. They smeared him as not forceful enough for not plunging headlong into another potential forever war in the Middle East to confront a borderless insurgency that was ISIS. And they gave us this unholy clusterfuck of stupidity, malfeasance, and incompetence. So go fuck yourselves, conservatives. You have lost all credibility (if you ever had any to begin with.) Your selfishness will destroy the world. You have moved us toward that fate steadily and inexorably since the beginning of this nation.
We also had a First Lady who was educated, learned and compassionate. Although a lawyer, she did not sue anyone, she did not demand her own airplane and she could speak English intelligently and with coherence.
It’s wildly insane that she is reported to be a model; as if she were on the runway during fashion week. Of course couture modeling is also a cesspool, but elegant by comparison to her porn work.
So much of her past was exaggerated by her handlers or herself. Her website claimed she had a university degree but that was erased after it was fact checked. The term "super model" was applied to her by her backers but she was nowhere near that status. Her modeling career, as evidenced by the nude and seminude photos still floating around, was definitely lower tier glamour stuff. Now, as former friend Amanda Ungaro has implied, she was likely part of the young eastern European model/trafficking operations of Paolo Zampolli-Jean Luc Brunel-John Casablancas-DJT
The "models" brought over from Eastern Europe weren't quite trafficked. They kept their passports and could do and go wherever they wanted. But they weren't runway models either. Most of their work was probably to be filler at parties for rich men to pick up. Must be great work if you can get it, but it still ain't genius visa level work.
And without irony, MAGA stooges have in all seriousness lauded Melania as "the classiest First Lady in American history!" That right there is Trump Derangement Syndrome
I read an article about the creation of the populist Republican party that started with Reagan and stoked racism and anti intellectualism among white urban and rural working class. It was strong movement to frame the Democratic Party the party of minorities, feminists, and Hollywood elites. It really worked, but the natural outcome was Trump, a rich, anti intellectual white racist, sexist game show host.
Don't forget to include the rise of the Evangelicals in the 70's. Religious shows and right wing talk radio. Thank God Rush is with Satan now. All of this was going on right under our nose. I'll say one thing for these freakazoids, they play the long game and are very patient. 50 years to dismantle Roe. Dem attention span is about 2 days.
So not true. I remembered and paid attention to Reagan his entire miserable life from governor of California to his death. You would too, if you'd gone to Berkeley when he was governor in 1969.
Yes, but in all fairness I believe that we should live in a reasonable country where people can agree that a person can make their own health decisions about their own selves. Like drugs. I never would take drugs but if a person wants to take drugs isn't that their sad problem.
WHERE do YOU get the idea that 'Dem attention span is about 2 days'? Have you followed ANY of our democratic lawmakers OR all of US who follow THEM? who're not only fighting like mad to stop the orange fuckwit (and those who came before) from enacting shitty policies, but getting out INTO the streets, day after day, month after month, year after year!? There's a huge difference between being 'good hard-working people' who stay that way - and evil fuckers who spend ALL of their time as well as accumulating tons of money IN ORDER TO bring down our democracy. WE who are fighting AND have long attention spans are doing everything possible, but we're not fucking oligarchs being promised terrible things such as the pedophiles are getting from every repuke president, or WARS killing/maiming our loved ones! MY husband is still paying for/suffering from his Agent Orange exposure. HE went - without complaint because it was his fucking DUTY, after his parents emigrated from Germany when he was a tiny boy. He believed he OWED his new Country, as do ALL of the current Latino veterans who're being snatched up from the streets regardless of the Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars they've earned with their blood - and either deported too Countries they don't remember OR imprisoned in horrific conditions because donnie is jealous of their bravery and hates brown-skinned immigrants.
I dunno. I think Nixon's use and expansion of the Southern strategy was the real precursor to what is now MAGA/Rump mindset. Raygun then amplified it and added a bunch of evils of his own.
And it will continue to work, as long as white males without a college degree are such a large proportion of voters. Sure they’re big mad at Trump about the price of gas now but when that price comes down after Trump taco’s they’ll forget all about it and vote for the next Republican idiot in line. These racist crackers will never vote for a Democrat, even though they fare better economically when one is President, because they’re deep in the white tribe and could never associate their vote with a woman, or a black person, or a gay person,etc.
They disparaged his ideas and accomplishments in conjunction with their racist dog whistle campaign against him to further their own agenda, heedless of what their actions did to our nation and the world. Fucking selfish, arrogant, hateful assholes.
Thanks for the recap, Doc, of the miserable, underhanded way the “conservatives”undermined President Obama. It was all about racism right from the start. That festering, diseased skin over their hatred erupted and is trying to smother the life out of the “Great Experiment”.
Don't forget - their RACISM against him (he wore a tan suit one Summer Day) lay behind it all. They've NEVER gotten over the simple fact that Americans elected their first Black American President - so did everything possible to trash him AND his lovely and brilliant wife AND his two beautiful daughters. For pity's sake, they STILL try to pretend that he's somehow gay, that she's somehow her own brother AND that he wasn't born in America (despite incontrovertible proof to the contrary). His very name triggers them, as does Zohran Mamdani's in New York's Mayoralty Office. The lengths racists will go to is astounding, all while being weak little cowardly creeps.
#Bumblefuck is the personification of The Pigeon on the Chessboard: When in doubt, knock all the pieces over, shit all over the board, & scream "I WON!!" before flying away.
There’s the story about Fred Trump being so deep in dementia, his office staff placed blank papers in front of him to sign. Keep him busy.
Essentially that’s what the White House does. Trump goes off on his Biden auto pen rant. I’m convinced Trump doesn’t know what he signs. My point; put a fake Truth Social screen in front of him. Let Trump type away without destabilizing the world or the stock market.
My diet is cheeseburgers and cokes (never diet) and I'm only 3 years younger than Trump. Still working and am in good health for my age. So don't count on the cheeseburgers. And we all know now, thanks to Prez Brainiac, that diet coke kills grass and cancer.
Never could do diet anything. Can't get that icky taste of artificial sweetener out of my mouth. It's not just soda, it's anything that has it in there. I'll eat or drink something that has real sugar in it or I just pass on the fake sugar stuff. None of it is really good for us anyway.
Suki, that’s a plausible idea. Give that stinking dead fish some flies to preoccupy him — even though he’s a stinking dead fish there might still be some life left in that tongue of his…
We should ask Laura Loony (another stinky dead fish that should know)
This scenario is playing out exactly as portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr Strangelove” from the “ you can’t fight in here, it’s the war room” to General ‘Buck” Turgidson as Hegseth played by George C. Scott. saying “Wish I had one of them doomsday machines”.
Me, I’m just wondering how his demented capitalization of words hasn’t already made it abundantly clear to everyone that the frayed bundles up there are sparking.
I've said it before, I'm convinced all he remembers from grade school English class is that you capitalize nouns. He missed the part where it means only proper nouns, and thinks it means every noun. I'm just surprised that he knows what a noun is, but if you notice, it generally is nouns that he capitalizes, like "Country or World", you know, words that do not need to be capitalized, but he's not sure, but he thinks they're nouns, so he better capitalize them. I'm no expert, but English was one of my favorite subjects in school and it just gets on my nerves in a way I can't explain when someone demonstrates such poor understand of the English language. I literally cringe reading his posts; both due to the content and the mangling of English.
I totally agree! As an English major and professional communications director, his profound ignorance that’s displayed even with his lack of knowing proper English is mind numbing. The random initial caps bug me every single time, not to mention his extremely limited vocabulary. A total, ranging idiot on every level.
Maureen, I know what I’m about to suggest is not proper grammar but even though you have “idiot” in the middle of a sentence don’t you think it should have an explanation point after it and maybe also be capitalized…all the letters.
I believe that the tweets that have numerous capitalizations are written by someone else. tRump absolutely does NOT have the acuity or patience to do that. Also the tone is very different from his all-caps messages... far more sinister... which means Miller is likely behind them.
There's two type of Republicans. The intelligent ones who go to high end post-secondary schools, and who are in all in on the game of vacuuming wealth from the middle class to themselves. And MAGAts, who are more than happy to hand over their wealth to the intelligent ones.
I believe that the tweets that have numerous capitalizations are written by someone else. tRump absolutely does NOT have the acuity or patience to do that. Also the tone is very different from his all-caps messages... far more sinister... which means Miller is likely behind them.
Oh Lord can we please just skip to the end where Goebbels poisons his children and wife while whispering about the Reich Heaven they're all destined for, Hitler gives Blondi cyanide before taking care of Eva Braun (making sure she goes first because, you know, she's still got options) and then eating his Walther? He had a strict non-smoking policy in the bunker, and anecdotal evidence suggests that as soon as they heard the shot the generals waiting in the lobby immediately lit up.
Iran already won this war. They watch CNN and know the tyrant is blustering on a single remaining brain cell, that there's no mob of followers who won't toss him over the side as soon as they can without damaging their own careers (good luck with that, ladies and germs....everyone knows you're cowardly sacks of shit, and even though they may forget it like before it's also possible they WON'T). Nobody will ride to the rescue.
The Strait of Hormuz is WAY more effective than an atomic weapon. Imagine if Dear Leader Kim could bottleneck all the Chinese exports! No, Iran closes the strait and the world slowly starves. They know from the Afghanistan invasion lessons of America (and the CCCP) that if you wait the "superpower" will cave. As for the thousands getting killed, hell the Mullahs killed more than that so they're cool.
Also, they are likely seeing the viral shot of the 600 calorie spam and meat patty ration on the largest ship of the greatest fighting force of the whole universe ever. Reminds me of the Russians in Ukraine eating WW2 C-rats and/or cans of dogfood. It's the sure sign of a Potemkin military.
I once went to a fairly new medical building that was built adjacent to a large pond; automatic doors admitted the patients.....and a pair of sandhill cranes. The cranes had wandered over from the pond to check out the new neighbors and found the patients and the doors fascinating. So they would just slip inside and investigate the lobby. The security guard, whose new extra job duty included escorting the cranes back outside, said that the cranes were just a little too short to activate the door sensor themselves--but that, while they waited for the next chance to sneak inside, they were examining the area to figure out the sensors...........
Easy Arne — the duck was protesting — last I heard that was a crime … that is unless it’s done by Trumpers — then it’s ok.
Scratch that, Trumpers always manage to skip that part — they go straight to rioting — it’s the republican way.
You bought and paid for this republicans, and with no discounts — you own this — “law and order party” my ass.
With you assholes running things there is no law. There is no order. There is no constitution.
I used to “graciously” distinguish between republicans and Trumpers (granted that was long ago). You can’t slide a piece of paper between them.
You republicans have abandoned all the principles you claimed to have. Of course you never had any to begin with.
All you ever really had was “fear mongering” which you sold to older people, the uneducated, immigrants who don’t know they are cannon fodder to the republicans, and young male incels.
And you succeeded.
Some prize you got there.
When or if he stops stinking (because he’s dead and buried) who will clean up the mess?
All your messes get cleaned up by the progressives (democrats).
Time goes by.
People forget that you made the messes.
You ramp up the fear mongering.
You convince people they’re being done in by the ____ (fill in the blank).
You win an election.
You make a big mess.
Dejavú all over again
When will we ever learn?
There’s one last thing I want to add: we need a Conservative Party (not a fear mongering one) to act as a balance to the progressives. Progressives are good hearted and more susceptible to being conned regarding money. It is good to have debate between conservatives and progressives and compromise on spending.
This current ideation of the Republican Party (and it’s actually been this way for decades) is fascist and full on fear mongering. It’s destroying our country.
There used to be Republicans I could have political arguments with. They would want to be more tight-fisted with the public money than I would, out of a distrust of the efficacy of government programs to solve problems. But we would agree on what would be good, just not about what policies would get us there.
And there used to be conservatives I could have philosophical arguments with. They would have different senses of the good, putting more emphasis on purity and on obedience to authority than on my standards of reciprocity and equality. But we would agree on what things happen in the world, just not about what values to attach to them.
Now there are only right-wingers that I can only have epistemological arguments with. They do not agree about what things have really happened in the world, nor about how one would go about figuring out what is true. The discussions become pointless before we even get to questions about values, let alone policies.
Why are they sending Larry, Darryl, and Darryl back again when they fucked it up the first time? This "president" keeps sending the 3 stooges to do the job of a diplomat. But, apparently, we don't have one. I'm looking at you, Big Shoes Rubio.
Sending in JD (I know more about Catholic theology than the Pope) Vance and the two realtors sends Iran a clear message that no serious negotiations will be taking place.
Thank you Jeff once again for putting humor here to keep us all from screaming and crying nonstop. You have a gift with words so we know what is happening without losing our minds.
Great summary and argument for 25th-ing. The temperature is rising based on the subtle increase in seriousness noticeable in Jeff’s writing here. We can joke about a lot of what’s happening for a long time. But, really now. Outright guffaws become laugh-out-loud become ha-ha’s become snickers become “check, please” too many times now. Finding humor in Trump’s (or Patel’s or Hagbreath’s) antics must be one of the toughest tasks this season. As usual, truth is often funnier than fiction until it’s not. If only Congress or Cabinet or VP could look past today and see the obvious. Cleanup in aisle 47, please.
In reality, though, 25th amendment-ing is a heavier lift than impeachment. To implement the 25th, a majority of the Cabinet would first have to approve it, which will never happen (absent a drastic change in current events; e.g., Rump threatens to fire all of them). If, for whatever reason, the Cabinet did vote against him, Rump would surely protest, at which point a two-thirds majority of both Houses would also have to vote against him. That's a simplification, per my reading, but those are the basic steps.
Whereas impeachment leaves out the Cabinet part of the process. Still immensely unlikely under the current circumstances.
I noticed that "subtle increase in seriousness," yeah. Well articulated Douglas, and concerning. If our wise Uncle Jeff is getting too worried to be funny, we're cooked. ☹️
"can you imagine any other president in recent memory getting eighty-sixed from the center of operations? no, you can’t. it’s practically unthinkable."
It blows my mind that he was kicked out of the command room. And I'm sure it's not the first time something similar has happened. That, alone, is enough for the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Not to mention a million other reasons.
What the hell is wrong with people in this country that anyone can tolerate this nightmare.
I hear you. They must have used some clever distraction. It's hard to imagine how it would go down. Probably not: "Excuse me Mr. President. Just let us take care of this. Off you go now."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116437457191403164
Donny's ranting on Truth Social about how Israel never goaded him into attacking Iran, and he's whining about how his terrible approval numbers are rigged
also notice that he once again has no public appearances. they're really working hard to keep him away from the press
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/calendar/
It's Weekend at Bernie's every single day. These days are truly terrifying. Why doesn't the good Lord do us a solid and call him home?
Because the call home won’t be from the Good Lord, it’ll be coming from Lucifer who appears to be living up to his name and torturing us before the 🍊🤡🐖y’s name gets to the top of his “Call them Home” list
To him everything is an opportunity priced
As a chance for his next grifting heist
Under that fiberglass hair
Is a 666 there?
He sure acts like the Antichrist
Nah, Kushner is the Antichrist. He even owned 666 5th Ave. 🤣
Kushner is certainly a dastardly prick. But even he does not possess the breath holding array of terrible traits of his father in law
Nope. He's evil but it's Miller who is the Anti-Christ.
😂
I worked in that building when I was 20 when it was known as The Tishman Bldg in the 1970s and was modern for its time. It was when Fifth Avenue was still beautiful with wonderful old deco office buildings and beautiful stores. I loved working there. The entire bldg had a textured aluminum facade and at night it lit up with a red 666 on top. . Air Italia had it's own space on the ground floor, B. Dalton bookstore, a fancy clothing store called Ted Lapidus..Fountain inside. If you've ever seen the movie "Klute" with Jane Fonda from the 1970s there is a shot of her walking through the lobby. I think it had pink marble walls and black marble floors. ...Warner Bros who made the movie had their offices and a screening room there. . They had a beautiful restaurant on the top floor called "Top of the Sixes" whose view was second only to "The Rainbow Room" on the top of Rockefeller Center. When my Dad came into the city when I was working there, he would take me there for drinks and dinner as a treat. i could never have afforded it. It made me.sick to know Kushner bought it, and of course, ruined it. Removed the facade that made it unique, covered in souless glass, tacky stores. I'm sure there is Saudi or Middle Eastern Money he needed to bail him out...he made the WORST DEAL.EVER. They changed the address to 660 Fifth. Cheap looking. So glad I have my memories..
Good stuff Doc. 😂😂
Doc, great one!!
👏👏👏👏
Applause.
Excellent!!
Lucifer and his little band of demons are in their Situation Room howling, doubled over with laughter.
Nailed it Eileen‼️
I like the visual!
Honestly, I wager Lucifer really doesn't want him either! :-/
Exactly. Hell is too good for Trump.
Right? Competition.
I wouldn’t bet against that👺
Love the emoji string
Aww thank you🤗
Truth!
👍
Meanwhile, without mentioning the Crazy word, Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago explains how Trump is caught in what he calls the "Escalation Trap" to Wajahat Ali. He explains why walking away would be the best we can do, but we have not and why it is a GLOBAL CATASTROPHE! https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-escalates-the-iran-war-crisis?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
While we don't need a Prof to tell us it is a global catastrophe, his theory fits well with what we are seeing going on. I got 3 messages from this. I need to work to GOTV. I need to get off of fossil fuels in all ways that I can. I need to protest the war.
I pray to God nightly for Divine intervention, but somehow I’m being overlooked. Could it be because I’ve never hated someone as much as I hate Trump?
No need to feel guilty!
Honestly. I have a bone to pick with Al Mighty.
"That wasn't very nice, was it?" A president is tweeting stuff like that. Who is supposed to be a mature, educated, thoughtful person.
The Same idiot that says “they’re playing cute” WTAF does that actually mean?
I think it sound rapey, or rapist adjacent.
My dear departed aunt used to say this to her kids when she realized they were getting the best of her. She never disciplined them so they did what they pleased, sassed her, talked down to her while acting all innocent. That’s my take on it.
But we didn’t elect her. We elected him, who is immature, poorly educated, and thoughtless. Also crazy, disgusting, and vile.
Sooz, vile is an apt description.
Well, we all know he's adjective-challenged, so it fits. He's also dumber than dirt, so he'll always be adjective-challenged. And not very nice himself either, for that matter.
Bonnie ' not very nice' is truly THE understatement of the year in describing this monstrous baby.
Because that’s not his final destination. 🔥
Yep Arnie, if there was a god and he/she was a good dude (dude-et) he/she would definitely do that. Apparently there is not.
So it’s up to us and our thoughts and prayers lie with Country Road:
Country road, take him home
To the place he belongs
West Virginia, with Melonoma,
Take him home
Way down below
God, thank you for your attention to this matter.
Now children, what is the mannerly thing to say?
“NOW!”
Frank -now IF I believed, I'd like this more than I do, and I freaking LOVE it. :) One of my favourite John Denver songs I used to sing at the top of my lungs in the car; while painting; any and everywhere, lol.
Because God is punishing us for voting for him
So we Kamala voters are COLLATERAL DAMAGE ?
God is a prick
Of course we are, Kristy — that’s the democratic way!
None of US voted for that narcissistic psychopath! NO 'god' would inflict such a warped monster on anyone.
No benevolent God. Depending on which mythology you look at, a lot of them were real bastards.
Agree
Or smite him!
I'd prefer the smiting I saw in an AI video - the one where he claimed he 'thought he was a doctor' and someone else added to it. Perhaps if someone forwarded it to frump he'd believe it was real and keel over? One can always hope?
u mean the man down under
AMEN Arne!
That is why I said I thought Trump was at the wrestling to keep him out of the way during the negotiations. Then I heard that Bibi called Vance in the middle and things went downhill from there. So, two leaders who can be guaranteed to mess things up. Marco was there with Trump to babysit.
They even called up the daughters to keep him sweet. Poor Liddle M. He's still waiting for Daddy to drop Cuba into his hands. I doubt that will happen, he's too far gone now.
It's amazing to have a President that needs a babysitter. We should stop doing that!
We should stop having presidents that need babysitters, but currently since we do have one we should make sure he is being minded.
By BIG STRONG MEN with glycerine tears in their eyes - all ready to punch him the fuck OUT if he makes a move towards the door - is whom I'd choose to 'baby' sit. Definitely agree with you about him needing 'minded'.
That makes a lot of sense now. Maybe we should all have been glad he was there with Marco instead of pointing out what an idiot they all are. - Nah.
I was certainly glad. If Trump is sundowning as Jeff says, then that might explain why his craziness is most prolific on Truth Social at night. I would like to see him locked up at night with something that he thinks is Truth Social, but really isn't. The world would benefit from him not being able to make pronouncements at night. We also need to ensure that the next non MAGA president shuts Truth Social down.
Shuts down Truth Social, does away with the Board of Peace and the money it extorted, take his name off the Kennedy Center, and follows up on all the insider trading breadcrumb trails that the BBC has reported. So many things need to be shut down and investigated that they will be hiring lawyers like crazy.
Yes, as well as joining the US on International treaties that see Trump, Hegseth and other tried in the International Court of the Hague.
Like that!
And Marco looked like he was self medicating for the occasion
Mary, I guess that goes with drawing the short straw.
HE looked smashed. (An old term we used to describe piss-drunk people). He's the only one I feel deserves a stiff glass of Scotch - or two.
Maybe a few drinks would help him to walk better in those Florasheim clown shoes
Hilarious! I quite forgot about those!
Let's face it - Donnie Dipshit is raging at anyone who happens to be in the room because he is still so miffed that Mother Nature so slighted his magnificence with that tiny orange toadstool she endowed him with... Can't you just imagine the other boys in the locker room in Jr. High sniggering at him and calling him 'Needle Dick the bug fucker'?
😂😂😂
I was 13, 58 years ago… I had to reach deep into my first adolescence for that one!
Classic stuff!
That’s it!
That’s funny. I knew a boy when I was maybe 12 who got called that name relentlessly
Yup! AND of course he still believes the old trope about black men being far more - ahem, 'endowed' so has carried his HUGE jealousy of Barack Obama from his 'birthing' days right up to today. I usually describe his deep resentment and jealousy as being about Barack's cool, his class, intelligence and intellectualism but deep down we KNOW that for donnie dimwit it's about his tiny little peepee not measuring up. ;)
I believe you've got it!
😂😂😂😂
I wish I had written that!! Brilliant and I am ROTFLMAO!!!
Maybe he’s getting more than Adderall. Epstein’s life regenerative concocted potions perhaps? 🤔
Once his instability ends his usefulness to Pooty, his stooges best watch out for Polonium-spiked Adderall
Or maybe accidentally (wink, wink) fall out a window 🏢🙃
I was hoping he’d fall off the west wing roof a while back 💁🏻.
That would have been a damned shame
Maybe he will try that stunt again? Maybe at 4am when no one is around.
“Look everyone- I can fly- I can fly!
Whoopsie!
No doubt about that - a concoction of stimulants, like Adderall, dementia fighting meds, steroids, antidepressants, and narcotics. Likely not all at once, but one can sense what meds at specific times. When he's kinda "nice" & jovial: narcotics & antidepressants, etc.
I was given a steroid of some sort to fight the bad side efx from chemotherapy, and have never been as juiced, nuts. Eventually requested that they not include them. Too much. And I'm an old hippie - did about every drug known to man at some stage of HS & college. They're keeping him "propped up," for as long as possible - the heritage goons, tech bros & putin assets are the ones running the shit-show. S. Miller & Wiles are taking their cues from those guys. Perhaps the most evil group of fuckers ever to have been assembled - destroying all our once trusted institutions & services, draining the Treasury, and burning down our Democracy. Dread taking our chances "with the couch fucker." He's Thiel's bitch, and Peter Thiel is unwell; has some very fucked up views about humanity and Democracy (gift link):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.blA.8_J7.qxHD_j1Fmnh5&smid=url-share
Thiel - wealthy, crazy, dangerous
Auntie, add vile and evil.
To be sure. Europe is starting to sound the alarm about him, but I don't know what they can do. Capitalism allows for evil wealthy people to be in the game.
Project 2025 going in circles now, a straight line if JD were in charge. Trump is a haphazardly wired time bomb. JD would be a bomb that has a detonator placed for a particular time and purpose. Neither option is optimal, but at least we wouldn't have to follow a completely unpredictable timeline with Trump out of the picture.
The Vanity Fair article about Wiles made it seem that SHE ran the show with miller (and 3 others) as her 'deputies'. Frankly, I think she's being hornswoggled by miller's vileness, although she THINKS she's in charge. I've never done those drugs but can easily see that he's being kept coked up when they need him to be. At some point in time - probably to Howard Stern, he admitted to doing coke (at Studio 54) - when it was 'nothing'. Most folks then knew full well he blew out his nose. The one he has now isn't the same shape, Rebuilt. ALL of these crazy fuckers have - at some point, been drugged up and now imagine they're better than everyone else: orange fuckwit, bobby brainworms, Thiel, etc. I'M not so worried about couchfuck mcgee (Jeff's so apt name for him) because the magats do NOT love him at all and won't switch to him, especially now that the orange one is showing his dislike for vance. THEN there's the fact of his being married to a Hindu woman and has - - gasp brown children with her. The magats will turn on him like rabid dogs. MY biggest worry is the idea of a 'dynasty' despite how incredibly stupid the entire kkklan of frumpists are proving to be. While some have actual college credits/degrees, their inability to LEARN anything beyond daddy's 'instructions' is frightening. magat cultists WILL vote for another frump. It's our job to ensure that never happens.
Get headaches worrying about who is actually running this shitshow. Believe it's safe to assume Trump is not, except when he's told to. Imagine it's like the scene in Network, where Ned Beatty screams at Peter Finch - "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!"
https://youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?si=JvteNa77smoMsC8C
That performance is SO GOOD! I'm a huge fan of Ned's - love him in Homicide, Life on the Street (which is being rerun on Dish Network). He was AS excellent playing Detective Stan Bohlander as he was in every role he took on, This one - in Network was above and beyond, though. Knowing that it was written 50 years ago is astounding - when 'corporations' were our 'owners' (shades of George Carlin). Frump wouldn't get any of it - nor would he care. ALL that malignant narcissist cares about is stuffing his pockets with AS much money as he can possibly steal from US. The 'greed is good' crew really imagined they'd get to stay in charge forever and a day. well, Virginia just proved that they are SO wrong and WE (as Robert de Niro said) want our Country back - and come November WE Democrats will have a majority in Congress. Frump was stupid enough to start this gerrymandering garbage, so now we're showing him how WE can do it far better. Fuck frump and his thugs and goons, we refuse to allow them to destroy us.
We don't know what his doc gives him but it has been written about that the White House Pharmacy under Trump is like an open cabinet.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-white-house-pharmacy-improperly-provided-drugs-misused-funds-pentagon-2024-01-28/
LSD, I think, as that would explain a lot. This sure feels like an acid trip to me. In the 70's I ate too many mushrooms and saw the devil and I never did any psychedelic's again, but damn I think I'm on them now because lucifer is in charge.
More likely he is on them and that is giving you flashbacks.
😂
Aaah, never thought of that one since I never touched the stuff BUT I've been calling it frump's 'magical mystery world'. What's going on inside that big, fat orange pumpkin noggin of his is NOT for the faint of heart to see or even imagine. When he's grinning like a jackass while sitting like a sack of potatoes at the Resolute Desk - you can tell he's on 'something' juicy and has NO IDEA where he is - what Century he's in OR what Planet he's on. Probably imagines Ivanka is only 10 and wants to bounce her on his knee - again. The language he uses OUT LOUD and caught on camera by the PRESS is the dead giveaway that he's off in another world. The Iranians and their Lego vids are hilariously taking full advantage of his insanity.
Just like it was in his first time being prez. The staff were drug addicts and I imagine that the same is true with these people too. A literal cesspool!
Yep.
Those idiots were juiced the entire time.
His cocktail has to rival Hitler's, Stalin's, or Jim Jones's
The Trump, a new non-alcoholic "beverage" since he is a teetotaler:
Untreated waste water, E. coli, norovirus, giardia, prune juice, psyllium husk
Guaranteed to make you shit on everything around you
😆
Did you read what Hitler was given? I posted it somewhere, but cannot find it. Here it is.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825245/
Here is a discussion of his doctor with substances administered to Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell
Having studied School Psychology, I was not surprised that Hitler committed suicide. Some of his behavior sounded like untreated bipolar disorder.
Im sure he is on a cocktail of drugs and supplements.
The term "roid rage" comes to mind.
The death cult would become even more insufferable if that were possible.
The Hero of the Day! Your posts are the best!
I'm sure he's on a whole cocktail of meds, none of which can help the fact that he's a personality disordered, stark raving mad lunatic with Sun Down syndrome.
Hey Jeff, just going thru some old notes and figure this list needs an update. Are you up for it?
Donny Convict is a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached once-convicted popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading ear-diapering testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring debate-avoiding witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling sneaker-hawking serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating stock-manipulating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count 78-year-old fluorescent tangerine felony factory who has failed at everything.
Jeff Tiedrich
10/30/24 Substack
Thank you!
LOVE it!
But he spent 6 hours at the golf course yesterday. Good use of a president’s time when all this other stuff is going on
As well they should. The man needs to be in a straight jacket and locked in a rubber room rather than flying off the walls of the Oval Office.
And letting him have plenty of play time, as one does with a difficult toddler.
If you will also notice he has had fewer "rallies" (i. e. ego-stroking events) lately? He had the one in AZ where the attendance was WAY DOWN but I really can't remember another MAGA rally recently-maybe his keepers have finally realized those days are long over and the turnout in AZ was the nail in the coffin...
Jeff: notice that in the photo of Obama's Situation Room - Joe Biden is also sitting to Barack's right AND Hillary Clinton has her hand covering her mouth - clearly upset by what they're all watching. These are SERIOUS people, paying attention to a SERIOUS event involving Seal Team 6 who were risking it ALL going in to either capture or kill Bin Laden - the mastermind of 9/11. The number of American Military lives at risk was terrifying to them despite all precautions being taken and our best military minds giving the go-ahead. Earlier that Evening was the Correspondents' Dinner when Barack Obama teased frump about how his 'apprentice' would have kept him up at night - all this while he was taking care of REAL and SERIOUS Government business, not screaming like a fucking toddler. frump was seething, stewing over his imagined 'insult' - still is, which is why he plans to show up at the Correspondents' Dinner. What a maroon. Does he somehow think he's somehow cowed ALL of the Press enough so no one laughs at him again?
He does remind me of Hitler, but Hitler's doctor was treating his "depressions" do we say bipolar mania with cocaine and some toxins. Nothing that is evidence based to day for treating depressions, except for people self medicating their depressions and bipolar disorder with Cocaine.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825245/
I think his numbers are rigged like Victor Orbán's were.
The optimal treatment is a bunker, a revolver, and two bullets for KKKKaro-Liar and him
Rather see Hesgeth in the bunker with him.
KKK can go , too, and pretend she is a 12 year old.
Miller too!
Why just 2 bullets for only 2 of the many who are well deserving?
Hitler only took out Eva Braun
If it’s only two, then I vote he take out the secretary of war crimes with him.
LSD is a treatment for cases of depression that are not effectively treated by other medication. Can you imagine the orange menace on acid? His “ballroom”/bunker would need to be padded with rubber walls, ceilings, and floors. When will his hangers on invoke the 25th? They have to be crazier than shit house rats themselves if they can’t see the 25th as their own way out.
true!!!!
Noel Casler said Trump was huffing Adderall all the time during his apprentice filming, couldn’t remember his lines, nor read a teleprompter. Cutting Adderall with Cocaine is a thing, Donny should probably mix in some Ketamine like his pal Elon does Linda.
Trump is not able to get us out of this war. What would happen if he were hospitalized for a longer period of time? Would JD be acting president?
Everyone hates the smokey eyed odious cretin… he’s Thiels oquettish paramour, which is all he’s ever going to be Linda. I suppose he’s next in line, but the thought leaves a foul taste in my mouth.
Jeff, as of 10:30 Am, Roll Call (they keep a database of his tweets/untruths) has the felon tweeting twice today. 1 is just a retweet. the 2nd is about Israel. But it wasn't authored by him. It doesn't even read like he said "put this in there!" no, it's too calm & the punctuation, grammar etc is too good. Anyone can throw in some all caps & copy/paste from his previous tweets. Doesn't make it his.
Thing is now Donroe can say some truly outrageous thing that he actually needs to retract and then it will come out that it was a staffer with access to his account 😂 « I never said anything about bombing bridges. It was that TRAITOR RINO HEGSETH » or whatever.
When its something that gets criticized he probably says its an aid. I wouldn't doubt that he has voice activated text or an actual aid who does the texting while shouts.
Are they trying to demonstrate how calm and rational he is???
They need to make sure he does not tank negotiations so they have to keep him occupied and away from Truth Social.
Well, surely he doesn't want anybody to think he can be manipulated! Especially now that people are beginning to speak out against BeeBee's genocides (Gaza and Lebanon) without being boiled in oil for antisemitism--surely Donny couldn't be manipulated by somebody nobody *likes* anymore!
Since all roads lead to Putin, I suspect he’s behind bibi & trump’s war on Iran. Not that that absolves either of them nor does it negate that Putin may have used bibi to push trump.
Those three along with Epstein are the co-conspirators. Every one of them all over the files guaranteed
Lolz poor little weak Donnie can’t sleep because he has to convince the world that he is not an old broke down criminal coward who rapes little girls and is not respected and about to be thrown on the trash heap
Love the Iranian Lego movies! Nailed it!
Also love Mark Carney not putting up with one ounce of Donnie’s bullshit Nailed it too!
Are we going to re-litigating the 2020 election for eternity? It wasn't even close.
Hey how ARE things going with Venezuela? He never talks about that.
The press seems to have completely forgotten about Venezuela.
Oh, what a surprise. . .
The bankers in Oman are quite plea$ed with his hidden account
Veneze-who? He never heard of her. The oil companies got some gold for their troubles so I think they are doing something down there but who knows. Will have to dig into Reuters or the BBC to find out the scoop because the American press is worthless right now.
So Miller must have written it, especially if it’s about Israel.
He's back to MIGA with the regime change talk again.
I was just thinking about Israel yesterday and wondering where Nutanyahu was in all of this. Then I remembered he already did his part.
“Nutanyahu” - love it
Idiot
I don’t get what October 7 has to do with Iran having nuclear weapons.
Israel didn't have to "goad" him. All they had to do was softly suggest that if he defeated Iran, he would go down in History as the most effective President ever. Just pushing his vanity buttons. Well, they got the "history" part right...
Reading Jeff Tiedrich does me sooo good! Today, Jeff, you win the prize for best Substack submission!!!
I too love this post. Jeff, you have a way with words! Thank you!
Correction: EVERY day 🙂
What's always struck me about that pic of Obama in the Situation Room with his team is how he's NOT center stage. He's in thick of it, but off to the side, allowing the military professional to take the lead on a military operation.
God I miss him. I remember saying, when he got elected, "Thank God because GWB is the worst president we could ever have." The universe then said, "Hold my beer. In fact, hold an entire brewery."
Once upon a time, America had a thoughtful, urbane, compassionate, morally upright, benevolent, intelligent leader. And the conservatives hated him and did every fucking thing they could to obstruct and undermine him. They derided his inclusion of the US in the multilateral Iran nuclear treaty as weak. They ridiculed his assertions on the necessity of affordable healthcare and education. They smeared him as not forceful enough for not plunging headlong into another potential forever war in the Middle East to confront a borderless insurgency that was ISIS. And they gave us this unholy clusterfuck of stupidity, malfeasance, and incompetence. So go fuck yourselves, conservatives. You have lost all credibility (if you ever had any to begin with.) Your selfishness will destroy the world. You have moved us toward that fate steadily and inexorably since the beginning of this nation.
We also had a First Lady who was educated, learned and compassionate. Although a lawyer, she did not sue anyone, she did not demand her own airplane and she could speak English intelligently and with coherence.
And she (and Dr. Jill) did not have nudes floating around on the Forever Internet
It’s wildly insane that she is reported to be a model; as if she were on the runway during fashion week. Of course couture modeling is also a cesspool, but elegant by comparison to her porn work.
So much of her past was exaggerated by her handlers or herself. Her website claimed she had a university degree but that was erased after it was fact checked. The term "super model" was applied to her by her backers but she was nowhere near that status. Her modeling career, as evidenced by the nude and seminude photos still floating around, was definitely lower tier glamour stuff. Now, as former friend Amanda Ungaro has implied, she was likely part of the young eastern European model/trafficking operations of Paolo Zampolli-Jean Luc Brunel-John Casablancas-DJT
The "models" brought over from Eastern Europe weren't quite trafficked. They kept their passports and could do and go wherever they wanted. But they weren't runway models either. Most of their work was probably to be filler at parties for rich men to pick up. Must be great work if you can get it, but it still ain't genius visa level work.
Super concubine
Really! That grosses me out enormously.
And without irony, MAGA stooges have in all seriousness lauded Melania as "the classiest First Lady in American history!" That right there is Trump Derangement Syndrome
They're too young to remember Jackie.
Yes, indeed. Although, I have known some uneducated folks who confused glitz with class.
I miss them so very much. They truly were the first family.
Well spoken Mary — and all true!
Michelle Obama is the classiest of Class acts. If you haven't yet, try to get a copy of her book 'Becoming'. It's BRILLIANT.
I read an article about the creation of the populist Republican party that started with Reagan and stoked racism and anti intellectualism among white urban and rural working class. It was strong movement to frame the Democratic Party the party of minorities, feminists, and Hollywood elites. It really worked, but the natural outcome was Trump, a rich, anti intellectual white racist, sexist game show host.
Don't forget to include the rise of the Evangelicals in the 70's. Religious shows and right wing talk radio. Thank God Rush is with Satan now. All of this was going on right under our nose. I'll say one thing for these freakazoids, they play the long game and are very patient. 50 years to dismantle Roe. Dem attention span is about 2 days.
So not true. I remembered and paid attention to Reagan his entire miserable life from governor of California to his death. You would too, if you'd gone to Berkeley when he was governor in 1969.
I will never forgive him for what he did to Ca. closing the mental hospitals, turning people out onto the streets.
Yes, we still live with that.
Yes, but in all fairness I believe that we should live in a reasonable country where people can agree that a person can make their own health decisions about their own selves. Like drugs. I never would take drugs but if a person wants to take drugs isn't that their sad problem.
WHERE do YOU get the idea that 'Dem attention span is about 2 days'? Have you followed ANY of our democratic lawmakers OR all of US who follow THEM? who're not only fighting like mad to stop the orange fuckwit (and those who came before) from enacting shitty policies, but getting out INTO the streets, day after day, month after month, year after year!? There's a huge difference between being 'good hard-working people' who stay that way - and evil fuckers who spend ALL of their time as well as accumulating tons of money IN ORDER TO bring down our democracy. WE who are fighting AND have long attention spans are doing everything possible, but we're not fucking oligarchs being promised terrible things such as the pedophiles are getting from every repuke president, or WARS killing/maiming our loved ones! MY husband is still paying for/suffering from his Agent Orange exposure. HE went - without complaint because it was his fucking DUTY, after his parents emigrated from Germany when he was a tiny boy. He believed he OWED his new Country, as do ALL of the current Latino veterans who're being snatched up from the streets regardless of the Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars they've earned with their blood - and either deported too Countries they don't remember OR imprisoned in horrific conditions because donnie is jealous of their bravery and hates brown-skinned immigrants.
I dunno. I think Nixon's use and expansion of the Southern strategy was the real precursor to what is now MAGA/Rump mindset. Raygun then amplified it and added a bunch of evils of his own.
And it will continue to work, as long as white males without a college degree are such a large proportion of voters. Sure they’re big mad at Trump about the price of gas now but when that price comes down after Trump taco’s they’ll forget all about it and vote for the next Republican idiot in line. These racist crackers will never vote for a Democrat, even though they fare better economically when one is President, because they’re deep in the white tribe and could never associate their vote with a woman, or a black person, or a gay person,etc.
Sounds accurate to me
Thoughtful and intelligent post rlritt!
Nixon and his morons started the attack on the middle and lower classes and Regan finished the job.
Perfectly stated. They made being competent and qualified for the world's most important job seem like negatives.
They disparaged his ideas and accomplishments in conjunction with their racist dog whistle campaign against him to further their own agenda, heedless of what their actions did to our nation and the world. Fucking selfish, arrogant, hateful assholes.
ANNNNND they blamed him for being "the great divider" because he triggered their racism and then blamed him for it. Fucking unevolved troglodytes.
Yep, he allowed them to project their own racism and accuse him, Obama FFS, of being divisive. Such fucking bullshit.
Jennifer 🎯‼️ If a person is competent or intelligent, that’s an automatic disqualification from the Felon Regime.
Thanks for the recap, Doc, of the miserable, underhanded way the “conservatives”undermined President Obama. It was all about racism right from the start. That festering, diseased skin over their hatred erupted and is trying to smother the life out of the “Great Experiment”.
I agree with you 100%!
Don't forget - their RACISM against him (he wore a tan suit one Summer Day) lay behind it all. They've NEVER gotten over the simple fact that Americans elected their first Black American President - so did everything possible to trash him AND his lovely and brilliant wife AND his two beautiful daughters. For pity's sake, they STILL try to pretend that he's somehow gay, that she's somehow her own brother AND that he wasn't born in America (despite incontrovertible proof to the contrary). His very name triggers them, as does Zohran Mamdani's in New York's Mayoralty Office. The lengths racists will go to is astounding, all while being weak little cowardly creeps.
Same here. The General at the head of the table stood up to hive his seat to the President and Ibama just told him to stay put.
I agree with you 100%!
Boy, isn’t that the truth Jennifer
Well said, Jennifer.
That duck would probably throw the premises into chaos, shit everywhere, and ruin the experience for everyone inside. I sense a metaphor somewhere
Donald Duck. Perfect.
Exactly!
Carnac senses the use of rhyming words ironic and moronic to soon appear in your next limerick
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#Bumblefuck is the personification of The Pigeon on the Chessboard: When in doubt, knock all the pieces over, shit all over the board, & scream "I WON!!" before flying away.
Careful not to paint with excessively broad strokes. It's geese who shit everywhere. 😄
Absolutely. But I don’t think ducks are easy to potty train
Good one Doc!
There’s the story about Fred Trump being so deep in dementia, his office staff placed blank papers in front of him to sign. Keep him busy.
Essentially that’s what the White House does. Trump goes off on his Biden auto pen rant. I’m convinced Trump doesn’t know what he signs. My point; put a fake Truth Social screen in front of him. Let Trump type away without destabilizing the world or the stock market.
Unfortunately, Fred lasted until 93. That would be 13 more years of Trump running his mouth.
:-(
ugh -that would be most unbearable
As long as he runs his mouth off IN PRISON OR AN ASYLUM, hey....WHO CARES?
but did fred's diet include hamburgers and diet coke ?
My diet is cheeseburgers and cokes (never diet) and I'm only 3 years younger than Trump. Still working and am in good health for my age. So don't count on the cheeseburgers. And we all know now, thanks to Prez Brainiac, that diet coke kills grass and cancer.
Haha. I am 82, and addicted to diet coke, I don't get many burgers anymore. Too expensive..
Never could do diet anything. Can't get that icky taste of artificial sweetener out of my mouth. It's not just soda, it's anything that has it in there. I'll eat or drink something that has real sugar in it or I just pass on the fake sugar stuff. None of it is really good for us anyway.
I think that's a very practical, useful idea, Suki. Therefore, it won't happen in the current White House.
Suki, that’s a plausible idea. Give that stinking dead fish some flies to preoccupy him — even though he’s a stinking dead fish there might still be some life left in that tongue of his…
We should ask Laura Loony (another stinky dead fish that should know)
does he still have a staff person creating good news for him ?
The duck was a nice touch.
All I can say is that this insanity is not sustainable.
I don’t know Steph…Trump has been sustaining it for … “how old is he?”
He’s like a dead fish, stinking to high heaven, that no one will go near, so it just stays there and stinks
"Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" vibes, for sure.
Yeah, every time I say, “this is it,” not only is it sustained, but it actually gets worse.
This scenario is playing out exactly as portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr Strangelove” from the “ you can’t fight in here, it’s the war room” to General ‘Buck” Turgidson as Hegseth played by George C. Scott. saying “Wish I had one of them doomsday machines”.
Oh Lordy, you’re right. How did I not see this???
With you all the way Mike!
Me, I’m just wondering how his demented capitalization of words hasn’t already made it abundantly clear to everyone that the frayed bundles up there are sparking.
I've said it before, I'm convinced all he remembers from grade school English class is that you capitalize nouns. He missed the part where it means only proper nouns, and thinks it means every noun. I'm just surprised that he knows what a noun is, but if you notice, it generally is nouns that he capitalizes, like "Country or World", you know, words that do not need to be capitalized, but he's not sure, but he thinks they're nouns, so he better capitalize them. I'm no expert, but English was one of my favorite subjects in school and it just gets on my nerves in a way I can't explain when someone demonstrates such poor understand of the English language. I literally cringe reading his posts; both due to the content and the mangling of English.
U Penn Bidness Skool teaches vulture capitalism, not English
He studied at the knee of Roy Cohn and that’s all he knows. How to be ruthless, vicious, and evil.
I consider Cohn one of the worst non-murderer human beings ever. In this case, the protege' has surpassed the mentor
I love “vulture capitalism”!
Not my invention. It's been used as a pejorative for a long time, especially among the predatory greed-driven types in corporate America
Another good one Doc!
I totally agree! As an English major and professional communications director, his profound ignorance that’s displayed even with his lack of knowing proper English is mind numbing. The random initial caps bug me every single time, not to mention his extremely limited vocabulary. A total, ranging idiot on every level.
At least Melania's Slovenglish is entertaining. Somewhat.
Maureen, I know what I’m about to suggest is not proper grammar but even though you have “idiot” in the middle of a sentence don’t you think it should have an explanation point after it and maybe also be capitalized…all the letters.
I believe that the tweets that have numerous capitalizations are written by someone else. tRump absolutely does NOT have the acuity or patience to do that. Also the tone is very different from his all-caps messages... far more sinister... which means Miller is likely behind them.
But, he was an EXCELLENT student!
I just had a Trumper remind me that he's a graduate of Wharton School of Business. Remind me how he did this.
Daddy bought it.
There's two type of Republicans. The intelligent ones who go to high end post-secondary schools, and who are in all in on the game of vacuuming wealth from the middle class to themselves. And MAGAts, who are more than happy to hand over their wealth to the intelligent ones.
Wondering if it's his German heritage. All nouns get capped in that language, as its students and native speakers know.
I believe that the tweets that have numerous capitalizations are written by someone else. tRump absolutely does NOT have the acuity or patience to do that. Also the tone is very different from his all-caps messages... far more sinister... which means Miller is likely behind them.
Why, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, Lord John
Oh Lord can we please just skip to the end where Goebbels poisons his children and wife while whispering about the Reich Heaven they're all destined for, Hitler gives Blondi cyanide before taking care of Eva Braun (making sure she goes first because, you know, she's still got options) and then eating his Walther? He had a strict non-smoking policy in the bunker, and anecdotal evidence suggests that as soon as they heard the shot the generals waiting in the lobby immediately lit up.
Iran already won this war. They watch CNN and know the tyrant is blustering on a single remaining brain cell, that there's no mob of followers who won't toss him over the side as soon as they can without damaging their own careers (good luck with that, ladies and germs....everyone knows you're cowardly sacks of shit, and even though they may forget it like before it's also possible they WON'T). Nobody will ride to the rescue.
The Strait of Hormuz is WAY more effective than an atomic weapon. Imagine if Dear Leader Kim could bottleneck all the Chinese exports! No, Iran closes the strait and the world slowly starves. They know from the Afghanistan invasion lessons of America (and the CCCP) that if you wait the "superpower" will cave. As for the thousands getting killed, hell the Mullahs killed more than that so they're cool.
Also, they are likely seeing the viral shot of the 600 calorie spam and meat patty ration on the largest ship of the greatest fighting force of the whole universe ever. Reminds me of the Russians in Ukraine eating WW2 C-rats and/or cans of dogfood. It's the sure sign of a Potemkin military.
I'm sure morale is just peachy.
Today is Hitler's birthday. Show some respect (sarcasm).
J Hardy, you just machete’d’ the shit out of these assholes and no way can they rest in piece after that.
Actually, I guess you could say they are resting in pieces.
And no need to pay for cleanup of the resting pieces.
We’ll just capture some opossums—they’ll eat garbage and rotting things for free.
Opossums are our friends.
I love that duck. 💞💞💞💞💞💞
I can't help but wonder what his crime was...
He ran up a massive tab. He said "Put it on my bill" too many times.
Lol Antoinette! You slay me!
Passenger on Mass. Pike- laughing my head off- struck my funny bone! Thank you Antoinette!
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I once went to a fairly new medical building that was built adjacent to a large pond; automatic doors admitted the patients.....and a pair of sandhill cranes. The cranes had wandered over from the pond to check out the new neighbors and found the patients and the doors fascinating. So they would just slip inside and investigate the lobby. The security guard, whose new extra job duty included escorting the cranes back outside, said that the cranes were just a little too short to activate the door sensor themselves--but that, while they waited for the next chance to sneak inside, they were examining the area to figure out the sensors...........
Bird brilliance! Mad respect
Lol Joyce! Love it! Thanks for brightening my day!
If you've ever lived in a place with a retention pond and geese, you begin to dislike them more and more everyday.
Whatever they think it was he was just being a sweet duck..
Easy Arne — the duck was protesting — last I heard that was a crime … that is unless it’s done by Trumpers — then it’s ok.
Scratch that, Trumpers always manage to skip that part — they go straight to rioting — it’s the republican way.
You bought and paid for this republicans, and with no discounts — you own this — “law and order party” my ass.
With you assholes running things there is no law. There is no order. There is no constitution.
I used to “graciously” distinguish between republicans and Trumpers (granted that was long ago). You can’t slide a piece of paper between them.
You republicans have abandoned all the principles you claimed to have. Of course you never had any to begin with.
All you ever really had was “fear mongering” which you sold to older people, the uneducated, immigrants who don’t know they are cannon fodder to the republicans, and young male incels.
And you succeeded.
Some prize you got there.
When or if he stops stinking (because he’s dead and buried) who will clean up the mess?
All your messes get cleaned up by the progressives (democrats).
Time goes by.
People forget that you made the messes.
You ramp up the fear mongering.
You convince people they’re being done in by the ____ (fill in the blank).
You win an election.
You make a big mess.
Dejavú all over again
When will we ever learn?
There’s one last thing I want to add: we need a Conservative Party (not a fear mongering one) to act as a balance to the progressives. Progressives are good hearted and more susceptible to being conned regarding money. It is good to have debate between conservatives and progressives and compromise on spending.
This current ideation of the Republican Party (and it’s actually been this way for decades) is fascist and full on fear mongering. It’s destroying our country.
We don’t need that.
I’ll shut up now.
No, don't shut up! This was well said!!!!
There used to be Republicans I could have political arguments with. They would want to be more tight-fisted with the public money than I would, out of a distrust of the efficacy of government programs to solve problems. But we would agree on what would be good, just not about what policies would get us there.
And there used to be conservatives I could have philosophical arguments with. They would have different senses of the good, putting more emphasis on purity and on obedience to authority than on my standards of reciprocity and equality. But we would agree on what things happen in the world, just not about what values to attach to them.
Now there are only right-wingers that I can only have epistemological arguments with. They do not agree about what things have really happened in the world, nor about how one would go about figuring out what is true. The discussions become pointless before we even get to questions about values, let alone policies.
Same.
Why are they sending Larry, Darryl, and Darryl back again when they fucked it up the first time? This "president" keeps sending the 3 stooges to do the job of a diplomat. But, apparently, we don't have one. I'm looking at you, Big Shoes Rubio.
Sending in JD (I know more about Catholic theology than the Pope) Vance and the two realtors sends Iran a clear message that no serious negotiations will be taking place.
I wonder why trump doesn't go himself? I guarantee that this time the assassin will be real.
They are there to look for any potential grifts. That is all. They are not expected to do any actual work.
Of course not. They are they there for show. Trump's show dogs.
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May your chosen deity bless you for calling up the memory of The Bob Newhart Show. So so good. 🤣👏🏻
Larry, Curly, and Moe also works.
Thank you Jeff once again for putting humor here to keep us all from screaming and crying nonstop. You have a gift with words so we know what is happening without losing our minds.
Totally agree Teri!
Great summary and argument for 25th-ing. The temperature is rising based on the subtle increase in seriousness noticeable in Jeff’s writing here. We can joke about a lot of what’s happening for a long time. But, really now. Outright guffaws become laugh-out-loud become ha-ha’s become snickers become “check, please” too many times now. Finding humor in Trump’s (or Patel’s or Hagbreath’s) antics must be one of the toughest tasks this season. As usual, truth is often funnier than fiction until it’s not. If only Congress or Cabinet or VP could look past today and see the obvious. Cleanup in aisle 47, please.
It's mental survival to be able to laugh at them. Because if you take the time to think of what is really going on, it's too much to cope with.
In reality, though, 25th amendment-ing is a heavier lift than impeachment. To implement the 25th, a majority of the Cabinet would first have to approve it, which will never happen (absent a drastic change in current events; e.g., Rump threatens to fire all of them). If, for whatever reason, the Cabinet did vote against him, Rump would surely protest, at which point a two-thirds majority of both Houses would also have to vote against him. That's a simplification, per my reading, but those are the basic steps.
Whereas impeachment leaves out the Cabinet part of the process. Still immensely unlikely under the current circumstances.
I noticed that "subtle increase in seriousness," yeah. Well articulated Douglas, and concerning. If our wise Uncle Jeff is getting too worried to be funny, we're cooked. ☹️
"can you imagine any other president in recent memory getting eighty-sixed from the center of operations? no, you can’t. it’s practically unthinkable."
It blows my mind that he was kicked out of the command room. And I'm sure it's not the first time something similar has happened. That, alone, is enough for the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Not to mention a million other reasons.
What the hell is wrong with people in this country that anyone can tolerate this nightmare.
I don’t see them “kicking him out” but more luring him into the next room over with 2 Big Macs and a 6pack of Diet Coke.
I hear you. They must have used some clever distraction. It's hard to imagine how it would go down. Probably not: "Excuse me Mr. President. Just let us take care of this. Off you go now."
Maybe they told him that some big, warfighting Marine with tears in his eyes couldn’t wait to meet him and ask his opinion on (fill in the blank).
That photo of the duck is staying with me all day. Thanks! 😅