fun fact: I was going to include this bluesky post in the Tom Homan section of today's write-up, but then decided that the 'can't unsee it' factor was off the charts.
Remember Ham Rove on The Colbert Report? Same vibe! This is the funny reply from my Claude search 👀 I’m not able to search for or display photos from TV shows like The Colbert Report, as those would be copyrighted media content. I also want to clarify — the political operative is Karl Rove, not “Ham Rove.”
My local newspaper decided to put a big picture on the front page of two people of color shouting to illustrate their No Kings coverage. Considering the local demographics that was A Choice. They had a few other smaller pictures inside and an article about the protest in MN but not much else about it.
So many people of color, especially immigrants, are rightfully fearful of being part of any protest. Creeps working for DHS can film these events and use facial recognition. If there is trouble, these will be the people who catch the blame. We are standing out for our immigrant, refugee, and African American sisters and brothers.
Grrrr. Reminds me of the anti-Iraq war protests (I am old). We predicted how it would go more or less perfectly, but we were dismissed or ignored by the war cheering MSM.
My local conservative-leaning rag buried any coverage to the 8th page. The photo montage they featured were mostly of people in costumes (T. rexes, witches, frogs, unicorns, hippos, pigs)---I assume to mock rally-goers are unserious goofballs.
Included in the "coverage" of Saturday was an equally long article about TWO ARRESTS (the horror!). It was portrayed as a part of the main rally, but turns out the arrests were two people causing a bit of trouble at the gate of ICE detention facility in town. Not part of the protest festivities at the park, about seven miles away.
How in the fuck is Trump allowed to take a wrecking ball to the People’s House without a vote from Congress? Our HOA won’t even let us change the color of our door without approval. This is beyond insane!
Stephanie, he’s taking a wrecking ball to the entire United States and the globe. No one is stopping him. People are trying in the courts and yes, they’re winning lots of cases, but there is no enforcement mechanism when he owns all the law-enforcement. Nowhere is safe from this wretched evil.
Don’t let it overcome us. Live our best lives and resist at the same time.
I often think of Verbal Kint’s explanation of Keyser Söze’s success in The Usual Suspects: “He realized you didn’t need guns, or men, or money… you just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn’t,” (or pretty close to that.) I don’t think most of the rich and powerful are the smartest people in any room they find themselves. Instead, they know the cheat code: if you act without scruples or humanity or a thought to the consequences of your actions, nothing will slow you down.
It is going to take a whole raft of Constitutional Amendments to fix this. We need to move to something approaching a parliamentary system so a vote of no confidence can expel and extirpate this kind of travesty.
Yes yes, we get that. But on a more specific level, why is he allowed to tear down buildings and destroy historical infrastructure? It's got to be illegal.
My question for the MAGA fools still out there is how much money do they think George Soros has? Surely after all the many times he’s supposed to have paid the many millions of us who protest, even he would eventually run out of money. After all , Soros isn’t fElon. Come to think about it, all this would mean MAGA nuts would have to think and that they cannot do.
Besides undoing the serious damage to our laws and our economy, the next president has to prioritize restoring the White House. EVERYTHING that Trump did should be eradicated, and it should be done publicly.
The classic Doric columns reflect the influence of the 17th century Enlightenment on the nation's founding principles. Corinthian says decadent dying empire, celebrating obscene wealth among the privileged, gross excess and self-indulgence. So it goes.
Decadent and dying is what Don the Con is. That day can't come soon enough and put the entire world out his misery. Rumor has it the main staircase on his ballroom is fake. The real entrance is off to the side. Hopefully the judge this week puts the kibosh on his new ballroom plans permanently.
My MAGA brother told me that there is no war and the prices are definitely going to go down. What kind of idiot believes this and why oh why am I related to this moron?
Congress is spineless- with 25 or 30 exceptions, including about 3 Republicans- thank you Thomas Massie- there is no will to defy the ever more insane and dictatorial whims of the shit-in-chief. If the Congress stood up to him, he would not have endless billions of our tax dollars to throw into the garbage of the Iran war, stupid vanity projects, and concentration camps.
Nobody does unfit for office like this guy, he is the most unfit the world has ever seen, he is acing this unfitness. He wins the gold plated, star spangled, turbo charged unfit for office 🏆. Now can someone kindly escort him from what is left of the building?
He shouldn't be allowed to be president of his own fan club, which is losing members in vast numbers... even after he dropped the fee from $1,000,000 to 99 cents.
Antartica!? That is epic. Terrific protest signs, too.
Now, how can we stop him from completely destroying the White House? My God...
Every damned day feels tragic. But the writing is on the wall...in my home state of Misery (Missouri) Congressman 'do nothing' Sam Graves is not seeking reelection. 13 terms and didnt do a damned thing. And kept getting reelected...dumb asses. 🙄
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Jeff… Ricardo Mountalblan “fine Corinthian Leather in our new Chrysler” Fine Corinthian columns… I mean WTAF? The f***ing world is burning down due to the life long criminal elected to President, and yet he talks about architecture at a remodeled WTF? His brain is Swiss cheese and the lies are getting bigger every day… Best to all fellow Travelers..
Sorry Ole, you obviously are not familiar with the author Hunter Thompson.. but I expect that from you..Thompson used that phrase in most of his writings.. one with the self proclaimed vast knowledge of history, geopolitics and economics should be aware of various American authors. Or do just come here to piss people off? But u do u there Sport.
Everything about him is fucking ugly! The ugliest just might be the members of the Repugs who are literallly terrified of this sociopathic little man! What the fuck?
Indeed. There are conservatives with whom I might disagree on policy but can respect (e.g., Adam Kinzinger). But there is no longer a Republican Party. It's just the MAGAt cult of personality.
You are 100% right. Any of the reasonable Republicans in office have shown how easy it is for them to forget about the laws and the people and swear loyalty to Trump.
That's why I take those polls showing Trump's overwhelming approval rating among *Republicans* with a grain of salt. The ones who had principles have mostly left the party.
Befuddled diaper-filling Norma Desmond stares at this toy ballroom like a kid who’s smashed his train set and killed his sister
It's the scene from Downfall where Hitler mumbles to Speer about great it is that the Red Army is going to knock down all the buildings for him so he can build Germania JUST LIKE THE MODEL. Meanwhile, the bunker shakes from the weight of Soviet bombs and children fire rockets at Soviet tanks.
Hitler started with nothing. Trump inherited everything. Any so-called success he has was entirely due to others. Hitler's twisted vision attracted the greatest military and legal minds of the century, and he came within a hair of conquering the world in five years. Had he not declared war on the US and Russia at the same time, he very well might have done it.
Donald Trump is the same pathetic archetype, but much dumber, tackier, and incompetent. Every so-called success was either handed to him, bailed out for him, or quietly finished by other people while he ran to the cameras and slapped his name on it like a gold‑plated parasite. The people he attracts into his sphere are even dumber and less competent than he is, and far more cruel and venal.
Inherited money, inherited connections, inherited scaffolding of institutions which he strip-mines for attention and graft.He takes credit for projects and jobs that were planned and funded years before he waddled onto the scene, and still brags like he laid every brick himself. The visionary.
But now his dementia is so bad that every time he opens his mouth it's Brad Pitt yelling WHAT'S IN THE BOX, knowing that it's bad and dead and worse than he imagines.
He has bred an endless swarm of knockoff ghouls, grifters, and would‑be little Trumps orbiting him, each somehow more vicious, more incompetent, and more shameless than the last, all clawing for a slice of the wreckage while they torch whatever still works and then congratulate themselves for “making it great.”
Hitler had the grace to off himself in his bunker. Yeah, he debated sacrificing everyone in Germany to prove his greatness (as did Hirohito and, later, Fidel Castro) but in the end he shot himself (after poisoning and shooting Blondi, which Kristi would approve),
Trump waddled into a decent economy and an unstable world and made everything so much worse so fast it showed how fucked the system is. We see it now beyond a doubt. Fixing it will be a lifetime of work for everyone. I choose to believe it's possible.
Trump will die on a global holiday because THE DAY HE DIES WILL BE CELEBRATED AROUND THE WORLD. What a party.
And think of the ratings for the war crimes trials!
EXCEPT the depiction of Hirohito. My husband's uncle was head of the American Guard at the Emperor's Palace after the war (growing up in Seattle w/ Nisai children as his friends, he was VERY fluent in Japanese). Hirohito & Skip became friends for life.
Hirohito was NOT behind the war. The Japanese MILITARY planned it all, & Hirohito & his family were INSTRUCTED to either go along w/ them, or DIE. Being a mild-mannered, bookish family man underneath all the trappings....what choice did he have? He was never comfortable w/ the trappings of Royalty....he'd have much rather been a biologist, out in the wilderness studying plants.
The Japanese military used to say that, once Japan defeated the US, Hirohito was going to ride his beloved white horse down Pennsylvania Ave, & move into the WH. My husband's cousin Richard (who was born & grew up in the Palace), has a picture of himself atop Hirohito's regally kitted-out white horse, because Hirohito thought it would be a nice memory for him to have when he grew up.
Hirohito was the one who ended the tradition of the Emperor being a god that his subjects weren't even allowed to LOOK at. After the war, he made a point of touring the country, speaking to the people, wearing a simple dark suit, bowing & tipping his hat to THEM. (Lots of videos online.)
fun fact: I was going to include this bluesky post in the Tom Homan section of today's write-up, but then decided that the 'can't unsee it' factor was off the charts.
https://bsky.app/profile/toddhecker.bsky.social/post/3mi7hpw76uk2v
For accepting that sack of cash, any prosecutor in America could indict him more easily than they could indict a ham sandwich
except for Judge Box of Wine
Or Alina Hubba Hubba or Lindsey Hairspray Halligan.
They’d even be unsuccessful if the cash grab occurred in a parking garage
They couldn't lawyer their way out of a paper bag
Or a mailing tube with no end caps.
Ya just gotta play one on tv these days :/
Cardboardeaux.
Good one Bob!
Homan doesn't give a damn
That he was involved in flim-flam
A bag full of cash
A $50k stash
Denied by the Human Canned Ham
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That is fuckin scary.
I know, right? I'll bet Ms Spouse would have made me take it out
You just convinced me to not click on the link! Claudia knows best.
If you haven't yet, don't. It is truly disturbing.
Honor is the better part of Valor.
I shouldn’t have looked. I mean, you warned us but I thought how bad could it be?
Separated at birth 😗
No wonder the Almighty said. "Don't eat PORK !!!"
Good one.
You know the only reason why he picked Homan like all the rest of the creeps, is because he looks the part, and is in fact a criminal thug.
That matters to the orange occupier of the PEOPLE'S HOUSE! He always picks the most despicable ones so as to deflect from his own culpability.
He stated that he likes to hang out with losers. He likes that low bar they set, and yet he manages to find a depth below it.
When you’re already on the bottom, it doesn’t take much digging to go a little bit lower.
Canned Ham Homan!
I shouldn't have looked at it.
I did, but I shouldn't have.
Now I have to live with my mistake.
Your and me both. I'm trying to wipe it from my mind. Bleach?
Thanks for the warning. I was about to click on the link.
Now, I’m going to let it go.
HAHAHA I call him the Human Thumb.
Put a microphone in front of it and you have Ham Radio!
Oh dear sweet baby Jesus in a jock strap…you’re right I cannot unsee that! I might have to bleach my eyes.
I dislike ham and now I know why. Barf
The original quiet piggy
Remember Ham Rove on The Colbert Report? Same vibe! This is the funny reply from my Claude search 👀 I’m not able to search for or display photos from TV shows like The Colbert Report, as those would be copyrighted media content. I also want to clarify — the political operative is Karl Rove, not “Ham Rove.”
Of course, I had to look. :|
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Ewwwww! Definitely can't unsee that! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮
again, there's so much great No Kings content out there, I could probably spend the whole week writing about it
That would encourage all the rest of us and you, as well. Win-win!!
My local newspaper decided to put a big picture on the front page of two people of color shouting to illustrate their No Kings coverage. Considering the local demographics that was A Choice. They had a few other smaller pictures inside and an article about the protest in MN but not much else about it.
Meanwhile, the NYT poo-pooed the protests for being too white.
So many people of color, especially immigrants, are rightfully fearful of being part of any protest. Creeps working for DHS can film these events and use facial recognition. If there is trouble, these will be the people who catch the blame. We are standing out for our immigrant, refugee, and African American sisters and brothers.
NYTimes will never embrace protests.
Chicago Tribune buried coverage inside- just like last time. Bunch of Trump Republicans.
Grrrr. Reminds me of the anti-Iraq war protests (I am old). We predicted how it would go more or less perfectly, but we were dismissed or ignored by the war cheering MSM.
Analogous to the army putting ads on Reddit featuring African-American men as cooks.
My local conservative-leaning rag buried any coverage to the 8th page. The photo montage they featured were mostly of people in costumes (T. rexes, witches, frogs, unicorns, hippos, pigs)---I assume to mock rally-goers are unserious goofballs.
Included in the "coverage" of Saturday was an equally long article about TWO ARRESTS (the horror!). It was portrayed as a part of the main rally, but turns out the arrests were two people causing a bit of trouble at the gate of ICE detention facility in town. Not part of the protest festivities at the park, about seven miles away.
That would be awesome!
you had the best coverage. thank you.
John Waters' sign: "Trump Ruined Bad Taste" is one for the ages.
After the protest, I stopped and bought a bottle of Fat Bastard wine. I was just in a mood.
I'm 91, and I couldn't be out there, but the pictures warmed my heart.
Keep'em coming 👏👍🇺🇸💪
How in the fuck is Trump allowed to take a wrecking ball to the People’s House without a vote from Congress? Our HOA won’t even let us change the color of our door without approval. This is beyond insane!
Stephanie, he’s taking a wrecking ball to the entire United States and the globe. No one is stopping him. People are trying in the courts and yes, they’re winning lots of cases, but there is no enforcement mechanism when he owns all the law-enforcement. Nowhere is safe from this wretched evil.
Don’t let it overcome us. Live our best lives and resist at the same time.
I just can’t believe that the dumbest people on the planet were able to pull this off. Maybe they’re not as stupid as we thought. Just evil.
Hanlon's razor (don't attribute to malice what can more easily explained by stupidity) doesn't apply anymore.
I think the better version would be Trump's razor: "don't attribute to stupidity what can be more easily explained by malice."
Stupidity, greed, and cowardice are quite the triumvirate.
I often think of Verbal Kint’s explanation of Keyser Söze’s success in The Usual Suspects: “He realized you didn’t need guns, or men, or money… you just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn’t,” (or pretty close to that.) I don’t think most of the rich and powerful are the smartest people in any room they find themselves. Instead, they know the cheat code: if you act without scruples or humanity or a thought to the consequences of your actions, nothing will slow you down.
So true and so sad, Rick
Well said
It is going to take a whole raft of Constitutional Amendments to fix this. We need to move to something approaching a parliamentary system so a vote of no confidence can expel and extirpate this kind of travesty.
Yes yes, we get that. But on a more specific level, why is he allowed to tear down buildings and destroy historical infrastructure? It's got to be illegal.
And he doesn't even own it. I hope when he's out of there they charge him damages to the property.
My question for the MAGA fools still out there is how much money do they think George Soros has? Surely after all the many times he’s supposed to have paid the many millions of us who protest, even he would eventually run out of money. After all , Soros isn’t fElon. Come to think about it, all this would mean MAGA nuts would have to think and that they cannot do.
Your last sentence explains it all.
And most of us hate for free.
I hope they also bulldoze everything — and send him the bill.
Besides undoing the serious damage to our laws and our economy, the next president has to prioritize restoring the White House. EVERYTHING that Trump did should be eradicated, and it should be done publicly.
Publicly and with great ceremony — even with a major rally, perhaps!
He should to pay for any damages he caused.
Apparently he can do anything he wants to the White House, because MAGA.
Make Architecture Greek Again. Make Architecture Gaudy Again.
The classic Doric columns reflect the influence of the 17th century Enlightenment on the nation's founding principles. Corinthian says decadent dying empire, celebrating obscene wealth among the privileged, gross excess and self-indulgence. So it goes.
Decadent and dying is what Don the Con is. That day can't come soon enough and put the entire world out his misery. Rumor has it the main staircase on his ballroom is fake. The real entrance is off to the side. Hopefully the judge this week puts the kibosh on his new ballroom plans permanently.
Make America gag again.
Hi Diana,
I’ve said the same things as your post
today!
We will get through this together ‼️
🥰
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It makes me sick that he gets to do whatever the hell he wants!
My MAGA brother told me that there is no war and the prices are definitely going to go down. What kind of idiot believes this and why oh why am I related to this moron?
Exactly my question. It seems to me what he is doing to property that doesn't belong to him is wildly illegal.
Congress is spineless- with 25 or 30 exceptions, including about 3 Republicans- thank you Thomas Massie- there is no will to defy the ever more insane and dictatorial whims of the shit-in-chief. If the Congress stood up to him, he would not have endless billions of our tax dollars to throw into the garbage of the Iran war, stupid vanity projects, and concentration camps.
The idiots who can't be bothered to plan
Were caught by surprise when Iran
Closed off the Strait
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
Who knew, cries the world's dumbest man
Don’t stop now Doc - the world is your oyster!!!
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Nobody does unfit for office like this guy, he is the most unfit the world has ever seen, he is acing this unfitness. He wins the gold plated, star spangled, turbo charged unfit for office 🏆. Now can someone kindly escort him from what is left of the building?
He shouldn't be allowed to be president of his own fan club, which is losing members in vast numbers... even after he dropped the fee from $1,000,000 to 99 cents.
Donny thinks the NY Times is calling him “ass-thetic”, a combination of *asshole* and *pathetic*. Remember, he is both illiterate and lazy as fuck.
Antartica!? That is epic. Terrific protest signs, too.
Now, how can we stop him from completely destroying the White House? My God...
Every damned day feels tragic. But the writing is on the wall...in my home state of Misery (Missouri) Congressman 'do nothing' Sam Graves is not seeking reelection. 13 terms and didnt do a damned thing. And kept getting reelected...dumb asses. 🙄
The state that gave us Josh Hee-Hawley…
Seriously...these people are easily manipulated.
Destruction of the White House is arguably the least of our problems right now.
For sure. But it still makes me angry.
That's a national epidemic.😡
Re: “and then installed tables and umbrellas identical to the ones at his Florida golf motel.”
Those umbrellas look like big dicks - are they tributes to his sons, Beavis and Cokehead?
It’s the “watchin’ porn and eatin’ Cheezies” dicks
It was a beautiful Rose Garden. Now it's the Epstein Dick Garden, a monument to Donnie Demento's bestie ever.
Drumpf's man boobs are ugly and sagging
His polls numbers sinking and lagging
"Who cares if my breasts
Sink far 'neath my chest!?
I'm hideous, bit up and skagging!"
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The guy whose shape is a spheric
Disses Iran's new cleric
Says to the newbs
When you hear 'bout my boobs
They ain't referencing Jr and Eric
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!
Again
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This isn’t an advertising platform, Chilly
I appreciate all of the pics&signs, but Antarctica is one of my favorites
Agree! Does Amazon deliver to Antarctica? I'd like to send them a years supply of hot chocolate...and mini marshmallows!
They are probably on a Government funded research mission down there.
How can long til Fat Donnie has his minions identify and fire them ?!
Amen. That is dedication!
It looks like the WH was decorated with a Cricut and gold adhesive vinyl.
Who says it wasn't?
It was.
Why are there giant dildoes in what used to be the Rose Garden?
Why are there giant dildoes occupying the White House?
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A guy at my protest (Ventura, CA) had a sign with a beautiful photo of Jackie Kennedy and the caption was, "That hooker did WHAT to my rose garden?"
Love that , Crystal!
Right???!? What the actual fuck?!
Jeff… Ricardo Mountalblan “fine Corinthian Leather in our new Chrysler” Fine Corinthian columns… I mean WTAF? The f***ing world is burning down due to the life long criminal elected to President, and yet he talks about architecture at a remodeled WTF? His brain is Swiss cheese and the lies are getting bigger every day… Best to all fellow Travelers..
Chrysler Cordoba was the car. Another throwback to the gas guzzling age Don the Con is so fond of. He's permanently stuck in 1979.
Fine Corinthian leather!
Impervious to weather!
Even Ricardo had admit
It was marketing bullshit
That's capitalism altogether
Sorry Ole, you obviously are not familiar with the author Hunter Thompson.. but I expect that from you..Thompson used that phrase in most of his writings.. one with the self proclaimed vast knowledge of history, geopolitics and economics should be aware of various American authors. Or do just come here to piss people off? But u do u there Sport.
‘Fellow travelers’ has always been associated with American Communists, Slow Ball.
Kindly don’t lump us all into that category
Everything about him is fucking ugly! The ugliest just might be the members of the Repugs who are literallly terrified of this sociopathic little man! What the fuck?
They’ve let this narcissistic child run amok. Simple as that.
None of this would happen if they actually acted like they represent the American people- not him.
Every Republican must be voted out of office. We have to start over with political parties.
Indeed. There are conservatives with whom I might disagree on policy but can respect (e.g., Adam Kinzinger). But there is no longer a Republican Party. It's just the MAGAt cult of personality.
You are 100% right. Any of the reasonable Republicans in office have shown how easy it is for them to forget about the laws and the people and swear loyalty to Trump.
That's why I take those polls showing Trump's overwhelming approval rating among *Republicans* with a grain of salt. The ones who had principles have mostly left the party.
Thanks, Jeff! I cracked up over John Waters’ sign: Trump Ruined Bad Taste! Lol, snort! 😂
That tore me up, too!
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Befuddled diaper-filling Norma Desmond stares at this toy ballroom like a kid who’s smashed his train set and killed his sister
It's the scene from Downfall where Hitler mumbles to Speer about great it is that the Red Army is going to knock down all the buildings for him so he can build Germania JUST LIKE THE MODEL. Meanwhile, the bunker shakes from the weight of Soviet bombs and children fire rockets at Soviet tanks.
Hitler started with nothing. Trump inherited everything. Any so-called success he has was entirely due to others. Hitler's twisted vision attracted the greatest military and legal minds of the century, and he came within a hair of conquering the world in five years. Had he not declared war on the US and Russia at the same time, he very well might have done it.
Donald Trump is the same pathetic archetype, but much dumber, tackier, and incompetent. Every so-called success was either handed to him, bailed out for him, or quietly finished by other people while he ran to the cameras and slapped his name on it like a gold‑plated parasite. The people he attracts into his sphere are even dumber and less competent than he is, and far more cruel and venal.
Inherited money, inherited connections, inherited scaffolding of institutions which he strip-mines for attention and graft.He takes credit for projects and jobs that were planned and funded years before he waddled onto the scene, and still brags like he laid every brick himself. The visionary.
But now his dementia is so bad that every time he opens his mouth it's Brad Pitt yelling WHAT'S IN THE BOX, knowing that it's bad and dead and worse than he imagines.
He has bred an endless swarm of knockoff ghouls, grifters, and would‑be little Trumps orbiting him, each somehow more vicious, more incompetent, and more shameless than the last, all clawing for a slice of the wreckage while they torch whatever still works and then congratulate themselves for “making it great.”
Hitler had the grace to off himself in his bunker. Yeah, he debated sacrificing everyone in Germany to prove his greatness (as did Hirohito and, later, Fidel Castro) but in the end he shot himself (after poisoning and shooting Blondi, which Kristi would approve),
Trump waddled into a decent economy and an unstable world and made everything so much worse so fast it showed how fucked the system is. We see it now beyond a doubt. Fixing it will be a lifetime of work for everyone. I choose to believe it's possible.
Trump will die on a global holiday because THE DAY HE DIES WILL BE CELEBRATED AROUND THE WORLD. What a party.
And think of the ratings for the war crimes trials!
My favorite protest sign:
"Can we just fast-forward to the part where he shoots himself in the bunker?"
I agree w/ ALL of that....
EXCEPT the depiction of Hirohito. My husband's uncle was head of the American Guard at the Emperor's Palace after the war (growing up in Seattle w/ Nisai children as his friends, he was VERY fluent in Japanese). Hirohito & Skip became friends for life.
Hirohito was NOT behind the war. The Japanese MILITARY planned it all, & Hirohito & his family were INSTRUCTED to either go along w/ them, or DIE. Being a mild-mannered, bookish family man underneath all the trappings....what choice did he have? He was never comfortable w/ the trappings of Royalty....he'd have much rather been a biologist, out in the wilderness studying plants.
The Japanese military used to say that, once Japan defeated the US, Hirohito was going to ride his beloved white horse down Pennsylvania Ave, & move into the WH. My husband's cousin Richard (who was born & grew up in the Palace), has a picture of himself atop Hirohito's regally kitted-out white horse, because Hirohito thought it would be a nice memory for him to have when he grew up.
Hirohito was the one who ended the tradition of the Emperor being a god that his subjects weren't even allowed to LOOK at. After the war, he made a point of touring the country, speaking to the people, wearing a simple dark suit, bowing & tipping his hat to THEM. (Lots of videos online.)
Hirohito was a VICTIM of the Japanese military.