I am double laughing while reading Tiedrich today. I am on a train from Berlin to Hamburg, and there are several teams of youth soccer players, coming from a tournament, in which one team has the first place trophy, which is silver and really beautiful. By the time I got to Jeff's article they had been out of their seats for at least an hour, and they are really moving, and lying on the floor laughing, playing word games, trying to say sentences in different languages, and laughing because one of their friends can speak Austrian German, because his father can. I can guarantee you if they were in Munich, the Austrian dialect would seem more normal than what we speak up here.
Anyway, I have been reading the German view of things, and an article from the Kiev Times. Merz, who should speak English fluently since he worked for Black Rock for 5 years, and that might help with his conversation with Trump.
When I think of German style of conversation from Trump's I would love to have heard a recording of that conversation. I am sure Trump Speak 101 has been given to Merz before the conversation. In any case, by letting DT think he and Europe are together in setting the terms for an end to the Ukraine war, it sounds like the US is actually still a part of NATO. Right now Merz says, NATO would not happen for a long time, and Ukraine would probably join after it has joined the EU, which he sees happening in around 5 years. How I interpret this, is okay, we will not put NATO on the table until there is a different US president that is more supportive of democracy again. As for EU membership, we have to give Ukraine something to strive for since they are saving our butts, but if the war ends soon, then it will take about that long for them to rebuild their economy with American businesses paying for digging up Ukrainian minerals to help them get back on their feet.
However, Putin likes to play the long game, so he is saying threats of increased sanctions do not scare him, and so I do not expect their to be a cease fire on Monday. What I understand the increased sanctions to be are 100 more Russian ghost ships illegally shipping fossil fuels will be sanctioned. We shall see what happens.
Meanwhile, Jeff is so spot on about not bringing your own interpreter to negotiations. It boggles my mind. These VOLLIDIOTEN do not have a clue what their jobs are, except to be loyal to Trump. However, I was taught loyal people let you know when your fly is unzipped or toilet paper is stuck to your shoe, or your skirt is tucked into your stockings in back, but their idea is that you lie, lie, lie. That is not loyal, just opportunistic.
I like the way that Heather Cox Richardson put it the other day as well.
"The administration appears not to be able to attract the caliber of federal officials to which Americans have become accustomed."
As to hiring an interpreter, I used to travel to Europe for business in Germany, Italy, France, etc. We had a fellow named Giancarlo who grew up in northe4n Italy. All our negotiations were done in English BUT everyone would move together to speak in their own language at times.
Since Giancarlo spoke 5 languages fluently, all he did was listen and then tell us what they were saying to each other as they knew we didn’t speak their language.
World of difference with an interpreter. Needless to say, Giancarlo paid for himself many time over.
I was an interpreted in the Dominican Republic. In addition to teaching in an international school there, a lawyer that I gave English lessons to, would hire me when he did deals with German businessmen even though they conducted their business in English, I would tell him everything that they discussed. So, they would know that they could not discuss anything without me telling him what they were saying. He was helping them to get around the laws, so I did not feel so good about that, but I did learn a lot about what was going on.
I agree that having a good interpreter should have been a priority for these buffoons trying to negotiate. No wonder the Europeans leaders don't really want the US anywhere but in the background backing up what they negotiate.
Just realized another reason Trump may not want an interpreter with Putin is because then he would really have to talk with him in a serious manner. Really negotiate, and I believe, Putin would eat Trump for lunch. This way he can just nod and smile and be his lazy performance self.
And yet in Lumpys first tenure one of his loyal told him about his toilet paper stuck on his shoe ....or his leaking diapers. So his loyals are even scared to tell him the truth ..😜🤣😂
Dotty, for me loyal includes telling someone when something is wrong with what they are doing. So his so called "loyals" are not doing him any favors, but are just self serving.
To me when your sitting at a dinner with aquintences and you have green shit on your teeth (or hanging from your ass to your shoes ) ,as a friend you tell them they have something stuck in their teeth but obviously these employees wouldn't tell him ...but they'd surely laugh about it behind his back . I guess that's his loyalists
Medieval German proverb: Der arme Kaiser hat ihm Senf auf der Nasen, und keinen Freund ihm so zu beweisen ("the poor emperor has mustard on his nose, and not one friend to tell him so")
Yes. This saying actually reminds me of things boys I knew growing up would do to each other at sleep overs. They would put mustard or toothpaste on someones hand and then tickle them on their nose with a feather or something and get them to smack their nose with the mustard, or toothpaste. That was middle school boy friendships. Just going to show that these "loyals" are like middle school boys.
And Trump is trying to be a Kaiser. But, he is not. We the people need to remind him of that.
Honestly, I don't understand. Virtually all of we readers grew up in a time when there were no plastic straws. I remember drinking my milk at school with paper straws and I don't remember any problems.
The part I don't get is the drinking of hot beverages through straws. Who does that? Does Trump drink hot beverages through those little skinny stir straws, or is he just making up a new problem to "solve"?
My thought, too. Tfg hates paper straws because they don't perform well with hot liquid, which is not hard to figure out. But who on earth drinks hot liquid through a PLASTIC straw?? I have never seen anybody sipping hot tea or a latte through a plastic straw. Sheesh.
Do you recall the news photo of him having to hold his glass with both hands to get it to his mouth? I think he or someone who monitors his 'look' decided that he shouldn't be seen having to do that. Obviously, the straw wasn't a good alternative - he can't seem to handle them very well either. His 'handlers' are as pathetic as the rest of his cabinet and other advisors ...
oh dear...I just posted virtually the same thought before I finished reading the rest of this thread. I wasn't copying--swear to goodness! Sorry-my bad!
Did you see him trying to drink cold water thru a reg glass?his little teeny tiny hands could barely get the cup up to his lips ...and then he hadn't enough strength to suck .....O the woes of being so rich and coddelled you never had to drink ...he probley was always spoon fed .
Actually, I think something has changed. We drank 8 ounces of milk with a paper straw, and it worked. Now most fountain drinks are 16 to 32 ounces. The straw has to survive a lot longer in a lot more fluid, and it's not as successful.
Also, paper straws are narrow, and plastic straws are larger bore. People like to take big gulps rather than small sips. Actually, because I don't like ice in my drinks, I just go bottoms up.
Things you can't unsee: photos of turtles and small mammals with plastic straws stuck up their noses or on their claws. Many of us grew up on paper straws. No explosions, no burns from hot liquid, probably because we were smart enough not to drink hot liquids through ANY straw. What a dumbass. Besides, with his mouth, he can just stick it in any container and just suck. Again, what a dumbass. Also, he may find presidenting harder than he likes,, but I for one find having him for president is the hardest thing I've ever done
LOL, I had just been thinking that if he realized how much publicity that turtle got, he'd be the next one with a straw in his nose. ANYTHING to make the headlines! Actually Jan, I refuse to acknowledge him as POTUS; he's just the head of an existential regime (existential = "the proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions") that we must work together to remove from the seat of power and return our country to a Constitutional Republic.
I think you're right. We always drank eight ounces of everything. Since I don't think I've ever had a fountain drink, I don't know what drinking them is like. I'm a small person, so a small straw would have been fine. In the summertime, back east, my mom would back different kinds of juices for us to drink in the afternoon (ginger ale only if we were sick to our stomachs.) She had many different delicious mixtures--grape juice/orange juice, grape juice/pineapple juice, orange juice/pineapple juice, etc. She would also make them into popsicles. We had wonderful summers.
And anyway, who the hell drinks hot beverages with ANY straw? Is 47 drinking hot Diet Coke from a mug with a straw??? "Interesting" explanation to say the least.
Oh, I don't think Donnie would have just wandered off into obscurity. He'd make sure his stupid orange face was in the news every day. There would still be plenty for Jeff to write about.
About the only thing dear leader uses a straw for is whatever he's packing his crusty nose with. Also, the lack of attendance to the intelligence briefings should make us feel so much safer these days. Fuckface the Last is too damn lazy and out to lunch to do anything presidential that's meaningful for the good of anyone. It's a bitch being president these days but has he thought of how much fun he'd be having if he went to that other house instead? Happy Mother' Day.
Exactly you can't snort drugs thru paper straws ....you loose more than half of the product ..it clumps up inside cardboard paper from the humidity . Even in the old days that's why everyone used plastic straws (probley why they were invented ) after McDonalds took their little spoons away
That was my first thought: Was I missing something? Nope. Hot cocoa—no, coffee—no, tea—no? He’s really got his short fingers on the pulse of the nation.
Poor Trumpy. He shouldn’t have run again if it was going to tax his collapsed noggin.
This level of selling out to Putin is beyond anything we've ever seen from our elected officials. Why isn't every veteran, active duty personnel, indeed any citizen who has a modicum of sanity trying to impeach this traitor and also recall or defeat every fucking Putin boosting conservative in Congress? Does our country mean so little?!
Come on, Putin was KGB. He likely speaks English better than tRump does. But, I'll bet he doesn't let his Donnie DooDad know that.And I'll bet he had his people suggest to tRump who to fill his Cabinet with...
He was begging Gorbachev to allow him to build one of his hotels in Moscow unsuccessfully…playing a sycophantic fool to Putin was certain to follow Doc!!
I encourage everyone to check out Jeff’s link of donny’s “pee tape” (if you haven’t already seen it)-it leads to a very interesting 35 page document of Russia & trump.
The republicans are traitors. The magas are traitors. If you live in a red state you live with treason every single day. In blue states we have to see it on the news, and you know what it is like, full of treason. Do you watch news now?
Ice or some agency of this illegitimate government will do something so outrageous that people will pour into the streets everywhere. Initially it will be televised, then, it will be word of mouth. The military will refuse to respond. The Supreme Court will withdraw support from t and v and j. That moron, from Iowa, Grassley, will take over and Congress will take power until we can have elections.
Sorry about the impending, unfunny rant: The world is at war, we have no allies left, he’s bankrupting and killing us, & his minions are ethnically cleansing the country of all us unwanteds (& probably dreaming of genocide) … and instead of his daily intelligence briefings he’s pondering paper straws melting in something hot? Never mind the toxins leaking from plastic when it encounters heat ‘cause he doesn’t know shit about that shit. The man is a menace to all living things.
He’s just running his prototypical distraction program to keep his MAGATS happy and satisfied. Abbi, I hope like hell the Dems, military leadership and the many judges out there who respect the rule of law are strategizing on how to stop this coup.
"he described ending Russia’s war in Ukraine as a growing frustration that keeps him up at night, people in the room said."
Oh BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. The only way anything can keep you up at night is if you care about it and Trump doesn't care about a single damn person in this world other than himself.
And China walked out on Trump during tariff talks...he's fucking losing it. He's starting to destroy himself now as well as everything else he touches.
The CCP and its representatives could not just “abide” to the demands from a demented old man, so they just walked out. They know they were being played by a carnival barker as they recall their own carnival barkers… Mao, Lin Piao, Chou en Lai, Madam Mao…
Amen to that, sister. We could've had a highly qualified lawyer with a degree in economics, but here we are with the guy who thinks Mattel is a country.
And stupid and evil and greedy. Truly a witch's brew of the worst personality traits, unleashed on the world by his sociopathic parents and elevated to fruition by the fucking idiots who voted for him. Woe to the world.
Presidenting is so awful and hard that my beautiful hands and fingers are tired of all the signing that I have to do. Do you know how many EOs I’ve signed Jan 20 - millions of them, and all for the good of the world. Let me tell you that no other president has ever signed this many documents, not even President Lincoln.
A wonderful Mother’s Day greeting! My daughter gave me a lovely floral tea towel with stylized script of the words “Fuck Trump” laced in between the flowers.
I’m envious! All I got was a text from my daughter but she’s busy with an almost 18 month old toddler. My son will call later from across the globe. Happy day to show gratitude to mothers and mother figures in our lives!
Some of his EOs and Bad Idea proposals for EOs are evidence documents for his impeachment--high crimes and violations of the Constitution. End birthright citizenship. Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus in peacetime. These violate his oath of office to protect the Constitution. What a dummy!
SNL did a skit on his EOs last week. Pretty respectful in their satire. They could have shown Donald in a soggy diaper in a playpen throwing his EO demands at the Adults in the room.
Donald is an irrational liar and hateful Child Ego in a 78 year old fat white body. It's time for the Parents to show up and remove him (and all of his stupid cronies) from the WH forever. 535 Adults in Congress and 9 Supreme Court Justices know better. They must take action before Little Donnie hurts more people.
There is an "Honorable Cohort" in the House and in the Senate. More than enough for impeachment and conviction.
The red line may be different for each of these honorable public servants. But Donald is crossing a lot of red lines of criminality and dishonor--high crimes and violation of his oath of office The raging Child is harming their constituents, who they are sworn to serve. Donald is breaking his oath, federal laws against fraud, extortion, abuse of power, taking bribes and outright theft by his family. His crypto scams alone should be enough for impeachment and conviction.
Their constituents are suffering from his stupidity. Financial harm, loss of job, mental health, the dual justice system and next kidnapping, torture and murder--of American citizens.
For this handful of the Honorable, Donald will eventually cross the red line.
"There is an "Honorable Cohort" in the House and in the Senate. More than enough for impeachment and conviction." No. There really aren't anywhere near enough.
You're talking about a legislative branch where the members of his party don't care that Dumpy has usurped their power of tariff imposition and their power to distribute tax money - so far, all of it already voted on by Congress. They don't appear to care about anything he does. They don't give a rat's backside about whether it's hurting their constituents. Doesn't look to me as if they care enough to impeach him, either.
The Child strikes out against the Adults. Who are befuddled when the Child looks like a 78 year old man. The Child will continue to misbehave until the Adults take on the Parent Ego State.
Thinking about Pope Leo. He is the Father figure for 1,400 million humans. He can be Donnie's Parent as well. This is suitable. Leo is a man who has devoted his life to others. Donnie is a man who has devoted his life to himself. Little Donnie is afraid the Parents will stop him. And make him pay for his crimes. It's high time they did!
Jeff, you magnificent blaspheming bard of truth, I raise my goblet of recycled holy water to you.
Trump whining about how hard “presidenting” is? That’s rich coming from a man who thinks diplomacy is just yelling at people in all caps. Of course Putin’s been stringing him along—Donny thinks every authoritarian daddy figure secretly loves him back, like a rejected prom king auditioning for a Cold War reboot.
He’s not the Second Coming. He’s the Second Guessing. A walking Dunning-Kruger diagram in a MAGA hat.
Honestly, if executive function were required for executive orders, this man wouldn’t even be qualified to run a vape shop.
May the paper straws he banned rise up and poke him in the ego.
All I ask is that we take away ‘very interesting’, ‘interesting’, ‘we’ll have to see’, and ‘strong & powerful’ from his vocabulary - and see where that leaves us ( cannot believe that the press just dutifully records every word :/ ).
me, at 7:00 am: 'it's mother's day, I'll just crank out a short post'
me, 4 hours and 1,365 words later: 'goddammit'
Happens to me every time Jeff , I got wrapped up in the habeas corpus thing , and here I am 5000 words later
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/suspending-habeas-corpus-101-why
I am double laughing while reading Tiedrich today. I am on a train from Berlin to Hamburg, and there are several teams of youth soccer players, coming from a tournament, in which one team has the first place trophy, which is silver and really beautiful. By the time I got to Jeff's article they had been out of their seats for at least an hour, and they are really moving, and lying on the floor laughing, playing word games, trying to say sentences in different languages, and laughing because one of their friends can speak Austrian German, because his father can. I can guarantee you if they were in Munich, the Austrian dialect would seem more normal than what we speak up here.
Anyway, I have been reading the German view of things, and an article from the Kiev Times. Merz, who should speak English fluently since he worked for Black Rock for 5 years, and that might help with his conversation with Trump.
When I think of German style of conversation from Trump's I would love to have heard a recording of that conversation. I am sure Trump Speak 101 has been given to Merz before the conversation. In any case, by letting DT think he and Europe are together in setting the terms for an end to the Ukraine war, it sounds like the US is actually still a part of NATO. Right now Merz says, NATO would not happen for a long time, and Ukraine would probably join after it has joined the EU, which he sees happening in around 5 years. How I interpret this, is okay, we will not put NATO on the table until there is a different US president that is more supportive of democracy again. As for EU membership, we have to give Ukraine something to strive for since they are saving our butts, but if the war ends soon, then it will take about that long for them to rebuild their economy with American businesses paying for digging up Ukrainian minerals to help them get back on their feet.
However, Putin likes to play the long game, so he is saying threats of increased sanctions do not scare him, and so I do not expect their to be a cease fire on Monday. What I understand the increased sanctions to be are 100 more Russian ghost ships illegally shipping fossil fuels will be sanctioned. We shall see what happens.
Meanwhile, Jeff is so spot on about not bringing your own interpreter to negotiations. It boggles my mind. These VOLLIDIOTEN do not have a clue what their jobs are, except to be loyal to Trump. However, I was taught loyal people let you know when your fly is unzipped or toilet paper is stuck to your shoe, or your skirt is tucked into your stockings in back, but their idea is that you lie, lie, lie. That is not loyal, just opportunistic.
I like the way that Heather Cox Richardson put it the other day as well.
"The administration appears not to be able to attract the caliber of federal officials to which Americans have become accustomed."
Both are right.
As to hiring an interpreter, I used to travel to Europe for business in Germany, Italy, France, etc. We had a fellow named Giancarlo who grew up in northe4n Italy. All our negotiations were done in English BUT everyone would move together to speak in their own language at times.
Since Giancarlo spoke 5 languages fluently, all he did was listen and then tell us what they were saying to each other as they knew we didn’t speak their language.
World of difference with an interpreter. Needless to say, Giancarlo paid for himself many time over.
Stupid Trump. What a schmuck.
I was an interpreted in the Dominican Republic. In addition to teaching in an international school there, a lawyer that I gave English lessons to, would hire me when he did deals with German businessmen even though they conducted their business in English, I would tell him everything that they discussed. So, they would know that they could not discuss anything without me telling him what they were saying. He was helping them to get around the laws, so I did not feel so good about that, but I did learn a lot about what was going on.
I agree that having a good interpreter should have been a priority for these buffoons trying to negotiate. No wonder the Europeans leaders don't really want the US anywhere but in the background backing up what they negotiate.
Just realized another reason Trump may not want an interpreter with Putin is because then he would really have to talk with him in a serious manner. Really negotiate, and I believe, Putin would eat Trump for lunch. This way he can just nod and smile and be his lazy performance self.
Talk about an understatement. Drumpf is scraping the very bottom of the latrine with these people.
Indeed. Anyone with half a brain would run, not walk, away from an offer of a position in his administration.
Because, as Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project has been telling us lo’ these many years, “ Everything Trump Touches Dies” !!
Exactly! However, that makes the understatement almost humorous, even thought the situation is not.
And yet in Lumpys first tenure one of his loyal told him about his toilet paper stuck on his shoe ....or his leaking diapers. So his loyals are even scared to tell him the truth ..😜🤣😂
Dotty, for me loyal includes telling someone when something is wrong with what they are doing. So his so called "loyals" are not doing him any favors, but are just self serving.
To me when your sitting at a dinner with aquintences and you have green shit on your teeth (or hanging from your ass to your shoes ) ,as a friend you tell them they have something stuck in their teeth but obviously these employees wouldn't tell him ...but they'd surely laugh about it behind his back . I guess that's his loyalists
Medieval German proverb: Der arme Kaiser hat ihm Senf auf der Nasen, und keinen Freund ihm so zu beweisen ("the poor emperor has mustard on his nose, and not one friend to tell him so")
Yes. This saying actually reminds me of things boys I knew growing up would do to each other at sleep overs. They would put mustard or toothpaste on someones hand and then tickle them on their nose with a feather or something and get them to smack their nose with the mustard, or toothpaste. That was middle school boy friendships. Just going to show that these "loyals" are like middle school boys.
And Trump is trying to be a Kaiser. But, he is not. We the people need to remind him of that.
Well written habeas corpus explanation Wendy!
I’m not sure many people understand that it’s been suspended before , and bush tried it only then being told to sit the fuck down. There’s history
And why do you suppose it's Mueller, and not Trump, who's publicly invoking the thought?
You mean miller ? Because he’s a white christofascist and no habeas corpus is his midnight jizz facial dream
Trump couldn’t pronounce habeas corpus so Herr Miller had to step in!
Trump doesn’t want ownership of it when the shit hits the fan. The trials. Reasonable denials.
Reading SHC101 now. Great work on this, Wendy!
Hopefully our other works breed such positivity
The batshit treason is just too yoooge for a short summation
Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate.
Jeff, Donnie knows exactly what he's doing!
He's using the plastic straws to get rid of the sharks. Duh !!!
Honestly, I don't understand. Virtually all of we readers grew up in a time when there were no plastic straws. I remember drinking my milk at school with paper straws and I don't remember any problems.
The part I don't get is the drinking of hot beverages through straws. Who does that? Does Trump drink hot beverages through those little skinny stir straws, or is he just making up a new problem to "solve"?
My thought, too. Tfg hates paper straws because they don't perform well with hot liquid, which is not hard to figure out. But who on earth drinks hot liquid through a PLASTIC straw?? I have never seen anybody sipping hot tea or a latte through a plastic straw. Sheesh.
Do you recall the news photo of him having to hold his glass with both hands to get it to his mouth? I think he or someone who monitors his 'look' decided that he shouldn't be seen having to do that. Obviously, the straw wasn't a good alternative - he can't seem to handle them very well either. His 'handlers' are as pathetic as the rest of his cabinet and other advisors ...
I don’t think AnusMouthPantLoad has ever used a straw of any kind, Nancy. His sphincter like soup coolers cannot manage inflow.
oh dear...I just posted virtually the same thought before I finished reading the rest of this thread. I wasn't copying--swear to goodness! Sorry-my bad!
Did you see him trying to drink cold water thru a reg glass?his little teeny tiny hands could barely get the cup up to his lips ...and then he hadn't enough strength to suck .....O the woes of being so rich and coddelled you never had to drink ...he probley was always spoon fed .
What's not to understand? Paper straws = Biodegradable = Good = Trump's against them. Because, of course.
Fwiw, a nice thick paper straw gives the best drinking, sipping, or slurping experience.
Actually, I think something has changed. We drank 8 ounces of milk with a paper straw, and it worked. Now most fountain drinks are 16 to 32 ounces. The straw has to survive a lot longer in a lot more fluid, and it's not as successful.
Also, paper straws are narrow, and plastic straws are larger bore. People like to take big gulps rather than small sips. Actually, because I don't like ice in my drinks, I just go bottoms up.
Things you can't unsee: photos of turtles and small mammals with plastic straws stuck up their noses or on their claws. Many of us grew up on paper straws. No explosions, no burns from hot liquid, probably because we were smart enough not to drink hot liquids through ANY straw. What a dumbass. Besides, with his mouth, he can just stick it in any container and just suck. Again, what a dumbass. Also, he may find presidenting harder than he likes,, but I for one find having him for president is the hardest thing I've ever done
LOL, I had just been thinking that if he realized how much publicity that turtle got, he'd be the next one with a straw in his nose. ANYTHING to make the headlines! Actually Jan, I refuse to acknowledge him as POTUS; he's just the head of an existential regime (existential = "the proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions") that we must work together to remove from the seat of power and return our country to a Constitutional Republic.
I think you're right. We always drank eight ounces of everything. Since I don't think I've ever had a fountain drink, I don't know what drinking them is like. I'm a small person, so a small straw would have been fine. In the summertime, back east, my mom would back different kinds of juices for us to drink in the afternoon (ginger ale only if we were sick to our stomachs.) She had many different delicious mixtures--grape juice/orange juice, grape juice/pineapple juice, orange juice/pineapple juice, etc. She would also make them into popsicles. We had wonderful summers.
Ginger Ale was always the go-to for a sick tummy in our house, too. Now I prefer a sip of coke or DP.
It's still the go-to for me. Canada Dry.
I remember getting 7-Up if we were sick. If we were really sick, we got half a popsicle. What a treat.
And anyway, who the hell drinks hot beverages with ANY straw? Is 47 drinking hot Diet Coke from a mug with a straw??? "Interesting" explanation to say the least.
If you-know-who had won the election, you probably would have no posts at all!
after Biden won in 2020, people said to me "now you'll have nothing to tweet about." I'm pretty sure they were wrong
Oh, I don't think Donnie would have just wandered off into obscurity. He'd make sure his stupid orange face was in the news every day. There would still be plenty for Jeff to write about.
Thanks for the effort you put into this. I especially love the Maltese Falcon clip!
Emphasis on "crank."
We appreciate your efforts. Thanks for helping us to laugh at these ass hats.
I often think about how hard it must be to grind this out every single day. We all look forward to your column so much but you deserve days off.
You bring some sanity to the daily insanity.
You should be allowed a day off of your choosing! Just a day to stay in bed and ignore this craziness.
You hit a home run today, Jeff.
😂😂
Well, we enjoyed it. Just like always. Happy Mother's Day!
Who puts a straw in a hot beverage donny? Am I missing something?!! Gimme a break with this ignorant administration!
Happy Mother’s Day-hope it is peaceful and relaxing to everyone!🇺🇸❤️🥂🌺
I questioned that too and I'm guessing that he can't actually hold a cup or swallow like a big boy so he uses a straw for everything.
There was a cartoonist who always depicted Trump with a sippy cup.
When your wearing fake choppers or you ain't got teeth ,it's harder to drink thru the ice .....when your so spoiled .....
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣My thought exactly
About the only thing dear leader uses a straw for is whatever he's packing his crusty nose with. Also, the lack of attendance to the intelligence briefings should make us feel so much safer these days. Fuckface the Last is too damn lazy and out to lunch to do anything presidential that's meaningful for the good of anyone. It's a bitch being president these days but has he thought of how much fun he'd be having if he went to that other house instead? Happy Mother' Day.
He doesn’t do drugs. He is just high on life….😂
Exactly you can't snort drugs thru paper straws ....you loose more than half of the product ..it clumps up inside cardboard paper from the humidity . Even in the old days that's why everyone used plastic straws (probley why they were invented ) after McDonalds took their little spoons away
That was my first thought: Was I missing something? Nope. Hot cocoa—no, coffee—no, tea—no? He’s really got his short fingers on the pulse of the nation.
Poor Trumpy. He shouldn’t have run again if it was going to tax his collapsed noggin.
Yeah like thru a coffee stirring straw???
This level of selling out to Putin is beyond anything we've ever seen from our elected officials. Why isn't every veteran, active duty personnel, indeed any citizen who has a modicum of sanity trying to impeach this traitor and also recall or defeat every fucking Putin boosting conservative in Congress? Does our country mean so little?!
Come on, Putin was KGB. He likely speaks English better than tRump does. But, I'll bet he doesn't let his Donnie DooDad know that.And I'll bet he had his people suggest to tRump who to fill his Cabinet with...
Indubitably. Which is why we need to get him and his whole traitorous cadre out of power
>"Putin was KGB. He likely speaks English better than tRump does"
Nah.
That's not hard to do. Even immigrants can do this.
Indeed. Since the geniuses decided we don't need cybersecurity, I figure it's only a matter of time until Russia disables the US.
Happening right now I’m sure
In real time.
He was begging Gorbachev to allow him to build one of his hotels in Moscow unsuccessfully…playing a sycophantic fool to Putin was certain to follow Doc!!
I encourage everyone to check out Jeff’s link of donny’s “pee tape” (if you haven’t already seen it)-it leads to a very interesting 35 page document of Russia & trump.
The republicans are traitors. The magas are traitors. If you live in a red state you live with treason every single day. In blue states we have to see it on the news, and you know what it is like, full of treason. Do you watch news now?
When will enough pressure finally be exerted to burst the dam that is holding revolution back?
Ice or some agency of this illegitimate government will do something so outrageous that people will pour into the streets everywhere. Initially it will be televised, then, it will be word of mouth. The military will refuse to respond. The Supreme Court will withdraw support from t and v and j. That moron, from Iowa, Grassley, will take over and Congress will take power until we can have elections.
Sorry about the impending, unfunny rant: The world is at war, we have no allies left, he’s bankrupting and killing us, & his minions are ethnically cleansing the country of all us unwanteds (& probably dreaming of genocide) … and instead of his daily intelligence briefings he’s pondering paper straws melting in something hot? Never mind the toxins leaking from plastic when it encounters heat ‘cause he doesn’t know shit about that shit. The man is a menace to all living things.
He’s just running his prototypical distraction program to keep his MAGATS happy and satisfied. Abbi, I hope like hell the Dems, military leadership and the many judges out there who respect the rule of law are strategizing on how to stop this coup.
I really believe that is true Walt and it’s just the way his chaotic brain functions nothing truly important is up there cerebrally speaking
"he described ending Russia’s war in Ukraine as a growing frustration that keeps him up at night, people in the room said."
Oh BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. The only way anything can keep you up at night is if you care about it and Trump doesn't care about a single damn person in this world other than himself.
"Sundowning" is keeping him up at night. Partly why he can't stay awake during the day.
The only thing keeping him up at night or any other 78 year old man is an enlarged prostrate.
Exactly my thoughts.
And China walked out on Trump during tariff talks...he's fucking losing it. He's starting to destroy himself now as well as everything else he touches.
As long as he destroys all of his so-called administration, maga, & prooject 2025 along with himself, I’ll be happy (and sleep again!).
Abbi, I don't know where you live, but I am sure you and I were twins at birth.
Love it! I was a California girl, now a little old lady in the PNW. You?
I was born in Massachusetts, been a California girl since 1961. Could we have switched parts sometime in the Sixties or later?
Possibly. Maybe we’re clones of each other!
The CCP and its representatives could not just “abide” to the demands from a demented old man, so they just walked out. They know they were being played by a carnival barker as they recall their own carnival barkers… Mao, Lin Piao, Chou en Lai, Madam Mao…
I love the term “carnival barker”! It’s priceless.
ETTD
ETTD?
Everything Trump Touches Dies
Does he touch himself??
He hasn't seen his mushroom in decades
Gotcha...thanks
Rick Wilson's quote and book.
This guy is nuts.
You needed more confirmation ? The Mattel is a country thing should have closed that deal quickly
Amen to that, sister. We could've had a highly qualified lawyer with a degree in economics, but here we are with the guy who thinks Mattel is a country.
And a man.
He thinks Mattel is a country run by Ken Jong-Un
...and nobody on the right blinks.
And stupid and evil and greedy. Truly a witch's brew of the worst personality traits, unleashed on the world by his sociopathic parents and elevated to fruition by the fucking idiots who voted for him. Woe to the world.
More like barking ass mad.🥴😵
The barkingest.
Speaking of stupid things he's done...
Why doesn’t rural America have high speed internet? Check this map and thank these clowns.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/05/11/trump-kills-digital-equity-act-no-money-for-rural-internet-access/
I am sure most of the red staters have no idea this was ever attempted, nor that he killed it.
Deepak, the only thing wrong with your maps is that something is always covering up California/the Bay Area.
Presidenting is so awful and hard that my beautiful hands and fingers are tired of all the signing that I have to do. Do you know how many EOs I’ve signed Jan 20 - millions of them, and all for the good of the world. Let me tell you that no other president has ever signed this many documents, not even President Lincoln.
All President Lincoln did was write down addresses. Sad!
An address in Gettysburg.
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A wonderful Mother’s Day greeting! My daughter gave me a lovely floral tea towel with stylized script of the words “Fuck Trump” laced in between the flowers.
I’m envious! All I got was a text from my daughter but she’s busy with an almost 18 month old toddler. My son will call later from across the globe. Happy day to show gratitude to mothers and mother figures in our lives!
OMG! Your daughter is just exceptional. Happy Mother's Day.
Some of his EOs and Bad Idea proposals for EOs are evidence documents for his impeachment--high crimes and violations of the Constitution. End birthright citizenship. Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus in peacetime. These violate his oath of office to protect the Constitution. What a dummy!
SNL did a skit on his EOs last week. Pretty respectful in their satire. They could have shown Donald in a soggy diaper in a playpen throwing his EO demands at the Adults in the room.
Donald is an irrational liar and hateful Child Ego in a 78 year old fat white body. It's time for the Parents to show up and remove him (and all of his stupid cronies) from the WH forever. 535 Adults in Congress and 9 Supreme Court Justices know better. They must take action before Little Donnie hurts more people.
Expecting half of the adults in Congress and 6 of 9 justices to be adults is asking too much, I'm afraid.
There is an "Honorable Cohort" in the House and in the Senate. More than enough for impeachment and conviction.
The red line may be different for each of these honorable public servants. But Donald is crossing a lot of red lines of criminality and dishonor--high crimes and violation of his oath of office The raging Child is harming their constituents, who they are sworn to serve. Donald is breaking his oath, federal laws against fraud, extortion, abuse of power, taking bribes and outright theft by his family. His crypto scams alone should be enough for impeachment and conviction.
Their constituents are suffering from his stupidity. Financial harm, loss of job, mental health, the dual justice system and next kidnapping, torture and murder--of American citizens.
For this handful of the Honorable, Donald will eventually cross the red line.
"There is an "Honorable Cohort" in the House and in the Senate. More than enough for impeachment and conviction." No. There really aren't anywhere near enough.
Another bright red line he's crossing. No, Donald, you are not allowed to accept this bribed of a $300 million airplane.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-will-accept-luxury-jet-qatar-use-air-force-one-rcna206111
You're talking about a legislative branch where the members of his party don't care that Dumpy has usurped their power of tariff imposition and their power to distribute tax money - so far, all of it already voted on by Congress. They don't appear to care about anything he does. They don't give a rat's backside about whether it's hurting their constituents. Doesn't look to me as if they care enough to impeach him, either.
The Child strikes out against the Adults. Who are befuddled when the Child looks like a 78 year old man. The Child will continue to misbehave until the Adults take on the Parent Ego State.
Thinking about Pope Leo. He is the Father figure for 1,400 million humans. He can be Donnie's Parent as well. This is suitable. Leo is a man who has devoted his life to others. Donnie is a man who has devoted his life to himself. Little Donnie is afraid the Parents will stop him. And make him pay for his crimes. It's high time they did!
Quote of the day: "The ventriloquist does not respect the dummy". Brilliant, Jeff!
And the meme is SO PERFECT!
Jeff, you magnificent blaspheming bard of truth, I raise my goblet of recycled holy water to you.
Trump whining about how hard “presidenting” is? That’s rich coming from a man who thinks diplomacy is just yelling at people in all caps. Of course Putin’s been stringing him along—Donny thinks every authoritarian daddy figure secretly loves him back, like a rejected prom king auditioning for a Cold War reboot.
He’s not the Second Coming. He’s the Second Guessing. A walking Dunning-Kruger diagram in a MAGA hat.
Honestly, if executive function were required for executive orders, this man wouldn’t even be qualified to run a vape shop.
May the paper straws he banned rise up and poke him in the ego.
—Virgin Monk Boy
All I ask is that we take away ‘very interesting’, ‘interesting’, ‘we’ll have to see’, and ‘strong & powerful’ from his vocabulary - and see where that leaves us ( cannot believe that the press just dutifully records every word :/ ).
The Peter Lorre/Sydney Greenstreet meme is excellent! “You bloated idiot”
Couldn’t fit any other human as well as it fits Drumpf! For he is a bloated sack of personality disorders!
"noisily scrawls his ludicrous klan-hood signature"
You're a much nicer person than I, Jeff. I look at that jagged seismograph of a signature and think "serial killer."
I think it reads "Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg krimpatul"