your hero of the day, by the way, is Curtis Fucking Sliwa, who when given the opportunity by a reporter to shit-talking Mamdani, instead took the high road.
Reporter: “Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?”
Sliwa: “Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”
good for Curtis. he would have been one of the last people I would have expected to show grace in defeat, and I'm happy to have been wrong about that
In the Age of tRump, the right wing high road has been all but obliterated by a landslide of immature bullshit. Good for Sliwa for finding a way around it.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, at one of his rallies, John McCain corrected an old woman who claimed Obama was a Muslim. He called Obama a decent man who he differed with on policy. I admired McCain greatly even though he was a conservative.
Not terribly "recent," to quote myself 😄, but definitely a glimpse of the right wing's high road. I too am a person not generally fond of conservatives who did like and admire John McCain.
McCain had his own issues, but I don't doubt his honor. Frankly, I feel like the last Republican to be more than a mud slinger died when he passed. No one expects anything better from MAGA, but I still feel trusting the "never Trumpers" is a bad idea. They helped pave the road Trump used with long policies lacking empathy, and none of them seem sorry about that. Let them help get the regime out- but don't vote them in.
Sliwa certainly showed a hell of a lot more grace than Andrew Cuomo.
Between Mamdani, Brad Lander, and Sliwa, it sure seems like the leading candidates in the last NYC mayoral election HATE Cuomo. Lander (who cross-endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic primary) and Sliwa weren’t even upset that Mamdani beat them, as long as it meant Cuomo lost. That’s some next level hate, and I am here for it.
Up until his taking the high road over Mamdani's being sworn in, the only positive about Sliwa was the burning hatred of Cuomo.
It's so, so difficult when someone awful scores not just one good point....but two. I guess it just proves that almost all human beings are complicated.*
*exceptions: Adolf Hitler, DJtRump: they're just piles of shit
I was very surprised to find out Cuomo was going to run again, after the goatfuck during Covid. But then, I was very surprised to find out Prez Dumfuck was going to run again, after the goatfuck of Jan. 6th. Go figure.
Dumpsterfire had a choice. Go to fucking jail, or run for president. He chose not to go to jail. Too bad, jail might extend his lifespan. Sure, he'd be stuck inside 4 walls, and could only play golf when permitted. Wait, isn't that what DumpsterFireFuckHead is doing now? Still, after this idiotic nightmare is over, we the people will erase him, every last bit of him, including his idiotic underground bunker & his grotesque ballroom. Which I'm betting won't even have walls up when he dies. My money on is dying in office. Haven't had one of those for awhile.
And does he seriously think he can play golf securely after taking Maduro and his wife? I would never feel safe ever again down there. Seems a lot more risky.
DumpInPants thinks he will live forever. Okay, he's been thinking about his plea for admission before Saint Peter, so he knows the end is nigh. But he does think he's invulnerable with his secret service protection, and maybe he is, from domestic psychos. But as we learned with 9/11 if you're willing to die in an act of terrorism, there's only so much one can do. And pissing off some radical organized crime lords south of the border is asking for trouble.
I can provide a third- he's apparently very devoted to cat rescue. Not getting on with humans, and adoring and being adored by cats really seems to indicate he would be better suited to a rescue than politics. (That's an opinion, of course.)
Ok, that's some news I can use. Makes total sense. Cats are excellent judges of character. Those of us of the rescue persuasion do usually find humans problematic at best and loathsome at worst. Most of us would make crap politicians, what with our Stage Three Tourettes, and all.
No bias at all, objective fact. When the trappers bring us a momcat, preggers with 6 kittens, 7 lives are saved. Politicians get no results, they don't accomplish shit unless we force them to.
I fully adore Mamdani for doing what is required to get on the road to recovery. Revoke the previous asswipe’s orders. We need a Dem who will do that the second they enter office. Second act…round up all pardoned J6ers..they’re seditionists and not qualified for pardons. Take all actions needed to reverse all the BS trump did. Then say what he did…show me the written word that says I can’t! And ignore THAT.
Anastasia, I’m hoping the entire presidency can be revoked. Trump IS DEFINITELY a seditionist. It is illegal for him to take office. We need to find a way to make it null and void. Make news laws to do so if necessary. But our Constitution spells out that Seditionists are ineligible…so we should merely follow the law.
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sliwa has surprised me in many cases --seems to have matured, in good ways -- his version of reality in nyc is often reasonable -- and he has proven a good sport -- to call cuomo a poor sport is to commit an extreme euphemism
im bullish on nyc -- mamdani is going to attract swaths of well educated driven young people -- let the fucking super-rich move to FL -- they pay zip taxes anyway --
so funny griffin is leasing up tons of nyc space -- what happened to all the crime? -- what happened with Miami? -- good young people dont want to live in desantis' FL --
Obama did the grace and dignity thing so well, and what did the right respond with? Vicious pettiness, ridiculous lies, tan suit outrage, Michelle’s bare arms. Do I despise those assholes on the right
...their own mothers sported bare arms in the 50's, it was the style. It's never really gone out of style for those brave enough to show them. (Mine need a great deal more exercise first.)
Frankly I DESPISE Sliwa fpr a LOT of what he's done - and become, over the years. But I guess New Yorkers showed him exactly WHAT 'the writing on the wall' was by leaving him in the single digits when he somehow believed he'd gallop to the finish line ahead of 'that muslim'. He now sees exactly how much his big orange pumpkin head buddy is DESPISED in New York so is quickly changing course. Is it 'grace' or a plan for his own political future? Time will tell. I won't be here for it - but many of you will be. Send me messages to let me know, is all I ask. :)
Today Donny re-posted his TS lie about how the doctor said he’s the bestest healer of every gunshot superior left calyx of the ear in the history of the U.S. presidency.
Dean says, “This wasn’t ‘New York in the ‘90s,’” but Trump whined more damningly, “You just don’t understand Palm Beach in the ‘90s.” Ironically, the most consistently successful Trump business has been trafficking girls/women from MAL to Epstein’s place.
The Republicon propaganda machine will bullshit it all the way until he expires in his bed sone night. I think we endure this for several more months, sad to say.
Fred Sr lived on a diet of sheer meanness and selfishness. That can't be good for you. Also he had Alzheimers for the last decade of his life at least.
Marianne made it to 86. Elizabeth and Robert are still alive. Fred Jr is a whole other story and encapsulates the family dysfunction. His death at 42 wasn't age-related or natural exactly. He was killed by his father's cruelty.
Our species is unable to understand the level of absolute stupidity and lying and cruelty these fuckers throw at us every single hour of every single day. There’s layers to this and the stupid lying cruelty at the top levels obscure the stupid lying cruelty at other levels, down to the statehouses, down to the school boards, down to TSA and police departments across the land. We are inundated. It’s a tsunami followed by floodwaters that continue to rise.
A new year is upon us and my angry is up. My sleeves are rolled and my wits are sharpened. I’m never backing down and there’s millions others just like me.
Great choices so far. I was thinking about suitable parasites for Patel, Noem, Miller, et al but couldn't come up with any associated with being a humongous racist, an awful excuse for a human being, or a pathetic loser who uses taxpayer money to get laid.
Good point Anthony! Why does media seem to feel like they need to soften the blow to us and sane wash everything he says? Why don’t they just say “The liar is still lying” and “You’ll probably do alright if you just do the opposite of whatever he says” and maybe “Nothin to see here folks—just a crazed crazy man that’s saying and doing crazy things and who happens to be president—just move along and enjoy your life and maybe don’t vote for him next time.”“ Why the republicans, or anybody actually,listen to what he says is anybody’s guess”.
When I get a phone notification in the middle of the night, I ALWAYS check to see if he’s dead. Then I check again in the morning and throughout the day.
Yep. I already have the music picked out for blaring out the window: “All Over the World” by Electric Light Orchestra. “There’s gonna be a party all over the world!” And I believe that with all my heart.
A massive celebration. The massive-est in this country’s history, probably in the history of the whole world. No one’s death will be celebrated as massively as Donny’s.
An Irish wake even the fucking Irish can’t out drink. Joyful fist fights like on RFK Sr.’s funeral train from NYC to Arlington. Open bar for 12 months or longer. ☘️
The study which proved Aspirin didn't improve survival after age 70, showed that Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Brain Bleeds were the big problems for the elderly. In tRump's case, I'm not sure he is taking enough Aspirin yet.
Care to indulge in my own theory of what is going on with Don the Con's health that's on a downward trajectory. Maybe his doctors want to decrease the amount of aspirin he takes every day because it's interfering with other blood thinners he's on because he's had a stroke. Due his narcissism he's not following doctors orders because he thinks he's smarter than them. His CT scan of the abdomen may show the result of a GI bleed from all the aspirin he refused to quit taking. Therefore he's complicit in his own demise (oh joy). Add in maybe he's been popping antacids for heartburn/reflux because of the shitty diet he consumes everyday. Am I even in the ballpark?
I think his underlying problem is a progressive dementia on top of a baseline low IQ. Add to that his multiple toxic personality disorders and we have someone manifestly unqualified to hold the job of president.
TBH, I had an abdominal U/S because I have cankles my own self. In an attempt to find the cause, I have been scanned from my neck (carotids) to my toes, including my abdomen. I had a bunch of other tests and procedures in an attempt to find a cause, but no go. I just have cankles.
I also take a full-strength aspirin daily, but then again, I have a genetic clotting disorder and am prone to DVT.
Come on, blood clot. Do your thing (not me, you know who).
I agree 100% - please have him take more! It doesn't look like 325 mg daily has any more effect on hemorrhagic stroke occurrence than 81 mg/day does (recent study with 15,000 patients , courtesy of Google AI search). Slower blood clotting from the effects on platelet aggregation, of course, but not spontaneous bleeds in brain vessels.
Yes, but never 325mg/day of aspirin. Eliquis would be easier to control. I was on 81mg/day and just gently tapping the back of my hand against a door jam led to a lump of blood the size of a half golfball on the back of my hand. I finally had to wean off the daily ASA entirely because I was bruising too easily. At 325mg/day, it's amazing he hasn't had a hemorrhagic stroke.
Eliquis is keeping me alive , and I’m grateful of course. But I just found out today that my co- pay has increased two and a half times what it was last month. President Biden had negotiated it to 25% less. I don’t have the right words to say about that. Our dear leader just made it so I can no longer afford my meds.
I remember having to memorize the *BAYER SYNTHESIS* in my undergraduate 2nd semester of organic chemistry. I will frame it & proudly display it in my library when that fucking Orange ogre kicks off.
Jeff, He is now overdosing daily on aspirin. If that isnt a sign he's afraid of cardiac shit, I dont know what is. I mean think about it, forced aspirin therapy?
Trump's pushing aspirin as a cardiovascular cure-all, ignoring decades of nuanced medical research that shows it helps some people and kills others through internal bleeding. We're talking about actual fucking bodies—your grandmother's stomach lining, your uncle's brain hemorrhage risk—being pawns in a political theater where "traditional medicine" means whatever Fox News said last Tuesday. The FDA's explicit guidelines? Complicated. Trump's take? "Everyone should take it." Medical professionals are already bracing for the ER visits from people who hear "aspirin" and start popping them like Tic Tacs.
honestly, as a druid....Willow Bark is more effective painkiller and anti-inflammatory. I mean, willow bark is salicin, a compound that the body converts into salicylic acid (similar to aspirin)
There was a very interesting PBS Program about the Seminole Indians being forced Off of their land in Florida by white men (natch) And banished to the Everglades.
But, Native Americans instead of rotting and dying off as they had hoped, being Deeply attuned To earth and their surroundings found amazing uses for all of the nature around them.
Willow was especially useful to them not just for construction, but for the use of its bark for medicine. Years later, White man (of course) stole their secret And voilà, aspirin was “invented”
Didn't maha/maga recommending that you take acetaminophen but not Tylenol? Since they are the same thing it never made sense. Like most of their medical recommendations.
You're right. I was thinking of a post in a "what would maga say" site and a comment that skewered someone who said that since they couldn't take tylenol they would take acetaminophen instead.
To be fair, that's every Boomer. When we were growing up people took aspirin routinely and frequently. It was considered 100% safe. If there's one certainty about Trump, it's that he will never revisit an opinion in the light of new information.
Look into Willow Bark (specifically white willow bark), willow bark is salicin, a compound that the body converts into salicylic acid (similar to aspirin).
Wendy, offhand, do you know if a gastric bypass patient (17 years ago, no complications or issues then nor now) can use willow bark? Aspirin is a big no-no due to its propensity to cause the unused former stomach to bleed.
I’ve been asked that before. Safe ? No—willow bark converts to the same salicylic acid as aspirin. It still risks bleeding in your stomach through your bloodstream, even if absorbed differently.
Let DJT and the MAGA's bleed out. Get rid of millions of undesirables. We'll wind up paying for them because their ACA subsidies are gone, expired, by the feckless GOP. Yeah, we're back to uncompensated medical care to bankrupt health care entities.
What really grinds is the way the press treated Biden compared to the egg shell dance with tRump. The unfortunate horror show during that debate notwithstanding, it felt as if the press was chomping at the bit to rage about every stammer, every stutter - something that Biden has done since childhood.
If the leaked document of all the feel good drugs the White House pharmacy was doling out during tRump 1.0 is any indication, they're probably loading tRump with all manner of stimulants and happy meds intravenously with an IV. Case in point - that Oval Office love fest with Mamdani. IMO - the prez was high as fuck. His mood has definitely been on a major roller coaster for some time now. He's old, he's very sick, and he is a massive POS. It's all so fucking stupid, and it continues to get worse. By the hour.
As always, thanks for getting us through 2025. 2026 is already shaping up to be possibly even more stupid and terrifying. The humor and analysis help so much with processing all this madness.
I'm still furious about the three weeks of saturation coverage about Biden's (nonexistent) "cognitive decline," when they have yet to devote 1/100th of the coverage to Trump's blatant cognitive decline. Sure, Biden was tired and out of sorts, and yes, he stutters. He made a completely coherent 15 minute speech to an LGBTQ group a few weeks ago and one rightwing outlet made a huge deal about how he stumbled over one word. But if there were a cognitive face-off between Biden and Trump, it's clear Biden would win bigly.
Sadly, the press assumed correctly that Biden would never sue them over their shit, whereas they KNOW the Mad King is just itching to file another baseless defamation lawsuit.
He *thinks* he did. Note how LDFF is now whimpering about how maybe possibly perhaps kinda sorta is heaven going to be one of his post death options??… Satan is laughing and laughing. Putin got moved up one level in Hell for bringing in LDFF and several of his crew. Provided of course that Satan keeps his promises…
I love the MAGA morons warning about Mamdani given they support a convicted felon, rapist and likely pedophile. Yes, please tell us how dangerous he and Bernie Sanders are to your children knowing you'd whore out your own children for a chance to shake Cankles'rotting hand.
Oh, they say that about all Democrats. They used that to beat Sherrod Brown in 2024 alone with threatening that a trans woman would rape your daughter in a public restroom, when in fact it would probably be a MAGA "pastor" doing that.
If 325mg of aspirin is better, wouldn't 650mg be twice as good? Hell why not throw in some Plavix and warfarin to get that blood from forming those pesky clots. Think of it as STP for the circulatory system. I for one am pleased that Trump is doing his own research and following his own medical advice. Gonna be a hell of a year.
So Trump had a CT Angiogram and not an MRI? That checks out. They were looking to see how much damage he's done to his heart with all the stimulants that he's taken and all the Big Macs that he's eaten. I said months ago (when he was falling asleep constantly) that the doctors must have told him he needed to stop with the uppers unless he wanted to die (damn doctors) and that's why he falls asleep all the time now.
Most likely he still takes them when he needs to "perform" later than 6 oclock at night, can't dance to YMCA when your not pumped up on Adderall now can ya.
I'm not convinced that his hand problem comes from IV's either. You would think they could use a vein farther up his arm to give him IV drugs and stop all the controversy about his rotten hand. It's gonna be a mystery because we will never be told the truth from this administration about anything.
I wouldn't be surprised if he had a cardiac calcium CT scan, which is essentially a quick way to check one's arteries if there is no evidence of heart issues. I had one last fall at age 68 to establish a baseline (all clear). However, neither Medicare nor my secondary insurance paid for it, as I have no evidence of heart/artery issues. Yeah, idiot insurance companies, it's called preventative care to ensure I DON'T develop heart/artery issues and then die since women rarely have chest pains when their hearts go wonky.
A top-tier physician who sloppily confuses an MRI with a CT scan is taking too much aspirin. Or maybe Trump is getting his doctors from the same agency who sends him his lawyers.
your hero of the day, by the way, is Curtis Fucking Sliwa, who when given the opportunity by a reporter to shit-talking Mamdani, instead took the high road.
https://www.threads.com/@thedatanerd13/post/DS-r5UbDTzS
Reporter: “Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?”
Sliwa: “Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”
good for Curtis. he would have been one of the last people I would have expected to show grace in defeat, and I'm happy to have been wrong about that
In the Age of tRump, the right wing high road has been all but obliterated by a landslide of immature bullshit. Good for Sliwa for finding a way around it.
Pardon me, but when was there ever a right-wing high road? Never in my recent memory.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, at one of his rallies, John McCain corrected an old woman who claimed Obama was a Muslim. He called Obama a decent man who he differed with on policy. I admired McCain greatly even though he was a conservative.
Not terribly "recent," to quote myself 😄, but definitely a glimpse of the right wing's high road. I too am a person not generally fond of conservatives who did like and admire John McCain.
McCain had his own issues, but I don't doubt his honor. Frankly, I feel like the last Republican to be more than a mud slinger died when he passed. No one expects anything better from MAGA, but I still feel trusting the "never Trumpers" is a bad idea. They helped pave the road Trump used with long policies lacking empathy, and none of them seem sorry about that. Let them help get the regime out- but don't vote them in.
Sliwa certainly showed a hell of a lot more grace than Andrew Cuomo.
Between Mamdani, Brad Lander, and Sliwa, it sure seems like the leading candidates in the last NYC mayoral election HATE Cuomo. Lander (who cross-endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic primary) and Sliwa weren’t even upset that Mamdani beat them, as long as it meant Cuomo lost. That’s some next level hate, and I am here for it.
Up until his taking the high road over Mamdani's being sworn in, the only positive about Sliwa was the burning hatred of Cuomo.
It's so, so difficult when someone awful scores not just one good point....but two. I guess it just proves that almost all human beings are complicated.*
*exceptions: Adolf Hitler, DJtRump: they're just piles of shit
Piles of shit are only good for raising maggots and MAGAts
Good one, Doc!
I was very surprised to find out Cuomo was going to run again, after the goatfuck during Covid. But then, I was very surprised to find out Prez Dumfuck was going to run again, after the goatfuck of Jan. 6th. Go figure.
Dumpsterfire had a choice. Go to fucking jail, or run for president. He chose not to go to jail. Too bad, jail might extend his lifespan. Sure, he'd be stuck inside 4 walls, and could only play golf when permitted. Wait, isn't that what DumpsterFireFuckHead is doing now? Still, after this idiotic nightmare is over, we the people will erase him, every last bit of him, including his idiotic underground bunker & his grotesque ballroom. Which I'm betting won't even have walls up when he dies. My money on is dying in office. Haven't had one of those for awhile.
And does he seriously think he can play golf securely after taking Maduro and his wife? I would never feel safe ever again down there. Seems a lot more risky.
DumpInPants thinks he will live forever. Okay, he's been thinking about his plea for admission before Saint Peter, so he knows the end is nigh. But he does think he's invulnerable with his secret service protection, and maybe he is, from domestic psychos. But as we learned with 9/11 if you're willing to die in an act of terrorism, there's only so much one can do. And pissing off some radical organized crime lords south of the border is asking for trouble.
Came. Late today, I trust everyone here has red Deans post today:
Dean? Link please.
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I can provide a third- he's apparently very devoted to cat rescue. Not getting on with humans, and adoring and being adored by cats really seems to indicate he would be better suited to a rescue than politics. (That's an opinion, of course.)
Ok, that's some news I can use. Makes total sense. Cats are excellent judges of character. Those of us of the rescue persuasion do usually find humans problematic at best and loathsome at worst. Most of us would make crap politicians, what with our Stage Three Tourettes, and all.
I might be biased, but cat rescues are often far more useful than politicians.
No bias at all, objective fact. When the trappers bring us a momcat, preggers with 6 kittens, 7 lives are saved. Politicians get no results, they don't accomplish shit unless we force them to.
Grace and Cuomo are strangers. Cuomo is trash and easy to hate.
I fully adore Mamdani for doing what is required to get on the road to recovery. Revoke the previous asswipe’s orders. We need a Dem who will do that the second they enter office. Second act…round up all pardoned J6ers..they’re seditionists and not qualified for pardons. Take all actions needed to reverse all the BS trump did. Then say what he did…show me the written word that says I can’t! And ignore THAT.
I don't know what's involved in revoking pardons — it may not be possible — but maybe some of them can be recharged, especially on a state level.
the j6ers are in ice , there will be plenty to charge them with.....
Agree!
Anastasia, I’m hoping the entire presidency can be revoked. Trump IS DEFINITELY a seditionist. It is illegal for him to take office. We need to find a way to make it null and void. Make news laws to do so if necessary. But our Constitution spells out that Seditionists are ineligible…so we should merely follow the law.
Well, in his defense, he IS a "cat person." :)
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Some cat people like other humans, but um, apparently not him. He might do better with a rescue than in politics.
I would never vote for him but he is a serious cat person.
Yup, same. Why I think he really needs to do something else.
Mamdani also showed grace in his acceptance speech towards the crooked Eric Adams who was there with his mother.
Eric Adams was there with whose mother? His own (she is still alive?) or with Mira Nair, Mamdani's mother?
He was there with his own mother. You can see it here.
https://www.democracynow.org/live/coming_up_the_inauguration_of_nyc
Mira Nair and Mamdani's dad were there as well.
sliwa has surprised me in many cases --seems to have matured, in good ways -- his version of reality in nyc is often reasonable -- and he has proven a good sport -- to call cuomo a poor sport is to commit an extreme euphemism
im bullish on nyc -- mamdani is going to attract swaths of well educated driven young people -- let the fucking super-rich move to FL -- they pay zip taxes anyway --
so funny griffin is leasing up tons of nyc space -- what happened to all the crime? -- what happened with Miami? -- good young people dont want to live in desantis' FL --
Well, he DOES love cats so there's got to be some good in the man.
Here's hoping that 48 shitcans all of 47's executive orders on Day 1. For starters.
Hopefully, the rest will catch on and act with truth and dignity.
Obama did the grace and dignity thing so well, and what did the right respond with? Vicious pettiness, ridiculous lies, tan suit outrage, Michelle’s bare arms. Do I despise those assholes on the right
And their meltdown over Dijon mustard.
...their own mothers sported bare arms in the 50's, it was the style. It's never really gone out of style for those brave enough to show them. (Mine need a great deal more exercise first.)
Yes, we can dream.
THAT is a surprise!
Frankly I DESPISE Sliwa fpr a LOT of what he's done - and become, over the years. But I guess New Yorkers showed him exactly WHAT 'the writing on the wall' was by leaving him in the single digits when he somehow believed he'd gallop to the finish line ahead of 'that muslim'. He now sees exactly how much his big orange pumpkin head buddy is DESPISED in New York so is quickly changing course. Is it 'grace' or a plan for his own political future? Time will tell. I won't be here for it - but many of you will be. Send me messages to let me know, is all I ask. :)
Huh. Sliwa may be unpleasant to be around, but I really think he loves his city- and he freaking HATES the corporate political machine on both sides.
Was Sliwa wearing one of his gay red hats? WTF?
Gay!! As in happy, carefree, cheerful!?
On a slightly related(?) point, for some reason there are gay MAGATS. Very conflicted people I guess. I don't get it either. 🤷🏼♂️
You mean his beret, worn by military units around the world?
😾
"Gay red hats"???
It’s a fucking beret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Sliwa
What makes it gay though? I wear a red beret (among other colors) and I'm not gay.
Donny's a chump and a loser
A demented douchebag, a bruiser
His hands are all crazy
He's icky and lazy
Just stick his fat face in a juicer!
How can one asshole lie so much
About bruises and ballrooms and such
The reason is plain
His chuds are insane
They're more than just way out of touch
We’ll know which MAGA’s a player
By counting their boxes of Bayer
At the Walmart checkout
We’ll discern the devout
Downing dozens of aspirin, the prayer!
Excellent and so true. Like the tampon on the ear
There's gotta be a limerick about the ear tampon...
His stooges love outrage and fear
They crave it year after year
But they also glommed on
To the ridiculous tampon
He taped to his undamaged ear
Very good and very quick!
Today Donny re-posted his TS lie about how the doctor said he’s the bestest healer of every gunshot superior left calyx of the ear in the history of the U.S. presidency.
those were kotex. (pads) They probably stuffed tampons IN their ears, then wondered why they couldn't hear his blathering. ;)
Bravoooo!!!
Have you read Deans post today?
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/the-wsj-blew-up-trumps-epstein-lieand?r=qvheo&utm_medium=ios
Dean says, “This wasn’t ‘New York in the ‘90s,’” but Trump whined more damningly, “You just don’t understand Palm Beach in the ‘90s.” Ironically, the most consistently successful Trump business has been trafficking girls/women from MAL to Epstein’s place.
May he drown in a VAT of untreated sewage!!! Gurgle, gurgle, blub!!!
with luck the sewage will match Donnie's 'preferred' skin color
so the embalmer can leave his face just the way it is
a dunk of his hair in a bucket of pee and then he'll be good to go
it'll only take a few seconds
and the smell won't surprise anyone
That embalmer must have really fucked somebody over
😂😂😂
Careful, that fucking imbecile will read this and impose new VALUE ADDED TAXES to bring in trillions of dollars of “government revenue”. 🤦♂️
Trump is a VAT of FAT.
👏👏👏
Frosty & Doc - wonderful! Starting out 2026 with a bang✴️
I tried that line on the wife in a different context. Didn’t work
Thanks, Dave! (Deep bow.)
Couldn’t ask for a better start👏👏👏
😂🤣😁
He takes a lot of aspirin and juices his face on a regular basis. He simply defies gravity! Hence, defiance!
Wow!!!!! So friggin awesome!
OH MY GOD WHY WON’T HE JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY
Lord hear our prayers
… now and in our hour of need, which is now.
Amen!!!
The Republicon propaganda machine will bullshit it all the way until he expires in his bed sone night. I think we endure this for several more months, sad to say.
Any day now … any day. 😏
I’ve been thinking that every single day for the last ~ 10 years.
Karmas a bitch, and she's always late.
Sometimes she’s instant, but not often enough.
I open the paper every morning in hope of some good news on this front. It won't solve all our problems, but it will nevertheless be a great relief.
Just remember who’s next up to bat if LDFF bows out…
Sadly, Fred Trump Sr. lived to be 94 and his mom was 88, so we may be stuck with him for a while.
But they weren't obese from living on a diet of McDonalds fast food, unless, all those preservatives are what keeps him alive.
Fred Sr lived on a diet of sheer meanness and selfishness. That can't be good for you. Also he had Alzheimers for the last decade of his life at least.
but his siblings did not fare well
Marianne made it to 86. Elizabeth and Robert are still alive. Fred Jr is a whole other story and encapsulates the family dysfunction. His death at 42 wasn't age-related or natural exactly. He was killed by his father's cruelty.
Only sister Elizabeth is living.
Robert died 2020
My daily mantra.
Why aren't you dead yet?
I think this every day
Formaldehyde?
Our species is unable to understand the level of absolute stupidity and lying and cruelty these fuckers throw at us every single hour of every single day. There’s layers to this and the stupid lying cruelty at the top levels obscure the stupid lying cruelty at other levels, down to the statehouses, down to the school boards, down to TSA and police departments across the land. We are inundated. It’s a tsunami followed by floodwaters that continue to rise.
A new year is upon us and my angry is up. My sleeves are rolled and my wits are sharpened. I’m never backing down and there’s millions others just like me.
JT, you got the reins.
Just a note Neal, our species is headed towards mass destruction. How we make it to 2100?
Might as well keep trying, though. The small victories—and even the struggle itself—is worthy of our effort.
This is the Great Filter Theory. We will reach a crossroad of advancement to a higher existence or extinction.
Fuck, yeah!!!! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
I’m studying up on parasitology and thought of naming a few from Trumps cabinet so to add to what Jeff posted.
Trump would be Leishmania Donavani (melts the face) superinfected with The Tongue Eating Louse.
Hegseth would be liver fluke or Patagonimus westermani.
RFKJr. Naeglaria Fowleri or The Brain Eating Amoeba.
I’m working on more but will take suggestions.
The entire GOP Congress could be Toxoplasmosis.
The toxicity is ubiquitous.
Great choices so far. I was thinking about suitable parasites for Patel, Noem, Miller, et al but couldn't come up with any associated with being a humongous racist, an awful excuse for a human being, or a pathetic loser who uses taxpayer money to get laid.
The online pictures of anal cancer are worth far more than a thousand words
I think the whole Cabinet needs to contract Kuru...
Do you remember Dr. Brady, when Kuru was first discovered it was believed to be caused by a “slow virus” until prions were discovered
Yes. I was thinking they could all consume each other's brains.
They would all starve.
Definitely TMI, Dr Hammer!
"Defiance" and "Doubling Down" are journalism's favorite euphemisms for "that fucker just kept on lying".
Good point Anthony! Why does media seem to feel like they need to soften the blow to us and sane wash everything he says? Why don’t they just say “The liar is still lying” and “You’ll probably do alright if you just do the opposite of whatever he says” and maybe “Nothin to see here folks—just a crazed crazy man that’s saying and doing crazy things and who happens to be president—just move along and enjoy your life and maybe don’t vote for him next time.”“ Why the republicans, or anybody actually,listen to what he says is anybody’s guess”.
Fear and loathing?
"fuckbrainscabosis" Perfect. Sums it all up. Soon it will be in the AMA journal of medicine.
Every morning when I wake up, I check to see if he's dead yet. We're inching closer to that blessed day. Come on, cholesterol. Do your thing.
When I get a phone notification in the middle of the night, I ALWAYS check to see if he’s dead. Then I check again in the morning and throughout the day.
Yes! It will be a massive celebration!
Yep. I already have the music picked out for blaring out the window: “All Over the World” by Electric Light Orchestra. “There’s gonna be a party all over the world!” And I believe that with all my heart.
Great musical selection!!! PAR-TEE!!
A massive celebration. The massive-est in this country’s history, probably in the history of the whole world. No one’s death will be celebrated as massively as Donny’s.
Except maybe Putin's, but it's a coin toss.
😂😂😂😂
An Irish wake even the fucking Irish can’t out drink. Joyful fist fights like on RFK Sr.’s funeral train from NYC to Arlington. Open bar for 12 months or longer. ☘️
I like it!!!!!
same, same, same!!!!!!!!
Indeed!😈😈😂
Remember who you are setting up to be President, dearest people. Really think about Thiel’s best little pet…
True, and while JD is smarter than Trump, he’ll never have the cult following. He wouldn’t be able to amuse the Trump Faithful.
😄😂
His perfect health and his perfect use of aspirin was just reported on CBC radio news. So, no worries here. Thank you for your excellent work.
The study which proved Aspirin didn't improve survival after age 70, showed that Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Brain Bleeds were the big problems for the elderly. In tRump's case, I'm not sure he is taking enough Aspirin yet.
Triple that dose, Donnyboy!!!
Come on cerebral hemorrhage
Care to indulge in my own theory of what is going on with Don the Con's health that's on a downward trajectory. Maybe his doctors want to decrease the amount of aspirin he takes every day because it's interfering with other blood thinners he's on because he's had a stroke. Due his narcissism he's not following doctors orders because he thinks he's smarter than them. His CT scan of the abdomen may show the result of a GI bleed from all the aspirin he refused to quit taking. Therefore he's complicit in his own demise (oh joy). Add in maybe he's been popping antacids for heartburn/reflux because of the shitty diet he consumes everyday. Am I even in the ballpark?
I think his underlying problem is a progressive dementia on top of a baseline low IQ. Add to that his multiple toxic personality disorders and we have someone manifestly unqualified to hold the job of president.
One can only hope that your hypothesis holds up!
TBH, I had an abdominal U/S because I have cankles my own self. In an attempt to find the cause, I have been scanned from my neck (carotids) to my toes, including my abdomen. I had a bunch of other tests and procedures in an attempt to find a cause, but no go. I just have cankles.
I also take a full-strength aspirin daily, but then again, I have a genetic clotting disorder and am prone to DVT.
Come on, blood clot. Do your thing (not me, you know who).
As we in health care say, he's a hot mess.
He should definitely up his dose. Go way up, Donnie!
8,647 mg
I agree 100% - please have him take more! It doesn't look like 325 mg daily has any more effect on hemorrhagic stroke occurrence than 81 mg/day does (recent study with 15,000 patients , courtesy of Google AI search). Slower blood clotting from the effects on platelet aggregation, of course, but not spontaneous bleeds in brain vessels.
Cardiologists often clarify that aspirin therapy is prescribed based on individual risk factors—age, blood pressure, existing conditions.
Yes, but never 325mg/day of aspirin. Eliquis would be easier to control. I was on 81mg/day and just gently tapping the back of my hand against a door jam led to a lump of blood the size of a half golfball on the back of my hand. I finally had to wean off the daily ASA entirely because I was bruising too easily. At 325mg/day, it's amazing he hasn't had a hemorrhagic stroke.
Its coming!
From your lips to God's ears
🤷♀️🙏
"Amazing" is not a synonym for "disappointing."
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I think he had a mini stroke (at least) when he disappeared for a week and reappeared with a drooping mouth.
Much more likely he had Bell’s Palsy. Maybe a TIA.
Amazing but damn!
Yeah. Eliquis made my ulcers bleed. I’m taking my chances on a stroke rather than bleeding out. Tough call.
Yes. For many of us on medications it's a matter of taking our chances.
Eliquis is keeping me alive , and I’m grateful of course. But I just found out today that my co- pay has increased two and a half times what it was last month. President Biden had negotiated it to 25% less. I don’t have the right words to say about that. Our dear leader just made it so I can no longer afford my meds.
Wow. Best wishes.
But Trump knows more than all the doctors.
Everything he does and is, is perfect, except that is isn't.
Lol. I didn’t think it would have been important enough for the CBC. Must be a slow news day back home.
That’s CBC humour for you.
I remember having to memorize the *BAYER SYNTHESIS* in my undergraduate 2nd semester of organic chemistry. I will frame it & proudly display it in my library when that fucking Orange ogre kicks off.
https://share.google/TqQHSkp2X0XsU8UkO
Jeff, He is now overdosing daily on aspirin. If that isnt a sign he's afraid of cardiac shit, I dont know what is. I mean think about it, forced aspirin therapy?
Trump's pushing aspirin as a cardiovascular cure-all, ignoring decades of nuanced medical research that shows it helps some people and kills others through internal bleeding. We're talking about actual fucking bodies—your grandmother's stomach lining, your uncle's brain hemorrhage risk—being pawns in a political theater where "traditional medicine" means whatever Fox News said last Tuesday. The FDA's explicit guidelines? Complicated. Trump's take? "Everyone should take it." Medical professionals are already bracing for the ER visits from people who hear "aspirin" and start popping them like Tic Tacs.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-still-sucks-january-2nd-2025
Just so I got this straight: everyone should take aspirin and nobody should take Tylenol. Is that his considered medical opinion?
Bingo.
1. Dont take Tylenol.
2. DO TAKE aspirin.
3. MASSIVELY DOSE IVERMECTIN.
honestly, as a druid....Willow Bark is more effective painkiller and anti-inflammatory. I mean, willow bark is salicin, a compound that the body converts into salicylic acid (similar to aspirin)
There was a very interesting PBS Program about the Seminole Indians being forced Off of their land in Florida by white men (natch) And banished to the Everglades.
But, Native Americans instead of rotting and dying off as they had hoped, being Deeply attuned To earth and their surroundings found amazing uses for all of the nature around them.
Willow was especially useful to them not just for construction, but for the use of its bark for medicine. Years later, White man (of course) stole their secret And voilà, aspirin was “invented”
Didn't maha/maga recommending that you take acetaminophen but not Tylenol? Since they are the same thing it never made sense. Like most of their medical recommendations.
No, the recommendation was to NOT take acetaminophen, but the Mad King couldn’t pronounce that, so he just started using its brand name of Tylenol.
You're right. I was thinking of a post in a "what would maga say" site and a comment that skewered someone who said that since they couldn't take tylenol they would take acetaminophen instead.
Don’t forget ivermectin and bleach.
And hydroxychloroquine. And a UV light up the bunghole for good measure 💡
I’d recommend
Ironic if that leads to a thinning of the "herd" that they're so hot for.
Yup once again he is fucking himself, not that anyone else would.
To be fair, that's every Boomer. When we were growing up people took aspirin routinely and frequently. It was considered 100% safe. If there's one certainty about Trump, it's that he will never revisit an opinion in the light of new information.
Yeah its an old practice for sure. Aspirin cures everything.
So does eating an apple a day.
It's crazy what they once thought was a good idea
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bd7IU3WyKXY/TMU1KAjOYLI/AAAAAAAAAWU/qUUMoUkibvA/s1600/supositorio+de+radio.jpg
Vita Radium Suppositories. Don't let RFK, Jr. know about these!
One medieval "cure" (for god knows what!) was a tea that contained mouse shit.
Someone please tell Donnie Demento and extol it as the greatest best strongest ever.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54047/14-historys-craziest-baldness-cures
I need to vomit now. lol.
Especially not in light of new and CORRECT information
Good news, with any luck he strokes out in 2026
Yes, and please do it on camera at a public event! We deserve at least that much.
^^^THIS!!!^^^ Your last sentence!
I had problem with chronic pain from a shoulder joint and couldn't sleep.
Did a couple 325 aspirin every day for a week. Then I got regular nose bleeds.
Doc says just do 1 baby aspirin for the high blood pressure.
Look into Willow Bark (specifically white willow bark), willow bark is salicin, a compound that the body converts into salicylic acid (similar to aspirin).
1. No upset stomach.
2. No excessive bleeding.
Wendy, any particular brand you recommend? Thanks in advance!
hoorbach health is a reliable source.
I've used them for years.
Thanks Wendy!
Always happy to.
Wendy, offhand, do you know if a gastric bypass patient (17 years ago, no complications or issues then nor now) can use willow bark? Aspirin is a big no-no due to its propensity to cause the unused former stomach to bleed.
I’ve been asked that before. Safe ? No—willow bark converts to the same salicylic acid as aspirin. It still risks bleeding in your stomach through your bloodstream, even if absorbed differently.
The BIG BEAUTIFUL BLEEDING OF HIS STOMACH LINING
Nice summary of the sucky week Wendy!
Let DJT and the MAGA's bleed out. Get rid of millions of undesirables. We'll wind up paying for them because their ACA subsidies are gone, expired, by the feckless GOP. Yeah, we're back to uncompensated medical care to bankrupt health care entities.
Wendy, of course he always tells the truth meaning he probably takes more but it’s the speed that will age him and blood pressure cannot be good.
What really grinds is the way the press treated Biden compared to the egg shell dance with tRump. The unfortunate horror show during that debate notwithstanding, it felt as if the press was chomping at the bit to rage about every stammer, every stutter - something that Biden has done since childhood.
If the leaked document of all the feel good drugs the White House pharmacy was doling out during tRump 1.0 is any indication, they're probably loading tRump with all manner of stimulants and happy meds intravenously with an IV. Case in point - that Oval Office love fest with Mamdani. IMO - the prez was high as fuck. His mood has definitely been on a major roller coaster for some time now. He's old, he's very sick, and he is a massive POS. It's all so fucking stupid, and it continues to get worse. By the hour.
As always, thanks for getting us through 2025. 2026 is already shaping up to be possibly even more stupid and terrifying. The humor and analysis help so much with processing all this madness.
I'm still furious about the three weeks of saturation coverage about Biden's (nonexistent) "cognitive decline," when they have yet to devote 1/100th of the coverage to Trump's blatant cognitive decline. Sure, Biden was tired and out of sorts, and yes, he stutters. He made a completely coherent 15 minute speech to an LGBTQ group a few weeks ago and one rightwing outlet made a huge deal about how he stumbled over one word. But if there were a cognitive face-off between Biden and Trump, it's clear Biden would win bigly.
Sadly, the press assumed correctly that Biden would never sue them over their shit, whereas they KNOW the Mad King is just itching to file another baseless defamation lawsuit.
They should be eager to do it. Truth is a defense to defamation. Ask for his medical records & see how fast he drops the lawsuit.
Somebody already did that: the Pulitzer Board.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-medical-and-psychological-files-sought-in-lawsuit/ar-AA1TirY4
He practically gave Mamdani a French kiss. It was so weird. He was obviously high AF.
May his stool be as black as his soul.
He has a soul? I thought he traded that to Satan years ago.
He didn't actually have a soul to trade. He even ripped off Satan!
He *thinks* he did. Note how LDFF is now whimpering about how maybe possibly perhaps kinda sorta is heaven going to be one of his post death options??… Satan is laughing and laughing. Putin got moved up one level in Hell for bringing in LDFF and several of his crew. Provided of course that Satan keeps his promises…
He is SATAN’S WHORE
He IS doing a lot of bleeding, with the insane amount of aspirin he's takeing,
so he's probably got a bleeding ulcer
that makes your stool look like black coffe grounds.
Maybe that's why he smells so bad. When I worked in critical care we hated the GI bleeds because they stunk up the unit.
I'm surprised if it's not after "years" of taking 325 ASA daily
Y’all gonna sit here and make us think about what color Donny’s shit is? Begone, demons!
I know. Grosd.
Amen!
THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BOUNDLESS BLEEDING of that hideous fucker’s stomach lining & septic intestines down to his cankles.
😂😂😂
I love the MAGA morons warning about Mamdani given they support a convicted felon, rapist and likely pedophile. Yes, please tell us how dangerous he and Bernie Sanders are to your children knowing you'd whore out your own children for a chance to shake Cankles'rotting hand.
Bernie Sanders??🤔
Because Bernie is threatening them with universal healthcare. The horror.
Bernie backed Mamdani & swore him in as mayor at the formal inauguration.
Yes, because Bernie will force all children into transgendery.
Oh, they say that about all Democrats. They used that to beat Sherrod Brown in 2024 alone with threatening that a trans woman would rape your daughter in a public restroom, when in fact it would probably be a MAGA "pastor" doing that.
So. So true.
I thought that all the kids had already been transed at school during lunch period? Is that wrong?
As a teacher, I can tell you indoctrination occurs during homeroom and surgeries are performed by the lunch ladies but only on Sloppy Joe Day.
🎯🎯🎯
If 325mg of aspirin is better, wouldn't 650mg be twice as good? Hell why not throw in some Plavix and warfarin to get that blood from forming those pesky clots. Think of it as STP for the circulatory system. I for one am pleased that Trump is doing his own research and following his own medical advice. Gonna be a hell of a year.
He needs more medical advice from RFK Jr
😂
So Trump had a CT Angiogram and not an MRI? That checks out. They were looking to see how much damage he's done to his heart with all the stimulants that he's taken and all the Big Macs that he's eaten. I said months ago (when he was falling asleep constantly) that the doctors must have told him he needed to stop with the uppers unless he wanted to die (damn doctors) and that's why he falls asleep all the time now.
Most likely he still takes them when he needs to "perform" later than 6 oclock at night, can't dance to YMCA when your not pumped up on Adderall now can ya.
I'm not convinced that his hand problem comes from IV's either. You would think they could use a vein farther up his arm to give him IV drugs and stop all the controversy about his rotten hand. It's gonna be a mystery because we will never be told the truth from this administration about anything.
Happy New Year
Peace & Love
2547
I wouldn't be surprised if he had a cardiac calcium CT scan, which is essentially a quick way to check one's arteries if there is no evidence of heart issues. I had one last fall at age 68 to establish a baseline (all clear). However, neither Medicare nor my secondary insurance paid for it, as I have no evidence of heart/artery issues. Yeah, idiot insurance companies, it's called preventative care to ensure I DON'T develop heart/artery issues and then die since women rarely have chest pains when their hearts go wonky.
fuckbrainscabosis!!!!! yup
Brilliant right?
"we’re either being lied to now, or were lied to then. I’m not sure which is the better scenario."
Well, no need to ponder it - I'm pretty sure NEITHER thing is true.
Honestly, I think he had a brain scan to track his dementia and they’re leaving that part out.
And then he forgets why he had the scan and thinks he had another “genius” test by medical staff. 😂
A top-tier physician who sloppily confuses an MRI with a CT scan is taking too much aspirin. Or maybe Trump is getting his doctors from the same agency who sends him his lawyers.
Parking Garage Medical Doctors?
Jiffy Lube technicians