It hasn't been normal since 2016. No, since 2008 when we elected an educated, thoughtful, intelligent, competent Black man to the highest office and the racists among us--70 million of them--lost their minds.
And a man who was like us, whatever our skin color. I recognized myself in him. His Chicago home is six blocks from my sister's and all of you urban dwellers would recognize this bustling neighborhood packed with large homes and three-story old brick apartments. I grew up 5 blocks from Michelle and went to the same grade school. Despite the redlining and blockbusting that brought them there, her family was a lot like mine. How many people out there can relate to Trump? How many were raised by a racist sociopath who became wealthy by mass producing shoddy apartments and cheating people, and who raised his kids to be damaged, destructive and lacking in empathy?
He tells them the siren song they long to hear: that they're SMART, they're BEAUTIFUL, come with him and they will be rich and better than everyone else. He's their Nigerian prince scammer and they can't bear to give him up.
He also tells them that they're *white* and that puts them above everyone who isn't. This worked for the white Southern plantation owners before and after the Civil War, and it's been working fine for him. I think -- I hope! -- that with the Epstein files and the economy starting to go down the drain it's not working as well as it was before.
As for Orange Shitler’s ridiculous BS about needing to present his “license plate” to vote, here’s an idea he (and we) will love:
Next time he plays at his golf motel / dead wife cemetery in Bedminster, his caddy should cheat-drop his opening drive directly into the first hole, so he can endlessly brag about it. And in commemoration of the achievement, his Presidential limo gets a vanity plate that he can drive around with and present when he votes, that reads
Yep. That is exactly what happened in our insanely racist country. They lost their minds over it. So much resentment for an intelligent, competent, funny president. He is so cool. And they haven't a shred of humor, not an iota. And they don't understand irony. Most haven't read a book since 8th grade.
Many white people who were alive at the time lost their minds after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s. Go back a ways and you'll see that many white people lost their minds after they lost the Civil War. Losers don't like losing, and when they have power -- as white folk do in this country -- they will fight back and all too often win.
I believe that President Zelenskyy should receive an Academy Award for not bursting out laughing at the babbling baboon in chief who is squatting in the American people’s house.
Zelenskyy's long-suffering expression--especially his eyes--when looking at the camera, said it all.
In fairness, however, I have to point out that Donnie has ALWAYS been like a child who can't wait for everybody else to stop talking so he can take his Very Important Turn in the spotlight to talk again.
His narcissism causes him to think that HIS words are more important than anybody else's words. This insane lust for a Nobel Peace Prize (just because Obama won one...and certainly Donnie MUST be better than the black guy...so he HAS to have a Prize too) is frying up his brain cells faster than ever, or it seems so, anyway.
I was wondering the same thing. He is so hell bent on getting this prize that he's shamelessly (as all things DJT are) soliciting (pressuring???) those out there in the universe who have some influence on who gets chosen. He's obsessed with it because I honestly believe he believes he deserves one.
Having someone like this as a family member or neighbour is one thing. Having them as a president and decision maker is frightening.
He truly does. By refusing to surrender or cede land to Putin, he is helping to keep neighboring countries safe from being attacked and "annexed" by Putin in his quest to "restore" the former USSR's boundaries.
I made a similar comment somewhere when the original comment was about his suit. The man is sharp and the maga morons deserve every bit of whatever rapier wit he turns loose on them. Wish he’d do it more often but he’s too much of a gentleman to do so.
Here is my two updates from yesterday and today about the Zelinsky meeting with the European commission and Donald Trump, this includes the usual psychological and philosophical work up
As always liked, quoted, restacked ,  and cross posted 
"it’s insane that seven European leaders had to accompany Zelenskyy to yesterday’s meeting and play chaperone, else Donny would have ambushed him." AGAIN!!!!!
This is novel (not in a good way) in the long history of our country. It’s difficult to believe this demented sick thing was elected twice to the presidency….this is just batshit crazy
Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.
The photo of Trump with the fireman's family in Arlington and right-wing media spin made it look like his MAGA relatives were honored to have made the sacrifice.
They were with Donnie because they were MAGA and were chosen to be on the stage with him. His relatives were honored Donnie gave them "Thumbs Up at the Grave Site" photo shot for their memories. It was not a right-wing media spin.
The daughters did not look happy being featured at the State of the Union speech. Their mother probably needed the money which I assume she was paid for permitting it.
I was 22 years old. I had two toddlers but somehow I managed to not leave the TV for more than a few minutes at a time until after the funeral. They struggled to find creative things for this unthinkable occasion, like the horse with the empty saddle except for the backward turned boots that signified a fallen warrior.
Then it was over and the squabbling began in the following weeks about the expense of the Eternal Flame. I stopped crying and found my anger.
I was a kid in the Chicago Children's Choir. I had to leave the TV on Saturday because we were rehearsing the Faure Requiem which we sang at a service in his memory at Rockefeller Chapel on Sunday November 24, 1063. "Eternum habeas requiem."
All of us who were alive and understanding remember where we were at the time we heard. And I watched the first moon landing too. I was in the eighth grade in 1963, and we all cried. It had never occurred to me that this could happen here.
I was in my second-grade classroom at the Catholic school. I remember the principal nun running into the room in a panic and saying, "The president has been shot!" That was some heavy shit for little kids to process.
When T💩p finally leaves this Earthly plane, my plan is to put up Christmas lights, open the bottle of the good stuff that's been chillin' since November, and dance in the street with my neighbors.
I was on lunch break from school. After a while I got nervous I would be in trouble and said "Grampa, I'd love to stay watching TV with you but I have to get back to school." He thrust his finger in my face and said "NO! There will be NO SCHOOL TODAY!" He was of course correct, all the kids who were in school were sent home.
That was the day I figured out some unpleasant truths about my dad and my mom. It was also the day/weekend that turned me into a lifelong political-media junkie. I was not quite 11 years old.
Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.
TYSM. The outward grace of the Kennedy administration seems as remote as my girlhood. If the inside of the White House didn’t match the serenity of the outside, it wasn’t our job to fix it. The Russians were an unknowable menace.
That's what open carry gives you. Fortunately, back in 1967, California/Oakland's Black Panthers took unloaded guns to the State Assembly. The Assembly and Senate couldn't wait to vote to ban weapons in public and Reagan couldn't wait to sign it. So although we have more people, we have a lot less gun violence.
Those guardsmen from Mississippi are what I call...'outside agitators' cause my theory is the local guardsmen weren't racist.....therefore the shout out dog whistle to South Carolina & MS.
West VA sent over 100 of its Jethros and Cletuses as National Guardsmen. Guess they had nothing to do since converting our cars to coal combustion will take awhile.
AND OHIO!!! When we drive from Chicago to New York, we do not eat or sleep anywhere in Ohio. We are afraid of the MAGA menaces that live and work there. MAGA cooties are the very worst. They are much like brain worms.
I have written to spineless Governor Grandpa Sleepy Tea (DeWine) every day since he announced it, reminding him that the rate of violent crime in Cleveland (where I live), Toledo and Dayton is much higher than in D.C. and that if he actually disrupts the lives of the men and women in our National Guard for this worthless "mission," he needs to resign immediately after groveling and apologizing to them.
You're kind of over-the-top there, Mary. As you drive from Chicago to NY, you're obviously going through the northern part of Ohio. Toledo is a blue city, as are Cleveland and Youngstown. Much of northern Ohio, and most of northeast Ohio, is blue (Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, too). Cleveland has a hundred worthwhile points of interest (world-class zoo, art museum, and symphony orchestra, plus the Rock Hall), a whole roster of upscale hotels, and any type of cuisine you could ask for, at any level of restaurant. AND...no visible MAGA presence. Yes, my adopted hometown has a few flaws, but it's a great place to live, overall.
The half of our state that is deep blue resents being tarred with the MAGA cootie brush. IMO, you're putting us down without knowing us, Mary.
That's exactly it, Brenda. The state is still actually purple, but the gerrymandering is crazy. Gym Jordan, for instance, has a district that has no large towns in it, so is always going to be red.
You have to remove your license plate, then insert it in the envelope with your ballot, then lose your license for driving without a plate. Then, in the next election, you won't have a license plate, so you can't vote. There are a LOT of steps to voting in the USA. Trump is going to fix it all in four days, so don't worry.
"Donny also lives in a Perpetual State of Confusion, but you can’t vote there" 😂😂😂
"America’s Mad King is a semi-sentient drool-bucket " 🤣🤣🤣
This is beyond fucked up... it isnt even close to normal. And the BS in Texas, locking up a rep? WTAF! That's not legal. But then, none of this is legal. I feel like we're all trapped in a never ending nightmare.
When we finally get him outta the people's house, it's gonna take truckloads of bleach to clean the place. He's insane AND disgusting.
And yet Melanoma had to have the White House especially cleaned before she would move in when the Obamas left. She would not even attend a First Lady luncheon for fear of the Black Lady. Ah to be so frightened and ignorant. Makes her marriage and her friendship with EPSTEIN & MAXWELL more understandable.
The thought bubble over Zelensky: Least safe place in the world? Care to visit Ukraine these days you twittering twatwaddling durakheaded dementia don.
And expect him to walk the Stations of the Cross? Hell with that. He has to drive his golf cart onto the green and then still needs a caddy. The man isn't fit for the office mentally or physically much less spiritually.
Let's not forget that the Convicted Felon wandered off from the meeting with European leaders to make a FORTY-MINUTE phone call with Daddy Putin. I'm fresh out of WTFs.
OMG, every day it's more humiliating to be from the US. I start off every meeting with my European coworkers by saying, "I am so, so sorry. I don't know anyone who doesn't hate him."
While Trump rambles on about how people are going out to dinner in DC for the first time in years, Zelensky’s facial expression says it all! 😂 And I wish that just one of those leaders would have asked him, what in the fuck did any of this have to do with ending the war in Ukraine?
The European leaders I'm sure hate to have to come to the Shite House and listen to the blithering batshit. But on the other hand, all of them speak better English than he does.
I'm sure each of the European leaders listening to dumpy drone one on, muttered under their collective breath, in their own language," this fucking guy!"
I caught a glimpse of Rubio, Witkoff, etc. as they watched from the side. I wondered how they felt being in the presence of competent world leaders. Disdainful, probably, but who knows?
Mayor Pete speaks several languages. But in this political climate, I don't see him winning. Americans, including myself, are severely lacking in bilingual language skills. Most people I know who speak a foreign language, learned it at home because their relatives were not born here. It's not from American schools. My family is from England in the 1800's so that was of no help to me. I'm a Boomer, so maybe schools are more progressive about languages now than when I was in school.
All other crazy talk aside, I simply can't fathom how Dimwit Donnie can think that our legislators in D.C. haven't been out to dinner in over two years. Does he think they order GrubHub McDonald's into their Capitol offices every day? JFC. How can he be more intolerable every single time he speaks, and the press ignores it?
Well, yeah. There's always that. I just can't comprehend the amount of cover that the press is throwing for him, given how Biden was treated. Seems like we should be boycotting TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. and any others who don't call the orange rat bastard to the carpet.
That was the proverbial "we". I had Facebook for a few years, but never any of the others. I couldn't keep out of Facebook jail because the MAGAs on my S.E. Texass representative's page kept filing complaints about my posting facts and truths. 😱 So I gave it up for Lent. And none of my "friends" even missed me. Believe me - I cried lots of liberal tears over that! 🤣🤣🤣
Why would he go out to dinner when the White House chef caters to his every whim? It's not like all of his socialite "friends" aren't allowed in the Oval or dining room, right?
"Least safe place in the world..." That would be Ukraine. There is no humor in any of this. I wake up every day crying for this country I chose over Canada. #jefftiedrich is correct, it's the MSM that must now beat the drum of insanity and wake people up. On the other hand, I am still living in California and proud of Newsom.
The gold vomited scrambled eggs he's so proud of in the Oval Orifice and showing off the WH gift shop. A perpetual shock to decent taste. The gift shop should sell replicas of all the polished turds left by the J6ers in the capitol building and the GOP on his staff and in Congress. And the Supreme Court. Mount them on gold plastic pedestals.
You’re right. None of this is normal. It’s utterly crazy. Other leaders need to call him out. The fact that they don’t baffles me. He’s a mess!
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Thanks for the quick response. I get he has power to attack economically if other countries do things he doesn’t like - but ugh, I wish they still would call him a fool to his face 😅
I agree about the press; that’s why I added news organizations to my spreadsheet. Hopefully just to remind people they (unfortunately) need to push the press to call trump out
And the Democratic leaders, besides the usual ones. Fucking Schumer. The Republicans are floating in their backyard swimming pools drinking Kentucky Highballs.
Thanks, Jeff for showing the clip of the bloody ear incident, as well as the White House gift shop. I didn’t think there was a gift shop. Not for tourists, who aren’t shown much of the inside, as I remember.
Somewhere there was a photo of Trump pointing to the ceiling and Zelenskyy looking up. Gold leaf would look good, what do you think?
At first I was totally frustrated by the lack of accountability by the MSM in calling out the daily inanity from this buffoon, but I've come to realize they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Any blow back will be just shouted down as 'fake news', which the MAGA morons will parrot, not that they can intelligently refute anything, only because the cult leader has spoken.
Do you really think that any Republican lawmaker would push back against the gop? They would lose all of their power forever, and probably their lives or their families lives.
Honestly when I reach out to Republicans, it’s not to change their minds. I don’t think we’ll see many big waves (like a major MAGA Congress member changing their opinions), but I think we can cause little ripples. I’m thinking staff members who hear the same thing over and over via voicemail, phone calls, letter after letter, email after email - maybe they’ll be a little more receptive each time they hear from us. Maybe they’ll talk more about our talking points to friends and family, maybeeee they’ll vote differently. I think we can cause ripples to push news organizations to be more honest and maybe even a bit accusatory about what’s happening. As a collective, our volume matters. And, at the end of the day, if we just annoy and overwhelm some staffers working for people hurting the average American, I’m ok with that too 🙃
tl;dr: NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL
It hasn't been normal since 2016. No, since 2008 when we elected an educated, thoughtful, intelligent, competent Black man to the highest office and the racists among us--70 million of them--lost their minds.
And a man who was like us, whatever our skin color. I recognized myself in him. His Chicago home is six blocks from my sister's and all of you urban dwellers would recognize this bustling neighborhood packed with large homes and three-story old brick apartments. I grew up 5 blocks from Michelle and went to the same grade school. Despite the redlining and blockbusting that brought them there, her family was a lot like mine. How many people out there can relate to Trump? How many were raised by a racist sociopath who became wealthy by mass producing shoddy apartments and cheating people, and who raised his kids to be damaged, destructive and lacking in empathy?
He tells them the siren song they long to hear: that they're SMART, they're BEAUTIFUL, come with him and they will be rich and better than everyone else. He's their Nigerian prince scammer and they can't bear to give him up.
He also tells them that they're *white* and that puts them above everyone who isn't. This worked for the white Southern plantation owners before and after the Civil War, and it's been working fine for him. I think -- I hope! -- that with the Epstein files and the economy starting to go down the drain it's not working as well as it was before.
Yep, worked great for LBJ. And Lee Atwater....
Exactly!
How many of us were chauffeured to school?
Perfect, Anastasia.
Oh, how I miss the dignity, class, integrity and intelligence that was on display in the White House when the Obamas lived there.
A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
As for Orange Shitler’s ridiculous BS about needing to present his “license plate” to vote, here’s an idea he (and we) will love:
Next time he plays at his golf motel / dead wife cemetery in Bedminster, his caddy should cheat-drop his opening drive directly into the first hole, so he can endlessly brag about it. And in commemoration of the achievement, his Presidential limo gets a vanity plate that he can drive around with and present when he votes, that reads
A HOLE ONE
Hahaha, oh my this is a good one! And to make it even more unbelievable, the hole should be a Par 5!
Hahaha! Brilliant idea!
They belong in their own country. Give it to them.
Yes, but on Mars, right?
Maybe Tuvalu would be up for a land swap? After all, climate change is a hoax, right?
Good idea!
100%
The R-
Stands for Russia now, correct?
I like to keep these abbreviations accurate.
Agreed
They pledge allegiance to White America
100%
Yep. That is exactly what happened in our insanely racist country. They lost their minds over it. So much resentment for an intelligent, competent, funny president. He is so cool. And they haven't a shred of humor, not an iota. And they don't understand irony. Most haven't read a book since 8th grade.
Touché! A very apropos comment and thank you for the clarity of it.
Many white people who were alive at the time lost their minds after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s. Go back a ways and you'll see that many white people lost their minds after they lost the Civil War. Losers don't like losing, and when they have power -- as white folk do in this country -- they will fight back and all too often win.
yep.
#accurate
I wish I were dead wrong. :/
I believe that President Zelenskyy should receive an Academy Award for not bursting out laughing at the babbling baboon in chief who is squatting in the American people’s house.
He should also get the Nobel Peace Prize, if only for this stunning display of restraint.
Wouldn't it be pure Schadenfreude if Norway gave Zelensky the Peace Prize? What a glorious, in-your-face move that would be for Demented Don.
Donny would nuke Norway
He would also nuke Ukraine. And wouldn't that be a blast!
He could also nuke Chicago. That might make him feel a tiny bit better.
He might melt into a little blob of grease like Rumplestilskin. Which I wouldn't exactly grieve.
They absolutely should not give it to Obama again, or Biden, or Harris, unless they want someone to have a deadly stroke. Hmmm...
Yes! Wouldn't that be the best?
Zelenskyy's long-suffering expression--especially his eyes--when looking at the camera, said it all.
In fairness, however, I have to point out that Donnie has ALWAYS been like a child who can't wait for everybody else to stop talking so he can take his Very Important Turn in the spotlight to talk again.
His narcissism causes him to think that HIS words are more important than anybody else's words. This insane lust for a Nobel Peace Prize (just because Obama won one...and certainly Donnie MUST be better than the black guy...so he HAS to have a Prize too) is frying up his brain cells faster than ever, or it seems so, anyway.
I was wondering the same thing. He is so hell bent on getting this prize that he's shamelessly (as all things DJT are) soliciting (pressuring???) those out there in the universe who have some influence on who gets chosen. He's obsessed with it because I honestly believe he believes he deserves one.
Having someone like this as a family member or neighbour is one thing. Having them as a president and decision maker is frightening.
THAT would induce an aneurysm.
Hear that, Norway? Do the world a solid, Zelenskyy for the Nobel Peace Prize. y
He truly does. By refusing to surrender or cede land to Putin, he is helping to keep neighboring countries safe from being attacked and "annexed" by Putin in his quest to "restore" the former USSR's boundaries.
Lord, hear our prayer.
I giggle every time I read this.
Oh, yes--PLEASE. I am willing to send $20 to Norway to get this done: who knows how to set up a Go Fund Me?????
Perhaps. (rubs hands together with gleeful anticipation)
All that. And a Kennedy award!!!
Hear, hear. I second that.
Third !
Yes! And remember, Z was a comic actor before he became prez of Ukraine. So he's more attuned than most to the sheer absurdity around him.
I hope someday there is peace in Ukraine and Zelensky can go back to his first profession. What a wealth of material he will have.
So true, Ellis. All the more reason to give it to him (not to mention it would upset the moron he always has to placate).
I made a similar comment somewhere when the original comment was about his suit. The man is sharp and the maga morons deserve every bit of whatever rapier wit he turns loose on them. Wish he’d do it more often but he’s too much of a gentleman to do so.
good point !
Great reminder. Thanks
I agree
Here is my two updates from yesterday and today about the Zelinsky meeting with the European commission and Donald Trump, this includes the usual psychological and philosophical work up
As always liked, quoted, restacked ,  and cross posted 
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trumps-nobel-fuck-prize-meeting-highlights
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-white-house-mouthanus-meeting
She’s merciless 😁.
"it’s insane that seven European leaders had to accompany Zelenskyy to yesterday’s meeting and play chaperone, else Donny would have ambushed him." AGAIN!!!!!
This is novel (not in a good way) in the long history of our country. It’s difficult to believe this demented sick thing was elected twice to the presidency….this is just batshit crazy
Jeff this is brilliant!
Some might say it's an ear-full
Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.
And D thinks not one second about the poor bastard that DID supposedly die after getting hit with the magic bullet.
Once Trump had posed with the decedent’s fireman gear, he was forgotten collateral damage.
That is disturbing.
the one they spelled wrong?
😢
Hell, *two* people died that day. Even the shooter who was "neutralized" would've been a better president than trump.
The photo of Trump with the fireman's family in Arlington and right-wing media spin made it look like his MAGA relatives were honored to have made the sacrifice.
They were with Donnie because they were MAGA and were chosen to be on the stage with him. His relatives were honored Donnie gave them "Thumbs Up at the Grave Site" photo shot for their memories. It was not a right-wing media spin.
The daughters did not look happy being featured at the State of the Union speech. Their mother probably needed the money which I assume she was paid for permitting it.
How much choice did they have, I wonder. Trump bulldozes with force of personality and/or fear.
FLOTUS Jackie also looked at a WH outdoors space and saw a Rose Garden where others saw a ginormous concrete parking lot.
The only time I saw my dad cry was November 22, 1963.
I was 22 years old. I had two toddlers but somehow I managed to not leave the TV for more than a few minutes at a time until after the funeral. They struggled to find creative things for this unthinkable occasion, like the horse with the empty saddle except for the backward turned boots that signified a fallen warrior.
Then it was over and the squabbling began in the following weeks about the expense of the Eternal Flame. I stopped crying and found my anger.
I was a kid in the Chicago Children's Choir. I had to leave the TV on Saturday because we were rehearsing the Faure Requiem which we sang at a service in his memory at Rockefeller Chapel on Sunday November 24, 1063. "Eternum habeas requiem."
So did I. I was eight
The world cried! What a different world it was then.
Who would cry for him?
Right…. not one living soul.
All of us who were alive and understanding remember where we were at the time we heard. And I watched the first moon landing too. I was in the eighth grade in 1963, and we all cried. It had never occurred to me that this could happen here.
I was in my second-grade classroom at the Catholic school. I remember the principal nun running into the room in a panic and saying, "The president has been shot!" That was some heavy shit for little kids to process.
When T💩p finally leaves this Earthly plane, my plan is to put up Christmas lights, open the bottle of the good stuff that's been chillin' since November, and dance in the street with my neighbors.
Compare and contrast.
I was on lunch break from school. After a while I got nervous I would be in trouble and said "Grampa, I'd love to stay watching TV with you but I have to get back to school." He thrust his finger in my face and said "NO! There will be NO SCHOOL TODAY!" He was of course correct, all the kids who were in school were sent home.
I too was in the 2nd grade in Catholic school. The nuns took us to the parish church to pray.
That may be the day a whole bunch of us Boomers grew up.
That was the day I figured out some unpleasant truths about my dad and my mom. It was also the day/weekend that turned me into a lifelong political-media junkie. I was not quite 11 years old.
Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.
So kind. My greatest joy these days is rearranging words. I’m no Alexander Hamilton, but “write like [I’m] running out of time.”
I hear that.
Just want to say, I wish I could ‘like’ your comment twice.
TYSM. The outward grace of the Kennedy administration seems as remote as my girlhood. If the inside of the White House didn’t match the serenity of the outside, it wasn’t our job to fix it. The Russians were an unknowable menace.
it’s beautifully written. I love beautiful writing.
Me re Newsom's tweets: Do you think Fox will ever get the joke?
Husband: They're being paid to not get the joke.
fair point
While Newsom doesn't really have those Chris Hemsworth guns, I'm betting his aren't bad.
I would do him. There. I said it.
President Zelenskyy also has it going on -- he got of the plane in DC wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
I might do him and I’m a straight guy.
Oh, you guys! Stop it. Stop it right now. Go to your rooms for a time out.
C’mon Arne! With his movie star good looks, he’s practically irresistible! I just hope no one can resist voting for him in 2028.
Wait! You mean Trump isn't the handsomest man in elected office, like he says?
Watch his TV show "Servant of the people. You just want to pinch his cheeks. "Who's the cutest President in the world? You are!"
:-)
😂😂😂😂
Some charisma is universal 😉
I think the line that would "do Trump" is quite vacant. He was always disgusting and unattractive, even decades ago. And stupid doesn't age well.
Doing trump has a completely different meaning than doing Newsom - if you get my drift.
Yeah, I kept thinking Zelenskyy was the only one in the lineup of leaders that I’d date. Or trust to get into a car alone with…
I thought there were some pretty dapper leaders, and they all put trump to shame.
Me too! I'd also do Jon Stewart. There. I said it.
Well!!!
He'd have to wash all that hair goo out of his hair first, though. Ick.
👆
1. I bet that ridiculous pic of Donny and his ear would make a great dart board. You have to hit the ear for a bullseye.
2. It’ll be a pain in the ass to remove my license plate every time I vote. Just kidding I vote by mail just like Donny does!
3. Those guys making DC safe are actually standing around doing jack shit. Your government inaction
While Red States/Cities have WAY WORSE statistics! 😡
That's what open carry gives you. Fortunately, back in 1967, California/Oakland's Black Panthers took unloaded guns to the State Assembly. The Assembly and Senate couldn't wait to vote to ban weapons in public and Reagan couldn't wait to sign it. So although we have more people, we have a lot less gun violence.
Those guardsmen from Mississippi are what I call...'outside agitators' cause my theory is the local guardsmen weren't racist.....therefore the shout out dog whistle to South Carolina & MS.
West VA sent over 100 of its Jethros and Cletuses as National Guardsmen. Guess they had nothing to do since converting our cars to coal combustion will take awhile.
AND OHIO!!! When we drive from Chicago to New York, we do not eat or sleep anywhere in Ohio. We are afraid of the MAGA menaces that live and work there. MAGA cooties are the very worst. They are much like brain worms.
I have written to spineless Governor Grandpa Sleepy Tea (DeWine) every day since he announced it, reminding him that the rate of violent crime in Cleveland (where I live), Toledo and Dayton is much higher than in D.C. and that if he actually disrupts the lives of the men and women in our National Guard for this worthless "mission," he needs to resign immediately after groveling and apologizing to them.
I wrote basically the same thing. I'm totally SHOCKED that I haven’t received an answer.
You're kind of over-the-top there, Mary. As you drive from Chicago to NY, you're obviously going through the northern part of Ohio. Toledo is a blue city, as are Cleveland and Youngstown. Much of northern Ohio, and most of northeast Ohio, is blue (Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, too). Cleveland has a hundred worthwhile points of interest (world-class zoo, art museum, and symphony orchestra, plus the Rock Hall), a whole roster of upscale hotels, and any type of cuisine you could ask for, at any level of restaurant. AND...no visible MAGA presence. Yes, my adopted hometown has a few flaws, but it's a great place to live, overall.
The half of our state that is deep blue resents being tarred with the MAGA cootie brush. IMO, you're putting us down without knowing us, Mary.
Yes, remember when Ohio was purple’ and considered an indicator of
(no edit button) the nation’s viewpoint. There are still many dems, but gerrymandering has distilled any influence.
That's exactly it, Brenda. The state is still actually purple, but the gerrymandering is crazy. Gym Jordan, for instance, has a district that has no large towns in it, so is always going to be red.
Try having to live here! (Ohio)🤢
It looked the same in LA.
Yep.
🎯💯
You have to remove your license plate, then insert it in the envelope with your ballot, then lose your license for driving without a plate. Then, in the next election, you won't have a license plate, so you can't vote. There are a LOT of steps to voting in the USA. Trump is going to fix it all in four days, so don't worry.
Liked X 3!
Stephen Robinson has a great article today about that very subject.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/p/the-washington-dc-crime-trap?r=3rccqg&utm_medium=ios
Yes! Just read
Stephen Robinson is a brilliant writer. He nails it, every time.
"Donny also lives in a Perpetual State of Confusion, but you can’t vote there" 😂😂😂
"America’s Mad King is a semi-sentient drool-bucket " 🤣🤣🤣
This is beyond fucked up... it isnt even close to normal. And the BS in Texas, locking up a rep? WTAF! That's not legal. But then, none of this is legal. I feel like we're all trapped in a never ending nightmare.
When we finally get him outta the people's house, it's gonna take truckloads of bleach to clean the place. He's insane AND disgusting.
I hate it here.
And yet Melanoma had to have the White House especially cleaned before she would move in when the Obamas left. She would not even attend a First Lady luncheon for fear of the Black Lady. Ah to be so frightened and ignorant. Makes her marriage and her friendship with EPSTEIN & MAXWELL more understandable.
White trash whore
All. Of. The. Above.
He’s it’s Texas and they all have guns .
The thought bubble over Zelensky: Least safe place in the world? Care to visit Ukraine these days you twittering twatwaddling durakheaded dementia don.
Z SHOULD invite him....does he have the balls to show up in a war zone? They'd give him The Iron Cross. Oh I'm wrong....that was for the Nazis.
They should give him the actual Jesus Cross--and have him use it the same way.
And expect him to walk the Stations of the Cross? Hell with that. He has to drive his golf cart onto the green and then still needs a caddy. The man isn't fit for the office mentally or physically much less spiritually.
He would never go there
Maybe remind Donnie Demento that President Biden DID.
Thanks for reminding me, too, Joyce.
Biden showed up, very quickly! Without a red carpet.
Let's not forget that the Convicted Felon wandered off from the meeting with European leaders to make a FORTY-MINUTE phone call with Daddy Putin. I'm fresh out of WTFs.
OMG, every day it's more humiliating to be from the US. I start off every meeting with my European coworkers by saying, "I am so, so sorry. I don't know anyone who doesn't hate him."
And I’d like to ask the 30,000 newly-unemployed federal workers how much they’re dining out in DC restaurants these days.
I would like to ask them if they voted for Trump! Somebody did!
I’m sure some did, but I’m guessing most didn’t. I think DC is about 97% blue.
I saw some stat that it’s down 31%
As is the US travel industry- foreigners are avoiding us like the plague- especially smart Canadians!
Nobody can screw up anything like
Donny Two Dolls!
While Trump rambles on about how people are going out to dinner in DC for the first time in years, Zelensky’s facial expression says it all! 😂 And I wish that just one of those leaders would have asked him, what in the fuck did any of this have to do with ending the war in Ukraine?
Relies on others’ innate professionalism and good manners…
EXACTLY
The European leaders I'm sure hate to have to come to the Shite House and listen to the blithering batshit. But on the other hand, all of them speak better English than he does.
We need a president who is fluent in at least one language. Those European Leaders all are multilingual.
I'm sure each of the European leaders listening to dumpy drone one on, muttered under their collective breath, in their own language," this fucking guy!"
I caught a glimpse of Rubio, Witkoff, etc. as they watched from the side. I wondered how they felt being in the presence of competent world leaders. Disdainful, probably, but who knows?
Mayor Pete speaks several languages. But in this political climate, I don't see him winning. Americans, including myself, are severely lacking in bilingual language skills. Most people I know who speak a foreign language, learned it at home because their relatives were not born here. It's not from American schools. My family is from England in the 1800's so that was of no help to me. I'm a Boomer, so maybe schools are more progressive about languages now than when I was in school.
I think it more likely that 'schools' and 'progressive' are 2 words you shouldn't juxtapose anymore.
I’m srry that’s hilarious
All other crazy talk aside, I simply can't fathom how Dimwit Donnie can think that our legislators in D.C. haven't been out to dinner in over two years. Does he think they order GrubHub McDonald's into their Capitol offices every day? JFC. How can he be more intolerable every single time he speaks, and the press ignores it?
Well, yeah. There's always that. I just can't comprehend the amount of cover that the press is throwing for him, given how Biden was treated. Seems like we should be boycotting TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. and any others who don't call the orange rat bastard to the carpet.
Some of us have never been to those Internet places.
You mean you're not already?
That was the proverbial "we". I had Facebook for a few years, but never any of the others. I couldn't keep out of Facebook jail because the MAGAs on my S.E. Texass representative's page kept filing complaints about my posting facts and truths. 😱 So I gave it up for Lent. And none of my "friends" even missed me. Believe me - I cried lots of liberal tears over that! 🤣🤣🤣
Indeed! If only we all had the money to buy such good friends... or the power to extort them, as the case may be.
[programming note: Donny can’t think, and everything he says is a lie.]
(we should ALL have that many friends)
Has Trump been out to dinner in DC this term, since he doesn’t have his hotel anymore.
Why would he go out to dinner when the White House chef caters to his every whim? It's not like all of his socialite "friends" aren't allowed in the Oval or dining room, right?
Probably.
I take exception to the idea that you can't vote in a State of Perpetual Confusion, given that so many Americans are registered there.
And, for a place that doesn't exist, it's way over-represented in Congress.
😂😂
LOL!!
"Least safe place in the world..." That would be Ukraine. There is no humor in any of this. I wake up every day crying for this country I chose over Canada. #jefftiedrich is correct, it's the MSM that must now beat the drum of insanity and wake people up. On the other hand, I am still living in California and proud of Newsom.
I could almost hear Zelenskyy's thoughts straight thru his eyeballs when Dippy Donny said that. JFC. 🤦♀️
Beware these hacks are pouncing on Newsom now
The Ugly American Syndrome - fully metastasized… 😣
Complete w/Merch…
That shocked me. I may have no more room for shock
The gold vomited scrambled eggs he's so proud of in the Oval Orifice and showing off the WH gift shop. A perpetual shock to decent taste. The gift shop should sell replicas of all the polished turds left by the J6ers in the capitol building and the GOP on his staff and in Congress. And the Supreme Court. Mount them on gold plastic pedestals.
Small correction .. the new and improved
Ugly & Stupid American Syndrome
You’re right. None of this is normal. It’s utterly crazy. Other leaders need to call him out. The fact that they don’t baffles me. He’s a mess!
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
other leaders are in a bind. they can't call Donny out, because they can't afford to antagonize him. that's why they do the Statesmanship Kabuki.
it's the press that needs to call out how totally insane Donny is
I'm sure they go home and give their spouses an earful
Was there food involved? Greasy trump fast food would be another thing to complain about to their spouses
He gives Putin filets; he gives our allies
junk food
It's a delicate situation for them. They know he's Pooty's asset and they need to try to maneuver him into a somewhat favorable attitude towards them.
Republican Majorities don’t care… 😓 wow
Thanks for the quick response. I get he has power to attack economically if other countries do things he doesn’t like - but ugh, I wish they still would call him a fool to his face 😅
I agree about the press; that’s why I added news organizations to my spreadsheet. Hopefully just to remind people they (unfortunately) need to push the press to call trump out
I hope President Macron at least managed to deliver one of his patented crush-Demento's-bones handshakes.
The leave-a-bruise kind.
That helps explain why Zelensky’s entourage didn’t give Donny the verbal ass-kicking he deserved. I was hoping for fireworks.
Yes, I was hoping the NATO leaders would tell he no longer belonged.
And the Democratic leaders, besides the usual ones. Fucking Schumer. The Republicans are floating in their backyard swimming pools drinking Kentucky Highballs.
Thanks, Jeff for showing the clip of the bloody ear incident, as well as the White House gift shop. I didn’t think there was a gift shop. Not for tourists, who aren’t shown much of the inside, as I remember.
Somewhere there was a photo of Trump pointing to the ceiling and Zelenskyy looking up. Gold leaf would look good, what do you think?
At first I was totally frustrated by the lack of accountability by the MSM in calling out the daily inanity from this buffoon, but I've come to realize they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Any blow back will be just shouted down as 'fake news', which the MAGA morons will parrot, not that they can intelligently refute anything, only because the cult leader has spoken.
👆👆👆👆🎯
Do you really think that any Republican lawmaker would push back against the gop? They would lose all of their power forever, and probably their lives or their families lives.
Honestly when I reach out to Republicans, it’s not to change their minds. I don’t think we’ll see many big waves (like a major MAGA Congress member changing their opinions), but I think we can cause little ripples. I’m thinking staff members who hear the same thing over and over via voicemail, phone calls, letter after letter, email after email - maybe they’ll be a little more receptive each time they hear from us. Maybe they’ll talk more about our talking points to friends and family, maybeeee they’ll vote differently. I think we can cause ripples to push news organizations to be more honest and maybe even a bit accusatory about what’s happening. As a collective, our volume matters. And, at the end of the day, if we just annoy and overwhelm some staffers working for people hurting the average American, I’m ok with that too 🙃