I didn't include this is my post, because it would have made it way too long, but Interior Sec Doug Burgum got completely chew-toyed by Dem rep Joe Neguse yesterday. Burgum was so unprepared to defend Donny's botched Reflecting Pool
Indeed! As witnessed by his grab 'em by the pussy comment and the whole freaking Epstein debacle, we absolutely know trump doesn't know the meaning of "it's not yours to mess with" and that's the real reason he can't keep his grimy hands off all our stuff in DC. He's destroying every damn thing that's ours in that town. I hate him so much.
I have hated that imbecile since his “rise” in the ‘80’s as a fucking celebrity 🤢. I acknowledge that “hate” is a strong word, but, sorry, not sorry. I won’t apologize for the truth.
I'm sure plenty of presidents get ideas that immediately get shot down because they don't have the authority to do that shit. Obviously contractors get asked to do something, the money shows up and they get busy. But I'd think in Wash DC you can't just fuck with something, screw it up, and not get litigated the shit out of them by a responsible (operative word here) DoJ. I hope all these dirt bags Dump hires, go Chapter 11 trying to claim while being prosecuted by the next Dem administration, that Dumb Donald asked us to do it, don't worry about any permits.
Donnie destroyed the East Wing in a fit of rage over the Transparency Act. Destroying the Reflection Pool is his response to bad PR over his war. Closing the Kennedy Center happened because NOBODY wants to perform. All this shite is costing us billions. It will cost us billions more to clean it all up. Is there any chance we can seize Donnie’s assets after he’s thrown in prison?
He shouldn't have been allowed to run in the firstest first place! He is an insurrectionist and SCROTUS knew it. In Maine, our Secretary of State took his name off the ballot because of that. (Unfortunately, she had to put Donny back on the ballot--because Donny is, of course, A Very Special Boy--because the unSupremes said to.)
The Constitution is explicit that the only appeal from a finding that one is an insurrectionist is to the Congress. There is no role for the Supreme Court, which usurped a political power it is not entitled to, as in Bush v. Gore.
There should be some way to put a lien on his properties etc. Actually ! Trump vandalized the WH and everything he graffitit with his name..In some countries they cut off the hands that do this stuff...just sayinnnnn
Does he have any? Trump Org non-golf property is labelled, not owned. His four golf properties are deep in dent. And sooner or later he is pretty much guaranteed to pay E Jean Carroll that $83 million.
I would LOVE to see him go broke! Do you think Ivanka would let him move in? Just him because we all know Melanoma will be back in Slovenia counting HER millions.
Dont forget he is suing the US gov't because they hurt his feelings, but everyone is willing to settle by giving him $10 million taxpayer dollars. Who can I sue becauae he is affecting my mental health and giving me terrible headaches. I'll settle for a million dollars. I'm not greedy.
Donnie builds things so carefully that they're not finished for a 100 years. He's a consumate perfectionist. We already know that when he dies his funeral won't end till the fat runs down the side of his truck size casket.
I believe that the massive crowds at the No Kings protest on Saturday was also a factor in setting him off to start destroying the East Wing on Monday morning.
By the way, whatever we do, we need to be absolutely sure we don't let Trump know that the ancient Greeks painted the outside of their temples. The Parthenon, for example -- it was originally painted in vibrant colors. I'm looking at the Lincoln Memorial. Whatever you do, don't let him know that's a possibility.
Puh-leez! I have been in a state of fury over the Reflecting Epstein Swimming Pool and this post neatly encapsulated my outrage--and gave me the release valve of laughter (I think the gif of the weasel did me in).
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(Notice they don't say anything about working on swimming pools.)
I like everything you right Jeff…even about the vandalism of public pools. I think we all love everything you write. And I think just about all of us would take a bullet for you if necessary; but, of course, we hope that is never a situation.
Trump isn’t dangerous but his wingnuts are crazy. Trump is just an evil punk who could be blown over by someone’s sneeze.
I hope you’ve done some basic things to mitigate the wingnuts.
Nancy Guthrie, living alone, could have used an alarm system that notified the sheriff or police when there is a break in.
My parents bought the house I grew up in in 1957 and proceeded immediately to lose the key. They never locked the door (day or night). They even left it unlocked on summer vacations when we might be gone for a month. Traveling from that idyllic childhood to this Trump nightmare has been real eye opening.
Why couldn’t he make America safe again — not by adding more guns to the environment but rather by eliminating 90% of them like Australia did. Leave it to a continent of criminals to come up with a sane solution that works. Why can’t we do that?
YES! That was my thought: I'll throw in an extra $20 (initially earmarked for a gallon of gas) if Stooges Pool Painters are involved in the Epstein Memorial Dance Hall & Airplane Hangar and the whole thing collapses the first time a jet takes off at Reagan International.
He knows he need not care about looking stupid. He has a job to do and he’s doing it. Handing the nation’s resources over to the ravagers, burning the country down. He is lead arsonist in this area, as each cabinet member is lead arsonist in their own areas: Education, Health and Human Services, the Treasury, Justice, Foreign Relations, Defense… they are committed to burning it all down.
what is worse is that millions of people, all around us, also think he looks powerful and manly. Those of us who are immune to the Hypnotoad just see the toad, and will never see whatever it is that they see. Meanwhile, we are baffled that they cannot see the toad for what it is.
Wait until they open the books and see how much Donny pocketed on the back end. Every single thing the guy does is a cheap, obvious grift. He's the hat check girl rifling the pockets of overcoats.
I'm sure none of them has actually been paid for the work they did, so they might be interested in earning a couple hundred bucks by being paid informants.
Joe Neguse is a treasure and a huge rising star who doesn't get a fraction of the attention he deserves. Maybe take 1% of the fawning we sometimes do over AOC and re-allocate it to him because he is smart, prepared and dismantles Republican toadies on an almost daily basis. Follow him on Instagram — he posts the videos.
NEGUSE: My understanding is a no bid contract is reserved for situations involving serious injury.
What's the injury w/the reflecting pool?
BURGUM: 19 fountains didn't work
Should have known better ended up giving myself a spew shower… Holy Shit Batman 19 fountains didn’t work so let’s do a shitty ass job and dump close to $14 million on some dumbfuckery on the Reflecting pool that will leak and crack further… it’s not even capable of now being a community pool… FFS
Honest to God while continuing to watch this dickshit show am no longer going to have any form of liquid anymore while watching these absolutely stunning morons.. We are utterly experiencing a “kleptocratic kakistocracy” timeframe in which a government is ruled by the least qualified, most incompetent citizens (kakistocracy) who simultaneously use their positions to steal national wealth and resources (kleptocracy). This system blends extreme corruption with incompetence, where leaders prioritize personal enrichment over governance, often feeding back on each other to maintain power.
BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity
HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery SECRETARY
Burgum knows better. I would be surprised if he didn't know all about how solar works, but none of them wants to appear smarter than the dumbest of them all: the Dear Leader. Although Kegseth and Markwayne Mullin may be as dumb, as well as the unmissed puppy killer. Not sure about how much of RFKJr's brain remains in tact.
That the interior is in the hands of that gibbering idiot makes me boil with anger. If any of us acted like that in a serious meeting with executives for our respective companies, we would be fired in minutes.
That was amazing and horrifying yet fully typical of this maladministration. Neguse is one of my new heroes. and I hope there are more like him—many more—after the midterms.
During my working years my husband had many work-related meetings in Chicago and Washington, DC. I would use vacation time from my job to join him and spend my days touring these beautiful cities. Being from a small wooded town of 5,000 on the shore of a Great Lake, I felt uplifted and joyful to be part of something as grand as Washington, DC! I walked the mall, visited Arlington Cemetery, meditated at the National Cathedral, enjoyed the Smithsonian museums and walked the entire campus of monuments, theaters, and artistic achievement. I drew great inspiration from all that. I felt so special to be an American, and I had the impression that every poverty-stricken, troubled child I worked with in my neck of the woods could be inspired and transformed just by strolling that Mall. I do not expect to return to DC in this lifetime, and at this point I don’t want to see the ruin tRump so generously distributes across this great city. He is the most vile creature in all of nature, maybe in all of history.
On the topic of Diaper Donnie and the Reflecting Pool, I thought of this joke I heard once.
A person hires someone of Latino origins to paint his porch. Doesn't give him any directions, just hands him a can of paint, points and say, "Paint the porch." Would-be porch painter is a bit lost, but goes about his task.
The homeowner leaves. Comes back and asks the painter if he finished the job. Painter said that he did, but, 'Is not a porch. Is a Mercedes.'
That's kind of what this business of turning the Reflecting Pool into a swimming pool is, to me. It's not a swimming pool, it was never meant to be. The bottom was dark granite by design, meant to reflect the sky and its surroundings. Not to look like a cheap installation at one of Diaper Don's roach-infested golf motels. Or even worse--Las Vegas.
I was going to comment on that because I felt it was pretty fucking hilarious listening to him stutter and sputter out some crazy explanation like he was blindsided that his daddy threw him under the bus.
assuming this follows the same trend as the ball room that estimate grows from $35 to over $50 per square foot. it's flat surfaces, you could get the old plaster dug out replastered and tile the entire interior of the pool with big cheap blue tiles for about that much. is it bombproof paint?
we know what it's going to look like when it's done.
Same! I would bet money he doesn't eat Chinese food (too "exotic" for his tastes, he sticks with McDonalds because he's a basic bitch) and probably doesn't know the term, so he would just go with the "big, strong general" routine like usual.
Bob that is hilarious and so much like something dopey don would come up with, they wouldn’t even tell us. Xi puts up with it with a clothes pin on his nose.
He's such an embarrassment. "American traveler's to China brought literacy and modern medicine." I just did my homework. China has substantially increased their literacy rate through public education and is now estimated at 97% for adults and almost 100% for ages 15 - 24. As of 2024-25, in the U.S., the adult literacy rate for adults is approximately 79% with 54% reading below a 6th grade level. We rank 36th in literacy globally. So yeah, home schooling and shorting quality public education are really making us great again.
I meant in more recent times, like the 17 or 1800s...I could swear I read somewhere that when the British came to China in that time they smelled so bad bc they thought you got sick from water on your body.
Excellent point serenity! Republicans want the public dumb so they can turn them into cult following Christian nationalists. They’ve captured between a fourth to third of us so far due to the dumbing down and elimination of our education system. We need to turn that around asap.
That’s true Cyndi but at least they know what statistics are and how to use them which is more than can be said for the Trump administration which thinks that “facts” are lies made up by fake news and have the inability to notice that, actually, FOX is the real fake news.
It's in China's best interest to have him in office because they can easily outflank him and manipulate him. His combination of shallowness, ignorance, greed, susceptibility to flattery, egotism, and self aggrandizement makes him the easiest mark ever in American history. Ask Putin, MBS, Netanyahu, Iran, North Korea, etc. Our national security has been irreparably damaged by him and his cast of traitorous boobs, which includes his crime family.
Cartoonish messages from our wicked, would be dark lord have been mercifully quiet for a day. What splendid relief. The air feels clear and easy to breathe. A sign of what it might be like when he's gone for good.
In the meantime, I recommend to everyone that we stick together, focus on our work to save America from the fascist kleptocrats and break the racists efforts to undermine democratic voting rights.
I saw a post on youtube (I think) photo of the golden trump statue in front of one of his golf motels, covered in trash, It was probably fake but it's the thought that counts right?
Cartoonish messages from our wicked, would be dark lord have been mercifully quiet for a day. What splendid relief. The air feels clear and easy to breathe. A sign of what it might be like when he's gone for good.
In the meantime, I recommend to everyone that we stick together, focus on our work to save America from the fascist kleptocrats and break the racists efforts to undermine democratic voting rights.
Yep--I'm of Irish descent, and corned beef and cabbage is 100% American. Well, the corned beef part. And let's note "Irish soda bread"....LOL
It's always been fun and fascinating to me how immigrants adapted their cuisines to the ingredients they could find here, thus creating something very new. Then, at the same time, because they were always on the look-out for the ingredients they needed/wanted, they also ended up introducing those ingredients to their fellow Americans not of their ethnic background. On Food Network shows from less than 10 years ago, the chefs earnestly explain, for instance, what "kimchi" and "gochujang" are; or advises that you can get them in some expensive specialty shops in NYC, or maybe even online......Now you can find them on the shelves at the local, generic grocery store.
fun fact I learned while writing this post: if you google "weasel gif," 99% of what google shows you are ferrets and stoats, with a few meerkats mixed in
I am a longtime wildlife rehabber. My favorite little orphan, hands down, was a long tailed weasel. He was full of mischief, moved like quicksilver, and was a complete joy. Not secretive, not underhanded. Can we think of some other critter as despicable, like, for example, mosquitoes or ticks? Thank you.
My preferred search engine used to be Alta Vista, but I think that's one of those things that dates you when you mention it. Like Netscape as a browser.
That’s what happens when AI does the searching. AI can’t tell the difference between a cucumber and a zucchini, so I wouldn’t expect it to know the difference between a weasel and a meerkat.
It's one of the most infuriating forms of gaslighting, this "I don't know the context" bullshit. When MAGA Mike dies and goes to hell, I hope he's installed in a booth where the rest of us can punch him in the dick for eternity. I cannot fully express in words how much contempt I have for that spineless, lying, closeted, faux-Christian motherfucker. I don't care about the reflecting pool or the East Wing. Everything physical that's been torn down or degraded can be fixed. It's the intangibles we'll spend decades restoring - if we ever get the chance.
Such a lovely shade of blue. It must remind him of the turquoise waters of the Caribbean surrounding Epstein Island. I’m sure Donald finds this quite comforting.
Also, any time the felon does one of these "beautification" projects, someone needs to find a similar item in disrepair at his properties. eg when he complained about the excalor at the UN, someone shared a pic of the broken escalator at the felon's tower
Which shade of blue will it be? Oh, striped! Why didn't I think of that? Oh, he didn't hire that company. He did hire a company to repair the reflecting "Pond" though. I wonder if he meant one of the ponds on one of his golf courses. It does get confusing. But ask Doug Burgum; he'll straighten it all out for you.
Jeff, tell me I am wrong but observing the “delegation” that traveled with Donald I don’t see anyone from State or our 19 Intelligence agencies or high ranking military officials, as President Obama traveled with. In addition, I don’t see any translators as surely officials traveling should be able to speak Mandarin, and not rely on a CCP member to translate. Disgusting Diplomacy I call it ….if it’s even diplomacy. I understand Donald at the State dinner spoke about Chinese restaurants in America outpacing fast food restaurants… OK folks…. I understand Donald wanted to meet with PF Chang, also General Tso to assist in securing the Straits of Vermouth with a little assist from Panda.. a little sweet and sour… Best to All Fellow travelers.
just think how many millions we are spending to send this third rate clown and his bunch of grifters over to China, so that he can insult them and look like the national embarrassment. that he is.
My interpretation of the handshake photo is that he exerted so much of his remaining strength on the shake that he shit himself. He straightened out the left leg to provide an exit ramp for the unexpected turd. As Charlie Kirk would have said, "prove me wrong."
I wonder if he did it to not appear so much taller than Xi? I know that seems out of character, given his dominance fetish but, he might think he's doing Xi a favor and expect something in return.
He's spraddle-legged because it's hard for him to stand up. He's always sitting in photo ops now. I notice that Xi has the upper hand and the shitbag didn't try to jerk him off balance. He also placed his other swollen hand tenderly on top of Xi's. He probably did that to help maintain his balance.
Even he knows he's not on home turf in his tacky plastic-festooned Oval Bordello (per Jeff) and wants Xi to help persuade those nasty Iranians to open the Strait so he's being less of an asshole than normal.
In all seriousness, apparently he does have a gait and stance consistent with cognitive impairment. So you are correct "don't teeter over," and probably the other, too.
Since the group of feckless cowards otherwise known as the GOP, starting with Mike "Lil" Johnson can't muster their responsibility to their Oath of Office and U.S. Constitution to stop state-sponsored kidnapping and attack on Venezuela, a war with Iran, and continuing murder in international waters -what makes anyone think they will stand up for our national monuments?
At this point if the pedo criminal elect said "Lincoln was a too tall mealy mouth RINO -I'm replacing his memorial with a golden statue of me -America's best President", who in GOP-controlled Congress -or in his group of incompetents, sociopaths, and alcoholics otherwise known as a Cabinet would stop him? I do hope billionaires enjoy their tax cuts as their benefit to this rapid destruction of the United States. They will need it when the US dollars is worth ten cents against the Euro.
I didn't include this is my post, because it would have made it way too long, but Interior Sec Doug Burgum got completely chew-toyed by Dem rep Joe Neguse yesterday. Burgum was so unprepared to defend Donny's botched Reflecting Pool
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my big fear in writing this post is that it would turn out to be a subject no one cared to read about. that does happen every now and then
Jeff, I'd buy tickets to hear you read the phone book. You are that funny!
I second that, and the line “President Pussygrabber is not that big on consent.” was pure Jeff gold.
Indeed! As witnessed by his grab 'em by the pussy comment and the whole freaking Epstein debacle, we absolutely know trump doesn't know the meaning of "it's not yours to mess with" and that's the real reason he can't keep his grimy hands off all our stuff in DC. He's destroying every damn thing that's ours in that town. I hate him so much.
I have hated that imbecile since his “rise” in the ‘80’s as a fucking celebrity 🤢. I acknowledge that “hate” is a strong word, but, sorry, not sorry. I won’t apologize for the truth.
I lived in NY in the 70s. I have hated him since then. I hate him more than I love breathing.
I make no apologies.
I'm sure plenty of presidents get ideas that immediately get shot down because they don't have the authority to do that shit. Obviously contractors get asked to do something, the money shows up and they get busy. But I'd think in Wash DC you can't just fuck with something, screw it up, and not get litigated the shit out of them by a responsible (operative word here) DoJ. I hope all these dirt bags Dump hires, go Chapter 11 trying to claim while being prosecuted by the next Dem administration, that Dumb Donald asked us to do it, don't worry about any permits.
I was reading it after lunch- laughed out loud at that new name! 🤭
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I agree!
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Donnie destroyed the East Wing in a fit of rage over the Transparency Act. Destroying the Reflection Pool is his response to bad PR over his war. Closing the Kennedy Center happened because NOBODY wants to perform. All this shite is costing us billions. It will cost us billions more to clean it all up. Is there any chance we can seize Donnie’s assets after he’s thrown in prison?
Sadly, Donnie will never do time...He's teflon Don...he always finds a way to blame someone else.
Me? I'm just waiting for the Big Beautiful Obituary...
That's funny, cause I read.....
Big Beautiful Coronary!!!! LOL
That is what happens B4 the Big Beautiful Obituary
Even the original Teflon Don (John Gotti) died in prison. There's still hope.
It is at least mildly helpful to know that he is miserable every single day
In our dreams, though I'd fight for that choice. He should have been impeached and removed in his first week.
Or, perhaps to a point, he should never have been elected in the first place.
That comment should be addressed to Elon Musk.
You're absolutely right, of course, but at the moment we're stuck with him because of a useless, captive Congress. C'mon midterms!
The Congress didn't elect him.
He shouldn't have been allowed to run in the firstest first place! He is an insurrectionist and SCROTUS knew it. In Maine, our Secretary of State took his name off the ballot because of that. (Unfortunately, she had to put Donny back on the ballot--because Donny is, of course, A Very Special Boy--because the unSupremes said to.)
The Constitution is explicit that the only appeal from a finding that one is an insurrectionist is to the Congress. There is no role for the Supreme Court, which usurped a political power it is not entitled to, as in Bush v. Gore.
I concur. Many realities start with a dream.
There should be some way to put a lien on his properties etc. Actually ! Trump vandalized the WH and everything he graffitit with his name..In some countries they cut off the hands that do this stuff...just sayinnnnn
Think of the makeup they would save by not coating his gnarly bruised hand! Just cut it off. 😂
Yes.yes. I would applaud that. In Saudi Arabia they cut off a thief's hand...we know how much Trump has stolen already....would be a point
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Does he have any? Trump Org non-golf property is labelled, not owned. His four golf properties are deep in dent. And sooner or later he is pretty much guaranteed to pay E Jean Carroll that $83 million.
E Jean is my hero and she had better get what he owes her! Or else.
I would LOVE to see him go broke! Do you think Ivanka would let him move in? Just him because we all know Melanoma will be back in Slovenia counting HER millions.
Im sure she has a private bank account somewhere and a safety deposit box full of gaudy jewelry. As soon as it gets dicey, she'll be out of there.
Dont forget he is suing the US gov't because they hurt his feelings, but everyone is willing to settle by giving him $10 million taxpayer dollars. Who can I sue becauae he is affecting my mental health and giving me terrible headaches. I'll settle for a million dollars. I'm not greedy.
Donnie builds things so carefully that they're not finished for a 100 years. He's a consumate perfectionist. We already know that when he dies his funeral won't end till the fat runs down the side of his truck size casket.
I have been wondering about that too
I believe that the massive crowds at the No Kings protest on Saturday was also a factor in setting him off to start destroying the East Wing on Monday morning.
Jeff, you have a large enough following that anything you write will be of interest to at least two-thirds of your readers.
Make that 98%. We all love Uncle Jeff!
You could just post photos and I'd be here.
Today's news is indigestible without your humor.
By the way, whatever we do, we need to be absolutely sure we don't let Trump know that the ancient Greeks painted the outside of their temples. The Parthenon, for example -- it was originally painted in vibrant colors. I'm looking at the Lincoln Memorial. Whatever you do, don't let him know that's a possibility.
He also wants to pain the EEOB - which is fucking granite - white. There’s another lawsuit over that.
Let's paint it pink like Soybean Scott's house.
It would take a lot of gold leaf, but he is talking about painting that, the White House, and half of the city's monuments.
While ignoring all the stuff that actually needs to be done. I hate him so damn much.
Welcome to the large and growing group!
Eeewwwwww!!!!!
Puh-leez! I have been in a state of fury over the Reflecting Epstein Swimming Pool and this post neatly encapsulated my outrage--and gave me the release valve of laughter (I think the gif of the weasel did me in).
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I like everything you right Jeff…even about the vandalism of public pools. I think we all love everything you write. And I think just about all of us would take a bullet for you if necessary; but, of course, we hope that is never a situation.
Trump isn’t dangerous but his wingnuts are crazy. Trump is just an evil punk who could be blown over by someone’s sneeze.
I hope you’ve done some basic things to mitigate the wingnuts.
Nancy Guthrie, living alone, could have used an alarm system that notified the sheriff or police when there is a break in.
My parents bought the house I grew up in in 1957 and proceeded immediately to lose the key. They never locked the door (day or night). They even left it unlocked on summer vacations when we might be gone for a month. Traveling from that idyllic childhood to this Trump nightmare has been real eye opening.
Why couldn’t he make America safe again — not by adding more guns to the environment but rather by eliminating 90% of them like Australia did. Leave it to a continent of criminals to come up with a sane solution that works. Why can’t we do that?
Never fear! I love the subject.
Also, it would totally be worth that billion dollars if it caves in on all the billionaires the first time they assemble there.
YES! That was my thought: I'll throw in an extra $20 (initially earmarked for a gallon of gas) if Stooges Pool Painters are involved in the Epstein Memorial Dance Hall & Airplane Hangar and the whole thing collapses the first time a jet takes off at Reagan International.
Uncle Jeffy has "Today In Really, Really Stupid" for us today... And that's pretty much every day, so we don't DARE miss a day!
Exactly! His posts just makes us laugh - giving us a dose of “ it’s eventually gonna end” thru these crazy times!
Ummm... no it doesn't, Jeff. Never happens here. We are your crew, man! We love the shit out of you and every article you post.
Thank you for the daily Claudia. I hope sharing these photos is somewhat therapeutic for you. I am also in awe of her photography.
Thanks again Jeff.
This is not one of those times, none of which I've ever seen anyway.
I love everything you write. It’s the highlight of my day!!
I love to hear about Dems fighting back! Keep ‘em coming. 😂
Nevah!
Not likely.
He knows he need not care about looking stupid. He has a job to do and he’s doing it. Handing the nation’s resources over to the ravagers, burning the country down. He is lead arsonist in this area, as each cabinet member is lead arsonist in their own areas: Education, Health and Human Services, the Treasury, Justice, Foreign Relations, Defense… they are committed to burning it all down.
But he doesn't think he looks stupid. He thinks he looks powerful and manly, another product of his delusion.
what is worse is that millions of people, all around us, also think he looks powerful and manly. Those of us who are immune to the Hypnotoad just see the toad, and will never see whatever it is that they see. Meanwhile, we are baffled that they cannot see the toad for what it is.
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Amazing those delusions are! Truth? Saggy old incontinent helpless guy.
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All in service of his lord and master, Vladimir Putin. Nothing in this administration is supposed to succeed, except the destruction of the US
Totally agree, Neal. Burning it all down is a feature, not a bug of this administration.
which is why when this is over we burn the gop party to the ground.
Sadly, I have to agree Neal
Wait until they open the books and see how much Donny pocketed on the back end. Every single thing the guy does is a cheap, obvious grift. He's the hat check girl rifling the pockets of overcoats.
That Reflecting Pool contract ballooned to about double. Hello kickbacks.
Like the Epstein ballroom has tripled. Hello kickbacks and bribes
Exactly. Somehow it went from 1.X million to 13 million? It sure as hell didn't go for paint or competent workers.
Odd how the decimal points keep moving to the right.
Surely it would be easy enough to find out who the mad king's pool guys have been over the years?
I'm sure none of them has actually been paid for the work they did, so they might be interested in earning a couple hundred bucks by being paid informants.
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Goddamn! That’s a perfect metaphor! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Berg-dumb, Noem’s next door neighbor gubderner
Joe Neguse is a treasure and a huge rising star who doesn't get a fraction of the attention he deserves. Maybe take 1% of the fawning we sometimes do over AOC and re-allocate it to him because he is smart, prepared and dismantles Republican toadies on an almost daily basis. Follow him on Instagram — he posts the videos.
Thank you for pointing this out..
Saw this yesterday and was sipping a drink.
NEGUSE: My understanding is a no bid contract is reserved for situations involving serious injury.
What's the injury w/the reflecting pool?
BURGUM: 19 fountains didn't work
Should have known better ended up giving myself a spew shower… Holy Shit Batman 19 fountains didn’t work so let’s do a shitty ass job and dump close to $14 million on some dumbfuckery on the Reflecting pool that will leak and crack further… it’s not even capable of now being a community pool… FFS
Honest to God while continuing to watch this dickshit show am no longer going to have any form of liquid anymore while watching these absolutely stunning morons.. We are utterly experiencing a “kleptocratic kakistocracy” timeframe in which a government is ruled by the least qualified, most incompetent citizens (kakistocracy) who simultaneously use their positions to steal national wealth and resources (kleptocracy). This system blends extreme corruption with incompetence, where leaders prioritize personal enrichment over governance, often feeding back on each other to maintain power.
BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity
HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery SECRETARY
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlqlavgdkk2a
My God how are they capable of crawling…
You cannot be in this regime unless you are willing to debase yourself as a lying, ignorant dumbass.
The looks on the legislators’ faces. Even they recognized what a dumbfuck he is.
Burgum knows better. I would be surprised if he didn't know all about how solar works, but none of them wants to appear smarter than the dumbest of them all: the Dear Leader. Although Kegseth and Markwayne Mullin may be as dumb, as well as the unmissed puppy killer. Not sure about how much of RFKJr's brain remains in tact.
RFKJr isn't stupid, he's lunatic.
Too true about the lunacy.
Oh my god there is no one Trump's in government that's not an incompetent buffoon. Are you familiar with this company? No. WTF?
That the interior is in the hands of that gibbering idiot makes me boil with anger. If any of us acted like that in a serious meeting with executives for our respective companies, we would be fired in minutes.
That was amazing and horrifying yet fully typical of this maladministration. Neguse is one of my new heroes. and I hope there are more like him—many more—after the midterms.
Neguse was fantastic.
Absolutely. I hadn't been familiar with him before, but I shall be happily aware of and follow him now.
He was involved in the January 6 hearings.
During my working years my husband had many work-related meetings in Chicago and Washington, DC. I would use vacation time from my job to join him and spend my days touring these beautiful cities. Being from a small wooded town of 5,000 on the shore of a Great Lake, I felt uplifted and joyful to be part of something as grand as Washington, DC! I walked the mall, visited Arlington Cemetery, meditated at the National Cathedral, enjoyed the Smithsonian museums and walked the entire campus of monuments, theaters, and artistic achievement. I drew great inspiration from all that. I felt so special to be an American, and I had the impression that every poverty-stricken, troubled child I worked with in my neck of the woods could be inspired and transformed just by strolling that Mall. I do not expect to return to DC in this lifetime, and at this point I don’t want to see the ruin tRump so generously distributes across this great city. He is the most vile creature in all of nature, maybe in all of history.
As a former North Dakotan, I apologize for Burgum. South Dakota’s can apologize for Kristi Gnome.
What is it in the Dakota's water? So strange.
Tar sand
Neguse catches Burgum off-guard because Dougie starts to stammer pathetically. I love that for this totally inept schmuckly weasel.
Daily Claudia feeds my soul…
Narcissus had a great reflecting pool, the greatest reflecting pool ever
On the topic of Diaper Donnie and the Reflecting Pool, I thought of this joke I heard once.
A person hires someone of Latino origins to paint his porch. Doesn't give him any directions, just hands him a can of paint, points and say, "Paint the porch." Would-be porch painter is a bit lost, but goes about his task.
The homeowner leaves. Comes back and asks the painter if he finished the job. Painter said that he did, but, 'Is not a porch. Is a Mercedes.'
That's kind of what this business of turning the Reflecting Pool into a swimming pool is, to me. It's not a swimming pool, it was never meant to be. The bottom was dark granite by design, meant to reflect the sky and its surroundings. Not to look like a cheap installation at one of Diaper Don's roach-infested golf motels. Or even worse--Las Vegas.
I was going to comment on that because I felt it was pretty fucking hilarious listening to him stutter and sputter out some crazy explanation like he was blindsided that his daddy threw him under the bus.
assuming this follows the same trend as the ball room that estimate grows from $35 to over $50 per square foot. it's flat surfaces, you could get the old plaster dug out replastered and tile the entire interior of the pool with big cheap blue tiles for about that much. is it bombproof paint?
we know what it's going to look like when it's done.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hLvXs3dEv9wddjUi6
Joe Neguse is awesome.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
apparently, Donny is in China and blithering about Chinese restaurants
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlstdvq4752t
“He's going to ask to meet General Tso, isn't he?” LOL
"General Tso, he's a very strong general, someone who's getting a lot of attention these days," National embarrassment, a monument in ignorance.
I hope when he gets back a journalist asks him what it was like meeting General Tso. That would be hilarious!
Same! I would bet money he doesn't eat Chinese food (too "exotic" for his tastes, he sticks with McDonalds because he's a basic bitch) and probably doesn't know the term, so he would just go with the "big, strong general" routine like usual.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He wants to meet Chun King.
Or maybe Wang Chung
Whatever happened to Wang Chung anyway?
They broke up in 1990, got back together in 1997 and are still playing shows
“To live and die in D.C.“
I wonder why in DC
To live and die in DC
I wonder why we waste our lives here
When we could run away to Epstein Island
But I am held in some invisible sea
And I can't get away
To live and die in DC
Wu Tang?
Donny knows some people in a different Klan.
You mean “Ku Klux”?
Presidents are temporary, Wu Tang is forever
Bob that is hilarious and so much like something dopey don would come up with, they wouldn’t even tell us. Xi puts up with it with a clothes pin on his nose.
Thanks. He’s on his back foot with China and Iran, all because he believed Netanyahu after Bibi fluffed him up.
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Maybe he'll meet up with Kung Pao.
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Hahahahahaha
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He's such an embarrassment. "American traveler's to China brought literacy and modern medicine." I just did my homework. China has substantially increased their literacy rate through public education and is now estimated at 97% for adults and almost 100% for ages 15 - 24. As of 2024-25, in the U.S., the adult literacy rate for adults is approximately 79% with 54% reading below a 6th grade level. We rank 36th in literacy globally. So yeah, home schooling and shorting quality public education are really making us great again.
And they are reading Chinese! That stuff is hard.
No kidding!
Wasn't it the Chinese who taught the Europeans to bathe?
It was the Moors. https://sawarimi.org/archives/2893
Guess I should've done a search before leaving that comment.
It's all good. This seems like a great community to approach with curiosity and respond by sharing knowledge.
The card says it was the Moops.
The Greeks had bath houses 1000 years before serious interactions with China
I meant in more recent times, like the 17 or 1800s...I could swear I read somewhere that when the British came to China in that time they smelled so bad bc they thought you got sick from water on your body.
Excellent point serenity! Republicans want the public dumb so they can turn them into cult following Christian nationalists. They’ve captured between a fourth to third of us so far due to the dumbing down and elimination of our education system. We need to turn that around asap.
Our low spending on public education has a purpose.
Never never never believe any statistic published by the PRC.
They never stand up to a reality check.
That’s true Cyndi but at least they know what statistics are and how to use them which is more than can be said for the Trump administration which thinks that “facts” are lies made up by fake news and have the inability to notice that, actually, FOX is the real fake news.
Wow. Depressing beyond measure. 🙄
Do you think Trump would be president if we had a higher literacy rate?
I hope they feed him some of that seafood that Warren Harding had.
It's in China's best interest to have him in office because they can easily outflank him and manipulate him. His combination of shallowness, ignorance, greed, susceptibility to flattery, egotism, and self aggrandizement makes him the easiest mark ever in American history. Ask Putin, MBS, Netanyahu, Iran, North Korea, etc. Our national security has been irreparably damaged by him and his cast of traitorous boobs, which includes his crime family.
Satan’s Whore
Agree on all counts Doc! Nothing left to say. You nailed all of it.
A little bite of fugu, inexpertly prepared, would do the trick. And, yes, there are Chinese fugu enthusiasts.
I've wished he'd fugu himself for decades.
Only if it is served with ketchup.
Wow Cheri — intense! Fugu — what a way to go. It would be fitting wouldn’t it?
I like the way you think Cheri.
Cartoonish messages from our wicked, would be dark lord have been mercifully quiet for a day. What splendid relief. The air feels clear and easy to breathe. A sign of what it might be like when he's gone for good.
In the meantime, I recommend to everyone that we stick together, focus on our work to save America from the fascist kleptocrats and break the racists efforts to undermine democratic voting rights.
Ha!
I saw a post on youtube (I think) photo of the golden trump statue in front of one of his golf motels, covered in trash, It was probably fake but it's the thought that counts right?
Unfortunately, it’s fake; however, it is inspirational.
I think a few cans of matte black spray paint would improve it. Or gray primer.
A pound of C4.
That’ll launch it into space.
Well Bob you did it — I don’t think that I’ve ever been itching to commit a crime till this very moment. Well done!
As a PK, I’ve always been a bad influence. At least that’s what all my friends’ moms said.
Cartoonish messages from our wicked, would be dark lord have been mercifully quiet for a day. What splendid relief. The air feels clear and easy to breathe. A sign of what it might be like when he's gone for good.
In the meantime, I recommend to everyone that we stick together, focus on our work to save America from the fascist kleptocrats and break the racists efforts to undermine democratic voting rights.
The head raccoons have long since peaced out; it's just urine-soaked insulation in that noggin.
While Xi eats Donny’s lunch.
😂 Good one! 😂
wtaf?! they think insulting like this is DIPLOMACY?! They can't drop the racism for 5 seconds.
Yep, there are many Chinese restaurants in America. Deep thoughts from Dementia Don.
My Chinese coworker referred to Chinese restaurants as "American Chinese" food. Emphasis on the American part.
A fun bit of trivia is that American Chinese food has traveled over to China, as a sort of minor fad/object of curiosity in foodie circles.
Incidentally, the Irish have no idea that corned beef and cabbage are a food item.
Yep--I'm of Irish descent, and corned beef and cabbage is 100% American. Well, the corned beef part. And let's note "Irish soda bread"....LOL
It's always been fun and fascinating to me how immigrants adapted their cuisines to the ingredients they could find here, thus creating something very new. Then, at the same time, because they were always on the look-out for the ingredients they needed/wanted, they also ended up introducing those ingredients to their fellow Americans not of their ethnic background. On Food Network shows from less than 10 years ago, the chefs earnestly explain, for instance, what "kimchi" and "gochujang" are; or advises that you can get them in some expensive specialty shops in NYC, or maybe even online......Now you can find them on the shelves at the local, generic grocery store.
That is hilarious.
Amazing the bullshit that just keeps coming. I'm on permanent embarrassment now.
He gave away Taiwan while he was at it
fun fact I learned while writing this post: if you google "weasel gif," 99% of what google shows you are ferrets and stoats, with a few meerkats mixed in
From now on I will refer to the Speaker as “that limped dick, leaping weasel Mike Johnson”.
Didn't anyone think "POP goes the weasle?"
I am a longtime wildlife rehabber. My favorite little orphan, hands down, was a long tailed weasel. He was full of mischief, moved like quicksilver, and was a complete joy. Not secretive, not underhanded. Can we think of some other critter as despicable, like, for example, mosquitoes or ticks? Thank you.
I know......I love fierce, smart little weasels..........But that gif was just too hilariously apt for Holy Brother Mike Johnson's verbal pirouettes.
Agreed! And settled Cheri!
That’s why I use DuckDuckGo.
My preferred search engine used to be Alta Vista, but I think that's one of those things that dates you when you mention it. Like Netscape as a browser.
Lol, I remember Alta Vista
The weasal gif was a brilliant addition today! 🤣🤣🤣 Hope to see more of it!
That’s what happens when AI does the searching. AI can’t tell the difference between a cucumber and a zucchini, so I wouldn’t expect it to know the difference between a weasel and a meerkat.
Love all of those animals Jeff
😆now that’s funny.
It's one of the most infuriating forms of gaslighting, this "I don't know the context" bullshit. When MAGA Mike dies and goes to hell, I hope he's installed in a booth where the rest of us can punch him in the dick for eternity. I cannot fully express in words how much contempt I have for that spineless, lying, closeted, faux-Christian motherfucker. I don't care about the reflecting pool or the East Wing. Everything physical that's been torn down or degraded can be fixed. It's the intangibles we'll spend decades restoring - if we ever get the chance.
Well said -- brava!
Thank you.
"Punch him in the dick for eternity"--great idea. If you can find it
Indeed!!! I’ll form the line behind you for dick-punching! 👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻
Cliff Cash has Johnson's number:
https://youtu.be/BVpA7l-wn7E?si=FgXFoQHJ1leRj1c_
yep
He’a great!
Especially when know what the President is doing or say is a substantial part of his freaking job!
You go, Ann!
I want Mike Johnson tarred and feathered.
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Such a lovely shade of blue. It must remind him of the turquoise waters of the Caribbean surrounding Epstein Island. I’m sure Donald finds this quite comforting.
i'm waiting for the algae to be back in August.
Also, any time the felon does one of these "beautification" projects, someone needs to find a similar item in disrepair at his properties. eg when he complained about the excalor at the UN, someone shared a pic of the broken escalator at the felon's tower
Which shade of blue will it be? Oh, striped! Why didn't I think of that? Oh, he didn't hire that company. He did hire a company to repair the reflecting "Pond" though. I wonder if he meant one of the ponds on one of his golf courses. It does get confusing. But ask Doug Burgum; he'll straighten it all out for you.
Or erotic.
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Jeff, tell me I am wrong but observing the “delegation” that traveled with Donald I don’t see anyone from State or our 19 Intelligence agencies or high ranking military officials, as President Obama traveled with. In addition, I don’t see any translators as surely officials traveling should be able to speak Mandarin, and not rely on a CCP member to translate. Disgusting Diplomacy I call it ….if it’s even diplomacy. I understand Donald at the State dinner spoke about Chinese restaurants in America outpacing fast food restaurants… OK folks…. I understand Donald wanted to meet with PF Chang, also General Tso to assist in securing the Straits of Vermouth with a little assist from Panda.. a little sweet and sour… Best to All Fellow travelers.
Other presidents had diplomats
This fool has crooks and asshats
As each of them delves
Into deals for themselves
A buncha a treasonous rats
Doc, “crooks and ass hats” I think you could write a Country Western song using that phrase😀
I doubt that the majority of CM fans would like me calling out their guy as a gross, avaricious predator who sells our nation down the river.
Good Doc!
He did take l'il marco but I'm sure he thinks translators are for pussies, and he can understand them through his Christ-like mind melding.
You are killing me over here, had to try to keep my coffee from splattering on the floor🤣🤣🤣
just think how many millions we are spending to send this third rate clown and his bunch of grifters over to China, so that he can insult them and look like the national embarrassment. that he is.
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Anyway the serve it should come with a bottle of Heinz.
HAHAH!!!
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My interpretation of the handshake photo is that he exerted so much of his remaining strength on the shake that he shit himself. He straightened out the left leg to provide an exit ramp for the unexpected turd. As Charlie Kirk would have said, "prove me wrong."
I loved Stephen Colbert's description of Trump's hand -- "a surgical glove filled with grape jelly."
Oh my god, speaking of Colbert. Five shows left. I’ve already warned the spouse I’m going to be a sobbing mess by next Thursday night.
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I wonder if he did it to not appear so much taller than Xi? I know that seems out of character, given his dominance fetish but, he might think he's doing Xi a favor and expect something in return.
I think don is standing, legs wide apart like that, to balance himself. He is so unsteady on his feet, otherwise he may keel over.
A valid and likely theory.
The Douche is a world class destroyer
A dickwad, a fuckfaced annoyer
A hideous demon
A bag of old semen
His dad should have jacked off in the foyer.
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Jeff--please know that we are all so so sorry for the loss of your beautiful, kind and loving wife.
Nixon first went to China
Now this crooked fuck has gone too
Tricky Dick went for Cold War reasons
Not this lying tub of goo
This trip is for self-interest
NOT for America's good
Trying to line his own pockets
Like no other president would
LYING TUB OF GOO!
Good, Doc!👏👏👏
His dad was reading *HIS* bedside copy of Mein Kampf while jacking off on his mother
Yep.
Prob so, but he did inseminate her- and look what we are left with!
Good Frosty!!👏👏👏
Can you imagine the intestinal fortitude it took for Xi to shake that rotting flesh Trump calls his right hand?
vick's in the nostrils. tip from people who spend time in morgues. and maybe liquid bandage all over his hand, as a glove.
Less than to shake Scott Bessent’s hand
Xi deserves it. He just a
strong arm dictator.
LOL I see what you did there
I dropped acid the night of Nixon’s first State of the Union. Big mistake.
This flashback is lots worse.
He's spraddle-legged because it's hard for him to stand up. He's always sitting in photo ops now. I notice that Xi has the upper hand and the shitbag didn't try to jerk him off balance. He also placed his other swollen hand tenderly on top of Xi's. He probably did that to help maintain his balance.
Even he knows he's not on home turf in his tacky plastic-festooned Oval Bordello (per Jeff) and wants Xi to help persuade those nasty Iranians to open the Strait so he's being less of an asshole than normal.
Xi must have attended a class at Emmanuel Macron's School of Bone-Crushing Handshakes.
I thought the same, a balance issue.
“how many times is America going to let itself get snookered” infinity times, is the answer.
That stance of Trump as meets Xi is either "Diaper Full" or "Don't Teeter Over." Or both.
In all seriousness, apparently he does have a gait and stance consistent with cognitive impairment. So you are correct "don't teeter over," and probably the other, too.
I had the exact same thought.
and by "completely fucked the reflecting pool" you mean "his incompetent job means that we'll have to repair/restore it when he's gone."
every cloud has a silver lining.
& I think he should be presented with the bill to repair his vandalism.
I'll bet Orange thinks people actually go swimming in the Reflecting Pool.
I'll also bet he hasn't been in a swimming pool since ... ever.
All that spray tan and make up would simply turn any swimming pool and muddy brown.
Perpetually closed for turd clean-up like a baby pool
Thank you Jeff.
Since the group of feckless cowards otherwise known as the GOP, starting with Mike "Lil" Johnson can't muster their responsibility to their Oath of Office and U.S. Constitution to stop state-sponsored kidnapping and attack on Venezuela, a war with Iran, and continuing murder in international waters -what makes anyone think they will stand up for our national monuments?
At this point if the pedo criminal elect said "Lincoln was a too tall mealy mouth RINO -I'm replacing his memorial with a golden statue of me -America's best President", who in GOP-controlled Congress -or in his group of incompetents, sociopaths, and alcoholics otherwise known as a Cabinet would stop him? I do hope billionaires enjoy their tax cuts as their benefit to this rapid destruction of the United States. They will need it when the US dollars is worth ten cents against the Euro.