And probably a large percentage of the world. Yes, Jeff, the needle on my rage index has hit the stratosphere. I can't stop crying long enough to leave the house. It must stop.
I'm not crying, now. I'm so beyond tears into MAD AS HELL! Do NOT stop writing about what prompts your brain, Jeff - it means it NEEDS to be told and you are exactly whom WE need to tell it so we can survive this (and let out at least a modicum of our rage at this historical destruction of OUR HOUSE). Some rando magat on Instagram tried to claim I was 'brought onto' Aaron Parnas' feed - I was quite pleased they thought so highly of my comments, LOL. Several magats decided the orange POS was: being 'sarcastic'; being 'funny' but WE 'can't take a joke'! 'Proving' he was a REAL 'king' (ohmigawd) so now I've posted more about him PROVING only that he's full of shit up to his eyeballs. I'm waiting for their screaming. :)
I thought I had myself under control and then I looked at the back of the $20 bill I had in the grocery line and literally welled up. 1/3 of that picture no longer exists.
Folks, you’re just gonna have to get a grip and become more stoical about these outrages.
Because you can believe that they will keep on coming. He is really going off the rails and is pushing the already stretched thin envelope of things designed to piss us off and drive us crazy. He has no limits anymore and subsequent events will be designed specifically for how much shrill reaction he can get. It’s ‘own the Libs’ on steroids coming just around the bend.
Yet we must not wear our hearts on our sleeves. We should start practicing silence when the next outrage comes. That will drive him crazier than the most erudite rebuttal of the heinous deed of the day, Silence.
Can you just imagine his utter bewilderment !?!
It might cross his wires to the point of a real mental blow out.
Ole, I must disagree. Dump demolishing the People’s House, the crown jewel of our seat of government, is the last straw. We have every right to express our outrage, as loudly as we want. Being silent is not an option. I for one will keep bellowing about this, and I know Jeff will too. The felon will not get away with this. It’s obscene.
absolutely, but (as I just wrote) IF we can take away his fucking 'ballroom' funds - somewhere there ARE the original plans and architectural drawings for the White House where it could be replicated IF someone at least saved the historical furnishings. I still suspect his aim is to destroy the entire WH. Let's see if I've had a flash of what my sister used to call my 'witchy thing'- or not. It just hit me yesterday that it could very well have been his entire idea all along - after seeing the Palaces in Qattar and Saudi Arabia, Egypt. He CRAVES their gaudy, gold everything. OUR White House is too 'old, classic' and not palatial enough for this wanna-be king.
Those beautiful Georgian-style paneled wooden doors, pediments, and all the paneling appear to have been made out of American Chestnut. Perhaps it's maple. Any woodworkers on here with thoughts on what it might be? Chestnut was used in high-end interiors because there was a lot of it being milled due to the tragic chestnut blight. Whatever was in the East Wing, it was gorgeous and was probably destroyed,. Instead of being salvaged, was it ripped out and tossed in the dumpsters? It makes me sick!
You're right that these obscenities will keep on coming, and we should steel ourselves for them. But I think silence is wrong. The target to attack over this isn't Trump--he's out of his mind and incapable of shame. The ones to attack over this are the Republicans. They're the ones enabling and supporting it, and they're the ones who could end it in a week.
You nailed it, Ellis! Trump is completely demented and uncontrolled/supervised. The Rethuglicans could absolutely stop this, but they’re too busy counting their bags of money I guess.
It might work if enough people remain silent like when he had his big birthday parade and hardly anyone was there and the soldiers purposely just meander walked not goose stepped like he wanted. That really frosted him.
On one hand, I agree, Ole---it would drive him crazy to be met with utter silence. OTOH, he'd probably keep escalating, doing ever worse things, trying to get a reaction. Not that he won't do that, anyway, to get his rush from our outrage. I don't think there are any good answers, short of....well, you know, someone taking one for the team.
To me, what he's doing is a gut-punch, and in this case, I won’t conceal my grief and horror.
I agree that it's THE plan/plot to TRY to keep us off-balance AND IGNORING THE EPSTEIN FILES while THEY commit even further atrocities, letting him freewheel his wildest toddler-tantrum fantasies, even encouraging him to 'go for it'. He LOVES doing this shit - and yes, we ARE reacting exactly how they want. I like your idea of not giving them the satisfaction but there's a point where it can NOT be seen as acquiescing. The destruction of the White House is one of the latter - have to agree with Punkette on this one. We should SUE HIM for that - especially since it IS 'OUR HOUSE'! MAKE him take every penny of his fucking 'ballroom' money and have it put aside to restore OUR HOUSE once he's removed/gone. That'll satisfy SOME of my rage but of course not all. I want the fucker in Sing Sing (or Rickers) where he belonged after his 34 fucking convictions!
I'm both a veteran and a retired Lutheran pastor. I erroneously thought Convict Donnie could do no worse than his atrocious first term as our King....er....I mean President. Including his terrorist mob who stormed and desecrated The Capital Building on January 6, 2021 in order to steal Biden's election as our new President.
To say I was wrong about the abilities of this criminal and traitor would be the understatement of the millennia!!! What he has done and is doing in a mere matter of 9 months is beyond comprehension. What is equally incomprehensible is the complicity of our Congress and The Supreme Court who enable and support this mad monster.
Our Constitution is, frankly, without meaning anymore! As the 5th generation in my family lineage to take The Oath to defend our Constitution from ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, I am both sickened and outraged by pseudo "veterans" and pseudo politicians who have made a joke and mockery of God, oath taking and public service. And to do these horrendous acts proves their sociopath illnesses.
There are no words that can adequately describe what we are witnessing, hence the mental necessity for outrage and dark humor. I think of my father and grandfather and millions of others who gave some or all to defend and save our Democratic Republic from those who would destroy it. Today and every day I am asking with a tear in my eye and my stomach in knots, "For what? Were all those losses and ungodly suffering for liberty, freedom and equality for nothing?"
The only honest answer I can whisper in the face of this nightmare is, unfortunately 😔, "Yes,....God damn it all...yes..."
As a theologian, I am mindful that each and every generation is like the grass of the fields that rise and die each yearly season. Nothing will last forever, including this present cruel and insane madness that is MAGA. Nonetheless, during this present season of evil and injustice, good people of good and grace-filled hearts are required to resist and fight when and where they can so that the holy virtues of love, kindness, empathy, compassion and justice for all creation and humanity will endure these nights for the sake of the children and grandchildren.
Only when justice and love reigns again can we honestly acknowledge those who gave of themselves in the past so that those unknown to them in the future could flourish in peace and abundance. God help us and the world.
You are not alone here. To have the man who is supposed to lead our country wantonly and viciously destroy something that does not belong to him is morally obscene.I also read somewhere that the way this fuck job was started is completely dangerous too to the health of the people who live in DC most notably those is the immediate vicinity.The asbestos, the carcinogens, the dust and debris.The people of DC need to sue this bastard.
Not only did Donny do this without getting any demolition permits or approval to change a historic landmark, he's apparently destroyed the entire wing without salvaging any of the beautiful woodwork, furnishings or historic artifacts it contained. This stuff would be worth a lot to home restorers or salvages. What a vulgar barbarian this moron is.
Donnie Demento showed precisely the same respect for the historic details of the East Wing as he did for the friezes on the Bonwit Teller building, which he razed to make room for Trump Tower in NYC.
He's always been a special kind of asshole, a psychopath who smashes things just to see the looks on our faces. Learned it from his psychopathic father, who smashed up a landmark at Coney Island.
Immigrants are a net positive for the US in so many ways. But we could've done without Trump's ancestors, who've brought us nothing but crime, greed, racism and a powerful urge to avoid making selfless contributions of any kind (Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, skipped out of Bavaria to avoid military service. He later tried to immigrate back but Germany quite sensibly refused him re-entry).
That wasn't 'quite' the whole story of his (I believe he might've been his great?) grandfather - Drumpf). After he failed to make a living here in America he returned to Germany where he went hat in hand to the Kaiser BEGGING him to accept money (a bribe) as an 'apology' to allow him to stay - this after running fleeing the draft when younger. The Kaiser refused not only his money but to allow him to remain in Germany at all, expelling him forever. THAT is the beginning of NO DRUMPFS/trumps ever fighting for ANY Country, and THAT man was the one who later changed his name to 'trump', probably after a card term. donny's name is DRUMPF and John Oliver had the right idea to 'make donald drumpf again'. That same great?grandfather is the one who then opened saloons in this Country catering to miners, cowboys and the like but in the back rooms women were 'available'. HE was the 'founder' of the family wealth. Their treatment of women as trash and expendable runs in this vile family.
Frederick Trump was a German and American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Born and raised in Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to the Yukon and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse. - Wikipedia
Just remember: Wikipedia is written BY individuals who seem to believe everything THEY write, whether or not it's historically accurate.. I've known about his grandpappy for DECADES longer than Wikipedia existed. Zo...I take the above with MORE than a grain of salt. They seem to have vastly cleaned up this individual's actual story - TO help his grandson. Note the 'paternal grandfather of Donald Trump. the 45th and 47th(!!!) president of the United States' - so written recently? WHY would that be? Wonder which of his sycophants penned this?
ALL we have to do is ask Mary Trump. SHE knows the real story - and might have already talked about it - unsure. She DID mention that not a single one of her Uncle's line has ever served in their respective militaries. HER Dad flew planes if I have the correct one of the brothers in mind, which was a huge sin in the eyes of both his father and the orange POS. I'll ask her next time I log in there.
The Smithsonian had its own run-in with El Presidente. It didn't need another one. BTW, NatGeo's August edition on page 101 in a 20-year anniversary of Katrina had a map with "Gulf of America" on the top half of the Caribbean Sea and "Gulf of Mexico" below it and the Yucutan Peninsula. So there is another servile service following orders...
A stop work order from city authorities can put a stop to all this evil. Permits must be submitted, approved and paid for. And what contractor in their right mind would carry this through without proper paperwork? His name and company should be on the demo permits. Maybe someone could check that out.
Put them out of business. They won't get paid as Donnie pays no one but himself. However, go after ACECO, LLC with everything to bankrupt them and jail them. Take enough time that Donnie cannot give them a pardon.
In addition to ACECO (the demolition company) I read Clark Construction Co will be heading up the ronstruction. Sorry I can't find that cite at the moment.
I like the idea of a lawsuit. Wonder if there's a possibility of a class action over the destruction itself? Probably not, as he replaced the entity governing changes to the building with his own toadies, who gave him full approval....
Meanwhile, there's this from The Guardian... cited in another site:
"The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
"The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. "
Also, I am going to put this on all the substacks I can find: run, don't walk to the nearest book store and put your money down on Joyce Vance's "Giving Up Is Unforgivable". It is a manual for all Americans who did or, especially, did not go through a meaningful civics course somewhere along the way. Just got it today. She is plain-speaking, a career prosecutor, so she knows how at least the machinery of one of our three branches works and holds forth on her substack, "Civil Discourse".
Just imagine the outrage from the GOP if Biden had touched one fucking doorway on the East Wing. For fucks sake the media would have hammered him for weeks.
The one thing that always gets me boiling is the EPIC HYPOCRISY that these spineless cowards bring to the game.
The destruction of the East Wing to build a monument to billionaires is beyond the pale. We haven't needed a ballroom for 250 years and it's only being built now because fuck you.
But you know, Joe Biden and every “sane” president before him would never have done such a thing. They revered the White House and what it stood for. Don the Con doesn’t give a shit. He respects nothing but himself.
The spineless cowards also blocked passage of Sen. Blumenthal's Insurrection Act Reform for 2025 this week. Can't wait to see what those repercussions will be. 🤬
To be fair though, they have built a massive media machine of their own (on the shoulders of RLimbaugh) - while Dems have wandered around turning more…’corporate’? 🤬
To be fair though, over the last 40+ years, Rs have built a massive media machine of their own (on the shoulders of RLimbaugh) - while Dems have wandered around turning more…’corporate’? 🤬
I would never have known how nice the inside of that building was without Jeff’s post today, now I’m heart broken. Teddy’s more rugged and woodsy side is present there. Gold casino-Vegas style just won’t cut it in that spot.
There could have been other solutions - but since this demoralizes 🇺🇸 to the max - can’t help but think how bffVlad is doing yet ANOTHER victory lap… 🎯⁉️
The only jerk-off he can manage at his age is the mimicry of jerking off. He can no longer handle the real thing, judging by the physical state of his hands - and seeing his ankles, the only remaining part of his body capable swelling with blood
Same. And to answer your question about preserving any of beautiful woodworking and tile. That would have taken time, meticulous planning and attention to detail. Donnie possesses none of those qualities 🤬
Except for the Portland Jailblazers teaming with LaCosa Nostra to rig NBA games. But we already know both La Cosa Nostra and the NBA were rotten crooked to the core.
So RELEASE THE EPSTEIN PHILES YOU FUCKING PEDOPHILES!!!!
As horrific as this cruel bullying destruction of the East Wing is, and at this point if I see a photo I am filled with rage, the bigger injury is that those evil henchmen and minions of this regime are beavering away trying to make sure that our votes do not count. Voting is so boring, too many don't bother--not to mention the purity ponies who flounce off if they don't get exactly what they want. Every election going forward, we should SHOW UP AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. We can't count on anyone but ourselves.
Ask Liz Cheney what happens to Republicans who stand up to Nero. They’re nothing more than concentration camp guards who were “ just doing their jobs.”
Coincidentally, just yesterday, Thom Hartmann said he would support Liz Cheney for Speaker of the House (who doesn't need to be a member of Congress). Whoa!
Every single day since January, like a ticker tape message running across an electronic billboard in Times Square, the phrase "HOW IS THIS NOT ACTIONABLE?" plays across my mind, endlessly. And it applies to every thing this asshole does. But the destruction of part of the White House? A new low. Even for this shitstain.
First stop the destruction. Then let Trump AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE see that Monument to Revenge every day for 4 more years...as a reminder of what America voted for! No ballroom. Just a war zone.
Fuck no, I don't want him anywhere near a reconstruction project.
He needs to be in prison, or dead from cankles.
The next president, after the Smokey-Eyed Sociopath (because we all know Canks isn't going to finish out his term) should run on tearing down Donnie's Versailles and restoring the People's House.
OK, so....if the report you cite is accurate, Johanna, then the godawful ballroom is a cover for a new bunker. What this means is that "someone" is making big plans. Say, Miller, Vought, and J Divan. They sold mango man on the dream fantasy of a 90,000sf golden monstrosity and gave him a drawing, so he'd sit in his corner and drool over it. Meanwhile, they're carrying out whatever plot they've hatched. Yikes!
That is something they could have done without destroying a historic building's wing. I'm sorry, it sounds like an incredibly stupid conspiracy theory. So it must be true if this regime is doing it.
I was watching another podcast and they noted that the "Ballroom" picture trump keeps showing could easily been created by a kid using AI, so why is he not showing the architectural plans? And where is the evidence they saved the artwork and any historical built-in features, etc? It's crazy it was simply bulldozed and not carefully step by step taken down. The picture he shows is also a pretty close copy of the German Guy's Ballroom built over the German Guy's bunker. Much like the Arch he wants to build as another monument to himself.
Yes, they might possibly have renovated/extended/fortified the bunker without tearing down the East Wing (not a builder, so don't know). But it's certainly a lot easier to do now, AND they couldn't have done it secretly before. Now, they can make any modifications they want, and who will know the difference?
It’s horrible and the responses to your post on Xitter make me wonder why you even bother posting anything to that platform. It’s dead and just a graveyard for crazed magats.
The only time I go on there anymore is when I follow one of your post links.
Threads and Bluesky are much better and are becoming more widely used. That brings the magats but at least their numbers a proportional.
And now the Whitehouse has put their official social media identity on Bluesky, along with all the other gov't accounts... for the sole purpose of trolling liberals and attracting MAGA trash to the platform.
I blocked them just to add to the tallying of still being the most blocked site, that along with Vance's. It's the little things bringing me joy now.......
The lack of any actual thought or respect for the foundations of this country is appalling and infuriating. Despite the calls for coming together, I cannot countenance arrogant and clueless MAGA fucks. I am still not sure how to deal with magat relatives but at least they live far away and I don’t have to talk to them much. But damn, I am so done with offering any respect or time to discuss issues.
One side came over with the original crazies to Plymouth Rock. Then they moved slowly south. The other side came from Ireland later in the early 1800s and came to Maryland and DC. That’s as close as I can get at the moment. My son was born at Georgetown U Hospital as was my father. (Different locations)
that's cool. one part of Ms. Spouse's family has been in the US since the 1600s. another part has been here since they crossed the Bering Land Strait ten thousand years ago
The real destructive crazies came after the Plymouth Rock guys. They were for the King and against Native Americans. Look it up. Good Boston religious nuts.
My family landed at Plymouth in 1633. They never got south of PA, except on my mother's side, some of whom moved south to NC (that would be you, JD Vance.)
I have ancestors who arrived in Massachusetts in 1635, and then went on to join others in forming Stratford, Connecticut. (Hate the word "settiled.") One branch of the family also settled in North Carolina; it was after the Civil War. I will check info compiled by a relative years ago - hope to NOT find that one name..
You won't. I think they moved out of NC and into SC and finally into Kentucky. That's interesting about Connecticut. Both my father's ancestors, the Coles (1633) and the Wetmores (1636) landed in Plymouth. The Wetmores moved to Connecticut in 1636 and started Middletown. Some of them even moved to Canada after the Revolution!
Thank you for extra details. My Connecticut ancestors were the Beardsleys starting with William Beardsley (1605-1661), and I think they mostly settled in Connecticut with a few straying to upper regions of New York state. In the 1950s one of my mother’s cousins in NC moved with her husband to Ontario, Canada (last name Connell). The ancestor who moved to NC after the Civil War, Grant Beardsley, had only one male child who did not live to adulthood, and the other nine children were female, so these family members are not easily traced by the last name Beardsley. A few of my mother’s cousins compiled everything they knew from both family papers and public documents (some even researched in England) into a self published book that they distributed among family members in the mid 1990s, which was too early for online research available today. My information comes from their book. Perhaps our ancestors crossed paths occasionally while in early New England settlements. Thank you for the reply!
I just got a bunch (that's a highly technical term) of family papers from my brother which include some possible dubious history which I will comb though looking for Beardsley. Take care!
Well the Irish were always looking for work and freedom from the hatred of the pilgrims and their religion. Apparently the Protestants were not as radical as the northern ones and got the hell out of dodge. So south they went.
I worked in a historic (private, not government) building. It was built in 1917 and had stained glass, oak paneling, fancy floors, lots of interesting fixtures.
It was sold and renovated into condos or something but you know what? They carefully removed the paneling, carefully removed the wrought iron and fixtures, carefully removed the stained glass and the 12-foot bookcases and THEY FUCKING SAVED THOSE PRICELESS ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS.
Some were sold, some were repurposed and some were used in a small exhibit about the building. They weren't bulldozed and thrown into dumpsters.
What kind of a third-rate contractor would even TAKE this job? Who wants to be known as the company that demolished the White House? They need to be named and shamed. I don't care if they are just a "businessperson trying to make a living," anyone who cuts down 200 year old trees and bulldozes public property needs to be publicly held accountable.
Veronica..that’s a good question and one I thought about too. Who are the asswipes doing this destruction! No Congressional approval = illegal. I’d say arrest them but the police and military are mostly MAGA apparently.
Excellent point, the reason the felon & his cronies are getting are getting away with all this is no one is accepting responsibility. Everyone that is involved is responsible for everything they do. MOST OF US take responsibility for our actions & they damn well must be made to.
I'm still stunned at the constant 24x7 gaslighting of the entire fucking country, and our allies. This has got to be the most nakedly dishonest regime of all time. I can't call it an "administration" because they couldn't administer a pub raffle.
Once we remember that Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks), that explains why the pricktator can do all this without accountability.
Oh yeah if any valuable or historic artifacts in the East Wing have been saved, they've been squirreled away in the pricktator's private collection, almost assuredly. He's the world's most malevolent bowerbird.
Also doubleplus good for the Pentagon to have its own captive state media. This is fine!
For some reason, this made me even more depressed. It is a historical house that belonged to the American people. Trump is a typical developer who trashes old to build a lifeless, tacky new building. Such a metaphor for what he is doing to our country. Crassness, tackiness and grift.
He's not a typical developer--I mean, not that developers aren't greedy, grasping trashers....but Donnie Demento is doing this to punish the American people. This is the follow-up to the video of him shitting on us Americans. The point is the cruelty and to show us how unstoppable he is.
Joyce: I know several developers who did not follow suit - they erected tasteful buildings because they were not sadistic bullies with major pathologies
Me too. Looking at that one interior photo and thinking of all those beautiful and likely priceless raw materials being destroyed is just too much to bear. We don't even need to be bombed since the mad king will just destroy everything for the outer enemies.
Oh, so many, many people told me that it was just normal for that to happen. That there was absolutely nothing, NOTHING unusual for stuff to be thrown out the window of an historic building and onto the roof below. Just a little remodeling!
I have one word for you and all of the righteously outraged: Dresden. The cathedral and many of the surrounding neighborhoods were reduced to dust in the Allied bombing. Today, the perfectly restored cathedral is a beautiful monument to human creativity, persistence and cooperation. I was there last summer. It moved me to tears. No matter what this sadistic tyrant tears down, we can get back. It is a metaphor, one we can win.
Don't be surprised if the whole damn building goes into the dumpster. Donny is absolutely reveling in the destruction, in our anguish. Mary Trump is clear about this: Donny is Donny. His pattern is to break the boundaries and if he gets away with it, he'll break more. The fault is squarely on the GOP, who could stop him any time. I predict (or maybe hope) that this will push some MAGAts out of the cult. The images are fundamentally, viscerally disturbing.
I doubt these useless bag of shit Rethuglicans will ever stand up. They are even more disgusting than Trump because they know what he is doing is egregiously wrong and they could at least be a brake on his lawlessness but they’re too cowardly to act. Mary Trump knows her uncle better than anyone and she is spot on with her observation that he preys on weakness even though he is the weakest of all of them.
If I was a reporter and this dickless wonder called me a "third-rate reporter" I would have replied "you're a lying sack of shit". And I probably would've gotten a standing ovation as I was escorted out.
Any reporters out there brave enough? C'mon, ONE of them with access must be brave enough. And it's not as if losing access to trump's "press conferences" (ha,ha!) is any loss. Think of what needs reporting, make up an outrageous lie about it which shows trump is wonderful - and there you have it! What he said!
I don't know how any of them are so meek that they won't push back when he calls them "third-rate," "hacks," "terrible," etc. I don't think I could be, even if it meant my job. I would definitely be one of those "And you're a lying sack of shit" types because I get pretty mouthy when I'm insulted.
I don't even know why he was berating the reporter. He (or she) didn't say he wasn't being transparent. they asked how he would respond to PEOPLE saying he wasn't being transparent. Probably because he can't parse the difference and thought it actually was the reporter who was saying that.
Oh no, you would have been ostracized. Those reporters want to keep the White House gig. It is cushy and great for tales at the Pub and family gatherings
Where is someone-ANYONE-holding him accountable? I’m sick to my stomach watching the damage he is doing to not only the people of the US…but to the White House…and who knows what the hell is next on his deplorable list!
As someone who was raised in Quincy, MA, the birthplace of John Adams, the first occupant of the White House with his wife, Abagail, I am beyond livid. Trump has erased hundreds of years of American history to create a Golden Ballroom! What a travesty!
Because he thinks it symbolizes wealth and sophistication. He can't understand that people with real wealth and sophistication are more prone to understatement. I would go mad in that travesty he has turned the Oval Office into. It's too busy, overcrowded and not at all symmetrical. I prefer simple, minimalist decorating.
Donny Convict Trump just pardoned the founder of Binance who was helping in all sorts of criminal activities. Trump is owned by the crypto community. I don’t think it’s gonna end well for a lot of people.
So, I think we have bigger problems than cruelty being the point. I've seen a lot of tinfoil chatter online, maybe ya'll have too, but here are some disturbing things that, when you put them all together, don't look so hot.
Under the East Wing is the bunker that is undergoing major renovation. Likely so he can hunker down and not be moved.
Giving 40 billion to Argentina (the same country that gave safe haven to Nazis after WWII) might be a down payment on a future safe haven.
Venezuela attacks are testing the waters to see how much war stuff he can get away with without anyone saying boo. So far, so good.
Taking away food (SNAP), not seating congressmen and women, redistricting all the red states means laying groundwork for canceling midterms and elections in general and keeping the populace down and submissive.
Putting ICE in the streets is step one in militarizing in case of uprising when all of the above becomes too much and we decide not to hold peaceful marches but really get pissed.
So perhaps it's time to really get pissed before all of the above gets even worse and it's too late.
I don't think he will have any trouble at all. He is an uncontrollable sadistic bully. A grotesque of humanity. He has an infinity of unplumbed shit to unleash, and unleash it he will. And the Republican party likes him (most of them) or they are little cowards who are afraid of him. The Republican party is the reason our democracy is dying.
I will cast my vote for a major cardic infarction in the Oval Bordello, right at the Resolute Desk--and he croaks because the press corps stands by and does nothing, out of habit.
Oh, but that would be too kind. My spouse prays for a stroke that leaves him able to hear but unable to speak. With a drool cup, a la the Monty Python skit.
So many have never seen the drool bucket skit! They’re too young. It’s such a classic.
Thank goodness for “The Googles” as my late father liked to say. Look it up!
My scenario; Trump, suffers a profound loss of speech and his newly created cabinet position, ‘Secretary of Drool Disposal’ nominee, Ron DeSantis, did not receive enough votes to be confirmed. The senate will attempt to confirm Trump’s second choice, Andrew Coumo. Cuomo will be available at all times to empty Trump’s full drool bucket and see that sealed vials of Trump Drool is ready for distribution with 12 hours of first grift ad.
Cost: $199.99
Shipping: overnight only at $50 per vial.
Presentation Display Case: $125
Total: $5000
Send money orders only, made out to Donald Trump or Barron the Weirdo.
Yes - a brain stem stroke, resulting in Locked-In Syndrome. Able to breathe, able to hear, even able to THINK....but not able to RESPOND.
I'd love to be one of his nurses - I'd put EVERY LEGITIMATE NEWS CHANNEL ON, in rotation, so he could HEAR WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM! Let that rat-fucker stew in his own juices TIL THE DAY HE FINALLY DIES!!
Combined with his $230 million self-dealing extortion from DOJ, which not a single Republican has objected to. Party of empty ball sacks. We honestly need to clear the game board and start over.
When are his brain-dead supporters, enablers and cult members going to learn, if his lips are moving, he’s lying? He wasn’t going to touch the existing structure of the WH and now he’s leveling it to the ground. And how dare anyone have the audacity to point that out. And at the exact same time that this happening, he’s suing the DOJ for the fucking “pain and suffering” that supposedly resulted from the Mar-a-Lago search by agents who had a fucking legal warrant. And it’s not as though the search was a total bust. It actually resulted in the discovery of boxes of classified documents piled up in his shitter! And he’s now promising to donate the money to charity? Oh, come the fuck on, you morons! Trump’s ACTUAL CHARITY didn’t even donate the money to charity! If he wins this case (and he will, because look at who’s deciding it) every single person who’s ever been investigated by the DOJ should file a law suit, starting with Hunter Biden. Seriously, where the fuck is this all gonna end???
"When are his brain-dead supporters, enablers and cult members going to learn, if his lips are moving, he’s lying?" Never. I see one particular person, I think he's a comedian but I don't know his name, who does videos debunking MAGA shit. In several of them he's responding to something a Trump supporter has posted where they claim Trump said he was going to do such and such. This guy screams at them, "When are you going to learn that him SAYING he's going to do something IS NOT the same thing as him ACTUALLY doing it?" He says he's going to do lots of stuff, but he never really does.
"‘everyone has to love my vulgar dance hall, and you’re a third-rate poopyhead if you don’t.’"
"and if that dumpster is now full, where is Steve Bannon going to sleep tonight?"
I'm almost in a full blown asthma attack laughing so hard. 😂
Then near tears because of all the shit this fucker has pulled, the destruction of the East Wing is devastating. THANK YOU for another excellent column.
sorry to write about the East Wing for three consecutive days but I am just beside myself with rage over this
You, me and about 75% of the country.
And probably a large percentage of the world. Yes, Jeff, the needle on my rage index has hit the stratosphere. I can't stop crying long enough to leave the house. It must stop.
Glad to know I’m not the only one. I’m sorry you can’t stop crying.
I am completely gutting too.
I'm not crying, now. I'm so beyond tears into MAD AS HELL! Do NOT stop writing about what prompts your brain, Jeff - it means it NEEDS to be told and you are exactly whom WE need to tell it so we can survive this (and let out at least a modicum of our rage at this historical destruction of OUR HOUSE). Some rando magat on Instagram tried to claim I was 'brought onto' Aaron Parnas' feed - I was quite pleased they thought so highly of my comments, LOL. Several magats decided the orange POS was: being 'sarcastic'; being 'funny' but WE 'can't take a joke'! 'Proving' he was a REAL 'king' (ohmigawd) so now I've posted more about him PROVING only that he's full of shit up to his eyeballs. I'm waiting for their screaming. :)
YES, not soon enough....
I feel the same. This is personal for all of us
It feels a lot like how I felt when I saw Jan 6 on TV as it happened. Screaming at the TV "what the fuck is going on!!"
Perfect comparison as well as when the twin towers were struck. That was from outside the US where this and J6 were caused by one hatwful man alone!!
I thought I had myself under control and then I looked at the back of the $20 bill I had in the grocery line and literally welled up. 1/3 of that picture no longer exists.
OMG 😭
Folks, you’re just gonna have to get a grip and become more stoical about these outrages.
Because you can believe that they will keep on coming. He is really going off the rails and is pushing the already stretched thin envelope of things designed to piss us off and drive us crazy. He has no limits anymore and subsequent events will be designed specifically for how much shrill reaction he can get. It’s ‘own the Libs’ on steroids coming just around the bend.
Yet we must not wear our hearts on our sleeves. We should start practicing silence when the next outrage comes. That will drive him crazier than the most erudite rebuttal of the heinous deed of the day, Silence.
Can you just imagine his utter bewilderment !?!
It might cross his wires to the point of a real mental blow out.
Need to try something new I’m thinking 🤔
Ole, I must disagree. Dump demolishing the People’s House, the crown jewel of our seat of government, is the last straw. We have every right to express our outrage, as loudly as we want. Being silent is not an option. I for one will keep bellowing about this, and I know Jeff will too. The felon will not get away with this. It’s obscene.
I won’t back down. As Tom Petty said, you could stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
Right on, sister! 🤝
PERFECT!!!
He has already gotten away with this. The damage is done. What's been torn down could theoretically be repaired at this point, but never replaced.
absolutely, but (as I just wrote) IF we can take away his fucking 'ballroom' funds - somewhere there ARE the original plans and architectural drawings for the White House where it could be replicated IF someone at least saved the historical furnishings. I still suspect his aim is to destroy the entire WH. Let's see if I've had a flash of what my sister used to call my 'witchy thing'- or not. It just hit me yesterday that it could very well have been his entire idea all along - after seeing the Palaces in Qattar and Saudi Arabia, Egypt. He CRAVES their gaudy, gold everything. OUR White House is too 'old, classic' and not palatial enough for this wanna-be king.
Those beautiful Georgian-style paneled wooden doors, pediments, and all the paneling appear to have been made out of American Chestnut. Perhaps it's maple. Any woodworkers on here with thoughts on what it might be? Chestnut was used in high-end interiors because there was a lot of it being milled due to the tragic chestnut blight. Whatever was in the East Wing, it was gorgeous and was probably destroyed,. Instead of being salvaged, was it ripped out and tossed in the dumpsters? It makes me sick!
Denise, of course you are right, so let me rephrase: We the People will hold Dump accountable for this obscenity.
You're right that these obscenities will keep on coming, and we should steel ourselves for them. But I think silence is wrong. The target to attack over this isn't Trump--he's out of his mind and incapable of shame. The ones to attack over this are the Republicans. They're the ones enabling and supporting it, and they're the ones who could end it in a week.
You nailed it, Ellis! Trump is completely demented and uncontrolled/supervised. The Rethuglicans could absolutely stop this, but they’re too busy counting their bags of money I guess.
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It might work if enough people remain silent like when he had his big birthday parade and hardly anyone was there and the soldiers purposely just meander walked not goose stepped like he wanted. That really frosted him.
On one hand, I agree, Ole---it would drive him crazy to be met with utter silence. OTOH, he'd probably keep escalating, doing ever worse things, trying to get a reaction. Not that he won't do that, anyway, to get his rush from our outrage. I don't think there are any good answers, short of....well, you know, someone taking one for the team.
To me, what he's doing is a gut-punch, and in this case, I won’t conceal my grief and horror.
I agree that it's THE plan/plot to TRY to keep us off-balance AND IGNORING THE EPSTEIN FILES while THEY commit even further atrocities, letting him freewheel his wildest toddler-tantrum fantasies, even encouraging him to 'go for it'. He LOVES doing this shit - and yes, we ARE reacting exactly how they want. I like your idea of not giving them the satisfaction but there's a point where it can NOT be seen as acquiescing. The destruction of the White House is one of the latter - have to agree with Punkette on this one. We should SUE HIM for that - especially since it IS 'OUR HOUSE'! MAKE him take every penny of his fucking 'ballroom' money and have it put aside to restore OUR HOUSE once he's removed/gone. That'll satisfy SOME of my rage but of course not all. I want the fucker in Sing Sing (or Rickers) where he belonged after his 34 fucking convictions!
Good point about silence = acquiescence. There IS that to consider.
He also should have been barred from being on the ballot in 2024, but we're in the upside-down and have been for a while now.
RIKERS (not rickers, gad).
I'm both a veteran and a retired Lutheran pastor. I erroneously thought Convict Donnie could do no worse than his atrocious first term as our King....er....I mean President. Including his terrorist mob who stormed and desecrated The Capital Building on January 6, 2021 in order to steal Biden's election as our new President.
To say I was wrong about the abilities of this criminal and traitor would be the understatement of the millennia!!! What he has done and is doing in a mere matter of 9 months is beyond comprehension. What is equally incomprehensible is the complicity of our Congress and The Supreme Court who enable and support this mad monster.
Our Constitution is, frankly, without meaning anymore! As the 5th generation in my family lineage to take The Oath to defend our Constitution from ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, I am both sickened and outraged by pseudo "veterans" and pseudo politicians who have made a joke and mockery of God, oath taking and public service. And to do these horrendous acts proves their sociopath illnesses.
There are no words that can adequately describe what we are witnessing, hence the mental necessity for outrage and dark humor. I think of my father and grandfather and millions of others who gave some or all to defend and save our Democratic Republic from those who would destroy it. Today and every day I am asking with a tear in my eye and my stomach in knots, "For what? Were all those losses and ungodly suffering for liberty, freedom and equality for nothing?"
The only honest answer I can whisper in the face of this nightmare is, unfortunately 😔, "Yes,....God damn it all...yes..."
As a theologian, I am mindful that each and every generation is like the grass of the fields that rise and die each yearly season. Nothing will last forever, including this present cruel and insane madness that is MAGA. Nonetheless, during this present season of evil and injustice, good people of good and grace-filled hearts are required to resist and fight when and where they can so that the holy virtues of love, kindness, empathy, compassion and justice for all creation and humanity will endure these nights for the sake of the children and grandchildren.
Only when justice and love reigns again can we honestly acknowledge those who gave of themselves in the past so that those unknown to them in the future could flourish in peace and abundance. God help us and the world.
About the climate crisis.
I'm not crying, but seething with anger. Easy Jan. That bastards day will come. Empathy and comfort to all my fellow Americans.
What alternate universe is this? It can’t be the America I know so well. But a nightmare !
We must fight and resist this takeover. Call your senators and representatives repeatedly!! Yell that this has to stop!!
You are not alone here. To have the man who is supposed to lead our country wantonly and viciously destroy something that does not belong to him is morally obscene.I also read somewhere that the way this fuck job was started is completely dangerous too to the health of the people who live in DC most notably those is the immediate vicinity.The asbestos, the carcinogens, the dust and debris.The people of DC need to sue this bastard.
Not only did Donny do this without getting any demolition permits or approval to change a historic landmark, he's apparently destroyed the entire wing without salvaging any of the beautiful woodwork, furnishings or historic artifacts it contained. This stuff would be worth a lot to home restorers or salvages. What a vulgar barbarian this moron is.
Donnie Demento showed precisely the same respect for the historic details of the East Wing as he did for the friezes on the Bonwit Teller building, which he razed to make room for Trump Tower in NYC.
He's always been a special kind of asshole, a psychopath who smashes things just to see the looks on our faces. Learned it from his psychopathic father, who smashed up a landmark at Coney Island.
Immigrants are a net positive for the US in so many ways. But we could've done without Trump's ancestors, who've brought us nothing but crime, greed, racism and a powerful urge to avoid making selfless contributions of any kind (Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, skipped out of Bavaria to avoid military service. He later tried to immigrate back but Germany quite sensibly refused him re-entry).
That wasn't 'quite' the whole story of his (I believe he might've been his great?) grandfather - Drumpf). After he failed to make a living here in America he returned to Germany where he went hat in hand to the Kaiser BEGGING him to accept money (a bribe) as an 'apology' to allow him to stay - this after running fleeing the draft when younger. The Kaiser refused not only his money but to allow him to remain in Germany at all, expelling him forever. THAT is the beginning of NO DRUMPFS/trumps ever fighting for ANY Country, and THAT man was the one who later changed his name to 'trump', probably after a card term. donny's name is DRUMPF and John Oliver had the right idea to 'make donald drumpf again'. That same great?grandfather is the one who then opened saloons in this Country catering to miners, cowboys and the like but in the back rooms women were 'available'. HE was the 'founder' of the family wealth. Their treatment of women as trash and expendable runs in this vile family.
[quote follows]
Frederick Trump
American businessman (1869–1918)
Frederick Trump was a German and American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Born and raised in Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to the Yukon and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse. - Wikipedia
Just remember: Wikipedia is written BY individuals who seem to believe everything THEY write, whether or not it's historically accurate.. I've known about his grandpappy for DECADES longer than Wikipedia existed. Zo...I take the above with MORE than a grain of salt. They seem to have vastly cleaned up this individual's actual story - TO help his grandson. Note the 'paternal grandfather of Donald Trump. the 45th and 47th(!!!) president of the United States' - so written recently? WHY would that be? Wonder which of his sycophants penned this?
... if it is true... the "vile" part is ipso facto; the Kaiser/Drumpf scene... ?
ALL we have to do is ask Mary Trump. SHE knows the real story - and might have already talked about it - unsure. She DID mention that not a single one of her Uncle's line has ever served in their respective militaries. HER Dad flew planes if I have the correct one of the brothers in mind, which was a huge sin in the eyes of both his father and the orange POS. I'll ask her next time I log in there.
Or The Smithsonian
Remember his ‘promise’ to a museum about Bonwit Teller
bas relief?
The Smithsonian had its own run-in with El Presidente. It didn't need another one. BTW, NatGeo's August edition on page 101 in a 20-year anniversary of Katrina had a map with "Gulf of America" on the top half of the Caribbean Sea and "Gulf of Mexico" below it and the Yucutan Peninsula. So there is another servile service following orders...
😳 OK, Nat Geo, you just fucked yourself out of millions of sunbscribers.
I hate to cancel because their articles are well done... I take it under advisement. Seems like you can't win without giving something up...
A stop work order from city authorities can put a stop to all this evil. Permits must be submitted, approved and paid for. And what contractor in their right mind would carry this through without proper paperwork? His name and company should be on the demo permits. Maybe someone could check that out.
Could have reconstructed it in the Smithsonian… TIME TO MAKE ALL OF THESE R CONGRESSPPL’S LIVES MISERABLE! LFG‼️
See comment, supra, about the Smithsonian's sellout...
I think we all know Fuck Twaddle would grift it to his dicbesties.
You say it better than I did.
AND sue the GD workers who used those machines and tools to demolish the East Wing. Find out who they are, name them and shame them!!
Go after the contractors. They need permits to do demolition, and they know it.
Put them out of business. They won't get paid as Donnie pays no one but himself. However, go after ACECO, LLC with everything to bankrupt them and jail them. Take enough time that Donnie cannot give them a pardon.
Someone needs to film all vehicles driving in to work at this site, faces too.
License plates!!!
Yes! Good god, we are going to need thousands of new city squares to prosecute The thousands of lemmings doing his bidding of destroying everything!
In addition to ACECO (the demolition company) I read Clark Construction Co will be heading up the ronstruction. Sorry I can't find that cite at the moment.
Absolutely. At the same time RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!
ARREST them. Civil suits are not to the point anymore.
And where is the First Lady office?
Perhaps The emperor’s lungs will collapse from asbestos 🤞
The word sue is just the name of some child in the files.
Beginning to think that the 🇺🇸 has a serious self-esteem problem…🫤⁉️
I like the idea of a lawsuit. Wonder if there's a possibility of a class action over the destruction itself? Probably not, as he replaced the entity governing changes to the building with his own toadies, who gave him full approval....
Just join them as defendants... sue the whole passel of 'em.
Maybe someone versed in the legalities here could fill us in...?
Still looking... stuff keeps getting buried.
Meanwhile, there's this from The Guardian... cited in another site:
"The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
"The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. "
I'd heard about that study and its disappearance. Nothing less than I expected.
Try this as well:
"Get more from THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali in the Substack app
Also, I am going to put this on all the substacks I can find: run, don't walk to the nearest book store and put your money down on Joyce Vance's "Giving Up Is Unforgivable". It is a manual for all Americans who did or, especially, did not go through a meaningful civics course somewhere along the way. Just got it today. She is plain-speaking, a career prosecutor, so she knows how at least the machinery of one of our three branches works and holds forth on her substack, "Civil Discourse".
I still want to know what company is being paid to destroy this part of the WH.
The contractor who committed this crime at Trump's behest needs to do significant prison time.
Just imagine the outrage from the GOP if Biden had touched one fucking doorway on the East Wing. For fucks sake the media would have hammered him for weeks.
The one thing that always gets me boiling is the EPIC HYPOCRISY that these spineless cowards bring to the game.
The destruction of the East Wing to build a monument to billionaires is beyond the pale. We haven't needed a ballroom for 250 years and it's only being built now because fuck you.
Makes me sick.
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But you know, Joe Biden and every “sane” president before him would never have done such a thing. They revered the White House and what it stood for. Don the Con doesn’t give a shit. He respects nothing but himself.
The spineless cowards also blocked passage of Sen. Blumenthal's Insurrection Act Reform for 2025 this week. Can't wait to see what those repercussions will be. 🤬
All that matters is donnie-getting-away-with-it - #5327!!!
+the complicity of the msm
To be fair though, they have built a massive media machine of their own (on the shoulders of RLimbaugh) - while Dems have wandered around turning more…’corporate’? 🤬
To be fair though, over the last 40+ years, Rs have built a massive media machine of their own (on the shoulders of RLimbaugh) - while Dems have wandered around turning more…’corporate’? 🤬
It’s heartbreaking. I’ve been there once many years ago. While we’re gnashing our teeth, Donny’s doing his jerk-off dance in his underwear.
Well, damn...theres a visual. 😂 I HATE HIM!!!
Damn, me, too! I hope I live long enough to see him and his disgusting family pay for this.
To all who say that the Republicans would be outraged if Biden had done any of this, are Democrats reacting in equal measure?
I would never have known how nice the inside of that building was without Jeff’s post today, now I’m heart broken. Teddy’s more rugged and woodsy side is present there. Gold casino-Vegas style just won’t cut it in that spot.
I didn't know how beautiful it was either until I saw that picture.
Same here.
Just the history of who had walked before you was exciting but Trump has no loyalty to anything including historical preservation.
There could have been other solutions - but since this demoralizes 🇺🇸 to the max - can’t help but think how bffVlad is doing yet ANOTHER victory lap… 🎯⁉️
Kay-El that image will never leave my mind!! I will see it in work, when I try to go to sleep and in my nightmares!!
Apologies Cathy. Just remember to point and laugh.
Aw Kay-El…🤢🤢🤢🤮
The only jerk-off he can manage at his age is the mimicry of jerking off. He can no longer handle the real thing, judging by the physical state of his hands - and seeing his ankles, the only remaining part of his body capable swelling with blood
Same. And to answer your question about preserving any of beautiful woodworking and tile. That would have taken time, meticulous planning and attention to detail. Donnie possesses none of those qualities 🤬
Anyone who is not outraged by this desecration does not understand what it means to be an American.
Its a rage that is shared. Thats why I churned on the Crime stats today, instead of the East Wing Destruction.
Plus, Crime in Chicago and Portland just is not as bad as the asshole Preznit FuckWad believes.
Except for the Portland Jailblazers teaming with LaCosa Nostra to rig NBA games. But we already know both La Cosa Nostra and the NBA were rotten crooked to the core.
So RELEASE THE EPSTEIN PHILES YOU FUCKING PEDOPHILES!!!!
As horrific as this cruel bullying destruction of the East Wing is, and at this point if I see a photo I am filled with rage, the bigger injury is that those evil henchmen and minions of this regime are beavering away trying to make sure that our votes do not count. Voting is so boring, too many don't bother--not to mention the purity ponies who flounce off if they don't get exactly what they want. Every election going forward, we should SHOW UP AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. We can't count on anyone but ourselves.
My family already voted YES on Proposition 50 (that's three votes.)
2 more here! Yayyy 🥳
Wish y’all could cast one for me, too. I’m stuck here in Texas where my votes don’t count.
"Beside myself with rage”—as well you should be.
we ALL are Jeff.
MAGA has no problem with destroying our history and our country for Trump.
I wish I could understand what the holy fuck was wrong with them...But I can not.
ALAS.
For reference, see DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition.
Anyone who isn't beside themselves with rage is Donnie Demento.
where are the Republicans?
Ask Liz Cheney what happens to Republicans who stand up to Nero. They’re nothing more than concentration camp guards who were “ just doing their jobs.”
Coincidentally, just yesterday, Thom Hartmann said he would support Liz Cheney for Speaker of the House (who doesn't need to be a member of Congress). Whoa!
Hell no. Let’s learn our lessons! I respect that she is doing the right thing but she is a right winger!! Speaker…No no no!
I'm with you. Stopped clock syndrome.
Swallwell said there are about 100 who have had enough…well? We don’t need nearly that many to jump ship. Then the massive round up would begin.
They're starting to hear from their constituents about the ACA premium increases.
Marge is a bellwether.
And still a bellend.
If Congress ever reconvenes, which I’m guessing will never happen.
Probably off on another luxury vacation retreat, sponsored by their owners.
Cowering behind closed doors.
I don't know where they are but the MAGA Democrats are voting for rogue judges.
Every single day since January, like a ticker tape message running across an electronic billboard in Times Square, the phrase "HOW IS THIS NOT ACTIONABLE?" plays across my mind, endlessly. And it applies to every thing this asshole does. But the destruction of part of the White House? A new low. Even for this shitstain.
The next low will be the first concentration camp, no kitchens.
He should be forced to restore it back to its original condition, brick by brick.
First stop the destruction. Then let Trump AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE see that Monument to Revenge every day for 4 more years...as a reminder of what America voted for! No ballroom. Just a war zone.
And how do we “stop the destruction”?
Fuck no, I don't want him anywhere near a reconstruction project.
He needs to be in prison, or dead from cankles.
The next president, after the Smokey-Eyed Sociopath (because we all know Canks isn't going to finish out his term) should run on tearing down Donnie's Versailles and restoring the People's House.
Yes, but if they must keep the ballroom, rename it in honor of Obama and Biden.
Restore the East Wing--at his own expense.
Yes, it might take $230 million.
Now it's $300 million! Oh, I get it; the same amount as he's trying to steal from us. Aaaaaarrrggghhhhhh!
Well he did say he would "give it charity". Maybe we can quickly apply for the WH to be a 501 (c), non-profit status.
Can you write about the bunker under the East Wing? This post is very interesting https://www.facebook.com/share/1Dyw1Hef15/?mibextid=wwXIfr
OK, so....if the report you cite is accurate, Johanna, then the godawful ballroom is a cover for a new bunker. What this means is that "someone" is making big plans. Say, Miller, Vought, and J Divan. They sold mango man on the dream fantasy of a 90,000sf golden monstrosity and gave him a drawing, so he'd sit in his corner and drool over it. Meanwhile, they're carrying out whatever plot they've hatched. Yikes!
That is something they could have done without destroying a historic building's wing. I'm sorry, it sounds like an incredibly stupid conspiracy theory. So it must be true if this regime is doing it.
I was watching another podcast and they noted that the "Ballroom" picture trump keeps showing could easily been created by a kid using AI, so why is he not showing the architectural plans? And where is the evidence they saved the artwork and any historical built-in features, etc? It's crazy it was simply bulldozed and not carefully step by step taken down. The picture he shows is also a pretty close copy of the German Guy's Ballroom built over the German Guy's bunker. Much like the Arch he wants to build as another monument to himself.
Yes, they might possibly have renovated/extended/fortified the bunker without tearing down the East Wing (not a builder, so don't know). But it's certainly a lot easier to do now, AND they couldn't have done it secretly before. Now, they can make any modifications they want, and who will know the difference?
Yes, I heard that yesterday.
Can you not link directly to X? How about linking to cancel X to get to the same?
We all are. This can't be a 1 day story. I cried when I saw it happening. This motherfucker will never ever be held accountable. It's all too much.
It’s horrible and the responses to your post on Xitter make me wonder why you even bother posting anything to that platform. It’s dead and just a graveyard for crazed magats.
The only time I go on there anymore is when I follow one of your post links.
Threads and Bluesky are much better and are becoming more widely used. That brings the magats but at least their numbers a proportional.
And now the Whitehouse has put their official social media identity on Bluesky, along with all the other gov't accounts... for the sole purpose of trolling liberals and attracting MAGA trash to the platform.
BlueSky should remove convicted criminals and Constitution violators from the site!
I blocked them just to add to the tallying of still being the most blocked site, that along with Vance's. It's the little things bringing me joy now.......
Too bad all their followers can't be blocked with that same swipe.
The lack of any actual thought or respect for the foundations of this country is appalling and infuriating. Despite the calls for coming together, I cannot countenance arrogant and clueless MAGA fucks. I am still not sure how to deal with magat relatives but at least they live far away and I don’t have to talk to them much. But damn, I am so done with offering any respect or time to discuss issues.
As a 7th generation Washingtonian I can barely breathe while reading this. 😩😤🫣
It is totally disgusting.
This tacky rube, this monstrous offense to good manners and good taste.
This total affront to decent humanity.
Let’s ask Judge Roberts what he thinks about this. That bastard gave Trump permission to do this and all the rest!
Demolishing the People’s House without permission should not be an “official presidential duty.” Grrrr 😖
One side came over with the original crazies to Plymouth Rock. Then they moved slowly south. The other side came from Ireland later in the early 1800s and came to Maryland and DC. That’s as close as I can get at the moment. My son was born at Georgetown U Hospital as was my father. (Different locations)
that's cool. one part of Ms. Spouse's family has been in the US since the 1600s. another part has been here since they crossed the Bering Land Strait ten thousand years ago
me, I'm the spawn of Jews from the Bronx
I’m a 2nd gen American, family goes way back to the 20th century..😄
Then you come from good stock. That’s what the old people used to say. 😆 Now I’m the old people.
Any US resident who is not Native American is an immigrant , either " legal " or I guess illegal .
lol
The real destructive crazies came after the Plymouth Rock guys. They were for the King and against Native Americans. Look it up. Good Boston religious nuts.
My mother's family were Quakers. They were more friendly with the natives.
My family landed at Plymouth in 1633. They never got south of PA, except on my mother's side, some of whom moved south to NC (that would be you, JD Vance.)
I have ancestors who arrived in Massachusetts in 1635, and then went on to join others in forming Stratford, Connecticut. (Hate the word "settiled.") One branch of the family also settled in North Carolina; it was after the Civil War. I will check info compiled by a relative years ago - hope to NOT find that one name..
You won't. I think they moved out of NC and into SC and finally into Kentucky. That's interesting about Connecticut. Both my father's ancestors, the Coles (1633) and the Wetmores (1636) landed in Plymouth. The Wetmores moved to Connecticut in 1636 and started Middletown. Some of them even moved to Canada after the Revolution!
Thank you for extra details. My Connecticut ancestors were the Beardsleys starting with William Beardsley (1605-1661), and I think they mostly settled in Connecticut with a few straying to upper regions of New York state. In the 1950s one of my mother’s cousins in NC moved with her husband to Ontario, Canada (last name Connell). The ancestor who moved to NC after the Civil War, Grant Beardsley, had only one male child who did not live to adulthood, and the other nine children were female, so these family members are not easily traced by the last name Beardsley. A few of my mother’s cousins compiled everything they knew from both family papers and public documents (some even researched in England) into a self published book that they distributed among family members in the mid 1990s, which was too early for online research available today. My information comes from their book. Perhaps our ancestors crossed paths occasionally while in early New England settlements. Thank you for the reply!
I just got a bunch (that's a highly technical term) of family papers from my brother which include some possible dubious history which I will comb though looking for Beardsley. Take care!
Well the Irish were always looking for work and freedom from the hatred of the pilgrims and their religion. Apparently the Protestants were not as radical as the northern ones and got the hell out of dodge. So south they went.
JR, when did your ancestor come to Washington and why did they go there? My parents moved to Washington DC in 1948, and I was born there.
I worked in a historic (private, not government) building. It was built in 1917 and had stained glass, oak paneling, fancy floors, lots of interesting fixtures.
It was sold and renovated into condos or something but you know what? They carefully removed the paneling, carefully removed the wrought iron and fixtures, carefully removed the stained glass and the 12-foot bookcases and THEY FUCKING SAVED THOSE PRICELESS ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS.
Some were sold, some were repurposed and some were used in a small exhibit about the building. They weren't bulldozed and thrown into dumpsters.
What kind of a third-rate contractor would even TAKE this job? Who wants to be known as the company that demolished the White House? They need to be named and shamed. I don't care if they are just a "businessperson trying to make a living," anyone who cuts down 200 year old trees and bulldozes public property needs to be publicly held accountable.
Veronica..that’s a good question and one I thought about too. Who are the asswipes doing this destruction! No Congressional approval = illegal. I’d say arrest them but the police and military are mostly MAGA apparently.
ACECO LLC
Thank you. Imagine what utter lowlife they are. Probably a russian money-laundering front, too.
Putin must be laughing his ass off. His cowed, subordinate, useful-idiot stooge is literally tearing down the White House.
https://acecoworld.com/
Check their website. Methinks they're a bit overwhelmed by the attention they've been getting since yesterday.
“This site is under construction.” There’s irony for you.
No sh*t! That's the defining characteristic of this regime, contradiction. Irony is not dead, but any humor in it sure is.
Are you kidding? "ACECO. Defining Demolition. This sight is under construction." Was it demolished?
It was probably only established a few days ago. You know proper bidding didn’t happen for this work.
They need to be sued out of existence!!!!
Probably somehow linked back to Trump. He’ll end up making money off the destruction of a national monument.
Indeed! And if the contractor is found in violation of who knows how many codes, guess who will absolve himself of all responsibility!?
ACECO LLC.
I would like to know how this company got the contract and the timeline and signage in secrecy. Pressure to boycott this company is in order.
You got it. t is/was a third rate contractor. I wouldn't live in one of his pos buildings if you paid me.
Excellent point, the reason the felon & his cronies are getting are getting away with all this is no one is accepting responsibility. Everyone that is involved is responsible for everything they do. MOST OF US take responsibility for our actions & they damn well must be made to.
I'm still stunned at the constant 24x7 gaslighting of the entire fucking country, and our allies. This has got to be the most nakedly dishonest regime of all time. I can't call it an "administration" because they couldn't administer a pub raffle.
...actually, make that "former allies" because none of them trust us anymore. And for good reason.
REGIME has an accurate ring to it
Just a campaign & rampage of force, no "governing" & sure AF no understanding of leadership or governing by consent.
Once we remember that Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks), that explains why the pricktator can do all this without accountability.
Oh yeah if any valuable or historic artifacts in the East Wing have been saved, they've been squirreled away in the pricktator's private collection, almost assuredly. He's the world's most malevolent bowerbird.
Also doubleplus good for the Pentagon to have its own captive state media. This is fine!
"World's most malevolent bowerbird" is...Algonquin Round Table wirthy.
We must henceforth openly identify all news out of Hegseth’s ignorant press corps so only the ignorant will continue to be bamboozled.
For some reason, this made me even more depressed. It is a historical house that belonged to the American people. Trump is a typical developer who trashes old to build a lifeless, tacky new building. Such a metaphor for what he is doing to our country. Crassness, tackiness and grift.
He's not a typical developer--I mean, not that developers aren't greedy, grasping trashers....but Donnie Demento is doing this to punish the American people. This is the follow-up to the video of him shitting on us Americans. The point is the cruelty and to show us how unstoppable he is.
True but I live in NYC and have seen his buildings. They are all boring phallic symbols.
Joyce: I know several developers who did not follow suit - they erected tasteful buildings because they were not sadistic bullies with major pathologies
Me too. Looking at that one interior photo and thinking of all those beautiful and likely priceless raw materials being destroyed is just too much to bear. We don't even need to be bombed since the mad king will just destroy everything for the outer enemies.
Recall about a month ago someone was throwing things out of the windows of the White House -- https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=things+flying+out+of+window+in+the+east+wing+of+the+white+house&mid=FC3877D274E2537D740EFC3877D274E2537D740E&mmscn=stvo&FORM=VIRE
Of course, T💩p said it was fake news.
Oh, so many, many people told me that it was just normal for that to happen. That there was absolutely nothing, NOTHING unusual for stuff to be thrown out the window of an historic building and onto the roof below. Just a little remodeling!
LDFF’s bro buddy Putin has people mysteriously “fall” out of windows…like accidentally on purpose?!
I have one word for you and all of the righteously outraged: Dresden. The cathedral and many of the surrounding neighborhoods were reduced to dust in the Allied bombing. Today, the perfectly restored cathedral is a beautiful monument to human creativity, persistence and cooperation. I was there last summer. It moved me to tears. No matter what this sadistic tyrant tears down, we can get back. It is a metaphor, one we can win.
It is a perfect metaphor.
Don't be surprised if the whole damn building goes into the dumpster. Donny is absolutely reveling in the destruction, in our anguish. Mary Trump is clear about this: Donny is Donny. His pattern is to break the boundaries and if he gets away with it, he'll break more. The fault is squarely on the GOP, who could stop him any time. I predict (or maybe hope) that this will push some MAGAts out of the cult. The images are fundamentally, viscerally disturbing.
I doubt these useless bag of shit Rethuglicans will ever stand up. They are even more disgusting than Trump because they know what he is doing is egregiously wrong and they could at least be a brake on his lawlessness but they’re too cowardly to act. Mary Trump knows her uncle better than anyone and she is spot on with her observation that he preys on weakness even though he is the weakest of all of them.
Mary Trump is the bravest woman on earth.
If I was a reporter and this dickless wonder called me a "third-rate reporter" I would have replied "you're a lying sack of shit". And I probably would've gotten a standing ovation as I was escorted out.
Any reporters out there brave enough? C'mon, ONE of them with access must be brave enough. And it's not as if losing access to trump's "press conferences" (ha,ha!) is any loss. Think of what needs reporting, make up an outrageous lie about it which shows trump is wonderful - and there you have it! What he said!
Jim Acosta would have been-----but he is long long long gone from CNN.
I don't know how any of them are so meek that they won't push back when he calls them "third-rate," "hacks," "terrible," etc. I don't think I could be, even if it meant my job. I would definitely be one of those "And you're a lying sack of shit" types because I get pretty mouthy when I'm insulted.
Raises hand 🙋🏻♀️
I don't even know why he was berating the reporter. He (or she) didn't say he wasn't being transparent. they asked how he would respond to PEOPLE saying he wasn't being transparent. Probably because he can't parse the difference and thought it actually was the reporter who was saying that.
That is just how Donnie is. Question his actions and you're on his shit list.
Suggest that anyone is questioning his actions, and that's enough/
Oh no, you would have been ostracized. Those reporters want to keep the White House gig. It is cushy and great for tales at the Pub and family gatherings
I would’ve told him to keep me out of the story and asked what the hell was wrong with him. That’s probably why I’m not a working journalist any more.
Where is someone-ANYONE-holding him accountable? I’m sick to my stomach watching the damage he is doing to not only the people of the US…but to the White House…and who knows what the hell is next on his deplorable list!
As someone who was raised in Quincy, MA, the birthplace of John Adams, the first occupant of the White House with his wife, Abagail, I am beyond livid. Trump has erased hundreds of years of American history to create a Golden Ballroom! What a travesty!
and why does everything have to be gold with this malevolent asshole?
Because he thinks it symbolizes wealth and sophistication. He can't understand that people with real wealth and sophistication are more prone to understatement. I would go mad in that travesty he has turned the Oval Office into. It's too busy, overcrowded and not at all symmetrical. I prefer simple, minimalist decorating.
Donny Convict Trump just pardoned the founder of Binance who was helping in all sorts of criminal activities. Trump is owned by the crypto community. I don’t think it’s gonna end well for a lot of people.
They may think they own him. He'll screw them as he has everyone is life.
He will never screw Putin. He knows the cost.
Putin has no trouble screwing him
GOOD!
So, I think we have bigger problems than cruelty being the point. I've seen a lot of tinfoil chatter online, maybe ya'll have too, but here are some disturbing things that, when you put them all together, don't look so hot.
Under the East Wing is the bunker that is undergoing major renovation. Likely so he can hunker down and not be moved.
Giving 40 billion to Argentina (the same country that gave safe haven to Nazis after WWII) might be a down payment on a future safe haven.
Venezuela attacks are testing the waters to see how much war stuff he can get away with without anyone saying boo. So far, so good.
Taking away food (SNAP), not seating congressmen and women, redistricting all the red states means laying groundwork for canceling midterms and elections in general and keeping the populace down and submissive.
Putting ICE in the streets is step one in militarizing in case of uprising when all of the above becomes too much and we decide not to hold peaceful marches but really get pissed.
So perhaps it's time to really get pissed before all of the above gets even worse and it's too late.
Well, I can't wait to see what the Orange Menace comes up with tomorrow. He's going to have a hard time topping this shit.
I don't think he will have any trouble at all. He is an uncontrollable sadistic bully. A grotesque of humanity. He has an infinity of unplumbed shit to unleash, and unleash it he will. And the Republican party likes him (most of them) or they are little cowards who are afraid of him. The Republican party is the reason our democracy is dying.
The media has failed us. Miserably.
Maybe no one could show up at karoline's press briefings. Or only one person.
I agree. Ignore that snotty little liar. There are better ways to get the real story.
I will cast my vote for a major cardic infarction in the Oval Bordello, right at the Resolute Desk--and he croaks because the press corps stands by and does nothing, out of habit.
Oh, but that would be too kind. My spouse prays for a stroke that leaves him able to hear but unable to speak. With a drool cup, a la the Monty Python skit.
With Mike Johnson holding the drool bucket.
So many have never seen the drool bucket skit! They’re too young. It’s such a classic.
Thank goodness for “The Googles” as my late father liked to say. Look it up!
My scenario; Trump, suffers a profound loss of speech and his newly created cabinet position, ‘Secretary of Drool Disposal’ nominee, Ron DeSantis, did not receive enough votes to be confirmed. The senate will attempt to confirm Trump’s second choice, Andrew Coumo. Cuomo will be available at all times to empty Trump’s full drool bucket and see that sealed vials of Trump Drool is ready for distribution with 12 hours of first grift ad.
Cost: $199.99
Shipping: overnight only at $50 per vial.
Presentation Display Case: $125
Total: $5000
Send money orders only, made out to Donald Trump or Barron the Weirdo.
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And in constant debilitating pain for 5 years first!
Yes - a brain stem stroke, resulting in Locked-In Syndrome. Able to breathe, able to hear, even able to THINK....but not able to RESPOND.
I'd love to be one of his nurses - I'd put EVERY LEGITIMATE NEWS CHANNEL ON, in rotation, so he could HEAR WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM! Let that rat-fucker stew in his own juices TIL THE DAY HE FINALLY DIES!!
Uncle Hector from Breaking Bad. Able to hear and understand, but only able to angrily ring his little bell in response!
Excellent James, and your wife has great ideas as well.
Of course the cup has to be very insecure and wobbles so much that it spills most of the time, Monty Python, I love them.
No one will ask the question!
Careful what you wish for.
Imagine the worst twilight zone scenario brought to life.
That will be his next move
But aren't we already there? in the Twilight Zone?
James 🎯
He already has - the Trump Triumphal Arch he wants to build opposite the Lincoln Memorial.
Combined with his $230 million self-dealing extortion from DOJ, which not a single Republican has objected to. Party of empty ball sacks. We honestly need to clear the game board and start over.
The next time he gets offended he will start to demo the actual white house. Will anyone speak out? Will congress ever reconvene? Imponderables.
When are his brain-dead supporters, enablers and cult members going to learn, if his lips are moving, he’s lying? He wasn’t going to touch the existing structure of the WH and now he’s leveling it to the ground. And how dare anyone have the audacity to point that out. And at the exact same time that this happening, he’s suing the DOJ for the fucking “pain and suffering” that supposedly resulted from the Mar-a-Lago search by agents who had a fucking legal warrant. And it’s not as though the search was a total bust. It actually resulted in the discovery of boxes of classified documents piled up in his shitter! And he’s now promising to donate the money to charity? Oh, come the fuck on, you morons! Trump’s ACTUAL CHARITY didn’t even donate the money to charity! If he wins this case (and he will, because look at who’s deciding it) every single person who’s ever been investigated by the DOJ should file a law suit, starting with Hunter Biden. Seriously, where the fuck is this all gonna end???
"When are his brain-dead supporters, enablers and cult members going to learn, if his lips are moving, he’s lying?" Never. I see one particular person, I think he's a comedian but I don't know his name, who does videos debunking MAGA shit. In several of them he's responding to something a Trump supporter has posted where they claim Trump said he was going to do such and such. This guy screams at them, "When are you going to learn that him SAYING he's going to do something IS NOT the same thing as him ACTUALLY doing it?" He says he's going to do lots of stuff, but he never really does.
Bonwit Teller v.2
"‘everyone has to love my vulgar dance hall, and you’re a third-rate poopyhead if you don’t.’"
"and if that dumpster is now full, where is Steve Bannon going to sleep tonight?"
I'm almost in a full blown asthma attack laughing so hard. 😂
Then near tears because of all the shit this fucker has pulled, the destruction of the East Wing is devastating. THANK YOU for another excellent column.