I thought about them, but they were pushing back against Trump for a while. Massie was more of a MAGA true-believer. And his doggedness in pursuing this, his join-up with Khanna and his nagging other Republicans to sign on set him apart for me.
The gravest threat to our country today is the FACT that our president, Donald J. Trump, has dementia. He'll never get better. He WILL get worse. And the question of what happens next becomes more pressing every day. Why isn't everyone talking about that?
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I thought about them, but they were pushing back against Trump for a while. Massie was more of a MAGA true-believer. And his doggedness in pursuing this, his join-up with Khanna and his nagging other Republicans to sign on set him apart for me.
I wonder what happened to the flyover. Did the pilots refuse?
Really! How long since any Republican has broken party unity on an issue raised by Democrats?
Who keeps cheering while survivors are speaking? Doesn’t seem an appropriate response to what’s being said.
Excuse me: DISCHARGE petition. Not multitasking very well rn.
Damn. She signed onto the disclosure petition. As did Marjorie Taylor Greene. And Lauren Boebert. I take back what I posted about Nancy Mace. She's doing it. Now, can we find TWO more Republicans to stand up with them?
Damn—Massie is 🔥 We're watching the first Republican to break with the party on a critical issue, affecting their president, since the 1990s. And there's MTG, looking uncharacteristically subdued. Is she a survivor, too?
Okay, a little confusing: Apparently what started around 10 was a pre-press conference event. Watching actual PC now. Thank you, USA TODAY, for letting us know ahead of time that you were carrying BOTH, LIVE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
"Strength sounds like my voice." Thank you for trusting me with yours. 💐
The Epstein-Maxwell presser started early—probably because of Trump's military flyover at 11. WATCH NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
AGH! They started early! Watch NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
Watch here—and reward USA TODAY for being the only MSM I could find actively promoting its live coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
... IN CONGRESS. Be one of the six Republicans who join Democrats in demanding full release of all the Epstein-Maxwell files! Or use your time and power to keep fighting to stop trans women from using Women's rest rooms. Your choice.
What a Republican experiencing Sudden Empathy for Victims looks like. "I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS." Hey Nancy: YOU could fight for the Epstein-Maxwell survivors. YOU'RE ...
Watch the presser here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
And I can't wait to watch MAGA come unglued. They pulled him back from the abyss this time. But the trajectory is downward. The day is coming when no kind or quantity of drugs can produce a reasonable facsimile of life. I can't wait. 🍿 🥂🍾
30 MINUTES PEOPLE. Watch the Epstein-Maxwell presser on USA TODAY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB... (BTW, if you feel you must turn off Reply AND Quote Repost, the internet may not be for you.)
Exactly this
*kof* DOT-COM BUST *kof* Eventually, cooler heads figured out how to make the Internet essential to everyday life. But in the beginning, just having a dot-com attracted investors like coke to Donald Jr.
45 minutes from now: www.youtube.com/live/xUvBDBb...
😱😱😱😱😱 HOLD IT BY THE EDGES!!!!
Found one! www.youtube.com/live/xUvBDBb...
Found one! www.youtube.com/live/xUvBDBb...
Okay, finally found one actively promoting its live coverage: USA TODAY. www.youtube.com/live/xUvBDBb...
“Graham Platner … represents a new pugilistic approach to Democratic politics.” I guess that seems new to younger voters, but when I was a kid half the Democrats I knew talked like Graham.
The only MSM outlet I could find actively promoting its live coverage of the presser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
The only MSM outlet I could find proactively promoting live coverage of the Epstein-Maxwell survivors' press conference. IDK WTF is up with the other cowards—if they banded together, as Epstein-Maxwell's survivors have, they could take anything Trump throws at them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
I was a young reporter in the 1980s, seeing stories of people being disappeared in Central America. Never once did it cross my mind that it could happen here. And yet ... 😑
The only MSM outlet I could find proactively promoting live coverage of the Epstein-Maxwell survivors' press conference. IDK WTF is up with the other cowards—if they banded together, as Epstein-Maxwell's survivors have, they could take anything Trump throws at them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
... because the only thing funnier than your memory of luring a 95-lb 17 y.o. to your FWB's house so he can rape her is denying you have any such memory. Epstein-Maxwell survivors press conference TODAY AT 10:30. And if anyone knows where we can watch it, please Reply with that information.
Still having a hard time finding media outlets admitting they will carry the Epstein-Maxwell victims press conference TODAY. In TWO HOURS. WTF, MSM? Are you collectively too scared to promote an event of grave national importance; and it's about sex = ratings gold? REALLY?
Don't forget: Epstein survivors press conference today, 10:30! bsky.app/profile/jaso...
Sadly underrated post. 🏆🥇👏👏👏
This will not sit well with the Nobel Peace Prize committee ...
I heard myself say this to a young woman who was distraught because her girlfriend broke up with her, leaving her homeless. Nothing lasts forever—bad times as well as good. I didn't even know I knew that. But I knew it was true. Maybe we all know it, and just need a reminder now and then.
Recap: 2021: Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions hike prices in consumer products 2023: Retailers continue to raise prices knowing consumers will blame Biden 2024: Trump blames Biden for continued inflation; is elected 2025: Under Trump tariffs, retailers forced to continue raising prices
It would be sort of wonderful if there were a way to shed some light on this before 2028. MAGA forgive rape of women, maybe even of girls, but consensual sex between men? That may be way outside their comfort zone.
It can take a while to make sure the pharmaceutical cocktail is just right.
Oh look. Senator Cassidy suddenly remembered that he's a doctor and debunked anti-science hooha from a man he voted to run US healthcare a couple months ago.
"He’s also known for messing around with other secretly gay men in southern Ohio."
Same. Never saw a guy with negative charisma before. JD's habitual expression is a pout; he exudes resentment. MAGA will sink back into apathy while the rest of us watch the really ambitious Republicans stuff JD in a locker.
Go 'way.
Beyond pathetic.
Tune in WHERE, George? Does anyone know?
So do YOU guys know where the rest of us can watch tomorrow’s presser? I keep asking people who should know and … silence.
CONGRESS IS BACK, BABY! Just in time for tomorrow’s press conference with Epstein survivors! Nope. We haven’t forgotten, Mikey. RELEASE THE WHOLE EPSTEIN FILES, CHICKEN SHIT!
Dear Politico, Strokes can cause major brain damage in a very short time, turning a loquacious dementia patient into a silent semi-vegetable in a matter of seconds. Trump didn't speak for three hours. But even if he had, a stroke could've easily rendered him non-verbal by morning the next day.
Trump didn't speak for three hours. The meeting was three hours long—because every member of the cabinet had to extol his imaginary virtues at length. How long did Trump himself speak—and, as you say, did anything he say make any sense?
Reminder:
Reminder: “Gilead doesn’t care about kids. Gilead cares about power. Faithfulness, old-time values, homemade bread—that’s just the means to the end. It’s distraction and window dressing.” —Commander Lawrence, The Handmaid's Tale
Why do the normal people in this photo look so freaked out?
That shit’s contagious af. Most people don’t know that.
Long before the internet and cat videos:
I’m sorry if I sounded heartless. Food insecurity is a hellish way to go through childhood.
Almost!
I shot this straight into my veins and immediately felt better. Finally, somebody said (almost) All The Things about Bernie. Couldn't settle on which quotes to pull, so here's the TL:dr. Really, go read the whole thing. Then let's talk about talking to MAGA. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/bernies-wo...
I have two brothers and a sister who work(ed) in restaurants. And I worked at McD's for a while. Kitchen crews are ALWAYS hungry—and inventive.
The phrase "At death's door" springs effortlessly to mind. I know: Wishful thinking. But he's 79, has chronic venous insufficiency (*kof* congestive heart failure *kof*), late-stage dementia and a history of drug abuse, shitty diet, unsafe sex and sleep deprivation. Which takes him out, and when?
Soggy hashbrowns and all? 😱 😱 😱
Again: No taking questions from the media? Since when has Trump resisted an opportunity to vamp in front of cameras while shooting his mouth off about something he knows nothing about?
Any idea where he was going? There are no public events on his schedule today—a holiday!—you'd think he'd at least give lip service to The Great American Worker before hitting the links.
The gaping mouth can also be a sign of the breathing problems that go with congestive heart failure. Another sign is "tripod position." He never sat up straight, but his habitual slouch is getting worse. He also tripods at his desk and podiums. Below: Cleveland Clinic; Trump with Putin in Alaska.
... so the tech bros' philosopher king is unacquainted with Google?
Huh. And so far I've seen no Labor Day "Truth." Worn out from that vigorous 18 holes he played the other day?
I was thinking: If Trump were as healthy as they keep insisting, and they wanted to dispel the rumors, he'd've taken media questions at the WH before getting in the Beast; taken more questions at the club and invited the media to watch him tee off at the first hole. None of that happened. Why not?
Maybe because The Wizard of Oz was shown on tv every year and Mom made sure we watched it, I can’t help imagining that when assholes like Trump and Putin die, those around them will be like the Wicked Witch’s guards: Just 💯 glad the sumbitch is dead.
Honestly, modern air travel seems designed for that result.
They DO scream. And guess what! REPUBLICANS HAVE BLOCKED EVERY DEMOCRATIC ATTEMPT TO BRING RATIONAL GUN BILLS TO THE VOTE—let alone vote for them! Stop shitting on Democrats for Republican problems!
Around here, they hang themselves. In the barn. Right after selling the equipment for, again, pennies on the dollar.
Pointer. A Vizsla is a Hungarian pointer. But they have an excellent sense of smell, as anyone who's ever tried to sneak past one with a treat in their pocket can tell you.
"OMG! IT'S A ROCK!! *** BUT IT'S ALIVE!!!! ***"
Not in my neck of the States, which is where I was thinking of. But you're right. And myriad other native foodstuffs, none of them Southern BBQ or macaroni and cheese.
Alexander Hamilton (b. West Indies island of Nevis) has entered the chat.
Oh FFS, who cares about the wishful thinking of daft, insipid Trump ass kissers?
They voted Trump in 2016. He cut off the Chinese market for soybeans in 2018. He bought their votes in 2020 by sending them checks, courtesy of you and me. They voted Trump again in 2024. I don't think he'll send checks this time—he's checked out, and no one else in that administration cares.
They voted Trump in 2016. He cut off the Chinese market for soybeans in 2018. And they voted for him again in 2020 and 2024. In 2018 he bought their votes by sending them checks, courtesy of you and me. I don't think he'll send checks this time—he's checked out, and no one else cares.
When my daughter was 12 and my MIL was driving her somewhere, a car cut them off and my sweet child said: "DO YOU WANT ME TO GIVE THEM THE FINGER, GRANDMA?" I laughed like hell when my MIL told me about it, and only later wondered if I was supposed to scold my kid, instead.
So ... in fact, the only actual American food would be venison, rabbit, turkey, corn, beans, squash and every fish that swims, fresh-water and salt-.
I think those photos were taken in late July. That's when they reportedly golfed together. Except for this "Truth," there's no mention of Gruden golfing with him the other day.
I think I'm going to cry ...
In Kitchen Confidential he wrote that people were afraid to cook for him because they didn't know how much he loved meatloaf. 😋 I miss him. 😔
I'm thinking the origin story is that a kitchen worker didn't get a meal break over a 10-hour shift. When they finally closed he piled all the leftovers he could find onto one plate. And all the waitresses went "EEEWWWW!" but the male cookies watched him eat it with intense interest ...
When I see something that looks like that in my mare's stall, I start watching her for other signs of colic. 😳
3 ... starve yourself to death?" I asked. She gave me a familiar, none-of-your-business look. I asked if she wanted to stop going to the hospital and she said yes. "Even if you die?" Yes. I signed the papers. Took her back to the facility. A week later she was gone. I was so happy for her. 🥲
2 ... lake and not come back. Mom was afraid of water. She stopped eating and starting falling, and the memory care facility kept sending her to the hospital. In the ER I asked for a sandwich for her. She refused to eat it: "I don't want that shit." (Mom didn't swear.) "Are you trying to ...
Honestly, Mom was more than ready to go. She was so proud of her good mind. The saddest day of my life was when she fully grasped the diagnosis—Alzheimers—and cried. But only once. She was brave and funny about it until two months before her death, when she expressed a desire to walk into the ...
Might take a month or two more, but I watched my mom and in-laws* as they approached the end and this is what it looks like: They go steadily downhill, then you're sitting by the bed putting cool washcloths on a feverish forehead ... then it's over. *My dad was gone w/in hours of a massive stroke.
2 … comfortable; always kept me on the right path. - Don’t assume that if you see through some AI bullshit, everybody else can too. Remember: by 2024, 77 million voters still couldn’t see that Donald Trump is a liar and con man. If you see him or his people setting up a scam, SAY SO, loud & clear.
As AI becomes increasingly good at aping reality, two thoughts: - Be grateful if you were raised to hold sacred a short set of principles; they will be your North Star when sorting facts from AI fictions. My top principles: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the … open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
If you followed me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been predicting that Trump would soon become nonverbal since last summer. We may be there now. When my mom, another champion talker who also had dementia, went silent, she had two months left. Anyway: open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
But this time he has the help of Donald Trump, who only has late-stage dementia layered over malignant narcissism layered over stunning levels of stupidity and ignorance!
Okay, here's how to watch the Khanna/Massie press conference with Epstein survivors Wednesday, September 3 at 10:30 am ⬇️
lol
I like the horror-at-sea* genre: * IS there a horror-at-sea genre? If not, there should be.
A very sensible policy.
2 ... intel in the Middle East without Mossad." You seriously think no one thought of this? You think Biden wouldn't have done it if it were at all practical? For god's sake, learn some history about that part of the world before shooting your mouth off and embarrassing yourself in public again.
And Bibi says "Fuck you. We're a sovereign nation. I'm a dictator and also a criminal. If I don't do this I'm going to prison, and that ain't happening. "So fuck off. Good luck explaining to your military industrial complex plus your millions of pro-Israel voters AND donors, and also getting ...