drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
I know a guy who did a small edit on this poster. His version: Work Over The Billionaires
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
I know a guy who did a small edit on this poster. His version: Work Over The Billionaires
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
People may be quick to judge that Trump's in Putin's pocket. That Putin constantly snows him. What if they're brothers in arms? Compatable strongmen. One who enjoys absolute power and the other doing all he can to acquire it. Trump may not be Putin's snowee but the one snowing the American people.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Have no time for pondering what may be ailing Trump. Busy watching the White House chimney for the white smoke that announces the president is dead.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Have Chicago police ready with tow trucks to remove illegally parked ICE, FBI, CBP, DEA and National Guard vehicles. Arrest any officers who interfere with Chicago citizens violently and charge with assault under state law. Arrest federal officers who refuse a police demand to identify themselves.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Being an asset would make him female. As a hyper diminished male, he's just an ass.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Was Trump talking about Xi on the Access Hollywood tape when he said "I just start kissing them and they let you. I kiss them and kiss them. I can't stop kissing them. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let do it. They let you do anything..."?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
He thinks of it as showing flexibility.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, and every night he kneels at the side of his bed and prays to God for forgiveness and redemption. When he's finished, he calls his valet to help him into bed.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually, the Vancouverites did the golf course conversion last weekend when the rumor spread that Trump was going to visit the city.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
How many ICE agents does it take to screw over a Chicano?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone who joins you for a free round of golf, Don, has a character deficit. Certainly not a great character. Certainly not a true character. Oh, by true character, you mean Gruden's sense of humor, not his moral foundation. Well, that may be so.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
If Paxton is stupid enough to arrest Beto O'Rourke for holding an oppositional political view, he will learn not to grab a saw-scaled viper by the tail. He may be so delusional he thinks he can invent a crime of convenience but lawyer to lawyer, he can't. The courts will bite him on the nose.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
A key problem that plagues Democrats is they like their image as intellectuals who never played varsity football. The GOP suffers post concussion syndrome but still play smash mouth football. You have to grow strong and beat them on the field. It's easier than bending them to your better arguments.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
That was before his Ivy League intelligence bled from his brain and exited his head through the pores along his cheeks and jaw line disguised as hair.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
The likely consequence when the Tories return to power is they will reward the BBC for their support with drastic cuts to the corporation's budget. Count on it!
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
If the Grim Reaper carried his scythe on the green rather than a golf green flag, he might relieve America of the Great Parasite that plagues the land. The problem with this strategy is the Parasite takes arbitrary 80 foot gimmies and never gets close enough to the Reaper for a merited decapitation.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Hope he has hired counsel. He should have an affirmable claim for damages against the US government for wrongful arrest and detention.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Coach pledged his willingness to give his life to protect the kids on his baseball team from ICE while Trump separated kids from their parents and incarcerated them. He pledged to send them to Guatamala unaccompanied and by abandoning them, condemned them to street life and foraging for food scraps.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would the Nobel Committee ever consider Trump when coach is available and actually protecting people?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Stuart Stevens for Congress.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
One can only hope that Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Ken Martin caught your program this morning.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
It's really hard to tell from this photo if we are looking at the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
One expects that Paxton is counting on heavy acceptance in Texas of corrupt public officials. They have a long standing, comfortable relationship with corruption; otherwise they would never repeatedly pledge their votes to Republicans.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump will never admit it but among his other mental disabilities, he suffers from Ridiculously Handsome Male Syndrome, first diagnosed when Barak Obama was president. He has yet to ask for Gov. Newsom to produce his birth certificate but no matter. He will. Just wait for it.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought he'd actually seen the inside of a lab. Didn't he once kill one as did Noem but opened it up with his pocket knife to have a look inside.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Should there be another pandemic on their watch that leads to a huge but avoidable number of dead, Trump, RFK Jr, and Leavitt, their public apologist should all face charges of gross negligence leading to mass deaths.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
One hopes a savvy counsellor helped this young savant to lock down the benefits of her creation at the patent office.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Right wing zealots will ridicule the idea as, at best, socialism and, at worst, communism.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
... which gives rise to the question, why has no one else tried.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
... because, for most of us, in a couple of generations beyond our death, there will be few remaining who are aware we passed time on this planet, and in a few more generations, there will be none. Not one.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps that and the probability the president is missing the gene that compels one to disciplined planning in order to achieve strategic objectives.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
The severely twisted Luna has again fallen prey to her limited abilities to achieve no good purpose.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
If Melania was a serious player in the Russian war against Ukraine, she'd work Trump to assure Ukraine is once again aided by the US to defend itself. Buttressing a victim of territorial predation can be more noble than promoting a peace that rewards the aggressor's criminal behavior.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, Chuckie. Ever hear of a kid growing up to hate his/her father. Those kids are mostly the offspring of selfish, conservative, me-first parents and the kids will never be cons. Ipso facto, there is no need for community-first progressives to breed their replacements. Cons will do that for us.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone think the only way to save the republic is to purge the evil forces within that are tearing it apart? Just wondering. Who still believes that elections in 2026 and 28 will be fair and impartial? Who still believes after Jan. 6, 2021, the 22nd Amendment S.1 (two term limit)will be upheld?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Is anyone left who's so stupid they still believe Trump's heart is pure? The answer: his approval averages fall between 37% - 48%, not zero. Unfrickin' believable. Some learned he has no soul after his evil NYT ad in 1989 favored summary execution for the Central Park 5. He's not improved with time.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Just hanging out waiting for O'Neil to steadfastly endorse mandatory preventative vaccines like the measles vaccine in order to make Americans healthy again. Maybe he can persuade RFK Jr. to trust the science but... probably not. He probably has something else in mind anyway.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social)
Today Trump signed an EO directing all future federal buildings be designed in the Greek-Roman classical style. The design style known as brutalism is banished. These are Trumpian biases like gold leaf cherubs in the Oval even though Trump Tower is a modernist design, a near cousin of brutalism.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
When I'm elected president in 2028, I will end the Department of War, restore the Department of Defence and appoint the first female Secretary ON DAY ONE. Perhaps an outstanding black or brown senior officer whose mandate will be to restore a DEI hiring and promotion policy and other damage repairs.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
His math may be so weak Trump may believe his guesses are true or accurate with no understanding of what he's saying. Similar to his belief the 2020 election was stolen and that the Russians did not mount a social media campaign to bolster his 2016 campaign or that wind turbines kill whales.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Or better still. Stay and undermine the government agenda clandestinely as an enemy within, a mole. Leak scandal and corrupt practices to the opposition, to Inspectors General, to the media and to a state prosecutor in blue states.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Now that's a woman I'd like to have a conversation with but she's not speaking to me.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone yet been plagued by the demolition or deterioration of essential federal services due to the galactically inept Trump admin and its malicious public policies that are scupted on a slash and burn model? Today's incident report cites 1 1/2 hour delays at Newark Airport due to staff shortages.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
As a fledgling member of the International Cabal of Dictators, Trump is too weak to merit an invitation to the military show of strength in Bejing attended by strongmen like Xi, Kim and Putin. Probably relates to confusing Nat'l Guard assignments as park garbage collectors and secondly, as warriors.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen. Start a movement to repeal the 2nd Amendment and push state laws that restrict gun ownership and strictly regulate manufacture and ownership . Then go get all the illegal guns.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
And the criminal responsible is the same every time we experience a school shooting: it's way too many easily obtained guns and a self-destructive national gun culture permitted by a contemptibly complicit SCOTUS and pitiful legislators.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a creepy image of the Ogles family hearing an intruder in the house at 4:00 am, grabbing their personal automatic weapons to defend the casa, and killing each other in their own undisciplined, impromptu crossfire. And the intruder leaves the house unharmed when the shooting stops.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Who calls Trump the president of Europe? His claim is typical of him. Preposterous claims unsupported by facts. Certainly the vast majority of Europeans don't support his view according to polling. Perhaps Europe's far right wingnuts may say so but few others.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's an idea for Democrat leaders going forward. Restrict political advisor hirings to Republicans and learn how to wage war. And put all of your milquetoast Democrat advisors out to pasture if you want to win big in 26 and again in 28.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
This comic conversation is not satire. It's truth. The two old souls of democracy having a mumbleversation.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
He fights antisemitism the same way he fights urban crime, as a meme. The Discriminated Jew and the Victim of Violent Crime memes. Trump cares nothing for discrimination of Jews or victims of crime. However, the memes are useful for expanding his control over universities and cities, ideas he hates.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Only a fool votes for a candidate for president who speaks the word dictator in the context of his own ambition during an election campaign. Trump gave a clear alert of his intentions and 77 million indifferent Americans disregarded his warning. Now, after just 7 months, he claims monarchial power.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Where does he want to attack? Greenland? Yes? Russia? No. Because bullies and their bullying Departments of War never pick on someone who can fight back.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps Trump only deserves a Nobel Peace Prize when he's sleeping or playing golf because those are the only times during his presidency when he's not causing mayhem, chaos, harm, and destruction or screaming insults or spreading a steady steam of lies.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Clearly Trump and his acolytes are too focused on playing small ball to his detriment. Given the vast reach of his humanitarian and charitable character, hustling the Nobel Committee for a peace prize is wasteful when he deserves no less than a redirected effort to sell the Pope on beatification.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks. The copyright is all yours..
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a typo, isn't it? Should read "personal infection caused by the president".
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump's revised Swift- Kelsey strategy is to flip the coin and be nice to wrangle an invitation to the wedding. Betting his odds against that happening look a lot like the odds against a Nobel Peace Prize.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Today, Trump held a marathon cabinet meeting with just one agenda item: each Cabinet Secretary exaulted the Divine Lord. As the Secretaries elbowed their way up his colon to impress as most obsequious, Trump's serenity said each one found a chair between his duodenum and anus for their performances.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Will this transgression be investigated? The obvious concern is whether Musk ordered it done to give him a strategic path to sensitive data for exclusive private exploitation; espionage-like acquisition of protected personal data he has no legal or moral right to access, control or manipulate.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
The tell that MAGA is on the job is their razor sharp sense of things that really matter. No cosmetic trivialities for them. Like the DoD becoming the Department of War or a corporate decision to change its logo or 4 story flag poles. It's a comfort knowing MAGA's steadfastly standing on that wall.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
When Trump stubbornly refuses to engage militarily with predatory nations like Russia, what's his reason for renaming the DoD as the Dept of War. Given he's deserted a key element of US hegemony, ready to defend the weak, he could better rename the DoD as Dept of Wimps. Still shortens to DoW.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Anti-flag burning ordanances only exist in countries suffering from festering national inferiority complexes. The US has lost its global mojo and Cons desperately need superficial prostheses to prop up lagging national pride. This rather than erasing the cause of their suppressed shame: Trump.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
In 2029, convicted of abuse of office Trump administration apparatchiks will finally serve justice when they are all deported to El Salvador or Uganda.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
When the next Dem president increases the court's roster to 13 justices, it won't matter what Thomas, Alito or the other cons write. If the Senate doesn't have a Dem majority to get nominees confirmed, Project 2025 provides the solution. Take enough GOP senators into custody to shift voting balance.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
To The Hill: How can a prediction be a lie? It's an opinion. Truth or untruth cannot be established before the event actually happens when it reveals its nature. Should I think The Hill was intentional in making a partisan slander or just being prissily self-righteous?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
If the pejorative obsessed Trump feels comfortable slagging Chris Christie and Gov. J.B. Pritzker as slobs, one must ask if given his super shaped ego and his absence of self awareness, does he imagine himself with the physique of Michelangelo's David. The rest of us see him as he is, an obese slob.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
"... anonymous federal agents (many of whom are former members, or continue as members of extreme right wing civilian militias) who are violently attacking people on the street..." ICE is seen as and behaves as Trump's personal army.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Now this is very funny. Word has it Trump is so jealous he has hired a Broadway choreographer to teach him these moves so he can insert them into his rally platform schtick. Next expect him to market a red MAGA shower cap.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
American heros!
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Please advise if the IRS is considering the cancellation of mail in tax returns.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Where else would a citizen arbitrarily lose their 1st Amendment rights by police fiat but in a government chamber where public debate and legislative decisions are taken? Only in the tyrannical Trump's despotic America.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
You sure they didn't just miss the pick up van that returns them to the station house at end of shift.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
The surprise here is that Trump is not pushing for his own induction into the MLB Hall of Fame... yet. The strategy seems to be to get the other unworthies in and perhaps he'll have a chance. Right. About as much chance of receiving a Nobel Peace Prize.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Nor should Oval executive order signings be milked for PR value in the presence of the WH media. Moments where he's backed up by cabinet acolytes who applaud or laugh on cue. Moments where Trump's riffs are stream of consciousness ramblings of past grievances, false data and mendacious claims.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Top. An image of an American citizen or a foreign national lawfully residing in America as they appear today. Bottom. An image of that same person in 3 years time spent in the ICE detention system or worse yet, in a foreign detention facility known for physical, sexual and emotional abuses.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Salute the true heros of San Diego. A pox on the House of ICE.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
This is one of those times when the community would be justified to rise up and intervene to drive the ICE thugs off by using disproportionately greater force.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Resist, Hakeem. Actually resist. Lead the people of Washington into the streets and peacefully surround and box in the National Guard to neutralize them. Take away their mobility with many more people than they can manage.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social)
Watching the video coverage of Medvedev in the midst of a temper tantrum, a complete collapse of any anger management firewalls he may have built over time, when he repeatedly bashed the bejesus out of his racquet. Such lack of self control makes one afraid for his wife or girlfriend if he has one.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only that but it will need to be repainted in a year or two at an inflated cost.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
One imagines tragic incidents are inevitable and the coverup will be eggregious. One expects worse from ICE. Greater discipline prevails in the National Guard than one sees from ICE. A hopeful factor.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Some noteworthy similarities between Trump and George lll. Both had German anticedents. Both lived lives rife with conflict. Both suffered from mental conditions that affected their behavior. A key difference. George ended slavery long before the US. One imagines Trump would like it back.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Doe Vance mean like Lee's unconditional surrender at Appamattox or Germany's WWll unconditional surrender at Reims in 1945 or the unconditional surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri in 1945? Vance presents as an illiterate history revisionist in his attempts to defend Trump's pernicious policies.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
In 1991 in the August Coup attempt against the lawful Gorbechev government in Russia, the citizens of Moscow and St. Petersberg barricaded in the central town squares and faced down armed military and tanks. Their heroism is a model for America to resist Trump's hostile actions to control US cities.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
The GOP has held majority control of the House of Representatives in 6 of the last 8 Congresses so Vance's claim that they are only "trying to make the situation a little bit more fair" is patently false. But we expect nothing better from the abusive, blatently mendacious Trump administration.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe many ICE agents are actually former or current Proud Boys.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Police acts that induce public mistrust will be investgated in the next administration and police officers who've sanctioned or abused standards and of good policing will be disciplined. Harrassment of peaceful citizens is high on the list of unacceptable practices. Come on, Dems, put it out there.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump has so much on his plate - things that really matter - that the damn presidency keeps getting in his way and slowing him down. Damn presidency!
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
How long has the Israeli judiciary tolerated the criminal charges against Netanyahu to remain unlitigated? Justice delayed and all that...
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
A compilation of things J. D. Vance doesn't know about the academically acknowledged history of the US and the world will be a 3 volume set. He speaks, and perhaps thinks like a graduate of PragerU.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
One trusts that when the WH is returned to guardians who bring strong principles, sound judgement and commitment to the Constitution and rule of law, the ruthless ichonoclasts who now hold power will, once SCOTIS is reformed, all be brought to justice for abuse of power and crimes against humanity.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Would the passenger list for Epstein's jet not qualify as a list of offenders, subject to additions from other sources?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social)
Can anyone explain why deportations to 3rd country destinations, particularly countries like El Salvador and Uganda where the rule of law and civil rights are not upheld, are not barred by the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
If the appeal court's ratify Habba's dusqualification from holding office as US Attorney in New Jersey from July 1 forward, will Habba be required to repay her unlawful salary from that date onward?
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Listened to your editorial today leading to interview with Robert Reich. Proud you're a smart Canadian. Please write the book that sets out your ideas for fixing and restructuring the US economy (and Canada too) to dress Americans with greater prosperity. Co-authored with Reich perhaps? I'll buy it.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
Gotta hand it to Governor Newsom. He's proving that ridicule is the purest form of mockery.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as an outrageously political court system underwrites Trump's questionable behaviors, he will keep on pushing the envelope. It's the by-product of his narcissism. He craves absolute control and will exploit his purloined powers because he can and no one steps up to stop him.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
It's become clear that when pushing back on principle faces off against job security, however fragile, security most often wins.
drc98.bsky.social (@drc98.bsky.social) reply parent
How many contracts has Junior been awarded by the Pentagon? Just a matter of time before that story breaks following a Hegseth visit to Mar-a-lago.