Of course they're trying to disenfranchise students; the more educated you are, the less likely you'll vote for any Republican, especially Trump.
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Of course they're trying to disenfranchise students; the more educated you are, the less likely you'll vote for any Republican, especially Trump.
Is she sedated? She can't even hold her head up; she looks as if she's about to fall asleep. Poor thing; it's hard work defending Presipedo Trump and his "wonderful secret" with Epstein. All those women must be liars. Sounds like a good old fashioned conspiracy, doesn't it, Jess?
"Don't trust them"?! They're openly aiding and abetting a convicted felon in continuing his life of crime. I assume they're above the law, like Trump? Read what the foreign press says about them; the U.S. Supreme Court is infamous for their brazen corruption and faux-Christian nationalism. Wake up.
Since the Supine Court has stated that Trump's crimes are actually not crimes because he's president, when the Democrats finally take control again, the president can impeach the Supremes and load the court with liberals--legal because a president is doing it. Oh, and delete the Electoral College.
This mummified ghoul needs to be impeached. He's on record as saying things that he lied to Congress about saying. Granted, the current congress a puddle of invertebrates, but he has zero medical or administrative qualifications--his credentials are that he's a dependable Trump sucker-upper.
Good God. Is English his first language?
As usual: accusation = confession.
Florida proves a direct causal link between humidity and stupidity.
Negligent homicide is one of this administration's unofficial policies. In addition to his other crimes, Trump is personally responsible for a couple hundred thousand American deaths because of his failure--or refusal--to prepare for Covid at the beginning of the pandemic. It's a feature, not a bug.
Oh, for heaven's sake: Lego is a non-count noun, like furniture. You can't have 6 furnitures, but you can convert that into count-noun terms, and have 6 pieces of furniture, or 6 armchairs, etc. You can't have 6 Legos, but you can have 6 Lego pieces. You're welcome. Also: Epstein.
"Should have went"? Have any of these people ever seen the inside of a classroom? From the National Literacy Institute: "54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, and 64% of our country's fourth graders do not read proficiently." Listening to Fox is just so much easier.
When you tell the truth you don't have to try to remember which lie you told. Republicans seem to be having a lot of memory lapses these last 7 months.
It's the only way we'll reduce vampire-on-human crime!
Ah yes, a peace prize for the First Pole Dancer: so selfless, so involved, so committed.
Limited sympathy. As long as Americans love the second amendment more than they love their children, this will continue happening. Prayer does nothing; if you want change, use your vote.
In a list of 50 adjectives describing the Trump administration, "subtle" doesn't make the cut. The U.S. is taking orders from the puppet of a war criminal. Makes Trump's own 34 felony convictions seem almost quaint.
It's natural selection in progress. The only people stupid enough to believe this are the ones who were stupid enough to vote for Trump. Anything that culls the diseased maga herd is a good thing.
Quite the intelligent looking trio. They didn't go fully authentic and have some ketchup dripping from their ears because tomato stains are hellish on polyester. I suggest facial recognition software to prevent these idiots from ever entering a voting booth again. Also: EPSTEIN.
Newsom is everything Trump can never be: smart, fearless, energetic, 20 years younger, good looking and in decent shape, and not suffering from dementia. Oh, and he's not a fascist, and he doesn't wear make-up! Trump and Vance between them could open their own Mary Kay franchise.
Since Trump doesn't understand how government--or anything else--actually works, he fixates on the most superficial, easily grasped, superfluous details that he thinks will make him look tough. "Department of War," "Gulf of America," blah blah. Gulf of Small Dick Energy.
Wow. Not used to hearing truth from a U.S. official! It's especially important for high-profile Americans to speak out, as it's harder for the fascist regime to disappear them to one of their concentration camps.
Grotesque, risible, tragic. Just another detail for President Newsom to take care of, after the initial fumigation.
This guy is a true mensch. When the trials begin, he'll never have to say, "I was just following orders." He'll be a witness for the prosecution--that is, if he doesn't mysteriously disappear and then show up in a concentration camp in Berkina Faso.
I enjoy watching the Fox barbies reacting to Newsom. He's demonstrated how ridiculous Trump's semi-literate nocturnal ramblings are, and the barbies have to criticize Newsom for it without appearing to be disloyal to the dear leader. Quite the conundrum for a group that doesn't understand irony.
Melania looks all worn out; Trump must not have been her first customer of the evening.
He also settled the Boer War, though barely a teen at the time.
Trump also promised his murderous insurrectionist mob that he'd see them at the Capitol to help vandalize the building and hang the vice-president. Instead he watched it on TV for 3 hours. He sends out his minions to do his dirty work; he doesn't want his muppet hair to get mussed up.
Everything about Trump is vulgar: his grade-school vocabulary, his parvenu crime family, his taste in wives. In this photo we see his vulgarity externalized: embarrassing gold-painted tchotchkes on every surface. The Oval dressed up as an ersatz Kremlin. Obvious and pathetic.
Finally, a bit of good news for decency everywhere: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
I just wish Miller would borrow some eyeliner from JD and some extensions from the dog killer so he'd look less like a reptile. It's truly startling to scroll down and suddenly be faced with that pale, affectless, half-formed visage. Talk about the banality of evil.
In almost any country in the world outside of the U.S., this photo would disqualify the posers from any hope of a political career. In the U.S. you have to show your personal arsenal (including military assault weapons) just to get on the ballot.
Pathetic. A woman in her mid-fifties trying to look like a sex trade worker so Trump will let her keep her job, whatever that is. It appears to involve lots of costume changes and full stage make-up. Maybe she's starring in the maga production of Irma La Douce.
I've always wondered what incels do at night, since they're not getting laid. It's nice that Trump has established a make-work program for them.
She's not as smooth a liar as Sean Spicer or Sarah Huckabee or any of the usual Trump sock puppets. There are moments when she can't hide the fact that she understands the absurdity of the lies she has to sell to make Trump palatable. Kudos for keeping a straight face though.
Same-sex marriage has been legal nationally in Canada for the last 20 years. The effect on Canadian society has been a slight uptick in tuxedo rentals.
Seeing Trump sitting at that table, with all those intelligent, dignified, qualified people is like seeing Krusty the Klown in a painting of the Last Supper.
Your arteries would like a word.
I guess we can add tap dancing as yet another thing Little Marco isn't very good at.
I don't "hate" god or the people who believe in him (or it). I just don't want their beliefs imposed on me. At base, organized religion is a human enterprise designed to claim supernatural endorsement of patriarchal rule; women need not apply. I just don't see the relevance.
I'm an empiricist; if you want me to believe in something, show me the evidence for it. There is no evidence for the existence of a supreme supernatural being, so I simply don't believe it exists. However, if evidence ever appears, I will revise my stance. That's merely rational.
Gee, TACO Trump sides with the United States' number one enemy, because he wants a Trump tower in Moscow. When is someone in the U.S. going to take action to defeat this monomaniacal moron and his pack of unqualified fascist goons? Is it all up to Newsom? Organize! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Yup. I slather my toast with EPSTEIN every morning for EPSTEIN. My fave is egg salad made with EPSTEIN, with a side of EPSTEIN. Also, EPSTEIN.
These people are supposed to be public servants, but using Trump as their model, they behave like the elites of the politburo who are generously giving their time to the riff-raff proletariat. How dare you respond to their largesse with questions that aren't just fawning compliments? RIP democracy.
Washington isn't even in the top ten for crime. He's doing this so that he can claim that peaceful protests are actually dangerous mobs of "radical left lunatics" who must be jailed. He'll attempt to intimidate people into not protesting, because the TV coverage would be highly embarrassing.
Trump is turning the White House into the 'Versailles' double-wide model--the ritziest trailer in the whole park! Spray paint everything gold--because that's how the ignorant masses think rich people live! And what is Trump, if not an ignorant mass?
I would think it's more dangerous to allow raging alcoholics to vote; they're liable to put their X next to someone like Trump. Project 2025 wants people like Hegseth in office in order to destroy the departments they're in charge of. Project 2025 is a Christo-fascist agenda, right out loud.
Dang! I hate it when I get to my vacation destination and there's no Georgian orangery! You might as well stay home! 🫤
There will never be any consequences for his crimes, so why should he go to the trouble of attempting to conceal them? Even if he weren't intellectually impaired, he's lazy AF.
Reminds me of the old joke: two fascists and Zelenksy walk into a bar. Well, more of a morality tale than a joke. The joke is Trump. He's making his periodic pilgrimage to Red Square, resplendent in his crimson kneepads, to receive his new orders. It'll be Helsinki all over again, just as cringe.
This is how every halfwit maga(t) with a pickup truck and an AR-15 sees himself--not as a misfit loser who blames his utter failure in life on "elites," but rather as a sort of Norman Rockwell hero personifying virtue and hard work. Good recruiting strategy for a domestic terrorist organization.
I always thought I was boycotting Apple because of their obscene prices and dictatorial policies. Turns out they're collaborating with fascists now, and giving Trump what he considers a victory. Yay tariffs! I wish I could boycott them harder. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
We should stop training oncologists; that way we'll wipe out cancer!
So the white supremacists are worked up about what they think is eugenics? They want a white America through peaceful means? With the help of Trump's masked terror thugs who are literally unemployable as anything but Gestapo grunts? What could possibly go wrong? These trunts are addicted to outrage.
It's the Streisand Effect: he makes it so much worse by complaining about it. And he takes video of himself being just the whiniest little self-entitled bitch on the planet, 'cause that'll show 'em all what a victim he is! You go, Dersh! Upload the video! The world must learn of your ordeal!
I'm sorry--I couldn't get past the part where he calls Lara Trump "talented." There's delusional, and then there's plain old psychotic. She thought that marrying the Rat-Faced Boy would be her ticket to respectability--she's just another social climber, using someone else's money to buy entry.
He couldn't use Air Force One to deliver the top secret documents he stole--just too much paper! It took 2 whole submarines to deliver them to Putin in one trip. Soon: ground breaking for a big, gold(colored) Trump Tower Moscow!
Ughh. It's like Stephen Miller in a wig. Why do these creatures hate sunshine so much? Oh, right: it's a disinfectant.
Why is it that every datum of news out of Florida sounds as if the entire population is on the short bus?
Oh, I don't know: maybe cheating on your spouse with a porn star and then paying her off with $300,000? Or maybe being married three times and cheating on all of them?
Doesn't age well, does it? None of these idiots is capable of thinking more than 5 minutes into the future. It always comes back to bite them on the sitting-down area.
They couldn't care less about saving money. They just don't want educated people telling the truth on TV. Fascists have to control the media, and that includes silencing the truth. Fox "News" will be okay, because they lie for a living, and Trump can control their message to his maga grunts.
He keeps thanking us for our attention to this matter, which appears to be a phrase he picked up somewhere along the line--maybe from one of his multiple bankruptcies--and he uses it to try to make his inane blathering sound authoritative. That fails, of course; he sounds like a scared old man.
"Threat to humanity"? The maga death cult understands its mafia don's orders. Luckily they can't board a plane to Ireland carrying their guns, and they can't afford a plane ticket anyway, now that their orange idol is taking away their health care. Distraction won't work: we're all about Epstein!
A "threat to humanity," in this case, means a threat to Donald's delusion of adequacy. He emphasizes this by using random, quasi-Germanic, semi-literate capitalization. And by the way, TACO, you're failing to distract from the fact that Texas is sliding into the Gulf of Mexico. Idiot.
Why isn't Trump down there throwing paper towels at them? It was good enough for Puerto Ricans, wasn't it?
Ugg. He's Smithers to Trump's Mr. Burns.
He'd only use taxpayers' money for his defense--and besides, the Supreme Crooks would retroactively declare his inaction perfectly legal, because he was the president at the time, and everything the president does--or fails to do--is now legal, apparently. You've got yourselves a king, folks.
Gosh, Karo, when you were studying politics and communication at Saint Anselm did you ever dream you'd end up shilling for a UFC fight? What about the upcoming tractor pull in the Rose Garden? Are you going to do color commentary? That'd be truly "epic." You must be very proud.
Trump has always encouraged violence on his behalf--always in his absence of course, so he can watch it all on TV, like Jan. 6th. He always stops short of saying, "Kill for me," but he inches right up to it, mafia-boss style. The halfwits who support him get the message though: Kill for him.
Not sure, but he just asked me if I'd like fries with that.
He wants to be the AI capital, so why is he causing the greatest brain drain the U.S. has ever seen? When education and science exist only to examine why the Dear Leader is so brilliant, legit scientists are going where actual education and research still exist--i.e. anywhere but the U.S.
Trump needs seasoned, professional liars to represent him. Where better to recruit them than from Fox "News"? Hegseth is manifestly unqualified to be in his current sinecure, but he knows his job is safe if he publicly sucks up to Trump. It's all he's got in terms of job security. And all he needs.
What is it with her, anyway? She's constantly concerned and dismayed at everything her party sends down the pike--almost like a decent person--but then she goes ahead and votes yes for all of it. She doesn't seem conflicted, however, about working for a demented, felonious rapist. I am concerned.
Trump and Miller's Nazi brownshirts. Where do they recruit these losers?
"Taking the politics out of ship naming"? The very act of attempting the historical erasure of a pioneering American is a purely political act. Maga is where irony goes to die. The homophobia is a given, of course.
This is the tragic result of a middle-aged woman trying to look 24 because that's Donald's sweet spot. Underneath all the hair extensions, false eyelashes, and pancake make-up lurks a tired old broad attempting to make racism glamorous. Of course the red-hat dunces are eating it up. You go, girl!
Right on, Mitch! Shady is being too obvious in his quest to destroy American democracy! He should have taken your example and destroyed American democracy by helping Trump stack the Supremes with right-wing, christo-fascist liars (including a trad wife). Kids today, eh Mitch?
You'd think at least one of their underlings would take them aside and say, "Please, no. Just no." If you put red hair on her, she'd look just like Carrot Top. Wealthy enough not to care, but they still beg for approval, like Elon and his stupid chainsaw. The abject need is embarrassing.
Do they give peace prizes for turning a superpower democracy into a banana republic fascist dictatorship ruled over by a mentally ill rapist and convicted felon? He's a shoo-in! But Obama got one, so Donnie's gotta have one too.
And this is in preparation for step 2: a totally innocuous subcutaneous chip that will be our passport to all manner of wonderful services. And as a bonus it will track your location and all biometric readings! Yours for only $499.99 (gold color $799.99). Patriots will want the Trump chip!
Sending someone to a country with which they have no connection, experience, or knowledge is not deportation. It's abduction. The Supreme Crooks are now putting their stamp of approval on government kidnapping. What if the whole country just ignored them?
And I love that the media call it "terror" instead of the correct "terrorism." Terror is a reaction to a frightening stimulus--it's an evolutionary trait; you might as well declare war on jealousy or anticipation. Terror does not equal terrorism any more than social equals socialism. Lazy media.
Trump did it because someone told him that wartime presidents are popular, and because he needs to distract from all the crime and self-dealing that people are starting to catch on to. What's a few hundred thousand lives lost if Donnie's numbers come up a little? Priorities, people!
He's just biding his time; he thinks he'll become the new orange turd, but a lot can happen between now and the time the trump-mammal scarfs down its last hamberder. 2026 comes before 2028, you pathetic poser.
The last thing Trump wants is an educated electorate. There's a reason he loves "the poorly educated"--they're gullible and semi-literate, and they want a scapegoat to blame for their failed lives. The only thing he hates more than education is science, and maybe psychiatry.
Isn't Fascist Barbie a lawyer of some kind? She lied her way through the first incarnation of this hell, and now she's working for the same white supremacist, self-dealing felon and rapist. She's promoting crime and spouting propaganda--what does it take to get disbarred in the U.S.?
Jesus Christ, what a tragic, yawning maw of neediness and insecurity. It's like a case study of what happens when 15 personality disorders are all fighting for supremacy in a single individual. Sixteen, if painting yourself orange every morning is a personality disorder, and it must be.
The Electoral College starts the Republican party on third base while everyone else is stuck at bat; if the vote of someone in New York carried the same weight as the vote of someone in Wyoming, the Republican party would disappear overnight. That would be actual democracy. Get rid of the EC!
How about thinking there are people who were born on the planet Mercury? Is that a typo?
He always says "two weeks" because he thinks it's the sweet spot between being too specific (which would hold him to a deadline) and too vague (creating skepticism). He thinks we'll all forget about it by then anyway, because he'll have done so many more outrageous things before then. He's wrong.
Oh I assure you, the product suffers. A colleague at the college where I taught just retired; he told me about an essay that announced that Shakespeare was born in 1964; another said that "mercurial" describes someone who was born on the planet Mercury. They don't even read what they've copy/pasted.
A third impeachment? Why bother? He was impeached twice before getting elected. Impeachments are badges of honor in the dim maga brain. He's a rapist and a convicted felon; his incompetence is legendary, his criminality documented. How do you impeach that?
This isn't a movie or a TV show. There are no "themes" of kidnapping, no "themes" of abuse--it's actual kidnapping, actual abuse. It's the reality of what's happening, and if someone is triggered by it, they need to get over it. The best therapy is resistance; take your life back from these thugs.
He's never been "on top" of anything other than his record number of bankruptcies and the list of people that the whole world despises.
At least your Supreme Crooks are consistent. Can someone explain the difference between Christian nationalism and plain old garden-variety fascism? Because the distinction has become somewhat blurred.
From the NYT: "The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits some medical treatments for transgender youths, rejecting arguments that it violated the Constitution and shielding similar laws in more than 20 other states."
Florida continues to live up to its reputation. Too bad.
Why do I never read about the fact that Trump is the first "president" in history who has branded anyone who didn't vote for him as an enemy of the state. He's the "president" of maga and red states. All others--especially Democrats--have no president, and they're better off for it.
Boy oh boy, Donnie must have gotten his new marching orders direct from Vlad, since he started blathering on about poor Russia at the G7--that is, until our Prime Minister shut him down and ended the news conference. Too late to stop Trump from humiliating himself yet again, however.
