menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He prefers to make up his own stats and how dare you question him. Typical wing-nut.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He prefers to make up his own stats and how dare you question him. Typical wing-nut.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
What do you get if you burn a Confederate flag?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
H.L. Mencken said of the Harding Administration that at the rate we were going, there would eventually be a moron in the White House. It took longer than he expected, but here we are.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
My pet peeve: people who can't say "Democratic party" and instead use "Democrat party."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess that statement is "no longer operative."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
So firing bullets at Nazis is negotiating? I get it.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet you claim to be the president of all the people of the United States. I guess that's why you're sending armed troops to the cities to harass American citizens, huh?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
And did he get approval from his bosses, the American People, to take all this vacation time?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Why isn't he in prison?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
It's correct, if you poll uneducated morons. Only.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
We don't want to pay for this turd to goof off.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Good for the people of this neighborhood. They are heroes!
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I grew up in the denomination he was in. I turned my back on them 50 years ago, and haven't regretted it at all.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
We haven't been a serious country since Nixon was elected. It's just obvious to everyone since a clown is in the Oval Office.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
There was an entire war about slavery. 600,000 Americans died. It was in all the papers. Jeez, get a clue, Barbie. She can't have slept through ALL of her high school History classes.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
That photo makes trump look like he's starring in a horror film. I know he scares the **** out of me.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm 71 and only found out last week. My wife told me.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
The most ignorant President in our history.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
"Fundamental genius?" So now we've decided that the words of the English language don't mean anything anymore?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Time for pitchforks and torches.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
What war?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He has a way of thinking? Likely this is news to at least half the country.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Idiot. Better solar panels than row on row of ugly houses that are sucking up energy like it's going out of style.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
YES SHE IS
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Because the first moon landing was on a Sunday, and our religious household would not have the TV on AT ALL, I had to sneak a radio into the back yard and LISTEN to it. Not the same. At all.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Usually not.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He's giving toddlers a bad name.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he does.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
So says Agent Krasnov.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
She's asking if...(checks notes)...DONALD TRUMP... is thinking about spiritual concerns? What's next?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention propping up the oil industry. I remember when we all looked askance at any politician who took oil money. The good old days.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Time to dig out and re-read my copy of Manufacturing Consent.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
And Trump probably thinks that is the greatest thing ever.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Gutfeld has always been a liar.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
You've heard of psychobabble. This is the fundamentalist christian equivalent. "Empathy is toxic?" Easy for someone without empathy to say.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
And it wasn't a hoax.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin knows he can roll Krasnov any time he wants to.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Why not focus on where the crime actually is - the Red States and the White House?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
If he would leave D.C., crime would go down another 20%. More if he takes those morons standing there with him.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Making the White House look like a cheap second-rate whorehouse. Hmm...
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmm. I don't post on twitter for the same reason I don't post on "truth social"- because they suck.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Despite my posting name, I've not lived in Baltimore.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
20. Lived in one, and my kids live in one each on the list.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Merrick Garland made a huge mistake. He should have slapped the handcuffs on Traitor Trump himself.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump should be in jail right now.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Shame on you Taibbi.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
How has a "news organization" not heard that Obama has not been president for eight years? Maybe because they have no relationship with "news."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder what that "big clamoring" sounds like in his head. On second thought, I don't want to know.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
It's mostly to pay the military-industrial complex to waste money. The rest is to fund Trump's grifts. A waste either way.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Ben Shapiro is an idiot.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
The media should be LEADING with that.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
"Are we still talking about the rigged election? That's old news, nobody cares..."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't think much of your "god" if you think he saved Donald Trump and anointed him leader of the Free World.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Like I want to know anything this guy is thinking about. Unless he's thinking about another drink.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He really is a turd in human form.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
At what point do we pick up our pitchforks and torches?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll say it again - this president is the most uneducated who has served in our history. And I use "served" in the sense of "occupied the office."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
The Pentagon budget has been bloated for decades. Congress in recent years has given them even more money than they ask for, and don't know what to do with. If republicans were serious about the debt, they would start there.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Donald Trump is our least educated president ever. Never mind the "degrees" he claims to have.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
So Trump is suddenly the "deep state" now? More likely the "derp state" (tip of the hat to Driftglass and Bluegal).
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Fool's Gold we used to call it.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He doesn't know how to STFU already, does he?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Suck-up.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Where do I sign up?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
The only thing such people learn from History is how to do things like ethnic cleansing.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Religious babble is so annoying. Surely she can't mean any of it.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Did he mention trickle-down?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Prayer accomplishes nothing except making the pray-er feel better.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
That's what I thought. Either way, it is accurate.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like the oligarchy has morphed into a kakistocracy.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Education has incredibly failed in this country. It doesn't help that some people have a natural resistance to being educated.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He obviously wasn't paying attention at all in his college courses. If he even attended classes. Which I doubt.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Alligator Auschwitz.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell that to all the people who suffered and died for these rights. Where was your "god" then?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
What a pile of horseshit this guy Johnson is.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
"Golden Dome" is just Reagan's old "Star Wars" scam. It won't work and Agent Krasnov knows it. Fox is taken in by it, though.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Agent Krasnov strikes again.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
They don't have the votes.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
We need to spend less on the Pentagon and NOT give extra tax breaks to the top 1%. This bill is going to destroy our country.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
They're both awful. As is the person they represent.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social)
How is Elon going to shoehorn his "American Party" between the corporatist Democrats and the non-Trump Republicans? There's not much daylight between them.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Figures. She needs to be retired by her voters.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, this stinks.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Gas prices aren't down. Where in this country is the $1.98 a gallon gas he brags (lies) about?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been saying for years that we'll end up with a "soft fascism" like #2. I would, of course, prefer #3.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Cut him, not just his damn golf trips. And didn't he complain about how much a recent president golfed? Does he ever "work?" And wouldn't we be safer if he golfed 100% of the time and he paid for it himself?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Where's your warrants, twerps?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
The Dumbest Person in Congress.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He would know about press manipulation - didn't he "work" for Fox Gnus?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
In my experience, more atheists have a much better understanding of the bible than most christians do. Also, I would contend that there's not that much to "understand" about the bible. It's not like there's a secret handshake or a code or something. It's all argle-bargle.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Nutjobs.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
That man in the White House has NO self-awareness. If he did, I think he'd kill himself.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Making the Pentagon do with less would be a great start. And making the rich pay their fair share. But people like Ron Johnson wouldn't dream of doing THAT.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
He's either Rip Van Winkle and just woke from a 40 year nap, or the most ignorant person in the U.S. I suspect it's the latter.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm betting these guys were at the Capitol on January 6th.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
This is shameful. I don't know this country anymore. And why is a convicted felon in the White House masquerading as a president?
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Why not? Welcome back.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Charge each and every one of them with false arrest. They were probably insurrectionists at the US Capitol anyway.
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't this the practice that Republicans complained about for years? Of course, the problem is that most of them can't read. Look at their "leader."
menckenfan.bsky.social (@menckenfan.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought most of their rage in the last 30+ years was about having to vote on bills they had not read. Turns out they actually enjoy that. Or they can't read. Or both.