“.. the first to use the presidency to be a gadfly, flitting around and sticking his vindictive nose where it doesn’t belong .. It’s going to take a long time to fix all the horrible overreaches of this president.” - Dowd @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
We'll have a lot of work to do to clean up his mess. youtu.be/iaOMHEbinIk
The Bigly, Hugely, Demented Fool
Screenshot of column from Archive.ph archive.ph/H6o6O
1/2 After four years of trying to clean up Trump’s first mess, Biden made huge progress.This time there is no coming back from it all.It will take decades to claw at it.The harm to every institution,to every law ignored, to science research,to build back gutted agencies,to repair world relationships
and all else he has ruined will be overwhelming! And we still have years to get through. Will there even be elections? Will there be a democracy to repair? Each day more norms are exploded.
If only we could have seen how years of media elites enabling rightwing overreach would affect our country…
And she helped put and keep him in power. Stfu
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You can say that again.
I'm not sure we will ever actually recover fully. I know we won't in my lifetime. Our credibility as a leader nation, is totally lost. Other countries now look at us the same way they look at Russia, North Korea, and China. Being feared and hated is not what our forefathers wanted for America.
Working class people don’t care. Dowd is irrelevant. NYT is irrelevant. Any time spent NOT laser focused on understanding and addressing the needs of the working class is irrelevant, except that it can be harmful.
I'm sorry there's too many people that are truly delusional right now really believing that DonOld n Republicans are going to give up Power in 2026 n 2028🤷🏿♀️ that terrorists isn't leaving in 2029. I don't know what it's going to take to wake the Democratic Party leadership up to this FACT 🤦🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
This is the reason we never make improvements in this country and we continue to move backwards. We spend way too much time fixing the mess of the previous administration. I’m starting to wonder if this is by design.
One sad ass, man
She is 1 of the clown pundits who gave the orange sociopath a pass 10 years and has been both sideism for years. Dowd is a fucking clown. Let’s hear from her moron right wing brother for a change!!
'gadfly' is such faint criticism it needs a new idiom: "Praising with faint 'Darn!'" "Calling Pol Pot 'not a nice person'"? FOTUS sent criminals in uniform to kidnap ppl off the streets and armed troops to occupy peaceful cities. 'Gadfly'??! ? 'Ravening Monster'!! (Apologies to Elmo)
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Congress could do something about that behavior but they, Republicans in Congress, are complicit.
Putin in 1987 found a moron with zero morals, a power and money hungry puppet he could launder money through his company.
But it’s Dowd though. Aren’t there a hundred others saying the exact same thing? Anybody else at all?
Any chance you can share as a gifted article?
Overreaches??
It's so cute that she thinks America will ever recover from this. Spoiler alert: China is using these precious months and years to excel far beyond anything America can hope to achieve in the next decade, even if we reversed course now. The American century is history.
So why not call for an impeachment ?
Donald J.Trump is the first....and that's simply because he has no Values or Principles by which he lives by.
Even if she happens to be right this time, fuck Maureen Dowd for helping get us here.
Dowd in 2016: I’m just going to spend a decade sane washing a maniac with my infantile alliteration. Dowd in 2025: Oops.
She’s still doing it. Her choice of words in this post is a perfect example of minimizing what is happening right now.
Yes, this. Thank you.
Fitting three word headline.
“Overreaches” 🤡
The Stupidity Presidency seems about right.
When you've gone so far that Dowd makes straightforward comments..
Wow! Scathing! Well done, Maureen Dowd! 👍🏼🥂
I put the narcissism as the primary driver. The stupidity is a necessary support function to keep the house of cards from falling.
Dowd is in the Top 20 of people who got us into this mess.
Well if anyone on Earth knows slavish stupidity it's Maureen Dowd..
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Release all the Epstein files Trump you felon!
Can't read the article, but love the headline, & agree with the quote 💯%
Is this the “Donald The Dove” woman?
yes she’s kind of an idiot but we’re going to need everybody on our side in this fight, even the idiots— they’re too big a constituency to ignore
Adlai Stevenson supporter: “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Adlai Stevenson: “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.”
“Opinion by Maureen Dowd” lol, worthless
In a paper that yesterday called Adams' insulting $160 bribe in a potato chip bag, "a departure from political norms." Christ, what is so utterly broken in the brains of the NYT journalists?
Post the gift link! We don’t subscribe because we don’t support Murdoch’s treachery!
Wrong newspaper
Bahahahah! Really? Who owns this one?
The Emerson Collective
Dowd, like many of our ancient legislative leaders, is past her expiration date and really REALLY needs to retire. The tired tropes and mental crutches of these (should be) leaders & their journalistic counterparts need to sit down, shut up, and retire. We need fresh ideas & fresh fire!!🔥🔥🔥
The entire point is to make sure there isn't another president in Trump's lifetime.
Decades.
Deranged Egomaniacal Incompetent (DEI)
Kind of a quaint way to describe authoritarianism.