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Just like the FBI, the CIA, the armed forces, the IRS, Homeland Security, USAID, and every other institution Vladimir Putin wants destroyed. This is not Trump. He is too stupid for that. This is a very successful KGB mission and it is all about Russia, Russia, Russia, which it always was.
It is more likely to be Miller wearing the Trump skin. Vance would be announcing his demise with a very sad, and very fake expression on his face. Just before getting the oath administered.
The right answer. Nate who?
The Whitest House has turned into the cloaca maxima and can only be trusted to spew out excrement. But it does that at an astonishing level.
And the people loading the corpses into cooling trucks and mass graves. This was a close call, no matter what all those 20/20 vision in hindsight critics say now. And if these idiots think they can just be cavalier about the next one, many more millions will die.
Careful, careful. If he makes a remarkable recovery it will be a miracle. Just watch Vance. That particular cobra is slithering, waiting, positioning. He is the weathervane.
I guess Nate Silver also wants a shot at being despicable.
I am waiting for the Vogons announcing the intergalactic highway.
Set up a CDC in New York or California or Maryland. Fill it up with CDC scientists. Pay it with blue states money and tell the red states governors they can follow the advice of the new CDC or just go to hell.
I am not so sure. Putin is like Trump. Tell him to fuck off or else and he barks once, turns around and hides.
He is awarded this very high distinction for the one thing that Our Fuhrer rewards. Not contributions to our nation or our people. Contributions to him. Personally. Only those. He is by far the worst combination of organic molecules ever to defile the White House. No one comes close.
When we regain control, there will be an awful lot of adjusting. And we should not be merciful.
Trump destroys everything that used to be sacred. This looks like a trivial matter but what it does is diminish every previous recipient. He does that with everything. Every honor, every distinction, every special institution. He turns special into vulgar, on purpose. To wreck our society.
What is he complaining about? That was a divine omen that Trump’s shittyfication does not have celestial approval.
Unbelievable grift right out in the open. And crickets.
I have heard this “too cautious” argument from many, also in Europe. People forget very quickly how dangerous this outbreak was. We had cooling trucks for corpses. Hospitals and staff stressed to the limit. We dodged a bullet. Next time this attitude will kill many more.
I do not know anything about his health even though I am a doctor, mostly because you cannot trust a single word coming from this White House, but for someone who loves the cameras, he has been unusually shy.
It looks more like an attempt to make us think he is golfing.
It really looks a lot like the Death of Stalin. They are all nervously awaiting whether more groveling is required or whether the monster is truly on his way to the hereafter. Vance has been quite, too. Not the usual nails-on-chalkboard annoying level butt snorkeling.
These are difficult times for JD Vance. Does he maintain the ultra-loyalist, ring-kissing, butt-snorkeling sycophant image, or does he "reposition" in eager anticipation of what was always the prize for all that groveling?
What makes you think that is not exactly what Trump was ordered to do?
Quite the aspiring Nazi. Fits the profile to a "t". Perfect fascist catholic material.
In the end all but the most deranged Trumpistas will realize Second Trump is not exactly the Second Coming. Hopefully they will not feel too embarrassed to admit it and start the restoration process. Maybe move more "crucial" services to Blue States so the fascist imbeciles cannot wreck them.
The court ghoul wrote this, Gauleiter Miller.
Fascism thrives on subpar intellect. It is at war with smartness. Its legions contain disgruntled, mediocre, and lazy people, passed over, and with an ax to grind against those with more talent and effort. DEI was removed and replaced with white male mediocracy.
Stephen Miller is frantically conserving the corpse to be able to show it in staged pictures, Politburo-style, while keeping a salivating Vance at bay with excuses and distractions.
It is VERY simple and we all know it. The availability of guns is the only difference between the rest of the civilized world and the US. Not mental disorders, not gaming, not religiosity (maybe that is actually a bad factor), just guns. Guns we were never supposed to have. 2A is about militia.
He must be very pissed he is not allowed to join the dictator league.
Again, I get why Trump supports this heinous behavior. He only recognizes loyalty to him. But what about the GOP senators and members of the House. This monster will not be controlled by you even if you think it will. You will perish, too. Just read your history books.
Henceforth this revival of neoclassicism shall be called Modern Tackyism in which the ostentatious pillar and facade architecture is complemented with gaudy gold leaf and white limestone in an attempt to mooch off Roman glory with utter classlessness.
Maybe something for Professor Doctor Robert Fuckedup Kennedy Jr. to consider for his new regime of ancient quackery, herbology, vitaminology, and other unproven witchcraft to lead us firmly back to when people still died of preventable diseases.
This is what happens when a power-drunk con man needs the votes of a block of anti-scientific crackpots that have been manipulated by internet algorithms to believe they actually are correct when they are in fact incredibly and completely wrong.
It makes perfect sense once you accept Trump is not just listening to Putin but actually on his payroll.
I think Miller and maybe some other very close Trumpies may be very concerned about their future trying to prop him up as long as possible. A classic behind the throne fight.
Two closely related factors are to blame for this. An intense egotism, self-centeredness fueled by an internet milked by greedy rich people using algorithms to intensify your worst preconceptions.
Very prophetic.
Yup he called it.
I agree he is a villain but more in the old fashioned plutocratic fashion. I think he prefers a functioning democracy he can steer over true fascism.
That would be NATO partner Turkey?
Perfect facility for the scum of our nation, soon to be convicted of crimes against humanity. The Second Trump administration.
She should have held the DOJ in contempt.
As George Santayana said in 1905, well before fascism set the world on fire:” Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, the verdict is in. Humanity has a bad memory.
It boggles the mind how someone can think that google searches, heavily steered by algorithms to send you to preferred, not necessarily factual, sites can replace years of study or careful review by panels of experts.
We refer to this gaudy and tacky downgrade as “shittyfication”, the one single thing Don Trumpino is actually quite good at. He is like King Midas, except that everything he touches turns to trash (or dies #ETTD).
He is not a vaccine skeptic. He is an uninformed and dangerous lunatic, the kind of which has become so much more influential now that internet and algorithms allow for massive disinformation. He nor his sorry, silly, and seriously delusional claque coterie of quacks should never have been confirmed
I am sure the new Trump guy on statistics will correct that.
This choice of words is unfortunate. Something is very odd, would be more accurate. Most sane people on planet earth do not necessarily see this possible change in health as wrong. Rather as long, long overdue.
There appears to be a fierce competition going on in Second Trump as to who can claim the title of “most despicable, ghoulish, amoral creep”. At this time the leaderboard shows Miller and Noem leading, closely followed by Leavitt, Bondi, Patel, Homan, and Vance, with RFK Jr. rising meteorically.
He certainly has experience with some drugs. Just not any used to treat or prevent diseases. He has very unhealthy and bizarre ideas about many things. In pre-internet days he would probably be kept hidden from the public in a secure environment, like the Institute for the Bewildered.
He truly thinks, acts, and talks like he truly believes the power is his. Completely oblivious to our history, the Constitution, or any moral principle. He is too unintelligent to know, but that excuse is not available to most of the GOP apparatchiks or many of his voters.
Chief Justice Burger, not a liberal, said that the present interpretation of the second amendment was the biggest fraud ever committed on the US people (before Trump). It is obvious 2A was meant to allow well regulated state militias which of course required weapons. Not for individuals.
What have we become? A nation of thugs. We look like……….Russia, Russia, Russia.
You mean to say that the Whitest House has been lying about his superb health, his svelte 230 lb 6’3”athletic superhuman physique, and his great Fuhrer stamina? I am shocked.
They truly are ghouls, straight from the crypt.
Ladies and gentlemen. I give you your president who obviously is more concerned about getting a baseball player in the Hall of Fame than, oh, maybe helping Ukraine defend against an evil invader, lowering inflation, healthcare, school shootings, anything more presidential.
MAGA was misled by a vain sick puppy who would not wear a mask and made that “woke”. They linked the vaccine to “woke” even though it was made under Trump. They literally will kill themselves to own the libs.
Indeed. Contrary to popular belief the trains did not run on time under Mussolini and corruption was rampant in Nazi Germany. Logical when you have to rely on mediocre people instead of the best.
I also think they underestimate the stupidity of fascists.
Superb. Let Dr. RF Mengeldy Jr. and his merry gaggle of quacks stew in his raw sewage swimming pool.
Very reminiscent of the Soviet Union where certain politburo members would appear to be dead.
Trump needed the RFK Jr. crazy crowd votes. He, nor his family, nor his rich friends, nor any apparatchik in the Trump Fascist Party (Formerly the GOP) will ever follow the vaccine policies issued by the lunatic heading HHS. But they do not mind others may die because they have no access.
Am I imagining this or is it true? Over and over I see it being reported Maxwell got the better treatment and possibly a pardon for the nice things she has said about our PedoPrez. That is incorrect. Maxwell gets the nice treatment for what she is NOT saying. This is blackmail, pure and simple.
"Mixed status" has an awfully Nazi ring to it.
It is hard to use the National Guard and the ICE Gestapo to intimidate mail-in voters.
Nietzsche may have never said it. He probably would have thought it and it certainly captures the ignorance of many religious people. There was a good reason why only priests were allowed to read the Bible before printing was invented.
To have RFK Jr. and his gaggle of merry quacks make decisions about vaccines and (real) medicines is like asking my grandson (5) to land a 747 with a blindfold. It is insanity.
Almost right: Listen up Liberal I am pardoning a pedophile for NOT saying I am a pedophile.
Does Venezuela have the Epstein Files? Is that why we are threatening to invade it? Surely he is not using a "wag the dog" scenario to deflect from the underage firefly girl in the Epstein Files?
This is so wrong. They must think Department of Defense sounds too "woke", but the reason we have an army is not to make war on other nations. That is what Putin does. We have an army to defend ourselves and our allies. That may involve going to war, but war is NEVER our goal.
This is so typical for fascism. It really, really, really hates mocking its authority, even if that is an extremely pitiful childish authority. It hates mockery anyway. Keep mocking it. Half the time they do not even get the joke, because, well, they are mediocre people, who hate smart people.
They just reprint what he and his staff say, without even trying to analyze it for legality. In older times it would have read: President hints at issuing an Executive Order that would be clearly un-Constitutional, to required voter ID. It seems he would be inviting a Supreme Court conflict.
Translation: Because the Nobel Peace Prize is out of reach (also since that unflattering comment by Modi), our Fuhrer has decided that his master can go along without him, which was the plan all along anyway. And we still want to see the Epstein Files.
Come on @theguardian.com. You are a British Newspaper and employ very smart people. Ghislaine Maxwell was not treated so well (including a pardon, soon) because of what she said about our PedoPrez. Ghislaine Maxwell was treated so well (including a pardon) because of what she will NOT say.
Extreme wealth inequality is a very bad thing. Wealth has to be within reach for hard enterprising workers for capitalism to be viable. What we have here is plutocracy with very few owning everything, never having to work forever. Like landed gentry.
Maybe they should have another flatter meeting, just to show support. It wears him out, all this trying to outdo each other in oleaginous drivel.
I was just going to say: I suppose AI provided you with this reassuring answer, while demolishing our world.
We are all victims of a cruel but deliberate misinterpretation of a statute that covered the necessity for state militias because of the fear for a standing army. How prescient. 2A is not about the right of individuals to bear arms. It is about the right of states to have armed militias.
The lizard people of Ghizobirti VI are taking over. I knew it.
Nuremberg 2 with Homan, Miller, and Noem first.
At this point returning to fossil fuel is sending a clear message that you really do not give a damn for your white children, your white grandchildren, and your white great grandchildren. Just saying.
Miller is writing all of it and the flop sweat is showing.
Let’s just move all CDC experience to a blue state and then the quacks can advise the galactically stupid all they want.
Sue them for completely unwarranted harassment of a citizen.
Cruelty and indifference, shamelessness and a complete lack of empathy, it is indeed a sorry lot, but they, like their Dear Leader, do not care.
Are you a thug or a brave policeman? Are you new Gestapo or legit? Are you proud of what you are doing or not? Why do you not want to be recognized? You know who do not want to be recognized, too? Criminals.
They will write about this later. Oh, no, they will not.
Of course she did. Fascism hates mockery. Because deep down, well actually not that deep, they are all incredibly insecure. Because deep down they are mediocre clowns wanting to have their day in the limelight even if it destroys our nation.
My sincere hope is there will be a gigantic urinal over his grave so we can all contribute and provide Monsanto with an endless source of ammonia. People will travel for that. I guarantee it.
Anyone who has to hide behind a mask to prevent identification must not feel too good about what they are doing. Maybe even fear future prosecution. At a future Nuremberg trial.
Maybe, just maybe, you should have had the spine to reject the nomination of a man who is certifiable and who should be escorted from HHS to a proper Home for the Bewildered.
Sure Karen. More like Commander-not-yet-in-crypt.
According to his cult following your Son is already here, but he is not doing very well. Truth be told, I am a little disappointed you would send someone who combines all deadly sins of gluttony, sloth, lust, envy, wrath, greed, and pride, but that is just me.
Not even his failing health will distract me from the Epstein Files. The house of cards is collapsing. PedoPrez cannot survive the two decades friendship with an absolute monster and he knows it. Worse than impeachment. Embarrassment.
Poor dying dictator-wannabe. Maybe now Putin will step in to help him some more. Maybe not. He is a cruel master after all.
The cabinet meeting was the proof. No sane person would debase themselves so far and grovel so obnoxiously unless they did it to not upset the demented patient. Or would they?
We love our Canadian friends. Unfortunately some 40% of the nation has been infected with a racist, egotistic bug that also dumbs the patient down to the level of a cultist who will accept anything as long it is seen as owning the libs, even if it destroys the nation.
Fascism feasts on mediocre people who think they have been wronged. They are vengeful and cruel. They are Hitler’s willing executioners.
That would go nicely with the ICE Gestapo, the threatening of Panama, Greenland and Canada, the endless grift, the disastrously incompetent cabinet, and the dictator ambitions of Our Orange Fuhrer.
Maybe he will go for a package that includes free swimming in the local sewage treatment plant and a shaman incantation.
Not that long ago it was considered to be in very bad taste, career-limiting kind of bad, to claim praise for something you had nothing to do with. It was also considered a sign of true leadership to take responsibility for failures yourself, while handing praise to those reporting to you.