He's been dead to me for a decade
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He's been dead to me for a decade
Or watch Kristi Noem's face wrestle with the Botox injections as she lies to the camera on a Sunday news show while you struggle to not throw a brick at your own TV.
especially the brain part...
The second possibility
It's called a normal day for a peaking lunatic. Paying attention to it is a lesser form of lunacy.
I sincerely hope for him to live another six weeks. Anyone want to wish him another six days?
Post it again. Keep posting it until no one doubts it, and they won’t even believe evidence to the contrary that they see with their own eyes.
Nobody goes from being a born-again cult cogwheel to a charismatic cult leader.
It’s definitely not “we.” It’s definitely “them.”
When does he launch his campaign for the Modesty Medallion?
People are saying those who are too stupid to grasp obvious satire are too stupid to vote.
More to the point, WE’RE the ones suffering from his dementia, dyslexia, decrepitude, delirium, despicable depths and all the other a, b, c, e, f, g and so on words that apply.
...and the group would publicize them. Voters would have a one-to-one comparison of what Bizarro tools are doing vs. what an administration based in reality would do. 2 of 2
What if Democrats - or any sufficiently motivated sane political group - begins to form an opposition shadow government, from CDC positions through Cabinet heads to POTUS? Each member of the shadow administration would define policies and specific actions they would take if in power...1 of 2
It is graphic and shocking. It should be. People should not be able to think about children being massacred in abstract terms. Look at it. Feel it. Imagine the horror. Understand the lifelong impact - assuming the victim survives. Thank you for the bravery to show this, Michael.
Too bad Trump will miss his own funeral and attendant street celebrations. If he could witness the exultant joy and jubilance, he would not be disappointed.
What Karoline Leavitt knows about sensitivity and respect could fill a crushed thimble.
He’s not wrong. Just surprisingly honest.
Write your own daily news feed. Just fill in the blanks.
Possible exception: Israel. But at least they have a semi-plausible explanation for their plunge into darkness (though not an excuse). And, of course we are part of that too.
Dictatorship is the defining condition of our age
For this reason and hundreds more, and with due consideration for its dizzying fall from relative grace, this is the most fucked-up country in the world now bar none, with few prospects for redemption in the foreseeable future. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
If there were a Nobel for shit-groveling, Witkoff would be a premier candidate.
the National Guard deployment is the same thing as the military parade is the same thing as the glowering paintings of Donald Trump staring down at you is the same thing as torturing a small number of South American immigrants: he loves the appearance of tyranny.
I’ll answer that. Trump is worse because he really, truly, deeply doesn’t give a fuck about what happens in Gaza.
My disgust with America is so great I do not choose to fight for what it once was. I only want to escape the shame and humiliation, and end the guilt by association. Toronto beckons, a shining city overlooking a shared lake.
Oh, and he’s had a trophy shop triple-gilt his Nobel prize.
Perhaps the characterization as a 'low-performing democracy' would help him feel more comfortable, at home, on familiar ground…
What a dumb fucking felon. Its disgusting what this country has allowed itself to become. Flipped into a (barely disputed) dictatorship in 7 months - by idiots, criminals, sadists & anarchists. No, not anarchists - kleptocrats. Anarchy would be morally superior to what these thugs have wrought.
Its true. The longer he’s in the position, the more stupid and extreme he proves himself to be. He’s also revealed how much he can’t cooperate or simply get along with other people, even those ideologically aligned. He’s a total failure, and has no future outside MAGA, not even at Fox News.
All of Trump's accusations are versions of his own crimes. Zero imagination.
"... never inappropriate.."? E. Jean Carroll won two verdicts and judgments of $5 million and $83.3 million that say otherwise.
It still is if you do it right.
Whatever he may have done, it’s magnitudes lesser than the shit Trump has done, including his own outrageous classified document abuse at Mar a Lago.
All true. Though Bolton has always been a prick.
It’s all of the above, Epstein and everything else, all at once.
With a compliant DOJ, he is in fact the chief law enforcement officer now. Only it’s not the law he’s enforcing.
The guy who turned Mar a Lago into an open warehouse for hundreds or thousands of stolen classified documents — and casually showed them off to visitors without clearances to brag about it — fabricates a far less damning case of the same against a political enemy to try to put him in prison.
Is taconite like kryptonite but for POTUS? If so, dig baby dig...
If MAGA is flooding the zone, then the opposition is abandoning it.
In general, the response from American institutions and the population at large to the undermining and attacks on our systems and values has been pathetically weak and enervated. We have brought a plate of wet noodles to a gunfight.
I’m sure he thinks he can negotiate a deal to get into heaven
Oh! He sees dead people … and speaks to them.
If you're trying to say Trump is an awful human being and a really bad president, just say it. Everyone knows it anyway.
But probably not
Marco seems like he might have juuust enough vestigial conscience left to go home some night, sit in front of a mirror and put a bullet through his brain.
This entire administration is an instant firing offense.
Nice euphemism for a criminal fascist pig
Sundae Gurl is the best on both BlueSky and Xitter.
SNAP is an acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
I understand. I do think sales of soft drinks should be disallowed, though. No nutrition whatsoever other than sugar calories. Not good. It doesn't help people in need to subsidize drinking sugar - and it's not even cane sugar.
And he will claim they’re dying from bullshit causes like not eating enough roadkill.
Also, women don’t seek validation and self-importance from accumulating vast wealth far beyond what they would ever need to nurture and protect their families.
America is too corrupt to exist
He’s not just in them, he’s a featured performer.
Also, you should note that statistically, he’s lying 97% of the time.
I've told you since he rolled down the escalator he was a criminal, a moron and an asshole.
A black man he always has and always will feel inferior to (rightfully).
He’s a mystery. A talented impersonator, I suspect he’s impersonating blandness more than living it, to fulfill the real or imagined requirements of a broadcast late-night host. Even the sucking up is so performative it seems intended to out itself as insincere. Who is he really?
Can someone with the right photo tools please shop in the right Trump pic to replace Jack Nicholson in the creepy iconic photo that ends The Shining? (Nicholson as Jack Torrance was himself shopped in by Kubrick’s/Warner Bros. art dept. over an authentic period photograph.)
Thank you for being here — in all the ways!
I hear you, Pete, but my thinking is more like: millions of people electing a guy who they know has already done so many things like this, and would clearly do them again, is how America becomes a third-rate country.
Oops, my mistake. Not just the wrong part of the country — the wrong country.
You live in the wrong part of the country if the beginning of August evokes the end of summer… I know because I used to live there too, a long time ago.
“…the feelings of an old man” is the harshest criticism that comes to mind when questioning Trump’s qualifications and competence for his job? That he’s an old man? That’s his worst failing??
The rendering of the gold ballroom makes it look eerily like the one in The Shining. And that’s probably appropriate because … well, you know who lives on both premises.
The rendering looks eerily like the gold ballroom in The Shining. Naturally, since a maniacal psychopath haunts both the Overlook Hotel and the White House.
She is nasty and dirty.
And was leaning into senility.
Love “odious (odorous) Musk.” Can you do the same for Bezos?
Fortunately, the rule of law still pertains in Illinois. Unfortunately, that cannot be said about much of the rest of the country.
David and his team believe in obscene, grotesque wealth & power.
Evidence, my dudes? Anyone can “intuit” what goes on in someone else’s mind. Anyone can post it on social. Persuading people with facts why you make such claims is another matter.
Science - from the Latin word for “knowledge” - is threatening to them, because it often contradicts their beliefs - from Old English for faith, trust - in other words, blind confidence without evidence (as with racism). They want to believe what they want to believe. To hell with science.
“The most repressed are often the most controlling.” Precisely. If conservatives felt comfortable with their sexuality at home in their own bedroom they wouldn’t constantly get caught with their pants down in public restrooms. The first “live” in “live & let live” is critical to the second one.
He was deemed guilty of believing in science.
re-upping this one
… fails spectacularly
Trump’s universal M.O. is the shakedown. He applies it to educational institutions just as indiscriminately as he does to foreign countries, business & corporate entities, blue state politicians & his own Republican members of Congress who threaten to step out of line. Everything is a shakedown.
Fair to say, Ethan picked the right parents.
Trump could bring peace to the entire planet, end world hunger, share the spoils of billionaires with the poorest among us, and turn the tide against climate change. And he STILL should spend the rest of his life in prison. Maybe grant him a month off at the bitter end for redeeming behavior.
Wordlebot has always been a sore loser
Too bad for him he doesn’t enjoy the immunity bestowed on U.S. presidents by our royalist Supreme Court.
Don’t worry, the Wall Street Journal editorial regime apologist board will find a way to spin this as a clever Trump chess move.
Sometimes when living through Trump 2.0 seems so unbearable, so intolerable and profoundly anguishing that living anywhere outside this country seems preferable, my imagination flashes momentarily on the idea of living in Israel, and suddenly I know things could be nauseatingly worse.
When history finally catches up to him — as of course it will — it’s not going to be showering him with bouquets.
Its just you (🤭)
I got it! But you should bold each capital letter for everyone else.
Sure. And I remember when presidents weren't convicted criminals or self-admitted sex predators. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The most interesting thing about the EU “deal” is that the US president, a 34X felon who was found guilty of sexual abuse, is trying to cover his other wrongdoings by pardoning a convicted sex offender and child sex trafficker.
He looks and acts just like a smarmy Peter Sellers character, aware of his own slime and even luxuriating in it. Yes, someone should punch his ticket.
If not by the dead, then by the living.
Knowing the Scottish disposition and temperament, I’d say the millions who might have shown up but didn’t represent an even more withering and contemptuous skewering of Trump than those who did.
How about a bill to rename the American institution popularly called by its inventor's name - Thomas Crapper - to the Trumper?
Pardoning Maxwell is the furthest thing from Trump's mind, never even crossed ... Whoops!! She's walking free!
“We’re gonna need a bigger ankle monitor!”
If they eventually succeed at wholesale elimination or nullification of their low-hanging base groups of scapegoats — immigrants, POC, LGBTQ folk, libs — what will they tell poor whites who not only aren’t helped by it but even fall farther down the economic ladder?
Why is a putative president constantly doing hypersensitive surveillance of late-night and other tv when he should be governing? Oh, yeah, it’s that clown who’s going senile…
Very helpful, illuminating insight, Peter. Thank you!
“FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: Frankly, the media industry across this country needs a course correction.” Frankly, Brendan Carr needs a reverse lobotomy.