Oh Donald, like the demagogic Joe McCarthy and other narcissistic politicos, you're destined to be long remembered… and mocked! Those vainglorious gold-plated Trump nameplates you're tacking onto every public space will soon be unceremoniously stripped off and dumped into the trash bin of history.
Spot on as usual. Oh Donald, we are so sick of you and your mobster "government". BTW, as much as has been written about him, we think the best analysis of his so-called character comes from someone in his own family - who better? Mary Trump, PhD, licensed clinical psychiatrist ("shrink" for short) wrote "Too much and never enough" during her uncle's first term. Even more true today!
Everybody sing now: Oh, he's a jolly good failure...which nobody can deny!
Money, money, money, money...........Me, me, me, me........and let everyone else eat cake and lose your rights and your freedom and your life and your future.......(Joe McCarthy connection via Roy Cohn lives on as does the danger and damage wrought that is repeating itself in spades and worse...through the monster that is Trump, his entire family, his Corrupt regime, the Republicans, his enablers on the Roberts 6, and the Billionaires who are screwing us all)
Yeah, let's make america great again...first, the day that sociopathic grifting disgrace no longer draws breath will be a good start. Second...prosecute his criminal grifting kids and the unqualified so-called members of his regime who have violated their oath of office at every turn. Third...Correct the tax code to force all the criminal oligarchs to pay their fair share(and include retroactive penalties for the billions they stole for decades). Methinks it sounds reasonable for a start to return to fiscal and social sanity.
Historical undemocratic constructs like 2 senators per state regardless of population and the Electoral College + the power of the techno/kleptocrats to influence the uneducated bros, without regard for anything but increasing their wealth and power + the presence of so many right-wing authoritarian personality types in the electorate + the reality that Trump is the greatest con man of all time = what we've got.
The string of abominable variables (and there are more...) do add up to what you graciously termed "what we've got". I can think of many, far less generous ways to name the right side of the equation.
Agreed! Trump is well aware of the convergence of factors that were needed to return him to office and he knows they will only carry him so far. Hence, in keeping with a lifetime of lies and cheating, because he is incapable of winning anything honestly, we see the elaborate plans to redistrict, disenfranchise voters, and plan for illegal seizure of voting systems under some ridiculous excuse of an "emergency". This second term has been a grift beyond his imagining for his entire corrupt family and administration and he will do anything to preserve it.
I believe you're right, John Kumm. Trump must feel now like Aladdin did when he entered the cave of treasures. Or how King Midas did when he first realized that all he touched turned to gold. Bur if I remember right, in the end, Aladdin was thrown into a toilet, and King Midas? I think he went mad...
I think it is reasonably certain that Trump will die emotionally alone and miserable, realizing that his vast but shallow accumulations amount to nothing, but can our Republic survive the time he has left?
The first thought that popped into my head when I read your reply was what Benjamin Franklin said when asked what kind of government the Continental Congress had created. He said, "A republic, if you can keep it."
In my view, the republic that the Founding Fathers created has not survived. In my view a fourth branch of government that has been created, the "Acquisitive", composed of billionaires, their boards of directors, and their lawyers and lobbyists. The Acquisitive oversees and directs the three traditional branches now, as far as I can tell.
Nonetheless, I believe that the republic, and democracy, can be resurrected. I believe in the ultimate power of We the People.
Donny is surely the Ozymandias of American politicians. And you are right. As soon as the Congress flips, The name Trump will mysteriously disappear from the Kennedy center. When there's a new dem POTUS, all that tacky gold leaf will be removed from the walls of the WH, especially the oval office, which looks like there is an infestation of some alien lifeform crawling up the walls and multiplying.
Thanks for the encouragement. It just seems supremely ironic that our "government" is assassinating despotic leaders of other countries, yet here we are.
Yes I th I nk of the irony every time he mentionsMaduro,Cuba and now Iran,he describes them just like he is trying to turn America into. Yet he idolizes Putin and Kim Jong Un.
Well said Jim! It is so pathetic that Trump and his ilk are unable to see reality. For them it's all about artifice and vice signaling for his completely conned base, and meaningless (and as you point out, fleeting) self-aggrandizement to feed his monstrous but fragile ego. He will go down in the history books as a complete joke, elected by completely out of touch Americans, techno/kleptocrats, and self-serving politicians.
Good comment but l am so tired of hearing the name and seeing pictures of the currently convicted criminal United States President that S.C.O.T. U.S. allowed him no sentence or punishment because he had to be inaugurated in January of 2026 so he could act up.in the oval office. We need to learn from the mistakes that allowed this fascist situation to happen and put in place a plan 2B OK. You only have what you pay attention to, what do you have from paying attention to artificial intelligence?
The insane orange clown has already given his name to Hostess ,king dons Halloween pumpkin edition. After he released the video of the Obamas as monkeys I thought about how many lowdowners stereotype orange skinned people as orange utans . Rump should have his name on an orangutan exhibit at a zoo, but first I want people to stop making me visualize rumps head superimposed on an orangutan body swaying to jungle king music and send me a video so I can see it with my 2 eyes.
I remember Michelle saying, "When they go low, we go high". That the Obamas stuck to that was a testament to their character, then, and now.
AI has a lot of downside, but there's upside too. You can indulge your fantasies and create just about anything you like. Is that an upside, or a downside?
I can't remember who said it, or how it went exactly, but it was something like, "Don't get into a shit throwing contest with a monkey. He'll have fun, and you'll lose."
It's kind of like the saying about getting into a wrestling match with a pig...
Three cheers for Michelle, I like that girl. Unfortunately it was the clown shit throwing contest that won the last election. I didn't like the democrats strategy of sticking their heads in the sand and being an orange clowns punching bag and the majority of voters thought less of it than I. Harris lost to abankrupt felon who by his own rhetoric is the only president to have rigged stolen elections in his term. Those are facts not insults. With Bondi recently seizing the election records from Fulton County ga. The democrats need to make that point loud and clear. I learned to take shit throwing long before I learned to throw back, I would rather be around people who have a self defacating sense of humor than to be in the midst of a flying turd show so I hope the democrats can make themselves look like leaders and win elections. I am with you on the a.i. thing, I have never had internet, bought from Amazon or been on Facebook and think they should be regulated before there are any more lapses of reality. Europe recently sued meta for a.i. pornography and child imagry.
If Trump’s goal is to remembered, he doesn’t need to put his name on buildings—after all, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and so many other despots are remembered without this hubristic chicanery—but not in a good way.
I have heard trump used to replace a 4 letter f expletive. The stock market was really trumped up today. I wonder if bondi thinks we should be paying attention to it now
We are not sure, not being card players. But his German ancestors spelled the name "Trumpf". In German, that rhymes with "Sumpf", which means Swamp. Now doesn't that make sense?
Trump is a suit that is higher than all others . In poker hearts are the strongest suit but they are only as strong as their numeric value .a 2 of hearts beats a 2 of spades. A trump suit would have the 2 take all cards of different suits . In euker atrump suit is called by the highest bidder and that suit is all powerful but you must follow suit. If you are out of the suit played then you can play your trump suit and take all cards of a different suit. In poker suits are only used to break a numeric tie there is no trump suit where a2 is stronger than an ace
Reminds me of a pre-WWII graffito I saw as a little kid. I thought it cool as something from my parents' generation. Carved on a wall of the waiting area for an old decommissioned ferry dock, it read: "I love me; I think I'm grand. When in the movies, I hold my hand. I put my arm around my waist; when I get too fresh, I slap my face."
Except in Trump's case, there would be no slapping.
Yes, we will soon be rid of this bullying coward. But I worry that he will have defunded, polluted, bombed, destroyed so much of the Constitutional infrastructure on which our democracy relies that it may take decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, more homelessness, less education, dirtier air and water, more sanctioned racism, worse health, more fear and division. How long will it take us to rebuild our bombed out Constitution?
The first executive order by the next demographic president should be to strip all Trump names off government buildings and send Trump the bill. I wonder if any of the Congessional Republicans have any idea of the hundreds of billions of dollars it is going to cost to undo Trump’s damage to this country. I hope all the institutions that have had to change their displays to cater to Trump have them stored somewhere so they can be put back up once Trump and his cadre of incompetents are gone.
Spot on as usual. Oh Donald, we are so sick of you and your mobster "government". BTW, as much as has been written about him, we think the best analysis of his so-called character comes from someone in his own family - who better? Mary Trump, PhD, licensed clinical psychiatrist ("shrink" for short) wrote "Too much and never enough" during her uncle's first term. Even more true today!
Everybody sing now: Oh, he's a jolly good failure...which nobody can deny!
Let's make this our marching anthem. Everybody knows the tune, and the words come so easily off the tongue.
I sang it and laughed. Thanks for that!
Welcome to the choir!
Thank you, clinton and susanne hollister! I'm delighted!
So did I! 😄
Money, money, money, money...........Me, me, me, me........and let everyone else eat cake and lose your rights and your freedom and your life and your future.......(Joe McCarthy connection via Roy Cohn lives on as does the danger and damage wrought that is repeating itself in spades and worse...through the monster that is Trump, his entire family, his Corrupt regime, the Republicans, his enablers on the Roberts 6, and the Billionaires who are screwing us all)
Yeah, let's make america great again...first, the day that sociopathic grifting disgrace no longer draws breath will be a good start. Second...prosecute his criminal grifting kids and the unqualified so-called members of his regime who have violated their oath of office at every turn. Third...Correct the tax code to force all the criminal oligarchs to pay their fair share(and include retroactive penalties for the billions they stole for decades). Methinks it sounds reasonable for a start to return to fiscal and social sanity.
Historical undemocratic constructs like 2 senators per state regardless of population and the Electoral College + the power of the techno/kleptocrats to influence the uneducated bros, without regard for anything but increasing their wealth and power + the presence of so many right-wing authoritarian personality types in the electorate + the reality that Trump is the greatest con man of all time = what we've got.
The string of abominable variables (and there are more...) do add up to what you graciously termed "what we've got". I can think of many, far less generous ways to name the right side of the equation.
Agreed! Trump is well aware of the convergence of factors that were needed to return him to office and he knows they will only carry him so far. Hence, in keeping with a lifetime of lies and cheating, because he is incapable of winning anything honestly, we see the elaborate plans to redistrict, disenfranchise voters, and plan for illegal seizure of voting systems under some ridiculous excuse of an "emergency". This second term has been a grift beyond his imagining for his entire corrupt family and administration and he will do anything to preserve it.
I believe you're right, John Kumm. Trump must feel now like Aladdin did when he entered the cave of treasures. Or how King Midas did when he first realized that all he touched turned to gold. Bur if I remember right, in the end, Aladdin was thrown into a toilet, and King Midas? I think he went mad...
I think it is reasonably certain that Trump will die emotionally alone and miserable, realizing that his vast but shallow accumulations amount to nothing, but can our Republic survive the time he has left?
The first thought that popped into my head when I read your reply was what Benjamin Franklin said when asked what kind of government the Continental Congress had created. He said, "A republic, if you can keep it."
In my view, the republic that the Founding Fathers created has not survived. In my view a fourth branch of government that has been created, the "Acquisitive", composed of billionaires, their boards of directors, and their lawyers and lobbyists. The Acquisitive oversees and directs the three traditional branches now, as far as I can tell.
Nonetheless, I believe that the republic, and democracy, can be resurrected. I believe in the ultimate power of We the People.
"O pueblo, unido, jamas será vencido".
That's great!
Donny is surely the Ozymandias of American politicians. And you are right. As soon as the Congress flips, The name Trump will mysteriously disappear from the Kennedy center. When there's a new dem POTUS, all that tacky gold leaf will be removed from the walls of the WH, especially the oval office, which looks like there is an infestation of some alien lifeform crawling up the walls and multiplying.
Wow. You would think that Percy Shelley was a prophet as well as a poet. What a perfect description of the worst president in American history!
Thanks for the encouragement. It just seems supremely ironic that our "government" is assassinating despotic leaders of other countries, yet here we are.
Yes I th I nk of the irony every time he mentionsMaduro,Cuba and now Iran,he describes them just like he is trying to turn America into. Yet he idolizes Putin and Kim Jong Un.
Well said Jim! It is so pathetic that Trump and his ilk are unable to see reality. For them it's all about artifice and vice signaling for his completely conned base, and meaningless (and as you point out, fleeting) self-aggrandizement to feed his monstrous but fragile ego. He will go down in the history books as a complete joke, elected by completely out of touch Americans, techno/kleptocrats, and self-serving politicians.
Good comment but l am so tired of hearing the name and seeing pictures of the currently convicted criminal United States President that S.C.O.T. U.S. allowed him no sentence or punishment because he had to be inaugurated in January of 2026 so he could act up.in the oval office. We need to learn from the mistakes that allowed this fascist situation to happen and put in place a plan 2B OK. You only have what you pay attention to, what do you have from paying attention to artificial intelligence?
January of 2025, my mistake
The insane orange clown has already given his name to Hostess ,king dons Halloween pumpkin edition. After he released the video of the Obamas as monkeys I thought about how many lowdowners stereotype orange skinned people as orange utans . Rump should have his name on an orangutan exhibit at a zoo, but first I want people to stop making me visualize rumps head superimposed on an orangutan body swaying to jungle king music and send me a video so I can see it with my 2 eyes.
The Obama meme was abominable.
I remember Michelle saying, "When they go low, we go high". That the Obamas stuck to that was a testament to their character, then, and now.
AI has a lot of downside, but there's upside too. You can indulge your fantasies and create just about anything you like. Is that an upside, or a downside?
I can't remember who said it, or how it went exactly, but it was something like, "Don't get into a shit throwing contest with a monkey. He'll have fun, and you'll lose."
It's kind of like the saying about getting into a wrestling match with a pig...
Three cheers for Michelle, I like that girl. Unfortunately it was the clown shit throwing contest that won the last election. I didn't like the democrats strategy of sticking their heads in the sand and being an orange clowns punching bag and the majority of voters thought less of it than I. Harris lost to abankrupt felon who by his own rhetoric is the only president to have rigged stolen elections in his term. Those are facts not insults. With Bondi recently seizing the election records from Fulton County ga. The democrats need to make that point loud and clear. I learned to take shit throwing long before I learned to throw back, I would rather be around people who have a self defacating sense of humor than to be in the midst of a flying turd show so I hope the democrats can make themselves look like leaders and win elections. I am with you on the a.i. thing, I have never had internet, bought from Amazon or been on Facebook and think they should be regulated before there are any more lapses of reality. Europe recently sued meta for a.i. pornography and child imagry.
If Trump’s goal is to remembered, he doesn’t need to put his name on buildings—after all, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and so many other despots are remembered without this hubristic chicanery—but not in a good way.
Some people think of Hitler as a good guy, like so many facist followers, like our current U.S. President seems to.
I love this. All I can think of is, “Fools names and fools faces always appear on public places.” This will pass, but not fast enough 😊
He will rename the country Trumpia or Trumpland. And why stop there? Rename the planet to Trumpo or Trumpus.
Trump will be remembered in the same way that the Vandals were. "Trump" will join the lexicon as a verb meaning to deface or defile, like "vandalism".
From what I understand, "trump" has taken on the meaning of "fart" in Great Britain. Cheeky, right?
History will not be kind.
I have heard trump used to replace a 4 letter f expletive. The stock market was really trumped up today. I wonder if bondi thinks we should be paying attention to it now
Isn't trump a term used in poker?
Trump is a term in euker and a few other card games.
What does trump mean in card games?
We are not sure, not being card players. But his German ancestors spelled the name "Trumpf". In German, that rhymes with "Sumpf", which means Swamp. Now doesn't that make sense?
Trump is a suit that is higher than all others . In poker hearts are the strongest suit but they are only as strong as their numeric value .a 2 of hearts beats a 2 of spades. A trump suit would have the 2 take all cards of different suits . In euker atrump suit is called by the highest bidder and that suit is all powerful but you must follow suit. If you are out of the suit played then you can play your trump suit and take all cards of a different suit. In poker suits are only used to break a numeric tie there is no trump suit where a2 is stronger than an ace
How ironic!
Reminds me of a pre-WWII graffito I saw as a little kid. I thought it cool as something from my parents' generation. Carved on a wall of the waiting area for an old decommissioned ferry dock, it read: "I love me; I think I'm grand. When in the movies, I hold my hand. I put my arm around my waist; when I get too fresh, I slap my face."
Except in Trump's case, there would be no slapping.
"Fools' names, like their faces, oft appear in public places."
Yes, we will soon be rid of this bullying coward. But I worry that he will have defunded, polluted, bombed, destroyed so much of the Constitutional infrastructure on which our democracy relies that it may take decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, more homelessness, less education, dirtier air and water, more sanctioned racism, worse health, more fear and division. How long will it take us to rebuild our bombed out Constitution?
The first executive order by the next demographic president should be to strip all Trump names off government buildings and send Trump the bill. I wonder if any of the Congessional Republicans have any idea of the hundreds of billions of dollars it is going to cost to undo Trump’s damage to this country. I hope all the institutions that have had to change their displays to cater to Trump have them stored somewhere so they can be put back up once Trump and his cadre of incompetents are gone.