As to Trump's visit to the UK: brilliantly played. Not only was it a pointless but glittery day designed to delight a 3-year-old, but the brilliant display of perfect military marching and impressive horses made the 3-year-old's birthday parade in DC look dreary by comparison. The Royals knew exactly what they were doing and I applaud them. And the good people took care of the decor with Trump/Epstein projected on the wall of Windsor Castle. Well done.
I think it is humorous that they never left the castle grounds but rode him around in a carriage. Kind of like a child getting a pony ride at the county fair.
I saw it on FB. When I Googled it, all I could find was a still clip from the video. If I was more computer savvy I might have been able to copy it but I’m too old!! Try YouTube. I found an 8 second clip there.
He'll soon be sporting a jacket with 12 inch shoulder epaulettes and a chest full of fake shiny (must be shiny!) medals - similar to what Quadaffi wore.
I have to wonder if some of the pomp and circumstance was ALSO to encourage the withholding release of epstein files to save the royal family from the full unraveling of Prince Andrew's indiscretions 🫢🤔
There was an article either in Reuters or the Guardian, about Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, emailed apology to Epstein. She apologized for calling him a pedophile but said she didn't really call him that. Weird.
I think Prince Andrew settled in court, probably with some non-disclosure agreement and was punished enough by his mother. Further punishment was meted out by the gallant Brits via movie projection on Windsor Castle.
EVERY American NEEDS to do EVERYTHING they can possibly think of to HELP THEIR COUNTRY or else there will ne no coming back from this. The world thinks of USA as a dictatorship now - because it is !!!
If Chris Murphy actually believes any republinazi will actually stand up to their cult leader I've got a bridge to sell him. Cancun Ted will collapse into a puddle of slug slime the minute Diaper Don threatens him.
I’m not sure Murphy actually expects the GOP to grow a spine and a pair, but it’s worth pointing out for the sake of historical record that the nation has sunk this far with no action from the majority party except ass-kissing silence.
So our great leader is more concerned with getting revenge on his enemies than doing anything about the two horrible wars and our economy, which is going down the toilet! But, he raves about the frickin ballroom and the cemented over rose garden!
And seemingly going to war with Venezuela. Putin is warring in Ukraine, Netanyahu is warring in Gaza, and the felon is warring in Venezuela. Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo all over again
Hey, don't be dissing Sgt. Schultz. His "I see nothing!" was helping the good guys, and he knew it. DJ's "leadership" (I use the term *very* loosely) is a combination of the incompetence of Klink and the evil of the Gestapo. Epstein was a tool of Satan himself, and DJ was involved in that long before he rose to power with assistance from the KGB.
Yeah, he is senile. He wants a froggin' BALL ROOM for the flipping WHITE HOUSE to be his flipping LEGACY! All we'll need to remember Dum-Dum Donnie is his gold-leafed toilet! People will just look at that, and say, Oh yeah! THAT asshole!
Ballrooms are for tables of oligarch supporters he can visit, oozing what’s left of his capacities, for $, bigly cash. Then to trot off to bed & his Truth Social posts - his only two jobs. Will he collapse in the ballroom ? Demands some energy to navigate… Will it be in the ballroom?
Well, he was busy ending all the other wars , is it 10 now, on countries that don't exist, arent near each other , or he made up in his head. So yeah, good boy Krasnov
"How Washington Dems Help MAGA Get Away with It" -- from Julie Roginsky 9/20/25:
"[Last] week, Speaker Mike Johnson, who never met a tragedy he has not exploited, sponsored a resolution to honor Charlie Kirk. In doing so, the speaker rejected a Democratic resolution that sought to condemn all forms of political violence, including the murders of Kirk and Minnesota Democratic legislator Melissa Hortman; the near-assassinations of Trump and Paul Pelosi; the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and—crucially—the January 6 attack on the Capitol, among others. Instead, Johnson put forward his own resolution, which honored ‘the life, leadership, and legacy of Charlie Kirk’…
Led by Jeffries and his leadership team, most House Democratic members voted for Johnson’s resolution… I can tell you exactly how the calculus in the House Democratic caucus went… They were worried that Republicans would accuse them of supporting political violence—even though Democrats had offered up a resolution condemning all political violence. They were concerned that they would be portrayed as lacking empathy for a dead man, even though that dead man famously said, ‘I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that—it does a lot of damage’…
So what should a smarter, stronger Washington Democratic Party have done? It could have taken to cable news and independent media, to social media and to the well of the House and said this: ‘You don’t give a damn about political violence, Republicans. You won’t even vote to condemn the violence Trump’s supporters perpetuated in his name on all of us on January 6. You are shamefully exploiting a murder to eradicate free speech and glorifying someone who thought women should be breeding machines, Blacks and Latinos were criminals, Jews were evil and who called for the death of the last president of the United States. Sit down and shut the fuck up.’"
I live in a tiny blue dot in a red state that I'm usually completely embarrassed to live in. But I want to give a shout out to two LA Congressional Reps -Troy Carter and Cleo Fields -who voted against this resolution! Especially my personal district Rep Troy Carter, who is always on the right side of history. 🥰
I would, but ferrets are illegal there.☹️ One of the only states where they are. It's the one really regressive law you have. Otherwise I'd love to move there!
I know, right? The only other state they are illegal in is Hawaii. Both states base that on totally inaccurate information about domestic ferrets. (But there is a movement to legalize ferrets in CA that is finally getting some traction, so maybe there is hope). 😄🤞 Perhaps I should write to America's Favorite and Most Handsome Governor, GCN, and see if he'll champion the cause, lol. 😉😂🦦
Absolutely! So sick and tired of the Democrats in Congress's cowardice! With the exception of the righteous representatives like Jasmine Crockett, who voted Nay. I truly despair of our future when I see this. Shame on leader Jeffries - a Black man - for not standing up and fighting back! Even if they still lost the vote, they wouldn't have lost their dignity, nor the respect of their constituents.
"(4) honors the life, leadership, and legacy of Charlie Kirk, whose steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth inspired a generation to cherish and defend the blessings of liberty; and..."
This is Paragraph 4, the poison pill. Dems who voted for the bill must've skimmed over it. I can't imagine they believe it.
That's what I said...Who the f**k is kirk? I only heard his name when He said Release the Epstein Files, before the felon threatened him and he backed down! I have since found kirk's speeches...Those speeches are the definition of hate speeches and not in any religious teachings I have ever read!
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"Halligan was one of Trump’s former attorneys, has zero experience as a criminal lawyer, and is generally a complete dunce and full MAGA cultist..." Another incompetent sycophant with major conflict of interest. It's demoralizing to hear this news, but hopefully her lack of legitimate qualifications will mean more wins for defendants who are wrongly prosecuted.
Joyce Vance gave an excellent run down on Halligan's complete lack of experience for a US Attorney. I wasn't surprised to see that she is a doll. I guess that and an excellent ability to suck up is enough experience for this admin.
I don't know what bug Donny has in his little pea brain about it but I'll bet some money that Daddy Vlad put it there. Putie prolly wants it but likely thinks 'why not incite the Orange Toddler to waste US military men and money on getting it?'--after all Vlad's pretty much tapped out by those stubborn Ukrainians who refuse to roll over for him.
My disgust is limitless. It seems we will have to experience a serious recession before any of the gutless elected Republican officials say no to Trump!
During the Army-McCarthy hearings in June 1954, lawyer Joseph Welch in response to an accusation by McCarthy that he had hired a Communist to work in his law practice, uttered those famous words, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” It was the beginning of the end for McCarthy who had bedeviled the nation for years with his Communist behind every tree bullshit. Now is the time for one, just one lousy Democratic senator, to begin questioning his colleagues as they continue to defend the indefensible coming out of this thug rogue regime. Maybe something along the lines of “Is there a point at which you have will have had enough of this dictator routine, sir, at long last?” If only…
They can stop this . Now. They are choosing his hate, division and destruction . Trumpthuglicans will go down in history as the worst chapter in all of our 249 years
To Trump, "Guilt' means he is an enemy of Trump. Trump never cares about the law, or evidence. Evidence just gets in his way, it confuses his stories with facts when he just wants to paint his enemies as terrible people who deserve punishment.
Trump does not like lawyers who focus on facts and certainly thinks they are useless if they do not give him what he wants, which is for them to repeat his stories. Trump does not think in terms of lies, he creates his reality, his stories and then tells them, forcing them to become reality by pressuring others to repeat his stories, starting with those under his control.
By Firing that 'useless' US Attorney, Trump is asserting his control, and demand for a US attorney who will repeat his story, regardless of any facts.
From The New Republic (“Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes”): “[U]ltimately, what Trump and Miller are actually doing is trying to establish the ethos that all prosecutions are just a power struggle, that the only guilt-versus-innocence metric that has any force is established by who wins elections (by any means necessary) and, by extension, who gets to prosecute whom.”
Ron!! Was the market so much fun? I hope you and your family had a wonderful time and I hope you loved the classes and came home with fantastic things.
Ressentiment [is] a condition in which a subject is addled by rage and envy yet remains impotent, subjugated and unable to act on or adequately express frustration. Though anger and resentment capture part of Trump … ressentiment accounts for the unique intersection where powerful sentiments and self-serving morality are coupled with feelings of powerlessness and ruminations on past injuries: Trump is able to sustain the affective charge of animus without forfeiting the moral high ground of victimhood to his audience's “oppressors”—Democrats, the press, criminals, immigrants, foreign adversaries, welfare recipients, the Me Too movement, “globalists,” and racial Others.
Trump's imagined audience is angry … because they suffer … because they are powerless … because they are virtuous. The country, they are told, has been unfairly taken from them. It is not simply that Trump intones resentment and rage but that he invites his audience to see themselves as powerless and incapable of adequately expressing their own frustrations. It is the suturing together of powerful feelings with a morally-righteous subject position of weakness that constitutes the political subject of ressentiment. With either power or ability to articulate their own desires, Trump demands to be his supporter's surrogate: “I AM YOUR VOICE!”
Trump must continually ruminate on his injuries, invent new tormentors and resurrect old ones, pursue ill-conceived policy goals, and perpetually defer the resolution of their collective grievances. The suffering of his electorate takes precedence above all other considerations of justice. The thirst for revenge never dissipates.
Trump's … appeals to white rage, are well-suited to mediums that engender impulsivity, simplicity, narcissism, and incivility. … Trump's rallies carry the warped sense of civic virtue cultivated by reality television and social networks into the office of the presidency. … Although he regularly observes the suffering of his forgotten electorate, according to Trump no one suffers more than he.
Trump [has] represented himself as a benevolent protector of the virtuous citizenry against the bad faith of their opponents. [He] inscribed martyrdom onto the “job-description” of the presidency. …Trump clearly transgresses taboos against the open endorsement of political violence in a democratic culture. He carves out a zone of exception for his supporters that relieves them of their legal and civic obligations. Under exception, slights and injuries—even ones of little consequence—can and should be met with an equal if not disproportionate measure of retributive violence.
[T]o the extent that dominant elites control the means of communication and the public vocabulary, they can represent singular partisan interests as universal or moral ones. They can thereby evade the modifications, compromises, and larger goods wrought through agonistic competition between values and interests. Dominant elites thus hijack the moral potential for partisan ends.
I think his broken mind and lack of decency are big problems, reinforced by others, yes, but primarily his own hateful, vile soul: From a 1992 interview with Charlie Rose: “I love getting even with people.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhqR11zfFEs&t=2502s
Certainly an aspect of Trump's success, but even more - focused on the nature of his 'cult' following. It is certainly his cult following which grants him his power over Republicans in congress which in turn gives him more control over the public narrative.
When are the Republicans going to start asking for RFK Jr's resignation or Pam Bondi or Kash Patel... When children die from diseases that could be prevented, when a terrorist attack on US soil happens... when our economy is in a Depression.. because we are pretty much already in a recession, no one is willing to call it that but Americans are feeling it... Shutting down an inefficient government is all on the Repbulicans. They can finger point all they want but this incompetent administration and the complicit GOP are responsible for ALL the damage that is happening to our country right now.
Lindsey Halligan rocks full MAGA face, with slightly less filler. “All meat. Not a speck of filler,” said Lorne Greene approvingly of Gaines Burgers dog food.
When MAGA dies with decaying Donny, KKKaroline and that lot will be stuck with unfashionable faces. After a decade of Democratic politeness, I’m jeering and pointing.
Trump’s obsession with looks is confounding means he keeps around Hegseth and Leavitt, whom he considers “camera-ready.” He despises Susie Wiles because Jared insisted on her, she’s sixty-something, she worked for DeSantis, and Trump calls her “the refrigerator.” Watching him try to keep Wiles and Steven Cheung out of sight is, well, something.
I don’t know how Ron has time to do all that cooking from scratch from all Maine products, but I’m sure that the missus is glad he does. I am too. Good thing he only mentions he’s in the Pine Tree State, because otherwise he’d have Meidas Mighty on the Filipkowski doorstep at dinnertime every night.
Yum! I have a food-obsessed octogenarian correspondent in New Hampshire. She loves Maine and hearing about Ron. During his vacation I realized I was formatting her emails just like the missing Bulletin.
As to Trump's visit to the UK: brilliantly played. Not only was it a pointless but glittery day designed to delight a 3-year-old, but the brilliant display of perfect military marching and impressive horses made the 3-year-old's birthday parade in DC look dreary by comparison. The Royals knew exactly what they were doing and I applaud them. And the good people took care of the decor with Trump/Epstein projected on the wall of Windsor Castle. Well done.
I think it is humorous that they never left the castle grounds but rode him around in a carriage. Kind of like a child getting a pony ride at the county fair.
😂😂 Perfect description! He's a 3 year old, FFS. So embarrassing.
They rode him around in a cage like he should be in and Malainaaa had a hat like a lampshade.
I’m wondering who trained the horse to defecate right in front of the biggest piece of horse manure in the crowd…..
"Turds of a feather flock together".
Do you have a copy of that in video? djt will soon show a horse allergy.
Desi Lydic played it on her monologue during the Daily Show last week. Look that up on You Tube. Priceless : )
I saw it on FB. When I Googled it, all I could find was a still clip from the video. If I was more computer savvy I might have been able to copy it but I’m too old!! Try YouTube. I found an 8 second clip there.
There y'go! Perfect timing!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6qykAJKQxrg
Perfect timing. That horse looked like he enjoyed that 😄
Every sane American thanks that horse for delivering the message every single one of us has for him!
Michael Wolfe says after seeing the king’s jacket with medals on it, Donny will want one just like it.
oh no doubt-- probably a self-award of the Medal of Freedom (the highest non-military honor) Plus a Nobel Prize most nominated award too)))
When they don't give him the Nobel prize then he will just make one up and claim it's better than the real one.
Absolutely! Keep an eye on this…he may end up wearing the fake gold in the WH redo.
He'll soon be sporting a jacket with 12 inch shoulder epaulettes and a chest full of fake shiny (must be shiny!) medals - similar to what Quadaffi wore.
You are so right
Donnie got a parade that went nowhere with nobody watching in Cinderella's golden carriage. Well played by the Brits.
It was all show for a petty, shallow man who craves affirmation 24/7.
We could learn much about protesting from them
Sorry I missed that! The humor of exasperated Brits is legendary.
I have to wonder if some of the pomp and circumstance was ALSO to encourage the withholding release of epstein files to save the royal family from the full unraveling of Prince Andrew's indiscretions 🫢🤔
There was an article either in Reuters or the Guardian, about Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, emailed apology to Epstein. She apologized for calling him a pedophile but said she didn't really call him that. Weird.
Manda. Yes, I believe that. Heaven forbid further scandal should dirty such a pure and moral family.
I think Prince Andrew settled in court, probably with some non-disclosure agreement and was punished enough by his mother. Further punishment was meted out by the gallant Brits via movie projection on Windsor Castle.
They really, truly did not dare let him outside the castle grounds. The Brits would have wiped him away.
Halligan and Alina Yabba Dabba Do probably cribbed off each at the same law school that graduated Saul Goodman.
EVERY American NEEDS to do EVERYTHING they can possibly think of to HELP THEIR COUNTRY or else there will ne no coming back from this. The world thinks of USA as a dictatorship now - because it is !!!
They matriculated at the special school for lawyers who would " rather be pretty than smart", as Habba once said.
the new must have requirement for US Attorneys is pouty enhanced lips.
Scam - don't click.
Woah there. Saul Goodman was a Titan of Morals next to those two!
Sorry. More like 'My Cousin Vinny'.
All I see when I see her printed name is, Halogen, like the lightbulbs.
I see Hooligan.
The light is on but nobody home....💩
That's an insult to Saul. 😊
and just think -- our basic rights are FAR BELOW Saul
Good point. My apologies.
Apparently she and Erika Kirk ran in the same model/pageant circles back in the day also….
If Chris Murphy actually believes any republinazi will actually stand up to their cult leader I've got a bridge to sell him. Cancun Ted will collapse into a puddle of slug slime the minute Diaper Don threatens him.
I’m not sure Murphy actually expects the GOP to grow a spine and a pair, but it’s worth pointing out for the sake of historical record that the nation has sunk this far with no action from the majority party except ass-kissing silence.
That bloviated Blockhead caused more chaos and broke more laws in mere days , than any other person alive. 🙄
He just blows right through all normal behaviors to crazy town daily
I love Chris Murphy, but I agree totally.
Ted is running again…had to do something, Daddy…he will say
Definitely agreeing with Chris Murphy on that.
So our great leader is more concerned with getting revenge on his enemies than doing anything about the two horrible wars and our economy, which is going down the toilet! But, he raves about the frickin ballroom and the cemented over rose garden!
Well, he is trying to start wars of his own as well…
Wag the dog! All for the sake of thinking Epstein files will go away!
God forbid!
Credit where credit is due....
And seemingly going to war with Venezuela. Putin is warring in Ukraine, Netanyahu is warring in Gaza, and the felon is warring in Venezuela. Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo all over again
Except Trump and Epstein are more like Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes.”
Hey, don't be dissing Sgt. Schultz. His "I see nothing!" was helping the good guys, and he knew it. DJ's "leadership" (I use the term *very* loosely) is a combination of the incompetence of Klink and the evil of the Gestapo. Epstein was a tool of Satan himself, and DJ was involved in that long before he rose to power with assistance from the KGB.
Point taken. Kegseth certainly fits the Stasi mold.
The collection of willful cruelty in DJ's circle is straight from hell.
Don't forget Stalin.
Yeah, he is senile. He wants a froggin' BALL ROOM for the flipping WHITE HOUSE to be his flipping LEGACY! All we'll need to remember Dum-Dum Donnie is his gold-leafed toilet! People will just look at that, and say, Oh yeah! THAT asshole!
Ballrooms are for tables of oligarch supporters he can visit, oozing what’s left of his capacities, for $, bigly cash. Then to trot off to bed & his Truth Social posts - his only two jobs. Will he collapse in the ballroom ? Demands some energy to navigate… Will it be in the ballroom?
Does he think he will live forever? Does he think he can take those billions with him when he leaves?
Well, he was busy ending all the other wars , is it 10 now, on countries that don't exist, arent near each other , or he made up in his head. So yeah, good boy Krasnov
"How Washington Dems Help MAGA Get Away with It" -- from Julie Roginsky 9/20/25:
"[Last] week, Speaker Mike Johnson, who never met a tragedy he has not exploited, sponsored a resolution to honor Charlie Kirk. In doing so, the speaker rejected a Democratic resolution that sought to condemn all forms of political violence, including the murders of Kirk and Minnesota Democratic legislator Melissa Hortman; the near-assassinations of Trump and Paul Pelosi; the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and—crucially—the January 6 attack on the Capitol, among others. Instead, Johnson put forward his own resolution, which honored ‘the life, leadership, and legacy of Charlie Kirk’…
Led by Jeffries and his leadership team, most House Democratic members voted for Johnson’s resolution… I can tell you exactly how the calculus in the House Democratic caucus went… They were worried that Republicans would accuse them of supporting political violence—even though Democrats had offered up a resolution condemning all political violence. They were concerned that they would be portrayed as lacking empathy for a dead man, even though that dead man famously said, ‘I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that—it does a lot of damage’…
So what should a smarter, stronger Washington Democratic Party have done? It could have taken to cable news and independent media, to social media and to the well of the House and said this: ‘You don’t give a damn about political violence, Republicans. You won’t even vote to condemn the violence Trump’s supporters perpetuated in his name on all of us on January 6. You are shamefully exploiting a murder to eradicate free speech and glorifying someone who thought women should be breeding machines, Blacks and Latinos were criminals, Jews were evil and who called for the death of the last president of the United States. Sit down and shut the fuck up.’"
I live in a tiny blue dot in a red state that I'm usually completely embarrassed to live in. But I want to give a shout out to two LA Congressional Reps -Troy Carter and Cleo Fields -who voted against this resolution! Especially my personal district Rep Troy Carter, who is always on the right side of history. 🥰
I would, but ferrets are illegal there.☹️ One of the only states where they are. It's the one really regressive law you have. Otherwise I'd love to move there!
I know, right? The only other state they are illegal in is Hawaii. Both states base that on totally inaccurate information about domestic ferrets. (But there is a movement to legalize ferrets in CA that is finally getting some traction, so maybe there is hope). 😄🤞 Perhaps I should write to America's Favorite and Most Handsome Governor, GCN, and see if he'll champion the cause, lol. 😉😂🦦
Absolutely! So sick and tired of the Democrats in Congress's cowardice! With the exception of the righteous representatives like Jasmine Crockett, who voted Nay. I truly despair of our future when I see this. Shame on leader Jeffries - a Black man - for not standing up and fighting back! Even if they still lost the vote, they wouldn't have lost their dignity, nor the respect of their constituents.
"(4) honors the life, leadership, and legacy of Charlie Kirk, whose steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth inspired a generation to cherish and defend the blessings of liberty; and..."
This is Paragraph 4, the poison pill. Dems who voted for the bill must've skimmed over it. I can't imagine they believe it.
Julie Roginsky said all but 58 Dems voted for it. I'm with Jasmine Crockett on this one.
Who's Charlie Kirk?
A non-surfing hate-monger.
That's what I said...Who the f**k is kirk? I only heard his name when He said Release the Epstein Files, before the felon threatened him and he backed down! I have since found kirk's speeches...Those speeches are the definition of hate speeches and not in any religious teachings I have ever read!
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And release ALL the EPSTEIN FILES - NOW!
You very wisely omitted the DNC. Good on you.
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"Halligan was one of Trump’s former attorneys, has zero experience as a criminal lawyer, and is generally a complete dunce and full MAGA cultist..." Another incompetent sycophant with major conflict of interest. It's demoralizing to hear this news, but hopefully her lack of legitimate qualifications will mean more wins for defendants who are wrongly prosecuted.
Joyce Vance gave an excellent run down on Halligan's complete lack of experience for a US Attorney. I wasn't surprised to see that she is a doll. I guess that and an excellent ability to suck up is enough experience for this admin.
A doll along the lines of all the Maga bots...creepy as hell.
I's recommend that Halligan rethink setting her makeup gun to "baked bimbo"
😂
All of them got that look going on. Competing for the cover of " Conservative Cosplay MAGAzine.'
maybe she will get a special "Donald" sign
naughty Christmas card)))
There's a reason they all have those Botox lips - better for (ahem) suction. Especially for little mushrooms that are notoriously hard to find.
But she wears a lot of make-up, & has flowing hair, so what’s the problem? 🤷🏻♀️
No real Life???
Bagram was built by the Russians. It’s not ours “to take back.”
I don't know what bug Donny has in his little pea brain about it but I'll bet some money that Daddy Vlad put it there. Putie prolly wants it but likely thinks 'why not incite the Orange Toddler to waste US military men and money on getting it?'--after all Vlad's pretty much tapped out by those stubborn Ukrainians who refuse to roll over for him.
what are we going to DO with it? Send deported migrants to it?
My disgust is limitless. It seems we will have to experience a serious recession before any of the gutless elected Republican officials say no to Trump!
Recession? How about a full-blown depression?
That is what I think too Peach Depression.
Recession this summer Depression this winter.
Please do not use the Tariff Stagnation syndrome reference)
Much more likely.
I don’t think that will be enough…
It won't affect them.
During the Army-McCarthy hearings in June 1954, lawyer Joseph Welch in response to an accusation by McCarthy that he had hired a Communist to work in his law practice, uttered those famous words, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” It was the beginning of the end for McCarthy who had bedeviled the nation for years with his Communist behind every tree bullshit. Now is the time for one, just one lousy Democratic senator, to begin questioning his colleagues as they continue to defend the indefensible coming out of this thug rogue regime. Maybe something along the lines of “Is there a point at which you have will have had enough of this dictator routine, sir, at long last?” If only…
Don’t you mean the republicans?
They can stop this . Now. They are choosing his hate, division and destruction . Trumpthuglicans will go down in history as the worst chapter in all of our 249 years
To Trump, "Guilt' means he is an enemy of Trump. Trump never cares about the law, or evidence. Evidence just gets in his way, it confuses his stories with facts when he just wants to paint his enemies as terrible people who deserve punishment.
Trump does not like lawyers who focus on facts and certainly thinks they are useless if they do not give him what he wants, which is for them to repeat his stories. Trump does not think in terms of lies, he creates his reality, his stories and then tells them, forcing them to become reality by pressuring others to repeat his stories, starting with those under his control.
By Firing that 'useless' US Attorney, Trump is asserting his control, and demand for a US attorney who will repeat his story, regardless of any facts.
So, what else is new?
He really turned it up to rally speak at a memorial I will not speak of. So cringe ,its not even on the level of sickening .
Saw 2 mins . Tried to watch. It was a horror show. Emabarassing display of usual Trump speak 🙄
yes
disgusting and sickening
From The New Republic (“Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes”): “[U]ltimately, what Trump and Miller are actually doing is trying to establish the ethos that all prosecutions are just a power struggle, that the only guilt-versus-innocence metric that has any force is established by who wins elections (by any means necessary) and, by extension, who gets to prosecute whom.”
Yup! Truth now comes in 'versions', in accord with his Lordship's wishes.
Ron!! Was the market so much fun? I hope you and your family had a wonderful time and I hope you loved the classes and came home with fantastic things.
Donald J. Trump and the rhetoric of ressentiment. Quarterly Journal of Speech, Kelly, C. R. (2019). 106(1), 2–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2019.1698756
Ressentiment [is] a condition in which a subject is addled by rage and envy yet remains impotent, subjugated and unable to act on or adequately express frustration. Though anger and resentment capture part of Trump … ressentiment accounts for the unique intersection where powerful sentiments and self-serving morality are coupled with feelings of powerlessness and ruminations on past injuries: Trump is able to sustain the affective charge of animus without forfeiting the moral high ground of victimhood to his audience's “oppressors”—Democrats, the press, criminals, immigrants, foreign adversaries, welfare recipients, the Me Too movement, “globalists,” and racial Others.
Trump's imagined audience is angry … because they suffer … because they are powerless … because they are virtuous. The country, they are told, has been unfairly taken from them. It is not simply that Trump intones resentment and rage but that he invites his audience to see themselves as powerless and incapable of adequately expressing their own frustrations. It is the suturing together of powerful feelings with a morally-righteous subject position of weakness that constitutes the political subject of ressentiment. With either power or ability to articulate their own desires, Trump demands to be his supporter's surrogate: “I AM YOUR VOICE!”
Trump must continually ruminate on his injuries, invent new tormentors and resurrect old ones, pursue ill-conceived policy goals, and perpetually defer the resolution of their collective grievances. The suffering of his electorate takes precedence above all other considerations of justice. The thirst for revenge never dissipates.
Trump's … appeals to white rage, are well-suited to mediums that engender impulsivity, simplicity, narcissism, and incivility. … Trump's rallies carry the warped sense of civic virtue cultivated by reality television and social networks into the office of the presidency. … Although he regularly observes the suffering of his forgotten electorate, according to Trump no one suffers more than he.
Trump [has] represented himself as a benevolent protector of the virtuous citizenry against the bad faith of their opponents. [He] inscribed martyrdom onto the “job-description” of the presidency. …Trump clearly transgresses taboos against the open endorsement of political violence in a democratic culture. He carves out a zone of exception for his supporters that relieves them of their legal and civic obligations. Under exception, slights and injuries—even ones of little consequence—can and should be met with an equal if not disproportionate measure of retributive violence.
[T]o the extent that dominant elites control the means of communication and the public vocabulary, they can represent singular partisan interests as universal or moral ones. They can thereby evade the modifications, compromises, and larger goods wrought through agonistic competition between values and interests. Dominant elites thus hijack the moral potential for partisan ends.
I think his broken mind and lack of decency are big problems, reinforced by others, yes, but primarily his own hateful, vile soul: From a 1992 interview with Charlie Rose: “I love getting even with people.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhqR11zfFEs&t=2502s
Certainly an aspect of Trump's success, but even more - focused on the nature of his 'cult' following. It is certainly his cult following which grants him his power over Republicans in congress which in turn gives him more control over the public narrative.
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When are the Republicans going to start asking for RFK Jr's resignation or Pam Bondi or Kash Patel... When children die from diseases that could be prevented, when a terrorist attack on US soil happens... when our economy is in a Depression.. because we are pretty much already in a recession, no one is willing to call it that but Americans are feeling it... Shutting down an inefficient government is all on the Repbulicans. They can finger point all they want but this incompetent administration and the complicit GOP are responsible for ALL the damage that is happening to our country right now.
While it’s not reflected in the GDP data yet, it’s damn close if not already here. The latest rate cut is not going to make a lot of difference.
Lindsey Halligan rocks full MAGA face, with slightly less filler. “All meat. Not a speck of filler,” said Lorne Greene approvingly of Gaines Burgers dog food.
Give it time. Have you seen KK Karoline recently? On her recent appearance on FOX you could still see a needle mark in her forehead 🫣
When MAGA dies with decaying Donny, KKKaroline and that lot will be stuck with unfashionable faces. After a decade of Democratic politeness, I’m jeering and pointing.
We all are stuck with just the one face from baby to great-great grand, whatever that dumb face might be! Assuming it's not destroyed!
I look exactly, exactly like my estranged late mother. But I’m not mean, like she was, so I don’t have that accusing squint.
I saw a picture of her just before I opened this. My reaction was 'another cardboard barbie, ffs!'.
Central casting you know ! Dont have to do the job you are hired for. Just gotta look the part with Blockhead 's Brigade .
Trump’s obsession with looks is confounding means he keeps around Hegseth and Leavitt, whom he considers “camera-ready.” He despises Susie Wiles because Jared insisted on her, she’s sixty-something, she worked for DeSantis, and Trump calls her “the refrigerator.” Watching him try to keep Wiles and Steven Cheung out of sight is, well, something.
I’ve seen at least two chin-waggingly serious articles lately about What MAGA Face Really Means. Sucking up to Donny. Next!
I don’t know how Ron has time to do all that cooking from scratch from all Maine products, but I’m sure that the missus is glad he does. I am too. Good thing he only mentions he’s in the Pine Tree State, because otherwise he’d have Meidas Mighty on the Filipkowski doorstep at dinnertime every night.
I am intrigued by the birch syrup...Sure, I've boiled maple syrup, but birch syrup is exotic!
Birch syrup in cocktails sounds sophisticated (of course, it’s Ron), and delicious.
I was just about to say I’d like to be sitting at his table. Looks like the country fair was great.
I know, right?!
Yum! I have a food-obsessed octogenarian correspondent in New Hampshire. She loves Maine and hearing about Ron. During his vacation I realized I was formatting her emails just like the missing Bulletin.