… Trump posted a lengthy announcement on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon announcing that the US will commence a mission to escort ships out of the Strait of Hormuz while warning Iran not to launch any attacks:
Yeah, I think victims of circumstance aptly describes the rest of the human race when you’re dealing with Trump. According to that brain of his we are all suckers and losers.
Have you noticed that there has not been one word in the press about those two Air Force personnel who are rescued after their plane went down. They fall in Trump suckers and losers category.
Honestly I think that the other airlines have been making so much profit and lining their CEOs pockets and shareholders with $$$$$ and that's why they're not going out of business. I honestly don't know if the merger with JetBlue and spirit was the right thing or not, but Joe Biden wasn't the one; I believe it was Elizabeth Warren who gave the last and final nay that did not allow the merger to take place. I don't think this is a partisan issue. If Trump hadn't started the war we wouldn't be in this boat with gas costing so much and jet fuel going up like crazy.
They just need another excuse and using Biden again is always their go to. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to know that the merger of two floundering companies isn't a good recipe for success.
Mike, I couldn't agree with you more! He thinks we should all just kill ourselves! The entire Global population, the human race as we know it today, just to satisfy him! Leaving Trump and his family the only humans left on the planet. The only problem that arises if that were to take place is: All the McDonald's and Golf courses would close! And we all know he won't allow that !!!!! So, we are all just forced to wait until HE is no longer of this earth! JMO
Blanche: "Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID." Now Blanche is sounding as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Trump. Which restaurants make you show ID? Yeah, I thought so.
He made Sara chuckabee say he was talking about buying liquor , which he never did either, shop or drink. Used it in rally crowds alot. So it never sounded as stupid as it is.
He mentioned bars, but the only bars I’m ever carded at are the ones at some airports because they card EVERYBODY. That’s it. I wasn’t carded at BWI, Sacramento, Denver, Los Angeles. I haven’t been carded at any other bars for a couple of decades.
If you only go to private members only (strip)clubs for meals you might have to show your membership card to get in I really can’t imagine having to show your ID to get into a restaurant. Unless he grew up in the USSR
Yeah, I wondered what restaurants he goes to, because in my life, living in CA, SC, etc. the only time restaurants ask for ID is if you order booze. I'm 70 now, I don't get asked that so much anymore. 😂
McDonalds, Burger King, Arbys, that chicken place, ....it is when he is picking up trumps lunch!!! When you think we have scrapped the bottom of the barrel of republican stupidity.....and then, and then, along comes Blanche....ever talking Blanche low brain functioning blanche......
Like these folks go anywhere that you can't park 10 black vehicles in the parking lot, which tends to make the Host/Hostess avoid asking for ID. We must all pass the hat and buy a few letters like in Scrabble so they can come up with ANYTHING that makes sense!!
Maybe Blanche is so used to his nose up Trump's butt that he only eats at private members only clubs. But wouldn't it be funny if they started asking for ID at hotdog stands?
How many more ridiculous attempts to manipulate the market, grifts, and ridiculous monuments and statues are we going to accept from this old demented man in the WH? This just needs to end and the Dems and Repugs need to represent the people and rid us of this scourge on humanity.
He needs to be shut down hard. Washington D.C. is not Mar-A-Lago, his to fill with tasteless bric-a-brac and monuments to himself. Anything he succeeds in building must immediately be bulldozed by the next president. Hopefully Trump will get to see it happen— from prison.
There is no way he wrote that missive. First, those many "innocent" countries contacted him in his mind only. Pure market manipulation. Also we all know he could care less about any of those people aboard those stranded ships.
Yup! I am trying to see the angle and they must run the escort costs through the kids or something-I think he is building up offshore money; he sent the Venezuelan oil money to Qatar! Or Putin is in it somewhere too!
In all of this, I always wonder what Putin's take is. I think he is calling the shots on just about everything trump is doing. Nothing else explains his lack of consequences for the things that Russia is actively doing to thwart the US.
Got to be Cheung. He was pissed the Nobel Committee passed on Donny for the Peace Prize despite the fact that “Trump has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”
I am not that much younger than he is and I do not know how he can stay up all night and post. I'm in bed and asleep long before he even starts those nightly nightmarish posts. The few naps he catches during the day cannot make up for a night of lost sleep.
I am sure the tourism will be hammered. If plane tickets go up too much Americans will avoid travel. Of course, trump hurt this industry by making our once beloved Allies like Canada our enemy.
I typically fly from St. Louis to Dulles a couple of times a year. The early, non-stop flight each way. It has always been about $375 with a refundable ticket and taxes. I checked last week and it was $1008 before any taxes. I guess my offspring doesn’t need to see me this year. I can afford it, but I will not pay it.
Yup! Airlines will take this opportunity to jack up prices way beyond the fuel cost increase. AND then afterwards they will bring them down just a little.
They will find out the hard economic reality of the laws of economics, supply and demand. The only way they can pull it off is monopolies.
I use to live next to an airplane mechanic. After he told me he would not fly because of these companies not adhering to proper maintenance, I avoid it at all costs.
I don’t miss flying on business at all. There are carriers I try to avoid, but I know shortcuts are taken at all of them. That UPS plane that crashed was a duplicate of a DC-10 crash in Chicago back in 1980. Engine and pylon detached on take off. NTSB faulted a maintenance shortcut of removing the pylon and engine together. M-D’s procedure called for removing the engine, then the pylon. If UPS was taking that shortcut, I wouldn’t be surprised. And they’ll get sued to hell and back.
They have an old saying about quick airline turnarounds, ‘kick the tires, light the fires.’ I’ve seen speed tape covering holes in the fuselage that it wasn’t meant for. It wasn’t different in the 80’s, but you could smoke.
Airfare has been going up for years. eg Southwest's activist investors demanded changes for the sole purpose of adding +1 Billion new revenue in 2026, and another +$1.5 Billion next year. And now with gas, car travel is much less travel option.
Now hedge funds and institutional investors have made Southwest just like every other carrier. Assigned seats (I don’t really care one way or the other), baggage fees, fees for better seats, probably fees I haven’t heard of.
But we can figure all of us, when arrested for talking crap about trump, will end up to one of his concentration camps supposedly for immigrants, trump will be coming after anyone on sites..seriously, enjoy it why we can!
This could put a real crimp in his pet World Cup event. Since the EU and many other countries are only months away from depletion of jet fuel, who will be able to come to the US?
Definitely, I believe AI wrote this article I stopped reading. The government is so corrupt! The part I laughed is now America is helping ships go through the Strait of Hormuz! How much will these ships have to pay for an escort? Really!
Probably to the Trumps, they are fraudsters helping themselves. Do your research each of them and everyone them a connection of being complicit. Follow the money, is where you find the what is really happening of illegal activity. They laugh cause their arrogance gets them in a bide hence another lie is created so easy to understand. Not complicated at all! Need to be in their faces to make them slip up. The old saying “is what is good for goose is good for gander”! 🇨🇦🫶🏻
Interesting that Ty Cobb is trying to ring alarm bells about Trump's mental status. He was all-in with Trump during the first regime, but he has become quite the critic. This is a guy who has worked closely with Trump and now he's saying the mental decline is severe. (No kidding.) "Those are not the comments of a rational human being and certainly not presidential at all,” Cobb told MS NOW’s Ari Melber. “Likewise, yesterday you had the clear, deranged, demented, and insane note that he sent to the leaders of Norway, saying that because Norway, which has no control over the Nobel Peace Prize, hadn’t given it to him, that he was free to disregard peace and very interested in Greenland. I don’t think there’s anybody outside of the United States who believes that Trump is sane." https://newrepublic.com/post/205474/donald-trump-cognitive-decline-ty-cobb
Edited to add: Cobb said that in January. But I read somewhere today that he is again bringing up Trump's mental state.
Yes. I laughed at gas prices of $4.49. Cleveland, Ohio is typically kind of mid-priced, but that price exists only in a few off-brand ghetto gas stations as of today. More typical as of today: $4.99. The station I usually use is $4.89. In February it was $2.89. So my tiny little gas tank (10 gallons) is $20 more to fill.
My son has always insisted on Shell gasoline, which is about a dollar higher than other places. His friend took me to do a bunch of chores and I told her to pull into the gas station, think it was Arco. Gas was $4.39 at the time if you paid cash. I filled the tank and told her not to tell my son.
Was with her on another day and she saw gas for $4.99 and filled up. I asked her about it and she said "I'm getting gas at the cheapest place".
My son was driving and pulled into a gas station, not a Shell, and proceeded to get gas.
Guess he's figured out that with as much driving as he does for work that a dollar a gallon can add up pretty fast.
I remember during Covid I took a picture of Unilever owned Hellmans Mayonnaise, ALL the grocery stores had them priced over EIGHT DOLLARS a jar for the normal large size jar.
Jesus, over 7 bucks for Ruffles potato chips, man that is high.
I switched during Covid to Aldi's generic snacks and haven't looked back.
Yo, Mr. Whitey Blanche, I have NEVER been asked to show my ID in a restaurant. Are you by chance on the America's Most Wanted posters?
… Todd Blanche was asked on NBC why the Trump admin was demanding the Save Act be passed: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID.
We already have voter ID in Ohio, have since 2006. The problem is the constant changes, tightening it up and limiting what's acceptable in order to confuse voters despite NOT ONE verified case of in person voter fraud at the polls in those 20 years.
Yes, it's interesting how the handful of times a REAL incident of fraud happens it's Republican. Like they want to ban mail-in ballots because they claim someone else could fill them in for you. Oh, look what party forced a whole new congressional election in North Carolina because the candidate's campaign was collecting and filling in absentee ballots. (It begins with "R".)
And those people (maybe 2 dozen nationwide) who committed voter fraud by voting in two states or voting for a deceased relative still on the voter rolls. Mostly registered R. My favorite was the one who voted for his dead mother and said he thought it was ok because "If my mom were alive she would've voted for Trump."
Remember that Trump's Chief of Staff at the end of his first term was caught for being registered to vote in THREE states - and voted in the one - NC - where he did NOT live? That vote was thrown out, but unsruprisingly, he suffered no other consequences,
I don't even read the Iran coverage any more, because anything you post Trump said will be contradicted by the time I read it. Has he maintained a coherent policy for an entire day during this whole debacle? I think not.
… “People close to the president don’t want Mace as governor..."
It's not just people close to the president! We don't want her either, nor Ralph Norman! Norman has been running ads here saying he wants term limits for politicians. This from someone who's been in office for 9 years now. 🙄🙄
Executive level term limits make some kind of sense. Legislative term limits are basically gerrymandering's partner: they rob the voters of real representation and hand it to special interests and billionaires. This has played out in Ohio. It's no accident that term limits in Ohio, which started in the late 90s, were cooked up by a rightwing "think" tank.
I agree and have always opposed congressional term limits. What we need to throw out is super PACs, claiming corporations are people, and all dark money in political campaigns. Let's not throw out the power of voters to decide or popular representatives with a proven track record and valuable legislative experience. It's like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Absolutely. People don't realize term limits give the ultra-wealthy MORE power because building a constituency and relationships in your community no longer count. The brand-new candidates this keeps bringing on board will win based on how much big money support they have, i.e. who buys them the election. This is absolutely how it has played out in Ohio. when I was an investigative journalist back in 2010-11, I explored this in depth. It was all about dark money, which yeah, you're right, needs to be reined in. It's why I support the "Move to Amend" movement: a simple constitutional amendment that simply says "Corporations are not people and money is not speech." That amputates the arguments the Supreme Court used in decisions like McCutcheon and Citizens United.
More than that, they've proven to be a power trip where politicians play games with big money special interests to help elect or eject people they support or don't support. This was at the base of the $61 million First Energy scandal: much of the money given to to the now-convicted and in prison Larry Householder was specifically for voting for allies who would do what First Energy wanted. Term limits made that a cakewalk.
Did you see the editorial by Thomas Suddes, saying that Householder's sentence was "disproportionate" and unfair? I was shocked to see this opinion come from Suddes.
He called it a "non-violent flim-flam"!!! Way to minimize that Householder violated his duty to his oath of office, to his position of leadership, his duty to work for our benefit & not to our harm, every norm of ethical behaviour that we SHOULD expect from our political leaders... the sad thing is that after the scandal came to light, he was re=elected!
Yeah, I think victims of circumstance aptly describes the rest of the human race when you’re dealing with Trump. According to that brain of his we are all suckers and losers.
Have you noticed that there has not been one word in the press about those two Air Force personnel who are rescued after their plane went down. They fall in Trump suckers and losers category.
Because they probably don't exist. It was a cover story for a failed mission by the US to grab their uranium.
Probably. I've been wondering too
Naaaah a FAKE STORY?!!! NOT THEM!!! RIGHT!!! Anything to garner belief and continued support from his illiterate base!!
Good point Deborah!
And today, 2 missing in Morocco!!!
Brain?? You give him far more credit than I do.😁
Honestly I think that the other airlines have been making so much profit and lining their CEOs pockets and shareholders with $$$$$ and that's why they're not going out of business. I honestly don't know if the merger with JetBlue and spirit was the right thing or not, but Joe Biden wasn't the one; I believe it was Elizabeth Warren who gave the last and final nay that did not allow the merger to take place. I don't think this is a partisan issue. If Trump hadn't started the war we wouldn't be in this boat with gas costing so much and jet fuel going up like crazy.
They just need another excuse and using Biden again is always their go to. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to know that the merger of two floundering companies isn't a good recipe for success.
Not if you're rich, a King, or keep your nose planted firmly in his stinky arse.
And a big plus if you're "smart as a bag full of hammers".
Thus he’s making us: suckers & losers - Made in His Image….
Mike, I couldn't agree with you more! He thinks we should all just kill ourselves! The entire Global population, the human race as we know it today, just to satisfy him! Leaving Trump and his family the only humans left on the planet. The only problem that arises if that were to take place is: All the McDonald's and Golf courses would close! And we all know he won't allow that !!!!! So, we are all just forced to wait until HE is no longer of this earth! JMO
Just think . . . . they would have to cook their own food and scrub out there own toilets!!!! I'd love to see that!!!!!
That about sums it up Mike!
Blanche: "Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID." Now Blanche is sounding as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Trump. Which restaurants make you show ID? Yeah, I thought so.
Blanche was confusing restaurants with grocery stores.
Joke, right? I never have to show my ID in grocery stores either.
Trump said that. I remember. Dumb psycho
Spoken by someone who has probably never actually been in a grocery store, or purchased one grocery item on his own.
And doesn't know what a corner store is growing up in NYC.
Yeah. How does THAT happen . Lily. He is so outrageous with the speaking. He should just stop doing it. 😵💫
Oh, a place you grab stuff on Dad's tab!!
Or made a coffee!
Yeah, I remember that too, but it's a lie, as usual.
Was that the time he said they made him show his license plate?
He made Sara chuckabee say he was talking about buying liquor , which he never did either, shop or drink. Used it in rally crowds alot. So it never sounded as stupid as it is.
Yah it took me a couple of seconds to get the joke too 😝
You got the joke!
Perhaps he meant liquor stores? Of course, Blanche is an idiot who never thinks before he speaks.
🤣🤣🤣
Clearly!
LOL
The "Liquor Cabinet" only goes to bars.. But UNlikely any of them would be carded.
But don't leave tips, just let the server know they took tax off their tips!
Oh, you don't make over 100k-the tax-freeness starts there!
Anyeway, 4 more shots!!
They card me at McDonald's EVERY time when I go through the drive up. These clowns just pull stuff out of their ass.
Trump likes to say stupid shit and then gets other people to claim that it wasn't what he meant. Even though he said it .
Then switches the story around fit the narrative.
Does it all the time
THEN AGAIN says I didn't say that!! 🙄
Yup! Keeping them as the sycophants!!
He mentioned bars, but the only bars I’m ever carded at are the ones at some airports because they card EVERYBODY. That’s it. I wasn’t carded at BWI, Sacramento, Denver, Los Angeles. I haven’t been carded at any other bars for a couple of decades.
I'm a 79 year-old Black female and I've never once been asked to show ID. If that was the rule, I would have been asked every time.
Right. Understood.
Blanche is pathetic! Both the Trump DOJ and Blanche have zero credibility!
Nor brain cells!!
If you only go to private members only (strip)clubs for meals you might have to show your membership card to get in I really can’t imagine having to show your ID to get into a restaurant. Unless he grew up in the USSR
Good thought Timothy!! We'll get Blanche to follow it up!
Second thought 86 that! O no, what have I done???
Oh, no!! 😱 No They’ll be coming for you next! 🤣
Yeah, I wondered what restaurants he goes to, because in my life, living in CA, SC, etc. the only time restaurants ask for ID is if you order booze. I'm 70 now, I don't get asked that so much anymore. 😂
McDonalds, Burger King, Arbys, that chicken place, ....it is when he is picking up trumps lunch!!! When you think we have scrapped the bottom of the barrel of republican stupidity.....and then, and then, along comes Blanche....ever talking Blanche low brain functioning blanche......
Morons on parade daily!!
Like these folks go anywhere that you can't park 10 black vehicles in the parking lot, which tends to make the Host/Hostess avoid asking for ID. We must all pass the hat and buy a few letters like in Scrabble so they can come up with ANYTHING that makes sense!!
Haven't had to show in restaurants or clubs
Maybe Blanche is so used to his nose up Trump's butt that he only eats at private members only clubs. But wouldn't it be funny if they started asking for ID at hotdog stands?
How many more ridiculous attempts to manipulate the market, grifts, and ridiculous monuments and statues are we going to accept from this old demented man in the WH? This just needs to end and the Dems and Repugs need to represent the people and rid us of this scourge on humanity.
He needs to be shut down hard. Washington D.C. is not Mar-A-Lago, his to fill with tasteless bric-a-brac and monuments to himself. Anything he succeeds in building must immediately be bulldozed by the next president. Hopefully Trump will get to see it happen— from prison.
Yup, we'll tell Baron we have another contract for him-it's a Dozie:)
Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Will no one rescue us from this feculent creep?
Brilliant!
Funny 😁 OW
There is no way he wrote that missive. First, those many "innocent" countries contacted him in his mind only. Pure market manipulation. Also we all know he could care less about any of those people aboard those stranded ships.
Yup! I am trying to see the angle and they must run the escort costs through the kids or something-I think he is building up offshore money; he sent the Venezuelan oil money to Qatar! Or Putin is in it somewhere too!
In all of this, I always wonder what Putin's take is. I think he is calling the shots on just about everything trump is doing. Nothing else explains his lack of consequences for the things that Russia is actively doing to thwart the US.
Oh, you are exactly right Linda. I think everybody knows that now and not a Republican has said boo!!
Who is actually writing those "Truth Social" posts? They don't sound like Trump.
I would bet it’s the two Stevens. Miller and Cheung.
Wouldn't surprise me. Although Cheung probably writes the most deranged ones. He just can't help himself.
Got to be Cheung. He was pissed the Nobel Committee passed on Donny for the Peace Prize despite the fact that “Trump has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”
Move mountains of what? 🤣
Need those dozers ASAP!!
Mao Zedong Cheung. He is the ghost writer IMO.
Language use is too adult for him.
um, who is with him at 2am?
Makes you wonder, doesn't it.
I bet whoever it is can post on the account from wherever they are
Don Jr. maybe! For a Crypto coin or 2:)
Nah! Junior’s not smart enough.
I am not that much younger than he is and I do not know how he can stay up all night and post. I'm in bed and asleep long before he even starts those nightly nightmarish posts. The few naps he catches during the day cannot make up for a night of lost sleep.
Malignant narcissism is a powerful force. Adderall probably helps.
Well, it either isn't working for him or he is a hundred times worse than we imagine.
He isn't normal Linda. You are. I don't even think he is human.
Nope, and hatched for sure!
He has underwriters now. He sounded even crazier before.
No-dictates it to SIRI and someone corrects it first! the illegal maid or chauffeur I would guess!
Ansari's Patel impression is hilarious.
It took me a while to figure out who that was last night.
Thanks Ron for bringing us the straight facts and showing this evil regime for what they are. Great job!
I am sure the tourism will be hammered. If plane tickets go up too much Americans will avoid travel. Of course, trump hurt this industry by making our once beloved Allies like Canada our enemy.
I typically fly from St. Louis to Dulles a couple of times a year. The early, non-stop flight each way. It has always been about $375 with a refundable ticket and taxes. I checked last week and it was $1008 before any taxes. I guess my offspring doesn’t need to see me this year. I can afford it, but I will not pay it.
Yup! Airlines will take this opportunity to jack up prices way beyond the fuel cost increase. AND then afterwards they will bring them down just a little.
They will find out the hard economic reality of the laws of economics, supply and demand. The only way they can pull it off is monopolies.
Plus when Trump finds out, he will have his hand out as if he did them a favour!!
I think about that. Could you imagine everything just gone ?? That is really scary.
Wow, I always try to avoid flying.
Flew Breeze recently. It was fine. But I don't do it for fun.
I use to live next to an airplane mechanic. After he told me he would not fly because of these companies not adhering to proper maintenance, I avoid it at all costs.
I don’t miss flying on business at all. There are carriers I try to avoid, but I know shortcuts are taken at all of them. That UPS plane that crashed was a duplicate of a DC-10 crash in Chicago back in 1980. Engine and pylon detached on take off. NTSB faulted a maintenance shortcut of removing the pylon and engine together. M-D’s procedure called for removing the engine, then the pylon. If UPS was taking that shortcut, I wouldn’t be surprised. And they’ll get sued to hell and back.
Went BEFORE the regime took over. Wouldn't go now.
Exactly Ramon!
They have an old saying about quick airline turnarounds, ‘kick the tires, light the fires.’ I’ve seen speed tape covering holes in the fuselage that it wasn’t meant for. It wasn’t different in the 80’s, but you could smoke.
Airfare has been going up for years. eg Southwest's activist investors demanded changes for the sole purpose of adding +1 Billion new revenue in 2026, and another +$1.5 Billion next year. And now with gas, car travel is much less travel option.
Now hedge funds and institutional investors have made Southwest just like every other carrier. Assigned seats (I don’t really care one way or the other), baggage fees, fees for better seats, probably fees I haven’t heard of.
Southwest used to be special. Then oligarchs or other idiots forced it into the mold of other airlines. Very aggravating.
Delta too.
Not to mention new invasive customs/border requirements to allow them to look at your social media posts.
Congress just gave the approval to spy on any American. This should be very concerning to every American.
It IS.
Hell, everyone of us who comment here on MTN, we're all probably getting spied on. Why, because if you criticize Trump you are an enemy.
But we can figure all of us, when arrested for talking crap about trump, will end up to one of his concentration camps supposedly for immigrants, trump will be coming after anyone on sites..seriously, enjoy it why we can!
I think they already are. Too much with DOGE and all.
I know that they are spying on me. That’s why I flip them off now and again on my camera lens.
OMG! I do the same thing!🤣🤣🤣
Good idea:)
Oh, for sure!
This could put a real crimp in his pet World Cup event. Since the EU and many other countries are only months away from depletion of jet fuel, who will be able to come to the US?
Just the South African teams and the Olympic juggler from Albania or wherever Melanoma is from!!
Thanks Fraser, this is funny.
Well Canadians, but then ..... there is that whole 51st State thang so prolly not.
The concept of the deal. Sounds familiar.
Yes, I find it similar to the "concept of a health care plan that will be better than ever!"
Orwellian generality!
Definitely, I believe AI wrote this article I stopped reading. The government is so corrupt! The part I laughed is now America is helping ships go through the Strait of Hormuz! How much will these ships have to pay for an escort? Really!
And whose bank account will the payments go into? 🤔
Probably to the Trumps, they are fraudsters helping themselves. Do your research each of them and everyone them a connection of being complicit. Follow the money, is where you find the what is really happening of illegal activity. They laugh cause their arrogance gets them in a bide hence another lie is created so easy to understand. Not complicated at all! Need to be in their faces to make them slip up. The old saying “is what is good for goose is good for gander”! 🇨🇦🫶🏻
Qatar
Yes, one for each sailor!!
Interesting that Ty Cobb is trying to ring alarm bells about Trump's mental status. He was all-in with Trump during the first regime, but he has become quite the critic. This is a guy who has worked closely with Trump and now he's saying the mental decline is severe. (No kidding.) "Those are not the comments of a rational human being and certainly not presidential at all,” Cobb told MS NOW’s Ari Melber. “Likewise, yesterday you had the clear, deranged, demented, and insane note that he sent to the leaders of Norway, saying that because Norway, which has no control over the Nobel Peace Prize, hadn’t given it to him, that he was free to disregard peace and very interested in Greenland. I don’t think there’s anybody outside of the United States who believes that Trump is sane." https://newrepublic.com/post/205474/donald-trump-cognitive-decline-ty-cobb
Edited to add: Cobb said that in January. But I read somewhere today that he is again bringing up Trump's mental state.
They call the Trump Doral golf course the “blue monster”. They should change the name to the orange monster…
The prices of *everything* are going to continue to skyrocket.
Yes. I laughed at gas prices of $4.49. Cleveland, Ohio is typically kind of mid-priced, but that price exists only in a few off-brand ghetto gas stations as of today. More typical as of today: $4.99. The station I usually use is $4.89. In February it was $2.89. So my tiny little gas tank (10 gallons) is $20 more to fill.
My son has always insisted on Shell gasoline, which is about a dollar higher than other places. His friend took me to do a bunch of chores and I told her to pull into the gas station, think it was Arco. Gas was $4.39 at the time if you paid cash. I filled the tank and told her not to tell my son.
Was with her on another day and she saw gas for $4.99 and filled up. I asked her about it and she said "I'm getting gas at the cheapest place".
My son was driving and pulled into a gas station, not a Shell, and proceeded to get gas.
Guess he's figured out that with as much driving as he does for work that a dollar a gallon can add up pretty fast.
Same in Columbus, OH.
A bag of Ruffles chips 7.29.
No shit?
I took a photo! I didn't buy them. But yeah.
I remember during Covid I took a picture of Unilever owned Hellmans Mayonnaise, ALL the grocery stores had them priced over EIGHT DOLLARS a jar for the normal large size jar.
Jesus, over 7 bucks for Ruffles potato chips, man that is high.
I switched during Covid to Aldi's generic snacks and haven't looked back.
I can cut the chips. They aren't good for me anyway. Just my poison. Maybe the price is increased because of the "ridges" they're extra. 🙄
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Yo, Mr. Whitey Blanche, I have NEVER been asked to show my ID in a restaurant. Are you by chance on the America's Most Wanted posters?
… Todd Blanche was asked on NBC why the Trump admin was demanding the Save Act be passed: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID.
We already have voter ID in Ohio, have since 2006. The problem is the constant changes, tightening it up and limiting what's acceptable in order to confuse voters despite NOT ONE verified case of in person voter fraud at the polls in those 20 years.
We had voters fraud in NV recently. A Republican- imagine that.
Yes, it's interesting how the handful of times a REAL incident of fraud happens it's Republican. Like they want to ban mail-in ballots because they claim someone else could fill them in for you. Oh, look what party forced a whole new congressional election in North Carolina because the candidate's campaign was collecting and filling in absentee ballots. (It begins with "R".)
https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/north-carolina-voter-fraud/
And those people (maybe 2 dozen nationwide) who committed voter fraud by voting in two states or voting for a deceased relative still on the voter rolls. Mostly registered R. My favorite was the one who voted for his dead mother and said he thought it was ok because "If my mom were alive she would've voted for Trump."
Remember that Trump's Chief of Staff at the end of his first term was caught for being registered to vote in THREE states - and voted in the one - NC - where he did NOT live? That vote was thrown out, but unsruprisingly, he suffered no other consequences,
It's such a scam, run by cheaters who can't win a fair and free election.
I don't even read the Iran coverage any more, because anything you post Trump said will be contradicted by the time I read it. Has he maintained a coherent policy for an entire day during this whole debacle? I think not.
It's been a real shit show. Which is to be expected from these losers.
… “People close to the president don’t want Mace as governor..."
It's not just people close to the president! We don't want her either, nor Ralph Norman! Norman has been running ads here saying he wants term limits for politicians. This from someone who's been in office for 9 years now. 🙄🙄
Executive level term limits make some kind of sense. Legislative term limits are basically gerrymandering's partner: they rob the voters of real representation and hand it to special interests and billionaires. This has played out in Ohio. It's no accident that term limits in Ohio, which started in the late 90s, were cooked up by a rightwing "think" tank.
I agree and have always opposed congressional term limits. What we need to throw out is super PACs, claiming corporations are people, and all dark money in political campaigns. Let's not throw out the power of voters to decide or popular representatives with a proven track record and valuable legislative experience. It's like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Absolutely. People don't realize term limits give the ultra-wealthy MORE power because building a constituency and relationships in your community no longer count. The brand-new candidates this keeps bringing on board will win based on how much big money support they have, i.e. who buys them the election. This is absolutely how it has played out in Ohio. when I was an investigative journalist back in 2010-11, I explored this in depth. It was all about dark money, which yeah, you're right, needs to be reined in. It's why I support the "Move to Amend" movement: a simple constitutional amendment that simply says "Corporations are not people and money is not speech." That amputates the arguments the Supreme Court used in decisions like McCutcheon and Citizens United.
That is it Oak, Citizens United, overturn it.
Yes, the term limits in OH have proven to just be a game of musical chairs - something that the citizens didn't think about.
More than that, they've proven to be a power trip where politicians play games with big money special interests to help elect or eject people they support or don't support. This was at the base of the $61 million First Energy scandal: much of the money given to to the now-convicted and in prison Larry Householder was specifically for voting for allies who would do what First Energy wanted. Term limits made that a cakewalk.
Did you see the editorial by Thomas Suddes, saying that Householder's sentence was "disproportionate" and unfair? I was shocked to see this opinion come from Suddes.
Suddes sometimes gets a little "on the other hand"-ish. Householder got what was coming to him.
He called it a "non-violent flim-flam"!!! Way to minimize that Householder violated his duty to his oath of office, to his position of leadership, his duty to work for our benefit & not to our harm, every norm of ethical behaviour that we SHOULD expect from our political leaders... the sad thing is that after the scandal came to light, he was re=elected!
Something tells me Jerome Powel isn't going to walk away.
Just a feeling I have.
👇🏼. 👇🏼. 👇🏼
… Powell’s term doesn’t end until January 31, 2028, so he can be a thorn in Trump’s side for most of his presidency.
The real thorn in Trump's said is Trump. He can't get out of his own way.
I really hope he sticks around.