I think the real telling sign is how many of the MAGAs buy the Trump 2028 hat or the one that says he is always right. That is the true test of his support. Polls can show whatever you want them to show. I keep praying that these MAGAs wake up!!
I also hope that they wake up...and soon! But there will always be a core group who will worship him to the end. And that core is quite happy to ramp up the violence if he tells them to.
I agree, although I think some people are buying his merch crap for the value it represents as a collector's item that captures a [ bad ] history in time.
I have been trying (off and on) to sell my Rod Blagojavich signed t-shirts since my ill-advised internship for him in 200?. He even wrote in sharpie at buube level "to a great intern. -Rod" and the other one is super-rare because it was designed by a local staffer then same day, yanked by the big guys because it was made in China.
I got my MS but didn't get a job in politics after that. No takers on the shirts, either.
Then we just have to recruit more folks to our side. :) There are already more of us than there are of them; we're just not usually as loud and obnoxious. :-/
You are joking, right? Seriously, though, I would give almost anything to watch him try. We should have a National Watch the Clowns day, with free popcorn and soda for all. After all, the Dear Bloviator-in-Chief seems incapable of understanding, much less explaining, the cruel and stupid crap he spews.
I used to ask that during the campaign. Make him explain, step by step by step by step, exactly how tariffs work, how exactly it is that other countries will pay these, how it’s collected, what agencies oversee and audit this money, how the money is then distributed . But , he knew his supporters would just believe him when he said it was a tax on foreign countries. I wonder if he expected that tariff would be the most googled word on US election night? Weren’t they even curious about why farmers had to be bailed out in his first term? And, once in, he couldn’t give one little fuq if you know how tariffs REALLY WORK, although his pink dress lady keeps trying to sell that it’s a tax on foreign countries. Maybe the US takes in that tax, but where will it go from there? Will it go to the states, since all burdens of caring for residents has been summarily dropped on the states’ governor’s heads? No FEMA, no Dept of Education, no Medicaid expansion, and nothing to replace it, but some ephemeral concept. It is not even a house of cards it failed so spectacularly, and quickly.
Well, I just read that, since taking office, the Great Orange Dust Pile has profited to the tune of a couple billion dollars, all while choking the life via tariffs from the rest of us. He was right when he said that billions would come into the country. What he conveniently left out was that it would all go into his pocket. Oh, and I assume Musks as well. Republicans - non-magas - need to put tons of pressure on the spineless repubs in Congress and in their state governments, even if only to keep themselves from being deported or placed in death camps.
If Magats had any common sense, his poll numbers would show ZERO supporting him. I would be interested to see if the disapproval number goes below 30%. That is supposed to be the percentage of Republican voters who are Magats. Thank you, God! Amen! Awomen! Ramen!
The same secret service who helped him fake an assassination attempt and got promoted for being part of it? That secret service? Those traitors should be on tables right next to him.
Well, I don't see it as the /entire/ Secret Service being a bunch of bad apples, but this bunch would certainly take any perceived "threats" against Trump amiss...on the other hand, if they're like hand-picked by the Trumpster, they probably have his reading comprehension levels, so we probably don't have anything to worry about. ;)
Even some members of the cult of rump are starting to wonder if he knows what he's doing! I saw his crazy hair blown wig the other day and thought he looks terrible! It was great to see!
I have a theory. Trump is ill and possibly dying, so Vance becomes a Catholic in order to make himself the next god-king, considering that much of the Heritage Foundation is either Catholic or very right-wing Protestant and the right-wing of the Supreme Court is the same. Vance, who has all the charm and charisma of Ron DeSantis, needs the religious backing to make Gideon a national reality, or so he thinks. After all, he is a big supporter of the 'women stay home and are never seen or heard from ever again' brand of political and social acumen usually found on incel and manosphere sites which are dedicated to the propositions that 1) women are not adult humans and 2) only the powerful can decide who among us all is worthy of citizenship.
DeSantis is a thug! He stole money from the state and gave it to his wife's charity to influence the last election. He's another one who should be in jail.
I pray his poll numbers continue to plummet to hell. His complete disconnect from reality about tariffs couldn't be more obvious. Americans are about to see just how apocalyptical things get when imports trickle to nothing. Scarcity is about to be a real thing.
Imports, hell; two major Japanese auto manufacturers closed their plants /in this country/ because of the tariffs and said they wouldn't be coming back (hopefully they will once we get this idiot out of office. In the meantime, that's 40,000 American jobs lost and billions of dollars of revenue for us). X-P
I actually, sort of reflexively, stood up to a persistent li'l thugette myself physically, which shocked the both of us. Had I realized the enormity of it (in jr. high school, so that would've been tricky), I would've been emboldened to keep it up. ;)
Two very good ways to make a bully, if that's what you want to do: a) bully someone. They won't feel like they can get back at their tormentor for whatever reason (often, sadly, because their tormentor may be a parent or older family member), so they'll take out their darkness on whatever or whoever they think is in a worse position than even they are; or b) be from a family with wealth and/or power (or just ambitious to get a piece of that pie; remember the Dursleys from Harry Potter? classic example), who not only accept everything their spawn does, but APPROVES of it, no matter how horrible it is. X-P Those are often the ones who, when they get to at least jr. high school, if not earlier, will be the ones who get their noses bent out of shape when anyone challenges them on anything ("Don't you KNOW who I AM?! You, and your whole family, and anyone who knows you, is gonna PAY for THAT!!!"). Sound familiar? :-/
Much as I like to watch Donold suffer, every day that he does is also a reminder that we who did not vote for him must suffer too under his insanity. I, for one, simply cannot wait until he meets his utter end. I know not how it will happen, but I do predict it may happen before the year is out.
There will always be people who worship and cling to whatever he and his Banal Cabal say and do. It is a religious cult, after all, that Mushroom Boy has created and nurtured. And once you have a devout following, ready to believe everything that falls out of your mouth - no matter how foul and untrue - you have them for life...unless something drastic happens. Remember Jim Jones and the cult that formed around him that led to about 900 people drinking the Kool-aid laced with, I believe, cyanide? They even made their little kids drink it, all on the say-so of Dear Leader Jones. Religious beliefs and attachments are the hardest to let go of, what with fears of hellish punishments for those who are 'unfaithful.' People invest their lives and kids into following and protecting their gods. Just look at Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious groups throughout history. Happily, statistically far fewer folk in America cleave to religions and more simply say that they have spiritual lives. Evolution in progress, eh?
And hopefully keeping in mind that, ultimately, the U.S. is a SECULAR COUNTRY. The Christian Nationalist wackaloons have to be reminded that we AREN'T a Christian (or Jewish, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or...) country, and haven't been since the First Amendment back in the 1780s. Weren't we great back then? :-/
Indeed. The founders were not fools, being the descendants of those who fled a Europe that was still in the grip of the Catholic church and the Inquisition. I find it very interesting that the right-wing - from the Supreme Court all the way to farmers - all seem to want a theocratic dictatorship instead of a democracy. One man to rule them all, one man to find them. One man to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Doesn't sound very Constitutional, does it?
Sounds very Third Age...or maybe Second Age (edit: Second Age)? ;)
At any rate, nah, sounds very monarchical. Al Gore was right when he went on about "Isn't Trump what the Constitution was written to protect us against?" or something to that effect. :-/
I’ve been invited by a MAGA neighbor to come help brush her horses (something I enjoy; no horses of my own and I like spending time around them). We can usually get along for a couple of hours if we don’t talk politics or morality, and I’m kind of curious whether her opinions have changed at all or if she’s as drunk on the Kool-aid as ever. What do you think: should I go?
It's always good to maintain as good a friendship or other relationship (please, /don't/ ask me about my family...) as we can, I think; there's a dude, Daniel Dwayne? David Dwayne? something like that, a black guy, jazz musician, who's managed to de-program about 200 KKK guys, just by talking to them like they're just another person, not The Enemy. He keeps their former outfits as souvenirs and examples of hope that keep piling up. :)
As far as breaching the subject, you might want to do so gradually and subtly; maybe see how she feels about Musk, though even diehards getting their Kool-aid through an I.V. are losing patience with him, so that might not be a good indicator. I dunno; maybe just ask how she and her family are doing these days, if folks are good in their jobs, if there's any changes in the future she can see or worries about? :-/
The Rump is a demented would-be surgeon who is breaking every bone in the US body, while saying he can fix it all and you'll be muuuuuuch better off! When in reality he's just a psychotic sadist. If only he'd just left you alone and stuck to watching tapes of The Apprentice and Epstein, and playing golf.
I've often thought that Trumpty Dumpty was happiest when he was on T.V. with his own show. Plenty of adulation, fake or otherwise; "bigly, yuge ratings, the biggest ratings ever"; quite a bit of cash coming in (but apparently not enough to pay off his Russian pee-pee tape blackmailers and possible loan holders); no one laughing at his stage make-up, etc., etc., etc. :-/
As always you made me smile! But "HIS" regime in shambles. And there sits "BARBIE" his press secretary lying through her teeth about how his immigration stuff is going. I get so tired of hearing what's on his mind, which is basically reiterated over and over and over again. TRUTH immigration's deportations has gone badly, cruelly and disgustingly. The TARIFF thing is a bust so I would say his first 100 days are a bust!
I think the real telling sign is how many of the MAGAs buy the Trump 2028 hat or the one that says he is always right. That is the true test of his support. Polls can show whatever you want them to show. I keep praying that these MAGAs wake up!!
I also hope that they wake up...and soon! But there will always be a core group who will worship him to the end. And that core is quite happy to ramp up the violence if he tells them to.
I agree, although I think some people are buying his merch crap for the value it represents as a collector's item that captures a [ bad ] history in time.
I have been trying (off and on) to sell my Rod Blagojavich signed t-shirts since my ill-advised internship for him in 200?. He even wrote in sharpie at buube level "to a great intern. -Rod" and the other one is super-rare because it was designed by a local staffer then same day, yanked by the big guys because it was made in China.
I got my MS but didn't get a job in politics after that. No takers on the shirts, either.
If the maggot zombies haven’t awakened by now, I’m afraid they never will 😕
Then we just have to recruit more folks to our side. :) There are already more of us than there are of them; we're just not usually as loud and obnoxious. :-/
Will someone please ask Trump to explain how tariffs work on national television!
You are joking, right? Seriously, though, I would give almost anything to watch him try. We should have a National Watch the Clowns day, with free popcorn and soda for all. After all, the Dear Bloviator-in-Chief seems incapable of understanding, much less explaining, the cruel and stupid crap he spews.
I used to ask that during the campaign. Make him explain, step by step by step by step, exactly how tariffs work, how exactly it is that other countries will pay these, how it’s collected, what agencies oversee and audit this money, how the money is then distributed . But , he knew his supporters would just believe him when he said it was a tax on foreign countries. I wonder if he expected that tariff would be the most googled word on US election night? Weren’t they even curious about why farmers had to be bailed out in his first term? And, once in, he couldn’t give one little fuq if you know how tariffs REALLY WORK, although his pink dress lady keeps trying to sell that it’s a tax on foreign countries. Maybe the US takes in that tax, but where will it go from there? Will it go to the states, since all burdens of caring for residents has been summarily dropped on the states’ governor’s heads? No FEMA, no Dept of Education, no Medicaid expansion, and nothing to replace it, but some ephemeral concept. It is not even a house of cards it failed so spectacularly, and quickly.
Well, I just read that, since taking office, the Great Orange Dust Pile has profited to the tune of a couple billion dollars, all while choking the life via tariffs from the rest of us. He was right when he said that billions would come into the country. What he conveniently left out was that it would all go into his pocket. Oh, and I assume Musks as well. Republicans - non-magas - need to put tons of pressure on the spineless repubs in Congress and in their state governments, even if only to keep themselves from being deported or placed in death camps.
When you are in a cult, if the cult leader says black is white and good is evil, you believe it.
Oh yes, please. That would be so enlightening. Can you even imagine?
If Magats had any common sense, his poll numbers would show ZERO supporting him. I would be interested to see if the disapproval number goes below 30%. That is supposed to be the percentage of Republican voters who are Magats. Thank you, God! Amen! Awomen! Ramen!
Ramen amen...
Remember back in 2018 when steel was going to manufactured here? We're waiting, we're waiting.......
Or Shitler's "Big, beautiful healthcare plan" that is forever and always just 'two weeks' away.
He has a concept of a plan of a scheme of a suggestion... oh, never mind.
.......any day now.
I can't wait for his big, beautiful lethal injection.
Careful, now; the Secret Service takes such suggestions really seriously about a current President, and it's not protected by free speech. :-/
We /can/ say and/or write all kinds of things like, "Can't wait to dance on his grave, then pee on it! :D" with impunity, but... ;-)
The same secret service who helped him fake an assassination attempt and got promoted for being part of it? That secret service? Those traitors should be on tables right next to him.
Well, I don't see it as the /entire/ Secret Service being a bunch of bad apples, but this bunch would certainly take any perceived "threats" against Trump amiss...on the other hand, if they're like hand-picked by the Trumpster, they probably have his reading comprehension levels, so we probably don't have anything to worry about. ;)
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Even some members of the cult of rump are starting to wonder if he knows what he's doing! I saw his crazy hair blown wig the other day and thought he looks terrible! It was great to see!
I have a theory. Trump is ill and possibly dying, so Vance becomes a Catholic in order to make himself the next god-king, considering that much of the Heritage Foundation is either Catholic or very right-wing Protestant and the right-wing of the Supreme Court is the same. Vance, who has all the charm and charisma of Ron DeSantis, needs the religious backing to make Gideon a national reality, or so he thinks. After all, he is a big supporter of the 'women stay home and are never seen or heard from ever again' brand of political and social acumen usually found on incel and manosphere sites which are dedicated to the propositions that 1) women are not adult humans and 2) only the powerful can decide who among us all is worthy of citizenship.
DeSantis is a thug! He stole money from the state and gave it to his wife's charity to influence the last election. He's another one who should be in jail.
I have seen slugs with more personality than Vance. Jessica Diane is so awkward.
I pray his poll numbers continue to plummet to hell. His complete disconnect from reality about tariffs couldn't be more obvious. Americans are about to see just how apocalyptical things get when imports trickle to nothing. Scarcity is about to be a real thing.
Imports, hell; two major Japanese auto manufacturers closed their plants /in this country/ because of the tariffs and said they wouldn't be coming back (hopefully they will once we get this idiot out of office. In the meantime, that's 40,000 American jobs lost and billions of dollars of revenue for us). X-P
Old woman here. What does X-P mean? Thanks 👹
It's just a very primitive way of doing an emoji, since I'm not sure where y'all are getting your cool ones from. ;-)
Basically, it's a pair of tightly closed eyes, a nose, and a tongue sticking out... X-P
Mine come from my phone. Thanks for the info
From Venite Adoremus
Trumpty Dumpty wanted a kingdom
Trumpty Dumpty issued a dictum
So all of his MAGATs from all ‘round the glen
Obliged and elected him king yet again.
To Sic Transit Gloria
Trumpty Dumpty sat in his feces
Trumpty Dumpty went all to pieces
When all the king’s MAGAts from ‘round the king’s glen
Refused to wash his nappies again.
….in less than 100 days.
Nobody likes me everybody hates me, I guess I'll just eat worms. The schoolyard bully is as good at crying as he is at lying.
Most bullies are. ;)
I actually, sort of reflexively, stood up to a persistent li'l thugette myself physically, which shocked the both of us. Had I realized the enormity of it (in jr. high school, so that would've been tricky), I would've been emboldened to keep it up. ;)
Two very good ways to make a bully, if that's what you want to do: a) bully someone. They won't feel like they can get back at their tormentor for whatever reason (often, sadly, because their tormentor may be a parent or older family member), so they'll take out their darkness on whatever or whoever they think is in a worse position than even they are; or b) be from a family with wealth and/or power (or just ambitious to get a piece of that pie; remember the Dursleys from Harry Potter? classic example), who not only accept everything their spawn does, but APPROVES of it, no matter how horrible it is. X-P Those are often the ones who, when they get to at least jr. high school, if not earlier, will be the ones who get their noses bent out of shape when anyone challenges them on anything ("Don't you KNOW who I AM?! You, and your whole family, and anyone who knows you, is gonna PAY for THAT!!!"). Sound familiar? :-/
Much as I like to watch Donold suffer, every day that he does is also a reminder that we who did not vote for him must suffer too under his insanity. I, for one, simply cannot wait until he meets his utter end. I know not how it will happen, but I do predict it may happen before the year is out.
There will always be people who worship and cling to whatever he and his Banal Cabal say and do. It is a religious cult, after all, that Mushroom Boy has created and nurtured. And once you have a devout following, ready to believe everything that falls out of your mouth - no matter how foul and untrue - you have them for life...unless something drastic happens. Remember Jim Jones and the cult that formed around him that led to about 900 people drinking the Kool-aid laced with, I believe, cyanide? They even made their little kids drink it, all on the say-so of Dear Leader Jones. Religious beliefs and attachments are the hardest to let go of, what with fears of hellish punishments for those who are 'unfaithful.' People invest their lives and kids into following and protecting their gods. Just look at Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious groups throughout history. Happily, statistically far fewer folk in America cleave to religions and more simply say that they have spiritual lives. Evolution in progress, eh?
And hopefully keeping in mind that, ultimately, the U.S. is a SECULAR COUNTRY. The Christian Nationalist wackaloons have to be reminded that we AREN'T a Christian (or Jewish, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or...) country, and haven't been since the First Amendment back in the 1780s. Weren't we great back then? :-/
Indeed. The founders were not fools, being the descendants of those who fled a Europe that was still in the grip of the Catholic church and the Inquisition. I find it very interesting that the right-wing - from the Supreme Court all the way to farmers - all seem to want a theocratic dictatorship instead of a democracy. One man to rule them all, one man to find them. One man to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Doesn't sound very Constitutional, does it?
Sounds very Third Age...or maybe Second Age (edit: Second Age)? ;)
At any rate, nah, sounds very monarchical. Al Gore was right when he went on about "Isn't Trump what the Constitution was written to protect us against?" or something to that effect. :-/
Tee Hee, Most Beloved!
Popcorn, weed, and Sunshine. Thank You!😍😎😂
You used to call him Donold. I liked it when you called him DonOld. Why did you stop doing that, God?
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
indeed.
I’ve been invited by a MAGA neighbor to come help brush her horses (something I enjoy; no horses of my own and I like spending time around them). We can usually get along for a couple of hours if we don’t talk politics or morality, and I’m kind of curious whether her opinions have changed at all or if she’s as drunk on the Kool-aid as ever. What do you think: should I go?
It's always good to maintain as good a friendship or other relationship (please, /don't/ ask me about my family...) as we can, I think; there's a dude, Daniel Dwayne? David Dwayne? something like that, a black guy, jazz musician, who's managed to de-program about 200 KKK guys, just by talking to them like they're just another person, not The Enemy. He keeps their former outfits as souvenirs and examples of hope that keep piling up. :)
As far as breaching the subject, you might want to do so gradually and subtly; maybe see how she feels about Musk, though even diehards getting their Kool-aid through an I.V. are losing patience with him, so that might not be a good indicator. I dunno; maybe just ask how she and her family are doing these days, if folks are good in their jobs, if there's any changes in the future she can see or worries about? :-/
The Rump is a demented would-be surgeon who is breaking every bone in the US body, while saying he can fix it all and you'll be muuuuuuch better off! When in reality he's just a psychotic sadist. If only he'd just left you alone and stuck to watching tapes of The Apprentice and Epstein, and playing golf.
I've often thought that Trumpty Dumpty was happiest when he was on T.V. with his own show. Plenty of adulation, fake or otherwise; "bigly, yuge ratings, the biggest ratings ever"; quite a bit of cash coming in (but apparently not enough to pay off his Russian pee-pee tape blackmailers and possible loan holders); no one laughing at his stage make-up, etc., etc., etc. :-/
As always you made me smile! But "HIS" regime in shambles. And there sits "BARBIE" his press secretary lying through her teeth about how his immigration stuff is going. I get so tired of hearing what's on his mind, which is basically reiterated over and over and over again. TRUTH immigration's deportations has gone badly, cruelly and disgustingly. The TARIFF thing is a bust so I would say his first 100 days are a bust!