I just turned 75, yet still hope to see this motherfucker and every single one of his Republican enablers in prison before I die.
I don’t give a damn how many millions go into this gaudy monstrosity, the next Democratic administration had better tear it down and rebuild what has been razed or there will be riots.
I turned 76 last month, and, like you have lived though a bit of our nations history, good, bad, and, of course tragic. But, we need to live for ourselves, children, friends and neighbors first, Of course I include my corgi in that list as well. Make each day as productive and affirming as you can. Continue the fight, but, take good care of ourselves as well. Try to find the positive things in your life, and, live it to the full with out being consumed by Trump. That is what he wants, he wants everyone to be concentrated on him all the time.
I’m a youngster, at 71, but I too am determined to see the lot of them rotting in prison for the rest of their lives for all the criminal acts they are committing. Trump is nothing other than a mob boss and his MAGA cult nothing other than his capos and “made men.” That is who is running the federal government. They must be stopped.
Me, too, Linda. I just turned 78 and refuse to go until they all do.
I keep asking myself, "What will it take? IS there a bridge too far for these people?" I spent this morning reading state news - North Carolina's General ASSembly, re-gerrymandering this state. And it occured to me, I've been pooh-poohing friends and others who keep talking 'civil war' (as in shooting war). But it hit me today, when you push someone into a corner far enough, they fight back, in any way they can and must. No doubt, this administration is just itching to incite such a response, because it would give them, in their minds, permission to literally kill all their opposition.
Apparently, the Republican voting population has even less imagination than I thought, if they can't see where this is headed.
Trump is effectively a renter (even though he doesn't pay rent), not an owner, of the White House. Renters cannot tear down a part of the house they rent. That is indisputable. It's bad enough that the Republicans in Congress are allowing him to destroy our democracy, our freedoms, our economy, and our standing in the world. But those are all political decisions. Tearing down part of the White House is not. If there should be bipartisan condemnation of anything he's done, this is it.
I was wrong. Tearing down part of the White House is a political action. It raises the political question of whether we should be ruled by a king. Since the Republicans believe we should be (provided the king is Trump), they will not condemn his action.
That's why he lied on July 31, when he assured everyone the new construction would leave the existing White House entirely intact. If he had told the truth then, there *would have been* a lawsuit (more than one). Now he brought in the demo crew -- said "Surprise!" -- and there was no time for an injunction.
Why don't any of the reporters ask Trump about his prior pledge that the East Wing would not be touched? Is even the press cowed in his very presence? This is an abomination, who needs a 1,000 person ballroom except to use for one of his constant fundraisers? And now Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him $230 Million for their past prosecutions of him. He's never been found not guilty of any of them, and would be the person with the final decision as to whether or not to pay this out of public funds. We're just going farther and farther down the rabbit hole.
Of course the press is cowed and the regime hand picks who has access to them. But, there are ways around the limitations of access by investigative journalists with sources. Do we even have enough of those journalists? It seems the answer is no. Discouraging to say the least.
He said “they’ve been wanting a ballroom for 150 years.” I’ve been here for over 8 decades and I’ve never heard the first murmur from anybody about wanting a freaking ballroom. If he opens his mouth for any other reason than to cram a BigMac in it, he’s lying! Pure ass lying…
He only allows yes men/women to question him at his so called press-conferences. Nobody seems to have the guts to challenge him and if they do - they're out of the white house press corps!
I don't get how he can do this and not be jailed. He is literally destroying a Federal building. If I go to my local post office tomorrow and take a sledgehammer to it, I would be arrested and jailed in one minute. But our Generalissimo rests securely in "the Peoples House" dreaming of shitting on New Yorkers.
He can do it because our supine Congress is - literally - out to lunch. They also don't give a rat's ass about laws - breaking them OR making them (hence the monthlong vacation).
I am accustomed to seeing him destroy, desecrate and cheapen everything he touches but I am seeing RED. Cannot wait until all his desecrations are removed, bulldozed and restored. How much longer, how much longer?
You're so right. This shutdown could last the rest of the miserable cretin's term or until his demise, whichever comes first. The Rethugs have waited since the f'ing Lewis Powell Memo to carry out all their travesties, and he whose name is sh*t is already halfway through Project 2025. There is rejoicing in Rethug Land. They have no sense of history, much less any sense at all.
Today, Trump declared that the inspectors needed to approve the sale of vintage machine guns are essential workers. This at the behest of the gun lobby.
He is getting comfortable with the power to fund whatever he wants, and leave everything else blocked. I'm sure he's also passing through donations from his rich friends to fund things that he can't justify as emergencies. Anyone want to guess whether the contractors ripping down the east wing of the People's House are getting paid?
Trump may not be a unitary executive according to the law, but he is one in fact, and with Congress on forced hiatus and the Supreme Court in his pocket there is no one left to enforce the law.
It's great that the Democrats have Johnson and Trump over a barrel on what should be a winning issue. But this strategy needs a next step in which Democrats press that advantage and force an endgame. Because if the current state of affairs turns out to be the endgame, Trump wins just by doing exactly what he's already doing.
This business of giving essential worker status to the inspectors who approve the sale of vintage machine guns is simply horrifying. He really does rub his tiny hands in gleeful anticipation of a bloodbath. He's vile, he's evil, and he breaks the law each and every day. He should've been impeached on "Day One" of his dictatorship. But of course, Rethugs. The Dems need to go to the mattresses!
Trump adds $7 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires, and builds a bigger ballroom so the billionaires are more comfortable when they go to DC to donate and write off their bribes.
And the poor and uneducated FOX viewers cheer on this maga crap as their cost of living increases daily, and they soon lose healthcare. They have no idea the size of Trumps grift, and smashing the side of the White House is his version of shooting someone on 5th Avenue to double down on the grifting.
Visiting Monticello I was struck by its size. Beautiful and imposing, it is relatively small and built human scale. It is intimate and never overpowering; the visitor feels ennobled in its presence.
Defiling history, Trump demos the East Wing like a tasteless Hamptons developer. And no one has the guts to defend that historic building, or to report it as a.complete outrage.
We will celebrate the end of his regime by demolishing his palatial ballroom.
You are right Lucian, if his mouth is open and he is breathing unassisted, he’s lying. The madness that was always in the background the first go round with him, is now up front and center. Each day brings some new abomination, that none of us ever thought of because we enjoy some semblance of sanity. I never usually write, God help us, because I don’t put much faith in that ever happening, but I’m beginning to wonder if that may be our only salvation. We knew it would be bad, but I think most of us never figured on a Satanic aspect to it. Maybe that’s hyperbole, he’s not Hitler, we don’t have death camps all over the place, and this is light weight compared to that, so in spite of what we are witnessing, we do have things to be thankful for. 🙏
I don't want to be a historical ninny, but there weren't "death camps all over the place" in the first five years of Hitler's Third Reich. How do the horrific prisons in other countries, the ones T***p, Miller, Noem et al are shipping their "undesirables," measure up in cruelty to Dachau and other German camps 1933-37?
The three of you are of course right, he is just getting going. I know Hitler didn’t start off with his camps they were evolving as he gained more power, which took years. I also know that he had Mein Kampf on his nightstand for reading material, and the guy avoids reading like the plague, inspiration perhaps. We are far better armed than Germany was prior to the war, 30+ million assault weapons, they are not squirrel and deer rifles like our ancestors had, they are efficiently designed to kill people, a lot of them. I don’t think he’s smart enough to realize how much he’s playing with fire. I didn’t read about it but I saw today they found a snipers nest in a tree near the flight path of Air Force One, that doesn’t surprise me. 10-15 million are going to loose their health insurance so that they can give tax breaks to billionaires, how many of them own assault rifles?
Sorry to fact check, but T***p was telling the truth when he said he never read "Mein Kampf." The book he had on his nightstand as reading material, according to his first wife in her sworn testimony during their divorce, was "My New Order," published in 1942, an annotated collection of Hitler's speeches from the early 1920's to 1941. Marie Brenner, in her still-worth-reading 1990s Vanity Fair profile of T***p, found the Hollywood producer who gave T***p a copy of the book, and squeezed from T***p a great non-denial denial: "I'm not saying I have a copy of the book, but if I do, I never read it." Even more perfect epilogue: Brenner later revealed that some months after the piece was published, she was at a big NYC charity event. So was T***p. He poured a glass of wine down her dress.
I don’t mind being fact checked Lawrence, I’m always searching for the underlying truth, like all of us I wasn’t born knowing it. At 79 a lot of info has passed through the gate and my memory isn’t what it once was. I have zero interest in promoting misinformation, so thank you for your correction. While having been a voracious reader most of my life, I have never read Mein Kampf, so it never made much sense that a notorious non reader would honor it with placement on his nightstand. As to his behavior at a charity event, par for the course.
I've tried to get through Mein Kampf (what was there about it that "inspired" Germans to kill so many of my distant cousins, 74 counted one afternoon when I was 8 or 9 by my mom, grandma, and grand-aunts). The book is, to use a polite word, lugubrious going.
Even if the split was 70/30 that is still a lot of millions of assault weapons, the guy who shot at him last summer had one of them, and only missed killing him by an inch. An inch to the right and none of what we are witnessing would be happening today, it was that close.
I appreciate you being a historical ninny! It looks like we’re working up to death camps pretty quickly, considering the ongoing work of our malicious goon squads. Throwing people in cages, starving them, letting them die of disease and exposure seems like cruelty of the like which eventually led to exterminations in the 40s under the Nazis. We’ve actually had the jones for this going on for quite a while, I believe, especially amongst the likes of the very wealthy. Bill Walton, that notorious peacenik deadhead basketball phenom, wanted to put all of the homeless veterans in “work camps” because he was tired of seeing them in San Diego. This was a few years ago before he died. We have plenty of unlivable areas in the US for AI facilities and eventually camps.
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
These are the words I spoke of my own free will on June 6, 1968. I was raised Catholic. I was taught never to be malevolent, to never wish evil or harm on anyone else!
There appears to be a clear dichotomy, an inherent contradiction between my oath and my religious education.
I wish to assure you all tonight there is not!
Mentally, clearly, with every fiber of my being, It is my duty to defend our Constitution! I am just as clearly stone cold malevolent when it comes to that duty! "Confusion and death to our enemies!"
So, I'm sure you will understand when I tell you I was enraged, furious and absolutely stone cold malevolent today after reading what has happened to our White House, and who perpetrated it!
I am not the least bit conflicted. The White House isn't just a building! It is part of our national soul! The illegal destruction of a portion of it today was an attack on our national psyche, on our very existence!
I cannot and will not release my anger and normalize what has happened! I will not forget!
There will come a time when proper action can and must be taken. I will do everything I can to be a part of it.
And they have ordered the employees in the Treasury Dept. which faces the White House to NOT take any photos of this - too bad, sorry, it's done. Also closed Lafayette Park to the public so the demo was out of sight! Why? Are you ashamed, Donny Dumbass?
Who's on the grand opening invitation list? Hmmmmm. Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Barrett. Steve Bannon. Leonard Leo. Vlad Putin. Viktor Orban. Possibly Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ellis - but he's already captured them. Others in the wealthiest 0.01%. Maybe GOP Members of Congress, but they're already deeply compliant and spineless, so he won't waste time coddling them. Who's building his golden throne? Will he remember to invite Melania?
It’s appalling. Next stop, Fort Knox. (He has talked about that place before.) If our legislators don’t raise hell about this I will be even madder than I am now. The media could have done a better job publicizing his plans (although hough David Brooks wasn’t bothered by the idea).
If you want info in the NYTimes about Saturday's NO KINGS, you'll need to go to page 23 of Sunday's paper. That's how much the NYT cares about this country.
The paper was just as timorous, oh, sorry, I meant even-handed, reporting on Hitler and American fascism in the 1930's, as detailed by Jacob Heilbrunn in his book, "America Last;" absolutely more than "worth reading."
I was struck, reading the Heilbrunn book, by the quietude of Times editorial murmurs in the 1930s about Hitler/the American Bund. This analogy stuff, hm. Okay, it's "all the news that's fit to print," as long as the editorial tailor doing the fitting takes his/her lessons from the people who provide T***p with his floppy-fashion garmentos. [Insert cross-eyed emoji here]
The Times had plenty to answer for during Hitler's ascendance, and they've admitted it to some extent. But that unpardonable complacence and placing the NOKINGSII story on p23 hardly seem comparable to me.
I'm not defending the Times "complacence" at all, nor its editorial hauteur. I don't see the (west coast/L.A.) print edition, but I know the Times report on NO KINGSII wasn't the top on its online page. There is a "comparable" here: in June, 1967, 10,000 anti-Vietnam-war L.A. residents were peacefully streaming past the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, where LBJ was attending a $1,000/plate campaign fundraiser. The LAPD, some on horses, attacked the crowd and began beating (white, middle-class) protesters. The next day the L.A. Times placed its (pro-police) reporting on page 22, 24? 28? specifically a left-hand page, which in the old days of print was considered inferior to a RH page. A few days later the L.A. Free Press weekly published an entire issue on the police violence, including photos.
If you're looking for a news editing job I wish you luck. The nyt runs what they think is all the news that's fit to print, not all the caring you want to read. The protests generated enough news to deserve p 23. Contrast? Conflict? Millions of people milled around in cute costumes, everybody there agreed with everybody else there, nobody got hurt, and trump shit-bombed them only via A.I. It's decidedly not news that by far most Americans disapprove of the mad king's performance and are ambulatory.
Oh, well spotted! As soon as he remembers there are tons of GOLD bars there, he will imagine he owns them all and will have them moved as secretly as possible to his bathrooms.
I just turned 75, yet still hope to see this motherfucker and every single one of his Republican enablers in prison before I die.
I don’t give a damn how many millions go into this gaudy monstrosity, the next Democratic administration had better tear it down and rebuild what has been razed or there will be riots.
You got it. I turned 75 in March and my motto is JAIL THE JAILBIRD! I'm so done with this "man" and the Republican Party.
78 here...want to outlive that POS.
I turned 76 last month, and, like you have lived though a bit of our nations history, good, bad, and, of course tragic. But, we need to live for ourselves, children, friends and neighbors first, Of course I include my corgi in that list as well. Make each day as productive and affirming as you can. Continue the fight, but, take good care of ourselves as well. Try to find the positive things in your life, and, live it to the full with out being consumed by Trump. That is what he wants, he wants everyone to be concentrated on him all the time.
I’m a youngster, at 71, but I too am determined to see the lot of them rotting in prison for the rest of their lives for all the criminal acts they are committing. Trump is nothing other than a mob boss and his MAGA cult nothing other than his capos and “made men.” That is who is running the federal government. They must be stopped.
I’m committed to staying alive at four score to see that bastard go down. It can’t happen soon enough for me.
I’ll turn 75 in three months and you share my before I die wishes.
Yes.
International Court of Justice.
This is Donnie the XVI Court of Versailles excesses while the people suffer and starve!
Me, too, Linda. I just turned 78 and refuse to go until they all do.
I keep asking myself, "What will it take? IS there a bridge too far for these people?" I spent this morning reading state news - North Carolina's General ASSembly, re-gerrymandering this state. And it occured to me, I've been pooh-poohing friends and others who keep talking 'civil war' (as in shooting war). But it hit me today, when you push someone into a corner far enough, they fight back, in any way they can and must. No doubt, this administration is just itching to incite such a response, because it would give them, in their minds, permission to literally kill all their opposition.
Apparently, the Republican voting population has even less imagination than I thought, if they can't see where this is headed.
Me too!!
He’s just one head of the monster. Cut him off and the monster grows another. Some versions of the Myth say seven grow where there was once the one.
It’s the Monster itself that needs to go.
And for some reason I’m flashing on the Pogo comic strip.
There should be riots before it’s built!
Bravo!
This is one of the saddest days in my long life.
It was truly awful. The sicko did it gleefully. I honestly had to take a Xanax to calm down. He is traumatizing us all.
Yes, I agree. We are all suffering from some sort of ptsd from the actions of this evil man and his cult.
Amen.
Heartbreaking!
He wrecks everything he touches
be it the legal system, healthcare, research, universities, the military, civility itself…
and now the White House
Everything Trump Touches Dies by Rick Wilson
Trump is effectively a renter (even though he doesn't pay rent), not an owner, of the White House. Renters cannot tear down a part of the house they rent. That is indisputable. It's bad enough that the Republicans in Congress are allowing him to destroy our democracy, our freedoms, our economy, and our standing in the world. But those are all political decisions. Tearing down part of the White House is not. If there should be bipartisan condemnation of anything he's done, this is it.
We no longer have bipartisan partners, if ever we did to begin with. Werewolves and blood-suckers.
There is no government at present, only a thin, failing shadow.
I was wrong. Tearing down part of the White House is a political action. It raises the political question of whether we should be ruled by a king. Since the Republicans believe we should be (provided the king is Trump), they will not condemn his action.
Maybe a lawsuit could stop it in its tracks?
He completely ignores lawsuits and court orders. This bitch is totally out of control and I don’t see anything stopping him. Nothing.
That's why he lied on July 31, when he assured everyone the new construction would leave the existing White House entirely intact. If he had told the truth then, there *would have been* a lawsuit (more than one). Now he brought in the demo crew -- said "Surprise!" -- and there was no time for an injunction.
Why don't any of the reporters ask Trump about his prior pledge that the East Wing would not be touched? Is even the press cowed in his very presence? This is an abomination, who needs a 1,000 person ballroom except to use for one of his constant fundraisers? And now Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him $230 Million for their past prosecutions of him. He's never been found not guilty of any of them, and would be the person with the final decision as to whether or not to pay this out of public funds. We're just going farther and farther down the rabbit hole.
Of course the press is cowed and the regime hand picks who has access to them. But, there are ways around the limitations of access by investigative journalists with sources. Do we even have enough of those journalists? It seems the answer is no. Discouraging to say the least.
Nothing short of disgusting. I just don’t have words for it, and I’m a wordsmith.
He said “they’ve been wanting a ballroom for 150 years.” I’ve been here for over 8 decades and I’ve never heard the first murmur from anybody about wanting a freaking ballroom. If he opens his mouth for any other reason than to cram a BigMac in it, he’s lying! Pure ass lying…
He only allows yes men/women to question him at his so called press-conferences. Nobody seems to have the guts to challenge him and if they do - they're out of the white house press corps!
Tom Clements: "Is even the press cowed in his very presence?"
Yes.
I don't get how he can do this and not be jailed. He is literally destroying a Federal building. If I go to my local post office tomorrow and take a sledgehammer to it, I would be arrested and jailed in one minute. But our Generalissimo rests securely in "the Peoples House" dreaming of shitting on New Yorkers.
Exactly. I believe doing this takes congressional approval. But, then, this is demented Donny who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the law. Any law.
And Congress hasn’t stopped him yet. Too scared of him.
They are TACOS too!
I wish they’d TACO and away..
Mob boss!!
Mob boss wannabe
No, doesn’t mean a thing to him. One of these days he IS going to shoot somebody on 5th Avenue, or the in Oval Office and get away with it…
Pure and simple, at this point in time he IS above the law and we should stop fooling ourselves otherwise.
He can do it because our supine Congress is - literally - out to lunch. They also don't give a rat's ass about laws - breaking them OR making them (hence the monthlong vacation).
Good point!! So Grijalva has to sue “Mike I’m White” while he smears her? Wtf?
I am accustomed to seeing him destroy, desecrate and cheapen everything he touches but I am seeing RED. Cannot wait until all his desecrations are removed, bulldozed and restored. How much longer, how much longer?
All we need is to pick up 3 seats in the House and then we can get the ball rolling in the right direction.
VOTE and encourage others to do the same. We cannot sit this one out.
Besides picking up those seats, we have to wait for the "Speaker" to decide to reconvene the House and swear the new occupants in.
I put "Speaker" in quotes because of he won't convene, there's nothing for him to be Speaker of.
You're so right. This shutdown could last the rest of the miserable cretin's term or until his demise, whichever comes first. The Rethugs have waited since the f'ing Lewis Powell Memo to carry out all their travesties, and he whose name is sh*t is already halfway through Project 2025. There is rejoicing in Rethug Land. They have no sense of history, much less any sense at all.
Today, Trump declared that the inspectors needed to approve the sale of vintage machine guns are essential workers. This at the behest of the gun lobby.
He is getting comfortable with the power to fund whatever he wants, and leave everything else blocked. I'm sure he's also passing through donations from his rich friends to fund things that he can't justify as emergencies. Anyone want to guess whether the contractors ripping down the east wing of the People's House are getting paid?
Trump may not be a unitary executive according to the law, but he is one in fact, and with Congress on forced hiatus and the Supreme Court in his pocket there is no one left to enforce the law.
It's great that the Democrats have Johnson and Trump over a barrel on what should be a winning issue. But this strategy needs a next step in which Democrats press that advantage and force an endgame. Because if the current state of affairs turns out to be the endgame, Trump wins just by doing exactly what he's already doing.
This business of giving essential worker status to the inspectors who approve the sale of vintage machine guns is simply horrifying. He really does rub his tiny hands in gleeful anticipation of a bloodbath. He's vile, he's evil, and he breaks the law each and every day. He should've been impeached on "Day One" of his dictatorship. But of course, Rethugs. The Dems need to go to the mattresses!
Just floating this idea for anyone with connections to either Democratic or Republican officeholders: https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/a-modest-proposal-how-democrats-could-take-the-house-before-november-2026/.
The House could easily become Democratic NOW.
It’s the only possible solution I see.
Trump adds $7 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires, and builds a bigger ballroom so the billionaires are more comfortable when they go to DC to donate and write off their bribes.
And the poor and uneducated FOX viewers cheer on this maga crap as their cost of living increases daily, and they soon lose healthcare. They have no idea the size of Trumps grift, and smashing the side of the White House is his version of shooting someone on 5th Avenue to double down on the grifting.
Your tax dollars at work. When the dumbass maggats end up on the street, they’ll be amazed! How tf could this have happened?
the next president must tear that shit out brick by brick for affordable housing
Absolutely!! AND RESTORE THE ROSE GARDEN!
Visiting Monticello I was struck by its size. Beautiful and imposing, it is relatively small and built human scale. It is intimate and never overpowering; the visitor feels ennobled in its presence.
Defiling history, Trump demos the East Wing like a tasteless Hamptons developer. And no one has the guts to defend that historic building, or to report it as a.complete outrage.
We will celebrate the end of his regime by demolishing his palatial ballroom.
You are right Lucian, if his mouth is open and he is breathing unassisted, he’s lying. The madness that was always in the background the first go round with him, is now up front and center. Each day brings some new abomination, that none of us ever thought of because we enjoy some semblance of sanity. I never usually write, God help us, because I don’t put much faith in that ever happening, but I’m beginning to wonder if that may be our only salvation. We knew it would be bad, but I think most of us never figured on a Satanic aspect to it. Maybe that’s hyperbole, he’s not Hitler, we don’t have death camps all over the place, and this is light weight compared to that, so in spite of what we are witnessing, we do have things to be thankful for. 🙏
I don't want to be a historical ninny, but there weren't "death camps all over the place" in the first five years of Hitler's Third Reich. How do the horrific prisons in other countries, the ones T***p, Miller, Noem et al are shipping their "undesirables," measure up in cruelty to Dachau and other German camps 1933-37?
The three of you are of course right, he is just getting going. I know Hitler didn’t start off with his camps they were evolving as he gained more power, which took years. I also know that he had Mein Kampf on his nightstand for reading material, and the guy avoids reading like the plague, inspiration perhaps. We are far better armed than Germany was prior to the war, 30+ million assault weapons, they are not squirrel and deer rifles like our ancestors had, they are efficiently designed to kill people, a lot of them. I don’t think he’s smart enough to realize how much he’s playing with fire. I didn’t read about it but I saw today they found a snipers nest in a tree near the flight path of Air Force One, that doesn’t surprise me. 10-15 million are going to loose their health insurance so that they can give tax breaks to billionaires, how many of them own assault rifles?
Sorry to fact check, but T***p was telling the truth when he said he never read "Mein Kampf." The book he had on his nightstand as reading material, according to his first wife in her sworn testimony during their divorce, was "My New Order," published in 1942, an annotated collection of Hitler's speeches from the early 1920's to 1941. Marie Brenner, in her still-worth-reading 1990s Vanity Fair profile of T***p, found the Hollywood producer who gave T***p a copy of the book, and squeezed from T***p a great non-denial denial: "I'm not saying I have a copy of the book, but if I do, I never read it." Even more perfect epilogue: Brenner later revealed that some months after the piece was published, she was at a big NYC charity event. So was T***p. He poured a glass of wine down her dress.
Wow...isn't that Trump guy a never-ending fount of class, grace and elegance?(sarcasm, in case that isn't evident)
He’s just white trash with money.
And always has been.
That's "fount" as in constantly erupting teenage pustule?
Wow-what a classy guy.
Somebody said he has no class, but as a friend of mine said “He’s got plenty of class, it’s just all low.”
(oops...posted my remark before I had read yours...great minds, and all that!)
I don’t mind being fact checked Lawrence, I’m always searching for the underlying truth, like all of us I wasn’t born knowing it. At 79 a lot of info has passed through the gate and my memory isn’t what it once was. I have zero interest in promoting misinformation, so thank you for your correction. While having been a voracious reader most of my life, I have never read Mein Kampf, so it never made much sense that a notorious non reader would honor it with placement on his nightstand. As to his behavior at a charity event, par for the course.
I've tried to get through Mein Kampf (what was there about it that "inspired" Germans to kill so many of my distant cousins, 74 counted one afternoon when I was 8 or 9 by my mom, grandma, and grand-aunts). The book is, to use a polite word, lugubrious going.
Interesting! Thanks!
Cliff Notes, maybe.
Interesting point, but I do have to wonder which side those assault rifle owners are predominately on...out of sheer ignorance, of course?
Even if the split was 70/30 that is still a lot of millions of assault weapons, the guy who shot at him last summer had one of them, and only missed killing him by an inch. An inch to the right and none of what we are witnessing would be happening today, it was that close.
I appreciate you being a historical ninny! It looks like we’re working up to death camps pretty quickly, considering the ongoing work of our malicious goon squads. Throwing people in cages, starving them, letting them die of disease and exposure seems like cruelty of the like which eventually led to exterminations in the 40s under the Nazis. We’ve actually had the jones for this going on for quite a while, I believe, especially amongst the likes of the very wealthy. Bill Walton, that notorious peacenik deadhead basketball phenom, wanted to put all of the homeless veterans in “work camps” because he was tired of seeing them in San Diego. This was a few years ago before he died. We have plenty of unlivable areas in the US for AI facilities and eventually camps.
Here was Walton and friends:
https://thecomeback.com/nba/bill-walton-homeless-people.html
We don’t have death camps all over the place - yet. Give him time….
Unfortunately, his term isn’t over yet.
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
These are the words I spoke of my own free will on June 6, 1968. I was raised Catholic. I was taught never to be malevolent, to never wish evil or harm on anyone else!
There appears to be a clear dichotomy, an inherent contradiction between my oath and my religious education.
I wish to assure you all tonight there is not!
Mentally, clearly, with every fiber of my being, It is my duty to defend our Constitution! I am just as clearly stone cold malevolent when it comes to that duty! "Confusion and death to our enemies!"
So, I'm sure you will understand when I tell you I was enraged, furious and absolutely stone cold malevolent today after reading what has happened to our White House, and who perpetrated it!
I am not the least bit conflicted. The White House isn't just a building! It is part of our national soul! The illegal destruction of a portion of it today was an attack on our national psyche, on our very existence!
I cannot and will not release my anger and normalize what has happened! I will not forget!
There will come a time when proper action can and must be taken. I will do everything I can to be a part of it.
"Confusion and death to our enemies!"
And they have ordered the employees in the Treasury Dept. which faces the White House to NOT take any photos of this - too bad, sorry, it's done. Also closed Lafayette Park to the public so the demo was out of sight! Why? Are you ashamed, Donny Dumbass?
No worries, my daughter got some good pics. Now that it's on the Internet, it will never go away.
You have my admiration, and doubtless many others' too, BG Pete.
That is very nice of you to say! Thank you! It just can't be any other way for me!
Your level of self-control is rare and exemplary.
This is a visible monument to the destruction he is doing to our government and our country. I seesaw between wanting to cry and scream with rage.
Again, Trump is a like a dog that pees on everything he comes in contact with.
Who's on the grand opening invitation list? Hmmmmm. Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Barrett. Steve Bannon. Leonard Leo. Vlad Putin. Viktor Orban. Possibly Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ellis - but he's already captured them. Others in the wealthiest 0.01%. Maybe GOP Members of Congress, but they're already deeply compliant and spineless, so he won't waste time coddling them. Who's building his golden throne? Will he remember to invite Melania?
Absolutely! Didn’t you see that lovely Rethug crowd at the White House having their beautiful party? Sure looks likes circa 1940 Germany to me….
And the members of Opus Dei...his Catholic cabal who support him!
Oh geeze, I forgot about that bunch..Scalia, yes??
Even Scalia might have been appalled at how Trump is simply TAKING & DOING whatever he wants without regard to law, tradition or even courtesy.
True- even Federalist Scalia believed there was were laws…
It’s appalling. Next stop, Fort Knox. (He has talked about that place before.) If our legislators don’t raise hell about this I will be even madder than I am now. The media could have done a better job publicizing his plans (although hough David Brooks wasn’t bothered by the idea).
If you want info in the NYTimes about Saturday's NO KINGS, you'll need to go to page 23 of Sunday's paper. That's how much the NYT cares about this country.
The paper was just as timorous, oh, sorry, I meant even-handed, reporting on Hitler and American fascism in the 1930's, as detailed by Jacob Heilbrunn in his book, "America Last;" absolutely more than "worth reading."
If you really, really see an analogy I wonder how closely you read current nyt news.
I was struck, reading the Heilbrunn book, by the quietude of Times editorial murmurs in the 1930s about Hitler/the American Bund. This analogy stuff, hm. Okay, it's "all the news that's fit to print," as long as the editorial tailor doing the fitting takes his/her lessons from the people who provide T***p with his floppy-fashion garmentos. [Insert cross-eyed emoji here]
The Times had plenty to answer for during Hitler's ascendance, and they've admitted it to some extent. But that unpardonable complacence and placing the NOKINGSII story on p23 hardly seem comparable to me.
I'm not defending the Times "complacence" at all, nor its editorial hauteur. I don't see the (west coast/L.A.) print edition, but I know the Times report on NO KINGSII wasn't the top on its online page. There is a "comparable" here: in June, 1967, 10,000 anti-Vietnam-war L.A. residents were peacefully streaming past the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, where LBJ was attending a $1,000/plate campaign fundraiser. The LAPD, some on horses, attacked the crowd and began beating (white, middle-class) protesters. The next day the L.A. Times placed its (pro-police) reporting on page 22, 24? 28? specifically a left-hand page, which in the old days of print was considered inferior to a RH page. A few days later the L.A. Free Press weekly published an entire issue on the police violence, including photos.
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If you're looking for a news editing job I wish you luck. The nyt runs what they think is all the news that's fit to print, not all the caring you want to read. The protests generated enough news to deserve p 23. Contrast? Conflict? Millions of people milled around in cute costumes, everybody there agreed with everybody else there, nobody got hurt, and trump shit-bombed them only via A.I. It's decidedly not news that by far most Americans disapprove of the mad king's performance and are ambulatory.
Oh, well spotted! As soon as he remembers there are tons of GOLD bars there, he will imagine he owns them all and will have them moved as secretly as possible to his bathrooms.