The fluttering you are hearing in early March of this year is not the wings of finches and sparrows and chickadees returning to your bird feeder after a long winter away from the cold.
He’s the living definition of the saddest part of greed: a hole that can never be filled. And in that, we can take heart in having something that will always be beyond his reach, that his wealth will never buy for him: enough.
Um... the Trump Presidential Library where he will publicly display his purloined collection of magically declassified nuclear war plans. Jes' sayin'...
I wouldn’t bet on Putin blackmailing him. I’m betting Trump is a witting and willing asset. Otherwise he wouldn’t be so open in his admiration and obeisance to Putin.
Trump Presidential Library ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha – rent a bathroom stall and $10 worth of Sharpies and we’re done with it.
I always had to laugh when I looked at the Reagan Presidential Library. What books could possibly be in it?! Once he got out of Euclid College (I think it was called), we are all pretty sure that the longest "book" he ever read was the script for "Bedtime for Bonzo".
Same thing for GWB's "Library". Georgie, to his credit, may have read a novel or two after Yale. But he had a former second grade teacher as his wife, and I'm sure she kept him informed about the serious stuff.
Now we have Trump running his very own Library scam, raking in millions to house....what?
Even his official White House records will be very limited, because major crooks know enough not to commit anything to paper.
What kind of people are these who pay so much to have dinner with him? Are all big business people like this? Warren Buffett? If people pay gross sums of money to talk to him, maybe we should try to keep track of who they all are. I consider them to be a real danger to society and the planet.
longtimebirdwatcher—Notables sometimes donate one fancy shared meal as a high-stakes charity auction prize. Actually, I think i've read of Buffett doing it. Can't imagine the big liar donating a NY minute to charity.
The order of this thread is totally scrambled, Leigh, so I can only assume you mean djt. I think his whole cohort is genetically deficient in that department.
Susan Jane—No, no, no. I think Buffett does or did it annually, but I don't remember the name of any high bidder—certainly not djt. He would surely consider WB a sucker for giving away dinner—let alone much of his fortune.
Yes, I'm sure Buffett does it when he trusts the money goes to a good cause. That's how it works. I have served on the boards of a few large environmental non-profits and people sponsored tables at events, but not for millions. They would also hold auctions for trips or stays in someone's luxurious vacation home. And art. And the owner of the home or artwork could count those gifts for tax purposes as a donation. Schools do it too.
Most rich people including CEO’s of big business rarely spend their own money unless it is for yachts etc. I’m sure they are finding ways to make corporate donations for these dinners and flying down to FL on the company jets.
Trump the Psychopath and his Sadistic followers will leave the planet a Waste Land of crumbling Trump Towers. All of the planets gold would have Donald wanting more. Imagine golf played with gold clubs and balls. Earth was great about 16000 BC. At that time I roamed the quiet vastness until at 35 Nature laid me down. Now I'm back again but at 84 I'm being tortured to death by Modern Medicine.
Today humans have challenged nature and will surely extinguish themselves. And Elon wants to do it again on Mars.
Hasta luego,
Cal in his Motorhome with his dog Spot somewhere in whats left of the Great Sonoran Desert.
This should all be such an affront to the hard-working federal employees, the veterans, the military, the scientists, everyone who the Muskrat is taking a chain saw to while Dear Leader stuffs his pockets with his insatiable greed. He ruins careers, and destroys families while we blindly pay for him, Melanie, Musk, Maga politicians, all to fly back and forth to Mara-A-Golfo and he charges exorbitant rates for the SS to stay in his resort and guard his sorry ass. And yet his cultists worship on as their savings dwindle and prices go ever up.
Oh, Lucian, the plans for the "Library" are already drawn up.
Remember that strip mall just down the road a piece where Kraft went to have a "massage" during the first debacle and it was raided? Well since that place is not available to be renovated into a fitting library, the "architects" found an old "jiggley" club for sale. It's being renovated to contain his collection of coloring books and assorted magazines, but they are not planning on any hard cover books. There will be rooms appropriate to the activites he has recieved most of his publicity for and a space dedicated to his legal escapeds. Oh, one last little addiition - they are keeping the poles in memory of the First Lady's previous career.
So true, Babette. His own mother said that he would barrel into the playroom and upend whatever his siblings were playing with. Blocks, erector sets, game boards. And then he'd roar out and leave them in tears.
Drumpf has so many enemies now. Some of them are members of organizations and have smart people in them who know about grid coordinates and all sorts of devices. One wonders when motive, means, and opportunity knocks.
Every time I see another article about cancelling F35 contracts and the like, I think the same thing. He's really ticking off the wrong people. People with war weapons and such. Look at what that aircraft company *cough* did to whistleblowers. I wonder if opportunity will knock when these entities figure out a way to goad a foreign adversary into acting (or they can make it look like that anyway).
Here's what I think about now and again -- Drumpf's enemies grow daily. And some of them are going to be desperate. Who are we looking at now? First there are outraged Democratic voters who don't support facism; there are some Republican voters who might feel betrayed; there are domestic groups that Drumpf has threatened (e.g., immigrants, alternate lifestyle folks, minority groups); there are thousands of fired workers who are having their lives ruined or upended; there are citizens worried over health care, pensions, retirement funds; and then we have those under attack overseas: Muslims; Palestinians; Iranians; Latin Americans; EUROPEANS!; and specifically, Drumpf has betrayed Ukraine and there must be some elements in that military who are bitterly angry at this treatment.
And who knows how many fellow mob bosses in the US Drumpf & Co. have managed to piss off over the years?
There are so many potential revenge-minded people out there now, some of whom may feel they have nothing further to lose, and some of whom may feel they can only benefit from taking action. I shouldn't wonder how many conspiracies might be taking place even now. Were an incident to occur, no one would know where to look first. I mean, look at how hard it has been over the years to even trace the various Kennedy conspiracy theories? They are legion!
And then, America has always had its share of lone nuts.
I have pondered this too. I figure any groups outside the lone nuts and nothing-to-lose folks are worried about creating a martyr that would trigger civil war, hence my thought of them making it look like an outsider.
Indeed. The prospect of a complicated false-flag operation is not to be discounted. (hate to pick on the Israelis, but Mossad has been known to engage in plenty of dirty tricks -- but then, who hasn't?)
Mossad is wicked, but I suspect they are getting everything they want from the current administration now, with the promise to raze Gaza. And the Dems love Israel and their AIPAC money too. My money's on Iran, Yemen, Libya, or someplace similar. All the better if they could make it look like Russia stabbed the current administration in the back, but I think that's too much to hope for.
It's convoluted beyond measure. Netanyahu is sitting pretty now, I agree, getting what he wants in Gaza and the West bank, but he still sees one big nemesis in his path and I wouldn't put it past anyone in Tel Aviv to be musing about how easy it would be to get Uncle Sam to go ballistic (pun intended) on Iran if Mossad could set up something really vicious and make it look like Tehran's doing. Israel's been urging us to go in with them on an attack on Iran for a long time.
Trump is in this for the adjulation, the power and the $$.
The fight against Trump must recognize that he's an amazingly gifted salesman and dark entertainer. When he brings these talents to the political area he becomes a walking, talking propaganda machine to his adoring supporters. We, the opposition, focus on his endless "lies". But, really his speaking is so much more than just lies and exaggeration. His speaking is a fire hose of propaganda instinctively curated to validate and energize his base while giving confidence to the traditional right wing and uber wealthy that, as crazy as he sounds, he's their guy.
In my opinion, when we fight back against Trumpism, we should fight back against his propaganda, his corruption and his hateful, anti-American agenda, not his individual stream of lies.
In the end, Trumpism will defeat itself because his chaotic attack on the US government will harm enough of his voters, new and old, that Americans will be begging Democrats to take back the Congress in 2026.
This analysis is close to what should happen as voters realize the cuts hurt them and not just the nameless government workers and people being helped around the world. i sure hope there is an election-- and a fair election-- in 2026.
There's the rub, right? Remember "you don't even have to vote"? Millions of voters purged and or denied in plain sight.
First he wins over Hillary with fake news. Then he loses to Biden in a fair fight. Then quite probably the fight is rigged with voter purges etc. More tricks coming in 2026 as Dems keep playing by the rules. Then no need to bother voting in 2028 as the US goes total 3rd world as the bejeweled vultures pick over the bones of a failed state. Thinking the maga mopes will ever come to their senses is living the fantasy of democracy which the US all but ain't any longer. What fun.
I agree with you 100%! Btw, his dumb shit supporters keep giving him $$$$$$$$$$ and they think he’s going to help them out. It’s a screwed up cult with people that went way off the deep end.
He realized after his first administration that no one was going to enforce that, like so many other things. All those checks and balances were a sham.
He’s the living definition of the saddest part of greed: a hole that can never be filled. And in that, we can take heart in having something that will always be beyond his reach, that his wealth will never buy for him: enough.
In Buddhism he'd be a hungry ghost.
He will leave no stone unturned. A con man, a thief and a liar. Nothing less.
Or nothing more.
Library? What fucking Library? Oh that one got me. Thanks Lucian!
Um... the Trump Presidential Library where he will publicly display his purloined collection of magically declassified nuclear war plans. Jes' sayin'...
Copies. The originals are surely already in the hands of whoever is blackmailing him.
I wouldn’t bet on Putin blackmailing him. I’m betting Trump is a witting and willing asset. Otherwise he wouldn’t be so open in his admiration and obeisance to Putin.
I'd like to think that a time will come whrn we will know.
Occasionally I post a blank 3 x 5 card and refer to it as the Trump Presidential Library
Trump Presidential Library ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha – rent a bathroom stall and $10 worth of Sharpies and we’re done with it.
Me too! How much space is needed for a gold toilet and a constitution re-write in Russian?!
No mirrors cause they'd shatter.
I always had to laugh when I looked at the Reagan Presidential Library. What books could possibly be in it?! Once he got out of Euclid College (I think it was called), we are all pretty sure that the longest "book" he ever read was the script for "Bedtime for Bonzo".
Same thing for GWB's "Library". Georgie, to his credit, may have read a novel or two after Yale. But he had a former second grade teacher as his wife, and I'm sure she kept him informed about the serious stuff.
Now we have Trump running his very own Library scam, raking in millions to house....what?
Even his official White House records will be very limited, because major crooks know enough not to commit anything to paper.
… to house the overflow of scholarly collections donated to the Trump University library.
What kind of people are these who pay so much to have dinner with him? Are all big business people like this? Warren Buffett? If people pay gross sums of money to talk to him, maybe we should try to keep track of who they all are. I consider them to be a real danger to society and the planet.
longtimebirdwatcher—Notables sometimes donate one fancy shared meal as a high-stakes charity auction prize. Actually, I think i've read of Buffett doing it. Can't imagine the big liar donating a NY minute to charity.
Bill Gates posted a video tell-all about his dinner with the don.
It was sickening and reminded me of their “membership” in the Epstein investment scheme.
i'd like to see that, Babette. Since Gates turned out—against all odds—to be one of the best of that lot I'm curious about how he handled it.
See if you can find it.
It popped up and in no way
am l going to search for it.
Hopefully my description will suffice!
I'm Ellen to you!
Diane here, Ellen. Hi.;-)
You mean Mr. No Empathy?
The order of this thread is totally scrambled, Leigh, so I can only assume you mean djt. I think his whole cohort is genetically deficient in that department.
No, not Warren Buffett, not with Trump. He's better than that.
Susan Jane—No, no, no. I think Buffett does or did it annually, but I don't remember the name of any high bidder—certainly not djt. He would surely consider WB a sucker for giving away dinner—let alone much of his fortune.
Yes, I'm sure Buffett does it when he trusts the money goes to a good cause. That's how it works. I have served on the boards of a few large environmental non-profits and people sponsored tables at events, but not for millions. They would also hold auctions for trips or stays in someone's luxurious vacation home. And art. And the owner of the home or artwork could count those gifts for tax purposes as a donation. Schools do it too.
Most rich people including CEO’s of big business rarely spend their own money unless it is for yachts etc. I’m sure they are finding ways to make corporate donations for these dinners and flying down to FL on the company jets.
Good question.
Trump the Psychopath and his Sadistic followers will leave the planet a Waste Land of crumbling Trump Towers. All of the planets gold would have Donald wanting more. Imagine golf played with gold clubs and balls. Earth was great about 16000 BC. At that time I roamed the quiet vastness until at 35 Nature laid me down. Now I'm back again but at 84 I'm being tortured to death by Modern Medicine.
Today humans have challenged nature and will surely extinguish themselves. And Elon wants to do it again on Mars.
Hasta luego,
Cal in his Motorhome with his dog Spot somewhere in whats left of the Great Sonoran Desert.
Glad you're able to keep hanging on, Cal. Your spirit is an inspiration.
Hannibal Lector has got nothing on drumph, The barking yam and maga is murdering our Democracy.
Barking yam!
This should all be such an affront to the hard-working federal employees, the veterans, the military, the scientists, everyone who the Muskrat is taking a chain saw to while Dear Leader stuffs his pockets with his insatiable greed. He ruins careers, and destroys families while we blindly pay for him, Melanie, Musk, Maga politicians, all to fly back and forth to Mara-A-Golfo and he charges exorbitant rates for the SS to stay in his resort and guard his sorry ass. And yet his cultists worship on as their savings dwindle and prices go ever up.
I will never understand it. I know a few. I used to think they were fairly normal humans. Maybe they now feel that way about me.
Excellent point!
Sick, sick, and more sick. Mad, mad, and more mad. Trying my best to hold on tight during this hurricane of awfulness.
So gross.
But... but... but... Hunter's laptop! Her emails! His birth certificate!!!
Let's look at the REAL crimes, right??
Oh, Lucian, the plans for the "Library" are already drawn up.
Remember that strip mall just down the road a piece where Kraft went to have a "massage" during the first debacle and it was raided? Well since that place is not available to be renovated into a fitting library, the "architects" found an old "jiggley" club for sale. It's being renovated to contain his collection of coloring books and assorted magazines, but they are not planning on any hard cover books. There will be rooms appropriate to the activites he has recieved most of his publicity for and a space dedicated to his legal escapeds. Oh, one last little addiition - they are keeping the poles in memory of the First Lady's previous career.
Well, that's what I've heard. 😉
Your sarcasm is inspirational.
Thank you!
Thank you, Carol. 😉😂
Well if he grifts the grifters, I am not sure it is such a bad thing. Except, what is he going to do with all that dough? That is the question.
Nancy, maybe as age takes its toll and when he senses the end is near he'll order an oversize coffin and try to take it with him :)
I hope it's not because he senses the end is drawing near (at his age) and that he's hoping to take the whole world with him.
The question is, what are they asking for? I am very concerned about things that might damage the climate even more.
Protection
This is a set up to justify the indefensible: boys building towers and knocking them down. It’s child’s play on display.
My three and a half year-old did this in his grandmother’s living room and yelled “Damage!” Cute? He was instructed to put the blocks away.
So true, Babette. His own mother said that he would barrel into the playroom and upend whatever his siblings were playing with. Blocks, erector sets, game boards. And then he'd roar out and leave them in tears.
Drumpf has so many enemies now. Some of them are members of organizations and have smart people in them who know about grid coordinates and all sorts of devices. One wonders when motive, means, and opportunity knocks.
I hear you, Kozmo, and I like what you're implying. I just hope that opportunity knocks sooner than later.
Every time I see another article about cancelling F35 contracts and the like, I think the same thing. He's really ticking off the wrong people. People with war weapons and such. Look at what that aircraft company *cough* did to whistleblowers. I wonder if opportunity will knock when these entities figure out a way to goad a foreign adversary into acting (or they can make it look like that anyway).
Here's what I think about now and again -- Drumpf's enemies grow daily. And some of them are going to be desperate. Who are we looking at now? First there are outraged Democratic voters who don't support facism; there are some Republican voters who might feel betrayed; there are domestic groups that Drumpf has threatened (e.g., immigrants, alternate lifestyle folks, minority groups); there are thousands of fired workers who are having their lives ruined or upended; there are citizens worried over health care, pensions, retirement funds; and then we have those under attack overseas: Muslims; Palestinians; Iranians; Latin Americans; EUROPEANS!; and specifically, Drumpf has betrayed Ukraine and there must be some elements in that military who are bitterly angry at this treatment.
And who knows how many fellow mob bosses in the US Drumpf & Co. have managed to piss off over the years?
There are so many potential revenge-minded people out there now, some of whom may feel they have nothing further to lose, and some of whom may feel they can only benefit from taking action. I shouldn't wonder how many conspiracies might be taking place even now. Were an incident to occur, no one would know where to look first. I mean, look at how hard it has been over the years to even trace the various Kennedy conspiracy theories? They are legion!
And then, America has always had its share of lone nuts.
I have pondered this too. I figure any groups outside the lone nuts and nothing-to-lose folks are worried about creating a martyr that would trigger civil war, hence my thought of them making it look like an outsider.
Indeed. The prospect of a complicated false-flag operation is not to be discounted. (hate to pick on the Israelis, but Mossad has been known to engage in plenty of dirty tricks -- but then, who hasn't?)
Mossad is wicked, but I suspect they are getting everything they want from the current administration now, with the promise to raze Gaza. And the Dems love Israel and their AIPAC money too. My money's on Iran, Yemen, Libya, or someplace similar. All the better if they could make it look like Russia stabbed the current administration in the back, but I think that's too much to hope for.
It's convoluted beyond measure. Netanyahu is sitting pretty now, I agree, getting what he wants in Gaza and the West bank, but he still sees one big nemesis in his path and I wouldn't put it past anyone in Tel Aviv to be musing about how easy it would be to get Uncle Sam to go ballistic (pun intended) on Iran if Mossad could set up something really vicious and make it look like Tehran's doing. Israel's been urging us to go in with them on an attack on Iran for a long time.
Trump is in this for the adjulation, the power and the $$.
The fight against Trump must recognize that he's an amazingly gifted salesman and dark entertainer. When he brings these talents to the political area he becomes a walking, talking propaganda machine to his adoring supporters. We, the opposition, focus on his endless "lies". But, really his speaking is so much more than just lies and exaggeration. His speaking is a fire hose of propaganda instinctively curated to validate and energize his base while giving confidence to the traditional right wing and uber wealthy that, as crazy as he sounds, he's their guy.
In my opinion, when we fight back against Trumpism, we should fight back against his propaganda, his corruption and his hateful, anti-American agenda, not his individual stream of lies.
In the end, Trumpism will defeat itself because his chaotic attack on the US government will harm enough of his voters, new and old, that Americans will be begging Democrats to take back the Congress in 2026.
This analysis is close to what should happen as voters realize the cuts hurt them and not just the nameless government workers and people being helped around the world. i sure hope there is an election-- and a fair election-- in 2026.
There's the rub, right? Remember "you don't even have to vote"? Millions of voters purged and or denied in plain sight.
First he wins over Hillary with fake news. Then he loses to Biden in a fair fight. Then quite probably the fight is rigged with voter purges etc. More tricks coming in 2026 as Dems keep playing by the rules. Then no need to bother voting in 2028 as the US goes total 3rd world as the bejeweled vultures pick over the bones of a failed state. Thinking the maga mopes will ever come to their senses is living the fantasy of democracy which the US all but ain't any longer. What fun.
I agree with you 100%! Btw, his dumb shit supporters keep giving him $$$$$$$$$$ and they think he’s going to help them out. It’s a screwed up cult with people that went way off the deep end.
So much for the emoluments clause. We're literally drowning in his shit!
He realized after his first administration that no one was going to enforce that, like so many other things. All those checks and balances were a sham.