Let’s discuss what Donald Trump didn’t get out of his wildly oversold and wholly unproductive and empty meeting with his friend, the Russian dictator and war criminal.
Impotent a perfect description of this poor excuse for a world leader. His gibberish was incomprehensible,and I thought he was actually nodding off during Putin’s meaningless comments. A total fiasco. May the competent European heads of state get behind Zelensky and the brave and honorable Ukrainian people ASAP
We still are a great country, we happen at the moment to have a moron for a president, due to an uneducated electorate who will soon see the error of not paying attention when it mattered.
Way worse than a moron, we have a felon and child rapist in the wh who probably trafficked young girls in his younger days. What I think really went on with that finger shaking is that putin reminded the rapist that he has proof of his criminal behavior and to back off and let putin take what he wants in Ukraine...
Dubious, wishing the identity fusion culture would disappear, or recognize the insane cult they’re part of, isn’t happening! Stopping voter suppression is the best we can hope for Dick!
We are not him, and most of us are not him. What too many of us are is mentally lazy, suggestible, frustrated and naive enough to believe in such a moron.
Nodding off is a defense mechanism he uses when there’s nothing else he can do. He invokes it when he wishes he could disappear. It’s supposed to look like he’s bored and doesn’t care. Slava Ukraini.
I've worked with/tended to amphetamine users, but that by no means makes me an expert. I have, however, seen profound lethargy set in when the person's body says, okay, I was "up" but now I'm "down." As for "let it wear off," what? double your dose beforehand? That's a little risky in terms of at least heart rate for a certified (and certifiable) geezer. Certainly can't pop one during a meeting.
I think if I were an armchair psychiatrist I'd say he has a self destruct wish to prove that his parents (father especially or maybe the mother, too) were right - he's a dumbass and a failure even tho' he's been elected president of the united states of america...it's never enough.
Don't settle for being a mere "armchair psychiatrist," not even sitting in the now-$6,000 Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman that I've wi$hed for $ince I was $ixteen. Take a three-person sofa. "Father" issues were not only "especially," but "absolutely." Fred Trump used to complain to a local L.I. hauler that son Donny was stupid. Hauler also did work for another neighbor, who then, amazed that any dad would talk about his son in such a demeaning way, relayed the insults to his family, one of whose sons is a good friend of mine. My pal still astonished that any father would say what Fred said about a family member...to a worker, for heaven's sake. "Waiter, would you bring some more water for my dumb wife?"
I believe they will, and if they are to thwart the authoritarian push around the world and keep freedom in their respective countries, they will have to do so without the help from the U.S. at this time.
It is up to all of us to see to it that the U.S. rejoins that fight by winning the one here at home. Protecting our elections and our right to vote. It is of paramount importance at this time. And if all our eyes are opened to the current crisis (that includes those who voted for the traitor-in-chief) and we all speak out as one united country, our elections can remain free and fair and we can vote out the rot that has allowed our country to permit this authoritarian poison and sway away from the Constitution instead of shoring it up and improving it.
I just worry about the security of our elections. There was interference in the last election, I believe. There were so many statistical anomalies. How can we protect against another fiasco?
Maybe by first educating the public in a clear and straightforward way.
Having only paper ballots personally brought to a central location, then counting them locally under strict supervision and then locking them in a local GUARDED vault until it’s time to reveal all the numbers on election eve. Then taking as long as necessary to count the totals. I think it is so important NOT to be able to tell what party a person voted for by looking at the outside of the ballot envelope.
The EU is behind Ukraine and Zelenskyy. While some old leftists might still be fooled by Putin and Xi and Trump, the rest of us are not. We know that this is not overthrowing US imperialism or reuniting a sovereign nation, but pure warfare as an imperialistic move for Putin to take over Ukraine and kill off all of his military in the process.
Martin Belderson's Substack is called "Ukraine: The Under Reported War."
I’m just glad I wasn’t in the same room to smell his “nodding off,” as widely reported during his New York trial where he also fell asleep…and farted constantly. What an embarrassment—for the entire world.
This worked out about the way I figured it would. I don't speak for others, but have a feeling I am not alone in that assessment! I was struck by the ridiculous and simply awful image of the war criminal walking along a red carpet when meeting on the tarmac. And all the touching, good grief, I don't know anyone who would want to touch Putin even once. Most decent people would recoil at that murdering psychopath. Then again, our current president is not most people.
LOL. Great comparison, except, of course, Arness was a talented actor. Hmm, won't insult a porker by calling Herr T***p a ham, nor the folks at Hormel by invoking Spam.
Our desecrator in chief no doubt felt instantly comfortable with Vladie *because* he’s a heartless psychopath, thus a kindred monster, one whom Trump desperately envies because unlike himself, Vlad actually gets to have anyone he wants poisoned or defenestrated or gunned down on a lonely road or in their own apartment lobby, while Donald famously boasted that he *could* shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters—but knows he actually can’t because trial > conviction > long jail sentence.
Do you think we could get the two of them in that cage on the White House lawn next 4th of July? Now that is something I might watch. Hopefully they would destroy each other!
I've been trying to un-know the fact that Trump is supposedly planning to sponsor some sort of fight *at* the White House. There is no bottom for Trump, on any of the behavior scales. This is off-the-deep-end tacky. He has a compulsion to bring everything around him down to his moral, intellectual, and aesthetic level. The English language lacks words strong enough to describe him. Even "repulsive abomination" doesn't cover it.
My God. Trump couldn't stop touching and patting Putin like they were lovers. It was weird, like really weird. And always calling him "Vladimir", like they were close personal friends. It was just disgusting.
Call it what it was: a total flop. A 34 times convicted felon meeting an internationally indicted war criminal. But the dangerous part of it is that it gave Putin a world platform, allowing him to be on U.S. soil and hobnobbing with a U.S. President, effectively throwing off the weight of all the sanctions and world opprobrium of the last decade or so.
Rather than this, given Putin's relentless and barbaric assault on civilian populations in Ukraine, which increased after Trump came into office, the U.S. should have been imposing even more severe sanctions and arming Ukraine to the teeth to bring Putin to a real cease-fire and the negotiating table. But Trump, in his adderall deluded mind, believes his "pal" Putin will listen to him. He won't, and this "summit" showed that he isn't going to anytime soon.
So Lucian, to your post's title "Impotent" you should add the word "Incompetent." And to think that thousands will continue to die on both sides of the Ukraine war because of Trump's impotence and incompetence.
And stupidity—let’s not forget to mention stupidity. Donald Trump is the world’s most excruciatingly perfect example of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, which—as brilliantly explained on YouTube by John Cleese—is where “if you are absolutely no good at all at something, you lack precisely the skills required to realize that you are no good at all at it [not verbatim quote but close].”
Exactly! I agree, he’s an especially obvious and egregious case. He thinks he knows more about every subject than anyone else does. But far from fixing anything, he’s degraded, broken, or destroyed everything he touches.
Approximately 48hrs ago, on Wednesday, Trump said there would be "very severe consequences" for Russia if there wasn't an agreement for a ceasefire. So is this a superduperkingsize TACO moment?
I have always believed that Putin let Trump engage in his wildest fantasies while he was in Russia. I'm quite sure that there are tapes and that is what Putin keeps reminding the Rapist of. Maybe a snuff tape?
I’m ready for a constant clamor and demand by Democrats to investigate Melania’s EB-1 or Einstein Visa. Exactly what were her "extraordinary abilities"? Was she was part of the “outstanding professors or researchers" that we needed? How about “multinational managers and executives”. We got ‘em on the ropes, folks and we can’t let ‘em up. It’s those body blows that start to show up in the later rounds…
Interesting that he didn't even try to lie about all the wonderful things that would come like maybe ... I must be as tired of his bullshit as he is because I got nothing. Might be time to concentrate on whatever scapegoat is next on his list. Making the world a safe space for white male assholes is accomplishment enough, eh?
Trump spends millions to hang out with his pal on Russian soil that the US paid 2 cents an acre for in 1867.
Where Trump got Putin more time to commit more murder.
Putin a former small time bureaucrat in East Germany that yearns to be, Catherine and Peter the Greats with strokes of Stalin meets rich playboy that likes young females and a psychopath that yearns to be a king.
Trump didn’t get shit, which was the best outcome because Trump didn’t give up any Ukrainian territory and Putin wasn’t going to give anything up. The summit was a success due to its failure. Thankfully, Little Marco was in the room and it wasn’t a one on one meeting with a Russian translator to control the narrative as in the past. Trump can’t tout an imaginary success and once again Putin has shown who he is. Trump has most likely figured out that Putin has no interest in making him look good.
You stated the situation well. As always, watch your six.
I suppose it could have gone _a lot worse._ Trump could have told Putin what he told RFK Jr., ICE, and the National Guard taking over the WDC metro police — to "go wild" and "do what you want" with Ukraine. They could have reached a side-deal on access to the Arctic Ocean and the seafloor mineral and oil resources supposed to be there, cutting off Canada and Denmark from their rightful sovereign ocean territories and exclusive-use economic zones.
A meeting between the ruler of the nation that stole the area where the meeting was held from its inhabitants and the leader of the nation that bought the stolen land then stole its gold and oil from the people who had lived there for thousands of years.
I have people — especially people from other countries — telling me it looks like the US cannot dig its way out of this mess Donald has created without revolution or hot war.
I absolutely disagree with that estimation. They think the US is 50-50 for Trump and against him. I disagree with THAT, too.
The country cannot afford a revolution, a civil war, or any kind of hot war. That would be the end of everything we are TRYING to preserve (not that our system was perfect— just that it was “perfect-able.” Able to be made better, and we were trying, and making progress …). Our constitutional republic would not exist any more at the end of a hot war.
But we are a country that is 350-million-people strong! We are not going to have a civil war!
We do need strong, strong, strong voices and savvy “doers” on the Left to help us pull together into a cogent opposition to Trump. We need to see and hear and agree to a direction and a message that we can all assent to — we don’t have to agree on EVERYTHING, but we have to agree on a main goal — preserving our Democracy, and the Rule of LAW, and our BASIC CONSTITUTION! Government by, of and for THE PEOPLE, all of the people.
I see the Left floating the names of some who might rise to the front of the column as we protest … we need to coalesce. We are MORE THAN FIFTY PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY AGAINST THE DONALD. He has electoral strength, but not the numbers on the ground.
We need a strategy, and people to be spokespersons for us … I hope that is forming. I hope, I hope, I hope.
It’s not a civil war, and I don’t think it’s a terrific idea to throw that term around lightly.
We went through some very tough times during the rise of unions; we went through some very tough times in the 60s and early 70s. Those were difficult times of social unrest.
They were not a frigging Civil War, and we should not be cavalier about that prospect.
No, actually, that’s not the definition of “war.” It is a lot of nasty things, but not necessarily war. In this context, it is not war yet, and we must be careful that it does not become war
We mustn’t forget the turmoil in our society, but how about we don’t play fast and loose about the idea of a Cilvil War! People in the REST of the world seem to know what it means to be at war. We are NOT at war on our home soil. And those who want to say it should stop pushing it, because we are NOT going to survive an actual war with our democracy intact. So just stop it.
Governor Newsom may be imperfect, but he is out there doing the right thing. There are a few others trying to shed light on this shitshow. I wish the Democrats would let the young, strong representatives loose. They are the future. Also, support Mamdani instead of dissing him.
I couldn't agree more. Just wrote essentially the same thing before reading this. If the party lets down present elected officials, how can it have a future? I write this as a past and future Mamdani voter who plans to leave blank the ballot line of every NY pol who doesn't support him.
Well, we’ll see, won’t we — Pete? Jasmine? Elizabeth? Bernie!? {I know, he’s old, and I don’t say we should elect him president at his age, but he’s pretty spry — my own Dad is 98, and you’d think he was 20 years younger. Age is an individual thing.} We have voices rising, including those I mentioned and more. We need to coalesce.
About running, Bernie said the other day that his age speaks for itself. It's a damned shame the party betrayed him when he came closest. But he's a living legacy who can and still does educate and enrich others' campaigns. Time to let younger talented Dem governors show the country their stuff.. Dem leaders and donors desperately need to get over their fear of ideas young voters favor. NY Dem officia[s' rejection of NYC voters' lopsided mayoral choice makes them de facto third party leaders.
The NYT reported that 44% of Americans support trump 🙄 I'm in denial, I guess, but I don't believe that. I unsubscribed last summer so I got that "polling" from The Bulwark and didn't read the whole article in The Times. I agree with the idea of "hope" that WE can make progress toward a union that works for everyone. Ideally 🙏
Polls have shown Trump’s policy levels all over the map, and mostly underwater, and some as low as 33% … And that is “polls” — measured by people willing to answer. We have to extrapolate to guess what real hard numbers are.
I do NOT think Trump is popular with HALF the adult population of our country. Maybe a third or two-fifths — still way too much — but way less than half. Most adults know he’s a gas-bag and a doofus.
I truly believe that. But he has the ear of the movers-and-shakers in the monied element of our society, so they have the ability to skew the ‘impression’ we all get. The better to make us give up.
As I wrote when I posted in an earlier lkt forum a link to the politico translation of the original Norwegian newspaper report, I had to read a while before it sank in that the news wasn't an Onion parody. He called them!
Impotent a perfect description of this poor excuse for a world leader. His gibberish was incomprehensible,and I thought he was actually nodding off during Putin’s meaningless comments. A total fiasco. May the competent European heads of state get behind Zelensky and the brave and honorable Ukrainian people ASAP
His ineptitude and stupidity were on full display. He was SO out of his depth. It was pathetic and embarrassing for our once great country.
We still are a great country, we happen at the moment to have a moron for a president, due to an uneducated electorate who will soon see the error of not paying attention when it mattered.
Way worse than a moron, we have a felon and child rapist in the wh who probably trafficked young girls in his younger days. What I think really went on with that finger shaking is that putin reminded the rapist that he has proof of his criminal behavior and to back off and let putin take what he wants in Ukraine...
Will they see it though? Or will they simply believe to the end anything their fool and his band of cackling maggots tell them?
My bet is the second option.
How can they ever admit to themselves—let alone everyone else—they were wrong when they and he were wrong about so much?
Dubious, wishing the identity fusion culture would disappear, or recognize the insane cult they’re part of, isn’t happening! Stopping voter suppression is the best we can hope for Dick!
This Trump “thing” is so much more than a moment…this is not correctable. You will see.
How I hope that you are right. It is interesting that J.D. is staying well away from Trump at all times.
I wish someone would give this jackass a participation trophy and send him on his way…
We are not him, and most of us are not him. What too many of us are is mentally lazy, suggestible, frustrated and naive enough to believe in such a moron.
Nodding off is a defense mechanism he uses when there’s nothing else he can do. He invokes it when he wishes he could disappear. It’s supposed to look like he’s bored and doesn’t care. Slava Ukraini.
Maybe it's what happens to him when his Adderall (or Mydayis) wears off.
Good morning Lawrence, But he himself is in charge of that. Why would he let it wear off in the most important meetings?
I've worked with/tended to amphetamine users, but that by no means makes me an expert. I have, however, seen profound lethargy set in when the person's body says, okay, I was "up" but now I'm "down." As for "let it wear off," what? double your dose beforehand? That's a little risky in terms of at least heart rate for a certified (and certifiable) geezer. Certainly can't pop one during a meeting.
No need to double dose. Simply time your dose so it lasts through the meeting.
I will hazard a guess that Herr 47 is not as accurate in timing things as a Swiss watch.
I think if I were an armchair psychiatrist I'd say he has a self destruct wish to prove that his parents (father especially or maybe the mother, too) were right - he's a dumbass and a failure even tho' he's been elected president of the united states of america...it's never enough.
Don't settle for being a mere "armchair psychiatrist," not even sitting in the now-$6,000 Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman that I've wi$hed for $ince I was $ixteen. Take a three-person sofa. "Father" issues were not only "especially," but "absolutely." Fred Trump used to complain to a local L.I. hauler that son Donny was stupid. Hauler also did work for another neighbor, who then, amazed that any dad would talk about his son in such a demeaning way, relayed the insults to his family, one of whose sons is a good friend of mine. My pal still astonished that any father would say what Fred said about a family member...to a worker, for heaven's sake. "Waiter, would you bring some more water for my dumb wife?"
He also has an inordinately strong will to NOT LOSE. It kicks in in the last moment. It usually prevails.
He only perked up when Putin said his name. He is so pathetic
European countries on board to aid Ukraine will do much more than this bogus mtg! Money spent on transporting ‘TTIC’ aka The Turd In Charge.
I hope.
Best comment so far! Thank you!
Thank you so much. This is ongoing agony Ellen .
I believe they will, and if they are to thwart the authoritarian push around the world and keep freedom in their respective countries, they will have to do so without the help from the U.S. at this time.
It is up to all of us to see to it that the U.S. rejoins that fight by winning the one here at home. Protecting our elections and our right to vote. It is of paramount importance at this time. And if all our eyes are opened to the current crisis (that includes those who voted for the traitor-in-chief) and we all speak out as one united country, our elections can remain free and fair and we can vote out the rot that has allowed our country to permit this authoritarian poison and sway away from the Constitution instead of shoring it up and improving it.
We can do it. We must.
Right on, Celeste! We are stronger together and there's more of us than there is of them!
I just worry about the security of our elections. There was interference in the last election, I believe. There were so many statistical anomalies. How can we protect against another fiasco?
Maybe by first educating the public in a clear and straightforward way.
Having only paper ballots personally brought to a central location, then counting them locally under strict supervision and then locking them in a local GUARDED vault until it’s time to reveal all the numbers on election eve. Then taking as long as necessary to count the totals. I think it is so important NOT to be able to tell what party a person voted for by looking at the outside of the ballot envelope.
I don’t trust the drop boxes.
The EU is behind Ukraine and Zelenskyy. While some old leftists might still be fooled by Putin and Xi and Trump, the rest of us are not. We know that this is not overthrowing US imperialism or reuniting a sovereign nation, but pure warfare as an imperialistic move for Putin to take over Ukraine and kill off all of his military in the process.
Martin Belderson's Substack is called "Ukraine: The Under Reported War."
Here is his latest weekly post.
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreported/p/the-under-reported-war-issue-24-sun?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Three past bonus issues you should also read are about how Russia is actually doing in the war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreported/p/the-under-reported-war-bonus-issue?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreported/p/the-under-reported-war-bonus-issue-f5c?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
This has a time lapse video of how the fire power looks from a NASA satellite.
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreported/p/time-elapse-of-the-severity-of-fighting?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I’m just glad I wasn’t in the same room to smell his “nodding off,” as widely reported during his New York trial where he also fell asleep…and farted constantly. What an embarrassment—for the entire world.
This worked out about the way I figured it would. I don't speak for others, but have a feeling I am not alone in that assessment! I was struck by the ridiculous and simply awful image of the war criminal walking along a red carpet when meeting on the tarmac. And all the touching, good grief, I don't know anyone who would want to touch Putin even once. Most decent people would recoil at that murdering psychopath. Then again, our current president is not most people.
He’s not a person to me. He’s The Thing From Outer Space!
No offense to the late James Arness who played The Thing!
LOL. Great comparison, except, of course, Arness was a talented actor. Hmm, won't insult a porker by calling Herr T***p a ham, nor the folks at Hormel by invoking Spam.
And whose brother was another great actor, Peter Graves.
Oh! Didn't know that! Fine actors, Arness and Graves!
He is the THING'S droppings!!!
The Blob…
Our desecrator in chief no doubt felt instantly comfortable with Vladie *because* he’s a heartless psychopath, thus a kindred monster, one whom Trump desperately envies because unlike himself, Vlad actually gets to have anyone he wants poisoned or defenestrated or gunned down on a lonely road or in their own apartment lobby, while Donald famously boasted that he *could* shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters—but knows he actually can’t because trial > conviction > long jail sentence.
Do you think we could get the two of them in that cage on the White House lawn next 4th of July? Now that is something I might watch. Hopefully they would destroy each other!
I've been trying to un-know the fact that Trump is supposedly planning to sponsor some sort of fight *at* the White House. There is no bottom for Trump, on any of the behavior scales. This is off-the-deep-end tacky. He has a compulsion to bring everything around him down to his moral, intellectual, and aesthetic level. The English language lacks words strong enough to describe him. Even "repulsive abomination" doesn't cover it.
Malignant narcissist in charge.
Both have the dark triad of psychopathy.
Narcissism
Machiavellianism
Psychopathy
Putin’s in above room temperature
Trumps iq is at room temperature.
This explains how easily plated trump is by Putin and other world leaders.
Trump has no moral center.
My God. Trump couldn't stop touching and patting Putin like they were lovers. It was weird, like really weird. And always calling him "Vladimir", like they were close personal friends. It was just disgusting.
Better latent than never, I guess…
Guessing Pootie had to take an immediate shower....
No..it was really pathetic.
Attempted distraction. People who are seeing their grocery bills increase are not interested. Waste of time, money, and the US government prestige
Totally a waste of time!!!
Call it what it was: a total flop. A 34 times convicted felon meeting an internationally indicted war criminal. But the dangerous part of it is that it gave Putin a world platform, allowing him to be on U.S. soil and hobnobbing with a U.S. President, effectively throwing off the weight of all the sanctions and world opprobrium of the last decade or so.
Rather than this, given Putin's relentless and barbaric assault on civilian populations in Ukraine, which increased after Trump came into office, the U.S. should have been imposing even more severe sanctions and arming Ukraine to the teeth to bring Putin to a real cease-fire and the negotiating table. But Trump, in his adderall deluded mind, believes his "pal" Putin will listen to him. He won't, and this "summit" showed that he isn't going to anytime soon.
So Lucian, to your post's title "Impotent" you should add the word "Incompetent." And to think that thousands will continue to die on both sides of the Ukraine war because of Trump's impotence and incompetence.
And stupidity—let’s not forget to mention stupidity. Donald Trump is the world’s most excruciatingly perfect example of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, which—as brilliantly explained on YouTube by John Cleese—is where “if you are absolutely no good at all at something, you lack precisely the skills required to realize that you are no good at all at it [not verbatim quote but close].”
I think Dunning Kruger Syndrome describes a person who knows absolutely nothing about the topic at hand yet speaks as an authority.
AKA Trump’s “ only I can fix it”
Exactly! I agree, he’s an especially obvious and egregious case. He thinks he knows more about every subject than anyone else does. But far from fixing anything, he’s degraded, broken, or destroyed everything he touches.
The word is "Blatherskite" (real word)
Dunning Kruger Syndrome, I love that band.
Other "i" words to add:
Imbecile
Indecent
Idiot
Insincere
Ingrate
Infantile
Immature
Insurrectionist
Incoherent
Irrational
Insatiable
Intractable
Invalid
[add your words here]
How about a few F words. Failure Fraud Fool; and use your imagination for a commonly used pejorative derogatory term.
Fathead
Insipid
ill-suited
Ignoramus
Innumerate
Ineligible
Intransigent
Incomprehensible
imposter, involved in trafficking children for sex,
Incompetent
Insensitive
Intolerant
Intemperate
Inconsequential?
And everywhere else in the world since he took over!
Approximately 48hrs ago, on Wednesday, Trump said there would be "very severe consequences" for Russia if there wasn't an agreement for a ceasefire. So is this a superduperkingsize TACO moment?
Well, Putin didn’t get a free lunch since he left right after the press conference. Not quite the same as consequences.
If T***p was in charge of the menu, wouldn't you skedaddle? I wonder how much it would cost KFC to get T***p to stop eating its chicken.
😆😆😆
Reheated burgers that were left in the sun for 24hrs....
Impossible. That Cuck doesn’t give a cluck…
yes
Or was some kind of deal made that we just don’t know about?
Unclear but I don't think trump is that good at keeping his mouth shut
He's having a one on one with Hannity!
It should be broadcast on PornHub.😂😂
If there was a deal, it was beneficial to Putin, like Russia can keep all the occupied territories in exchange for an end to the war.
Any deal, of course, would be beneficial to Putin.
And we have the answer: "The Post Most: Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war after summit with Putin" - it's TACO 🌮
EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN……….Nobody forget or will forget as nobody doubts that you too were a child rapist.
It must be pretty bad based on the way he is acting!
I have always believed that Putin let Trump engage in his wildest fantasies while he was in Russia. I'm quite sure that there are tapes and that is what Putin keeps reminding the Rapist of. Maybe a snuff tape?
I’m ready for a constant clamor and demand by Democrats to investigate Melania’s EB-1 or Einstein Visa. Exactly what were her "extraordinary abilities"? Was she was part of the “outstanding professors or researchers" that we needed? How about “multinational managers and executives”. We got ‘em on the ropes, folks and we can’t let ‘em up. It’s those body blows that start to show up in the later rounds…
and a trafficker of children for rape...
I thought Trump looked catatonic.
That’s just how he looks
Too many time zones away from home!
It was the middle of the afternoon eastern, and he looked trashed
He did not look good. I hope he has a fatal disease.
Interesting that he didn't even try to lie about all the wonderful things that would come like maybe ... I must be as tired of his bullshit as he is because I got nothing. Might be time to concentrate on whatever scapegoat is next on his list. Making the world a safe space for white male assholes is accomplishment enough, eh?
The whole thing was a pathetic waste of time and money!
Trump spends millions to hang out with his pal on Russian soil that the US paid 2 cents an acre for in 1867.
Where Trump got Putin more time to commit more murder.
Putin a former small time bureaucrat in East Germany that yearns to be, Catherine and Peter the Greats with strokes of Stalin meets rich playboy that likes young females and a psychopath that yearns to be a king.
Are you going to write a movie script? I'm trying to think up names for a rich playboy (Ronald Rump?)
The Great Gutsby?
Expensive photo op
Courtesy of our tax dollars
Yep!
Lucian,
Trump didn’t get shit, which was the best outcome because Trump didn’t give up any Ukrainian territory and Putin wasn’t going to give anything up. The summit was a success due to its failure. Thankfully, Little Marco was in the room and it wasn’t a one on one meeting with a Russian translator to control the narrative as in the past. Trump can’t tout an imaginary success and once again Putin has shown who he is. Trump has most likely figured out that Putin has no interest in making him look good.
You stated the situation well. As always, watch your six.
Steve Dundas
"Micro" Rubio?
Guess the BJ won't get FOTUS the Nobel...OOPS!!!
I suppose it could have gone _a lot worse._ Trump could have told Putin what he told RFK Jr., ICE, and the National Guard taking over the WDC metro police — to "go wild" and "do what you want" with Ukraine. They could have reached a side-deal on access to the Arctic Ocean and the seafloor mineral and oil resources supposed to be there, cutting off Canada and Denmark from their rightful sovereign ocean territories and exclusive-use economic zones.
It's one thing to say something, but a horse of a different color to actually do something.
Trump's speaks...the world yawns.
Rolls eyes first...
A meeting between the ruler of the nation that stole the area where the meeting was held from its inhabitants and the leader of the nation that bought the stolen land then stole its gold and oil from the people who had lived there for thousands of years.
Yep
Geronimo
Calling it like it is, Lucian.
I have people — especially people from other countries — telling me it looks like the US cannot dig its way out of this mess Donald has created without revolution or hot war.
I absolutely disagree with that estimation. They think the US is 50-50 for Trump and against him. I disagree with THAT, too.
The country cannot afford a revolution, a civil war, or any kind of hot war. That would be the end of everything we are TRYING to preserve (not that our system was perfect— just that it was “perfect-able.” Able to be made better, and we were trying, and making progress …). Our constitutional republic would not exist any more at the end of a hot war.
But we are a country that is 350-million-people strong! We are not going to have a civil war!
We do need strong, strong, strong voices and savvy “doers” on the Left to help us pull together into a cogent opposition to Trump. We need to see and hear and agree to a direction and a message that we can all assent to — we don’t have to agree on EVERYTHING, but we have to agree on a main goal — preserving our Democracy, and the Rule of LAW, and our BASIC CONSTITUTION! Government by, of and for THE PEOPLE, all of the people.
I see the Left floating the names of some who might rise to the front of the column as we protest … we need to coalesce. We are MORE THAN FIFTY PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY AGAINST THE DONALD. He has electoral strength, but not the numbers on the ground.
We need a strategy, and people to be spokespersons for us … I hope that is forming. I hope, I hope, I hope.
It’s about time …
I believe we are already in a civil war. People are being killed both by this regime and gop laws.
It’s not a civil war, and I don’t think it’s a terrific idea to throw that term around lightly.
We went through some very tough times during the rise of unions; we went through some very tough times in the 60s and early 70s. Those were difficult times of social unrest.
They were not a frigging Civil War, and we should not be cavalier about that prospect.
I don't know what else you'd call it. People are being killed on purpose, that's the definition of war.
No, actually, that’s not the definition of “war.” It is a lot of nasty things, but not necessarily war. In this context, it is not war yet, and we must be careful that it does not become war
Yes. And we cannot forget this fact.
We mustn’t forget the turmoil in our society, but how about we don’t play fast and loose about the idea of a Cilvil War! People in the REST of the world seem to know what it means to be at war. We are NOT at war on our home soil. And those who want to say it should stop pushing it, because we are NOT going to survive an actual war with our democracy intact. So just stop it.
God knows how many Red State needless reproductive deaths since The Women Haters in charge.
Governor Newsom may be imperfect, but he is out there doing the right thing. There are a few others trying to shed light on this shitshow. I wish the Democrats would let the young, strong representatives loose. They are the future. Also, support Mamdani instead of dissing him.
I couldn't agree more. Just wrote essentially the same thing before reading this. If the party lets down present elected officials, how can it have a future? I write this as a past and future Mamdani voter who plans to leave blank the ballot line of every NY pol who doesn't support him.
By the time you vote that way, it’ll be too late. If you let Left wing pols go down in flames out of spite, you’ll be spiting yourself.
Governor Gavin Newsom, soon to be followed by...
Well, we’ll see, won’t we — Pete? Jasmine? Elizabeth? Bernie!? {I know, he’s old, and I don’t say we should elect him president at his age, but he’s pretty spry — my own Dad is 98, and you’d think he was 20 years younger. Age is an individual thing.} We have voices rising, including those I mentioned and more. We need to coalesce.
About running, Bernie said the other day that his age speaks for itself. It's a damned shame the party betrayed him when he came closest. But he's a living legacy who can and still does educate and enrich others' campaigns. Time to let younger talented Dem governors show the country their stuff.. Dem leaders and donors desperately need to get over their fear of ideas young voters favor. NY Dem officia[s' rejection of NYC voters' lopsided mayoral choice makes them de facto third party leaders.
The NYT reported that 44% of Americans support trump 🙄 I'm in denial, I guess, but I don't believe that. I unsubscribed last summer so I got that "polling" from The Bulwark and didn't read the whole article in The Times. I agree with the idea of "hope" that WE can make progress toward a union that works for everyone. Ideally 🙏
Polls have shown Trump’s policy levels all over the map, and mostly underwater, and some as low as 33% … And that is “polls” — measured by people willing to answer. We have to extrapolate to guess what real hard numbers are.
I do NOT think Trump is popular with HALF the adult population of our country. Maybe a third or two-fifths — still way too much — but way less than half. Most adults know he’s a gas-bag and a doofus.
I truly believe that. But he has the ear of the movers-and-shakers in the monied element of our society, so they have the ability to skew the ‘impression’ we all get. The better to make us give up.
I won’t give up.
Let's not overlook that Trump may have threatened Norway with tariffs if it doesn't award him the Nobel Peace Prize. https://digbysblog.net/2025/08/15/did-he-really-sink-this-low/
I’ll pay the tariff! He should not be awarded anything except Forever in Hell!!!
I think he deserves it as much as Henry Kissinger did.
Of course he did.
As I wrote when I posted in an earlier lkt forum a link to the politico translation of the original Norwegian newspaper report, I had to read a while before it sank in that the news wasn't an Onion parody. He called them!