Good work in the morgue. At this point saying I have "Trump fatigue" doesn't do my condition justice. I believe it has morphed into "Trump narcolepsy." May it end soon. And him, too.
If I hadn't seen clips of his performance, I don't think I would have believed how off-the-wall it was. How racist, sexist, and/or self-deluded does someone have to be to think this guy is qualified to be president?
Qualification to those people is a question of who they want to entertain them for the next four or forever years. I don't think on the whole they are the longterm problem some see. They'll churn but mini-me Vantz, e g, lacks the charisma to carry the ideological banner far. In or out of power, the big liar looks increasingly near his end and I see no replacement in the pipeline.
IMO the MAGAs, and Trump himself, are mostly means to an end. The end looks more like Project 2025, with the economic policies of the Reagan administration and the billionaires and mega-millionaires pulling the strings. If I were JD Vance, I would not assume I was essential after swearing-in.
Yes, you would think that sentient people would be able to understand that singing and dancing at a political rally that is weeks away is as good a sign as you're going to get of senescence.
Yes, I often have short term memory loss, and the thing that calms me down is music from the Sixties and Seventies, or blues, or maybe classical. Jazz is a no. I wondered if that was Trump was doing. It looked like it.
Was that the one in Chicago? I did not see any clips of it, but heard he did not respond well to being asked real questions about his fake economic ideas, or should I say "concepts of" economic ideas.
I have been hearing from a lot of people that they have Trump fatigue. I had it before he ran the first time, after watching 2-5 minutes of his awful show The Apprentice. I remember thinking, "why would anyone want to work for this asshole!" That opinion has only worsened. I am in a Democrats Abroad Project 2025 bookclub, and while the worst thing is not that I am so sick of him I never want to hear his name again, but we are all forced to succumb to his narcissism because the press does not know how to have Trump fatigue. That being said, the movie The Apprentice is a new slant, and I appreciated this Democracy Now! Interview with the film maker. https://youtu.be/rZuZs-MehQo?si=IAyJoKVc-iNmYtAG
The Big Lie has a long history of temporary success, along with disastrous consequences. In JD's smooth approach it's funnier, he lies with a smirking admission, ready to defend the "essential truth" of what he's just lied about. Trump has the uncanny ability to con himself into believing his own lies. The scary part for the rest of us is that some in his own cult now accept that he's lying, but take it all as entertainment and don't believe that he will really do what he says he'll do. A tragic mistake as Trump has repeatedly proven. Even Trump though appears to be tiring of the charade, witness the surreal town hall of last night when, after a few questions he admitted, "who the hell wants to hear more questions, right?" and spent the next half hour goofily swaying to a strange playlist. Lucian is right, the courts and fact-checkers can't save us, the only hope is in the Vote.
We know Hitler and Goebbels practiced and perfected it as a strategy. However, while we just know that Hitler ended up killing himself, as a chronic depressive. When I read what his doctor (a real quack) treated him with, I am surprised he did not go sooner.
True story, Albi Mandell, a young contractor whose specialty was ice rinks, was approached by Trump for the New York Wollman Ice Rink floor material. Albi was warned not to do business with the grifter but thought he had a legal air tight contract. He told the grifter the material, he owned and would supply, needed to be laid down in a specific manner or it would fail. He got a small down payment. Big mistake. tRump had his crew put it in and it failed, refused to pay Mandell the substantial amount still owed. Mandell sued and won in the lower court but Donnie Bone Spurs appealed through the court system. Mandell did not have the money or the time to continue the expensive legal battles of the US system, which also takes years, and finally went bankrupt. As Lucian cited here, Trump continues to do this. It is one of his favorite legal techniques. And the grifter brags about finishing the ice rink ahead of time and under budget. Yes, that can be done if you cheat, stiff, destroy the "little guy."
And this points out a serious flaw in our legal system: you get the "justice" you can afford and injustice (including jail time and even execution) if you don't have the money.
"In 1968, Trump began working for his father's real estate company." Trump and I are close to the same age, and, in 1968, I went into the Air Force. So did thousands of others whose college deferments ended when they graduated and they went into the Army or Air Force or Navy. Trump didn't because his father used his influence with the draft board to keep him out of the military. Thousands of others who couldn't afford college or didn't have rich fathers went into the Army in 1965 and 66. Many of them didn't come home. Trump has had a life of privilege and has no understanding of what it's like to serve one's country. He doesn't look on the presidency as an opportunity to serve. It's another opportunity to enrich himself at his fellow citizens' expense.
Avoidance of military service to one's country is something of a (disreputable) "tradition" in the Drumpf family--neither Grampa Drump, Papa Drump, Son Drump nor any of the not-so-great-grandsons Drump EVER served in the military. Not in their country of origin, nor here...never. They are over-privileged parasites, crippling the hearts and minds of our country.
Dear goddess...just how stupid can they get and still not be aware of just how stupid they sound when they know absolutely nothing about the question. SMFH
This is about the time (1970ies) that I knew this guy was a shit heel. Which is why I was in disbelief that he would run for president. When he won, I literally threw up and was sick for the next few days. I've recently been diagnosed with Hyper Tension and my doctor ordered me to stop watching the news. Our Democracy and way of life hangs in the balance here, and I refuse to not be engaged to get the Harris/ Walz ticket into the White House. Thank You Lucian for your excellent article this morning and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇲💙🌊
I know a few people who grew up in Trump housing in Queens, and they have stories…but one thing we must remember as we work to defeat this so-and-so…there is and has been an entire infrastructure of people who have led to his rise. While we must defeat him, we must weed out the other rats, too, and those who have enabled him or another rat (with all due respect to rats) will rise from the rubble. It’s going to be tough, but we have to win resoundingly up and down the ballot to lance this thing.
After his awkward dancing moments, my sister says we should refer to him as DJ Trump. That’s his new profession now. JD will just slide into his place as the frontrunner for prez. See how that works? Trump’s family and staff know he’s fading. JD, Elon, Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and horrendous author-wife, Melania, also are keenly aware of Trump’s mental incapacity. Project 2025 authors are gonna jump on that bandwagon too. This has been the ultimate MAGA/QUANON goal from the beginning. We cannot let any of this shit happen.
Vance is not stupid. Should Trump wins he knows this may be his first and only chance to become President. If Trump does not keel over from drugs or a heart attack, Vance will get an early start on a 25th Amendment removal. Maybe the historic parallel is that Trump is Hindenburg and Vance the Fuhrer.
On the subject of Trump's lying, journalist Mark Jacob of STOP THE PRESSES offers a list of what the news media should be doing to counteract Trump's lies. He calls it "fact-crusading," which goes beyond "fact-checking." Some of it sounded almost utopian to me -- a sure sign that I've too often been taking the lies for granted. I especially liked "It means not broadcasting Trump’s speeches live, but instead taping them and stopping the tape to identify and correct the lies." https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/trump-will-keep-lying-as-long-as
There is an old saying "All that glitters is not gold" and that about sums up the life of Donald Trump. He is rich materially but spiritually a pauper.
Where to start. His father was a racist. Got involved with a KKK rally in Queens early in his life. The apple fell directly under the tree, and DJT is probably more of a racist than old Fred was. Together they learned how to deal with the charges against them, thanks to Roy Cohn, and essentially got away with their discriminatory rental policies. He wears his racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia on his chest as a badge of honor, which it is to his cult. His worshipppers are among the most ignorant specimans alive, and all they know is that he hates the same people they do. They don't care to know anything else. Don't confuse them more with either facts or details. Keep it simple as he does. As poorly and undereducated as they are, assuming they can be educated, they are allowed to vote. Does that make any sense?
Roy Cohn was one of the most despicable people ever. Just an awful, awful person. Which tells us all we need to know about trump, that he was mentored by POS Cohn.
One, I think the lies are a membership ritual of being in his cult. There isn't a secret handshake or ring to kiss but there is unquestioning faith in the Dear Leader's pronouncements no matter how bizzaro they are. Two, every accusation he makes is actually a confession. Did Biden/Harris divert FEMA disaster funds? No, but the Melon Felon did to help build his wall that Mexico was(n't) going to pay for. Three, great for diverting MSM attention away from reporting on good news about the Biden/Harris Economy like how many new jobs were added, how low the inflation rate has dropped, how high the stock market has risen etc, etc.
Tina Brown tells a relevant story in her first substack newsletter about the big liar's standing among NYC real estate developers as he started his first career. Clay Felker got a J school named for him in California, but not for the backbone he displayed in this incident. While I'm not Brown's biggest fan, she does spin a good tale. Under 'Way-Back Machine' in https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/trump-is-back-to-being-engorged-and
The story she tells about what Austin told the Russian defense minister, when he says he doesn't like being threatened, where Woodward reports Austin replying without a hint of anger, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.” is so good that I guess I have to buy the book.
Good work in the morgue. At this point saying I have "Trump fatigue" doesn't do my condition justice. I believe it has morphed into "Trump narcolepsy." May it end soon. And him, too.
Even Trump has now succumbed to "Trump fatigue" as shown in his town hall last night.
If I hadn't seen clips of his performance, I don't think I would have believed how off-the-wall it was. How racist, sexist, and/or self-deluded does someone have to be to think this guy is qualified to be president?
Qualification to those people is a question of who they want to entertain them for the next four or forever years. I don't think on the whole they are the longterm problem some see. They'll churn but mini-me Vantz, e g, lacks the charisma to carry the ideological banner far. In or out of power, the big liar looks increasingly near his end and I see no replacement in the pipeline.
IMO the MAGAs, and Trump himself, are mostly means to an end. The end looks more like Project 2025, with the economic policies of the Reagan administration and the billionaires and mega-millionaires pulling the strings. If I were JD Vance, I would not assume I was essential after swearing-in.
An exploration of whether money can buy the whole shebang? Resistance would be fierce. Agreed, Vance is temporary.
Yes, you would think that sentient people would be able to understand that singing and dancing at a political rally that is weeks away is as good a sign as you're going to get of senescence.
Yes, I often have short term memory loss, and the thing that calms me down is music from the Sixties and Seventies, or blues, or maybe classical. Jazz is a no. I wondered if that was Trump was doing. It looked like it.
well-played
Was that the one in Chicago? I did not see any clips of it, but heard he did not respond well to being asked real questions about his fake economic ideas, or should I say "concepts of" economic ideas.
I have been hearing from a lot of people that they have Trump fatigue. I had it before he ran the first time, after watching 2-5 minutes of his awful show The Apprentice. I remember thinking, "why would anyone want to work for this asshole!" That opinion has only worsened. I am in a Democrats Abroad Project 2025 bookclub, and while the worst thing is not that I am so sick of him I never want to hear his name again, but we are all forced to succumb to his narcissism because the press does not know how to have Trump fatigue. That being said, the movie The Apprentice is a new slant, and I appreciated this Democracy Now! Interview with the film maker. https://youtu.be/rZuZs-MehQo?si=IAyJoKVc-iNmYtAG
The Big Lie has a long history of temporary success, along with disastrous consequences. In JD's smooth approach it's funnier, he lies with a smirking admission, ready to defend the "essential truth" of what he's just lied about. Trump has the uncanny ability to con himself into believing his own lies. The scary part for the rest of us is that some in his own cult now accept that he's lying, but take it all as entertainment and don't believe that he will really do what he says he'll do. A tragic mistake as Trump has repeatedly proven. Even Trump though appears to be tiring of the charade, witness the surreal town hall of last night when, after a few questions he admitted, "who the hell wants to hear more questions, right?" and spent the next half hour goofily swaying to a strange playlist. Lucian is right, the courts and fact-checkers can't save us, the only hope is in the Vote.
We know Hitler and Goebbels practiced and perfected it as a strategy. However, while we just know that Hitler ended up killing himself, as a chronic depressive. When I read what his doctor (a real quack) treated him with, I am surprised he did not go sooner.
True story, Albi Mandell, a young contractor whose specialty was ice rinks, was approached by Trump for the New York Wollman Ice Rink floor material. Albi was warned not to do business with the grifter but thought he had a legal air tight contract. He told the grifter the material, he owned and would supply, needed to be laid down in a specific manner or it would fail. He got a small down payment. Big mistake. tRump had his crew put it in and it failed, refused to pay Mandell the substantial amount still owed. Mandell sued and won in the lower court but Donnie Bone Spurs appealed through the court system. Mandell did not have the money or the time to continue the expensive legal battles of the US system, which also takes years, and finally went bankrupt. As Lucian cited here, Trump continues to do this. It is one of his favorite legal techniques. And the grifter brags about finishing the ice rink ahead of time and under budget. Yes, that can be done if you cheat, stiff, destroy the "little guy."
And this points out a serious flaw in our legal system: you get the "justice" you can afford and injustice (including jail time and even execution) if you don't have the money.
"In 1968, Trump began working for his father's real estate company." Trump and I are close to the same age, and, in 1968, I went into the Air Force. So did thousands of others whose college deferments ended when they graduated and they went into the Army or Air Force or Navy. Trump didn't because his father used his influence with the draft board to keep him out of the military. Thousands of others who couldn't afford college or didn't have rich fathers went into the Army in 1965 and 66. Many of them didn't come home. Trump has had a life of privilege and has no understanding of what it's like to serve one's country. He doesn't look on the presidency as an opportunity to serve. It's another opportunity to enrich himself at his fellow citizens' expense.
Avoidance of military service to one's country is something of a (disreputable) "tradition" in the Drumpf family--neither Grampa Drump, Papa Drump, Son Drump nor any of the not-so-great-grandsons Drump EVER served in the military. Not in their country of origin, nor here...never. They are over-privileged parasites, crippling the hearts and minds of our country.
That’s why I really don’t understand how so many veterans support him.
They might be racists, and we know he is their champion if so.
Lucian,
He is half the problem. Here is the more worrisome disease inflicting our body politic;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQEKgoIr_6A&t=653s
You simply cannot cure stupid.
Wow. While we think the trumpers are ignorant, it's another thing to have it so clearly confirmed 🤯
Terrifying.
Dear goddess...just how stupid can they get and still not be aware of just how stupid they sound when they know absolutely nothing about the question. SMFH
They vote...The Horror!!!
This is about the time (1970ies) that I knew this guy was a shit heel. Which is why I was in disbelief that he would run for president. When he won, I literally threw up and was sick for the next few days. I've recently been diagnosed with Hyper Tension and my doctor ordered me to stop watching the news. Our Democracy and way of life hangs in the balance here, and I refuse to not be engaged to get the Harris/ Walz ticket into the White House. Thank You Lucian for your excellent article this morning and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇲💙🌊
I know a few people who grew up in Trump housing in Queens, and they have stories…but one thing we must remember as we work to defeat this so-and-so…there is and has been an entire infrastructure of people who have led to his rise. While we must defeat him, we must weed out the other rats, too, and those who have enabled him or another rat (with all due respect to rats) will rise from the rubble. It’s going to be tough, but we have to win resoundingly up and down the ballot to lance this thing.
That housing discrimination case really was a lesson to DJT, one not taught at any business school.
It is covered in depth in the excellent new book: "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success"
by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig
Without his daddy's fortune, Trump would be nothing other than a better person.
Trump has actually been a huge failure. It is no wonder he sells $3 bibles for $60 while running for President.
After his awkward dancing moments, my sister says we should refer to him as DJ Trump. That’s his new profession now. JD will just slide into his place as the frontrunner for prez. See how that works? Trump’s family and staff know he’s fading. JD, Elon, Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and horrendous author-wife, Melania, also are keenly aware of Trump’s mental incapacity. Project 2025 authors are gonna jump on that bandwagon too. This has been the ultimate MAGA/QUANON goal from the beginning. We cannot let any of this shit happen.
DJ / JD -- it even rhymes!
Vance is not stupid. Should Trump wins he knows this may be his first and only chance to become President. If Trump does not keel over from drugs or a heart attack, Vance will get an early start on a 25th Amendment removal. Maybe the historic parallel is that Trump is Hindenburg and Vance the Fuhrer.
On the subject of Trump's lying, journalist Mark Jacob of STOP THE PRESSES offers a list of what the news media should be doing to counteract Trump's lies. He calls it "fact-crusading," which goes beyond "fact-checking." Some of it sounded almost utopian to me -- a sure sign that I've too often been taking the lies for granted. I especially liked "It means not broadcasting Trump’s speeches live, but instead taping them and stopping the tape to identify and correct the lies." https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/trump-will-keep-lying-as-long-as
There is an old saying "All that glitters is not gold" and that about sums up the life of Donald Trump. He is rich materially but spiritually a pauper.
Famous line... An empty car pulled up to the curb and Donald J. Trump got out.
Thank you Lucian for keeping
on. Truth over lies matters.
Where to start. His father was a racist. Got involved with a KKK rally in Queens early in his life. The apple fell directly under the tree, and DJT is probably more of a racist than old Fred was. Together they learned how to deal with the charges against them, thanks to Roy Cohn, and essentially got away with their discriminatory rental policies. He wears his racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia on his chest as a badge of honor, which it is to his cult. His worshipppers are among the most ignorant specimans alive, and all they know is that he hates the same people they do. They don't care to know anything else. Don't confuse them more with either facts or details. Keep it simple as he does. As poorly and undereducated as they are, assuming they can be educated, they are allowed to vote. Does that make any sense?
Roy Cohn was one of the most despicable people ever. Just an awful, awful person. Which tells us all we need to know about trump, that he was mentored by POS Cohn.
I said this a while back and I believe it needs repeating - they are not all undereducated or stupid. Those folks I know how to deal with.
Advanced degrees from Ivies and well-respected engineering schools. They can argue their position as well and sometimes better than “us”.
They are just starting from different premises and collecting different “facts”.
Garbage with a lawyer.
Still garbage.
One, I think the lies are a membership ritual of being in his cult. There isn't a secret handshake or ring to kiss but there is unquestioning faith in the Dear Leader's pronouncements no matter how bizzaro they are. Two, every accusation he makes is actually a confession. Did Biden/Harris divert FEMA disaster funds? No, but the Melon Felon did to help build his wall that Mexico was(n't) going to pay for. Three, great for diverting MSM attention away from reporting on good news about the Biden/Harris Economy like how many new jobs were added, how low the inflation rate has dropped, how high the stock market has risen etc, etc.
Tina Brown tells a relevant story in her first substack newsletter about the big liar's standing among NYC real estate developers as he started his first career. Clay Felker got a J school named for him in California, but not for the backbone he displayed in this incident. While I'm not Brown's biggest fan, she does spin a good tale. Under 'Way-Back Machine' in https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/trump-is-back-to-being-engorged-and
The story she tells about what Austin told the Russian defense minister, when he says he doesn't like being threatened, where Woodward reports Austin replying without a hint of anger, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.” is so good that I guess I have to buy the book.