130 Comments
founding

I appreciate your sacrifice for us! I can't bear to listen to the moron and can hardly stand to read transcripts of him.

Expand full comment

Affirmed 100+%. Your deconstruction of the production itself, with halting cuts and some filling in with insights, is one of the reasons I subscribe. And thanks also for reading and interpreting legal docs, so we don’t have to. When will this national nightmare end?

Expand full comment

Don't you envy the very young? They will grow up in a Trump-free world.

A good way to end all crime wold be to tell prisoners if they commit another crime they will be sentenced to 12 hours a day of Trump video recordings for their entire sentence. There again they'd probably appeal to the Supreme Court that that would be cruel and unusual punishment :)

Expand full comment
founding

Yeah but, for many Fox News is already doing that and look how that immersion into a lie filled world of self serving propaganda worked out. Fried brains.

The Oxford Cafe in Missoula, a 24 hour melting pot with poker tables in the back and spittoons at the bar, serves brains & eggs. When someone orders the dish the server yells to the cook, "He needs 'em!" which pretty much explains the maga world to a tee.

Expand full comment

Right -- like those of us born after WW2 grew up in a Hitler-free world? NOT.

Expand full comment

My first thought, as well. I, simultaneously, am grateful and wince at your pain. I couldn't do it. Didn't do it. Thank you, LT.

Expand full comment

Ditto. We don't pay you enough for this trompture.

Expand full comment

Ya gotta wonder, with his playboy and staying husband history, how many abortions Adjudicated Sexual Assailant Trump paid for over the years. If only a few of the women would forego the emollient portion of their NDA and come forward…. Likely what’s stopping them is not the financial factor but the “Eww, you fucked Donald Trump?” factor.

Expand full comment

It's gotta be north of a dozen...

Expand full comment

I’ve been asking the same question since he first came out with “ well, there has to be some kind of punishment.”

Expand full comment

True. The shame is the real reason they don't come forward. I just wish one woman would start the ball rolling by taking one for the team. Maybe then others would come out.

Expand full comment
founding

The hostage video I am waiting for from him can never happen because they don’t allow news cameras in Federal prisons.

Expand full comment

Ripples and consequences. A tragedy for the world that the people who could've stopped his immoral, amoral activity and speech decades ago chose not to. Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and civilians are dying in war because of Trump's allegiance to Putin. Trump continues to normalize people's ignorance and worst beliefs .

I wonder if the Justices who elected Bush over Gore ever considered the people who died in Bush's war. Bush isn't even moral or patriotic enough to speak out publicly and repeatedly against Trump.

"Nevertheless, I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency."

-- J. M. Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

Expand full comment

Just where is George W, you know he has to loathe him as much as the rest of us do, if Romney can take one for the team, George should be stepping up as well. I know a lot of us hate him with a passion but in comparison to the insipid clown George is a saint. That should stir up some vitriol 🤷‍♂️

Expand full comment

W. is too busy with his etch a sketch on Prescott's plantation.

Expand full comment

It must be crowded back there behind the scenes at the upper levels of GOP leadership.

Expand full comment

Every time I hear from that piece of shit I tell him to Fuck Off, and that’s me being as polite as I can manage. I stopped watching MJ because they insist on showing dozens of pictures of him when they talk about him. The only picture I want to see of him is with his head shaved after he’s been deloused in a prison shower. Smile for the camera shit for brains. Sorry, profanity seems to attach itself to anything I write or even think about him. Merde!!!

Expand full comment

His mind is deteriorating in front of our eyes. I think it's much more fun than prison.

Expand full comment

Yes, but no matter how much he deteriorates people will still vote for him. Why? Maybe they watched too many Zombie movies or something. Those shambling, rag clad insane things.

Expand full comment

Oh Dick….so proud of you for letting loose!! I am so on your side!

Expand full comment

omg, this was hilarious (but also scary). Still, i couldn't stop laughing. Thanks for the summary, you deserve hardship pay for having to listen to this

Expand full comment
founding

You're better than I am, Lucian Truscott. I cannot bear looking at that anus O mouth of his purse up to emit a toxic hail of lies and lies and lies. He's repulsive and disgusting and I have found him that all the way back to the late 70s.

Expand full comment

Great piece, Lucian.

Continue to be struck to what Trump. Republicans, and conservatives ommit when lecturing on abortion:

-Woman

-Family planning

-Woman

-Reproductive freedom

-Woman

-Healthcare

Anything beyond is noise from the peanut gallery.

Expand full comment

Oy vey, Lucian for the pain you endure for us! You should not force yourself to listen or see that pustule of a human pimple say anything live or dead. (Dead would be preferable..)

The position is a weasel one. He doesn't get anyone upset and he has no reason to take any stand on anything because he's a human slug.

He said what he believes his devoted and demented followers were looking for.

Otherwise, in Maine, we survived a blizzard to have a wonderful day for a total eclipse-I didn't see it live because it wasn't in totality where I live, but a great time was had by all the hundreds of people who trekked up to Rangeley to watch it.

I hope you saw it in totality. Fantastic spectacle, far better than watching Trump munch his way through his word salad.

Expand full comment

Thanks for taking one for the team. I use a combination of aspirin and Tylenol, in relays.

Expand full comment

I'm still waiting for his beautiful new health care plan that will save us all money, and for the actual scheduling of infrastructure month. His abortion statement can be distilled to simply "whatever people want, just vote for me." A true leader.

Expand full comment

Purple Heart in the mail for you, Lucian

Expand full comment

And Bronze Stars: 1 for meritorious service; 1 with the V for valor.

Expand full comment

You have my admiration and sympathy, sir. I could not do what you do.

Expand full comment

Lucian! You are a giant among giants

Expand full comment

Many thanks for being the Designated Listener. I believe I should bake you some cookies.

Expand full comment

"Designated Listener"! Exactly. I was thinking along the lines of "sacrificial lamb," but that wasn't right.

Expand full comment

Inspired!

Expand full comment

Bless you!! I couldn't do it even tied to a chair! I can't stand his effeminate, whiny voice even for a second. When a host announces a clip of him, I change the channel. I'm not surprised at his lack of position on abortion - he has no position on anything except his pathological need for attention and salvation through re-election. If we install him in the White House again, God help us. The only place he needs to be come Nov is behind bars or taking a dirt nap.

Expand full comment

I used to do the same with Reagan when he was president. It's only since Biden was elected that I've started listening to presidential (and past-presidential) addresses again.

Expand full comment