TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2025
This may be a Night Which Was: With apologies, all in all, we've had a challenging day.
Briefly, let's be honest. It was a challenging first world day.
People are struggling all over the world with much more serious challenges. That includes the people of Ukraine, who are, or so it would seem, currently being abandoned.
Today, we returned from our participation in ongoing medical science. Not too much later, our internet service went down.
When our Internet Service Provider goes down, you're never real sure it will ever come up. Once again, we'd call this as a first world problem.
Elsewhere, as Lawrence O'Donnell described last night, children are starving around the globe because of the apparent mental illness of the fellow named [NAME WITHHELD].
Does anyone doubt that we the Americans may be caught in a web of some version or versions of mental illness ("mental disorder")? Granted, our "journalists" won't discuss this apparent state of affairs—but does anyone really think that this circumstance doesn't exist?
At this site, we've been rereading the 2020 bestseller by Mary L. Trump, PhD—a detailed and thoughtful book about the upbringing of her uncle, Donald J. Trump, and his four brothers and sisters.
We have said, again and again, that (severe) "mental illness/disorder" is, like serious physical illness, a tragic loss of human potential. We've been struck this week by the very sad story Mary Trump tells in her book.
(Pity the child, we've long suggested. Pity the child, even as you try to disarm the adult.)
That said, why did we ever go with "The Disappeared" as our tagline for this week? We were thinking of the disappeared clowns of the Fox News Channel, who our Blue elites have agreed to leave unreported and undiscussed.
We were also thinking of the disappeared (possible) explanation for the sitting American president's ongoing assault on the world. He makes us flash on "The Boxer," we've said.
As of tomorrow, we expect to change our tag for the week to something derived from "The Week That Was." Yesterday, this is what the president said he plans to do tonight:
“TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!”
Was that a promise or was that a threat? Needless to say, it arrived in nothing but capital letters. We advise you to pity the child.
As we noted yesterday. last Friday's Oval Office debacle was likely the start of a Week That Was. It had the look of the start of a week which might change the history of the modern world.
Tonight, we'll see what the president says. As for us Blues, remember this:
In an array of deeply unfortunate ways, we worked hard to earn our way out.
Also, two key points: It's the greatest thing anyone has ever done in the realm of cable news. We refer to Lawrence O'Donnell's work with the good, decent kids of Malawi.
(Also, with their families.)
In our view, Lawrence has been extremely strong in the current unfortunate circumstance. Other children, children like those in Malawi, will be dying of starvation around the world.
Also this:
"Could it be Satan?" the Church Lady asked. Our answer, of course, is a no. In our view, the actual, unfortunate story seems far more tragic than that.
That said, we had planned to work with that framework today. We may revisit it by the end of the week. For today, the collapse of our ISP briefly hauled us down.
This essay is incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteThis is important. What Somerby wrote is not.
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/could-russia-win-a-war-against-america
Good article. The Russians are constantly probing US government and infrastructure entities and have been responsible for multiple ransomware attacks on private entities including hospital systems in the US. Hegseth has ordered a halt to corresponding US cyberoffensive efforts for reasons that can only benefit Putin. There is zero credible argument that such dereliction by Hegseth serves US security interests. The press and members of congress need to demand an answer for this bizarre decision.
DeleteWoe is Somerby.
ReplyDeleteBoo hoo hoo.
Somerby is a right winger. Typical of Republicans, Somerby is a tragic wounded lost soul, traumatized and thus full of bitterness and spewing hate, aided by a lack of integrity and lacking a moral compass is driven to manufacture ignorance.
Somerby may not vote Republican, I may be a Nigerian Prince, anything is possible.
A few of Somerby‘s misguided right wing stances: endorses society being run by a hierarchy of elites, thinks humans are innately irrational and nasty and brutish, questions the efficacy of democracy, is extremely squeamish calling out the rampant racism and sexism in our country, has a smug and snarky disdain for progressive Dems, finds aspects of Fox News distasteful but appreciates many of their views as being valid such as their homophobia and transphobia and their whitewashing of racial history, frets over how to properly term a criminal’s mental impairment while ignoring their behavior and actions, etc.
Somerby’s small cadre of fanboys can pity him, the rest of us know he’s full of shit, and we will never let him off the hook.
Keep typing away, warning us all of Somerby’s sins! Our country owes you its gratitude for your tireless and unending service! Now we just may have a fighting chance against the forces of evil!
DeleteGo fuck yourself, 12:21!
DeleteDemocrats are getting dragged out of the joint session for their grotesque conduct.
ReplyDeleteAMERICA IS BACK
you misspelled "Russia"
DeleteAMERICA IS FRONT
DeleteMSNBC host says she hopes 13-year-old DJ Daniel doesn’t end his life due to Trump supporters.
ReplyDeleteSICK.
“I hope he never has to defend the US Capitol against Trump supporters. If he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to su*cide.”
There is something deeply wrong with Democrats. They are profoundly broken people.
Nicole Wallace is her name.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with these people?
Mental illness and hate define the Democrat party in 2025.
ReplyDeleteRachel Maddow says President Trump celebrating a young cancer survivor "disgusting":
"For the record—and this is disgusting—the President made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the President had something to do with that."
This take is disgusting, Rachel.
I don't watch Maddow but if this comment of yours, as a criticism of Maddow, is correct and appropriate, it has no bearing on the Putin loving shitshow that is currently running this country.
DeleteI'm too busy laughing at the failure of anyone to find a Republican voter who isn't a bigot, to be bothered with "hate".
DeleteTrump's speech was not elegant, but it was effective at promoting Trump and his program. Still, it's just a speech. In a week it will be forgotten
ReplyDeleteInflation and the upcoming recession will be foremost on our minds as the stock market continues to absorb the catastrophe that 22 Nobel prize winning economists warned would be coming if Trump carried through with his economic fiasco of a plan. The successful businessman who couldn't get a business loan from any US banks before he turned to reality TV and who bankrupted a casino in Atlantic City among 5 or 6 other such failures is working his magic on 401k retirement plans across America.
Delete"not elegant"
Deletefuck you, Dickhead
I heard some media aired Trump's speech live, just in case it was the first time Trump told the truth*.
DeleteAlas, I haven't read anything about Trump being truthful for the first time ever, so I assume it didn't happen.
*the same reason they quote Newt Gingrich
Nice jobs report. Brilliant work.
DeleteA torrent of boorish juvenile insults and lies and bullshit: DiC's verdict - "not elegant" but "effective"
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