MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026
On horseback with General Washington: By now, it's a regular weekend event, and who really knows? It may be intended to draw attention away from everything else!
At any rate, there the president(s) went again! On Truth Social, you could see our nation's father(s) on horseback:
Trump Rides Horses With George Washington and Floats Big 2028 ‘Win’ in AI Posting Spree
President Donald Trump went on a bit of a posting spree on Saturday afternoon, with the flurry including the president posting multiple AI pictures of himself alongside George Washington. Trump also trotted out one of his go-to troll moves by hinting he will win the 2028 election—a claim which his liberal critics loathe and often point out can’t happen because of the Constitution.
The report by Sean James continues from there, with a trio of pictures included. One picture shows the sitting president back in the saddle again, riding next to General Washington.
This has become standard weekend fare. Who knows? It may be intended to draw attention away from headlines like this headline concerning the latest crazy presidential conduct concerning a major policy issue:
GOP Senator Absolutely Destroys Trump’s Recent Comments Casting Doubt on Vaccines: ‘That’s a Crazy, Stupid Thing!’
A Republican Senator is lashing out at President Donald Trump over his recent claim that “nothing bad can happen” by splitting up the childhood vaccine schedule.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) ripped the president for comments made during an executive order signing Tuesday in which he said he wants to split the MMR measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into separate shots. Despite vehement objections from top physician organizations, Trump falsely claimed the combined MMR shot could be “quite lethal,” and added that “separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal.”
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“You’ve said someone needs to stand up to ‘crazy, stupid things’ being said that undermine faith and immunization,” Tapper told Cassidy. “Is President Trump saying some of these crazy stupid things?”
“Yeah,” Cassidy said. “That’s a crazy, stupid thing!”
Way back in 2001, Crazy/Beautiful was a generally well-regarded film about teen culture. This past week, we moved on to "Crazy/Stupid" in the realm of child health care as a pair of men with fairly obvious mental health issues pushed their peculiar beliefs and ludicrous claims on a rapidly failing nation.
It was "Crazy/Stupid," Cassidy said, finally finding his voice. Of course, he was hardly the first observer to express that general view.
Earlier in the week, the editorial board of the Washington Post had described Trump's claims about the MMR vaccine as "irresponsible, possibly deadly." Live and direct from Murdoch World, the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal had offered this:
Trump Jabs at Vaccines for Children
The U.S. is enduring its worst measles outbreak in years, but that isn’t stopping President Trump from spreading vaccine skepticism. He overruled his advisers, press reports say, by issuing Monday’s executive order urging Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to limit proven childhood immunizations.
The President’s declaration of “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations” largely follows a much-disputed HHS report in January that advised fewer vaccines on the childhood schedule. Mr. Trump likes to paint a golden sheen on everything, but his proposed regimen isn’t based on rigorous science, or really any science at all.
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The order also proposes splitting the MMR into “three separate single-disease shots,” to be administered at separate medical visits. Mr. Trump claimed without evidence Monday that the MMR vaccine in its current form could be “quite lethal.” Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
And so on from there.
The New York Times has largely taken itself out of the editorial business. That said, the Times provided these punishing fact-check pieces:
Fact-Checking the Trump Administration’s Claims About Vaccines
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for scaling back the number of vaccinations American children receive. At an Oval Office event announcing the order, Mr. Trump suggested falsely that vaccines were linked to autism and that the combined measles, mumps and rubella shot could be lethal, among other claims.
While it is not clear yet whether the order has any legal power, experts said they were concerned that the statements from Mr. Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others at the event would sow further doubt and confusion about the safety of immunizations.
(For full report, click here.)
Should the M.M.R. Vaccine Be Split Into Three Separate Shots?
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In an Oval Office signing ceremony, the president made a frightening and unsubstantiated claim about the combination shot. “Together, there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal.”
Researchers have not linked the combination M.M.R. shot to a risk of death, and there is no evidence that it is dangerous or that splitting it into its three components is any safer or more effective, vaccine experts said. Combination shots for the diseases have been used in the United States since 1971, and were introduced only after careful comparison against individual shots. They have been given to hundreds of millions of children.
What’s more, separate vaccines for measles, mumps or rubella have not been available in the United States for many years. Vaccine manufacturers said it would take a minimum of five to 10 years for them to be tested and made available.
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“It’s just simply more confusion for the poor parents,” Dr. Edwards said. “And it’s just showing the world that our health system and our H.H.S. and our president are totally uninformed,” she said, referring to the Department of Health and Human Services.
(For full report, click this.)
We don't like to use the word "stupid" here. That said, how "Crazy/Not So Beautiful" were the Trump/Kennedy remarks?
Major news orgs don't like to report the astonishing size of the president's apparent mental / cognitive disorder. You may have to go to a site like Mediaite to get a report like this:
Trump Compares Common Vaccine to a Nuclear Weapon
President Donald Trump compared the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine to a nuclear bomb being set off inside a kid’s body during a Tuesday interview on Real America’s Voice.
The president championed the new childhood vaccine guidelines he and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debuted Monday, with Trump claiming the old schedule was “too big” and “too much” at one time. He then talked about the MMR vaccine.
“If you give them separately — the M, the M, and the R, it’s fine,” Trump said. “When you put them together, they’re sort of like a nuclear weapon, according to some. So why wouldn’t you give them separately? What’s hurt by giving them separately?”
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Trump told Root the government had previously recommended “pumping this massive amount of fluid” into kids which looked “like a Coca-Cola bottle.”
“I don’t care if it’s water, it’s too much,” Trump said.
According to the sitting president, an amount of vaccine "like a Coca-Cola bottle" is currently being pumped into each child's arm. The shots are "sort of like a nuclear weapon," he added.
What was the source for these remarkable claims? What else? His source was "according to some!"
The lunacy of the president's claims might almost seem to suggest the possibility of a major cognitive problem. In our view, a different set of mental disorders is put on display by the major news orgs which still refuse to report and discuss the obvious fact that something seems to be wrong with this man—with a man who will remain in office, surrounded by his nut-ball staff, for more than two years even after the mid-term elections.
Is something wrong with President Trump? It's pretty much as you like it! Speaking on Long Island on Friday, there he (not so beautifully) went again:
Trump Boasts ‘Young Beautiful Girls’ Come to White House to Thank Him for Lowering Crime
President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted Friday that “young beautiful girls” have been showing up at the White House to thank him for lowering crime.
The cringeworthy comment came as Trump spoke to law enforcement officials on Long Island while touting his administration’s crime record...
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“These young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House,” the president repeated. “You know, they come in. Now, I’m not supposed to say ‘beautiful,’ but what the hell?
“These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they’re young. They wanna be safe, and they come, ‘Mr. President, may I speak to you?'”“Yes,” Trump said, referring to how he responds to these “young beautiful girls.”
“Thank you, sir! Thank you!” the president recalls them saying. “I said, ‘Why are you thanking me?’ ‘Because a year and a half ago, I was afraid to leave—I was afraid to open the door of my apartment, and now I walk to the White House every morning, and I have absolutely no— Thank you, sir!'”
There the president (not so beautifully) seems to have gone again! Is it possible that something's wrong with this rather powerful guy?
At this point, we're barely scratching the surface here of the points of concern which may get swept away by AI pictures of the commander in chief riding along, on a charger, next to General Washington. But, for whatever reason, our major orgs in Blue America are going to duck the question of mental illness / cognitive decline "until the last dog dies."
That said, Blue America is also struggling as we start our week of reports.
"Woke One was crazy," AOC said. What could she have meant by that?
Tomorrow: We've wondered about this ourselves
"We don't like to use the word "stupid" here. That said, how "Crazy/Not So Beautiful" were the Trump/Kennedy remarks?"
ReplyDeleteWhy not use the word stupid when it applies? "Crazy/Not So Beautiful" does not apply to the misinformation Trump has been spreading. Grabbing a movie title that has nothing to do with any of this is just confusing. The word "Beautiful" does not apply to information, one way or the other. Trump is being stupid for political reasons, to please MAGA anti-vax diehards, or perhaps Trump does believe vaccines cause autism. There has been some unconfirmed speculation that Trump is worried about autism because his son, Barron, has been diagnosed as autistic. If so, it is a secret. Beyond that, Trump's weird obsessions cover a wide range of topics and he could be embracing this stupidity for some other reason.
It is enough to say Trump is wrong about this stuff. To Somerby's credit, he has corrected the misinformation, which may help some parent and child somewhere to better protection against childhood diseases.
"The lunacy of the president's claims might almost seem to suggest the possibility of a major cognitive problem."
ReplyDeleteIf Trump has a major cognitive problem, what about RFK Jr? Somerby entirely ignores the cognitive issues with Trump's appointee, who has displayed much more startling weirdness in his behavior than Trump has. To my knowledge, Trump has never eaten roadkill.
But it is definitely a symptom of Trump's cognitive disorder that he would have appointed someone like RFK Jr. to a responsible government position.
Somerby once again claims that the media and Blue America have ignored Trump's cognitive disorders and decline. That is a complete and total falsehood. Fox and the MAGA right are the ones who have ignored Trump's mental problems, and his physical health issues, and they have normalized Trump's odd behavior.
ReplyDeleteWe in Blue America are the opposition to Trump. We have been fighting him since he first came down the escalator, since his birther days, since his racist accusations against the Central Park Five, since his earliest collusion with Russia. WE didn't vote for Trump and we didn't put him back in office, as Somerby did by attacking our Democratic candidates in 2024.
If Trump has a tenacious objection to vaccines, Somerby has an unreasoning beef against blue America, makes false accusations against the left, and wastes the space he should use to combat Trump's atrocities on unfounded attacks on the left. That is enabling Trump and Somerby should stop doing this immediately, if he really cares what happens to unvaccinated children.
Where's the quote from Somerby stating he really cares what happens to unvaccinated children?
DeleteYou're right. He never says it. But I assumed that was motivating his calling Trump's policy stupid, since he has worked with elementary school aged children. Benefit of the doubt.
Delete"GOP Senator Absolutely Destroys Trump’s Recent Comments Casting Doubt on Vaccines: ‘That’s a Crazy, Stupid Thing!’"
ReplyDeleteSaying "That’s a Crazy, Stupid Thing!" doesn't destroy anything, let alone "absolutely destroys".
Also, splitting combined shots does seem to make a lot of sense. Common sense. You Dumbocrats don't know what it is.
In what way does it make sense?
DeleteIt's the opposite of common sense, maggot breath. How about King Orange Chickenshit sticks to what he knows, stealing money from the US Treasury.
DeleteWell, that, and redesigning aircraft carriers. That’s his particular forte.
Delete"...make a lot of sense. Common sense"
DeleteOf course trumptard is right. Because inside Trump's head is an entire laboratory chock full of gleaming beakers,, vials and test tubes to measure, mix and transfer quantities of 'common sense.' as part of experiments of the highest order.
And a supercomputer to crunch the numbers. How fortunate we are to have such a man as our leader.
The same cowardly GOP senator who buckled like a cheap card table and switched his vote to allow Todd Blanche - mafia lawyer extraordinaire - to become the U.S. Attorney General.
DeleteIn what way does it make sense?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't make sense.
DeleteAOC says woke 1 is crazy? She must be another influencer paid by Putin to con gullible liberals.
ReplyDeleteYou have no idea what she meant, do you DG?
DeleteIdentity politics (i.e. chasing the white working class vote) has ruined the Democratic Party.
DeleteFortunately, they seem to be finally waking up to to that reality.
First, AOC did not call Woke-1 crazy -- she said a friend did. Second, she explicitly said she has not abandoned her commitment to the principles that improve people's lives. The right wing weaponized the term "woke".
DeleteCurrent concerns over wokeness are a continuation of the infighting between centrist Democrats and progressives. We need to be uniting our party, not continuing an internal debate that is about language and not substance.
AOC is focused on real issues -- freely available healthcare, childcare and education, an end to inflation and to the profiteering that has enabled billionaires to widen the income disparity so harmful to average US families. This does not mean an abandonment of so-called identity politics, because Democrats are still the party of civil rights for all.
But, perhaps, Dems might tone down the pedants and scolds.
DeleteThis is from AOC’s website, DG. I leave it up to you to decide if she’s being a “pedant” or a “scold”, but she is completely devoted to those issues that are mockingly called “woke “.:
Delete“Discrimination at both the local and federal level concretely impacts queer and trans people from an early age – among LGBTQIA+ youth, rates of homelessness, incarceration, and substance abuse are all disproportionately high. Clearly, we must do more to end intolerance and bigotry throughout our nation.”
“Undocumented individuals fill so many of the essential jobs that kept this country running during COVID-19. It is past time to make them full members of the country they call their home and abolish ICE.”
“Alexandria believes that Women’s Rights are Human Rights, and that all women deserve equal access to workplace safety, equal pay, paid parental leave, full access to healthcare, and more. She wants to create a society in which women - which includes Black and Brown women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women, disabled women, working women, Muslim women, lesbian queer and trans women - are free and able to care for and nurture their families in safe and healthy environments, free from structural impediments. And that is why Alexandria supports economic rights, reproductive rights, and the end to oppression of all women. “
Etc.
You can see why Somerby has never mentioned her since she got elected years ago.
Go read her website, DG: https://www.ocasiocortez.com/issues
This is what “woke” means.
Somerby has been telling us for years that woke 1 behavior is politically damaging for Dems, and wokesters like you have been telling us he’s only saying this because he’s a paid traitor. But what he’s been saying is now becoming such common knowledge that even superstars like AOC are on board.
DeleteSimilarly, he told us in real time about the Biden immigration surge and Biden’s senility, and you folks told us that he was lying at Putin’s behest.
DeleteAnd AOC still wants to defund ICE.
DeleteBiden wasn’t senile.
DeleteDG, why must you demean someone as a “wokester” who believes the things that I enumerated above that AOC believes? I believe in trans rights, queer rights, immigrant rights, women’s rights and you want to label me a “wokester” for believing that and wanting to support that and making public policy of that. I don’t for one second think that all you object to is the rhetoric about it. I think you object to the policies themselves. Otherwise, let us know how you support trans rights, mmmk?
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DeleteYou sound like an ordinary Dumbocrat. "Wokester" is someone who, in addition to all the idiocy you listed, also declares everything in sight "white supremacy".
DG knows chasing away a potential voter by calling them "a wokester", is the only way to get them to vote like he does.
DeleteHis whole "why can't we all get along with the bigots for the sake of winning elections" shtick was always bullshit designed to coddle the worst people in the country.
mh -- When you ask whether I believe in "trans rights, etc.," I would say it depends on what you mean. For example, the principle that trans people should not suffer discrimination or harassment in employment or housing seems worthy to me. The principle that we should abandon normal pronoun use for weird variants seems to me like an annoying act of smug performative virtue that turns off the normies and leads, at the margins, to electoral defeats.
DeleteBut if you want to do it, that's up to you. I just think it may be politically counterproductive, that's all.
"abandon normal pronoun use for weird variants"
Deleteholy shit, not "weird variants"? anything but that!
annoying act of smug performative virtue
spoken by someone who has never been to a trump rally and spoken with his cult
relax, DG, you can continue being a bigoted asshole, no one is going to force you to choke on weird pronouns, asshole
I guess it's time for the thread to degenerate into braindead namecalling.
DeleteI hate you, Dogface George.
DeleteDG, Sarah McBride is a trans woman, representing the state of Delaware for the Democratic Party. She uses the pronouns she /her. Look at a picture of her. Are you saying that it’s weird, annoying, smug, and performative that she wants to be referred to as she /her, after fully transitioning? I would suggest that you don’t fully support trans rights if you find this smug and performative. You should also think about the fact that the right wing objects to the mere existence of transgender people, so even publicly declaring your support for those things that you do (supposedly) support for trans people will get you labeled a wokester, to use your demeaning terminology.You cannot avoid that label just because you then go further and say “well I don’t like the pronouns though. I’m not one of those smug performative liberals “
DeleteAlway remember, calling someone who you want to vote the way you do by calling them "a wokester" isn't smug.
Delete"Similarly, he told us in real time about the Biden immigration surge..."
DeleteThe same problems have existed on the border for 100 years.
What changed is the Right saw greater political value in racism than in allowing people in to the country to do the backbreaking work of feeding us.
If you had told me 30 years ago that the Right would choose racism over nourishment I would have said "Obviously."
Everything was cool when DG was calling us wokesters and smug and performative. No personal attacks 😂
Delete"Trump also trotted out one of his go-to troll moves by hinting he will win the 2028 election—a claim which his liberal critics loathe and often point out can’t happen because of the Constitution."
ReplyDeleteApparently only "liberal critics" find his authoritarian trial balloons loathsome. Everyone else thinks they're just swell.
Good catch.
DeleteSupreme Court rejects renewed Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll case
ReplyDeleteTrump made a rare request for the Supreme Court to reconsider his appeal, which the justices previously decline
Does this just go on ad infinitum until the mad Kind gets the answer he wants?
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, recently had an op-ed in the New York Times, questioning Trump‘s health and fitness, both mental and physical. He was on CNN discussing it.
ReplyDelete“the United States does not have a king. In a representative democracy, the people must have confidence in the health of their leader, and in the leader’s capacity to guide the nation. We have been kept in the dark too long.”
Also, “The former cardiologist referenced a bill introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in April establishing a congressional panel to assess the president’s health and fitness.”
Why doesn't Somerby link Trump's comments about beautiful girls to his ongoing, lifelong problems with beautiful girls (and women)? There is an article in the news about mainstream media issuing a subpoena to Melania about Epstein's model agency collusion with the Trump Model Agency during those trafficking activities. Blue America is talking about that, but Somerby never mentions it. It is almost as if he is averting his own eyesThe lunacy of the president's claims might almost seem to suggest the possibility of a major cognitive problem from Trump's long time sexual misbehavior.
ReplyDeleteI believe El-sayed should stop being prickly, dammit.
ReplyDeleteOur president has gone goofy. He has taken the train to Milledgeville. He has stayed too long at the circus.
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