FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2026
Such as those services are: On Monday, we expect to return to something resembling normal services, such as those services are.
Meanwhile, here's the headline on a report at Mediaite—a report in which several journalists start talking about apparent mental health and mental illness issues, or at least about cognitive decline, though perhaps only inferentially:
Critics Rip ‘Donnie Dementia’ as Trump Rambles About Sharks and Electrocution at Rose Garden Event
The Atlantic's Tom Nichols is one of those journalists. You can read the full report here.
The headline treats this apparent (and presumably dangerous) problem as a source of mockery and insult. We'll almost surely be returning to this apparent problem when we resume next week.
Meanwhile, here's the start of a separate report in the Washington Post. People, we're just saying:
Trump says Kennedy Center could be ‘ripped down’ without his intervention
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration deserves to have its name recognized at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in exchange for rescuing the financially troubled institution, warning that without his intervention the venue will eventually close and be “ripped down.”
“For us as an administration to want to do that, I think the Trump administration should be recognized,” Trump told reporters while visiting North Carolina to campaign for the Republican Senate nominee. The president said the center would require years of financial support even after a roughly $250 million renovation.
“Frankly, if we don’t do that, it’s going to close,” he said. “It’ll end up being ripped down.”
Trump’s remarks sharpened his position that saving the Kennedy Center hinges on putting his name on the building, a day after he threatened to block its renovation unless the courts allow the institution to do just that.
The report continues from there.
I empathize with President Trump because I’m demented, too.
ReplyDeleteI empathize with President Trump because I'm dishonest, too.
DeleteI voted for Trump because he excitedly demonstrated, even in front of children, how to perform fellatio.
DeleteTo be fair, for his own sex life, Trump says he draws the line at age 12.
Agree. Trump had my vote when he advised a group of Boy Scouts about trophy wives. Now he's repeating a crude story about grabbing Melania's ass to keep from falling off that UN escalator. Trump makes me proud to be an American.
DeleteI’d say “Donnie Dementia” is far more effective than “poor, troubled, mentally afflicted Trump, whose father was also afflicted. His high gas prices and broken promises make us pity him more.” Especially with former Trump voters. Ridicule is a powerful tool. Heaven knows republicans use it relentlessly.
ReplyDelete"Ridicule" and "ridiculous" come from the same Latin root. Given that, one would think Trump, being the most ridiculous figure ever to reach the main stage of politics, would be a source of universal ridicule. But because he represents the ultimate protected classes -- white people and the rich -- the ridicule only comes from partisan quarters. Everyone else must ignore the obvious, and treat this clownish con artist as a figure no different than what came before him. To do anything less is somehow an insult to all those good and decent people out there who vote for him and cheer him on as he makes billions while driving the country into the ground.
DeleteAgree.
DeleteMaybe some small portion of Trump's ridicule comes from partisanship, but the vast majority comes from his behavior which is negatively impacting nearly everyone, in both America and the world.
People like Somerby who are worried about Trump's negative impact on the GOP, as well as others who support Trump wholeheartedly, want to frame criticism of Trump as mainly partisanship.
And they want to push Dems to be less ridiculing of and more compliant to Republicans, thereby eliminating a powerful motivating factor which would then aide in keeping the right wing ruling elites, the non boorish ones, in power.
How about Demented Donnie Dropped a Dookie in his Depends?
DeleteSomerby is asking the rest of the world to pity Trump, yet his own family is awol.
ReplyDeleteThe rats are fleeing the ship, leaving Trump as nothing more than a cornered rat.
ReplyDeleteEven racist ghoul Karl Rove is voting for a Dem now.
Trump pocketed around $2 billion in the last couple years at the expense of Americans.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Trump has dementia, but what's pertinent is that he is corrupt to the core and a horrible criminal.
Somerby is sort of the Ed Sheeran of blogging.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteDoieee.
DeleteHear, hear. Somerby is an ass, because he doesn't sniff his fingers like I do.
DeleteI am Corby.
This is why no one wants to use a nym here.
DeleteWhen right wingers get upset, they often become unhinged and get aggressive and violent, so it is better to remain anonymous. Sadly those right wingers have people in their private lives that then bear the brunt of their lunacy.
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ReplyDelete"In a social media post, Trump said the closure was needed for safety repairs. But he said the repairs, which Congress has allocated $257 million to cover, would only happen if the board was allowed to move forward with plans to add his name to the building."
“How fucking broken do you have to be to threaten to tear down a slain President’s memorial unless they put your name on it?!?” https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-nakedly-%E2%80%A6
DeleteTrump's Last Stand.
Delete"And it's too late to lose the weight
You used to need to throw around
So have a good drown as you go down
All alone, dragged down by the stone"
Trump isn't the thing anymore. It's the Good and Decent People Who Must Not Be Given A Name who support his every absurd outburst and insane, destructive action who should be called out. But that can't be done, you see, because to do so is to make YOU responsible for what THEY, and the Leader THEY selected and follow, do.
DeleteYup. Somerby's bizarre pretzel "logic" never made any sense.
DeleteTalk about pretzel logic! Where does Somerby say that we are responsible for what Trump does? You just made that up.
DeleteWhat Somerby actually says is that feeling and expressing an abject contempt for Republicans may not be conducive to persuading them to vote for Democrats.
Explain why expressing contempt for the party and the party’s leader (ie Republicans and Trump) who are destroying the country and inflicting pain on its citizens isn’t “conducive to persuading them to vote for Democrats.”
DeleteIs it really a good look for democrats to be meek and mild mannered towards the poor GOP and its very own contempt for their voters, and express pity for poor poor Donald? You’ve got to be kidding, DG. People are mad as hell.
Abject contempt doesn’t fully capture the level of outrage and disgust I am feeling right now
Delete"...may not be conducive to persuading them to vote for Democrats."
DeleteTell me, how many current Republicans, after watching what Trump has done and is doing, do you think will ever, under any circumstances, vote for Democrats? The ones with standards have already left -- in part, BECAUSE of the contemptibility of MAGA.
Again: Call Trump a crook. Do not call voters "toothless hillbillies." (Unless, of course, you want to lose.) Is that so hard to understand?
DeleteWho called voters toothless hillbillies? Referring to voters as Billy Bob is not doing that. Some voters are low information or inhabit a demographic. Acknowledging that is not name calling them.
Delete"Again: Call Trump a crook. Do not call voters "toothless hillbillies." (Unless, of course, you want to lose.) Is that so hard to understand?"
DeleteYou didn't answer the question, which tells me you know the answer.
You call voters who subscribe to toothless hillbillysm subscribers to toothless hillbillyism, much as you call stupid people stupid -- and people who argue dishonestly, dishonest. Because such people WILL NOT VOTE FOR YOU ANYWAY.
Note, I do NOT call voters, in general, names, just a specific subset of voters. But you already knew that, and tried to slip in "voters," without any qualifiers.
The other, and more important part of this, is that I'm not a politician. I'm some guy on the internet. What is of interest to me is not what this or that politician says per se, but WHY Trump and the Republicans can say almost anything they want about Democrats, whereas Democrats -- and people who aren't even Democrats -- have to police every little thing they say or the media lynch mob brings out the ropes and torches. Once upon a time, this blog talked about that kind of thing. Now, all Somerby does is wag his finger and then wring his hands in what I (guess I) assume is genuine anguish over some misstep some politician is alleged to have made that might offend those "good and decent people" who, despite supporting every vile thing Trump does, might still be coaxed into voting for Democrats.
MG - I don’t feel any need to respond to off-topic challenges.
DeleteOh but I do DG! And that goes double for you MG!!!
DeleteOn the TV seeing 90% beware the end of America because the trans ads from the Magat candidates. They ain't got nothing real they can run on. "We stole more from the poor and middle classes and gave it to the super wealthy and global corporations than any other Congress in history. Plus between the Bush & Trump 1 & 2 tax bills and their never-ending mid East wars we have such an unwieldy deficit we can't even cover the interest payments. What the ever loving fuck? Good news is if Trump doesn't end the world in a nuclear fireball, AI has a good chance of succeeding. And if all else fails, climate change can get us. Is there anything scarier than hordes of southern Floridians fleeing north?
Delete"On the TV seeing 90% beware the end of America because the trans ads from the Magat candidates. "
DeleteIf only the coastal elites didn't say all those bad things about the rock-ribbed soul of America, the white working class (whatever those bad things are), the good and decent people targeted by these ads wouldn't be susceptible to such crude scapegoating. Besides, it doesn't matter: the news media will point out how ugly and dehumanizing these ads are and force the Republicans to answer for their scurrilousness. Any century now.
DG does not know or understand anything about electoral politics, what he does know is his emotional comfort is enmeshed with his undying commitment to his hero Bob Somerby, and will fight like the Black Knight to blindly defend Somerby, who he adores and is his damsel in distress tied to the railroad tracks.
DeleteSomerby for his part coyly shows DG a little a leg and a flutter of eyelashes and DG swoons, like the rube and mark that he is.
DG has fallen hard for Somerby who makes DG feel butterflies in his stomach, so anyone that dares challenge Somerby's nonsense will get DG's terrifying wrath.
Hell hath no fury like a troll scorned.
I keep reading Somerby because I like him. You keep reading him because you hate him. That seems weird to me.
DeleteI comment here to correct the disinformation being spread by the right wing, quoted in loving detail by Somerby. Somerby is too dishonest to like. Correcting propaganda is how you defend truth.
DeleteDG, you seem weird to everyone else.
DeleteSomerby might have corrected Trump’s lie about the center’s solvency, but he didn’t bother. Why?
ReplyDeleteFuck off 7:48.
DeleteWhat an ass Somerby is. What an ass. Oh, my ass, my ass...
DeleteAnd I'm not guilty, because I sniff my fingers. Right now.
I am Corby.
You seem to be obsessed with Corby. What is that all about?
Delete10:30,
DeleteSame reason Somerby seems obsessed by Gufeld. They need something to distract from all the Republicans in the Epstein Files.
Gutfeld's original name was Gufeld but he changed it when he went into show business.
DeleteSomerby is too busy whining about how Gutfeld is bad for Republican branding to care about correcting Trump's lies.
Delete$100 if you can show me where Somerby ever said Gutfeld is bad for Republican branding.
DeleteIn reality, this epicycle is a figment of your imagination. Somerby criticizing Gutfeld is not consistent with your theory that Somerby is right- wing, so you’ve created this epicycle to explain why he does so.
"Somerby criticizing Gutfeld is not consistent with your theory that Somerby is right- wing..."
DeleteAgree.
Somerby repeating Gutfeld's "jokes" on his blog so everyone can see them is much more consistent with the theory that Somerby is Right-wing.
Somerby whines about Gutfeld almost daily.
DeleteDG, you are either off your meds or off your rocker.
DG thinks that Somerby must say explicitly "Gutfield is bad for Republican branding" in those exact words, or he wins. This is why commenters have been calling Somerby's defenders "excessively literal".
DeleteI knew my $100 was as safe as a baby in its mother’s arms.
DeleteBut hey, I’ll re-up my $100: Show me where Somerby IMPLIES that Gutfeld is bad “for Republican branding.”
DeleteBut this time you have to pay me $10 when you play one of your distraction games.
Your bragging that you have $100 is pathetic.
DeleteYou owe me $10.
Delete
DeleteYes, for us Dumbocrat bots one hundred bucks is a huge amount of money. We have to spew hundreds of retarded word-salads to make $100. Hundreds, I tell ya.
The party of free speech is banning CNN, Politico and MSNBC NOW from the WH because Baby Orange Huey says so
ReplyDeleteThey must not have expressed the proper amount of pity.
DeleteIt's like, man, cancel culture is like rampant on the left always blocking the free speech of the right, man. The fucking jaggoffs and weirdos will never get the disconnect.
DeleteThis is how right wing Trump supporting propaganda is being funded:
ReplyDelete“The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence in November’s midterm elections, using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season,” the New York Times reports.
“Classified U.S. intelligence assessments from recent months have determined that the Kremlin has again authorized a digital influence campaign to peddle content across social media in hopes of seeding or amplifying domestic divisions around the election season.”
If the New York Times reported it, it must be true.
DeleteThe New York Times is full of good decent persons who would never do any bullshit russophobic warmongering.
Meh.
DeleteThis sounds like the idiotic theory that it takes Russian interference to get Republican voters to do anything they possibly can to vote for gigantic bigots.
This is why Somerby posts here after running out of things to say years ago.
DeleteRussian interference is why blacks stayed home and libs voted for Jill Stein in three blue wall states, that Hillary lost by 79,000 combined votes (Michigan by10,000), giving the electoral college and the presidency to Trump in 2016. It could have all ended there if it weren't for the Russians buying social media and Trump paying off Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels to hide his mistreatment of Melania.
DeleteRussian interference did play a role in Trump winning the electoral college while losing the popular vote in 2016. And Trump has been colluding with Russia, all the way back since his first marriage to the daughter of a major KGB operative. To Trump's credit he did have the balls to rape his wife after she mocked his hair plugs, but it wasn't him that died mysteriously falling down stairs in his own house.
DeleteIn fact it is reasonable to conclude that Trump's buddy Giuliani (tight friends although not as tight as Epstein) went hard after the Italian mafia in order to benefit the burgeoning Russian mafia. Giuliani also has long ties with Russian operatives.
But now Americans are more aware of Russian meddling techniques so the effort just does not have the same bite. Plus Russia today is a shell of what it was in 2016. Nobody takes Russia as a serious military or economic threat anymore, but the world is now much more aware of Russia's imperialist ambitions.
Russia not long ago was caught trying to subsidize American right wing influencers, people like weirdo Tim Pool, and dumb as a walking doorknob Dave Rubin, and living on the DL Benny Johnson.
Whoopsie.
Remember six years back when the world feared the Russian and American militaries? Drones sure as fuck leveled the playing field, or even advantaged those attacked by murderous criminals like Putin and Trump.
DeleteThat “crazy” President just secured a beneficial deal that eluded the others “sane” Presidents — the right to do defense in Greenland.
ReplyDeleteI guess you never heard of the North Atlantic Treaty.
DeleteI just want my $5000.
DeleteI had been losing sleep, going my back to the Reagan administration, over the obstacles Greenland and Denmark posed to defending the North Atlantic from Russia and China.
DeleteThat was one of the reasons the Democratic party became one of the most unpopular political parties of all time and went dead broke.
Delete“…the right to do defense in Greenland…” only a dyed in the wool MAGAt would have the least clue as to what that means. The Greenlanders and Danes can rest easy knowing that their defense rests with a Russian money laundering sycophant to Putin whose son takes large gifts from Russian oligarchs. One more project for Hegseth to completely fuck up.
DeleteThe "right to do defense"?
DeleteThis is the same president who complains that the NATO countries aren't "paying their dues."
(Membership in NATO doesn't entail payment of dues, but whatever.)
Now Trump the genius has "won" the right for the US to defend the territory against...what, exactly? And why?
Presumably it's all about the mythical "Golden Dome".
DeleteAnd "why" you ask? Presumably to rule the world. What else is there?
"Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known."
DeleteThere is something seriously the fuck wrong with you, DiC!
Good thing that "crazy" President gave billionaires tax breaks and increased the deficit by trillions.
DeleteIf he hadn't David and the rest of America's hugest bigots (i.e. Republicans) wouldn't be able to pretend they care about the federal deficit, when Dems try to help the poor.
Oh how I wish economics was like raping children, so Republicans would become interested in it.
DeleteIn David in Cal's defense, one of those poor people Dems try to help might be black, and being a Republican voter David believes not a penny of his hard-earned taxes dollars should be wasted on them.
DeleteYeah the guy who likes to periodically threaten windmills with his rubber sword likes to hallucinate threats that only he can successfully manage. The Iran nuclear ICBMs Aimed at dog's residence and now something even more ludicrously nebulous.
Delete"That “crazy” President just secured..."
DeleteAnother non-existent threat dealt with. When do we invade?
CParis in comments at another blog says:
Delete" Dems in Congressional and Senate races should be calling out their GOP opponents for continuing to enable Trump's nonsense and the outright destruction of people's economic lives and personal security.
-Trump Tariffs = sky high prices
-Trump's cabinet of Morons running agencies = measles epidemics, tainted food, ICE dragging neighbors, co-workers, family members off to black sites
-Trump war on Iran = astronomical energy price increases, global economic instability
-Trump's BBB = regular people losing earned benefits (Medicare, Social Security, etc)
-DOGE = job losses, reduced vital govt services
The GOP party (from JD Vance to the newest elected representative) must be held responsible for the disasters Trump has dragged this country (and world) into - and tossed out of office...forever.
And when they bring up trans people or men sneaking into women's locker rooms - just reply "that's weird, why are you so concerned about what's going on in other people's bathrooms/bedrooms?". Why haven't you done anything about named (and convicted) abusers, pedos, like those in the Epstein files and in the White House?"
Like the Trump version of NAFTA, it's essentially the same deal that was in place before he came in blustering, huffing, embarrassing himself and the country, alienating allies, with minor cosmetic changes. Now it's just a matter of time before, as he did with his NAFTA-like deal, he calls it the worst deal ever signed by an idiot, and demands a new one, with more huffing, puffing, embarrassing of self and the country, and so on.
DeleteYes DiChead, the Amazing Trump confirmed Harry Truman's Greenland security deal in 1951 still stands. Ya think they just gave the dumb ass dog a bone to get him to shut the fuck up about taking it over? Jesus the stupid with you idiots.
DeleteQuaker - Greenland sits between the US and Russia. A map centered on the North Pole shows Greenland's strategic location https://www.pinterest.com/pin/map-centered-on-the-north-pole--262686590759506868/
DeleteOnly the Atlantic Ocean sits between the US and Russia, just that tiny bit between Alaska and Russia. Russia once owned Alaska. So what? Greenland is not the most direct route to our heartland. It makes more sense for Trump to claim he needs to own Canada in order to defend the US from Russia. This idea that Greenland is "strategic" is stupid.
DeleteIs Trump planning to start a land war against Russia? Is David suggesting that he needs Greenland as a staging area for that invasion? There is less snow and fewer glaciers between Alaska and Russia than in Greenland.
DeleteTrump seems to be very interested in cornering the market on magnets. That, not geographic location, is why he seems to want to own Greenland. It was smart of Denmark to tell Trump he could have all the magnets he wants, now that Canada is refusing to give Trump any of its cherished national magnets.
"Greenland sits between the US and Russia. "
DeleteAnd?
You think Trump is standing up to Russia? Trump worships Putin.
DiC's residence
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of residences, how could any American have voted for a man who called the White House a dump?
DeleteTrump's mental illness reveals itself in his mistreatment of female reporters:
ReplyDelete"While speaking with a panel about President Donald Trump’s recent ban of CNN, MS NOW and other possible media outlets, CNN anchor Erin Burnett played a withering supercut of Trump’s adolescent-grade abuse and name-calling of women around him at press gaggles.
This, Burnett insisted, was “only a small sample.”
“What a stupid question for you to ask,” Trump barked to an unknown woman on July 27.
“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole room,” he told another woman on December 8, 2025.
“You are the worst reporter,” Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collions on February 3.
“Quiet! Quiet, piggy,” he ordered another woman on Nov. 14, 2025.
“I’m tired of it, you dumb person,” Trump told a woman on May 12.
“She’s a horror show,” he blasted another female reporter on May 8, while talking to aids.
And finally: “You have a lot of hate in your heart,” Trump accused a woman Sept. 16, 2025.
“As I said, that’s a small sampling,” Burnett told her panel, adding “he thrives on those exchanges.”
“You know, what’s missing from this conversation is a psychiatrist,” said Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, after some thought. “Because it really is about his state of mind. I don't know that people fully understand, uh, and, you know, just when you look at the interactions with the reporters, it's just no one has ever talked, as a president, like that. And I think it's interesting that in every clip that you showed, it was a woman that he was talking to. So, there there's a lot going on in his, um, you know, pathology. And that has as much to do with any one of these acts, I think.” [Alternet]
Trump obviously has no respect for female reporters and believes he can treat them unprofessionally. He may even thinks he looks strong or powerful when he responds this way, but most onlookers can recognize bullying for what it is, a sign of weakness, insecurity.
Even as a young man, Trump had a dainty little mouth and a weak chin, a giggly persona with no wit. If he hadn't had money, he wouldn't have been interesting to any woman. He used to abuse women by claiming to have had sex with female celebrities who he had never met. He is still bolstering his own weak confidence at women's expense. He doesn't even realize how pathetic this makes him look.
Banning male press from the White House is extending his bullying to the men who work as journalists too, who have no choice but to observe the ban. The obvious question is why Trump feels so wobbly and vulnerable now. Is it because of his imminent loss of the midterms or is it something more personal. Look at his sexist joke about grabbing Melania on that escalator, being repeating NOW when it happened years ago. What is making Trump needy this week.
Who cares what Trump says?
DeleteNext, you'll be telling me I should give a shit what the Supreme Court says.
Did Kaitlin Collins really reply to Trump with, "Child rapist says what?"
DeleteThat''ll teach the tiny mushroom dick to disrespect his betters.
A+ to Tiedrich for perspective:
ReplyDelete"monday: and god said, ‘let there be stupid’
dumbfuck got off to a lightning-quick start this week, with our old favorite MAGAfied grifto-vangelist ‘pastor,’ Hank Kunneman, leading the way.
apparently, the Big Guy in the Sky personally phoned up the Hankster to give him the inside skinny on good things to come.
“the gas prices are gonna go down down down down down … God has been saying for a long time that gas prices are going down.”
hang on, what? God has a holy hand in our nation’s energy policies, and he’s been saying what?
may I just interject a moment? can I just point out a thing that the god-botherers overlook, when they’re forever telling us what God has up his sleeve? if there were a God, and he wanted to gas prices to go down, they would already be down. he would just snap his fingers, and boom — manifested. that’s the way omnipotence works, bro.
I mean, once you’ve let-there-be-lighted the entire universe into existence with a hand-wave, rigging the price of dinosaur juice should be piece of cake, no?
come on, let’s have a little critical thinking here. if God wanted cheap gas, would He really have sent the dumbest halfwit on the planet to clownfuck his way into an unwinnable don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran, and get the Strait or Hormuz shut down?
of course not.
I mean, there’s ‘working in mysterious ways,’ and then there’s complete batshit insanity."
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-september-19
DeleteServices?
ReplyDeleteThis is what actual media analysis looks like:
Deletehttps://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/09/trans-averse-democrats-are-remembering.html
Somerby's odd use of the word "services" makes sense if he is being paid to post disinformation and talking points by some political operative. In that case, his daily postings would be services rendered on behalf of Trump courtesy of some dark money source. He certainly provides no services to his readers by echoing Gutfeld and right wing opinion writers in the NY Times.
DeleteAnd I sniff my finger.
DeleteI am Corby.
Why be dainty? Sniff all of them, useless troll. No one believes you are Corby. For one thing, Corby can spell.
DeleteIs AI trustworthy? You can judge yourself from these examples:
ReplyDeleteTrump said: "“Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing ‘Revolution?'”
It sounds like AI itself, not Trump, came up with those suggested names. If so, how self-serving is that?
On the Saturday in America show, Kash Patel said: "For far too long the institutional morass in D.C. rejected the advancements of technology. I have increased the use of AI in the FBI by 605%. "
It seems obvious that AI itself came up with that figure of 605%. I can't imagine Patel himself doing such math, and the figure seems oddly specific, as most made-up numbers do. And it too is self-serving to AI. Have we accidentally begun using technology with a grandiose sense of self that will demand the same kind of ego-stroking as Trump himself?
This is the real danger of AI, replication of human flaws.
DeleteYou have to admire Trump's branding talent:
Delete"A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI)."
This is like suggesting that dogs be renamed from Good Dog to Best Dog, Wonderful Dog or Excellent Dog. Or the Department of Defense be renamed the Department of War. This is how the imagination of the world's stupidest man works.
Trump hasn't a clue what AI is.
DeleteHe was asked the other day if AI is good and what he uses it for, and he could not respond, he just stuttered, same as when he was asked what his favorite Bible verse is.
He knows the tech bros will make lots of money with it, some of it on his behalf. It's all he needs to know.
Delete3:19: What? Does AI have an uncle that taught at MIT?
DeleteMike Collins sent around an email trying to disparage Ossoff by telling readers that Hillary Clinton, "radical extremist" is one of his supporters. They labeled her Sec of State and First Lady, but forget her terms as a US Senator representing New York. Apparently Collins wants to relegate women to positions like secretary and lady-wife, not manly jobs like Senator, that Collins aspires to. What is wrong with these guys? Does he think Republican voters will consider him a pussy if he is running for the same job that Hillary held?
ReplyDeleteI would've given my favorite finger to lick Hillary's snatch once. Happily.
DeleteI am Corby.
Where is DG and why isn't he insisting that this troll use a nym?
DeleteThese Eastern European troll farm recruits need to learn that in America, we don't sexualize grandmas.
Delete"wants to relegate women to positions like secretary"
DeleteYou're conflating secretarial positions with the Secretary of State, which is one of the most powerful positions in the US govt. Pretty dumb thing to do.
Meanwhile, Senator is practically a useless position (under Republican Presidents) politically.
Delete@8:23, no, I am suggesting that Collins conflated the two in his campaign email.
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DeleteBill Maher called social issues important to Democrats a form of "crazy" equivalent to the right wing. He also repeated his usual Islamophobia and generalized DSA to all Democrats. Somerby will be around on Monday to defend Maher and say that he gets some things right (without saying exactly what). He may also chastise Tarlov for calling the right crazy, since the fee fees of the others will be hurt and then they will never ever vote Democratic. Ho hum.
ReplyDeleteI forget when I realized Maher is at heart a fucking weirdo and jagoff like the whole lot of them. At least fifteen years.
DeleteCompare the podcasts of Bill Maher and Jon Stewart and tell me which one is the intellectually lazy pot smoking poser.
Delete"President Donald Trump's fish joke stinks, according to a new political analysis.
ReplyDeleteTrump — during a Rose Garden dinner Thursday for hunting, fishing and outdoorsmen industry leaders — took aim at Bass Pro Shops owner Johnny Morris, a billionaire Trump frequently competes with on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest people.
"I could have banned fishing," Trump said. "Driven Johnny right the hell out of business. I think I'm gonna do that."
This line caught the ear of political commentator David Pakman, who on Saturday delved into his serious concern that the fish joke was fishy.
"Trump admitted he is drunk on power in a disgusting, swollen, orange rant," Pakman said. "This is an authoritarian classic."
Pakman explained his frustration stemmed from the not-too-subtle threat underlining Trump's joke, and argued the president wanted to be praised for not abusing his power.
"Saying you deserve praise for things you could have done," Pakman argued. "Authoritarians love that."
Trump's real message to his billionaire rival, and all those who tuned in to hear the speech, wasn't very funny, Pakman argued.
"Look at all the power I have," Trump was saying, according to Pakman. "I could destroy your business... Then you would come begging."
I would do anything to touch Hillary's snatch. To touch her snatch... to touch her snatch... to touch her snatch...
ReplyDelete...and I sniff my fingers...
I am Corby.
Hillary is too old now.
DeleteEven right wing trolls are perverted.
DeleteFun fact:
ReplyDeleteAccording to Russia maven Julia Ioffe, the Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who is close to Putin and who contributed hundreds of thousands toward Don Jr.'s wedding celebration, and who was described by Don Jr.'s blushing bride Bettina as "a dear friend", does not speak English.
They communicate telepathically.
DeleteMoney talks.
DeleteNo problem. They use an interpreter.
DeleteIsn't that what crypto is for?
DeleteFrom Mediaite:
ReplyDelete"ABC’s Jonathan Karl shut down a popular GOP talking point in defense of President Donald Trump’s ban on three news organizations from the White House...
Scalise said. “Go look at Joe Biden. Joe Biden removed the press credentials from over 400 different agencies."
"Karl promptly fact-checked Scalise on a claim that numerous Trump defenders have made in recent days.
“That’s actually not true about Biden,” Karl said. “The 400 individual reporters who had credentials did not reapply. There was only one that was actually denied a credential. And all of those who didn’t reapply were allowed to come in. They were not banned from the White House. That did not happen!”
Numerous Trump defenders have all made this same anti-Biden claim because the right circulates talking points that everyone repeats. A lie, like this one about Biden, begins to sound like truth because of the repetition.
Somerby is part of this chain. He repeats the talking points on his blog in the guise of criticizing the press, but never debunks the lies, as Karl did above about Biden's supposed 400 banned journalists.
The job of the press is not to repeat both sides in a he-said she-said sort of dispute, but to state a claim (like Trump's) and find out via investigation whether that claim is true. Karl did that and that is why he is doing a good job as a journalist.
Somerby makes no pretense at journalism himself, but he is bad at criticizing the press because he doesn't care what is true or not, repeatedly says he doesn't know what is true or accurate (and presumably doesn't care enough to find out), expresses the view that the truth cannot be known (undermining the main job of the press, which is to find out what is true) and then repeats falsehoods circulated by the right to defend indefensible statements and acts by Trump and his cronies. That is being a right wing shill, not media criticism.
I sniff my fingers because it feels good.
DeleteI am Corby.
Somerby assumes he is a good and decent person, but it is clear that he is not.
DeleteI feel the same way about you.
Delete9-20-26 statement by Trump official Kevin Hassett:
ReplyDelete“The whole thing (Iran war) started because the Iranians told us we don’t have to talk to you anymore, because we’re two weeks from having a nuclear weapon.”
3-18-26 Tulsi Gabbard Congressional testimony:
"Iran has actually made 'no efforts' to rebuild its nuclear enrichment program."
So we can believe either:
a) The US intelligence community; or
b) a version of events originating with the amateur hour negotiating team of Witkoff and Kushner, as filtered through one of Trump’s weaselliest yes men.
To be fair, Hassett’s was only one version of several that were given, each by different Trump lackeys, to explain the start of this illegal war.
DeleteIran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, like Trump is two weeks away from announcing his "terrific" healthcare plan, or releasing his taxes, or any of the other "two weeks away" promises he's made. Trump's "two weeks" glitch has spread throughout his administration, like every other malignancy of his.
Delete"South Korea says North Korea launched a ballistic missile and another projectile toward the sea"
ReplyDeleteLooks like we attacked the wrong country. Oh well.
Don't sell the Republican Party short. They could lose a war to North Korea on Day One, easily.
DeleteHeck, they could lose a war to the two pre-teens that sell lemonade on my street on Day One.
Worth reading today:
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/did-ayn-rand-plant-the-ideological-dc1
Somerby is apparently not going to write anything this morning, since he usually has a post up by this time, when he does write.
Pay special attention to the lack of qualifications of every single person Trump has appointed to fill important government positions. Hartmann provides a handy list.
"FRIDAY: Full services resume on Monday!"
ReplyDeleteBelated partial "services" resume on Monday night! FTFY