SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025
Yesterday's report: The world isn't going to come to an end because the East Wing is no longer standing.
It's also possible that the replacement ballroom, if it really gets built, will come to bs seen as a valuable addition to the White House property.
This is also true:
Destroying the East Wing in the way the president did was a remarkably strange thing to do. Again, the reason for that assessment is obvious:
As president, he doesn't own the White House. Indeed, he doesn't even pay rent. The East Wing didn't belong to him, at least under current understandings.
But then again, so what?
We still owe you a reaction to Michelle Goldberg's recent column for the New York Times. Headline included, the column started like this:
Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.
On Saturday, perhaps stung by the enormous nationwide “No Kings” protests, Trump posted an A.I.-generated video on Truth Social that inadvertently captured his approach to governing. In it the president, wearing a crown, flies a “Top Gun”-style fighter plane labeled “King Trump” above American cities crowded with demonstrators, dumping gargantuan loads of feces on them. Amplifying it on social media, the White House communications director Steven Cheung gleefully wrote that the president was defecating “all over these No Kings losers!”
That column principally concerned the videotape the president posted—the videotape in which he's dropping excrement on the heads of us the American people. We think she may have "taken the bait" in one way. We think she nailed something else.
First, the president posted that videotape. After that, the East Wing came down. Our advice to you would be this:
We advise you to look again at yesterday's report.
We'll have more on these topics next week. If the leading authority can be trusted, medical science has even identified the gene or genes by which this journalistically undiscussable state of affairs can be passed from parent to child.
Who the fuck is this Trump character Bob keeps going on about?
ReplyDeleteJust ask Slabby down below @12:48. I'm not sure why they just don't post "I hate Somerby! Aaaagh!"
DeleteIt would be so much more entertaining. Meanwhile, I wish Somerby well.
Leroy
But then again, so what?
DeleteSomerby's reactions to Trump's activities is a big "so what?"
ReplyDeleteThe rest of us, who care about our Constitution and want a well-run country in which Americans can prosper, are far from Somerby's shoulder shrug over Trump's behavior.
Somerby says: "As president, he doesn't own the White House. Indeed, he doesn't even pay rent. The East Wing didn't belong to him, at least under current understandings.
But then again, so what?"
Let's try that with some other problematic news:
1. The govt has declared protesters and dissidents "domestic terrorists" and it is arming ICE to take us on. People may be killed without due process for exercising their first amendment rights.
But then again, so what?
2. Trump has so much money extorted from his supporters to fund the ballroom, that he is going to use some of it to construct his "arc" he says, in the same breath as he calls the President of Colombia a "drug dealer." He has moved the European fleet into the Caribbean to threaten Venezuela and Colombia, without Congressional authority, as he casually kills people in fishing boats.
But then again, so what?
3. Somerby keeps quoting Professor Knox about Troy needing to oppose Achaean force with their own greater force, or perish. Meanwhile other scholars of ancient Rome say that the downfall of the Republic was that foreign campaigns brought too much wealth into Rome, creating billionaire oligarchs similar to our own times. Those guys like to use their money to rule others, threatening our own democracy in the process.
But then again, so what?
This may be sarcasm, but Somerby never signals his intent in his essays. In a stand-up show, his tone of voice would make it clear he was being sarcastic. On the page, literal messages are possible unless ruled out by an explicit statement. Somerby has been so nihilistic that it is possible he no longer cares when happens to our nation. If so, I suggest he seek counseling. Meanwhile, the rest of us care and would benefit more from a serious discussion of what we can do about Trump and his odd behavior.
Anonymouse 12:48pm, Bob has suggested that Trump’s treatment of the East Wing is commiserate to his crapping on America in the No Kings video. Actually, he’s going beyond that. He’s suggesting that the ballroom may be one big awful f-u to all of us.
DeleteI understand that you must fit Bob’s daily remarks within your pre-contrived harangue, but you go way too far with your shoehorning.
More odd word usage today. Commiserate is probably supposed to be commensurate. Why doesn't Russia hire trolls who are competent in English? I am flattered that Cecelia borrowed the word "shoehorning" that I suggested last week.
DeleteWhat would it matter when a comment is written? What matters is what it says. I tried to explain that it is more work to write an essay last night and then try to revise it to fit whatever Somerby has said this morning, but she no doubt doesn't write well and doesn't understand what she is talking about.
Somerby would say that is not her fault -- pity the child who never learned how to write. She does have the same first amendment right as all of us, but she isn't very persuasive with this implausible complaint that doesn't even seem worth any effort. If I write all my Christmas Cards in July, then mail then in December, does it matter to the recipients?
I give Cecelia's current nonsense an A+ for absurdity.
Anonymouse 2:30pm, I give you an A+++ for your honesty in defending your habit of writing your screeds the night before the actual posting of the TDH blog that you’re critiquing. About time.
DeleteI said that I do not write anything the night before because it is more work than doing it the next morning, after Somerby has posted. And no, I am not being dishonest when I contradict your theory. I have told you several times now that I do not write as slowly as you do, being a native speaker of English and an educated person, so I do not need to spend the night before writing anything, nor do I reuse my words the way Somerby obviously does.
DeleteI am tired of you, so I am going to do something more useful with my time now.
Cecelia, that lost soul troll of a man pretending to be a woman, has zero credibility, there is no need to respond to him, nothing is accomplished. Just label him a troll and move on.
DeleteYou have to wait for Bob to reveal what the "Right-wing Grievance of the Day" is, before you can respond to it.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:51pm, yes, you did admit that you’ve learned that preemptively writing a post in response to a blog yet to be written is more work than responding to an actual blog post…. Thank you very much for admitting that— to the extent that this finding has actually changed your pattern. Now you’ve launched into calling me a Russian agent, just as you do Bob (and he writes well). You are an organized coven operative, but I don’t attribute your lot to the Russians or any other foreign government. You’re garden variety liberal women, on someone’s payroll, and if you weren’t here, you’d be doing screeching videos on X.
DeleteFuck off
DeleteCecelia,
DeleteThe whole Epstein Files thing never made sense. There was always something fishy about Republicans having a problem with child rape.
Trump knows that no one is going to build him a monument after he is gone (either from office or life), so he wants to build one for himself. This reflects his other musings about whether he will go to heaven (spoiler: not a chance). He is thinking about his legacy and concluded that he will have to build his own monuments because too many people hate him to do it as a people's homage. The consequences are catching up to him and soon he will be the new Herbert Hoover. It is unavoidable because he has ruined the economy. I believe his desperation is pushing him forward with these physical markers of his time on earth.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me wonder if his grasping for more wealth is for his family, to keep them comfortable after he is gone. It may be that someone has had a serious talk with him about his realistic prognosis and focused him on wealth-management Trump-style. He won't be the first megalomaniac whose fear of death plagued a society.
The good news is that maybe this means he won't be around much longer, either in assisted living or buried next to Ivana at his New Jersey golf course.
It's going to take people on the Left and Independents to be disappointed in Trump ruining the economy, because the Right doesn't care enough about the economy to know how it works.
DeleteDoctors are giving Trump maybe 18 months.
DeleteIt would be better if Trump survives his term, because otherwise Vance could establish a foothold, whereas Vance just running as a candidate has no hope, he has no charisma, even for most Republicans.
JD Vance will be a great President.
DeleteToo late.
DeleteHe already got eaten by Haitian immigrants.
(Not really, but you get the point.)
Yeah, it's a good guess that Trump is not long for this world. He's in congestive heart failure, and with his lifestyle it won't be long.
DeleteIt's a shame, because I do want him to live long enough to understand how despised and reviled he is. Furthermore, Vance as a dictator will be even worse.
What makes you think Republican voters won't re-elect Trump after he's dead?
Delete"If the leading authority can be trusted, medical science has even identified the gene or genes by which this journalistically undiscussable state of affairs can be passed from parent to child."
ReplyDeleteWikipedia is not medical science. There are, to date, no psychopathy genes. Just genes occurring in all people that regulate the reward system.None of Trump's siblings is a psychopath/sociopath. If heritability is 50-80% as some people suggest, you would expect more than 1 out of 5 psychopaths (including Trump) out of 5 siblings. If nurture is resonsible, you would expect more of his sibs to turn out badly because they all had the same parents. If you want to claim that Trump's mother's illness was causal, why didn't it affect his younger brother, Robert?
Somerby wants to use these factors to excuse Trump, to paint him as blameless because he didn't choose his genetics or parents. But the problem with that is that most people in similar situations do not become psychopaths but learn to cope and show resiliency to become functioning adults. Trump fucked up his own life. He didn't have to be the kind of person he is. He grew up in the age of therapy so he could have gotten help to be a better person. So why does Somerby work so hard to shift blame off Trump's shoulders and onto everyone else? Why does Somerby lack empathy for Trump's many victims?
My theory is that he identifies with Trump and by exonerating Trump, he excuses himself for his own similar mistakes in his life.
Well, Somerby does vacillate between "bred in the bone" and "trauma".
DeleteThere is speculation that the heritability of ASPD is perhaps as high as 30%, but that is an inference made from studies with questionable methodology and low re test reliability.
That aside, your theory is likely on the nose.
Your theory blows.
DeleteYour theory blows - Part II
DeleteSomerby clearly disapproves of Trump; that's why he constantly asks whether ‘something is wrong' with Trump and why he injects terms like 'sociopath' and 'mental disorder', and 'increasingly erratic behavior' into discussions of Trump.
So to posit that Somerby 'identifies' with Trump is the wrongest kind of psychobabble.
But you also say Somerby wants to hold Trump ‘blameless’. And it’s true Bob constantly suggests that Trump qualifies as having some psychological affliction such as Anti-Social Personality Disorder and that such terminology tends to undercut the notion of personal responsibility.
But is it fair to conclude Somerby wants to hold Trump ‘blameless’, i.e. that he should not be punished for any crimes he’s committed, or not voted out of office for his tyranny?
It’s more reasonable to say we don’t know exactly why Bob insists we view Trump through a psychological lens than to suppose Bob to be excusing the behavior of a man whose moral soundness he so often calls into question.
Will this distract us from the Epstein Files?
DeleteYou have to have read Somerby during the impeachments and his criminal fraud trial. Somerby was opposed to impeaching and trying Trump.
DeleteCalling someone’s psychological soundness into question is not the same as calling them morally unsound. Somerby doesn’t discuss Trump’s morality.
Look up “Identification (psychology)” in Wikipedia.
DeleteSomerby and Trump are both the same age. They are both narcissists. Trump lost his mother’s attention at an early age while Somerby’s father died when Somerby was young. Somerby resented his mother and resisted her efforts to control him. Trump felt abandoned by a mother who ignored him and did not protect him from his harsh father. Somerby and Trump both find young teen girls appealing. Somerby is hostile to the #metoo movement that has targeted Trump (and many others) for mistreatment of women. Somerby and Trump are both racist throwbacks being criticised for attacks on racial equity as wokeness. Trump’s cognitive decline may trigger fears of similar decline in Somerby (as Biden’s decline may have added fuel to Somerny’s attack on Biden’s age). Somerby lives alone without pets, as Trump does.
Somerby may recognize the similarities, feel sympathy arising from the similarities and defend Trump as a surrogate for his own flaws. This process is subconscious, not anything he would be aware of without seeing an analyst.
Also both are draft dodgers. Both dislike elitists (i.e. people who can read). Both are name droppers. Both think white supremacists & Others are good people. Both hate Hillary and Kamala. Somerby displays the same capacity to hold a grudge as Trump (e.g. his vendetta against Rachel Maddow). Somerby and Trump both may have felt overwhelmed in college, especially surrounded by students not struggling. Somerby has a chip on his shoulder much like Trump’s early rejection by NYC society. Somerby has a clear grudge against journalists, esp black, female or gay ones.
Delete5:38 - “Somerby was opposed to impeaching and trying Trump.”
DeleteSomerby, 1/21/21 - “Was it a bad idea to impeach Trump again? Not necessarily, no. Once you let a crackpot like Trump into the White House, there may be no sane wsy out.”
This is a dishonest quote given Somerby’s ongoing opposition to the impeachment hearings.
Delete7:35 - Or perhaps it is you who is being dishonest in asserting without support that Somerby opposed impeachment.
Delete"You have to have read Somerby during the impeachments and his criminal fraud trial. Somerby was opposed to impeaching and trying Trump."
DeleteBob very much opposed the endless amount of attention devoted to the possibility of Trump being tried. Rightly, he thought it extremely repetitive and that it crowded out other issues.
That is not the same as being opposed to Trump being tried.
Agree or don’t.
DeleteDG,
DeleteI get that Bob is smart enough to know there may be 10 Republicans who believe treason against the United States is wrong, but there is no way in hell that all 10 are sitting U.S. Senators, but where is the quote from Bob that he supports Trump being impeached for treason?
Bob is so anti-Trump, he hasn't mentioned the Epstein Files on his blog in months.
DeleteSomerby is as anti-Trump as the mainstream, corporate media.
DeleteI’m still waiting for David and Cecelia to come to their senses and defend the poop video.
ReplyDeleteDavid and I have verified nyms. Unlike you, we put our names on what we defend or do not defend.
DeleteThere is no such thing as a "verified" nym. On blogspot, you can type in any fake data you want, including to get a consistent nym (that shows up in green). No one checks to see if what you've written is true or not or whether you are a real person, a Russian operative, a MAGA troll, or even working for the White House, as those recent Bluesky trolls were.
DeleteSelby had a verified nym but that didn't stop you trolls from calling him "Slabby". Why would anyone do you the courtesy of adopting a nym when you behave like that?
DeleteAre you arguing that verified nyms are useless because people can sign up for a new one every day? They can, but how likely is that, especially within the cohort of people who have bothered to post under a consistent name? That’s an especially useless take in the context of an anonymouse referencing posts where David and I were both specifically asked if we supported the dump vid.
DeleteAnonymouse 1:46pm, I’ve been called a plethora of takeoffs on Cecelia and you’ve manage to glean that the reference was to me.
DeleteSo, you are saying that there is no benefit to making it easier for you trolls to identify who you are talking to, so why should we do it?
DeleteCecelia, if you don't want to respond to a commenter, just ignore them. Why are you making everything about you?
DeleteAnonymouse 2:06pm, I’m responding to anonymices who have made remarks about me.
DeleteSure you are...
DeleteAnonymouse 2:05pm, no, I’m saying that you shouldn’t act as though obvious plays upon verified nyms are in the same league as addressing David or me as “Tyrone”.
DeleteWhat's wrong with the name Tyrone?
DeleteAnonymouse 2:24pm, more irony— the only way you can accuse me (or David) of any sort of posturing is because we use a consistent verified nyms. .
DeleteAnonymouse 2:32pm, it’s not a discernible play on Ceeeceelia ..,
DeleteYou have gotten people to waste their time with you for over 1/2 hour now, without saying anything important or relevant to any real topic. Go away.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:39pm, I responded to a post that referenced David and me in particular. That’s what generated the response that you wouldn’t know how either of us felt about the crap video if we were anonymouse. Yeah… you don’t like to see it… but there’s the answer to your relevance question.
DeleteFuck off
DeleteNeither David nor Cecelia are who they pretend to be here, nothing they say is genuine, which is why they have no credibility here.
DeleteBest to just ignore these sad people, sure, they are desperate for attention, but responding to them only enables their worst traits.
I would have never known ethic cleansing of entire populations was a tenet of the Jewish faith, if the TDH poster who calls themselves "David in Cal" hadn't informed me.
DeleteThese comments ignore the point of the original message. David and Cecelia are still withholding their support for President Trump’s poop video. He needs them, and they’re nowhere to be found.
Delete3:25, it looks like you’ve never read the Book of Joshua.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:29pm, or Tucker Carlson.
DeleteReally, there doesn’t need to be a lot of discussion: Anons are chicken. That’s really all there is to it.
DeleteSays someone named DG.
Delete7:34 - Yes, you can hit and hide. I can’t.
DeleteDavid and Cecelia still refuse to endorse the poop video.
DeleteWhat do you expect from a couple of fascist shitheads?
DeleteYou ass, you hide behind DG.
DeleteDG calls someone else chicken, then claims he was hit.
DeleteBut I didn’t hide.
DeleteDG is your hiding place. It isn’t a name.
DeleteWrong. You’ve read me over and over; you know who I am. I don’t know you at all. You’re afraid to stand behind what you say.
DeleteHow would we know which Somerby-whisperer is which, without them putting a fake name to their posts?
DeleteExactly! In your mind you’ve formed an impression of me as a Somerby-whisperer. My impression of you, however, is of a vapor that evaporates.
DeletePeople more intelligent than DG have been using the time stamps to identify different commenters. This isn't rocket science.
DeleteAnd how would we know whether 6:16 and 1:31 are two people or one? You have to be more intelligent than me to figure that out.
DeleteSo I stand by what I say: Anons are chicken. You know I’m saying it, and you’ll make your snarky comments, but then you’ll go hide among all the other Anons.
DeleteLittle boys are afraid of being called chicken, not adults.
DeleteIf you’re not afraid, then why do you hide? I’m sincerely interested.
DeleteBecause Trump. is threatening to shoot liberal dissenters as domestic terrorists. Why do you call yourself Dogface george instead of your real name?
DeleteNo one here is afraid of you DG.
Delete6:41 - So you’re afraid of Trump and hide by calling yourself “Anonymous.” Hardly a stirring profile in courage.
DeleteAnd you want my name? Here’s my Cal bar number: 99194. You can find my name and contact info by googling calbar, if you really want to.
DeleteI don’t believe you are an attorney.
DeleteSince you’re just some rando Anon, who really cares what you do or don’t believe?
DeletePsychopathy is a form of neurodiversity. So is autism. So is the idea that there are male brains and female brains, and the idea that some people are extraverted and others are introverted. Genetics and neural functioning are not destiny. Trump is not an imbecile and he is responsible for his life choices, as are Republican voters.
ReplyDeleteIs being born stupid a form of neurodiversity? It seems like it must be.
DeleteThere are differences between male and female brains, but they are of little consequence; in essence there is no significant difference between male and female brains, nor their capabilities.
DeleteAs more research is done, less and less credence is given towards heritability, we primarily are the sum of our experiences.
Saying Trump is solely responsible (which people may not be saying) is inaccurate and ignores root causes, which is unwise since it can impede societal progress.
Genetics and neural functioning are irrelevant. Human beings have free will.
Delete"President Donald Trump’s plans to construct a 90,000 square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing once stood appear to be ever-changing and done in “a hurried process,” with one design document showing the project to have a staircase leading to nowhere, according to a report Saturday from the New York Times.
ReplyDelete“Architects and historians say that it is not unusual for designs to change during a project like this, but that Mr. Trump has not followed the typical process for White House renovations, which normally involve reviews by organizations like the National Capital Planning Commission,” the report reads. “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process.”
Trump revealed more details on the plans for the proposed ballroom this week, including new design renderings of the facility’s exterior. The Times, however, noted in its report that there were “some mistakes” in at least one of the design renderings, including a staircase “leading up to no clear landing,” and “colliding windows.”
The reporter is kind to suggest that this was a rushed process. I can imagine Trump telling the architects "I want a staircase here (points to the blueprint) and the architect saying "but sir, there's no landing there," and Trump responding "You work out the technical details," and the architects saying "yes sir, whatever you want sir."
These projects are likely rooted in Trump's angry reaction to his unpopularity, and as a way for those who are really running things (Stephen Miller, Russell Vought) to keep Trump distracted.
DeleteMaybe it's all just AI slop.
DeleteThis is the fascist idiocracy you get when you have to eat the demented old man's balls to keep him from doubling and tripling down on the stupid. Next time pick a better dear leader Maggots.
DeleteThings you can do to resist Trump and save the country:
ReplyDeletehttps://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions
A mismatch
ReplyDelete-- Trump and his Administration spent months building support among Arab and Muslim nations. They designed a complex peace plan. If the plan works, it could end 75 years of warfare. If the plan fails, many thousands will die, including many innocent Palestinian women and children
-- Trump spent 30 seconds re-posting a crude cartoon. There are no consequences to this cartoon.
So, how has Bob allocated his time and column space? Thirty seconds for Middle East peace and many days for that cartoon.
Trump and his Administration (Jared Kushner, Steve Witmer) spent months bribing Arab and Muslim nations. FTFY
DeleteTry circulating a similar meme of Trump dropping feces on those Arab countries and see whether there are any consequences to it.
Note that there is not Middle East peace yet. We all hope it will become that, but right now there is a fragile cease fire that is being violated by both sides, something that has occurred many times before.
Why does that "cartoon" matter? Because Trump is explicitly denigrating, offending, his own constituents, the people he was elected to serve. It is a big F.U. to those who expressed their displeasure with the current direction of our country. Trump is supposed to be responsive to the needs of the people, not give us all the middle finger.
This attitude on Trump's part is worrisome and surely worth more than 30 seconds discussion.
David in al,
DeleteIn your opinion, should the public have any say on how the country is being run?
If so, what's with the voter suppression?
So peacenick David in Cal is all in on good press for President Peace, but wants no bad press on the unhinged idiot who can't blow up enough shit. Fuck you fascist David. You're just phoning it in now you worthless creep. PS - did you know Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves? They are so obvious in their criming aren't they?
Delete"If the plan fails, many thousands will die, including many innocent Palestinian women and children"
DeleteBut who's going to make them die, David? I'm reliably assured that Israel is scrpulously careful to avoid civilian fatalities.
"There are no consequences to this cartoon."
DeleteOnly if you have a coarsened soul.
"Thirty seconds for Middle East peace and many days for that cartoon."
DeleteThe explanation is simple: the US consistently tries to bring about peace in the Middle East. The Trump admin's efforts don't stand out in any way from prior efforts going back to the Camp David Accords of the 1970's. It's what we expect an administration to do.
Whereas the president being pleased to depict himself as dropping shit on non-violent protesters is indicative of a mind growing morally unmoored. It is not what we expect a president to do.
Quaker - I acknowledge your sarcasm, but in fact it is demonstrably true that Israel takes extraordinary efforts to protect Palestinian civilians. Extraordinary as compared with other wars. E.g., Israel often warns civilians before they attack in some area. Of course these warnings help Israel's enemies deal with the attack via defense or counter-attack. AFAIK there has never been another war with this kind of "courtesy". While Israel protects Palestinian civilians to the degree possible in a war, Hamas goes out of its way to attack Israeli civilians, as you know, Quaker.
DeleteIt's also the case that Hamas apparently conducts their efforts in a way that will maximize civilian Palestinian casualties, e.g., putting military installations in hospitals.
Punch a fascist in the dick David. That's right, punch your dick you fascist prick.
Delete"Whereas the president being pleased to depict himself as dropping shit on non-violent protesters ... is not what we expect a president to do."
DeleteThat expectation is why it works so well as trolling. That trolling has helped Trump build a multiracial working class coalition that will be dominating politics for a really long time.
2:46,
DeleteEveryone expects Republican voters to not care that Trump is a failed businessman, child rapist, and his shutting down of programs that deter the economic elites from taking full advantage of the middle class, as long as he gives them the bigotry they crave.
It's why everyone knew the Epstein Files he appears in on almost every page, would be ignored by people who cosplayed that they cared about children before the election.
Who expected Republican voters to be upset by Trump tripling the federal deficit and giving huge tax breaks to billionaires? Bob Somerby?
Delete"That trolling has helped Trump build a multiracial working class coalition that will be dominating politics for a really long time."
DeleteYes, all the way until the 2026 midterms.
That Trump is horrible and hypocritical is a good reason for his opponents to recognize and not feed into his trolling. But at this point it's pretty obvious they are not smart enough to do either.
DeleteAre we pretending the corporate media, who like Republican tax breaks, are Trump opponents?
DeleteWhat good is a multi-racial working class coalition, if you can get them to accept huge tax cuts for billionaires, in exchange for over the top bigotry?
DeleteThey are good for votes and winning elections. Do you pretend to be stupid or is it real?
DeleteThey are good for proving the poster who says "all Republican voters are bigots" is 100% correct.
DeleteYou forgot to answer my question, David. You said innocent Palestinian women and children could die. I asked *how*.
DeleteThis is interesting:
ReplyDeletehttps://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/10/crazy-racist-billionaire-illegally.html
It says that the $130 million donated by Timothy Mellon would fund the military for less than 1 day, about $100 per soldier. It also describes the other very large donations made by Mellon to Trump's PACs and RFK Jr.
Fortune says that Mellon was fascinated by the disappearance of Amelia Earhardt and funded an expedition to investigate. He was unsatisfied with the expedition and developed his own theories about what happened to her, nutcase ideas that were the source of lawsuits. That may be why Trump inexplicably released all of the govt documents about her death. That seems likely to have been a quid pro quo to maintain his financial relationship with Mellon.
Steve M. says:
"Rich head cases like Timothy Mellon run our country. We're required to defer to their whims. And now that we have a president who's effectively dismantled the non-punitive parts of the government and created a culture of government by large donation, the country will be run according to rich lunatics' whims more than ever before."
Can you smell it?, that's the smell of fascism baby. And the stank is only gonna get worse.
DeletePublicly-funded only election campaigns, FTW!
DeleteIf a billionaire cuts the check it must be for a good cause.
Delete4:42 Ask Chengpang Zhou.
DeleteAre people really criticizing Mellon for a gift to the government of ONLY $230,000,000.00?
Delete$130 million. It would not plausibly cover military payroll so what is it for?
DeleteWhat this tells me is that the rich are under-taxed.
DeleteThere is a difference between income and wealth. The US has a federal income tax but no wealth tax. DG apparently would favor a wealth tax.
DeleteActually, a wealth tax would be a great idea!
DeleteAnd a very high inheritance tax.
DeleteIf we wanted a merit-based society, we'd have a 100% Estate Tax rate.
DeleteSpeaking of fascist melon heads, I give you David in Cal.
Delete"DG apparently would favor a wealth tax." Why would you assume that? When Buffet said that his secretary pays more taxes than he does, he was referring to her rate of taxation. The uber wealthy have a lower rate of taxation than their lower tiered fellow citizens by virtue of the fact that most of their income is via capital gains. This discrepancy in tax rates has more than anything contributed to wealth inequality in the US, as well as contributing over the decades since Reagan to the burgeoning national debt.
DeleteOf course the over compensation of CEOs and other management positions has also played a substantial role in wealth inequality in this country.
DeleteTrump and his enabling congress showed their cards by increasing the amount of untaxable estate holdings and lowering taxes on the wealthiest and corporations. This is the exact opposite of what needed to be done from the revenue side to help address the national debt issue.as well as wealth inequality..
DeleteHuge tax breaks for billionaires, while gutting programs that help the working class is no match for Trump's bigotry.
DeleteProve me wrong.
Bob, you quoted Goldberg saying "the White House communications director Steven Cheung gleefully wrote that the president was defecating “all over these No Kings losers!”
ReplyDeleteJournalists shouldn't sanewash these people. Steven Cheung literally wrote "Shitting all over these no King losers." He didn't say "defecating". The public needs to know what these people really say.
For want of a blogger who muses on the media.
DeleteQuotation marks, how do they work?
DeleteDrug addicts are trading with the enemy. Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel are failing to prosecute them and should be removed from office.
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With Pornhub Johnson abdicating Congress' role in setting tariffs, and with the USSC reviewing the Constitutionality of the Presidents tariffs based on a National Emergency, the Orange Retard raised Canadian tariffs on the Constitutional premise that he does not like the anti tariff ads the Provence of Ontario is running - splicing but accurately conveying the words of St. Ronnie of Raygun. What a sick and twisted little country we let our country become instead of standing up to the drooling fool. It's reckless. It's idiocracy.
ReplyDeleteSomeone will need to establish a go fund me style charitable organization with the aim to restore the east wing and tear down the monstrosity trump is creating..
ReplyDeleteWe are proud of our President
ReplyDeleteCambodia and Thailand on Sunday signed an expansion of a ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker over the summer to end their border conflict. Trump threatened higher tariffs against both countries to push them into agreeing to end the fighting. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced in the conflict.
Thank you for tripling the federal deficit, ignoring inflation, and not releasing the Epstein Files because it exposes the Republican Party as a global pedophile ring.
DeleteWe knew you would come through for us, Mr. President.
In return the Cambodians and Thais have vowed to do their part to lower grocery prices.
DeleteEvery fucking day, top of the news:
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So proud of our president (TM), bringing “peace” around the world, while shitting on anyone who criticizes him here at home.
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DeleteTrump threatened higher tariffs against both countries....
DeleteEven though two separate courts have unanimously ruled that King Orange Chickenshit is illegally imposing his insane tariffs in violation of our Constitution. I wonder why we call him a fascist.
The courts put a hold on those tariff rulings. So Trump is not failing to obey a court ruling. The Supreme Court will rule on the issue this term. Experts predict Trump is likely to prevail.
DeleteIt’s a novel idea that the President gets to raise taxes willy nilly. That is the sole prerogative of the legislature, at least according to the now defunct constitution.
DeleteDickhead in Cal: Do you know what King Orange Chickenshit's lawyers' argument will be to the corrupt SC6? Right or wrong, the court cannot rule that the tariffs are illegal now that the government has collected 100s of billions of dollars in tariffs because there is no fucking way the government is going to give the money back, you motherfucking asshold fascist freak. Go crawl back up trump's fat criminal ass.
Delete@11:32 - First of all, the Court can indeed order the US to refund tariffs already collected that the Court says were incorrect. It's like any tax. Suppose a Court ruled that income tax you paid was unconstitutional. Of course, they'd have to refund your money.
DeleteTwo other impacts would be even more important. All the tariff deals Trump negotiated would be undone. And, Trump could no longer negotiate tariffs without having Congressional approval every step of the way.
Dickhead, first of all, I am telling what King Orange Chickenshit will argue to the corrupt SC6. Second, it will be near impossible for the government to give the money back a lot of which has been passed thru many and varied hands including fucking consumers paying for fucking cars and groceries, you fucking fascist freakazoid. Third, you monumental ignorant asshole cult freak, King Orange Chickenshit has negotiated exactly ZERO deals, you fucking fascist freak. Let me know when the invisible Congress ratifies any of this phantom deals, fuckface. Fourth, my original point is that King Orange Chickenshit has been told by two separate courts unanimously that what he is doing is illegal and in violation of our Constitution. Yes, the courts had to did put a hold on their rulings pending review by the corrupt SC6 and King Orange Chickenshit drove a fucking truck thru their loophole. Go fuck yourself, fascist freak.
DeleteTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that if the Supreme Court strikes down President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government would be forced to refund about half the tariffs collected in 2025, causing economic disruption. He indicated this would be a "potential disaster" for the economy, which he predicts is poised for growth starting in the fourth quarter of 2025. The administration is seeking an expedited Supreme Court review to avoid this outcome and is also exploring alternative legal authorities for imposing tariffs as a backup plan. AI Overview
DeleteGo fuck yourself, Dickhead in Cal.
Trump can use the money from Mellon to refund the tariffs. A president who was not a loose cannon might delay implementation of the tariffs until the Supreme Court has weighed in, but we all see that Trump is a tear things down first and ask questions later kind of guy.
Delete@11:58 -,you’re confusing legal impact with economic impact. If Trump’s tariffs are declared invalid, the US will refund tariff money to companies who paid that money. But the US consumer will not get any refund, even though s/he bore the economic cost.
DeleteSo the obvious solution is for Trump to rescind all tariffs ASAP. Tariffs caused the Great Depression. Do we really need another economic disaster on top of the damage done by the pandemic. Biden got us out of that difficulty but now Trump has created a new problem for everyone who is not a billionaire.
DeleteDickhead in Cal, the tariffs are unconstitutional and illegal. We have already established that. And if you think Sec Bessent is going to refund the illegal tariffs collected, you're even dumber then I thought.
Delete"After the ceremony, Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow refused to call it a peace agreement - sticking instead to their own preferred title "Joint Declaration by the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia on the outcomes of their meeting in Kuala Lumpur", which doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Delete"I would call it a pathway to peace," was as far as Sihasak was willing to go - a far cry from Trump's expansive claims for it.
"It's an extremely slight agreement for the president of the United States to be presiding over," posted Sebastian Strangio, author and South East Asia Editor for the Diplomat magazine."
It's a pattern with Trump--show up after the work is done and take a bow.
DeleteThe Epstein Ballroom is the tacky building add-on to the White House.
ReplyDeleteThe Trump ball room is Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's mouth.
If you had told me 15 years ago that the Republican Party would bow and scrape to a pedophile and long-time failed businessman from Queens just because he's a gigantic bigot, I would have said that was completely on-brand for Republicans.
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Republicans are incapable of governing: Day 26
ReplyDeleteDon't mind me musing about the media not being able to identify a Republican voter who isn't a bigot, despite working daily for over a dozen years to do so.
ReplyDeleteMedia members come, and media members go. Through it all, not one of them can identify a Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
ReplyDeleteBill Maher is now pushing right wing talking points on his show. He is asking black guests why there weren't black protesters at the No Kings protests -- a right wing attack on the protests. And he asked Andy Beshear why he vetoed two bills about rights to transgender people. Beshear said they were politically motived and unnecessary. The clear intent of Maher's question was to embarrass him as a Democrat.
ReplyDeleteMaher has always positioned himself as a politically incorrect curmudgeon, but he has drifted more to the right every year and is now just repeating and participating in the right's efforts to undermine Democrats. Do we really need another guy on TV pretending to be a comedian but advancing the right's agenda?
How the hell did dope get legal in red states? Just cause an asshole likes to get high and preach about getting big government off my back does not mean he's not an asshole.
Deletehttps://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/do-we-even-have-a-government-any
ReplyDelete"our government has always been made up of useless fucknuts and dimwitted shitwazzles, but at least it functioned. Congress made a budget, Congress appropriated funds, and Congress spent those funds. but not any more. apparently we now have a king again — only this time he’s really fucking dumb — who appropriates our money, goes ‘mine now,’ and does whatever the fuck he wants with it, as if it were that World Cup trophy he stole from FIFA and pretends he won.
how is that sustainable?
spoiler alert: it’s not sustainable, and Holy Mike Johnson could end the Mad King’s de-facto monarchy in a heartbeat, if he wanted to.
he could gavel the House back into session, and take back its Constitutionally-mandated power to control the purse strings. he could also exercise the House’s power to control tariffs, putting an end to Donny’s incoherent trade war insanity.
he could agree to Democrats’ demand to restore the ACA tax credits, and end the shutdown.
but the limpest dick ever to wield the Speaker’s gavel won’t do any of that shit, because gaveling the House back into session means having to swear in Adelita Grijalva, making her the 218th and deciding ‘yes’ vote for Tom Massie’s discharge petition and forcing the release of the Epstein files — and nothing is more important than making sure that whatever shit Dear Leader was getting up to with his dead pedo bestie never comes to light.
whatever is in those files must be super fucking horrifying.
release the full, unedited Epstein files, you fucking fucks."
Of course that vote will not actually release the files. Pretty sure Pornhub Johnson is too busy masterbating to actually go to work.
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ReplyDeleteDNI Tulsi Gabbard Announces Arrest of Infant-Trafficking Cartel Leader — and Drug Lord Takedown
poverished or vulnerable — to remote locations ..., harvested organs from the mothers post-mortem, and sold the newborns to U.S. couples for as much as 250,000 Mexican pesos (~$14,000).
ODNI’s NCTC provided location tracking, pattern analysis, and inter-agency coordination that enabled Mexican law enforcement to move in for the arrest.
https://patriotpivot.com/2025/10/24/dni-tulsi-gabbard-announces-arrest-of-infant-trafficking-cartel-leader-and-drug-lord-takedown/
Agreed David, you are a horrible fascist asshole.
DeleteHow would we know if any of this was true, since it came from the Trump administration?
Delete"ODNI’s NCTC provided location tracking, pattern analysis, and inter-agency coordination that enabled Mexican law enforcement to move in for the arrest."
DeleteGabbard's role was logistical but credit goes to Mexico. It is nice to see govts cooperating like this to help people. Also good that the staff who do that tracking and pattern analysis for DNI were not fired by DOGE so that they are around to help out with this kind of crime-fighting.
How would we know if any of this was true, since it came from the Trump administration?
DeleteI concur with @1:26. It is modestly reassuring that there are people still working within our government on something other than the enrichment of the Trump family.
Delete@2:55, if you are seriously asking, one way to know would be to compare Gabbard's brag against the news reports in the Mexican press.
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DeleteGot it. I'll learn Spanish so I can double check every WH press release that concerns Mexico.
Good suggestion.
Mark Twain explains the roots of antisemitism
ReplyDeleteA Timeless Note from Mark Twain About the Jewish People, published in the year 1899: “If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?” - Mark Twain
In fact, Twain's essay was cited by Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Kravitz concludes, "The flawed logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate".[5]
DeleteThe Jews view themselves as God's chosen people. This doesn't sit well with the unchosen.
DeleteThe Jews invented monotheism, which became the foundation of the Christian religion (aside from the trinity). Twain's idea that Greeks and Egyptians are gone is silly and was silly even in his time.
DeleteThomas Sowell was asked how the Jews could avoid being hated. He answered, “Fail.”
Delete1:39, it is obvious you are Dickhead in Cal, why are you hiding it.
DeleteWhy the fuck does fascist piece of shit David cut & paste Twain quotes?
DeleteI’m not Dickhead in Cal, but you’re right, I am a dickhead.
DeleteOne of the beauties of considering your tribe superior to others is what? Fill in the blanks.
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On November 27, 2024, Unusual Machines announced that Donald Trump Jr. had joined its advisory board—bringing his name and 331,580 shares valued at roughly $4 million in the company. Less than a year later, the once-obscure Florida-based drone company has landed a multimillion-dollar Pentagon contract —its largest deal yet with the U.S. military—and its stock is soaring.
https://techstartups.com/2025/10/24/trump-jr-backed-drone-company-wins-multimillion-dollar-pentagon-contract/
This is different than the Hunter Biden scandal, because Biden's penis is bigger than Junior's, and Republican men are size queens.
DeleteThem Trumps be draining that swamp real good.
DeleteWhy do libtards drone on and on about the felon and his families corruption? See what I did there, drone on, get it? Greasy fucks.
DeleteDiC will surely have an excuse for this that involves something the Obama family did. We're waiting.
DeleteCNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the pardon and whether it had anything to do with Zhao’s involvement in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture.
ReplyDelete“Which one? Who is that?.... The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”
Trump pretends he doesn't remember raping a 13-year old because she reminded him of his pre-teen daughter, either.
DeleteTrump is always very definitive about things he knows nothing about. But he's never so befuddled as when he's asked about his corrupt pardons.
Delete"...they said what he did is not even a crime?..."
DeleteYou mean the thing he pled guilty to?
When "they said" money laundering is not a crime, the orange Jesus breathed a large sigh of relief.
People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover — all paid for by taxpayers. Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket.
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/akafaceUS/status/1982084917065626068
I will believe it when he writes the check and it doesn't bounce. The only thing Trump knows about charity is how to steal from one. Remind us all: what wing of the White House did Obama tear down? The only silver lining to constructing a large box nearly twice the size of the White House in place of the East Wing is that it will be much cheaper to tear down than it will be to construct. They can sell the debris as memorabilia to the MAGAts. Top dollar.
DeleteTurns out Obama is the maverick, and Trump is the cheap second-hand imitation. Got it.
DeleteTell us again how you admire Presidents who aren't afraid to upset norms. I find that story fascinating.
The Epstein Ballroom is being paid for with bribes.
DeleteTrump will have Bondi write him a check.
Delete"Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket."
DeleteThanks for the accurate info. The cost estimate is $300 million and it's being paid for by these corporations and private donors:
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase
Comcast Corporation
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta Platforms
Micron Technology
Microsoft
NextEra Energy Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American
T-Mobile
Tether America
Union Pacific Railroad
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzmann
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
But otherwise you nailed it.
Was there ever any doubt?
DeleteThe renovations under Obama did take place. Both CNN and Bloomberg News reported in 2010 about a four-year, $376 million White House renovation project beginning during his presidency.
DeleteHowever, many social media posts omitted key context: Congress approved the funding in 2008 following a report by the administration of then-President George W. Bush, and the renovations aimed to upgrade the building's aging infrastructure, according to the news reports.
It's misleading to suggest Obama personally "spent" $370 million on White House renovations, as some posts claimed, as Congress approved the project's funding during Bush's time in office.
Go fuck yourself, Dickhead in Cal.
No government funds will be used for the ballroom without Congressional approval. That’s because no government funds will be used.
DeleteIf it is worth doing, the government should pay for it, Dickhead, you fucking fascist freak.
DeleteSo let's sum up. Dickhead in Cal made a post at 8:29 PM with 3 factual claims, all of which turned out to be false.
DeleteIf he keeps this up, he'll end up being hired by the Trump White House.
This is a win win situation. Trump gets a building dwarfing the White House to put his name on, and a list of companies gets favored status with the White House. No doubt the bookkeeping is on the up and up, as Trump has experience managing charitable donations.
Delete"If you're president, you have to get everybody in a room, you have to be a leader, and the president has to lead. I actually think the president would be blamed. If there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together"
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are incapable of governing: Day 27