SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2025
Or so Michelle Goldberg has said: In yesterday morning's report, we focused on a Truth Social post which appeared, late in the night, on Christmas Eve. In that post, the president said this might be the last "Merry Christmas" our nation's many "sleazebags," all of them Democrats, will be able to enjoy.
It struck us as a somewhat threatening post. We wondered how some disordered person might react to such a post.
As it turned out, that was just one of the many Truth Social posts the president issued on Christmas Eve / Christmas morning. To its credit, NBC News ran a news report about the president's blizzard of posts. Its news report appeared beneath this dual headline:
Trump rings in Christmas Day with a flurry of posts denouncing perceived foes and casting doubt on the 2020 election
The president posted on Truth Social over 100 times overnight, also touting his own economic policies and efforts to end foreign wars.
Say what? According to NBC News, the president had posted more than 100 times on that one sacred night! And he hadn't just been denouncing his foes. He'd also been pushing his favorite lunatic claim—the lunatic claim he never stops making about the 2020 election.
So said NBC News, politely describing a blizzard of posts as a mere late December "flurry."
More than a hundred posts, advancing the same old lunatic claims? Could something be (tragically) wrong with this vastly powerful man?
That strikes us as an obvious question at this point in time. Meanwhile, some news orgs continued to count the president's posts, even after NBC News and several other news orgs gave up in exhaustion.
Some news orgs kept counting! At news orgs which treated the peculiar spree as an actual news event, the headlines blared as shown:
Mother Jones:
Trump Spent Christmas Posting Over 100 Times on Truth Social
The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump’s Christmas of Chaos: Hosting a Rebranded Kennedy Center Honors, Over 100 Angry Truth Social Posts
The Daily Beast:
Trump Posts Nearly 150 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The New Republic:
Trump Descends Into Paranoid Spiral on Christmas Day: Donald Trump posted more than 150 times—including about Jeffrey Epstein.
Time:
Trump Posted More Than 160 Times on Truth Social in Late-Night Blitz. That’s Not Even His Record
Time said the president had produced more than 160 posts! The Daily Beast and The New Republic stopped counting at 150, then headlined words like "paranoid" and "unhinged" with respect to the president's spree.
(Full disclosure! "Unhinged" is one of the words our journalists use to suggest that something is (tragically) wrong with this man—to suggest that something is wrong without directly saying so, and without asking medical specialists to offer their assessments.)
Is something wrong with President Trump? All along the watchtower, the biggest news orgs in Blue America have agreed that they must never ask.
Regarding this latest explosion of strangeness, The Hollywood Reporter reported this news. The New York Times has not.
As best we can tell, readers of the New York Times haven't been told what the president did. This is part of a "see no illness" approach this newspaper has adopted all along with respect to the apparent madness of this unending behavior.
Is something wrong with President Trump? If so, that's a human tragedy, as is always true in such situations—but the story doesn't end there.
President Trump is the most powerful person in the world! Presumably with that in mind, Michelle Goldberg ends her new column for the New York Times with a sobering comment in her penultimate paragraph:
Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
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Much of the credit for the reinvigoration of the resistance belongs to Trump himself. Had he focused his deportation campaign on criminals or refrained from injuring the economy with haphazard tariffs while mocking concerns about affordability, he would probably have remained a more formidable figure. He’s still a supremely dangerous one, especially as he comes to feel increasingly cornered and aggrieved. After all, by the time you read this, we could well be at war with Venezuela, though no one in the administration has bothered to articulate a plausible rationale for the escalating conflict.
Goldberg believes that President Trump has lost his struggle for control of the nation's politics. She believes that he's on the way down and that he won't be rising back up.
In that, she may be right. But crazy people sometimes do crazy things when their crazy efforts have finally failed—when they "come to feel increasingly cornered and aggrieved."
The president is still "supremely dangerous," Goldberg says—and that could be the case. Meanwhile, her newspaper's news division is still refusing to report this president's extremely strange conduct.
They do the same thing on the Fox News Channel! If he really does shoot a man on Fifth Avenue, will the timorous New York Times report that unfortunate fact?
ReplyDelete"and casting doubt on the 2020 election"
Say, what? Jeez, you idiot-Democrats sure sound idiotic.
There's no "casting doubt"; the election was rigged, everyone knows it. And neither the President nor anyone else ever had any doubts whatsoever about it.
In any case, Democrat squealing is good, very good. Always good. Yes, Democrats, keep reading President's unofficial messages, keep counting them, and keep squealing about them.
And you Mr. President, keep draining the swamp, Sir. Keep draining the swamp, please.
And so everything goes as it should. Perfect. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
As long as child rapists are in charge, the Right are happy.
DeleteI still can't believe the shameless media tried to give them the inflation alibi.
“Everyone” knows no such thing. He lost by 7.8 million votes. 81,283,501 to 74,223,975. Everyone knows THAT.
Delete7.1 million. Or 51.3% to 46.8%
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DeleteYou really don't know, idiot-Democrat, that presidential elections are lost and won by electoral votes? You don't know that in the US of A, which is a federation, national totals are irrelevant? Are you really so ignorant? Yes, I bet you are.
DeleteAnd in any case, idiot-Democrat, the Autopen could've been installed by all 100% of the vote, for all I care.
The election was rigged, and that's the truth. It's the truth and common knowledge.
There is no credible evidence the 2020 election was rigged.
DeleteTrump got stomped, and by a milquetoast old White man.
Trump lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College in 2020.
Trump downplays the popular vote because in 2024 he only received votes amounting to about 30% of the electorate, he got less than 50% of those that voted, most people voted against Trump and for someone else.
Trump denies signing the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, we still do not know who signed it.
It is obvious 1:09 does not believe the 2020 election was rigged, he is just a poor lost soul begging for attention.
The same old lunatic claim.
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DeletePlenty of evidence, retard; massive censorship of social media (including but not limited to the Hunter's laptop story) being the most obvious, irrefutable one. It's not even disputed.
There is no evidence of massive censorship of social media, and none that would implicate a rigging of the election (check out how the far right 5th circuit ruled).
DeleteHunter's laptop was fully covered (it is how you know about it). Comer and the Republicans spent years investigating it and could not find anything corrupt or criminal other than their star witness turning out to be a Russian asset passing misinformation and was then prosecuted.
Republicans are mainly upset about Hunter's laptop because Hunter has a well-sized penis, and Republicans are notorious from suffering from under-sized penises and feeling humiliation about it.
Americans not caring about Hunter's laptop, has nothing to do with election rigging, you are making an embarrassing category error.
Except, you obviously do not believe your own nonsense. You are just a lonely person dying for some attention.
DeleteYawn. Yeah. Like I said, retard: massive censorship of social media (including but not limited to the Hunter's laptop story), and Democrat control of most of the mainstream media, being the most obvious, irrefutable evidence.
But there's plenty more. For example: idiot-Democrats reliably getting triggered and foaming at the mouth when hearing the obvious: the election was rigged.
The same old lunatic trolls too.
DeleteTrump, in his "perfect phone call", begged the Georgia official to " find me the votes". Sounds more like rigGING, than rigGED.
Delete"Sounds more like rigGING"
DeleteLol. It's good, then, that it never happened, retard.
Like I said, just saying "the election was rigged" causes you retards to start spewing uncontrollably all kinds of retarded bullshit.
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Trump was caught red-handed plying Georgia officials with daiquiris and other frozen drinks in exchange for leniency. Teidrich has the receipts.
Deleteanon 3:23 (and numerous posts in the same vein) - your calling people who claim the 2020 election wasn't "rigged" "retards" or "idiots" doesn't help your "argument." Your "proof" seems to be it was rigged by "massive" censorship of social media - you give one example - the Hunter Biden laptop. Why in the world do you think the Hunter Biden laptop story would have affected the election? Seems you are latching on to a total bullshit argument. Alleged democratic control of mainstream media -? Seems there was a tidal wave of pro-Trump favoritism and propaganda in the pervasive right-wing media and in social media. That dems get "triggered" and start "foaming at the mouth" when right-wing nitwits claim with zero evidence that the election was rigged, assuming arguendo that this is true, provides zero evidence that the election was "rigged." Saying that it is "obvious" the election was rigged or that "everyone knows" that it was are smarmy, dishonest rhetorical devices. The fact is that myriads of people, with valid reasons, find Trump distasteful. Guy seems to spend hours a day posting on Truth Social and squealing about Jimmy Kimmel, Rosie O'Donnell etc etc.
DeleteThe Hunter Biden laptop was an October surprise the Trump campaign was going to use to show that Hunter Biden was paid $20 million by shady foreign companies in China and Ukraine and that he funneled that money through shell companies he and his partners had set up. It may have been legal but the Trump campaign seemed to feel like American people would be interested in knowing about it in the weeks before the election.
DeleteTrump is such a cunt he is turning in Ukraine so he can mint his crypto coins off the power from their embattled nuclear power plant. Cunt crook his whole fucking life.
DeleteFlight logs make it clear Trump raped children on planes.
DeleteEveryone knows the Earth is flat. It’s not even disputed. Womp, womp. Trump rapes teeny-boppers. Somerby is a Nazi, paid by Putin, to push Fox propaganda. Merry Christmas!
DeleteOr you could try actually reading what others write here.
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DeleteMassive censorship of social media (including but not limited to the Hunter's laptop story), and Democrat control of most of the mainstream media are the most obvious, irrefutable evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.
But there's plenty more. For example: idiot-Democrats reliably getting triggered, foaming at the mouth, spewing uncontrollably all kinds of retarded bullshit when hearing the obvious: the election was rigged.
Discuss, retards.
I'm not at all surprised that no one can make the case there is a Right-winger who doesn't get all giddy over the size of Hunter Biden's penis.
DeleteSleepers don't like being awakened out of their dreams, when reality is difficult and uncertain. Goldberg wrote, no one in the administration has bothered to articulate a plausible rationale for the escalating conflict [with Venezuela]. Has she not watched all the pressers by Rubio and others discussing how Venezuela is virtually a criminal enterprise, how drugs are destroying America? Trump people hardly ever stop talking about why Maduro's evil needs to be ended.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be nice if the US had no real problems? If everything could be fixed by merely getting that crazy old man to shut up, so we could get back to sleep?
David in Cal knows Trump needs a war before January 20th, so Trump can quadruple the federal deficit in less than a year.
DeleteHopefully, David gets a mention when Trump receives the highest honor from the United States government for doing so.
"drugs are destroying America"
DeletePutin blackmailing Trump is destroying America more than Trump's Adderall addiction.
Putin is blackmailing Trump to gut the country's infrastructure and make life more precarious for it's people. Trump's Adderall addiction is only leading to goofball shit, like his delusional Truth Social postings, and naming things after himself before he dies in the next 6 months.
The rationale offered, drugs, is not supported by facts. Venezuela does not supply fentanyl to the USA. The ingredients for making fentanyl come from China, are assembled in Mexico and transported across the border from there, mostly be American citizens. Cocaine is grown in Colombia and similarly transported to the US across the border, not on ships. The boats shot down by Trump were small and didn't have enough fuel to reach the US, even if it was proven they had any contraband aboard.
DeleteThe attacks on Venezuela are not about drugs but about removing Maduro from leadership and securing more rights to oil for US companies. It is extortion. There is a secondary benefit to displaying military strength to threaten other nations and to allow Hegseth and Trump to feel powerful and play with dangerous toys. I hope the International Court will follow up on this. Trump can be imprisoned after his term ends, following an international trial, as Duterte was.
"Has she not watched all the pressers by Rubio and others discussing how Venezuela is virtually a criminal enterprise"
DeleteThe Trump Administration lies so frequently it's not possible to know, for any given statement they make, to what extent it's true.
"getting that crazy old man to shut up"
If only there was a way.
You think DiC would have to reconsider his world order given this passel of corrupt billionaire overlords fucking all us little ones over to pocket more for themselves. But he actually is that fucking stupid.
DeleteDavid has awakened from a life-long somnambulation and discovered that cocaine comes from South America. It doesn't really kill anyone, but obviously some people can become addicted, much like to alcohol.
DeleteMostly everyone knows this factoid. I am sure that there's quite a bit of corruption in the countries that export cocaine. So the fuck what? How's this worthy of killing random people and pretty much declaring a war?
You have to be a TDS sufferer (someone who thinks that Trump is a functional person) to use that to justify the administration's murderous spree.
Don't expect Somerby to muse about the media ignoring Trump's dementia, unless he can pin it on the Left.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of today's essay is the payoff -- the NY Times and Fox are just the same, says Somerby!
Delete"Meanwhile, her newspaper's news division is still refusing to report this president's extremely strange conduct.
They do the same thing on the Fox News Channel!"
Does anyone really believe that if Trump shoots someone, anywhere, the NY Times will not report it? Trump shot up Nigerians on Christmas Eve and the NY Times reported that. They've reported the war against Venezuelan fishing boats. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't report it if he shot someone on Park Ave. with a handgun or automatic weapon. Meanwhile, I think the Times is correct to consider the president's empty blathering and threats to be posturing of the type he does every day, and thus not news at all. Somerby has never understand what makes a story news or not, It is a shame he didn't get a Journalism/Communications degree instead of pretending to study philosophy at Harvard.
Hey DiChead, how come the bombed villagers of Nigeria know fuckall about ISIS?, you dolt.
Delete"Is something wrong with President Trump? All along the watchtower, the biggest news orgs in Blue America have agreed that they must never ask.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this latest explosion of strangeness, The Hollywood Reporter reported this news. The New York Times has not.
As best we can tell, readers of the New York Times haven't been told what the president did. "
Somerby has apparently decided that all of the media he chooses to follow must report news in the same manner and to the same extent as each other, or...what?
Somerby's expectations are arbitrary and have never been justified by him, to my knowledge. Are we supposed to care whether some Manhattanite who reads only one source, the NYTimes, will not know that Trump is now considered paranoid? To what end?
Bob: Is something wrong with President Trump?
ReplyDeleteEveryone else with a triple digit IQ (yes this skews more towards Dems): Yes, Trump is corrupt and a criminal.
Bob: If we prosecute Trump that might be bad for Republicans.
Agree, Bob focuses on things like backlash and blame, he is not concerned about our problems and how to solve them.
DeleteTrump was being blackmailed by Putin when he was raping children with Epstein on planes. So they decided to wait until a black man had been president for 8 years retired and no black person was running to engage a racist public to vote for him to be president.
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DeleteYou left out that bigotry is the only thing Republican voters care about.
Other than that, you nailed it.
If Trump tries to do something "supremely dangerous" it may trigger a crisis among his cronies. They will have to step in to prevent Armageddon or an atrocity, and then Trump will finally be removed.
ReplyDeleteCalling Trump supremely dangerous only feeds his gradiosity. He is about as dangerous as any other moron in his position would be.
DeleteNew reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-presidential-pardon-process-dda97c15
Are you insinuating that there was some corruption involved in that pardon? INCONCEIVABLE!
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DeleteYawn. Wake me up, Soros-bots, when Don Jr. sells, for a million dollars, a painting he made from his own shit.
I love it. Especially later in the Summer.
DeleteGoogle Hunter Biden's art. It is good, much better than George W. Bush's art. Why shouldn't the son of a president be allowed to make a living? At least Hunter isn't grifting, like the Trump sons are doing. And why isn't there an uproar over the 150 million that Barron is now worth, after his dad helped him invest in crypto?
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DeleteWake me up, retard, when Trump's sons sell a "painting" made of their own shit for a million dollars.
If this is supposed to refer to something Hunter Biden did, it never happened, dimwit.
DeleteStill Clueless
ReplyDeleteElon Musk on Friday slammed Zohran Mamdani for appointing an emergency medical services leader as head of the city’s fire department.
“People will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake,” Musk wrote.
Context: only a small fraction of fire service calls–typically around 4% to 8%--are actual fires; the vast majority (over 60%) are for medical assistance.
Fire Departments are primarily for fighting fires. That's why they're staffed with firemen. You cannot just count types of calls. Fires are much, much more important than medica assistance calls.
ReplyDeleteSouthern Cal discovered what happens when you a have a fire chief who doesn't know how to fight fires.
There have been other non-firefighting commissioners, including appointed by Guiliani. This is nonsense.
DeleteYou are such a dumb fuck. What happens when 100 mph+ winds blow burning embers for miles you fucking clown. Shit burns and there is no manual firefighting anywhere in the world that can stop it.
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DeleteNothing can be done to stop fires. Unless your fire department chief is a negro dyke!
The presence of negro dyke fire chiefs always reminds me that Republican voters elected a pedophile to be President because he's a huge fucking bigot.
DeleteAs does the lack of negro dyke fire chiefs.
I was witness to the Boulder suburbs burning up in 100 mph winds. Semi trucks were blown over. You are truly a dumbass to think that is controllable.
DeleteMaui wow wee 2023, lots of others dumb man. There is a lab where they have a wall of giant ass fans to simulate wind storms and wind borne fires. They are working to get certified building methods and materials to survive these ever more perilous times. Or if an idiot Thumper cultist, don't hire dyke chiefs should fix it. What a bunch of morans.
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DeleteYeah, the 100 mph story is the ticket! Everyone is gonna believe L.A. burning is not any idiot-Democrat's fault! Great!!
Thank you, retarded Democrat political consultants!
Calling someone a dyke doesn't show they are bad at firefighting. I suspect that all of these early morning trolls are dykes too. That's why they never have any facts to support their arguments -- just name-calling, as if readers here are swayed by that stuff. "Oh, she was a dyke! That explains why LA burned down! It is all so much clearer now!"
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DeleteIf you don't know what DEI is, and how it caused parts of L.A. getting burned to the ground, that's only because you are a retard, retard.
"If you don't know what DEI is, and how it caused parts of L.A. getting burned to the ground"
DeleteIt is somewhat surprising how DEI policies, properly implemented, can create wind gusts of up to 100 miles an hour, but MAGA science knows it be true so....
DeleteYes, Soros-bot. Retarded DEI "policies" create demand for your idiotic "100 mph wind" stories.
I lived in CA and I've seen the wind blow over a semi-trailer trying to exit the freeway. The winds come off the desert and are hot, causing fire danger from both the heat, the dryness of vegetation and the winds that spread the fire and make it difficult to fight. In CA, prisoners are routinely used to do fire prevention maintenance as well as fight the fires. We don't revile them as prisoners but appreciate that they help (it is voluntary).
DeleteBefore I moved out of CA, there was a wildfire in which several people died. The staging area for fighting it was across the street from my house, in a regional park with an artificial lake for fishing. That was where the water-dropping helicopters were refueling. It was caused by a family that used fireworks (illegally) at a gender reveal party in adjacent Oak Glen.
No dykes were involved. In my experience, fires were occurring in Southern CA before any dykes were appointed as fire chiefs, and they were difficult to stop back in those days too. Global warming has increased the fire danger, wind strengths, high temperatures, and difficulty fighting such fires. For one thing, you cannot put water-dropping helicopters and fire-fighting planes into the air with 100 mph winds. We were lucky as many people were evacuated as happened in the LA fires.
These fires are no joke to Californians. They are also not a suitable political issue to malign dykes, fire chiefs, firefighters, Newsom, the LA City Council, or any of your other targets. People in LA are still suffering the aftermath and don't find it funny, much less a good way to discuss city planning in a place where everyone has been affected and all have joined together to repair lives and rebuild. Assholes who want to use the fires to assault those who we are grateful to, are not appreciated, regardless of their political perspective. Whoever thought this would be a good issue to troll on doesn't understand LA and doesn't know that this is alienating people not gaining you any votes or support.
'The winds of Jan. 6 and 7 were not a typical Santa Ana event. It was extraordinary, producing gusts of up to 100 mph, “about as extreme, just from wind, that we’re going to see,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Kittell.“'
DeleteWho ya gonna believe, the National Weather Service or an anonymous trumptard?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-17/palisades-and-eaton-fires-fueled-by-a-catastrophic-combination-of-worst-case-scenarios
Before the fire ever began, precautionary policies should have been implemented. As I recall, such policies were recommended by experts, but not implemented. And, a reservoir should not have been left empty for renovation for years. These fuckups were a failure of government at all levels: the Governor, the Mayor, .... In particular, the fire chief should have been screaming about them.
DeleteDavid, this is like saying that there should be precautionary policies against hurricanes. There are. There are many precautionary policies (and even laws) implemented in LA to deal with fires (also earthquakes, tsunami, drought). Your recollection that policies were never implemented is preposterous. There is no way to shake your fist at nature and tell it to stop doing dangerous things. Just as there is no way to prevent large hurricanes in FL and up the East coast.
DeleteYou are also incorrect about reservoirs being left empty and about failures of govt. You guys keep bringing up incorrect info to malign those with the misfortunate to have this latest fire happen on their watch. The expectation that anything could have been done, that wasn't done, is wrong and unfair to those who fought this particular set of fires.
"Seven months before fire swept through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, the city’s water managers were formulating a plan to revive an old reservoir to temporarily boost the area’s limited water capacity. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was exploring the option because the neighborhood’s main reservoir — the Santa Ynez Reservoir — had been taken offline as a result of a torn cover, which officials had begun preparations to repair early in 2024. The repair project was still months away from completion this January when the fire broke out, and with the reservoir empty, firefighters ran short of water in fighting the blaze. Emails released to The New York Times under public records law show that the city had searched for solutions to rectify the monthslong supply shortage but, despite lengthy discussions and preliminary preparations, failed to correct the problem in time."
https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/fire-la-tried-restore-second-reservoir-palisades
David perhaps thinks the city managers should have known that a major windstorm would happen in January (not usually hot or windstorm season) and that they deliberately ignored the threat in order to, what, watch TV and play video games? What does he think they were doing? The troll suggests they were busy being dykes. It is hard for me to see how that could cause reservoir failure.
Delete"Crowley passed the firefighters' exam in 1998, finishing in the top 50 out of more than 16,000 tests taken.[2] She joined the LAFD in 2000. During her time at the department, she has held the roles of firefighter, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief, assistant chief, fire marshal and deputy chief.[5] Crowley became Los Angeles' first female fire marshal in 2016.[2]" Wikipedia
Nothing there about being a dyke, but lots of applicable firefighting experience. The idea that she might be underqualified is laughable.
To become a firefighter in Los Angeles, an applicant must carry the weight of a human body up a ladder and down again. For a woman to do that, she is going to be large and strong. That is going to earn her the title "dyke" no matter what her sexual orientation. Wishing her to be more dainty and hetero is trying to have things both ways, but of course we know that the trolls and conservatives who attack female fire-fighters aren't wishing they were straight but wishing they were gone. The smarter and more capable a woman is, in such a position, the harder men fight to prove them incapable. Of course she is being scapegoated now.
I keep telling you people that David is an asshole. This isn't just the first time or the just the 10th time or the 50th time Dickhead in Cal blames the fires on DEI. That is what the fuck he does. He fucking trolls, and he does not pay fucking attention to the patient rebuttals people keep posting.
DeleteSomeone else lurking might pay attention and benefit from clarifications.
DeleteTiedrich reviews the press. This is what media criticism looks like, not this nonsense Somerby writes:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/wishcasting-our-merry-way-to-hell
When Somerby warns that Trump may do something supremely dangerous, it implies that Somerby does not find the things Trump is already doing dangerous on that level. I find the move toward a surveillance authoritarian state to be supremely dangerous. I find the possibility of being arrested, even in my own home, by ICE agents who don't bother checking citizenship documents, to be supremely dangerous to me and no doubt especially so to immigrants, even legally here with proper papers. I find the cutting of essential services in places like Social Security, Veterans hospitals, weather research, air traffic control to be supremely dangerous given that I fly on airplanes and depend on an efficient government for my well-being daily. Why does Somerby think these current cuts and incompetence are not threatening to us citizens? Does he think the only danger is something like nuclear war? Those fishermen are dead even without that kind of crisis, and they weren't doing anything to deserve it.
ReplyDeleteIt is as if Somerby is saying things will get really bad if no one recognizes that Trump is mentally ill. But things are already really really bad. It bothers me that Somerby doesn't recognize that.
Meanwhile, the worse Trump gets, the more likely he will unable to function well enough to do more damage. He may decompensate to the point where he becomes a vegetable or a childlike dependent on those around him, or a wandering mumbling person with no memory who cannot keep a thought in his head for the time needed to do anything to anyone. At that point, the danger will not be from Trump but from those around him. If the wrong people decide to seize control of the government, we will need the remaining Trump appointees to prevent a coup.
I don't believe Somerby is aware of and worrying about the most likely dangers. Old people become less effective, including at causing harm, as they succumb to dementia. Courts appoint guardians to protect the old person himself and his assets (to keep them from being stolen), not to protect the world from the harm caused by senile grandpas. But Stephen Miller is a danger. Pete Hegseth is a danger. Kristi Noem is a danger. Because these people are not senile but are definitely mentally deranged, and young enough to act upon their mental problems. And Somerby never mentions their names. That seems odd to me. If you're going to be paranoid, at least pick the right enemies to worry about.
Who would cut FEMA in the face of worsening climate-related natural disasters in our country? Maybe this is the supremely dangerous thing Somerby thinks Trump is doing? It sure seems like that to those of us who live in places prone to disaster, such as Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteTrump couldn't find any pretty 20-year-old hookers in Manhattan or Southern Florida. There simply were not any around. So he had to join Epstein's rape ring where they fly around with 20-year-olds on different types of planes before raping them. But now, we have the flight logs and they have been caught raping.
ReplyDeleteHow would using a hooker be more legal than creating a party girl from scratch?
DeleteYou are perhaps implying that the accusations against Trump are untrue because they seem unlikely. The victims gave testimony against Epstein, Trump, Maxwell and others. The flight logs corroborate details of their testimony. They don't prove rape alone.
Suggesting that Epstein or Trump could have used a street hooker is like suggesting that Melania would buy a purse at Walmart (in their view).