FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026
An age of unusual statements: Stating the obvious, Blue American media are never going to report or discuss the possible medical state of the sitting American president. In that sense, his possible medical state qualifies as the prevailing threat to the world our own Blue Silo has chosen.
That said, the sitting president really went off last night. This Truth Social post strikes us as a potentially disturbing manifestation from someone who might possibly seem to need help:
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
There are very few stone-cold pacifists within the American population. That said, declaring it an honor to be killing all the scumbags strikes us as a potentially dangerous sign.
For David Gilmour's report at Mediaite, you can just click here.
That said, the thunder has been general over the nation of late. Yesterday afternoon, Greg Owens dropped this account of a recent speech in the 51st state. His report appeared beneath this dual headline:
Rachel Maddow drags Trump’s poor health in blistering speech
The MS NOW host’s colorful tour of the president’s rotting body had jaws dropping in Canada.
Within that report, you can click ahead to videotape of that colorful tour.
In his report, Owens offers this account of what Maddow said. This also strikes us as possibly unwise and unhealthy:
“I reject the inevitability and the supposed indefinite rule of Trump and Trumpism,” she told the Canadians, before pausing for effect and adding, “not because I believe the cheeseburgers will ultimately win.” That got a laugh from the knowing Canucks.
Then, like an attending physician leading her medical students on rounds, Maddow took her audience on a grand tour of the president’s decaying body.
“I mean, it’s not just that he’s the oldest person elected to the presidency, and he is obese, and he has gigantically swollen ankles, and he drags his leg, and he now puts more makeup on his hands than even what he puts on his face, and he puts so much on his face on a good day that he looks like he’s been well-embalmed,” she shared to jaw drops and whoops.
“He also—on top of that!—has a gnarly new bright red, lumpy neck rash on the right side of his neck, which makes it look like he was attacked by a particularly lusty sea lamprey that someone ripped off of him too fast after it had sunk hundreds of its gritty, dull, dirty little teeth into to the wrinkly fleshy plane just below his right ear.”
The crowd roared their approval of the rotting diagnosis, but there was a coda.
“It really is,” Maddow finished, over exhausted laughs. “It’s bloody bright red and crumbly. And it has holes in it. It looks like clumpy spaghetti sauce burned onto a baking sheet.”
“It’s not good!” she added brightly.
That strikes us as possibly counterproductive, not that there's any way out.
Adding a bit of comic relief, Emily Compagno was drifting back toward The Hotsy Totsy on last evening's Gutfeld! program.
As will sometimes happen, the gang got tired of all the "hard news" stuff, so they devoted a segment to a news report about a guy who didn't want to pay for the sixteen lap dances he had received at a strip club.
Here's the "news issue" the savants tackled:
Why shouldn't a gentleman be required to pay for the service in question before he receives it?
That was the news debate. Perhaps a bit surprisingly, Compagno leaped in with this:
GUTFELD (3/12/26): I don't know what I'm saying, Emily. But you're a lawyer.
COMPAGNO: Everybody should just pay before— Like, I don't understand why—
GUTFELD: Pay ahead of time?
COMPAGNO: Yes!! You can't do anything nowadays without paying first!
I don't know why they're not paying first, A. And B, all you have to do is buy a chick a drink at any club, or any bar, and she'll give him a lap dance for free.
So like, I feel like it's outdated.
Emphasis on any club, or any bar, live and direct from Compagno. Seconds later, the lady expressively jumped back in:
COMPAGNO [waving her arms]: That came out wrong!!! I don't mean me! I don't mean me, everyone. It came out wrong.
As we said, it was a bit of (somewhat strange) comic relief!
For the record, a lot of things "come out wrong" on Fox News Channel programs. Our nation's "news culture" is changing fast. Possibly timorous Blue elites have agreed to avert their gaze from what takes place Over There.
"Stating the obvious, Blue American media are never going to report or discuss the possible medical state of the sitting American president. "
ReplyDeleteStating the obvious, Blue American media have already been discussing the possible medical state of the sitting American president.
Why would Somerby begin his essay by saying something so obviously untrue and easily corrected? Is he lying?
Then Somerby contradicts himself and quotes what Rachel Maddow said about Trump's health, but she apparently didn't say it to his taste. He says: "Owens offers this account of what Maddow said. This also strikes us as possibly unwise and unhealthy ...counterproductive." So, we in blue America are damned if we don't and damned if we do, based on Somerby's reactions.
DeleteThen Somerby says: "Our nation's "news culture" is changing fast. Possibly timorous Blue elites have agreed to avert their gaze from what takes place Over There." This, after describing a segment on Gutfeld, which is arguably not news and not part of any news culture. Gutfeld is not serious, not a reporter, not anything like Rachel Maddow, much less other analysts and reporters.
So why should Blue America pay any attention to it? And why is Somerby once again chiding us for ignoring lap dances, when that has nothing to do with news at all?
Once again, no explanation by Somerby. This presumably makes sense to him as heinous neglect of important news culture, but why?
Can it be that he has just manufactured another trivial excuse for excoriating the left, making Blue America sound horrible to a casual reader who doesn't pay attention to what Gutfeld was discussing?
IMO the physical state of any President is enormously important. It should be discussed. The only problem is that Maddow and others don't have any actual information about the President's health. Everything she writes about the subject is entirely made up out of her own mind.
DeleteMaddow described the physical signs that all is not well with the president. That is information. The symptoms she discussed are obvious to all.
DeleteThe president's doctors should tell the American people what is going on with Trump.
DeleteWe are ignorant of Trump’s health because he and his physicians have lied about it for as long as he has been in office.
Delete6:12 When Trump was carted off for an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed on a Saturday and took a Montreal Cognitive Test we were told that it was a routine visit, despite that such testing is not routine. So yeah, knowing the health of the president is important and we have gotten none of that from Trump and his doctors. Maddie’s commentary was entirely accurate. Trump looks like shit physically, despite the lies told by this administration that he is in superb physical shape, including the obvious ones regarding his height and weight.Photos of NFL players with his stated height/weight look nothing like the fat codger. But DiC sees nothing wrong with the lies they tell, apparently, and finds fault with Maddow’s description of him.
DeleteIf right wingers believe that buying a woman a drink entitles a man to a lap dance, they are going to have a lot of misunderstandings in bars.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is how women get raped? The guy thinks he is owed something because he bought a drink and then he gets mad and decides to take it by force, since she was obviously trying to rip him off, play him for a fool.
Creating this kind of expectation in male viewers may be dangerous to women when drunk guys decide to slap some woman around because they don't like what she is withholding (like the guy in the story they were telling). Or what she may have been saying. Sort of like what DG and Quaker decided to do with a commenter they disliked. Threats of violence are not funny or cute, much less kind and gentle, as DG called it. They may not agree with another commenter's opinions, but that doesn't make any Somerby critic a slapper, because none of us has threatened violence of any kind, except these guys who find it humorous to call someone else a slapper.
Yes, the slapping is on the other foot, but the threat of violence hangs in the air, introduced by these male commenters and aimed at a female commenter. There is an implied threat and it is not kind or gentle but intended as intimidation, to shut someone up because they are saying things these commenters may dislike. And they will certainly deny that was their intention, but the way violence against women works in our society, men stomping around and slamming doors and kicking furniture and throwing items against a wall are all threats of violence against a woman who is in the room with them. Because male anger is scary. The raised voice is a threat of violence. If DG and Quaker don't understand that, they need to think about it, because it will interfere with their relationships with women if they indulge in such theatrics, seriously meant or not.
So this particular form of name-calling needs to stop. No one is slapping Somerby by criticizing what he has said. We are expressing opinions, which is what comment sections are for.
"So this particular form of name-calling needs to stop. No one is slapping Somerby by criticizing what he has said. We are expressing opinions"
DeleteYes, you're expressing the "opinion" that he's a pedophile, a Nazi, a racist, a sexist, a traitor, a paid Russian asset, an asshole, and, in fact, that he's evil. But none of this is "name-calling." Got it.
But if someone calls you a "slapper" -- Lord, get the smelling salts! Let's get you some air, so you can get some color back into your cheeks!
Fuck off DG.
DeleteDid you think of that all by yourself or did you have to use AI?
DeleteIt could be worse, DG.
DeleteWe could be describing Somerby's cognitive deterioration without any experience, background in cognitive/ neurological studies, or having actually been in the same room as him.
Don't avert your eyes.
"Greg Owens dropped this account of a recent speech in the 51st state." Somerby said that. What is he referring to? Canada. Why does Somerby use this right wing terminology to refer to a speech given by Maddow, a blue American historian and pundit? Maddow didn't call Canada that.
ReplyDeleteHer speech was called "America First? America Alone". It was more serious than Somerby's quote implies. The point is to emphasize how Canadians react to Trump's difficulties, their lack of sympathy, not Maddow's callousness. She didn't dictate what they chose to laugh at, even though Somerby calls her approach counter-productive. Maddow's purpose is not to drum up support for Trump among Canadians, so in what way is it not productive of her own purposes -- to show how the America First policies are alienating the rest of the world and driving away our former allies?
In his dislike of Maddow, Somerby fails to understand the content of her speech.
"When asked about when the Iran war will be over, the Wall Street Journal reports President Trump said: “When I feel it—feel it in my bones.”
ReplyDeleteSpecifically he said, "when I feel it in my bone spurs." Dumb, corrupt, racist, child rapist is a he'll of a way to go thru life.
Delete"(European leaders) denounced the decision to allow the delivery and sale of Russian oil stranded at sea, which will allow the Kremlin to replenish its war chest for the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Delete“We think that’s wrong,” Merz said..."There is currently a price problem, but not a supply problem. And in that regard, I would like to know what other factors led the U.S. government to make this decision."
Wouldn't we all, Herr Merz. Wouldn't we all.
Who wudda thunk? Trump aligning himself with Putin at the detriment of Ukraine and in conflict with NATO. What a shock.
DeleteIf you don't believe that Nazis exist in the USA, in these times, read this from Digby:
ReplyDeletehttps://digbysblog.net/2026/03/12/get-ready-for-the-baby-nazis/
And they’re all true red blooded trumper maggots, right along with DiC.
DeleteAccording to the article, these people agree with Trump on some issues but strongly disagree on some of the biggest issues. Trump is enormous pro-Israel and pro-Jew and a huge fighter against antisemitism. This group is the opposite. This group calls for a moratorium on immigration. Trump is an enthusiastic supporter of immigration, as long as it's thru the legal process.
DeleteP.S. calling people fascists just because they're antisemitic and racist is historically illiterate.
Trump only supports immigration of white South Africans and people who will pay $100K for an H1 visa. The term fascist is being used in its full meaning.
DeleteSure dickhead, that’s quite a coalition, pro-Zionists and neo-Nazis
Deletea huge fighter against antisemitism.
DeleteYou're so gullible, David, it hurts. At least when it comes to Trump, you choose to interpret everything in a bizarrely naive sort of way.
Ilya - some people think Trump is automatically on the bad side of every issue. In fact, Trump's actions against antisemitism in universities have been much, much more aggressive than any other President. Here are a a couple of examples:
Deletehttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/nation/justice-department-sues-ucla-antisemitism/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/us/justice-department-ucla-lawsuit-antisemitism
Is antisemitism a crime , dickface?
DeleteThe most antisemitic population on the planet is the Palestinian farmers and families on the West Bank who are being assaulted and driven from their homes by Jewish settlers.
Delete7:58. Thanks for saying out loud the obvious: that this justice department does Trump’s bidding for him. You applaud Trump as a champion against antisemitism, then cite actions of the justice department as evidence of such.
Delete"According to the article, these people agree with Trump on some issues but strongly disagree on some of the biggest issues."
DeleteRepublican voters don't necessarily love Trump's raping of children, but for some mysterious reason our corporate-owned Right-wing media will never discuss, they'll put up with it because Trump punches down on minorities.
There has been no antisemitism in the universities. It's all contrived bullshit to help Trump run his grift and stick it to his "enemies".
DeleteVali Nasr, Iranian-Amercian academic:
ReplyDelete“A lot of countries have looked at this and said if they want to go down that path (nuclear weapons) they should do it quickly and secretly and that the United States and Europe will play with you, will put sanctions on you, will deal with you, sign a deal, move out of the deal, and in the end you end up where Iran is.
And so many countries will be dissuaded from thinking about nuclear issue.
We are also in a world where President Trump is encouraging everybody around the world to develop a weapon of mass destruction to protect themselves from a Venezuela Iran scenario."
Hector - you seem to be almost defending the Ayatollah and Maduro - two of the most evil rulers on face of the earth. Will acknowledge that, separate from other very important aspects, these two people deserved to be removed from power?
DeleteNothing in Hector’s post suggests that he is defending these individuals. Why don’t we let the Chinese remove these evil rulers from power? Oh yeah, because they are not so stupid as to take on the mantle of world’s policeman while devaluing their currency, presiding over an underperforming economy, and skyrocketing debt. The Iranians have bombed over a dozen neighboring countries. Why haven’t those countries participated in this war of choice? Because they see the US as suckers who will do their bidding for them. Especially the Saudis. Of course stuffing a couple of billion dollars into the always grifting pockets of the Trump family comes with its rewards. It’s pocket change c/w a couple billion a day from American taxpayers to fight a war for them, not to mention sacrificing the lives of US servicemen.
DeleteEven if someone deserves to be removed from power, it doesn’t follow that every attempt to remove them from power is worthy of praise, especially when it’s as brutal and bungled as this one.
DeleteFor starters, it was a sneak attack, since the US was in the middle of negotiating with the mullahs when they suddenly started bombing. Many of the targets are in densely populated urban areas, thus racheting up the civilian casualties, and the bombs are also apparently destroying quite a few examples of ancient Persian monuments and architecture which Iranians (and the world) view as their heritage.
Then there’s Trump and Hegseth’s callow frat boy pronouncements, together with the White House videos which treat the ending of human lives (ours and theirs) as one totally awesome video game.
The whole thing makes me want to puke.
If there is one take away from this illegal war and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, it is that the biggest deterrent to armed conflict on the face of this planet is possession of nuclear warheads. Putin and that fat turd running North Korea are no less evil than those in charge of Venezuela and Iran, but Trump has done nothing but embrace them. So this has precious little to do with your so called evil leadership and everything to do with who Trump thinks he can overthrow without serious repercussions. And of course, we are finding out how wrong that calculation is. Maduro’s regime is still in charge of Venezuela and some version of the Ayatollah is running Iraq, and will be at war with us for as long as they decide to be.
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DeleteAfter much contemplation, a fanny burp finally materialized. The relief was celebrated.
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"A dark money group offered at least two social media influencers $1,500 apiece for a single negative social media post about progressive Illinois Democrat candidate Kat Abughazaleh."
ReplyDeleteIf they will do this, why wouldn't they approach an influencer like Somerby and offer him money to trash democrats here at his blog, or to claim that he truly thought Biden was too old, or to claim that Harris didn't know how to do interviews, or that they didn't have control of the border (as he is still saying), or to smirk and hint that Bill Clinton lied in his deposition about Epstein? Other standup comedians with an internet presence were paid to support Trump -- why not Somerby? There seems to be a lot of this money floating around.
How much would it take to get you to stop commenting?
DeleteA little less than a year ago, David in Cal was on here every day bragging about how much waste, fraud and abuse Elon and the DOGE bros were cutting from the federal budget.
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David in CalApril 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Musk is finding enormous waste and taking difficult steps to correct it. Is he thanked? No. People who don’t care about economic reality are demonizing him for the side effects of the necessary corrective actions.
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I honestly don’t know why anyone would listen to a word the dickhead says.
David in Cal will argue multiple sides of any issue, as long as he sees it supporting white supremacy.
DeleteThat's how you can tell he's a Right-winger.