FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026
Or so Hank Williams said: Is something "wrong" with President Trump? At this site, we would assume that it seems like there is.
Next week, we'll be examining some of the basic concepts involved in this somewhat complex conceptual arena. Early this morning, as we pondered the possible dangers involved in the current state of affairs, we also thought of Hank Williams.
The president's niece believes that her famous uncle is seriously unwell. She regards this as a very dangerous state of affairs—though she also takes us back to what she regards as the start of the story, when her uncle was two years old.
We've suggested that (serious) "mental illness" should be regarded as a deeply unfortunate illness. This morning, we found ourselves thinking of where this sort of thing can start—and of these Hank Williams lyrics:
Tramp on the Street
[...]
He was some mother's darling, he was some mother's son.
Once he was fair and once he was young.
And some mother rocked him, her darling, to sleep
But they left him to die like a tramp on the street.
Some mother rocked him, her darling, to sleep?
Mary Trump suggests that it actually wasn't that way inside her uncle's dysfunctional childhood home. She also says, sympathetically though only up to a point, that it went downhill from there.
That said, Williams was one of the greatest of our American voices, and you can hear him sing those lyrics simply by clicking this.
(As you'll see if you click that link, you'll hear him do that as part of a radio show called "The Health and Happiness Show.")
In fact, "A Tramp on the Street" was a hymn. At this particular time in the Christian calendar, it may have a specific resonance for believing Christians.
In the larger sense, the song encourages us to know how to pity those who may be deeply afflicted in various ways. We strongly recommend that performance by one of this nation's most resonant voices, by a giant star who died at an early age—29!—a bit like his "tramp on the street."
I’m beginning to think anyone who thinks we should pity Trump or express sympathy may also be suffering from some form of mental illness.
ReplyDeleteThat Hank Williams song was not written for Trump but for the victims of billionaire excesses. How dare Somerby misappropriate it! Somerby is scum.
ReplyDeleteYes, and Somerby has often quoted from Dylan’s “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” without ever applying it to … actual immigrants who are being cruelly arrested, detained, and deported.
Delete"I Pity the Poor Illegal Immigrant" hehe.
DeleteIt is a depression song.
DeleteOnly a Trump was the Donald's sad fate
ReplyDeleteA person we all were instructed to hate
And once the Republicans suffer a loss
He'll soon be impeached, that is, nailed to the cross.
What a profanity you just shitted out here, DiC head.
DeleteProfane to compare an evil person to Christ, micking Christians in the process. Fuck off David.
DeleteNow even his friends say its time to cut bait.
DeleteTrump dies for our sins? Seems more like the reverse is true.
DeleteRepublicans excel at crucifying others for their own sins.
DeleteTrump was widely disliked in NY long before he made the rounds nationally. This is because he is a racist and a crook. Leave it to an amoral troll to write a poem about him.
DeleteI nominate Hector 2:58 for Comment of the Day.
DeleteJeez, I thought oh so clever Dickhead "nailed" it this time.
DeleteOne and a half trillion dollars--annually.
ReplyDeleteUp $600B from just last year. And who knows how many more "military operations" a totally unconstrained and possibly unhinged president might launch during the rest of his term?
DeletePoor DiC must be despondent over this out-of-control spending and its effect on the unsustainable federal debt load.
DeleteWe could build 10 hospitals for each day we waste on the Iran War - Operation Epstein Fury.
DeleteMeanwhile, Republicans want to fund the Iran War by cutting healthcare even more, and we are likely to lose 400-700 hospitals, mostly in rural areas.
Weird priorities, Americans are starting to notice.
"Poor DiC must be despondent over this out-of-control spending and its effect on the unsustainable federal debt load."
DeleteLOL. Good one, DG.
Hank Williams is so cool, let's see, he copped much of his shtick from his Black mentor Rufus Payne who died penniless, he cosplayed as a cowboy to sell his records, he had a couple of bad marriages and impregnated another woman while wooing his second wife (your cheatin' heart indeed!), couldn't support the war effort so literally tried selling snake oil for a while, was addicted to drugs and alcohol since he was a teen, he may have fathered a child with his own cousin, his mom may have been running a brothel out of their boarding house, he got in a bar fight a few days before he died of a heart attack, and his son and sort of namesake grew up to be a deeply repugnant person.
ReplyDeleteThis "great American voice" is most known for his hit Hey Good Lookin', with its complex insights into the soul of America, except it turns out it was a throwaway song of Cole Porter's that Hank just nicked.
This comment misses, at a pretty deep level, how performance, persona and songwriting actually work.
DeleteIsn't all art a kind of cosplay?
DeleteCountry music in general does not resonate with me, so not a fan of Hank Williams, and didn't know much about him, so I appreciate this comment for providing context to inform my perspective. Dug into it a bit and this comment seems fairly on point.
DeleteCole Porter's version is a tongue in cheek look at the tension between charm and predation, but Williams version just dumbs that down and frankly smuggles in normalizing a certain amount of patriarchy and sexism.
Or to phrase it for the snowflakes, Hank’s version feels like it removes the irony and ambiguity, leaving a more straightforward and more traditionally gendered interaction.
Interesting.
DeleteThe two versions of Porter's song would make a compelling comparative analysis.
Porter wrote the song in the wake of the New Deal in the early 40s and his song is full of irony and self awareness, whereas William's version was done in the wake of the burgeoning Movement Conservatives and uses a cowboy image to normalize certain values that aligned with those conservative so that you could draw a line from Hank Williams to Marlboro Man to Reagan. That is a simplification that needs fleshing out but the general thrust is interesting.
Artists do use cosplay frequently, it seems more authentic when it conveys some meaning, but in Hank Williams case it seems more like a combo of a pr stunt and virtue signaling.
Good discussion.
DeletePicking up on your self awareness point, and reflecting that the original song was written in the New Deal aftermath, while Hank Williams wrote in the postwar mass culture slowly shifting towards neoliberalism, you could say the earlier environment rewards self awareness, while the later environment discourages it. With Porter self awareness is a virtue, whereas in Hank Williams' world self awareness can undermine perceived authenticity.
Porter’s Hey Good Lookin’ reflects a culture comfortable with irony and the performance of desire and women being strong characters, while Williams’ version reflects a culture that favors perceived sincerity and a sort of normalizing of lust as cutesy and women reduced to being good looking and good at cooking (not literal from the song but implied).
This shift in tone corresponds to a broader movement toward simplified identity (White cowboy with no need for government) and traditional roles, later echoed in conservative political narratives of rugged individualism.
Porter was also a gay man, which may have informed his songwriting.
DeleteHank William's recorded songs are the archetype rules of poetic songwriting.
DeleteExcept his most famous song he "borrowed" from Cole Porter.
DeleteWe could say the rules of songwriting are more about collaboration and building off previous work, and are a function of influences, derivation, and copying.
You said Williams nicked or borrowed the song as if it was a bad thing, as a criticism. Now you know (thank you, AI) he was engaging in the normal creative songwriting process and working within a tradition.
DeleteI'm glad to see that you've learned Williams was doing exactly what all songwriters (including Porter) do. The creativity and originality he brought to this tradition made him widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, an artistic giant who left footprints in the sands of time like few others ever will.
Now we can discuss your seriously misguided accusations about cosplay. Or just spend a few minutes with the AI and it will set you straight.
DeleteLean into AI as much as you want, Williams stole from Porter to make his big hit, sorry this triggers you.
DeleteNoticeably, people still listen to Porter and use his music, I do not because it is not my thing, but I do not care that he was gay, that is fine with me. One can listen to Williams until the cows come home, but Williams is just not significant or relevant, he is just a tragic figure that some people feel a need to performatively pay tribute to.
If you want to talk about the relevance of someone like Chuck Berry, another tragic figure who was not a paragon of virtue either, but he certainly was much more influential, that would make more sense.
A quick check on a popular streaming service shows Hey Good Lookin with 10-20 million cumulative streams compared to Johnny B Goode with ... 420 million streams, (for reference Stairway to Heaven has way over a billion streams).
Songwriters are influenced by others, but Williams just straight up stole from Porter, he actually promised his rip off version to another artist but decided to record it himself because he saw the potential to make money.
Some people bought into Williams' phony persona because, as others here noted, there was a shift in the socioeconomic situation that wanted to endorse that kind of culture. Artists can take on personas to add meaning to their work, or they can cosplay as a way to gin up interest. The latter is where Williams fits on the spectrum. There is no need to have a moral panic about it, Williams pretended to be a cowboy so he could make more money. If we lived in a more equal world, then Williams wouldn't have had to debase himself like that, he probably would have been a happier person and lived a happier life and raised a better kid, you know the kid that is a racist and homophobe that choked a 19yo waitress a few years ago because she did not want to kiss him.
To be blunt, Williams' music is simple and boring and that is why nobody listens to it today.
Now wax on about Lee Greenwood, please! That is the real legacy of Williams, besides his son's awful music. Most people were happy that his son called Obama Hitler because then we no longer had to listen to that god awful Monday Night Football song. Are you ready for some redneck culture? Pop open some Bud (but not Bud Light amirite?) and put some Hank on, make sure your gun is hanging in the back of your truck, and makes sure you wear your cowboy boots and hat so we know how much of a poseur you are.
6:48: nice, I particularly appreciated the part about about the MNF god awful opening song, because the MOUs at ABC felt like all America had to be rednecks
DeleteThank you for the link to that recording.
ReplyDeleteI hope it;s permissible to thank President Trump when he accomplishes something good.
ReplyDelete"Cuba releasing 2,010 prisoners as the US pressures the island’s government"
DeleteGreat accomplishment, indeed--until a boat full of those prisoners turns up in the Florida Keys. Then we'll hear that Cuba is "emptying their prisons and asylums."
DeleteHarming more innocent people in order to release fewer non innocent people, is hardly a trade to brag about.
DeleteJesus, Republicans really are bloodthirsty psychopaths.
At least we can look forward to Scarface 2 now.
People in the know are saying that back when Trump was still traumatizing women and girls with his sexual predation, he always prefaced it by saying "Say hello to my little friend".
DeleteNow he still uses the phrase, but its when he removes his diaper. People aren't sure if he means his tiny penis, or the poop in his diaper.
He has never done anything well let alone good. Unless you count destroying our nation as ordered by Putin good.
DeleteThe best thing Trump can do is to heal America by passing away.
DeleteBut Trump will cling to life as long as he can, because he knows he is headed for that Lake of Fire.
'A U.S. strike on Thursday on a major Iranian bridge that was under construction killed eight people celebrating the close of Persian new year. Iran decried the strike on civilian infrastructure, while Trump cheered the bridge’s collapse and threatened, “Much more to follow.”'
ReplyDeleteWe're the bad guys. You know that because our leader exults in the death he brings to innocent people.
It is a straightforward case of a war crime.
Delete@7:38 - Where was your concern about war crimes when Iran sent hundreds or thousands of missiles aimed at civilians in a bunch of countries?
DeleteDiC, how should Iran have defended themselves against the unprovoked US attack?
DeleteHector - Three independent responses.
Delete1. I think we need more selfishness. I want government policies that first and foremost are good for me and other Americans.
2. Equating the US to the Mullahs and the IRGC is offensive. They are not as bad as Hitler, but they come close.
3. A lesser point. Our attack was somewhat provoked by their hatred of America combined with their expressed commitment to creating a nuclear arsenal combined with all the terrorism they and their proxies commit.
The American people are all over how much Trump's policies have benefited them, and recent polling attests to that. He is a malignant grifting pile of human garbage at this point and when all is said and done will go down historically as the worst president in history. The midterms will be the logical outcome of failed Republican policies that they will, going forward, try to distance themselves from and pin on Trump.
DeleteMakes me ill that anyone would still support the schmuck. The corruption alone should be a big fat nope.
Delete"Three independent responses."
DeleteNone of which respond to my question.
7:39: Dickhead in Cal was hoping you wouldn’t notice that. His aim is to divert, distract and deflect.
Delete"None of which respond to my question."
DeleteAnd all of them wrong.
“Our attack was somewhat provoked by their hatred of America”
DeleteWell, we’ve told them we’re going to bomb them back to the Stone Age, which leads them to hate us, and that hate is what provokes us to bomb them back to the Stone Age, right?
Oh that 'ol viscous circular firing squad
DeleteOh that 'ol viscous circular firing squad
DeleteTry increasing temperature or adding water to reduce viscosity.
DeleteIran is dealing with an unprovoked attack and has responded relatively carefully in order to avoid both military and civilian casualties. Their main act of defense has been to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, for the US and its allies, which is why US allies are now breaking with the US. It turns out diplomacy works better than bullying.
Iran never had a nuclear weapons program, they express explicitly an opposition to nuclear weapons, and even the hawks in US intel agencies say Iran gave up whatever nuclear program they had back in 2003.
The Trump admin is clearly not operating under America First, they obviously do not give a fuck about Americans, they are just using America to personally get rich and avoid prosecution for their crimes.
Americans have woken up to this, Trump is now the least popular president in modern history.
David has not woken up to this because he is a foreign troll repeating whatever talking points he is handed.
@4:10 - Are you not aware that Iran fired a large number of missiles at civilian targets in neighboring countries other than Israel -- countries that had not even attacked Iran. Here's a chart
DeleteCountry / Territory Ballistic & Cruise Missiles (reported)
United Arab Emirates 357
Kuwait 178
Israel 220
Qatar 13
Bahrain 102
Jordan 60
Iraq 20
Did they have military bases used by the US to attack Iran?
DeleteGosh. Good thing we destroyed "90 percent" of their missiles. Otherwise, those numbers could have been 10 times higher.
DeleteThey primarily fired on military targets, you dope.
DeleteKudos to 4:10 for finding out what triggers the trolls. Good info to know.
David is apparently unaware that the US and Israel have been bombing hundreds of civilian targets like schools and hospitals. These are all war crimes. And this is on the heel of Israel committing genocide.
DeleteOnce the Trump admin is over, there will be a lot of reckoning for these warmongers.
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DeleteA comment so fucking stupid even David couldn't bear it.
DeleteAccording to a Friday report from HuffPost, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon held a Protestant-only Good Friday service at its in-house chapel, with no Catholic Mass scheduled for one of Christianity’s holiest days.
ReplyDeleteThe setup, which excludes a Catholic service for the first time, drew frustration from at least one Pentagon employee after an internal email made the arrangement explicit.
“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” read a Friday email sent by Air Force leadership, according to a copy shared with HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery.
White Christian Nationalism! The Secretary of War will decide which religion is approved
DeleteIt is a well established fact that genetically Catholics are browner and greasier than Protestants. That is why the couch fucker converted to it. Cause his kids are brown and smell like curry.
DeleteThe Christian religion generates the majority of groomers, sexual predators, abusers, and grifters.
DeleteHegseth is a product of his religion.
@4:13 - The Islamic religion generates the majority of groomers. There were a great many in England
DeleteHegseth is more into murder than grooming.
DeleteThe majority, David? You're making that up.
DeleteI don't think there is anything worse than all those Southern Baptist or Catholic groomers in the USA right David?
DeleteHegseth is bloodthirsty as fuck, but he is also a serial abuser of women and even raped a fellow Republican woman. He is so awful, his own mother called him out.
DeleteIt is hard to find a Republican leader that is not embroiled in some kind of scandal related to sexual abuse or grifting.
6:18 Here's what I know
DeleteChild sexual abuse scandal in Rotherham, UK, happened between 1997 and 2013
From the late 1980s until 2013, group-based child sexual exploitation affected an estimated 1,400 girls, commonly from care home backgrounds, in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Between 1997 and 2013, girls were abused by grooming gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by local officials and warned them about child exploitation occurring between 2002 and 2007, has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history"
"The Islamic religion generates the majority of groomers." Followed by a reference to Pakistanis engaged in child exploitation in GB between 1997 and 2013. This example is, I assume, supposed to verify the statement in quotes. Of course it doesn't. Someone with a rudimentary knowledge of statistics would know this.
DeleteHere is what I know David, the Catholic Church.
DeleteThanks, David. My point is made.
DeleteThe Imminent Threat
ReplyDelete"Just prior to the US-Israeli attacks in early March 2026, Oman's Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who acted as the primary mediator (and was chosen by the US), stated that Iran had made significant concessions, including an agreement to never stockpile enriched uranium and to allow full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA.
Albusaidi indicated that the breakthroughs included:
Zero Stockpiling: Iran agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium, a development described as a "major breakthrough".
Down-Blending Material: Iran agreed to "blend to the lowest level possible" and convert to fuel all of its existing highly enriched uranium, making the process irreversible.
Irreversible Steps: The concessions meant Iran would cease building up 60% enriched uranium stockpiles.
Full IAEA Access: Iran offered to accept "full and comprehensive verification" of its nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency."
- from AI Overview
This seems to totally contradict what the two American negotiators reported that Iran said. I do not know how to reconcile the two conflicting reports.
DeleteYou reconcile them by understanding that this is the US-chosen mediator's version of events, a neutral third party.
DeleteThe American version of events comes from Trump's good buddy and his son-in-law. You don't get to be either one of those things by being honest.
“the two American negotiators “
DeleteYou’re such a dick
"This seems to totally contradict what the two American negotiators reported that Iran said."
DeleteLast time you brougt this up, it wasn't what they said, it was what they '"seemed to imply."
"Hell will reign down on [Iran]. Glory be to GOD"
ReplyDeleteSomerby warned us that Trump may be both disordered and dangerous. We may be about to find out how disordered and how dangerous.
Very stable friend of the white woking man has plans:
Delete"Trump submitted his budget proposal to Congress. In: massive military spending and immigration detention facilities. Out: anything the administration considers “woke, weaponized and wasteful.” Some highlights:
A $1.5 trillion defense budget, a record-breaking request amounting to a 42% increase over last year’s (record-breaking) ask. There’s no mention of the war with Iran in the request.
A plan to operate up to 100,000 beds for adult immigrant detention and a request to lock up tens of thousands of more parents and children.
$10 billion for construction and beautification projects in D.C., a move some advocates worry is a strategy to claim congressional authorization for controversial new monuments or other changes.
A 10% reduction in non-defense spending, including the elimination of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, the Minority Business Development Agency, Minority-Serving Institutions programs and others described in the document as “woke” and “funding for cultural marxism.”"
Remember the tariffs already balanced the budget, I mean the BBB did it, I mean oh never mind.
But do you pity Trump, dogface? That is Somerby’s main advice.
DeleteAnd, oh right, DG, nobody, I mean, NOBODY besides Somerby warned us about Trump. Nope, can’t think of a soul. LOL.
DeleteDG,
DeleteAre you going to tell us who you voted for in the 2024 Democratic Primary?
Was it Joe Biden, who racked-up so many primary wins he was coasting into the general election, or was it some other candidate who totally would have wiped the floor with Trump in the general election, if they could overcome a guy you were so positive was suffering from cognitive decline?
The Dem primary in Cal was in early March. I thought Biden had done a great job as president and I voted for him. IIRC, by that time Somerby was already warning that Biden lacked the ability to mount a vigorous campaign, a warning which was confirmed for me in the June debate.
DeleteWhy would Somerby be “warning” before the debate?
DeleteAt that time, polls had shown for months a majority of Democrats did not want him to run. Many people felt like he was too old and frail. At the time, he was the most unpopular president of modern times. Somerby said he felt Biden didn't have the stamina or ability to combat that perception and that powerful Democrats were in denial about it.
Delete"Why would Somerby be “warning” before the debate?"
DeleteRight-wing trial balloons.
"At that time, polls had shown for months a majority of Democrats did not want him to run."
DeletePlease, for the love of all that is Holy on this Easter morning, do not try to square those polls with Biden winning the Democratic Party primaries, and cruising into the Presidential nomination.
On the other hand, old and frail people can't win Presidential elections. If they could, we'd have a cognitively declined 79-year old, who ranted about the nation's "epidemic of post-birth abortions" during a Presidential debate, as our President.
We may as well have tossed Biden off the ticket for not releasing his tax returns the right way, when he ran for President.
DeleteOne wishes the election would have turned out differently. In hindsight, it seems like Democrats were destined to fail. Warnings were not heeded. Objections were dismissed. Polls were ignored. Then came one of the most famous and consequential debates in American political history and the slow motion train wreck took front and center as we all watched helplessly.
DeleteSomerby has never told us how he was convinced* Biden was too old and frail to have what it takes to win elections, as Biden racked-up one primary election win after another.
Delete*by Right-wing media.
Was it really "a debate", if only one candidate was being held accountable for their statements?
Delete8:32,
DeleteSomerby and the NY Times not listening to Trump's meanderings during the Presidential debate, didn't help.
A majority of Democrats had expressed for months they preferred Biden not run. When forced to choose between three people in the primary, Biden, Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, they overwhelmingly chose Biden. Even then they still preferred someone other than Biden. Just not those two particular candidates.
DeleteMeh.
DeleteBiden's age couldn't hold a candle next to the open bigotry of every Republican voter.
8:41,
DeleteThanks to your explanation, we now have a gigantic hole you could drive a semi-tractor trailer through in the theory that people stay at home and don't vote, if they aren't truly turned-on by any of the candidates.
Nice work, exposing that nonsense.
It's not that Democratic voters stayed at home because they weren't enthused by the thought of a Harris Presidency. It was more that nothing was going to keep Republican voters from getting to the polls to vote for an open bigot, like Trump.
DeleteIt seems that anyone who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party more than a quarter of a century ago.
DeleteThe election turned out poorly for Democrats. In hindsight, it seems like they were destined to fail. Like the cosmos had demanded it.
DeleteI felt like the whole time they were playing not to lose as opposed to playing to win. There was a certain weakness in the loins in that campaign for them. A kind of confusion and imbalance.
Once the media saw the Democrats making headway by calling Republicans "weirdos", they had no choice but to shut it down.
DeleteThe Democratic Party offered two candidates that voters didn't want. This turned out to be a strategic mistake for them.
DeleteEven the corporate-owned, Right-wing New York Times---who will literally print any kind of nonsense, if they think it will get them a corporate tax break--felt Biden was too old and frail to run for President.
DeleteBiden was not an ideal candidate and the election turned out very poorly for Democrats. Their failure seem to be predetermined by gods. But now it's over and all they can do is learn from their mistakes.
DeleteRe-litigating the 2024 Presidential election is not enough to distract us from the Epstein Files being a "who's who of the Republican Party."
DeleteI blame Biden.
Appropriate spelling error. Because Trump behaves like a king, he will reign down destruction.
DeleteKamala Harris garnered the most votes of any Presidential candidate other than the foul mouthed convicted felon. And the joke is now on all of us. Pretty good chance at this point he gets us all killed via MAD. It will please the Mad King no end to have accomplished this.
DeleteHarris is poised to win the 2028 election, perhaps in a landslide. The excitement around her candidacy is palpable.
DeleteThe Ezra Klein Show: "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president."
DeleteWhat did you say, dickface?
DeleteHe said Trump is King and he wishes he could lick his asshole like a regular Trump sycophant.
DeleteKlein openly begged Biden not to run. What the hell was that about?
DeleteKing Orange Chickenshit celebrated Easter by promising to commit war crimes against humanity
ReplyDeleteLowering grocery prices is not what we voted for.
Delete"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
ReplyDeleteTotally normal.
Go ahead , dickhead, defend that.
DeleteDo you think Trump is really going to do it, Quaker?
DeleteHard to guess, David. He might do it on Tuesday. He might do it five minutes from now. Or he might chicken out again.
DeleteThe point is, we have a president conductin international relations by mean social media messages. Is that OK?
Is it OK? I think it's a good try. Trump's bizarre media messages might just persuade Iran to give up its nukes before the whole country is destroyed
DeleteIn a game of chicken, the crazier side has an advantage. A sane American President wouldn't destroy Iran, wouldn't killing tens of millions. Trump is giving the impression that he might actually do it.
Although I appreciate Trump's efforts, I don't think they'll succeed. Even Trump can't beat the Mullahs on the craziness scale.
Lock the loony shit for brains up quick. And I ain't only talking about David. What the fuck would be a "bridge" too far you dumbass? Where in the history of war has anyone seen a motherfucker begging for mercy in a lost cause more than we see here with the felon begging the enemy to take it easy on him? Sad. We lost to the dirty Arabs under our stupid Republican leadership again!
DeleteWhat makes you think Trump is pretending to be crazy, DiC?
Delete@12:17 - Just because something is repeated over and over, that doesn't make it true. Trump's results, demonstrate sanity and wisdom.
DeleteToday's amazing rescue of the downed airman is just the latest good result. Under Biden and Lloyd Austin, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a historic f*ckup. Under Trump and Hegseth, the military has had success after success. This is not an accident.
The stupid crazy sure comes natural to the idiot felon.
DeleteAfter Trump negotiated the surrender to the Taliban with Pompeo releasing 5,000 terrorist prisoners and setting a hard withdrawal two months after the election, Biden scrambled to get an August extension and executed the evacuation of our troops remarkably well. Better than any surrender in enemy territory in history. All US deaths were the result of a terrorist bomb - the enemy of our enemy - in an attempt to get the US to reverse the surrender. David, you are so fucking dumb.
DeleteDavid is a fucking asshole. Best to ignore
DeleteNot only does the orange imbecile cause a global energy crisis FOR A FUCKING LIE, he then threatens to commit a war crime and then insults their religion while he’s at it. Fuck you, dickhead
Delete"Today's amazing rescue of the downed airman is just the latest good result." Just a complete asshole. Stunningly stupid.
DeleteThe American public, even the stupidist of the MAGA bloggers are finally figuring out that the Trump presidency is a disaster. At his worst, after 1/6, Trump registered a Gallup 31% approval rating. That number defines the bottom barrel deplorables. I doubt that he will go below a number generated by his mishandling of COVID and an attempted insurrection, but the price of gas and everything else, and his plan to abandon government subsidized healthcare to the states: that may do it.
Delete"Trump's bizarre media messages might just persuade Iran to give up its nukes before the whole country is destroyed"
DeleteI've got bad news: it would literally be impossible for Iran to 'give up its nukes' since they don't have 'nukes'.
And as far as 'success after success', one of those successes must be getting our foot stuck in a steel trap in the Strait of Hormuz, so that the world economy is dependent on us to get it open but we have no idea how to do it.
Yep, we've got the Revolutionary Guard right where we want 'em.
By "give up nukes" I meant "allow the US to take away their store of highly enriched uranium and stop developing nuclear weapons."
DeleteWhy on earth would they be that stupid David when they have Trump by the short hairs? How come it takes idiots like you 20 years before you realize we lost the war?
DeleteOur media is so dreadfully biased that many Americans sincerely believe that Iran has Trump by the balls. Of course the opposite is true. Trump has the power right now to kill any Iranians or destroy any part of the country with virtually no risk to Americans. The media trick us by ignoring all the actual US success and focusing on what they imagine is going to happen. And in their imagination, Trump’s results are always disasters.
DeleteKristof's column today is an example. He says, "we’ve botched our way into an Iran cul-de-sac, and in the process we appear to have inadvertently strengthened the most dangerous and extreme forces in that country..." It's ridiculous to judge that this is a dead end a this early point in time. Time will tell what happens. The US has all the cards, if we choose to play them. Our only problem is that Trump may be too nice to use all the options that he has. The IRGC is using the entire population of Iran as hostages. They're betting the Trump cares more about the Iranian people than they do.
DeleteKristof entirely ignores the main purpose of the war -- not allowing Iran to become a nuclear power. I don't know if the US and Israel will succeed or fail. But, totally ignoring that subject makes Kristof's column useless.
"The IRGC is using the entire population of Iran as hostages."
DeleteThat's right, David. They're holding the entire population against their will in their own country.
"The media trick us by ignoring all the actual US success"
DeleteRight again, David. Posting obscene, insane threats to destroy civilian infrastructure is a hallmark of strength and success.
By the way, is Trump taking extraordinary precautions to avoid civilian casualties like Mr. Netanyahu did? Or is that now considered weak?
The best part was capriciously insulting their religion. That is sure to gain support from the people
Delete"The US has all the cards"
DeleteIran is now deciding who gets in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. Isn't that a 'card' they're holding?
"Our only problem is that Trump may be too nice"
No one anywhere has ever had that problem.
"the main purpose of the war -- not allowing Iran to become a nuclear power."
If that was the war's main purpose, why did we cut off pre-war negotiations, when they were making so many concessions? You have no answer.
Hector, my understanding from a top Administration official nine months ago is the Iranian nukes were, and I am quoting, "totally obliterated." David jizzed all over himself with this exciting development. Now he is jizzing all over the place watching Ahabs stealing our oil get bombed like a regular Lindsey Graham Cracker.
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Delete4:15. I think that the answer to that question is to be found in the comment at 1:10. DIC is a troll grounded in an alternative reality that he chooses to propagate.
ReplyDeleteOpen the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
ReplyDeleteIs that what is known as the art of the fucking deal, dickhead? lol
That’s an empirical question @5:24.
DeleteFuck you
DeleteEmpirical my ass. No matter what the outcome dickhead will back engineer it to prove Superman us a genius
Delete"This is not a healthy human being who's making decisions here," Stevens said. "This is a very damaged guy who's in decline, who has no one around him to limit him, and we've stumbled into this war." --Stewart Stevens, Mitt Romeny's 2012 campaign strategist
ReplyDeleteWe need Jasmine Crockett and the other cool-headed logicians to take the reins and lead us back to sanity.
DeleteRepublicans are facing an extinction level event this fall, dumbass at 6:18.
DeleteI can't help it if you're prejudiced against strong black women. Jerk.
DeleteJasmine really fucks with Maga turd minds as she is so pretty and brilliant.
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