TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2026
No one can say we weren't warned: Our most disabled president said this, early on Easter Sunday:
Truth Details
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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
So he declared, on Truth Social. But then again, so what?
Yesterday afternoon, on the gong show known as The Five, Jesse Watters said this:
WATTERS (4/7/26): I didn't think his [recent] tweets were any more bombastic than they usually are. And bombing power plants is not a war crime.
How about obliterating every power plant, along with every bridge? Because that's what the sitting president has been promising.
As Fox's silliest child engaged in this messaging conduct, the chyron below him said this:
"OPEN THE F***IN' STRAIT"
LEFT MELTS DOWN OVER TRUMP'S TOUGH TALK ON IRAN
Even Fox wouldn't display what the president actually said. To the producers of the nation's most-watched "cable news" program, the president's Easter Sunday message was simply the latest example of "owning the libs," in this case through a bit of "tough talk."
Watters didn't see anything new, or anything strange, in a profane Easter Sunday rant which openly mocked the religion of Islam. Let's be sure to make this a holy, civilizational war! So the president urged.
There's really nothing to say today. We just have to tremble and wait as the stated 8 p.m. deadline approaches.
That said, one person had a different reaction to that "Open the Fuckin’ Strait" post. That person was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Republican congresswoman.
Last evening, on The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell built his opening monologue around Greene's reaction to the Easter morning post. To read the lady's lengthy post, you can just click here.
As we said, Greene's post is lengthy. Headline included, this is the start of Mediaite's report:
‘He Has Gone Insane!’ MTG Absolutely Bludgeons Trump in Fiery Reaction to President’s ‘Evil’ Threat Against Iran
Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called out President Donald Trump’s new threat against Iran in stunning fashion—claiming it shows “he has gone insane.”
Greene’s comments followed Trump’s Truth Social post in which he warned of attacks on Iran’s bridges and power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by Tuesday.
[...]
“On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted,” Greene wrote, in a post on X. “Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”
"He has gone insane," she said. Later, she said, "This is evil."
The fact that she said it doesn't mean that it's true. Also, "insane" isn't a clinical medical term, and Greene isn't a medical specialist.
In February, the president's niece, who does have a medical background, offered the latest warning. We're sorry to make you sit through this again:
ERIN BURNETT (2/26/26): You've known him your whole life. Do you actually see a [cognitive] decline?
MARY L. TRUMP: I do, but I think it's important to remember that Donald has never been fit in any capacity. Obviously, what we're dealing with now are age-related cognitive declines. We're dealing with physical issues that the White House tries to cover over.
But this is somebody who for decades now has had serious, undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric disorders, which are only going to worsen, especially given the pressure he's under and given the cognitive and physical declines.
This is "only going to worsen," she said. And this very day, here we are!
We'd been warned about this, again and again, dating to 2017. But over here in Blue America, the living was easy for journalistic elites. No one tried to start the discussion, and no one ever will.
Also, no one was willing to report and discuss the clowning which streams from the Fox News Channel. The silence of Blues was total.
Meanwhile, this:
This morning, as we prepare to post, the president has posted this:
Truth Social
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The pomposity is matched by the madness. It will all make sense on The Five.
We must sit and wait to see what happens. No one can say we weren't warned!
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ReplyDeleteJeez Selby, why so crude?
DeleteAs Selby was about to say, is there anything more disabling than being dead? We have had several presidents who died in office, not counting the ones who were assassinated. And is being lazy and stupid the same as being crazy or disabled?
ReplyDeleteIt would be sufficient to just call the president incompetent but Somerby feels the need to dress up his malfeasance in psychiatric terms. I don't see what that gains anyone. And the president's niece has a vendetta against her uncle, while Somerby cannot tell the difference between a clinical psychologist and a clinical therapist, which makes him a major asshole. Trump's book is mainly about how Mary Trump's father was mistreated and died of alcoholism, not about Donald J. Trump, who she regards as another victim. That may be why her book appeals so strongly to Somerby, who also considers our president to be a victim of his own psyche, not an evil man who rapes women and countries.
"Somerby cannot tell the difference between a clinical psychologist and a clinical therapist, which makes him a major asshole."
Delete'Uniformed' seems a better way to end that sentence than 'asshole'.
More like willfully uniformed, or performatively uninformed.
DeleteAnd they are not mutually exclusive, it is common for them to go hand in hand; Somerby easily achieves being both uninformed and an asshole,
For those who don't follow Trump's words, but instead look at his actions, I have to ask:
ReplyDeleteOf Trump's many bankruptcies, which is your favorite, and why?
Well my least favorite is his bankrupting of the United States of America because we will all suffer.
Delete"We must sit and wait to see what happens. No one can say we weren't warned."
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure Trump's warning was meant for Iran, but it is correct that we the people will also suffer the consequences if Trump continues waging this war.
Why does Somerby never mention that Congress and VP Vance could end our national nightmare simply by doing their jobs?
“The pomposity is matched by the madness. ”
ReplyDeleteOf course, “madness” isn’t a clinical medical term and Somerby isn’t a medical specialist.
Yes, Somerby's constant deflection (the term isn't in the DSM, critics are not medical specialists etc.) does wear rather thin.
DeleteTrump is a lunatic. Sound right? That's what I'm going with. So are the religious fanatics he's surrounded with, and the monstrous state of Israel, purely motivated by some obscure religious texts, with the lunatic Huckabee right in the middle of it all!
Very scary times.
Leroy
You cannot remove a president for being a lunatic. You need to remove him for doing lunatic things, as Trump has done repeatedly. When is no one talking about removing Trump (except the Democrats)?
DeleteExactly.
DeleteThere are not enough Republicans supporting the 25th Amendment or impeachment solutions, so those are moot.
The lunacy of Trump mainly comes into play over what his punishment should be, if any - there is no such thing as free will.
Trump is corrupt and a criminal. We can raise awareness among the population and among corporations by protesting and boycotting, otherwise are main leverages for agency are through voting and prosecution.
The corrupt SC6 have ruled that king Orange cannot commit any crimes. Has something to do with parts of our Constitution written in invisible ink
DeleteTrump has committed plenty of crimes outside of his role as president.
DeleteTrump can easily be prosecuted.
Dems dropped the ball, with their appeasement stance from establishment leaders like Obama, Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi/Jeffries, and from corporate media.
The adults in the room like Letitia James did good work but could only take it so far.
Looks like Dems are starting to vote in new types of leaders, people that are not afraid to go after the corruption and criminality in the Republican Party.
You didn't need to be Nostradamus to see that electing a fucking moron to be the President, just because he's also a gigantic bigot, wasn't going to work out well for the USA.
ReplyDeleteYou also didn’t need to be a medical specialist.
DeleteTrump announcing he is pulling the plug on the American Empire is what we voted for.
ReplyDeleteCan Trump really be insane when he has his priorities straight?
ReplyDelete"As tensions escalate with Iran, Donald Trump spent part of Sunday morning traveling to his Virginia golf resort after an unannounced motorcade trip that included a slow drive around Memorial Circle, the site near Arlington where he has proposed building a large arch monument.
According to pool reports from San Francisco Chronicle reporter Alexei Koseff, the motorcade departed just after 9:19 a.m., made what was described as a ceremoniously slow tour around the circle, and then continued on to Trump National Golf Club, arriving around 10:02 a.m. in the rain.
The golf trip had not been publicly listed on his schedule, which showed mostly “executive time” and a private Easter dinner later in the evening.
Trump also skipped any public church appearance on Easter Sunday, despite strong support from MAGA evangelical allies who often frame his presidency as being sent from God. Press access was restricted once he arrived at the golf club, and reporters were unable to see him after entering the property.
The golf outing came as his unauthorized war in Iran continues, creating a striking contrast between Trump’s Easter holiday and those of the troops he has deployed in harm’s way."
He did have the Easter bunny beside him as he ranted to the children about Joe Biden and Iran’s destruction on Sunday.
DeleteFrom Alternet:
Delete"Marking the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement, analysts speaking to The Guardian suggested that he would have done less damage to the U.S. economy had he "spent the last 14 months on the golf course."
A parent letting their children anywhere near Trump, someone who has assaulted minors, is a red flag that that parent should be investigated and probably should not be a parent.
DeleteApril is Child Abuse Awareness month in the USA. Crickets from Somerby on that.
DeleteThe deranged fucker said he is so popular in Venezuela he will learn Spanish (he is very good at language) in a short time, get elected there and run things. Get him away from the fucking briefcase now for the world's sake.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone close to Trump can convince him to do something that helps black people. That will get the Republican Party to invoke the 25th Amendment.
DeleteHere is our president hard at work:
ReplyDelete"Sitting at a picnic table surrounded by ten young children, President Donald Trump aired his grievances with former President Joe Biden and the “fake news” media while participating in a White House Easter event Monday.
Trump briefly spoke at the event – known as the White House Easter Egg Roll – before joining a table of children, all of whom appeared to be coloring and drawing pictures. Trump offered to “sign autographs” for the children, telling them that they could “sell them for $25,000 on Ebay.”
His mention of autographs saw him segue into criticizing Biden, who he’s accused of improperly using an autopen, an allegation that saw him demand a criminal probe into the former president. Trump’s Justice Department has since “quietly” shelved its investigation into Biden’s alleged improper use of an autopen.
"You know, Biden would use the autopen!” Trump told the children. “He was incapable of signing his name, so they'd follow him around with this big machine – you know what it was called? An autopen! And he'd have the autopen sign for him. He'd take the paper, hand it to his guys, they'd sign it with an autopen! Not too good, right?”
Trump then transitioned into attacking the media, asking the group of children their opinion on the press.
“Who likes the fake news? Does anybody like the fake news?” Trump asked.
“No!” exclaimed one child.
I hear doctors are checking those children for traces of syphilis, as I write this.
DeleteI'm taking bets on the deranged fucker dropping a few tactical nukes to show them dirty brown people who is the boss.
ReplyDeleteAnswering Quaker’s question yesterday
ReplyDeleteDavid in CalApril 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Why is Iran different from India, Pakistan, North Korea?
1. We cannot now prevent those 3 countries from getting a nuclear arsenal. We can prevent Iran (maybe).
2. Iran is particularly dangerous to other countries because of militaristic government, expansionist policies, and utter immorality as regards international law and decent human conduct. They’re like less competent Nazis.
I be am not sure that these reasons make tha attack the best policy, but imo they certainly make this attack a plausible policy.
BTW I discuss plausibility in terms of US interest and my personal interest, not in terms of some abstract, universal morality. I am a lot more concerned about the well-being of me than of some unfortunate Iranian.
Iran just demonstrated its militarism and danger by attacking Saudi Arabia
DeleteWhat should Iran have done instead?
DeleteInstead of what? Can you please clarify your question?
DeleteWhy won't Iran rollover and play dead for the racist?
DeleteThe Republican party, our media, our elite universities, and our captains of finance and industry all have.
BTW Hector, raising an Aristotelian question, the word "should" is subject to several meanings. From my POV, Iran should have gotten rid of their fascist government and relinquished their nuclear ambitions. But, there are other "shoulds.
DeleteSo you won't engage question 1. All those countries we didn't attack is so much water under the bridge.
DeleteOn question 2, you choose not to engage my query about deterrence. Deterrence has worked to prevent use of nuclear weapons by any country anywhere in the world for the last 80 years. Why is it necessary to assume it won't work now? If it's because Iran's leadership won't yield to threats, why does Trump persist in using threats to try to get them to open Hormuz?
None of this makes sense.
Dickheads purpose here is to divert, deflect and distract. Of course he won't fucking engage. He always wants you chasing his phantoms. Fuck him.
DeleteOK Quaker - I will try again. When you asked how Iran differed from NK, India and Pakistan I guess you were looking for some philosophical difference. Some sort of moral justification. Would you care to clarify what sort of difference you were addressing?
DeleteI provided a real world difference. because I believe that's the key difference. One could compare the evilness of the four countries, but IMO that's not the reason only Iran got attacked and the others didn't.
Why not just allow Iran to get nukes and count on deterrence as we do with the other 3 countries?
The main reason is that we have no choice. We can't remove their nuclear weapons, so we use deterrence, hoping it will work. I would prefer that these countries not have nukes, but that ship sailed.
It took Pakistan about 15 years to develop nuclear weapons, beginning in the 1970’s. Iran supposedly been developing them or wanting to develop them for 47 years? Why so long? And what was that strike on Iran last year that supposedly obliterated their purported nuclear program? Did they develop a weapon in the months since? And why if the threat has existed for 47 years did Trump campaign on no foreign wars? Why did he do nothing in his first term? Can a threat be imminent that lasts 47 years? Is obliterating iran going to help all those Iranians who were protesting?
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteDon't sell Trump's genius short.
Iran differs from those other countries, because they are sitting on oil.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party is working hand in glove with the oil companies to shield them from legal claims against from the destruction and costs of climate change.
To be honest, I'm glad there was never a Republican voter who cared about a rigged economy or the two-tier justice system which treats the economic elites with kid gloves, because they'd probably just blame it all on black people anyway.
dickhead in cal
DeleteThis is why it is useless to expect the dickhead in cal to ever argue in good faith. The JPOLC that Captain Queeg tore up doesn't exist in dickhead's universe. The fact that they negotiating in good faith until trump preemptively attacked means nothing to him. Fuck you, dickhead.
Why not just allow Iran to get nukes and count on deterrence as we do with the other 3 countries?dickhead in cal
DeleteThis is why it is useless to expect the dickhead in cal to ever argue in good faith. The JPOLC that Captain Queeg tore up doesn't exist in dickhead's universe. The fact that they negotiating in good faith until trump preemptively attacked means nothing to him. Fuck you, dickhead.
correction: JCPOA
DeleteJCPOA Limits: Iran was restricted to 3.67% enrichment, a 300 kg stockpile, and only allowed to use older, less efficient centrifuges.
After Captain Queeg tore up the agreement,
Since 2019, following the US withdrawal, Iran began exceeding these limits. According to reports, as of 2025, Iran is enriching uranium up to 60%
Another fuckup by King Orange the Fuckup Master. He starts a fucking fire and starts bombing a country to put the fire out. Well done, King Chickenshit.
David is lying about Iran, which as a society is way more Western and civilized than Saudi Arabia who has been allying with Israel in opposition to Iran for years.
DeleteEven the hawks in US intelligence agencies say Iran gave up its nuclear weapons efforts in 2003.
In reality Iran never had a nuclear weapons program, and unlike Israel who does possess nuclear weapons and refuses to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty, Iran is a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty and has had a fatwa against nuclear weapons for decades.
David is a foreign troll who lies for a living.
You know Bob, this whole "Trump is insane" tripe that you and the entire liberal media is relentlessly pushing to no effect reminds me of the early scene in Apocalypse Now where Willard has lunch with the General and is given the order to kill Col. Kurtz because he has "gone insane."
ReplyDeleteHowever, as Willard comes to realize the real reason they want Kurtz dead is not because he's insane, but because he is exposing their incompetence.
Just as Trump as exposed the utter incompetence of our political "leaders" both Democrat and Republican.
Here's the clip of that scene.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBF3kXHoZM
All that money wasted by the business world and our elites financing the campaigns of utterly incompetent Democrats and Republicans.
DeleteIt's no wonder the biggest fucking morons in the history of the world insist we need to run the government like a business.
Trump opponents’ exaggerations convinced a lot of people that Trump is the ultimate in evil. That’s naive. As a result they lost the frame in assessing the level of real evil of the 9/7 attack or of the IRGC or Hamas. Terms that are exaggerations when applied to Trump are literally true when applying to the IRGC, but a lot of people list the ability to understand the difference.
DeleteGo fuck yourself, dickface
DeleteAs long as Israel is still on the world map, Trump couldn't possibly be the ultimate in evil.
Delete"Trump as exposed the utter incompetence of our political "leaders" both Democrat and Republican."
DeleteSeriously. They couldn't even impeach him when he committed treason against the United States of America.
While there's a decent chance there are 10 Republicans who believe treason against the United States of America is an impeachable offense. There is no possible way all 10 of them would be sitting US Senators.
An example of the difference between exaggeration and reality is Candace Owens statement. It calls Trump a Satanic, mad King and says all our lives may depend on removing him. Compared to this, just casually machine-gunning 32,000 people out demonstrating doesn't sound so bad, does it?
DeleteOr shooting 2 protesters dead in cold blood on the streets of Minneapolis
DeleteDear dickhead, are you ok with Captain Queeg using a nuke on the ancient kingdom of Persia? Fuck you straight to hell.
DeleteWhat, you want us to argue that Candace Owens isnt' bugshit crazy?
DeleteHave a nice day.
As long as there is someone, somewhere in the world who is worse than Trump, we have no reason to complain that our president has gone to Milledgeville.
DeleteHey Dickhead Repubs are straight up Nazis right? We had Vance and Musk campaigning for the Nazi party in Germany last year. Now the couch fucker is campaigning for Hungary"s Orban. The sick fucker who pussied out of joining Putin's expanded invasion of Ukraine when Putin had his ass handed to him on the way to Kharkiv the first few days. Fuck the fuckung Nazi pieces of shit
DeleteHow much taxpayer dollars is Mr. Mascara eyes giving to the Nazi Orban to help him buy his re-election? Anyone know? Bueller?
DeleteQuaker - Candace Owens happens to be a conservative nut. But, my point is people who suffer from TDS are comparable.
DeleteThe striking thing is that @11:57 probably feels virtuous for posting that dishonest comment. @11:57 surely knows that these two people were not shot in cold blood. They were shot during melees. One shooting was probably justifiable because the victim
Deletewas in the process of hitting the shooter with her vehicle when she was shot.
I wonder what @11:57 gets out of posting a malicious lie.
You tell us, David. You have experience.
DeleteYou’re fucking full of shit, dickface. This state of MN has to fucking sue this fascist regime because the DOJ didn’t even investigate either cold blooded murder
Delete“probably justifiable” - let’s put that to a jury, you fucking fascist freak. you should be horse whipped, dickhead.
DeleteTwo more falsehoods, or at least loose comments. The DOJ did investigate the shootings. Two valid complaints are that they didn't investigate jointly with the state and that they haven't released the results of their investigations.
DeleteThe striking thing is that dickhead probably considers himself human
DeleteYou’re a fucking lying punk, dickhead. You should be horse whipped
DeleteIt was a melee I tells you. First off the bitch said I'm not mad at you bro, so I had no choice but to shoot her three times in the head. Totally obliterated the nasty ass bitch.
DeleteIt was a melee I tells you. First off the bitch said I'm not mad at you bro, so I had no choice but to shoot her three times in the head. Totally obliterated the nasty ass bitch.
DeleteAnd Alex Pretti was disarmed and then shot in the back.
DeleteWhere is the fucking evidence of the "investigation" by Pam Bondi and Kash Patel?
DeleteIt is wild that Bob is fine with calling out “insanity” but bristles at anyone calling out racism or sexism.
DeleteFunny, that.
12:48. The victim was not in the process of hitting the ICE murderer with her car, as shown on multiple angles videoed. You are a lying piece of human garbage.
DeleteCandice Owen is not even close to bug fuck crazy as Dickhead. And even this POS asshole conservaturd knows shit is fucked up and shit; "“How do we 25th Amendment his ass?” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked his guest on Monday’s show."
Delete“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?,”
ReplyDeleteInsanity.
Well-chosen words for the purpose of bullying Iran into making a deal. May not work, but worth a try.
DeleteIran hangs another young man as regime steps up executions of protesters under cover of war
DeleteIMO Iran's act is not comparable to Trump's words.
There was a deal, orchestrated by Obama. Trump tore it up. Trump attacked Iran this time in the middle of negotiations.
DeleteDiC, trump is threatening to obliterate an entire country. Iran’s regime executed a protester in accordance with its laws. You may find those laws odious, as I do, but those are their current laws. Should we attack every country that treats its citizens badly? Do you think bombing Iran into the Stone Age helps those Iranian citizens who are being put to death, or does it strengthen the regime?
DeleteMy god, you are an insufferable bastard, DiC. Are you counting the bombs trump has been raining down on that country for the past month?
DeleteThe protests in Iran did not entail 32,000 deaths, not even close, that’s just a made up number.
DeleteThe experts say that around 5000-7000 were killed, and there are reports, backed up by Trump letting slip that he and Israel armed agitators, that the protests and the deaths were primarily a function of Israel’s involvement in inciting riots and arming provocateurs.
In 1 hour, it will be Wed in Iran, due to time zone differences.
DeleteIran murders thousands of peaceful demonstrators! @2:28 blames the Jews!! For me, antisemitism isn't funny, even when it's this preposterous.
Delete@2:28 blamed Israel, dickhead. That’s not antisemitism. You fucking fascist freak
DeleteTrump basically admitted that he and Israel incited those protests and were involved in the murder of the demonstrators.
DeleteThat aligns with what reporting and investigations were already revealing, which is probably why Trump spilled the beans, it was coming out so he might as well own it ahead of time.
Meanwhile, in response to Hamas killing a few hundred Israelis, while the IDF curiously stood down (and then provably killed some of their own citizens when they got off their asses), Israel wiped out Gaza, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, at least half of which were children. Defending Israel at this point is repugnant.
The question is: is David as psychopathic as he presents himself? Probably not, he is just a troll repeating the talking points he was handed.
It's impossible to overstate the hold bigotry has on Right-wingers.
DeleteI remember this feeling. I last had it during the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
ReplyDeleteYou know these fuckers are humiliated by their loss to Iran so they can't wait to turn things around with just one or two tactical nukes to get them to behave. Trump, who has killed everything he touches will do the MAD thing in a pique of anger. He is an extinction level event
DeleteI'm not sure about nukes. Frank Zappa, long ago, poo-poohed the idea of nukes being used (except accidentally, which is reason enough not to have them).
DeleteIt would be bad for business, he said. Given the stakes for Trump and Co., this seems plausible.
But Trump is a lunatic. We can only hope that our military command will not obey such an order, if it comes to pass.
Leroy
Frank Zappa was very bright, the felon is a demented idiot surrounded by Religious nutjobs. Don't forget to tell everyone you love them.
DeleteWhen you hear someone worrying about nukes, you can count on them being right wingers. That is the excuse the right (Trump et al.) has been giving for bombing Iran, so the threat must be magnified to justify the violence. Those of us on the left are not worrying about nukes (in Cuba or anywhere else). DG keeps insisting he is a Democrat, but like Somerby he repeats right wing talking points here daily while attacking liberal commenters and supporting Somerby's idiocies.
DeleteMy how times have changed. When I was growing up it was right who fought arms control. Come to think of it, it is still the right fighting nuclear arms reduction. Saint Ronny cost us trillions trying to develop Star Wars missile defense system
DeleteMy how times have changed. When I was growing up it was right who fought arms control. Come to think of it, it is still the right fighting nuclear arms reduction. Saint Ronny cost us trillions trying to develop Star Wars missile defense system
DeleteAgree, DG is a right wing troll.
DeleteAh! My remora! Where have you been?
DeleteHow very right wing of you.
DeleteI love it when DG doubles down, it is so Trump-like.
Sorry you are triggered by the consensus, but you are not fooling anyone.
womp womp
As a committed lefty I am terrified of Trump repeatedly saying why have them if we can't use them. His Uncle at MIT taught him that nukes will kick hurricanes in the ass after all.
DeleteWomper? You're my remora?
DeleteMore good news from our fascist overlords. Following our own fascist assholes lead, DiCs second favorite Fascist has given Ukraine 48 hours to stop pounding the shit out of Russian troops or he will nuke them. Like I said, the felon will get us all killed.
DeleteDiC is the poster boy for why Somerby’s pleas about medical specialists would be completely ineffective.
ReplyDeleteWar should be the last resort. With Captain Queeg and his Secretary of War it is their first choice.
ReplyDelete“But over here in Blue America, the living was easy for journalistic elites. No one tried to start the discussion, and no one ever will.”
ReplyDeleteHere’s a partial list of Mary Trump’s TV appearances:
Frontline, Velshi, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, The Weekend, Deadline White House, Morning Joe, The Amanpour Hour, The ReidOut, The Beat with Ari Melber, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, The Mehdi Hasan Show, The View, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNOW Reports, Don Lemon Tonight, AM Joy, Cuomo Prime Time, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Good Morning America
Bob wants us to stop talking about racism, sexism, and xenophobia, and instead focus on calling people insane.
ReplyDeleteBrother, please.
Bob is out of touch and out to lunch.
Excellent point I had not noticed.
DeleteWe are told to not call out racists, but we can call out insanity.
It makes no sense, unless the directive is coming from a right winger.
I’m old enough to remember Death of a Princess. Absolutely disgusting stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnd that most of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is run by demented people that are insane, sick, and repugnantly evil.
Israel made a terrible mistake in allying with Saudi Arabia, and sure enough a few years later Israel embarked on a genocide that would have been unthinkable before they allied with Saudi Arabia.
The country in the Middle East that most poses a risk to America, is and always has been Saudi Arabia.
The sooner we can replace oil with natural gas and renewables, the sooner we can work on making Saudi Arabia irrelevant, which will make the world a much safer place.
“We want Greenland. They don’t want to give it to us. And I said, ‘bye, bye,’” U.S. president fulminates as allies refuse to back the war on Iran.
ReplyDeleteHow the fuck did this nation find itself with this madman in charge? Anyone..... Bueller?
Where are the Democrats in standing up to Trump for this? Who's in charge on that side?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I am about to call my Senator
DeleteFrom The Hill:
Delete"A wave of Democrats on Tuesday called to remove President Trump from office over his threats against Iran ahead of an 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday deadline for Tehran to cut a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now,” Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) posted on social platform X, referencing Trump’s Tuesday morning post.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called on the House to begin impeachment proceedings over the post, calling it “completely unstable and perilous.”
“The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization,” Markey said in a post online.
The White House responded by calling the Democrats’ remarks “pathetic.”
“Democrats have been talking about removing President Trump since before he was even sworn into office. The Democrats in Congress are deranged, weak, and ineffective, which is why their approval ratings are at historic lows,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said.
Trump posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran does not meet the deadline to reopen the critical shipping channel. That followed his threats over the weekend and on Monday to attack bridges and power plants in Iran, which some international experts warn would be tantamount to a war crime.
“25th Amendment RIGHT NOW! Trump is too unhinged, dangerous, and deranged to have the nuclear codes!” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) posted in response.
Cont.
Delete"The Democrats pointed to the 25th Amendment and impeachment as possible ways to remove Trump from office.
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which governs presidential succession, says that the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet may vote to declare a president “unable to discharge the powers and the duties of his office” and give the vice president the duties of acting president.
A dispute from the president about his capacity to perform the job would then send the question to Congress, which could concur by a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate.
The vice president and the Cabinet have never before declared a president incapable of serving in office.
It takes a majority vote of the House to impeach a president and a two-thirds vote in the Senate to convict and remove the president — a process that Trump, who has been impeached twice but avoided removal, is familiar with.
“After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide. It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) posted on social media.
“This is why the 25th Amendment and impeachment were created. These aren’t policy differences. He is threatening crimes,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) said in a post. “It’s time to invoke the 25th. But we can’t do it alone—we need our Republican colleagues to do the right thing, for this country and for the world.”
Some Democratic members did not specify the process they would prefer to remove Trump, but just that he should be removed.
“This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said in a post on X.
Democratic Reps. Summer Lee (Pa.), Andrea Salinas (Ore.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.) were also among those who called in posts online to remove Trump over his post.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) did not call to remove Trump from office, but he said, “It’s time for every single Republican to put patriotic duty over party and stop the madness.” Democrats intended to call up a resolution to limit Trump’s war powers in Iran when Congress is back in session next week."
Looks like the Dems are pretty united in standing up to Trump.
DeleteHowever, it should be noted that while The Hill tries to cultivate an image of being in the center, it is in reality a far right element of corporate media, being run by a Trump supporter.
That is why we get nutty framing like this: "some international experts warn would be tantamount to a war crime".
No, it is a clear war crime, that is not in contention.
But good try, The Hill, for trying to sanewash Trump.
Digby quotes a lengthy rundown of the ways that Democrats and Republicans differ, and then summarizes why voters should be supporting Democrats. She points out that even if Democrats don't poll well as a party, the antipathy toward Trump and the Republicans among the majority of voters is driving Democratic candidates to win all over the country, including in red states and districts, supporting the idea of a tidal wave in support of Democrats during the midterms.
ReplyDeleteGiven that Republican voters have finally figured out what Trump is about, the Democrats do not have to be a perfect party with charismatic candidates in order to win in the next election.
The idea that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats is a right wing talking point.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/04/07/not-a-dimes-worth-of-difference-2/
The art of the fucking deal, eh dickhead?
ReplyDeleteTrump once again recently falsely claimed that he deserves credit for killing Osama bin Laden, because he supposedly suggested that in his 2000 book The America We Deserve.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wild, and it is under-reported, is that there are a couple sentences in that book about bin Laden, except the message is completely opposite of what Trump later claimed.
Those couple of sentences are saying that concerns about bin Laden are overblown and that the government is using bin Laden as a bogeyman; Trump is criticizing a hawkish response to bin Laden, saying it is performative, that bin Laden is not a real threat but a ginned up one.
Trump was arguing against military action, against vilifying bin Laden.
It is wild Trump gets away with nonsense like this, his supporters are in a cult.
While Democrats piss themselves as usual, Iran is begging for a deal at this hour.
ReplyDeleteWhat are your terms, maggot?
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