TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026
As does everyone else: As if the rest isn't bad enough, consider us the people. This report by the Washington Post tells a remarkable tale:
Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds
About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was staged, with a marked partisan divide, according to a survey published Monday.
Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets. Respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were also more likely than older people to think the incident was staged, according to the report.
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The NewsGuard survey found that 24 percent of U.S. adults believe the incident at the Washington Hilton was fake, compared with 45 percent who believed it was legitimate. An additional 32 percent said they were unsure. The survey of 1,000 American adults was conducted by YouGov from April 28 to May 4.
The survey was conducted by YouGov, a serious polling outfit! And good God:
"Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged."
Please bring on the grand inquisitor to save us Americans from ourselves! Simply put, it isn't clear that we the people were built for this line of work.
Then too, you have to consider the failing state of the sitting president. Here's one of the headlines he's generated at Mediaite in the past few days:
Trump Posts Image of Obama, Biden, Pelosi Bathing in Feces in New Truth Social Meme Spree
President Donald Trump posted a Photoshopped image of former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden bathing in sewage with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a Truth Social post spree on Tuesday.
In the post, captioned “Dumacrats Love Sewage,” Obama, Biden, and Pelosi could be seen bathing up to their necks in a version of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that was filled with human waste.
And so on from there, astonishing photo included. You can also click on such cries for help as these:
Trump Drowns Feed With MAGA Praise in Late-Night Truth Social Dump Celebrating Himself
(For report by Mediaite, click here)
Trump Says the White House ‘Was a Sh*t House’ With Columns ‘Falling Down’ When He Moved Back In
(For report by Mediaite, click here)
Trump ‘Seriously Considering Making Venezuela the 51st State,’ Fox News Reports
(For report by Mediaite, click here)
And on and on, with little respite, from there.
Cognitive decline is always a human tragedy. So is serious mental illness, especially where such medical issues may have preceded a later decline. In this instance, for obvious reasons, those conditions are also dangerous.
That said, we the people simply aren't built for this demanding line of work. Meanwhile, the sitting president clearly seems to be hanging on by a thread.
Also, the mainstream press corps is still determined to avert their gaze from what's sitting right there before them. Along the way, those of us in Blue America are telling the world things like this:
If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a T.V. show and we wear nice suits.
We're giving you the anthropology. Anthropology can be cruel, and it hurts!
It is very clever of President Trump to behave as a demented old fool. He is a very funny stand-up comic also.
ReplyDeleteDamn! I read this three separate times before I realized it wasn't DiC. Well done!
DeleteThe Butler and Kirk shootings were staged too. Israel.
ReplyDeleteSomerby has no direct info about whether Case Allen really was trying to kill anyone in Trump's administration, any White House officials, as stated in his manifesto. He used to reserve judgment about people accused of crimes but not convicted, and Case Allen has pled Not Guilty when arraigned last week.
ReplyDeleteYet Somerby has the nerve to say:
"Please bring on the grand inquisitor to save us Americans from ourselves! Simply put, it isn't clear that we the people were built for this line of work. "
He says this because 1 in 3 Democrats apparently disagree with him in his assessment of Case Allen's intentions. (We must infer by Somerby's reaction that he does not think the assassination attempt was staged. He doesn't say it directly.)
Then Somerby says that cognitive decline is always a tragedy. I don't think that is true -- sometimes it is a mercy to the person affected. They are not generally aware of their own decline except in the early stages.
I strongly disagree that growing old is a human tragedy. Those of us who attain very old age are fortunate because we have escaped earlier death. More often our quality of life is good until death is near, which is a blessing not a tragedy.
Somerby is unclear about what "demanding line of work" we the people are unfit for. Voting is not a line of work. We are not collectively the president either. Is Somerby just being lazy or has he confused himself in the middle of his rant? He also forgets to attribute his quote about the wearing of nice suits.
It is clear to the rest of us that the quote in question is speaking about a voting rights context and is limited by that context (ripped away in Somerby's repetition of it). We get it that the speaker is not saying everything about 1865 is the same today, except for clothing styles.
Somerby's careless essay suggests he too is having cognitive problems, most likely age related. He is not saying anything coherent about anything else, including what we the people are or are not capable of doing.
People are allowed to have theories about current events, even shootings. Just because they hold conspiracy theories that they are willing to express when absolutely nothing is at stake in a poll, doesn't mean anyone has lost their mind, with the possible exception of Somerby himself. NPR is cautiously reporting people as being unsure whether the shootings were staged or not. Republicans are willing to throw the Butler shooting into the mix.
Somerby is overreacting. He is making himself seem foolish just like Trump. If Somerby considers himself to be a human tragedy, maybe he will give us all a break and retire this silly blog, or is the money too big a part of his income?
"is the money too big a part of his income?"
DeleteThis is an evidence-free and ugly assault on Somerby's integrity.
Somerby has no integrity. Defend him at your own risk.
DeleteLike I said: Evidence-free. Just makin' up shit about Somerby.
DeleteMaking up shit is Somerby's job at TDH.
DeleteYou can poop faster than anyone can clean up, right?
DeleteIt’s nice here when you’re gone. Fuck off.
DeleteThat's what we see here in comments every day - a diarrhea of made-up shit about Somerby.
DeleteDG thinks people should agree with Somerby about not having any opinions.
DeleteSomerby's got a nice little racket he's running.
DeleteNo one can disagree with him, because he never states anything.
Will DG now tell me how wrong I am about Somerby not having opinions?
Anything is possible.
"Will DG now tell me how wrong I am about Somerby not having opinions?"
DeleteSuper easy. Let's take just the heading of today's essay: "The sitting president continues to fail!" There! Somerby states his opinion clearly and succinctly.
Speaking of anything being possible:
Delete"is the money too big a part of his (Somerby's) income?"
Where does this theory that Somerby has no opinions comes from.
DeleteIt's obvious the reason Somerby doesn't come right out and definitively say us blues are the reason Trump is President, is because Somerby knows for a fact the reason Trump is President is because Republican voters are bigots.
7:41,
DeleteAgree.
That's sounds like Somerby's opinion in a nutshell.
Trump isn't just failing, he is not doing his job. That is more important than whatever personal tragedy Trump is experiencing by being unable to do crossword puzzles and groom young girls.
ReplyDelete6.3 million people in the USA are over 85 years old. Is that a human tragedy? What do you think their families would say?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, "When is that fucker gonna kick so I can get the inheritance?"
Delete"We're giving you the anthropology. Anthropology can be cruel, and it hurts!"
ReplyDeleteMore lies. What does Somerby have against anthropologists, who are a kind of scientist? Nothing in this essay has anything at all to do with anthropology. Anthropology is not hurting anyone. Why does Somerby malign it this way?
Obviously, he is using the word "anthropology" as shorthand for some other idea in his head, but who knows what it is. He has never explained it clearly. It is some weird metaphor that makes no sense to anyone else. That is what schizophrenics do, and other mentally ill people. If Somerby is mentally ill himself, then he is not at all equipped to evaluate Trump, the VRA, gerrymandering, Democratic responses on polls, or anything else. He is raving and he is bonkers. It would be a tragedy if anyone cared, but I don't care, do you? Maybe anthropologists might care, or maybe they would just get a restraining order and be done with him.
"Obviously, he is using the word "anthropology" as shorthand for some other idea in his head, but who knows what it is."
DeleteSomerby feels that our nation may be doomed because humans are not capable of managing a large, diverse, modern society. If that is true, then he feels the task at hand is to explain this failing of human nature, a subject within the domain of anthropology. You're welcome.
You have no more idea what Somerby means than he does.
DeleteExactly, 7:23.
DeleteIf Trump finds the White House beneath him, let's all get together and find a new place for him to live.
ReplyDeleteHere is what Bakari Sellars said:
ReplyDelete"CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers claimed the “only difference” between the United States in 1896 and 2026 is that white supremacists have “swapped” their Ku Klux Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits."
Here is what Somerby says above:
"Also, the mainstream press corps is still determined to avert their gaze from what's sitting right there before them. Along the way, those of us in Blue America are telling the world things like this:
If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a T.V. show and we wear nice suits."
Note that Somerby's version is not what Bakari Sellers said at all. He said the white supremacists are wearing suits instead of hoods. A search did not turn up anyone saying the things Somerby quoted, except Somerby.
What kind of weirdness is this fake quote that has a very different meaning than what Sellers actually said? Is Somerby trying to pretend Sellers said that or that any Blue media has said it? We didn't. No one did. And it is not at all the same meaning, since it refers to black people's suits, not white supremacists in suits instead of hoods.
Somerby perhaps thinks making up this different quote is clever or funny. It is just ugly and racist.
DeleteThat is fucked up. What a fucking racist asshole Somer-be.
DeleteWhat is fucked up is that Somerby quoted Sellars word for word. In fact, this morning he not only quoted Sellars but he linked to the cite so you can see and hear exactly what Sellars said.
Delete5:06 is apparently quoting from some unknown source which truncates Sellar's quote, and that truncation leads to the confusion you have mindlessly spread. But if you think the quote is ugly and racist, blame Sellars.
Here's what Sellars said, as quoted accurately by Somerby:
"If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a T.V. show and we wear nice suits. They've—they swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits."
If you want to be a mensch, apologize. If you don't, you can always deflect and distract, perhaps by more namecalling.
CNN — why didn’t Somerby wuote his source?
DeleteI put Somerby’s quote in a search engine and it came up empty. That’s on Somerby not Blue America.
DeleteIt migiht be on you if you can't figure out how to click the link Somerby supplied this morning. Here, I'll make it easy for you:
Deletehttps://archive.org/details/CNNW_20260512_070000_CNN_NewsNight_With_Abby_Phillip/start/240/end/300
Somerby created the confusion by omitting the part of the quote that was the point, misleading readers and making it seem like Sellers was saying something different than what he said. No one should have to go back looking for context Somerby omitted.
DeleteWell, I guess you're not a mensch, are you?
DeleteI disagree with you. What’s new about that? Then you call names.
DeleteDG,
DeleteIt's pretty Slabby of you to think anything isn't possible, just to undermine Somerby.
"Note that Somerby's version is not what Bakari Sellers said at all."
DeleteThis is a falsehood, pure and simple. A mensch would acknowledge and apologize. You don't.
No it isn’t. Somerby truncated the quote leaving out the part about KKK and making it seem like Balari said negroes wearing suits, as if he thought that was progress — the opposite of what he meant about racism being the same despite suits. Somerby changed the meaning and left out the link.
DeleteDOJ subpoenas WSJ over war coverage:
ReplyDeleteBecause fuck you, what are you going to do about it
Apparently nobody is gonna do shit about these corrupt pieces of shit. Brave DiC will write, I don't agree with this, but Demonrats blah blah. I hate fuckers like him. Always willing to look the other way for the Regime. This Campos summary is the tip of the iceberg:
Delete*Trump founded a cryptocurrency firm at the same moment he was deregulating the entire crypto industry. He then bought a separate firm that he used to buy his own cryptocurrency, while at the same time raising nearly one billion dollars from investors to buy that very same cryptocurrency.
*He launched a meme coin, aka, a lightly tarted up Ponzi scheme, that netted him hundreds of millions of dollars, even as the coin lost 97% of its “value.”
*He received the benefit of enormous crypto “investments” from foreign nationals, that were barely disguised bribes. He pardoned one of these investors, wiping out a serious criminal conviction that was as straightforward a quid pro quo as one will ever see.
*His son-in-law Jared Kushner, a man with no experience in either high finance investment or international diplomacy, was given two billion dollars to manage by Saudi Arabia – this generated a $40 million investment fee for Kushner – and then was appointed by Trump to handle wartime negotiations with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s bitterest regional rival. In the midst of the negotiation, Kushner solicited five billion more dollars for his fund from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern governments.
*Qatar gave Trump a $400 million luxury jumbo jet as a “gift.” This is a completely unambiguous violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
*Perhaps the most amusing story in this cesspool of corruption was the Trump phone. In June of 2025, Trump and his sons announced they were selling “Trump phone” – smart phones that would carry the president’s image on their screens, while being gilded in faux gold, and being made in the United States. Nearly 600,000 people paid, collectively, almost $60 million in deposits for the purported right to purchase these phones. One year later, not only had no phones been delivered, but the company that was supposedly producing them announced that it was under no obligation to do so..."
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is a famous 1887 observation by British historian Lord Acton.
DeleteThe corrupt Supreme Court 6 gave this criminal absolute power.