THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026
There's no known cure for this: Yesterday, the sitting president said it again--or did he?
To see what he said, you can just click here. We'd transcribe it like this:
PRESIDENT TRUMP (10/7/26): If you want to see trauma, you want to see problems—
And I said it the other day: Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. Let them hit—
You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems?
Let them hit San Diego, let them hit Los Angeles if you want to see some bad things happen, you want to see a country that would be in free fall.
We’re not going to let that happen. We protect our cities. We protect our country. We’re not letting that happen.
AUDIENCE: [Applause]
"We aren't going to let that happen?"
In the view of one close reader, that's largely what the sitting president was clumsily saying the other day, with a clumsy reference to the idea that "we'll have to pay a bit more for gas" clumsily marbled in.
On this morning's Morning Joe, Mika and the others were pretending that he was still inviting an attack on the coast. (Joe wasn't there today.) Eventually, it was clear that Mark Leibovich didn't agree with what the rest of the gang was saying, but under the rules of the cable news game, he knew that he couldn't just say so.
There is no cure for the tribal mind. That's another way of saying that there is no cure for human. In our view, Al Gore didn't say he invented the Internet, and the current president didn't invite Iran to bomb the west coast
More on this another day. There's plainly no cure for this.
ReplyDelete"the current president didn't invite Iran to bomb the west coast"
Duh.
...but alas, you're still a Dumbocrat. Perhaps only slightly retarded, unlike the rest of your Dumbocrat comrades...
I think he DID invite Iran to bomb the west coast. In Iran, those hearing Trump's words might conclude that this is his price for negotiating an end to the war.
DeleteReal presidents don't say things like Trump did, so it has to be a coded message to signal terms to Iran. Trump is asking Iran to help him with his internal political problems in exchange for peace terms before the midterms. Why wouldn't Iran think that? It isn't as if Trump had send bona fide negotiators to discuss peace with them, just buffoons discussing a Tehran Trump hotel and crypto payoffs, not real diplomats.
Why won't Republicans use Article 25 to remove Trump before he harms us more?
Fucking idiot Mao can't be learned there is no B in dum.
DeleteTrump’s quote invites dishonest opponents to change the meaning by omitting the last part
ReplyDeleteTrump isn't clumsy in his speaking, he is incoherent, senile. Trying to make sense of what he says is a fool's game. Calling people who misunderstand trump "dishonest" is itself dishonest given that Trump is so unclear in his speech.
DeleteI agree with David, some are trying to falsely claim that Trump meant he is not going to "let that happen" when plainly he meant he is fine with it happening.
DeleteOne positive thing about Trump, particularly as his filter fades, is that Republicans are finally going mask off to some extent and being a little more honest about their true nature.
Fuck you, david.
DeleteTrump doesn't have the ability to prevent it from happening. He can't even end his stupid war. He can't negotiate good enough terms to end it. He can't get the Strait opened up. He can't protect ships from being attacked in that region. He had to move his bomber from the UK (supposedly a safe place) because Israel told him there was a plot to attack them. How on earth could he prevent an attack on LA or SD, just by making an announcement that he will keep us safe there? He has not POWER and his military is corrupt and inept. It is an empty promise, so of course his audience was happy about him specifying targets that weren't them.
Delete@1:51 - Trump is indeed working hard to prevent Iran from nuking LA two ways
Delete1. Threatening massive retaliation
2. Using the military to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
Dementia Don needs to clean up his sick fucking mouth David, not the rest of us. Fuck you you sick fucking creep.
DeleteHey, DiC:
DeleteIranian officials say they will soon release the audio of several voicemails Donald Trump left them in which he begs, threatens, attempts to bribe, and finally cries for them to open up the Strait of Hormuz so gas prices will go down before Americans vote on November 3.
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
"Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life"
DeleteFucking idiot promised to blow Iran shit up after midterms and gas started climbing back up. So he retracts the stupid statement. Meanwhile his boys are banking millions trading off his stupid mouth. This shit is fucked up and shit..
DeleteAgree with David.
DeleteAnyone who listens to what that babbling asshole says should have their heads examined.
1. Threatening massive retaliation;
Delete(Trump threat value = empty)
2. Using the military to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
(preventing something that was not happening, and was not a threat anyway, since an attack by Iran on an American city would have provoked a overwhelming counter-attack, and they knew it).
Hector- nobody knows what Iran would do if they had nukes. My guess FWIW is that they would use the threat to gain advantages in Europe. In a game of chicken, the crazier, more ruthless side has the advantage.
DeleteI can’t imagine the Iranians wanting nukes now more than ever after being attacked (in the middle of negotiations, no less). Do you think they look over at North Korea and how Trump says “Kim Jong-un likes me” and how he’s never threatened to attack them?
DeleteI’d nuke North Korea in a heartbeat over their treatment of dogs.
DeleteFuck off
DeleteI'd nuke dogs over their treatment of mail deliverers.
DeleteBernadette Green-Placentia, a Democratic congressional candidate, says she was raped.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c65yndpnk5qdo
Is this her real name? Sounds like some Monty Python sketch character.
DeleteYes, let's all make fun of the names of possible rape victims.
DeleteRape culture is epidemic, see the above comment, but there is no vaccine for it.
DeleteDumbocratia is a case of severe mental retardation.
DeletePro rape trolls are so edgy.
DeleteFinger-sniffing Dumbocrat bots are so retarded.
DeleteLook who is triggered, though.
DeleteIt's always you, Hillary.
DeleteLook how the right wing and its trolls gloat when a Democratic candidate is raped! They cheer on violence against the left, encouraging right wing extremists to commit violent crimes. This is why there is more violent political crime on the right than the left.
DeleteLook how retarded the finger-sniffing Dumbocrats are.
DeleteIt's funny, because the Republican Party is an international pedophile ring.
DeleteWhat is socialism?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/10/as-explained-in-das-kapital.html?m=1
Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid??? Republicans are imbeciles.
DeleteE.Jean Carroll really raped Trump. Not vice versa.
DeleteOf course Trump is still inviting an attack on LA and SD. He is doing that by mentioning their names, making them salient to anyone in Iran (or potential terrorists) as targets. If he weren't doing that, why mention those cities in the first place?
ReplyDeleteThis is like when Trump said that it would be a shame if something were to happen to Hillary Clinton, while she was his opponent. It put a target on her back. It is irresponsible.
"In the view of one close reader", yes but there is the rub.
ReplyDeleteAside from "close reader" being meaningless, Bob is a poor interpreter of what he reads.
Similar to Musk's Nazi salute, everyone knows what Trump meant, from the smirk on his face to the cheering audience to everyone with two brain cells to rub together.
Trump took heat for it and is now trying to clumsily walk it back, and people like Bob are here to help.
It Trump cared he wouldn't say stupid shit. Trump don't care, plus stupid, plus dementia, plus a nasty ass.
DeleteIs this the most important issue today? Brad Slager is trying to slime Talarico by saying that one of his donors in in the Epstein files, so guilt by association. This is how the right wing press rolls. Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught clumsily trying to grift by asking a right wing donor to pay off her Amex card in exchange for exerting govt influence (using her connections to do him a favor). This is how the right wing rolls. But Somerby is fixated on how the left reported something stupid that Trump clearly said about Iran bombing LA or SD, and it would be a small price to pay for peace. Trump is trying to walk that back, and Somerby is trying really really hard to help him.
ReplyDeleteSomerby has become a Trump-whisperer. In this case, it doesn't mean that he is trying to heal Trump's pain, but he is trying to explain away the stupidity issuing from Trump's rancid-anus mouth. Somerby thinks he knows what is in Trump's mind when he burbles nonsense, with enough certainty to complain about differing opinions of political analysts on TV.
Spot on.
Delete1:50 -- What happened to "Agree"? Did you decide to consult a Thesaurus?
DeleteI sniffed my finger and I heard a voice inside my head saying "spot on".
DeleteI am Corby.
Disagree with Dogface.
DeleteSpot on is not a synonym for agree, although both are positive reactions. Spot on means that the response is accurate and fits what was said. Agree refers to one's own opinions and congruence with what the other commenter said.
Close reading is not DG's specialty. His own comment is hostile in tone, especially in context, but he gives no substantive point of disagreement. A lump of empty negativity.
"Spot on means that the response is accurate and fits what was said."
Delete"Response is accurate"? Sounds retarded. As if a retard asked "Google AI" a wrong question. But hey, what else is new.
Humiliating to be defended by a troll DG.
DeleteDogface George is spot off.
DeleteWho fucking cares?, close enough you idiots.
DeleteDisagree.
DeleteLike Gutfeld, Trump is too boorish and that is hurting the GOP brand, but if he performatively walks back his boorishness, then Somerby is on board.
ReplyDeleteand trump never asked the proud boys to incite violance. you guys are reading into these accidental dogwhistles
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that Iran may also read into them. That's why real presidents speak carefully. Why is the right tolerating this obviously incompetent man in the presidency (besides the blind eye he turns to their grifting)?
Delete“Accidental”?
DeleteThe notes played on the dog whistle are sharps and flats.
DeleteSomerby has decided that Trump is mentally ill, deluded, sociopathic, narcissistic. How in blazes does he feel he can now ascribe coherence and sanity to anything Trump says? That’s called “sanewashing.”
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteTrump got the applause he was looking for when he mentioned the Iranians nuking Los Angeles and San Diego. His crowd heard it exactly the way the rest of us did.
ReplyDeleteYours is the cogent point. Perhaps Bob’s generous after-the-fact exegesis of a transcript of Trump’s remarks can offer an option where they can be taken innocently, but there is no doubt that a large number in his crowd in real time were laughing at and cheering the potential mass destruction of millions of human beings. Go ahead Bob, make nice to these people. There are 1.9 million children in Los Angeles County.
DeleteRoger Clemens is a big fan of Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteWho fucking cares?
DeleteYour mama cares.
DeleteNot that this will make a difference in anonymouse “thinking”, but there is this from AI:
ReplyDeleteTo understand why targeting major metropolitan centers like San Diego and Los Angeles would have a uniquely devastating impact on the United States, it is necessary to examine their critical concentrations of national defense infrastructure, global trade corridors, aerospace manufacturing, and economic output. Strategic planners, economic historians, and geopolitical analysts have long documented how certain geographical nodes serve as systemic backbones for the entire nation.
Economic and Gross Regional Product Concentration:
Metropolitan regions such as Los Angeles and San Diego function as primary macroeconomic powerhouses for the United States. Los Angeles anchors the largest county economy in the nation and serves as the financial, manufacturing, and commercial capital of the American West. San Diego, with a Gross Regional Product (GRP) scaling well into hundreds of billions of dollars, represents one of the most dynamic innovation hubs in the country [San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation].
The sudden disruption of these economies would not merely affect localized populations; it would trigger severe national supply chain shocks, disrupt financial markets, and paralyze key sectors of the American economy, particularly trade, biotech, and high-technology manufacturing.
National Defense and Military Infrastructure:
One of the most critical vulnerabilities—and conversely, strategic assets—centered in Southern California is its unmatched concentration of military and defense architecture.
San Diego's Defense Ecosystem: San Diego hosts the largest concentration of military assets in the world and the largest federal military workforce in the United States [San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation]. It serves as the principal homeport for the United States Pacific Fleet, encompassing vital naval surface forces, nuclear submarines, and aviation wings. Approximately 20 percent of San Diego's GRP is directly or indirectly tied to defense-related spending, making it an indispensable pillar of American national security and power projection in the Indo-Pacific and globally [San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation].
Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing: Southern California has historically been the cradle of American aerospace and defense technology. From the development of advanced unmanned aerial systems (drones) by companies like Shield AI to major aerospace engineering and defense contracting firms across the LA basin, the region produces the technological and hardware backbone required by the U.S. Armed Forces. A catastrophic disruption to this industrial base would severely compromise military readiness and technological superiority.
Global Trade and Supply Chain Gateways:
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together form the "San Pedro Bay port complex," which handles roughly forty percent of all containerized cargo entering the United States. This maritime complex is the undisputed gateway for trans-Pacific trade between the U.S. and Asian manufacturing powerhouses.
In addition, the region is integrated through massive rail, highway, and air cargo networks. If these logistics hubs were incapacitated, the immediate result would be an unprecedented nationwide bottleneck. American manufacturing plants dependent on imported parts would face rapid shutdowns, consumer goods would experience severe shortages, and the flow of international commerce would grind to a near halt.
Critical Innovation and Technological Sectors:
Beyond traditional manufacturing and military might, Southern California anchors irreplaceable clusters of scientific research and development. Cont…
cont: Life Sciences and Biotechnology: San Diego is globally ranked among the top three life sciences markets in the world, driving breakthroughs in genomics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices [San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation].
DeleteCybersecurity and Advanced Tech: With nearly 1,000 firms dedicated exclusively to cyber operations backed by close proximity to military commands, the region is a frontline defense against digital warfare [San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation].
The loss of these intellectual and physical research infrastructures would set back American technological innovation by decades, impacting everything from healthcare to national cyber-defense.
You’re helping Iranian targeters.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:51pm, they don’t need my help. Anonymices absolutely do.
DeleteThe leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran are irrational. They couldn’t begin to select targets. The advice of an intelligent American woman is very valuable to them.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:00pm, that pretty well goes without saying in most cases and circumstances, but then anonymices are always in the dark.
DeleteTrump called for bimbing SD, not any of us.
Deletebombing
DeleteBombing bimbos.
DeleteTrump thinks Iran will “hit a missile” 7000 miles away from their country:
Delete“Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way.”
The stupid, it burns.
But also, we obliterated their nuclear program back in 2025. Or don’t tell me that was a lie?
Cecelia and David are and the rest of his deplorables are buying it, that’s all he cares about
DeleteIt would be worse than unfair for Trump to save DiC from being raped by his landscaper only to be successfully targeted by a nuclear ICBM launched from Iran.
Delete3:49 PM. There is no empiric evidence that this administration gives a flying fuck about the advancement of science.
Delete4:04,
ReplyDeleteAnonymous’ can’t even identify a Republican voter who isn’t a bigot..
Ana Marie Cox makes an important point at Mediaite, asking why male grifters in Trump's administration are not treated as viciously as female grifters (lately Kimbery Guilfoyle):
ReplyDelete"We’ve been talking about Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Amex bill for two days straight. Pundits are piling on her access grifting and shakedown ventures and, admittedly, Guilfoyle’s brand of fraud is irresistibly juvenile (asking for bribe with prayer hands emoji!) and overt (“everyone gets right back to me,” she promised her mark).
But is Guilfoyle gaining such widespread notice because she is especially corrupt? Or is it because she retains the look of the Fox host she once was–because she was rocking the Mar-a-Lago Face before we knew to call it that? The media’s fascination with her is familiar from its enthrallment to other women in Trump’s orbit who’ve faced scandals. Pam Bondi had her wardrobe dissected. (“The Absolute Worst Outfits Pam Bondi Wore During Her Short Year As Trump’s Attorney General.”) Social media jesters dubbed Kristi Noem “ICE Barbie.” Late night comics have gleefully insinuated that Natalie Harp and Trump are having an affair.
These are not barbs that reporters and internet wags typically throw at men in similar situations."
Of course, we know why this is happening -- the right is misogynistic, even toward its own female supporters. But we on the left should be equal opportunity critics of the grifting taking place on the right, so that Kash Patel gets the same focus as Kristi Noem. They are all crooks.
Mediaite says: "This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author."
DeleteIt says that at the bottom of the article. It should say it at the top, especially for assholes like Brad Slager who color outside the lines.
Apparently the Wizard of Oz has awarded Scarecrow King Chickenshit a brain today. You can’t make this shit up.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a nasty, fucking sociopath. Sociopaths are precisely the kinds of people who would imagine welcoming the nuking of cities that they don’t like. Or is Somerby unwilling to go down his chosen road of calling Trump a sociopath and dangerously mentally ill? What the fuck does he think dangerously mentally ill means or sociopath?
ReplyDelete“ Trump to children in the Oval Office: “You stay there. You’re so good looking. The press can admire you.
ReplyDeleteHe said this to a child!
The Pentagon announced that convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan is scheduled to be executed by a military firing squad on December 3, 2026, which would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the first by firing squad since World War II. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the execution at Fort Hood, Texas, will be public and live-streamed
ReplyDeleteGhouls
DeleteAt Fort Hood? What, the White House lawn was booked up?
Delete"Speaking before a crowd in North Carolina last month, Vice President JD Vance stumbled: “We need somebody who will fight back against the fart left,” he said, then corrected himself, saying he meant the “far left.”
ReplyDeleteHe could have kept going with his remarks. Instead, he stopped. “You may not have even heard that,” he told the crowd, then repeated the phrase and swore it was an accident. “So to the fake news who will accuse me of bad language, I promise I did not mean to call them the fart left.”
So at the same time that this overeducated hick is pretending to have almost insulted the left (in a desperate and degraded attempt to seem human), he's calling the news media 'fake'.
The 'fart left'. Next thing you know, J.D. will apologize for having said 'Dumbocrat.'
It was a callout to his chaise.
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