Well, inasmuch as trump has called military personnel who were KIA as "losers and suckers", tossing off six deaths on a Kuwait base as — you know — "shit happens" is totally on-brand, and we should expect no better from these callous barbarians...feh!
trump got on the phone with Vlad as soon as he saw the WaPo article...Putin said, "I've still those tapes, Donaldsky, don't fecking lecture me, bro", and end of convo.
I’m sure he’s aware. Likely they’re corroborating. Takes up another news cycle. So we won’t notice the next tranche of Epstein files released, implicating him another thousand times. And we won’t notice all the other failures occurring under his watch
Hopefully our long national nightmare will over, but only when the guilty parties have been tried, convicted,and incarcerated, and legislation is passed to prevent this level of corruption to ever occur again.
Stephen, after this debacle, that might be more possible than it seems. The existential abyss we have been staring into might give us a new found appreciation for what we have taken for granted.
"Never obey in advance.". "Be as courageous as you can.". (Timothy Snyder) We are making progress and we owe Jay Kuo a debt of gratitude for pointing this out... In the day to day chaotic " heaping" of events, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel... But we, as citizens, have and are pushing back... That is the good news...
Har! I just was commenting that I've been rereading Tim's On Tyranny! And I agree, thank you to Jay for pointing out the progress we've made against this tyranny. It's hard to see real progress within the chaos of America's newsfeeds, but I would say it's significant and Jay's highlighting that progress is wonderful.
Same. Rereading On Tyranny by Tim Snyder was a really, really bad idea on my part. Whoever coined the phrase, "Ignorance is bliss" knew what they were talking about. Too bad I'm not wired that way - apathy would be so relaxing. Obliviousness until the nuclear bomb dropped on my head would make for a much less stressful time waiting for it to happen.
But I'm in the camp of trying to STOP that from happening, so ignorance is no excuse. Not to say I know a lot - I just try not to be "purposefully ignorant", nor do I have much respect for those who do right now.
Thank you! I'm in that camp too ~ I'm too defiant to just give up. All of these distractions just serve to piss me off, which then means I use it as fuel for good trouble.
(when I can - disabled kiddo that needs alot of my attention)
That you're plugged in and vote and have pro-democracy/anti-tyranny blood in your veins is the ultimate support you can give - tending to your kiddo is job one, and bless you for raising the child in a critically-thinking home! If we had more parents like you, we wouldn't be in this precarious situation.
Thank you for this. (amazing timing, I needed to hear it) All we can do is try and keep trying, and fighting and resisting. There are no other options. Thank YOU for being that person too ~ you give me hope. xoxo
I've thought that many times - can you imagine what a world of shit we'd be in if these jerks were smart and competent? Those Germans were pretty damned competent.
And they didn't have the wealth of technology at their fingertips like this administration does! Trump is still inept despite the cyber world being at his complete disposal. (Like, I doubt he created that meme of himself flying the bomber dropping literal shit on protesters... Or the Obamas-as-apes meme... He dictated what he wanted to some computer lackey who created them, I'm positive. I mean, the guy can't even spell.)
if one person could be arbitrarily impeached it should be Miller, but he is way to smart to actually commit any crimes- he just issues ultimatums that would require illegal action to fulfill. Trump accidentally posted a DM to Bondi ordering her to prosecute his political targets; it was just luck that he did not add "ps drop the case against so-and-so, they paid up" and basically do the most actually criminal part of watergate in one tweet. Bondi would be the new Mitchell. I can't think of any historical figures to compare Noem to, nor can I name from memory anyone else who has ever been head of DHS. somehow they all seem to have less name recognition.
Maga Americans have to go, too - or change. Even if they sour on trump and his parade of cruel clowns, the political and ethical ideals of the people who supported trump et al are not conducive to this country's democracy surviving. Or even this planet surviving, with all the anti-science; climate denying; anti-nature; self-absorbed; and passionately xenophobic, misogynistic, white supremacist and "America First" sentiment that dominates their belief system.
Yes, FABULOUSLY put, Ethereal Fairy! We have to make it selfish to respect the climate and non-humans and habitats (I say selfish because that quality is core to maga). I wish “the more quiet and stealthy the car, the more sexy and cool it is” was the teenaged paradigm over obnoxiously huge and loud, as it’s been for decades. Electric cars or hybrids would be the ideal.
Just imagine how much quieter cities and highways would be if everything was electric! Yum
I dunno, Charles. After the past year---and current war---how long will it take for the rest of the world to trust us again? How long to rebuild programs such as USAID? To regain the expertise we lost when DOGE fired all those public servants? To re-implement the environmental and ESA regulations and make up for lost time? And so on and so on. It may take a generation or more to repair what that maniac destroyed in one year.
Good questions. The world losing trust in us has less to do with Trump than it does the idiocy of a nation that would elect him. I think the only way to regain that trust is a Nuremberg type of set of trials here. That seems somewhat implausible.
Agree on all points, Charles. But I keep going back to the question, "What if we didn't elect him?"
And I've written this many times before, on different forums, but the short version is that, IMO, we don't know what happened in the 2024 election. At this point, someone will usually jump in and say that election results CAN'T be tampered with. I don't buy it. There were various glaring anomalies in the last election; huge numbers of bullet ballots, for one thing. The vanishingly small probability of Rump's winning all the swing states. Not to mention all the GOP dirty tricks that went on before and during Election Day. How many voters were turned away? How many thousands of votes were suppressed or simply not counted? (There was an incident in Texas on Tuesday where hundreds of ballots might have been omitted from the count.) Not to mention Rump's biggest supporter, with his posse of hackers---especially critical given that MAGAs are, by far, the smallest segment of voters.
All this to say, what if it came out that Rump lost in 2024? That would put our country in a whole different light, wouldn't it?
I can't argue with your 20% take, Charles. To me, that's actually a little high, but then, the ignorance and gullibility of the general public shouldn't be underestimated. I do sympathize with those who are working two or three jobs to eat and live indoors, however. That doesn't leave much time for political analysis.
You're right, though: it should never have been close enough that a small percentage of the vote either way would alter the outcome. I'm not sure how much the results might have been changed. Look at 2004 in Ohio.
It's not sarcasm. I think Trump is in the waning hours of his life, and it will be impossible for MAGA to hold together in his absence. We need to step up during the midterms, but I think we can.
The scary part is that his cronies will see the writing on the wall, if they haven't already. They've already started the Iran war.
I think Susie Wiles does not get anywhere near the attention she deserves. She's everywhere, if you look at all the photo opps. She almost single handedly turned Florida into a failed state before she arrived in the Trump camp.
And she's not done yet. She is crafting her next project as I write this.
No. I think they're on the verge of collapse, and I think, further, we need to put our foot on the proverbial neck to make sure it happens. I also thought Kamala would win. So there's that.
I just want to say thank you for continuing to give us hope. I don't know if recovery for this country will happen in my lifetime, I feel like it is going to be a long road. I do hope that things will be better for my grandbabies and your beautiful children. BTW, I love seeing their pics. My grandkids are 5 and 8. It goes by in a blink! Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Yes, Massie & Tillis have poked a hole in the dam. Even Kennedy has shown a little spine lately. Let's hope they inspire other republicans to follow suit. I appreciate that you inject positivity into your essays, Jay. It's easy to dwell on the negative, so good to be reminded of successes.
Well after the vote on the war powers act, we may have a 2 steps forward, 4 steps backward scenario. Four Dems voted along with the Project 25 MAGA Republicans on that
After Markwayne Mullin was inexplicably ubiquitous on the Sunday chat shows and cable news interviews over the past few weeks, then the republicans in the house and senate finally posed serious questions to Noem about her behavior, am I the only one thinking this looks like a coordinated White House campaign to take down Noem and replace her? Don't get me wrong, it couldn't happen to a better person [Justice for Cricket!], but the normally supine house and senate republicans suddenly showing some spine is deeply suspicious.
The only question now is who's next? If Kegstand keeps making Trump's mission accomplished moment in Iran look bad, I think SecDrunk may be on his way out.
She's still drawing a govt. paycheck for her newest gig, and one wonders if Lewandowski is yet again part of the hiring package as her irreplaceable f**k-buddy.
In a video from early last year, she said Donnie liked ads she did as Gov of SD and urged her to do the same for DHS. She asked if he wanted to be in them and he said no, but thank me in the first one. Imagine Donnie on a horse
oh he knew about the scam. Everyone in the administration is in in rhe grift. The sin was saying Donnie knew about it and approved it. In fact he suggested it and nothing else she did over 14 months bothered him but that
I'm glad to see the 302 forms finally released. I have to conclude the trump is corrupt to the bone if he was laundering money through his casinos. I hope the girl who bit trump is able to find justice and closure finally. I applaud her courage.
I always thought that was common knowledge, that is how they go bankrupt. They launder money, until they suck the casino dry, then they have to file bankruptcy. It's why he could never pay his creditors, and realized he could make a lifestyle out of doing that, and he in turn bankrupted so many small businesspeople.
It may be common knowledge for some, but I never knew anything about that prior to your comment. That "man" just becomes more sickening to me every day.
I grew up there (specifically in Santa Monica) and I agree about the politics. But the last time I was there, the traffic was insane, and for me it was not the friendliest place.
Why haven't more media voices raised our abandonment of Ukraine? This administration gaily launches into a multi-billion dollar attack on Iran, raids Venezuela, threatens Ecuador and now takes aim at Cuba...I understand that they don't WANT to support Ukraine against Putin...and Trump wants to be seen as a world-wide dominator, forcing anyone and everyone to do his bidding. But I still would like to see more voices reminding the public that Ukraine is still fighting and in need of support. Our tax money could be so much better spent both domestically and internationally than on these illegal, illogical, destructive "vanity projects" of Trump's!
US reverse- engineered the super-cool Iranian Shahed drone, a weapon so much more cost-effective and damaging/unit cost vs bloated MIC shite peddled by US defense contractors for decades, bleeding us tax-payers with no end in sight.
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, too. It's like the media have abandoned Ukraine as something they need to cover. ALL of this is important. But we cannot lose sight of Ukraine.
I wonder this too, Jenell! I don't see mainstream news even mentioning this, so it's up to *US* to shout out loudly about the plight of Ukraine under trump's illegal war with Iran (et al)!
Trump as "world-wide dominator" is definitely what he's working towards and it gives me chills of anxiety that our congress is failing to rein him in. The man-toddler is the one president who will resort to using nukes callously and impulsively when he feels his popularity is so low, he must take everything down with him. I'm no psychiatrist, but trump is some kind of "-path" - psycho- or socio-, it doesn't matter: he's not a normal person and he's getting worse and worse by the minute, with his self-perceived power and his advancing senility.
Check out the photo of Cheetolini in a fit of rage. We are dealing with a mad man completely off his rocker:
Furious Trump wants 'rehearing' after 'highly disappointing' Supreme Court defeat
President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House, on the one-year mark into his second term in office, in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
If he succeeds in getting the SCOTUS to change its ruling, we’re even more doomed and must work harder to get this crazy narcissistic bad-seed-toddler-brained ass out of the White House!
About two years ago, I believe it was Judge Luttig who I heard say that there is no White Knight coming, no Silver Bullet coming, but that it rests with the people themselves to rescue themselves from this. He was right, and you are right, Jay. I can see how we are making progress even though it's slow and painful. I am so grateful to Reps Massie and Khanna. I think many people feel strongly about JUSTICE in the Epstein case because others have experienced the same travesty of justice those survivors have been brutally dragged through. It must stop.
We need Nuremberg style trials. And court reform, and constitutional amendments for term limits, ethics requirements for SCOTUS, eliminating stock trades for elected officials, and money out of campaigns. Just for starters
There is reporting in the Nation that the US sub that torpedoed an Iranian ship had been in naval exercises with India and others, and knew the Iranian ship had no weapons aboard. Who knew there are naval exercises going on in the world where the US is involved along with Indian and Iranian naval vessels. Thoughts? Astounding!
Hagueseth's comment was: "This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be." We are being represented by Bullies! I object 😠
I’m so glad to see someone commenting on this heinous, disgraceful cheap shot (huge shot actually). How can we not be furious & totally dismayed by such callousness? The US had participated in the exercises off of India. They knew it was a training vessel. Disgusting. Testosterone poisoning on steroids. Fie upon their houses.
They are all cheap shots from this regime of game-bro warriors. BBC aired an Iranian woman at the Minab funeral calling on them to 'drown in the blood of our children'😢
Unfortunately “ them “ includes any American citizen, showing how damaging this administration is to our safety at home, around the world, and in the skies.
Well, Hegseth is openly bragging about not fighting fairly and "kicking them when they're down," and he's ridiculing rules of engagement. Rump just likes to see things go "BOOM!" Aside from their bone-deep cruelty and sociopathy, they're embarrassments to their respective offices.
Thom Hartmann speculated yesterday that the so-called peace talks were a way to make sure that most of the Iranian leadership would be in one place at a given time, to target them all at once.
Prosecuting a sitting president isn’t going to be possible, so we should understand that limits of what we can accomplish. But if he outlives his presidency, there are possible paths despite the broad immunity granted by SCOTUS.
Thanks for this, Jay. I appreciate your summaries, as so much is going on. And you are right: discouragement is not an option if we ever want an equitable and functioning democracy.
“It’s sometimes helpful to zoom out and ask what it is we have been demanding and to compare that against what has been achieved so far. When we go through this exercise, we can more easily identify areas of laudable progress.”
We can also see where greater concentration of effort is needed.
Well, inasmuch as trump has called military personnel who were KIA as "losers and suckers", tossing off six deaths on a Kuwait base as — you know — "shit happens" is totally on-brand, and we should expect no better from these callous barbarians...feh!
I wonder what he will say about WaPo's report today about Russia giving Iran intel about the location of US planes, warships, etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/russia-iran-intelligence-us-targets/
trump got on the phone with Vlad as soon as he saw the WaPo article...Putin said, "I've still those tapes, Donaldsky, don't fecking lecture me, bro", and end of convo.
Trump will try to remain in denial about his BFF Vladimir helping the enemy.
The USA has been king of the hill for far too long for our enemies. They gathered together to bring us trump as president and total chaos
They were helped by stupid and greedy Americans. We have to take responsibility for our own failings, of which others may take advantage.
Plus racist and white supremacists Americans
I’m sure he’s aware. Likely they’re corroborating. Takes up another news cycle. So we won’t notice the next tranche of Epstein files released, implicating him another thousand times. And we won’t notice all the other failures occurring under his watch
My Mother eas furious at being called a sucker and loser. She was a veteran of the Korean war along with my uncles and father.
The end is nigh. Soon, we can return to Gerald Ford's famous, "Our long national nightmare is over."
Hopefully our long national nightmare will over, but only when the guilty parties have been tried, convicted,and incarcerated, and legislation is passed to prevent this level of corruption to ever occur again.
That will take a whole raft of Constitutional Amendments. A big raft of them.
Stephen, after this debacle, that might be more possible than it seems. The existential abyss we have been staring into might give us a new found appreciation for what we have taken for granted.
A new progressive era perhaps.
Unfortunately Mr. Ford's failure to hold Nixon accountable has led us directly to this point.
Ditto, it led directly to Reagan's crimes, "W," and trump's Jan 6th, insurrection.
Which the Supreme Court has now blessed.
This time people have to go to jail and be there for many years,perhaps to die there.
Absolutely Paula!
Paula- Thank you for remembering and reminding us.
Came here to say this!!
Spot on! Called it.
Agreed! Let’s hope the next president does better.
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But will we survive until then? I’ve never been so frightened
"Never obey in advance.". "Be as courageous as you can.". (Timothy Snyder) We are making progress and we owe Jay Kuo a debt of gratitude for pointing this out... In the day to day chaotic " heaping" of events, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel... But we, as citizens, have and are pushing back... That is the good news...
Thank you, Jay. It's hard to have hope these days. I appreciate all you do.
Har! I just was commenting that I've been rereading Tim's On Tyranny! And I agree, thank you to Jay for pointing out the progress we've made against this tyranny. It's hard to see real progress within the chaos of America's newsfeeds, but I would say it's significant and Jay's highlighting that progress is wonderful.
Thank you Michele2 for those positive words and thoughts.
Same. Rereading On Tyranny by Tim Snyder was a really, really bad idea on my part. Whoever coined the phrase, "Ignorance is bliss" knew what they were talking about. Too bad I'm not wired that way - apathy would be so relaxing. Obliviousness until the nuclear bomb dropped on my head would make for a much less stressful time waiting for it to happen.
But I'm in the camp of trying to STOP that from happening, so ignorance is no excuse. Not to say I know a lot - I just try not to be "purposefully ignorant", nor do I have much respect for those who do right now.
Thank you! I'm in that camp too ~ I'm too defiant to just give up. All of these distractions just serve to piss me off, which then means I use it as fuel for good trouble.
(when I can - disabled kiddo that needs alot of my attention)
That you're plugged in and vote and have pro-democracy/anti-tyranny blood in your veins is the ultimate support you can give - tending to your kiddo is job one, and bless you for raising the child in a critically-thinking home! If we had more parents like you, we wouldn't be in this precarious situation.
Thank you for this. (amazing timing, I needed to hear it) All we can do is try and keep trying, and fighting and resisting. There are no other options. Thank YOU for being that person too ~ you give me hope. xoxo
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If you read another book of his, The Road to Unfreedom, you’ll see trump has followed the Russian dictator playbook since Stalin, albeit more ineptly.
(Thank God for trump's ineptitude... We just have to oust Miller, the more adept terrorist hatemonger.
I'll have to get that book.)
I've thought that many times - can you imagine what a world of shit we'd be in if these jerks were smart and competent? Those Germans were pretty damned competent.
And they didn't have the wealth of technology at their fingertips like this administration does! Trump is still inept despite the cyber world being at his complete disposal. (Like, I doubt he created that meme of himself flying the bomber dropping literal shit on protesters... Or the Obamas-as-apes meme... He dictated what he wanted to some computer lackey who created them, I'm positive. I mean, the guy can't even spell.)
if one person could be arbitrarily impeached it should be Miller, but he is way to smart to actually commit any crimes- he just issues ultimatums that would require illegal action to fulfill. Trump accidentally posted a DM to Bondi ordering her to prosecute his political targets; it was just luck that he did not add "ps drop the case against so-and-so, they paid up" and basically do the most actually criminal part of watergate in one tweet. Bondi would be the new Mitchell. I can't think of any historical figures to compare Noem to, nor can I name from memory anyone else who has ever been head of DHS. somehow they all seem to have less name recognition.
Not soon enough! It's already almost 14 months too late.
Not until this whole administration is gone. Having a Vance/Thiel administration will be no better.
Maga Americans have to go, too - or change. Even if they sour on trump and his parade of cruel clowns, the political and ethical ideals of the people who supported trump et al are not conducive to this country's democracy surviving. Or even this planet surviving, with all the anti-science; climate denying; anti-nature; self-absorbed; and passionately xenophobic, misogynistic, white supremacist and "America First" sentiment that dominates their belief system.
They are followers though, so somehow we have to make it popular to save the planet. We used to teach this through children's cartoons.
Yes, FABULOUSLY put, Ethereal Fairy! We have to make it selfish to respect the climate and non-humans and habitats (I say selfish because that quality is core to maga). I wish “the more quiet and stealthy the car, the more sexy and cool it is” was the teenaged paradigm over obnoxiously huge and loud, as it’s been for decades. Electric cars or hybrids would be the ideal.
Just imagine how much quieter cities and highways would be if everything was electric! Yum
Sadly, the butt-ugly Cybertruck seems to get pitched as such.
Any kid who has a cyber truck is either a drug dealer or a spoiled brat.
(I’m blunt today! 🙃)
I hope you are right Charles. I have felt that way before and it just gets worse, but, to your point, it looks like the walls are closing in on him.
I dunno, Charles. After the past year---and current war---how long will it take for the rest of the world to trust us again? How long to rebuild programs such as USAID? To regain the expertise we lost when DOGE fired all those public servants? To re-implement the environmental and ESA regulations and make up for lost time? And so on and so on. It may take a generation or more to repair what that maniac destroyed in one year.
Good questions. The world losing trust in us has less to do with Trump than it does the idiocy of a nation that would elect him. I think the only way to regain that trust is a Nuremberg type of set of trials here. That seems somewhat implausible.
Agree on all points, Charles. But I keep going back to the question, "What if we didn't elect him?"
And I've written this many times before, on different forums, but the short version is that, IMO, we don't know what happened in the 2024 election. At this point, someone will usually jump in and say that election results CAN'T be tampered with. I don't buy it. There were various glaring anomalies in the last election; huge numbers of bullet ballots, for one thing. The vanishingly small probability of Rump's winning all the swing states. Not to mention all the GOP dirty tricks that went on before and during Election Day. How many voters were turned away? How many thousands of votes were suppressed or simply not counted? (There was an incident in Texas on Tuesday where hundreds of ballots might have been omitted from the count.) Not to mention Rump's biggest supporter, with his posse of hackers---especially critical given that MAGAs are, by far, the smallest segment of voters.
All this to say, what if it came out that Rump lost in 2024? That would put our country in a whole different light, wouldn't it?
I've read the This Will Hold stuff — I assume you have, too. :-)
My issue with all of that is that it should never have come to a few thousand votes in a few states. (all they say may be true!)
The 2024 election should never have seen Trump get more than 20% of the vote in any precinct after what we experienced the first time around.
I lost all faith in the American voting public in 2024.
I can't argue with your 20% take, Charles. To me, that's actually a little high, but then, the ignorance and gullibility of the general public shouldn't be underestimated. I do sympathize with those who are working two or three jobs to eat and live indoors, however. That doesn't leave much time for political analysis.
You're right, though: it should never have been close enough that a small percentage of the vote either way would alter the outcome. I'm not sure how much the results might have been changed. Look at 2004 in Ohio.
Yeah, Republicans have been cheating for a long time. I guess that’s what happens when you pardon a president (Watergate) for, you know, cheating.
What make you think that? Or is this sarcasm? I’m thinking the latter, as you referenced Ford, who got us into this mess.
It's not sarcasm. I think Trump is in the waning hours of his life, and it will be impossible for MAGA to hold together in his absence. We need to step up during the midterms, but I think we can.
Thank you for that small glimmer of hope today, Charles.
We all need more glimmers of hope, Paula.
The scary part is that his cronies will see the writing on the wall, if they haven't already. They've already started the Iran war.
I think Susie Wiles does not get anywhere near the attention she deserves. She's everywhere, if you look at all the photo opps. She almost single handedly turned Florida into a failed state before she arrived in the Trump camp.
And she's not done yet. She is crafting her next project as I write this.
Let's hope so!
Boy, was that a whopper for the ages!
I hope so
Surely you jest.
No. I think they're on the verge of collapse, and I think, further, we need to put our foot on the proverbial neck to make sure it happens. I also thought Kamala would win. So there's that.
It could be that she DID win, Charles....
I just want to say thank you for continuing to give us hope. I don't know if recovery for this country will happen in my lifetime, I feel like it is going to be a long road. I do hope that things will be better for my grandbabies and your beautiful children. BTW, I love seeing their pics. My grandkids are 5 and 8. It goes by in a blink! Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Jay's babies give me hope, such sweet babies!
Yes, Massie & Tillis have poked a hole in the dam. Even Kennedy has shown a little spine lately. Let's hope they inspire other republicans to follow suit. I appreciate that you inject positivity into your essays, Jay. It's easy to dwell on the negative, so good to be reminded of successes.
Well after the vote on the war powers act, we may have a 2 steps forward, 4 steps backward scenario. Four Dems voted along with the Project 25 MAGA Republicans on that
After Markwayne Mullin was inexplicably ubiquitous on the Sunday chat shows and cable news interviews over the past few weeks, then the republicans in the house and senate finally posed serious questions to Noem about her behavior, am I the only one thinking this looks like a coordinated White House campaign to take down Noem and replace her? Don't get me wrong, it couldn't happen to a better person [Justice for Cricket!], but the normally supine house and senate republicans suddenly showing some spine is deeply suspicious.
The only question now is who's next? If Kegstand keeps making Trump's mission accomplished moment in Iran look bad, I think SecDrunk may be on his way out.
One can only hope.
She's still drawing a govt. paycheck for her newest gig, and one wonders if Lewandowski is yet again part of the hiring package as her irreplaceable f**k-buddy.
Unless he's the DHS pass-around. That's enough to make me feel sorry for TwoNames.
Human dildoes are hard to find so...
If only!!
The ONE thing that did her in Jay was saying Donnie was the instigator of the ad campaign. Until then he had no problem with everything she did
Also making herself the star of the videos, not him.
In a video from early last year, she said Donnie liked ads she did as Gov of SD and urged her to do the same for DHS. She asked if he wanted to be in them and he said no, but thank me in the first one. Imagine Donnie on a horse
That would be cruelty to and abuse of a fine animal.
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South Park is going to be lit!
Also she failed to cut him in on the scam. Which is the unforgiveable sin in trump-world.
oh he knew about the scam. Everyone in the administration is in in rhe grift. The sin was saying Donnie knew about it and approved it. In fact he suggested it and nothing else she did over 14 months bothered him but that
Thank you Mr. Kuo ! .
Your comments here need to be read by every American who votes .
-Nate
I repost him to help do my part, small though it is.
“Shield of the Americas” sounds like a condom for the MAGA market
I really like the comment that it sounds like a name assembled from rearranging refrigerator magnets. Laughed out loud when I read that.
If only the parents of today’s MAGA had used them.
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I'm glad to see the 302 forms finally released. I have to conclude the trump is corrupt to the bone if he was laundering money through his casinos. I hope the girl who bit trump is able to find justice and closure finally. I applaud her courage.
I always thought that was common knowledge, that is how they go bankrupt. They launder money, until they suck the casino dry, then they have to file bankruptcy. It's why he could never pay his creditors, and realized he could make a lifestyle out of doing that, and he in turn bankrupted so many small businesspeople.
It may be common knowledge for some, but I never knew anything about that prior to your comment. That "man" just becomes more sickening to me every day.
Maybe it's because I'm from up north originally. His bankruptcies and stiffing contractors was pretty well known.
https://noelcasler.substack.com/p/breakdown
https://noelcasler.substack.com/p/the-national-anthem
I was living in LaLa Land (literally - SoCal), so I was spared.
I loved living in SoCal. I miss the sanity of the politics.
I grew up there (specifically in Santa Monica) and I agree about the politics. But the last time I was there, the traffic was insane, and for me it was not the friendliest place.
Yup!
Why haven't more media voices raised our abandonment of Ukraine? This administration gaily launches into a multi-billion dollar attack on Iran, raids Venezuela, threatens Ecuador and now takes aim at Cuba...I understand that they don't WANT to support Ukraine against Putin...and Trump wants to be seen as a world-wide dominator, forcing anyone and everyone to do his bidding. But I still would like to see more voices reminding the public that Ukraine is still fighting and in need of support. Our tax money could be so much better spent both domestically and internationally than on these illegal, illogical, destructive "vanity projects" of Trump's!
I find it so ironic that Ukraine is now helping the U.S. military take down Iranian drones!
US reverse- engineered the super-cool Iranian Shahed drone, a weapon so much more cost-effective and damaging/unit cost vs bloated MIC shite peddled by US defense contractors for decades, bleeding us tax-payers with no end in sight.
Because they are far better people than the MAGAS, who don't want to help the Ukrainians.
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, too. It's like the media have abandoned Ukraine as something they need to cover. ALL of this is important. But we cannot lose sight of Ukraine.
The corporate owned media don't care, in fact they want democracy to die.
I wonder this too, Jenell! I don't see mainstream news even mentioning this, so it's up to *US* to shout out loudly about the plight of Ukraine under trump's illegal war with Iran (et al)!
Trump as "world-wide dominator" is definitely what he's working towards and it gives me chills of anxiety that our congress is failing to rein him in. The man-toddler is the one president who will resort to using nukes callously and impulsively when he feels his popularity is so low, he must take everything down with him. I'm no psychiatrist, but trump is some kind of "-path" - psycho- or socio-, it doesn't matter: he's not a normal person and he's getting worse and worse by the minute, with his self-perceived power and his advancing senility.
Check out the photo of Cheetolini in a fit of rage. We are dealing with a mad man completely off his rocker:
Furious Trump wants 'rehearing' after 'highly disappointing' Supreme Court defeat
President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House, on the one-year mark into his second term in office, in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
If he succeeds in getting the SCOTUS to change its ruling, we’re even more doomed and must work harder to get this crazy narcissistic bad-seed-toddler-brained ass out of the White House!
About two years ago, I believe it was Judge Luttig who I heard say that there is no White Knight coming, no Silver Bullet coming, but that it rests with the people themselves to rescue themselves from this. He was right, and you are right, Jay. I can see how we are making progress even though it's slow and painful. I am so grateful to Reps Massie and Khanna. I think many people feel strongly about JUSTICE in the Epstein case because others have experienced the same travesty of justice those survivors have been brutally dragged through. It must stop.
Thanks, Jay.
We need Nuremberg style trials. And court reform, and constitutional amendments for term limits, ethics requirements for SCOTUS, eliminating stock trades for elected officials, and money out of campaigns. Just for starters
It is a long list of needed actions.
There is reporting in the Nation that the US sub that torpedoed an Iranian ship had been in naval exercises with India and others, and knew the Iranian ship had no weapons aboard. Who knew there are naval exercises going on in the world where the US is involved along with Indian and Iranian naval vessels. Thoughts? Astounding!
I am hearing more news about that attack and it appears to be as awful as reported.
Hagueseth's comment was: "This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be." We are being represented by Bullies! I object 😠
Bullies? Let’s call them what they are - war criminals!
Me too, Christine!
I’m so glad to see someone commenting on this heinous, disgraceful cheap shot (huge shot actually). How can we not be furious & totally dismayed by such callousness? The US had participated in the exercises off of India. They knew it was a training vessel. Disgusting. Testosterone poisoning on steroids. Fie upon their houses.
They are all cheap shots from this regime of game-bro warriors. BBC aired an Iranian woman at the Minab funeral calling on them to 'drown in the blood of our children'😢
Unfortunately “ them “ includes any American citizen, showing how damaging this administration is to our safety at home, around the world, and in the skies.
Well, Hegseth is openly bragging about not fighting fairly and "kicking them when they're down," and he's ridiculing rules of engagement. Rump just likes to see things go "BOOM!" Aside from their bone-deep cruelty and sociopathy, they're embarrassments to their respective offices.
Thom Hartmann speculated yesterday that the so-called peace talks were a way to make sure that most of the Iranian leadership would be in one place at a given time, to target them all at once.
I hope Trump is prosecuted soon, before he is too incoherent to stand trial.
Prosecuting a sitting president isn’t going to be possible, so we should understand that limits of what we can accomplish. But if he outlives his presidency, there are possible paths despite the broad immunity granted by SCOTUS.
Thanks for this, Jay. I appreciate your summaries, as so much is going on. And you are right: discouragement is not an option if we ever want an equitable and functioning democracy.
“It’s sometimes helpful to zoom out and ask what it is we have been demanding and to compare that against what has been achieved so far. When we go through this exercise, we can more easily identify areas of laudable progress.”
We can also see where greater concentration of effort is needed.