I got the hat years ago on amazon, but I no longer do any business with Bezos. Whether he notices or not, it makes me feel a bit better. Try Googling the phrase.
Here's another thought on Words & Phrases we should stop using: I don't think we should dis weasels (or, indeed, any other non-humans) by attributing human traits, particularly negative ones, to them. In this case, specifically, a weasel: A weasel would never do what Donald J. Trump and his evil minions have done, are doing, and seem hellbent on continuing to do.
Exactly what I was thinking. Weasels like all animals do not kill except for food. Humans are by far the worst species. So many humans are soulless and have no compassion. Oh, if Ebola would only target and kill those, the human race would have a chance in improving. I have long felt that wolves would be the best species to lead should humans disappear.
Thanks for defending weasels. I’ve been looking at pictures of them. They’re pretty cute. And they’re good at what they do, which is not true of Trump and his crew. Maybe “dishonest” is better. I love the response of this NYT’s journalist to dishonest comments about her article on how the war with Iran has changed the world, comments which also defend Trump. Over and over again, she gives them sources—read this, read that. Sources, evidence, information. All verifiable. I cheer her on. Serial dishonesty is a miserable trait.
Back to weasels, for those like me who don’t know much about them.
Behavior and Reproduction
Weasels are known for their agility and hunting skills. They can hunt both day and night, using a zigzag pattern to track their prey. They typically have two litters a year, with each litter containing three to six kits.
Weasels play a crucial role in controlling rodent populations, making them valuable to ecosystems.
The third meaning comes from the animal, which is what I think you're pointing me to, is derived from the animal because a weasel is flexible and slippery and sleek and moves slyly and can curve itself smoothly around and under and through things, traits that we humans decided were slick and not to be trusted. The animal came first: the metaphorical extension is derived from it.
My husband's Dr appointment today was just cancelled. Optum called him a few minutes ago to say that their computer system was down and all appointments were cancelled.
Corporations owning our medical services is not a healthy practice.
A bit off topic but a good example of how we are failing as a country. Our Healthcare is in ruins.
Off topic, sorta, but as a fellow Optum lemming, caught up in a system that cares more about shareholders than actual humans beings, I am so sorry this happened to you! You're right: it's symptomatic of where we are to be so easily computer-screwed.
Related to Optum's nonsense is the fact that our area lost Internet twice in the past month, each time for more than a whole day, without any explanation but with lots of lies about restoration time. It is shockingly obvious how dependent we are on it! It also frightens me that Musk keeps flipping satellites into the increasing garbage rotating around Earth, because he has his finger on our Wifi button and may use it to achieve his ends. Oh, yeah, I could really go off-topic on this one. Oy!!
My example of us failing as a country is the USPS. A check didn’t come so was reissued. That check didn’t arrive for three weeks after its postmark date. First class mail. It normally would take two to three days. This delay happened once before. The checks are mailed at a post office south of Chicago, probably 20 miles away. My self-employed husband NEVER saw a check go missing in 15 years. USPS was unfailing, until now. His opinion is that this is intentional, that it’s sabotage of government services by underfunding them, to make it easier for Republicans to abandon them.
I totally agree as I've had mail not delivered, delivered three months late, sent to a post office lost mail box instead of being delivered - all all this mail had tracking on it which I paid for. I also believe this is deliberate intent to destroy the USPS and sell it (privatize it) to an oligarch friend of trump.
Do you need proof - have you read about USPS now says it won't deliver mail-in voting ballots? That is not their decision - they are supposed to DELIVER MAIL and PACKAGES.
That's what USPS has done since they were founded 7/26/1775 with Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General ! The USPS shouldn't politically decide what it will deliver.
Once again Trump displays his extraordinary incompetence and his equally extraordinary obsession with former President Obama. Trump can't admit that he discarded an effective agreement and replaced it with a series of ineffective military actions, including war crimes, at an enormous human and financial cost. Trump is desperately jealous of former President Obama, a popular and successful President with a great education, a loving family, and class (and cool) - all things Trump has never had and will never have.
It was always about the black guy. It remains always about the black guy. It explains not just Iran but his theft of a Nobel Peace Prize medallion ('the black guy got one...whine! whine! whine!) Malia got into Harvard, but Baron didn't ('sob! whine! sob!)
There's nothing else going on upstairs in that foul cranium save for petty revenge -- a pissy, tiny, whiny, wee little crybaby now undergoing massive butthurt from a name he tried to tack onto the Kennedy Center and got taken down. Everything about this rotter is about STOLEN valor, stolen names, stolen greatness -- because he has none of his own.
Trump started going after Obama when Barack roasted him in 2011 at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner. He started the “birther” lies shortly after. He HAS TO GET EVEN. His vendetta has yet to be fulfilled and yet he keeps going. HE IS TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
He cannot stand that a black man did that to him, even though that man was POTUS. EVEN though that man is far more credible, intelligent and honest. Maybe more because he was POTUS. His skin is so thin that he has been after Obama ever since. He can’t let go of it. His brain won’t let him because he is a racist to his very core. And acts like a three year old with a 14 year old vendetta/tantrum.
Unfortunately President Obama's election - twice - enraged the racist underbelly of our society. How dare a black man attain the highest office in the land, which up until President Obama was to them the purview of white men? When Trump came along they piled on when they recognized that he hated the same things they did, and they believed him to be in a position to do something about it. With help from Russia Trump has managed to inflict himself on us twice and to demonstrate his incompetence at everything he attempts, the latest debacle being the Iran war.
Stupid is as stupid does. That pretty much describes the entire maggot universe. When I see a trump bumper sticker my first thought is how could anyone be so stupid?
I'm no longer sure that stupidity is at play here. Even if the red hats no longer adore their Dear Leader, there is no clear path to going back and not having any more voice or power.
I think we have such an abundance of "things" to distract us from the important things in life that we might not really know what happiness means or how to achieve it. At the end of his film "Johnny Got his Gun," the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo poses this question: Will the living envy the dead?"
Fully agree with you, Dr Judith! It takes a certain level of self-awareness and humility for "red hats" to admit, "I was wrong in supporting the DJT MAGA movement. I was duped." I believe we have all been scammed at various levels in our life. We should give those former MAGA members some grace. After all, the DJT MAGA movement is a CULT. Like any cult, in order to start "believing your own eyes," cult members will have to be willing to deprogram themselves or ask for help. Of course, the most fanatical cult members will go down with the "leader" and double down to their own demise.
Or maybe a quicker solution - Serve the "koolaid" to all of them who didn't read or didn't believe Project 25. Better yet - serve the "koolaid " to the Heritage Foundation members at their next meeting, to MAGA republicans, and sycophant of MAGA in our government regime. This should clear out the deplorable criminals.
Thinking of pathways, I've met people who profess to having turned their life around because they found Jesus. They get a crucifix tattoo and live happily ever after - often. I suppose red hats could find solace in radical Christian cults where they can celebrate their misogyny and racism and be affirmed by their cultmates.
I've never encountered someone who says they turned their life around because they found science. Hot footed it to the tattoo parlor and got e=mc squared ink and lived in a state of glorious redemption.
Since big, organized religion has lost control of their franchise, and rooting out heretics is no longer in vogue, the wiggle room most religions provide in what their followers actually know or believe is unbounded. Red hats may well see trump as someone who joined their cult, a prominent powerful person who affirms their biases.
There is nothing in religious groups that fills the role of peer review in science, which is a sort of a more civilized heretic search and destroy approach. There are no exams to pass, essays to write, or projects to complete for religious cult members or red hats.
One can be quite stupid and completely ignorant. Just put on your red hat and be welcomed with open arms. How could it get any better? The Bell Curve predicts an endless supply of (and national surveys and voting confirms) red hats. I think that is what we are up against wrapped up in the word 'stupid.' trump normalizes stupidity.
Ah, well-said, all too true, even occasionally funny. Good point, that there's nothing in religious groups that fills the role of peer review. (We are assuming, of course, that this still remains a valid exercise - don't start me!)
To understand actual facts about anything requires some intellect, a desire to learn, and maybe most importantly possess the required abilities such as good reading skills. I wasn't kidding about the Bell Curve prediction; a significant percentage of the populace does not have the abilities needed to understand complex information. That's just a fact of life.
That cohort of the population is low hanging fruit for con men. How do scammers take in billions every year using cons that are not all that devious? trump is a con artist, a hustler. All his life he has taken advantage of people. Low information people, people who have traits or biases that are easy to appeal to, greedy something for nothing people; they are easy marks.
My sister, unfortunately, has become besotted with King Con. She is very intelligent and reads a lot. But she has decided that MSM overstates its findings on things like destruction of USAID and voter suppression. She knows what they are discovering but believes that they all somehow supporting Palestinians and Muslims who she is more afraid of than neo-Nazis. I love my sister but I cannot communicate with her any more. It's heart-breaking.
The trump era has torn a lot of family and friends apart, it is heartbreaking. I don't communicate with my last remaining brother. He's smart enough but not well read. Very anti-liberal, pro-patriarchy, and on the racist side. Those traits are something that have always been present in him and I have no idea why.
I'm struck by the facial expressions and body language of the Cabinet members in the photo. Downcast eyes and hands clasped in laps say they all would rather be someplace else instead of listening to Trump rambling on about whatever.
Impressively solid analysis that, alas, will likely NOT be see, not be read by most who have supported Trump. Still, we need solid analysis and here again Rubin provides it.
The Founders were right to vest a declaration of war with Congress and there should have been debate and reflection before starting this fiasco. One Man Rule is a short road to disaster and tRump is proving that daily. The problem we have to riddle is how do you get a majority cabal in Congress to take their oaths of office seriously and place Country above Party?
We live in the Turd Reich. Mainly, he governs by baffling us with bullshit. What a way to kill our country. If you think of Trump as a Russian operative, all this shit makes sense. It makes fetid sense.
I have stopped listening to Trump. His version of reality is a warped lie, and trying to make sense of any of it makes my brain hurt. He doesn't deserve the space in my head. Show me the articles signed in writing that I may read them and draw conclusions from that.
I think one of the more egregious aspects of this whole mess is that no one is really talking about how difficult it will be for future administrations to repair this debacle. I personally cannot see America regaining any real semblance of credibility in my lifetime. We will now have to expend far more time, diplomacy, and soft power efforts - just to get back to where we were - than we have. The rest of the world is not waiting for America to get its act together, and we have compromised too much of our reputation to get the results we want, and need, for our future as a nation.
Yes Jim, and don't forget how far in debt our nation is, with the $$ numbers ratcheting up exponentially even as we speak. How will our children and grandchildren pay it off?
I can't imagine a deal worked out by below average (if they were mediocre that truly would be an improvement) loser men will be remotely close to any of the terms of the JCPOA. Iran has all the cards, and they know they are dealing with fools that while be impressed with some worthless shine object. The Iranian's defeated the US military with the modern equivalent of a sling shot and arrows while our failure of a President was obsessed with tacky gold ornamentation on anything that doesn't move and attempting to turn the reflecting pool into a giant Mar-a-lago swimming pool. It is hardly surprising that the pool turned green with algae in just a couple days which would have happened within a week even if distilled water had been pumped into the pool. Anyone that was competent and bright has been fired or sidelined with this administration lest they make the moronic orange idiot look exactly like what he is.
How can anyone have confidence in this mob of overachievers under achieving? Start with the notion they don’t like each other. Move on to the fact none have accomplished any positive or constructive goals that advance our country’s interests. Then realize each has sold their souls and political future to an incompetent and corrupt person. Decades from now we might be able to put away the brooms used to clean up their messes.
According to the Washington Post, our deranged and increasingly demented Hitler wannabe lied an average of 21 times per day during his first 4 disastrous years in the White House. Clearly, he is hellbent to improve on that average this even more disastrous time around.
You mention Trump's casino bankruptcy. How extremely incompetent do you have to be to go bankrupt when owning a casino? It's literally a place where people come in order to be entertained by putting their money in your pocket.
Trump is fixated on belittling Obama's accomplishments with Iran, but he is failing miserably as his accomplishments are bogus. And with Trump, it is not TACO Tuesday, it is TACO Everyday.
This was, pardon the crude statement, a war of penile dysfunction. drumpf is obsessed with President Obama not because drumpf is astute enough to understand the intellectual and moral strength of Obama but because he worries about his own lack of potency. That this kind of being is the "leader" of the free world has truly made the U.S. into an international joke.
I am a 72-year-old with EDS, autism which in my case has made romantic relationships hard if not impossible. Despite this I try to avoid incel behavior and thinking and am deeply ashamed of the fact that Trump is giving people with this problem a bad name.
By now, after so many false starts and 'deals' that failed to materialize, Americans would be wise to believe nothing that comes out of this White House. The only deal will be one that Iran and the U.S. publicly release and then sign in full view of the world. Until then, this just more happy talk from a regime that painted itself into a corner and a party that failed to rein in a president conducting an illegal war by usurping congressional authority. This could end up being just another market manipulation.
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
There used to be a difference between dystopic fiction and reality. I would like reality back, please.
I have a blue baseball hat that says, "Make Orwell fiction again." I can safely wear it in my red area because nobody knows who Orwell was.
or what fiction is !
LOL!!!!!
How true.
Hahahahaha! Good one!
I want the T shirt!
I got the hat years ago on amazon, but I no longer do any business with Bezos. Whether he notices or not, it makes me feel a bit better. Try Googling the phrase.
According to Tousi TV, explosions and protests all over Iran in opposition to the deal. https://www.youtube.com/@TousiTV Unreported in MSM.
None dare call out Krasnov.
Here's another thought on Words & Phrases we should stop using: I don't think we should dis weasels (or, indeed, any other non-humans) by attributing human traits, particularly negative ones, to them. In this case, specifically, a weasel: A weasel would never do what Donald J. Trump and his evil minions have done, are doing, and seem hellbent on continuing to do.
Exactly what I was thinking. Weasels like all animals do not kill except for food. Humans are by far the worst species. So many humans are soulless and have no compassion. Oh, if Ebola would only target and kill those, the human race would have a chance in improving. I have long felt that wolves would be the best species to lead should humans disappear.
Wolverines lack an amygdala.
By the actions of many humans, Trump as one, it appears that they have no amygdala.
What’s your source? Hope you’re not spreading false info.
I found this—nothing about missing an amygdala: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202510/how-elusive-emotional-wolverines-connect-us-with-nature
Wolves, he said, not wolverines.
Minks killed our chickens, all 11 of them, and did not eat them.
The Revenge of the Minks! They're slaughtered for their fur, no wonder.
Go weasels go!
Thanks for defending weasels. I’ve been looking at pictures of them. They’re pretty cute. And they’re good at what they do, which is not true of Trump and his crew. Maybe “dishonest” is better. I love the response of this NYT’s journalist to dishonest comments about her article on how the war with Iran has changed the world, comments which also defend Trump. Over and over again, she gives them sources—read this, read that. Sources, evidence, information. All verifiable. I cheer her on. Serial dishonesty is a miserable trait.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/business/economy/iran-war-oil-trade.html
Back to weasels, for those like me who don’t know much about them.
Behavior and Reproduction
Weasels are known for their agility and hunting skills. They can hunt both day and night, using a zigzag pattern to track their prey. They typically have two litters a year, with each litter containing three to six kits.
Weasels play a crucial role in controlling rodent populations, making them valuable to ecosystems.
Thanks for the link.
I agree. Animals have integrity and understand right and wrong.
How about honey badgers?
Randi, check the dictionary for more meaning of the word "weasel".
The third meaning comes from the animal, which is what I think you're pointing me to, is derived from the animal because a weasel is flexible and slippery and sleek and moves slyly and can curve itself smoothly around and under and through things, traits that we humans decided were slick and not to be trusted. The animal came first: the metaphorical extension is derived from it.
Trust a weasel over a human.
My husband's Dr appointment today was just cancelled. Optum called him a few minutes ago to say that their computer system was down and all appointments were cancelled.
Corporations owning our medical services is not a healthy practice.
A bit off topic but a good example of how we are failing as a country. Our Healthcare is in ruins.
healthcare should not have shareholders
The shareholders should be the people of the country. Call for universal healthcare as so many other advanced countries offer their people.
people's sickness should not be a money making business. claims denied = money made
So are partial "allowed" payments for services and procedures.
As a retired health care worker, hear hear!
Off topic, sorta, but as a fellow Optum lemming, caught up in a system that cares more about shareholders than actual humans beings, I am so sorry this happened to you! You're right: it's symptomatic of where we are to be so easily computer-screwed.
Related to Optum's nonsense is the fact that our area lost Internet twice in the past month, each time for more than a whole day, without any explanation but with lots of lies about restoration time. It is shockingly obvious how dependent we are on it! It also frightens me that Musk keeps flipping satellites into the increasing garbage rotating around Earth, because he has his finger on our Wifi button and may use it to achieve his ends. Oh, yeah, I could really go off-topic on this one. Oy!!
My example of us failing as a country is the USPS. A check didn’t come so was reissued. That check didn’t arrive for three weeks after its postmark date. First class mail. It normally would take two to three days. This delay happened once before. The checks are mailed at a post office south of Chicago, probably 20 miles away. My self-employed husband NEVER saw a check go missing in 15 years. USPS was unfailing, until now. His opinion is that this is intentional, that it’s sabotage of government services by underfunding them, to make it easier for Republicans to abandon them.
I totally agree as I've had mail not delivered, delivered three months late, sent to a post office lost mail box instead of being delivered - all all this mail had tracking on it which I paid for. I also believe this is deliberate intent to destroy the USPS and sell it (privatize it) to an oligarch friend of trump.
Do you need proof - have you read about USPS now says it won't deliver mail-in voting ballots? That is not their decision - they are supposed to DELIVER MAIL and PACKAGES.
That's what USPS has done since they were founded 7/26/1775 with Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General ! The USPS shouldn't politically decide what it will deliver.
SHAMEFUL ! DEPLORABLE! DISHONEST ! CRIMINAL ! ANTI-DEMOCRACY !
SPELLS trump.
Once again Trump displays his extraordinary incompetence and his equally extraordinary obsession with former President Obama. Trump can't admit that he discarded an effective agreement and replaced it with a series of ineffective military actions, including war crimes, at an enormous human and financial cost. Trump is desperately jealous of former President Obama, a popular and successful President with a great education, a loving family, and class (and cool) - all things Trump has never had and will never have.
It was always about the black guy. It remains always about the black guy. It explains not just Iran but his theft of a Nobel Peace Prize medallion ('the black guy got one...whine! whine! whine!) Malia got into Harvard, but Baron didn't ('sob! whine! sob!)
There's nothing else going on upstairs in that foul cranium save for petty revenge -- a pissy, tiny, whiny, wee little crybaby now undergoing massive butthurt from a name he tried to tack onto the Kennedy Center and got taken down. Everything about this rotter is about STOLEN valor, stolen names, stolen greatness -- because he has none of his own.
Trump started going after Obama when Barack roasted him in 2011 at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner. He started the “birther” lies shortly after. He HAS TO GET EVEN. His vendetta has yet to be fulfilled and yet he keeps going. HE IS TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
He cannot stand that a black man did that to him, even though that man was POTUS. EVEN though that man is far more credible, intelligent and honest. Maybe more because he was POTUS. His skin is so thin that he has been after Obama ever since. He can’t let go of it. His brain won’t let him because he is a racist to his very core. And acts like a three year old with a 14 year old vendetta/tantrum.
Obama doesn't need to have a house, because he can live (rent-free) in Don the Con's otherwise empty head ;)
Unfortunately President Obama's election - twice - enraged the racist underbelly of our society. How dare a black man attain the highest office in the land, which up until President Obama was to them the purview of white men? When Trump came along they piled on when they recognized that he hated the same things they did, and they believed him to be in a position to do something about it. With help from Russia Trump has managed to inflict himself on us twice and to demonstrate his incompetence at everything he attempts, the latest debacle being the Iran war.
Stupid is as stupid does. That pretty much describes the entire maggot universe. When I see a trump bumper sticker my first thought is how could anyone be so stupid?
I'm no longer sure that stupidity is at play here. Even if the red hats no longer adore their Dear Leader, there is no clear path to going back and not having any more voice or power.
racism is a big element in the appeal of donald trump
So is a state of general undirected hate.
I can't figure out what do americans want to be happy ???
I think we have such an abundance of "things" to distract us from the important things in life that we might not really know what happiness means or how to achieve it. At the end of his film "Johnny Got his Gun," the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo poses this question: Will the living envy the dead?"
That's probably because the issue is so complex. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the question.
Fully agree with you, Dr Judith! It takes a certain level of self-awareness and humility for "red hats" to admit, "I was wrong in supporting the DJT MAGA movement. I was duped." I believe we have all been scammed at various levels in our life. We should give those former MAGA members some grace. After all, the DJT MAGA movement is a CULT. Like any cult, in order to start "believing your own eyes," cult members will have to be willing to deprogram themselves or ask for help. Of course, the most fanatical cult members will go down with the "leader" and double down to their own demise.
Excellent points, Dawn!!
Or maybe a quicker solution - Serve the "koolaid" to all of them who didn't read or didn't believe Project 25. Better yet - serve the "koolaid " to the Heritage Foundation members at their next meeting, to MAGA republicans, and sycophant of MAGA in our government regime. This should clear out the deplorable criminals.
Thinking of pathways, I've met people who profess to having turned their life around because they found Jesus. They get a crucifix tattoo and live happily ever after - often. I suppose red hats could find solace in radical Christian cults where they can celebrate their misogyny and racism and be affirmed by their cultmates.
I've never encountered someone who says they turned their life around because they found science. Hot footed it to the tattoo parlor and got e=mc squared ink and lived in a state of glorious redemption.
Since big, organized religion has lost control of their franchise, and rooting out heretics is no longer in vogue, the wiggle room most religions provide in what their followers actually know or believe is unbounded. Red hats may well see trump as someone who joined their cult, a prominent powerful person who affirms their biases.
There is nothing in religious groups that fills the role of peer review in science, which is a sort of a more civilized heretic search and destroy approach. There are no exams to pass, essays to write, or projects to complete for religious cult members or red hats.
One can be quite stupid and completely ignorant. Just put on your red hat and be welcomed with open arms. How could it get any better? The Bell Curve predicts an endless supply of (and national surveys and voting confirms) red hats. I think that is what we are up against wrapped up in the word 'stupid.' trump normalizes stupidity.
Ah, well-said, all too true, even occasionally funny. Good point, that there's nothing in religious groups that fills the role of peer review. (We are assuming, of course, that this still remains a valid exercise - don't start me!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
:)
A lot of them keep themselves in the dark regarding actual facts and science. Don can con the uneducated, which is why he "loves" them.
To understand actual facts about anything requires some intellect, a desire to learn, and maybe most importantly possess the required abilities such as good reading skills. I wasn't kidding about the Bell Curve prediction; a significant percentage of the populace does not have the abilities needed to understand complex information. That's just a fact of life.
That cohort of the population is low hanging fruit for con men. How do scammers take in billions every year using cons that are not all that devious? trump is a con artist, a hustler. All his life he has taken advantage of people. Low information people, people who have traits or biases that are easy to appeal to, greedy something for nothing people; they are easy marks.
My sister, unfortunately, has become besotted with King Con. She is very intelligent and reads a lot. But she has decided that MSM overstates its findings on things like destruction of USAID and voter suppression. She knows what they are discovering but believes that they all somehow supporting Palestinians and Muslims who she is more afraid of than neo-Nazis. I love my sister but I cannot communicate with her any more. It's heart-breaking.
The trump era has torn a lot of family and friends apart, it is heartbreaking. I don't communicate with my last remaining brother. He's smart enough but not well read. Very anti-liberal, pro-patriarchy, and on the racist side. Those traits are something that have always been present in him and I have no idea why.
And they are too ignorant to see the truth.
I'm struck by the facial expressions and body language of the Cabinet members in the photo. Downcast eyes and hands clasped in laps say they all would rather be someplace else instead of listening to Trump rambling on about whatever.
And yet none of them will walk away from Omelas.
Impressively solid analysis that, alas, will likely NOT be see, not be read by most who have supported Trump. Still, we need solid analysis and here again Rubin provides it.
The Founders were right to vest a declaration of war with Congress and there should have been debate and reflection before starting this fiasco. One Man Rule is a short road to disaster and tRump is proving that daily. The problem we have to riddle is how do you get a majority cabal in Congress to take their oaths of office seriously and place Country above Party?
We live in the Turd Reich. Mainly, he governs by baffling us with bullshit. What a way to kill our country. If you think of Trump as a Russian operative, all this shit makes sense. It makes fetid sense.
I have stopped listening to Trump. His version of reality is a warped lie, and trying to make sense of any of it makes my brain hurt. He doesn't deserve the space in my head. Show me the articles signed in writing that I may read them and draw conclusions from that.
I think one of the more egregious aspects of this whole mess is that no one is really talking about how difficult it will be for future administrations to repair this debacle. I personally cannot see America regaining any real semblance of credibility in my lifetime. We will now have to expend far more time, diplomacy, and soft power efforts - just to get back to where we were - than we have. The rest of the world is not waiting for America to get its act together, and we have compromised too much of our reputation to get the results we want, and need, for our future as a nation.
All empires rise and fall; I just didn't think it would happen in my lifetime.
Yes Jim, and don't forget how far in debt our nation is, with the $$ numbers ratcheting up exponentially even as we speak. How will our children and grandchildren pay it off?
I can't imagine a deal worked out by below average (if they were mediocre that truly would be an improvement) loser men will be remotely close to any of the terms of the JCPOA. Iran has all the cards, and they know they are dealing with fools that while be impressed with some worthless shine object. The Iranian's defeated the US military with the modern equivalent of a sling shot and arrows while our failure of a President was obsessed with tacky gold ornamentation on anything that doesn't move and attempting to turn the reflecting pool into a giant Mar-a-lago swimming pool. It is hardly surprising that the pool turned green with algae in just a couple days which would have happened within a week even if distilled water had been pumped into the pool. Anyone that was competent and bright has been fired or sidelined with this administration lest they make the moronic orange idiot look exactly like what he is.
How can anyone have confidence in this mob of overachievers under achieving? Start with the notion they don’t like each other. Move on to the fact none have accomplished any positive or constructive goals that advance our country’s interests. Then realize each has sold their souls and political future to an incompetent and corrupt person. Decades from now we might be able to put away the brooms used to clean up their messes.
I don't know what part of bankrupt 6 times trump followers didn't, and still don't, understand
Surely your use of 'overachievers' is sarcasm. What we have are underachievers doing their incompetent best.
According to the Washington Post, our deranged and increasingly demented Hitler wannabe lied an average of 21 times per day during his first 4 disastrous years in the White House. Clearly, he is hellbent to improve on that average this even more disastrous time around.
Excellent piece - as usual.
I believe a review of the "deals" Trump has struck in the past show a consistent, predictable, pattern.
A VERY small sampling:
Six bankruptcies - including casinos!
Trump Airline, Steak, University, ad nauseam.
"Infrastructure Week" still waiting.
Better than Obamacare still waiting.
Algae free Reflecting Pool (dear God!)
Overpromise. Don't deliver. Let others clean up the mess. That is Donald J. Trump.
You mention Trump's casino bankruptcy. How extremely incompetent do you have to be to go bankrupt when owning a casino? It's literally a place where people come in order to be entertained by putting their money in your pocket.
You have a state license to take peoples money. The house always wins. It takes a special person to go broke doing that.
Trump is fixated on belittling Obama's accomplishments with Iran, but he is failing miserably as his accomplishments are bogus. And with Trump, it is not TACO Tuesday, it is TACO Everyday.
This was, pardon the crude statement, a war of penile dysfunction. drumpf is obsessed with President Obama not because drumpf is astute enough to understand the intellectual and moral strength of Obama but because he worries about his own lack of potency. That this kind of being is the "leader" of the free world has truly made the U.S. into an international joke.
I am a 72-year-old with EDS, autism which in my case has made romantic relationships hard if not impossible. Despite this I try to avoid incel behavior and thinking and am deeply ashamed of the fact that Trump is giving people with this problem a bad name.
I honor you.
By now, after so many false starts and 'deals' that failed to materialize, Americans would be wise to believe nothing that comes out of this White House. The only deal will be one that Iran and the U.S. publicly release and then sign in full view of the world. Until then, this just more happy talk from a regime that painted itself into a corner and a party that failed to rein in a president conducting an illegal war by usurping congressional authority. This could end up being just another market manipulation.
You called it well.