"That likely explains why he is dragging this out interminably, continuing to fiddle with a deal to make it “tougher,” in a vain attempt to conceal his strategic debacle."
And in a rather -- maybe even perfectly -- successful attempt to manipulate the stock market. Let's not forget that part.
"While they struggle with soaring gas prices, he is fixated on gold plating horse statues (you cannot make up this stuff), repainting the Mall’s historic reflecting pool to resemble a local YMCA lap pool, turning the White House into a sort of Six Flags amusement park for his cheesy UFC fight event, putting his mug on a $250 bill (roughly what it soon may cost to fill up your tank), and constructing what veterans have called an “appalling” arch blocking the view from Arlington National Cemetery."
Whoever the babysitting team is, they must be exhausted staying up all night to help the toddler create juvenile AI videos and memes, then working all day to provide "Don the Builder" with horrible ideas for defacing our national capital. May they all be named and shamed publicly, and suffer historic ignominy for the rest of their days.
I hope that we can move quickly through the vindictive "historic ignominy" part of this to the part where their names are mentioned in passing, if at all, and we are putting our energy into naming and celebrating all those who put so much time and energy into resurrecting our democracy. From old folks standing at crossroads with signs, moms writing GOTV postcards, local officials who stood up against Trump's demands for data, to legislators passing bills to block attempts to undermine civil rights, past and present military who said no, and members of Congress who refused to give in, and all of us who just kept showing up. It's our turn now..
Thanks for pointing out that someone else is creating all of the AI slop and bizarre fantasy memes. He himself probably struggles with following an email or text thread. It would be a piece of cake for young computer whizzes to generate that stuff in His Lardship's signature style of WTF capitalization and hyperbole. I just can't see him mastering AI image creation.
What I'd like to know is whether they're sitting up with him in the wee hours in person or just feeding these insane messages to him, or posting them for him.
It also makes "perfect" sense that he's nodding off during the day, if he's awake all night demonstrating his powerful mental prowess.
The babysitting team: what happened to the angelic Ms Harp? very visible during the Beijing visit, although trying to keep out of camera range, and not seen since.
According to AI, two-thirds (or around 330) of the companies in the S&P 500 have LOST since the conflict began.
The big winners are energy stocks. We don't need a drop of Middle Eastern oil. If he wanted to pressure Iran, Trump would make oil worth less, not more.
Domestically oil refineries are war profiteers. 38% of those refieries are controlled by foreigners, , with the top refining capacity controlled by a handful of major players like Marathon Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Valero, and Saudi Aramco.. If Trump wanted lower gas prices, he'd pressure them.
Besides that, DOJ & Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are investigating suspiciously timed oil market trades that generated over $2.6 billion in profits. Investigators are probing whether traders had illicit insider knowledge of major military and diplomatic announcements regarding the Iran conflict.
Perfect physical shape. Just like that perfect phone call, a beautiful thing, really. No one’s ever seen anything like it. No, really. Many people are saying. Many, many people. I call it the Gulf of America…
And, yes, EVERYONE knows and what people have wanted for decades, no, centuries.... (echoing your sarcasm but only adding to your excellent mirroring of the untrue words we hear too much).
Oh yes - the centuries-long pleading for the ballroom... He's got to be stopped before the gold-plated pegasus horses get started - I read that it's real gold plate, and will/would cost millions of dollars (apart from looking abominable).
Wow. After spending what is by now probably $60 billion, killing thousands of Iranian civilians and wounding many more, having at least $1 billion in damage to Middle Eastern US bases, and trashing large segments of the world economy, including farmers in developing countries who need fertilizer, Trump can end up with a status quo that is WORSE for the US than before he and Bibi attacked Iran. And Lebanon is much, much worse off. A perfect debacle indeed.
He attacked Iran because Bibi finally found a POTUS who would do it for him. I gather that Bibi is now getting some undeleted Trumpian expletives into his telephone ear.
Maybe if Don the Con stopped staying up half the night writing incoherent social media posts he might have an easier time staying awake during the day?!?
Actually, it was one of the first things the world noticed about him. Front page cartoon in "Le Monde" newspaper depicted an enormous double bed with a large "T" monogram. Sitting perched on the very edge, near a big window through which the moon is seen, is a fat figure in night wear crouched over his cellphone. Far away across the bed, on the extreme edge, with her back to him, bedclothes pulled right up, is a sleeping person of whom all that can be seen is dark hair.
Jen- You are the heart and soul of The Contrarian. You and Norm are our founding, courageous smart leaders and part of every family represented following here. We all miss you and send caring thoughts and best regards. Will follow your brilliant written words for now.
A cornered rat is a dangerous rat. Even as we labor to remove Regime Leader Trump we must prepare to counter, if possible, his efforts to protect his power and the pillaging of the country. There are still many willing accomplices in his administration feeding at the trough of Trump plunder. We should also not be too cocky about sweeping the Republicult from Congress if we can’t make a good case for how we will make life better for America. We aren’t restoring the old America, we have to build a better new America.
Being a foreigner, local news was of secondary interest to me: I read it for the politics and Alexandra Petri, and most of all the readers' comments, which told me how America was thinking. So I was very quick to jump on Ms Rubin's new vehicle.
If we survive his presidency, we need a constitutional ammendment insurring that there is a way to reset or reboot the idiocy we have done. And that, sadly, goes againstthe principles of our democracy. We've painted ourselves into a corner. Moral: Be careful what you wish for.
Actually a whole bunch of Amendments: starting with a complete rethink of the Executive branch. tRump is everything the Founders feared in an out-of-control Executive. We need to eliminate the possibility of a 'Mad King' in the future.
Those principles have been trampled out of existence. Huge rebuild needed. We know what needs to be fixed - start by going through Project 2025. It takes longer to build than to demolish, but tents keep the rain off very nicely. (Ask millions of refugees).
"If we survive his presidency, we need a constitutional ammendment insurring that there is a way to reset or reboot the idiocy we have done."
Do you have a particular amendment in mind? How would you word it? Many of Trump's actions have been through executive order, which I agree has gotten completely out of control. Thankfully, SCOTUS has pushed back on some of Trump's attempts to use EOs to bypass Congress. But Trump isn't the first nor will he be the last to do whatever to get around the Article I branch. Not sure how to word an amendment to limit the EO authority. And the Dems really don't want to limit what they themselves would want when they occupry the White House. Incoming Presidents simply rescind previous administration's EOs if they don't like them.
I know trump is sick; you know trump is sick; hell, everyone knows trump is sick. How do we know with such perfect certainty that trump is sick? Because every accusation ("accusing" himself of good health) is a lie.
Your words are beacons leading us to safety and honour in the terrible current maelstrom of inhumanity and corruption. Thank you for your words: save your voice for your own prayers. We can wait . . .
I am sorry and I miss your voice. Take good care of yourself!
Yes, please take care, Jen!
"That likely explains why he is dragging this out interminably, continuing to fiddle with a deal to make it “tougher,” in a vain attempt to conceal his strategic debacle."
And in a rather -- maybe even perfectly -- successful attempt to manipulate the stock market. Let's not forget that part.
"While they struggle with soaring gas prices, he is fixated on gold plating horse statues (you cannot make up this stuff), repainting the Mall’s historic reflecting pool to resemble a local YMCA lap pool, turning the White House into a sort of Six Flags amusement park for his cheesy UFC fight event, putting his mug on a $250 bill (roughly what it soon may cost to fill up your tank), and constructing what veterans have called an “appalling” arch blocking the view from Arlington National Cemetery."
Whoever the babysitting team is, they must be exhausted staying up all night to help the toddler create juvenile AI videos and memes, then working all day to provide "Don the Builder" with horrible ideas for defacing our national capital. May they all be named and shamed publicly, and suffer historic ignominy for the rest of their days.
I hope that we can move quickly through the vindictive "historic ignominy" part of this to the part where their names are mentioned in passing, if at all, and we are putting our energy into naming and celebrating all those who put so much time and energy into resurrecting our democracy. From old folks standing at crossroads with signs, moms writing GOTV postcards, local officials who stood up against Trump's demands for data, to legislators passing bills to block attempts to undermine civil rights, past and present military who said no, and members of Congress who refused to give in, and all of us who just kept showing up. It's our turn now..
Babysitters=enablers
To keep him occupied while they enact their hate-filled and hateful agenda.
Thanks for pointing out that someone else is creating all of the AI slop and bizarre fantasy memes. He himself probably struggles with following an email or text thread. It would be a piece of cake for young computer whizzes to generate that stuff in His Lardship's signature style of WTF capitalization and hyperbole. I just can't see him mastering AI image creation.
What I'd like to know is whether they're sitting up with him in the wee hours in person or just feeding these insane messages to him, or posting them for him.
It also makes "perfect" sense that he's nodding off during the day, if he's awake all night demonstrating his powerful mental prowess.
The babysitting team: what happened to the angelic Ms Harp? very visible during the Beijing visit, although trying to keep out of camera range, and not seen since.
Manipulate the market to benefit him personally.
According to AI, two-thirds (or around 330) of the companies in the S&P 500 have LOST since the conflict began.
The big winners are energy stocks. We don't need a drop of Middle Eastern oil. If he wanted to pressure Iran, Trump would make oil worth less, not more.
Domestically oil refineries are war profiteers. 38% of those refieries are controlled by foreigners, , with the top refining capacity controlled by a handful of major players like Marathon Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Valero, and Saudi Aramco.. If Trump wanted lower gas prices, he'd pressure them.
Yes. Manipulate the stock market to benefit him and his minions personally. Exactly. Thanks for making that clearer.
"Domestically oil refineries are war profiteers."
As I understand it, we don't have the capability of refining all the oil we produce. Until that happens we are not truly "energy independent".
Whoever told you that is full of it.
We also have the use of other refineries on our borders. Canada has 16 operating petroleum refineries, and Mexico has 6.
Besides that, DOJ & Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are investigating suspiciously timed oil market trades that generated over $2.6 billion in profits. Investigators are probing whether traders had illicit insider knowledge of major military and diplomatic announcements regarding the Iran conflict.
Thank you for the clarification. I think this is closer to what I was trying to articulate:
"This Is Why the U.S. Can’t Use the Oil It Produces"
https://blog.drillingmaps.com/2025/06/this-is-why-us-cant-use-oil-it-produces.html
Propaganda. Still plenty of capped wells in Appalachia.
That may be true, but we should still be refining every last drop of oil we produce first before refining anyone else's oil.
Who are to blame after all? The voters who chose Trump over Harris knowlng well that this may not be a good choice for America.
It's unfathomable, isn't it?
Perfect physical shape. Just like that perfect phone call, a beautiful thing, really. No one’s ever seen anything like it. No, really. Many people are saying. Many, many people. I call it the Gulf of America…
Excellent satire, and using his own words to do it. Well done!
And, yes, EVERYONE knows and what people have wanted for decades, no, centuries.... (echoing your sarcasm but only adding to your excellent mirroring of the untrue words we hear too much).
Oh yes - the centuries-long pleading for the ballroom... He's got to be stopped before the gold-plated pegasus horses get started - I read that it's real gold plate, and will/would cost millions of dollars (apart from looking abominable).
Yes, it started with the perfect phone call trying to bribe Zelinskyy.
You stopped too soon ICTT, we are patient, we can take some more.....😇
Wow. After spending what is by now probably $60 billion, killing thousands of Iranian civilians and wounding many more, having at least $1 billion in damage to Middle Eastern US bases, and trashing large segments of the world economy, including farmers in developing countries who need fertilizer, Trump can end up with a status quo that is WORSE for the US than before he and Bibi attacked Iran. And Lebanon is much, much worse off. A perfect debacle indeed.
Trump attacked Iran to cover for Bibi's genocides in Lebanon and Gaza. Full stop.
He attacked Iran because Bibi finally found a POTUS who would do it for him. I gather that Bibi is now getting some undeleted Trumpian expletives into his telephone ear.
Maybe if Don the Con stopped staying up half the night writing incoherent social media posts he might have an easier time staying awake during the day?!?
"Maybe if Don the Con stopped staying up half the night writing incoherent social media posts..."
Trump still doesn't comprehend that his worst enemy is his own big mouth.
Problem is that's all he's got. He has no real abilities, has gotten by his whole life on bluster and bullshit.
True dat.
My view is that Trump is hyped up on caffeine during the day. He wakes
up "in withdrawal" at night and his madness takes over at he sits at his
computer.... And the world listens!
Actually, it was one of the first things the world noticed about him. Front page cartoon in "Le Monde" newspaper depicted an enormous double bed with a large "T" monogram. Sitting perched on the very edge, near a big window through which the moon is seen, is a fat figure in night wear crouched over his cellphone. Far away across the bed, on the extreme edge, with her back to him, bedclothes pulled right up, is a sleeping person of whom all that can be seen is dark hair.
Dear Anne-Louise,
I loved the picture you painted of the "fat figure" in the dark
.
I had one other fantasy of a night with Trump.
He wakes as a call comes through on his cell phone.
He picks it up and a Russian voice whispers in his ear and goades
him into action. Things Vlad is sure will further his ambition to destroy the American Democracy.
"Good night sweet Don," he says softly.
Now fully awake and inspited, Donny gets into action.
trump is an idiot and has NO incite
Very neat, Patricia! "No incite".
lost the spelling bee huh ?
Jen- You are the heart and soul of The Contrarian. You and Norm are our founding, courageous smart leaders and part of every family represented following here. We all miss you and send caring thoughts and best regards. Will follow your brilliant written words for now.
Feel fetter soon.
Well said Anita, my sentiments exactly. Praying for your recovery Jen as you are the BEST.
trump & Co's Master Class in What Not to Do: trump is losing the war in Iran & crashing the economy. What happens when you put incompetent and corrupt people in charge. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/opinion/trump-iran-war.html?smid=em-share
Resist the authoritarianism of the MAGA gangsters & grifters!
Please, 86 47 with a Blue Tsunami!
A cornered rat is a dangerous rat. Even as we labor to remove Regime Leader Trump we must prepare to counter, if possible, his efforts to protect his power and the pillaging of the country. There are still many willing accomplices in his administration feeding at the trough of Trump plunder. We should also not be too cocky about sweeping the Republicult from Congress if we can’t make a good case for how we will make life better for America. We aren’t restoring the old America, we have to build a better new America.
Rats carry diseases. This one has infected our democracy and our country. Let’s hope the midterms are the first step toward a cure.
I'm hoping for enlarging the SC, imposing generous and staggered term limits, and creating externally reported strict ethics standards and reviews.
we need a constitutional convention to correct the oversights of the first one.
"we need a constitutional convention to correct the oversights of the first one"
Well, Congress won't do it, so here's your alternative:
https://conventionofstates.com/
We miss you Jen. I hope you are better real soon! We will of course continue our support.
Absolutely! Just as we withdrew our support from WaPo at the same time.
Yes did that last year! I miss the local news but that’s the way it goes.
Being a foreigner, local news was of secondary interest to me: I read it for the politics and Alexandra Petri, and most of all the readers' comments, which told me how America was thinking. So I was very quick to jump on Ms Rubin's new vehicle.
Wonderful!
If we survive his presidency, we need a constitutional ammendment insurring that there is a way to reset or reboot the idiocy we have done. And that, sadly, goes againstthe principles of our democracy. We've painted ourselves into a corner. Moral: Be careful what you wish for.
Actually a whole bunch of Amendments: starting with a complete rethink of the Executive branch. tRump is everything the Founders feared in an out-of-control Executive. We need to eliminate the possibility of a 'Mad King' in the future.
Those principles have been trampled out of existence. Huge rebuild needed. We know what needs to be fixed - start by going through Project 2025. It takes longer to build than to demolish, but tents keep the rain off very nicely. (Ask millions of refugees).
"If we survive his presidency, we need a constitutional ammendment insurring that there is a way to reset or reboot the idiocy we have done."
Do you have a particular amendment in mind? How would you word it? Many of Trump's actions have been through executive order, which I agree has gotten completely out of control. Thankfully, SCOTUS has pushed back on some of Trump's attempts to use EOs to bypass Congress. But Trump isn't the first nor will he be the last to do whatever to get around the Article I branch. Not sure how to word an amendment to limit the EO authority. And the Dems really don't want to limit what they themselves would want when they occupry the White House. Incoming Presidents simply rescind previous administration's EOs if they don't like them.
I know trump is sick; you know trump is sick; hell, everyone knows trump is sick. How do we know with such perfect certainty that trump is sick? Because every accusation ("accusing" himself of good health) is a lie.
You are loved & your voice greatly missed but caring for yourself must come first. Wishing you a timely recovery back to wellness.🤍
Your words are beacons leading us to safety and honour in the terrible current maelstrom of inhumanity and corruption. Thank you for your words: save your voice for your own prayers. We can wait . . .
Jen- this was the PERFECT way to start my day and your points made are PERFECT and spot on!
Happy you are taking care of yourself.
Thank you Jen. We all appreciate your personal note. Take care.
Please look after yourself then you can look after us.