Wingate

None with a living President. After his catatonic performance at Quantico this week, Trump may qualify, or is at least close to qualifying.

I fear that when Trump is not awarded his richly deserved Nobel---give him one of the science Nobels, too, for his Lysol injecting/UV Light up the fatuga cure for Covid---he will order missile strikes on Viking Cruise Line ships and demand the National Football League ban the Minnesota Vikings from the league. To rub salt in Trump's wounds when he's passed over for glory, I also fear those dastardly post-menopausal Code Pink ladies will show up outside the White House with Boomboxes constantly playing Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" and Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King".

Is that one of those "alternative facts"? They're so cute! In reality---MAGAs should apply for a visa to that land---the Dems balked because the Repub Bill would have cut millions of Americans off of health care and raised premiums on Obamacare by upwards of 300%. Repubs think it's more important to cut taxes for billionaires than to provide American citizens with affordable healthcare.

He's lucky the govt is shutdown today, because otherwise he'd probably have to fire another BLS chief. ADP, a private company with nobody Trump can fire, said private employers cut 32,000 jobs last month. ADP also revised it's August number from the previous +54,000 to -3000. Some ignorant MAGA might try to say "those were deportations". Ah, no. Sorry. The cuts were Americans with Social Security numbers paying into the SS system. Anyway, only his brain is missing in action, and it wasn't much of a prize to begin with.

Fresh off of his “They said it couldn’t be done!” ending of the horrific war between Cambodia and Armenia, as well as the devastating conflict between Aberjabidan (sic) and Albania---and let's never forget how he put a stop to the 1994 Rwandan genocide ("machetes...machetes...everywhere"). Trump is not just sitting on his laurels and bloated blubberbutt. No, he’s busy at work trying to bring an end to these other seemingly eternal conflicts: The Federation vs the Klingons Hatfields vs McCoys Tupac vs the Notorious B.I.G. Betamax vs VHS Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni Butter vs Margarine Matter vs antimatter Deodorant vs antiperspirant Sisyphus vs the boulder There may be others. Oslo, take note. Unless the next selection is RIGGED! or UNFAIR!, we know where the Peace Prize is going.

Certainly not on Earth. Little editorial comment is necessary when the joke is so abundantly clear. And the joke is the "Commander-in-Chief" himself, who solves more wars than exist, who admonishes us to refrain from 2 N-words, advises us to descend stairs slowly, and seemingly finally introduced his "concept of a plan" replacement for Obamacare by providing all Americans with special cards to use "Med Beds" invented by intergalactic aliens. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leader-completely-clowns-trump-171234739.html

Not everything, just one Party. It used to be Republicans and Democrats as the two major US Parties. Now, it's fascists (R) and patriots (D). Another article originally posted by the staff here was removed. I was just going to add one name to it, as this is a long time, old friend of Trump...you know, like Jeffrey Epstein. Have some fun. Search this guy's name and see where it leads: Tevfik Arif. Besides being Russian Mafia and housing one of his companies in a 'certain' NYC garish condo high rise, he was a partner in a development in NYC's SoHo that eventually failed. He has faced charges of everything from murder to prostitution to human trafficking to drug running. Add in associates, and eventual friends of Trump like Felix Sater, Oleg Deripaska, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Russian Mafia boss who lived in Trump Tower), Tamir Sapir,,,,,so many....and one can see what sort of person Trump was back when he still had some cognitive functions, unlike now where he cannot separate fantasy from reality (all the "wars" he claims to have stopped, his intergalactic alien "med beds" and Med Bed Cards for all Americans, ending the 1994 Rwandan genocide, etc.) I guess he's a "superhuman" Commander-in-Chief. LOL! When the 800 or so flag officers go back to their troops, what can they possibly say to their charges about what the Commander-in-Chief and his drunkard sidekick told them? Walk down stairs slowly? Don't use the "N-word"? Stealth is not pretty enough? Does any sane and rational person---which sadly leaves out MAGAs---feel comfortable knowing that listless, catatonic, brain addled clown has the nuclear codes and the ability to single-handedly launch them to bring on "N-word" winter and end all life on this planet? There's an interesting video of House Rep Dean confronting Speaker Johnson about Trump and his mental and physical condition (definitely NOT superhuman...more like a turnip), and Speaker Johnson just looked away and said "I didn't see it." (Trump's meandering, bizarre, unhinged idiocy at Quantico). The old image of three monkeys (no see, no speak, no hear) comes to mind.

The OPs tries hard, but as usual, he fails. Miserably. What he calls "the left" isn't even close (yet) to the wanton violence committed by the racist, fascist right. Now his first mistake (OP) is using the term "left". A much more accurate term for those left of center in the time of Trump is "true American patriots", which is to say people who cherish and champion the actual ideals of the United States of America: Freedom. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press. Freedom of Assembly. The fascists (a much more fitting name for those right of center in the time of Trump) hate the US Constitution. They hate free speech, a free press, freedom of assembly (aka, peaceful protest). Search and seizure laws. Miranda rights. The fascists hate all of those. The racist fascists also take out their hate of non-white people, such as the Trumper Patrick Crusius, and also against non-Talibangicals, such as Robert Bowers who shot up a synagogue. The fascist stormtrooper cowards, who have been hired to play Brown Shirts, aka ICE, engage in violence even against peaceful protesters, shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, etc., at people engaging in their Constitutional right to protest peacefully. The patriots have a big tent and let in even those who, in better times, would be the traditional right of center ideologues. Here's an example. In a case between a peaceful patriotic American protestor and the fascist stormtroopers known as ICE, a Federal District judge appointed by Ronald Reagan wrote this: “This court has listened carefully to the reasons for Ozturk’s captors for masking up…It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason---to terrorize Americans into quiescence. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it." (MAGAs being MAGAs, I'll give you all a little help. The best synonym for "obloguy" is "disgrace". No need to go buy a Thesaurus, though it might be a good time to expand your vocabulary beyond the grammar school level.) It was heartening to hear the comments from star officers who were forced to sit through the inanity and bizarre drivel spouted by the drunkard Hegseth and the demented and truly delusional Trump. I suppose most of these men and women already knew they were being led by Carnival People who cater to the lowest level of brainpower in society, and undoubtedly in their liaison with their counterparts in allied countries they have discussed the absurdity and danger that is MAGA. They saw it firsthand on Tuesday. Because none is bound by Article 88 of the UCMJ, they can say what they want, and what many have said is that the path Trump is trying to take the US down is NOT the USA to which they swore an oath. It is instead the epitome of what many have spent their careers fighting against. No one in the US military is under any obligation to follow an illegal order. We shall see many refuse to follow the fascist wishes of the cowardly and demented President. There is no enemy within, save for at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. That man---who all the star and flag officers who know Gen Kelly believe Trump called the dead and wounded of the military "suckers and losers", and a man who had no clue what the USS Arizona Memorial was when he and Gen Kelly were on a Pearl Harbor launch to pay respects to---is against everything the star and flag officers believe. That man is unworthy of the sacrifice of any true American patriot. Trump put another nail in his own coffin with his rambling speech, referred to by the former Chief of the US Air Force as "unhinged, bizarre and dangerous". No one who has served the true ideals of the United States has any respect for the bone spurs coward and dictator wannabe. His days are numbered by his ill health and clear cognitive decline. His movement is dying because real American patriots know better.

This is interesting. ICE went after citizens who exercised their 1st Amendment rights of free speech, and the battle ended up in court. A federal District judge appointed by President Reagan heard the case and issued this statement: “This court has listened carefully to the reasons for Ozturk’s captors for masking up…It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason---to terrorize Americans into quiescence. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it."

This is interesting. ICE went after citizens who exercised their 1st Amendment rights of free speech, and the battle ended up in court. A federal District judge appointed by President Reagan heard the case and issued this statement: “This court has listened carefully to the reasons for Ozturk’s captors for masking up…It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason---to terrorize Americans into quiescence. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it."

Those waddling old MAGA fanboys seem to think those left of center have scripts, just like the morons of MAGAstan, and that all speak and read from the same page. One poster wonders why "those of us" (sic) who wanted to defund the police now support local LE. Well, guess what, MAGAnistas. The "defund the police" crowd was maybe 1% of those left of center. OTOH, a majority of MAGAs supported the terrorist attack on the Capitol and the pardons. They also call the traitor who got shot and killed by a Capitol Police that day some sort of hero. She was a traitor to the oath she took.

What lesson would that be? Storm the US Capitol, beat and bear spray 140 police, and search for the Vice President to hang him....and then get pardoned? And all of it fomented by a pathological liar and crybaby who could not accept he lost?

Trumpism will end the same way McCarthyism did....those who were on board with the madness will deny ever supporting him. It could also end the way Ceaucescu or Mussolini ended. Trump is in severe cognitive and physical decline, so the likelihood of him even surviving above ground for 4 years is slim to none. He's become a raving lunatic, claiming ending wars that didn't exist and even taking credit for solving a genocide (Rwanda 1994) when he was filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy and stiffing junk bond investors. He was truly bizarre over the weekend posting about how he is giving all Americans special cards for "med beds", an intergalactic alien invention that can cure everything from HIV to diabetes, though apparently not canckles. Someone at the White House had to take down that social media post. The guy is now an absolute nutcase. Vance, might have a future as a product promoter for Maybelline, but he will not inherit the MAGA cult. Trump, oddly, has charisma to goobers, but Vance is about as charismatic as Melba Toast. He's also a "beardo", using the verbiage of the drunkard SecDef. I'm not sure the US will ever regain its place it once held in the world until 20 January 2025. It will be seen as something between a hasbeen like the UK or Spain, or simply untrustworthy. I would imagine the rest of the world saw the bizarre show at Quantico yesterday, and it must have had Xi and Putin laughing with delight and former US allies more confident in their decision to distance themselves from the US and form stronger alliances with each other.

Odd that the drunkard SecWar installed a make-up room next to his Pentagon office, and the "Commander-in-Chief" as well as his VP wear more make-up than a drag queen on a Mardi Gras parade float. All those star officers sitting there, many who knew Gen Kelly well, know that the bloated guy speaking to them called the killed and injured "suckers and losers". Certainly they would likely believe Gen Kelly over the pathological lying Trump. The former Chief of the AirForce called the speeches "unhinged, bizarre and dangerous". Trump claimed the US is under "invasion from within" and that US Cities will be a good training ground for the military. Obviously many of the star officers have seen combat and actual invasions, so they know the bone spurs coward is just an armchair "warrior" and a fascist wannabe. I bet many of the officers, who got plenty of chance to speak with each other directly because of the meeting, had some interesting things to say about the state of the country under this fascist regime. Star officers are not subject to Article 88 of the UCMJ, so they are free to be critical of the President and SecDef. There are far more Gen Kellys, Mattis' and Milleys among the star officers than Mike Flynns.

So I suppose all of you MAGAs, if in Dagestan or Cali, or Beirut in the mid-1980s, and an unmarked van pulled up, a half dozen masked and badge-less guy jumped out, grabbed you without identifying themselves, you’d just assume they wanted to check your visa for overstay, and you'd go with them calmly. The US is not Dagestan or Cali or Beirut, you might say. It is now, under the fascist regime of Trump. ICE are cowards. They get all geared up and masked to go grab 100 lb female garment workers or 73-year old South Asian grandmas or pull 10-year old kids off a Little League baseball diamond. Beat cops go mask-less, wear a badge and name tag, while going after drug gangs, bank robbers, organized crime, and far right scum shooting up churches, Walmarts and synagogues. Beat cops have courage and honor. ICE has nothing of the sort. Bone spurs, maybe, like their master.

The left are such slackers when it comes to political violence. Even the FBI and Homeland Security noted that in official reports on political violence and domestic terrorism during Trump's first term. During a Senate Hearing with the then-Cgh9ief of HS, a Dem Senator read from the report to the HS CHIef, because in her opening statement she "forgot" and instead talked about non-Trumpers. The far right and MAGAS own all of these guys, with Sanford and Edge just added over the last week: Michael Estes, Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein, Adam Purinton, Jeremy Christian, Wade Page, Edgar Welch, Sam Woodward, James Fields, Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, Ian David Long, Cesar Sayoc, Gregory Bush, Stephen Paddock, Christopher Hansson, Patrick Crusius, Thomas Sanford, Nigel Edge

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I guess you've forgotten things like Fox talking heads making hammer jokes when Speaker Pelosi's husband was beaten by a MAGA, or far right Mom's basement podcasters bringing up that old Peter, Paul & Mary song.

The white business owners---including your messiah Trump until at least 2017, are breaking the law. Arrest them. End of story. (By the way, there's a strawberry picking job just waiting for a lady bit of your skill and talent level. Go for it!)

LOL! Speaking of low IQs, you of your lady bits, it seems you cannot refute any of what I wrote, so all you have is empty ad hominem. I guess you think white lawbreakers, who hire the undocumented migrants, are exempt from any sort of punishment. I do enjoy your "low IQ" comments. I would be glad to sit down with you in a controlled situation and take an IQ test. I'll spot you 30 points, generous guy that I am. If you had any money, and betting was legal, I'd bet you whatever sum you wanted. I assume you're on SSDI or just generally cash strapped, but I guess once in a while I can take candy from a baby. Of course no doubt you're as stable of a genius as your messiah Trump, but I'm willing to take that risk. What-chu say, your lady bits?

Racism Racism Racism Trump and his cult can bark all the want about security, but the entire immigration and border issue is about one thing, and one thing only: RACISM From Trump and his “rapists and murderers” to Patrick Crusius gunning down 22 Hispanics in an El Paso Walmart, to Robert Bowers slaughtering 11 in a synagogue because that house of worship was aiding migrants from south of the border, to the masked and badge-less stormtroopers roughing up women and children and the elderly, it’s all about one thing: RACISM. Another name for it is white supremacy. The stormtroopers are attacking garment factories, farms, abattoirs, construction sites…even Little League baseball games. Whom are the fascist thugs NOT going after? The white men who employ the undocumented workers. The white farmers who hire undocumented workers to harvest crops. The CEOs of stock exchange-listed companies who employ undocumented workers. The vast majority of undocumented folks coming across the border work and pay taxes. If some commit crimes, it’s at a much lower rate than the population in general. It’s certainly at a lower rate than the convicted felon Trump. They are called “iilegals”, which by definition means breaking the law. However, the white company owners who employ them are also breaking the law, but heaven forbid the same racist MAGAs call these white guys “illegals”. Trump himself employed undocumented workers beginning in the early 1980s all the way until at least 2017, but Fox talking heads are not going to call him an “illegal”, despite 40 years of lawbreaking. Trump’s stormtroopers are not raiding country clubs and roughing up men having Sunday Brunch with their wives and children. They aren’t firing missiles at yachts where these white employers of undocumented workers are playing sailor. Stormtroopers are not breaking into farm houses in Nebraska or Iowa and dragging off white farmers. Stormtroopers are not smashing the doors down in corner offices and zip-tying Fortune 500 CEOs, the lawbreakers who hire the undocumented workers. Heaven forbid white illegals ever have to pay a price. They’re part of the Donor Class, so exempt from prosecution. Yes, there is only one word for the Trump and MAGA view of ICE and its fascist actions: RACISM. Start arresting and roughing up white business owners and Fortune 500 CEOs and see what that does to folks trying to cross the border. The large majority who are job seekers won’t bother coming if there are no jobs. Of course none of this would play well on Fox or in the fever swamps of MAGAstan. That audience wants to see “wetbacks” roughed up. They want to feel power. They want to feel superior. Of course none will do the jobs most of those migrants are willing to do. MAGAs in Red States prefer Social Security Disability Insurance and Food Stamps to picking lettuce or cutting up cattle. Those aren’t white people jobs.

Nope. I know it's a difficult concept for members of the cult, but I'll give you one guess as to who is most guilty in the border/undocumented worker issue...... The white business owners who employ the undocumented Christian refugees from Central and South America. Again, this might be a mental leap, but what do you think would happen if ICE started raiding affluent neighborhoods where the business owners live? How about storming Country Clubs and grabbing folks who employ the undocumented? THAT ^ would send a message. Of course they won't do that, because the business owners are part of the Donor Class. Now here's another softball question for you..... Who is the guy currently residing on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC who as far back as 1980 began employing undocumented workers for everything from constructing his tower to fixing the Central Park ice skating rink to staffing his wedding planning facility and golf club in Florida to his golf course in New Jersey up until at least 2017? Hint: he's a fat guy with an orange face, swollen ankles and suffering from cognitive decline.

Well, neither are MAGA Evangelicals actually Christian. Christian Nationalists are not Christian. Name a single Trump or MAGA policy that follows the teachings of Jesus, as detailed in M, M, L, & J. I'm not religious, but I do know what ideals and values the Jesus fellow believed and preached, and MAGA follows a sum total of none of them. Their Jesus is just a prop to hide behind while they preach things that are the polar opposite of what Jesus supposedly said. Humility? Caring for the poor? Caring for the sick? Welcoming the stranger? Eschewing material wealth? Turning the other cheek?

The "good news" is that it looks like the demented Trump finally has a handler, sweeping up his excrement behind him. Here's why: Yesterday Trump posted a video on his social media account about "med beds" a supposed alien (not aliens like rapists and murderers from south of the border, but interstellar or intergalactic aliens) technology where a patient just lies down on it and is cured. QAnon (you know, the losers who thought HRC and Tom Hanks were running an international pedophile ring under a basement-less pizza parlor in DC, when the real int'l pedophile was a member of Mar-a-Lago) is behind this fictitious med bed tale, and somebody produced an AI video of hospitals full of med beds and Americans all having a special med bed card issued by Trump. Trump reposted the video, I guess to take credit the way he takes credit for stopping major wars like between Cambodia and Armenia, or Aberjaibidan (sic) and Albania, or claiming he ended the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The post remained on his official account for a few hours, but "somebody" subsequently took it down. Let's remember that demented lunatic has the nuclear codes. Hopefully somebody else has the real nuclear football, not the nutball whackadoodle Trump.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume you're trying to obfuscate, and that you're not really as ignorant and clueless as your comment might otherwise suggest. Maybe I'm being too generous. Apparently, in MAGAstan, there are laws you can break repeatedly and never face consequences (hiring undocumented workers, for example). There are other laws that get you visits from ICE stormtroopers.

So ironic that the White Jeebus Christian Nationalists like the late Charlie Kirk ignore the actual teachings of the person they claim is their lord and savior (his widow, to her credit, embraced the true teachings of the Jesus of the Gospels). Of course, White Jeebus is all about power and control, not even loosely or tangentially associated with anything the Gospel Jesus taught. Humility, care for the poor, care for the sick, welcome the stranger, turn the other cheek, eschew material wealth.....none of that is part of the White Jeebus Evangelical movement. Those things are only the Jesus of the Gospels. If there was a real Jesus, and he had the power to welcome folks into paradise or send them into eternal flames, Trump and all of MAGA would be well advised to stalk up on SPF-666. MAGAs are too dumb to know the tactics of Trump and his inner circle: give dumb people things to hate, get their votes, and then use power for tax cuts for the uber elite and for control of the masses. Trump gave you "rapists and murderers from Central and South America" who are out to get you, but IGNORES the white business owners who hire undocumented migrants who by and large commit crimes to a far lesser extent than legal Americans. Rather than close the border, it would have been much easier and much more effective to arrest business owners who hire the undocumented workers. But no way they'd upset those in the Donor Class. MAAGAs get woodies when they see ICE stormtroopers grab a 73 year old grandma.