The Wisdom of Pooh

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Orangie's team is throwing a great big shit fit about open mics at his scheduled debate with Harris. They know their loser too well. Two of his many serious problems are keeping his mouth shut, and letting his diarrhea mouth run off point. His team also knows that Harris, being as former prosecutor will have no problem shutting him down. Let's be perfectly honest, they're looking for a reason to backout. Things were different when they thought he was going to stay on top, when they believed Americans would have not problem listening to him ramble inanities, but things have change. They had zero plans for the Democrats to fire back at them, to scoring lots of points with so many Americans who are simply fed up with the "Just Say No," and "Shut up, I'm in Charge," party. To be blunt, a large majority of Americans are sick and tired of Donald Fucking Trump.

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Orangie the angry anus was once again indicted yesterday for his coup attempt on January 6. And he's fuming [[there, didn't I put it nicely?). In fact, for those who are old enough to remember, the entire GOP is squealing like Mr. Bill, "no, no, no, no!" Jack Smith's review of Justice Eileen Cannon's opinions was scathing, saying things like she "failed to grasp the simply grammar," and "had a total disregard for history." But then, she is a Trump loyalist. He didn't call her a traitor to Democracy, but that underlying message was quite obvious.

Perhaps the biggest surprise yesterday was that there will be a debate. This is going to be a big problem for Orangie's campaign. Harris is going to call him on everything he says. Hopefully, America will get the chance to hear her say, "Well, that's a lie," or possibly, "Well, that was one long rambling word salad." It will, if Orangie shows up, give him what he loves so much, great numbers. Millions will probably tune in hoping to see him storm off stage. This is why I think that at the last possible moment he will develop laryngitis.

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The Felon’s campaign may talk a big game, but when faced with potential legal action from Beyoncé, they folded like the ill-fitting, makeup-stained suit of their candidate. On Thursday, Beyoncé issued a cease and desist to The Felon’s campaign after spokesperson Steven Cheung posted a video on social media featuring DonOLD deplaning in Michigan, soundtracked to Beyoncé’s song “Freedom.” “Freedom” is, of course, the official campaign theme song of Vice President Kamala Harris—a choice that Beyoncé personally approved, so naturally The Felon tried to steal it.

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Is it me, or does it seem like a day doesn't pass during which the Orange Anus manages to get bad press? Take the Arlington Cemetery incident, for example. Putting a wreath at the grave of a recently deceased war hero might be seen as decent and honorable, if only Orangie hadn't called those who died fighting for our country, losers and suckers. He's mocked and derided Gold Star Families, and then he tries to turn their grief into a photo op. I saw this morning that his team is trying to backtrack on that piece of stupidity. Someone should tell him, it's already too late.


And then next week Orangie is hosting a gala at Bedminster as a purported fund raiser to pay for legal fees of his January 6 conspirators. Yeah, I know, Stupidity, thy name is Trump. Supposedly, he's trying to raise $1 million to help pay for their defense. Personally, I suspect most of the proceeds will end up going into his "Getaway Fund." In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if he has quite the nest egg saved up to cover his relocation expenses.

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There is no easy way to say this: I think I get why his first [[?) wife killed herself. She was living with an insane person.
By all accounts he mentally tormented her, though I'm sure she had other issues going on. But still - that whole straw / camel thing would seem to apply here, no?
Michael Kennedy was the one who hit his head while skiing and died. We should all be so lucky that it should have happened to RFK.
Once again, the Onion is funny but continues to show its obsolescence. Where actual headlines are more outlandish than made-up ones, I'm surprised they are still in business. At this point their staff has to be pretty small.
But no. First there was RFK's worm in the brain. Then the bear story. Now........

W. T. F. ????

.....and it's not the Onion.
It's multiple news agencies. You can Gooooooooogle it for yourself, should you feel the need.
I could go through the entire questions, like I did the bear story. I'm assuming a trip to Ace Hardware was involved to get a chainsaw. But what the fuck do I know anymore.
And then there was lifting and securing it to said minivan.....no doubt with bungee cords. I'm sure he was going to use the whale to drain it for lamp oil. Blubber to keep warm during those cold nights at the compound, as you know how those Kennedys rough it.
That he endorsed VanShitsinPantz is right on course for his crazy, but Harris has got to be thinking, "Phew! Dodged a bullet........". I mean, not like BLOTUS "dodged" his. Seriously, what a fucking nut job.
Now that I think about it, maybe RFK's [[first?) wife killed herself because they named their kid "Kick"

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Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson, four of the Central Park Five— Antron McCray could not attend—speaking at the DNC of being falsely accused of rape in 1989 and having The Felon suggest they be put to death: “[The Felon] wanted us killed. He wanted us dead. We spent a combined 47 years in prison. We were exonerated after the perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. Yet today, [The Felon] still stands by his original call for us to be executed. HE WILL NEVER CGANGE. Together, on November 5, we will usher Kamala Harris into the White House and Americas will finally say goodbye to that hateful man.” The Felon never, NEVER, admits he’s wrong, even when faced with proof. Facts don’t matter; he is right, always. Even when proven wrong.

Megyn Kelly, Fox Entertainment has-been, on her podcast, calling journalist Kaitlyn Collins disgusting and a bitch: “The media of course has been disgusting, you know, no one’s surprised. But it is kind of fun when it gets called out. And yesterday—or last week there was a viral clip of Kaitlan Collins, who CNN is trying to make into a star—I’m sorry, but she’s only a star with leftists and the fact that she has some roots in Alabama does not make her a fair and balanced reporter. I will submit for the record: Her biggest sin is not that she is biased, though she is, it’s that she’s boring. She’s extremely boring with no personality. I have a pro tip for her: Smile, try smiling every once in a while. Try not to be, like in your delivery, such a cold-hearted bitch all the time, because it gives people nothing to bond to.” It sure sounds like Kelly is a woman-hating, lying PPOS podcaster jealous of another woman sitting atop a cable news network like she used to do when she was, in her own mind, relevant.

Pete Buttigieg, on Fox News … well, Fox Entertainment, on The Felon’s presidency: “He didn’t keep his promise of 6% economic growth. He broke his promise to pass an infrastructure bill. He even broke his promise to that J6 mob when he said, ‘I will be at your side when you march down to the Capitol.’ But he actually did keep two promises: He kept his promise to destroy the right to choose in this country, and he kept his promise on tax cuts to the rich. If you want to know what a second [Felon] term would look like, I would look at those rare promises that he actually managed to keep. He’s disavowed a lot of things. I don’t believe him. He lies all the time. Republicans who are in [his] personality cult look at [him] and say he’s perfectly fine even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Haley and Pelosi, even though he’s rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter. We don’t have that kind of warped reality on our side. Crime is down under Joe Biden and crime was up under [The Felon]. Now, I don’t know how often that gets reported on this network, so if you’re watching this at home, do yourself a favor and look up the data. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime that we experienced under [The Felon]?” Listen to Pete; common sense and facts, not bull shiz and lies from The Felon and his ilk, er, ick.

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Ana Navarro, speaking of The Felon at the DNC: “Let’s be serious. [The Felon] and his minions call Kamala a communist. I know communism. I fled communism from Nicaragua when I was 8 years old. I don’t take it lightly. And let me tell you what communist dictators do. And it’s never just for one day. They attack the free press. They call them the enemy of the people like Ortega does in Nicaragua. They put their unqualified relatives in cushy government jobs so they can get rich off their positions like the Castros do in Cuba and they refuse to accept legitimate elections when they lose and call for violence to stay in power like Maduro is doing right now in Venezuela. Now you tell me something. Do any of those things sound familiar? Is there anybody running for president who reminds you of that?” Ana used to be a Republican, and a conservative journalist, but something happened in 2016 that caused her to change her mind.

Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Senator from Illinois, who lost both legs in the Iraq War, on another of The Felon’s anti-military speeches: “[He] is despicable. He doesn’t deserve to be commander in chief. And certainly those remarks are consistent with where he’s always been. He thinks that we’re suckers and losers. Do voters want a five-time draft dodger who denigrates military men and women and our veterans and calls us suckers and losers, who doesn’t want to have his picture taken with amputee veterans of various conflicts to be the next commander in chief or are you going to have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who care deeply about veterans? It’s despicable what Republicans are doing. The same party that thinks that [The Felon], who dodged a draft five times, who thinks veterans are suckers and losers, that’s who they think is better than someone who served 24 years in uniform.” The party of the military, the party of veterans, supports a man who dodged the draft five times because his feet hurt; a man who claimed staying safe from STDs was his own personal Vietnam; a man who belittled John McCain for his service; a man who stayed away from a ceremony honoring Americans who died on D-day because it was raining; and a man who has called soldiers “losers and suckers.”

Chris Sununu, GOP New Hampshire Governor trying to explain away The Felon’s vile comments on recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor: “Yeah, they were asinine comments. There’s no doubt about that. Again, I don’t think they’re the first asinine comments former President Trump has ever made. I don’t think they’ll be a game changer in terms of the election. So to make these types of comparisons is so far afield, I don’t think it’s going to be a big politically, big politically in terms of moving votes. He said crazy things like this before. At the end of the day, he’s got to just focus on what Americans are feeling, which is the economy, the stresses, the border crisis, the migrant crisis.” Ignore the military hating, racist, rapist, traitor, con artist behind the curtain? No thank you.

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, on this election: “I’m confident that we’re going to do everything that we need to do over the next few months to make sure that House Democrats take back the majority so the American people do not have to encounter that question [on House Republicans refusing to certify the election]. It is a reality that far too many of my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues in the House have engaged in election denial, conspiracy theories, and have tried to undermine the very fabric of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what Project 2025 is all about.” As if you needed another reason to vote blue, howsabout making sure the certification of the election goes off without a hitch.

Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s granddaughter, coming out for Kamala Harris: “In 2016, when a man bragged about assaulting women, various leaders of my faith then propped up this man as a poster boy for godly manhood and leadership. This broke my heart as I have watched—quite frankly, for the last eight years—people who were curious about Jesus and His teachings [have] done a 180 and walked in the other direction from my faith.” To be a person of faith, so-called faith, and throw your support behind a con artist, sexual predator, pussy grabber, racist rapist, shows everyone, including Franklin Graham, your true colors. And it must make true Christians lose their minds.

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Dana Bash threw every MAGA talking point that she could remember at Harris and Gov. Walz last night. It's like she went through the past two months of Drudge Report and wrote down all of the headlines. And when the questions were answered, she had the audacity to follow up if the answer was something she didn't expect. Meanwhile, journos are quite comfortable allowing Fat Bastard to lie, refuse to detail policy, or claim impossible and easy to refute things [like "more than 107% of all new jobs created went to illegals"]. I really wish she would use the debate as a moment to call out the discrepancy between how the mainstream media covers her vs Trump. Their fingers, hands, elbows, toes, feet, and butts are all on the scale to help him out and they don't care that we all know it.

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Someone on Reddit said that Republicans wonder why Democrats don't know how to enjoy themselves around our fallen heroes.

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Trump Claims Schools Perform Gender Surgery: “Your Kid Goes To School, Comes Home With An Operation”

August 31, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

“But the transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child and you know many of these childs [sic] 15 years later say, what the hell happened? Who did this to me? They say, who did this to me? It’s incredible.” – Trump, going on to tell the Moms For Liberty audience that public school boards are “like dictatorships.”

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Saturday, August 31, 2024

BREAKING NEWS!

Have you heard the news? What excitement at the showroom yesterday after being back only two days. JD Vance came into the showroom yesterday while passing through the area. Well, you guessed it. JD got caught fucking a sofa!!! Now we're suing him for sectional assault.

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Again.....

It's hard to miss some news, even though I have yet to visit a new site of any kind, even for this.


I did see hear they 'captured the suspect', which I deciphered as that he was white.


And since there hasn't been a female who has done a school shooting since the Boomtown Rats recorded "I Don't Like Mondays", I'm assuming it was a guy.


It just seems all too predictable.


Granted the NRA can't be blamed for all of it. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have done little [[read: almost nothing) to prevent this or even provide any kind of speed bump. The Dems pretend to care, which is a little more than the GOP's not giving a fuck at all. No one moves off the dime.


Not that I want any kid to die, but as it happens all too often, just once it has to be a senior politician's kid or grandkid. Sorry - it just has to be if there is going to be any movement at all. A freshmen representative's kid isn't gonna cut it.

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You are better than Trump and you know it. Just like you know that Ann Coulter is also capable of doing weird stuff with furniture.


This isn’t going to be pretty. It’s going to be petty. Which also happens to be the best way to describe Ann Coulter.
Awhile back I read her latest book it was so poorly written that 10 monkeys randomly typing on 10 typewriters would produce a better book in about 10 minutes. I also said she had feet the size of an Emu. While accurate, it was indeed harsh. But I’m neither a literary critic, nor a zoologist, or anyone of real importance actually so, in fact, I was punching up.
In truth, I am so insignificant that when I do call someone a name or otherwise insult them, I am almost always punching up. The same could be said about Ann. She is neither a good writer nor a good person so technically she too is usually punching up whenever she is attacking liberal politicians. But exactly how pathetic of an asshat does one have to be to actually attack a child and, in particular, a child who is simply showing affection for their father? Someone as low as Coulter actually managed to punch down.
Yesterday, Ann Coulter attacked Gus Walz. A teenager. And when she learned that Gus has a form of autism, she didn’t apologize. She blamed Democrats for making her attack him.
So, GOP, I am asking you again. Aren’t you tired?
Ann Coulter was not the only one. She and the rest of MAGA nation have shown you time and time again that they are the worst among us. They have nothing but contempt and hatred and ugliness to offer. And this alpha male masculinity thing. I mean what is that? If you are worried that not picking on kids means women aren’t going to procreate for you, please don’t worry. I am sure there are plenty of Marjorie Taylore Greene's and Lauren Boebert's in the world who will be more than happy to show you a good time in a darkened theatre.
Ooops. I went there, didn’t I? I just did what I am accusing you of doing. But in my defense, do a quick google on some of the trash that comes out of those ladies’ mouths daily. You know what. I take that back. I apologize for saying it. I might be insignificant, but making fun of Margorie and Lauren is definitely punching down because you just can’t get lower than those two.
Aren’t you sick and tired of it?
Since the moment Donald J Trump came down that golden escalator and called poor immigrants “rapists” and “murderers” we Americans have been at each other’s throats, and the GOP has slowly devolved from a political party into a cesspool rife with racism, misogyny, and dick jokes. But Ann Coulter, Mike Crispi, Jay Weber and MAGA faithful still managed to punch down against a 17-year-old kid who wept as he told his Dad he loved him.
Really. Aren’t you tired of it?
Before Trump, we had our disagreements. We had our differences. And sometimes tempers flared, and insults ensued. But this? This constant stream of garbage that comes out of the Trump campaign day after day. The nonstop stream of grievances, name calling, racial slurs, religious intolerance, and just plain hatred…
Aren’t you tired of it?
When Al Gore lost the 2000 election, Democrats were pissed. And in 2008 when Obama was elected, Republicans were pissed. But you know what? We removed our political signs from our yards, and we waited 4 years to vote again. We didn’t make bigger signs and yell at clouds.
Aren’t you tired of it?
Lots of people loved Bill Clinton. Lots of people couldn’t stand him. Families didn’t break up over it.
Lots of people hated George W Bush. Lots of people loved him. Nobody stormed the Capitol.
Aren’t you tired of it?
“Little Marco”
“Pocahontas”
“Lyin’ Ted”
“Sleepy Joe”
“Kamabla”
Aren’t you sick and tired of it?
The worst that Dems have returned in response is to call two rich, white guys weird because there really was no other appropriate term.
“The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man.” – Trump
“I hate the police.” – Vance
“Immigrants are taking black people’s jobs.” – Trump
Democrats are a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives.” – Vance
“We’re being inundated. Think of it. Millions of people are coming in from prisons, from mental institutions, they’re terrorists at levels that we have never seen before.”- Trump [[who is married to an immigrant)
“I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I’m sure they will call that racist.” – Vance
“I’ve had the experience—I take a shower, I want that beautiful head of hair to be nice and wet; lather. I want it to be lathered beautifully. And I get the best stuff you can buy, and I dump it all over, and then I turn on the water and the damn water drips out. I can’t get this stuff out of my hair, it’s a horrible thing.” – Trump
“Every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California.” – Vance
“What would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery’s now under water, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there… from the boat, ten yards, or here. Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?” – Trump
Fake news.
Stolen elections.
Failed nation.
There really is no better word for it. They are weird. And for the love of God, I am so tired of it. Aren’t you?
Before he became President, Trump admitted on camera to sexual assault. You explained it away as locker room talk. Later he was found liable for it in a court of law. You blamed everyone but Trump. But… Secretly you were disturbed by it. Weren’t you?
Before he became President, he made fun of a disabled person. He literally mocked the way he looked and talked. You pretended it never happened. But deep down you were disgusted when you saw the video, weren’t you? Surely you had to be.
When he gave a tax cut to the rich and then worked to take away your health insurance… weren’t you just a little bit pissed off?
When he downplayed COVID but then got COVID himself and was rushed by helicopter to one of our nation’s finest hospitals… didn’t you pause and take a second look at the refrigerator trucks being used as overflow morgues? Surely you did.
When students were gunned down in an Iowa school he said “It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward.” Did you wonder why he waited 36 hours to comment and that was the best he had to offer to the grieving parents? Get over it.
When you found out that his foundation had to be shut down because it had misused funds that were intended for charity… surely you were disgusted. Weren’t you?
Some of you are my neighbors. Some of you are my family members for crying out loud. I know you. This stuff has to bother you. You are too good for that man. What are you waiting for?
The demons on the left are not who you think they are. They have created millions more jobs and invested in thousands of more infrastructure projects. Affordable healthcare. Medical and family leave. Social Security. Medicare. They’ve offered real solutions to the immigration issues. The weirdos on the right have given you what exactly? A larger 401k? I just can’t with this nonsense anymore. The stock market has doubled since Trump left office.
Trump made everything worse. And deep down you know it. You didn’t hate your neighbors before Trump. You didn’t mock children before Trump. You respected hard work. You respected the sacrifice of veterans. You elected people who didn’t embarrass you on a regular basis.
Put Trump. Put Vance. Put Bannon, Miller, Flynn, Giuliani. Coulter, Greene, Boebert, Lake, That Weird Pillow Guy…. Put them all behind you. You are better than this. We are all Americans and we are better than this. I mean it. Really.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, explaining why he regularly appears on Fox News Entertainment: “The reason I do it is because I think it’s important … to meet people where they are, and recognize that I can’t be mad at somebody for not embracing our message if they’ve literally never heard it. The more one-sided the news network is, the less likely [its viewers] will have heard [Democratic messages], unless I literally go there and share it. And I think it’s especially true in this election, because I know a lot of folks who watch Fox News and count on Fox News [and] I want [Fox News viewers] to at least have heard that, maybe more often than they would have [otherwise]. I know veterans who watch Fox News. I want to ask them to consider the difference between a ticket, led by somebody who faked a disability, getting a doctor’s note, taking advantage of him being a teenage multimillionaire so that he wouldn’t have to go to Vietnam … compared to, a ticket led by the administration that delivered the PACT Act that made sure that veterans who I served with in Iraq and Afghanistan [and were exposed] to burn pits, get the cancer treatment that they need. I always visualize people who I know who I disagree with and who are just maybe tuning in. I don’t think they’re going to see me on Fox for five minutes and see the light and suddenly become liberal Democrats. But I know that we’re having a healthier conversation if they’ve at least heard what somebody like me has to say. Well, you know, each of us has different kind of tactical decisions about where we go and how we do it, but I’m proud to speak on Fox News and other conservative outlets on behalf of this campaign because I believe in this campaign, and I think it’s especially important in places where certain arguments—not even arguments, just certain facts—might not otherwise be aired. I imagine most viewers of Fox News are sincerely unaware that immigrants are no more likely to commit a crime than somebody who was born here, because that’s just not a fact that gets mentioned on their airways very often. So to the extent they’re willing to invite me on there, I think it’s important for me to take the opportunity to share it.” Again, simple common sense; Pete also does not denigrate the Fox viewers, even if they vehemently disagree because there may be hope that someone listening might change their mind about the Democrats and the Republicans. photo

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Elise Stefanik, GOP Representative from New York, lying about The Felon’s campaign stop at Arlington Cemetery: “Look at this past week … this was the three-year anniversary of those 13 service members in Afghanistan, now 13 Gold Star families. And you have Kamala Harris’s campaign politicizing this, not mentioning their names, not taking accountability for that catastrophic decision. She was the last person in the room advising Joe Biden and yet they’re criticizing [The Felon]’s invitation from those families at Arlington. Kamala Harris is a disgrace and we need to make sure she never becomes commander in chief.” What Elise—who, let’s face it, is the GOP lapdog for the men—isn’t telling you is that the timeline for the withdrawal from Afghanistan was set in place by The Felon, who then used those deaths as a reason to stand on the graves of dead soldiers as a five-time draft dodger and smile while giving us all the thumbs up. Also, ask Elise and any other Republican including The Felon where they were on the first anniversary of these soldier’s deaths … or the second anniversary. And you’ll realize they showed up this year because it’s an election year and they want to campaign on the dead bodies of soldiers.

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Kamala Harris, Democrat for President, on The Felon’s tasteless display at Arlington: “As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation. It is not a place for politics. And yet, as was reported this week, [The Felon]’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt. This is nothing new from [him]. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients. A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service members, ‘I don’t get it. What was in it for them?’ This is a man who is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself. If there is one thing on which we as Americans can all agree, it is that our veterans, military families, and service members should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respect and gratitude. And it is my belief that someone who cannot meet this simple, sacred duty should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America. I will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes, who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our beloved nation and our cherished freedoms. I mourn them and salute them. And I will never politicize them.” And that’s how a President responds.

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Wowza! YouTube shuts down Tenet Media because some of their biggest stars, Dave Rubin and Tim Poole to name some, are Russian Assets, getting paid more than $100,000 per week. Two Trump associates have been arrested, again because they're Russian Assets, and Trump's campaign has gone into "black out" mode with people being threatened with termination if they talk. Oh, and Orangie had a word salad Q & A in which he claimed that tariffs were going to pay for childcare. The debate, if it actually takes place, might be one of the funniest things to ever happen on the political stage. It would be hilarious to hear Harris ask the moderator if he can get her opponent to speak in complete sentences.

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Donald Trump’s new photo book is a fantastical highlight reel

September 4, 2024
“Save America” is a breathless gallery of Trump’s presidency accompanied by occasional unhinged ramblings.
From The Washington Post, by Ron Charles:
Reflecting on the glory of his new photobook, Donald Trump writes, “No other book compares to ‘Save America,’” which is an extraordinary claim from a man who just a few months ago was hawking copies of the Bible.
But “Save America” is, indeed, a singular production — literally a steal at $99 [[plus $11 for shipping). Many of the hundreds of photos were drawn from the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, a federally funded oxymoron.
Part retrospection, part revenge, part fantasy, “Save America” was released Tuesday by Winning Team, a right-wing publishing house founded by Sergio Gor and Donald Trump Jr. to promote books by Trump and other literary luminaries like Kari Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Arriving just two months before the presidential election, “Save America” would seem well-positioned to serve as a visual campaign biography. But rather than argue for returning Trump to the White House, the book’s captions — written in Trump’s enthusiastic style of capitalization, like a fascist Emily Dickinson — suggest that he never really left. Indeed, this is a volume too pure to be sullied by campaign details. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are barely mentioned. I only spotted JD Vance once and without identification or comment. Hannibal Lecter gets more ink.
Oh yes, there are passing references to a strong military; the need to stop illegal immigration, which is “WRONG”; the importance of domestic manufacturing; and a fanciful reference to America’s oil and gas lasting into the future for “HUNDREDS OF YEARS.” But the overwhelming visual evidence of the book implies that what will really save America is Donald Trump in a blue suit.
Over more than 350 lavish pages, Trump presents a breathless gallery of himself during and after his reign as the 45th president. There are many, many smiling images of Trump; there are Dirty Harry images of Trump; there are photos of Trump surrounded by adoring fans, conferring with heads of state and gazing over fields of worshipful supporters; and there are innumerable shots of Trump making a fist. Although the accrual of these images is offered as a chronology of success, their numbing redundancy serves as a kind of repudiation of time: Trump as the beginning and the end, the first and the last, alpha male and omega male. He claims that “Save America” “is a MUST HAVE on U.S. History,” but the tone is so onanist that the book should really be left alone to enjoy itself in private.
Unfortunately, the potential historical value of these stock photos is thwarted by Trump’s stingy commentary. For some reason, the man who won’t stop nattering on at campaign events becomes downright laconic in these pages. Even images of the assassination attempt — showing him smeared with blood, raising his fist — inspire nothing more than a few pat sentences.
Trump’s reticence is matched by the book designers who inexplicably decided to strip away any identifying information and context from these photos. [[There’s no table of contents, no index — every expense was spared.) And so, we gaze upon Trump at a factory, at a rally, in a hanger, on a field, in a meeting.
Where? When? Why?
Who cares?! — this is “Where’s Waldo” for the MAGA fanatic. Context and meaning are irrelevant. Page after glossy page, the people around Trump — the extras — change, but Trump remains as iconic and dependable as a bottle of Coca-Cola.
As always withthe Very Stable Genius’s photo books — this is his third — the selection and order speak volumes. The effectiveness of our legal system to hold Trump responsible is demonstrated by the photo he’s chosen as the prefatory image: his brooding mug shot at the Fulton County Jail after he was indicted on racketeering charges last August. It’s one of the few photos here that gets the signature Sharpie treatment, with the words “Never give up / Never surrender” scrawled over his golden hair.
Then the story begins in earnest, dragging us back to Trump’s central obsession and his administration’s initial “alternative fact.” Under a photo of the 2017 inauguration, he writes, “Democrats tried to disparage Crowd size, knowing that this was the Largest Inaugural Crowd EVER — See for yourself!”
A hundred pages in, Trump returns to that theme, claiming that he drew a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King, Jr. “But I don’t care,” he says magnanimously, “because I love Martin Luther King!”
Even the book’s brief nod to Jan. 6 is obsessed with crowd size rather than, say, accusations of incitement, treason, conspiracy and insurrection. “THIS IS THE REAL JANUARY 6TH,” Trump writes under a photo carefully selected to avoid showing Confederate flags, nooses and thugs beating up police officers and smashing their way into the Capitol. “Pictures were almost impossible to get,” he says about the most photographed event in modern history. “They never captured the size of the Crowd — Nobody wanted to speak about it.” So unfair. You try to violently overturn just one presidential election, and nobody is willing to give you credit for the crowd size.
There probably aren’t more than a few hundred words total in this shiny work of propaganda, but if “Save America” could be said to have a plot, it’s the epic struggle between Trump’s desire to exalt himself and his instinct to denigrate his enemies. This dark impulse is so randomly exposed that it feels all the more thrilling when it pops out like a switchblade. In a sense, “Save America” serves as a graphic demonstration that Trump’s ability to calibrate the appropriate treatment of friends and foes is totally haywire.
For instance, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, appears here shaking Trump’s hand. Trump assures us that he “got along well” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He calls Hungary’s autocratic Viktor Orbán “one of the Great Leaders of the World.” And North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who periodically threatens to lob nuclear weapons at the United States, appears in an astonishing spread of 10 adoring pages that look like they were designed by a high school yearbook staff in Pyongyang.
But woe unto Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Right after a happy photo in the White House, Trump erupts with an unpresidented threat aimed at the actual billionaire:
“Mark Zuckerberg would come to the Oval Office to see me,” Trump writes. “He would bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting to install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.” Like everything in “Save America,” there is no explanation provided with this rant, which continues: “He told me that there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me. We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
The prize for weirdest caption, though, must go to Trump’s remarks about Justin Trudeau. One of the longest bits of sustained commentary in the book, it’s a prose poem of Trumpian lunacy: “His mother was beautiful and wild,” he writes about the Canadian prime minister. “In the 1970s, she would go ‘clubbing’ with the Rolling Stones, but she was also somehow associated with Fidel Castro. She said he was ‘the sexiest man I’ve ever met,’ and a lot of people say that Justin is his son. He swears that he isn’t, but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, and has become a communist just like Castro.”
Any suspicion that Trump didn’t write this book himself should be allayed by the presence of such glorious gibberish.
If there were more unhinged ramblings like this in “Save America,” it’d be a whole lot more fun. It’s been said before: Let Trump be Trump.

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I suppose he could be irony impaired and stupid.




Shillbilly Vanilli. Total dick.

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An Open Letter to JD Vance

Dear JD Vance ... I can’t figure you out. It’s not the mascara because there are boys who like their eyes to pop! And it’s not really the couch-fucking, though I won’t be sitting on any furniture in your house should I come to visit. And it’s not the fact that you can’t order a donut. And it’s not even the way you went from calling The Felon and "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible" and compared him to Hitler just eight years ago and now you’re Mike Pence 2.0. It’s your stance on children and parenting. I mean, you denigrate anyone who doesn’t have children, calling them less than, though I should remind you that Kamala DOES have kids and so does Pete Buttigieg even though you called them childless. And then you suggest that people who have children should be able to vote for their children because they are valuable to this country. And now, in the wake of the shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia that left four people dead—the 45th school shooting in the United States of Guns so far this year—and you say we should just get used to it, that our children being slaughtered in schools is a “fact of life.” How do you justify that with your stance on children being an asset to protect, on children being the most important part of a marriage, but when children are left dead, and parents are left childless, we should just get used to it? You also said schools need more security because, after decades and decades of mass shootings, the problem isn’t more guns at all, it’s that we don’t have armed security at school. But there was security at Apalachee High School and still a gun was brought into school because America loves guns more than children, more than Americans. You also called school shootings a reality and said “we don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.” We have to deal with Sandy Hook, and Apalachee High School and Uvalde and Buell Elementary and Lake Worth Middle School and the University of Washington Medical Center and the University of Arkansas and Carter G. Woodson Middle School and Junipero Serra High School and Osborn High School and Santana High School and Bishop Neumann High School and Granite Hills high School and Lew Wallace High School and Pacific Lutheran University and on and on and on … Deal with it. It’s a fact of life. It’s a fact of death, but only in this country because people like JD Vance and those on the right are beholden to the gun lobby and will do anything from thoughts to prayers, but no real action, on the issue of guns in this country. Well, guess what JD? We’re tired of dealing with it. We’re tired of your thoughts and prayers and your “now is not the time to discuss gun legislation” as the schools wash the blood off their playground and hallways and classrooms. Now is not the time? Fact of life? Deal with it? Fred Guttenberg, a gun control activist whose daughter was killed in a 2018 Parkland school shooting: "School shootings are a fact of life? My daughter Jaime's murder was a fact of life? I can't wait to make your exit from having any say in our public safety a fact of life. I can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.’ And that’s what we need to do; do not vote for the guy who basically said “whatever” to school shootings, or for his partner in gun death, The Felon, who in January told supporters after an Iowa school shooting that “we have to get over it.” Neither of these two men have announced official policies on gun control, though his campaign manager Chris LaCivita says The Felon would continue to oppose gun control efforts. The fact is children are dying in this country and we’re tired of being told by the hypocritical party of family values to deal with it and get over it. We’re being told on one hand that children make a family, and family is the most important thing, but that if your child is gun down in school … oh well. If you’re so serious in your position to let children die, JD, then go to Apalachee and tell those parents who no longer have children to deal with it; tell them to their faces to get over it, it’s a fact of life. And then fuck all the way off. PS As much as you repulse me in most every area of life, and as much as I despise you and everything you stand for, I hope that you never have to go through what any parent in this country has gone through, sending their child off to school to be slaughtered by an idiot with a gun.

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It's really annoying the Fuck out of me that so many Americans are so willing to put a Convicted Sex Offender back in the White House!!! Especially those who claim to be Christian Evangelicals, which makes me wonder how warped and twisted their Sexuality might be behind Closed Doors actually, to Justify that Support for a Convicted Sex Offender? Among his other serious Crimes, that one is the most disturbing becoz with Sex Offenders, their Files are kept indefinitely becoz it's not a matter of IF they will re-offend, but WHEN? Yes, even Homicide Files were only kept for a Decade before Purged unless the Perp was a Serial Killer, and lets be Clear, most, if not all, Serial Killers are also Sex Offenders. And 45 will re-offend and has no remorse for how often he already offended, bragging in fact about being a Sexual Predator, he's dangerous in a multitude of ways.

Anyway, the Debate will be tomorrow and tho' I do have Hope Kamala will bury him during it, and he has more of a total unraveling, blathering, unhinged and cognitive meltdown than usual, I doubt it matters to those who already made up their Minds to Vote for such a piece of work as he is. Listen, they already know and see what and who he is. They seem perfectly Okay with it or make moronic statements like they can "Excuse" his Crimes and Behavior, becoz they're convinced he'd do a good Job... and I'm like, were you fucking Asleep during his First Term and are you kidding me that a habitual Criminal and Convicted Felon of numerous extremely Serious Crimes, including Treason and Espionage, is better for our Country?!!?? Well, yeah, since being Woke is something most of them don't wanna be and the opposite of Woke is Asleep. *Eye Roll and Snicker*

But a Cult is what it just is, and Cult Leaders are usually that unhinged and dangerous, yet adored and even worshipped like a god. So, most of them end up with a god complex since they're treated as demigod. And perhaps Religiously Extreme individuals are more susceptible to following someone they think is some kind of Messiah in their own Minds, even if it's a false god using them and weaponizing them for quite carnal and secular agendas. Most who are Sold Out on whatever they Believe are willing to Die for it, even if they're being led astray and manipulated, by someone more devilish and evil than godly. That's why Terrorist Extremists tend to make it some kind of Religious War, easier to get willing Martyrs since they think they're doing their god's work and are Chosen Ones. So, no matter how unhinged or sinister it is, how many innocent Victims it racks up, they think it's for some kind of Divine Glory they've concocted or been convinced of and groomed for.

You know I find it rather ironic that a lot of Religiously Zealot folks are more scared of Halloween and Decorations than they are of someone like 45 and his Sycophants. They can't seem to recognize real Devils when they see one. And when he'd even sacrifice any or all of them, they'd voluntarily be sacrificed too... it really seems to be quite the effective Mind Fuck he's got going on with his devoted Base actually. And I do think that November, Win or Lose, it's not going to be Pretty. I would Hope that things might Calm Down and have some semblance of Normalcy, with Normal People in Power making the best decisions for the entire Country, but I think that Train left the Station back in 2016 and has been going Wheels off the fucking Rails ever since. Now it's constantly running damage control becoz he's already starting the same tired playbook of Lies and Conspiracy Theories, that if he Loses it's a rigged System, but if he Wins it's not... and they fall for it every time.

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Trump's enablers, trying to explain what he meant tonight [as opposed to what we all heard]:

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Let's all sing......Somebody got their clock cleaned last night!

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"I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election," Swift said in a post on Instagram. "I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades."

"I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice," the Grammy-winning artist added. "Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered! I also find it’s much easier to vote early. I’ll link where to register and find early voting dates and info in my story."
Swift, 34, signed her post "Childless Cat Lady"

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Let's all sing......Somebody got their clock cleaned last night!

HA!!! She whipped that son of a Klansman like she was his doggone MAMA.