Clearly it’s the Republicans who fell in love this time around, so could the rest of us fall in line perhaps? Pretty please?
In case anyone isn’t familiar, this photo is from France, as the Nazis took over.
Excellent analogy.
(As I child, I was moved by this image, in my grandparents’ book The Best of Life [Magazine]).
Good idea.
I posted this in another thread, but: this gives access to a template anyone can use to create a claim on the Slush Fund. (It was created by activist Allison Gill, who posts widely under the name “Mueller, She Wrote”).
Note the amount she has requested (!)
FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP
Instead of pulling 4,000 troops from a planned deployment to Poland, SFB* is now sending 5,000 troops. Seemed enough GREEDY OLD PUSSIES in Congress arched their spines, furrowed their brows, and sent concerned missives to White House about the cancellation. SFB says it’s because he endorsed the new President of Poland. The election was last year.
*SFB s#_t for brains.
Johnson is finally coming around, so I’ll give him that (very low bar). Still, it’s telling he had to cite someone eise, rather than noticing the obvious himself:
“Somebody described it as a galactic blunder,” Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, told CNN, “and I think that’s probably true.”
This is not earth-shaking, and I post it for y’all’s amusement, and because the Atlantic doesn’t limit your use of gift links (lookin’ at you, NYTimes 
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Donald Trump’s most amusing habit is meting out casual abuse to his sycophants. His recent answer to a question about the wedding of Donald Trump Jr. may, depending on how deserving one deems Trump’s eldest son of mistreatment—poor Don Jr. was, after all, born into the Trump life—qualify as his most hilarious riff ever.
The scene is the Oval Office, today, midday. Trump is asked by a reporter whether he plans to attend Don Jr.’s wedding to the Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson this weekend. Here is the president’s full response:
Uh, he’d like me to go, but it’s gonna be just a small, little, private affair, and I’m gonna try and make it. I’m in the midst—I said, “You know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.” Uh, that’s one I can’t win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don’t attend, I get killed by the fake news, of course, I’m talking about. No, but he’s, uh, got a very, uh, person who I’ve known for a long time, and hopefully they’re going to have a great marriage.
Now let us analyze.
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Enjoy.
The reader comments are good, too. One reader said that since apparently Donnie doesn’t have friends and isn’t close to his family, he must be lonely. Another reader replied:
I think you are right that it would be “a pretty lonely life” for many people, but from what I understand, sociopaths do not get lonely in the traditional sense of the word: “Instead of longing for emotional intimacy or deep interpersonal connection, [the sociopath’s] version of loneliness typically manifests as intense boredom, restlessness, or a feeling of being disconnected from the stimulation the world usually provides.” Of course, lonely or not, it still comes down to the same thing. As you said: he’s dangerous.
Quoting Trump via the Atlantic:
A very uh person?
Yep. Grasping for the word “fiance” and coming up short, then filling in with the next thing that comes to mind. Mom started doing the same thing a couple years before her official diagnosis with Alzheimer’s.
Expressive aphasia, or Broca’s aphasia. People with expressive aphasia might mix up words, stop mid-sentence, or talk in a choppy way. This is an early symptom of several forms of dementia.
That way lies madness.
I don’t want to think about Trump and “anal eyes”.
I’m not especially angry about this because, in Trump’s words, we elected a snake, what did I expect? Oh, I expected graft, corruption, and all manner of malfeasance on the part of Trump during his second term, I just didn’t predict he’d try to get the IRS to give him a blank check.
I don’t want to imply that my lack of anger is appropriate. I recognize how wrong what Trump’s attempting to do is and I recognize anger is an appropriate response. I’m just numb. I wonder if this is how Russians and North Koreans feel when their respective leaders pull their bullshit?
We are numb too. And arming ourselves, well I already was, but my wife decieded to learn how to shoot. I taught her.
Recently retired, and we have plenty to do. But we go to the range about twice a month. My wife is taking classes. We both took the CCW class, but don’t plan to carry. Have to take the CCW if you want to take more classes. My wife is taking a pistol defense class. She finds it fun. I good with it, classes make you safer around firearms.
Trump wants to buy the insurectionist loyalty. Will they be the Gestapo?
Trump wants voter records, he has the Brown Shirts. What next? Oh, the SS to control the camps.
Funny you should say that, as I wondered something similar. When some outrage occurred in NK or Russia, I’d wonder what the regular people thought, how they’d react. We wouldn’t put up with that, I’d think in simpler times.
Then (for example) the J6 rioters got a blanket pardon and…nothing really. I was mad but…yeah, numb is a good word.
Did anyone hear Trump explain that “A lot of people don’t know ‘dumb’ has a ‘b’ in it, actually?”
I didn’t hear him say it. But if he did, he just found out about silent letters, he was surprised enough to let everyone know.
He likes to share his wisdom.
Is that for real, and not satire? It is literally impossible to tell anymore.
It’s real. The link I posted has video of it included, and it’s been reported by several media outlets.
This is from Googles AI -
Yes, Donald Trump did say this. He made the remark during a campaign rally in Suffern, New York. He was explaining his rationale for calling Democrats “Dumocrats”—a word play on “Democrat” and “dumb”—and specifically said: "You take the ‘e’ out, you don’t use the ‘b’. A lot of people don’t know ‘dumb’ has a ‘b’ in it,
I knew we where fucked, but wow.