Excellent! I especially like the figurehead’s eagle looking like it is shitting on Trump’s head.
The felon’s finding out other countries don’t worship him. (The bolding is mine.)
But he really isn’t learning that; he’s still hallucinating.
Not to be outdone, the felon’s congressional mini-me is actively hallucinating also.
Remember “Where’s the Beef?” Now we have, Where’d the beef come from?
Of couse he’s the butt of the joke. That’s because he’s a big butt.
“If I can’t have it, nobody can!” Farewell, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
If you think he’s going to let a little thing like the law, Congrees, or even a court order get in his way of demolishing yet another iconic buidling, Gilbert Gottfried has two words for you.
Waddyaknow? MAGA really does mean Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
There’s no word yet from *Twisted Sister" about the use of their song but given who wrote the song, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to say the band’s not impressed.
Have we discussed this January 6 “Patriot” yet? (The formatting is from the link.)
NPS emergency responders relocated to the Dictatorship of Columbia for the felon’s vanity projects.
This is a very fun read about the drama queen felon’s makeup routine.
Undocumented migrants, you say?
Let’s go to Washington, DC! Where is it? Do not trus the felon’s map.
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The Trump White House has been left red-faced after badly mangling a map of the United States.
The White House’s attempt to promote President Donald Trump’s new obsession with renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” took an embarrassing turn Tuesday when it posted a botched map of the United States on X.
The apparently AI-generated map, made of colorful Legos, relabels the Gulf of Mexico the Trump-approved “Gulf of America,” and the Great Lakes as the as-yet-unrecognized “Lake America.”
Even the stupid is bigger in Texas Florida.
ICE releases father of USS Lincoln sailor.
The war on elections loses a battle in Ohio.
Congressman Al Green files impeachment agains tthe felon-in-the-oval.
The felon in the oval does some performative presidenting.
I’ll take “Things That Will Never Ever Ever Happen” for $2,000, Ken.
You know what else is an “unsafe, decrepit structure required to be taken down”?
The whole White House? Or perhaps the Southern White House, aka Mar-é-Cage?
I was thinking more about its current resident.
Good, but needs more gold.
Pretty much this.
I know it’s hard to keep up with the entire shitshow, but among the ideas he was floating was imported marble armrests (?!) for the seats. Because, as we all know, when we’re watching a show for a couple hours, we all want to rest our arms on stone. I’d call his tastes nouveau riche, but most of that class aren’t so tacky and tasteless
^This^, plus I think there was a feeling among the MAGA / Project 2025 crowd that the Kennedy Center was getting far too ‘woke’. Lin-Manuel Miranda received Kennedy Center honors in 2018 after all, the creator of Hamilton, which (horrors!) dared to put people of color into a musical about Alexander Hamilton and the founding of our country. What could be more disgustingly woke than that?
So I think the trump takeover was, at least in part, an attempt to MAGA-fy it, to bring more “red-blooded, white-skinned and true blue” values back. But it backfired so badly and so embarrassingly that trump petulantly decided to close it down for ‘renovation’ for a couple years, like a brat taking his football and going home because the game isn’t going his way.
Yes as I recall, the closed for renovation happened after a massive wave of cancelations both by artists and audiences, that was becoming an embarrassment. So he decided that it looked better to say there were no performances because it was shut down for renovation, rather then there were no performances because no one wanted to perform and no one wanted to come.
Paul Krugman today (video with transcript below):
[First paragraph bolded in original. Later bolding added by me.]
Note: After I recorded this it was reported that Trump officials are threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if it can’t be renovated to Trump’s taste (and presumably with his name added). Matches my argument exactly.
Der Untergang naht.
Pardon my German pronunciation. I’m going to take a break today from wonky economic analysis and talk about, well, Donald Trump, but in a slightly different way from what I think most people are saying. Not positive, obviously.
Just before recording this, I saw that Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario Lake America. Which is silly, would be funny, except that this guy is the President of the United States. And it’s really kind of troublesome that someone in that position is that out of it, that petty, disconnected from reality.
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What I don’t think people are fully aware of is just how bad it can get, given that Trump is so obviously dissociating, decompensating, that he’s not all there.
Obviously, he was already a very problematic personality, which was doing a great deal of damage to the United States. I don’t think even now people fully appreciate the amount of damage that has been done. Even before the Iran War, Trump’s provocations, insults, his trade wars, really destroyed the world’s trust in America.
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Okay, the title I gave, the way that I opened this talk was Der Untergang, which is the German title of the movie Downfall, about the last days of Adolf Hitler. I hope that nobody is going to complain about my using the German, right? We’re long past the point where it’s considered unthinkable and incredibly rude to make Nazi parallels. There’s a lot of people in this administration or close to this administration who are effectively Nazis, in some cases explicitly Nazis. America is not yet Germany under Hitler. But the reason we don’t have a functioning Gestapo in this country is not for lack of desire to have one. It’s because these people, at least so far, don’t have the juice. So all of the stuff, all of the parallels seem appropriate.
And the parallels are there. I mean, the parallels are there even in seemingly small things. Hitler was obsessed with building a gigantic gaudy ballroom. So there’s just a lot of parallels in there.
Now the main message of the movie Der Untergang is that it’s about Hitler in his final days who knew that he was losing. He knew that defeat was looming. He knew that his power was collapsing. And his reaction was, among other things, to take it out on his own country.
Hitler never accepted that he had failed Germany. He felt that Germany had failed him. And so he had a plan, often called the Nero Decree, which was to destroy as much as possible of Germany’s infrastructure. Supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies, but in large part to punish Germany.
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What does he [Trump] do in the position of losing? Probably not committing suicide in the Fuhrerbunker, but still in the position of losing all of his power. Well, what you do in that position, if you are somebody like Trump, who is an empty vessel: there’s nothing in there, the only pleasure he appears to take in life comes from dominating other people.
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But how much more will be coming? When we talk about Hitler’s last days, as I said, one of his last attempted acts was what’s called the Nero Decree, which was an attempt to destroy as much of Germany’s infrastructure as possible, supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies. But clearly, and even there’s some evidence that he actually he clearly thought this as a way of punishing the German people for failing him.
Now, historiography is a little more complicated than that, as it usually is, but that’s clearly the gist of it. That Hitler’s final acts were to basically try to bring everyone else down with him.
Do you really want to say that that’s not what’s going to happen with Trump? Assuming that he loses much, if not all, of his power to shape events this November, and of course we’re all worried about how he may try to disrupt or overturn the election, but assuming he doesn’t manage to do that, he will find himself much diminished. How much damage will he do basically taking revenge on America?
Because always you want to bear in mind that Trump hates America. He hates the values on which America was built. He hates democracy. He hates rule of law. He hates all of the things that are what we’re supposed to be about as a nation.
But increasingly it looks as if he just plain hates this country because it doesn’t love him. How much damage will he do? How much damage can he do? I don’t want to make a specific prediction, but I’m worried.
And don’t say that he won’t do that or he can’t do that. Those have been famous last words again and again over the past decade. So this is going to be even worse, even uglier, I think than most people imagine.
So basically:
(Bolding mine)
During trump’s first term I tried reading In the Garden of Beasts, a non-fiction account of the American Ambassador to Germany and his family during the years 1933-37, during the rise of Hitler and Nazism. But I couldn’t finish the book, because the parallels to trump’s first term were so on the nose, it was depressing.
Now, trump 2.0 has close parallels to the movie Der Untergang, about the downfall of Hitler and Nazism.
I guess my point is, I don’t think there’s ever been a time during any point of trump’s Presidency where it had ever been an exaggeration, let alone “unthinkable and incredibly rude” to make Nazi parallels.
Mad King Donald is shitposting about renaming international bodies of water again.
This is actually quite an interesting image. The stupid name is easily ignored, but funny how they happened to include the international border, placing the lake name in such a way that the red X is centred on the border. The US flag is ambiguous, too: sure, it goes with Lake America, rah rah!, but it’s also conveniently floating above Toronto.
It’s weird to think of my country of origin as an enemy nation, but I’m starting to.
Trump comments on the passing of Dolly Parton; “ME ME ME ME MEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
There it is.
She probably did. She was the kind of person who found the good in just about everybody. She was a genuinely kind and good person and that’s why she’s so universally revered.
I mean, she was a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter and she declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom TWICE when he offered it to her. Any liking she had for him was probably of the “I’ll pray for him” variety.
I do agree, she probably loved everybody, just not everybody equally