What KILLS me is the tut-tut-tut-ing, pearl-clutching, namby-pamby tone of these objections that experts are raising! These people should be screaming from the rooftops that this man is a freaking maniac and is hell-bent on destroying the Bill of Rights!
We’re concerned… we worry…this might…there’s a possibility… When I read wimpy comments like that I want to scream: “You are the experts, you know what’s happening, you SEE it happening! Call it what it is, FFS!”
What “the courts” say/do does not matter. All Hegseth et al have to do is broadcast the names of the “guilty” parties. The military’s fine tradition of hazing will take care of anyone who dares to express non-standard beliefs.
The MAGA administration will operate extralegally whenever it can get by with a bit of muscle.
For a laugh at some run of the mill “Trump is a moron,” I present Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, one of the most common OTC drugs in the world.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to actually watch it yet, but I read some of the lowlights of trump’s recent address to the U.N. in this MSNBC article, and it sounds like a doozy. A couple reaction quotes:
Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico told MSNBC in response to the address, “This man is literally unhinged, irresponsible, bizarre, bonkers, ludicrous. I don’t even know why his staff are allowing him to stand in front of a mic at this point. It was completely incoherent.”
Ishaan Tharoor, a global affairs columnist for The Washington Post, wrote online after the speech, “I’ve reported on every Trump UNGA speech. This is easily the craziest one.”
If I find myself traveling abroad in the coming months / years, I may very well do some flagjacking of my own. Sorry, Canadian friends
They laughed 7 years ago when he told the U.N. “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”. But I don’t think anybody’s laughing now.
FAUX News liked trumpie’s speech at the UN–big surprise!
Lies, lies, lies, and more lies. At least the guy is consistent.
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For instance, Trump claimed that his current approval ratings are “the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had.” In reality, Trump’s approval is at 41.9% in aggregate, and the outlet noted, “Trump’s approval ratings across a wide range of polls are both lower than his historical highs and low compared with many other post-World War II presidents.”
Trump alleged that Washington, D.C., was the “crime capital of America” when he took office, but D.C.’s crime rate has been trending down and other cities like Memphis and Kansas City have higher rates.
He lied when claiming 300,000 migrant children were “lost” under the Biden administration. He lied about gas prices “coming way down”—they’re up since he was inaugurated in January. Trump claimed that China has “very few wind farms” but that nation has three times as many the wind farms as the U.S.
Trump also alleged that 300,000 people died due to drug overdoses in the past year, a fake statistic he used to justify his use of the military to bomb boats in the Atlantic. PolitiFact noted that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that there were 43,000 deaths due to opioids, a tragic figure but far less than Trump’s made-up claim.
Trump also regurgitated his false assertion that he ended “seven unendable wars” since he took office.
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Blahblahblah, and so on…
Why didn’t the whole assembly rise as one person and scream: “You lying bastard! Go fuck yourself!” Each in their native language, of course.
People still treat him like he’s normal! That absolutely kills me.
Melania Trump speech plagiarism rears its ugly head again:
Melania Trump: As children, we all played marbles, through paper airplanes and run with a thin string in our hand watching our kite… Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones, and kites into satellites
The phrase, "As children, we all played marbles, through paper airplanes and run with a thin string in our hand watching our kites. Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones, and kites into satellites was written by C.J. Cherryh in the book Downbelow Station.
I’m surprised the delegation from Venezuela didn’t rise up with a resounding “We don’t!” when the felon lied that everyone says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, why wasn’t their a rousing round of booing when the felon said that, along iwth him stopping wars, and then announced he blew civilian ships out of the water?
Fuck. I seriously cannot keep up with this nonsense.
I hope that’s okay to quote all that I did from that article. It was rather short. I did leave out the actual xitter posts. The only issue I have is Hasan should have said the other dictators.
I don’t know about you, but I always get nervous when top government officials start saying God’s on their side. That’s the road to doing whatever they fuck they want, regardless of the law, because they’ve already disguised it as “God’s will”.
He {Trump} added: “These are two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much. And by the way, it’s working now.”
Remember when they couldn’t stop attacking Obama because he used a teleprompter? Neither does anyone else.