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Heather T.'s avatar

I'm not even going to ask if this can get more disastrous. Of course it can.

Kathryn Travers's avatar

Worrying about the Maggots, David is a waste of time. There are so many more of the rest of us and that is what matters. Getting all of us motivated, activated and using our collective anger to turn this ship around is where our attention should be razor focused. Justin Pearson, Tennessee representative, gave a fiery speech a few days ago regarding the massive gerrymander there in particular to Memphis, that should anyone not have seen/heard it, should! It will inspire the will to fight for what is right and not back down. Look him up and "We Are Still Here". It is riveting!! So, make calls, write emails, protest even if there isn't an organized event, don't be silent!!! It is up to us. This is OUR AMERICA!!!! We must fight for our freedoms, the right to vote for everyone, and a government that is by and for the people!! NO TO FASCISM!!!!!!!!!

Michele's avatar

It got so bad in Tennessee that ones of KKK types called one of the black legislators "boy".

Greg Garriss's avatar

Hopefully we will survive the embarrassment of having our incompetent stooges and their leader wandering around China. I'm bracing for the "best meeting ever in the history of the world" theatre when they get back. It's quite a cast. Even Visa and Mastercard are there looking for a new " market " now that many Americans have max'd out their cards buying food and gas.

Patricia Davis's avatar

No behavior or action change , the writing has been on the wall boldly since before the ‘downed escalator ‘. Perfected timing by grifted stink tanks. The people who drug their feet NOT stopping it were already a part of the ‘merica’s golden heist..shadowed dickheads… oh that was dockets…excuse me.

The forgotten ‘’you’ll never have to vote again” was well in progress. And the Blue Wave, we hope for ,is already undermined , you think heads are spinning now?

You’ve been had! And voted for it! And Congress left the room with Elvis.

It took Germany 12 years..the ends were messy…..

Harold Rhenisch's avatar

We can draw a line between the list of Trump's guests, his desire for making a deal, and his desire to get China to help with Iran. The line might easily be that China can make deals with these men, pressure Iran to help Iran's friend China, and these men will profit from their Chinese production without any of it being cycled through the US. And that's scary stuff. But there it is. He doesn't need to think about the American people. There is a strong chance that they are being sidelined in real time and can keep their illusions to boot.

David's avatar

Will the MAGATS realize he doesn't think about them?

Heather T.'s avatar

Will they even care? As long as Democrats are "illegitimate" the world is hunky dory, it seems...

Jay Wilson's avatar

Beneath all this doom and gloom--there is some good news, or at least "I told you so" news.

Remember the Trump Bros T1 gold phone saga that was launched with glorious patriotic fanfare, claiming “Made in USA” and funded by patriots' $100 deposits, then slowly dissolving into delays, rewritten fine print, and mysteriously downgraded promises about where — or whether — the thing would ever be made. Is this really a surprise?

Somewhere between meme coins, NFTs, and the daily firehose of bullshit, the “gold MAGA phone” barely even registers anymore — just another shiny object launched into the culture war,

As for the clueless MAGATs -- that's today's schadenfreude...

Kasey Coff's avatar

As soon as I saw he'd said "I don't think about Americans, I don't think about anybody," I heard "I don't care about Americans, I don't care about anybody."

He'd sell his family if anyone would buy them. Well, except for the teenaged granddaughter he was escorting for awhile. Her parents apparently put a stop to that.

Vi Mooberry's avatar

Can it get any darker? The greed and inability to see thru this insanity wrought upon us by one man and his followers is an injustice to our country. If there are any true American's left in the Republican party who care about this country and its people, they should rise up now and squelch/impeach/stifle the insane man they so gleefully or fearfully, for whatever reason, have followed. Throw the bum out now and banish those who have so happily carried out his wishes from elected Federal office immediately. They are scorching our earth with their insanity.

Julie Bannerman's avatar

The audacity of hopelessness - what the MAGA cult and its allies in power offer the losers in their new world order, which are most of us.

“America First” is putting Americans last, with exceptions for the corrupt and ultra rich who are useful to the regime.

This is so far beyond Democrats vs. Republicans/MAGA. Opponents of the regime’s ongoing coup to overthrow our constitutional republic need new language to frame the fight.

Harold Rhenisch's avatar

The President of the US considers himself a statesman in the same way that Hitler considered himself an artist. Here's a chilling painting. As usual, it lacked people, as Hitler couldn't draw people. He just didn't understand them enough to get even basic lines right. But if you look at this traditional Bavarian painting as a portrait of Hitler's mind, it is revealing, and not just of Hitler. Note the botched lake level, the nationalist trees (straight out of romantic painting traditions and losing their leaves, yet), the drawbridge leading to them, and the looming, frightening, frozen, garbled landscape of his madness looming out of the background and both feeding it and about to take it all away, because winter is coming. For a visual image of Trump's mind, this can sit beside his golden statue and the pit of his ballroom. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler_-_Gebirgssee_%281910%29.jpg

Kathryn's avatar

Honestly, I’m starting to feel like JD might be an improvement over the current f-ups. Maybe China could just let this whole plane load of “leaders” visit indefinitely??

Kathryn's avatar

Heather, I get it! But…. 😬 At least he might not have Congress completely mesmerized.

Michele's avatar

Kathryn, Couch Boy has hardly anyone mesmerized. I think death star is probably enjoying the competition between him and the utter suck up, Rubio.

Kathryn's avatar

Exactly, Michelle. Possibly Congress would wake up and get to work since no one seems to respect him.

Sking's avatar

Shame if that plane were to crash.

PAUL WISKEN's avatar

It appears that Iran's military capacity has indeed been decimated, in that approximately one tenth has been rendered unusable. What is the percentage of US stockpiles used for this purpose?