Fact checking someone that is as truth averse as the felon is an impossible task. Until we come to the conclusion that everything coming out of his mouth is a lie and he has to provide the proof to back up his ludicrous claims, we will continue to stall. This is how he operates and always has. That is what made him a decent game show host on a crappy game show, the only moderately valid credit to his name.
He wouldn’t know what that is. AI is just pulling from it’s pile of stolen images to complete his fever dream request to look important, since he can’t pull it off on his own.
Donald Trump’s delusional pronouncements about his public approval ratings being the highest of any president ever are relatively harmless.
Not so harmless are his statements about his war in the Middle East. (Or the reflecting pool, for that matter.) Misleading and demonstrably false statements emanating from the Oval may greatly contribute to Mr. Trump’s actual public approval ratings being in the toilet.
Someone close to him in his administration would be well advised to pull the President aside and explain this to him. Repeatedly.
Trump who may have been introduced to millions on the television show The Apprentice back in the early 2000’s if you never knew anything about him before then. Is exactly what the network executives note that the show carefully edited — fabricating a persona a person into some form of reality — Creating a fictional Trump as a master corporate titan, glossing over his past financial struggles and bankruptcies to turn him into a household icon of success. Basically a cartoon character, who just so happens is written in the script as being of some importance, even impressive.
Trump has never been successful other than being funded by his daddy Fred, six bankruptcies including casinos, a felon, a crook, a conman and a grifter, a slum lord and a bigot. His entire persona life is but a fabrication, anything that comes out of his mouth is a fabrication and a reflection of who he truly is. When he calls the media fake news, he is the fake news. There’s not an ounce of truthfulness in the husk of this body. The body is breaking down, the mind is oatmeal and the only reason he’s still around is some see him as some form of deity. Why some will ask, we will never know… pass the kool-Aid in that MAGA cult. Because there will be at minimum 25% that will never break away, either due to their own mental health or never wanting to admit they are ever wrong..
The next 89 days until midterms will be a full out thrill and filled with high energy rides that any carnival has to offer. From the vertical spinning frame with flipping cages, the high-speed spinning cylinder using G-force to pin riders to the wall, a fast circular train ride moving over small hills with loud music. Then throw in the giant pendulum swinging riders in a full 360-degree loop, to the fast spinning floor layout with overlapping rotation axes that keeps your body sticking to the walls due to centrifugal force all the while the floor is taken away beneath you… Then you will hear and see the rotating platform with what was those painted classic animals, but now replaced with all the ads and lies that come at you quicker than the speed of light. Occasionally we will witness those cars that are suppose to be steered just bumping into each other in those debates if both politicians agree to do so before the election. Then we will possibly be hearing and seeing something similar to suspended swinging chairs that lift and spin outward because they want your attention to pick me. Lastly the ever present walkthrough of the mirror maze that distorts everything all an illusion an attraction of sorts….
Welcome to the carnival and that infamous barker who has no clothes, lies through his teeth, reapplies that burnt-orange makeup and who knows at this point replaces the sparsely haired ferret that usually sits atop his head with more of a Neanderthal specimen either posting or talking those meandering of made up words.. that he does.. If he’s not available he will send out his loyalists in force to add to the talking point. Who knows what will end up some voter polls. Doesn’t matter, keep your eyes on the prize - To Big to Rig a bath is surely needed..
Have to wonder what history books will say for those reading of this time 50 to 100 years from now…
when those of us who predicted these patterns of behavior by trump and his maga movement back in 2016, we were accused of hyperbole, of over reacting, of blaming one side "both parties lie". back in the day of "the Bowling Green Massacre" and alternate facts. one side loved the lies because it made them feel better about themselves and gave them the rush they love so much from that boiling hate that is generated when one can find some external source to blame for all that they do not like in their lives... the other side was tolerant, laughed, looked the other way, thought that the republicans would begin to police themselves... now, in 2026, the fiction of this dictator is gathering steam... he has realized he can say what he wants and it will be parroted by enough people to have his followers feel it is true and the insecure to question their own eyes and ears. he is attempting to erase truth and fact from our reality... like a 3rd grade bully, he believes that the one who wins the argument is the one who shouts the loudest and makes the biggest threats... and all these allegedly educated congressmen and senators follow right along, repeating and amplifying his lies. Cruz on Fox news calling us all communists and saying we hate the country and want to cancel Christmas and Thanksgiving... stunning beyond words, and worse, there were viewers out there who believe him...
For some reason your posts are no longer showing up in my feed. I have to go looking for you..a
when I find you it's on a white screen.. says "Mary Geddry" looks like it has for a long time... but I DO have to explicitly search. I am a paid subscriber..
and when I want to make a comment I am redirected to this black screen which is headed [Statistical Taxidermy.. Mary Geddry]. It's very confusing. Is this an untended consequence? Do you have any control?
You are what we need! It is impossible for many of us to sort the potentially significant drivel from the rest of the torrent that assaults our senses on a daily basis, so your research and clear-eyed analysis is invaluable
I have mixed emotions about the amount of air time trump gets. At first there was the shock value. Nowadays his ACTIONS are newsworthy like any other horrible, tragic or criminal event. But I think he revels in being THE news story on every medium every day and I'm not sure his looney ramblings and, like you pointed out Mary, the low value news reports (aka distractions), are beneficial to us. ie) Now that the Olympian fella has been excused from violating the reflecting pool, and hopefully the other 2 people who were charged with vandalism will be as well, I don't give a hoot about the reflecting pool beyond that. What comes out of trump is false Blah, Blah, Blah which is then played, repeated, analyzed and commented on everywhere. So your approach to sifting the whey from the chaffe is exactly in accordance with my preferences! I'm pleased that Canadian news reporters are getting back to reporting on Canadian topics again. Although I'm sad that wildfires have been headline news for weeks now.
I find this black background/white font hard to read. Please go back to black on white.
Me too
Mine is black on white 🤷🏻♀️
Yes, it changed back overnight.
“The evasion is the credential “ is one of the most accurate descriptions of this phenomenon I’ve read or heard. Thank you for that
Fact checking someone that is as truth averse as the felon is an impossible task. Until we come to the conclusion that everything coming out of his mouth is a lie and he has to provide the proof to back up his ludicrous claims, we will continue to stall. This is how he operates and always has. That is what made him a decent game show host on a crappy game show, the only moderately valid credit to his name.
Thank you, Mary. I like the mandate to focus on what matters. With your help, we will.
Am I the only one who thinks the image on his right breast looks like a Wehrmacht pin?
He wouldn’t know what that is. AI is just pulling from it’s pile of stolen images to complete his fever dream request to look important, since he can’t pull it off on his own.
Honorable Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500
My Dear Ms. Wiles:
Donald Trump’s delusional pronouncements about his public approval ratings being the highest of any president ever are relatively harmless.
Not so harmless are his statements about his war in the Middle East. (Or the reflecting pool, for that matter.) Misleading and demonstrably false statements emanating from the Oval may greatly contribute to Mr. Trump’s actual public approval ratings being in the toilet.
Someone close to him in his administration would be well advised to pull the President aside and explain this to him. Repeatedly.
And, since you’re the Chief of Staff…
Thank you for your piece.
Trump who may have been introduced to millions on the television show The Apprentice back in the early 2000’s if you never knew anything about him before then. Is exactly what the network executives note that the show carefully edited — fabricating a persona a person into some form of reality — Creating a fictional Trump as a master corporate titan, glossing over his past financial struggles and bankruptcies to turn him into a household icon of success. Basically a cartoon character, who just so happens is written in the script as being of some importance, even impressive.
Trump has never been successful other than being funded by his daddy Fred, six bankruptcies including casinos, a felon, a crook, a conman and a grifter, a slum lord and a bigot. His entire persona life is but a fabrication, anything that comes out of his mouth is a fabrication and a reflection of who he truly is. When he calls the media fake news, he is the fake news. There’s not an ounce of truthfulness in the husk of this body. The body is breaking down, the mind is oatmeal and the only reason he’s still around is some see him as some form of deity. Why some will ask, we will never know… pass the kool-Aid in that MAGA cult. Because there will be at minimum 25% that will never break away, either due to their own mental health or never wanting to admit they are ever wrong..
The next 89 days until midterms will be a full out thrill and filled with high energy rides that any carnival has to offer. From the vertical spinning frame with flipping cages, the high-speed spinning cylinder using G-force to pin riders to the wall, a fast circular train ride moving over small hills with loud music. Then throw in the giant pendulum swinging riders in a full 360-degree loop, to the fast spinning floor layout with overlapping rotation axes that keeps your body sticking to the walls due to centrifugal force all the while the floor is taken away beneath you… Then you will hear and see the rotating platform with what was those painted classic animals, but now replaced with all the ads and lies that come at you quicker than the speed of light. Occasionally we will witness those cars that are suppose to be steered just bumping into each other in those debates if both politicians agree to do so before the election. Then we will possibly be hearing and seeing something similar to suspended swinging chairs that lift and spin outward because they want your attention to pick me. Lastly the ever present walkthrough of the mirror maze that distorts everything all an illusion an attraction of sorts….
Welcome to the carnival and that infamous barker who has no clothes, lies through his teeth, reapplies that burnt-orange makeup and who knows at this point replaces the sparsely haired ferret that usually sits atop his head with more of a Neanderthal specimen either posting or talking those meandering of made up words.. that he does.. If he’s not available he will send out his loyalists in force to add to the talking point. Who knows what will end up some voter polls. Doesn’t matter, keep your eyes on the prize - To Big to Rig a bath is surely needed..
Have to wonder what history books will say for those reading of this time 50 to 100 years from now…
when those of us who predicted these patterns of behavior by trump and his maga movement back in 2016, we were accused of hyperbole, of over reacting, of blaming one side "both parties lie". back in the day of "the Bowling Green Massacre" and alternate facts. one side loved the lies because it made them feel better about themselves and gave them the rush they love so much from that boiling hate that is generated when one can find some external source to blame for all that they do not like in their lives... the other side was tolerant, laughed, looked the other way, thought that the republicans would begin to police themselves... now, in 2026, the fiction of this dictator is gathering steam... he has realized he can say what he wants and it will be parroted by enough people to have his followers feel it is true and the insecure to question their own eyes and ears. he is attempting to erase truth and fact from our reality... like a 3rd grade bully, he believes that the one who wins the argument is the one who shouts the loudest and makes the biggest threats... and all these allegedly educated congressmen and senators follow right along, repeating and amplifying his lies. Cruz on Fox news calling us all communists and saying we hate the country and want to cancel Christmas and Thanksgiving... stunning beyond words, and worse, there were viewers out there who believe him...
For some reason your posts are no longer showing up in my feed. I have to go looking for you..a
when I find you it's on a white screen.. says "Mary Geddry" looks like it has for a long time... but I DO have to explicitly search. I am a paid subscriber..
and when I want to make a comment I am redirected to this black screen which is headed [Statistical Taxidermy.. Mary Geddry]. It's very confusing. Is this an untended consequence? Do you have any control?
Mary,
You are what we need! It is impossible for many of us to sort the potentially significant drivel from the rest of the torrent that assaults our senses on a daily basis, so your research and clear-eyed analysis is invaluable
Even MAGA has to be deeply offended by Trump as a general. Trump should be thrown in the brigs for impersonating an officer.
I have mixed emotions about the amount of air time trump gets. At first there was the shock value. Nowadays his ACTIONS are newsworthy like any other horrible, tragic or criminal event. But I think he revels in being THE news story on every medium every day and I'm not sure his looney ramblings and, like you pointed out Mary, the low value news reports (aka distractions), are beneficial to us. ie) Now that the Olympian fella has been excused from violating the reflecting pool, and hopefully the other 2 people who were charged with vandalism will be as well, I don't give a hoot about the reflecting pool beyond that. What comes out of trump is false Blah, Blah, Blah which is then played, repeated, analyzed and commented on everywhere. So your approach to sifting the whey from the chaffe is exactly in accordance with my preferences! I'm pleased that Canadian news reporters are getting back to reporting on Canadian topics again. Although I'm sad that wildfires have been headline news for weeks now.