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Will's avatar

Where exactly will the drones etc be stored in an arch that is 40% air? Will the top flip open like a Zippo lighter and swarms of drones fly out? Can this get any more ridiculous?

Dawn Kucera's avatar

And what an easy target for some terrorist to take out. A couple of enemy drones would probably destroy the whole thing. Since when do you put that kind of stuff above ground?

GingerLee's avatar

with his room temperature IQ what else would we expect except idiocy

Paul savin's avatar

Pretty sure it can't get any more ridiculous, but then Trump proves me wrong again. He is a master of stupidity. And his dumbass followers cheer it all on. Snipers in an arch in DC. Maybe they could have taken out the violent protesters on Jan 6th.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Oh…. I’m sure they would have supported them Jan 6 rioters… provided covering fire.

Marliss Desens's avatar

Ah, yes, drones will go so well with aircraft taking off and landing at the nearby airport.

Dawn Kucera's avatar

For years, a spineless Congress has let Trump get away with more than any other politician in history just about ,has been able to get away with. And a compliant media, which surrendered years in advance, have allowed it. For some reason, Trump has always been able to be graded on a huge curve – – "well it's Trump."

JBR's avatar

Exactly. Like watching a burning building and saying im hopeful about the future without calling the fire dept. The news media just wants to sell ads. They are not sounding the alarm m.

Dawn Kucera's avatar

I remember in Trump 1.0 that it took years before most media outlets would even use the word "lie" as it applied to trump. It was such a big deal when the NYT finally did.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Quiet lil’ piggies then???

Dawn Kucera's avatar

Little piggies doing the “surrender in advance“ dance.

Jenny C McCune's avatar

My hope is that Trump‘s popularity will slip so low that the media will feel they have something to gain by taking him on instead of being worried about the consequences. I wish this was not the world we were living in, but I have to accept that it is, and as Trump‘s statement gets more and more grandiose and distant from reality, it will also be easier for the press to call it like it is. You can’t dress up, arming the Trump Arch with drones and weapons as some stroke of military genius, but more of the thinking of someone who is unhinged from reality and like a toddler is saying anything he can to get what he wants. The man is poor pure Id with no super ego involved.

JBR's avatar

My hope is that he slips and falls due to construction at white house as symbol of the ozymandias curse.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

BLUE TSUNAMI!!!🌊

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Yup … it’s Trump alright … or as I renamed “Trumphuk” since he fucks up everything and anyone he touches. Synonymous with “to screw up something beyond repair”, as in ruination, desecration, destruction, despoilment, usually with corrupt and malicious intent.

JBR's avatar

Trump attacked the us congress. And was re elected. The country is delusional. The problem is not just price of gas. It is having uncontrollable anti american criminal enterprise with unlimited power for self aggrandisement and contempt for law and for rights and needs of others.

Janet Carter's avatar

It is the individuals like Vaught who are damaging our federal government infrastructure and destroying our regulations. It is Congress refusing to do their constitutional duties and allowing the convicted felon to steal allocated funds. It is Vance, Rubio, the Pentagon political appointees not following their constitutional oaths. It is the GOP.

JBR's avatar

They are using trump and vice versa. They are extremist crazy anti democratic terrorists.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

We know he was batshit crazy BEFORE he went full up demento…

Now we are seeing the effects of a perverted life and a demonic soul. He’s oozing with hatred and loathing. He’s a vainglorious vampire who sucks the life out of everything he touches.

We must win the majority in both houses of Congress and stop all his idiocy.

Jo Burns's avatar

Nothing says a free and fair democracy like building your own, self-named turret on the mall. This being should never have been allowed to run and certainly prohibited from taking the oath to destroy the US. Nothing speaks to national security like blurting out and amplifying where your military installments will be; the Mar a Lago north ballroom and now the embarrassing and disgraceful arch. It is not national security, it is personal security to keep We the People out of the White House and off the National Mall. He does not plan to leave.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

He’ll leave — feet first.

He knows he’s been the worst

Time to put him in a hearse.

When he does hear me curse

“Goddamn ya Trumphuk” we’ve got so much to reverse.

JBR's avatar

Hes demented toddler destroying washington whose only goal is putting his name on pennys dump trucks lawnmowers trees and slamming gold plates all around him and stealing public funds and letting everyone else struggle.

Dan in Maine's avatar

Follow the money and power. Billionaires are using trump and his sycophants as puppets to allow them to take over the media, all of the media so they can control the narrative and hoodwink the People. News, entertainment, the stock market, politics, everything. They're building out AI so they can re-create reality to suit themselves and their friends, who even now don't live in the same world as the other 349 million of us. They have private homes, jets, limos, clubs security, and pockets so deep they can always reach in and come out with exact change for just about anything they want; including the servitude of the masses at their own feet, convinced it's 'what's best for everybody'. In six weeks we'll know whether or not they can be checked. VOTE people, and help somebody else vote.

Laurel Rutz's avatar

Steven, your simile was sadly perfect. “ Tragically … like being in the backseat with a drunken driver at the wheel with no one riding shotgun to save us” correctly states the desperation of American believers in democracy. If we can actually get Felon47 pried out of the White House, there must be a comprehensive mental and physical screening for future presidential candidates.

I was very offended by the abuse that Joe Biden endured from the corporate media regarding his mental fitness! The condescending arrogance found within New York Times reporting, and CNN’s Jake Tapper was insufferable. During his time as our nation’s leader, Joe Biden was a moral man, with a life-time of experience building honest relationships with people across the aisle. His relationships with international political leaders were also built on wisdom and respect. Joe publicly called out autocrats like Putin, who sought to amass power, and destroy democratic nations. Biden used his agency in his role as president to improve the lives of Americans, and rightly saw our racial and cultural diversity as our greatest strength.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would have capably continued Joe Biden’s tradition of providing governmental structure to uplift the opportunities citizens have to improve their education and earning power. I believe that proof will eventually emerge that the occupant in the White House owed his “victory” to voting ballot manipulation. I understand that the recent 4-hour documentary “Musk”, that will be released to the public in October, addresses this topic. It is possible that I am wrong, but I cannot imagine that American people are so lacking in judgement that they would allow a narcissistic corrupt felon, who is an adjudicated sexual predator, and friend of Vladimir Putin, to once again have access to the levers of power. Were that many people unconscious on January 6th?

Karen Kendra's avatar

I only wish the American people would rise up and in large enough numbers to get this lunatic out of office before we are totally taken over by an autocracy and its players who prop this madman up to enforce their own fascist plans!

Bill Corbett's avatar

I just posted this on Heather Delaney Reese's writing and it's worth sharing here.

This is worse than the Cuban missile crisis, because we have an idiot that can order MAD (mutual assured destruction) of the world. Fortunately, during that crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev were talking and both realized and had lived through what those weapons could do and thought, let's not go there. We don't have that luxury now.....................just a fucking fool with a button. I don't think I'm wrong here when I say the whole world is on edge..........even our enemies are worried, because we put a crazy person in charge. Sorry for the dark thoughts but most days they overwhelm me with how insane things are.

rachel rosin's avatar

No apology necessary, Bill…..you’re not alone with those dark thoughts!

Bill Corbett's avatar

TKS, I know I'm not alone in my thinking.

Patrick Lillard's avatar

Exactly. 100 percent right on the the truth. I am embarrassed that my profession, as physician and psychiatrist, does not call out this psychopathic narcissist, who most resembles Adolf Hitler. Yes as a psychiatrist I am not supposed to diagnose without a face to face evaluation, but DJT confirms the diagnosis with his daily words and behavior. This scenario has become a gigantic folie a duex, which is a shared psychosis with his minions. It is like his own Nazi party

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

My dad died from Alzheimer’s. As a result, I recognized sings of dementia in the felon before he left office the first time. Now he is much further along in his journey to complete helplessness. The fact that he has access to the nuclear codes is frightening in his current condition. Dementia removes impulse control, and we know he bombed Iran on a whim. What do we imagine his next whim will be?

Cathy Murphree's avatar

These sorts of posts, if a loved one were making them, are exactly what one would show mental health professionals as evidence of severe illness and indeed crisis. For members of Congress to just pooh-pooh this is a complete abdication of their oaths.

Helen Stajninger's avatar

Agree wholeheartedly with your repeatedly urgent assessments of Trumps mental deterioration. He must be impeached and convicted as soon as Democrats control both houses of Congress.🙏🙏

Martha Franklin's avatar

'Legacy' media also decided that Hillary's emails were criminal, Kamala's laugh was annoying, any spending by Democrats is wasteful, lying to Congress is not a crime when Republicans do it, as some other examples of its hypocrisy.

Follow the money.

Marliss Desens's avatar

Trump called the Oval Office "my office." It is not. He is a temporary tenant, as are all presidents.

I will not forgive the Republicans for allowing this clearly mentally unfit man to continue as president. Even if he were not mentally unfit, he has broken more laws than I can easily count.

I will also not forgive the corporate media--and I will also not forgive NPR and PBS--for sanewashing Trump. Although I still support public media, I no longer do so because of their news programs.

Al Draycott's avatar

Spot on Steven, Mr Trump has a propensity for violence. He does break out in his daily tantrums, unhinged outbursts and erratic, vengeful attacks on Americans and allies. This happens every other day. He is not a doddering old man who knows no difference. He is a national security threat, and I hold all his sycophants responsible along with his family. I think he is just the leader the Heritage Foundation Cabal wants at the helm. The Board of Trustees, Kevin Roberts, Barb Van Andel-Gaby, Mike Gleba and others such as Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller and his entire cabinet are vile folks. As long as the sociopathic narcissist keeps us occupied, they can run the show and infuse Project 2025 into the mix. Mr. Trump should be assessed and admitted to a psychiatric facility before he releases the nuclear codes. The world leader knows it; the average American citizen knows it, but it still goes on. Trumps actions are not normal, and don't for one minute think they are. Mr.Trump is not a rational human being; he is a dangerous, irrational man.

Homi Hormasji's avatar

Steven, what the "legacy media" has done - in utterly failing to hold this corrupt traitor, this sick, vainglorious misogynist to account for his innumerable crimes and the existential dangers that he poses - amounts to the gravest possible dereliction of their responsibilities. But the essential problem with their failure is baked into our system itself: how can we possibly expect the media to behave differently when they are owned by corporations with larger economic interests that they are out to protect? Truth and democracy are their sacrificial lambs at the altar of greed.

If we are to enact true change, we need to reinvent ourselves from the bottom up (to expect it to happen from the top down, is wishful thinking).