You forgot one bully quality that undergirds all the rest: stupidity. This is an incurious and therefore dangerous man, who was granted the vote of the people to do right by us. I have had to reconcile myself to the fact that of that 77 million, and of those who didn't vote, they are not high information voters. They may be disengaged from the corrupt assaults on media, law, academia, grace and truth. But I've got to believe that once gas hits $6.00/gallon and food soars even higher than it is, and many won't be able to make the rent/mortgage, and an ungodly number will have lost their healthcare...then that reality will pierce their safe bubbles, awaken them to what this low man has done to this nation, and vote like the future depended on it. Because it does. Maybe one of the only positive things that might come out of this god-forsaken war is that the majority of Americans will unite to stop it, to condemn its perpetrators, to demand change for the better angels of our nature.
Except if the MAGA voters and possibly the non-voters are still watching Faux Nuz, they're still calling Democrats stupid names and blaming them for everything that is not going well in their lives.
The people of Iran have been protesting against a repressive regime for years, and will likely have to continue to do so under a new, also repressive regime.
Here, where we had an approximation of a democracy, 77 million voters and those who couldn't be bothered to vote have foolishly put our people in the same position as the Iranians. I'm not convinced that they even know or sadly, even care about what they've so proudly destroyed.
People are motivated by a lot of things. I think that if the economic conditions in this country are as bad as they can get (whatever outer reach that is), they will express their discontent at the polls. Trump pulled a whole lot of people from the non-voting population by virtue of being a demagog in the right place at the right time. There is a great swath out there who will vote with their feet, and it's our job to see to it that they do. It's on us to make the case and reap the power.
We have a degenerative operative in the White House …. declaring it would be fun to keep bombing… but
I saw him say that..
Unabashedly
As if he was saying something cute.
I’m with you…..
“It’s useful to recall the wise words of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, sizing up the reality of trying to do business with a bully convinced that everyone should bend to his will, no matter how foolish.
“The powerful have their power,” he said in Davos without specifically mentioning Trump. “But we have something too—the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together.”
The felon disparaged NATO, insulted, tariffed, and/or abandoned all of our allies, and now wants help?
How unbelievably #%&@ing stupid is he?
However, if you look at this from his own historical perspective, this is how he's always been treated. Just look at the many businessmen and attorneys he's cheated and stiffed over his life. Look at the many members of Congress and his cabinets he's insulted and fired over the past ten dreadful years.
Regardless of all this, there is still no shortage of people lined up to curry favor with this petty, hateful, and disloyal man.
You want stupid, just look at this group. Fool me once....
Let us pray that the leaders whom Trump is now begging to join his foolish war of choice will categorically refuse. Carney is hopefully on multiple calls with his European friends, reminding them of" the capacity to stop pretending . . . and to act together.”
Thanks Steven: Yes you have a old , immature , decrepit , mentally incapacitated , bully boy who pees is your porridge and expects you to eat it. He gets his little boy Pete the apostle from the Book of Asses to put their toy soldiers back into the closet and use the real soldiers to bomb the hell out of Iran causing major global problems. Trump and all his inept trumpets expect those that are in need of oil should come and straighten out the straits of Hormuz. Not needed now because he claims he won. This president of chaos can create problems by just staying in bed. Keep the Epstein files on the front burner and maybe the Zorro Ranch will offer some evidence . Mr. Trump we don't need any more wars we need a few convictions of pedophilia , Yours.
This coarse loudmouth, with “the taste of a water buffalo”, now has the bullhorn of fascism and is using it with abandon. We are all the poorer for it, both literally and figuratively. What a time to be alive.
How do we maintain our equilibrium with the beating of the authoritarian drum guiding our every step on the world stage? Trump is so tone-deaf that he is unaware that the curtain is falling on his performance and that the tomatoes are being hurled at him from all sides of the Atlantic. He accepts and sees nothing but roses coming his way. Such delusion is possible only by those propping him up; his advisors, Congress, and the MAGA faithful, which includes an ever-expanding media landscape.
Some of us will try to stay and fight for our deeply-embedded American hopes and dreams, and create our own Ellis Island of democracy. Some of us will give up. Some of us will leave the country, as did our ancestors in Germany and elsewhere, looking for a better life outside the “iron curtain” of fascism. I am not here to judge anyone. We think we have our votes as cudgels against a dictatorship, but for how long? Do we have the strength to confront the onslaught of authoritarianism? More to the point, do we recognize it as such?
Questions, questions…and no certain answers. No clear choices. No road map except our own consciences and a sense of duty to our country and fellow citizens. There is no vaccination for this public disease which may kill off any sense of justice, peace and participation in what used to be our democracy.
I’m sorry to be so pessimistic, but that’s how I feel. Light the torch. Beat the drum of democracy. Perhaps it will scare away the demons that await. I remember a nursery ditty from my childhood, “From Ghoulies and Ghosties, long-leggity Beasties, and things that go bump in the night…good Lord, deliver us!”. Please.
Karoline Leavitt, the president’s press secretary, said on Saturday. “He is wise enough to know that operations like these are judged by their outcomes. And if the U.S. can say the Iranian military capability is wiped out, the president knows that will be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president in modern times.”
- NY Times, 3-16-26
Has the woman any idea how ridiculous this sounds? Who is she to make these judgments? Why would anybody listen to her? What must the world think of our country? Yuk!!!
I could not be more committed to the long term prosperity of my country, but in the short term, I sincerely hope and pray our allies do not submit to Trump's requests for assistance and support. They should remain on the sidelines and let this fool flounder and, eventually, fail. Let it all come down, so that we can rebuild anew. Other world leaders have a responsibility to their countrymen, and to administer as many "face punches" for as long as it takes to end the global scourge and national disgrace that is our incompetent bully of a president and his preposterously foolish administration.
It was the same Canadian PM, Mark Carney, who approved Trump's WAR on Iran. I had hopes with his speech in Davos, but he is obviously capable of being bullied. Or outed in the Epstein Files.
You forgot one bully quality that undergirds all the rest: stupidity. This is an incurious and therefore dangerous man, who was granted the vote of the people to do right by us. I have had to reconcile myself to the fact that of that 77 million, and of those who didn't vote, they are not high information voters. They may be disengaged from the corrupt assaults on media, law, academia, grace and truth. But I've got to believe that once gas hits $6.00/gallon and food soars even higher than it is, and many won't be able to make the rent/mortgage, and an ungodly number will have lost their healthcare...then that reality will pierce their safe bubbles, awaken them to what this low man has done to this nation, and vote like the future depended on it. Because it does. Maybe one of the only positive things that might come out of this god-forsaken war is that the majority of Americans will unite to stop it, to condemn its perpetrators, to demand change for the better angels of our nature.
Except if the MAGA voters and possibly the non-voters are still watching Faux Nuz, they're still calling Democrats stupid names and blaming them for everything that is not going well in their lives.
The people of Iran have been protesting against a repressive regime for years, and will likely have to continue to do so under a new, also repressive regime.
Here, where we had an approximation of a democracy, 77 million voters and those who couldn't be bothered to vote have foolishly put our people in the same position as the Iranians. I'm not convinced that they even know or sadly, even care about what they've so proudly destroyed.
People are motivated by a lot of things. I think that if the economic conditions in this country are as bad as they can get (whatever outer reach that is), they will express their discontent at the polls. Trump pulled a whole lot of people from the non-voting population by virtue of being a demagog in the right place at the right time. There is a great swath out there who will vote with their feet, and it's our job to see to it that they do. It's on us to make the case and reap the power.
"All men suffer. Not all men pity themselves." - Marcus Aurelius.
Whiner in chief. Loser in chief.
Omg yes, Steven
We have a degenerative operative in the White House …. declaring it would be fun to keep bombing… but
I saw him say that..
Unabashedly
As if he was saying something cute.
I’m with you…..
“It’s useful to recall the wise words of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, sizing up the reality of trying to do business with a bully convinced that everyone should bend to his will, no matter how foolish.
“The powerful have their power,” he said in Davos without specifically mentioning Trump. “But we have something too—the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together.”
🇺🇸Name Reality
The felon disparaged NATO, insulted, tariffed, and/or abandoned all of our allies, and now wants help?
How unbelievably #%&@ing stupid is he?
However, if you look at this from his own historical perspective, this is how he's always been treated. Just look at the many businessmen and attorneys he's cheated and stiffed over his life. Look at the many members of Congress and his cabinets he's insulted and fired over the past ten dreadful years.
Regardless of all this, there is still no shortage of people lined up to curry favor with this petty, hateful, and disloyal man.
You want stupid, just look at this group. Fool me once....
Let us pray that the leaders whom Trump is now begging to join his foolish war of choice will categorically refuse. Carney is hopefully on multiple calls with his European friends, reminding them of" the capacity to stop pretending . . . and to act together.”
Thanks Steven: Yes you have a old , immature , decrepit , mentally incapacitated , bully boy who pees is your porridge and expects you to eat it. He gets his little boy Pete the apostle from the Book of Asses to put their toy soldiers back into the closet and use the real soldiers to bomb the hell out of Iran causing major global problems. Trump and all his inept trumpets expect those that are in need of oil should come and straighten out the straits of Hormuz. Not needed now because he claims he won. This president of chaos can create problems by just staying in bed. Keep the Epstein files on the front burner and maybe the Zorro Ranch will offer some evidence . Mr. Trump we don't need any more wars we need a few convictions of pedophilia , Yours.
This coarse loudmouth, with “the taste of a water buffalo”, now has the bullhorn of fascism and is using it with abandon. We are all the poorer for it, both literally and figuratively. What a time to be alive.
How do we maintain our equilibrium with the beating of the authoritarian drum guiding our every step on the world stage? Trump is so tone-deaf that he is unaware that the curtain is falling on his performance and that the tomatoes are being hurled at him from all sides of the Atlantic. He accepts and sees nothing but roses coming his way. Such delusion is possible only by those propping him up; his advisors, Congress, and the MAGA faithful, which includes an ever-expanding media landscape.
Some of us will try to stay and fight for our deeply-embedded American hopes and dreams, and create our own Ellis Island of democracy. Some of us will give up. Some of us will leave the country, as did our ancestors in Germany and elsewhere, looking for a better life outside the “iron curtain” of fascism. I am not here to judge anyone. We think we have our votes as cudgels against a dictatorship, but for how long? Do we have the strength to confront the onslaught of authoritarianism? More to the point, do we recognize it as such?
Questions, questions…and no certain answers. No clear choices. No road map except our own consciences and a sense of duty to our country and fellow citizens. There is no vaccination for this public disease which may kill off any sense of justice, peace and participation in what used to be our democracy.
I’m sorry to be so pessimistic, but that’s how I feel. Light the torch. Beat the drum of democracy. Perhaps it will scare away the demons that await. I remember a nursery ditty from my childhood, “From Ghoulies and Ghosties, long-leggity Beasties, and things that go bump in the night…good Lord, deliver us!”. Please.
Karoline Leavitt, the president’s press secretary, said on Saturday. “He is wise enough to know that operations like these are judged by their outcomes. And if the U.S. can say the Iranian military capability is wiped out, the president knows that will be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president in modern times.”
- NY Times, 3-16-26
Has the woman any idea how ridiculous this sounds? Who is she to make these judgments? Why would anybody listen to her? What must the world think of our country? Yuk!!!
I could not be more committed to the long term prosperity of my country, but in the short term, I sincerely hope and pray our allies do not submit to Trump's requests for assistance and support. They should remain on the sidelines and let this fool flounder and, eventually, fail. Let it all come down, so that we can rebuild anew. Other world leaders have a responsibility to their countrymen, and to administer as many "face punches" for as long as it takes to end the global scourge and national disgrace that is our incompetent bully of a president and his preposterously foolish administration.
Morning Al
Love your Quotes
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It was the same Canadian PM, Mark Carney, who approved Trump's WAR on Iran. I had hopes with his speech in Davos, but he is obviously capable of being bullied. Or outed in the Epstein Files.
A bully does love to invoke fear to build his ego!
But it is always the greed of others that keep him in power.
Money and special favors are also the hallmarks of a protection racket, not just fear.
Our government is being run by an organized Crime Syndicate.