This was a very enlightening post. it never ceases to amaze me how rich men particularly white rich men seem to make it all about themselves and less about the people they either take care of or represent. Trump is all about himself and the worst part about it is he’s going to drag our entire country down with him before it’s all over.
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats. Most or Trump's nominees lack the competence, ethics, background, and character to be effective cabinet leaders.
What merit does Peter Hegseth have earned to head the department of Defense? He has no leadership skills to run a large department. He is a "pundit" on Fox News 😂
This low IQ "what about" ism is for stupid people who are not good at thinking and have poor judgment skills.
Proud to be a liberal woman, more than ever! Proud to wear this totally unhinged radical liberal t-shirt in front of Republicans 👇
They are all slaves to Mammon. Money is there God, the sheep follow money, they think money is power. The grass IS greener on the other side. Sheep can't eat money.
Epecially when you make up the rules, as scotus started wioth Citizens Unites and continues the unconstitutional writing of new laws based on Friend of the Court memos the Heritige Foundation, Federalist Society, and many others for this purpose starting under reagun. Remember the "decision for the ages" which ignored the Constitution and they made their own laws allowing potus to break laws. The dems and Biden especially (whom I had come to admire due to his work early in his term) will continue to show their bonafides as righteous while a slim majority of people fall for with the dystopian future despite so much lying, cheating, and violence from the extreme right. So many small tthings over the years that could have slowed or thwarted this war on the middle class, but collectively we all turned away and tut-tutted about people mentionin hitler (which my father always told me, time and again, not to mention(like who's father does that?).
So many failures of the institutions to stop this lunatic for the past eight years, starting with the Senate not finalizing his impeachment and eviction from White man's House, and onward to him not being jailed immediately for 34 felonies.
Send an ERA VALENTINE telling President Biden to PUBLISH the Equal Rights Amendment.
Only 7 Senators away.
Send an ERA VALENTINE to Senator Mitt Romney to co-sponsor S. J. Res.4-"A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment."
The "quality" of Trump's parade of unqualified clowns, sycophants, security risks and fools is appalling. The list of nominees speaks to the quality of the man himself - dross! It also speaks to the low information voters who form the main part of Trump's supporters. Sorry!
It's all about launching a Blitzkrieg on January 21 so we'll be so demoralized, so disoriented, and so appalled we won't fight back. The tactic is obvious so prepare for it. I think what we need to do right now is pressure Biden/Congress to get judges confirmed ASAP.
You're right, but to be fair - he's doing EXACTLY what he said he would! If we can't get rid of him or restrain him some way, the US will be lucky to make it to the '26 mid-terms. And I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the world.
At Mar Lago, CEOs from the oil cartel, met with Trump, where Trump had said, give me a billion dollars and I will undo Bidens climate plans. This evil man, if he has his way, our world and all its creatures will die, soaked in oil, his greed and his thirst for power over others, like Musk, just sickens me
Is there a statute somewhere that addresses the nature and respective penalties for "crimes against humanity"? Certainly, whether the statute exist or not, Trump's carbon agenda should prompt dusting what exists off, or drafting one from scratch. Maybe a good documentary could start things off. Gaza X a million Mr. Trump.
Indeed: In Central Wisconsin, we've had no rain from early August until the beginning of November. [Now, we are getting plenty, but it's too late for the crops and smaller trees. Climate change is real!.
He's sure *acting* like he wants an uninhabitable world. Mostly uninhabitable would be easier for him to profit from and control. Not to mention providing more "justification" for his megalomaniacal Mars ambitions.
How else can he sell $ his cars, oh? but wait! T-rump is against electric vehicles and the consumer subsides for them and promises like with his Project 2025, that he said he knew nothing about, that he would end those subsidies, but of course, not the billions we give in taxpayer handouts for decades now, to the oil cartel industry
It’s jaw-dropping to me why anyone believes anything that comes out of Trump‘s mouth. He panders to anything that strikes his fancy at any given moment because it all means nothing to him. As for Elon Musk, I am also stupefied that’s such a brilliant guy could be so stupidly,deluded as to believe that his fortunes and influence will be safe from Trump’s murderous instincts. Remember what happened to that Russian oligarch whom Putin raised to great heights? It did not end well for him. No one is safe from Trump‘s madness or from his puppet masters.
You know he lies to get what he wants. Elon is a power broker. A Narcissist likes to break the strong ones it makes him feel powerful. He has to be the MacDaddy.
Noam Chomsky said on Democracy Now in July 2020: "The man is desperate, he's psychotic, he's in extreme danger of losing his position in the White House. He will do anything he can to prevent it. Secondly, if he loses and leaves the White House, he may be facing serious legal problems. Now he has immunity, but there's a whole swamp around him. He's tried to keep it from being investigated. He fired all the Inspector's General when they were beginning to investigate it. The Federal attorney for the Southern District of New York (that's Wall Street and so on, the most important), started looking into it and he fired him and replaced him with a flack from the private equity industry. " --- LOL!
Again! Everything Trump touches dies, so Guillotines and pitchforks anyone? (just kidding) for Trumps and Musk rat world, is what that conjures up in my mind's eye
Sure. But these means would only be temporary.I’m not kidding when I say that the brand of evil these monsters practice is hidden in all of us should we choose to exercise it. I pray that our better instincts may prevail.
One may come to think that that may actually not be too bad... - he should touch his syccophants, his corrupt immidiate family members - and last but not least, himself....
You got that right and as another poster had said, "everything Trump touches dies", and where you could have had decency, empathy and real attempts at helping deal with the many problems facing average Americans, that being Harris and Waltz, but instead, will all get crapola, from the divider in chief and of his minions of greed and hate
FYI, John, "Everything Trump Touches Dies" is the title of a book published in 2018. Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist, wrote it. He remains a fierce critic of trump.
Yes, I have been long familiar with Rick Wilson, who delivers the truth with humor, a once former republican, who is now thoroughly disgusted with what was once his party
Yes, he will do a very good job at that and with help from his pal Putin and or other dictators perhaps, for it is written, Trump never met dictator that he did not immediately like
Have some decency, empathy and a real attempt at helping problems facing average Americans.
Send an ERA VALENTINE telling President Biden to PUBLISH the Equal Rights Amendment.
Only 7 Senators away.
Send an ERA VALENTINE to Senator Mitt Romney to co-sponsor S. J. Res.4-"A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment."
Put the womb in our United States Constitution.
Women were/are EXCLUDED from our United States Constitution.
I wish it was just that simple as with Harris slogan, when we fight, we win, well, we lost the battle but will win the war I hope in the end, against Trump and his MAGA world of pure hate and division
Aside from passing the buck to blame daddy abuse, rumpus & muskrat really are evil souls of their own accords. There has been too much already into their early environments as a "causal explanation," they are abominable deplorables within their soulless selves.
It's not "passing the buck.". The fact that both trump and musk had problematic childhoods simply offers insight into their sociopathy. Yes, they are both soulless, vindictive, and horrible individuals ready to inflict their insanity on the rest of us. If you ever read Mary Trump's substack, she has detailed trump's earlier years which helps to understand why he is so horrible. No, it doesn't excuse his or Elon's vicious insecurities, and their sociopathic attacks on Americans, etc. I'm also sickened by the fact trump's voters/cult members cannot or will not comprehend how destructive he is.
There are people born under 'parental & environmental circumstances' who realize humanity despite their earlier conditions. Not with these 2, they were innately born bereft of soul.
My mother was a Narcissist and I was her 2nd born slave child, eager to please, nurturing, yet like Dolly Parton another Capricorn I have a happy heart and see the best in people and it made me a good teacher. Children are easy to love.
It would take the genes of a poison person to generate more poison. We'll call it the sins of the fathers for reference. Trump's grandfather made his money running a brothel during the Gold Rush. Love of money and disrespect for women also the idea anyone is for sale and you have an instant tyrant just add fools.
I will admit to a bit of adism, because they fucking earned it and got it, feckless stupid fools and now because of them we all suffer.
The Muslim vote in the swing states of WI,MI, and PA could have swung the election to Harris, but the m effers either voted for Trump or not at all, and they have earned their just rewards.
I agree. understanding of influential factors in no way excuses abusive behavior, that is a cop out. Many, many people have suffered neglect & abuse & do not perpetuate it. We can not use psychology to enable abuse.
Sorry, but that doesn’t excuse their evil behavior as adults. there have been many great men and women in history who derive from dysfunctional families and who have managed to recreate themselves as a remedy to their unfortunate upbringing. That is the beauty of free choice.
When it comes to wealth and greed, there is no racial difference. Black rich men share the same greed as white rich men. The only difference is that there are more greedy wealthy white men, but proportionally, it's about even.
You know, I really want to drag that statement out and beat it into the fucking ground, to show you just how WRONG you happen to be about rich Black men, but...
I can't because it appears that you are right, to my chagrin.
I had so much faith in regular people to know what side their bread buttered on.
I always say that's the whitest black man I've ever seen. They think their words are golden and they are all Martin Luthor King. Power makes them all the same color Greed in Green.
Trump won’t stand for anyone, even someone as shameless as Elon Musk, from stealing the limelight from Trump himself. Everyone who surrounds Trump needs to understand this simple lesson. Trump’s as bad as Wilhelm II in his desire to hog the attention of everyone who surrounds him.
He thinks playing them off against each other entertainment. Just waiting for the first opportunity to belt out his signature line. You're fired! Pack up your knives and go home. I understand the after Brexit atmosphere has never healed. They are comparing this uncivil election to their situation.
Musk, a schoolyard bully, doesn't know any other way to behave. He's trying his sharp elbows on Trump. My guess is the bromance will be over before the inauguration.
Haha! I like how you used the word "men" to describe those exceptional children! (In all seriousness: are Bunkerboy and musk Autistic??? They sure act like it.)
As is Musk. The "trillions" Musk wants to cut can only come from the things most Americans depend on: Social Security, healthcare, and defense spending. Those "savings" will likely result in more tax cuts for the "fat cats", with dribble for the rest.
This is what happened in his first 2 years. I hope that history repeats itself - except for the Pandemic part as we have the Bird Flu waiting in the wings... (sorry about the pun)
Because really, there's little else to do about it. Dems should feel like Chicken Little": "The sky is falling, the sky is falling", with no one listening when it actually does fall.
Trouble is all the MAGA people will realize they have been doubly betrayed by the system. First the Dems betrayed by cutting their incomes and jobs with free trade and now their reaction backing Trump fails too. The depths of despair and bitterness among a huge slice of our population increases exponentially. Maybe a small percentage of them might wake up as a result but don’t count on a rational reaction. They will be more vulnerable to violent solutions. Which Steve Bannon and that wing of Trumpism has advocated all along.
I don't think it is a misrepresentation. Whatever the claims of advantages, the bottom line was that overall standard of living was lowered for most, it did not translate into benefitting working people. After devastating industries in the U.S., it trashed Mexico, then moved on to "capitalize" in other countries. The only ones this benefited was the wealthy.
Musk might think that's a compliment. These ego driven wankers never think about how other ego driven wankers met their end. The hunger for power creates tunnel vision.
That's what I'm hoping. There's going to be so much of it. I mean, what happens when you put a bunch of Type As in a room - egos and narcissists are a very toxic and volatile combination.
Musk, Trump and his host of other blood suckers cabinet picks, will drain America dry, through me, myself and I agenda, so congratulations to the voters who are so delighted with their pick for President, for your going to get what you deserve and you're not going to like it and neither will the rest of us, who did not vote for a tyrant.
I heard that Elon owes a lot of Russians after his purchase of Twitter. I don’t recall if it’s Russian banks or billionaires. And now he’s in a position to take apart the US government? Where is national security when we need it?
For the first time in our history, the president, vice president, cabinet, most of the republican congress and many supreme court justices are more dedicated to Russia than they are America.
Read trump's history. The Russians started working him back in the 1980s and they've provided a lot of money for him over the years. There are many good books on it, so go read them.
David Cay Johnston, Craig Unger and others. There's no doubt about the money provided to trump by Russia. At one point even the trumps said they have a lot of money coming from Russia.
William - I think i'll write a novel called "moscow on the potomac" and it will be about this time in history, leading up to a young man of wealth and power who undergoes a spiritual transformation and decides to get involved in restoring the country to greatness again by upending and destroying those who enslaved us and who has a powerful intellect and loves people and animals and the world, is kind and compassionate for those with less, and his name is Baron.
Starlink was found in those bombs Iran gave Russia used as missile guidance. Now they'll say those parts were boot legged but I would bet it was payment.
But Rudy was a sycophant sucking up to Trump for income. Elon has a power base in his business empire. He is functionally more powerful than Russia ‘s oligarchs . The clash will be very nasty with the potential for collateral damage to our economy and society.
Yeah, exactly. The Orange Nutjob makes no distinction between anyone in the long run. Musty helped him steal the election. Once Musty has worn out his welcome, the ON will give him the boot. His MAGA followers supposedly helped him win; he got his votes. In two months he won't give a rat's ass about them. Yet, they'll still find excuses for his actions and behavior.
Sorry. Ultimately, I disagree. Granted that the felon elect enticed his avarice, but Rudy did that to himself, the way so many who have voted for the felon elect or stayed home gloating over their virtue having voted for neither fandidate over a hobby-horse issue have probably done, but don't realize it yet, and - like Giuliani and the pillow guy - will probably never admit. Rudy should've said "that's bullshit" rather than "that's a >great< hustle" - an odd parallel with how the preacher says devil tempts the sinner. Don't you agree? I won't even bother to mention his "featured" role in Борат ! 🤣
No pity at all for Rudy. He cut his own throat in full view of America & deserves each & every smack down he gets. Hope that he ends up with nothing & lives in a shelter for the homeless, if any will have him.
If we could get him into a furniture truck we’d never see him again? At the very least , after 4 years of him. The nation should be ready for change ? I don’t think he’d get away with the crap Trump does . Maybe I’m trying to be optimistic . Or hoping Karma comes off it’s vacation and starts dealing these gop pigs what they deserve
You might want to read this article from Politico it’s a deep dive on Vance and his backer’s.I know this will sound like lunacy, but just hope the orange one doesn’t keel over before the end of his term. Vance and crew have ideas we don’t want put into practice.
I'm having trouble with the link because Substack is truncating the comments but I know Vance is terrible. I'm very afraid he will be our next president though.
I wish people would stop attributing any thought or decision making to trump. He has no clue what's going on around him and it's others always telling him what to do. The media say "trump says" or "trump decided ". Nope it's his lawyers and advisers, not the idiot who thinks he's in charge.
I think assuming he's a total imbecile is where we've been making some mistakes. While Trump is not stable OR a genius, he does have a gift for manipulation. I've known supremely stupid people who could maneuver other people into dancing any tune. They don't know WHY what they're doing is smart because it's instinct, but they're accidentally smart at manipulating for their own profit and pleasure.
You’re absolutely right Carol. DT has one talent—he’s a world-class manipulator. He sucks people into his orbit before they know it. He will also ruthlessly discard them if they don’t do what he wants, when he wants it. Bottom line—he’s a bully extraordinaire.
First of all, Trump has no friends. Anyone that chooses to be near the jerk does so purely out of self-pervasion. Those who are under sever scrutiny like Musk, Gaetz, Johnson, or even that Kash guy, do so because Trump controls them through fear, not logic. Musk more than any of the others, should realize the danger involved with even being seen with the Don. Money talks until Musk decides to walk,
Yes. All these back-an-fourths between Putin/Trump/Musk. The common denominator seems to be Putin, tossing grenades into the mix that he’s started by finessing Trump, et.al. many loans and years ago-
To be honest, I wouldn't mind saying Trump so angry that he turns the Justice department and the FTC against Elon, but I've long disliked that little lump of cold dog waste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Very astute, and goes to the heart of the matter: Two pathological narcissists CANNOT coexist in the same space, and no bets who comes out on top. Hint: it's NOT the guy who's gone way over his skis.
Musk (Doctor Octopus) hasn't figured out when you are a villain from the Marvel universe, you don't tell Donald Trump (Lex Luthor) from the DC universe what to do.
This was a very enlightening post. it never ceases to amaze me how rich men particularly white rich men seem to make it all about themselves and less about the people they either take care of or represent. Trump is all about himself and the worst part about it is he’s going to drag our entire country down with him before it’s all over.
Cause everything he touches DIES
Matt Gaetz.
Elon Musk.
RFK Jr.
Pete Hegseth
Just a few of the unqualified nominees.
It’s a shit show. 🤦
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats. Most or Trump's nominees lack the competence, ethics, background, and character to be effective cabinet leaders.
What merit does Peter Hegseth have earned to head the department of Defense? He has no leadership skills to run a large department. He is a "pundit" on Fox News 😂
This low IQ "what about" ism is for stupid people who are not good at thinking and have poor judgment skills.
Proud to be a liberal woman, more than ever! Proud to wear this totally unhinged radical liberal t-shirt in front of Republicans 👇
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/radlib
Trump spitting in our faces 248 year old Constitutional republic, representative democracy!
They are all puppets of the like-minded oligarchs that are behind the MAGA party, the old Libertarians are the new MAGAtarians.
Libertarians talk about "freedom", not democracy. They don't like democracy. They want the freedom to submit to corporate power.
They are all slaves to Mammon. Money is there God, the sheep follow money, they think money is power. The grass IS greener on the other side. Sheep can't eat money.
The sheep-like masses followed Trump. lol.
Or they see themselves as the ones in power?
Robber Barons of Stanford that won a game yesterday.
Democracy is the one form of government that can undo itself by its own rules ..
Epecially when you make up the rules, as scotus started wioth Citizens Unites and continues the unconstitutional writing of new laws based on Friend of the Court memos the Heritige Foundation, Federalist Society, and many others for this purpose starting under reagun. Remember the "decision for the ages" which ignored the Constitution and they made their own laws allowing potus to break laws. The dems and Biden especially (whom I had come to admire due to his work early in his term) will continue to show their bonafides as righteous while a slim majority of people fall for with the dystopian future despite so much lying, cheating, and violence from the extreme right. So many small tthings over the years that could have slowed or thwarted this war on the middle class, but collectively we all turned away and tut-tutted about people mentionin hitler (which my father always told me, time and again, not to mention(like who's father does that?).
So many failures of the institutions to stop this lunatic for the past eight years, starting with the Senate not finalizing his impeachment and eviction from White man's House, and onward to him not being jailed immediately for 34 felonies.
Putin smiles
but all of them have kissed the behind of the future president who is mightily impressed.
Thank you Heather.B
No need to namby-pamby around being fucking nice! These are dangerous and criminally incompentent folks we're speaking of.
Kristi Noem as spymaster? Matt Gaetz as AG? Some animals are more equal than others in this topsy-turvy world!
I'm so scared for our country, even for our Constitution.
Hey Liberal Woman,
Send an ERA VALENTINE telling President Biden to PUBLISH the Equal Rights Amendment.
Only 7 Senators away.
Send an ERA VALENTINE to Senator Mitt Romney to co-sponsor S. J. Res.4-"A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment."
Put the womb in our United States Constitution.
STOP the sub-ju-GATE
(put no one beneath)
NO Dominionism over my BODILY AUTONOMY
NO Government Rules over my BODILY AUTONOMY
UNITE the States
Do more than VOTE!
Do more than wear a t-shirt.
100 years ago, Alice Paul presented to Congress the Equal Rights Amendment.
ERA 2024!
Slipping out of a sexual misconduct case in 2017, it makes him one of the bros.
The "quality" of Trump's parade of unqualified clowns, sycophants, security risks and fools is appalling. The list of nominees speaks to the quality of the man himself - dross! It also speaks to the low information voters who form the main part of Trump's supporters. Sorry!
Cabinet meeting with a Dear Leader who is angry
https://youtu.be/ofXWuHr_G88?si=hmu1On7Zrq1tNU-e&t=181
It's all about launching a Blitzkrieg on January 21 so we'll be so demoralized, so disoriented, and so appalled we won't fight back. The tactic is obvious so prepare for it. I think what we need to do right now is pressure Biden/Congress to get judges confirmed ASAP.
Elect a clown get a circus 🤡 🎪- ( courtesy of Jeff Teidrich)
Add to that shit show list Tulsi Gabbard, and now, to me the most dangerous of them all: Fossil fool CEO Chris Wright
You're right, but to be fair - he's doing EXACTLY what he said he would! If we can't get rid of him or restrain him some way, the US will be lucky to make it to the '26 mid-terms. And I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the world.
You forgot Putin puppet, Assad admirer, and conspiracy theorist Tulsi Gabbard.
I want that shirt!
Including the planet.
At Mar Lago, CEOs from the oil cartel, met with Trump, where Trump had said, give me a billion dollars and I will undo Bidens climate plans. This evil man, if he has his way, our world and all its creatures will die, soaked in oil, his greed and his thirst for power over others, like Musk, just sickens me
Is there a statute somewhere that addresses the nature and respective penalties for "crimes against humanity"? Certainly, whether the statute exist or not, Trump's carbon agenda should prompt dusting what exists off, or drafting one from scratch. Maybe a good documentary could start things off. Gaza X a million Mr. Trump.
Crimes against humanity, crimes against nature or ecocide, can we say, natures end and us!
These are the kinds of lawsuits that young people have been bringing against big oil e.g Montana?
The Business negotiations resume. Bully for the bully.
We in NJ haven't had any rain in 2 months! Climate change is real!
I was watching a bit on the Barrier Reef coral getting bleached because that water is so hot it kills the coral.
Whereas we in the South got our share and yours from Helene.
Indeed: In Central Wisconsin, we've had no rain from early August until the beginning of November. [Now, we are getting plenty, but it's too late for the crops and smaller trees. Climate change is real!.
I’m not so sure Elon wants an uninhabitable world.
He's sure *acting* like he wants an uninhabitable world. Mostly uninhabitable would be easier for him to profit from and control. Not to mention providing more "justification" for his megalomaniacal Mars ambitions.
How else can he sell $ his cars, oh? but wait! T-rump is against electric vehicles and the consumer subsides for them and promises like with his Project 2025, that he said he knew nothing about, that he would end those subsidies, but of course, not the billions we give in taxpayer handouts for decades now, to the oil cartel industry
It’s jaw-dropping to me why anyone believes anything that comes out of Trump‘s mouth. He panders to anything that strikes his fancy at any given moment because it all means nothing to him. As for Elon Musk, I am also stupefied that’s such a brilliant guy could be so stupidly,deluded as to believe that his fortunes and influence will be safe from Trump’s murderous instincts. Remember what happened to that Russian oligarch whom Putin raised to great heights? It did not end well for him. No one is safe from Trump‘s madness or from his puppet masters.
Remember, T-rump had said, I am a stable genius
You know he lies to get what he wants. Elon is a power broker. A Narcissist likes to break the strong ones it makes him feel powerful. He has to be the MacDaddy.
Yes, a narcissist to the max
John, no no no he's only against electric boats. remember, sharks and exploding batteries. wait, windmills because
Trump, is an evil rotten and sick and twisted babbling idiot, but to the Maga-nuts, he is the greatest man in the world
How bout those beached Whales, oh wait that was windmills and Wales.
When egos collide
No, Elon, wants to inhabit Mars (no joke) because he’s pretty sure that the earth 🌍 is soon to be toast.
…pretty sure the earth is toast.
With his billions he could do a lot to protect the environment, but he won't, because he fancies himself an interplanetary emperor.
Someone send him a copy of Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btmWWnQ-gAY
This sequence portrays the Trump guardrails being relaxed and the King forgiving the wealthy slasher and welcoming him into the New Order
Noam Chomsky predicted he would take “everything” down with him. That was nearly 10 years ago.
Noam Chomsky said on Democracy Now in July 2020: "The man is desperate, he's psychotic, he's in extreme danger of losing his position in the White House. He will do anything he can to prevent it. Secondly, if he loses and leaves the White House, he may be facing serious legal problems. Now he has immunity, but there's a whole swamp around him. He's tried to keep it from being investigated. He fired all the Inspector's General when they were beginning to investigate it. The Federal attorney for the Southern District of New York (that's Wall Street and so on, the most important), started looking into it and he fired him and replaced him with a flack from the private equity industry. " --- LOL!
Which means he is slow. Time is running out for him. His body is no Temple it is a wasted space.
Like his ego, a BIG waste of space,
Again! Everything Trump touches dies, so Guillotines and pitchforks anyone? (just kidding) for Trumps and Musk rat world, is what that conjures up in my mind's eye
Sure. But these means would only be temporary.I’m not kidding when I say that the brand of evil these monsters practice is hidden in all of us should we choose to exercise it. I pray that our better instincts may prevail.
George Orwell's 1984 portrayal, but on steroids, is what Musk and he would like
One may come to think that that may actually not be too bad... - he should touch his syccophants, his corrupt immidiate family members - and last but not least, himself....
You got that right and as another poster had said, "everything Trump touches dies", and where you could have had decency, empathy and real attempts at helping deal with the many problems facing average Americans, that being Harris and Waltz, but instead, will all get crapola, from the divider in chief and of his minions of greed and hate
FYI, John, "Everything Trump Touches Dies" is the title of a book published in 2018. Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist, wrote it. He remains a fierce critic of trump.
Yes, I have been long familiar with Rick Wilson, who delivers the truth with humor, a once former republican, who is now thoroughly disgusted with what was once his party
Pride goeth before the fall. Humpty Dumpty will fall and fail.
The sooner the better and Muskrat with him
I agree. This is all going to fall apart. Not soon enough but it will. There's too much ego and too much incompetence for any of it to hold.
And what he doesn’t kill he desecrates.
Yes, he will do a very good job at that and with help from his pal Putin and or other dictators perhaps, for it is written, Trump never met dictator that he did not immediately like
When a clown moves into a castle he doesn't become a king. The castle becomes a circus. Buckle up your seatbelts, folks.
... and who immediately saw a useful idiot.
PUBLISH the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Have some decency, empathy and a real attempt at helping problems facing average Americans.
Send an ERA VALENTINE telling President Biden to PUBLISH the Equal Rights Amendment.
Only 7 Senators away.
Send an ERA VALENTINE to Senator Mitt Romney to co-sponsor S. J. Res.4-"A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment."
Put the womb in our United States Constitution.
Women were/are EXCLUDED from our United States Constitution.
STOP the sub-ju-GATE
(put no one beneath)
NO Dominionism over my BODILY AUTONOMY
NO Government Rules over my BODILY AUTONOMY
UNITE the States
Do more than VOTE!
Be solution oriented.
I wish it was just that simple as with Harris slogan, when we fight, we win, well, we lost the battle but will win the war I hope in the end, against Trump and his MAGA world of pure hate and division
With weeks to go, maybe it is something that could happen with some pressure on Dem Senators.
With wings, hope and prayer
Yes. Both had unloving and verbally abusive fathers.
Aside from passing the buck to blame daddy abuse, rumpus & muskrat really are evil souls of their own accords. There has been too much already into their early environments as a "causal explanation," they are abominable deplorables within their soulless selves.
It's not "passing the buck.". The fact that both trump and musk had problematic childhoods simply offers insight into their sociopathy. Yes, they are both soulless, vindictive, and horrible individuals ready to inflict their insanity on the rest of us. If you ever read Mary Trump's substack, she has detailed trump's earlier years which helps to understand why he is so horrible. No, it doesn't excuse his or Elon's vicious insecurities, and their sociopathic attacks on Americans, etc. I'm also sickened by the fact trump's voters/cult members cannot or will not comprehend how destructive he is.
There are people born under 'parental & environmental circumstances' who realize humanity despite their earlier conditions. Not with these 2, they were innately born bereft of soul.
My mother was a Narcissist and I was her 2nd born slave child, eager to please, nurturing, yet like Dolly Parton another Capricorn I have a happy heart and see the best in people and it made me a good teacher. Children are easy to love.
I speak Astro, & understand what you are saying. It sounds like you make the world a better place.
Fred Sr. raised Donald to be as sociopathic as Fred himself. The only thing Donald couldn’t do is to make money like Fred.
I don't know the truth,either you or Anna could be right,but some people are born evil-and really,what does it matter-they are who they are-poison
It would take the genes of a poison person to generate more poison. We'll call it the sins of the fathers for reference. Trump's grandfather made his money running a brothel during the Gold Rush. Love of money and disrespect for women also the idea anyone is for sale and you have an instant tyrant just add fools.
Cyndy come upance will come around, alas we will suffer as well.
As an example I've been chiding the Muslims for reacting to Biden by voting for Trump. Imams endorsed hiim
Well get a load of this headline from Haaretz
It's Like He's Going on Zionist Overdrive' |
Trump's pro-Israel Cabinet Picks Upset Muslims Who Voted for Him
'Trump won because of us,' said one of the founders of Muslims for Trump, 'and we're not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others'
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-11-17/ty-article/trumps-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-upset-muslims-who-voted-for-him/00000193-39b4-dcd3-a3b7-bdbfa2250000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=ef36d27152
I will admit to a bit of adism, because they fucking earned it and got it, feckless stupid fools and now because of them we all suffer.
The Muslim vote in the swing states of WI,MI, and PA could have swung the election to Harris, but the m effers either voted for Trump or not at all, and they have earned their just rewards.
genes,environment,whatever else-geniuses can come from Parents,from up bringing-so can serial killers-stalin was once a seminarian
Rumpus & Muskrat- ha!
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I agree. understanding of influential factors in no way excuses abusive behavior, that is a cop out. Many, many people have suffered neglect & abuse & do not perpetuate it. We can not use psychology to enable abuse.
Excellent insight, Kathy.
They sold our Country to the 😈 devil
All Trump needs now to touch things off, is some horns and a tail
Sorry, but that doesn’t excuse their evil behavior as adults. there have been many great men and women in history who derive from dysfunctional families and who have managed to recreate themselves as a remedy to their unfortunate upbringing. That is the beauty of free choice.
But that is no excuse for being a jerk. Just saying
When it comes to wealth and greed, there is no racial difference. Black rich men share the same greed as white rich men. The only difference is that there are more greedy wealthy white men, but proportionally, it's about even.
You know, I really want to drag that statement out and beat it into the fucking ground, to show you just how WRONG you happen to be about rich Black men, but...
I can't because it appears that you are right, to my chagrin.
I had so much faith in regular people to know what side their bread buttered on.
It’s really about a patriarchal world culture, ego v eco mindset, race to the top, one up, one down.
I always say that's the whitest black man I've ever seen. They think their words are golden and they are all Martin Luthor King. Power makes them all the same color Greed in Green.
Well, the People have the option of dragging Trump down and finishing him. We don't have to let him change America into Moscow.
Trump won’t stand for anyone, even someone as shameless as Elon Musk, from stealing the limelight from Trump himself. Everyone who surrounds Trump needs to understand this simple lesson. Trump’s as bad as Wilhelm II in his desire to hog the attention of everyone who surrounds him.
Yes! And I cannot see Musk and Ramaswamy getting along either. That's going to implode.
Dishonor amongst thieves...it's the tRump way.
He thinks playing them off against each other entertainment. Just waiting for the first opportunity to belt out his signature line. You're fired! Pack up your knives and go home. I understand the after Brexit atmosphere has never healed. They are comparing this uncivil election to their situation.
Still waiting for the revolution to start.
Pitchfork attitudes with a lot of screaming, when the U.S.S Titanic goes sinking with Trump Tarriff plans
Been thinking of John Lennon's song and the Bolshevik Revolution. Though Animal Farm and The Jungle seem the most appropriate. Perhaps Mein Kampf.
The most horrible aspect of Trump's election are the stupid, uneducated fools he putting in important places.
Not proposing excuses; just offering a possible contributing factor. All are free to reject the thought.
Well said!🤬🤬😈👿💀
America will be Trump's biggest bankrupty!
Musk, a schoolyard bully, doesn't know any other way to behave. He's trying his sharp elbows on Trump. My guess is the bromance will be over before the inauguration.
Haha! I like how you used the word "men" to describe those exceptional children! (In all seriousness: are Bunkerboy and musk Autistic??? They sure act like it.)
They should all get the golden treatment - get all the gold they can swallow, in liquid form....
As is Musk. The "trillions" Musk wants to cut can only come from the things most Americans depend on: Social Security, healthcare, and defense spending. Those "savings" will likely result in more tax cuts for the "fat cats", with dribble for the rest.
My hope is that a tsunami of incompetence and infighting will overwhelm and drown intention.
This is what happened in his first 2 years. I hope that history repeats itself - except for the Pandemic part as we have the Bird Flu waiting in the wings... (sorry about the pun)
At this point in time, there needs to be a little more puns, and even Freudians. Nothing like levity to help morale.
Because really, there's little else to do about it. Dems should feel like Chicken Little": "The sky is falling, the sky is falling", with no one listening when it actually does fall.
I always felt Jeff Sessions recused himself to opt out. At least he got to leave with some character intact. If not with inegrity.
Who'd have ever thought that Jeff Sessions had character or integrity?
Trouble is all the MAGA people will realize they have been doubly betrayed by the system. First the Dems betrayed by cutting their incomes and jobs with free trade and now their reaction backing Trump fails too. The depths of despair and bitterness among a huge slice of our population increases exponentially. Maybe a small percentage of them might wake up as a result but don’t count on a rational reaction. They will be more vulnerable to violent solutions. Which Steve Bannon and that wing of Trumpism has advocated all along.
Plus they have their guns. Their hate will rule them and blame will ensue. These people do not understand Cause and Effect just Free Will.
Um, misrepresentation of free trade, it wasn’t all bad, and the last agreement was authorized by the Trump administration in July 2020
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/free-trade-agreement-pros-and-cons-3305845
I don't think it is a misrepresentation. Whatever the claims of advantages, the bottom line was that overall standard of living was lowered for most, it did not translate into benefitting working people. After devastating industries in the U.S., it trashed Mexico, then moved on to "capitalize" in other countries. The only ones this benefited was the wealthy.
People stuff they don’t understand or research. You do your homework. I congratulate you.
me too
Me too!
Likely scenario. I said sit back and watch the Circus. Putin's playthings jumping through hoops.
History has often shown that when one narcissist starts telling another narcissist what to do, the first is in danger of losing his head.
Two 'yuge' egos cannot occupy the same room.
I could not agree more. Those egos….
One can only hope.
Elon, Rasputin, whatever.
Elon's banging Melania!?
Thanks for that laugh!
What a sickening image!
Anything problem with that?!!!
👍 Good observation. I haven't thought of it that way. Thanks!
Musk might think that's a compliment. These ego driven wankers never think about how other ego driven wankers met their end. The hunger for power creates tunnel vision.
Let the infighting begin and tear them all to shreds.
That's what I'm hoping. There's going to be so much of it. I mean, what happens when you put a bunch of Type As in a room - egos and narcissists are a very toxic and volatile combination.
That is something you can count on. The next 6 months will be out of “the twilight zone”.
Musk, Trump and his host of other blood suckers cabinet picks, will drain America dry, through me, myself and I agenda, so congratulations to the voters who are so delighted with their pick for President, for your going to get what you deserve and you're not going to like it and neither will the rest of us, who did not vote for a tyrant.
I voted Kamala; one thing I’m saying to my Trumpy brothers: Thank God there will be NO MORE PORN!
You may be right about going public but all those billionaires who supported trump are looking for a return on investment.
I heard that Elon owes a lot of Russians after his purchase of Twitter. I don’t recall if it’s Russian banks or billionaires. And now he’s in a position to take apart the US government? Where is national security when we need it?
For the first time in our history, the president, vice president, cabinet, most of the republican congress and many supreme court justices are more dedicated to Russia than they are America.
This cannot end well, no matter how it ends.
👍 They seem to like that neo-feudal model - that they railed against communism over.
This attributes to just how dumb they are. They don't know their world history. Only the stupid follow the stupid.
100%
oooooo (mouth open in shock)
"dedicated to Russia" ? How so? ?
Read trump's history. The Russians started working him back in the 1980s and they've provided a lot of money for him over the years. There are many good books on it, so go read them.
David Cay Johnston, Craig Unger and others. There's no doubt about the money provided to trump by Russia. At one point even the trumps said they have a lot of money coming from Russia.
William - I think i'll write a novel called "moscow on the potomac" and it will be about this time in history, leading up to a young man of wealth and power who undergoes a spiritual transformation and decides to get involved in restoring the country to greatness again by upending and destroying those who enslaved us and who has a powerful intellect and loves people and animals and the world, is kind and compassionate for those with less, and his name is Baron.
Starlink was found in those bombs Iran gave Russia used as missile guidance. Now they'll say those parts were boot legged but I would bet it was payment.
One word: Bratva.
Including Putin
It’s only a matter of time before he turns his back on Elon. Look at Rudy….
But Rudy was a sycophant sucking up to Trump for income. Elon has a power base in his business empire. He is functionally more powerful than Russia ‘s oligarchs . The clash will be very nasty with the potential for collateral damage to our economy and society.
Agreed. But when the economy crashes, Musk will get much of the blame considering how he runs his businesses. At that point, who knows?
That’s a given. I am hoping we still have midterms.
we will but we won't need to vote. elon figured that all out on this trial run which worked perfectly.
Yeah, exactly. The Orange Nutjob makes no distinction between anyone in the long run. Musty helped him steal the election. Once Musty has worn out his welcome, the ON will give him the boot. His MAGA followers supposedly helped him win; he got his votes. In two months he won't give a rat's ass about them. Yet, they'll still find excuses for his actions and behavior.
Trump totally ruined Rudy’s reputation! Chewed him up and spit him out! Look at him today! A pitiful man!
Sorry. Ultimately, I disagree. Granted that the felon elect enticed his avarice, but Rudy did that to himself, the way so many who have voted for the felon elect or stayed home gloating over their virtue having voted for neither fandidate over a hobby-horse issue have probably done, but don't realize it yet, and - like Giuliani and the pillow guy - will probably never admit. Rudy should've said "that's bullshit" rather than "that's a >great< hustle" - an odd parallel with how the preacher says devil tempts the sinner. Don't you agree? I won't even bother to mention his "featured" role in Борат ! 🤣
Just a little levity for anyone feeling the need for a "humor break!"
https://youtu.be/91zXyLZ_pEQ?si=P2Vw2iGjP9agyl1N
https://youtu.be/PT0ay9u1gg4?si=73qojKxTFZfZlx11
https://youtu.be/inLzmWAQzL0?si=E_WhuWkr3pMJzuwZ
🙃😁🤣
No pity at all for Rudy. He cut his own throat in full view of America & deserves each & every smack down he gets. Hope that he ends up with nothing & lives in a shelter for the homeless, if any will have him.
Only difference Lisa, is Rudy didn’t have the excess money Elon has. Trump will tolerate a lot from a guy
who happens to be a billionaire.
I think he's more likely to tolerate an autocrat like Putin or Kim than an oligarch. We'll see.
You’re probably right Paula. I think he’s afraid of Putin.
Me too, Susan.
Until he bleeds him dry or Elon tells him no.
"This will produce a government of nihilism and chaos."
We can only hope
Think they could destroy each other before January ? That would be awesome
But that would leave the Vance and then what?
If we could get him into a furniture truck we’d never see him again? At the very least , after 4 years of him. The nation should be ready for change ? I don’t think he’d get away with the crap Trump does . Maybe I’m trying to be optimistic . Or hoping Karma comes off it’s vacation and starts dealing these gop pigs what they deserve
Oh, he's just as egotistical and incompetent. He'll fit right in.
You might want to read this article from Politico it’s a deep dive on Vance and his backer’s.I know this will sound like lunacy, but just hope the orange one doesn’t keel over before the end of his term. Vance and crew have ideas we don’t want put into practice.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/13/jd-vance-new-right-political-movement-00177203?nname=politico-toplines&nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nrid=e4f63e57-c66c-431b-8960-16987b371785&nlid=2758340
I'm having trouble with the link because Substack is truncating the comments but I know Vance is terrible. I'm very afraid he will be our next president though.
Let’s try this again.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/13/jd-vance-new-right-political-movement-00177203?nname=politico-toplines&nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nrid=e4f63e57-c66c-431b-8960-16987b371785&nlid=2758340
This plot sounds very very familiar.
Shakespearean.
A rerun of 2016
I wish people would stop attributing any thought or decision making to trump. He has no clue what's going on around him and it's others always telling him what to do. The media say "trump says" or "trump decided ". Nope it's his lawyers and advisers, not the idiot who thinks he's in charge.
I think assuming he's a total imbecile is where we've been making some mistakes. While Trump is not stable OR a genius, he does have a gift for manipulation. I've known supremely stupid people who could maneuver other people into dancing any tune. They don't know WHY what they're doing is smart because it's instinct, but they're accidentally smart at manipulating for their own profit and pleasure.
You’re absolutely right Carol. DT has one talent—he’s a world-class manipulator. He sucks people into his orbit before they know it. He will also ruthlessly discard them if they don’t do what he wants, when he wants it. Bottom line—he’s a bully extraordinaire.
First of all, Trump has no friends. Anyone that chooses to be near the jerk does so purely out of self-pervasion. Those who are under sever scrutiny like Musk, Gaetz, Johnson, or even that Kash guy, do so because Trump controls them through fear, not logic. Musk more than any of the others, should realize the danger involved with even being seen with the Don. Money talks until Musk decides to walk,
Musk plays on the same playground as Putin and Xi and their oligarchs. I doubt that Elon is concerned about trump
Yes. All these back-an-fourths between Putin/Trump/Musk. The common denominator seems to be Putin, tossing grenades into the mix that he’s started by finessing Trump, et.al. many loans and years ago-
Yes. How coincidental that soon after Putin talked of a new world order, Elon tweeted it.
Excellent post. Thank you for sharing your insight.
To be honest, I wouldn't mind saying Trump so angry that he turns the Justice department and the FTC against Elon, but I've long disliked that little lump of cold dog waste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is what happens when narcissists are put in the same room together!
Very astute, and goes to the heart of the matter: Two pathological narcissists CANNOT coexist in the same space, and no bets who comes out on top. Hint: it's NOT the guy who's gone way over his skis.
Musk (Doctor Octopus) hasn't figured out when you are a villain from the Marvel universe, you don't tell Donald Trump (Lex Luthor) from the DC universe what to do.
BAHWAHAHA!