Howl in the Dark Wilderness

Today is Wednesday.  Guess what that means? 

It's HUMP DAY! 

I want to take a moment to ponder Monday's blog post.  

It was a standard issue rant that Donald Trump is a lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, yadda yadda yadda piece of shit.

And I'm a bit disappointed in it.

Not because the feelings expressed are not valid or the facts addressed are in question.  

But I am disappointed in that this is not what I wanted for this blog and for the moments of my life I invest in it.

Just for the record, we are now about 12 entries away from BLOG POST 5000! That's a lot of posts and quite frankly it's a disappointment to me that so much of the space on this blog and in my head is occuppied by that lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, yadda yadda yadda piece of shit.

I think my main motivation is to make sure there's a record that in this awful time of division of hate and fear mongering, that a regular schmuck like myself could see what was really going on.

I have no power to affect change. I can only howl in the dark wilderness that in this time I can see the truth about Donald Trump and the gutless cowards who capitulated to his reign of corruption and contempt out of ignorance, hate and a desire for power.  

When this time is over and when (or if) we survive it, I have a record, however remote and unread it may be, that I saw the terrible truth of our world. 

And I did not care for it.

It's a pathetic motivation but damn, it's all I got.

Writing for The Hill, psychotherapist and author Jonathan Alpert postulated on the obsessions of Trump's critics.  

 Alpert wrote, "Many people who wish Trump would disappear from public life nevertheless follow him relentlessly. They monitor his speeches, dissect his social media posts and debate his every move." 

 

I must cop to that.  I frequently find myself distracted as I scan the headlines on my various news feeds anxious about what fucking dumbass thing this lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, yadda yadda yadda piece of shit has done now. 

Alpert continues, "Trump has supplied something modern politics rarely offers: genuine uncertainty about what comes next. Tomorrow may bring a policy announcement, a personnel decision, a courtroom development, an impromptu exchange with reporters or the renaming of some major body of water."  

 

In my years on this planet, there have been times I've almost forgotten who the President is. OK, not really "forgotten", but I can honestly say I never got up every morning wondering:Gee, what goddam thing is Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton or Barack Obama going to fuck up today.  

I may not have always agreed with everything any given President did but I felt confident that whatever they did, I didn't have to hear that whatever they did was goddam fucking "unprecedented".  

Alpert describes the self-perpetuating cycle. 

• Trump says or does something unexpected. 
• News organizations rush to cover it. 
• Critics condemn it. 
• Supporters defend it. 
• Television panels debate it.

I would posit that "something unexpected" is a nicer way of expressing "something stupid or crooked" or some other 3rd thing.  

 

Alpert says, "Attention is not the same as approval."

Donald Trump is delusional in thinking he has the approval of the American people even as poll after poll shows a precipitously declining approval rating. 

But mostly, like the lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, yadda yadda yadda piece of shit he is, he mostly longs for the attention.

Trump lives by the adage "the only thing worse than bad publicity is NO publicity."  

There's a reason he ends his godforsaken posts with "Thank you for your attention to this matter."  He's literally just wants your attention.  

And as much as I hate the motherfucker, damn it, he has my attention. And he eats up space on this blog on Mondays.

And by the looks of it today, Wednesday too.

But this was supposed to be about me and what I write. 

I've seen my blog stats and I know I have no power and no influence.  I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You is little more than a journal of a barely interesting man who wants to share the TV shows and movies I watch and my comic book and sci-fi fandoms and whatever first world foible frustrated me lately.

As I approach the 5000th post, I am sorry that Donald Trump and his snivelling syncophants take up so much space on this blog and in my head. 

But when history looks back on this abyss in American and world history and wonders, did anyone not see what was happening, I want this on record: I did see it.

God help me I could not do anything about it but I will speak to history and say, at least I could see it.  

It's only a mournful howl in the dark wilderness. It's all I got but it's mine. 

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Tomorrow: comic books!  (YAY!)  

 

A Good Man And A Great American Leader

Well damn it, it's Monday again and that means it's time for the blog's weekly look at this royally fucked up world and the principal reason it is so royally fucked up.

Because once again we must address the sickening reality that 

Donald Trump is a lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, sociopathic, dishonorable, treasonous, gutless, moronic, heartless, soulless, slimy, loathsome, vile, incompetent, psychotic, crooked, disgusting, reprehensible, revolting, horrible, malicious, obnoxious, hateful, narcissistic, small-minded, despicable god damn, motherfucking piece of shit.  

And it's THIS guy who's in charge?!?!  

Fuck! 

Fuckity fuck fuck!!

FUCK!!!

I hate Mondays!!! 

What I have is a bad case of waking up in a world of the perpetually and dangerously absurd.

Everyday der Führer does something so blatantly stupid, immoral, criminal, cowardly, disrespectful and contemptuous.

And everyday I live in a world with people who do not see this.

What is wrong with these people? 

There are some who would suggest we should try to understand these people, their perspectives, their values, etc etc.

My assessment of these people is more blunt and admittedly less empathetic: these people are STUPID! 

Over in Baltimore MD, writer James Cecil is trying to be a more understanding person than I am.  

James Cecil wrote a piece about dealing with MAGA Trump cultists.    

He writes of a relative who put her devotion to Trump over family, posting on Facebook "Trump’s a good man and a great American leader!”  Then she unfriended James.  

James writes of a woman "who makes the best crab cakes in Maryland, which is a real claim. She also believes the election was stolen, which is not. I fix her screen door anyway."

James notes of his relationships with friends and family who have cast their lot in fealty to one man.  "Nothing visible has changed. Everything that matters has."

I'm not sure that statement is completely true.  

Everything that matters is so terribly visible if you ask me.  

There was a time I may have suspected the politics of others did not necessarily align with mine. But I did not know. Which was OK with me.  

It was possible for me to believe people with different political affiliations were still good people at heart. 

But when that political affiliation is in deference to a reprehensible man and his culture of hate, fear and anger, it's difficult to square that circle.   

And people aren't shy about expressing their political affiliation with the reprehensible man.

I had a friend at work who I suspected of some extreme cultural and political reviews. But it never got in the way of our work. We would collaborate on special projects and genuinely enjoyed each other's company.

After he left the firm where we worked, he posted on Facebook that Donald Trump was an agent of God and doing divine work to save America,

I generally had understood him to be a rather intelligent sensible person and might have worried he was having some kind of episode and may need some kind of intervention.

But I realized that with Donald Trump in the White House, my earstwhile friend was showing me who he really was, a reality I had been willing to turn a blind eye to before.

What I suspected but was able to overlook was now known and I could not.  

I unfriended him.  

I haven't been home in years to see my family in my old home town because I know what I would be putting up with.  I know their politics and their "religion".

Even as Donald Trump burns down the world with a war he started with no provocation and with no clear strategy for victory, even as America crumbles under an economy riddled with inflation and a declining job market, as the rich become richer and the middle class falls closer to the poverty line, his devotees remain loyal.  

Only Donald Trump is their salvation and their retribution against all that is woke, those would would drag their children down to the school nurse to forcibly have their genders changed or the whores burning through abortions while they're in labor and some other third untrue outrageous thing.

As long as their beloved "good man and great leader" is protecting them from all that, who cares what else he's up to.

Like Li'l Donnie getting into a trade war with a longtime friend and ally.

In the aftermath of trade talks with Canada falling apart, Donald Trump chose to take revenge on Canada by renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.  

As I watched him sit at his desk, mumbling and slurring his words like a dementia addled mob boss, "All it takes is a good pen and some intelligence", drawing a line through "Lake Ontario" on a map and writing in "Lake America", all I could see and hear is a whiny little ignorant bitch! 

And I was frustrated by the knowledge that someone else seeing this same pathetic display came away with the conclusion that "Trump’s a good man and a great American leader!”  

NO! He is NOT!  Can you not SEE?

A good man and a great leader would not be sitting at a desk with a Sharpie playing childish games with a goddam map! 

By the way, what got us to the absurd point? Trade negotiations with Canada got blindsided by some last minute demands. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney was all "fuck this shit" and ordered Canada's trade team to walk away.  

Here are the key demands the United States made of Canada.

So the United States demanded the right to approve or veto any trade agreements Canada might make with another country.

The United States was all "we ain't gonna speak no French" even though Canada's Quebec province speaks French. 

Whatever the fuck this has to do with trade but the United States wanted to include control over Canada's military spending? 

Canada can't sell it's energy to whoever Canada wants but must sell it to the U.S. first?

This is not a trade negotiation between two nations.  This is a capitulation, a surrender of Canadian sovereignty to the United States.  This is a step closer to making Li'l Donnie's dream of Canada being our 51st state come true.

Trade negotiations fell apart to appease Trump's delusions of power and superiority over our neighbor.  

Of course Canada would not be on board with any of that.

Of course Canada said no.

And Donald Trump does what he always does when someone has the temerity to say "no" to him: he threw a temper tantrum like a goddam toddler and slapped 50% tarrifs on Canadian goods (which only hurts the Americans who buy their stuff) and scrawled on a map to make Lake Ontario into Lake America.

A good man? A great leader? How can ANYONE look at this debacle of incompetence and hubris and think that?

Because he will occasionally waddle his way to a microphone (with Natalie Harp scampering behind him) with some nonsense about fighting a WOKE DEI agenda, about protecting his base of supporters from transgenders, immigrants, communists and whatever else he decides is a threat to "real" Americans.

"Real" as defined as white, straight, Christian,  Republican and male.  

Yes, I included "male" on that list. The utter contempt Trump and his cohorts like Peter Hegseth have for women is unfiltered and on constant display. Which doesn't stop James Cecil's female relative from declaring "Trump’s a good man and a great American leader!”   

He shows his utter contempt for things that are important to Americans.

• The price of food.
• The price of gas.
• The price of healthcare.

Remember his own words on the problems of inflation.

Donald Trump. Does. Not. Care.

Hey, he's getting rich! Fuck anyone else who is not.

And the people who are being fucked over the worst by der Führer's callous disregard, his utter stupidity and his complete incompetence still insist "Trump’s a good man and a great American leader!” 

James Cecil in Baltimore MD may be trying to understand and hold out hope for the redemption of family and friends lost to this goddam narcissistic buffoon.

I have lost all hope because I think I do understand.

Even if we somehow break the inexplicable spell Trump has over them, they have shown us who they really are.

And I can't forget that. 

Wally the WTF Frog Has a Few Questions

WARNING: this post is kind of long. 

If you wanna skip it, fine, go ahead, it's not like me and Wally the WTF Frog put a lot of work in it.

We're back tomorrow with a post about the Lanterns debut, the Superman season finale and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune where I will attempt to identify these so called "celebrities".

Yeah, just wait until Tuesday and skip today's post.  

But it'll break Wally's heart.   💔

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It's time for a return visit for this blog's most erudite and wise political observer, Wally the WTF Frog!

Wally the WTF Frog has a few questions.

WTF as in...

• What the Fuck?
• Why the Fuck?
• Where the Fuck?
• Who the Fuck?

Such as....

Who the Fuck Is Natalie Harp?

Natalie Harp is an archetype pro-Trump blonde Nazi Barbie who fervently and faithfully follows Donald Trump everywhere.

Known as "the human printer", Natalie's main job is to follow der Führer with a portable printer and print out anything positive that will appease Li'l Donnie's fragile, needy ego.  

She's like a fluffer on a porn set. 

The ubiquitous nature of her presence to immediately stoke Trump's delusions of grandeur and power is troubling enough. 

The depths of her devotion to Donnie are also disturbing. 

She's prone to writing letters of lavish praise and fealty to der Führer.  Such as this passage:  

“I never want to bring you anything but joy. You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

Seeing such over the top pledges of affection and loyalty set off red flags for the Secret Service who were concerned this woman was batshit crazy and might pose a threat.

Seeing such over the top pledges of affection and loyalty made Donald Trump want to give her a job.  

Natalie's back story includes a cancer diagnosis.  She beat back cancer through some experimental treatments.  Her recovery from cancer led Natalie to offer her undying thanks to one of the following:

1. Jesus Christ
2. Her doctors
3. Donald Trump

Ding! Ding! Ding! #3 is the one! 

Apparently in his first term, Trump signed some legislation to give certain cancer patients the right to try to untested drugs and medical procedures.   

Natalie Harp credits Donald Trump with her salvation.  

We found out about Natalie and her peculiarly close relationship with Donald Trump  in the book Regime Change by Maggie Haberstom and Jonathan Swan.  

But she gained some renewed attention when Sen. Jon Ossoff named dropped her in a speech recently.  "Trump doesn’t want to do the job of President! Instead  he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace." 

That sly reference to "travel with Natalie" has caught fire and drawn attention to this slavishly devoted woman who ceaselessly feeds Li'l Donnie all the information he wants to hear. 

Speaking of the "apparently defenseless flying palace",  Wally the WTF Frog wants to know....

Where the Fuck Is Donald Trump? or Plane Chicken

I've been meaning to comment on the shenanigans involving Trump switching out planes to get out of Turkey.

Trump took his gussied up palatial plane he got from the Qatari government as Air Force One to Europe to attend a NATO summit.  

Halfway there he switched over to the classic plane to use as Air Force One to finish the trip. Rumor has it that the new Qatari plane looks pretty but is sorely lacking in all the doo-dads and fiddly bits used to protect the lives of Presidents.   

Leaving the summit, Trump is seen entering the O.G. Air Force One but was then spirited off in a catering truck to take another flight out of Turkey. And Air Force One took off without him.  

The official spin is there was some credible threat the Iranians had a plan to missile Air Force One out of the sky. Shuffling Li'l Donnie off the plane to another plane did nothing to stop that plot.  Which means the Iranians could've still lobbed a rocket at Air Force One anyway and killed everyone on board including Secretary of State of Marco Rubio or maybe even Trump's other blonde Nazi Barbie, propoganda minister Karoline Leavitt.

OK, it seems that Leavitt was still on maternity leave when the incident in Turkey occurred so she wasn't on the decoy plane.

But super loyal super devoted Nazi Barbie Karoline Leavitt resigned as propoganda minister a few days after the decoy plane story broke .  She claimed it was to spend more time with her family including her newborn baby and who knows, maybe this perpetually lying syncophant may have been telling the truth for once. Or maybe this Nazi Barbie was incensed she could've been left as target practice by the Iranians and the other Nazi Barbie was not.  

In case you're wondering, Natalie Harp did make the cut for the catering truck.  

IMHO (and I do stress this is very humble and very much only an opinion) but I think Air Force One is ALWAYS under some kind of threat of attack.  So why all the cloak and dagger about this threat?

Trump wants to project that he's some kind of tough guy badass.  "I'm so big and strong and such a threat that other people are trying to kill me!"  

I don't think whatever threat was made to Air Force One was any more significant than what the Secret Service has to deal with everytime that bird goes up in the sky. It was a chance to play the martyr card without actually being martyred.  Trump may be a very old man but he still thinks like a child: it was a chance to play spy and pretend he's some kind of James Bond on a covert mission.

OR... Donald Trump is just a big ol' scaredy cat who ran away from the consequences of his belligerence! And like the gutless coward he is, left others in the path of danger. 

Wally the WTF Frog has other things on his mind.  

Why the Fuck Is Morale Sinkin' On the Abrabam Lincoln?

For weeks we've been hearing how life is a living hell on the aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln.  Lack of food, clean water, medicine and working toilets are among the indignities being endured by America's sailors.

No, they're not, says Pete Hegseth.

Yes, they are, says the military newspaper Stars & Stripes.

No, they are not, counters Hegseth and to the publisher and editor of Stars & Stripes, you're fired.

Yes, they are, says the families of those serving on the Abraham Lincoln who have heard from their sons and daughters who are in the middle of this hellhole on the waves. 

No, they're not, Hegseth insists. 

Preferring to be a perveyor of propoganda than a teller of truth, lest he offend the delusions of der Führer, Hegseth insists that those serving on the Lincoln are only getting the best of the best of what America's finest fighting force can provide blah blah blah you know the drill.

One source of the Lincoln's woes comes from a crucial supply port that Iran bombed a couple of months back and Hegseth didn't tell anyone about that.

He was too busy making sure his "war fighters" have enough testosterone.  

Another problem is the USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed longer than the usual 6 months for U.S. air craft carriers.   

The USS Abrahan Lincoln left San Diego in November 2025 and hasn't put into port since then.   

One sailor expressed his perspective on the duration of his time at sea: he has not stood on land at all in the year 2026.   

When asked about the extended duration of the Lincoln's deployment, Donald Trump said "it hasn't been long enough."

Yes, draft dodging Commander fucking Bone Spurs doesn't think the Lincoln has been deployed long enough.

Meanwhile, the solution to the problems on the Lincoln (which Hegseth insists do not exist) is to replace it with the USS George Washington.  

Which means the United States does not have an air craft carrier to defend our interests and assets in the Pacific.  

So if China starts some shit towards Taiwan, well, we're fucked.

OK, this post is going on way longer than I planned and Wally the WTF Frog is wondering.

Why the Fuck Is There So Much Shit?

Trump Is Mad At Oman NOW? 

Trump threatened to bomb the shit out of Oman.  I think Oman is more or less on our side?  

Is Trump Gonna Bomb the Bond Market?

Li'l Donnie was asked about about increased volatility in the bond market and what steps he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were taking to address the problem.

Trump said,  “We have many types of intervention; that’s one. The ultimate intervention is our military, and if we have to use that, we will.”

Seriously, what the unholy fuck was THAT?

• Is he gonna bomb bond traders?
• Are bond traders 2 weeks from having a nuclear bomb?
• Are bond traders blocking the Strait of Hormuz?

I suspect Dementia Don may have... dementia?

Ways For Donnie To Remember His Name 

A judge had ordered Donald Trump's name be removed from the Kennedy Center.  This was done BUT a tarp covering the front of the building is still there to spare widdle Donnie's hurt feelings.

The Kennedy Center board front loaded with Trump loyalists had a two hour meeting to figure out an end run around that ruling by agreeing to a commemorative plaque citing Donald Trump for saving the iconic venue.  Trump called in to the two hour meeting.

Jon Ossoff certainly hit the nail on the head when he said "Trump doesn’t want to do the job of President!" if der Führer has two fucking hours to dedicate to this ego stroking bullshit.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy is considering naming a new warship after Donald Trump instead of after Doris Miller as originally agreed.

Doris Miller was a black man (so don't let the name throw you) serving as a mess hall attendant on a battleship in Pearl Harbor who took up arms alongside his ship's captain and fought off the Japanese planes that attacked on December 7th, 1941. Because of segregation in the U.S. military, Miller was not allowed to serve as a sailor and had to settle for working in the mess hall. But that didn't stop him from stepping up and helping in the bloody chaos of that infamous day, tending to the wounded and shooting back at the attacking planes.

Doris Miller was by any definition a hero and deserves the honor of having a ship named after him.

Instead, the Navy might name the ship after that draft dodging Commander fucking Bone Spurs!

You know some Trump lackey in the Pentagon (Hegseth!) saw the name "Doris" and assumed this was some kind of Woke DEI transgender shit or something that needed to be stopped.  

So Many Holes In the Ground 

Trump is on track to spend $900 million on construction projects at the White House.

• the goddam ballroom nobody wanted or asked for
• a new helipad 
• new columns for the front of the White House 

Trump took time out of his "busy" schedule to give reporters a tour of all his wonderful construction.  He took time to brag about the grass which was put in by Scott's Miracle-Gro who donated to Trump's last campaign.  

Trump said he's a big expert on grass and that the grass is "happy".   

Well, as long as the U.S. governmen has money to burn, who gives a fuck, am I right?

Yeah, about that....

So Many Holes in the Budget 

The U.S Government has run up $40 trillion in debt.

Wally the WTF Frog has questions! 

• Hey, wasn't all those slashes and cuts made by Elon Musk and his DOGE goons supposed to fix that?
• Hey, wasn't all those tax breaks to billionaires supposed to fix that?
• Hey, wasn't kicking poor people off food stamps and Medicare supposed to fix that?  
• Hey, wasn't all that "revenue" that Trump's tariffs were collecting supposed to fix that?

And finally but really no one really cares about this one but still, let's ask anyway.

Where the Fuck Is Melania?

After showing up with Li'l Donnie at the World Cup Final, Melania Trump was invisible for a month.

She showed up last week at an event called "Fostering the Future",  some kind of project to provide help to foster kids to get on with life and go to college.  OK, that seems commendable and all but to my knowledge, not a cause that was associated with the alleged "First Lady".  

Seeing a bunch of "where the fuck is Melania" posts going up on the internet, it's like someone at the White House realized they needed to prop up Melania in front of a camera for something, anything, what about that foster kids things, hey why not?  

Maybe Melania's been busy with her follow up to her Melania movie?  Director Brett Ratner posted online,  “Here we go again. The saga continues …. can’t wait to share with everyone around the world the next two chapters of MELANIA, THE DOCU SERIES!”

Showing her doing what, exactly? 

Like Seinfeld, Melania's docu series will be a show about nothing. But just not as funny.

OK, it might be funnier than the Seinfeld series finale.    

What the fuck indeed, Wally! 

Whoa that was a LONG post!

And we didn't cover everything! 

• Tainted food! 
• Rising prices! 
• AI run amuck!
• Trump vs. MAGA!
• ICE vs. America!
• Trump vs. Canada!
• Trump vs. Iran!
• It's Joe Biden's fault! 
• Running out of missiles!
• Vaccines undermined!
• Patriots Games & the 250 Grand Prix!
• Election interference!
• Dictators are our friends! 
• Financial fraud!

Wally the WTF Frog is feeling a bit anxious.

Jesus Christ! Will this nightmare ever end?

Are You Stupid?

The question of today's post is "Are you stupid?"

We're gonna ask some voters in New Jersey. 

Let's ask Bonnie Chandler, age 64, how she intends to vote in the upcoming midterm election in the face of increasing prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. Mrs. Chandler believes that companies are deliberately keeping prices high to make Donald Trump look bad. 

“I’m going to vote Republican. I’m not a woke person. I’m not a communist. I’m not a socialist!"

Sounds like Bonnie's been paying attention to der Führer.

Bonnie Chandler will vote against her own self interests to deter made up threats of wokeness, communism and socialism. 

Bonnie Chandler, are you stupid?

Studio audience, please help her with the answer.

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

OK, when did this blog get a studio audience? 

Lauren DeGirolamo, a 34-year-old Trump voter, says  “I feel grocery prices are pretty much at level with where they were during Biden. I know some of the key things that I look for - eggs - have gone down."

Egg prices were high in the first place due to stresses on supply due to avian bird flu which has since been brought under control. (Although recently a shit ton of eggs were recalled for salmonella so we've got that hell to look forward to.) Other than that....

Grocery prices are NOT level with where they were during Biden but are in fact much higher.  And you may recall the guy you voted for did not promise to keep grocery prices level with Biden but bring them down.  

Ms. DeGirolamo intends to vote Republican this November.

Lauren DeGirolamo, are you stupid?

What say you, studio audience?

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Seriously, why is there a studio audience? Do I have to pay them? Or feed them?  

Margaret Derkach, age 84, can see clearly what's going on in the economy.   “The cost of living, as far as homes, apartments and food - the necessities - they have gone up. It’s shocking, shocking!"

So there's hope for Mrs. Derkach, right? Well, maybe? As for her intention to vote this November, she is  "undecided".  

She knows that Donald Trump “inherited a mess from Joe Biden."  

Damn it, Margaret! On one hand, I feel you're so close to an epiphany. You can see the Matrix, right? That things suck because stuff costs too much? 

But on the other hand, you are "undecided" how to vote because the economy is something Trump inherited from Biden who has been out of office for nearly 2 years.

OK, weird studio audience that shouldn't be part of a blog, help me out here! What is the answer for Margaret Derkach on the question, "Are you stupid?" 

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Wow! This studio audience is mean!  And maybe a bit hungry! 

I may need to get some food brought in.

Or reconsider my medication.

To be fair, the name "Donald J. Trump" is not on any ballots this November. But the Republicans who are on the ballots do need to answer for him.  They have capitulated to his every whim and completely abdicated their responsibilities to provide any kind of oversight over his godforsaken, misbegotten reign of chaos, cruelty and goddam fucking incompetence.

The path to why shit costs so much right now does not lead to Joe Biden but to Li'l Donnie Trump. 

1) Tariffs make shit cost more! Trump slaps tariffs on everything in a mistaken belief they're some kind of magic solution to save the economy when all they do is hurt the economy and the Republicans in Congress has done fuck all about that. 

2) The war Donald Trump started makes shit cost more! The war that Trump and his snivelling syncophants have NO idea how to run and NO idea how to end makes shit cost more! And the Republicans in Congress have done fuck all about that too! 

The same Republicans in Congress who are currently running to keep their phony baloney jobs by asking you to vote for them. 

And if you think voting for them is going to make things better when they are the ones complicit in making things worse?

OK, hallucinatory studio audience, say it ONE MORE TIME!

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

While the electorate is displaying extreme levels of stupidity, let's not think those same Republicans in Congress are off the hook for lapses in intelligence.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recently said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misled the Senator to get his confirmation vote to be secretary of Health & Human Services.

“There are guarantees that were given to me and guarantees that were supposedly going to be enforced by the White House. Among those were not to affect the (vaccination) schedule.”

So Senator Cassidy took the word of a known vaccine skeptic that the known vaccine skeptic would not fuck with vaccines?

I believe my imaginary studio audience would like a word with you.

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Speaking of stupid and vaccines....

Li'l Donnie signed an executive order calling for  separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits.  

While signing this order, Trump made outrageous claims of  vaccines in amounts equal to soda bottles being pumped into little babies' bodies.  He's also still trying vaccines to autism.

der Führer justified his order based on such solid evidentiary basis of "people tell me" and "I believe".  

What do we need to tell Donald Trump?

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

So much stupidity, so little time.  

I think I need to lie down a moment.

Thanks to Nathan Layne of the Reuters news service for the quotes from New Jersey voters. 

A Matter of Priorities

Hello! Regrettably, today's post is about Donald Trump.

After Spain defeated Argentina 1-0, Trump showed up at New York's MetLife Stadium at the FIFA World Cup final to present the trophy and ruin everyone's fun.

Let me quote what the crowd had to say about that:

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

¡Felicidades a España por ganar la final de la Copa del Mundo!

Anyway....

On with the regularly scheduled program.   

Last week, Li'l Donnie Trump decided to put on his Presidentin' Pants and stake out some prime real estate on television to present a message from the White House on a matter of utmost importance.  

Whine like a bitch about the 2020 election.  

You might think Trump's war with Iran that's spinning out of control would be something to command his attention but from what I can tell, that little dust up he started in the Middle East? Yeah, he's bored with that. Despite the continual loss of American lives.  (At least 3 U.S. service members were killed this weekend.) 

Hey, remember how all the MAGA faithful fell in line for their lord and savior because shit cost too much in 2024? And how he promised that he alone would could make prices come down? And now in 2026, shit costs MORE?  Hey, you dumb motherfuckers, that shit ain't on Li'l Donnie's radar.  

His delusional mind tells him he has created a goddam golden age of America and everything is great and wonderful and your hamburger costs LESS no matter what your eyes tell you at the grocery store.

Trump's net worth has grown exponentially since he returned tot the White House with all the insider trading and foreign entities buying up his goddam bitcoin to curry favor and influence. For Li'l Donnie himself, I guess it has been a fucking golden age. 

You have to pay more for food and gas? Fuck you!

der Führer has more important things on his mind.   

Someone as "wonderful" and "perfect" as himself could not have lost the election in 2020.  

He could not have disappointed his dead daddy by losing an election. 

So he clings to his fantasy that big ol' meanies took his precious election victory from him to make him look bad.

The vaunted address to the nation offered nothing new, just more spewing of his baseless accusations of a rigged election. 

Trump claimed he declassified a bunch of documents that would prove his point.

These documents were posted on the White House website and...  well, I'll be damned those documents do have some information about election interference.

• By the Russians.
• To make Joe Biden looked a like a criminal. 
• And help Trump win.

Gee, Li'l Donnie did NOT mention that in his speech.  

Trump did mention China and the docs do reference China's intent to put their thumb on the scale of our electoral process because they really did not want Trump to win.

But those some documents provide nothing to show China acted on that intent. 

Did Donald Trump not read these documents first?

Don't be silly! Of course he didn't. 

Poor li'l Donnie can't read.  

Another things these documents do not do is point to any of the alleged weaknesses in election security that Trump whines about that he claims "Dumocrats" use to steal elections. 

Trump takes out the "B" in "dumb" because he says people don't know there's a "B" in "dumb".   

Well, I guess his people might not know that.

Trump used his speech to again push for the Senate to vote for the SAVE Act and abolish the filibuster if that's what it takes to pass it.  

Would it surprise you there is nothing in this so-called "evidence" Trump presented that alludes to any of the problems the SAVE Act is supposed to address? 

The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and severely curtail conviences to citizens like mail in voting.  

People on both sides of the aisle have looked into this and all come away with fairly consistent conclusions: our election system is quite secure and when people do try to do something they're not supposed to, that system is pretty damn good at catching them.    

When I say "both sides of the aisle", I do need to caution there are the persistent Trump loyalists like Utah Sen. Mike Lee who heard Trump's rambling rant Thursday night and is all hyped up to get the SAVE Act passed in order to appease his beloved patron saint of MAGA.  

Who cares if the SAVE Act is solving a problem that does not exist? To Sen. Lee and others like him, Trump is his lord and shepherd and if Trump says it is a problem, then it is a problem!

And if the SAVE Act makes der Führer, then by God Trump, let's pass the SAVE Act! 

Trump took time on American television Thursday night to rail against a problem that doesn't exist. 

There is only a problem at all because Donald Trump is a lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, sociopathic, dishonorable, treasonous, gutless, moronic, heartless, soulless, slimy, loathsome, vile, incompetent, psychotic, crooked, disgusting, reprehensible, revolting, horrible, malicious, obnoxious, hateful, narcissistic, small-minded, despicable god damn, motherfucking piece of shit.  

It's a matter of priorities and your priorities are not his because what's important to most American citizens means fuck all to Donald J. Trump. 

And to quote the crowd at the FIFA World Cup final:

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

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