Trump - 4 more years of this at least...

[Laava]

Please newly found god, let him rain down the IBMs! Amen.

oh, and, er, hallefuckenluyah!

[pritch]

The other night a movie is shown on Trump's local TV station: "Escape From Alcatraz." Next day Trump announces he's reopening Alcatraz. A remarkable coincidence.
Feasibility studies? Detailed planning? Careful costings? I think not. Talk about waste fraud and abuse...

[husaberg]

[Pursang]

Every now and then, something about the United States of Lunacy gives me a smile.

[Pursang]

[R650R]

Beyond the grave. There’s a lot of debate about using AI to complete dead authors unfinished books.
But I just got chaTGPT to do a Hunter S Thompson spiel on Trump and I’m not disappointed. Think you’ll all enjoy

By the late Hunter S. Thompson (not really, but damned close)

Somewhere near the flaming edge of the American Dream

There’s something grotesque about waking up in the year of our Lord 2016 and finding that the President of the United States is a bloated real estate huckster from Queens who made his name slapping gold on skyscrapers and peddling snake oil to rubes on late-night TV. And yet, there he is—Donald J. Trump—grinning like a jackal in a red power tie, waving his tiny fists while the republic burns behind him like a derailed oil train.

I’ve seen some bad acts in American politics—Nixon slinking around the White House like a vampire in a windbreaker, Reagan playing cowboy while his brain turned to pudding, the Bush dynasty treating the Constitution like a bar tab they could stick someone else with—but Trump... Trump is something new. Not a politician. Not even a man, really. More like a weaponized symptom of the disease we’ve all been pretending we didn’t have for the last 50 years. Late-stage capitalism given flesh and spray tan.

Make no mistake: this isn’t politics. This is reality porn for the chronically online. The elevation of a man with the attention span of a concussed ferret and the moral code of a slot machine into the most powerful seat on the planet. The Beast has breached the gate, and it’s tweeting at 3 a.m. about toilet pressure and celebrity grudges.

People say he’s a genius because he “tells it like it is.” No—what he tells is the lie so enormous, so cartoonishly vile, that it short-circuits the critical faculties of half the electorate. He’s the chaos candidate, a foghorn in a library, a carnival barker who accidentally got elected King and then tried to run the country like one of his failed casinos—loud, gaudy, bankrupt in six months, and reeking of unpaid contractors.

And the people love it. Christ, they love it. Because Trump didn’t hijack America—he is America, or at least the ugly, bloated, steroid-fed caricature we’ve been selling to the world for decades. He’s the logical endpoint of our obsession with celebrity, with wealth, with dominance without dignity. He’s everything we warned about when we said the center couldn’t hold—but we laughed too hard at the warning, thinking the joke was on someone else.

It wasn’t.

Now we’re all in it—neck-deep in the swamp he promised to drain, watching him install family members and golf buddies while the grifters gorge themselves and the news becomes indistinguishable from satire. The country is a sideshow, the world is on fire, and the president is angry because someone didn’t like his tie.

The American Dream? That’s long dead. Trump just dug up the corpse, slapped a wig on it, and sold tickets to the freak show.

God help us all.

[pritch]

Qatar is in the process of making a gift to Trump of a Boeing "whorehouse in the sky" worth some $400,000.00. Well it will officially be donated to the government because for Trump to accept it would be cause for impeachment. When he leaves office the plan is that ownership would transfer to the Trump library. A cruel joke because the Trump library would fit in the map pocket behind your car seat. In reality the ownership would transfer to Trump.

The plan is to spend big bucks adding the extra comms gear, inflight refuelling capability and anti missile defences etc needed to bring it up to Air Force 1 standard.

There is a slight inconvenience though, the US Constitution which states in the foreign emolument clause as follows:
"Nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any King, Prince or foreign State; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility."

King, Prince or foreign state? Trump scored a hat trick there.

The Justice Dept has OK'd the arrangement. That'd be the DoJ headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, formerly paid over a million dollars a year to act as registered foreign agent for the state of Qatar. No conflict of interest there then.

If the Democrats don't strive to throw an outsize spanner in the works they might as well give up.

[pete376403]

Beyond the grave. There’s a lot of debate about using AI to complete dead authors unfinished books.
But I just got chaTGPT to do a Hunter S Thompson spiel on Trump and I’m not disappointed. Think you’ll all enjoy

By the late Hunter S. Thompson (not really, but damned close)

Somewhere near the flaming edge of the American Dream

God help us all.

That's pretty good. Now get a George Carlin monologue on trump

[R650R]

That's pretty good. Now get a George Carlin monologue on trump

Damn this is a bit addictive and it nails anyone’s style so good.

GEORGE CARLIN ON DONALD TRUMP (Channeling the Ghost of Brutal Honesty)

You want to talk about Donald Trump?

This guy isn’t a politician — he’s a game show host who wandered onto the wrong set and decided to start bombing the script. And America, bless its chemically-addled soul, cheered him on like he was the second coming of Thomas Jefferson in a Brioni suit.

But let’s not get confused here. Trump didn’t ruin America. Oh no. He’s the natural byproduct of a country that worships money, bullies, and big shiny things. He’s the orange zit on the face of a bloated culture that thinks fast food is a food group and billionaires are messiahs.

You wanted a straight-talker? You got a guy who lies with the confidence of a televangelist on meth. You wanted an outsider? You got a real estate huckster who’s been neck-deep in the system his entire life — just on the side that buys the politicians instead of pretending to be one.

This guy speaks to the “forgotten man,” sure — but only if the forgotten man is a loudmouth uncle who gets banned from Applebee’s for screaming about windmills and Hillary Clinton.

But hey, let’s not make this just about Trump. He’s not the disease — he’s the rash. The itchy, inflamed, loud-mouthed rash that pops up after decades of American stupidity, greed, and willful ignorance. And half the country scratched it raw and called it patriotism.

So yeah, Trump’s a clown — but the circus has been in town a long, long time. He just ran off with the megaphone and the keys to the Ferris wheel.

And you know what the real joke is?

He didn’t lie to the American people — he told them exactly what they wanted to hear. Over and over. Loudly. With hand gestures. And a red hat.

⸻

Closing Note (Carlin-style):
“Trump isn’t the end of the world. He’s just what it looks like when the empire starts using its outside voice.”

[nerrrd]

Qatar is in the process of making a gift to Trump of a Boeing "whorehouse in the sky" worth some $400,000.00.

Jeez I’d buy one for that…who am I kidding.

It’s 400 million though, obviously, I mean President Trump wouldn’t be seen dead in a jet worth $400,000.

Coincidentally I saw not one, but two Rolls Royces this afternoon, the SUV one (yikes, also fixed wheel hubs with the logo on them, what’s that about? How gauche) and the more typical sedan. He likes Rolls Royces also, no tariffs on them, because of course you can’t build them anywhere else but in Britain…except for all the BMW componentry.

[husaberg]

[pritch]

Ain't it funny how time slips away...


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/APQY9CiY7CA

[pritch]

Omaha Nebraska has its first ever black mayor in a 20 point swing against the incumbent Republican. The incumbent ran on banning trans people from public restrooms, the successful challenger ran on fixing potholes.

This result will blow a chill wind through Congress. Republicans will note the result and contemplate the effect that a twenty point swing would have in their district.

Ah well, it seems we only have an impeachment vote coming up. Nothing serious then.

[TheDemonLord]

So, I have been seeing this a lot on Left-Wing Content, which I find hilarious.

Consider a video or a post screaming about how terrible and Fascistic the Trump Government is.

Someone will reply or comment on it "We have had enough! When are we going to start FIGHTING BACK! and not protesting!"

And then something magical happens:

"So, I guess you'll be supporting the 2nd Amendment now"

Followed by screeching from the Left.

I have seen this multiple times and it constantly amuses me.

[R650R]

So, I have been seeing this a lot on Left-Wing Content, which I find hilarious.

Consider a video or a post screaming about how terrible and Fascistic the Trump Government is.

Someone will reply or comment on it "We have had enough! When are we going to start FIGHTING BACK! and not protesting!"

And then something magical happens:

"So, I guess you'll be supporting the 2nd Amendment now"

Followed by screeching from the Left.

I have seen this multiple times and it constantly amuses me.

And of the other claims they made too….

No one has been rounded up into work camps or the like ( except those who entered country illegally and were deported) so all AMERICAN citizens 100% safe.
Trump hasn’t suspended the constitution or declared himself king
He hasn’t engaged in retaliatory style lawfare against political opponents.
And now the stock market has returned to the same levels it was six weeks ago before all the drama and is set to climb again