I’ve been watching videos of the testimony of Trump’s comedians about the awful but not surprising screw-up that leaked classified information onto an unprotected telephone line. These officials are showing their Trumpist credentials by telling one lie after another before in response to Senators’ questions. Tulsi Gabbard’s bad memory and obfuscations and evasions are breathtaking — who prepped her for this testimony? John Ratcliffe’s stout denial, “I did not transmit classified information” reminds me of Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman.” These very professional liars have set a new standard for the Trump administration’s Special Olympics for Liars.
4 III 2025: Won’t show no respect!
Mr. Zelensky is being generally attacked by all of Trump’s dick-lickers for being, as they see it, disrespectful to their King.
Well, no one had taught Zelensky, a courageous and honest man, the etiquette of the Regal Court of Trump. Kneel to kiss the ring. Look submissive and adoring. Never disagree with King Trump, let alone criticize him. Appear desperately attentive and awed. And show gratitude lavishly and continuously, all as exemplified by the Court Jester, J.D. Vance.
Problem is, where Zelensky comes from, respect has to be earned, by decency, honesty, and by courage and compassion, whereas in the Trumpian Court, respect is something phony, to be feigned and acted out on camera, apart from any reality. Trumpist ethics allows real respect to be given only to deceit, cunning, and corruption.
3 III 2025: Chorus ranarum
I read that, as expected, Trump’s “backers” are raising a swelling choir of toadies in support of the deified Trump and in denunciation of their new Satan, Zelensky. Tulsi Gabbard, that miracle of incompetence and obsequiousness, is virtually starting up a Putin Fanclub, playing Natasha to Trump’s Boris.
1 III 2025: Trash on parade
Trump and Vance were like two neighborhood bullies ganging up
to attack a kid they know they can’t handle one-on-one.
I’ll say more:
Is Trump purposely backing up Putin?
In this case Trump is a traitor.
Is Trump unaware that he’s backing up Putin?
In this case, he is insane.
We have learned about J.D. Vance that he is absolutely Trump’s dwarf clone.
The Republican Party goes deeper every day in its bottomless pit of shame.
27 II 2025: Trump’s vendetta
A statement of George Conway is being widely quoted that says that Trump “wants to have revenge on the United States of America.” I think this is true.
I would go further and say that Trump needs to have revenge on anyone who has in any way opposed him, disagreed with him, criticized him, ignored him, indeed, anyone who has not given him the acquiescence and praise that he knows are his due. So the target of his lifelong vendetta includes all refined, learned, idealistic, courteous, and wholesome people, in government, in business, in the arts, in society.
15 II 2025: Hey, faster with the coffee …
Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, has brought a suit against Starbucks’ DEI program, alleging that it violates anti-discrimination laws and keeps people waiting longer to get their coffee. MAGA wants to replace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with white homogeneity, white prejudice, and virtual segregation, as part of their 2025 program to lull the United States into a falsehood-induced dream of self-satisfied racism.
11 II 2025: Very Catholic until …
The Pope lately wrote to the American bishops to denounce the War on Immigrants of the MAGA administration. And what happens ? J.D. Vance, a convert to Catholicism, has offered us a lesson in alternative theology, and Tom Homan, “speaking as a lifelong Catholic,” has declared that the Pope “… ought to focus on his work and leave enforcement to us. He’s got a wall around the Vatican, does he not?” Both of these cynics have found the Catholic label convenient, convenient until their fascist politics conflicts with Catholic social teaching.
J.D. and Homan should leave the Catholic church and join up with the evangelicals and find comfort in their politicized religion.
7 II 2025: Trump reviving career in real estate
Nothing new from Trump. The sometime real estate mogul now wants to acquire Canada and Gaza, to build Trump Towers in Canada and golf courses in the new Gaza-lago.
2 II 2025: All big-time dictators do it
The giddy MAGAs are romping around D.C. like conquering barbarians celebrating their victory by mindlessly destroying everything and everyone they can, like, e.g., Russians in Berlin at the end of WWII.
For his part, their Beloved Leader is eagerly playing “Imitate the Great Dictators of Old.” Stalin and Hitler were compulsive about “retribution,” demanding vengeance for any real or imagined slights. These tyrants took special pleasure in forced deportations of masses of people, especially when this involved concentration camps, and Trump wants to do the same. Trump has created his own version of the Nazi SA with his pardon of Thugs of Jan 6th and is turning I.C.E. into his own SS. Maybe, soon the military will have to swear allegiance to Trump. For Little Donald, its election to the Dictators’ Hall of Fame or bust.
25 I 2025: No one can be blackballed
Nominees whom Trump has gathered from the highways and byways are being approved routinely by the Rubber-stamp Congress. We knew the Republicans have no shame, but who knew it is so very bottomless.
I’ve been wondering what public outrage or what lack of knowledge and experience could have prevented a nominee’s selection and approval. “Loyalty” to Trump is the baptism of MAGA, that forgives all crimes and failures.
Indeed, far from being an impediment, a criminal conviction, an abject failure, or a history of invincible ignorance could only recommend a potential appointee to Trump and to the Republicans who are little better than the nominees they are approving.