“I Thought Better Of Us”

— Mary Trump

How did this con artist do it again? Is half the country as crazy as he is, or just so desperate they believe he can “fix it”?

Nothing to do but move on and hope for the best. Soon enough they’ll remember why they fired him. Because the only problems he’s going to fix are his own.

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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Pogo
2 months ago

As I said before this thread arose, “Well fuck.  What a ride we’re in for.”

Bink
2 months ago

it’s going to be as if you handed over the greatest empire in history to the mafia
 
they’ll loot the middle class with their deregulated capitalism and it will never have the means to reassert itself politically
 
just sold the US to a South African 

Bink
2 months ago

flee if you can
 
keep your head down if you can’t
 
support the vulnerable if you have the means, emotionally or otherwise

Jamie
2 months ago

Blink

That’s another  consideration.  How much will the apartheid lover scam from the Treasury now that X (formerly bird beak) paved the yellow brick road for the Florida Faker.

Blue Bronc
2 months ago

There is one little thing that is still out there, the guy is nuts, he is rapidly crashing following his parents degradation.  How long will the body stay above room temperature?  If he does make it to inauguration, how dire will his version of a universe be this time around?  And, how long until the palace coup and twenty-fifth amendment time?

Bink
2 months ago

it makes me not want to be liberal when the people for whom i’m speaking out won’t even stand up for themselves
 
…and generalizations aren’t perfectly applicable to a society that is 51%-49% but fuck it

hey good news though, left-of-center thought will be outlawed, formally or by peer-pressure, so i won’t have to choose

Jamie
2 months ago

The folks over on threads are thoroughly miserable as well.

Bink
2 months ago

dumb rust-belters, i didn’t leave it because the people are too charming

broad swaths of miserable pricks

Can i change my birth certificate to another state, i mean can my friend

Bink
2 months ago

neither Biden nor Kamala can even build bulwarks if the nazis have total control

…and the electorate gave it to them!

it’s over

Bink
2 months ago

guess i’d better get used to saluting those people

or bowing before them, whatever they mandate

you think these are jokes

Dexter
2 months ago

demoralized… Shaky hands holding coffee cups in Kiev right now…Un and Putin grinning and rubbing hands together in glee as their puppet has been revived. Lawrence O.D. said no tariffs will happen, no thug appointments to Cabinet slots.  But Kennedy will be there stopping vaccinations and fluoride adding.  And then there is age. Trump will likely pass from old age soon and then we get the asshole who called our Vice President “ garbage “.  We won’t forget.   I am of an age where this may be my last election.  And it is horrible.  Nothing to do about it… Read more »

Bink
2 months ago

everybody’s at an age where this might be their last election 

i suppose they’ll have rigged Russian-style ones maybe

Project 2025 is happening wtf

Alright, Mr. C, you did good this season. We all did, this country just isn’t what we thought it could be

Anyway, thanks for the forum

Jamie
2 months ago

Biden should spend the next two months sending Ukraine every weapon in the arsenal.  He has Presidential “immunity” and there are a lot of actions to do.

Katherine Graham Cracker
2 months ago

I feel terrible about Sherrod Brown. Ohiosucks

A senate full of Tommy Tubervilles

Jamie
2 months ago

Nevada reverting to type.  It had segregated housing until almost 1970.  

patd
2 months ago

 don’t let it be forgot

that once there was a spot

for one brief shining moment

that was known as Kamala-lot 

Blue Bronc
2 months ago

So far the Germans have the most sad comments.  The next are most of the countries the Soviets had destroyed.  Ukraine included. A lot of “how could Americans vote for a fascist”.

Bink
2 months ago

…vacillating between denial and anger
 
it’s going to be a long day

Bink
2 months ago

ACA gone

Federal employment protections, over

Unions?  goodbye

Predatory business practices will be rife, consumer protections nonexistent

Federal woodlands? Go see them while you can

i don’t even know what to tell LGBT people

Bink
2 months ago

Fear yes, anger no.   The trumpers i know have nothing to be angry about, they’re just racist

Bink
2 months ago

Here’s your lesson, Democrats, if you ever have the chance to legitimately oppose Republicans electorally, again
 
A majority Americans only give a fuck about themselves, full stop
 
Appeals to compassion do not work

A majority of Americans are not compassionate, despite whatever Jesus bullshit they’ll say this holiday season

…and i don’t resent Democrats for trying to build the kind of society i want to see, i resent Republicans for undermining every single effort towards it

Bink
2 months ago

“Is this death?  It feels different than the last time.”
 
-Fifth Doctor

Blue Bronc
2 months ago

Adding insult to the day, a local radio station played a Christmas song. My preference for anything this morning would be a funeral dirge.

patd
2 months ago

where does JD and all his high-tech billionaire friends fit into all this?  the cult king’s reign may not be a long one.

donald’s age/health (and actuarial forecasts for same) portend a shortened term for JD as VP and a likely ascendency to power to say nothing of more probable attempts by others to helpfully hasten the change via the 25th amdt or dastardly deeds. 

patd
2 months ago

from the Atlantic today Democracy Is Not Over An aspiring fascist is the president-elect, again, of the United States. This is our political reality: Donald Trump is going to bring a claque of opportunists and kooks (led by the vice president–elect, a person who once compared Trump to Hitler) into government this winter, and even if senescence overtakes the president-elect, Trump’s minions will continue his assault on democracy, the rule of law, and the Constitution. The urge to cast blame will be overwhelming, because there is so much of it to go around. When the history of this dark moment… Read more »

Jamie
2 months ago

1776 – 2024

 

Bink
2 months ago

from the Atlantic today Democracy Is Not Over

 
Aggrieved fascists have complete control of the Federal government, yeah it is

patd
2 months ago

bink, not ’til jan 1.   uncle joe is still in power.

blueINdallas
2 months ago

Biden has Presidential immunity. He should do “whatever the hrll he wants,” and then make Kamala “President for Life” before January 20th.

I’ve never wanted to move to Denmark so badly in my life…except that it’s closer to Russia. Canada, get ready.

Christmas is cancelled.  Hoard canned goods while shelves are stocked.  This is the beginning of the end and I only wish I were older so there’d be less chance I’d be around to see Project 2025 unfold.

Bink
2 months ago

Love ya, patd, there’s no positive spin on this.   Worst-case scenario

Latinos, you’re first in the barrel, LGBTQ community not far behind

i think they control enough states to amend the Constitution, it’s so over

blueINdallas
2 months ago

Americans: Look at yourself in the mirror.  Now, look at your financial statement.   If you are not a billionaire, a male, white, and blue-eyed, the next administration will crush you.  There is a hierarchy and most of the mouth-breathers who voted for MAGAts are low on the list, they just don’t know it yet.

blueINdallas
2 months ago

patD – I think the bright side would be an asteroid wiping out all human life on Earth before noon on January 20, 2025. 

blueINdallas
2 months ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/what-happens-to-trump-criminal-cases/index.html

Judge Juan Merchan has given himself a November 12 deadline to decide whether to wipe away the conviction because of the Supreme Court’s decision this summer granting a president some presidential immunity. If Merchan does that, the charges would be dismissed, and Trump would not be sentenced.”

blueINdallas
2 months ago

I don’t feel like going silently into a fascist state. I feel like protesting.  Yeah, the National Guard will probably turn their guns on us, but then I can haunt them all from the other side, if there is one.  

Dexter
2 months ago

“Do whatever you want.” Ethnic cleansing is what Netanyahu wants.  Trump will greenlight this by supplying the IDF with enough weapons to annihilate every human still living in all of Gaza.  This was my main issue of this campaign.  The last time the media reported, 43,000 civilians had been murdered by Netanyahu in Gaza.  It’s surely more by now.  Harris had promised to at least work for a ceasefire.  Trump has simply lit the fuse for purely unmitigated genocide.  Part of the oncoming genocide is on the backs of the Trump sycophants.  

blueINdallas
2 months ago

More women have been sentenced to death by septic miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.

More children will become orphans because their mothers couldn’t get reproductive care.

More children will go hungry because their SNAP benefits were cut.  

Americans who voted for MAGAts aren’t pro life, they aren’t just weird, they are thoughtless and cruel.

Bink
2 months ago

gee thanks Liz

i guess she needs to cover her ass because trump’s coming for her

Fuck it, resign President Biden, this afternoon, it’s the only way this country ever gets a female President

Madame VP, i have grown to like you a lot and really wanted you to be my President, you ran a great campaign, but it’s over, use your presidential immunity when you get it

What the hell you can do with it with a republican congress, i dunno. Ask those ivy-leaguers working with you 🤷‍♂️