“but he sure plays one on TV” — Tom Friedman
Trump revealed some spooky stuff yesterday in his Oval Office ambush of Zelensky. He seems to think he and Putin are in a buddy movie:
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt, where they used him and Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia, you ever hear of that deal? … It was a phony Democrat scam. He had to go through it. And he did go through it.”
He was even more wistful about Putin during a meeting with the UK prime minister: “I’ve known him for a long time now, we had to go through the Russian hoax together.”
Is that all there is to explain Trump’s affinity for Putin? He thinks they’re co-martyrs facing unfair attacks.
If so, then he really is Russia’s useful idiot.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) called President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance cowards and puppets after their meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky devolved into a tense shouting match in the Oval Office.
Senator Cory Booker talked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow.
repeated for emphasis and worthy of going viral::
“Let’s just cut to the chase,The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin’s puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump’s puppet. And, so, what we just witnessed was a meeting in the Oval Office between two cowardly puppets and a hero. And whether you voted for these puppets or not, just as an American, as a fellow American, it’s just embarrassing that the only hero in the Oval Office, the only decent human being, for that matter, is the Ukrainian. I mean, this administration is going to go down as an embarrassment to American history.”
Seth Moulton according to wiki:
a man well-qualified to assess the character of his fellow marine
how others in the world saw it:
Attribution: Zelensky in the Oval Office by Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria
Attribution: The Ambush by Stephane Peray, PoliticalCartoons.com, Bangkok
Attribution: Trump/Vance wrestle Zelenskyy in oval office by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, Canada
Uncle Sam is unrecognizable | The Seattle Times
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I still wonder why so few yell out the former guy is nuts. He wants to take Greenland, Canada, Panama and more and make them into states. There is no Constitution, he is the dictator and/or king (he is nuts so he can be both). Doing the cosplay as president-bully tag team with vicepresdient-bully was absolutely idiotic and stupid, but to a crazy person it was good.
I am so happy that a real hero stood up to the theatrics and left without giving krasnov any satisfaction of submission to the threats. No kissing the ring of sfb, no praising puttie and especially no apologies or thank yous to anyone.
There appears no government left, just staffing charts without names. If control is wrested back to a real president it will takes years to repair and rebuild a working U.S. government.
— European Union foreign minister Kaja Kallas (NBC News)
IT WAS AN AMBUSH
— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
It’s not “America First” — it’s America Alone
Leaders lined up to support Zelensky: France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Finland and others. Canadian, Australian and New Zealand leaders also added their voices to the Europeans. — New York Times
i am no less disgusted than i was yesterday, gotta watch my verbiage
Slava Ukraine
Impeach the stooges
Unless significant outrage at this emerges, the saddest thing is we can’t say it’s only Trump, not the American people. We elected him TWICE.
Sorry world, but apparently this is US.
Notice the small-handed painted puppet can’t even look Zelenskyy in the eyes
If Adam Kitzinger, Liz Cheney, AOC, Bernie, Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy, and others are not afraid to speak up for Ukraine, I now have confirmation that those Republicans in office who are kissing tRumps’s butt about the show he put on yesterday are supporting Putin. They are in on the coup.
I no longer think they are afraid to speak out against Russia, but that they’ve sold us out to Russia.
It’s transitive; you kiss Putin’s butt by kissing tRUMPsky’s butt.
The show was for Putin, but the whole world saw it. They’ve shown all of their cards, so now the US loses the game in isolation.
This week, I actually did speak Russian on a voicemail to one of my Republican Senators. I switched to English, apologizing because he probably wasn’t far enough into his Putin internship to have gotten to the language portion. That was before yesterday’s little stunt. Now, I feel justified in having done that. I hope y’all will send me a postcard when I’m in the gulag.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/donald-trump-english-official-language-florida/80835933007/
“President Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order making English the official language of the United States for the first time in the nation’s nearly 250-year history, according to a White House official.”
At least we don’t have to learn German.
“We have languages coming into our country. We don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language,” Trump said last year. “These are languages ‒ it’s the craziest thing ‒ they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a very horrible thing.”
He is so very, very stupid.
Sure looks familiar. The German-sponsored American nazis literally called themselves the “America First Committee”
“I hope y’all will send me a postcard when I’m in the gulag.”
USPS will be shut -down but i can just hand it over from the adjoining cell
unless maga executes me first
Love this guy. The British do a much better job at calling out assholishness.
Trump Is Rootin’ for Putin
— Maureen Dowd
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“The president doesn’t understand why Zelensky is not happy with Putin for invading the smaller country and beating the bejesus out of it, for decimating a generation of young Ukrainian soldiers, for breaking cease-fires and committing war crimes.” -Dowd
Thanks for the article, Mr. C, the liberal press needs to stop pretending or even positing then possibly that trump isn’t a willing Putin stooge and that he is just confused.
Trump is deliberately aiding Putin, full-stop
Hegseth has ordered Cyber Command to stand down on planning against Russia.
Is he drunk? A Russian tool? Both can be true.
“‘He’s looking for something that I’m not looking for. He’s looking to go on and fight, fight, fight,’ Trump said later. ‘We’re looking to end the death.’ -dipshit
that piece-of-shit’s rallying cry was literally “fight fight fight”, what a disingenuous skunk
Trimpadick Arnold. .
—Stur-forgot-to-change
Been-a-Dick Donald.
—Bongo Seville
“German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticized Trump in unusually sharp terms for his behavior during the meeting with Zelenskyy at the Oval Office.
“Diplomacy fails when negotiating partners are humiliated in front of the whole world,” Steinmeier told dpa, the German news agency, during a flight to Uruguay. “The scene in the White House yesterday took my breath away. I would never have believed that we would one day have to protect Ukraine from the USA.”
how could he not believe we would betray Ukraine? The signs were all there throughout the campaign
pretty sure one of my first comments here after scumbag “won” was “this is very bad news for Ukraine” and i’m just some asshole with a phone
watching the beratement I kept thinking too bad his inner comedian didn’t come out about not showing gratitude with a comeback like “well, I was confused and couldn’t tell whether you wanted me to kiss your ass or give you a blow job.”
he has JD for that
BBC: The Ukrainian president has arrived in London to attend a summit of European leaders hosted by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer who “retains unwavering support for Ukraine”, Downing Street said.
Not too soon to rally for impeachment. Impeach and re-impeach until he’s gone.
“Before departing the White House for his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump kept up the pressure on Zelenskyy. “All of a sudden he’s a big shot because he has the US on his side,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Either we’re going to end it or let him fight it out, and if he fights it out, it’s not going to be pretty. Because without us, he doesn’t win.”
”
he represents the Ukrainian PEOPLE you narcissistic son of a bitch
ok pardon me ill go shake my fist at the sky instead
Slava Ukraine
today’s meme…
Just in case you have not heard yet, krasnov sundowner night was something about baseball and he wants to write an EO pardoning Pete Rose so he can be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Petey boy was convicted of tax fraud, not gambling. So sfb is going to pardon tax fraud (maybe he is an expert, thats a joke folks) and somehow MLB is going to going dancing happily around and put the gambler in the HoF.
At some point in time there has to be a big net dumped on the ignorant senile fool, and a real president put in the office.
I don’t know about Rose and don’t care about baseball hut here’s an opinion from a baseball insider
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Keith Olbermann:
Here’s my opinion on Trump pardoning Pete Rose and demanding baseball elect him to its hall of fame:
Trump betrayed our nation yesterday, is acting as a foreign saboteur would, ambushed a man with a thousand times more courage, and forfeited any right he has to remain in power.
meme #2…
Official fundraising site for Ukraine
UNITED24 – The initiative of the President of Ukraine
So, bonded in adversity, that’s why they’re such bosom buddies?
RR, meme #2 (Palin’s house) is an absolute riot. Spectacular
““What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don’t know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again. I think most Americans saw a guy that they would not want to go into business with. The way he handled the meeting, the way he confronted the president was just over the top,” [Lady] Graham said”
these pricks keep saying the quiet part out loud and calling this a “business” negotiation
the US autocrat did the same thing yesterday
A name that always appears at a less than wonderful time. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy. Maureen Dowd
BBC covering Z at Downing live..
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5220x56pqt#player
meme #3…
Walkies
Man bites dog
How dare Churchill wear his air raid suit in front of a great American leader.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/five-former-us-defense-secretaries-assail-trumps-military-firings-reckless-2025-02-28/
“Five former US defense secretaries assail Trump’s military firings as reckless”
“In a scathing letter, they also accused Trump of seeking to make the apolitical U.S. military an instrument of partisan politics and using firings, which extend to the top army, navy and air force lawyers, to “remove legal constraints on the president’s power.”
“President Trump’s actions undermine our all-volunteer force and weaken our national security,” they wrote.
Beyond Mattis, the letter’s signatories – William Perry, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel and Lloyd Austin…”
“The former defense secretaries called on the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to hold hearings to “assess the national security implications” of Trump’s dismissals…”
https://www.newsweek.com/internet-reacts-marco-rubio-body-language-trump-zelensky-meeting-2038065
“Shortly after the meeting ended, images of Rubio slouching with his hands clasped and appearing stone-faced during the event appeared on social media, with some commentators claiming that the Florida Republican appeared to be “embarrassed” at the press conference.”
Best one I heard was from John Fueglesang: Rubio sank so deep into the couch I was afraid JD Vance would try to f&ck him.
Once upon a time, Rubio called Putin evil. Now he’s carrying water for the bastard.
A Gut Check For Europe
Europe, you can save Ukraine without us if you must.
Your economy is 22% of world GDP (ours: 25%, Russia: <4%).
Your military spending already exceeds Russia’s by nearly two-fold at just 3% of your GDP.
You have the way.
You just need the will to fill the Trump vacancy for leader of the free world.
FYI
Anon-of-the-day, RE: the gulag
Isn’t USPS funded by postage (and the extensive line of merch they sell me), so where’s the waste, fraud & abuse at taxpayer’s expense?
NATO chief saying Zelenskyy must repair relationship with the USA autocrat-
Does he not understand the USA autocrat is a russian asset and will undermine any negations that don’t give Putin exactly what Putin wants?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-the-sun-b2707251.html
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet King on Sunday
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-kinzinger-trump-vance-zelenskyy-white-house-
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) weighed in on the “shameful” behavior by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday after the two blew up on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.
“We should be thanking the Ukrainians for standing in the gap and fighting the Russian horde that’s coming into their country and that would come into NATO next,” Kinzinger told CNN’s Dana Bash.
“He continued, “Today was very shameful and there’s a reason thateverycabinetmemberunderDonald Trump has had to tweet howstrong he was today, because they got the memo from the White House that they better come out and support Trump because this is a really bad day for them and they know it.”
European push back begins…
After yesterday’s events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s largest marine fuel companies, announces it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels.
https://kottke.org/25/03/jd-vance-chastised-by-vermont-snow-reporter
“JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT…”
“The rest of the towns around here and in the surrounding area have turned out for protests as well…some pics and video here, here, and here. There were some protesters spotted earlier on one of the Sugarbush webcams as well.”
Glad protesters showed up to ruin JD’s vacation (are we paying for any of this? <- waste! someone tell Elon).
It would be a shame if there was an avalanche, or a problem with the chair lift, or if the miserable creep just fell off of a mountain. A shame? I meant, a blessing.
Show us the bone spurs
How does it Make America Great Again to give up leadership of the free world?
Another GOP congressman shouted down by his own constituents today.. https://x.com/Fritschner/status/1895910348882133109?t=bzwbmFcC92GuftoTD39cLA&s=01
if that question is posed to the racist russophiles, Mr. C, they don’t give shit
it was always about racism and bigotry and never about making America great or egg prices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hegseth-border-troops-mexico-stryker/
“…Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 to 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton armored Stryker combat vehicles…
The mission had been in planning since January and comes despite a sharp drop in border crossings since the Trump administration took office.”
Hey, Elon! I know you’re busy with kid #14 (yeah, like your involvement ended with a plastic cup who knows how many years ago), but I just found some more waste & fraud at the DOD.
“Hegseth said during a trip to the border in February that all options are on the table to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop illegal migration, and that the administration wants “100 percent operational control” of the border.
Wait, is he fencing us in?
I am embarrassed to call myself an American as the result of Trump’s joining Russia to oppose the UN General Assembly Resolution on Ukraine, his despotic bullying of President Zelensky in the Oval Office and his pathological lying about the war. So much for the long history of the United States describing itself as the leader of the free world. No longer. One can only wonder what dirt the KGB compiled on him back in the days of the USSR that would make him pander so incessantly to Putin.
Amen Gordo! Empowering Europe to go it’s own way without us is not so good for our long game, but here we are.
Ex-NATO Commander U.S. Adm. James Stavridis:
Stavridis also says Europe can make up “enough of the difference” in support to keep Ukraine going “indefinitely”, noting they already spend about $55 billion a month to our $40 billion.
“NOT HOLDING ANY CARDS!” “No Cards!”
Sounded like a Seinfeld routine
Another view of the Oval Office debacle, this from Carville, a name I have not bothered with for many years. He sad krasnov is kind of like King George mad, with perhaps the STD brain damage.
Europe has the money if they have the will to take the lead on Ukraine. Collectively their economy is as big as ours. Letting them discover their own strength might not be good for our long game.
What if their penchant for subsidizing industry creates a military complex to rival ours? Just ask Boeing about losing market share to Airbus.
Meanwhile Trump is dismantling one of our big advantages over Europe: a strong central government. He’s turning us into a European-style collection of feuding states.
Meanwhile no president ever In our history has even tried, much less succeeded, at uniting all of Western Europe against us. They seem better prepared than ever to herd their wandering cat nations together in a single direction.
as you look about the various gold and silver trump-branded tchotchkes littered around the oval office, make no mistake, trump has taken this country for himself and he’s not going to give it back
Dems should boycott the SOTU & hold an alternative event, or Dems get up and walk out as soon as 47 is announced & they start playing Hail To The Chief & hold an alternative event. Will any Republicans be brave enough to join them? Hmm.
Thoughts?
Prayers?
anon – I have seen many references to the dictator/king declaring martial law and the only way he leaves is room temperature.
Edit for more thoughts
My thinking is because he is a tool, a puppet, once his usefulness is over or he tries to act against the puppet master, he will no doubt have an accident of some type. He is not smart enough to walk and chew gum at the same time, his mental limitations are obvious. There are smart people running him.
The story of the KGB turning him makes a lot of sense. Not only everyday monetary control, but there are some really deep secrets that he does not want known. I doubt it has to do with young girls, that already is out and not a problem. Imagination is not needed very much to speculate what is worse than being found in bed with a dead woman. The KGB/FSB/GRU knows how to film rooms. My parents toured Moscow in the 1980’s. My mother remarked at how poor the construction of the hotel was, there were little holes all over the ceiling and walls of every room.
So, him leaving the Oval Office at room temperature, but why is to be determined.
Done in by “some evil libtard,” no doubt.
Stur-goyle
Did y’all see Adolf trying to get out of his golf cart today? Something is amiss with his right leg.
BB – How does he declare martial law when the military & local police forces are 1/10th of the citizenry, there are multiple guns for every citizen, and we are a huge land mass?
I know I’ve brought up the Philippines a lot, but we are not them, nor are we there?
ps – MAGAts don’t realize he’s coming for the guns, pretty soon.
Whatever happens, needs to happen sooner than later. Like, when he shows up to spew his SOTU lies, can he just be arrested (JD, too), impeached, and removed for being a foreign agent?
If not at the SOTU on Monday, the Ides of March has a familiar ring to it.
In April, barring interference, two House seats could turn blue (given the temperature of things), and then comes a fight for SOTH. Jeffries has been an utter disappointment. AOC and Jasmine Crockett have stepped up to lead.
Craig – I hope Europe has it in them to consolidate in the way that you say, rivaling our military complex. It should be easier since car-sized drones would seem easier and more affordable to manufacture. Plus, there’s always cyber war (which is why Hegseth has told the US cyber brigade to stand down against plans against Russia). He needs to be arrested as a traitor, too…or maybe he’s found unresponsive due to excessive Scotchy-McScotch-Scotch.
If Europe is not up to the task, China would be happy to oblige Ukraine in exchange for those minerals, and possibly do a better deal.
There has not been a crisis in the U.S. in a while. I would not be surprised at what happens during the next year. No further in the future, as that might be worse than anything anyone can imagine if the first year does not end.
Why It’s Time to Reconsider a European Army
When a bipartisan old school DC think tank like CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) starts talking like this we are in some weird times. But a Russian asset in the White House calls for drastic measures.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-its-time-reconsider-european-army
Last year, the TikTok astrologer was calling WWIII in April, 2026.
The house MAGAt is making excuses for yesterday’s ambush of Z for Putin’s benefit. It was just a misunderstanding due to a language barrier. Pffft, yeah, uh, nope.
lol eggs went up 50% since i bought them last week
nice job trump
hey there’s plenty since no one can afford them
WWIII started yesterday or 2014 take your pick
for those who like clear delineations
hey Nostradamus, was right. The eagle has allied with the bear.
As Trump warms to Putin, U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to pause cyber and information operations against Russia as Trump seeks to bring Putin to the negotiating table to end war in Ukraine.
https://wapo.st/4kjGtrI
Undecided about watching the SOTU but don’t want to miss the lies. Perhaps the Democrats will sit on their hands. Dead silence from them would infuriate him.
https://www.kcur.org/2025-03-01/kansas-senators-rural-town-hall-meeting-swamped-by-people-mad-at-trump-administration
“Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall ended a rural town hall meeting early after people angry about budget cuts, funding freezes and other actions by President Trump shouted the senator down.”
“The funding pauses Marshall discussed have had broad impacts, including freezing potentially millions of dollars of payments owed to Kansas farmers for work they already completed.”
“Marshall said in an interview with Newsmax that if he was Elon Musk, he would “double down, not slow down.” But some rural Kansans at the meeting weren’t happy with that.”
“After the back-and-forth with the crowd, Marshall abruptly ended the meeting as members of the crowd booed and shouted.”
“We don’t have time for everyone to stand up. I do got two more commitments today. I appreciate everybody making the drive out and God bless America,” Marshall said before walking out to shouts and boos.”
“The room was only meant to seat 20 people. There was double in attendance at the small hospital cafeteria.”
Ain’t no MAGAt like a woke MAGAt, cuz a woke MAGAt don’t let things slide.
https://www.cpr.org/2025/02/27/rep-jason-crow-community-forum/
“Democratic Rep. Jason Crow told a packed crowd at an Aurora high school Thursday night that he wouldn’t back down from a fight with the Trump administration, but the four-term congressman acknowledged his limitations as a single member of the House in the minority party dealing with an unconventional president.”
“I don’t think there are many people who don’t think that I’m not a fighter,” he told reporters ahead of the town hall at Hinkley High School. “That is my reputation. When I first ran for office my mantra actually was, ‘I go where the fight is.’ And that sure in hell hasn’t changed.”
“About 1,400 people packed into the main auditorium, with a few hundred more watching from a screen in an auxiliary room.”
My two fave Vance protest signs at the ski resort:
Hillbilly Allergy
JD Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher
https://www.rawstory.com/keith-self-town-hall-boo/
“Interrupted by boos’: GOP lawmaker confronted by ‘angry crowd’ in ‘deep red’ Texas county”
Ain’t right
German Foreign Minister gives impassioned speech to prepare Germans for war with Russia. https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1895963707995476333?t=WN2-pGLjJVbIB0FFl-u8PA&s=19
Good to see that Germans don’t need my analysis to understand the reality
Congress & the US military could put an end to this horror show right now. Defend the US Constitution, as you all swore to do.
Anyone who could prove Elon tampered with the vote could help end it. Folks will be more open to a woman and POC as POTUS, now that they’ve had a taste of their own bitter medicine.
Someone with access to Putin could stop it.
“U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a new trade investigation that could heap more tariffs on imported lumber, adding to existing duties on Canadian softwood lumber and 25% tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods due next week.”
All the framing lumber at your local hardware store is likely Canadian
He wants to cut down all of our trees and make houses more expensive
They are GOING TO steal our national parks
IT’S AN EFFING HEIST, AMERICA
WAKE UP
…not you trailmixers. i’m just yelling at the sky
Unless he’s still in the UK, but he shouldn’t telegraph his travels.
Yes, Anon, that’s the plan. Deforestation, pollution, mining, drilling. All for more money and control. This will get worse before it gets better unless folks with collective power and/or access fix this sh/t.
New SNL tonight. Wonder how careful they have to be & will it be actors, writers, Lorne, or all of the above who end up in…what’s that thing tRUMPsky ignores orders from…oh, yeah, court?
Will anyone at The Oscars speak out? So far, it’s like Jane Fonda & Meryl Streep. Where’s loudmouth Clooney? Hiding out in Italy? These folks with money and a huge platform, but I don’t see them helping or speaking up. I guess if you can just flee to another country, you don’t have to care.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/dramatic-bodycam-footage-shows-pardoned-jan-6-rioter-shot-dead-during-traffic-stop-i-cant-go-to-jail/
“Dramatic bodycam footage shows pardoned Jan. 6 rioter shot dead during traffic stop: ‘I can’t go to jail’
No need to open the link, just letting you know karma got another J6er.
old minivan + cathartt jacket = aroused officer suspicions right away
interesting JD went to a gay-friendly liberal enclave for vacation and not a nascar race in Alabama, wonder why 🤔
bad judgement in every context with this guy
Great job, people of Vermont 🫡 🇺🇸
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