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Is he just marking time or marking territory? or both?

Thanks for the inspiration last thread from comment byTrail friend BiD:

“Letting the demented narcissist pee all over everything to mark it as tRUMP’s is a distraction for big, awful things, and a huuuuuge waste of tax dollars.”

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  1. as today’s ‘toonists are seeing it

    Attribution: Trump defaces Lincoln by Malcolm McGookin, CagleCartoons.com
    [Malc McGookin is a Brit/Australian whose cartoons are published all over the world. A former animator, amongst other projects, he worked on Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The BFG feature movie He also directed and scripted series for Childrens Television Workshop (the Sesame Street people). He draws for the Sunday Mail in Brisbane; he’s drawn for Prospect and Private Eye as well as the now defunct News Of The World and many other Fleet Street papers.]

    and

    Attribution: Statue of Trump by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com
    [Bill Day is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and his cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com]

    and

    Attribution: Kennedy Center renamed by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
    [Dave Whamonds work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest and many more. He has won 7 Silver Reubens from the National Cartoonists Society and several book awards. Dave has written and/or illustrated over 50 books and his syndicated comic, “Reality Check”, has appeared in newspapers since 1995]

  3. Ivy, lol. My U.K. buddy commented on that. I had to look at the cap when they did sideline shots of the coaches.
    I missed the first quarter and half of the 2nd while we were at dinner. Left the restaurant with the score 17-0, and it was 17-10 when we got home and within a couple minutes it was tied. Not sure where this team was in the 1st OK and 2nd UGA games. Hope it sticks around for IU.

  8. ok today is the day they portray in Christmas movies- not quite Christmas but deep in the season. Enjoy!

    Praise Jesus
    Forget Trump
    Slava Ukraine

    🎄

  12. FYI according to cornell univ:
    18 U.S. Code § 1369
    Law regarding desecration of federal monument
    The law regarding the desecration of federal monuments is primarily governed by 18 U.S. Code § 1369, which criminalizes the willful injury or destruction of any structure, plaque, statue, or other monuments on public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States. This law applies to federal and, in some cases, state-maintained monuments that honor military veterans. Violating this law can result in significant penalties, including up to 10 years in federal prison. The law is part of a broader effort to protect the integrity of these monuments and ensure that they remain a symbol of respect and remembrance for the sacrifices made by military personnel.

  13. Need to let the courts fight him wherever it’s able, and quit the futile protests….it just spurs him on to greater indignities. It’s useless to appeal to any of their non-existent better natures…..they see having to appeal as weakness

  15. From the Melian Dialogues, as told by Thucydides
    The Athenians put it to the people of the island of Melos this way.

    the “strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must,” leading to Athens’ eventual siege, conquest.

    The strong doing what they can.

    A very old lesson.
    The strong have no need of principles or scruples.
    Democracy is an attempt to correct that by guaranteeing rights for the weak.

  16. Jamie… I sent Ellen a private message over on FB. You too could appeal to her over there by asking her to become friends with you.

    The last time she was here was because I asked her to come. But I haven’t seen her post anything in a while on FB.

  17. https://www.newsweek.com/tpusa-event-puts-maga-civil-war-on-full-display-11245664

    Conservative podcaster and activist Ben Shapiro delivered a fiery speech at the event in which he took direct aim at other conservatives. He warned the conservative movement is “in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle, but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.”

    *They are coming unraveled, but not quickly enough.

    https://cbn.com/news/us/tpusa-popularity-explodes-500-chapters-tx-high-schools-350000-new-student-signups

    Texas is launching a partnership with Turning Point USA to bring chapters of the conservative organization to every high school in the state. It comes as the group is surging in popularity nationwide.

    Earlier this month, Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Turning Point USA Senior Director Josh Thifault announced at a press conference their decision to expand Club America, Turning Point USA’s high school outreach program, to more high schools.

    The clubs aim to “build strong networks, spearhead impactful initiatives, help students register to vote, and inspire meaningful conversations about the foundations of a free society,” according to their website.

    More than 500 Texas high schools already have chapters, but Abbott sees value in adding more.

    *TP USA 🧻 = Sh/tler’s N&zi youth movement.

  20. Renee,

    I have her as an FB friend, but nothing there for quite a while. I sent another email address that Craig gave me. It didn’t bounce like the one I had, but no response yet.

  26. Ivy – When I heard that, actually a day after the accident, everything in me felt very sad and heavy. She had a problem with alcohol before. It is sad and sullies her accomplishments and her life.

  28. Blue Bronc, it feels sad and heavy to learn the facts when something like this comes out. As a person living and working in the recovery field (where relapse is a part of life) my sadness comes from when help is not sought or received. It is hard to know what goes on in people’s lives.

  31. Mark this down as my maggers’ creed. They’ve been buying this shit for over 40 years. Scarcity mentality is them. Heather Cox Richardson lays out the case and also that it may soon be over for them.

    When Trump yelled that he had “inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,” and slammed “Radical Left Democrats,” Somali Americans, immigrants, and transgender Americans while claiming he “fights for the law-abiding, hardworking people of our country…who make this nation run, who make this nation work,” he was amping Republican rhetoric since the 1980s into caricature.
    In the 1980s, Republicans told Americans that the modern government that had regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, promoted infrastructure, protected civil rights, and stabilized the international order since World War II was “socialism.” Undeserving Americans like President Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens,” who were coded to be Black Americans from inner cities, or talk radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh’s “feminazis”—women who demanded equal rights—were cheating the system to take tax money from hardworking white taxpayers.
    Cutting business regulations and taxes would usher in extraordinary economic growth that would boost the prosperity of hardworking Americans, they insisted, leaving behind those unwilling to work…

    …Far from being the economic “disaster” Trump claimed, the economy he inherited was, according to The Economist, “the envy of the world.” “The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust,” Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr wrote. If Trump had left that system in place, he would have gotten credit for a booming economy as the investments made under Biden took hold.
    Instead, he undermined that government with dramatic layoffs and undermined that economy with tariffs, continued deregulation, and additional tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while cutting the tax credits that supported the Affordable Care Act healthcare insurance markets. On Wednesday, he was reduced to promising payments of $1776 to military personnel, implying that money would come from tariffs. But fact checkers noted immediately that any such payments would come from money Congress appropriated to subsidize housing allowances for service members.
    Trump’s false claims that Biden had left the U.S. to be “invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums,” and that under Biden we had “transgender for everybody, [and] crime at record levels” exaggerated the rhetoric of “welfare queens” into open dehumanization.
    Trump also echoed longstanding Republican claims that Democrats can win elections only by offering handouts to their voters or by cheating through voter fraud committed by undocumented immigrants, a charge that never had a shred of evidence. Trump took to its logical conclusion the idea that only Republicans could legitimately win elections on January 6, 2021, when his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the legitimate results of a presidential election.
    Trump ’s panicked shouting at the American people seemed to recognize that Americans have turned against not just his economic policies, but also the ideology that underpinned them..

    Heathercoxrichardson | SUBSTACK
    December 19 2025
    Read on Substack →

  32. Craig

    Played with WordPress for several frustrating hours. Finally reached a temporary solution and left with this remark: “Thank you very much I’ll make like Scarlett and think about it another day.” LOL

  35. https://www.aesinternational.com/blog/the-paradox-of-wealth-why-the-very-wealthy-worry-about-losing-it-all

    The paradox of wealth: Why the wealthy worry about losing it all

    Beyond Maslow’s Hierarchy, the wealthy struggle with core human fears that no amount of money can ease.
    The fear of irrelevance, insignificance, and being forgotten.
    The fear of unworthiness, unlovability, and loneliness.
    The fear of being a bad person.
    Paradoxically, the pursuit of wealth often stems from a desire to bury these fears.

    *Hoarding is a disease.

  36. A few chuckles in these times – my siblings and I are into our seventies and I am tired of giving gifts, even if it is a prepaid card from Sam’s Club for subway sandwiches. My son has been sending various “gift baskets” since his engagement with his now wife. Then my ex started doing it but with fruit gifts. Well this year I joined in, retaliation feels good. So now there are fruit baskets, nuts, coffee cakes and et cetera, shooting through the American wilds to land on porches from coast to coast.

    It is easy, albeit a touch on the expensive side, but looking at actually shopping, in store or online, the cost is worth it. Plus the goods are tasty. Another plus is we don’t end up with things we do not want or need.

    I will say the companies are wonderfully set up to send the gifts. Each can have a separate addressee, something I could not do with CostCo, although I am sure there is some way to make it work there.

    I am one of those people who cannot do picking something out for each person. I know many women who can walk into a souvenir store and walk out the the perfect gift for twenty-three people. I walk in and pick out nothing, even for me. But, more of that later.

  38. BB

    I send gifts from Amazon for the great grandkids if my granddaughter tells me what they want for a “family gift” for Christmas. Individual for birthdays I usually opt for a gift card so she can pick out what is on the wish list. Either way they will gift wrap and ship for free. Handy when thousands of miles away.

    We often by one of those food gifts for ourselves for general snacking.

  39. I just watched these lights change from white to red.

    Red lights near atomic clock transmitters, like the big WWVB station in Fort Collins, Colorado, are often FAA-mandated warning lights for tall radio towers, not the atomic clock signal itself; the signal (a low-frequency radio wave) is invisible, but the blinking red lights ensure aircraft safety, especially at night, with red being less disruptive than bright white flashes for residents nearby. These powerful signals from WWVB are what synchronize your radio-controlled clocks across North America, carrying precise time data from NIST’s atomic clocks.

  40. Source: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates WWVB near Fort Collins, CO, says The Coloradoan.
    How it Works: The signal carries time codes (minutes, hours, DST) from atomic clocks, modifying its power level each second to encode data, explains this YouTube video.
    Purpose: It allows your radio-controlled clocks and watches to automatically sync to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
    So, if you see red lights, you’re seeing the tower’s safety lights; if your clock is working, you’re receiving the invisible radio signal from the same facility, says this YouTube video.

  44. “My grandparents would be mortified.” 😳

    🏛️JFK’s grandson is going scorched earth as workers slap Trump’s name onto the Kennedy Center. Shriver calls it “downright weird” while board members claim they were MUTED during the vote. 🔨

  45. https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/20/oversight-democrats-accuse-pam-bondi-delete-trump-photo-epstein-files/

    At least 16 files originally included in the Justice Department’s Epstein Files drop have gone MIA, according to AP. This reportedly includes pictures that show a painting depicting nude women and a photograph of Trump.

    Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are questioning Attorney General Pam Bondi after they say a photo of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein has been removed from the DOJ’s recently released Epstein Files.

    Here’s the deal … the Department of Justice released more photos to the “Epstein Library” — though internet sleuths were quick to point out a numbering irregularity in the file.

    The file jumps from “EFTA00000467” to “EFTA00000469″ … and, House Oversight Dems took to X to claim “EFTA00000468” was removed — sharing the alleged photo which, they point out, seemingly has a picture of President Trump in it.

    While we can’t see the full photo, it appears to be a printed out version of the one above where Donald posed with his wife, Melania, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — based on Trump’s expression as well as the angle of Maxwell’s body and her haircut.

  47. it’s almost as if the liberal elites have not been two steps deep into social media to see what people say about them

  49. just clicking on that one Ben Shapiro speech that I posted earlier took me down this weird alt-right rabbit-hole of hate and bile and Nazism and conspiracy theories and presidential IQ tests and knitting circles. I think my phone died eventually thankfully

    You have lost the information war

    “you may be interested in this content if you watched this content (disregard that they’re both disinformative)”

  51. Thought Leaky Pete would get the axe for war crimes.
    Thought ICE Barbie would get the axe for waste, fraud, and abuse.
    Now, it looks like Bondi may be the first to get ousted.

  55. maybe the inflection point was the Paul Pelosi attack, those pretty liberal ivy-leaguers and do-gooders on Capitol Hill didn’t get into game to get threatened and assaulted by white-trash

    *anonymous commenter gets it*

    the Taylor-Greenes thought they were immune because they were on the team, we tried telling them 🤷‍♂️

    a public apology from Brian Glenn for how he disrespected Zelenskyy would be amazing

  56. Lemme see, that’s almost twice the distance from us to the sun. I guess in the cosmic scheme of things that’s a close call.

  58. did you notice any dinosaurs when time stopped?

    ‘cuz that’s what it might have been

    *spolier alert: it’s a cabal of right-wing social-engineering tech oligarchs behind it all (In the show, not in general, but also in general)*

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