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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Trump’s Not Playing 3-Dimensional Chess, He’s Sitting at the Table Eating the Puzzle Pieces

Trump’s Not Playing 3-Dimensional Chess, He’s Sitting at the Table Eating the Puzzle Pieces

by WaterGirl|  March 14, 20231:15 pm| 103 Comments

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I heard this last night on a podcast, and it was too good not to share.

Trump’s Not Playing 3-Dimensional Chess, He’s Sitting at the Table Eating the Puzzle Pieces.

It’s funny, but is it true?  Figuratively speaking.

They think Joe Biden is playing 3-dimensional chess, though, by putting out his plan and baiting the Rs on social security, medicare, etc.

Why does Joe Biden only get to play 3-dimensional chess when Barack Obama got to play 11-dimensional chess???  Or has inflation devalued 11 to a mere 3?

The only silver lining to the dumpster fire is the mockery.  I am totally here for it.

Hey Donald,

Michael Cohen finishes his testimony for the Manhattan Grand Jury on Wednesday.

If I were you, I wouldn’t make any tee times for the weekend.

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 13, 2023

Totally open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Ramalama

    March 14, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Sort of like Ralphie eating paste (Simpsons ref).

    Which podcast?

  2. 2.

    geg6

    March 14, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    Sounds about right to me.  He’s an especially weird character, kind of like some sort of tv trope of a serial killer.  Profoundly stupid, with an underlying sly cunning.  He’d eat the puzzle pieces only because he knows it will disturb and probably unnerve most anyone else who’s playing.

    If the NY DA is going to charge, it should be coming soon, so I hope he gets some putting practice in before that happens or he’s going to be more grumpy than usual.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    @Ramalama: I think it was on Taking Feds.

  4. 4.

    Cameron

    March 14, 2023 at 1:31 pm

    Eat the puzzle pieces, throw the hamberder.

  5. 5.

    Alison Rose

    March 14, 2023 at 1:31 pm

    Why does Joe Biden only get to play 3-dimensional chess when Barack Obama got to play 11-dimensional chess???

    Because Obama went to Harvard Law School.

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    @geg6: I suspect that eating puzzle pieces is a reference to his eating pieces of paper in his office, as well as the more obvious reference.

    He is not a normal human being.  I think he’s like sociopath / psychopath who doesn’t actually feel normal feelings but who watches other people and tries to mimic them.  Except that T**** totally failed on even the mimicking part.

    But yes, sly cunning.  That may be his one defining real trait.  He definitely believes there’s a sucker born every minute.

  7. 7.

    Pappenheimer

    March 14, 2023 at 1:34 pm

    When the whole “Buy Greenland” brouhaha brewed up I tried to convince  a coworker that this was just Trump reacting to the last person he talked to (turns out I was right). She remained, and probably remains, convinced there was a some intricate plan involved in antagonizing Denmark for no actual territorial gain.

  8. 8.

    Betsy

    March 14, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    Needed that laugh.  Thanks :)

  9. 9.

    Ramalama

    March 14, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    @WaterGirl: Looks good. Never heard of it till now. I may have to add it to my mix. My dog-walking mix.

  10. 10.

    Roger MacGuffin

    March 14, 2023 at 1:38 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Congratulations for ignoring Biden’s hypocrisy about his support for gay marriage

    Biden misstated his record on gay marriage during a recent interview with Kal Penn, claiming to have had an “epiphany” on the matter in high school while neglecting to mention his more than 50 years of opposition to it.

    But despite Biden’s supposed teenage heel-turn, the future president went on to oppose same-sex marriage for a half-century as both a senator and vice president.

    In 1973, just a little over a decade after Biden’s epiphany, he said that his “gut reaction” was to believe that homosexuals in the military and government posed “security risks” to the country. In the 1990s, Biden voted for both the Defense of Marriage Act and also supported a measure to defund schools that presented homosexuality as “a positive lifestyle alternative.”

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/joe-biden-claims-to-have-had-high-school-epiphany-on-gay-marriage-neglects-to-mention-50-years-of-public-opposition-to-it-afterwards/

  11. 11.

    geg6

    March 14, 2023 at 1:39 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I suspect that eating puzzle pieces is a reference to his eating pieces of paper in his office, as well as the more obvious reference.

    Either way, it’s the same thing.  That one weird quirk that all the tv serial killers have.  And it’s so out of the norm that it weirds everyone out.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 1:41 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin:

    Congratulations for ignoring Biden’s hypocrisy about his support for gay marriage

    Is that directed at me?  And if so, why?

  13. 13.

    geg6

    March 14, 2023 at 1:41 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin:

    Hmmm, why would a politician not express his support for gay marriage fifty years ago?  I cannot imagine why that would have been problematic.

    I am not disturbed by this in the least.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm

    @geg6:

    Jan 6 Hearing – Day 4 on Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern (LIVE)

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    March 14, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    It’s time for pie!

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    March 14, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Chess? Dolt 45 can barely finagle 52 Pick-up.

  17. 17.

    Alison Rose

    March 14, 2023 at 1:47 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin: Okay, first off, there are approximately 17 million topics someone could possibly post about. Not posting about one of them does not equal “ignoring” it. And your snide attitude here isn’t doing whatever the fuck your aim here is any favors.

    Also, it is perfectly possible, and in fact quite plausible, that someone could have a personal epiphany on the topic but, considering the time and place, not have felt like they could be out in front of it in their public life, especially once he got into politics. Show me the long list of Democratic politicians at the time Biden first got into office who were loud and proud about their support for same-sex marriage.

    Biden, Obama, HRC, and others probably all personally had no issue with SSM for years and years before publicly saying so, because that’s the shitty homophobic society we live in. Their past public opposition doesn’t mean that their current support matters less, at least not to me.

  18. 18.

    BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    March 14, 2023 at 1:47 pm

    @WaterGirl: Nietzsche had a bit to say about not looking overly long into abysses. And this one is about as abysmal as it’s gonna get.

  19. 19.

    RevRick

    March 14, 2023 at 1:49 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’d say Trump has a feral instinct for what the GOP base wants, which is both the right to denigrate those they deem lesser and the right to claim ownership over certain things they feel due to them as the “real Americans”, that is Social Security and Medicare. He flanked his opponents on both the right and the left.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    @NotMax: I liked that pickup sticks game.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    March 14, 2023 at 1:52 pm

    @Ben Cisco

    A favorite terse graffito:

    Nietzsche is pietzsche.
    ;)

  22. 22.

    BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    March 14, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    @NotMax: LOL

  23. 23.

    Baud

    March 14, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    This blog’s dimensions go to 11!

  24. 24.

    jonas

    March 14, 2023 at 1:56 pm

    @Alison Rose:Because Obama went to Harvard Law School.

    Well, Joe went to Syracuse. That should allow him at least, what, 6 or 7-dimension chess skills?

  25. 25.

    narya

    March 14, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    @Ramalama: I haven’t listened to this week’s ep yet, but yes, I mostly like it. Harry Litman is . . . an acquired taste, but overall it’s pretty good. I like “Strict Scrutiny” better, as well as “Pod Save America” and “Serious Trouble,” but this one is definitely in rotation.

  26. 26.

    West of the Rockies

    March 14, 2023 at 2:04 pm

    @jonas:

    I went to California State U, Chico.  That qualifies me for Uno, at least!

  27. 27.

    Alison Rose

    March 14, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    @West of the Rockies: I only went to junior college, so I’ll be over here playing checkers against my cat. And losing.

    (I kid. It was a good school.

    ETA Also the one and only real college party I went to (or more accurately, got dragged to), was at Chico. Oh Lord.

  28. 28.

    JohnC

    March 14, 2023 at 2:09 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin: WTF dude?! He never claimed to have had an epiphany on SAME-SEX MARRIAGE in high school! His statement was about how his dad helped him to understand that gay people can love each other and should be accepted not reviled. For this to have happened in NINETEEN SIXTY is extraordinary. Yes, he didn’t reach endorsement of full marriage rights for fifty years, and he was one of many many who voted for the Defense of Marriage thing, but it will always and forever be true that he came out in favor publicly BEFORE Obama.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    @Alison Rose: But at least you won’t be eating the pieces!  :-)

  30. 30.

    Kelly

    March 14, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    “Playing solitaire ’till dawn with a deck of 51”

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    March 14, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    @jonas

    It is no metropolis
    It has no big Acropolis

    – “Dear Old Syracuse”
    .

    Oh, you mean that other Syracuse.   ;)

  32. 32.

    Alison Rose

    March 14, 2023 at 2:11 pm

    @WaterGirl: Nope! Gave that up by senior year :P

  33. 33.

    MisterForkbeard

    March 14, 2023 at 2:17 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin: in 1973, LGBTQ absolutely represented a security risk because it was eminently blackmailable.

    I’m willing to believe that Biden didn’t have an issue with it (he certainly didn’t go out of his way to act anti-LGBTQ) but also continued to represent the median democratic voter, which has generally been his deal. But yes, it’s a little eyebrow raising.

  34. 34.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 14, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    @Roger MacGuffin:

    Clearly, the proper response is to show his liberal ass what for and refuse to support him. A term of DeSantis or Trump will bring about the change in America we need for puppies and rainbows and kittens and unicorns.

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    March 14, 2023 at 2:20 pm

    @Kelly: Song for a Trump aide:

    “Counting burgers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all.

    Playing Cats from nine to five, for that wretched 45.

    Snorting Adderall and looking at this, crazy zoo,

    Now don’t tell me, I’ve nothing to do.”

  36. 36.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    March 14, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    I’m making the mistake of watching to Wolf of Wall Street as I work. I know this was supposed to be great, but I hated literally every character in it.

  37. 37.

    Kelly

    March 14, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    @Geminid: Excellent song crafting!

  38. 38.

    Paul in KY

    March 14, 2023 at 2:23 pm

    @Alison Rose: He’s obviously just a random troll choad.

  39. 39.

    hueyplong

    March 14, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    @Paul in KY: I thought that whole nearly top 10,000 thing meant that I could safely fly under random troll choad radar by reading posts here.

    Is there a manager on duty to whom I might complain?

  40. 40.

    oatler

    March 14, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    @Geminid:Brilliant!

  41. 41.

    West of the Rockies

    March 14, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    Chico State was party central in the 80’s, early 90’s.  It was never my scene.   I was a studious grad student with a Wednesday morning classical music shift at the local station while working on my thesis (Romeo and Juliet).  Christ,  I really should have been less of a nerd.

  42. 42.

    H.E.Wolf

    March 14, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Remember also that “MacGuffin” is famously (or notoriously) an Alfred Hitchcock shorthand term for something that misleads the audience into thinking it will be important to the plot. :-)

  43. 43.

    West of the Rockies

    March 14, 2023 at 2:33 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    He’s not yet reappeared to attempt to defend or add nuance.  Doesn’t even have the strength of his convictions.

  44. 44.

    VOR

    March 14, 2023 at 2:35 pm

    I remember someone claimed Trump was playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    March 14, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    @Pappenheimer: they always think trump is some sort of genius, because that means that they’re smart for following him.

    If they ever admit that he’s a complete fucking moron, well then, what will they have to face up to about themselves?

  46. 46.

    Alison Rose

    March 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: Maybe we can start calling him Roger McMuffin.

  47. 47.

    Paul in KY

    March 14, 2023 at 2:42 pm

    @hueyplong: I haven’t checked up on the rank order yet, but maybe we’re in the 9990s? If so, that invites a whole mess of internet losers to descend upon one’s blog to shitpost.

  48. 48.

    ...now I try to be amused

    March 14, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    [Trump] is not a normal human being.  I think he’s like sociopath / psychopath who doesn’t actually feel normal feelings but who watches other people and tries to mimic them.  Except that T**** totally failed on even the mimicking part.

    I’m struck by how utterly devoid of humanity Trump is. No love. No curiosity. No whimsy. No sense of humor, unless you count his delight in cruelty. Just a black hole where a personality should be. It’s like his parents set out to raise the perfect bully.

    But yes, sly cunning.  That may be his one defining real trait.  He definitely believes there’s a sucker born every minute.

    He’s right. An uncomfortably large number of Americans actually identify with this freak.

  49. 49.

    hueyplong

    March 14, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    @Paul in KY: I see.  No hard and fast rules when you’re living on the 10k fault line.

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    March 14, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    @Geminid:

    Playing Cats from nine to five, for that wretched 45.

    The whole thing is hilarious.  Well done, sir.

  51. 51.

    West of the Rockies

    March 14, 2023 at 2:50 pm

    @…now I try to be amused:

    Well said.  He takes no evident pleasure in children or animals.  He cheats and lies.  He is greedy, self-indulgent and without honor.  A tapeworm brings more humanity to the table.

  52. 52.

    UncleEbeneezer

    March 14, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: I tried it for like ten minutes and had to bail.  No way I can watch such toxic douche-baggery, for three hours, any more.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 14, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    Look at the troll’s last name ffs.

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @West of the Rockies: He seems to be a one-and-done, hit and run troll.

    This is not the first time, but I was gonna give him one last chance to prove me wrong in that assumption.  Which he declined to do.

    It’s so odd.  It always starts with a dig at me in particular for not covering a certain thing, always with a slant against our side.  So bizarre.

  55. 55.

    rikyrah

    March 14, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    I hope so.

     

    TeddyB (@TeddyBEquality) tweeted at 2:20 PM on Mon, Mar 13, 2023:
    The optimist in me feels that once Southern District of New York indicts trump, the other indictments (Georgia and the DOJ) will quickly follow. This tidal wave of justice will overwhelm the MAGA media and the seditionists in Congress. What do you think?
    (https://twitter.com/TeddyBEquality/status/1635360257013866496?t=CpKhoF2gM6YQEmMfYqWHqA&s=03)

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 14, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    @WaterGirl: Congrats on getting your own personal stalker/troll.  Believe me, it’s fun.

  57. 57.

    hueyplong

    March 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    @WaterGirl: Looks like maybe you’ve got a whatabout/stalker troll.  The quality is low enough to be an additional insult to you personally.

  58. 58.

    Paul in KY

    March 14, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    @West of the Rockies: He’s flown on to crap on some other blog. Owning the libtards and all that. What a sad life…

  59. 59.

    brendancalling

    March 14, 2023 at 3:05 pm

     

    @West of the Rockies: yeah, because they’re a troll.

  60. 60.

    Paul in KY

    March 14, 2023 at 3:06 pm

    @WaterGirl: Someone’s got a crush…. He probably lurks at your blog (sad to say).

    Edit: A few jackals seem to have hit on that before me. As is usually the case.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes, someone reminded me about tiny shoes the other day on BJ.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 3:15 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: Perhaps most frightening of all is the number of people who look at that creature and are drawn to him.  Or feel that he represents them.

    Simply mind-boggling.

  63. 63.

    artem1s

    March 14, 2023 at 3:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: Trolls are out and about throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. Remember how hard they tried to make the sexual predator thing stick to Joe during the 2020 race? Every single Tweet about the campaign was filled with the #MeToo hashtag telling women they should be demanding a hearing based on very questionable rumors about an aide being molested in a hallway.

    There’s going to be more. They will get way weirder before it’s all done.

  64. 64.

    scav

    March 14, 2023 at 3:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yup. There’s an alternative definition of Roger that chimes too.

  65. 65.

    danielx

    March 14, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
     Not even a persistent troll, more of a drive by troll.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    @danielx: Going forward, I’ll just add catcake to the thread when I see him.  Perhaps I’ll even add catcake as an update to the post up top, as a reminder to anyone who might be tempted to answer.

  67. 67.

    Timill

    March 14, 2023 at 3:28 pm

    @artem1s: Surely they throw hamberders…

  68. 68.

    Redshift

    March 14, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    @RevRick:

    I’d say Trump has a feral instinct for what the GOP base wants

    I’d say it’s not so much an instinct as a process. I heard a fascinating interview with a comedian who talked about TFG’s rallies as being the same process standups use to refine their routines in clubs. You try out a lot of different bits, see which ones get a reaction, discard or refine the ones that don’t, etc. Part of the reason other wingnut politicians haven’t been able to replicate that is that they’re not willing to risk looking like a rambling idiot to start it off, and they have actual things they believe in or want to do, whereas he’s a pure narcissist who only cares about getting adulation, and will say whatever gets it for him.

  69. 69.

    Pappenheimer

    March 14, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    @Redshift: very much this. You could see the shift from “people want me to build a wall, but I think its’s a bit silly” to “I will BUILD A WALL” to “I WILL BUILD A WALL AND MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT.” Artful dodging to try to stay in front of the angry crowd.

  70. 70.

    Mobile

    March 14, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: “Eminently blackmailable” in 1973?  As a Federal employee from 1966 to my retirement, I knew plenty of gay folk who worked for the Federal government.  We were all familiar with the canard that being gay was a danger to national security.  Yet, I can recall no instance of anyone actually being blackmailed as a result, inspite of a 1950’s regulation restricting gays from federal employment.  I am aware of the pink purges of the 50’s.  By the early ’70’s, however, most agencies turned a blind eye to individuals who violated the restriction.  My husband, who was employed by another agency, and I were both in positions to review adverse NAS investigations.  We were both dismissive of any information of that nature.

  71. 71.

    karen marie

    March 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    @CaseyL:   It sure is!

  72. 72.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    March 14, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Your own personal troll.

    Someone to be aggrieved.

    Someone who’s peeved.

    Your own personal troll.

    Someone you cannot heed

    because they mislead.

    Reach out and touch pie!

  73. 73.

    Bill Arnold

    March 14, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    @Mobile:
    Please be careful. That topic was injected by an apparent hostile troll attempting/trialing a disruption narrative. (Troll, as far as I can tell from their several-ever comments. Not enough information, really.)

  74. 74.

    different-church-lady

    March 14, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    So we’re all agreed: because Biden didn’t do the right thing soon enough we should all kneecap him now that he is trying to do the right thing.

    Wait, I misspoke: so we’re all agreed we have trolls.

  75. 75.

    different-church-lady

    March 14, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    @Bill Arnold: Weird thing (or perhaps not so weird considering) is Campos at LGM is all over Biden for a different aspect of the same interview. Something must have touched some nerves.

  76. 76.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 14, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Love it!

  77. 77.

    Mobile

    March 14, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @Bill Arnold: Thanks for the warning, Bill.  I was responding to MisterForkbeard who is not to my knowledge a troll.  I reponded as the subject of government employment of gays is near and dear to my heart.  It was not my intention to disparage the President or to feed the troll.  Federal employment rules, regulation and practices used to be my area of expertise and, as a gay man myself, the prohibition against the employment of gays tends to get my hackles up.

  78. 78.

    Nettoyeur

    March 14, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: His mother agreed with you.

  79. 79.

    Ruckus

    March 14, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    @WaterGirl:

     He definitely believes there’s a sucker born every minute.

    He was taught that by his asshole dad, the shitty slumlord.

  80. 80.

    ColoradoGuy

    March 14, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    @Redshift: Excellent points, right on the mark.

    What T****, DeathSantis, and the workers in that troll factory in St. Petersburg are doing is fine-tuning their acts on different audiences. It’s all marketing from their viewpoint. Lies, truth, misrepresentation, demonizing, gaslighting, who gets hurt, etc. are all irrelevant to them; it’s whatever gets a reaction from the crowd, nothing else matters.

  81. 81.

    rikyrah

    March 14, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    UH HUH

     

    Veronica McDonald (@Purify_toast17) tweeted at 9:49 PM on Mon, Mar 13, 2023:
    That is a good point. Anytime Biden misspeaks the media claims he has dementia and needs to step down for Young Bernie or Spry Liz but McTurtle needs rehab and there’s no concerns about his fitness.
    (https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1635473109611323394?s=02)

  82. 82.

    glory b

    March 14, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    @JohnC: When did we start having this demand that every politician have been born with the correct attitude towards every policy and that they remain frozen in amber for all time? No room to think, grow and adapt? Why should we care, as long as their policy decisions are correct?

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:  And a poem!  That must be a bit like burning sage to get rid of the bad energy in the room :-)

  84. 84.

    stacib

    March 14, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    @WaterGirl: 52 pickup is done with a deck of cards.  :-)  You throw them all on the floor, and the other person has to pick them up.  BTW, I liked Pick Up Sticks, too.

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    @Ruckus: I think you left out “racist”, “red-lining”, and “fucking”.

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    @stacib: Yeah, I knew it was a different game, but I guess I wasn’t clear in my comment.  We joked about 52 card pickup, we but never did it.

    Signed, one of three sisters

  87. 87.

    Ruckus

    March 14, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    @…now I try to be amused:

    Just a black hole where a personality should be. It’s like his parents set out to raise the perfect bully.

    I believe that the credit goes mostly to his dad. And really there is no color to that hole, other than possibly shit brindle brown. He has been the shithole he is since he was a teen. You had to read certain financial mags to see that, because that’s where his slumlord dad was covered and where he first started showing up half a century or more ago, a crappy copy of his crappy dad. He’s crappy squared.

  88. 88.

    Quinerly

    March 14, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    @H.E.Wolf:

    Nailed it.

  89. 89.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    March 14, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    @WaterGirl: Based on a Depeche Mode song (Personal Jesus)

  90. 90.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 14, 2023 at 5:09 pm

    I don’t think I have the heart to spend the next year and a half getting into fights with every single progressive who swallowed some bad-faith trolling about how Biden sold us out, but it’s already starting and I hate it.

  91. 91.

    Lyrebird

    March 14, 2023 at 5:12 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:

    Nicely done.

  92. 92.

    Ruckus

    March 14, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I was giving polite a trial run.

    I see that it shocks people so I’ll fucking forget it from now on…

  93. 93.

    different-church-lady

    March 14, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    @glory b:

    When did we start having this demand that every politician have been born with the correct attitude towards every policy and that they remain frozen in amber for all time?

    Every four years, when the primary campaigns begin.

  94. 94.

    different-church-lady

    March 14, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    @rikyrah: ​
      That George Santos is a youngster, ain’t he!

  95. 95.

    Manyakitty

    March 14, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    @WaterGirl: excellent idea

  96. 96.

    jackmac

    March 14, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    @WaterGirl: Don’t let some asshole troll ruin your day. He’s not worth the trouble.

  97. 97.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    @jackmac: That obvious troll couldn’t possibly ruin my day with comments on Balloon Juice.

    I’m just glad that no one got really sucked in, and it didn’t derail the thread.

  98. 98.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    March 14, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I tell you, even I’m not as obvious as that idjit.

  99. 99.

    StringOnAStick

    March 14, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: A forensic psychologist (deals a LOT with criminals) told me he believes tRump is a psychopath.  I figure he would know.

  100. 100.

    evodevo

    March 14, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    @WaterGirl: I believe MacGuffin’s just a troll…I have just been scrolling past his stuff for several days as not worth my time…

  101. 101.

    evodevo

    March 14, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    @geg6: Well, not only that, but back in the Seventies, being outed WOULD have exposed you to blowback/firing/etc. if you were State Dept/Military/whatever, and would have exposed you to blackmail attempts, just like the Soviet honeypot plots …so, I don’t see what is wrong with Biden’s position back then…

  102. 102.

    evodevo

    March 14, 2023 at 7:39 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: and is ultimately worth nothing as the plot develops LOLOL

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    March 14, 2023 at 7:52 pm

    @Obvious Russian Troll: ha!

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