Lmao he's so mad that fancy artists don't like him and all he's got is Kid Rock
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
MAGA fads and conspiracy theories can be labelled ‘creative’, but actual creativity relies on being open to seeing things… differently. Anathema!
“Unwell” is a new sub-hed.
@rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol…— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Pres, Gagliardi, of the ???? Federation of Musicians:
“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the??”
????????????????????— lindsay berger sacks (@lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social) May 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Baud
He didn’t need to prep in order to bow down to Putin. It’s second nature.
Ruviana
My fervent desire is that roving bands of people go to t****p rallies and chant “Bruce and Taylor have more money than you.” You know that’s got to be a part of it.
rikyrah
@Baud: been doing it forever
JML
The Current Occupant craves celebrity status desperately. He needs fawning coverage and cheering crowds and like most narcissists cant stand it when other people get that and he doesn’t. It makes him crazy that he’s not loved like someone like T-Swift or Bruce are and he desperately needs to tear them down in order to make himself feel bigger.
But rants like this make him look weak.
Seanly
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t he win? This guy is the biggest sore winner on the planet. Also, shouldn’t he be presidenting instead of sh!tposting at midnight?
Yeah, I know that’s not gonna happen but I can still hope for some human behavior.
Also, I don’t know if anyone else has said this, but I do appreciate that most of the links are now Bluesky and very few X. Thank you!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Seanly:
He fervently believes that one of the most important aspects of presidenting is shitposting at midnight. He showed that in spades the first time around.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That is hilarious pathetic that Trump is the most powerful man on the planet and he is losing his shit over what a musician is saying about him.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: we don’t have a President of the United States right now, alas. Trump doesn’t like the job and nobody can make him do it.
lollipopguild
Trump: I am your god, you MUST worship me!!!!!!!!! Most powerful man on the planet, leader of the free world, and he is pissed aboutTHIS? Enhanced beat me to it.
kindness
I’m fine if all those MAGA younguns don’t want to see Bruce’s shows. Leaves more tickets for me to get a sweet seat. For the life of me, I don’t know what those MAGA youth are thinking. Do they really like Kid Rock that much? (youth is anyone under 40. I’m an old Boomer)
terraformer
*everything he does* is a distraction. This example, along with the Biden book and the seashells thing is timed to ensure that coverage spotlighting the particulars of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” (still difficult to believe that’s what it’s officially called) don’t get traction in the few outlets deigning to report on it
schrodingers_cat
Good for Springsteen and Swift. In India however most of sports and creative people have embraced Modi. The ones who haven’t are the exception.
The most rabid ones are the ones who careers are flailing or are true believers.
lowtechcyclist
@kindness: I’m sure the younguns, MAGA or otherwise, mostly follow artists whose names wouldn’t ring a bell with most of us, aside from Taylor Swift or possibly Chappell Roan.
Belafon
@Seanly: He hasn’t “won” until you stop opposing him.
Omnes Omnibus
@Belafon: I think Seanly may be talking about that election thingie back in November.
Belafon
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought it was more about why Trump keeps needing to go after people. And that’s why I was implying that in Trump’s mind, there should be no opposition.
moonbat
Not to hit too cynical a tone this early in the day, but Trump as president is what you inevitably get when you merge your newsroom with the entertainment side of your media company. It all becomes reality TV show bullshit.
Who does Trump have beef with today? Film at 11.
“Trump slams so-and-so in midnight rant”
“‘Despicable’: President called out by famous musician”
Perfect fodder for click-baity headlines and you don’t even have to come into the office to tap out a four paragraph ‘story’ about it.
It creates the laziest politicians and the laziest journalists. In the meantime, the nation’s government is getting stripped down to the copper wiring.
They hated Biden because he actually took the governing part of governing seriously. So boring! Trump may have dementia but his brainless, spiteful rants are entertaining!
Jackie
@JML:
Only to us. His MAGAts roar with approval.
Belafon
@Jackie: The same people who are cheering that he lowered tariffs to 30%.
Jackie
@Seanly:
I concur! I try very hard to not give Muskrat any clicks. If posts are linked to X, I skip past.
Baud
@Jackie:
We don’t need to defer to their point of view.
schrodingers_cat
If Trump is a sore winner, this guy is a sore loser.
Jackie
@Belafon: Who are “those” people? Democrats? I haven’t read any approval by us?
Jackie
@Baud: I don’t think we do.
Jackie
@schrodingers_cat: When you link to Muskrat, please give a heads up?
WTFGhost
@Baud: But he couldn’t just bow down to Putin! He had to pretend to be strong and statesmanlike, and that’s really difficult for a chickenshit who pretends to have manly virtues.
Belafon
@Jackie: The MAGAts you were referring to. One of my high school classmates wrote a how great Trump was doing post a few weeks ago specifically referring to him lowering tariffs.
Belafon
@Belafon: I forgot to include “on Facebook”.
different-church-lady
I’m really worried either Trump or me is going to die before I get a chance to call him an asshole to his face.
Gin & Tonic
I’m reading that the US Embassy in Romania has not (yet?) extended it congratulations to President-elect Nicuşor Dan. All EU Embassies have.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Has the Russian embassy done so?
different-church-lady
@Belafon: The things that are most opposing him are his own demons. And they will never stop.
different-church-lady
@Belafon: Is that like when you add “…in bed” to whatever your fortune cookie says?
Jackie
scav
@Belafon: Their wives and children are likewise so very appreciative when beaten with only fists and not cattle prods. Compassionate conservatism.
different-church-lady
OT: the person next to me in this cafe is now speaking her bank account number out loud into her phone.
It’s amazing she’s wearing shoes, because she’s obviously to dumb to tie them.
Jackie
@Belafon: Is your former classmate a Democrat who voted for FFOTUS? If so, I consider them MAGA.
schrodingers_cat
@Jackie: Just hover over the link, it tells you where it goes in the lower left hand side in Chrome. I am sure other browsers as well.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@different-church-lady:
Maybe they’re velcro-tied?
I mean stuff like that’s invented for a reason!
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Who can remember long numbers these days?
Jackie
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: 😂
artem1s
TCF is getting to that point where he’s remembering how much he hated the job last time around. None of his EO’s, cuts, attacks, and other idiocies are giving him the high he craves. Yes he’ll keep escalating. But it’s only a matter of time before he just gives up on the legislative chaos and starts attacking people, holding rallies and golfing 24/7/265 again.
Good. I hope he’s miserable.
Geminid
This morning’s Republican House caucus meeting is over. Trump attempted to rally his troops around the lousy budget bill. According to veteran Capitol Hill reporter Jamie Dupree,* some are not yet convinced:
My Occam’s Eightball tells me those guys will come around.
Thomas Massie might not, though. Dupree:
I read earlier that Mike Johnson intends to for the Rules Committee to pass a rule for debate tonight around 1am, that would set up a floor vote tomorrow.
* Jaime Dupree is a very solid reporter, I think. He posts on Bluesky at jaimedupree.bsky.social, but only a few times a week. He does his hour-to-hour coverage on Twitter. Dupree also has a Substack platform called “Regular Order.”
Geminid
@Geminid: Also Jaime Dupree, from yesterday evening;
From what I’ve read, Rep. McIver was pushed into an agent.
Belafon
@Jackie: No. I’m sure he’s always been on that side.
As for Facebook, I haven’t dumped all of the people who I know voted for the current mess because I consider it my duty to call bull on the stuff they post.
Geminid
@artem1s: I think Trump’s trip to the Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates last week may end up being his emotional high point for this term. Those people flattered him from beginning to end. Trump was living the dream, but now he’s woken up to a very different reality.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
I wonder if demons have standards and get upset when they learn they’ve been assigned to Trump.
Old School
@Geminid: You can watch the Rep. McIver footage here.
JoyceH
Trump’s rants against Springsteen and Swift are very clear cases of defamation. They need to sue; they can afford it. If everyone Trump defamed sued him, he’d run out of lawyers pretty darn quick. Heck, even with his crypto grift, he’d run out of money to pay the lawyers.
Chief Oshkosh
@Jackie:
Who’s gonna tell ‘im?
Hey Donny Dumbshit, your boys ARE fucking around with Medicaid! Hell, DOGE already fucked around with it. The House dimwits are just sticking the knife in further.
RandomMonster
I expect Trump to condemn that election as ‘rigged and stollen’.
Matt McIrvin
@Seanly: Sore-winner behavior is a hallmark of the American right. As I keep saying: the “War on Christmas” panic kicked into high gear in the aftermath of George W. Bush winning reelection. Trump started talking about “deserving” a third term during his *first* term, and the reason he gave was something convoluted about Obama unfairly picking on him during his 2016 run, as if he’d been cheated out of a win he actually got anyway, so by some arcane math he deserved a double win. They cannot stay happy and always need some new reason to play the victim.
Chief Oshkosh
@Old School: There is a lot of pushing and shoving, and she is pushed into agents several times. Unfortunately, she pretty clearly shoves an agent at 1:48 in that clip. That said, it’s unclear to me whether the numerous other instances of her being shoved were by crowd effect or were intentional from “suits.” There lots of white boys in suits who are shoving a lot of people, the Congresswoman included. Who were those guys? Were they from the mayor’s office? From ICE? From some other federal agency?
Kirk
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I’ve found it amusing because it’s such a common trope in fantasy. The evil king/whatever goes ape-shit about some usually popular entertainer (bard, poet, whatever) who said something contrary to the EK/W’s position.
In fantasy, of course, this contributes to the EK/W’s fall. So may we all have a fantastic life.
Jeffro
um wut
I know that trumpov believes in magic money (aka tariffs) but hopefully one of the GOP Reps asked him exactly where the actual, real money’s supposed to come from for his ‘big, beautiful’ tax cuts for the rich if they don’t take away health care from seniors and the poor?
maybe we can somehow tariff our way to eliminating the deficit? crypto-mine our way to big, beautiful tax cuts?? I’m sure it all makes sense in the rancid vanilla pudding that is trumpov’s brain
Matt McIrvin
@kindness: It’s heavily, heavily gender-gapped. A lot of the message is to young men and it’s that Trump will bring a world in which girls have to fuck them again.
Chief Oshkosh
Aligned with the OP, I think a case can be made that Josh Marshall’s recent pieces on disease cure research getting axed fits the concept that Creativity is Inherently Non-Conservative. The link is an approved share from behind the curtain. He makes the point that Dems need to get creative in bringing the fight, and those that won’t are being way too conservative (lowercase “c”).
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fight-or-dont-fight-and-take-the-consequences/sharetoken/a84bfd1a-c34b-…
Bill Arnold
@schrodingers_cat:
Does the government or its (most cultish) supporters do anything bad to the exceptions?
Matt McIrvin
@Kirk: “An evil dystopia tries to outlaw or control music and is brought down by THE POWER OF ROCK” is one is the standard concept-album/rock-opera tropes.
(But “a rock-star-like figure becomes a tyrant or cult leader and has a tragic downfall” is another one.)
Juju
If you check out the Carl Quintanilla Bluesky post on the site, there is a reply to it two slots down that is so funny I spit coffee on my iPad. I’m not on Bluesky I only check it from time to time, but the reply is worth a read.
Matt McIrvin
@Chief Oshkosh:
Aaargh… I kept reading this sentence as being about someone axeing a Josh Marshall essay and tried to figure out what the drama was!
cmorenc
@Seanly:
X has battallions of shitposting keyboard monkeys, both humanoid and bots, instantly ready to spew mountains of noisy garbage on any attempt to discuss anything substantive that deviates from the MAGA talking points on the subject at hand. And that’s even aside from the fact that Musk owns X and has repurposed it as a RW propaganda mill.
Matt McIrvin
@kindness: …note also, as I keep saying, going by actual numbers, young men are not more MAGA than GenX men are, and I suspect the varieties of toxicity operating are actually the same as in my generation, just more online.
brantl
@JML:
4.
JML
MAY 20, 2025 AT 10:50 AM
“The Current Occupant craves celebrity status desperately. He needs fawning coverage and cheering crowds and like most narcissists cant stand it when other people get that and he doesn’t. It makes him crazy that he’s not loved like someone like T-Swift or Bruce are and he desperately needs to tear them down in order to make himself feel bigger.
But rants like this make him look weak.”
LOOK weak?
Eyeroller
@Geminid: Similar thing happened last time. No “flying palace,” but remember the glowing orb?
brantl
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: two other presidents lost their shit about what Woody Guthrie had to say about them.
Chief Oshkosh
@Matt McIrvin: Yes, a better phrasing would have been:
I think a case can be made that Josh Marshall’s recent series on the axing of disease-curing research fits the concept that Creativity is Inherently Non-Conservative.
But ignore my writing, use the link to go read Josh’s full text.
Eyeroller
@Chief Oshkosh: This is what is driving me insane about our electeds. There has got to be some entrenched consultant class they listen to that is completely devoid of any marketing skill or talent, and presumably also they have far too much fear of the “liberal” media. Doing political theater isn’t undignified and voters don’t appreciate “dignity” anyway. Voters and the public in general don’t read press releases or g*d*m position papers on a Website. They need to be doing things that get attention (preferably while avoiding getting arrested, but that may happen also).
One like Van Hollen will do something that gets some attention, makes some headway, then it sinks beneath the waves because there’s no followup.
Baud
Good headline
Geminid
@Eyeroller: I think this trip was more consequential in terms of regional politics than the last. That 747 was the least of it, and I think Trump would have been better off without it.
One problem for Trump is that a lot of Americans resent the Gulf Arabs for their wealth, so they’re not gonna think more highly of Trump for creating a stronger relationship with them. Defense and other companies will, but average Americans won’t. They’ll just remember the jumbo jet.
JoyceH
@Baud: NANNY STATE! Or, how does RFK get away with proposing the same things Michelle Obama was vilified for supporting?
ArchTeryx
@Matt McIrvin: Rock and Rule, baby.
ETA: Mok would be a huge improvement over Trump, and the dude tried to summon a demon from the lowest levels of Hell to take out his audience because his ego demanded it, dammit. An evil Zaphod Beeblebrox.
JoyceH
@Geminid: What’s weird is that Trump visited the Middle East without bothering to visit our traditional allies Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. What’s up with that? Are they not offering him a Trump Tower there?
Matt McIrvin
@cmorenc: Those things are the same. The keyboard monkeys were always there, but Musk bought Twitter so he could free and promote them. That’s also what Zuckerberg meant by Facebook’s “pivot to speech”. Policies and algorithms would favor right-wing harassers and trolls now.
cckids
@different-church-lady:
Perhaps more like the game where you use the first sentence of a book, then add “and then the murders began”.
ie – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.”
Jeffro
@Juju: if you’re talking about the one that uses trumpov’s own words/phrasing against him to show how insane he is…that one’s awesome
reminds me of the guy who did a ‘report’ on current events in the U.S. as if we were seeing them happen in some third-world banana republic
it’s a good technique for breaking through to people!
Juju
@Jeffro: Yes. That’s the one!!
cckids
@RandomMonster:
I would not bet on Trump knowing that Romania is actually a real country, not just the setting for Dracula movies.
Juju
@JoyceH: Because people don’t want to be nagged by their mother but will take advice from a weird uncle?
gene108
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
Trump LOVES being president.
It’s why he tried to overthrow the government on J6, even though he lost.
It’s why he hints at running in 2028.
There is nothing else in his life that’s gotten him the attention, the bribes, and adoration being president has.
catclub
@Jackie:
Because he does not know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
catclub
@cckids:
alternatively… ‘in my pants’.
Jackie
@Baud: From your link:
It’s a comedy show between MAGA and MAHA. Nothing more fun than jerking kids and their parents around…
Dorothy A. Winsor
From a congressional hearing
catclub
Their skill is marketing to the politicians who will pay for their services. This may not be the same as skill in marketing the politicians effectively to the public.
Just Some Flyover
@moonbat: Paddy Cheyefsky effectively predicted this timeline 50 years ago in “Network”. I wonder if even he would be taken aback by how merging news and entertainment played out.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
catclub
@Jackie:
‘plans’ is doing a whole lot of work there.
schrodingers_cat
@Bill Arnold: It depends on the person. BJP has several state level ministers from the opposition parties arrested on flimsy charges. But celebrities who don’t kowtow are mostly ignored.
But not always, arresting SRK’s son on flimsy charges and Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest for Sushant Ray’s suicide also on flimsy charges come to mind.
catclub
@cckids: everybody know that Transylvania is the location for Dracula movies.
Juju
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Does it have something to do with Maggie Haberman’s body?
Mr. Bemused Senior
@gene108: I see what I wrote wasn’t clear.
I mean, Trump loves the job title of President but hates the work involved. As a result, the actual work isn’t getting done, or has been delegated to the incompetent underlings he has gathered up into his administration.
You see something like this in large companies sometimes. When a company is in a commanding market position it can coast along for a long time despite making blunder after blunder. Eventually the bill comes due. I shudder to think of what will happen to us.
Captain C
@gene108: To paraphrase a great phrase I saw online: he likes the throne, but wants no part of the desk.
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Are you serious? She actually said that?
180 degrees off. Habeas Corpus is more that the president cannot do that with out due process and a hearing.
They are learning nothing in Civics these days. She was a Reagan generation voter when young. Reagan did tell us to be afraid of the government.
Not just evil but also an idiot.
I can still be gobsmacked by these people.
Geminid
@JoyceH: Yes, Trump didn’t stop in Israel on the way back from the Gulf States like he did his first term. This was much-noticed in Israel. Israeli commentator Iris Boker’s analysis:
Another interesting non-visit: JD Vance was planning to visit Israel today. Thst would substitute for a Trump visit. But the trip was called off “for logistical reasons,” his office said.
There is reliable reporting though, that when Gaza ceasefire talks deadlocked and it seemed certain that Netanyahu would expand the war on Sunday, the administration thought a Vance visit would make it look like it approved of the offensive. Axios’s Barak Ravid broke this story Sunday night.
As for Jordan and Egypt, they aren’t causing Trump the problems Israel is, but they are still “takers” in Trump’s scheme of things, while Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates are “makers.”
Layer8Problem
@Mr. Bemused Senior: His avoiding of prison or sanctions for his crimes is nice too, and super-helpful.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Layer8Problem: yes, that too.
Redshift
@gene108:
He loves being president, but he has no interest in doing the job of president and never has.
Redshift
@sab:
I suspect it’s more that she’s a bullshitter, like Trump, and doesn’t care what the truth is, only about the impression she wants to make. And in her current role, that is “no matter what the law says, what the law means is we get to do whatever we want.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: @Juju: @sab: All of you give better answers than the Secretary of Homeland Security
cain
@Jackie:
Only a fool would believe this.
Ruckus
@JML:
He is WEAK. And he knows it. His entire life has been him looking for adulation and respect.
And doing every damn thing possible to throw it away.
He got elected by people exactly like him that look at life as if it owes them everything, not realizing that they have this exactly backasswards. Life doesn’t breathe for you, you have to do that for yourself. Life doesn’t wipe your ass, or dress you, you have to do that for yourself. Now if you are physically or mentally unable to do that, that’s when you get help. But at the same time people will help you because that’s humanity. Demanding everything is bullshit. And then some. donny wants adulation and praise for his greatness, except he’s not in any way great or worthy of adulation. Zip, zero, nada, none. adulation is earned – and he’s earned nothing in life.
Except pompous arrogance.
Everything else he’s been given.
Baud
@Ruckus:
If you’re rich enough, you can hire people to do those things for you.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … Nancy Mace is apparently upset that she’s not getting enough attention…
:-/
We need to do everything we can to vote these MAGA monsters out.
Best wishes,
Scott.
jonas
That’s kind of why he won. His voters want a pissy grandpa who spends his evenings shitposting rather than actually running the country. Otherwise he’d be just another know-it-all “elitist” politician. It would smack of effort, or something, which only luzers care about.
Ruckus
@Redshift:
He also has no concept of actually doing the job of president.
Of course he also has no concept of actually being human, he just believes that everyone else has to adore and worship him. Who was that guy, who had a very famous book written about him and what he did to form the universe and humanity, who, by many accounts believed that we are all humans and therefore equal and wanted no adulation or worship?
It is the worst of the worst that demands adulation because demanding it and earning it are completely, absolutely opposite things.
Baud
@Another Scott:
At least they’ve moved on from naked Hunter Biden.
Old School
@cain:
So there’s a good possibility Republican congresspeople will fall for it.
Ruckus
@Baud:
Possibly.
But of course he could hire someone to do that. But it would have to be someone with less than ZERO humanity or even concept of it. IOW someone like him that believes that money is THE CONCEPT OF LIFE. And it isn’t. Money buys the butter for your toast, not the humanity for your life.
Now of course some think that money is the end all be all of life. But it’s only a tool to make it easier.
davek319
@moonbat:
@moonbat: Trump is what you get when you a)have a dismantled information environment which, unbelievably, is by its own admission based on “vibes”; b) a decades-long assault on the Enlightenment successfully a public education system once the envy of the world; c) a political hegemony of wholly owned subsidiaries consisting in the main of capitalist thieves and their eager underlings; d) an electorate that, to a never before seen extent, can’t discern fact from fiction to the point of conflating consumption with liberty; and e) greedy cruel savage morons as a quarter of the country.
HopefullyNotcassandra
Illiteracy is a growing problem in this president’s cabinet.
For today we must ask can Kristi Noem read?
Every Capitol Hill reporter should be asking this question today.
If the Secretary can demonstrate her reading ability by reading aloud say the Constitution, the next question should be does she have the ability to comprehend the words she reads?
These questions are imperative because of the answer she gave to Senator Hassan about Mrs. Noem’s understanding of habeas corpus
Kristi Noem answered giving rise to the above questions
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-definition-senate-hearing/8374…
Can Kristi Noem read?
Can Mrs. Noem comprehend the meaning of the words that she reads?
Another question might be did she ever see any film version of Robin Hood? If so, did she think Robin and his band of merry men were fighting to give King John the right to remove people from England?
Habeas corpus is the right our ancestors secured for us to not be disappeared by our government, Mrs. Noem.
Another pertinent question is are you auditioning for citizenship in North Korea or can you seriously not read, Mrs. Noem? Americans dearly need to know.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Seanly: this president sleeps during cabinet meetings and funerals of popes. He angrily posts all night long. His priorities are on display for everyone to witness.
cckids
@catclub: Does Trump know that? Doubtful
Ruckus
@davek319:
Don’t forget that many humans think that the world – and everyone else in it, owe them everything for their “greatness.” They seem to forget that the world owes them doodly squat. And the world doesn’t give even one small damn if they like it or not.
Ruckus
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
Do you truly think she’d be able to actually answer that?
Because I have serious doubts that she could, by herself, actually do that.
Geminid
@cain: He’s giving Lawler, LaLota and the other SALT Caucus Republicans a “fig leaf” to hide their failure to get tax relief for their constituents. I doubt if it will help them. They promised they would get the cap raised last year and their opponents will hang that promise around their necks in the midterms.
A number of the 40 seats Dems picked up.in 2018 were in relatively high tax districts including in New Jersey and Southern California. I always wondered if the SALT cap in the 2017 tax bill played a part. It hit a lot of people in the wallet.
Ruckus
@Baud:
And here all this time I thought it was his first nature.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@terraformer: give to the obscenely wealthy by stealing from the United States is a more appropriate title
Kill the sick to give more to the rich works too
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: The theoretically best elements of his “MAHA” initiative are just the things that Michelle Obama was denounced as a totalitarian figure for promoting.
Ruckus
@JML:
But rants like this make him look weak.
No, they show the truth – that he IS WEAK.
Ruckus
@Seanly:
It wouldn’t be honest behavior if he acted human.
chemiclord
@Chief Oshkosh:
Murphy’s idea of “creativity” is throwing the entire Biden family under the bus… so maybe his brand of “creativity” isn’t always the right answer.
Ruckus
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
What ISN’T pathetic about him?
That is a far smaller list, so small in fact that you’d need a 10000 times magnifying glass to see it, and 4 steps above that to read it.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@artem1s: I believe this fellow is always miserable.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Geminid: She also has congressional immunity. You know the kind of immunity actually set forth in our Constitution, not the kind created by the Supreme Court to insulate a lawless president because they like his steal from the U.S. to give us tax cuts policies.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
He already knows he is.
The bad part is that is what he’s wanted to be his entire life.
Oh wait, is that why he’s been one so long…..
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Jeffro: This president was lying. He knows the bill cuts Medicaid.
Professor Bigfoot
@Captain C: Miles Vorkosigan. “Everybody wants Gregor’s throne, but nobody wants his desk.”
Captain C
@Professor Bigfoot: That’s the one!
JML
@Professor Bigfoot: Love a good Bujold quote. Might have to go re-read a few of the Miles books as a relief from all the insanity of the world…
ETtheLibrarian
I have always thought that trump has always HATED that the “stars” (entertainment and sports) didn’t (and don’t) want to go to the WH while he is president because that was a major draw for him to be president (beyond the never ending need for attention). For years he saw them trot over to the WH and said I want that! And Obama brought out the stars in ways previous presidents hadn’t even managed and trump thought he would get that. But he didn’t because he is who he is. He got Nugent and Chachi and no real A-listers. He got his got his fee fees hurt because he is an insecure narcist. That he takes to social media to advertise that fact is basically him just telling on himself (and also showing he has no self-awareness at all).
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Ruckus: Our DC reporters should ask. Can Mrs Noem answer? Can she read? Right now, sadly, it appears unlikely that she is literate.
Matt McIrvin
@Ruckus: They’re often the same people who get upset that the lesser folk believe they have a right to food, shelter and medicine.
Chief Oshkosh
@chemiclord: THAT was your takeaway from the Marshall piece?
jimmiraybob
“…and all he’s got is Kid Rock.”
Hold on there Schnorkles, let’s not overlook Ted Nugent, the 3rd-4th rate guitarist that wrote Jailbait back in the 80’s when he was in his 30’s.
“Well, I don’t care if you’re just thirteen
You look too good to be true
I just know you’re probably clean
There’s one little thing I got to do to you”
And then there was that time he didn’t shower for a month while shitting his pants in order to avoid getting drafted for Jungle duty in Vietnam. A true-blue Trump/MAGA Patriot if there ever was one.
Betty
@moonbat: But Jake Tapper days he has seen no decline in Trump. So, is he saying that Trump has long been this far off the rails?
dnfree
@Baud: Michelle Obama wanted healthier school meals and Republicans called that socialism and worse.
moonbat
@Betty:
Jake Tapper is a coward, liar, and soulless opportunist. He beats up on and grifts off of Biden because he knows Biden won’t hit back and he doesn’t tell the truth about Trump because he knows that Trump is a spiteful bitch who will want revenge.
Tapper’s reward should be late stage prostate cancer discovered right NOW. And I know that’s horrible and I don’t care.
prostratedragon
@sab:
I agree with this person: it’s not ignorance, it is a calculated policy of contempt. Jared Kushner used to do this shit all the time.