I’ve been traveling and doing fun things instead of doom-scrolling, so it’s entirely possible my limited news intake offers a skewed view of what’s happening during the shutdown. For the past several days, I’ve been looking at views like this instead of a screen:
But from what I have seen, some elected Democrats are pointing out the obvious — Trump is nuts, and the fascistic actions he’s taken, such as ordering federal agents and troops to assault American cities, are based on delusional thinking. Here’s JB Pritzker to the Chicago Tribune:
In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired.
“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.
“And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing.”
Right. And here’s Senator Ruben Gallego from earlier this week, when asked if Trump is negotiating with Democrats:
“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there’s a he’s probably talking to himself, or think he’s talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that’s actually he’s actually physically talking to a Democrat.”
This is the way.
Open thread!
schrodingers_cat
Yeah he is cray cray and unhealthy and decrepit.
mrmoshpotato
Nice.
Old School
He’s talking to RFK Jr. He’s a Democrat, right?
(Or Tulsi Gabbard.)
(Or Trump himself.)
kindness
The MSM used to run Biden is old stories constantly because ‘sources’ said he was impaired. Now the MSM see’s Trump’s impairment daily and sane washes everything. Just look at how they portrayed Bondi’s Senate testimony yesterday. The msm sure seems to love them some Republican Daddies.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
YES!
oldster
“This is the way.”
This is absolutely the way.
Every Democrat — every sane person of any party or none — must state the obvious out loud:
Trump is suffering from severe cognitive impairment and decline. And he is getting worse, fast.
SFAW
I’m sorry, but I saw that, and all I could think of was this.
ETA: But in response to the various comments: yeah, Dems should hammer on his dementia, lying, and fascism every day.
cain
I wish our governor was more vocal. Oregon needs to really start pushing hard. I know they are more quiet and doing more legal stuff but given she is LBGTQ I wish she was more vocal
trollhattan
In Sleeper they have to operate on The Leader and [spoiler] learn there’s nothing left but his nose. We’re living that, only no orb or orgasmatron.
jonas
@kindness: What’s kind of clever about what Dems are doing now is actually going on the record saying Trump is losing it, thereby putting the question out there for reporters to report on (because “people are saying”) and ask Republicans for a response. They’ll over course scream and yell and flail and deny, which will only chum the water more. It’s nice to see people like Pritzger and Gallego finally pick up on how the system works.
trollhattan
@cain:
Gav’s trying to help.
x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1975793415049941186
Betty Cracker
@cain: My kiddo, also an OR resident, said the same thing.
mappy!
The dementia meme probably has solid legs. Senile Don, talking to imaginary people. He really believes he’s talking to [ fill in the blank ]. Don Dementia.
Good positive messaging. It’s short. Dance-able.
frosty
Delete your account! /s
Boris Rasputin (The Evil Twin)
To badly paraphrase a line in “Game of Thrones” a stupid king is one matter, a vicious king, another, but a stupid and vicious king is terrifying.
In his first term, someone noted that Trump would not wander the White house halls at night talking to the portraits as Nixon was supposed to have done. “Nixon knew who everyone was, Trump wouldn’t have a clue.” Now, Trump might wander with a Sharpie, writing down gibberish names on each canvas.
Also, ICE Nazis Raus!
CaseyL
BettyC, that is a gorgeous view, and certainly not one from anywhere in flat-as-a-pancake Florida. Where are you?
After seeing Dem messaging succeed using topics and methods the Terminally Online dismissed out of hand, I am once again reminded that social media is not reality.
ETA: Not even “good” social media.
jonas
@mappy!: It’s common for people with dementia to hallucinate encounters and conversations, especially with long-passed-away parents or spouses. When we start hearing “As my dad was saying last night…” we’ll know the end is near.
Hoodie
This is how they should have been talking about him from the beginning. Walz was close with his “weird” observation, but that’s not quite to the point. It’s been obvious for while that Trump is crazy and now is probably suffering from dementia, which exacerbates his insanity. It used to be he was mostly spouting nonsense for effect, but in the last few years he’s lost control and says ridiculous shit reflexively and more carelessly. The useless media is too obsessed with their own view- from-nowhere self-image to point that out, which ends up normalizing a lot of his nonsense. Dem haven’t had a lot of direct opportunities to point it out, but have often whiffed when they had them. Not to overly criticize Harris, who otherwise ran a strong campaign, but she had a chance to do that to his face in the one debate when he started ranting about Haitians eating dogs and cats. She could have bluntly said something like “that’s complete nonsense and you’re nuts for saying it. If you insist on saying demented crap like that, prove it.” That would be the equivalent of punching a bully in the nose. Instead, she just kind of smiled, apparently assuming that people would get that he’s nuts. A lot of people are not that smart or are unwilling to reach such a conclusion without being pushed. It was a lost opportunity and elections often hinge on those types of moments. Biden did something more direct in the 2020 debates when he basically told Trump to shut up.
Butch
Nothing political about this comment; a while ago I completed an end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail and your photos are bringing back memories.
trollhattan
@Boris Rasputin (The Evil Twin):
Picture Joffrey having received a severe blow to the head when young, now nearly 80.
Scout211
In Trump’s current cognitive decline, he is a person who is very vulnerable to manipulation. When you are often confused or you can’t remember the past or even what happened yesterday, other people can define reality for you.*
This has been mentioned before but needs to be mentioned every time there is a discussion of his cognitive state. He is not running the country. Muscle memory (which is retained much longer than cognitive memory) cannot run a country. His “aides” are in control and he likely has no idea. And this needs to be highlighted and repeated. Over and over.
*ask me how I know.
Boris Rasputin (The Evil Twin)
@Hoodie: A quibble – Trump does not suffer from his dementia, the whole country and the world do.
Matt McIrvin
@trollhattan: “We’ll clone him right into his shoes!”
Baud
@Butch:
Save it for Balloon Juice After Dark. #WhoRemembersMarkSanford
Hoodie
@jonas: My late MIL had an elaborate fantasy in which a nonexistent child of her husband’s nonexistent affair in Viet Nam came to visit her in assisted living. There was a whole dialog that went along with it. Dementia often brings out a bunch of subconscious fears and obsessions that had previously had been held down.
Matt McIrvin
@Old School: Maybe he’s talking to Even the Liberal Alan Dershowitz! Maybe about the good times on the island.
MattF
Trump believes his ‘instincts’ are infallible, so he says the first thing that comes to mind (or to what’s left of his mind). And it’s often a repetition of whoever he talked with in the last five minutes. Then he turns around, forgets everything, and heads for the other side of the fishbowl.
Baud
@Scout211:
The one positive with that is that there’s a slim, slim, slim chance he can be manipulated into supporting Ukraine.
Old School
I’d say the messaging should involve pointing out Trump’s imaginary and nonsensical ramblings, but I’d stop short of diagnosing it as dementia.
SiubhanDuinne
@kindness:
Jeff Tiedrich came up with a useful term: Pamnesia.
laura
Yes, he’s crazy as a shit house rat. Yes, he is seriously ill. Yes, he’s desperate to hide the actual state of his health by spackling his hand and covering it with his other hand. Yes, his cankles are gushing out his shoes. Yes, he fears going down the stairs. Yes, I have all the necessary ingredients to make devil’s food cake while drinking champagne the minute he kicks it. And yes, I’m going to savor the infighting and backstabbing and the “I hardly knew the man” when he’s moldering in state. In the meantime, he’s probably going to pardon the sex pests he’s pal’d around with for decades which should make for some interesting times.
Wishing I could run off to the woods or the ocean until it happens.
Deputinize America
@Boris Rasputin (The Evil Twin):
The Trump Administration 2.0 is the victory lap of the Watergate conspirators.
The ones who were jailed needed longer sentences.
RaflW
Apparently Trump this week said:
“We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They’re not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?”
I know some of that is his same garbled syntax from the past few years (though if one goes back, say, 15 years yes he did digressions, but he could speak in paragraphs back then), but it’s really just nonsense. His brain is cooked. I think it’s also true that he’s being fed tailored info, one wonders if there’s people just editing together Fox segments and making it look like he’s watching TV ‘live’ but Pritzker and Gallego are right to start saying “He’s demented” and make the press either go out over their skis in denying it, or uncomfortably have to start reporting on it.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: I am curious, Ms. Cracker: if you’d care to say, what river is that? Or is it a lake?
Deputinize America
@Hoodie:
Dementia (particularly in men) is typically accompanied by inchoate, unfocused fears and an inability to analyze facts that may counter those fears.
Melancholy Jaques
@jonas:
Are reporters asking Republicans about that asshole’s mental state? Are cable shows having guests doctors on to diagnose his mental condition? That’s what they did with Our Man Joe.
RaflW
@laura: Yeah.
And frankly that ridiculous “I haven’t heard of Ghislaine in a long time” (or whatever he rambled) was also treated by many as What a liar! when, again, his dementia fits the situation. Use that, people!
Make the WH have to do more risible “Doctor Flakeypants says he’s the healthiest person ever. He did 50 pushups in the examination room!” denials.
Shalimar
Why Trump’s shutdown threats sound more like a wishlist
A good summary of why Republicans will get almost all of the blame for the shutdown as time goes on. This is their version of an orgy. They aren’t even doing a good job of pretending it isn’t what they want.
Melancholy Jaques
@Hoodie:
My dad was always seeing police in the back yard.
laura
Oh hey- Oregon Governor just ordered the National Guardsmen out of state per Court Order. She may not be splashy about it, like America’s handsomest Governor or the Mighty Khan, but she did The Thing.
Belafon
@jonas: They won’t deny, but they’ll make a statement so that you’re focused on that rather than the denying.
Belafon
@CaseyL: When Democrats are succeeding at something, you’re supposed to pivot to something they failed or are failing at, thereby proving they are still failures.
Belafon
@Belafon: See, like this: @Hoodie.
Butch
@Baud: ‘Cept I really did it and I wasn’t hiding an affair!
Deputinize America
@laura:
I’ve always wanted to know the etymology of the phrase, and why shithouse rats are deemed crazy.
Josie
@Melancholy Jaques:
My mother broke her wrist when she fell walking across the yard. Her story turned into a long diatribe about how she climbed a tree to get something off of the roof and fell out of the tree. No matter how many. times I corrected her, she stuck to her story. I imagine people wondered why I permitted her to climb trees.
zhena gogolia
@trollhattan: “Checking the cell structure! Checking the cell structure!”
I was just referencing that yesterday.
GB in the HC
@Geminid: Both!
Lapassionara
@Hoodie: that’s the plot of Miss Saigon. Maybe she saw the musical and it gave her ideas.
Scout211
I agree. “Cognitive decline” is a more general term and more difficult to defend, since he is 79 years old.
ETA: That’s the term that I use here instead of assuming I know his actual diagnosis. My husband’s neurologist diagnosed him with vascular dementia, until he saw the MRI results that indicated Alzheimer’s. So even neurologists can’t accurately diagnose what type of cognitive decline just from observing symptoms.
Deputinize America
@Hoodie:
Conversely, in one of my cases many moons ago, I was appointed GAL for a dapper elder gent suffering some flavor of cognitive decline in his 90s – he’d had a career as an engineering executive, but as a younger man, been a junior field grade officer on Eisenhower’s planning staff for ETO, and had been in on the planning for D-Day.
Fascinating guy – he could tell me who, what, where and why about the senior commanders, meetings and logistic concerns back in 1943 and 1944, but he couldn’t tell me his modern day address, what day it was, who was president or what he just ate for lunch. For that matter, he couldn’t tell me my name five minutes after I’d introduced myself.
I should have recognized that he was a treasure trove of WWII info and interviewed him on tape, because he’d have been one of the last of the planners who’d interacted with the commanders still left alive at that point.
Dave
@RaflW: It’s both; in his creeping dementia he reflexively resorts to his BS patter lines that might as well be his core persona. It’s just they lose whatever power they used to have as his dementia increases.
gvg
Aside from everything else, he has driven me up a wall for the last dozen years because of the way he doesn’t construct sentences. I cannot stand the total incoherance. I feel like he was damaging our country just by the way people let him get away with speaking, and then cleaning up his word messes. I am already on edge with how badly I think college students are writting, considering I don’t think I am as good as I should be. I can’t stand to listen to him because he makes my head hurt.
Now he is worse. Oh, God.
mrmoshpotato
Stupid GOP.
We don’t call them “POLICIA” here.
Belafon
@Scout211: Except cognitive decline could be used to describe always forgetting where you put your keys as you get older.
Dave
@Deputinize America: Well I figure it’s probably not particularly good for the psyche to live in a shithouse then again what the hell do I know about rats. The answer to that is very little.
Though half expecting it’s some old timey racist/ethnic slur just because things so often are.
Deputinize America
@Scout211:
That’s how I describe my dad. I can’t pin a diagnosis on it, but I see him slipping month to month.
Betty Cracker
@CaseyL: & @Geminid: Photo was taken at Chimney Rock southeast of Asheville, NC. The waterway is the Broad River flowing toward Lake Lure. The town of Lake Lure is still recovering from Hurricane Helene. The lake itself was mostly drained, and there are big trucks everywhere hauling silt away and lots of construction to repair roads and buildings.
I’m super familiar with Lake Lure but hadn’t seen it since the storm last year. I am boggled that the storm maintained enough strength to do that much damage so far into the hills. Saw a huge banner that said, “FEMA screwed us! Trump, please help!” Wondered if its authors realize FEMA screwed them BECAUSE that is Trump’s will.
Deputinize America
@Belafon:
Goddammit, the key thing is normal.
I may have put an Apple thingy on mine so I can always find them. My wallet, too.
Doc Sardonic
@Deputinize America: I heard that phrase when I was younger as outhouse rat when in polite company. When it was just the men it was shithouse. My theory is at some point in time an individual went to sort corn cobs or read last years Sears catalog and discovered a rat in the hole. Thinking on that they decided if stuck down there they would be crazy, so the rat must be.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Those seem like innocent times compared to the hellscape we are in right now.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Early Obama years were definitely a more innocent time.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Haha!
Baud
@Butch:
Congrats! Quite an achievement.
Belafon
@schrodingers_cat: Back when Republicans cared about affairs in their party.
Trivia Man
CNN edits out the bombshell word Plenary… and my wingnut brother said “CNN is a liberal network”.
he (allegedly) isnt a trump fan but definitely repeats every libertarian/ right wing soundbite. And about 50% of the conversations he brings up hillary or kamala. Exhausting
p.a.
Preznit Memento
Trivia Man
@laura: we bought a bottle of wine and a very small bottle if whisky for some glorious future day
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Hahaha! That’s great!
Belafon
@Trivia Man: Plenary, a word you don’t use unless in public unless you want to keep people from understanding what you mean.
Old School
Jeffro
hell YES this is the way!
by all means, Republicans, let’s have the president*s dementia AND criminality front and center for the next three years
mrmoshpotato
@RaflW: Kids, don’t snort coke, or Adderall, or Hitler’s speeches, or Putin’s farts.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Baud:
The King of England certainly tried.
Scout211
O/T for Californians:
29-year-old former Uber driver arrested in connection with starting deadly Palisades Fire
ETA: Old School got there first.
mrmoshpotato
@Melancholy Jaques:
Phil and Oz?
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
NC didn’t vote for him HARD ENOUGH so must be made an example to the others.
Still learning the rules, I yam.
Storm missed Runner Girl by less than a hundred miles. She flew back to NC that afternoon to encounter drizzle. Meanwhile, to the west it rained as much as 30 inches.
MagdaInBlack
@trollhattan: I said in the previous thread that I love protesters showing up in goofy costumes. I love it because it triggered Cosplay Kristi to comment about it and call ignorant and uneducated, or words to that effect.
Ridicule works.
I want to see 100 t-rex doing a conga line for her.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
OZ limits himself to evaluating Trump’s poo. Hope he keeps a bucket handy.
Jeffro
@mrmoshpotato: LOL
but…but…I’m told it was a ‘different time back then’
oh wait, wrong issue
trollhattan
@MagdaInBlack:
100% here for the T Rex chorus conga line. Would also support a How low can you go? limbo-off.
Portlandia was never completely parody. Nobody in Trump’s bubble comprehends that.
Baud
Via reddit
Baud
Via reddit
trollhattan
@Old School:
Crap, that’s bad.
Not unusual as it turns out. Can even remember a Calfire dude busted for setting then reporting wildfires. Further back, a seasonal tanker truck contractor set a fire that got out of control. It had been a slow fire season and had cut into his income.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan:
Will there be gongs to bang?
trollhattan
@Scout211:
Can you ever really be a former Uber driver?
zhena gogolia
@Baud: That’s a pretty funny thread.
Baud
@trollhattan:
That’s like being a former Marine!
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@MagdaInBlack: ICE Barbie is mad because you can’t shoot Al-Qaeda style propaganda videos for ICE if the supposed dangerous ‘terrorists’ are in inflatable rainbow kitten and dinosaur constumes.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: What? Is being an Uber driver like being a Marine?
rikyrah
Chris D. Jackson
@ChrisDJackson
So
@jaketapper
has seen my posts calling out his blatant double standard — how he hounded Joe Biden over every breath, blink, and pause but now bends over backward to excuse Trump’s obvious mental and physical decline.
Just listen to this. It’s pathetic. Tapper is actually trying to convince people that the rambling, incoherent mess we’re seeing from Trump is “just how he’s always been.” Give me a break.
This kind of cowardice is exactly how we ended up here. The media helped sell the idea that Biden — older, yes, but steady and competent — was somehow a bigger danger than a corrupt, lying narcissist who can’t finish a sentence.
Never forget who ran cover for it.
x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1975917872661631268
p.a.
@mrmoshpotato: TRex conga line!!!! You’re all kidding right? After all the comments here and elsewhere since 11/24 about “where’s the asteroid?” Tell BillinGlendale to keep a watchful eye!
JML
@Josie: This reminds me of when they finally convinced my mom’s 2nd husband to give up his DL (which he absolutely hated, and kept reminding people that he hadn’t actually done anything to “deserve” that). But with his dementia and abysmal memory, he couldn’t reconstruct the actual story of how he’d actually let it go, and would start telling it and fill in most of the middle with likely sounding things that never actually happened, leading to him having his license taken away.
At that point he could still figure things out, but couldn’t recall the details, and would frequently fill things in that seemed likely and appropriate…and could often get it close enough that people didn’t notice/care that he messed up some details. Of course it eventually got much worse, and he couldn’t hold his train of thought long enough to finish his own stories before long.
Dementia is a cruel affliction. And it’s one that the people closest to someone will make excuses for (like my mom did; “oh it’s not really that bad.”) long after things have gotten …bad.
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: No sharks? 😿
Harrison Wesley
Does Diaper Don Do Dementia?
rikyrah
Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.
Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O’Neall.
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
laura
@Deputinize America: because it’s a shit house and the rat is really crazy to not live elsewhere. See also, urban dictionary: urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shithouse+Rat
Marleedog
@Deputinize America:
The OED informs us that the first known use was in 1922 by James Joyce. Those more erudite than I might be able to tell us more. Shithouse goes al the way back to the 1600s
oed.com/dictionary/shithouse-rat_n?tl=true
rikyrah
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. The plan wasn’t to be made public. Clearly someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
📌 Historic fascists with plenary authority:
• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin
x.com/cwebbonline/status/1975784671054283070
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@mrmoshpotato:
I’m pretty sure you asked for this. youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
Jeffro
@rikyrah:
110%
MagdaInBlack
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Yup. And ain’t it great =-)
trollhattan
@JML:
Have shared the story before of grandma’s Chevy being pulled from an Iowa cornfield a final time when concerned locals “misplaced” the keys, ending her driving career. Had she continued she’d have hurt herself or importantly, somebody else.
Fiercely independent, she stayed in her house several years on and could have even longer, had she allowed cleaning folks and meals on wheels cross the threshold, but that was right out.
We had to move her into the Lutheran home (who relented and gave her a single, even though all rooms were double occupancy. You had to know grandma to fully understand). That was unforgivable and she did not forget our crime.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: I had to look that phrase up…not good
There are already some news stories up about it, though. Now would be a great time to push Miller’s comments into public view via all channels you’ve got, peeps
mrmoshpotato
Need a laugh?
MAGA mom mad about insurance hike
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah: That is so disgusting.
ETA: And who is that douche interviewing him?
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Of course!
Trivia Man
@Belafon: i just assume its a word they taught orangeman to make him feel special. Bet: they use it with him daily as a magic talisman. Because they use it daily, it just slips in.
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Knew that was coming before clicked. (And now I’m dancing.)
Melancholy Jaques
@mrmoshpotato:
I was thinking Dr Vinnie Boombatz
JML
@rikyrah: Tapper and the Vichy Times have both done the sane-washing for the decompensating yahoo and they (and others I think, if less explicitly) have defended not calling out his incoherence by saying “he’s always been like this” and “everyone already knows this, so we don’t need to point it out”
But it’s noticeably worse, and they still are hiding from it.
Trivia Man
@trollhattan: and salt lake city had their wettest day ever* – about 3” i believe
*not sure if ‘wettest’ includes snowfall. I was there for days of 40”+ but it’s a dry snow.
Trivia Man
@MagdaInBlack: the portland branch of World Naked Bike Ride announced a protest ride, check local sources for how to join in
Melancholy Jaques
@rikyrah:
Appreciate you & Chris D Jackson, but people have to stop saying what Tapper is doing is cowardice. It’s complicity.
Also, Jackson says “Never forget who ran cover for it.” It was pretty much everybody, wasn’t it?
Scout211
@Old School: @Scout211: @trollhattan:
The suspect lived in SoCal but moved to Florida after the fire.
This is on DOJ website:
Florida Man. Ha.
Soprano2
@Scout211: I rely on this. If I ask hubby something and he says “no”, wait a couple of minutes and ask again and it’ll be “yes”. If I get mad at him, he forgets about it a few minutes later most of the time. I agree, FFOTUS is not running things, although they’re telling him that he is.
rikyrah
Curious Mr. Fox
@CuriousMrFox101
Kash Patel strutted onto Fox this week like he’d uncovered Al Capone’s secret army announcing that five percent of Chicago’s population 110000 people are active gang members. Scary right until you check the fine print and realize his “intel” came from a dusty old police database so sloppy the city’s own inspector general wanted it shredded. It’s basically a list of anyone who’s ever shared a sandwich with someone in a hoodie. But who needs accuracy when fear makes better TV?
What Patel skipped right over is the inconvenient part the one where Chicago’s violent crime is actually plummeting. Homicides down more than thirty percent shootings down about thirty five the steepest decline in a decade confirmed by WTTW WBEZ and http://FactCheck.org. That doesn’t fit the “Democrat ruin” narrative so he pretends it’s not happening. Facts are boring panic is ratings gold.
The MAGA routine writes itself now. Take one inflated number add ominous music call the city a war zone and cue Hannity’s serious face. Then declare victory for some “quiet federal operation” that never actually happened. Meanwhile on planet Earth Mayor Brandon Johnson’s reforms and community safety programs are producing the biggest drop in gun violence in years.
So no Chicago isn’t collapsing under gang rule it’s quietly improving while pundits scream into cameras about ghosts. Patel’s version makes for great campaign theater but it’s about as grounded as a QAnon weather report. The city is healing the numbers prove it and the only crime here is how badly they keep lying about it.
x.com/CuriousMrFox101/status/1975739503756370372
Princess
The thing about Pritzker is, he’s not just messaging. He was doing the work steadily while Biden was president to Trump-proof Illinois — putting rights in the state constitution etc. The things Walz did in MN, which people learned about during the campaign, Pritzker was doing them too (so was Shapiro). He’s action-oriented, which gives heft to the messaging.
Melancholy Jaques
@Scout211:
Doesn’t appear to be an immigrant from Mexico.
CaseyL
@Betty Cracker: Ah, Asheville NC. I’m mostly familiar with the place via Pat Conley, a fellow who runs a YouTube channel showing the adventures of black bear families who have visited him constantly over the past few years. He posted only very sporadically after Helene, and (come to think of it) I haven’t seen anything of his for quite a while.
Other than that, Asheville has (had?) a lovely artsy-hippie reputation that piqued my interest. Too bad it’s got enough Trumpers to support signage like that. Bet they’ll keep thinking Trump wants to help them until the sheriff and bulldozers show up, and beyond.
Belafon
I’m normally against using AI for this kind of thing, but someone should use one to write a book about Jake Tapper.
geg6
@CaseyL:
Hmmm, not sure what social media you frequent, but my feeds have been pounding the message that Cheetolini is in the throes of dementia for months. And yelling at the MSM and elected Dems to start talking about it for months. I don’t partake in any MSM really, so I only know what I read or see on MY social media. But liberal/left/center left social media have been on the case since before the election and has ramped up to deafening levels since at least April or May.
tam1MI
@Melancholy Jaques: Are reporters asking Republicans about that asshole’s mental state? Are cable shows having guests doctors on to diagnose his mental condition? That’s what they did with Our Man Joe.
“We don’t talk about Biden, no, no, no…”
mrmoshpotato
@Belafon:
About how OLD he is?
Ohio Mom
@Baud: Whew! Kidney stones are painful and awful but there are effective treatments and they aren’t terminal. We’ll have Dolly with us for a while more.
Fair Economist
@Scout211:
It is, but we *want* this talked about. We want people arguing over whether to call what’s happening to Trump serious cognitive decline (it’s not just forgetting names sometimes) or dementia, because that will get people looking and talking about his very obvious mental issues
I’m impressed with how the shutdown fight is coming out. The Republicans have two ways out – give in, or force it through. Politically giving in is far better for them, but I don’t think they have it in them, and even that is going to hurt them, because they’ll look weak and foolish. Forcing it through will likely lead to a historic wipeout in the midterms.
Bill Arnold
@Deputinize America:
One story is methane in outhouses. (Which are warm in winter, and things like undigested corn kernels are edible.)
I don’t see any Science on the subject in a very brief search, though.
CaseyL
@geg6: They’ve been yelling at the Dems to talk about that, and corruption, and brutalization of anyone not WMC, and on and on and on. It’s not that social media doesn’t mention these things; it’s that social media mentions EVERYTHING, and slams Democrats for not responding to EVERYTHING, immediately, with all guns blazing.
I feel that fury and frustration, too, but when I hear over and over again that Dems are “useless,” and see it’s coming from much the same people who sabotaged Biden and Harris, I take a mental step back and wonder how credible they are.
geg6
@Old School:
Anyone, literally anyone, who has lived through a person undergoing dementia knows that’s what it is since it’s so goddam obvious to us. I have no qualms in stating he has dementia and neither should anyone else that has seen it. I’m guessing Pritzker and Gallegos have seen what I see every day.
trollhattan
@Scout211:
When 3,000 miles is not enough miles.
trollhattan
@geg6:
Use whatever term is simplest and hits hardest. It’s about impactful messaging and consistency. (I would accept batshit crazy.)
I can’t be held accountable for my significant lack of time in med school.
New Deal democrat
Just leaving this here because it might be of future interest. Via Scott Horton:
bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3m2owsktexk24
“The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated.”
The Credit Mobilier was a shadow-bank type entity set up to skim profits from the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s. Many federal officeholders were implicated in the scandal, but none were ever held liable. The bursting of the railroad bubble in 1872 led to a stock market crash and a multi-year depression.
trollhattan
@New Deal democrat:
A lot more nuanced than my fear of repeating the dot.com bubble, but effectively the same message. $4k/oz gold is just bonkers.
Tenar Arha
@zhena gogolia: IIRC Tim Miller, Bulwark
geg6
@Scout211:
Cognitive decline is me not remembering, a year after I retired, the names of colleagues at other campuses who I only met once in person. I’m about to turn 67 and that’s what happens at my age.
Determining if someone has vascular dementia or Altzheimers is just figuring out what kind of dementia, not whether or not someone has dementia. Having gone through that exact process over the last few months, I submit that those are two completely different things. Or at least, my John’s doctor presented the processes that way.
suzanne
@mappy!:
We need to make a meme. Like FFOTUS’s face on the dude who is turning his head to look at the other woman, but instead it’s him talking to Maleficient or something.
zhena gogolia
@Tenar Arha: He just giggles with Tapper. He doesn’t say, “Well, if it’s just that Trump is a little older, why didn’t that work to excuse Biden? Biden was actually doing the job, wasn’t he? He was also just a little older, and he’s had a stutter forever. Why didn’t you give him a pass the way you’re doing for Trump?”
Ishiyama
@Deputinize America: How many lawyers are there on this blog (besides me)? I keep getting surprised. (I suppose I don’t pay enough attention.)
zhena gogolia
@Ishiyama: There are a lot. “A cock’s stormcloud,” to use the Russian expression.
Sounds better in Russian: “Khuyeva tucha.”
WTFGhost
@kindness: Well, one of our values as decent human beings, is, you don’t make nasty jokes about things people can’t help.
Does Trump crap himself, because he snorted too much adderall? Maybe. Does the sad man, talking to Howard Stern, deserve nasty derision for his affliction, caused by filthy habits? No.
Does America deserve an opposition that uses every tool against fascism, most especially ridicule, most especially of physical infirmities we turn into humor because they terrify us, like being fat, old, and incontinent? In my opinion, yes, it does, with full mindfulness that it’s only okay to be rude, nasty, and untruthful, because you’re trying to win an election, against someone who kills people, yes, I mean, for reals and all, people die as a direct result of his decision, 21 sent to Davy Jones Locker so far, plus millions more.
If Republicans will call a sharp, bright, wise, elderly, man “dementia ridden” because they need tax cuts for the rich, and more pollution, filth, and pestilence for the poor, we can be even nastier, especially when truthful, to protect the poor at the expense of people paying a fair price for good governance.
mrmoshpotato
@mappy!: Fucking Fascist Dementia Don?
Fair Economist
@CaseyL:
And frequently the Dems DO mention it, but the press won’t report that.
zhena gogolia
@WTFGhost: Good comment.
cmorenc
@CaseyL:
Although there’s no mountains in Florida approaching anywhere near the scale of western NC, there is a surprisingly hilly region with curvy mountain-like roads in the panhandle region of Florida just south of the Alabama border that’s midway between Talahassee and Pensacola. The highest point in Florida named “High Peak” (345 ft above sea level) is located here. You could easily be deceived passing through this region that you aren’t instead somewhere in the foothills of the Appalachians in north Georgia or the far western Piedmont of NC near Wilkesboro, NC. What adds to the unexpectedness of encountering this region the first time you drive through it is that the region just north of it in Alabama is flat, as is the Panhandle region just below it down to the Gulf, betraying no hint of a hilly region until you are in it.
stinger
@rikyrah:
Actually, it looks like they re-interviewed him after regaining the lost connection. The interviewer’s lead-in question is different the second time, Miller’s response is different, someone with a backpack walks across behind Miller, and a cloud seems to darken the day the second time.
I don’t think it’s dishonest editing. Now, dishonest answers, sure!
WTFGhost
@Ishiyama: I’ve known a few attorneys who can pretend to be human, sometimes for hours, even days, at a time!
I kid – education, and specialized training, doesn’t make a person other-than-human, and I *do* like the concept of the law. It’s just, there’s very few horses in the lawyerly profession, but a large surplus of horses asses, don’t you think?
(What? No, a “horses ass” is how a horse makes mules. The human equivalent is the name of a female dog, for some reason.)
@suzanne: we need *lots* of memes. And, IMHO, a lot of creative people to come to my place, where I don’t bogart the bowl, and… um… kids, pretend that’s a cereal bowl, filled with, uh, *candy*, yeah! It does involve that icky substance, “hash”, so, y’all stay away, while Ghostwife makes cookies.”
Seriously, where are Sid and Marty Kroft when you need them? I bet if they were here, there’d be some jolly memes already!
@Old School: Well… I hear you. And I appreciate a concern for honesty.
More flippantly, I might respond: if you are a doctor, that’s very wise, and professional. If you’re an opposition member, you should have as much loyalty to the truth, when it comes to insulting Trump, as Republicans have loyalty to the truth, when insulting us.
They call us child rapists, sans evidence. “Diagnosing” dementia in a babbling old man who has never been constrained by facts is not even in the same baseball league, much less the same ballpark.
So: not saying “you’re wrong”. I’m saying “other people might disagree, and I don’t think they’re necessarily wrong.”
p.a.
@New Deal democrat: One reason the Grant presidency has such a bad rep.
Is this threat related to the meme (no idea if it’s accurate and no idea if you’ve mentioned it as true or not) that the consumer spending currently propping up the US economy is largely spending by the top 1% or even .1%?
Harrison Wesley
@New Deal democrat: The 2025 version is Credit Mobilier AI. Or maybe Credit Mobilier Bitcoin.
mrmoshpotato
She was born in 1897! Do these idiots not understand she’d be long gone from natural causes.
Haha! 👇
Belafon
@Harrison Wesley: Or just TrumpCoin.
Old School
ExPatExDem
@CaseyL: Asheville has had a reputation as a haven for artists, writers, and creative types, going back to Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald and has largely maintained it.
Everything around it in western NC is deep red though, except for a few college towns.
Scout211
Dementia, Alzheimer’s, cognitive decline, crazy, nuts, I will accept all terms. 😉
Harrison Wesley
@mrmoshpotato: Even as a tactic to distract and delay, this is pretty feeble.
CaseyL
@cmorenc:
“High Peak.” 345 feet. You cannot imagine how much this makes me giggle, from my perch in Seattle with the Cascade Mountains to the east, the Olympic Mountains to the west, and a whole lot of steep hills the city itself is built on.
Disclaimer: I lived in South Florida for many years, which hopefully makes it less rude for me to mock the state’s “peak.”
Deputinize America
@Old School:
So Grijalva’s district has no representation, which feels like a big Constitutional no-no to me.
mr perfect
@Trivia Man: You mean the word coming straight out of mini Goebbels’ mouth? And that is CNN’s fault somehow?
mrmoshpotato
@Harrison Wesley: Yup. Too stupid to even think to go with Hoffa instead.
Josie
@geg6:
This is the precise truth.
trollhattan
@Ohio Mom:
I’ve known folks for whom the untrasound treatment works, and is helpfully noninvasive.
We simply can’t lose our Dolly right after losing Jane Goodall.
WTFGhost
@New Deal democrat: Trump has always enjoyed breaking contracts and stiffing others, if it means he can profit personally, so this is “on brand”. If you voted for Trump 2016, this is the sort of thing you voted for, someone who looks out for himself, no matter who else gets hurt.
@Belafon: and we should search social media, for blurbs to put on the fictional book (about Tapper), questioning his mental acuity, and why he thought he should continue writing, even starting new projects when he was clearly too old to *sell* another book.
@JML: Plus, if something is always true, it *requires* frequent mention – at least more frequent than “the Resolute desk”. People who have just started following the news deserve to be informed that the transcript was cleaned up, and the original recording can be heard (here). Then, they can hear the man sounds cray-cray, and they’ve been informed, rather than just suckered into buying a newspaper.
trollhattan
@CaseyL:
345′ msl is the stuff of nosebleeds and headaches. “Where’s my oxygen?!?” (Tallest building in Miami is 868′)
Deputinize America
@ExPatExDem:
But was it a collection of men from both armies who were dandy and dare I say fabulous, like the ones who took refuge at Shrute Farm in Pennsylvania?
Belafon
@Old School: Then she should fly in her family and a bunch of constituents.
Matt McIrvin
@RaflW: Trump just denied the existence of fishing?
Baud
Via reddit
NotMax
@Harrison Wesley
Credit Exxon-Mobilier.
//
Harrison Wesley
@Matt McIrvin: Hey,water drugs,water bugs, water sports,WTFever.
Scout211
I heard that they were already on their way. Didn’t you? ;-)
mr perfect
@rikyrah: Just what we need is another TV doctor, this time on CNN called Dr. Jake where Tapper diagnoses politicians on the left and right with his vast knowledge attained not through medical school but by doing his own research. I mean Oz and Phil are busy at the moment so why not “Jake You Ignorant Slut” Tapper?
rikyrah
@Old School:
FOH!!!
Harrison Wesley
@Scout211: And ICE would meet them at the airport.,…
Scout211
Chief Oshkosh
Dementia Don and his Dozen Dimwits.
rikyrah
The black and white of the new insurance bills is what’s making the difference. People know what they paid under Biden. And, they know now what they’re going to have to pay in order to keep their health insurance. it’s that clear. those raw bills are cutting through the GOP lie machine.
rikyrah
@Scout211:
clap clap clap
good for the Grand Jury seeing through this bullshyt.
Deputinize America
LOL
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/arab-americans-michigan-dearborn-trump
Fucking dipshits. They can pretend high-mindedness, but it was about the combo of Harris being a woman AND black.
Trivia Man
@Jeffro: textbook case of working the refs. My family still drops in “liberal media” in every single political discussion.
WTFGhost
@mrmoshpotato: Didn’t she acknowledge that her Trumpie bear was sure to fix the problem with a plan he’ll have ready in two weeks?
p.a.
Good! But also: damn them because that’s what it takes to get through their thick effing skulls. IGMFY until it’s their dime.
rikyrah
@Deputinize America:
whatever
they got what they voted for
President of Peace
FOH
WTFGhost
@Marleedog: Well, if the local population consumed toxins (like mercury from burning coal) the rats in the outhouse might consume foodstuffs tainted many times over with the same toxins, and become noticeably crazier. Or, they might be crazy because they keep trying to move over that… that thing, that’s just been sitting there for a while, making interesting smells, but not moving… and when they try walking across it, polite as can be, it suddenly starts screaming and stomping.
Of course, it is important to understand that writers needn’t be scientists, and if “crazier than a… a… a SHITHOUSE RAT!” just sounded good one morning, that’s what they wrote.
jonas
That makes about as much sense as the National Association of Interior Designers endorsing Trump for his “minimalist sensibilities and restrained, modern approach to color, line, and light” when it comes to office decoration and then being surprised when he redoes the Oval Office in a look best described as “Pimpmobile-Meets-Versailles.”
Belafon
I’m assuming everyone has heard about Zach Bryan’s new song “Bad News” that’s gotten all of the administration and a bunch of other wingers pissed off. (don’t make him a hero, but enjoy the lyrics)
Harrison Wesley
@Trivia Man: I believe it’s “Our Liberal Media.”
Jackie
@Belafon:
Just a reminder that not ALL country singers are MAGA.
jackmac
Pritzker to Trump via Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Come and Get me’:
Baud
Via Reddit
Old School
brendancalling
@Baud: that’s good to see. Dolly is a saint.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Deputinize America: May they continue to have the day that they voted for.
suzanne
@jonas: That would be the IIDA, and I can assure you….. if ever there is a group of people who loathe Donald Trump, it is interior designers.
New Deal democrat
@p.a.:
There is a lot of evidence that consumer spending by the top 10% or thereabouts, fueled by the wealth effect from AI related stock market gains, is doing so.
Baud
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
Normally, I’d be ok with a little face eating by leopards. But here, those Trump voters will be fine. It’s people in Gaza who will bear the brunt of their decision.
Deputinize America
@jackmac:
What crime would that be? Or are we headed straight to “anti-state activities are prohibited with no actual statute”?
Old School
Scout211
Deputinize America
@Baud:
The actual Gaza people were begging American voters to select Harris.
schrodingers_cat
@Deputinize America: I remember that, on Twitter as well.
Geminid
From Ankara-based Clash Report:
Clash Report posted this an hour or so ago:
This latest round of talks commenced Monday at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Melancholy Jaques
@Ishiyama:
There seem to be quite a few. I’m one of them. I don’t know people’s practice areas.
Deputinize America
@Old School:
The PLUS loan I’m paying for my youngest has been through 3 different private servicers, but hasn’t been sold yet.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: I think that’s right. Open enrollment is coming up, and millions of people are getting notice that their premiums are doubling. I wasn’t convinced focusing on healthcare prices almost exclusively was the right strategy, what with all the fascist lawlessness happening. But the timing is right, and I’m pleased to see Dems linking premium increases with billionaire tax cuts. When even a Trump-humper like MTG isn’t on board with screwing regular folks to line the wealthy’s pockets, it may be a winning issue. We’ll see!
p.a.
Failure to enforce the “Secret Cruel Homeland Masked Unaccountable Cops’ Security” Act.
Betty Cracker
@CaseyL: It’s a fact Florida is pretty flat, and I don’t consider it rude to say so, FWIW.
It’s a challenge for me to drive in mountainous areas, although I’ve done it plenty this week and in the past (Appalachians, Catskills, Poconos, Adirondacks, Rockies, Cascades, Green, Berkshires, even the Alps a little!).
Intellectually, I know the road is there even if I can’t see it over the crest of the hill, but it still feels like a leap of faith to keep driving into the unseen. I also struggle NOT to ride the brake when descending because it feels like I’m hurtling toward my doom. Hill country driving is stressful for me in a way that driving in Florida is not, even with all the armed fools and assorted lunatics sharing the road down here. It’s not rational, but there it is.
suzanne
@Deputinize America:
I don’t mind if any FFOTUS voters have the day they voted for. But I’m not going to look at civilians experiencing war crimes as just an example of face-eating leopards.
Deputinize America
@suzanne:
One day in the past couple of weeks, a Mexican-born naturalized US citizen who works on staff in this office came to talk to me about her fears about having her citizenship yanked and a followup deportation. She hated Trump from the start, enthusiastically supported Harris, and that story was heartbreaking – it twisted me up.
trollhattan
@Old School:
If I declare twenty-seven bucks net income and federal income tax overwithholding of three-millyun dollars, this is gonna be the year to do that, right?
Martin
Air traffic controllers are showing how rank and file employees can exert power over political appointees. O’Hare may need a ground stop today due to lack of workers in the tower. Management has the power to fire, but they don’t have the power to land planes. Eventually that problem comes to a head.
suzanne
@Martin: I am currently joking with a work teammate/friend who is delayed at the airport. He’s a dedicated Dem, funny AF, probably y’all would describe him as a bro. Anyway, he just said, “Corrupt Democrats, I KNEW IT. Lemme text Soros and see if we can speed this up.”
LOL.
evodevo
@Dave: OED’s earliest evidence for shithouse rat is from 1922, in the writing of James Joyce, writer. No one seems to know about the crazy part..
Soprano2
@JML: That’s not just excuses, it’s denial. It’s an extremely scary thing when you start to realize what’s happening. At first you deny it, because you can’t believe it. I’ve been decently realistic about my husband’s condition, but it took me a year to come to terms with what was happening.
Castor Canadensis
I fear he really isn’t tracking: he just had a meeting with Mr Carney and didn’t exactly distinguish himself.
RaflW
@Matt McIrvin: The five or six bass boats that were out on our lake on Sunday seem like a) several of them are probably Trumpy? and b) not in danger of drone attacks in SE Wisconsin.
Castor Canadensis
@Boris Rasputin (The Evil Twin): There’s a similar militarism:
“The last thing you want is an officer who is stupid and enthusiastic. He’ll get you killed”
I understand in the US they just say “frag”.
Geminid
@RaflW: Those fishermen might have been using drones themselves, to scout fish.
JeanneT
@suzanne:
Oh heavens – this made me laugh so much!!
trollhattan
@evodevo:
Guessing it’s de facto, coming from Joyce.
Good piece of trivia, to be sure!
Today’s Patti Smith Substack post from Dublin includes Joyce Tower, his trunk, and death mask.
open.substack.com/pub/pattismith/p/belated-dublin-and-a-visit-with-guernica?utm_campaign=post&u…
trollhattan
@Geminid:
Husband of a friend was a helicopter pilot on a tuna boat. Drones have to be a LOT cheaper.
rikyrah
@Old School:
UH HUH
UH HUH
Castor Canadensis
@Fair Economist: The mentions show up in UK papers, and some in Canadian. (I’m unilingual, so I have no idea about EU ones)
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
WELL, because IT’S TRUE!!
DIRECT LINE
Sister Golden Bear
@cmorenc:
<laughs in Sierra Nevada>
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
Yeah he is cray cray and unhealthy and decrepit.
You speak truth!
He isn’t getting any better because there is nothing on this planet that will reverse what little is left of
his brainhim.schrodingers_cat
@Sister Golden Bear: Or the Himalayas.
Sister Golden Bear
@Baud:
Fixed it
Sister Golden Bear
@Betty Cracker:
You should definitely never drive in San Francisco. Especially going downhill.
Sister Golden Bear
@trollhattan:
They absolutely are. Which is why Hollywood now uses them instead of helicopters for the vast majority of aerial shots. Also far safer—a friend of mine is a retired cinematographer and personally knew a couple camera operators who died in separate helicopter accidents.
Jackie
FFOTUS admits to having taken freedom of speech away.
Link above goes to C-Span video.
Ruckus
Look, I’m only 3 years younger than shitforbrains and I see far, far, far better than he does that the only thing left in the whirlpool that is the inside of his brain, is everything going 90 miles an hour in circles, very, very small circles – there isn’t enough left in there to make big circles, it is that nothing in that brain any longer knows how to swim against that whirlpool. Not that it was a lot smaller whirlpool even 20 years ago. But now there is not a clue, nothing, nada, zip, ZERO.
rikyrah
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 2:08 PM on Wed, Oct 08, 2025:
Jeffries to Lawler: You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut t.co/tDz83r6tMQ
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1976001693247815772?t=R8e4VxGHBVXiMfecnP_uPw&s=03)
rikyrah
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 6:39 AM on Wed, Oct 08, 2025:
Save for an unhinged rant to Naval Academy midshipmen where he told them Democrats were gnats that needed to be eliminated (crickets in the media, natch) he’s been MIA for the better part of a week and the BIDEN IS TOO OLD crowd in the media is predictably incurious about it
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1975888811642192099?t=lszDeDqsYTgpb4qQ0zC8jg&s=03)
Eyeroller
@Sister Golden Bear: It seems clear enough they don’t give any fucks about medical consensus if it interferes with their religious dogma and personal prejudices.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: Whereas I love driving in the mountains…. It takes all kinds, I guess.
Eyeroller
@Jackie: He also seems quite interested in taking away free speech and academic freedom from faculty and students at universities, even if they aren’t burning flags.
Scout211
@Jackie: Ugh. That “White House round table” has generated some sound bites, for sure.
No rioting in the streets of Portland? She was there, and the cameras that followed her found no riots, not even very many protesters, most of them in costumes, dancing.
What is her response to finding no riots? Lie, of course.
Pkus, she said “sir,” so you know Trump will believe her.
lowtechcyclist
@MattF:
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” How true that is.” – Dan Quayle
RaflW
@Martin: “Management has the power to fire, but they don’t have the power to land planes. Eventually that problem comes to a head.”
I can’t help but come away from watching Sean Duffy on TV thinking, this man is not one who will be able to rally his “team” to work long hours for delayed compensation.
Jackie
@Eyeroller:
No freedom of speech for DEMOCRATS. Period
Betty
@Martin: When the shutdown started, Robert Reich predicted that the air traffic controllers would end it. Seems he was on to something.
Scout211
And Trump knows the law. He’s seen it and read numerous journals!
Geminid
@trollhattan: I think the military may already have drones equipped with sonar. If they do, fishermen won’t be far behind.
JaySinWA
@Scout211:
Antifa has got their invisibility screens strategically placed, but we know what they are doing none the less. We have our sources. /s
Geminid
From the Times of Israel:
Omar Yaghi emigrated to the United states at age 15, and is now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
p.a
@JaySinWA: The Oregon response should be “We weren’t aware dementia was communicable, but apparently there’s an outbreak in this admin, with Mr Trump as patient 0.”
trollhattan
Cue Jan 6 video package, list of convictions.
JaySinWA
@p.a: Dementia is fake news. Our invisible sources tell us so
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: Road trip buddies! You take the hills, I’ll take the flats. ;-)
AM in NC
@Interesting Name Goes Here: Ha! I have a car magnet that says “May you have the day you voted for”
WTFGhost
@Old School: So the student loan scam is part of the “keep poor people poor” scam, like RTO and so forth. Biden almost erased a lot of debt, which would have erased a lot of future interest and late fees, etc., so the SCOTUS had to stop him, because they are good Catholics and good Catholic lawyers say it’s okay to (metaphorically speaking) rape the poor (in various positions, and utilizing various manners of entry), because who else can you beat down, spit on, and profit from? The wealthy? HAH! They’d take their business elsewhere!
No, really, that was a hard question in the Good Catholic Lawyer Catechism, because you had to answer with positions, entry methods, and further, interspersed, bits of information, in order.
But it’s only metaphorical, so it means you can kill them, you just have to have clean, green, hands when you do it.
danielx
@Deputinize America:
Wild with fear, as in the only way to escape the outhouse is by diving down the hole.