Please no! We do not need any more MAGAts in West Texas. It's not all empty, and besides they'd destroy the beauty of the desert. Oh, maybe they could vacation at the new internment camp at Fort Bliss?
Good response. Texas is big enough to accommodate the red caps. Not Arizona, please, we have enough to worry about then more red cappers......... On second thought, maybe they could come in the summer and enjoy 110 + heat. 🤣
omg, and then some! Looks like a Party City glitter aisle bomb was thrown into the oval office (I'm purposely not capitalizing somethings that normally would be capitalized; its the tRump effect - LOL).
And Gaza and the West Bank. Does anyone think the once-great United States of America -- shining beacon on a hill etcetera -- is in large part morally bankrupt?
Hard to be bankrupt of something you never had. Speaking of Gaza did I see where real-estate mongrel(misspelled with purpose) son-in-law is on his way to Gaza?
I don't think Dump should worry about losing any states - I think it's best if he assume he's going to win every state and not even try.
I think Dump shouild worry less about adding Canada and Greenland and more about losing his mind. I wonder where it could be - he doesn't seem to be looking for where he last saw it. Or maybe it was never there.
Always felt these days were a little reminiscent of the Manchurian candidate. In any case, some have the reality they deserve and then there’s the rest of us who live in the upside down.
But wait, There was Helsinki, "the Russians didn't interfere", the withholding of funds and weapons for Ukraine, the red carpet for the murderer, the phone call to Moscow while he spoke with European leaders....predated by multiple comments of admiration for Putin and Kim....
Could there be something there...there? Shocking! /s
Bill Alstrom - You guessed it. But, instead of being hypnotized, Dump is distracted by flattery. I'm not sure there is a brain to wash in that head, but dangle fame and fortune in front of him and he'll do anything. Sell out his country - sure! So, he's not as smart as a green-leafy plant, but he's certainly been planted in the White House to destroy America. MARS - Make America Russia's Stooge. (Is that the actual place that Musk wants to take us?)
Well, Sarah McAuliffe-Bellin, there is the brain-washing similarity. And our country is being turned away from our Democratic allies and towards helping our Communist Enemies (Lil' Marco must feel so good about that, given the "escape" story that he flogged in order to get elected). Lots that is the same.
Not the actor, though, the character: Chance, the Gardener, who was called Chauncey Gardiner. Except that Chance, though of limited intelligence, knowledge, and experience, had good manners and no history of criminal -or even tortious- behavior. That makes him a blessing compared to what we have now: a DODO (acronym for D-ictator O-n D-ay O-ne, as well as an appropriate epithet, with no offense intended to extinct birds).
I wish we were. “The Mouse That Roared” is a favorite. I saw it when it was in theaters and I was a kid. Today would a child sit for a similar movie or even understand it?
You're right. Michael Steele, in interview with Marc Elias, said to remember the White House is a clown car. Some people are entertained by the clowns for now, but the real damage they're doing will become painfully apparent when our health care is gone, our jobs change or disappear, mortgage rates are sky high, and we're all paying ridiculous prices (right now) for essential goods. DJT is only an entertainer, and 'Bobo the Clown' produces a new episode of his clown show each and every day. Sad.
I can't wait until the day we can start undoing all the damage done by the Commander in Cheat. Look at how we regained respect with world leaders after tRump 1.0
Nah, not dystopian enough. Most of the "scary" stories didn't capture the gleeful cruelty displayed by those currently in charge and the level of anger that's just waiting to erupt.
Aside from Trump, the administration is loaded up with sociopaths (e.g. Noem), psychopaths (e.g. Miller) and straight up nut jobs (e.g. Lutnick). I'm not sure which mental disorder Vance has, but it has something to do with an empty lack of self identity. "Gleeful cruelty" is the perfect term.
Noem is trying to pass as normal but not doing a very good job at it. Boasting about shooting her dog in the face? She needs to watch more Dexter to learn how passing as normal is done.
Russell Vought and Peter Navarro deserve more than an honorable mention too. And there should be a category for the "stupids." Hogsbreath, Kashyap, McMahon...etc.
Do not forget bat-guano crazy RFK, Jr. Come to think of it, I can't come up with the name of anyone in this kakistocracy who isn't a total nutjob, a criminal, a drunk, a traitor, an unprincipled grifter, an idiot or a ne'er-do-well.
I'm constantly reminded of Woody Allen's "Bananas." The new, power-crazed dictator proclaims, "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish"
I could think of a specific one in which we are certainly stuck - except there is no sane person in charge because the crazy person is the President, not the General, and the comedy satire has turned into horror reality.
But, we could write our own movie and cast Peter Sellers in any or every role, and it would be our current reality.
Thank you as always, Andy, for a smile to start the day. And BTW let's not forget another incompetent & stupid man (president HA!) who failed to help a drowning city. 20 years later New Orleans still bears the scars of it's natural disaster named Katrina. Think how much worse disasters will now be since Felon 47 has wrecked FEMA.
And I’ll never forget what Barbara said of the displaced, often homeless, citizens huddled in the Superdome: (appx): “They probably have it better here than at their own homes.”
Her exact quote was that the displaced people “were underprivileged anyway so this is working very well for him.” The audio has been virtually scrubbed from the Internet but I located it here: https://x.com/tariqnasheed/status/986455710434082816
I remember that well, Sam, and how horrified and repelled I felt. After that, I could never see, hear, or think of her without feeling a sickly, cold rage. The passage of time has calmed the response a bit, but not my incomprehension.
Your comment is rather eye-opening and actually helps my inner roilings become less foamy, if you will. We're looking at the same thing from opposite sides of the room. Your comment is "Stay aware that she is one of us, a human being." There but for the grace of sanity or awareness or decency...
Okay, I'm thinking aloud. I'm also recalling from the news coverage at Astrodome the sleeping areas. Cots had been set up and positioned in an effort to give the families the closest possible thing to privacy -- all way out in the open. Everyday items that you'd never think of in a bedroom were in view, things like dishes, I suppose. The facial expressions on the people who'd come from Louisiana were blank, stunned and saying, "What now? What do we do now?"
Certainly not all southerners, but barbara's remarks and her tone bring to mind the phrase "southern hospitality." Sure. Enough from me.
I always felt that George W was at least making an effort. Trump is deliberately burning it all to the ground, and the higher the body count the better. I mean, that's Elon Musk's MO. They truly are kindred souls - at least until they discovered that they can't stand each other.
I think probably the stupidest thing he has said was calling the Declaration of Independence a “ love letter”…. More like divorce papers for King George. I think Jabba the Gut also said the Civil War was fought as a result. Jesus Christ!!!
it's ironic that he called the Declaration of Independence a "love letter" - first, he hasn't read it so he has no idea what it contains, and secondly, he's never written, nor received a love letter, so how would he know what one was.
Sorry, Greenland. We Great White Northerners absolutely support your independence, but recently changed our email address. Too much smut coming from the South.
Does anyone else feel like this is a rerun of the Watergate bunglers getting caught? AND, the fact this idiot has always been enamored with Nixon should have been the red flag for any American! Is his precious letter from Nixon in a gold frame next to the Declaration of Independence?
On Bill Maher's show Christopher Rufo said that Nixon would be exonerated. Since he represents the "intellectual" side of MAGA, this must be part of their plan after the authoritarian coup.
Watergate blew up in Nixon’s face, but republicans rued the day he resigned. And they vowed that a republican potus wd never have to resign again no matter what laws he broke. That’s a major reason we have the liars on Fox… but they paid $787million due to their own lies over their deceptive trump coverage & blatant lies. And now, there are 20+ former Fox fools in the administration. Talk about absurd! The entire world sees the absurdity, and they’re laughing at our clown in chief; meanwhile the GOP is reaping/raping our money from us for them and their $ benefactors. Funny/not Funny
Trump should worry less about adding Canada and Greenland and more about losing California and Illinois
And Massachusetts...please!
and Maryland
And Hawaii! MAGAts can go fucking vacation somewhere else…like the emptiness of West Texas!
And, please, may they not come to Wyoming
If they do, well-timed pushes into a Yellowstone geyser or mud-spring?
But, no. I don't want to be violent. Not yet anyway.
Please no! We do not need any more MAGAts in West Texas. It's not all empty, and besides they'd destroy the beauty of the desert. Oh, maybe they could vacation at the new internment camp at Fort Bliss?
Good response. Texas is big enough to accommodate the red caps. Not Arizona, please, we have enough to worry about then more red cappers......... On second thought, maybe they could come in the summer and enjoy 110 + heat. 🤣
--and do a slow bake where all the toxic juices ooze out of them!
Bring your own drip tray.
And Connecticut, Please!!!
Yes, Connecticut can easily turn into a raft.
--or join with Massachusetts next door southward. Throw in Rhode Island, too!.
You beat me too it, we can't threaten redistricting because all our congresspeople are Democratic
… and Michigan and New York and Iowa (kicking some butt there!) and …
A blue wave 🌊 is coming.
Many red-hatted behinds to be kicked into next week, next month!
We should worry more about losing our minds!
Too late!
:-) !!
The MAGATS have lost theirs, let us keep a grip on ours! Please!
But let's not tell HIM that! We need to distract him so he does lose - all the states!
Doubt we can do a better job of distracting him than his own mush-filled brain does.
then again, I'm happy to let him be distracted by shiny things, while we work feverishly to get our country back!
Plenty of gold doodads in the Oval Office to be waved before his squinty eyes!
omg, and then some! Looks like a Party City glitter aisle bomb was thrown into the oval office (I'm purposely not capitalizing somethings that normally would be capitalized; its the tRump effect - LOL).
Add Ukraine and I'm in.
And Gaza and the West Bank. Does anyone think the once-great United States of America -- shining beacon on a hill etcetera -- is in large part morally bankrupt?
Hard to be bankrupt of something you never had. Speaking of Gaza did I see where real-estate mongrel(misspelled with purpose) son-in-law is on his way to Gaza?
Almost no penny left in any ethical reserve...
OMG, of course! Thanks for reminding us.
I don't think Dump should worry about losing any states - I think it's best if he assume he's going to win every state and not even try.
I think Dump shouild worry less about adding Canada and Greenland and more about losing his mind. I wonder where it could be - he doesn't seem to be looking for where he last saw it. Or maybe it was never there.
Impossible to lose what you never had.
--even though one looks and looks....
Add losong the entire Left Coast thanks to Ferguson, Kotek, and Newsom who've just sent Bondi some Big, Beautifulĺ Pacific Coast sand to pound.
May she stick her blonde head in it!
And Wisconsin. "Eat Cheese or Die!"
is that the state motto, because I could really get behind that!
And New Jersey…we cannot let Ciattarelli bring MAGA here!
I don’t know Andy, maybe it’s better that trump focuses on things that won’t happen than on things that might well happen….
he does that a lot; that's why he's delusional
Secession, anyone?
Yes! And he never had New York.
Secession, anyone?
Too Funny You 🤣 this morning ☕ Scott!! But you're absolutely Right, another good article, Thank you, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
This report perfectly describes the insane absurdity of our current time. More and more I feel as if we are in a movie starring Peter Sellers.
More like Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone.
Yes, for sure. And maybe: "Outer Limits" with Roald Dahl
We seem to be stuck in the Twilight Outer Limits Zone starring Peter Sellers.
--with Rod Serling rolling his eyes like mad!
:-) :-) :-)!!
Roald Dahl hosted the series "Way Out." It was like The Twilight Zone, but without the optimism.
The theme song should be played now on all newscasts!
Always felt these days were a little reminiscent of the Manchurian candidate. In any case, some have the reality they deserve and then there’s the rest of us who live in the upside down.
Trump a "plant"? Really?
But wait, There was Helsinki, "the Russians didn't interfere", the withholding of funds and weapons for Ukraine, the red carpet for the murderer, the phone call to Moscow while he spoke with European leaders....predated by multiple comments of admiration for Putin and Kim....
Could there be something there...there? Shocking! /s
And fracking obvious!
Bill Alstrom - You guessed it. But, instead of being hypnotized, Dump is distracted by flattery. I'm not sure there is a brain to wash in that head, but dangle fame and fortune in front of him and he'll do anything. Sell out his country - sure! So, he's not as smart as a green-leafy plant, but he's certainly been planted in the White House to destroy America. MARS - Make America Russia's Stooge. (Is that the actual place that Musk wants to take us?)
Make America Russia’s Stooge (MARS)”
“MARS” brought to you by Putin and the KGB.
Well, Sarah McAuliffe-Bellin, there is the brain-washing similarity. And our country is being turned away from our Democratic allies and towards helping our Communist Enemies (Lil' Marco must feel so good about that, given the "escape" story that he flogged in order to get elected). Lots that is the same.
--and falling off!
I feel like we’re being ruled by Peter Sellers
Who is installing speed bimps on Democracy.
"Does your dog bite?"
Not the actor, though, the character: Chance, the Gardener, who was called Chauncey Gardiner. Except that Chance, though of limited intelligence, knowledge, and experience, had good manners and no history of criminal -or even tortious- behavior. That makes him a blessing compared to what we have now: a DODO (acronym for D-ictator O-n D-ay O-ne, as well as an appropriate epithet, with no offense intended to extinct birds).
I would rather be ruled by him that two orange dolls
--or even the blonde one at the Department of Justice!
We were, but Mr Sellers came to the conclusion that Dictators are beneath contempt, so he stopped ruling.
If so, we'd be laughing a lot harder!
I wish we were. “The Mouse That Roared” is a favorite. I saw it when it was in theaters and I was a kid. Today would a child sit for a similar movie or even understand it?
You're right. Michael Steele, in interview with Marc Elias, said to remember the White House is a clown car. Some people are entertained by the clowns for now, but the real damage they're doing will become painfully apparent when our health care is gone, our jobs change or disappear, mortgage rates are sky high, and we're all paying ridiculous prices (right now) for essential goods. DJT is only an entertainer, and 'Bobo the Clown' produces a new episode of his clown show each and every day. Sad.
I can't wait until the day we can start undoing all the damage done by the Commander in Cheat. Look at how we regained respect with world leaders after tRump 1.0
--and lost again with Trump -2.0.
Nah, not dystopian enough. Most of the "scary" stories didn't capture the gleeful cruelty displayed by those currently in charge and the level of anger that's just waiting to erupt.
Aside from Trump, the administration is loaded up with sociopaths (e.g. Noem), psychopaths (e.g. Miller) and straight up nut jobs (e.g. Lutnick). I'm not sure which mental disorder Vance has, but it has something to do with an empty lack of self identity. "Gleeful cruelty" is the perfect term.
Noem is trying to pass as normal but not doing a very good job at it. Boasting about shooting her dog in the face? She needs to watch more Dexter to learn how passing as normal is done.
Russell Vought and Peter Navarro deserve more than an honorable mention too. And there should be a category for the "stupids." Hogsbreath, Kashyap, McMahon...etc.
Here in blue San Diego we defeated Navarro for Mayor a few times!
<golf clap> . . . now, to get him out of D.C.!
Exorcism or burn one heck of a pile of sage!
Q: Is McMahon the same person as the one affectionately known as McBaloney?
The rest of Trump's crew just plain baloney gone bad in the fridge!
baloney with that green tinge - yuck!!
affectionately, not sure, but I do like the moniker
:-) !!
Consider adding to the list: bat-shit-crazy RFK, Jr; airhead Leavitt; too-stupid-to-exist Pirro.
Don't forget the worst of the worst - RFK.
RFK=Real Freaky Kook!
Do not forget bat-guano crazy RFK, Jr. Come to think of it, I can't come up with the name of anyone in this kakistocracy who isn't a total nutjob, a criminal, a drunk, a traitor, an unprincipled grifter, an idiot or a ne'er-do-well.
We live in an Idiocracy these days
I know that's true.
-and let her run a funeral parlor, if she can, instead of Homeland Security!
directed by Mr. Magoo!
I'm constantly reminded of Woody Allen's "Bananas." The new, power-crazed dictator proclaims, "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish"
Yes! Dr Strangelove
Through the looking glass
“Does your dog bite?” Grrrrr r r r Chomping…. “ ‘e eez not my dog…”. Peter Sellers for Pres.
I could think of a specific one in which we are certainly stuck - except there is no sane person in charge because the crazy person is the President, not the General, and the comedy satire has turned into horror reality.
But, we could write our own movie and cast Peter Sellers in any or every role, and it would be our current reality.
Complete with Orange Panther. Cue the theme song. Always liked that one.
--although Mr. Sellers was slightly more sane....
Thank you as always, Andy, for a smile to start the day. And BTW let's not forget another incompetent & stupid man (president HA!) who failed to help a drowning city. 20 years later New Orleans still bears the scars of it's natural disaster named Katrina. Think how much worse disasters will now be since Felon 47 has wrecked FEMA.
George W set the standard for installing incompetent loyalists in important positions (Heckuva job, Brownie!) that Trump is now surpassing
And I’ll never forget what Barbara said of the displaced, often homeless, citizens huddled in the Superdome: (appx): “They probably have it better here than at their own homes.”
Her exact quote was that the displaced people “were underprivileged anyway so this is working very well for him.” The audio has been virtually scrubbed from the Internet but I located it here: https://x.com/tariqnasheed/status/986455710434082816
Andy, that it's been scrubbed from the internet is as hideous as her having said it.
Thank you for taking the time to present this! There are moments in time that say it all, and I thought of this as one of them.
The fruit did not fall very far from the Batshit Barbara Tree!
Thanks for the refresher. Are we sure Miller isn't hers?
I remember that well, Sam, and how horrified and repelled I felt. After that, I could never see, hear, or think of her without feeling a sickly, cold rage. The passage of time has calmed the response a bit, but not my incomprehension.
You have to love the brutal transparency of it though! To be so unaware of or just plain unconcerned about such self-exposure!
Your comment is rather eye-opening and actually helps my inner roilings become less foamy, if you will. We're looking at the same thing from opposite sides of the room. Your comment is "Stay aware that she is one of us, a human being." There but for the grace of sanity or awareness or decency...
Okay, I'm thinking aloud. I'm also recalling from the news coverage at Astrodome the sleeping areas. Cots had been set up and positioned in an effort to give the families the closest possible thing to privacy -- all way out in the open. Everyday items that you'd never think of in a bedroom were in view, things like dishes, I suppose. The facial expressions on the people who'd come from Louisiana were blank, stunned and saying, "What now? What do we do now?"
Certainly not all southerners, but barbara's remarks and her tone bring to mind the phrase "southern hospitality." Sure. Enough from me.
-30-
She didn't really care, did she.
Yes, Janeo. Sounds like shades of melania, doesn't it?
--and Melania is certainly shady!
I’m voting you are quite correct!
I always felt that George W was at least making an effort. Trump is deliberately burning it all to the ground, and the higher the body count the better. I mean, that's Elon Musk's MO. They truly are kindred souls - at least until they discovered that they can't stand each other.
T is reckless.
if only we knew then, what we know now . . . perhaps we could have made better choices and decisions
like enrolling at the local shooting range?
or electing congress people who were self-less and realized the importance of their position
Dream the Impossible Dream!
every. damn. day.
But the electorate knew better and voted self-interest anyway.
Or was something in the water?
Of course Trump is best at that.
That is only because melania told him, "Be best."
Make that "Be beest."
Right?! I genuinely believed it couldn’t be worse than W. So it’s all my fault. I jinxed us. Sorry, folks. 🥺
Savvy folk, those Greenlanders.
What would an application rejection letter look like from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee?
Paula -- they may delegate the letter writing to Letitia James 🤔
as long as they don't delegate it to Melanoma
Dear Donald: Go faen yourself.
"Hell No" in either Swedish or Norwegian!
Very funny! Greenland, don’t let those bastards plunder your minerals.
And also is Pres. Evil’s new plan to let RFK Jr kill most of us off? Gerrymandering not enough to get those voter rolls down?
Hartvig, you’re back! Det er godt at se dig igen!😍
you had me at "Hartvig Dorkelson"!
Wouldn't a Danish name be "Dorkelsen"?
Precisely!
Trump is annexing Greenland so that he can send the Epstein case there in hopes it becomes a "cold" case!
No doubt he'll send his 2 top diplomats, Justa plus Lutnick, to negotiate a deal! What could possibly go wrong? 🥸
A big KABOOM!
I remember when Justa negotiated with Japan & Germany over the end of WWII. Is it too late for a Noɓel?
In this universe, yes!
Some days the titles of TBR are the first and only smile of the day. Thanks, Andy!!
I think probably the stupidest thing he has said was calling the Declaration of Independence a “ love letter”…. More like divorce papers for King George. I think Jabba the Gut also said the Civil War was fought as a result. Jesus Christ!!!
A copy was flown to King George via the Redcoat Airforce. Remembering all those English airfields during the Revolution...
<snicker>
it's ironic that he called the Declaration of Independence a "love letter" - first, he hasn't read it so he has no idea what it contains, and secondly, he's never written, nor received a love letter, so how would he know what one was.
👏👏👏😅. You said it, Annette!
Any l"love" etters to Trump would not be perfumed, but stink like manure!
Bill: He’d blame the civil war on Obama, not the Declaration of Independence.
Preferably with relevant references highlighted
“We’re certainly not going to accept a character reference from Ghislaine” should be emblazoned on T-shirts and become our national motto.
<standing ovation>
Another motto, "Watch where that hand goes, Donald!"
Sorry, Greenland. We Great White Northerners absolutely support your independence, but recently changed our email address. Too much smut coming from the South.
Does anyone else feel like this is a rerun of the Watergate bunglers getting caught? AND, the fact this idiot has always been enamored with Nixon should have been the red flag for any American! Is his precious letter from Nixon in a gold frame next to the Declaration of Independence?
Compared to Agent Orange and his buffoons, Nixon and his goons were Mensa-quality. There are no words to describe how low this regime will go.
Scrapings off the bottom of the barrel!
On Bill Maher's show Christopher Rufo said that Nixon would be exonerated. Since he represents the "intellectual" side of MAGA, this must be part of their plan after the authoritarian coup.
Watergate blew up in Nixon’s face, but republicans rued the day he resigned. And they vowed that a republican potus wd never have to resign again no matter what laws he broke. That’s a major reason we have the liars on Fox… but they paid $787million due to their own lies over their deceptive trump coverage & blatant lies. And now, there are 20+ former Fox fools in the administration. Talk about absurd! The entire world sees the absurdity, and they’re laughing at our clown in chief; meanwhile the GOP is reaping/raping our money from us for them and their $ benefactors. Funny/not Funny
Really, really not funny!