I really don’t trust that he will ever get justice. He can keep lawyers employed for far longer than he’ll be alive challenging charges. I’m so cynical these days.
True. In far too many ways he is untouchable prosecution-wise, but his reputation and public opinion in general is beyond saving. Even some of his acolytes have fallen out of love.
After this era, the geads of Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps, etc. should have the law licenses revoked. There's an ethics component to being members of the bar....
but perhaps, on the bright side, we can ensure that all those attorneys, working months and months even after that glorious day of his death, will be paid from his estate . . . Andy mentioned the family should be responsible financially for correcting all the damage tRump has done, but I believe anyone he's ever stiffed should also be reimbursed for their services. And in doing that, Eric will be working at Home Depot, Ivanka will be hawking perfumes at Macy's and Don Jr . . . well, he has no redeeming employment qualities, so let him go on unemployment.
I hear the dialogue from "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," while Nicholson is waiting on the bench before his final shock treatment. In the real world, American citizens are not waiting on a bench, but we are are being shocked over and over.
Thank God it is NOT destroying us because we are strong and resilient. We do not cave in before bullies. Or bow to false kings.
I sense a new toy in the works, replacing My Little Pony, for MAGA sheepeople. A gold painted mushroom on a minuscule stalk, mounted on a plastic base, with a screen printed caption: I am a bigly genius
Slender Man never had a chance at being a real boy; his father and father-in-law are both convicted criminals. And he married his father-in-law's dream date. I believe his manly orbs are probably in Ivanka's purse.
I just hope the American people are not deprived of getting to watch his descent into Hell. I vote for a slow, painful demise. (Snarky Annette has taken over my keyboard).
Very much like "A.B.Normal" ---we need to dissect that brain (and a whole host of others) to find out if the family that "plays" together, preys together. Sure seems likely.
Actually they referred to it as a "spider hole", which I never understood. He was in a septic tank, where he belonged. Why did the media cut him a break?
Amen, Al - I wish trump had a sensible brother who could shut him down, but our congress/Supreme Court are all we have, and they have no decency or integrity.
I laugh whenever I hear Trump threaten a lawsuit about Epstein comments. Not many guarantees in life but here’s one. Trump will never ever file a lawsuit about the Trump/Epstein partnership.
Charles is coming to visit? Oh nooooo. Please, stay in the palace. Leave well enough alone. Do not give Trump any credibility. Do not mistake a state visit with anything other than an attempt to extort the UK into some knotted deal. Have some self-respect and stay clear of the man. He will take you down with him.
Let's hope the Republican Party is either something from yesteryear by then, or... regroups/morphs into a healthier bipartisan grouping if honest individuals with integrity...well...I DID say "Let's hope..." Maybe they will make a book of fables about them...or a Harry Potter-like saga about good vs. the alternative.
This will sound like a good-news /bad-news joke, I think. A few months after 9/11, my room of about 30 students were talking about how our country would never recover from the horrible events of that day. I said that all things pass, and of course, because they were teenagers, they insisted that I was wrong. I said, “Pearl Harbor Day was yesterday. How many of you remembered that?” A few kids raised their hands. “How many of you care about it.” Nobody raised a hand. The bad news: it was just historical material that they had to learn until the test. (Maybe a few would think about it more seriously.). The good news: since we came out the other end with victory, they could see it as just historical material that they had to learn for the test - no matter how traumatic it was for those who lived through it. I’m desperately hoping our current situation dissolves into that category for future generations of high schoolers. They too will get serious about it when they mature, but all things pass. If we do our part now, God grant us victory in this crisis, too.
Forget textbooks--have the students read primary source materials, including those that contradict one another, and then develop arguments about which to trust. They need to acquire the skills necessary for thoughtful citizenship.
That's not really fair. Everyone else loved Diana, but Charles didn't. Camilla is the love of his life, always was, but he wasn't allowed to marry her because she wasn't "queen material." Among other things, she was divorced.
The rules for royal marriages have changed since then.
Political parties only care about power. The GOP will do whatever it can to keep this pedo out of jail. In a normal world if there’s such a thing, any member of congress would be prosecuted for protecting a pedophile, instead they protect him and all the big tech bros making billions.
It is likely that the former Prince, Andrew, perhaps on a trip to "The Island", had rubbed shoulders (or other body parts) with Jeffrey Epstein's bestie, Donald J. Trump. Just two entitled guys, looking for some fun. While ordinary boys were in the street playing stick ball, these two were hoping to get their balls sticky.
On another topic, Trump should stop looking to build giant monuments to himself and start looking for another country that will grant him asylum
Maybe Unca Vlad could get him a double-wide somewhere out in Eastern Siberia…
with a lot of gold trim
If vlad will have him, I'll donate the gold spray paint.
And I will donate a truck load of adult diapers.
And hot Russian maids!
No, big, old, ex-Olympic female shot-putters who will boss him around, feed him swill and not put up with his garbage!
Are you sure one would be able and know what to do with them? Believe this train has left the station some time ago.
Let's rethink that! They've suffered too much already.
--that'll flake off in the blizzards!
More likely is a condo in Moscow on a high floor with a balcony.
Can you imagine the thud that body would make hitting the pavement?
I think the landing would not be a thud but a squish
--with orange goo spreading ever outward in a wide circle!
Icky but perfect …
or a splat!
Ha ha, the earthquake heard round the world…..
Poor pavement.
--yet with Trump's padding, he would only bounce!
I imagine him more in the vast desert with lots of golf courses and hotels.
--like Sakhalin! Have Trump become acquainted with Ainu cuisine!
I think ‘Papillion’ is a better way to go. Let him eat roaches for the rest of his life.
Let him starve to death.
That would be so ironically fitting. And no ketchup within 1-3,000 miles.
I really don’t trust that he will ever get justice. He can keep lawyers employed for far longer than he’ll be alive challenging charges. I’m so cynical these days.
Yes, you can keep lawyers employed forever if you know you're never going to pay them.
He doesn’t need to hire lawyers; he has the entire justice department working for him. (And the Supreme Court in his pocket!)
with all these headlines, it makes it easier to know what parts of the government need to be revised once he leaves office
Bingo!
True. In far too many ways he is untouchable prosecution-wise, but his reputation and public opinion in general is beyond saving. Even some of his acolytes have fallen out of love.
Like who?
MTG?!
--next to the alleged diapers he wears underneath!
the lawyers are either paid by us/US or they are the ones he threatened and they gave him "free" services worth multi millions
After this era, the geads of Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps, etc. should have the law licenses revoked. There's an ethics component to being members of the bar....
What does geads mean? Heads?
but perhaps, on the bright side, we can ensure that all those attorneys, working months and months even after that glorious day of his death, will be paid from his estate . . . Andy mentioned the family should be responsible financially for correcting all the damage tRump has done, but I believe anyone he's ever stiffed should also be reimbursed for their services. And in doing that, Eric will be working at Home Depot, Ivanka will be hawking perfumes at Macy's and Don Jr . . . well, he has no redeeming employment qualities, so let him go on unemployment.
Or they can all go to prison for their roles in his crimes. Let's not forget Jared, too!
Father has orange hair, children wear orange jumpsuits......
Don Jr. can be bait for a trophy hunt
Fabulous idea!
What a great thread here and it’s just started. Y’all are on a roll today. Very amusing & entertaining.
Andy’s really inspired right now.
Let Don Jr. be the trophy and have his head mounted on a disgusting outhouse wall.
Product idea! Trump and his sons' pictures on dartboards to be sold online!
Or a urinal
Maybe he could look for critters at the cement pond. Right Elly?
Wee, doggie! And he can gift Bettina a big bottle of vanilla from Walmart as perfume.
Pretty sure that's what giving $500 million in Venezuelan oil money to Qatar is all about. His escape plan.
great! escape!
Yes! Go!
Go now, would be my choice.
To this point, the only place he could find was Antarctica. Being hopelessly dyslexic, Trump is taking Marco Rubio with him to translate Penguin.
He’s already levied tariffs on those islands with penguins, and seals, but no humans. Seals don’t forget.
Please leave Antarctica alone.
Yes!
<giggle>
Actually, little Marco is a penguin.....
Now littler than ever.
--while Marco just waves his fins hopelessly!
If another country won't give him asylum, he'll have to settle for the kind of asylum that comes with free white jackets with long sleeves.
<standing ovation> they're coming to take me away, hehe
I hear the dialogue from "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," while Nicholson is waiting on the bench before his final shock treatment. In the real world, American citizens are not waiting on a bench, but we are are being shocked over and over.
Thank God it is NOT destroying us because we are strong and resilient. We do not cave in before bullies. Or bow to false kings.
Yeah, we don't cave, but the heads of major law firms do. Go figure: $$$?
Brava, Susan.
Of course, he would be able to afford that while the much of the mentally ill are homeless!
Tragically true.
Everything about this shabby, petty, pissy, tiny man and his fetish for gigantism and gilt just screams MY LITTLE PENIS.
I sense a new toy in the works, replacing My Little Pony, for MAGA sheepeople. A gold painted mushroom on a minuscule stalk, mounted on a plastic base, with a screen printed caption: I am a bigly genius
Excellent!
too funny!
Yes dear, you are.
We’ll look at those pudgy little hands. A dead giveaway.
--and psychological and corporeal bloat!
Or sewer holes and septic tanks.
far more appropriate
His son in law has some great plans for his villa in Gaza.
Slender Man never had a chance at being a real boy; his father and father-in-law are both convicted criminals. And he married his father-in-law's dream date. I believe his manly orbs are probably in Ivanka's purse.
“Slender Man!”
“Manly orbs…”
Genius.
I’d call him Slender Boy or Stick Man as well.
That would be a great place for him as long as they end the cease fire agreement.
He enjoys dressing like a penguin in a tux. He'd fit right in at Antarctica.
I would just hate to see Antarctica spoiled that way.
Let’s have Randy Andy testify under oath when he gets here!
I boldly predict that Trump will evade justice through the simple expedient of dying. Perhaps he should be planning monuments in Hell...
I just hope the American people are not deprived of getting to watch his descent into Hell. I vote for a slow, painful demise. (Snarky Annette has taken over my keyboard).
Hurrah for Snarky Annette!
Ditto; she’s on a roll, again. Loving it.
How about an excruciating but relatively quick death?
They might be able to keep his head alive in a jar like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons.
or his brain...A.B.Normal...
Don't think he has one.
Very much like "A.B.Normal" ---we need to dissect that brain (and a whole host of others) to find out if the family that "plays" together, preys together. Sure seems likely.
please, no, we've seen enough of that face
Maybe Saddam Hussein rathole is still available!
Actually they referred to it as a "spider hole", which I never understood. He was in a septic tank, where he belonged. Why did the media cut him a break?
A septic tank is a perfect resting place for Dump.
Well the part about it being a septic tank is great … so fitting
The choice of countries will, I think, be limited. Even Russia, which took in Assad, would have good reason to hesitate.
There are plenty, North Korea, Russia, Saudi, Epstein Island, and Pleasure Island. The later being the cruelest - transforming into a donkey!
he just needs the hooves and the tail; he's already an ass
Not to mention all the loud braying!
Excellent!
Israel?
I feel like that's why he's got an offshore acct now... #hopeful
let's hope it gets hacked the day he leaves office . . . wouldn't that be a hoot?
Or now if there’s a hacker brave enough.
Imagine how gold that cold toilet will feel in the middle of the night.
If child sexual abuse can turn a prince into a former prince, it can turn a president into a former president.
Co-sign
Tangentially sine too.
Groaaaaan. Pun City
He should already be a former president in another world.
. . . on another planet.
in jail!
Well said! We'll take it; we'll take it!
ABSOLTELY
the felonies should have done that...
💯
Turn ‘em all into frogs.
Since they’re already toads that shouldn’t prove too difficult.
Amen, Al - I wish trump had a sensible brother who could shut him down, but our congress/Supreme Court are all we have, and they have no decency or integrity.
So, We the People are doing what we can!!
<standing ovation> with a whooping "hell yeah" in there for good measure
--in jail!
If only ...
Good one!
Thank you, Al, for a lovely thought.
New reality show: Anus and Andy
Now that was just bloody brilliant….. 👏👏👏
And the award for best comment ever goes to…
Al, you're winning the internet today (and my heart <3)
You won the internet for today.
OMG
--The White House as the Big Brother House?
These bros need to go Directly to the Big House. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect 200.
I laugh whenever I hear Trump threaten a lawsuit about Epstein comments. Not many guarantees in life but here’s one. Trump will never ever file a lawsuit about the Trump/Epstein partnership.
I hadn’t thought of that! He could sue Epstein’s estate. He’s so money-hungry, I bet he’d do it. Or at least it would make a good SNL skit.
He will never file any Epstein related law suit. Because any lawsuit requires discovery - documents and witnesses.
Right!
Charles is coming to visit? Oh nooooo. Please, stay in the palace. Leave well enough alone. Do not give Trump any credibility. Do not mistake a state visit with anything other than an attempt to extort the UK into some knotted deal. Have some self-respect and stay clear of the man. He will take you down with him.
I totally agree. I sincerely hope the king will cancel his visit. He has many legitimate reasons to do so.
I cringe when I think about what the schools will teach from this period of disgrace.
Let's hope the Republican Party is either something from yesteryear by then, or... regroups/morphs into a healthier bipartisan grouping if honest individuals with integrity...well...I DID say "Let's hope..." Maybe they will make a book of fables about them...or a Harry Potter-like saga about good vs. the alternative.
and tRump should become "He Who Shall Not be Named"
I’ve been using that moniker whenever I mention him in comments!
Trust me! I've been calling him that for years among other names! 😉
This will sound like a good-news /bad-news joke, I think. A few months after 9/11, my room of about 30 students were talking about how our country would never recover from the horrible events of that day. I said that all things pass, and of course, because they were teenagers, they insisted that I was wrong. I said, “Pearl Harbor Day was yesterday. How many of you remembered that?” A few kids raised their hands. “How many of you care about it.” Nobody raised a hand. The bad news: it was just historical material that they had to learn until the test. (Maybe a few would think about it more seriously.). The good news: since we came out the other end with victory, they could see it as just historical material that they had to learn for the test - no matter how traumatic it was for those who lived through it. I’m desperately hoping our current situation dissolves into that category for future generations of high schoolers. They too will get serious about it when they mature, but all things pass. If we do our part now, God grant us victory in this crisis, too.
Wise words!
Thanks for going into the noble profession of teaching!
thank you for this message, Molly . . . there's always hope
Let us hope and affirm there will be enough left after Trump to remember.......
Molly, you are a great teacher! Thank you for your wonderful perspective!
I hope textbooks cover this period of time as enthusiastically and violently as tRump has removing sections of our history from museums and parks.
I hope we don’t forgive or forget how this government and the officials treated people.
I hope this era will be remembered and taught in a manner akin to the Third Reich in Germany.
Forget textbooks--have the students read primary source materials, including those that contradict one another, and then develop arguments about which to trust. They need to acquire the skills necessary for thoughtful citizenship.
Testbooks, what textbooks? They will all have been removed and burned by the obermeisters.
--or, having done away regular books, edit the near-future Kindle-like reading machines constantly to suit their tastes. "1984", anyone?
I’m a retired teacher, and think that all curricula will be online
In the not too distant future.🫤
Yes!!!!
That depends on who writes it.
We just cringe and cringe already!
Very practical advice. Would guess Charles isn’t real excited about meeting with trump.
He should wear a hazmat suit and be covered with talismans.
--blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury who will undoubtedly think about Charlesto himself, "Better you than me!"
Seems like old times🎶
Such a succinct & yet to the point post. Brevity does the job in skewering 2 horrible men
One never did anything. The other can’t do anything.
This could be true. Charles is witty, self-deprecating and a charmer. I'm sure he thinks Trump is a lumpen bozo, same as Andrew.
But not a prince about keeping marriage vows either.
That's not really fair. Everyone else loved Diana, but Charles didn't. Camilla is the love of his life, always was, but he wasn't allowed to marry her because she wasn't "queen material." Among other things, she was divorced.
The rules for royal marriages have changed since then.
Maybe the rules don't use people as much as was Diana?
Not counting on it!
and a total momma's boy
Point of picky nit. I always thought only the eldest is a Windsor. All the others are plain old Mountbatten, no Windsor. Anybody know?
Anybody care?
Political parties only care about power. The GOP will do whatever it can to keep this pedo out of jail. In a normal world if there’s such a thing, any member of congress would be prosecuted for protecting a pedophile, instead they protect him and all the big tech bros making billions.
And don’t forget Melania—Andrew and Melania must go far back, too.
wouldn't tRump lose his mind if he thought he had Andrew's seconds
She was apparently many men’s seconds. Model, my ass. Try paid escort.
!!
what a horrible thought
It is likely that the former Prince, Andrew, perhaps on a trip to "The Island", had rubbed shoulders (or other body parts) with Jeffrey Epstein's bestie, Donald J. Trump. Just two entitled guys, looking for some fun. While ordinary boys were in the street playing stick ball, these two were hoping to get their balls sticky.
Hilarious. (Unfortunately)
Dump would be very happy hearing that the King was sending his brother in his place. As Dumpy might gleefully exclaim…
“Andy Pandy is coming to play!”
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition[16]
Perfect reminder of how history smooths over these motley men!
And best episode of Breaking Bad!
Thank you for this.
If Charles does come over, I will lose all respect for him not that I have much to begin with