Devoting a 352-page book to unmasking a president who is no longer in office instead of the one currently creating global chaos indicates serious mental impairment, the experts asserted.
It’s just bizarre! We have a “president” who is a felon and is continuously overstepping the constitutional boundaries, and yet all the attention is going towards a man who spent his entire life serving his country to the best of his abilities with integrity. Our culture has become sick.
I always thought Through the Looking Glass was a fairy tale. Apparently not. Turns out it was prophesy. Who needs Nostradamus when Alice is the one who knows it all.
But that's the whole point. 35% of America belongs to a cruel, deranged cult and an essay on the evils of Trump only increase that percentage: witness better polling with every indictment. I'm a democrat and feel completely betrayed by those in power that kept up the Biden is fine charade. Should we stoop down to Trump's level, or, own up to the horrendous cover up and gaslighting in our own party, kick out the guilty party, and move forward, or let the powers that be continue to exert their traitorous power over us. Borowitz is wrong on this and if we don't recognize that, kiss 2026 and 2028 goodbye.
If you think President Biden's term in office was Hell, you have no idea what Hell is. But now that the Convicted Felon is in the White House, watching TV and planning golf outings where he can cheat to his "heart's" content, you are about to find out.
Because his entire administration and party are the "Monster", topped off with corruption within the justice system. Trump's sociopathic mind has meticulously formed this "new government". Four years of revenge planning were all that it took. This is not new behavior for him. He gaslighted our nation during his first term, now he's out for it all. How many of his associates has he torched once they were no longer useful to him? God willing, the supporters he still has will begin to see the light and realize they are being tossed crumbs until he reaches his "throne". I can't help but wonder how long the rich will continue to get richer??
I still don't think that this demented, stupid, ignorant, hateful, lazy, greedy fool is the one pulling the strings. Project 2025 was years in production.
Yes, I see your point. It still is incomprehensible that the Democratic Party seems to just stand there as trumpf illegally destroys our very Government, and there is no "Kill Switch" in the sense of an electric machine can be instantly stopped that is malfunctioning and destroying everything there is.
To me, it feels like we are living in a "Twilight Zone" void of rational thought and reasoning where reality is constantly being repudiated by a cult lead by a madman who has proven time and time again that he is a pox on society.
Seriously, though, the media "feeds" them a completely different worldview of reality than all of us see. Ever since J6 I decided to keep a sharp eye on what kind of BS they believe from their media feed, and it is maddening to see. The members of their cult sure don't see what our culture sees.
(New word; "Cult-sure". When members of a cult are really sure their cult culture is for sure real.😁)
Brave indeed. A friend used to watch Faux to keep track of the lies, but she was a political operative, and therefore strong-stomached. An in-law had to stop after one week.
Yes, MAGA cultists are fed a far right fascist world view that Trump wants, but I am beginning to understand we are all bring fed a world view that isn't necessarily based in reality, and unfortunately its to get subscription money. There is so much cutsey name calling, extreme left story time, and so on, but based on numerous polls and studies, most Americans are much more centric, rejecting the extrimists on both sides of the aisle, where most American opinion lands. I strongly encourage everyone to calm down and seek out reality. I know people who are so entrenched in doom scrolling they are actually hoarding food staples, seeds, and water against the day they have to flee their homes and hide in the wilderness to avoid arrest for speaking out against the Republicans currently in power. Kool-aid is Kool-aid, no matter who's serving it. We've seen what happens when right wing extremists go off (jan 6 2021). What happens when left wingers go off? We need level heads not mobs.
Thank you for reading. If you don’t follow Steven Beschloss on substack, you might want to read his column today.
He congratulates the very brave CBS News stalwart Scott Pelley on his courageous, truthful Commencement Address this weekend at Wake Forest Univ. 👏🏼👏🏼 🇺🇸🇺🇸 👊🏻✊🏽👊🏼 #Resist
And yet, in between elections, mobs may be exactly what we need. As in huge groups of protestors sufficient to convince enough legislators that it's in their best interest to do their elected jobs. Perhaps "level-headed mobs"?
Agree. In fact, I am highly critical of the liberal extremists for ruining the Democratic Party and unwittingly helping put Trump in office.
Liberal preppers? I never would have guessed. Maybe they will flee with the conservative preppers, and learn to live together in the woods? They could start a new political party. The Paranoid Party. Call them the PP's because they tend to pee themselves when scared.
One more thing. Please pay attention to David Hogg who is leading the charge to replace the ineffective incumbent Democrats in the primary elections. If the people consider their favorites to be worth keeping, then they can defeat a primary challenger.
I say FIRE THEM ALL! Look at their response to the events happening right in front of their faces right now. INEFFECTIVE!
All they do is write useless petitions and beg for donations.
JT's book and book tour scream for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution that sets a limit on the number of DANGEROUS OLIGARCHS & POTUS ENABLERS (DOPES) in the WH and Congress.
Exceeding the limit would trigger a new election. We all know who has set the record in US history books.
In support of Andy's thesis, first we need an amendment that limits journalists to reporting on current events and only allows historians to dwell in the past (think what journalists would be forced to ignore -- 2020 election, Obama's tan suit, Hillary's emails ....)
So how did it (the election of a racist psychotic buffoon) happen...again? Agreeing with with your understated assessment of the felon in-chief, I'm at a loss to comprehend how an honorable man who'd basically saved the country and accomplished historic gains was allowed to go back on his word and run for re-election with obviously no gas left in the tank? The debate was one of the saddest public experiences I've ever witnessed.
I'm still waiting for somebody to come out from behind the proverbial curtain and say: "Just kidding!! .... Joe, come on out here so we can let this tool get back to where he came from'
When I first heard about this book I was furious. It's ok to write a book about a president but to demean, insult and attack the subject could have waited until a far more appropriate time. I used to like Jake's TV spots. I can't look at him any more. What were they thinking??? But the book? Not a chance!!
I like Jake, but it seems he's fallen into the trap of ,"How to get past this humiliating defeat and subsequent horror by blaming someone out of the picture so the rest of us can move on." Jake is a media creature, and honestly believes that by "owning up" to Biden's imperfections in a media forum, he can move the needle of trashing Biden and the Democrats past this moment. Admire his work, but it won't be as effective as he seems to intend. His efforts don't hold a candle to Trump's machinery.
first I despise Tapper, second disagree re his honest attempt to *whatever* (my thing w tapper is, among minor gripes, the time some years ago he 'reported' on something about Canada, forget what but it was OutToLunch - when called on it he whined that he'd got the info from his relatives in Toronto [great source, no checking elsewhere])
Thanks for pointing out the craziness of pointing out how Biden is suffering mental decline. He could have pointed out that the country and economy were doing very well under Biden and has turned to trash in the first 100 days of our new "stable genius"
Maybe Tapper will write a sequel about Trump's mental deficiencies (both psychological and cognitive) but for now they are accepted by him and the rest of lazy, cowardly MSM as the unacknowledged baseline. If Dear Leader walked into the Rose Garden with his pants over his head, the headline would be "Trump's Bold Fashion Sense a Death Knell to Belt Manufacturing."
I used to follow Jake Tapper on Substack. Because of his unnecessary book, I no longer follow him. We need help keeping the spotlight on dump to expose his evilness not Biden, who is retired and ill now.
It is no small coincidence they are picking on Biden even more now since his diagnosis. In nature, predators always prey on those most vulnerable. The very young, the elderly, and the injured. But these two legged predators forget that we humans stand up for each other.
President Biden is a distraction. And they desperately need distractions from their mess.
Distraction is their modus operandi. Tapper and his publisher should be ashamed, but I suspect that they are incapable of shame. Focusing on an elderly man who is seriously ill and his former enablers as if it should come as a surprise to anyone who is/was even partly paying attention? It is part of the broader culture of the White House, but the current inhabitant and his enablers have truly outdone themselves, while Tapper preens as if he had produced a work of serious investigative journalism. He and his ilk are as much a part of the problem as the group of madmen currently wielding power, all of whom are just loving Tapper right now for providing them with a logical fallacy...the famous red herring.
Let us not forget the Biden administration was competent, not criminal. If this crap Jake Tapper is selling mattered, maybe he shouldn’t have kept it a secret in order to sell a book.
Is it possible to cognitively slip without turning into the world's all time scum bucket? Imagine attacking a stage 4 (or in Trump's expansive brain, stage 9) cancer victim on Memorial Day in a speech at Arlington.
I thought Jake Tapper was one of the few good guys left in news reporting but after hawking his book for a month while Washington is burning, , he’s become just another hack.
I'm ecstatic about your latest column. Tapper's book is a disgrace. You are so right! We should be celebrating what Joe Biden tried to do rather than focusing on his physical decline. Who cares if he was sick sooner than we thought? He was still fighting and behaving with honor, unlike this opportunist catering to the worst instincts of a misguided public. Still, I believe history will judge Biden kindly. Thank you for all you do.
he gave so much over lifetime, got country back on track after first trump mess, produced what I kept reading as greatest in world, in history even, and now in his old age and with old-man cancer, people stomp on him
In an age in which the American Press has too often shirked its duty to demonstrate responsible journalism, is there a place for resurrecting an underground press?
It’s just bizarre! We have a “president” who is a felon and is continuously overstepping the constitutional boundaries, and yet all the attention is going towards a man who spent his entire life serving his country to the best of his abilities with integrity. Our culture has become sick.
we're living in the great upside down world!
I always thought Through the Looking Glass was a fairy tale. Apparently not. Turns out it was prophesy. Who needs Nostradamus when Alice is the one who knows it all.
tRump's presidencies are more like Stranger Things... no fairy tales for him, you know, DEI is dead!
But that's the whole point. 35% of America belongs to a cruel, deranged cult and an essay on the evils of Trump only increase that percentage: witness better polling with every indictment. I'm a democrat and feel completely betrayed by those in power that kept up the Biden is fine charade. Should we stoop down to Trump's level, or, own up to the horrendous cover up and gaslighting in our own party, kick out the guilty party, and move forward, or let the powers that be continue to exert their traitorous power over us. Borowitz is wrong on this and if we don't recognize that, kiss 2026 and 2028 goodbye.
Yup, we are living in the land down under, and I am not talking about Australia..
HELL is supposed to be underground. What happened!
Maybe we all died after Trump was elected in 2016, and we are in hell!
Maybe hells are just temporary? After all we had Biden in 2020.
Michael,
If you mean the hell of 2016-2020 was ended by Biden 2020-2024, I agree with you.
But I fear the current hell has already lasted too long, will take decades to remedy, and may in fact be irreparable (at least in my lifetime).
2020-2024, gob-smacking in a good way. It was a little taste of heaven, to get us all lulled into a false sense of security.
If you think President Biden's term in office was Hell, you have no idea what Hell is. But now that the Convicted Felon is in the White House, watching TV and planning golf outings where he can cheat to his "heart's" content, you are about to find out.
--an undeserved hell---
That explains what I've been wondering about.
I wish I knew why they can't just STOP the monster!
Because his entire administration and party are the "Monster", topped off with corruption within the justice system. Trump's sociopathic mind has meticulously formed this "new government". Four years of revenge planning were all that it took. This is not new behavior for him. He gaslighted our nation during his first term, now he's out for it all. How many of his associates has he torched once they were no longer useful to him? God willing, the supporters he still has will begin to see the light and realize they are being tossed crumbs until he reaches his "throne". I can't help but wonder how long the rich will continue to get richer??
I still don't think that this demented, stupid, ignorant, hateful, lazy, greedy fool is the one pulling the strings. Project 2025 was years in production.
Yes, I see your point. It still is incomprehensible that the Democratic Party seems to just stand there as trumpf illegally destroys our very Government, and there is no "Kill Switch" in the sense of an electric machine can be instantly stopped that is malfunctioning and destroying everything there is.
The earth's poles switched?
Tectonic plates broke.
To me, it feels like we are living in a "Twilight Zone" void of rational thought and reasoning where reality is constantly being repudiated by a cult lead by a madman who has proven time and time again that he is a pox on society.
well said, Sue... just when you think he can't possibly do something more heinous . . . he does
I like to refer to president *rump as being "a hemorrhoid" on the ass of the world.
I feel that we are all in a horrible nightmare and we can’t wake up .
What do you mean "Our culture"? 😂
That's not the culture I signed up for!🤣
It's just the MAGA media madness culture.🤔
Seriously, though, the media "feeds" them a completely different worldview of reality than all of us see. Ever since J6 I decided to keep a sharp eye on what kind of BS they believe from their media feed, and it is maddening to see. The members of their cult sure don't see what our culture sees.
(New word; "Cult-sure". When members of a cult are really sure their cult culture is for sure real.😁)
Firstly, wow. So well put. Secondly, man you have courage to expose yourself to all that “ cult sure” assault to our senses. Thank you.
Love the pun.
Me too but not mine See Phil M above
Well, since he doesn’t use his full name, 🤞🏼🤞🏼 he will be safe.
What a nightmare we are living through!
Brave indeed. A friend used to watch Faux to keep track of the lies, but she was a political operative, and therefore strong-stomached. An in-law had to stop after one week.
I saw an interesting post about keeping track of the medias lies :
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/how-to-dismantle-the-medias-bothsidesism?r=hee6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The author asks us to catalog the “both sideism” to assist in fighting it
Thanks for the link.
politifact.com is also good.
Yes, MAGA cultists are fed a far right fascist world view that Trump wants, but I am beginning to understand we are all bring fed a world view that isn't necessarily based in reality, and unfortunately its to get subscription money. There is so much cutsey name calling, extreme left story time, and so on, but based on numerous polls and studies, most Americans are much more centric, rejecting the extrimists on both sides of the aisle, where most American opinion lands. I strongly encourage everyone to calm down and seek out reality. I know people who are so entrenched in doom scrolling they are actually hoarding food staples, seeds, and water against the day they have to flee their homes and hide in the wilderness to avoid arrest for speaking out against the Republicans currently in power. Kool-aid is Kool-aid, no matter who's serving it. We've seen what happens when right wing extremists go off (jan 6 2021). What happens when left wingers go off? We need level heads not mobs.
A brave, reality-based comment. Thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you for reading. If you don’t follow Steven Beschloss on substack, you might want to read his column today.
He congratulates the very brave CBS News stalwart Scott Pelley on his courageous, truthful Commencement Address this weekend at Wake Forest Univ. 👏🏼👏🏼 🇺🇸🇺🇸 👊🏻✊🏽👊🏼 #Resist
Thanks for the top. I will check it out
And yet, in between elections, mobs may be exactly what we need. As in huge groups of protestors sufficient to convince enough legislators that it's in their best interest to do their elected jobs. Perhaps "level-headed mobs"?
"Mob" is too pejorative a term, and it's also slang for Mafia. Mass protests might be a better one. Any other ideas?
Agree. In fact, I am highly critical of the liberal extremists for ruining the Democratic Party and unwittingly helping put Trump in office.
Liberal preppers? I never would have guessed. Maybe they will flee with the conservative preppers, and learn to live together in the woods? They could start a new political party. The Paranoid Party. Call them the PP's because they tend to pee themselves when scared.
One more thing. Please pay attention to David Hogg who is leading the charge to replace the ineffective incumbent Democrats in the primary elections. If the people consider their favorites to be worth keeping, then they can defeat a primary challenger.
I say FIRE THEM ALL! Look at their response to the events happening right in front of their faces right now. INEFFECTIVE!
All they do is write useless petitions and beg for donations.
28th AMENDMENT NEEDED
JT's book and book tour scream for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution that sets a limit on the number of DANGEROUS OLIGARCHS & POTUS ENABLERS (DOPES) in the WH and Congress.
Exceeding the limit would trigger a new election. We all know who has set the record in US history books.
Good one! I'm going to make a "Removes DOPES Now!" bumper sticker.
Good grief...half the country would be in El Salvador jails...
In support of Andy's thesis, first we need an amendment that limits journalists to reporting on current events and only allows historians to dwell in the past (think what journalists would be forced to ignore -- 2020 election, Obama's tan suit, Hillary's emails ....)
Whoa
Now we know BDR (Biden Derangement Syndrome) is even more contagious and insidious than TDR (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Bless you Ms Harkey for expressing so well what I struggled to pu into words myself
So how did it (the election of a racist psychotic buffoon) happen...again? Agreeing with with your understated assessment of the felon in-chief, I'm at a loss to comprehend how an honorable man who'd basically saved the country and accomplished historic gains was allowed to go back on his word and run for re-election with obviously no gas left in the tank? The debate was one of the saddest public experiences I've ever witnessed.
Not that I would buy either, but I think yet another book on the lying lardbutt would go straight to the remainder bin.
Not so sure about that, John.
In the meanwhile, just ignore Jake Tapper. Most serious Americans do.
Well, I would buy one on the downfall of the Presidency. I don’t know what happened to Jake. He used to be pretty good.
Convicted of 34 counts of fraud in New York state a year ago this month. Let’s keep mentioning that, people!
And not just on here.
tee-Rump is a Criminal.
They may have covered up Biden's encroaching decline, yet could not protect us
from Trump's moral, intellectual, and spiritual decline.
Decline? He was always this way. Only difference is his dementia.
Decline? He w
Bravo!
And a man who didn’t escape like Trump seems to do. He faced down tragedy after tragedy.
And did so with Grace, honesty, courage.
Anything to sell a book!
I'm still waiting for somebody to come out from behind the proverbial curtain and say: "Just kidding!! .... Joe, come on out here so we can let this tool get back to where he came from'
Shame on Tapper. And his ilk.
When I first heard about this book I was furious. It's ok to write a book about a president but to demean, insult and attack the subject could have waited until a far more appropriate time. I used to like Jake's TV spots. I can't look at him any more. What were they thinking??? But the book? Not a chance!!
I like Jake, but it seems he's fallen into the trap of ,"How to get past this humiliating defeat and subsequent horror by blaming someone out of the picture so the rest of us can move on." Jake is a media creature, and honestly believes that by "owning up" to Biden's imperfections in a media forum, he can move the needle of trashing Biden and the Democrats past this moment. Admire his work, but it won't be as effective as he seems to intend. His efforts don't hold a candle to Trump's machinery.
first I despise Tapper, second disagree re his honest attempt to *whatever* (my thing w tapper is, among minor gripes, the time some years ago he 'reported' on something about Canada, forget what but it was OutToLunch - when called on it he whined that he'd got the info from his relatives in Toronto [great source, no checking elsewhere])
Tapper has been a weasel for many years now.
In what reality did Jake think this book was a good idea? The red hat wearing crowd he wrote it for…doesn’t read.
If Jackass Jake had made it a Pop-Up book, it would be a sellout w/the MAGAts
LOL, spot on.
“ Doesn’t read” ? Well not sense Bazooka bubble gum wrap
LOL!!!
Don't read. This is true. And they watch "faux news" and big time wrestling. What was Jake thinking? What does he hope to get out of this?
Thanks for pointing out the craziness of pointing out how Biden is suffering mental decline. He could have pointed out that the country and economy were doing very well under Biden and has turned to trash in the first 100 days of our new "stable genius"
I doubt America will ever be as great again in my lifetime as it was January 19th. Trump is making America un-great (MAU).
Maybe Tapper will write a sequel about Trump's mental deficiencies (both psychological and cognitive) but for now they are accepted by him and the rest of lazy, cowardly MSM as the unacknowledged baseline. If Dear Leader walked into the Rose Garden with his pants over his head, the headline would be "Trump's Bold Fashion Sense a Death Knell to Belt Manufacturing."
I used to follow Jake Tapper on Substack. Because of his unnecessary book, I no longer follow him. We need help keeping the spotlight on dump to expose his evilness not Biden, who is retired and ill now.
It is no small coincidence they are picking on Biden even more now since his diagnosis. In nature, predators always prey on those most vulnerable. The very young, the elderly, and the injured. But these two legged predators forget that we humans stand up for each other.
President Biden is a distraction. And they desperately need distractions from their mess.
Chickens behave the same way. The weakest one is constantly under attack.
Its a 2 way street…. unfortunately the president is a well practiced and long experienced bully. He
thrives on it by surrounding himself with
other practiced and life- long bullies.
Well to keep the bird thing going - of a feather stick together:-)
I believe that's called "pecking order". I've seen something similar in a flock of Canada geese, although it was not as nasty.
With Trumps flock, it would be a "Pecker Order". All of his followers take orders from the chief pecker, and are too chicken to defy him.
Clever!
And they're paid well by the Enquirer. (snicker)
Brillian1, and so true! Plus definitely nasty.
Don’t count your chickens until they are microwaved!
Distraction is their modus operandi. Tapper and his publisher should be ashamed, but I suspect that they are incapable of shame. Focusing on an elderly man who is seriously ill and his former enablers as if it should come as a surprise to anyone who is/was even partly paying attention? It is part of the broader culture of the White House, but the current inhabitant and his enablers have truly outdone themselves, while Tapper preens as if he had produced a work of serious investigative journalism. He and his ilk are as much a part of the problem as the group of madmen currently wielding power, all of whom are just loving Tapper right now for providing them with a logical fallacy...the famous red herring.
Exactly.
I never liked the guy. His whiny voice grated on me, his personality seemed cold, and he seemed lazy.
ABSOLUTLY!!
Let us not forget the Biden administration was competent, not criminal. If this crap Jake Tapper is selling mattered, maybe he shouldn’t have kept it a secret in order to sell a book.
Is it possible to cognitively slip without turning into the world's all time scum bucket? Imagine attacking a stage 4 (or in Trump's expansive brain, stage 9) cancer victim on Memorial Day in a speech at Arlington.
God's aim was definitely off on this one.
Brilliant!
I thought Jake Tapper was one of the few good guys left in news reporting but after hawking his book for a month while Washington is burning, , he’s become just another hack.
Tapper has ALWAYS been a hack, in it for the money. He is a petty person.
💯
I'm ecstatic about your latest column. Tapper's book is a disgrace. You are so right! We should be celebrating what Joe Biden tried to do rather than focusing on his physical decline. Who cares if he was sick sooner than we thought? He was still fighting and behaving with honor, unlike this opportunist catering to the worst instincts of a misguided public. Still, I believe history will judge Biden kindly. Thank you for all you do.
“Who needs enemies when you have friends” My heart aches for Biden.
he gave so much over lifetime, got country back on track after first trump mess, produced what I kept reading as greatest in world, in history even, and now in his old age and with old-man cancer, people stomp on him
Damn straight, Gina!!!!!
In an age in which the American Press has too often shirked its duty to demonstrate responsible journalism, is there a place for resurrecting an underground press?
I think it's called Substack
Right now it's the best we got, but I fear it's mutating in unhealthy directions. Money enables and disables.
Absolutely perfect!
Yes, I had thought better of Tapper. Another disappointment. :(
Me too! No longer ….
Thank you for this. It is another unfortunate distraction from the dumpster fire.