Oh of course he did , Russian assets are allowed to get angry , even when they are an asset. Let’s see what happens when your idiot uncle tries to take Greenland and fails. His handler’s reaction should be priceless
Trump's handlers are the GOP leadership and Heritage Foundation as they want a totalitarian USA rather than a democracy..It would give them the power to make decisions for us and make them wealthy at our expense. So, Putin isn't our major concern at this moment however he is being used as a distraction for what is really going on. This chaos is also a planned distraction, or so I believe, to redirect our attenton. Musk is high on ketamine, so he is going insane while Trump is a narcissist i.e. two menta;;y ill men being used for a power grab, Mary Trump has been warning us about her uncle for years; she is a hero in my eyes as she has made herself a target for those who do not want the truth to be known.
Shadow of diplomacy. Stephen Miller is in the shadow making the rules. He's the one with no soul. I listen to Mary everyday. Lev Parnas. You need to listen to him. He was in the inner circle 1st term, he's on our side. You must hear him. Lev remembers is his channel.
I do not use that kind of language and I have no clue what you mean.. There are better words in the dictionary and more appropriate. Increase you vocabulary and sound intelligent.
it’s alarming when people in a democracy start talking about watching the spectacle of authoritarian political disasters, as if our only role is as audience to a comic version the Manchurian Candidate….
Press seems to always go to a rational justification for Donald’s “strategies” and execution—Greenland’s rare earth minerals and arctic location. Truth is, Dumb Donald is simply impressed by Greenland’s apparent size on a flat Mercator map.
Has anybody noticed the increase in the darkness of peoples minds ? Let us remember who is the Light of the world. He said we fight not against flesh and blood but against the dark spirits who are at work in the world.
Has anyone *not* noticed the increased darkness of people’s minds?
Minds cognizant of the current suspension of democratic life *would* be darkened, unless they were also enthralled to an imagined transcendent being who convinced them that a spike in cruelty and corruption in this world didn’t mattered very much.
It's a con! He's going to use Russia to jack up gas prices. I'm sure Putin is all for it. If you think they're high now just wait. They've already been getting higher. I have a question, why does Trump look so weak in every photo with Putin? He looks like he needs to be petted.
Only problem is Obama did zip to stop Putin's annexation of Crimea, which is vital to Ukraine's long term economic success. So in my book stares don't achieve much; it requires appropriate ACTION!
Chuck, not an expert, let alone a big expert, just an observer. The single most important thing he could have done was send arms to Ukraine, as we did after the invasion. He could have called a NATO meeting to help the EU determine an appropriate response, but instead he said that Ukraine would always be vulnerable to Russian invasion, therefore giving a big green light to Putin for the 2022 invasion. Weakness always encourages aggression and his failure set the stage for the current war and the mess we're in.
I agree on what Obama could have done. But Obama didn't suck up to Pootie and make promises without Ukraine input, call Zelenskyy an unelected dictator, call for Ukraine elections, try to extort profit by demanding half of their resources in exchange for our help (because it is all about the money), snub our NATO allies and threaten to pull out, or ambush Z in front of the cameras while the world watched a stupid political stunt. Keep in mind Russia hasn't honored any of the treaties it signed.
The US is rapidly losing its international influence as a powerful nation. Trump is destroying our reputation. He is owned by Russia and the greatest threat to our country in a very, very long time. This treasonous man is on a vengeance tour and it was so obvious to so many of us but here we are. I still believe that truth and love and connection will prevail but the road is going to be rocky.
It's an embarrassment to be an American right now. The US is no longer a beacon of hope!
Four years of this 💩. It’s going to be long, but I can’t wait until this is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday 👇
Our weakness is showing. It's called lack of Education. If you compare us to the rest of the world yes it's really embarrassing and they're going to make us more uneducated. It's a very strange way to compete in the world isn't it? We will lose and that's how you make America great again!
Lack of? No, just another kind of. As I said in another comment,
Keep your eye on the ball, folks. The Dept. of Ed, is just a small obstacle being removed from the field of play. The real game is to take over and privatize all of American education. The even larger game is to hollow out the minds of our children and replace them with compliant clones filled with the nonsense of fascist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist hogwash. That makes the dynasties of fascist kings and the Axis of Despots a permanent feature of the American landscape, as each corrupted child's mind grows up and teaches their own children the same. That's how racism has endured for 160 years after the civil war. It's no secret. Blueprints right there in the text of Project 2025. Keep your eyes on Hillsdale College, Patriot Mobile and Academica Educational Mgmt Co. They are the little noticed spearheads of the takeover, already fairly far along in their plans to capture and destroy our public education system.
Hollowing out kids minds and filling it with crap is exactly what I was talking about. That is a lack of Education. That's exactly what religion does and all the institutions by which we live
yes. I was just extending your own point. But it's really not much about religion. It's about the extremist ideologies of the right. That's the stuff they are really stuffing. Religion and religious schools were just a handy device to help them do that. They were simply able to hijack the religious school archipelago and graft themselves onto it. A convenient implement for their schemes. Before that happened, those religious schools pretty much kept to themselves and minded their own business. In many cases, they were important contributors to broader humanitarian and progressive agenda.
When Hillsdale College started out as a small religious college, it was abolitionist and the first university to admit black students, the second in the country to graduate women. It had generals who fought for the Union army. After it was hijacked in the 70's it became one of the architects of the educational agenda of Project 2025, and now is a leading spearhead of the right-wing takeover of public education.
Religion is a good thing. Forcing anyone's religion on anyone else is a bad thing. Operating like (fill in the blank) religion is a basis for government is worse.
a good thing for adults, perhaps. Putting it in the defenseless minds of young children who cannot comprehend or decide for themselves is a form of child abuse. A recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure themselves of new members. Nothing more.
I sort of disagree. Close-minded education is not a type of education. Teaching children about God Is Not An Education, especially since no one knows anything about him. If you read the Bible as if God was somebody's name, which can easily be spelled out in Hebrew, it's a totally different story. After all, we too can make people.
Not sure which comment you're responding to. My own view is that any religious training/conditioning in early childhood is a serious form of child abuse. One's choice of religious belief (or none) is a matter that can have lifetime consequences, positive and negative. A choice to be made only by adults who can comprehend what they are being told , not something to be fed into the defenseless minds of young children. In reality, it is nothing more than a recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure they will have new members. A completely dishonest and disingenuous method of creating captive audiences.
I don’t know how other countries run their educational programs, as I’ve never taught in a school that wasn’t a US Education of students is done on the STATE/ LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL, States determine what students should know at each grade level. Individual school districts determine what programs/ books/ hands on science programs, etc. will be used for teaching all subjects & what grade they’ll be taught… in WISCONSIN 4th grade is usually the grade that covers Wisconsin history. Classes take field trips to local historical places: preserved old one room school houses, & whole day trip/ tour to the state Capital in Madison, WI. Sometimes the kids get a chance to meet the Governor.
The Federal Government is where states get funding for speech, & language teachers, guidance counselors, classroom aides for both physically disabled children & mentally challenged students including children w/ various degrees of autism.
Maybe it's something that should be looked into. I hear Singapore is the most educated and also highest in math. The way I see it if your highest in math you should be the most educated
I don’t think it’s correct to make such a blanket statement on education unless you have actually seen test results for every school in the nation. And I doubt that most people have that type of access. As a retired elementary school teacher for the last 9 yrs., I don’t look up my former colleagues yearly testing scores! They are working & while we may text each other sometimes, it’s usually wishing each other HBD, it sharing &/or some photos. I know that made some curriculum changes.
Not @ all a tRUMP fan, never have & would never vote for the insurrectionist, but he’s obviously in the throes of dementia, his butt buddy VP is even worse than him! However I believe that he will not be around 4ever!!
Heather.B: If Trump avoids a stroke it will be 8 years. Or, consider if he does have a stroke, then Vance gets re-elected to 2 more terms!! Then a Vance executive order suspends the 2 term limit citing emergency powers. With all the red voting shenanigans, this could last 20+ years.
Follow your own trajectory. Dark Ages typically run about a thousand years. Given the unlimited powers and modern weaponry and tools this one has at its disposal, it could last considerably longer. Might be better to think in terms of Isaac Azimov's "We can't prevent the Dark Ages from happening, but perhaps we can shorten its length by a little."
He follows no rules. He is invoke to stay in power. Get ready for the battle. We must flip the house now. 2026 is far too late. The war within is almost upon us. Military parade june 14th will be to flex his powers and silence all he can to remain in power.
Trump and his maga party wants his supporters to focus on culture wars while he is robbing them blind with massive tax cuts to the rich and making money from selling merchandise made in China, this guy is a hypocrite and conman!!
Trump level of education is similar to a his supporters, these conservative religious people have gays and trans children in their families. Homosexuality and transgender are common in the animal kingdom and certainly in the human race, they are not freaks they are humans.
This whole issue is a source of distraction. No trans person is allowed to compete with women if they don’t meet certain medical requirement of the level of testosterone and musculature and they have every right to compete in sports with women or men depending on their musculature and testosterone levels.
Glad we bought a Prius a few years back. It's going to be hard on folks who chose/are stuck with non hybrids. Transportation will be hit VERY hard, as well energy producers and other industries that are heavy petroleum users. It also gives more strength to Trump's stupid idea of trying to invade Canada and Mexico. Both produce good amounts of oil. (As far as I know, there's no known oil in Greenland. I could be wrong).
I'm still side eyeing the stock and bond markets warily for signs of a deep recession or even a depression. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
I bought a gas guzzler in 2021 (Kia Stinger GT2) - the thing drinks more gas than my ZR1 Corvette did. As a high earner I didn't care ( keep my emission controls in place btw and will keep them in place when I tune it - so many folks who tune their cars take the cats off but there's no reason to, and every reason not to. At 500whp, who cares about the 5HP the cats cost?) I now suddenly care because the oil we produce here, is heavy crude that we normally don't refine into gasoline, and because of Donald's stupid trade war and his evident boner to initiate WWIII, I worry about gasoline _availability_ due to trade sanctions and blockades, more so than the cost. :(
Yeah, we're producing something more like tar. 🛢 🛢
My wife and I are retired and do some investing. We just want to be able to make it to the end of our lives, and maybe help out our kids and grandkids. What's going on eerily reminds me of the late 20s, and I think it's deliberate. With the current gutting of the FDIC and centralizing all banking (FDIC, OCC, CFPB, FSOC, and more) under the Executive Branch (not to mention the obsession with f--king Bitcoin), we're scrambling to find ways to protect our family.
We also have a Grand Voyager we use for Sheltie Rescue or hauling big loads. Otherwise, the Prius is the go-to car.
The long lines were an artificial shortage the companies used to drive up prices. This time Biden squared off with them to get the prices back from $7-$8 and they HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE. There won't be long lines but the price will be up around $5-$6 a galklon because of those wonderful tariffs.
I was blissfully unaware sucking my bottle but I am aware of the events that led to the malaise era of automobiles. That was also due in large part to conservative politicking.
As a low-earner with an economy car, I would love it if you could just throw some cash my way! (I retired from community mental health counseling, so I never earned a decent salary, even with a PhD!) Glad you had fab rich-kid cars. Sorry they will be costing you more.
It's a freaking kia, and the new ZR1 is priced out of reach in light of the fact that I want to own my own home in my lifetime (my ZR1 was "only" $65K). Even with my salary it's difficult to get ahead as we reach our 50s and are just paying off legacy debt. My wife only just now recently paying hers (student loans) and I've got another ~2yr on my legacy debt. Oh yeah, and when adjusted for inflation, even though my salary was half as much when I bought the ZR1 as it is now, I'm actually earning less when adjusting for inflation. It fraking bites.
Yeah. It bites. Welcome to the reality for most of us. If I had money to pay $65,000 for a car, I would definitely feel wealthy. Ever ride the local bus to work? Or walk, for that matter.
Also, I telecommute, for what it's worth. I bought the Stinger for road trips -- for travel games for a sport I don't even play anymore because of anti-AMAB bias in a terfy roller derby league who ought to be disbanded per WFTDA bylaws.
Welcome to my reality - Even as a high earner, due to legacy debt I'm still paying down, I had to finance my car and if I lose my job, I'll be as poor as the welfare collectors in red states within a couple months.
I've been saying for awhile, at least since he walked down the ramp ... he has the early signs of dementia/Alzheimer's. His arms hang down, like dead weights by his sides. Check out everyone else's stance. I think he shuffles some. His rt leg swings out a little, semi circle as if he can't flex his foot easily. A typical move taught post stroke. I hadn't thought of hip replacement, especially since he's really not been real active. But in he almost fell getting out of a golf cart a few weeks ago, you might have hit the nail on the head.
In order for gas to be at an all-time low it would have to be under 25 cents a gallon and a can of Chef Boyardee pasta would be about the same and they'd still be using olive oil with other natural ingredients instead of the crap they put in there now. He's so full of s***. Why does anybody listen to him?
Yes, thank you. I so appreciate your depth of analysis rendered by your personal family history and your advanced education. Only you can provide it. Many, many thanks.
Can be symptomatic of dementia as well; fits with the fatigue, non-answers to questions, etc. He’s being propped up by his handlers. Doubt he makes it to midterms if there are any. What stimulants are they feeding him before appearances? Still Adderall?
I think he’s lying. I think he is pretending to be pissed off because more and more Americans are seeing his sellout and his gaslighting. So he and Putin probably arranged this Faux disagreement, so his base can say “ see.. he will stand up to Putin” and he can keep wielding his power.
I have thought so since his first term. For the most part, Trump will do whatever Putin wants, but when it becomes too obvious, Trump will conspicuously do something that appears to harm Putin, to which Putin will uncharacteristically make no more than a meek objection. In fact, it's likely Putin makes the suggestion just to keep up appearances.
All the world loves a strongman.Well, the Destructionist part of it does. Don't think we need a 'Faux disagreement' to explain it. Our Commander in Tweets is now a junior member of the Axis of Despots, pretending he is a full partner. Putin doesn't have to do anything but sit on the sidelines and watch the fool getting played by himself. Oil Tariff? Hell, Putin's fine with that. One more self-inflicted wound of the American economy, and he didn't have to do a thing to arrange it. Putin has only one thing to say about all of , "You know, my job is getting too easy."
Uncle Donnie is an idiot. He really has no idea of how to negotiate, because his "negotiating" style is straight out of the Mafia and Zelenskyy and others refuse to be bullied by him.
Trump rules by intimidation and threats. Typical of a tyrant but in his case, there’s no intelligence, rhyme or reason behind it. Just rants, word salad, insults, tantrums. If he could only see how ridiculous he looks to us and the rest of the sane world!
A delusional, narcissist, bullying, ignorant, racist, criminal, self-absorbed (fill in the numerous blanks here) Napoleon complex addled shitstain on humanity will NEVER see how he differs from the world.
Trump’s cognitive decline was glaringly obvious during his presidential campaign. His inconsistency has only become more pronounced. He needs memory care.
I always say he looks like a guy who would do a time-share presentation during a eulogy. I can't believe anyone sees and hears him and then believes him.
Mary, instead of referring to them as handlers, in the pursuit of Trump Trolls Trump, would you consider labeling them his “babysitters” because after all Cokehead Donald IS an overgrown man baby and even wears diapers. Also Q: How tall is your uncle, really? We can all see he wears high heels in addition to his drag-style-garishly-overdone orange makeup.
Speaking of Shitstain's makeup, why doesn't it ever get on his shirt collar? Or does he change his shirts several times a day when he changes his XXL Depends?
I call them all 'Destructionists', what they do/believe in is 'destructionism' and their Party, the Destructionists Party. I have been for some time. They have nothing to do with "conservatism" or the extinct 'Republican Party'. Nothing whatsoever.
Trump is insane he better be careful thinking he owns the world and these other countries and telling them what to do. Because They might just come after him and put him somewhere.
Probably not. They will just leave him, one by one, like Canada has done, and let the senior members of the Axis of Despots eat this new junior member. Like other countries they gobble up, America is just another meal.
So, Putin’s Pinocchio is very angry, huh? Wow, I bet Vlad is shaking in his boots. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic. Always appreciate your analysis, Mary.
Excellent article Mary. The first thing that struck me, beyond Donny's heinous betrayal of Ukraine, was his obvious mental decline. The constant flip-flopping, his choice of the wrong word, is a clear indication of his impending dotage. Alas, we are saddled with this incompetent, mentally ill person as our president.
Canada's prime minister has a PhD, so has Mexico's president. America has a convicted felon and rapist who once raped a 13 year old girl. How could the millions who voted for Dumbfuck Donnie have been so stupid?
Oh of course he did , Russian assets are allowed to get angry , even when they are an asset. Let’s see what happens when your idiot uncle tries to take Greenland and fails. His handler’s reaction should be priceless
Trump's handlers are the GOP leadership and Heritage Foundation as they want a totalitarian USA rather than a democracy..It would give them the power to make decisions for us and make them wealthy at our expense. So, Putin isn't our major concern at this moment however he is being used as a distraction for what is really going on. This chaos is also a planned distraction, or so I believe, to redirect our attenton. Musk is high on ketamine, so he is going insane while Trump is a narcissist i.e. two menta;;y ill men being used for a power grab, Mary Trump has been warning us about her uncle for years; she is a hero in my eyes as she has made herself a target for those who do not want the truth to be known.
Shadow of diplomacy. Stephen Miller is in the shadow making the rules. He's the one with no soul. I listen to Mary everyday. Lev Parnas. You need to listen to him. He was in the inner circle 1st term, he's on our side. You must hear him. Lev remembers is his channel.
You said it
I keep saying it every day. And my audience is growing. Hopefully that continues.
I have no audience, no megaphone, no juice. But I do keep saying it every day. One of the things I say is www.poems4change.org/public/lets-get-tactical.html
Can you say fucking big ol’ backfire!
I do not use that kind of language and I have no clue what you mean.. There are better words in the dictionary and more appropriate. Increase you vocabulary and sound intelligent.
it’s alarming when people in a democracy start talking about watching the spectacle of authoritarian political disasters, as if our only role is as audience to a comic version the Manchurian Candidate….
Press seems to always go to a rational justification for Donald’s “strategies” and execution—Greenland’s rare earth minerals and arctic location. Truth is, Dumb Donald is simply impressed by Greenland’s apparent size on a flat Mercator map.
Has anybody noticed the increase in the darkness of peoples minds ? Let us remember who is the Light of the world. He said we fight not against flesh and blood but against the dark spirits who are at work in the world.
Has anyone *not* noticed the increased darkness of people’s minds?
Minds cognizant of the current suspension of democratic life *would* be darkened, unless they were also enthralled to an imagined transcendent being who convinced them that a spike in cruelty and corruption in this world didn’t mattered very much.
It's a con! He's going to use Russia to jack up gas prices. I'm sure Putin is all for it. If you think they're high now just wait. They've already been getting higher. I have a question, why does Trump look so weak in every photo with Putin? He looks like he needs to be petted.
I love when Obama stared Putin down. :) THAT was a Presidential POTUS!
Only problem is Obama did zip to stop Putin's annexation of Crimea, which is vital to Ukraine's long term economic success. So in my book stares don't achieve much; it requires appropriate ACTION!
Since you are such a big expert on this, let's hear what your idea of action should be.
Chuck, not an expert, let alone a big expert, just an observer. The single most important thing he could have done was send arms to Ukraine, as we did after the invasion. He could have called a NATO meeting to help the EU determine an appropriate response, but instead he said that Ukraine would always be vulnerable to Russian invasion, therefore giving a big green light to Putin for the 2022 invasion. Weakness always encourages aggression and his failure set the stage for the current war and the mess we're in.
I agree on what Obama could have done. But Obama didn't suck up to Pootie and make promises without Ukraine input, call Zelenskyy an unelected dictator, call for Ukraine elections, try to extort profit by demanding half of their resources in exchange for our help (because it is all about the money), snub our NATO allies and threaten to pull out, or ambush Z in front of the cameras while the world watched a stupid political stunt. Keep in mind Russia hasn't honored any of the treaties it signed.
We're watching The Truman Show and it's 24/7 insanity
Trump has never been on America’s side.
The US is rapidly losing its international influence as a powerful nation. Trump is destroying our reputation. He is owned by Russia and the greatest threat to our country in a very, very long time. This treasonous man is on a vengeance tour and it was so obvious to so many of us but here we are. I still believe that truth and love and connection will prevail but the road is going to be rocky.
It's an embarrassment to be an American right now. The US is no longer a beacon of hope!
Four years of this 💩. It’s going to be long, but I can’t wait until this is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday 👇
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Our weakness is showing. It's called lack of Education. If you compare us to the rest of the world yes it's really embarrassing and they're going to make us more uneducated. It's a very strange way to compete in the world isn't it? We will lose and that's how you make America great again!
No one can "make America great again" by making it stupid.
Lack of? No, just another kind of. As I said in another comment,
Keep your eye on the ball, folks. The Dept. of Ed, is just a small obstacle being removed from the field of play. The real game is to take over and privatize all of American education. The even larger game is to hollow out the minds of our children and replace them with compliant clones filled with the nonsense of fascist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist hogwash. That makes the dynasties of fascist kings and the Axis of Despots a permanent feature of the American landscape, as each corrupted child's mind grows up and teaches their own children the same. That's how racism has endured for 160 years after the civil war. It's no secret. Blueprints right there in the text of Project 2025. Keep your eyes on Hillsdale College, Patriot Mobile and Academica Educational Mgmt Co. They are the little noticed spearheads of the takeover, already fairly far along in their plans to capture and destroy our public education system.
Hollowing out kids minds and filling it with crap is exactly what I was talking about. That is a lack of Education. That's exactly what religion does and all the institutions by which we live
yes. I was just extending your own point. But it's really not much about religion. It's about the extremist ideologies of the right. That's the stuff they are really stuffing. Religion and religious schools were just a handy device to help them do that. They were simply able to hijack the religious school archipelago and graft themselves onto it. A convenient implement for their schemes. Before that happened, those religious schools pretty much kept to themselves and minded their own business. In many cases, they were important contributors to broader humanitarian and progressive agenda.
When Hillsdale College started out as a small religious college, it was abolitionist and the first university to admit black students, the second in the country to graduate women. It had generals who fought for the Union army. After it was hijacked in the 70's it became one of the architects of the educational agenda of Project 2025, and now is a leading spearhead of the right-wing takeover of public education.
I wrote a little history of how that all happened, www.poems4change.org/essays/education-end-of-evolution.pdf
Religion is a good thing. Forcing anyone's religion on anyone else is a bad thing. Operating like (fill in the blank) religion is a basis for government is worse.
a good thing for adults, perhaps. Putting it in the defenseless minds of young children who cannot comprehend or decide for themselves is a form of child abuse. A recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure themselves of new members. Nothing more.
I sort of disagree. Close-minded education is not a type of education. Teaching children about God Is Not An Education, especially since no one knows anything about him. If you read the Bible as if God was somebody's name, which can easily be spelled out in Hebrew, it's a totally different story. After all, we too can make people.
Not sure which comment you're responding to. My own view is that any religious training/conditioning in early childhood is a serious form of child abuse. One's choice of religious belief (or none) is a matter that can have lifetime consequences, positive and negative. A choice to be made only by adults who can comprehend what they are being told , not something to be fed into the defenseless minds of young children. In reality, it is nothing more than a recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure they will have new members. A completely dishonest and disingenuous method of creating captive audiences.
And create universes
I don’t know how other countries run their educational programs, as I’ve never taught in a school that wasn’t a US Education of students is done on the STATE/ LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL, States determine what students should know at each grade level. Individual school districts determine what programs/ books/ hands on science programs, etc. will be used for teaching all subjects & what grade they’ll be taught… in WISCONSIN 4th grade is usually the grade that covers Wisconsin history. Classes take field trips to local historical places: preserved old one room school houses, & whole day trip/ tour to the state Capital in Madison, WI. Sometimes the kids get a chance to meet the Governor.
The Federal Government is where states get funding for speech, & language teachers, guidance counselors, classroom aides for both physically disabled children & mentally challenged students including children w/ various degrees of autism.
Maybe it's something that should be looked into. I hear Singapore is the most educated and also highest in math. The way I see it if your highest in math you should be the most educated
I don’t think it’s correct to make such a blanket statement on education unless you have actually seen test results for every school in the nation. And I doubt that most people have that type of access. As a retired elementary school teacher for the last 9 yrs., I don’t look up my former colleagues yearly testing scores! They are working & while we may text each other sometimes, it’s usually wishing each other HBD, it sharing &/or some photos. I know that made some curriculum changes.
Not @ all a tRUMP fan, never have & would never vote for the insurrectionist, but he’s obviously in the throes of dementia, his butt buddy VP is even worse than him! However I believe that he will not be around 4ever!!
Heather.B: If Trump avoids a stroke it will be 8 years. Or, consider if he does have a stroke, then Vance gets re-elected to 2 more terms!! Then a Vance executive order suspends the 2 term limit citing emergency powers. With all the red voting shenanigans, this could last 20+ years.
Said it before and will say it again. Those two assclowns and E-Don Muskratshit need to share the fatal Big Mac Attack.
Follow your own trajectory. Dark Ages typically run about a thousand years. Given the unlimited powers and modern weaponry and tools this one has at its disposal, it could last considerably longer. Might be better to think in terms of Isaac Azimov's "We can't prevent the Dark Ages from happening, but perhaps we can shorten its length by a little."
Bruce there are safe guards in our constitution that this can’t happen.
...this could last 20+ years." Remember our climate crisis. We don't <have> 20+ years.
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He follows no rules. He is invoke to stay in power. Get ready for the battle. We must flip the house now. 2026 is far too late. The war within is almost upon us. Military parade june 14th will be to flex his powers and silence all he can to remain in power.
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https://youtu.be/u4P8gPdVHj4
Trump and his maga party wants his supporters to focus on culture wars while he is robbing them blind with massive tax cuts to the rich and making money from selling merchandise made in China, this guy is a hypocrite and conman!!
Trump level of education is similar to a his supporters, these conservative religious people have gays and trans children in their families. Homosexuality and transgender are common in the animal kingdom and certainly in the human race, they are not freaks they are humans.
This whole issue is a source of distraction. No trans person is allowed to compete with women if they don’t meet certain medical requirement of the level of testosterone and musculature and they have every right to compete in sports with women or men depending on their musculature and testosterone levels.
Trash is only concerned about Trash
Glad we bought a Prius a few years back. It's going to be hard on folks who chose/are stuck with non hybrids. Transportation will be hit VERY hard, as well energy producers and other industries that are heavy petroleum users. It also gives more strength to Trump's stupid idea of trying to invade Canada and Mexico. Both produce good amounts of oil. (As far as I know, there's no known oil in Greenland. I could be wrong).
I'm still side eyeing the stock and bond markets warily for signs of a deep recession or even a depression. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
I bought a gas guzzler in 2021 (Kia Stinger GT2) - the thing drinks more gas than my ZR1 Corvette did. As a high earner I didn't care ( keep my emission controls in place btw and will keep them in place when I tune it - so many folks who tune their cars take the cats off but there's no reason to, and every reason not to. At 500whp, who cares about the 5HP the cats cost?) I now suddenly care because the oil we produce here, is heavy crude that we normally don't refine into gasoline, and because of Donald's stupid trade war and his evident boner to initiate WWIII, I worry about gasoline _availability_ due to trade sanctions and blockades, more so than the cost. :(
Yeah, we're producing something more like tar. 🛢 🛢
My wife and I are retired and do some investing. We just want to be able to make it to the end of our lives, and maybe help out our kids and grandkids. What's going on eerily reminds me of the late 20s, and I think it's deliberate. With the current gutting of the FDIC and centralizing all banking (FDIC, OCC, CFPB, FSOC, and more) under the Executive Branch (not to mention the obsession with f--king Bitcoin), we're scrambling to find ways to protect our family.
We also have a Grand Voyager we use for Sheltie Rescue or hauling big loads. Otherwise, the Prius is the go-to car.
I'm guessing you weren't around in 74, with the long gas lines and s***
I was 24 and queuing up just like everyone else. I had a 1970 Buick Skylark. I was a single mom and did hair for a living at the time.
The long lines were an artificial shortage the companies used to drive up prices. This time Biden squared off with them to get the prices back from $7-$8 and they HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE. There won't be long lines but the price will be up around $5-$6 a galklon because of those wonderful tariffs.
I was blissfully unaware sucking my bottle but I am aware of the events that led to the malaise era of automobiles. That was also due in large part to conservative politicking.
Yep, Americans never learned their lesson. I'm starting to think Americans don't learn anything
As a low-earner with an economy car, I would love it if you could just throw some cash my way! (I retired from community mental health counseling, so I never earned a decent salary, even with a PhD!) Glad you had fab rich-kid cars. Sorry they will be costing you more.
It's a freaking kia, and the new ZR1 is priced out of reach in light of the fact that I want to own my own home in my lifetime (my ZR1 was "only" $65K). Even with my salary it's difficult to get ahead as we reach our 50s and are just paying off legacy debt. My wife only just now recently paying hers (student loans) and I've got another ~2yr on my legacy debt. Oh yeah, and when adjusted for inflation, even though my salary was half as much when I bought the ZR1 as it is now, I'm actually earning less when adjusting for inflation. It fraking bites.
Yeah. It bites. Welcome to the reality for most of us. If I had money to pay $65,000 for a car, I would definitely feel wealthy. Ever ride the local bus to work? Or walk, for that matter.
Also, I telecommute, for what it's worth. I bought the Stinger for road trips -- for travel games for a sport I don't even play anymore because of anti-AMAB bias in a terfy roller derby league who ought to be disbanded per WFTDA bylaws.
Welcome to my reality - Even as a high earner, due to legacy debt I'm still paying down, I had to finance my car and if I lose my job, I'll be as poor as the welfare collectors in red states within a couple months.
He is dragging his right leg..hip needs replacing soon
His brain needs replacing!
I've been saying for awhile, at least since he walked down the ramp ... he has the early signs of dementia/Alzheimer's. His arms hang down, like dead weights by his sides. Check out everyone else's stance. I think he shuffles some. His rt leg swings out a little, semi circle as if he can't flex his foot easily. A typical move taught post stroke. I hadn't thought of hip replacement, especially since he's really not been real active. But in he almost fell getting out of a golf cart a few weeks ago, you might have hit the nail on the head.
Also his stance is wide... balance problems? He seems to be hitting the rug more square than the rest of them. As easier to judge how to approach it.
If you want a good look at our Mad King and his inner world, try,
www.poems4change.org/madking/mk-gallery.html
Same as when a beta dog is in the company of the alpha dog
no..
I thought he told his maga clowns the gas and food is all time low under his watch ?
In order for gas to be at an all-time low it would have to be under 25 cents a gallon and a can of Chef Boyardee pasta would be about the same and they'd still be using olive oil with other natural ingredients instead of the crap they put in there now. He's so full of s***. Why does anybody listen to him?
Being a psychologist helps us all see how mentally ill Donald is. Thank you Mary.
Yes, thank you. I so appreciate your depth of analysis rendered by your personal family history and your advanced education. Only you can provide it. Many, many thanks.
I saw it when getting into a golf cart looked like a knee failure to me.
Can be symptomatic of dementia as well; fits with the fatigue, non-answers to questions, etc. He’s being propped up by his handlers. Doubt he makes it to midterms if there are any. What stimulants are they feeding him before appearances? Still Adderall?
And again a few steps later.
I think he’s lying. I think he is pretending to be pissed off because more and more Americans are seeing his sellout and his gaslighting. So he and Putin probably arranged this Faux disagreement, so his base can say “ see.. he will stand up to Putin” and he can keep wielding his power.
I have thought so since his first term. For the most part, Trump will do whatever Putin wants, but when it becomes too obvious, Trump will conspicuously do something that appears to harm Putin, to which Putin will uncharacteristically make no more than a meek objection. In fact, it's likely Putin makes the suggestion just to keep up appearances.
Exactly. 2 conniving cons
It wouldn't surprise me, that's for sure.
All the world loves a strongman.Well, the Destructionist part of it does. Don't think we need a 'Faux disagreement' to explain it. Our Commander in Tweets is now a junior member of the Axis of Despots, pretending he is a full partner. Putin doesn't have to do anything but sit on the sidelines and watch the fool getting played by himself. Oil Tariff? Hell, Putin's fine with that. One more self-inflicted wound of the American economy, and he didn't have to do a thing to arrange it. Putin has only one thing to say about all of , "You know, my job is getting too easy."
Lying? HIM? YA THINK!!!!!!! When has he ever lied before????
Anytime he opened his mouth?
Yep!
It’s always probable gaslighting (lying).
A dangerously ignorant putz. Stupidity is boundless with him.
All the marks of a very stable genius. He said so himself.
LOL LOL LOL!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Uncle Donnie is an idiot. He really has no idea of how to negotiate, because his "negotiating" style is straight out of the Mafia and Zelenskyy and others refuse to be bullied by him.
Trump rules by intimidation and threats. Typical of a tyrant but in his case, there’s no intelligence, rhyme or reason behind it. Just rants, word salad, insults, tantrums. If he could only see how ridiculous he looks to us and the rest of the sane world!
A delusional, narcissist, bullying, ignorant, racist, criminal, self-absorbed (fill in the numerous blanks here) Napoleon complex addled shitstain on humanity will NEVER see how he differs from the world.
1st class mo ron. He is a chaos machine.
Trump’s cognitive decline was glaringly obvious during his presidential campaign. His inconsistency has only become more pronounced. He needs memory care.
Putin’s puppet
Mary's uncle is an idiot. That is all.
I always say he looks like a guy who would do a time-share presentation during a eulogy. I can't believe anyone sees and hears him and then believes him.
He did. He held a dealership rally forTesla on the White House Lawn (in violation of the Comstock Act) as starving, sick kids overseas were dying.
Mary, instead of referring to them as handlers, in the pursuit of Trump Trolls Trump, would you consider labeling them his “babysitters” because after all Cokehead Donald IS an overgrown man baby and even wears diapers. Also Q: How tall is your uncle, really? We can all see he wears high heels in addition to his drag-style-garishly-overdone orange makeup.
Can you imagine what the washcloths must look like getting those coats of orange shellac off his mug!
Speaking of Shitstain's makeup, why doesn't it ever get on his shirt collar? Or does he change his shirts several times a day when he changes his XXL Depends?
I'm guessing he gets a clear coat after his makeup is done? :D
Alternate theory: not a problem; dust from his rumored blow + crushed adderall habit covers up the orange ring around the collar.
😂😂😂
I call them all 'Destructionists', what they do/believe in is 'destructionism' and their Party, the Destructionists Party. I have been for some time. They have nothing to do with "conservatism" or the extinct 'Republican Party'. Nothing whatsoever.
And his oversize broad- shouldered suit jackets. And the overlong neckties pointing, er…
Anyone remember the New Yorker cartoon where the Thought Police are about to arrest the guy because his tie is pointing at his, er… ?
Trump is insane he better be careful thinking he owns the world and these other countries and telling them what to do. Because They might just come after him and put him somewhere.
We can only hope!
I know right I’m sick of this
Yep!
Let’s hope. All of this could have been avoided had the assassin shot an inch further to the right
The bullet was on the mark. Chumptard turned his head a couple of seconds before the bullet hit. Damned fine shot from 242 yards.
I didn’t realize that. I’m truly sorry the orange fuck turned his mentally deranged head☹️
Do you remember Maxwell Smart? "missed it by that much." 1/4 inch from a perfect shot.
I remember now🤣The meme is fitting
...but he has words, lots of them, and they are the best words! Everybody's favorite president!
In his narcissist mind he really believes that
Probably not. They will just leave him, one by one, like Canada has done, and let the senior members of the Axis of Despots eat this new junior member. Like other countries they gobble up, America is just another meal.
So, Putin’s Pinocchio is very angry, huh? Wow, I bet Vlad is shaking in his boots. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic. Always appreciate your analysis, Mary.
This is going to be remembered the way Woodstock was remembered. And YOU have a chance to be there.
Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS THIS!!! “Hands Off” 🧨🧨🧨
🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️ Gigantic nationwide demonstration! 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
Saturday April 5 National “Hands Off” Day of Action
on the National Mall and 657 local demonstrations
Click this link to find a “Hands Off” demonstration near you.
https://handsoff2025.com/
I hope April 5 morning will be similar to when everyone was unsure what the turnout would before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
It always brings tears to my eyes when I watch film footage of those buses appearring on the horizon and pouring into DC from all over the country.
Excellent article Mary. The first thing that struck me, beyond Donny's heinous betrayal of Ukraine, was his obvious mental decline. The constant flip-flopping, his choice of the wrong word, is a clear indication of his impending dotage. Alas, we are saddled with this incompetent, mentally ill person as our president.
Canada's prime minister has a PhD, so has Mexico's president. America has a convicted felon and rapist who once raped a 13 year old girl. How could the millions who voted for Dumbfuck Donnie have been so stupid?
I guess because this country is filled with ignorance, trash,and people just focused on their daily lives with no regard to the public good.