He really is sort of pathetic.

It’s weird and oddly discouraging. It seems like the individual most responsible for the oncoming collapse of the United States should be some sort of supervillain, but he’s really just a desperately insecure and over-compensating wad of hair, bronzer and congealed fat with the emotional maturity of a spoiled three-year-old.

And meanwhile, his wannabe Rasputin sidekick is a desperately insecure and over-compensating middle-aged chuunibyou who’s still trying, and pathetically failing, to be the edgiest 13-year-old, and to not think about the fact that everyone who knows him thinks he’s an asshole.

As if it’s not already bad enough to watch as the US is systematically destroyed, we have to watch as it’s systematically destroyed by people who are so pathetic and creepy.

It’s his way of saying “Thank you.”

Bingo.

It’s all sleight of hand. There was never any intention to actually cut spending - that’s why Trump tried to strongarm Congress into raising the debt ceiling.

The goal, from the very beginning, has been to simply redirect money that had previously been spent to benefit the common people directly into the pockets of the wealthy few.

Behind closed doors, the consensus has been that other countries don’t want to get dragged into the current war in accordance with NATO mutual defense agreements.

But since Trump insists that he can end the war, that’s obviously not a consideration for him - by his claims, there will be nothing more standing in the way of Ukraine membership in NATO.

Which makes this announcement that much more significant - essentially what he’s saying is that even after the main obstacle to Ukraine membership has been eliminated, the US will oppose it.

Why?

Because… no, Trump is not Putin’s puppet. He’s something even worse - a cringing sycophant, desperate for affirmation from his strongman idol.

psychopath /sī′kə-păth″/

noun

1. A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized.

2. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse.

I’m curious what happened to the NYT.

They’ve had basically no integrity at all for years now, just kissing whichever ass they had to kiss to keep their access. Even as recently as the campaign, they kissed Trump’s ass until Harris got her initial groundswell, then they kissed her ass for a while, then when she faded they went back to kissing Trump’s ass.

But lately they’ve been more critical of Trump and Musk than almost any other legacy media outlet, and even lost their all-important access as a result and are still critical.

So what happened between then and now? Why did they finally grow a backbone at this late stage?

Just a guess, but maybe they found out that kissing Trump’s ass wasn’t enough by itself when he tried to strongarm $100 million out of them like he did with Zuckerberg, and they told him to fuck off?

I don’t know, but something sure changed, and not a moment too soon…

That’s what Daddy Putin wants, so that’s what Daddy Putin gets.

And you can be 100% certain that that blatantly wasteful spending is not going to be cut.

Meanwhile, paying people to oversee pollution levels and ensure that industries don’t make it so that people are poisoned by the air they breathe - that’s going to called wasteful spending and is going to be cut.

All so that a handful of billionaires can enjoy even more privilege.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s not an accident that Muskntrump are slashing federal spending but Trump threatened a government shutdown to get the debt ceiling increased.

It’s all sleight of hand. The budget cuts are intended solely to cripple departments and programs that benefit common people or inconvenience the wealthy and empowered few, and all of the money that’s not spent on those programs and agencies (and more) is going be funneled directly into the pockets of the wealthy and empowered few.

NO money is actually going to be saved. It’s just going to be redirected, to even more directly benefit the wealthy few.

The Toddler-in-chief strikes again.

Oh look - the Democrats are going to fight fire with lukewarm criticism.

Yes, that will surely work.

As always, I just wonder if it’s a pose or a delusion.

In much the same way that the Zionists have characterized any criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Democrats have characterized any criticism of themselves as “both sides.” And it’s for the same reason in both cases – so they can reject criticism out of hand rather than facing up to it.

For the professionals, it’s simple, if loathsome - they get to feed at the money trough as long as they can continue to essentially pose as leftists but not really accomplish anything (since anything truly leftist would be at odds with the desires of the people and corporations who are keeping the money trough full).

For the rest though - the rank and file that just repeat the cant they’re fed - what do they gain?

I’ve never been quite clear on that, but I assume it’s that their self-images are wrapped up in the labels they wear, and one of those labels is “Democrat,” and it only works as a boon to their self-images if it can’t be criticized.

I can’t see how that can be worth it though.

Good luck. You’re going to need it.

Being ineffective at stopping something isn’t the same thing as enabling.

Lol.

You’ve got your fingernails dug into a hair-thin crack here.

You might do well to stand back a bit and ask yourself why you’re so desperate to absolve the Democrats of blame.

You got the first half right, but the second wrong.

Netanyahu’s government doesn’t give a shit about Hamas. They never have. Hamas is just a convenient excuse for them to pursue their real goal, which is and has been all along to kill, drive out or subjugate every single Palestinian, because they believe that Palestine has no right to exist at all and that everything from the river to the sea should be theirs, no matter how many lives they have to destroy along the way.

It’s a solution to the problem of the Trump family not owning enough waterfront real estate.

The Toddler-in-chief.

It doesn’t get much more Musk than, "I polled the racists and they said racism is okay, so racism is okay "

I can do a spot-on impression of the standard deep, booming monster-truck rally advertising voice.

“This FRIDAY! (Friday… Friday…) Only at the Gigantodome! Beer Swiller Productions presents MONSTER TRUCK MAYHEM! You’ll pay for the entire seat but you’ll only need the EDGGGGGGGGE!”

Well… of course you can’t hear it, but if you could, seriously, it’s dead-on.

Yes we do.

He’s leading a coup.

On behalf of the would-be US dictator Donald Trump, he and his mercenaries are taking control of vital government functions away from the duly appointed authorities and claiming it as their own.