This is Trump's mentor Roy Cohn - who he, of course, eventually screwed - in late terminal stage raging against ... everything.

Trump is to ensh#ttification as Midas was to the "golden touch."

What, exactly do you think that term - "American Exceptionalism" - means?#4 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS AT 2026-07-04 01:21 PM | FLAG: I'll let your GOOGLE answer that for you....
AI Overview American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States is inherently unique, distinct, or morally superior to other nations. It suggests that the country's founding ideals"like liberty, democracy, and equality"make it a "shining city on a hill" destined to play a transformative role in world affairs
#6 | POSTED BY MSGT

Talk about a glorious own goal! LOL.

I asked another poster what he/she/it thought the term meant. They've gone radio silent, of course, so you wade in.

But you can't even tell me what you think it means, and are forced to just shovel some AI definition onto the boards.

Typical lazy, low-information, know-nothing MAGAt.

No wonder Trump says he "loves" you guys.

"I have never heard of American exceptionalism in this way."

Okay, I'll bite.

What, exactly do you think that term - "American Exceptionalism" - means?

It just wouldn't be The Retort if we didn't kick off the celebration without revisiting slavery, now, would it?
#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Think of it as one of those inconvenient truths about itself with which a mature society attempts to deal.
Kind of like nose picking in public for you MAGAts.

"Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops are in Washington"

Blather aside, this is an arrogant - not a confident - regime.

It's my understanding Hearn being up on a federal felony indictment - and facing up to 10 years imprisonment! - entitles him to a jury trial. If so, he should definitely go for it. Abbie Hoffman, eat your heart out.

#9
Absolutely. I came from AZ, but summers in DC were of a different order of magnitude. DC may not be built on an actual swamp but it is located in a humid river valley. It's a beast of a walking town in summer.

Ah, Mt. Rushmore, spiritual child of Stone Mountain, another creation of that old fellow traveler with the KKK Gustav Borglum. On land stolen from the Lakotas, no less, who turned down the feds offer of financial compensation for that injustice - because they want the damn Hills back. With the Crazy Horse sculptor's family grift down the road, too, also on land taken by genocidal killing. It's a good old American look, that's for sure.

"It really is hectic. It's chaotic. It's a total disaster," Andreone said. "They haven't planned for this at all."

"Plan"?
Trump?
Beyond snatch-and-grab or grab-and-go?
The display naivety is almost touchingly childlike, bless you, Mr. Andreone.

"He did not disclose the trade with federal regulators until May 26, well past the 45-day deadline required for reporting stock transactions over $1,000 under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act."

Corrected:

"He concealed the trade from federal regulators until May 26, well past the 45-day deadline required for reporting stock transactions over $1,000 under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act."

Not many people want to get into lockstep with a pi$$ant like JD Vance.

The Iranians didn't even need to be present when Trump waddled up and signed the surrender document in the Palace of Versailles. Of all places. Ah, Clio, surely the most wrenchingly ironic of the Muses.

Keep going ...

BTW the word "sword" is used in the bible over 400 times.
#14 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

OTOH, the word "turd" appears in the Bible only once.

Trump's Bavarian grandfather skedaddled from obligatory military service and emigrated to the US, at one point operating an eatery and cat house in the Yukon.

"You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 10:19

You can buy books, especially the leather-ish bound sets, literally by the foot to fill up bookshelves.
It's for pretentious phlucks who don't actually "read" anything worth keeping, much less displaying.
This is just going even cheaper and dumber.
Perfect for Trump and his Idiocracy.

Indubitably.

He got to work with shaping up the hay-foot, straw-foot crowd!

Let it be noted, the amount of foreign assistance the Americans in rebellion received from the French and Spanish was massive. For openers. Spanish blankets, tents, blankets, and other supplies kept many of Washington s troops from freezing during the winter of 1777-1778. Four years later, at the end of the revolution's kinetic phase, Cornwallis found himself frozen in place at Yorktown because a French fleet was parked up his backside.

#6
If you want to make sense here, try reading the posts before wading in.
Otherwise, just proceed as usual.

Navalny paid a heavy price for clear thinking. Thanks for reminding us.

Evidently there are enough mouth-breathers and aspiring swindlers in the voting population to make the chances of actually getting elected to a place at the trough worth the while of such obvious frauds as Tuberville. That is largely on the voters. The people who created the political system in this country were well aware of the problems posed by ignoramuses and crazed partisans canceling out the votes of reasonable folk. It was a central problem that inevitably arose during Enlightenment period discussions and pamphlet wars about the politics to come.