Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it. And you got what you asked for.

Elect a game show host, get a game show host. Elect a criminal, get a criminal. Elect a coup plotter, get a coup plotter. And, as a bonus, you also get an administration full of sycophants and henchmen who are themselves criminals and coup plotters and others who are simply comfortable working with criminals and coup- plotters and maybe prefer to do so. No amount of Fox News bluster or National Review turd-polishing is going to change that. Them's the facts, as plain and as visible as the sun.

Americans are not children. Americans are not mentally disabled. Americans are whole and complete human beings, and, as voters, they are morally culpable for the decisions they make"especially when they make that decision twice.

And as Americans look out into the world"or look inward with honest eyes"we may begin to appreciate that the fundamental problem isn't that our country is reviled under the current administration"the problem is that it deserves to be.

The creed of cruelty is nearly universal among Trump loyalists. Of course, they don't put it that way, but ask them and they will tell you the truth in spite of themselves: Trump was elected by people who resent this or that group for its status, its wealth, its influence, its political power, its class condescension, etc., and electing Trump"again"was a way to get back at "them," "the media," "elites," etc. Nobody voted for Trump for policy reasons, because he has no policies, only tantrums. Nobody voted for Trump for philosophical reasons, because he has no philosophy beyond, "I am your retribution." The excitable ladies and gentlemen over at The Daily Wire sell "Leftist Tears" mugs, and there's a reason for that. The tears"of our fellow Americans, wrongheaded though they may be in their politics"are what this is all about. Forget policy"those tears are the deliverable, the only one that really matters.

It is time"well past time"to stop making excuses for Americans: for Americans' cruelty, for Americans' selfishness, for Americans' childish insistence on being led by their resentment and by their lowest instincts.

Trump did not trick Americans into electing him"there never has been, and never could be, any question about what sort of man he is: What else could you make of a thrice-married serial bankrupt borderline illiterate fantasist who before the presidency was best known for having appeared in a reality show franchise, a short string of pornographic films, and however many pro-wrestling programs? What new depths are there to be plunged by Donald Trump, who ended his last term in office with an attempted coup d'tat? From 2017 to 2021, the Trump administration offered a clown-car parade of lying, lawlessness, incompetence, imbecility, corruption, cruelty, kookery, cowardice, and so much whining that you'd think they'd be sick of whining even though they weren't. There was nobody eligible to vote in 2024 who wasn't walking the Earth in the first Trump administration.

This is what they voted for.

Americans Did Vote for This. Donald Trump was elected to hurt people, not to help them, and that's what he's doing.

Americans are not stupid: Americans know damned good and well that whom we're voting for is what we're voting for. We do not have the excuse of ignorance or stupidity.

And Americans are not timid little weaklings pushed into a corner by the big bad world and forced to turn to an erratic would-be caudillo to protect us from ... Canada and Denmark. On any given Monday morning, a comfortable majority of the world's 100 most valuable companies"and 30-odd of the world's 50 most valuable companies"are U.S. firms. (Saudi Aramco sneaks in at No. 6, Taiwan Semiconductor at No. 9, and Tencent at No. 16; Europe doesn't show up until LVMH down at No. 27.) The United States has 4.2 percent of the world's population and 26 percent of the world's economic output. The United States has more military resources than the rest of the top 10 players combined. The annual revenue of the 20 largest U.S.-based companies easily exceeds the GDP of any country except China or the United States itself. Sweden, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates are rich countries, and none has an economy as large as Walmart's annual revenue. If CVS were a country, it would be a crappy country"but its economy would be larger than Egypt's.

Our economy, already gigantic, has been outperforming supposed peers for decades and currently is growing at three times the rate of the United Kingdom and more than twice as fast as those of Canada, Switzerland, or France. We have more nuclear weapons ready to go than any other country in the world, more people than any country except China and India. We have about 6 percent of the world's land but 30 percent of its wealth, more than all of Europe and Japan combined.

If the United States cannot afford to act like a decent country, then no country can.

And perhaps that nihilism"the conviction that human decency is too expensive"is what is at the heart of Trumpism and its hold over both the Republican Party and a large enough share of the U.S. population to win elections.

Trump was not elected to help people"economic growth during the first Trump administration was exactly the same as it was in the Obama years (please apply the usual caveats about presidents and economic performance) and less than during the Biden, George W. Bush, or Clinton administrations. American farmers were even reduced to taking supplementary federal handouts because Trump's idiotic trade wars wrecked their export markets. That isn't what help looks like.

Trump was elected to hurt people.

It's the Army's 250th birthday that happens to fall on Trumps birthday. "Planning began last year."

How 'bout this?

Cancel the parade, have a conservative and respectful celebration at the Pentagon and use the $92 million to rehire the people at the VA that were terminated.

Thats government waste. Where's DOGE?

#18

My post is referring to 2016. Trump was a mistake from the beginning.

Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

#2

Yeah, I know that. I just posted the story, man.

#12

His biggest donors.

Would you rather be in some place that's cloudy and rainy with sad chumps or in Florida with your Saudi donors and winning? #MAGA #Winning

as anti Semitic or racist.

Buchanan is both to rational, thinking people.

Girl you thought he was a man,
But he was a muffin,
He hung around till you found,
That he didn't know nuthin',

"Do what we say, or we'll wreck our economy!"

-MAGA Muffins

69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

Maybe there will be another FDR, because the next Democratic president, if there is one, is going to inherit a depression and a re-armed Germany.

Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

I guess it's over now.

Elon Musk dramatically steps down from DOGE in shock move after Trump expressed private doubts

What an actual LIBERATION DAY would look like:

Abolishing the Federal Reserve.

Abolishing the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.

Abolishing the Income Tax.

Repealing the Patriot Act.

Repealing FISA.

Repealing Citizen's United and banning SuperPACs.

Impeaching rogue judges from the bench.

Making VoterID, same-day voting, election audits, signature verification and citizenship mandatory for all elections.

Banning mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting.

Banning COVID mRNA injections.

Removing liability protections for corrupt pharmaceutical corporations.

Abolishing all foreign aid.

Abolishing corporate subsidies.

Bringing the troops home to defend America's borders.

Deporting all illegal immigrants.

Banning all foreign and domestic lobbying.

Banning dual citizens from holding public office.

Prosecuting every politician and Federal Reserve member guilty of insider trading.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the Crimes Against Humanity committed during COVID.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation.

Prosecuting everyone involved in the J6 operation.

Prosecuting everyone involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Prosecuting everyone involved in facilitating the summer riots in 2020.

Prosecuting everyone in the Biden family who subverted American interests for financial gain.

Prosecuting CA politicians for their criminal negligence during the Palisades fire.

Publishing the list of every Congressperson who has settled sexual assault cases with taxpayer funds.

Releasing all the declassified and unredacted documents related to 9/11, JFK's assassination, MLK's assassination, RFK's assassination, and the murder of Seth Rich.

Banning all the harmful chemicals and pesticides in the American food system.

Banning geoengineering.

Eliminating government interference and regulations written by insurance companies in the healthcare industry.

And ... replacing everyone in Congress with a few notable exceptions.

What did I miss?

textbook case of TDS

We need to draw a bright line between derangement syndrome' and I just hate that -------------.' Too much pure hating is getting categorized as derangement syndromes and it's a disservice to haters everywhere.

WASHINGTON: The arteries of Donald J. Trump are "extremely unlikely" to serve a third term in the White House, the blood vessels said on Tuesday.

In a social media post, the vascular tubes pushed back against Trump's recent musings about remaining in office beyond his second term.

"Leaving aside the constitutional issues, there are serious anatomical issues," the arteries said. "The pressure on us has been unbearable."

At the White House, Trump slammed his arteries' comments, telling reporters, "My circulatory system has treated me very unfairly."

(The Borowitz Report)

Finally, an American president willing to continue spending at disastrous current levels while floating tax hikes and pushing government impositions that will raise consumer prices with the help of DOGE incel pirates.

Finally, an American president willing to continue spending at disastrous current levels while floating tax hikes and pushing government impositions that will raise consumer prices.

Trump is the greatest president in history. My bank account is overflowing, crime is nonexistent, border crossings are zero, and corruption in DC has been eliminated. Thank you.