FRIEND

I usually keep my Drudge life separate from my real life but on Tuesday I caught myself paying particular attention to Kansas for the very same reasons.

FRIEND

They're waiting for Trump to say it.

But I think you're right. "Too big to rig."

CATDOG

I don't believe it.

It's too soon for those two 'pasture pastries' to be hired by anyone.

AU

Including the GOP. They had to see it coming.

I wonder when they first realized they had a swamp monster on their hands.

NIXON

"Everything Trump touches . . . "

And now the GOP.

WHATSLEFT

LOL ~ We'll know when the beauty parlor next to his office starts to pack up.

DONNER

Add their names to the subpoena list.

IMO, this fake "deal" was only a last ditch effort to make Trump look good . . . . what he called problem "solved."

Now it's crumbling? LOL

Noone saw that one coming . . . except everybody.

Re the thread

I've been wondering how far the tentacles of the meltdown were going to reach. ~ DJTJ and Eric perhaps?

A Trump denial usually means the beginning of the end for Hegseth and Rubio.

Of course, firing Rubio might look good on Rubio's application for Trump's job in 2028.

It looked like Musk was trying to build a "stealth" vehicle to avoid radar traps.

It was an ugly embarrassment. Pffft

Everything Trump touches dies on the vine.

Like this thread is doing behind a paywall.

MAGA has certainly gone extinct. I don't think anybody will be claiming that again as the road to prosperity.

(Psssst) Whatever are they going to do with all those hats. LOL

MBLUE

Don't dwell on the minutia. It isn't dignified.

HUGH

"What kind of America are we living in,

One where a cruel wannabe "dictator" thought he had built an impenetrable wall around himself until he found out differently on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

Nasty ol' Trumpy sat on a wall
Nasty ol' Trumpy had a great fall
All of Musk's money and all of Musk's men
Couldn't put Trumpy back together again

Trump is lucky in a way. If his beloved Russia had a party leader as embarrassing as Trump, they'd declare him a non-person and put him under house arrest for the remainder of his life.

LAMP

""Were blinded" or "are blinded?"

If history is any indication, I'd call it a permanent affliction.

Because Trump is not going to take this loss laying down. He's always been his own worst enemy and this shellacking isn't any different.

My guess he's plotting his revenge as we speak and conjuring up some reassurances he can give Mr, Putin . . . just like 2020.

Hopefully, it's because she thinks Trump might start WWIII.

Or, at least, because she thinks Trump is his own worst enemy.

What we saw on Tuesday was American doing what it always does. Righting its own Ship of State . . . or Karma collecting her due. Whatever. I can only say, Thank goodness!

LAMP

I'm sure that CLOWN meant sooner rather than later.

But you are right. To do otherwise would be a Trump-esq rush to judgement. What is most obvious is that Musk didn't act alone. He was investing his money with an expectation of getting a return on that investment, perhaps in the form of future lucrative government contracts.

On the surface, at least, it appears that both Trump and Musk were blinded by greed. If either of them had bothered to read the tea leaves, so to speak, Trump poll numbers and the massive protests across the country, were a clear indication that Trump's political pot of water was close to the boiling point. The lid was ready to blow off, and it did, right on cue.

Were their actions illegal? I don't know. But what I do know is that Trump is a bad businessman and Musk was a fool to follow suite.

ZED

"His mental health issues still have control over him."

That and good ol' fashion greed.

I'm getting a bad feeling about what Trump plans to do to stop the confirmation. If he doesn't, it's the death knell for everything he's been working for up to now.

We could think of the most despicable, inhumane things a president could do and it probably wouldn't come close to what Trump is planning.

HAMBURGLAR

He went too far. He crossed the Rubicon and got stomped on.

Now he's personally responsible for the GOP's dream of a Unitary Executive go up in smoke.

Not to mention that Mr. Putin was counting on U.S. help with Russia's own invasion plans.

Trump's going to need more than one scapegoat to blame for all that.

AU

It's not pretty now especially for coat tailers, like his own family members, who depended on name affiliation to make millions of dollars.

Now, as a discredited lame duck president, who has been kicked to the curb by his own country, the name of Trump can't be worth much these days.

Jus' wondering out loud. How broad are the consequences?

BRESKING NEWS

Here's another humiliating kicker for the GOP. Their signature leader's stock (DJT) just fell from $175 per share to $5.00.

That tells me that Trump's oligarch friends in the stock market have bailed.

No mo money for loser Trump.

Desantis: "This is close to an extinction-level event for Republicans in many parts of the country"

And YOU helped!

But it's probably good for the Republican Party to cool their jets for a while . . . actually, for a long while. They need to learn all over again that GOP stands for Government of the PEOPLE!

Something we haven't seen out of the GOP since the days of Eisenhower.