Shiftless2
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"All I have to do is look, and I listen." Trump, asked for evidence of his claim of fraud when a MAGA reality TV personality finished third in the recent LA election
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"You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra bonus:
"I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it." Yogi Berra -- When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
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"Well, Jon, 'Severely damaged' versus 'obliterated,' I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. What we know is we set their nuclear program back substantially." ~ JD Vance, last summer, asked if Iran's nuclear facilities had actually be "obliterated" by US strike
"Everyone needs to say f***ing obliterated....That's the word. Everyone just needs to copy what I say. Obliterated. Obliterated." ~ Trump in angry response, to an associate, according to new Haberman/Swan book
"Everyone needs to say f***ing obliterated....That's the word. Everyone just needs to copy what I say. Obliterated. Obliterated." ~ Trump in angry response, to an associate, according to new Haberman/Swan book
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Trump, on the new bottom surface of the Reflecting Pool:
"If you had a knife, you can't even cut it. It's so strong." ~ May 4
"Vandals...A 350-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind." ~ June 22
"If you had a knife, you can't even cut it. It's so strong." ~ May 4
"Vandals...A 350-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind." ~ June 22
Lord Jesus taught that even compulsive liars are people too,
might have been hungover when he said that.
DJ !
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"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats -- y'all impeachment's not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you. We're going to win the midterms." ~ Speaker Mike Johnson, at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference
Funny but I thought the law and order Republicans were the ones who've been saying "if you don't do anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about"
Funny but I thought the law and order Republicans were the ones who've been saying "if you don't do anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about"
In psychology this is called "projecting" Psychology To attribute (one's own emotion or motive, for example) to someone else
It seems to me vividly revealing whether a call to action is based on logic & truth, or distortion & fantasy.
Speaker Johnson may be a capable legislative leader (or not)*. BUT ! He is certainly not a legitimate spokesperson for the Democrats. Cram a gavel in it Mr. Speaker.
S2, some nostalgia is more painful than others.
Alarmingly, you are correct. It's not a matter of how far right the GOP has turned, but how far wrong.
The result: The Democrats are now the party of law & order. Logical: the GOP leader (Trump) has literally dozens of felony convictions.
* a Republican leader with spine:
Trump is growing tired of hearing ‘no’ from Thune. GOP senators are lining up behind the majority leader
Lauren Fox, Adam Cancryn, CNN / Wed, June 24, 2026 at 3:00 AM GMT-5President Donald Trump may be the head of the Republican Party, but when it comes to the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune is still in charge.
Trump is growing tired of hearing ‘no’ from Thune. GOP senators are lining up behind the majority leader
President Donald Trump may be the head of the Republican Party, but when it comes to the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune is still in charge.
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"If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy." ~ JD Vance
There are several journalists MAGA dismisses as "liberal" that agree with JD on this.
I'm not all in on it. But the VP makes a relevant point.
President Trump has so inured the news-consuming public, Watergate scale disgrace is just one more among countless others. Some pundits suggest Nixon resigned out of shame, and to avoid addressing formal charges.
Whether there was a formal / explicit quid pro quo for Ford to pardon Nixon remains in question. But legal experts assert accepting a presidential pardon is tantamount to a confession of guilt,
for even a president cannot pardon a non-crime.
Well Mr. President, you have obtained a strait full of it by unilaterally withdrawing from Obama's JCPOA, and then waging War on Iran.
You thought that would turn out well somehow? Your senior U.S. military commanders could have warned you sir. Did you fire them before they could?
in·ure also en·ure (ĭn-yr)
tr.v. in·ured, in·ur·ing, in·ures also en·ured, en·ur·ing, en·ures
To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom:
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"On July 4 we will have the greatest show of all on the national mall. Your favorite president will be speaking, so please show up! Because if we have two empty seats, you know what's going to happen? The fake news is going to say, 'He didn't fill out the arena.'" ~ Trump, at opening of 250 festivities
And of course we all know how that worked out for him ....
And of course we all know how that worked out for him ....
And that would be inaccurate? "Fake"?
Trump-level vanity is difficult to match. North Korea? KJU?
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"America's doors are fully closed to asylum seekers. In every case, they're either criminals, benefit seekers, economic migrants, welfare seekers, etc., etc. They're coming to join family members and so forth. But the good news for them is that other countries [are] willing to take them." ~ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller
How did Melania's parents come to the US [end sarcasm]
How did Melania's parents come to the US [end sarcasm]
Steve,
You're delusional.
Not only are you being outclassed by a lady.
She's green, metal, and never sleeps.
And still she's got more humanity than you.
Go patent a neutrino SM.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
from the poem cradled in the arm of the grande dame of New York Harbor, our Statue of Liberty
airplane?
rowboat?
swim trunks?
at some point, when reality has become this bizarre, it's a challenge to satirize it