Can I say that one of his assassination attempts was a botched "staged" event. Yes I actually believe that. Anything HE could do to get sympathy from his followers and glean votes from them in the General Election. There are so many parts to that day that just never made any sense. And the fact that "supposed" ear injury healed miraculously doesn't cut it either.
AND, when Atty. Bill Barr told Trump there was no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, he threw his spaghetti plate across the room, smashing it & his spaghetti & sauce dripped down the wall.
And the best footnote to Shoegate is, tada!!!! The shoe company he loves is suing the administration. Trump is obsessed by shoes made by a company that sued him over tariffs | International | EL PAÍS English https://share.google/AqdTCq4APvF2qTDXK
I would ask him, "Why are you incapable of being honest? Why do you feel entitled to sexually assault women and children? Why is every accusation you make actually a confession?"
There was a time in my life that I was a reporter. I'm published. I changed careers to benefit someone else in my life. I wish I had stayed the course, because I may have been in a position to ask Donald all of those questions. I would pray for him to call me a name or say something like "quiet piggy." That would be the day I would go viiiirrrraaaallllll. My goal would be to get him so angry that he would do something career ending on camera.
The shit he's done so far should be enough, I agree. Ffs, Jan 6 should have landed him in jail. That being said, he hits women, he's a violent man and pissing him off enough to be violent on camera would end his career. There would be no way to deny it or scrub it clean.
I understand your skepticism. I just feel like physically assaulting a woman on camera would be something even Congress couldn't ignore. Plus, if it were me, I would definitely bring charges against him.
Not sue, I would press charges against him for assault and anything else they would allow. I would take his ass to court, I wouldn't accept a plea deal if the DA wanted to give one. I would be pushing for jail time, not money.
Looking the other way is ignoring what he's doing. Donald says a lot of things... most of which are utter bullshit.
Since the 1950s the US has been seen by many of us as a nation increasingly addicted to television stories rather than reality. The Rump and his battalion of advisers have always been good at creating a ripping yarn, a mega-maga-soapie, with him as the focal point of course.
The US has now had several generations of being told that (a) individually they are stupid and know nothing, and should credit only what they are told by TV, and (b) they personally have no value, no lives; it's the people who star on TV that should flourish, prosper, rule, make decisions. Which is all cr*p of course, and I genuinely believe that all of this chaos will perhaps enlighten more and more of us world-wide: that democracy means taking the reins, with love and laughter. Much more hectic and nourishing than being a couch potato, yes?
Also an aged person, not totally in agreement with you. We once (and to an extent, still) had a pretty good crop of souls here who understood that democracy means "taking the reins with love and laughter". But we have been undercut for decades by a crowd that has sold fear and ignorance to folks who have felt helpless and hopeless and thought the fearmongers were teaching them how to make their lives better. All lies, of course--the fearmongers were robbing them blind--but somehow hopeful.
Please hang onto to your better world. Don't let fear take over, or you'll be in the same boat we're in now.
I would stay calm, I just wouldn't quit pushing the questions. Like him saying "quiet piggy." Responding with, "Yes, I would usually agree you should be a quiet piggy... however, I would appreciate you answering my questions." The goal is to anger him beyond his ability to control it. That's when things get really interesting. Since he has dementia, it wouldn't take much prodding.
Go apeshit on him? It hasn't happened because the rest of the world is trying to maintain honour, dignity, and what shreds of respect they can still manufacture for this creature. If your enemy is a monster, must you become monstrous also?
Yes! She would have won Jeff Tiedrich’s challenge, issued last April: “The first reporter to stand up and ask (Dumpty) ‘WTF is wrong with you’ should win a lifetime Pulitzer.”
C.S. Lewis was right when he said: "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." We have that power. We need to believe in our strength to rebel against these forces of evil. Their ill-fitting shoes will one day send them tumbling into the void they have created. We will be the witnesses and the re-builders. After all, we have God on our side.
I like the "WTF is wrong with you?" question the best, but short of that, every time he lies, I wish the reporters in the gaggle would laugh out loud. (Would that be called a gaggle giggle?) He hates being laughed at or made to look like a fool, although he makes himself look like a fool and a moron every time he opens his mouth.
Liz Landers and all of the hardworking reporters at PBS and NPR deserve our support now more than ever. Non-profit journalism is our last hope to know the real stories. And if they bother politicians by asking hard questions, GOOD.
Unfortunately, it says a lot about America that we elected him. And it doesn’t say anything good.
Good for her for standing up to him and using facts to do so. “Your own attorney general” loved it.
I'm not sure we elected him. Remember, with him everything is projection.
Can I say that one of his assassination attempts was a botched "staged" event. Yes I actually believe that. Anything HE could do to get sympathy from his followers and glean votes from them in the General Election. There are so many parts to that day that just never made any sense. And the fact that "supposed" ear injury healed miraculously doesn't cut it either.
Oh yeah, totally fake. Probably all three, odd that they were all right wing, no?
What made you a traitorous, lying, insane, pedophile, other than Putin, Epstein & your father?
Don't forget Netanyahu.
I'd only one cup of coffee.
They also had at least 3 audits of the Arizona election, one of the audit teams was selected by Trumpers. No fraud found!
AND, when Atty. Bill Barr told Trump there was no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, he threw his spaghetti plate across the room, smashing it & his spaghetti & sauce dripped down the wall.
And the best footnote to Shoegate is, tada!!!! The shoe company he loves is suing the administration. Trump is obsessed by shoes made by a company that sued him over tariffs | International | EL PAÍS English https://share.google/AqdTCq4APvF2qTDXK
I would ask him, "Why are you incapable of being honest? Why do you feel entitled to sexually assault women and children? Why is every accusation you make actually a confession?"
There was a time in my life that I was a reporter. I'm published. I changed careers to benefit someone else in my life. I wish I had stayed the course, because I may have been in a position to ask Donald all of those questions. I would pray for him to call me a name or say something like "quiet piggy." That would be the day I would go viiiirrrraaaallllll. My goal would be to get him so angry that he would do something career ending on camera.
Not meaning to pop your bubble, if the shit he's done so far hasn't been career-ending, I can't imagine any question from a reporter doing it.
The shit he's done so far should be enough, I agree. Ffs, Jan 6 should have landed him in jail. That being said, he hits women, he's a violent man and pissing him off enough to be violent on camera would end his career. There would be no way to deny it or scrub it clean.
Still--color me skeptical . . .
I understand your skepticism. I just feel like physically assaulting a woman on camera would be something even Congress couldn't ignore. Plus, if it were me, I would definitely bring charges against him.
Remember when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue? Congress isn't "ignoring" what he's doing; they're intentionally looking the other way.
Of course you'd sue him--so did E. Jean Carroll. And that resulted in . . . ?
Not sue, I would press charges against him for assault and anything else they would allow. I would take his ass to court, I wouldn't accept a plea deal if the DA wanted to give one. I would be pushing for jail time, not money.
Looking the other way is ignoring what he's doing. Donald says a lot of things... most of which are utter bullshit.
Unless it triggers a stroke.
Okay, I'd be okay with a stroke. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
If the world won't strike him from outside, let's hope his own body steps up to the plate.
Speaking as an aged person half a world away…
Since the 1950s the US has been seen by many of us as a nation increasingly addicted to television stories rather than reality. The Rump and his battalion of advisers have always been good at creating a ripping yarn, a mega-maga-soapie, with him as the focal point of course.
The US has now had several generations of being told that (a) individually they are stupid and know nothing, and should credit only what they are told by TV, and (b) they personally have no value, no lives; it's the people who star on TV that should flourish, prosper, rule, make decisions. Which is all cr*p of course, and I genuinely believe that all of this chaos will perhaps enlighten more and more of us world-wide: that democracy means taking the reins, with love and laughter. Much more hectic and nourishing than being a couch potato, yes?
Also an aged person, not totally in agreement with you. We once (and to an extent, still) had a pretty good crop of souls here who understood that democracy means "taking the reins with love and laughter". But we have been undercut for decades by a crowd that has sold fear and ignorance to folks who have felt helpless and hopeless and thought the fearmongers were teaching them how to make their lives better. All lies, of course--the fearmongers were robbing them blind--but somehow hopeful.
Please hang onto to your better world. Don't let fear take over, or you'll be in the same boat we're in now.
Thank you; yes. Very well put. If they divide us, make us hate instead of hope, they have conquered us. And made us very small.
I would love to see anyone, anyone at all, go apeshit on him. why is hasn't happened is mind-blowing.
I would stay calm, I just wouldn't quit pushing the questions. Like him saying "quiet piggy." Responding with, "Yes, I would usually agree you should be a quiet piggy... however, I would appreciate you answering my questions." The goal is to anger him beyond his ability to control it. That's when things get really interesting. Since he has dementia, it wouldn't take much prodding.
Secret Service . . .
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Go apeshit on him? It hasn't happened because the rest of the world is trying to maintain honour, dignity, and what shreds of respect they can still manufacture for this creature. If your enemy is a monster, must you become monstrous also?
Kudos to the PBS reporter! Btw, if I was a reporter and I would have said: WTF is wrong with you!
Yes! She would have won Jeff Tiedrich’s challenge, issued last April: “The first reporter to stand up and ask (Dumpty) ‘WTF is wrong with you’ should win a lifetime Pulitzer.”
That was my first thought too! If he hadn’t run away from her questions, she may have been able to slip that one in!
PBS and NPR are treasures. NPR discovered 53 pages missing in the files. PBS reporter not accepting his bullshit lies. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
C.S. Lewis was right when he said: "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." We have that power. We need to believe in our strength to rebel against these forces of evil. Their ill-fitting shoes will one day send them tumbling into the void they have created. We will be the witnesses and the re-builders. After all, we have God on our side.
Thanks for that lovely reminder.
I have only one comment. The graphic displayed does not show enough overlap of 'dumb/stupid' and 'evil'.
Those have to be the ugliest shoes I’ve ever seen! They look like a holdover from the 1950s!
I like the "WTF is wrong with you?" question the best, but short of that, every time he lies, I wish the reporters in the gaggle would laugh out loud. (Would that be called a gaggle giggle?) He hates being laughed at or made to look like a fool, although he makes himself look like a fool and a moron every time he opens his mouth.
47 thinks every man needs his own pair of k-k-kankle accommodating shoes.
I simply cant wait for the blessed event.
Liz Landers and all of the hardworking reporters at PBS and NPR deserve our support now more than ever. Non-profit journalism is our last hope to know the real stories. And if they bother politicians by asking hard questions, GOOD.
Rubio’s shoe debacle is the best thing I’ve read this week…maybe this month.
Did he assume that everyone wears the same size he does? Or maybe he was just cleaning out his closet …