Back when I was in competitive martial arts (of a sort; the heavy weapons combat of the Society for Creative Anachronism [www.sca.org]), my trainer (= knight; I'm one of his squires) would call it "an insurance shot": basically, keep hitting until you know they're down for good. ;)
Yeap. Like my daddy told my mama "if you have to use that baseball bat near the bed, swing for the fences and keep swingin' until they ain't movin anymore."
We all know how paramedics never give up on a patient. I’m sure there are quite a few MAGA paramedics who are going to try to keep this patient alive. We need to block them as hard as we can.
The sad part of this Epstein crap is that Magats are outraged at this fiasco, but really don't seem to care about the attempt to end democracy, the gutting of essential agencies like FEMA and USAID and the slow motion crashing of the economy. This is how you can tell that reality TV is what REALLY rules their lives. Thank you, God! Amen! Awomen! Ramen!
I agree, but finally at this point, I don't even care how or why MAGA is imploding. I only care that it is. Paraphrasing the words of Green Bay Packers coach Matt Lafleur, it's an Ugly Win, but it's still a win.
ULTRA Truth Seeker [HAH] wants “accountability for all those far left lunatics sir! They broken numerous laws. We need to start seeing arrests and convictions soon!” So 1) they don't see the 34 Xs convicted felon in chief; or 2) they believe he was railroaded? My brain hurts!!
"Every episode of the original Scooby-Doo format contains a penultimate scene in which the heroes unmask the seemingly supernatural antagonist to reveal a real person in a costume”
Nah, Russia. I'm sure Putin would -- hmm; if Trump failed him that badly, yeah, Russia would be one of the last places Donny-Wonny would want to go. ;)
And we're left to pick up the pieces of a society bent and broken in ways we never thought possible. I've never been more convinced that he, if you believe the stories, is the evil his followers have all read about in their Bibles. I mean I haven't read the book myself so, what do I know?
You are not far off. The Christian Nationalists see him as their non-believing savior. They believe he is someone who was put here to help "Christians" reach the end times prophesy conclusion. They could care less what unholy crap he has and is doing as long as he helps them achieve their "heaven on earth" goal.
Excuse me? It says in their Book (which I doubt they've read other than to cherry-pick) that "no one shall know the day or the hour," and they want to FORCE GOD'S HAND?! Good Lord, how blasphemous can you get? :-/
Hey, God: just to be a spoiler, /don't/ have the Kid bring on the Rapture while any of them are still alive. ;)
We should be so lucky that MAGA is dead. Idiot boy has a long history of redirecting people to other issues so they ignore such things; the timing on his announcement of 30% tariffs on the EU and Mexico is extremely suspect in this context.
Chump's incoherent and random tariffs are leading most countries to ice out the U.S. from international trade agreements. Unfortunately, it's leading our allies into the arms of China. Chump put a tariff on Australia, with whom we have a trade surplus. Now, Australia is looking to form a trade alliance with China.
That's another valid point; he threatens people and expects them to back down... and so far, for a variety of reasons (some of which I'm clear on, and some of which I'm not) they have, but TACO has yet to follow through; the thing is, he's going to have to follow through soon, or they'll quit listening to him, which is fine with me, but his ego won't be able to take it when it happens.
It is jaw on the floor, gobsmackingly inconceivable that none of them seem to know or believe that tRump is the biggest pedo (and liar) of the Epstein buddies. Blaming Bondi for HER lies??? Yeah, she lies; they all do. But, 30,000 lies in one term must be a humankind record for just four years.
The orange shit bag will have all the brain dead, vile fucks whipped back into a frenzy again regarding some made up bullshit in 3, 2, 1........... THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
They aren't dead yet, so let us not abandon the vigil to ensure they are once and for all buried. This will take years, decades even, to fully be cleansed from the fabric of our nation and regardless, there will always be elements of it remaining because bigotry never truly dies.
The U.S. has always had a fascist undercurrent. It’s why we had a Civil War. It reared its ugly head again in the 1950s during McCarthy’s Red Scare. Had Nixon succeeded in realizing his secret ambitions, we might have been living under authoritarian rule today. This is the inherent risk of a liberal democracy and a free society: its openness can be exploited by those who seek to dismantle it from within. After every fascist eruption, America patched the cracks it hadn’t previously seen. This time, Chump is testing the whole foundation—and if we don’t act, the structure may not hold.
It may be a humor website, but sometimes they can get really, really serious. And they often have better references than Wikipedia. :-/
(Interestingly enough, the link blurb doesn't match the title, quite [5 Of Hitler's Worst Ideas You Didn't Know Came From America]; and it is true that FDR had an uphill battle even AFTER Pearl Harbor [and no, he didn't hold back the fleet, or send it there deliberately], since that might mean we'd go to war against someone in Europe that more than one dude in Congress was probably secretly pulling for. Ultimately, they voted for going to war against JAPAN, and Japan's buddy Hitler [which probably wouldn't've lasted very long] declared war on US four days later, getting us into a war in Europe.)
I love the Onion’s piece on Jeffery Epstein, where Agent 47 concocted an elaborate plan to make Epstein’s death look like a suicide, only for him to just walk up, shoot him in the face, everyone pretends to ignore it, and then he spends the rest of his day watching Hobbs and Shaw.
I’d certainly pretend to ignore it if I saw it happen.
EDIT: It was from Hard Drive, not The Onion. Still funny though.
The link underline included "Agent," so it didn't work until I edited that last out in the URL line. Other than that, yeah, that was a good article! :D
It’s not dead. It's like a cancerous tumor that metastasized. If only because those who helped the 🟧🔥💩🤡 regain power are utterly dependent on him. If he falls, they all fall. There's nothing to fill that power vacuum, at least not yet. However, I wouldn't be surprised if more resignations or a “surprise” health problem happen. He's older and more infirm than even his most ardent insiders expect.
Yeah, after thinking about it for a bit, you may be right. No one likes him and he does NOT have the stage chops to enthrall an audience. I still do not at all like the idea of him as pres., though. He is an ugly git, from the inside out. Too bad. He is actually quite intelligent...about a few things, anyway.
A few things; not all of the ones he needs (never stopped Trump, but...).
In Table-Top Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs), there are Statistics or Abilities or Whatevers that one's character needs, and back in the "DnD's the only game in town" old days, one rolled three six-sided dice (3d6) to determine them, so you'd have a range of stats between 3 (awful; three 1s) and 18 (awesome; all 6s! :D), with variations depending on if your character was an Elf or Dwarf or Whatever.
Trump's stats would be: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Constitution [= healthiness] 3, Intelligence 3, Wisdom 3, Charisma [= force of personality, etc.] 18.
He is educated, but education neither equates to intelligence nor wisdom. I've worked with plenty of guys like him. I've never been impressed.
In my thirty-year
career in education, most people I meet are “…over-educated beyond their performance ability” (Dearborn, Lincoln & Shaw, 1922). Most people peak in high school.
Hehe! Yeah, I been playing DnD since I was 26....and am now 74. Played it first with friends, then my kids and finally my grandkids. And I fear your stats for Trump are, in my never terribly humble opinion, just a bit high. I would have given him 2. On everything.
I started playing in September 1983, when I was nine or ten years old. A new kid moved in down the street with his older brother, and they had this game in a red box. After that, my life was never the same. From then on, I always took the less-traveled route.
While a PC can’t roll a two for stats, certain races might have had a -1 or even a -2 back in the day. I have a vague memory of half-orcs having a -2 for Char.
They're not quite dead yet. Let's make sure to keep after them until we're sure. 😉 😜
Very true!!! This is good stuff but the cult has a way of persisting.
Ye olde double tappe.
Back when I was in competitive martial arts (of a sort; the heavy weapons combat of the Society for Creative Anachronism [www.sca.org]), my trainer (= knight; I'm one of his squires) would call it "an insurance shot": basically, keep hitting until you know they're down for good. ;)
Yeap. Like my daddy told my mama "if you have to use that baseball bat near the bed, swing for the fences and keep swingin' until they ain't movin anymore."
We all know how paramedics never give up on a patient. I’m sure there are quite a few MAGA paramedics who are going to try to keep this patient alive. We need to block them as hard as we can.
The sad part of this Epstein crap is that Magats are outraged at this fiasco, but really don't seem to care about the attempt to end democracy, the gutting of essential agencies like FEMA and USAID and the slow motion crashing of the economy. This is how you can tell that reality TV is what REALLY rules their lives. Thank you, God! Amen! Awomen! Ramen!
I agree, but finally at this point, I don't even care how or why MAGA is imploding. I only care that it is. Paraphrasing the words of Green Bay Packers coach Matt Lafleur, it's an Ugly Win, but it's still a win.
Amen! Awomen! Ramen! ;)
ULTRA Truth Seeker [HAH] wants “accountability for all those far left lunatics sir! They broken numerous laws. We need to start seeing arrests and convictions soon!” So 1) they don't see the 34 Xs convicted felon in chief; or 2) they believe he was railroaded? My brain hurts!!
Ultra Truth Seeker wants anything BUT the truth. Good god how do people like that even function at daily living!!!!
When did we break laws on our side? :-/
What's really remarkable is how many of them still refuse to believe that Trump is the one TELLING Bondi, et al, what to say.
"Who is advising you?" 🤦🏻♀️
We need 'Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!’
"Every episode of the original Scooby-Doo format contains a penultimate scene in which the heroes unmask the seemingly supernatural antagonist to reveal a real person in a costume”
‘IT'S DONALD J. TRUMP!' Arrest trump now! 🚓🚨
(whoohoo!) ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo#:~:text=Scooby%2DDoo%20is%20an%20American,Animation%20in%202001).
Putin? ;)
Putin AND trump!!!
He's nervous, he's freaking out, he knows he's trapped.
As to those that think "elites" are all Democrats, what will the do when they find out 47* was Epstein's #1 client?
Run, Donny, run, Saudi Arabia awaits!
Nah, Russia. I'm sure Putin would -- hmm; if Trump failed him that badly, yeah, Russia would be one of the last places Donny-Wonny would want to go. ;)
What's the asterisk on the 47 for? :)
Because just like 45*, there's questions to his legitimacy. 😉
Ah! Good one. :)
And we're left to pick up the pieces of a society bent and broken in ways we never thought possible. I've never been more convinced that he, if you believe the stories, is the evil his followers have all read about in their Bibles. I mean I haven't read the book myself so, what do I know?
You are not far off. The Christian Nationalists see him as their non-believing savior. They believe he is someone who was put here to help "Christians" reach the end times prophesy conclusion. They could care less what unholy crap he has and is doing as long as he helps them achieve their "heaven on earth" goal.
The “Christian” nationalists are trying to accelerate the time to “the rapture” and their impatience is showing
Excuse me? It says in their Book (which I doubt they've read other than to cherry-pick) that "no one shall know the day or the hour," and they want to FORCE GOD'S HAND?! Good Lord, how blasphemous can you get? :-/
Hey, God: just to be a spoiler, /don't/ have the Kid bring on the Rapture while any of them are still alive. ;)
We should be so lucky that MAGA is dead. Idiot boy has a long history of redirecting people to other issues so they ignore such things; the timing on his announcement of 30% tariffs on the EU and Mexico is extremely suspect in this context.
Is that going to work though? He's always tarrifing people then untarrifing people - it's becoming a blur tbh. Maybe it's just me.
He's cried wolf too many times. His threats are wearing thin.
Chump's incoherent and random tariffs are leading most countries to ice out the U.S. from international trade agreements. Unfortunately, it's leading our allies into the arms of China. Chump put a tariff on Australia, with whom we have a trade surplus. Now, Australia is looking to form a trade alliance with China.
Ooh, don't say "ice" these days... :-/
That's another valid point; he threatens people and expects them to back down... and so far, for a variety of reasons (some of which I'm clear on, and some of which I'm not) they have, but TACO has yet to follow through; the thing is, he's going to have to follow through soon, or they'll quit listening to him, which is fine with me, but his ego won't be able to take it when it happens.
The red hats weren't just burned, Dad. They were CREMATED.
Rest in puke, MAGA.
So let me see if I understand Trump's post: Obama, Hillary, Comey, and Brennan wrote files that don't exist. Huh?
So.......if they don't exist, and you can't trust anyone who might've written them...what is he worried about? :-/
It is jaw on the floor, gobsmackingly inconceivable that none of them seem to know or believe that tRump is the biggest pedo (and liar) of the Epstein buddies. Blaming Bondi for HER lies??? Yeah, she lies; they all do. But, 30,000 lies in one term must be a humankind record for just four years.
The orange shit bag will have all the brain dead, vile fucks whipped back into a frenzy again regarding some made up bullshit in 3, 2, 1........... THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
My new favorite tag line - GOP rest in piss, you won’t be missed!
They aren't dead yet, so let us not abandon the vigil to ensure they are once and for all buried. This will take years, decades even, to fully be cleansed from the fabric of our nation and regardless, there will always be elements of it remaining because bigotry never truly dies.
The U.S. has always had a fascist undercurrent. It’s why we had a Civil War. It reared its ugly head again in the 1950s during McCarthy’s Red Scare. Had Nixon succeeded in realizing his secret ambitions, we might have been living under authoritarian rule today. This is the inherent risk of a liberal democracy and a free society: its openness can be exploited by those who seek to dismantle it from within. After every fascist eruption, America patched the cracks it hadn’t previously seen. This time, Chump is testing the whole foundation—and if we don’t act, the structure may not hold.
Also before WW2 there were a lot of American fascists. If you haven't, listen to Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra. Chilling stuff. Extremely relevant.
True; they talk about that, at least touch close to on it, in the link I did to the Cracked article. :-/
Sigh...guess who inspired even HITLER in some of his worst ideas:
https://www.cracked.com/article_23252_5-awful-ways-america-influenced-hitler-without-knowing-it.html
It may be a humor website, but sometimes they can get really, really serious. And they often have better references than Wikipedia. :-/
(Interestingly enough, the link blurb doesn't match the title, quite [5 Of Hitler's Worst Ideas You Didn't Know Came From America]; and it is true that FDR had an uphill battle even AFTER Pearl Harbor [and no, he didn't hold back the fleet, or send it there deliberately], since that might mean we'd go to war against someone in Europe that more than one dude in Congress was probably secretly pulling for. Ultimately, they voted for going to war against JAPAN, and Japan's buddy Hitler [which probably wouldn't've lasted very long] declared war on US four days later, getting us into a war in Europe.)
Thank you, God, for keeping us informed with your classic wit and sarcasm. And for keeping hope alive for a better tomorrow.
I love the Onion’s piece on Jeffery Epstein, where Agent 47 concocted an elaborate plan to make Epstein’s death look like a suicide, only for him to just walk up, shoot him in the face, everyone pretends to ignore it, and then he spends the rest of his day watching Hobbs and Shaw.
I’d certainly pretend to ignore it if I saw it happen.
EDIT: It was from Hard Drive, not The Onion. Still funny though.
https://hard-drive.net/hd/politics/agent-47-finds-manhattan-jail-mission-weirdly-easy/ Agent 47 Finds Manhattan Jail Mission Weirdly Easy
The link underline included "Agent," so it didn't work until I edited that last out in the URL line. Other than that, yeah, that was a good article! :D
I fixed it for everyone else.
It’s not dead. It's like a cancerous tumor that metastasized. If only because those who helped the 🟧🔥💩🤡 regain power are utterly dependent on him. If he falls, they all fall. There's nothing to fill that power vacuum, at least not yet. However, I wouldn't be surprised if more resignations or a “surprise” health problem happen. He's older and more infirm than even his most ardent insiders expect.
I disagree. JD Vance is a horror, and he is waiting to step in when Trump falls completely apart. And he hates women even more than Trump does.
The 🛋️🍆might think he's going to step into the role, but he doesn't have the backing he needs to stay in it.
Yeah, after thinking about it for a bit, you may be right. No one likes him and he does NOT have the stage chops to enthrall an audience. I still do not at all like the idea of him as pres., though. He is an ugly git, from the inside out. Too bad. He is actually quite intelligent...about a few things, anyway.
A few things; not all of the ones he needs (never stopped Trump, but...).
In Table-Top Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs), there are Statistics or Abilities or Whatevers that one's character needs, and back in the "DnD's the only game in town" old days, one rolled three six-sided dice (3d6) to determine them, so you'd have a range of stats between 3 (awful; three 1s) and 18 (awesome; all 6s! :D), with variations depending on if your character was an Elf or Dwarf or Whatever.
Trump's stats would be: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Constitution [= healthiness] 3, Intelligence 3, Wisdom 3, Charisma [= force of personality, etc.] 18.
Vance doesn't have a CHA of 18. ;)
He is educated, but education neither equates to intelligence nor wisdom. I've worked with plenty of guys like him. I've never been impressed.
In my thirty-year
career in education, most people I meet are “…over-educated beyond their performance ability” (Dearborn, Lincoln & Shaw, 1922). Most people peak in high school.
Especially, the rich.
Hehe! Yeah, I been playing DnD since I was 26....and am now 74. Played it first with friends, then my kids and finally my grandkids. And I fear your stats for Trump are, in my never terribly humble opinion, just a bit high. I would have given him 2. On everything.
I started playing in September 1983, when I was nine or ten years old. A new kid moved in down the street with his older brother, and they had this game in a red box. After that, my life was never the same. From then on, I always took the less-traveled route.
While a PC can’t roll a two for stats, certain races might have had a -1 or even a -2 back in the day. I have a vague memory of half-orcs having a -2 for Char.
Even though you cannot roll a 2 with 3 dice. ;)