Now that Trump has rigged the World Cup it is surely only a matter of time before he declares that everyone but the USA are cheating.

He could not help himself. He had to make it about him and his influence. I’m not sure whether the cheating or the contempt he shows for the other competitors by bragging about the cheating is worse. Once again he has spoiled and tainted something. Team USA cheat. Nobody likes a cheat.

Fox et al are meanwhile attempting to cast this as a possible false flag, owing to the masks. Pulling a Tucker Carlsonesque “but maybe” number about anti-fascists cosplaying fascists. In other words, they only have an issue with this if it isn’t real.

Somehow, Ingraham finds a way to avoid condemning the ideology of white supremacy while vilifying people who protest fascism, through the declaration that white supremacists are mask-shy (kkknonsense). The only problem she has with white supremacy is when they might not be real. Fascinating.

They live with mom. The masks are to avoid the spanking they’d otherwise be in for when they got home

America is a spaghetti western stage set. A simulacrum without the substance run by a man who keeps the nation in an exhausting reality tv cycle of drama, suspense, and momentary relief, himself run by people who’d rather destroy America’s virtues than address the needs of a changing demographic.

it was always a question of when, not if.

The whole interview which Ivanka gave about “discovering” Sazan Island in Albania was repugnant in the extreme. The only thing which she didn’t say out loud at the end of her efforts to romanticize the land-grab was “we decided right there and then we just had to have it” Just disgusting

33% 33%!!

The entire world. Minus 33% of Americans (33%!!) and the racist dregs of a few scattered countries. And yet here he remains. Now arresting people to avoid saying sorry for ballsing up a renovation. What happened America? Since when are you cool with this crap?

Trump is the vandal. From the global economy down to the reflecting pool and everything in between. He breaks things and punishes others for the damage he has caused rather than admit culpability. He is like a wife-beater standing over his battered spouse screaming “look what you made me do.”

I really thought that USA was made of stronger stuff. But America is collectively cowering in a corner while a demented 79 year old robs it blind, shits all over its people and institutions and wages hate-filled wars of conceit at home and abroad. It is pathetic.

That should read “as Israel and the USA…”

These must be the same people-all-over-Americans that want Trump to have a ballroom. They get around

Okay class, so who else got confused when we made ‘cease’ and ‘fire’ into a compound word?

He’s not a wise man, he’s a fool; not a successful man, a crook; not an honest man, a liar; not a brave man, a coward; not a ladies’ man, a rapist; not a protector, a pedophile; not a good man, a narcissist; not a kind man, a sociopath; not a fair man, a racist. He’s not even his own man, he’s owned

Regardless of the fact that we all eschew political violence in any form, you have to admit that the current crop of presidential assassins is pretty shabby.

Regardless of the fact that we all eschew political violence in any form, you have to admit that the current crop of presidential assassins is pretty shabby.

Are narcissists even aware that their behaviors make everything they interact with worse, or are they so high on their own perceived self-worth and brilliance that they remain oblivious to the damage they cause? Are they blissfully unaware or belligerently uncaring?

He literally never makes a deal. He fucks everything up, coerces with violence, shouts and screams and lies and rages and when he doesn’t get his way he gets bored. Then he picks up the remains of his shitty efforts, patches them together into something worse than before and calls it a deal. Idiot

The rest of the world would be justified in placing America under quarantine until it shows signs of self-care for its mass psychosis. Boycott goods, travel, sport (shove it FIFA) until the world is rid of their psychopathic president and the USA’s untethered, rampant and gratuitous violence.

The rest of the world would be justified in placing America under quarantine until it shows signs of self-care for its mass psychosis. Boycott goods, travel, sport (shove it FIFA) until the world is rid of their psychopathic president and the USA’s untethered, rampant and gratuitous violence.

Most people unburden themselves to a trusted friend. Some might see a priest. Trump uses Truth Social as his confessional, each accusation leveled at another party reflecting that day’s guilty burden, and the length of the screed an indicator of the depths of his personal guilt.

The exhaustive search for someone with less integrity begins…

Summary: iBreakUFix

It’s the one thing that immediately brings him to mind without him having to tack his name onto it.

That’ll look perfect in a spray-gold frame, hanging next to his FIFA peace prize in the bog of his Qatari sky-brothel

This story was meant to begin: “One time, I was tripping so hard, I imagined that…”

Trump is the terrorist.

It would never have closed if you hadn’t bombed Iran, sunshine.

Trump deploys the “everything was great before I fucked it up” flex, yet again.

Is he trying to tell us that if it weren”t for his steady hand at the wheel, things would be worse? Nobody believes he dwelt on consequences at all, let alone quantified them. Absolutely full of it

Any early betting on how long it will be before he’s dressed up in camo and wrestling a seventy-year-old legal immigrant to the ground.

Never let a Trump voter unyolk themselves from MAGA claiming “policy” got their vote. It’s BS. Empty promises and hot air are not policy. The only concrete promise given to voters (and delivered) was a right to hate openly again. The freedom to express contempt for “others”. Blame yourselves, MAGA.

To use just one example, prevalence of Anti Social Personality Disorfer in the USA is about 5%. In incarcerated populations this leaps to 30-50%. Think of this in light of Trump’s base and think of the myriad serious mental disorders and we begin to understand the ever-present 30+%ers who approve.

Negotiaion requires belief patience, and conviction. Or at the very least the ability to project the illusion of these things. This creates leverage. Trump has no conviction or belief in anything beyond personal gain which makes his jingoistic posturing hollow and hopeless. . A paper tiger.

It is quite remarkable to behold a presidency which is entirely reactive, devoid of any planning, foresight, or strategy.

Aside from my y 10 physics teacher (I’m sorry), I have lived life without wishing harm on anyone. But knowing the opposite of everything he says is true, I read with a flash of malevolence that Trump has declared himself fitter than ever and could live to see 200. I assume he is about to drop dead..

And they never waver in their cultish obeisance while the world burns around them, making them not just stupid, but fatally so.

That’s because even past mistakes were tempered by caution, seriousness, strategy, and a genuine intent to succeed. This man is all vaudeville.

Is “Look, we’re not going to litigate all that” the new “I don’t know anything about that” ? I’ll miss his doe-eyed straight-to-camera implausible assertions of ignorance.

The auditory hallucinations are just a symptom of his untreated schizophrenia. No biggie. Geez, everyone needs to lighten up…

“Would Trump be above…” Let me stop you right there.

Hate to have to admit it but this man is definitely an authority on being furthest from the truth.

Leavitt: “The President was being whimsical when he made that remark and it is truly unfortunate that this light-hearted locker-room talk is deliberately misrepresented as psychotic by the fake news media. Who among us can honestly say they’ve never described slaughtering children as a great honor?”

Alina who?

There’s an old fairground ride entry sign just outside the Oval Office now. Where it used to read “you have to be this tall to join the ride” they’ve scrubbed ‘tall’ and replaced it with “infantile”… Have any of them managed to maintain any dignity? Can’t think of a single on

Okay, that actually made me burst out laughing, but the abject imbecility is truly tragic.

Maybe he shouldn’t have

I will be seriously impressed with AI when, tasked with manifesting the most repugnant human being conceivable, it can best Donald Trump. I believe it’s best efforts will fall well short: just so much to pull together.