I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
• March 2025: Taylor Farms contributes $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., days after the FDA delays the Food Traceability Rule.
• The FDA informs Taylor Farms that one of its iceberg lettuce products tested positive for cyclospora, prompting a voluntary recall.
• During the cyclospora outbreak: The New York Times reports Taylor Farms hires a former Trump White House official.
• Last week: Taylor Farms executives meet with White House and FDA officials, where the company challenges aspects of the government's outbreak conclusions, according to the New York Times.
• Now: Taylor Farms says the FDA apologized, calling the positive test a false positive and stating no Taylor Farms product has tested positive for cyclospora.
Yes. Batarti “Bhakti” Gabbard (Tulsi Gabbard’s 55-year-old brother) was charged July 17/18 with second-degree custodial interference after a July 12 Waikīkī hotel pool incident.
He allegedly approached kids (incl. a 9-year-old), offered gum + money, asked names (wrote them down), and invited them to his room. Children refused and left. No one went with him.
Family (father Sen. Mike Gabbard) says mental health crisis after drug binge; he was hospitalized for psych evaluation. No other charges reported.
@JohnnyHopkinsii@smalls2672 Wrong dummy. I don’t think there’s massive voter fraud in our elections 💀 You’re part of the community which doubts them. All without sufficient evidence. Hence the 60+ court loses. Try again?
@JohnnyHopkinsii@smalls2672 No, no deflection here. Answer the question. Can you prove massive voter fraud in ANY fucking US election stupid? No? Didn’t think so. Remove maga dick from mouth next time before speaking.
@ReissSuxxBalz@garykoepnick Can’t read either? God damn life must be rough for you. In a cult ran by a pedophile, can’t read and over 13k posts in less than 2 years. You live the saddest fucking life possible 💀
@ReissSuxxBalz@garykoepnick Personally, I wouldn’t call the rape of a minor funny but then again I’m not a magat like you. Out of curiosity, have you bought a bible from any other pedophiles or was Trump the first?
@Xuabaras@RapidResponse47@grok Yep. Confirmed. You’re a retard. Everything you just said is completely irrelevant from the threat above from the president. I’m sure choking on maga dick as long as you have is starting to affect the way you think. It’s okay. That’s typical of cults.