Good morning. The sky is clear. My dog is a good boy.
More and more, we're seeing this progression:
1. Trump does something stupid.
2. Trump lies about what he did or why he did it.
3. Trump tries to cover up his stupidity.
4. Trump gets humiliated and America is worse off.
5. Trump doubles down defiantly and his polling tanks further.
You can see that progression in the more minor fiasco of the Reflecting Pool. Trump hired an incompetent crony on a no-bid contract - there's the stupidity. When the stupidity led to problems, he lied about why. He then tried to cover up the truth (his stupidity) by arresting someone. The case against the person Trump had arrested fell apart, exposing the stupidity. Trump is not the least bit contrite, blabbers more nonsense, and the American people foot the bill for his pathological idiocy.
You can also see this progression in the more major fiasco of the War in Iran. Trump attacked Iran with lots of ferocity but zero forethought - which is the stupidity. When the stupidity led to problems - the Strait of Hormuz closure and the price of oil rising - Trump lied about why he did it, with at least 5 lies, including that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon. He then tried to cover up the truth with threatening bluster alternating with contrived diplomacy. He got nowhere and was humiliated and America, and its allies, became worse off. Trump keeps doubling down defiantly because he needs an exit and doubling down is all he knows how to do.
We can apply this formula to almost anything he touches - tariffs, Epstein, the Blanche confirmation - anything. It all starts with a lie, then an exposure of the lie, then a cover-up, then a humiliation and then - a doubling down.
Why does he double down? Because he's a psychopath - a malignant narcissist, owned by his disorders, in an advanced stage of his decline, and he has zero connection to empathy, shame, contrition, or any other form of humanity.
Why don't his lies get called out at the onset? They do, but not enough - because he's normalized.
Our awareness is important. We are The People. We have the Power. May his polling tank further.
Have a nice day!
@Gadget440@MeerkatsRMammal Lame 😄 can you imagine that conversation?
"Have me say: 'blah blah blah' and then have Tristan say: 'blah blah blah' And as usual everything is a separate line"
Casting Samuel L. Jackson as Medusa ruined The Odyssey for me. I have my doubts that Homer even wrote “I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on my motherfucking head!”
🇮🇱Netanyahu: "I’m visiting the United States."
🇺🇸Mamdani: "If he comes here, we arrest him for war crimes. Immediately." 🔥👏
Zohran Mamdani is fire. He is the most popular leader in United States because of his spine 💪
BOOM! TRUTH ALWAYS WANTS TO BE FOUND: This patriot climbed the crate, grabbed the mic, and swore the oath: "Nothing but the truth — so help me God."
Then he torched the whole game.
GOP governor. GOP legislature. GOP supermajority in both chambers. Alabama — Republican-run top to bottom — leads the nation in starving children. Counties with zero pediatric beds. Hospitals boarded up and dark.
Their solution? Cut SNAP. Cut Medicaid. Then point at brown skin in the city and scream "enemy."
That's not governance. That's a carnival act. Right-wing carnies invent monsters so they can pick your pocket while you're looking the other way.
Misled republicans still blaming Democrats?
Congratulations — you just earned an A in Conservative Gaslighting and an F in Reality.
REMEMBER BEFORE YOU VOTE!
The ‘everyone is 12’ thing is overplayed but “We should give soldiers steroids so they get more stronger and gooder at fighting bad guys” is such a uniquely childish fucking stupid idea that it could have only come from this administration
Once again, this is his male power fantasy that he's forced upon women to act as a buffer for his homoeroticism of male power. There's a reason men have become so obsessed with "cuck."
And again, this is patriarchal male heterosexuality. Male-obsessed & women-hating.
Maga is apparently now boycotting going to NYC because they hate the mayor. They say they will never go there again. I mean is this guy fucking amazing or what? That place is going to be a fucking paradise now
now they--("adults")--are pretending to be outraged, scandalized that young people "can't read"--"cheat with AI"--when virtually everyone in power in public life not only cheats with impunity but openly like T***p & his insider trading family, obscene pardons for convicted wealthy criminals, complicity of Congress & the Supreme Court. deregulating of every industry bent upon poisoning the environment in which young people will be coming of age. insane war in Iran costing billions of dollars to no purpose but T***p's vanity; & adults enabling him as in all his criminal enterprises.
but yes, teenagers are supposed to pretend that honesty, dignity, decency, maturity will be properly rewarded when anyone can see that the very reverse is true.