Normally I ignore the style of government rhetoric and concentrate on the substance. But the Trump administration is so pathetically juvenile it beggars belief:
Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren’t getting released.
Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth.
Get a job you imbecilic morons. pic.twitter.com/k4HdE5IqNu
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 14, 2025
I mean, what? This sounds like something from a schoolyard. Womp, womp? Imbecilic morons?
Of course, the fish rots from the head:
“If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not—” Lucey began to say as the president took questions aboard Air Force One.
Before she could finish, however, Trump pointed his finger at her and barked, “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.”
…
“This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane. If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take,” a White House official told the Daily Beast.
There was, of course, nothing inappropriate or unprofessional about Lucey’s question.
America is ruled by stupid, foolish children. Almost everything Trump has done has backfired, harming America’s economy and position in the world. And he’s scared, as he should be, because he was Epstein’s best friend for years, and there’s no way he didn’t know what was going on. Nor is the man who leered at Teen USA contestants and grabbed women by the pussy (his words) likely to have not partaken in Epstein’s wares.
Trump was always, obviously, a sexual predator, a rapist and scum. Unlike other scum he’s barely even tried to conceal it. People voted for him because he didn’t sound like a normal politician (which is good) but were fools, because what he sounded like was a profoundly stupid, greedy and selfish man without an iota of concern for other people who enjoyed belittling and hurting them.
It is both profoundly sad and amusing to watch him hurt those who voted for him, like farmers, the most. And costs keep soaring:
Stop voting for obvious frauds, politicians suffering from dementia, and those who get off on hurting other people. “Different” isn’t enough, it has to be different in the sense of “actually wants to help people.” I have sympathy, but complete disdain for anyone who thought Trump would be good for ordinary Americans “like them.” He has governed exactly like one would expect: vastly corrupt, cruel and almost entirely to the benefit of other billionaires.
Democracy works when, at the least, ordinary people vote their own interests. Americans, and most Westerners, seem entirely incapable of doing so. (And yes, there were other options. Stop whining about how third parties can’t win, and stop voting for the duopoly. For the slow of wit, Biden was also human garbage.)
Pathetic
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jrkrideau
“Stop voting for obvious frauds, politicians suffering from dementia, and those who get off on hurting other people.”
At the time the only viable alternative was no better and, probably, voters were willing to risk even Trump in the hope he might mae some change for the better, unlikely as that was.
Stop whining about how third parties can’t win, and stop voting for the duopoly.
I think that the relentless 4 year cycle and what sounds like some very repressive rules on third parties makes that difficult.
I get the impression that Americans don’t quite grasp the need to spend years organizing and nurturing a party. If the party does not get the Presidency at the next election it’s a total failure; give up and move on.
The idea of someone like Preston Manning nursing Reform along for what seemed like 200 years is not something that is understood in the USA.
Ian Welsh
The reason third parties aren’t “viable” is that people won’t vote for them because they aren’t viable. You see the issue.
There is also ZERO excuse if you live in a safe state like New York.
Mark Level
Just as I finally got onto the site (4th try) Due Dissidence was covering the Chief Troll, DJT, bragging about his corrupt Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, a corporate lobbyist and Zionist, that “she could destroy a whole country with a single phone call!” and that even he couldn’t pull that off . . .
It’s an open fascist mentality. Oh, and she lobbies for businesses in Nigeria and Venezuela– we can guess which type, eh? She works for Big Pharma, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, etc.
Give the overgrown baby some credit. He’s losing his base over Epstein and Israel, and the economy, they will lose their health coverage next year, and his farming supporters are losing money (fieldworkers rounded up whether they’re legal or not); he shut down businesses across Charlotte, NC, with ICE masked Gestapo seizing up anyone and everyone with brown skin, even white neighbors are coming out in defense of victims, and he’s just rubbing his CHUD’s faces in their degradation. Not too smart, but he can’t help himself.
They’re his Jr. trolls for now, but when they realize they are on the menu, perhaps the mentality will shift.
Purple Library Guy
For most of this year I have been expecting that by the time of the midterm elections, those elections would be thoroughly rigged, and by the time of the next presidential elections, there would no longer be elections. The early decisive moves into lawlessness and taking control of the government bureaucracy for fascist ends, combined with a number of things I read indicating that the Trumpists were indeed working hard to rig the elections, really suggested an ongoing fascist takeover. And I do think that’s what they have in mind.
But somewhere in the summer or so their overall incompetence and in some cases laziness seems to have resulted in stalled progress. They just didn’t repress hard enough. Judges pushed back, and they didn’t disappear the judges. Communities pushed back against ICE and didn’t get either shot or shoved into mass detention in Alligator Alcatrazes. And now, Trump’s many failures plus the whole Epstein thing are catching up to him. There is too much hate and not enough fear; the whole thing has lost momentum. They did too much fascism pantomime for TV and not enough actual fascist crackdown. A lot of what they did do, like sacking tons of government workers or stopping people’s government payments, didn’t represent anything that seemed like a crackdown on opponents, just general nastiness that pissed people off without scaring them. And we’re getting kind of close to “too late”. Even the Texas gerrymandering is stalled by a court challenge, and the rest are barely off the ground, and a strong enough anti-Trump surge could make a lot of the gerrymandering moot anyway.
Sure, Trump could start the serious repression now . . . but now, he looks weak. Heavy repression as backlash, from a place of visible weakness, doesn’t work nearly as well as heavy repression that uses momentum to go from apparent strength to apparent greater strength.
I am really starting to think that the phenomenon we laughably call “American Democracy” will remain intact for another election cycle, and the Trumpists will be ejected until they can find someone who knows how to run a fascist coup.