Reaction to Trump’s attack on Venezuela
Nothing good will come from Trump’s attack on Venezuela.
Details later.
Let’s check in on the fools who make up the Republican Party
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Sick, sleepy, dying, and demented . . . Trump tells staff he needs an easier schedule
Sick and Sleepy Trump, 79, Is Begging Staff for Easier Schedule
You cannot make this shit up.
President Trump is battling with White House staff over how much work he actually has to do.
The 79-year-old president, who has repeatedly dozed through public appearances in his second term, has begged White House staff to give him “fewer, more important meetings” during his average workday.
His staff is apoplectic about Trump’s being videotaped falling asleep during those sycophancy events he holds in the White House. Therefore, his staff is in a quandary, “How to give the old asshole all the public adoration he NEEDS while reducing the number and time of the staff meetings?”
Also, how to not let the rest of America know how fucking old and ill Trump really is.
Now, Trump has taken to saying that he is NOT sleeping in those videos. Nope. Trump is merely “closing his eyes,” so what is all the hubbub about!
Trump is so unconcerned about this issue that he called The Wall Street Journal and begged them not to run any piece about his energy and health. Oh, and about those bruises on his hands? He’s got that all under control. He’s just taking 325 mg of aspirin daily is all!
I looked up to see why ANYONE would need 4 times the dose of aspirin on a daily basis. It turns out that doctors do recommend 325 mg doses of aspirin. It’s just FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE!
Trump is claiming that it is PREVENTATIVE, as in preventing him from having a heart attack in the first place, which is bullshit. Doctors only recommend the higher dosage as a secondary preventative measure.
In other words, Trump has suffered a heart attack or stroke, and he refuses to acknowledge that.
SHOCKING!
Unfortunately, I bet this doesn’t get much attention in the legacy media. It’s OK if you are Republican to lie your ass off about your health and mental fitness. But a Democrat? Just ask Joe Biden about that. The NYT kept pounding on that issue, but what about Trump? Crickets.
But this is just one more detail about Trump’s real health. A man who has what is obviously IV’s drugs administered frequently, along with several MRIs, is hiding the fact that he had a (1) serious heart attack or (2) stroke. Also, throw in his inability to walk properly as another piece of the puzzle.
Most of us already believe that Trump was in cognitive decline before being reelected. But if the research does hold out for cardiovascular issues and Alzheimer’s, you can imagine Trump suffering more of a rapid decline in the next few years.
BUT WAIT — THERE’S MORE:
Trump owns several private golf clubs, his favorite being Florida’s Mar-A-Lago. He takes a LOT of time off to travel AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE to one of his golf clubs where he spends hours or days. Several websites track the time he spends playing golf and how much this costs us taxpayers in transportation and Secret Service protection.
For example: Donald Trump has golfed 79 days out of 348 days since returning to office (22.7% of the presidency spent golfing). At a cost of $110,600,000 to us taxpayers.
Now, however, the White House has announced they will no longer put “GOLF” or “VACATION” on Trump’s schedule — so we will not know how much time he is taking off to screw around doing nothing. IN FACT, the golf tracker linked above shows ZERO GOLFING IN DECEMBER 2025 while anyone with half a brain knows that he spent three weekends PLUS Christmas and New Year’s holidays at Mar-A-Lago.
The end of American “capitalism”
ESSAY: THE END OF AMERICAN “CAPITALISM”
As the decisive political year 2026 begins, the source of our national angst is becoming clearer. It’s nothing less than the collapse of American capitalism. Our peculiar brand of extreme, unregulated, self-promotional, science- and engineering-free, over-the-top capitalism is collapsing of its own weight, not to mention its many contradictions. The discontents and depredations of President Donald Trump’s incipient despotisms are mere symptoms of that dread disease.
Before you click out, consider this. China, which will clearly own our new twenty-first century, is now, by far, the world’s foremost capitalist nation. It’s a robust example of state capitalism. There a vast array of private firms has free reign to produce things and make money, subject to strict regulation by the state in its interest. That simple subjection to government control makes all the difference.
China’s great industrial firms are beating ours, Europe’s and even some in Japan in productivity, price and more recently quality. They are nearly all privately owned and privately run and therefore “capitalistic” in every sense. In this respect, they resemble the robust private firms of the postwar US.
It should not be this way and it does not have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way
I heard that phrase briefly, far too briefly during the last election.
I suggest that should be the main platform for the Democratic Party for the midterms and beyond.
Thom Hartmann has pointed this out often and it was my experience too. My father had a middle class job. My mother didn’t work. Yet my father was able to buy & own a house. Every 4or 5 years he would buy a new car. His health care benefits from having a union job were excellent. NEVER had to worry about hospitals or any health care costs.. A two week vacation every year. I realize that I was fortunate, but this was the experience for a hell of a lot of people in the middle class. Now that middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate. Two people working full time cannot afford what on person used to be able to afford.
A huge percentage of our population has never experienced this and has no knowledge that this actually existed in our country.
This all began to disappear with the election of Reagan and the Supreme Court allowing more and more money into election. Billionaires didn’t always control our government.
IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY should be # 1 on the Democratic platform. We can and should not ever go back, but we should move forward with the best of what we had helping to guide us.
There is a lesson here for those of us who oppose Trump and always will
President Trump announced Wednesday that he is pulling National Guard troops out of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, for now.
District judges and appeals courts have issued various rulings about the legality of the deployments. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a lower court’s decision barring Trump’s use of the National Guard in Chicago.
“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump wrote in a TruthSocial post. “Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in. We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!”
Trump went on to call the Democratic leaders of the cities and states where he deployed troops “greatly incompetent.”
This is what happens when we oppose Trump and stand up to him: He loses and runs away.
Opposing Trump and resisting him always works. Bargaining with him never works.
RESIST. OPPOSE. DO NOT COMPLY.
Trump spent almost 25% of 2025 at his private golf clubs
President Donald Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his second term at a golf club, according to a tracking website. The 79-year-old has visited golf clubs at least 79 times since taking office on January 20, 2025, or about 22.8 percent of the presidency, according to DidTrumpGolfToday.com.
The tracker, which compiles data based on Trump’s public schedule, does not include data from December 2025.
Since returning to office, Trump’s golf club visits have cost taxpayers an estimated $110,600,000, according to the website.
The tracker based that calculation on a 2019 Government Accountability Office report on the cost of four golf trips during Trump’s first presidency. Trump’s busiest month at the golf club was August, when he spent every weekend at his golf clubs, totaling 10 days. The president also spent nine days at the golf club in both March and November, according to the tracker.
Just to remind everyone:
This ‘ho is the First Lady of the US. Aren’t you proud?
Anyone remember this?
I recall back in the heyday of the Tea Parties in Virginia “Agenda 2021” was one of their big things. While most local Tea Parties disappeared from Virginia after Obama’s last term, their remnants picked up the “COVID vaccine will kill you” chant and added it to “Agenda 2021,” “chemtrails,” and other rightwing fever dreams. WTF is wrong with these people?