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GoldStar's avatar

My father was KIA 56 years ago this weekend.

I like to spend at least part of it reminding people that their president called him a "sucker and loser" for getting himself killed. I guess we all have our top reason why we hate him - the bigotry, the hate, the crime, the stupid, but for a few days each year his cowardice is our top one.

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LOU LOU's avatar

At a time of rapid climate change that are predominately the result of human growth it is insane to say that the USA can grow its way out of debt, even when looking at the numbers. More energy production and conversions to carbon, methane etc will create more dollars but makes no sense for environmental health in the USA. China has been sucking up the environmental costs for decades and now Trump looks to bring this to the USA. Trump and his ilk are ignorant to basic cause and effect of human caused climate change that more growth will result in increase in climate change as well as pollution. The end of the world as we know it is coming sooner, perhaps it is already here...

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kmblue187's avatar

CNN lost a lot of on-air people (like Hemmer) to Fox. Bigger salaries, Ted was notoriously cheap.

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Goldfish's avatar

Wasn't the Tax for Rich Fuckwads supposed to pay for itself with economic growth, and didn't? And we're supposed to believe This Time It Will, We Promise?

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kmblue187's avatar

Haven't you heard? Cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will do it!

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Not everyone has the nerve or confidence to try to repopularize that Gordon Gecko hairdo, especially while including your own eyebrows in the wind-tunnel-backward-sweep. Let no-one tell you it cannot be done! Bravo, my friend. Bravo!

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RRJKR's avatar

Very, very "waspish"

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"My father had a thing about WASPs. Used to wear bicycle clips while mowing the lawn. It seemed to keep a lot of them out, but... would it be useful?"

-- Vivian Stanshall

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Republicans are lining up this very minute to vote for a "big beautiful bill" that blows gigantic holes in the budget and adds trillions to the deficit just so the richest people and corporations can pay less taxes. All of their caterwauling during D administrations about the debt has been shown to be 100% bad faith BS, which is the GOP brand after all.

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

A patronage system, with bills of attainder for any targets of the executives ire.

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DemoCat's avatar

They love to duck and dodge questions. It’s the second most important skill for Trump surrogates after undying loyalty to Big Balls. “Well, according to one office, one that we are looking at closing asap, the Big Balls Beautiful Bill could add some dollars to the national debt over the next decade, but ALOT can happen over that time, and we feel the tariffs, trade deals and other revenue will more than make up for this. We feel very good about it. It will save money in the end. You watch. I’ll come back in 10 years if I’m wrong and apologize, I promise.”

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Vic's avatar

Outright lying is up there, too. Jimmy David Vance is the master of that.

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DemoCat's avatar

You know we are good and f_#£ed when the GOP resistance to this cash grab bill is Ron Johnson R-WI, R-complete idiot. I can’t remember ever agreeing with Johnson on a single thing. Obviously, adding trillions to our national debt is the Republican way. They bloviate about reducing costs, spending, blah blah words, but you can always count on a giveaway to the wealthy that bloats our debt, because debt is good as long as you never have to pay it. Trump knows that. Most of his toadies in Congress know it too. What does a 91-year-old Chuck Grassley care about National debt??? He’s got trust funds set up for his little Grassley minions and will die knowing he squeezed as much juice from the lemon tree as possible.

America’s flag should include dollar signs and the phrase “debt is good, it’s someone else’s problem.”

The GOP will simply add an ice cream machine to the bill for Ron Johnson’s office and he will heartily endorse it.

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Menotsure's avatar

How does one resurrect a dead cat?

Growth!

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RRJKR's avatar

We're talking about a guy who claimed he could build a 2,000 mile long 35 foot tall wall in two months. Trump has no grasp of reality.

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DemoCat's avatar

I thought it was built? Didn’t he say most of it was built? Remember when grifty steel contractors held a contest to show Big Balls sections of fence to dazzle him? The government even handed out some huge contracts to builders who promised to build wall. Some were later prosecuted, including the group including Steve Bannon who took millions to “build wall” and then decided not to “build wall.” It’s ok to steal from the public, especially under Big Balls, you just have to do it the right way.

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Lucinda the Pook's avatar

Big ball's in Cowtown

Big ball's in town

Big ball's in Cowtown

We'll dance around

--Bob Wills

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marxalot's avatar

flog him with a supply chain

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Fucking asshole.

"How long to move Apple to the US?"

"It varies from company to company."

"You're in luck. We're only talking about one company."

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thephantomcheese's avatar

What's next? Will he try to bring back Studebaker to make more cars in the U.S.? (Fun fact: STP Oil Treatment is the last surviving remnant of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation)

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motmelere's avatar

Here is the first fucker we put up against the wall when the revolution came, then we got tired of his shit, and he wandered away, the rats got him. They got bored and left him for the worms.

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kckitty's avatar

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wears more makeup than I do. And he does a better job of it! LOL

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motmelere's avatar

He thinks his hair looks fabulous.

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motmelere's avatar

2 + 2 = your hair still makes you look like a douche. Do you really want to be a children's' rhyme?

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