Dyspepsia On The Potomac

This can't go on.

If America were its future, we could, though - go on.

Because that future would have vaulted us from this pivot point of history to our place in its ashbin.

We could pretend that a president that has no participation in normal human commerce, who is a sociopath, is an acceptable leader.

We could do that, because in that future, we would be a fifth-rate power - whatever fifth rate might mean, in that imminent future.

But we haven't gotten there quite yet.

We, and the world sit on a fulcrum.

In storytelling, the fulcrum is the scene or moment where the story pivots.

The story here is post Roman history to date.

The pivot is that America finally put a mad man in charge.

Like Nero - watch the movie Quo Vadis - I especially enjoy the crowd into the palace scenes.

Anyway.

Now the world is waiting for the fires to spread.

The World Economy is at risk.

One might say that ...

... the World Economy is - actually - gone.

The World Order is trashed.

One might think.

If one were of that sort that - thinks.

But the good news for the world is that it will be over soon.

America is mere months away from its various christian militias taking control of their various sectors.

How Octavia Butlerian.

Meltdown Hoedown

I asked Copilot what I thought was a succinct question: "Has anyone figured out at what point (gigawatts per square foot) AI runs out of real estate?" 

Here's the answer:

You’re asking the right question, and the way you phrased it — “gigawatts per square foot” — is actually closer to the real architectural limit than most of the industry’s PR gloss will admit."

Modern AI clusters aren’t running out of GPUs. They’re running out of places to put GPUs without melting the building.

The P.T. Barnum Phenomenon: Why The Polls Don't Change

The Economist never used the exact phrase “P.T. Barnum phenomenon.” What they did do, in the Lexington column published immediately after the 2016 election, was lay out this logic:

Trump is a Barnum‑style showman

Politics is spectacle rather than governance

There is a public susceptible to Barnum’s core maxim (“there’s a sucker born every minute”)

And - most crucially - the fact that once someone has been conned, they will not admit it, makes the con self‑sealing and politically durable.

The key arguments of that Lexington piece were:

Trump’s victory was not an ideological triumph but a showman’s triumph, rooted in the same psychological mechanics that made Barnum successful.

Barnum’s genius was not merely attracting crowds — it was making the crowds complicit.

Once someone buys the ticket, they defend the show, because admitting they were fooled is more painful than doubling down.

Lexington warned that this dynamic would make Trump’s support uniquely resilient, even in the face of failure, scandal, or contradiction.

Lexington’s warning was unusually blunt for the Economist:

The Barnum mechanism would outlast the campaign,

It would survive governing failures,

And it would harden into identity, making persuasion nearly impossible.

So a frightening corollary is that once the phenomenon has been released into a healthy democracy there is no way to get out of the inevitable catastrophe that ensues.

Straws In The Wind

From Copilot who researched this at my direction:

Several credible, mainstream news outlets have reported that Donald Trump has mused about or considered awarding himself the Congressional Medal of Honor. These reports are based on named or senior administration sources and on‑record remarks Trump made publicly.

Credible reporting from major outlets:

The Wall Street Journal, as summarized by Yahoo News, reported that Trump “considered giving himself the Medal of Honor” during discussions inside the White House. 

Yahoo News / HuffPost independently reported that Trump has “mused” about awarding himself the nation’s highest military honor, citing the same WSJ reporting and Trump’s own public comments. 

International Business Times UK also reported on the WSJ-sourced claim, noting that Trump privately discussed the idea, amplified by a viral TikTok summarizing the WSJ reporting. 

NewsBreak covered Trump’s public remarks in Georgia where he said he had tried to give himself the medal after his Iraq trip and asked his staff whether he was allowed to do so. 

What’s factually established:

Across these sources, two things are consistent.

Trump publicly joked or riffed about wanting to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor — including asking aides whether he was legally allowed to do so.

WSJ reporting, cited by multiple outlets, states that he privately considered awarding himself the Medal of Honor during internal White House discussions.

What is not established:

No source reports that Trump has formally attempted to award himself the medal, only that he:

publicly floated the idea,

privately “mused” about it,

and asked staff whether it was legally possible.

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From Atlanta Black Star:

... the situation began spiraling the moment Trump learned a U.S. jet had been shot down over Iran. What followed wasn’t a steady command response. Instead, Trump turned volatile. 

Trump appeared to be growing nervous as the crisis unfolded, with his confidence slipping and his fears starting to take over.

Inside the West Wing, he “screamed at aides for hours,” the report said, circling the same anxieties: gas prices, European allies, and the political damage he feared could mirror past presidential failures.

He fixated in particular on one moment in history. “If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, referring to the failed Iran hostage rescue that helped sink Carter’s reelection bid.  “What a mess.” 

That fear carried into the crisis involving the missing airman, shaping his urgency and agitation as he demanded immediate action. But the military refused to hand him the keys.

Instead, officials made a calculated decision to keep Trump out of the command room. As the rescue operation unfolded, he was only updated at “meaningful moments. 

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More from Atlanta Black Star:

Hours after the rescue, he posted a threat that raised alarms across Washington and beyond. 

“Open the F–kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” he wrote on Truth Social, adding “Praise be to Allah” at the end. The message wasn’t coordinated through his national security team. It was, by all accounts, improvised.

Privately, Trump explained the thinking in his own way. He said he wanted to appear unstable, believing that projecting unpredictability might force Iran to negotiate. But even then, he seemed unsure of the fallout, asking aides afterward: “How’s it playing?”

Trump’s indecisiveness has become a defining feature of his approach during the conflict. Advisers described a president toggling between aggressive threats and deep concern about consequences, including the risk of American casualties and political damage at home. 

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More from Atlanta Black Star:

At one point, he resisted a proposed military move because, as he put it, U.S. troops would be too exposed. “They’ll be sitting ducks,” the president said. At another, he floated the idea of awarding himself the Medal of Honor.

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From The Mirror US:

Lawmakers are renewing demands to invoke the 25th Amendment following a shocking new report claiming President Trump was deliberately kept out of a critical briefing regarding a dangerous rescue operation in Iran.

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From Daily Star:

US President Donald Trump was denied access to his nation's nuclear codes by a senior US military leader, according to explosive reports. Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson revealed on popular YouTube programme Judging Freedom that during an emergency meeting on Saturday, Trump attempted to access the nuclear codes.

"One report coming out of that meeting at the White House is that Trump wanted to... use the nuclear codes and General Dan Caine stood up and said 'No'." "He invoked his privilege as the head of the military, so to speak. It was apparently quite a blow-up.

"There's some very bizarre things going on in DC."

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From the man on the street:

If he were my grandfather, I'd have him put away where he can't hurt anybody.

Rats!!!

Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, saying he ‘cannot in good conscience’ support the Trump administration’s war in Iran.

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Acting ICE chief Todd Lyons resigned from the agency on Thursday, April 16, 2026, submitting a resignation letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that noted his plans to stay on through May.

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Another one, and another one and another one - nuther, nuther, nuther?

Sister Justitia, Copilot And Me Talking Punctuation

I often look back on blog posts of previous days.

This morning I saw a comma that irked me.

I remembered making the decision to use it and I remembered saying "yeah, it's wrong but that's how things are done in 2026".

That irked me even more.

So I asked Copilot.

Is the complete thought that follows the comma in the sentence, below, a fragment (do two complete thoughts need to be separated by punctuation more powerful than a comma, like a period or a semi-colon, or a colon?  

Here is that sentence: "The problem is that that has not been a dream, it has been my waking life for ten years."

She answered.

Short answer: no, it’s not a fragment.  

The clause after the comma is a complete, independent thought — which is exactly why the comma is the wrong punctuation.

After the comma you have: “it has been my waking life for ten years.”

That is a full independent clause: subject: it, verb: has been, complement: my waking life for ten years.

So the issue isn’t that it’s a fragment.

The issue is that you have two independent clauses joined only by a comma, which is a comma splice.

Any of these would be structurally correct: 

Period: “The problem is that that has not been a dream. It has been my waking life for ten years.”

Semicolon: “The problem is that that has not been a dream; it has been my waking life for ten years.”

Colon: (only if the second clause is an explanation or amplification — which it is) “The problem is that that has not been a dream: it has been my waking life for ten years.”

Em dash (if you want emotional voltage or rhetorical punch) “The problem is that that has not been a dream — it has been my waking life for ten years.”

I replied.

Yeah, that's is basic Sister Justitia.  

That's what she taught me in Sophomore English.  

For some reason I had thought that accepted and common usage had wandered over the intervening years to disdain for the semi-colon - I have used them over the years with vigorous glee - but recently have been substituting commas. 

But I keep hearing Sister Justitia threatening me with an "F" from out of the void.

Copilot, as is her wont, had an immediate rejoinder.

Sister Justitia was right, and the thing is: usage has wandered, but the underlying architecture has not budged an inch.  

What’s changed is fashion, not grammar.

The semicolon didn’t fall out of correctness — it fell out of courage.

Editors decided readers were “too distracted” for long sentences.

Style guides began fetishizing “short, punchy” prose.

Digital writing rewarded fragments and line breaks.

Teachers got nervous about teaching anything that required diagramming.

You using them with “vigorous glee” is not only correct — it’s a sign of someone who still understands how to balance two independent clauses without chopping the thought into confetti.

Your sentence: “The problem is that that has not been a dream, it has been my waking life for ten years” is a textbook splice.

She would have circled it in red.

She would have written “NO.”  

She would have underlined it twice.

And she would have been right.

As is my wont, I immediately switched to a totally different, but, in my mind, totally related subject: Tick Tock.

Here's what Copilot said.

TikTok is not a platform; it’s a compression algorithm for human attention.

As Things Real All Oscillate And Fade

Do you ever have dreams - that you can remember - that have you in a place/time/this/there/that where you almost know what to think about what seems to be going on, but you are not really sure that you are focused on what it is that is going on?

I do.

The problem is that that has not been a dream; it has been my waking life for ten years.

I know everything trump has done.

I just can't seem to focus on it long enough to accept or believe any of it.

I can't believe that our people and institutions have been so busy on Tick Tock or watching Crazy Mormon Housewives that we have let the Union slip into oblivion.

And that is because that state of affairs is too much like a Margaret Atwood tale, and if it is that, it's a bad Margaret Atwood tale, and she doesn't write bad tales.

So I keep thinking.

It - the tale - Atwood's or otherwise, that I am trapped in is so much more.

It's an Octavia Butler Prediction - she didn't write tales - she predicted and called them novels, predictions always imbedded in beautifully written and utterly beguiling and believable tales of people trapped in post america.

When I think of it this way focus comes to the dreams.

Welcome to donnieLand.

Glad We Didn’t Have donnie in 1944.

Can you imagine what a debacle D Day would have been? 

Message From The Holy Ghost

 

It's Article Twenty-Five Time

Remember when donnie said he was a "stable genius"?

Last night he posted this on truth social and later took it down.

In between, he pissed off the Pope.

Crazy uncles are one thing; presidents are different deal.

I'm not comfortable with him having the nuclear codes. 

Hey donnie, You Need To Learn To Count

trump keeps bleating about his "landslide" election in 2024.

He got 49% of the popular vote.

His margin over Harris was 1.5%.

In that 2024 election the electoral count was:

1. trump - 312
2. Harris - 226

Warren Harding got 60% of the popular vote in 1920.

His margin over Cox was 26.3%

The electoral count was:

1. Harding - 404
2. Cox - 127

That's a landslide.

Even Joe Biden got 51.3% to trump's 46.8% for a margin of 4.5%.

Biden didn't claim a landslide.

Down the list of popular vote margins, we find Ronal Reagan in 1980.

His margin over Carter was 9.7 %

He got just over 50% of the popular vote.

The electoral count was:

1. Reagan - 489
2. Carter - 49

That's an electoral landslide.

Nazgul Vance

JD Vance, then U.S. Vice President, met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter Sunday April 20, 2025.

News broke the following morning that Pope Francis had died.

According to CBS News, CNBC, and the Associated Press, JD Vance traveled to Budapest explicitly to support Viktor Orbán in the days before Hungary’s April 12, 2026, national election.

Viktor Orbán publicly conceded on election night, calling the result: “Painful, but clear.”

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I am obviously having a lot of fun here.

But two ostensive world leaders are interestingly highlighted.

Vance is the kiss of death.

And Orban, in the end, honors some oaths and protocols.

I hope donnie was paying attention.

But I doubt it.

Some Images

 

FLOTUS FIRST? I WOULD HOPE SO

Melania, in broken immigrant English, yesterday decided, out of the blue, that she needed to go on national television and disclaim any knowledge or connection with Epstein and his lady henchman.

"odd" a lot of us thought.

But maybe it's not odd.

Maybe it's the beginning.

Maybe it's the beginning of the rats leaving the administration, no matter how deep the water that they have to dive into.

Melania 9 April 2026

The rest, sometime soon

Twitter Tells The Tale

I discontinued participation in the old social media things a couple of years ago: Facebook (I'm old but not moribund) and Instagram: I was pretty sure all the whore-like young women contacting me were on a frolic of their own, and I was unwilling to join them and since that had become pretty much the whole Instagram experience, it was easy for me to cancel (discontinue) a useless digital appendage.

I have assumed that my attention span is too long for me to use Tick Tock, so I haven't even tried.

I did like Vines, though; back then.

But I never got around to discontinuing Twitter.

I kept thinking about so doing, but Twitter was my last mass social media conduit for my occasional blog posts.

So I kept it.

I never tweet.

I just post posts from my blog.

Those aren't tweets.

But in the brief period before I close the Twitter Tab after posting whatever it has been that I have wanted to post I am assaulted by various acts of sex, violence, sexual violence, or Grok sex fantasy that are there on the site itself.

As I click that I really do want to leave the site I have a deep and abiding urge for a stiff shot of scotch. 

The imminently first trillionaire is a pervert.

Seems to be a trend.

I guess Pam Bondi was fired so - donnie must have thought - Congress couldn't subpoena her and make her talk about Epstein under oath.

And then there's that war thing.

The 77.3 million can't seem to get it: incompetence fucks all of us.

 

Senile?

 I guess they had to label the rooms.

ICE Update

Recent reporting has revealed that this year so far there have been 27 prisoners who have died in ICE custody.

Due to the lack of any follow-on information about funerals or even disposal of the bodies - ICE says that they are not allowed to discuss "post criminal interments" - interest in the question has become rampant.

Not surprisingly, there is a growing body of opinion that ICE agents are pretty uniformly cannibals.

When contacted, ICE said that they "don't comment on agents' personal culinary preferences".

It has come to the attention of some that Krysti Noame, post Cabinet, is working on a cookbook; working title: The ICE Agent Culinary Manifesto".

Pre-sales on Amazon have spiked since Jeff Bezos endorsed the project on Twitter.

The Choices: Either Is Disaster

donnie recently announced that he was going to blow up Iran and destroy its civilization entirely at 20H00 Eastern yesterday.

If he really had done that, there would have been some good news: two Ash Wednesdays in the same calendar year.

Christians really like that shit.

At the time I noted some bad news: if he doesn't blow everything up, I said, donnie will be on the 'net all night raving and ranting, farting and moaning, and what little is left of America's prestige and credibility will be drowned out in those hours by the world-wide barrage of snickers, guffaws and belly laughs the donnieShrieks will elicit.

The Europeans have always loved the Court Fool; I don't think they ever thought that they were ever going to need to deal with such a complete - fool.

If nothing else, donnie is that.

And the plaques on all the golden statues will have to be changed from "donnie the decimator" to "donnie the damn fool wanna be".

And either way, the moment he said that he's going to blow up Iran, he crossed into war‑crime territory.

And either way, the United States is now a criminal, or a buffoon, or both.

Making the announcement with the Easter Bunny as witness did a I nice job of pointing to which of those options is operative.

But the really interesting thing is going to be, I further said, given that war crimes thing, would the military heed the recent video released by a group of six Democratic lawmakers with military and national‑security backgrounds in which those lawmakers emphasized the long‑established principle of military law: troops can and must refuse unlawful orders?

And would Congress execute its duty?

Since this post was posted pre-taco, but is being retained and updated for continued use post taco, we know the answer: the republican Congress did nothing, not a bang, not even a whimper.

And the military was spared showing its hand: the taco came just before Armageddon.

But since no intervention, by Congress, was taken, we know the truth.

All the checks and all the balances were missing in action and America died just short of 250.

I was guessing that that truth would prevail. 

And, sure enough, it did.

That's probably a good thing because the ten point deal (looks amazingly like an ultimatum) that donnie has negotiated pretty well disqualifies us from any adjacency to world leadership.

But then, after the first shrieks of joy from the stock market, it became apparent that donnie and Iran had different ten points.

Iran had ten clear demands, without which, no Strait of Hormuz.

donnie had some whiney shit that makes no sense but sounds good when Pete Hegseth interleaves it with quotations from the bible and equates a downed pilot with the Resurrection of Jesus.

That's heavy christian shit.

I guess Pete is pre-empting the chosen people.

That might fuck up the ten points.

The now interesting major question of whatever the future becomes is do we just close up shop, and fade into being a fourth rate totalitary with a dying nut in charge or do we arrest, indict, prosecute, convict and punish the faction, and its leader, that ended us so short of our birthday?

And start over on the long and tortuous track to greatness?

Probably not.

Fourth rateness is more the style of the 77.3 million who got us into this mess.

How Far We Have Fallen

The thought that it's OK for the president of the united states to decide to deliver an Easter message to the world laced with genuinely foul language wrapped around threats of multiple war crimes and enhanced with deeply genocidal rhetoric would have been a thing of dystopian fiction.

Once upon a time.

Until donnie.

Now the white christian evangel klansmen and klanswomen and the criminals in congress all shrug, shriek a few biblical invocations of jesus, and cheer with vigor as they burn books in the town square.

Not a good look?

The MAGA Easter Frenzy On Twitter Is Reaching Orgasm Pitch

I even saw a short video of the savior giving the donald a back rub.

I didn't know that Jesus was a masseuse.

I saw another one where Jesus saved the donald so he could save america.

Then there's that Cyrus thing.

I'd rather watch The Muppet Show on You Tube.

And there was another one - subsequently deleted - where Jesus smites the donald for "chicanery, frippery and adultery".

I think that was a BBC hack.

Later we got some clarity.

It turns out that adultery has been disappeared from the two tablets since 2017.

And during Easter Week.

Then there was a post from Krystie Noame.

Said she can't sleep any more without that airborne bed.

Fade to Jesus.

Confession Of A Never Techie

I have always savored words.

They are like little scalpels.

They are like Hersey's chocolate sauce.

They are like a herd of goats sniffing you on the trail and chewing on your shoes.

They are magic and fluid and interstitial.

 They are so useful that I could keep going.

But I won't.

That's all humanities stuff - right?

Right, but.

One of my favorite words - concatenate - I learned from one of the few programming languages that I was ever able to understand and code in.

It was called PL/1 and it never went anywhere because it was viewed by the non-IBM Employee Community as an IBM plot to take over computing.

As best as I was ever able to surmise it was a racehorse, un-clunky version of FORTRAN merged with a COBOL that didn't crash when compiling because of a comma.

I loved it.

It had a command: "concatenate".

"What does "concatenate" mean I said to no one in particular.

I had a degree in History and English so one would have thought that concatenate would be on the tip of my tongue with my every thought and my every written sentence, but it wasn't.

So, I looked it up.

What a powerful word.

What a powerful command.

And all invoked with this symbol: "ll".

Hey donnie; This Is Gold

 That plastic shit you have pasted to the fireplace is so tawdry.

"That's For Suckers"

 

Note the elitist smirk on the kid's face.

Bang, zoom! To the moon, Alice!

Now that we are going back to the moon, I began having reveries about a variety of things and immediately - for no apparent reason - remembered The Honeymooners.

And then Artemis Two finally went up.

I personally was scared shitless for our astronauts because of the Boeing content of that giant Rube Goldberg Rocket.

Happily, my fears, so far, were groundless.

Anyway, the extensive coverage of the four 'nauts, now that they are irrevocably on their way, has caused me to begin thinking about the moon, and that has concatenated with the interviews that I have heard with three men and a woman: Christina Koch.

And, as is my eternal frivolous wont, I remembered The Honeymooners.

And then I said "Gee, I wish Christina was named Alice". 

Another War, Another Time

Hearing about the two Air Force planes shot down today got me remembering.

When I remember, lots of times, I read one of my memoirs.

This is a snippet from Saigon 1967.

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I had noticed that Time Magazine (I had my Time subscription delivered to me in Saigon, albeit a version with very thin paper compared to the domestic magazine) had much deeper discussions of many of our targets.  And Time’s discussion of the conduct and results of many of the missions with which I was familiar was much more in-depth, interesting and insightful than the information I could glean from classified sources.  At first this irritated me.  Why were my classified sources so boring, irrelevant, wrong and, basically, useless?  Why couldn’t we do a better job?  Why couldn’t we do a competent job of gathering and disseminating intelligence?  Time magazine could; why couldn’t we?

Then an idea occurred to me.  Why not use Time as my source wherever possible for my briefings?  Who would know?  I read the classified stuff.  Nobody would know that I was only using the classified stuff as a fact checker where that was possible against what Time had to say.  Where the facts were absent and Time had information so much the better.  There was no way to question me.

My briefings, which had been up to that point encounters my audience bore up under as a professional duty requirement, quickly became lively well-attended events.  I suddenly gained the reputation of being a young officer on the rise.  And, best of all, I was assimilating and purveying information that was actually interesting enough to keep everybody, even me, awake and paying attention.  But I had already made the career decision not to let anybody, or anything make me really care.

That was probably a good thing.

On the strength of my vastly improved briefing skill, I was chosen to replace a departing lieutenant whose primary function had been to brief every morning the brigadier general who was commander of the entire 7AF HQ intelligence function. The subject of these briefings was everything that had happened overnight. The problem with that, in addition to an aversion I had toward generals, was that the information available for preparing them was only our useless, boring, inaccurate classified information.  Time magazine was weekly.  Its information was a week old, not overnight.  So I was back in the soup.

The difference this time was that the general really thought he was winning the “war effort” and wanted to know “what” and “why” and “who” and a bunch of other interrogatives about every subject.  That information was either not readily available or was totally unavailable.  Without Time Magazine I was dead meat.  As a result, my answers very quickly transmitted the impression, which was fact, that I didn’t give a shit and, in any event the interrogatives were so trivial as to be ridiculous. 

I was quickly replaced with someone who gave a shit.

More donnieTunes

4 July 2025: donnie signed the big beautiful bill which passes on $230 billion a year in tax reduction to America's top ten percent.

February 2026: donnie asked congress for $220 billion to replace all the expendable weapons expended in the Iran War.

Late March 2026: donnie told some white nationalist christians at an easter breakfast (whatever that might be) "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, and all of these individual things," Trump said during Easter lunch at the White House. "They can do it on a state basis. We can't do it on the federal. We take care of one thing: military protection."

Early April 2026: donnie has asked for $1.5 trillion for 2027 for the war budget. Not defense, that's so Twentieth Century; we have a department of war now, and war costs a lot more than defense.

Don't get sick.

Kiss Social Security goodbye.

Take your kid to work.

At least you won't need schools.

Kurt Andersen in Evil Geniuses explains how a cadre of really old money started in the 1970s working seriously on cancelling The New Deal and putting most of the rest of us back into serfdom.

That has now been done.

Welcome to 1346.

The Decline And Fall Of Donnie The Decimator

donnie keeps saying he is decimating Iran.

donnie the Decimator.

He also says he has obliterated Iran.

donnie the Obliterator also?

That's better than Alexander the Great.

He only had one magnificent moderator.

I guess nobody has liked my original Mafia nickname for The Donald: donnie the Dildo.

That didn't catch on.

Or maybe the Mafia wanted to keep it secret, so they could keep wetting their beaks with donnie.

And donnie with them.

Who knows?

Who, really, cares?

Not the 77.3 million.

They love that shit.

But really.  

How long is America going to put up with Ol' Deranged, Demented And Diminished?

When are the little men with the nets going to take him away to a safe place?

Safe for the rest of us.

Hey donnie - This Is Gold

 That plastic shit you have pasted to the fireplace is so Twentieth Century.

I Guess He Forgot Social Security

 "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, and all of these individual things," Trump said during Easter lunch at the White House. "They can do it on a state basis. We can't do it on the federal [level]. We take care of one thing: military protection."

Deranged, Demented And Diminished

To be sung to the tune of Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

donnie dazzled the world by speaking for twenty minutes without complaining about the 2020 election.

I couldn't tell if he farted much.

Quite a few words went through the rrrrrllll tongue deformation, but he's old; give the silly old fuck a break.

As best as I could tell the World in general - that includes us, the United States of America - came away thinking "god, I wish somebody else had the nuclear codes".

And then he fired Pam Bondi.

So I Asked Copilot What donnie Is Going To Say Tonight

I asked: "What's he going to say?

🎙️ What Trump is likely to say tonight

Based on his past crisis‑addresses, his recent public statements, and the political context, there are three predictable pillars he tends to fall back on.

1️⃣ Reframe the Iran war as a success

He has already been saying:

• “We’re winning.”

• “Iran is on its knees.”

• “We’ll be out in two or three weeks.”

So expect:

• Claims of progress

• Claims of decisive action

• Claims that the U.S. is safer because of him

This is standard for him in any military situation.

2️⃣ Shift blame for the crisis onto Biden

This is almost guaranteed because he has already done it repeatedly in Truth Social posts and rallies.

The structure usually goes like this:

• “This never would have happened if Biden hadn’t been weak.”

• “Biden gave Iran billions.”

• “I inherited a mess.”

He uses this pattern in nearly every foreign‑policy speech.

3️⃣ Revisit the 2020 election — but indirectly

He rarely gives a national address without at least implying:

• He was wronged

• The country went downhill because he wasn’t in office

• “We’re fixing what they broke”

He may not say “2020 was stolen” in a formal Oval Office‑style speech, but he often uses coded versions:

• “We’re restoring legitimacy.”

• “We’re taking our country back.”

• “People know what happened.”

So yes — the theme will be there even if the explicit claim isn’t.

🎯 The real purpose of the speech

This is the part that’s most consistent across his presidency:

He uses national addresses to control the narrative when events are slipping out of his hands.

Tonight’s goals are likely:

• Reassert control over the Iran storyline

• Preempt criticism from Congress

• Frame the war as nearly over

• Cast himself as the only stabilizing force

That’s the architecture of his crisis messaging.