Is he just trolling us? That is, mocking us? Goading us? If so, why? Is he deliberately trying to demoralize the movement he once led by making it appear ridiculous? Or is he just a demented old man? You tell me: 
“Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can’t even breath, that I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell…I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends and my family and we are going to vote on Nov. 3…So help me God.”
Trump said that at his “midterm convention” the other night.
He also said that if people vote for him – mark that – in about two months from now, he will reward them with a $5,000 check that is certain to always be in the mail.
What happened to Trump? Or was it nothing at all? The explanation that best fits the facts is that he has always been Trump – but some of us made the mistake of believing (of hoping) that Trump was what we believed/hope he wasn’t. It was a foolishly hopeful belief. People are what they are. What is Trump? More specifically, what isn’t he? 
Fundamentally – and that’s why it’s foundational toward understanding what didn’t go wrong – Trump is unprincipled. Like – frankly – most “conservatives.” I say this regretfully and without malice. It is simply a fact. Trump – and most “conservatives” – do not oppose in principle taking people’s money; their point-of-difference with “liberals” is what this stolen money is to be spent on. “Conservatives” want it spent on aircraft carriers, bombs and missiles. “Liberals” want it spent on programs that assuage the hurt feelings of “liberals.” Both favor spending it on “the schools.”
Neither support the quaint idea of leaving other people alone. Of “crime” being defined as having actually caused real harm to a real person (or their property) as opposed to affronting a rule laid down by the state.
The point is you can’t effectively argue for liberty when you don’t actually understand what it means. Or intelligently argue against taking people’s money if you support taking people’s money. You can’t argue against a police state, either, if you think a police state controlled by your side can be a good police state. It is also hard to argue intelligently against forcing anyone to take any drugs (they call these drugs “vaccines” now) if you think some are “beautiful.”
It only makes you look blinkered.
Trump is merely doing what he has always done, which is to serve his own interests – which is the only principle he hews to. Once this is understood, one can understand Trump.
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And now the prick has his sites set on Cuba. How long will the world continue to tolerate this?
The man is certifiably INSANE!
Crazier than Crazy Eddie!
In addition to his inherent insanity, he probably has gonorrhea…which affects the brain.
Trump is a compromised twat, there’s a Thompson Twins song that fits the bill…Lies, Lies, Lies .
Gee I wonder who did 9-11-2001, could it be the nation who benefitted the most?
https://i.imgur.com/QuFhHm1.mp4
as an incompetent Neo-Ludditte, it took my an hour to convert an X video to mp4 then load it on the web
just think what I could do if I wasn’t a redneck loser
Content is not viewable in your region – that made me think that it was some sort of exceptional proof.
So I fired up the VPN – Really is this it?
Here’s a better one for you
https://rumble.com/v3gi60z-911-in-a-nutshell-james-corbett-the-corbett-report.html
A regime eclownomist whores hisself out, forever destroying his professional reputation. Kevin has a PhD Econ from Trump’s alma mater, U. Penn, which may explain his sophomoric bloviating:
‘White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett played down concerns that President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 checks to every adult US citizen would add to worries about historically high government borrowing.
“We can do it in a fiscally responsible way,” Hassett said in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg TV. “It is a serious proposal.”
‘He argued that “because of all the growth and all the wealth being created in the US, the president thinks we need to return more of that to the American people.” ‘
https://tinyurl.com/x94tb8a
Ol’ Pol Pot knew how to deal with useless-eater intellectuals like Kevin Hassett. Confiscate their glasses, transport them to a work camp, put them on a 1,500 calorie a day diet, and make them dig ditches with their bare hands in the hot sun.
For R&R, make them confess their crimes at weekly struggle sessions. Then beat them senseless with rifle butts to the skull.
Trump is senile at this point.
I still know a small handful of boomers who support him. They recently sent around a propaganda email saying that Trump isn’t perfect, but he’s a good man, in a swamp, and while he means to do good, and implement his promises, one man can only do so much and he’s wading upstream through the corruption, and it would be worse without him.
You have to be as senile as Trump to believe this, much less share it. 20% of people still support Trump in national polls. Does this mean that 20% of Americans are insane? Sure seems like it.
It’s higher than that, both sides of the border
https://www.unz.com/bhua/9-11-coincidence-theory/#comment-7769239
https://pdfhost.io/v/y7tsQcEZuQ_911_and_the_rise_of_antichrist_Trump
All are filth or you wouldnt know its name period.
All 3, stupid, fulla shit and fuckin nuts.
“Ich Schwore bei Gott diesen Heilegen Aid…”
“Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can’t even
breathspell …’ — President Donnie Dwayne Milfhouse Elizondo Fruitcake‘Breath’ is a noun; ‘breathe’ is a verb. Guess they don’t teach this hoary old ‘grammar’ stuff at the Wharton School. That’s assuming Donnie was even there, not a ghost student like Barky Obama, whom no one ever saw at Columbia.
Like Alzheimers, malignant narcissism takes a terrible toll on the family of its sufferers. Unfortunately, the victims now include all of us, as Donnie’s destructive flakery goes dual-turbo and his goofball presidency enters a flat spin portending a CFT (Controlled Flight into Terrain).
Got kerosene?? When America crashes, the least that survivors can do is roast weenies over the licking flames of Donnie’s impact crater.
Hi Jim,
I can’t believe he actually said that out loud, hopefully the dementia becomes fatal soon. He loves us so much as long as he can squeeze us into dry husks, extracting every last bit of our money for himself.
As I wrote in a different conversation thread, Mike, now that Trump is in his second and final (hopefully) presidential term, he has nothing to lose in showing everyone who he really is. The mask can fall off, and what is anyone going to do about it? He does not have to impress anyone. And hell, if he is evil enough, he can start a war (hmm…), and declare Martial Law to stay in power, just to punish those who will not bow to him.
EP, I think Trump/WH must read your column. Do you know of anyone else who has been complaining about not receiving the $5k Trump promised in 2024 (I had never heard of that promise) or who has been writing columns about never voting again and urging others not to vote?
He does. FU TT.
Meme of the day
https://i.imgflip.com/b0wvap.jpg
“Both favor spending it on “the schools.”
Exactly, the only difference is thI agrat “conservatives” want the schools to teach “American Exceptionalism” lies and “liberals” want the schools to teach “evil whitey” lies.
Neither want to teach anything resembling critical thinking, and most “conservatives” who are against so-called public (government) schools want them replaced with the types of religious schools (and religious-based homeschool) that are just another form of indoctrination and anti-critical thinking.
As far as “school” goes, Frank Zappa said it best:
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.”
Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 Mono Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0hMWMfIcR4
MQ, your post reminds me of this EP comment I had saved (for which there are plenty to chose from). Forgive me, I do not know the screen name of the one who wrote it, but how very true: it is.
As Paul Simon put it, long ago: “When I think of all the crap I “learned” in high school,
It’s a wonder I can think at all.” That was even before Pink Floyd, kids.
“Mr. America walk on by, your schools that do not teach…”
Frank Zappa wrote that line in 1966, but the schools not teaching goes back before that. The Paul Simon line is accurate, high school is an absolute waste, it should be eliminated in its current form. Those academically inclined should be going to community college and those not to trade schools. High Schools are nothing but holding pens and social clubs that waste everyone’s time.
Oh, I agree. Our beloved (gag) legislature gave schools a $1,000 per pupil spending increase last year. We spend more money per pupil than any other state. We now rank 50, down from 49, in terms of how stupid students are when they leave high school. The ‘pandemic’ was a blessing in disguise in many ways, as home schooling has become quite popular, and we are losing students in schools at “an alarming rate”, they say. Hmm, but yes, let’s throw money taxpayer dollars at the problem.
“Ich Schwore bei Gott diesen Heilegen Aid…”
It’s possible — possible but not certain — that Trump truly believed his own bullshit in the first term, and that Mossad, Bibi, and the CIA really did get to him and now he realizes that the entire thing is a charade and he’s just along for the ride so he doesn’t give a fuck any more.
Two impeachments, 91 felony charges, 34 felony convictions and getting your house raided by the FBI might just make you realize that no matter how big your ego is and how rich you are, these people still have you by the balls, and if you can’t beat ’em — join ’em.
I say that not in loyal defense of Trump as a MAGAtard or anything stupid like that, but as a hypothetical possibility. Trump has shown far greater intelligence and perception in the past than he seems to show now. Yes, he has always seemed obnoxious and arrogant in public, but there is plenty of evidence that he can be a very kind and decent man in private, particularly to lower-class and working class people. He really does connect with them.
My guess is that the true Powers That Be gave him a talking-to behind the curtain, and told in no uncertain terms that he is merely a circus act and that they own him, and if he won’t play by their rules, he will end up broke, in prison — or dead.
If they tell him the Epstein thing goes away, they give him his script and he reads it. (Particularly if they remind there’s video of that night at Epstein’s pad waaaaay back when… “Remember that one, Donnie? Do ya?”) If they tell him that it’s time to attack Israel’s enemies, they hand him another script. If they tell him he do not dare fuck with the deficit lest you collapse the stock Ponzi, he does what he’s told.
I am guessing that at his age, he probably figured that the best option was to follow orders and retire to Mar-a-Lago instead of becoming a jailhouse punk.
Revenge sounded sweet. Tucker succinctly covered the chronology of lies and broken promises on his Thursday rant. Traitor lying FF no longer has a chance in hell.
Bow down before the one you serve, you gonna get what you deserve! Ghost writer exposes the real Trump, he spent a year and a half learning the intimate details and how Trump is an act, a pathological liar, poor business man, etc.
i highly recommend spending time to watch the first half, skip the Q and A
Tony Schwartz: The Truth About Trump | Oxford Union Q&A
5.2M views 9y ago
OxfordUnion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxF_CDDJ0YI
There was a Gallup poll recently showing that 89% of Americans surveyed think that corruption in the U.S. government is widespread. The past several years showed that the U.S. government has been corrupt for DECADES, but for years people who tried to point that out were routinely smeared as CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. As for the poll, who are the 11% who didn’t think there’s widespread corruption in the government, people who work for the government, Neocons who’ve set foreign policy for every single president in my adult life time, industry that has BENEFITTED from the corruption (eg Big Pharma, Military-industrial complex, etc.), or perhaps even people who think Trump can do no wrong?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/americans-finally-understand-that-government-is-corrupt/
The sad and ironic thing is, John, the so-called “Conspiracy Theorists” have been correct. To the point that they do not have too many left on their list, because they have all come true! Way back when, we had a cold war with then-Soviet Russia. Communism was the bad guy. The “duck-under-your-desk” drills took place in the schools. Fast-forward years later, and now we have an entire generation equating Communism with “free stuff forever”, and are begging for such enslavement. Politicians who once hid the fact of being a Commie are now openly embracing what they told us they never were. Once told they were “kooks” for warning about vehicles and televisions being able to spy on us, now are imbedded in every new device and appliance. Companies do not even hide it anymore, and instead, warn us that we have no privacy in our own homes with such devices (TV’s, refrigerators, etc.). Those who think Trump (or any other politician) can do no wrong is either deaf or blind, or both. Either way, they are no less-dangerous than the politician who is ready to shoot anyone who disagrees with them.
Hi Shadow,
One concern I have is what Democrats will do should they regain control of the House and/ or Senate, or even the White House in 2028, particularly if there’s another “Pandemic” that government declares to be a “Public Health Emergency”. We’ve already seen what they’ll do with such power during COVID. Remember the draconian COVID measures such as face diaper mandates and lockdowns, not to mention mandates for people to take an experimental mRNA jab and vaccine passports. They’ve even preached hatred of ANTI-VAXXERS & SCIENCE DENIERS despite the fact that such people have been totally vindicated with regard to the issue of not just COVID vaxxes, but other vaccines as well, though in 2026 the Democratic Party zealously defends vaccines like it’s a secular religion. They also continue to defend Tony Fauci despite him having been proven to be a criminal psychopath who was in government for decades.
If they don’t declare draconian measures in the name of a “Public Health Emergency”, they could declare a “Climate Change Emergency” and attempt to decree that the masses MUST GIVE UP any gas vehicle they have and buy an EV if they wish to continue driving an automobile, or perhaps even give up meat and eat the frankenfood being created by billionaire psychopaths like Bill Gates. Remember the narrative that COWS were CAUSING climate change because of flatulence?
Yes, I believe the Demon Rats will take the gloves off, and we will be finished, if they gain power. They will have nothing left to lose in destroying the country to keep an iron fist control over the rest of us. The Republicans? Please, they are the do-nothing party, and have been for years. If they ever bothered to do something other than be “Demon-Lite”.
They’ve also all but vowed to try to get rid of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. I’ve seen Democrat voters call him a “Threat to Public Health”, even though “Public Health” and the “Public Health” bureaucracies have been exposed as little more than marketing arms and shills for the medical-industrial complex, or Big Pharma.
Also, though, John, is that many in nursing will NOT be there when another pandemic comes along. Too many I know simply refuse to stick around for another COVID 2.0. The stupid masks, the PCR test that was never supposed to be used to diagnose anything, forced vaccination to keep their jobs….. they are done, and will walk away. Which may give the CDC, Big Pharma, and the always evil Feds an even bigger problem on their hands.
$5000 per person = $1.35 Trillion in borrowed money.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” raised the debt ceiling to $41 billion, but we are at $40 billion now.
The promise of the “rebate” will force a “Republican” Congress to go along.
Anyone out there who still believes the lies, do you *really* need that check?
Reallly? $5000 makes that kind of difference in your life?
Roscoe, After promising to end the forever wars, Trump changed the Dept of Defense’ name to “Dept of War,” merged the Israeli military into the US Military, and doubled military spending to $2 TRILLION dollars. $1 Trillion more for Israel’s wars is borrowed money also. In addition to that 5,000 taken from us, how much more are American people paying for food, gas, cars, heating etc. due to trump tariffs and the WAR he STARTED (HE ATTACKED) with Iran? If the gov’t is doing incredibly well off the American people, let Trump return the money to us instead of refunding the illegal tariffs to the corporations (who raised their prices and so now have a windfall)!
Why don’t you complain about the bases, the oil tankers, the air planes, the radars, the surveillance drones, the munitions that TRUMP has BLOWN UP? Trump has left us defenseless: who but us are going to pay to replace our defense? Why don’t you complain about how Trump’s destroying the dollar with this oil war and increased debt–AND to what purpose: Bessent made massive amounts of money betting AGAINST the British pound and the yen. Do you think he and his pervert sodomite and Jew friends are shorting the dollar even as he uses taxpayer funds to prop up the dollar? Why are Europeans taking their gold out of the US? But Saudis, Iraqis, Venezuelans can’t do that. Their own wealth is being destroyed to enrich the Jews on Wall Street whom Piggy and Bess give inside information.
20-24 million households have an income of less than $25,000 a year. Another 20 million have incomes less than $50,000. $5,000 is a big deal to them. Multiply $5000 x 40 (the debt) and ask yourself if $200,000 is a big deal to you. Sure it ain’t to Trump and his filthy billionaire cronies who are porking billions from government contracts and tax breaks.
“Reallly? $5000 makes that kind of difference in your life?”
At the rate of increasing inflation we get, by the time we might get our 5k, it might be couch change.
EP has been harping about not receiving this $5k for months–if it’s nothing to you, why don’t you send him a check? As for me, I’d like my tax money back anyway I can get it. I don’t support genocide and corruption.
AI: “Donald Trump’s net worth has increased by roughly $2.6 billion to $4.1 billion since 2024, according to estimates from Forbes. His net worth shifted from about $3.9 billion in 2024 to an estimated $6.5 billion. At points during his presidency, his net worth peaked even higher near $7.3 billion.’
“Donald Trump Jr.’s net worth grew from roughly $50 million before the 2024 election to an estimated $300 million to $500 million.
“Eric Trump’s net worth jumped from $40 million to an estimated $400 million to $750 million.
“Elon Musk’s net worth increased by more than $170 billion immediately after the November 2024 election, and has since surged past $1 trillion. Post-Election Surge: Following the November 2024 election, his fortune jumped dramatically by over $170 billion in weeks, pushing him past the $400 billion mark for the first time. SpaceX holds approximately $22 billion in total active government contracts, highlighted by major multi-billion-dollar awards from the U.S. Space Force and NASA secured since 2024.”
Ten-Four Eleanor,
You nailed it….Trump has always been this way. In my naiveté, I have often believed that my friends shared my principles…they do not. I still treasure such friends and family members but I do not respect their lack of principles. Trump is a more obvious version, like Biden, of the corruption inherent in desiring political power. Thanks for the succinct summary.
Agree. The core business of Trump is self promotion. Always has been. Everything is the “greatest”, “biggest”, “best”, no matter what it is.
Should be obvious that he says whatever he thinks makes him seem correct.
What made you believe that Trump would be any different than 99.8% of all the pols in Congress and the White House you people have kept voting into office?
Why I stopped voting. Period.
Electing people to run an immoral system is immoral.
What if they gave an election and no one voted?
Go and look at campaign promises, promised actions, and voting records of presidents and senators and reps prior to winning, and you will see maybe one or two actually didnt lie, or at least spent their political capital to try keeping their promises.
Only way to win is not play.
Ron Paul and Thomas Massie
Dynamic duo of iconic opposition. Part of the script.
Yep, you nailed it. It never ceases to amaze how many “awake” individuals still believe Paul and Massie — and even more dumbfoundedly, Marjorie Taylor Green — are the “good guys.”