Why does it so often take a pariah-ed republican(s) to assert the likely details of the trump cesspool? (“perhaps because, being republicans, they’re still talking with some of the insiders?”)
The tl;dr: trump remains vile beyond measure, but he’s mentally checked out of any decision making, and is being manipulated mostly by stephen miller (ala “Weekend at Bernie’s”)
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger Posted This On Facebook - Weekend at Bernie’s/Donnie’s
Monday, May 05, 2025 at 3:00:05a PDT
Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger Against Trump
I am going to go totally off brand and offer a theory that
absolves Trump of the current state of America under his administration. I thinkwe have a Weekend at Bernie’s situation going on in the White House. That interview with ABC was damning.Donald Trump isn’t running the country. He’s being wheeled around like a bloated prop, a sagging orange husk made to dance on command like an undead circus bear for what’s left of the base — part nostalgia act, part cult relic, all rot.
What we’re seeing isn’t leadership. It’s a reanimation ritual and the pale, serpentine ghoul casting the spell is none other than Stephen “Gargamel” Miller, America’s most necromancer.
Trump slurs through speeches like he’s gargling grave dirt. He babbles about the Declaration of Independence being a unifying love letter, can’t explain the Monroe Doctrine beyond “it was a doctrine that came from Monroe”, and insists a clearly photoshopped image of Abrego Garcia’s hands with MS-13 in Times New Roman font is a smoking gun worthy of ending due process. The man is gone. The lights have gone out. There’s nothing left behind his haunted eyes save Adderall fumes and Hannity reruns.
And yet, he lumbers on, taxidermied circus bear that he is, lacquered in orange bronzer and stuffed with Big Mac grease. His only purpose is to waltz for the crowd while his ghoulish wizard adviser yanks his rigor mortised tendons to animate him from backstage. Miller doesn’t care that the old man is mentally decomposing. That’s the point. A confused and vacant figurehead is easier to manipulate into signing off on whatever racist, Nazi-esque blueprint the American Goebbels is perpetrating.
This is Miller’s wet dream. …
I hear that more and more now, that Tramp isn’t running much of anything, other than his babbling mouth. For some reason he’s allowed to do interviews, which seem to confirm that he has little idea what’s going on and who’s doing it.
The idea that he’s basically checked out and can only rouse himself enough as preznit to blurt out fascist talking points makes sense to me, since I think the only solid motivation he had for getting elected again was to avoid prison, and once elected, to grift as much loot as possible.
Was he ever really there?
In the sense of a complete adult human being, with a sense of where he belonged in the world and how to contribute? Of course not. Never.
But in 2016, he was lucid and could put at least three coherent sentences together, all on the same subject. His mental choo choo passed that station a long time ago.
It’s almost like he has no idea what he’s doing! /s
I’ve read that a local Palm Beach (where Maralardo is) station ran a movie on Alcatraz a day before this tweet/executive memo and that’s where he got the idea.
Feels plausible because for years everyone’s known that he agrees with the last person he speaks to, and he feels the TV is a person.
Now I can’t unsee it.
I agree. But also… I admire this writer’s style and voice.
Me too, though I also feel a bit shit about how getting a good message like that one to circulate these days seems to require that kind of visceral, eye-popping style (though granted, someone like HCR doesn’t seem to require it).
I think at this point the main goal of any author has to be distinguishing oneself from ai as best as possible.
There are different ways to do that, but yeah the bar has only gotten higher for writing.
Here’s another one for the pile.
- Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad
But since taking office, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India and Vietnam
And NONE in the US
Sinners is worth watching in theaters; original story, great cinematography, directing and acting. And having a Black movie about a Black community made by a Black writer director continuing to be the number one movie not only disproves 45’s claim, it’s bound to piss him off.
Obligs:
Everyday, upon the air
I see a troll who isn’t ‘there.’
He wasn’t there again today,