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mo-oneandmore
11-Aug-25, 14:31

immitation medal
In Shiva's 23:42 link

<<Following Trump’s statement, NBC reporter Katy Tur tweeted that she had spoken with Dorfman and that he said the medal he gave to Trump was a copy of the one awarded to him.>>

I wonder in it was made in China or if it was bought on Ebay?
www.ebay.com
mo-oneandmore
11-Aug-25, 14:41

Here's anoiher medal that trump might like.
www.aliexpress.com

And another one,
www.ebay.com
lord_shiva
11-Aug-25, 17:19

Kerry
John Kerry served with honor and distinction, according to the men who served with him-not the swift boat liars assembled by the charlatan and historical fiction author Jerome Corsi. And VERY unlike the bone-spurred coward who disparages our veterans now.

Thumper, do you agree with Pedo Groper that war hero was a loser for getting captured and tortured as a POW?

Incidentally, the felon convicted on falsifying business documents to conceal fornicating with a proxy daughter porn star was not injured in the service of his country when his ear got scratched—he wasn’t president. He was merely running for office primarily to avoid both prison and further prosecutions. Any positive the ignorant idiot might have accidentally accomplished is entirely undermined by his waging war against our own government.
lord_shiva
11-Aug-25, 17:24

Medal Groper Covets
Aside from the “Noble,” (the idiot’s misspelling), the medal Pedo Groper really covers is this one—possibly already awarded to him in secret:

www.bbc.com
bobspringett
11-Aug-25, 17:33

Shiva 17:19
Trump and his thralls have a habit of denigrating genuine heroes. Remember how they treated John McCain? But people who go doctor-shopping for 'bone spurs' to be diagnosed (which so tragically prevents them from earning their own Purple Hearts!) are considered the Real Deal.
lord_shiva
11-Aug-25, 17:37

Who Are You?
“The accusations made in [Corsi’s] book and by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were widely disputed. Military records supported Kerry's combat claims, and many of the Swift boat veterans who actually served with Kerry publicly supported his account of events.”

So it is perfectly ok to disparage the service of honorable and genuine soldiers bravely fighting for our nation, but NOT ok to comment on a bone spurred draft dodger who idiotically claims he knows more about military tactics than all our generals. Good to know.

Quote:
The Republican nominee has been under fire in recent days for his attacks on the Gold Star family of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain who spoke at last week’s Democratic National Convention to denounce Trump’s comments on immigration.

Following Trump’s statement, NBC reporter Katy Tur tweeted that she had spoken with Dorfman and that he said the medal he gave to Trump was a copy of the one awarded to him.
End quote.

You know what should REALLY scare the crap out of decent Americans?

www.theatlantic.com
jonheck
18-Aug-25, 07:47

vote fixing
trump says he wants to end mail in voting. Says Putin agrees with him. Gee!
jonheck
18-Aug-25, 09:29

Deleted by jonheck on 18-Aug-25, 09:30.
lord_shiva
18-Aug-25, 18:14

Executive Order
The idiot-in-chief has no authority to assert control over state elections. He can EO tell he is red in the face, and it means nothing.

Here is Boris Johnson on our moron’s Neville Chamberlain capitulation to the wicked war lord:

“Just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy.”
bobspringett
18-Aug-25, 21:06

Shiva 18:14
Boris Johnson was a well-educated man who played the buffoon. Trump is a buffoon who claims to be a genius.
jonheck
19-Aug-25, 09:25

a miracle
Washington DC, the most dangerous city in the US and possibly the world 4 days ago, is now one of the safest - trump. Maybe this guy is JC.
jonheck
21-Aug-25, 04:17

surely he woulde’t
get away with it!
Armed with his latest fantasy triumph; that among all causes of high crime in DC, that which was formerly the highest is now the lowest, and he did it in 4 days; trump speaks of invading Chicago. Mayor of ‘Chi-town’ says “stay out”!

What would them Southern boys who are still fighting the Civli war think. States rights was what caused the Civil War, don’t cha know.
lord_shiva
25-Aug-25, 21:56

Fire Fights Fire
Newsom isn’t just standing up to Trump; he’s using Trump’s exact playbook against him. His TikTok followers jumped from just over 500,000 in March to 1.8 million. Why? Because he’s speaking the same psychological language that made Trump effective.
When Border Patrol agents showed up at Newsom’s redistricting rally, he immediately posted: 'Donald Trump has sent armed agents to our rally. We will not be intimidated'. That’s not defensive politics; that’s offensive reframing using Trump’s own crisis-narrative technique.
The psychological term is 'mirroring': adopting your opponent’s communication patterns to disrupt their advantage. Bullies rely on power imbalances. When their victims start using their own tactics, it creates cognitive dissonance and levels the playing field.

So treating the idiot Trump with respectful kid gloves feeds into his program. It absolutely does not help. Newsom is right.
mo-oneandmore
25-Aug-25, 22:01

Shiva
I agree that Newsome is playing a strong game against trump.
lord_shiva
26-Aug-25, 19:48

Dictator Diverts Arc of Justice
From HCR.

This morning, President Donald J. Trump talked to reporters as he signed several executive orders in the Oval Office. Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk as he has been doing lately, seeming to put its bulk between him and the reporters. Also as he has been doing lately, he kept his left hand over the right, seemingly to hide a large bruise.

Trump was there to announce an executive order charging Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth with creating “specialized units” in the National Guard that will be “specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues,” apparently setting them up to take on domestic law enforcement as part of Trump’s attempt to take control of Democratic-run cities.

At the press opportunity, Trump claimed that he saved Washington, D.C.—where crime was at a 30-year low before he took control of the Metropolitan Police Department and mobilized the National Guard—from such rampant crime that no one dared to wear jewelry or carry purses. “People,” he said, “are free for the first time ever.”

Although in 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that burning a flag is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment, Trump ordered the Department of Justice to prosecute anyone who burns a flag, claiming they would automatically go to prison for a year (he has no authority to make such an order). After seven European leaders rushed to the White House to stabilize the U.S. approach to Russia after Trump’s disastrous meeting with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on August 15, Trump claimed that the seven leaders actually represented 38 countries and that they refer to Trump as “the president of Europe.”

Calling Chicago, Illinois, a “a disaster” and “a killing field,” Trump referred to Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker as “a slob.” Trump complained that Pritzker had said Trump was infringing on American freedom and called Trump a dictator. Trump went on: “A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person. And when I see what's happening to our cities, and then you send in troops instead of being praised, they're saying you're trying to take over the Republic. These people are sick.”
This afternoon, standing flanked by leaders from business, law enforcement, faith communities, education, local communities, and politics at the Chicago waterfront near the Trump Tower there, Governor Pritzker responded to the news that Trump is planning to send troops to Chicago.
He began by saying: “I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in the city and as a state and as a country. If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country.”

He acknowledged that “[o]ver the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. This is exactly the type of overreach that our country's founders warned against. And it’s the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers built on checks and balances. What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional. It is un-American.”

Pritzker noted that neither his office nor that of Chicago’s mayor had received any communications from the White House. “We found out what Donald Trump was planning the same way that all of you did. We read a story in the Washington Post. If this was really about fighting crime and making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor or the police?”

“Let me answer that question,” he said. "This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections. There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. There is no insurrection.”

Pritzker noted that every major American city deals with crime, but that the rate of violent crime is actually higher in Republican-dominated states and cities than in those run by Democrats. Illinois, he said, had “hired more police and given them more funding. We banned assault weapons, ghost guns, bump stocks, and high-capacity magazines” and “invested historic amounts into community violence intervention programs.” Those actions have cut violent crime down dramatically. Pritzker pointed out that “thirteen of the top twenty cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago. Eight of the top ten states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois.”

If Trump were serious about combatting crime, Pritzker asked, why did he, along with congressional Republicans, cut more than $800 million in public safety and crime prevention grants? “Trump,” Pritzker said, “is defunding the police.”

Then Pritzker turned to the larger national story. “To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country,” he said, “I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's actions. Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”

Pritzker continued: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.’”
The governor called out the president for his willingness to drag National Guard personnel from their homes and communities to be used as political props. They are not trained to serve as law enforcement, he said, and did not “sign up for the National Guard to fight crime.” “It is insulting to their integrity and to the extraordinary sacrifices that they make to serve in the guard, to use them as a political prop, where they could be put in situations where they will be at odds with their local communities, the ones that they seek to serve.”

Pritzker said he hoped that Trump would “reconsider this dangerous and misguided encroachment upon our state and our city's sovereignty” and that “rational voices, if there are any left inside the White House or the Pentagon, will prevail in the coming days.”

But if not, he urged Chicagoans to protest peacefully and to remember that most members of the military and the National Guard stationed in Chicago would be there unwillingly. He asked protesters to “remember that they can be court martialed, and their lives ruined, if they resist deployment.” He suggested protesters should look to members of the faith community for guidance on how to mobilize.

Then Pritzker turned to a warning. “To my fellow governors across the nation who would consider pulling your national guards from their duties at home to come into my state against the wishes of its elected representatives and its people,” he said, “cooperation and coordination between our states is vital to the fabric of our nation, and it benefits us all. Any action undercutting that and violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator will be responded to.”
He went on: “The state of Illinois is ready to stand against this military deployment with every peaceful tool we have. We will see the Trump administration in court. We will use every lever in our disposal to protect the people of Illinois and their rights.”

“Finally,” he said, “to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now. And eventually, the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually.

“If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. As Dr. King once said, the arc of the moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Humbly, I would add, it doesn't bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.”
jonheck
28-Aug-25, 05:48

go get um Wess
and thanks Big Guy!

trump and DEM Md Governor Wess Moore have been going at it recently. trump doesn’t appear to appreciate it much, nor appear to grasp the stratospheric level of irony in his retort. “He was very Disrespectful of the Office Of President”, It complained on a recent social post. 🥴🤪😵‍💫.

Gee!
apatzer
30-Aug-25, 13:23

Yeah and this Jerry Springer show of a society shows just how sick our society is. Trump is the product of a sick society and your not going to cure your cancer by ingesting more cancer.
lord_shiva
30-Aug-25, 19:48

Ingesting Cancer?
MAGA fails to get it. Holding a mirror to the idiocy of their glorious hero shines a light some become dimly aware of. It penetrates a few.

I certainly don’t recommend this for any remotely decent candidate for public office. Anyone who can demonstrate respect for others deserves respect. Our drooling idiot tyrant clown does not, by any measure. Donald should be treated only marginally better than the mob treated the corpse of Il Duce, and his mistress. Not sure she deserved that abuse, but he certainly did.
apatzer
30-Aug-25, 19:56

That's precisely what Newsom is being prepared for; it's unlikely that he's taking these actions solely to oppose Trump. He's gearing up for a presidential campaign and will probably borrow some tactics from Trump's playbook, given the current state of American society.

But in the immortal words of DJ Khalid, congratulations America you just played yourself.
apatzer
30-Aug-25, 20:04

But we probably aren't going to make it that far sorry
lord_shiva
30-Aug-25, 21:56

Newsom Campaign
If Newsom runs against any decent candidate (just about anyone but Donald, Greene, Boebert, Gosart), he will run clean. I bet he IS plann8ng to run, and like Reagan stands a decent chance is securing the Democratic nomination. He will win the popular vote by a larger margin than anyone losing the EC. But Donald promises his evangelicals they would never need to vote again, and that is a promise he is fixing to keep.

Remember, a victory is worthless if it fails to incorporate cheating. That is Dinald’s creed.
lord_shiva
30-Aug-25, 21:58

Reagan
I meant like Reagan used Governor of California as a springboard. Bush used Texas, courtesy of “Turd Blossom.”

California is a great launch pad.
apatzer
30-Aug-25, 22:03

I agree, California's GDP just passed Japan's. California ranks as the 4th largest economy in the world as of 2024, with a nominal GDP of approximately $4.1 trillion. It has surpassed Japan, which has a GDP of around $4.02 trillion, and ranks just behind the United States, China, and Germany in global economic rankings. This ranking is based on nominal GDP figures from the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

But this liberal bastion is so horrible according to Fox News lol. I'm not saying they are without problems.
lord_shiva
30-Aug-25, 23:48

California’s Biggest Problem
is the idiot who dumped their agricultural reservoir into the Pacific, while insisting “Newscum” diverted the Columbia River from Los Angeles into the ocean to save the smelt by turning a spigot as big as a building that takes all day to divert, and deployed US marines and the NG in violation of posse comitatus into civilian streets to harass and intimidate liberals and minorities, MAGA.

WTF?

In unrelated news ICE did important work saving us from migrant laborers by interrupting their effort to put out a forest fire for three hours as they lined everyone up and demanded their papers. Two firefighters were arrested and kidnapped. No word yet on whether they were the dangerous miscreants or merely uncooperative Americans—possibly liberals who either misplaced their wallets or refused to be intimidated by Gestapo jackasses.
jonheck
31-Aug-25, 04:57

name calling
I won’t suggest that trump started the name calling but he certainly gets credit for; the most frequent, lowering it to the elementary school level, and nay should we ignore that he does it publicly from the leadership podium of the US president.

I grant him primary cause status for the dramatic increase in name calling, and perhaps public profanity, that we have seen through the last ten years.

It has earned and deserves every name It is called, bring it on! The more he dislikes it the better! “Oink, oink oh great one”.
bobspringett
31-Aug-25, 06:00

You can't shame someone who is already shameless.
jonheck
31-Aug-25, 06:27

bobspringette
Shameless It surely is, among so many other derogatory things. It’s a “kick in the ass” to call It names, and more-so when those in higher places join the chorus.
lord_shiva
31-Aug-25, 06:31

Not the Point
We know the man who falsified business records to conceal fornicating with a proxy daughter porn star remains beyond shame. His efforts to hide his acts are not based on any sense of shame for them, but out of fear of political loss should they come to light. He need not worry overmuch, he no longer needs the popular vote as Texas Republicans were eager for him to rape their state. “Mess with Texas? Bugger us!”

They did it for Tom Delay some years back, and he was only a fraction of the criminal Donald is.
lord_shiva
31-Aug-25, 06:37

Parakeets
You know how some birds get mad and attack their own image in a mirror?

This is the level of intellectual awareness we are dealing with here. I don’t mean to imply most MAGA supporters are Donald “Nikki Haley’s”… Ok. Yes, I do. How do we escape that? Some animals DO recognize their own image, and it is to them we appeal. Trump never really enjoyed majority public support to begin with, and his numbers are falling. The only modern president less popular than him was first term Trump.

jonheck
31-Aug-25, 07:20

lord_shiva
It’s true that are those in deeper space MAMA land cannot be reached. Here in deep red, mountain man WVa it could be dangerous to try.
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