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February 9, 2025

Yep. Trump was the one saying "I love the poorly educated"...

...and if you continue that line of thinking, the rest of that sentence would read "because they're so damn easy to manipulate!". It's a totally naked version of right-wing Leninism. I was surprised that Trump got away with that comment, but he did.

February 7, 2025

That, and Dresden.



February 7, 2025

And there was this also.

She showed up at a CPAC event with one of those half-gallon Big Gulps...to own Teh Libz, naturally.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143371940#post34
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219729247#post23

February 6, 2025

My niece's dog thinks so, too!

One Sunday morning, her dog grabbed a stollen off the countertop, still wrapped from the bakery, and dragged it over to the couch to rip it apart. We called it "the case of the stolen stollen".

And yes, the cleanup took forever. At least it was mostly powdered sugar, and stollens aren't especially greasy, so it could have been worse.

February 6, 2025

Yeah, he just keeps on doing that. Even political cartoons...

...have picked up on it, since Trump makes so many grammatical and spelling errors. Here's one from This Modern World (see panel #1).

February 6, 2025

I've made a few posts over the years about Duffy and his wife...

...Rachel Campos-Duffy. And yes, they are best known for their appearances on several MTV "reality" shows. Rachel Campos-Duffy is one of the benchwarmers on Fox and Friends Sunday, a placeholder show that no one watches. (Until he was selected by Trump for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was also one of the hosts).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post25
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post29

The Duffys have been on the wingnut welfare teat for decades. They're radtrad fundamentalist Catholics, so they also run that grift on EWTN etc...Rachel Campos-Duffy had some kind of sinecure job funded by the Kochs at one point. They don't seem to have any kind of regular job associated with an actual physical product or service. They're always making TV appearances, etc., all of which must be paid for...

https://democraticunderground.com/100217969495
https://democraticunderground.com/100217969495#post64

I didn't watch [MTV's] The Real World much...but I viewed enough episodes to see that Campos-Duffy was a constant antagonist on that show. One of the personalities on TRW was the son of a Black Panther activist or something, and another was a gay man living with AIDS (and who died during the show, as I recall). Campos-Duffy was always on someone's back about every conservative outrage du jour, and of course having a gay man and a "Black militant" as roommates meant that there were always fireworks when Campos-Duffy was around.

Campos-Duffy and her husband are constantly making TV appearances, and both of them now co-host Fox shows (Campos-Duffy on Fox News, Sean Duffy on Fox Business). I have also seen Campos-Duffy on EWTN (radtrad Catholic TV).
February 6, 2025

"Ozempic face" has been suggested. He dropped a fair amount...

...of weight recently, and it wouldn't be surprising that happened because his doctors read him the riot act about the stress of a second term (along with his ketchup-throwing rage fits, etc.). I'm sure he was told that if he didn't drop the weight, he wouldn't survive another four years. Unfortunately, any sudden weight loss can really show in your face, and those GLP-1 drugs can really make the weight come off fast.

Based on that recent Air Force One picture, however (the one with RFK Jr), it looks like Trump's diet is as horrifying as ever--he's just probably eating a lot less of it. I'm amazed he's lived as long as he has, with all the KFC and Big Macs he's put away over the years.

February 6, 2025

The worst aspect of the religious right is the media infrastructure...

...they have created over the years. It's not just ranting televangelists anymore--they have entire "news" divisions that are like a simulacrum of the national networks, complete with flashy graphics and professional studios. The news topics that are presented are, naturally, as slanted as one would expect. The evangelical Protestant media (e.g. CBN News, Salem) are bad enough, but the radtrad Catholic networks have to be seen to be believed--worse than Fox "News" and sometimes giving even OANN and NewsMax a run for their money.

February 5, 2025

Who wants to make a bet on a MAGA chud popping off...

...and committing a domestic terror attack on the Pacific Institute? (See video clip, 0:46-0:54). Anyone remember the attempt on the Tides Foundation in CA? Glenn Beck--on Fox "News" at the time--kept hammering on the Tides Foundation, over and over, until one of his many unstable listeners decided he just had to do something.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tides_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

February 5, 2025

Don't forget that LBJ quote about race and class warfare...

...in this country. Many are quite happy to suffer under the Trump regime as long as those people--the "undeserving poor" as they see them--get to suffer even more. And believe me, the MAGA chuds definitely see Head Start families as those people.

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