If I might make a confession, here. I honestly thought that 47 was decorating everything he sees with gold paint, not actual gold. He keeps insisting it’s actual gold, of course, but he lies about everything. I just couldn’t see him parting with the money for all of that gold. Then I remembered: it’s not his money. It’s yours. It’s mine. It’s our tax dollars.

He’s stripping services from all over the map. He’s not paying for anything the government normally covers – like supplies for an aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz. He, personally, is pocketing more and more of our money. And the nation keeps posting record budget deficits. Maybe it IS real gold. IF it is, we, the people, are paying for it.

Do you need health care? Screw you, Donny wants gold. Inspectors to ensure food safety? Screw you, Donny wants gold. Need a little help in his crashing economy? Screw you, Donny wants gold. Social Security? Screw you, Donny wants gold. Sailors trying to commit suicide due to poor conditions? Screw you. Donny wants gold…

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Have you seen the video of that dumbass berating a reporter for asking him a question he didn’t like. She wanted to drill down on some of the issues with the USS Lincoln, but he knows his failure there makes him look even worse than normal and HIS plan is to simply not mention it. Nor to let anyone else mention it.

So, when she asked about it, he told her she was being rude and, because she was with CNN, she was “fake news,” a line he uses to confuse the base when some real news comes out that he doesn’t like. Then again, he has lived his entire life in an artificial world. How the hell would he know fake news from real news?

It always irritates me when he starts berating reporters. They just have to stand there and take it because everybody is expected to “respect” the President (or, in this case, the “President.”) I don’t see him as a tough guy when he does that. I see him as a bully. He KNOWS he’s protected. He uses that to his advantage. That makes him a bully. Worse, his most aggressive attacks are usually aimed at women. Just once, I’d like to see the bully get a little of his own back.

It would take a special set up, a “throw-away” reporter, if you will, because there would only be one shot at this. But I would just love to see some reporter 47 has called “fake news,” reply that HE is a fake President, so it all works out. Donny would explode! That reporter would never be allowed in the White House again. (That’s why they don’t do it.) But I would laugh for the rest of the day. It would be great…

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Shasta County, here in California, is planning to hire Tina Peters as an election consultant. Yeah? So? So Tina Peters is the woman who allowed people to come into her office after hours and tamper with voting machines after an election. She likes Donny, you see, and thinks he should win every election – even if he’s not running. She went to prison for what she did. She’s still on parole. Now Shasta County wants to make her an election official, likely as a finger-in-the-eye to thinking people everywhere.

Frankly, I don’t get it. She’s a convicted criminal. Specifically, she was convicted of tampering with elections. So Shasta County wants to hire her as a consultant on elections? Why does the right always seem to think that if they double down on stupid, is somehow equals clever? Thinking people have been trying to point it out for years but the more we do, the worse cons get.

They started acting stupid. Thinking people saw the behavior and said, “Wow, they sure are acting stupid.”
“Oh, you think we’re stupid?”
“Well, we didn’t. But then you started saying or doing this thing and now it looks pretty much like, yes, you’re stupid.”
“Oh, we’ll SHOW you stupid.” And then they do. I’m not quite sure how smearing poop all over their own faces is supposed to put me in my place…

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47 is forever out there, telling anybody who will listen – and I can’t believe anybody is still gullible enough to listen to him – that mail-in ballots are bad and shouldn’t be allowed in most cases. But HE still uses them. That’s just more hypocrisy from one of the most hypocritical people on the planet. He really sucks…

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Oh, jeez, do you suppose he’s really THAT dumb? (With a ‘b’?) He’s threatening yet another war. This time with Oman. Look anybody, smart or stupid, can make a mistake. People do. But to keep making the same mistake, over and over, in the hopes that maybe this time it will work out better? That’s just 100% pure stupid. I say he shouldn’t get to start any new wars until he finishes the wars he has already started…

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I saw ZZ Top in concert a couple of times. Great show. Then we lost Dusty Hill, aged 72. Now we’ve lost Frank Beard, who passed at 77. Beard played with the band for 56 years. He was the only member of the band that didn’t wear a beard – cause he wore the name, see?

It’s weird when band members you’ve known of for most of your life start shuffling off the mortal coil due to age. I mean, we’ve been losing band members forever. Plane crashes, drugs, and general hard living take their toll. But these guys survived all of that. Now they’re being taken out by Father Time, and the bands will never be the same. ZZ Top made a lot of great music. I think the best thing about them having made the big time is that their music lives on forever – even if they don’t get to…

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Hey, more gaslighting by the gasbag. 47 posted to social media – a thing he does FAR more regularly than he does any of that pesky “Presidentin'” – that “My Endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable! It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I Endorse WINS, and wins by a lot, especially in Texas!”

He has also claimed, “If I endorse a person, they win. … With the Republican Party, it’s like, 399-0. Think of that.” Well, I have thought of that. You’re lying. By some estimates, he runs about 50-50. Overall about 55% of the candidates he endorsed won in the primaries. That’s not nothing. But it ain’t 399-0. Hell, it isn’t even “almost everyone.” It’s just over half. And that’s in a party that’s terrified of defying him for fear that he might call them a mean name…