True story, George Wallace was on Statewide TV in the mid-70s and he called for one of his opponents to have a barbed-wire enema. I think it was Federal Judge Frank Johnson. Wallace may have been on the wrong side of many issues, but he had a way with words.
Exactly... He has done so much harm to this country - and for that matter, the world - that such a fate might be appropriate. ( Just in my dreams... actually no being should be subjected to such a fate - even a vile creature such as him.)🙄
How can we be in a position AS A PLANET where one single, solitary person (sic) has the power to bring down the entire world’s economic system with his stubbornly ignorant concept of tariffs?
The one comfort in this current maelstrom is that the richest people are suddenly feeling it. Perhaps “money talks” will be a sort of salvation.
The problem is all his co-conspirators, collaborators and minions doing all the work. The problem is all the other governments giving in and complying with him.
No dictator is successful without the cooperation of others. All the country and world has to do is JUST SAY NO to the sociopath.
To that assembly, add the disgraceful not-Supreme Court, forgetting the concept of habeus corpus. The innocent man kidnapped to a Salvadorean prison! And the lower case court cannot move its collective fat arse to retrieve him?!
I’d like to believe that, but the instant reports of just about everyone on the Repub side being blindsided and aghast at the breadth, sizes, and sheer idiocy of the tariffs make me think that he’s got about 3 Rasputins who are hooked into his brain (currently), and he LOVES being the guy to walk out and astonish the world with some gigantic gesture like this.
It is true that many Republicans are upset, but they’re still cooperating with him. Collaborators don’t always agree with dictators; they often go along just to protect their own careers.
Then there are all the bureaucrats and lower level people who carry out their orders. They are also scared of losing their jobs, so they comply.
So far, yes— but surely with the stock market tanking in a matter of a couple of days, and “recession” on everyone’s lips, and most crucially (because the predictable deaths of unknown numbers of black and brown people due to killing off USAID isn’t enough), the immense damage to portfolios of the mega-rich, the Republicans are rather suddenly in a much tighter spot.
Hard to keep collaborating as you see your own states and your MAGA base crumbling, but harder still when the oligarchs are in a panic.
Problem with that is we elected the POS, so how can we expect other countries to stand up to him? And they’re not complying by the way - Mexico, Canada, Greenland/Denmark, NATO countries one by one … and therein lies the real problem.
What Trump has done is shown the world they can get along just fine without us, so we are no longer looked upon as the leader of the free world. He stood up … to our allies … and they’ve booted us off the comfortable pedestal we used to sit on.
Actually, it's two 2 incredibly insecure men working as one: Putin and Trump.
Separately, Kris Snell, lawyer and analyst noted this morning the following:
". . . there is already a very quiet coup happening in the courts, one that went almost unnoticed. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida to stop the tariffs, arguing that Trump lacks the legal authority to enact them (specifically because he has based his authority on a federal law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), that relates to the use of economic sanctions against adversaries and makes no mention of tariffs).
But who is the NCLA? They’re a relatively new organization that focuses on administrative law and what they perceive as regulatory overreach — but most saliently, it is funded by Charles Koch and Leonard Leo.
Maria- it is confounding to think that one person can go unchecked like this!!!!And his cabinet choices are doing equally unfathomable things and we are unable to stop the madness with our constitutional checks and balances.
I want to buy a billboard with this picture on it. Oh, wait, I no longer have a 401K to raid to pay for it, because I still need to eat and have a place to sleep. AT, you really know how to turn my stomach with the cold hard facts. Holy shit.
Perfect!! Though I am a bit surprised that his "medicine" isn't in a bottle of bleach. Or maybe Brain Worm will announce that the cure to the turmoil that ignorant clod in the White House has created is Vitamin A and liberal doses of cod liver oil.
Physician, HEAL THYSELF!
No, wait. You’re not a physician. You’re the disease.
Zing!
That physician needs an enema.
True story, George Wallace was on Statewide TV in the mid-70s and he called for one of his opponents to have a barbed-wire enema. I think it was Federal Judge Frank Johnson. Wallace may have been on the wrong side of many issues, but he had a way with words.
A barbed-wire enema sounds appropriate for the Orange Man!
Ouch, I can't unsee that now.
Exactly... He has done so much harm to this country - and for that matter, the world - that such a fate might be appropriate. ( Just in my dreams... actually no being should be subjected to such a fate - even a vile creature such as him.)🙄
Perfect cartoon for the most imperfect president in American history.
Calling this thing imperfect is too kind. Did you mean perfect disaster?
Unjust, unhinged!
Perfect, especially his micro-mitts.
How can we be in a position AS A PLANET where one single, solitary person (sic) has the power to bring down the entire world’s economic system with his stubbornly ignorant concept of tariffs?
The one comfort in this current maelstrom is that the richest people are suddenly feeling it. Perhaps “money talks” will be a sort of salvation.
He isn’t doing anything.
The problem is all his co-conspirators, collaborators and minions doing all the work. The problem is all the other governments giving in and complying with him.
No dictator is successful without the cooperation of others. All the country and world has to do is JUST SAY NO to the sociopath.
To that assembly, add the disgraceful not-Supreme Court, forgetting the concept of habeus corpus. The innocent man kidnapped to a Salvadorean prison! And the lower case court cannot move its collective fat arse to retrieve him?!
SHAME!!!!!
It’s the Supremacy Court!!
Supremely corrupt, or supremely callous? Or both?
Yup…. Corruptly callous or callously corrupt….
I’d like to believe that, but the instant reports of just about everyone on the Repub side being blindsided and aghast at the breadth, sizes, and sheer idiocy of the tariffs make me think that he’s got about 3 Rasputins who are hooked into his brain (currently), and he LOVES being the guy to walk out and astonish the world with some gigantic gesture like this.
It is true that many Republicans are upset, but they’re still cooperating with him. Collaborators don’t always agree with dictators; they often go along just to protect their own careers.
Then there are all the bureaucrats and lower level people who carry out their orders. They are also scared of losing their jobs, so they comply.
So far, yes— but surely with the stock market tanking in a matter of a couple of days, and “recession” on everyone’s lips, and most crucially (because the predictable deaths of unknown numbers of black and brown people due to killing off USAID isn’t enough), the immense damage to portfolios of the mega-rich, the Republicans are rather suddenly in a much tighter spot.
Hard to keep collaborating as you see your own states and your MAGA base crumbling, but harder still when the oligarchs are in a panic.
The 2026 election will tell us if the future is bright…..or dark.
Problem with that is we elected the POS, so how can we expect other countries to stand up to him? And they’re not complying by the way - Mexico, Canada, Greenland/Denmark, NATO countries one by one … and therein lies the real problem.
What Trump has done is shown the world they can get along just fine without us, so we are no longer looked upon as the leader of the free world. He stood up … to our allies … and they’ve booted us off the comfortable pedestal we used to sit on.
Thanks a lot Trump, you “genius”!
Actually, it's two 2 incredibly insecure men working as one: Putin and Trump.
Separately, Kris Snell, lawyer and analyst noted this morning the following:
". . . there is already a very quiet coup happening in the courts, one that went almost unnoticed. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida to stop the tariffs, arguing that Trump lacks the legal authority to enact them (specifically because he has based his authority on a federal law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), that relates to the use of economic sanctions against adversaries and makes no mention of tariffs).
But who is the NCLA? They’re a relatively new organization that focuses on administrative law and what they perceive as regulatory overreach — but most saliently, it is funded by Charles Koch and Leonard Leo.
Yes, that Charles Koch and that Leonard Leo."(1)
Let the infighting begin!
(1) https://open.substack.com/pub/tristansnell/p/how-republicans-may-revolt-against?r=flasu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Maria- it is confounding to think that one person can go unchecked like this!!!!And his cabinet choices are doing equally unfathomable things and we are unable to stop the madness with our constitutional checks and balances.
I think many, many, many smart people all over the world are thinking about how we can avoid this in the future.
Sure…but what about NOW?
If - and that’s a BIG if - our country (as we’ve known it) even has a future
He has been making me sick for over 10 years.
Another great one! It's always amazing how you prove the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" right every time.
And the Senators refusing to follow their oath to the Constitution are holding Americans mouths open.
“I resemble that remark….”
— Mitch McConnell
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
Donald J Trump
J for JackAss?
Brava, Ann!! This may be the best ever! It should be promulgated far and wide!
Blow it up, find a nice golden frame for it, and send it to the Colorado Statehouse. He would absolutely love it! Believe me!
It's amazing what happens when an artist is no longer subject to the whims of Leo X, er, I mean Bezos. Another solid!
Ann, you were clearly inspired this morning by the SunTanMan's incredibly empathetic response to the worldwide havoc created by his stupid tariff's.
there is no medicine to cure malignant narcissism .
He is like a Jewish Joke..sad but funny. except he is only sad for America, he is never funny, and he is happily not Jewish. Grace a Dieu.
Not funny... but hilarious! Thanks for your dose of prescriptive wonderfulness...
This is perfect Ann,
especially the warning
on the medicine bottle.
I want to buy a billboard with this picture on it. Oh, wait, I no longer have a 401K to raid to pay for it, because I still need to eat and have a place to sleep. AT, you really know how to turn my stomach with the cold hard facts. Holy shit.
Sort of like drinking bleach to get rid of Covid.
Perfect!! Though I am a bit surprised that his "medicine" isn't in a bottle of bleach. Or maybe Brain Worm will announce that the cure to the turmoil that ignorant clod in the White House has created is Vitamin A and liberal doses of cod liver oil.