North Korean state media once reported that Kim Jong-Il achieved eleven holes-in-one during his first game of golf.

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 29, 2022

It's sort of wild that Truth Social just evaporated.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 31, 2022

Ah, the odious orange one.
Lying, duplicitous, verminous tnuc.
I hope that whatever putin has on trump is released – in a very controlled way to maximise the damage to his ‘reputation’ and show him he’s been played by vlad; the humiliation and public embarrassment would be great!

Not to be outdone by Testicles Tanning Tuesdays?

— Katie S. Phang (@KatiePhang) April 18, 2022

I promise you are not prepared for Tucker's latest montage pic.twitter.com/8tdvYTW2cn

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) April 16, 2022

Tucker is really projecting at the moment. All those semi naked men must be forcing into so much shame fueled self abuse

All those semi naked men must be forcing into so much shame fueled self abuse

I am unsure whether that is parody or not since, after all, he does fetishise Putin who used to have a habit of appearing semi naked.

Yesterday’s news but Trump in contempt of court

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61221860

You’d like to think that this is the start of the Trump house of cards tumbling down, but he’s like a cockroach.

Anyone see the Piers Morgan interview with the giant Jaffa Cake?

You couldn’t pay me enough money in the world to ever watch one of those ( insert here,your most putrid description of a human),let alone two of them in an edited,faked out,miss mash of chimpanzee.

I might watch them so long as they were playing russian roulette with a single shot grenade launcher.

He's a troll and a fool. Yet even so, every once in a while, Don Jr. says something that utterly breaks your heart for him. https://t.co/fxGyYL4ws3

— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 28, 2022

SNL should use this straight up unedited as a cold open https://t.co/fnQdaltQyK

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 4, 2022

JUST POSTED: Trump Hotel in DC is no more. End of a mini era in DC history. The sale of the hotel has closed to a new buyer that will turn it into Waldorf Astoria. The hotel is now closed too until turn over to Waldorf is complete. https://t.co/0mIjwjeamV

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) May 11, 2022

How can that “Kid’s Guide” be real? How do you begin to satirise that?!?

Anyone else watching the Capitol Hill riot hearing?, it’s **** nuts how batshit crazy those idiots are.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-61753864

Been reading the reports – not sure it will convince any of the nutters, or result I any new charges, I’m hoping for a big finale.

Agree

Trump is guilty as hell, but nothing will be done and his supporters won’t care

As above. Trump could have been handing out guns and an instruction leaflet and nothing will happen to him. Above the law

Just catching up via BBC link but today’s hearings on the Capitol riot sound fascinating regarding the threat to Pence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-61819616

As above. Trump could have been handing out guns and an instruction leaflet and nothing will happen to him. Above the law

Alternatively, ducks are being aligned, i’s dotted and t’s crossed prior to getting his day in court set up.

Meanwhile, in other tales of lies and incompetence, this looks interesting with so many witnesses confirming it, and the ones who should deny it pleading the 5th – the headline has been toned down in the last few minutes I see.

BBC News – Capitol riot hearing: Zero evidence of voter fraud, lawyers told Trump
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61918350

WTF? Are there actually people who find this sort of nonsense persuasive?

Seeing these being circulated unironically. Not sure the genre, ebangelical techno gothic? Also, is there a correlation between specific political ideology and weird taste in art ? pic.twitter.com/MR0uuZkI1Z

— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) June 25, 2022

If you think that picture is funny you should take a look at the Fox News website political cartoons.

They are so completely lacking in visual wit that they are augmented with oodles of text explaining why the cartoon is ‘funny’.

Reminds me of how Thatchers advisors tried to explain the dead parrot sketch to her in order that she use it in a conference speech but no matter how hard they tried, she just didn’t get it.

For people who can’t see irony, nuance or humour, that image of Trump appears as an apparition of sanctified truth in a world of images that confuse and bemuse them.

As above. Trump could have been handing out guns and an instruction leaflet and nothing will happen to him

We’re pretty much at the stage of testing that theory.

(On being told that people were attempting to carry weapons into his Jan 6 rally prior to the insurrection)

Trump says "I don't care if they have weapons, they aren't here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away." #HATH

— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) June 28, 2022

Ooof. Imagine a sitting president knowing that an armed mob was heading for his VP and not giving a shit.

Ah, “mags” = megnetometers- metal detectors.

Ooof. Imagine a sitting president knowing that an armed mob was heading for his VP and not giving a shit.

Yes, the evidence around the threat to Pence that I linked further up was very interesting, seems pretty clear that he was abandoned when he refused to go along with Trump’s attempted coup.

MAGAnetometers? Surely

In any sane world this would be the end of him

It won’t tho

WTF? Are there actually people who find this sort of nonsense persuasive?

Is the one on the right Hilary Clinton?!?!

Now testimony that he physically attacked a Secret Service agent when he refused to drive him to the Capitol…

Not directly Trump, but here is 58yo Tennessee congressman John Rose in a lovely picture with his three surprisingly young children:

Happy birthday to our son Sam! He's one year old today. He's walking, exploring and he's always interested in what big brother is up to. We love you buddy! pic.twitter.com/onnu5uueEy

— John Rose (@JohnRoseforTN) March 23, 2022

Oh.. actually my mistake.. the older child is actually his wife Chelsea Doss. They met when she was 15 in high school where John Rose gave her a scholarship and “mentored” her. 😲

This is the party that claim the LGBTQ+ community are after your kids, while simultaneously trying to bring in laws to remove age restrictions on marriage.

Imagine a sitting president knowing that an armed mob was heading for his VP and not giving a shit.

Unusually this is one case where I can sort of agree with Trump given it was Pence.

I suspect quite a few presidents wouldnt have been overly fussed. The VP position is often a compromise/bribe to another faction rather than personal preference.

Cassidy Hutchinson is quite brave tbh, I imagine the Qanon/Fox News/ / Alex Jones mob will be out to absolutely destroy her now!

I suspect quite a few presidents wouldnt have been overly fussed. The VP position is often a compromise/bribe to another faction rather than personal preference.

I don’t think that means you can be indifferent to their hanging, though.

Since 2016 we’ve become quite numb to the outbursts and tantrums from 45, it still comes as a shock that Trump was so arrogant as to try to take the wheel of the presidential limo and assault his own security detail, not to mention his attempt to nobble witnesses.

There are many Nixon parallels – not the least of which is the number of ex-Nixon acolytes who served in Trump’s administration, but I can’t help but wonder if Trump will be pardoned or exiled.

The problem is there’s a vocal minority who will still think Trump was robbed and the mob should have stormed the Capitol and lynched people, they just don’t see any of it as wrong

Since 2016 we’ve become quite numb to the outbursts and tantrums from 45, it still comes as a shock that Trump was so arrogant as to try to take the wheel of the presidential limo and assault his own security detail, not to mention his attempt to nobble witnesses.

I don’t get this, was Trump riding shotgun in the Limo, seems a strange scenario. Obviously I expect him to throw a tantrum and try to verbally force the driver to do what he is told rather than what he should, but I can’t help think that some “figurative” storytelling is being taken out of context somewhere along the line. And we have to be careful that the bulshit from allsides isn’t examined otherwise that is where the cracks will appear that allow Trump to get away with it.

It’ll be a long and slow process before people accept that they were duped and used – lets not forget where this started – Bannon, Mercer, et al trying to push the idea amongst the disaffected that Trump will be “hurting” the very people who these “deplorables” believed were responsible for their own unfulfilled life ambitions. Libtards, “The Left”, BLM, Antifa, the Deep State etc were all convenient scapegoats for the fallout from forty years of Reaganomics.

Sanctioning Trump is only part of the answer. There are a number of very, very unpleasant people who’ve fomented the insurrection and who have poured a lot of money into the GOP. The donors, benefactors and fixers are the villains who really need to be forced to share Trump’s public shame in all this.

We might enjoy the schadenfreude from seeing people like Mike Lindell raging that no-one wants to buy his stuff anymore, but for every disgraced CEO there’s a Peter Theil who believes that Capitalism and Democracy are incompatible and who’ll do their utmost to ensure that the deck is stacked in their favour.

Sanctioning Trump is only part of the answer. There are a number of very, very unpleasant people who’ve fomented the insurrection and who have poured a lot of money into the GOP. The donors, benefactors and fixers are the villains who really need to be forced to share Trump’s public shame in all this.

Good point – and all other nations need to follow and be aware to try and prevent their own puppeteers pulling strings