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Steve R's avatar

It reminds us again what a high bar the Obamas had to clear and what a “no” bar Trump is given 🤔

Mary Sundberg's avatar

Trump has no couth. He's an empty vessel. The best part of djt ran d own his mother's leg. He's a real creepshit.

Sophia Demas's avatar

My jaw is dragging on the floor....

Daniel Solomon's avatar

The dozens. Hiz mama wuz a wetback.

He has a lot of class -- low class.

Mike Ruiz's avatar

Trump has such an inferiority complex when it comes to the Obamas. It’d be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic.

CZ's avatar

It’s a superiority complex not inferiority complex. There is no day, no minute, no second in his life where he has ever ever felt inferior.

William Whitman's avatar

Appalling!!! Oh my god. Yes, the Presidency used to be thought of as America's moral North star - although it was often tainted by the human failings of the occupants of the office. But never anything like this. This is complete moral collapse into evil.

The Presidency used to be referred to as the "bully pulpit" in a positive sense. It was the pulpit from which our secular leader could lead the country to do good things, to reach for that more perfect union. Now it is the evil eye from every horror movie ever made manifested in the form of a little man who has swindled America into handing him the keys to our government.

David's avatar

William,I hate to repeat this again. Trump is " AmericasHitler" and we think nonviolent demonstrations are going to work. I don't think so. Maybe some day,some Dems will get some balls and go on the offensive.

Charlotte's avatar

I think the people around him are just as deplorable - they don't say anything and allow his dictatorship crap to continue. He said who he was before he won.....he keeps making it clear on a daily basis.

Tomonthebeach's avatar

They do not just stand by; his henchmen and sycophants enable him. They echo his lies, plot his erosion of civil rights. Lie, cheat, and steal from all of us all day every day. And then label those who dare assert their rights as "domestic terrorists," then beat, arrest, and even murder them.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Rock n' roll desegregated America.

Marianne's avatar

A very strong description of a president going so low, that only the 25th Amendment should be applied. Hopefully he’ll go down the drain very soon! All lies are unraveling…. 1-2 months !

Daniel Solomon's avatar

The cabinet are co-dependants.

Forward to:

U.S. Senate

Tim Scott (South Carolina): The longest-serving Black Republican in the Senate, Tim Scott currently serves as the Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and chairs the Senate Banking Committee.

U.S. House of Representatives

Byron Donalds (Florida, 19th District): A prominent figure in the MAGA movement, Byron Donalds has recently announced his candidacy for Governor of Florida in the 2026 election.

John James (Michigan, 10th District): Elected in 2022, John James is a combat veteran who previously ran for the U.S. Senate in Michigan before winning his House seat.

Wesley Hunt (Texas, 38th District): An Army veteran and Apache helicopter pilot, Wesley Hunt represents a newly created district in the Houston area.

Burgess Owens (Utah, 4th District): A former NFL player, Burgess Owens has served in the House since 2021.

alis's avatar

Scott Turner, HUD Secretary should start telling us exactly what he has witnessed over the last year.

But truthfully, Daniel, this creature was put in office by Whites and it's THEIR job to take care of THIS situation.

Tomonthebeach's avatar

When I was a teen active as a junior member of the Northside Chicago CORE, I joined my fellow classmates doing after-school volunteer work with black kids in Chicago ghettos. I was exposed to a lot of Afro-American culture. Back in the 60s, they referred to people like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott as "Oreos." They were like the cookie - black on the outside but white on the inside.

Judie Kasnick's avatar

Despicable! There’s nothing more to say! What an embarrassment of a “president” we have 😡😡

Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

That should be a crowd chant at the Superbowl.

Perry Lundon's avatar

Every day Dictator Donny proves over and over again to be one of the worst human beings to ever walk the planet. He is a soulless vessel that exists to be cruel, corrupt, and loathsome.

Hal Brown's avatar

I saw this on RawStory this morning too. Then there was a GOP member of Congress on CNN where he was confronted with this and the host persisted in demanding an answer as to how he felt about Trump sharing the image. This guy waffled and evaded answering, saying he hadn't seen it even though it was being shown on the screen at the time. How long does one need to come up with answer saying this was just plain wrong. He said he believed in elevating the tone of debate but refused to address what HIS president was doing. Here's a story about this interview: https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-racist-post/

David's avatar

Hal,I always like your comments and of course trying to finding answers about now to fight back the : Nazi"has been difficult because most Dems are not confrontational,they like to solve problems through discussion,that is not working. There have to be boycotts against CNBC-all advertisers

Fox-all advertisers

Newsmax-all advertisers

Oan-One America News and advertisers

Tucker Carlson-advertisers

The one thing that may make a difference is those entities losing money or if people publicly say they are boycotting these products.Can Americans do this,maybe,but it takes effort and americans don't want to do anything that takes effort.Europeans will, AmereicansNo.

We are,where we are because a 67 million Dems are unwilling to fight back .

Hal Brown's avatar

Thank you, David. I agree about the passivity of so many Democrats despite the millions who are will to get out and protest. This is not insignificant but for every person taking to the streets how many don't bother?

I don't know if you are aware of my free Substack. I just changed the name to Brown's Beta Wave (after the brain wave). Today's post was a break from my usual doomsaying being a snarky satire about Trump's naming obsession. Of all his psychopathology this is the least dangerous. The link is here: https://halbrown.substack.com

David's avatar

Thanks Hal,the question becomes,if people voted for Harris and a continuing Democracy,knowing full well Trump was one the proponents of Project 2025 and had in so many instances indicted he was a believer in Hitler,why are they not there doing something about it. I just watched a shorft segment on MC now and Mark Warner responded to one of the questions by saying : Trump violated the Constitution" . Can Democrats wake up,Trump has violated the Constitution so many times it is hard to count. War,Tariffs ,etc,.

Hal,why are the Democrats so incapable to fighting back? They simply do not the fortitude to do so. It's all just talk.

Hal Brown's avatar

Thom was a psychotherapist for a time and I was one for 40 years... I think he's addressed this. The answer is complex. In part I think it has to do with do with why people end up becoming Democrats or quasi-Democrats (Turmp calls them RINOS). I wish he was active in replying to questions like this in his Substack. It is difficult to get a call in to his show.

In the most simplest wat to explain Republicans tend to be Alpha personalities and Democrats Beta. Asking Chat GTP: "Alpha personality types are typically seen as confident leaders who are assertive and dominant, while beta personality types are more supportive, cooperative, and often more in touch with their emotions. These classifications help to understand different social dynamics and behaviors in interpersonal relationships." There are other ways to characterize personalities. Another: "Democrats tend to be more open to new experiences, creative, and curious, while Republicans often value security, predictability, and authority. These personality traits influence their political beliefs and behaviors."

There has been lots written about personality types. This is just about males: https://www.wikihow.com/Male-Personality-Types

https://www.ourmental.health/personality/understanding-alpha-beta-and-omega-personality-types-traits-and-dynamics#google_vignette

Finally: https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/political-divide

return to normalcy's avatar

Reminds me of the pictures you see in news clips from Nazi Germany that depicted Jews as rats. Different humans, different animals but the same hatred! And now it's the U.S.'s turn to face down rampant lies & depictions of people of color as animals. Thus far it appears that we are responding more forcefully & in larger numbers than the every day German did. Let's hope that expands exponentially the next No Kings rally in March. If Denmark can get 10,000 protestors out we should be able to get 10 million out! Let's work towards that goal.

alis's avatar

That's a beautiful round number, and we can do it! Each rally has gotten bigger, return to.

Fred's avatar

But he’ll tell you he’s the most non-racist person in the world. He’s been this way his entire life. It’s unbecoming of any president but not surprising it comes from him

Leda Contis-Papassotiriou's avatar

The irony is that on primate bodies or any kind of bodies they still showcase his total vileness, and he knows it. So he keeps digging, sinking ever lower.

Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

And your racist and Zionist ignoring of the Gaza genocide shows the moral collapse of punditry.

William Farrar's avatar

Fuck off Boris. You really don't give a rats ass about Gaza,and it isn't a genocide either,. Did the United States and Britain wage a war of genocide against the Germans when they bombed their cities and killed women and children?

No Jew, not even a liberal Jew is going to bleed as much as you claim, over Gazans. You have an ulterior motive don't you, to negate and neuter Thom as a moral authority, that you can do yeoman work for your Vlad.

Maybe you are jealous, the fact that you have your own substack, and are begging for readers from the left, in service to Vladimir Putin. What other left oriented ponds do you go fishing in, Boris?

Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

Funny that the left and telling the truth now get one framed as a Russian operative. When have we seen this before? More recently Nancy Pelosi accused pro-Palestinian protestors of being funded by Putin. Thom Hartmann does not have a moral leg to stand on as he is a supporter of genocide and those who have instigated illegal wars around the globe, and he has indeed lied on their behalf on many occasions. The absurdity of accusing those who tell the truth about Democrats, Thom Hartmann or Biden as being connected with Putin is only outmatched by the personal attacks against me that distract from the subject at hand, because there is no way to respond to the truth (eg explain Thom's completely ignoring the Gaza genocide) any other way that MAGA conservatives or liberals do. And again, anyone has the right to have their own Substack Mr Farrar, and unlike Thom's mine is not monetized so what possible benefit is there "begging for readers." I merely want people to be informed and start facing reality, which appears impossible at this point, so we can reverse the course of a dying empire lashing out randomly while we continue to die a slow death at the hands of the ruling class. I don't really care about Putin either way, he has no influence or power over my day-to-day life. Unfortunately, the guy Thom refuses to talk about, Benjamin Netanyahu, does. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/genocide-joe-says-theres-no-place

William Farrar's avatar

Not framing anything. opinion based on behaviot

I am pretty sure that you really don't give a shit about Palestine, even if you are as you claim a Jew.

No your constant rants about Palestine, Israel, Genocide, are deflections. You and I know that too many liberals are non thinking reactives, just like their right wing counterparts.

And your crap is marketed towards the idiot left, to prise them away from progressive agendas, and thus do yeoman work for Putin.

If you were so amped up about the ruling class,you would stop harping on the past, because we can' do a fucking thing about the past. The problem is the present and the present is Trump(who is incidentally even more oppressive towards Gazans as he wants to evict them so he can build a developers paradise, but that little fact goes over your head, because it isn't in service to Putin.;

And if you were really concerned about Genocide, Sudan and Ukraine would be at the top of your list.

There you have real genocide, not faux genocide. No doubt it is horrible that Israel has killed so many women and children, but of that 70,000 at least half are HAMAS fighters, and there was no campaign of genocide.

As I said, they are victims of war, just like the French, Germans and Japanese we killed.

I don't blame Thom for not talking about Netanyahu, he doesn't waste time talking about MSB, Khameini, or even PUtin either, He talks about the United States and the policies and actions that affect us, here at home.

And I do not believe your sincereity, you are simplly trying to change the subject, and that is in favor of Putin.

Now when you start going on about Putin's imperialism and genocide, then and spend as much time on that as you do on behalf of HAMAS, I might listen to you, as for now you are a phony, trying to deflect attention away from Putin.

And tell me that you aren't a Marxist, and think of Russia as a new version of the USSR. (Well it is,and you know it).

chev_chelios's avatar

hmmm....not quite clear if your comment is directed at Hartmann or tRUMP ?

Sandra Greer's avatar

Evidently, at "Barry", who is working for Vlad! It's not rocket science. That whole "Gaza" thing is pushed by the old lefties who are against Israel, and support Putain.

Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

What I love about Biden liberals is that they do not believe what is in front of their own eyes. The country that has influenced our policies most tangibly and directly over the past 40 years or more is Israel, to the point that Biden aided and abetted their genocide and Trump and his mafia are now working to develop Gaza to their financial advantage. We have suppressed free speech, fired presidents of universities, 3500 student protestors were arrested under Biden and hundreds injured, thousands lost their livelihoods for merely making a pro-Palestinian comment, Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored The Antisemitism Act which conflated political speech with antisemitism, we have spent trillions on wars as directed by Netanyahu (see his sickening speech promoting our invasion of Iraq) and Israel effectively controls both political parties. In addition, the Epstein files have shown direct association with Israeli political operatives and I've seen ZERO coverage of that from Thom or any major US media. As for "old lefties," millions of young lefties stayed home because of Gaza and with good reason. The moral compass of liberals today is dictated by fear of Trump, and fear will pre-empt logical thinking so that "lefties" become enemies and Dick and Liz Cheney and George W Bush become our friends. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-democrats-ushered-in-the-second

William Farrar's avatar

Who are you fooling. You don't give a rats ass about genocide, if you did you would be on Putins ass all of the time.

Yes millions of young lefties stayed home, and look what they got, dictator Trump.

Seems that old left and new left are dense, Either a Marxist or a stupid reactionary.

I once thought that the left had a functioning pre frontal cortex, turns out that they are as stupid and reactionary as the right.

An honest observation if you are indeed a Jews you are one helluva self hater. You would have done a good job as Eichmann's assistant.

Were your grandparents sonderkommandos?

I feel the same about Netanyahu, the likkud, the settlers, the Israeli right, they are the equivalent of MAGA, but you, well you are on some kind of jihad against the Jews,, and since you never spare a word against Putin, I can only assume that your purpose is to deflect from Putin, and apparently there are at least 11 useful idiots that subscribe to Thom that are fellow travelers.

Troy's avatar

As a black male who served this government in uniformed services for three decades. I am appalled but not surprised by the overt racism being displayed by our si called leaders Our dear leader has embarrassed himself and does not deserve to be in power. He doesn't represent the majority of the good people of this nation. Unfortunately there are a minority of citizens who are still ignorant enough to be racist. I've dealt with racism all my life, but this is one of the worst display displays of race hate, and white supremacy I have witnessed in my entire life. I dont feel like my sacrifice in the military has been rewarded with " life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness " This meme clearly shows how much the administration feels about minorities. They think we are less than human?! God bless us all, our country has slid into fascism and racism is the fuel. On a positive note, alot of my good white brothers and sisters are standing up for civil liberties, hallelujah!

alis's avatar

White veteran here. I was so happy to get away from my segregated town and work with some black soldiers.

Many years later, that town is now actually integrated. Lots of mixed-race people, some of my cousins too.

This is a set-back and you described it perfectly: ".....our country has slid into fascism and racism is the fuel." These younger people are getting a real education on these issues. I saw many more of them at the last rally. Hope!

Geoff Levin's avatar

How can anyone of color ignore this. And next it will be us Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Catholics Buddhists Hindi, atheists and anyone else who is not a white Christian nationalist.

A call for impeachment is now the only option