Trump held this ‘Affordability’ rally in a casino…..
-FULL STOP-
Just sit with THAT for a moment: a casino.
Casinos are where people go and mostly LOSE money….
Rick Wilson already said that, but repetition is good-it bears repeating: ‘….to LOSE money.’
Last night’s event has got to be on the level of the iconically idiotic ‘Four Seasons’ news conference back in 2020, complete with the smeary runny baby-shit brown face-paint.
Please, everyone’s who’s surprised at this ‘outcome’ turn off your phones for a week.
Now, if you don’t see THAT happening please take a moment and consider this:
“Auf den Führer hinarbeiten….”
If you don’t know German, look it up on Google.
Then check history and contemplate the incalculable cost that it exacted on humanity.
This little beauty was a game changer, for sure.
So, if something about the daily doubling down, lying and escalating ‘crazy’ has an eerie tinge of familiarity-in the context of those four words-that reads like a drunken bore with really bad breath backing you into a corner and getting in your personal space at an office Christmas party you’re desperate to find a way out of early, ask yourself:
‘Is this what ‘We the People’ REALLY want?’
Wakey wakey, America.
Super hero movie time is over. There is no magic ring or spell. Someday, an opera company will mount a production of Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ that is based on this Reichstag fire. A new revised Gotterdammerung: Suzie Wiels or Karoline Leavitt ride a hobby horse into Trump Tower as it collapses in flames while Eric & Don Jr. fight over gold trim that they’ve just realized is plastic decorations from Hobby Lobby. The boys are brawling over who looked the other way while Son-in-Law Jared & Melania made off with all the real gold.
The parallels are like the options in that old MasterCard ad riff: ENDLESS.
Time to turn up the lights, stop guzzling cheap koolaid and candy & come on out into the light of day.
And, to repeat was Rick Wilson said here, this was ONLY the FIRST of these rallies….
I really think boomers have watched too many disaster movies. Boomer doomposting always has this cinematic edge to it, like it's the most important imagined death of all humanity that has ever been imagined. *This* is our generation's existential moment? The Greatest Generation is not rolling in their graves because they're too busy snickering at us.
Not the Civil War, not the Great Depression, not WW2, not the agony over the draft for a war that nobody wanted, not civil rights protesters being blasted with firehoses. *THIS* monetized kayfabe over literally nothing of any import as a principle?
*THIS* is going to end us when Nazi Germany couldn't?
If so, then let's do the Full Boomer Histrionic Monty and start saying we deserve it?
I’m in agreement that this will, in the end, NOT work.
I just feel driven to encourage my fellow citizens to get out of fantasy land and wake up.
I checked your SubStack out & will be following.
‘Death of a dumb Hitler’ indeed.
‘Auf den Fuhrer hinarbeiten’ is as much a death rattle emanating from MAGA-land as it is a warning to those of us whom it wants to think it can control.
Thanks, Thomas; I don't look for that, don't and wouldn't monetize my 'stack, which is just a place to save posts here since this is about the extent of my public commentary. I'm no expert, just a reasonably educated guy sharing opinions.
I love this community very dearly; I'm a late-cohort boomer (Generation Jones) myself and the amount of education and experience in the best of American values here is incalculable. I'm not an ok boomer type at all, although as a music fanatic I can get browned off by the bigger cohorts to be sure. But you guys are my peeps. We're America's peeps. We carry the best of America in us.
So I see my role here as to fight despair in all of its forms. For my entire life, the Democrats have had a problem with voter apathy. Back in the old postwar consensus days, that used to be considered a feature, not a bug. It meant that our system worked so durn well that people didn't need to pay attention to politics, which would have appalled our Framers. But Uncle Walter thought so.
This is not one of those moments where apathy is going to be an issue. Complacency, hopium, whistling past the graveyard are the sort of problems addressed by tocsins proclaiming Jeremiah-like that we're all perma-fucked so we had better start getting serious about things. They're problems in close elections; they were a problem for Kamala. Bigger problem is, though, that jeremiads tend to have the opposite effect. They promote disempowerment.
And the midterms, at least in the House, are not going to be close next year.
Even if we _are_ perma-fucked, Thomas, I think it's far better that we go out like the doctor in Camus' The Plague.
I also do not believe we are-as you say, perma~fucked.
The Democratic party decided to co-opt Jack’s Eternal Flame for themselves and guys like Chuck S. & Hakeem J.-just to mention a couple-got so used to warming their asses on it that they set themselves and the rest of the party on fire.
The Trump/Heritage Foundation Kult is like a hunch of over-sugared toddlers playing with matches on a pile of gas soaked rags that they’ve created all the while blaming, amongst just about everything and anyone but themselves, Biden, DEI, wind-power, LGBTQ people, and now-most recently the ‘woke’ font used at the State Department has become unacceptable to the evil gnome known in daylight hours as Marco Rubio. Trump’s ’affordability’ tour is like watching a drunken Baby Huey with dirty diapers let loose with a blowtorch in a gas station.
And he’s only done 1 of 4 of these ‘Four Seasons’ news conference 2.0 events.
Stay tuned.
America will survive, but there’s gonna be a lot of shit to clear away to find all the ponies that got lost underneath it.
Here’s hoping we and those that follow us will not again take for granted what we’ve taken for granted-at least for a good long while….
When I read the phrase, "the venues are smaller," I thought of the 1st Spinal Tap movie, near the end of their tour, when the marquee said "Puppet Show and Spinal Tap." Let's hope the venues get that small for L'enfant orange.
Thanks to you both for sitting through that shit show, as opposed to shithole as in country. I find it particularly ironic that he thinks that citizens of Scandinavia with their universal healthcare, maternity support for the first year, work force child care and free higher education would be chomping at the bit to come to our shithole country. Does Trump understand those blond, blue eyed white people are happy socialists?
Well, except don't call a Scandinavian a "Socialist" or you'll get a cold bucket of lutefisk hurled at your head. Seriously. These guys live too close to the FSU to get any romantic notions in their practical-minded, problem solving heads about "Socialism."
The Nordic countries are _social democracies,_ all with the kind of vibrant, diversified market economies that feed the public till to pay for those egalitarian programs.
What a sorry crowd of cheering fans. Was showing a membership card with the KKK required? They sure found his racial commentary amusing. No bottom too low.
Loved your summation of his event. I could not bring myself to watch. His putrid stench makes my eyes water. Just looking at him is enough to make a normal person stomach turn.
I do want to make one point. I listen to people in my neck of the woods and hear nothing but praise for Mr. Putrid. They love his racism. It validates their own. I live in a affluent area, and they are not being hurt by the economy. They have no pity or sadness for people who are struggling. Unless it is their kids. They say everything they hear that is not pro-trump, is fake news.
Do you believe that they are truly the minority? I really hope so.
Well, polling puts Dumpty approval at about 36% overall; the AP NORC poll found only about two-thirds of Republicans, 68%, said they approve of Trump’s government management, down from 81% in March. Independents’ approval dropped from 38% to 25%.
He reaches new lows every day. The complete lack of dignity alone makes him a laughing stock on be world stage. I hope he continues either these Nuremberg Rallies on a weekly basis.
On my, Rick, you do have a way with words. My favorite paragraph started with "What you actually saw was" and so on. I think "lemur wig may be the best of all. I wonder what he sees when he looks in the mirror...probably the pouty (and potty-mouth) mouth of his youth when he and Epstein were exchanging disgusting comments about young women. He didn't know anything about the economy then...after all daddy dear gave him $4 million when he was 7...or was it $7 million when he was 4? In any case he's never been in a grocery store in his life!
Believe it or not, that was the second "bit." The earlier amount from Fred was probably in some kind of trust. At least this was "known" around Manhattan when I lived there in the mid 60's to the mid 90's. It was very difficult not to hear and "know" everything trump in those days. Like now, he made sure his name and antics were chronicled every day!
Rick, I have a motto about Donald Trump too. Just like yours: Everything Trump touches dies. Mine is: Today is the best that Donald will be for rest of his life.
If he thinks the word "affordability" is made up, wait until he and his goons meet the word "accountability." They don't think it will happen, but it will.
He ranted while looking like a psychotic honey-glazed ham.
BUT, Mt. Airy was the perfect venue. There used to be commercials in the 80s for the "beautiful Mt. Airy Lodge" on PIX all the damn time and that place looked like somewhere you could pick up an STD just by taking a deep breath.
One wonders if the plan is to send him out on the road! There can’t be that much left in the tank!
Trump held this ‘Affordability’ rally in a casino…..
-FULL STOP-
Just sit with THAT for a moment: a casino.
Casinos are where people go and mostly LOSE money….
Rick Wilson already said that, but repetition is good-it bears repeating: ‘….to LOSE money.’
Last night’s event has got to be on the level of the iconically idiotic ‘Four Seasons’ news conference back in 2020, complete with the smeary runny baby-shit brown face-paint.
Please, everyone’s who’s surprised at this ‘outcome’ turn off your phones for a week.
Now, if you don’t see THAT happening please take a moment and consider this:
“Auf den Führer hinarbeiten….”
If you don’t know German, look it up on Google.
Then check history and contemplate the incalculable cost that it exacted on humanity.
This little beauty was a game changer, for sure.
So, if something about the daily doubling down, lying and escalating ‘crazy’ has an eerie tinge of familiarity-in the context of those four words-that reads like a drunken bore with really bad breath backing you into a corner and getting in your personal space at an office Christmas party you’re desperate to find a way out of early, ask yourself:
‘Is this what ‘We the People’ REALLY want?’
Wakey wakey, America.
Super hero movie time is over. There is no magic ring or spell. Someday, an opera company will mount a production of Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ that is based on this Reichstag fire. A new revised Gotterdammerung: Suzie Wiels or Karoline Leavitt ride a hobby horse into Trump Tower as it collapses in flames while Eric & Don Jr. fight over gold trim that they’ve just realized is plastic decorations from Hobby Lobby. The boys are brawling over who looked the other way while Son-in-Law Jared & Melania made off with all the real gold.
The parallels are like the options in that old MasterCard ad riff: ENDLESS.
Time to turn up the lights, stop guzzling cheap koolaid and candy & come on out into the light of day.
And, to repeat was Rick Wilson said here, this was ONLY the FIRST of these rallies….
Are we sick of ‘so much winning’ yet?
I really think boomers have watched too many disaster movies. Boomer doomposting always has this cinematic edge to it, like it's the most important imagined death of all humanity that has ever been imagined. *This* is our generation's existential moment? The Greatest Generation is not rolling in their graves because they're too busy snickering at us.
Not the Civil War, not the Great Depression, not WW2, not the agony over the draft for a war that nobody wanted, not civil rights protesters being blasted with firehoses. *THIS* monetized kayfabe over literally nothing of any import as a principle?
*THIS* is going to end us when Nazi Germany couldn't?
If so, then let's do the Full Boomer Histrionic Monty and start saying we deserve it?
Nahh ;)
Thanks for this.
I’m in agreement that this will, in the end, NOT work.
I just feel driven to encourage my fellow citizens to get out of fantasy land and wake up.
I checked your SubStack out & will be following.
‘Death of a dumb Hitler’ indeed.
‘Auf den Fuhrer hinarbeiten’ is as much a death rattle emanating from MAGA-land as it is a warning to those of us whom it wants to think it can control.
Thanks, Thomas; I don't look for that, don't and wouldn't monetize my 'stack, which is just a place to save posts here since this is about the extent of my public commentary. I'm no expert, just a reasonably educated guy sharing opinions.
I love this community very dearly; I'm a late-cohort boomer (Generation Jones) myself and the amount of education and experience in the best of American values here is incalculable. I'm not an ok boomer type at all, although as a music fanatic I can get browned off by the bigger cohorts to be sure. But you guys are my peeps. We're America's peeps. We carry the best of America in us.
So I see my role here as to fight despair in all of its forms. For my entire life, the Democrats have had a problem with voter apathy. Back in the old postwar consensus days, that used to be considered a feature, not a bug. It meant that our system worked so durn well that people didn't need to pay attention to politics, which would have appalled our Framers. But Uncle Walter thought so.
This is not one of those moments where apathy is going to be an issue. Complacency, hopium, whistling past the graveyard are the sort of problems addressed by tocsins proclaiming Jeremiah-like that we're all perma-fucked so we had better start getting serious about things. They're problems in close elections; they were a problem for Kamala. Bigger problem is, though, that jeremiads tend to have the opposite effect. They promote disempowerment.
And the midterms, at least in the House, are not going to be close next year.
Even if we _are_ perma-fucked, Thomas, I think it's far better that we go out like the doctor in Camus' The Plague.
I also do not believe we are-as you say, perma~fucked.
The Democratic party decided to co-opt Jack’s Eternal Flame for themselves and guys like Chuck S. & Hakeem J.-just to mention a couple-got so used to warming their asses on it that they set themselves and the rest of the party on fire.
The Trump/Heritage Foundation Kult is like a hunch of over-sugared toddlers playing with matches on a pile of gas soaked rags that they’ve created all the while blaming, amongst just about everything and anyone but themselves, Biden, DEI, wind-power, LGBTQ people, and now-most recently the ‘woke’ font used at the State Department has become unacceptable to the evil gnome known in daylight hours as Marco Rubio. Trump’s ’affordability’ tour is like watching a drunken Baby Huey with dirty diapers let loose with a blowtorch in a gas station.
And he’s only done 1 of 4 of these ‘Four Seasons’ news conference 2.0 events.
Stay tuned.
America will survive, but there’s gonna be a lot of shit to clear away to find all the ponies that got lost underneath it.
Here’s hoping we and those that follow us will not again take for granted what we’ve taken for granted-at least for a good long while….
Thanks for this. I shall respond at greater length later.
I appreciate this.
It seems like puppeteering malpractice to allow the broken puppet out of the theatre and onto a public stage during sundowner hours.
Let him rip.
Wetly into the nearest appropriate receptacle ;)
When I read the phrase, "the venues are smaller," I thought of the 1st Spinal Tap movie, near the end of their tour, when the marquee said "Puppet Show and Spinal Tap." Let's hope the venues get that small for L'enfant orange.
Thanks to you both for sitting through that shit show, as opposed to shithole as in country. I find it particularly ironic that he thinks that citizens of Scandinavia with their universal healthcare, maternity support for the first year, work force child care and free higher education would be chomping at the bit to come to our shithole country. Does Trump understand those blond, blue eyed white people are happy socialists?
Well, except don't call a Scandinavian a "Socialist" or you'll get a cold bucket of lutefisk hurled at your head. Seriously. These guys live too close to the FSU to get any romantic notions in their practical-minded, problem solving heads about "Socialism."
The Nordic countries are _social democracies,_ all with the kind of vibrant, diversified market economies that feed the public till to pay for those egalitarian programs.
OMG, Rick.
As usual, you nailed it.
What a sorry crowd of cheering fans. Was showing a membership card with the KKK required? They sure found his racial commentary amusing. No bottom too low.
Thank you for watching this so I don't have to. How do you keep your sanity?
Meanwhile the Democrats posted a couple of big wins in FLORIDA (the mayor of Miami, “La Gringa”) and in a GEORGIA Special Election.
Mwa-hahaha 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Rick, you’re killin’ me! 🤣 You are an EXQUISITE writer! Nobody does it better. It is GOLD. AND IT IS TRUE. Why will they never see . . .
Loved your summation of his event. I could not bring myself to watch. His putrid stench makes my eyes water. Just looking at him is enough to make a normal person stomach turn.
I do want to make one point. I listen to people in my neck of the woods and hear nothing but praise for Mr. Putrid. They love his racism. It validates their own. I live in a affluent area, and they are not being hurt by the economy. They have no pity or sadness for people who are struggling. Unless it is their kids. They say everything they hear that is not pro-trump, is fake news.
Do you believe that they are truly the minority? I really hope so.
Well, polling puts Dumpty approval at about 36% overall; the AP NORC poll found only about two-thirds of Republicans, 68%, said they approve of Trump’s government management, down from 81% in March. Independents’ approval dropped from 38% to 25%.
I’m with you, Rick: please send him to swing states in 2026. Please, please, PLEASE!
Some would prefer he swing, period.
ISWYDT
😆😆😆😆
He reaches new lows every day. The complete lack of dignity alone makes him a laughing stock on be world stage. I hope he continues either these Nuremberg Rallies on a weekly basis.
On my, Rick, you do have a way with words. My favorite paragraph started with "What you actually saw was" and so on. I think "lemur wig may be the best of all. I wonder what he sees when he looks in the mirror...probably the pouty (and potty-mouth) mouth of his youth when he and Epstein were exchanging disgusting comments about young women. He didn't know anything about the economy then...after all daddy dear gave him $4 million when he was 7...or was it $7 million when he was 4? In any case he's never been in a grocery store in his life!
Lemur wig. Perfect
I believe the correct number was $400M when he graduated or sometime around then.
He blew it all of course.
Believe it or not, that was the second "bit." The earlier amount from Fred was probably in some kind of trust. At least this was "known" around Manhattan when I lived there in the mid 60's to the mid 90's. It was very difficult not to hear and "know" everything trump in those days. Like now, he made sure his name and antics were chronicled every day!
Somehow, Haberman missed it
NOTE: Mommy Habes works for the Kushners
True
Rick, I have a motto about Donald Trump too. Just like yours: Everything Trump touches dies. Mine is: Today is the best that Donald will be for rest of his life.
Let that one sink in.
If he thinks the word "affordability" is made up, wait until he and his goons meet the word "accountability." They don't think it will happen, but it will.
He ranted while looking like a psychotic honey-glazed ham.
BUT, Mt. Airy was the perfect venue. There used to be commercials in the 80s for the "beautiful Mt. Airy Lodge" on PIX all the damn time and that place looked like somewhere you could pick up an STD just by taking a deep breath.
“Psychotic honey baked ham”🤣
I LOVE THAT! It’s “Rick Wilson worthy”’!
Psychotic honey-glazed ham--Thank you so much.
That delectable choice of venue is going to haunt the entire GOP for a year ;)