This piece was a delight to read even as I watch my bottom line hitting near bottom. And I live in SW IL, but they have a number of data centers even if halted by the great Governor Pritzker who faces Darren Bailey in his reelection bid but Bailey should lose handily, given his record. This drives up all costs for consumers even in other areas. My utility bills are not smaller nor is insurance.
I need to go to bookshop.org for a copy of ETTD because I need a worthwhile read. Putting a pause on my donations but I support David Jolly and so many democrats in their reelection bids. 🙏💙🌊 with all my 💙
Thanks for the inspiration. I hadn’t got to the piggy toes nursery rhyme. 🐖
This little piggy went to Mar-a-Lago.
This little piggy went to Rome (Georgia.)
This little piggy had roast beef (at a state dinner for a Communist).
This little piggy...
I’ll get back to you. 🐽
The “washing their hair” line is timely. Note to myself this morning was “Wash your damn hair!” But I’m going to Las Vegas on Thursday and on Friday I’m gonna get my hair did at a scalp massage salon. It’s better than sex. (Full disclosure: I’ve been celibate for about a decade and prior to that I may not have been around the entire block.) 🤷🏻♀️
It is true that what Trump,touches dies, but he still has a powerful charisma among the Republican base and we mustn’t underestimate the power of Trump saying absurd things and followers voting for him anyway. They still believe him when he speaks , despite the fact that if his lips are moving he’s lying.
I’m watching the Jack Smith testimony and the real Trump derangement syndrome, members of the senate addled by fealty to a corrupt lunatic, is on full display. Call the use of words and phrases like “throw up in my mouth” and “dirtbag” as ETTIT, and sorry for amending your pithy phrase, Everything Trump Touches Is Tainted. It’s worth noting that there were a few polite exceptions and that none of the Republicans has actually challenged the facts. It reads like another desperate attempt to shift the blame on anyone besides the culprit.
Thanks to the GOP circa 2026 for reminding us what happens when you toss out ethics morality and fidelity to the truth.
Here’s a “data point” from Miami. I like to check in on the local right wing radio station. So, today Sept. 29, at 11:30 am, during his call-ins, the host stated that “he (Trump) is WIPING HIS ASS WITH THE CONSTITUTION.” True story. I’m flabbergasted.
I'm surprised adjudicated sexual assaulter and convicted felon Fat Donnie isn't making an appearance here in AZ to whip up support for pedo protector and election denier Andy Biggs. Oh please, squeeze AZ in your whirlwind ETTD tour and plant the kiss of politcal death on Biggs. From a grateful voter.
"He’s argued that communities rejecting data centers could end up “backwards and poor,” "
Sounds like a great place for MAGAs to settle, because they'd fit right in.
That is, if Trump's 'prediction' actually held true, which it won't. More than likely, it will be a place for upscale types to migrate to because, well, NIMBY.
Hoping Trump takes Rick's advice and visits all those embattled Republican candidates so his popularity can rub off on them.
This week's winning Wilsonism is another dead heat:
1) Octogenarian Trumpsters at a rally "confused about why the memory care facility shuttle bus dropped them there," and 2) data centers "as popular with the voters as a drug-resistant STD bred in Roger Stone's biolab."
These "rallies" are like Frankie Valli concerts now. It's just shit you've heard a million times before, delivered with about 2% of the energy from when they were hits. And you spend the whole time wondering if he's going to take the dirt nap right there on stage. At least Frankie cuts the show off at around the 45 minute mark.
How delightful! Donnycon is a highly toxic poison pill. Like Rick, I hope he will go to any or all of the areas with tight races. Dump’s been trying to help Whatley in NC to no avail. The Guardians of Pedophiles (GOP) have mostly written off NC. Hallelujah!
Captain Befuddled Pants will spend the GOP’s PAC money or our tax dollars to go fuck up races but ultimately he’ll convert the PAC money to profit for himself leaving republicans with nothing.
Sweet! At the rally, perhaps Donalds could try wearing sackcloth and ashes as atonement while smiling his face off at Trump. Alternatively, he could conveniently get food poisoning. Decisions. Decisions. What to do? What to do?😵💫
A person runs for public office telling voters what his ideology is and how he will make their lives better by him/her being in Congress or governor's mansion. He gets their donations and those from corporate (thanks to Alito and Citizens United) and proceeds to campaign for himself/herself once in the job.
The president is an immoral, illegal, idiot who threatens anyone who disagrees with his ideas (which are as rancid and unconstitutional as you can get) and these elected Senators or governors are afraid of him?
Doesn't Trump put his pants (depends) on one leg at a time like everyone else?
Trump hasn't earned the respect of anyone and he certainly doesn't give it to anyone, so why are these candidates so "limp"?
And why would anyone vote for such a spineless snake thinking that he would do anything for the voters?
Great piece. I just want to add that I think the Supreme Court is trying to undermine the election because they fear that a Democratic sweep will result in changing the structure of the Supreme Court. That's my feeling after 43 years practicing law in California.
Trump is a decaying relic clinging to power, a corrupt old fraud who spent a lifetime scamming, exploiting, and lying his way upward. he’s a hollow, desperate figure staggering through politics like a rotting carcass, dragging a country down with his deceit and incompetence. it’s obscene that someone so morally bankrupt still sits on a throne built from decades of bullshit.
This piece was a delight to read even as I watch my bottom line hitting near bottom. And I live in SW IL, but they have a number of data centers even if halted by the great Governor Pritzker who faces Darren Bailey in his reelection bid but Bailey should lose handily, given his record. This drives up all costs for consumers even in other areas. My utility bills are not smaller nor is insurance.
I need to go to bookshop.org for a copy of ETTD because I need a worthwhile read. Putting a pause on my donations but I support David Jolly and so many democrats in their reelection bids. 🙏💙🌊 with all my 💙
It’s OK Byron. You can get a job as the bathroom attendant at Mira Lardo when you lose,
Thanks for the inspiration. I hadn’t got to the piggy toes nursery rhyme. 🐖
This little piggy went to Mar-a-Lago.
This little piggy went to Rome (Georgia.)
This little piggy had roast beef (at a state dinner for a Communist).
This little piggy...
I’ll get back to you. 🐽
The “washing their hair” line is timely. Note to myself this morning was “Wash your damn hair!” But I’m going to Las Vegas on Thursday and on Friday I’m gonna get my hair did at a scalp massage salon. It’s better than sex. (Full disclosure: I’ve been celibate for about a decade and prior to that I may not have been around the entire block.) 🤷🏻♀️
It is true that what Trump,touches dies, but he still has a powerful charisma among the Republican base and we mustn’t underestimate the power of Trump saying absurd things and followers voting for him anyway. They still believe him when he speaks , despite the fact that if his lips are moving he’s lying.
I’m watching the Jack Smith testimony and the real Trump derangement syndrome, members of the senate addled by fealty to a corrupt lunatic, is on full display. Call the use of words and phrases like “throw up in my mouth” and “dirtbag” as ETTIT, and sorry for amending your pithy phrase, Everything Trump Touches Is Tainted. It’s worth noting that there were a few polite exceptions and that none of the Republicans has actually challenged the facts. It reads like another desperate attempt to shift the blame on anyone besides the culprit.
Thanks to the GOP circa 2026 for reminding us what happens when you toss out ethics morality and fidelity to the truth.
Here’s a “data point” from Miami. I like to check in on the local right wing radio station. So, today Sept. 29, at 11:30 am, during his call-ins, the host stated that “he (Trump) is WIPING HIS ASS WITH THE CONSTITUTION.” True story. I’m flabbergasted.
Donalds and Salazar are in so much trouble.
I'm surprised adjudicated sexual assaulter and convicted felon Fat Donnie isn't making an appearance here in AZ to whip up support for pedo protector and election denier Andy Biggs. Oh please, squeeze AZ in your whirlwind ETTD tour and plant the kiss of politcal death on Biggs. From a grateful voter.
"He’s argued that communities rejecting data centers could end up “backwards and poor,” "
Sounds like a great place for MAGAs to settle, because they'd fit right in.
That is, if Trump's 'prediction' actually held true, which it won't. More than likely, it will be a place for upscale types to migrate to because, well, NIMBY.
Hoping Trump takes Rick's advice and visits all those embattled Republican candidates so his popularity can rub off on them.
This week's winning Wilsonism is another dead heat:
1) Octogenarian Trumpsters at a rally "confused about why the memory care facility shuttle bus dropped them there," and 2) data centers "as popular with the voters as a drug-resistant STD bred in Roger Stone's biolab."
Nobody describes things better than Rick!
These "rallies" are like Frankie Valli concerts now. It's just shit you've heard a million times before, delivered with about 2% of the energy from when they were hits. And you spend the whole time wondering if he's going to take the dirt nap right there on stage. At least Frankie cuts the show off at around the 45 minute mark.
How delightful! Donnycon is a highly toxic poison pill. Like Rick, I hope he will go to any or all of the areas with tight races. Dump’s been trying to help Whatley in NC to no avail. The Guardians of Pedophiles (GOP) have mostly written off NC. Hallelujah!
Captain Befuddled Pants will spend the GOP’s PAC money or our tax dollars to go fuck up races but ultimately he’ll convert the PAC money to profit for himself leaving republicans with nothing.
Sweet! At the rally, perhaps Donalds could try wearing sackcloth and ashes as atonement while smiling his face off at Trump. Alternatively, he could conveniently get food poisoning. Decisions. Decisions. What to do? What to do?😵💫
I think I will never understand politics.
A person runs for public office telling voters what his ideology is and how he will make their lives better by him/her being in Congress or governor's mansion. He gets their donations and those from corporate (thanks to Alito and Citizens United) and proceeds to campaign for himself/herself once in the job.
The president is an immoral, illegal, idiot who threatens anyone who disagrees with his ideas (which are as rancid and unconstitutional as you can get) and these elected Senators or governors are afraid of him?
Doesn't Trump put his pants (depends) on one leg at a time like everyone else?
Trump hasn't earned the respect of anyone and he certainly doesn't give it to anyone, so why are these candidates so "limp"?
And why would anyone vote for such a spineless snake thinking that he would do anything for the voters?
Great piece. I just want to add that I think the Supreme Court is trying to undermine the election because they fear that a Democratic sweep will result in changing the structure of the Supreme Court. That's my feeling after 43 years practicing law in California.
Thank you so much for the Soapdish reference - that scene lives in my head every time Trump announces a rally
Trump is a decaying relic clinging to power, a corrupt old fraud who spent a lifetime scamming, exploiting, and lying his way upward. he’s a hollow, desperate figure staggering through politics like a rotting carcass, dragging a country down with his deceit and incompetence. it’s obscene that someone so morally bankrupt still sits on a throne built from decades of bullshit.