I'm sure we'd all rather be talking about new ideas than dealing with the ravings of a grown man who literally and figuratively needs his diaper changed every day. But if we step around it like the profit-prioritized media we'll be in it up to our necks before long. Until we can move on, let's contain his bullying and dictatorial stink in this thread so we can toss it like a doggy-bag when that bright newBlue day arrives. However, since I do believe we need a break from his name and brand, any typing of his name on this forum will be converted to "The Lyin' King"

Topics related to this administration, its policies, and all-the-king's-men and women should be directed to their own threads.

People tend to believe that every unprecedented move by the would-be Prez-a-King is intended to distract from his more insidious crimes. But despite the lack of journalistic scrutiny, the public is beginning to catch on to the bigger picture.

The thing this Prez cares about first and foremost is not being exposed to prosecution and potential prison time. To that end, he must stay in office, past the midterms, and beyond...

The military, the press, the courts and Congress are being groomed to protect him from, more than crimes past -- crimes to come -- including, not surrendering the White House when his gig is up.

Sure, the Lyin' King (or Prez-a-King, whichever you prefer) is prejudice against every category of human being that is not a white male. Actually, ANY human being that doesn't like and/or support him. But his bias won't stop him from hanging with Kanye or turning against the DC police if it's useful. His policies and relationships are purely transactional. If most Hispanics voted for him, he'd open the borders. If crime benefits him (as did the Jan 6 insurrection) he'd rationalize it and pardon the thugs. If peace can get him a Prize, he's for it, otherwise he'd risk a global war by dropping bombs on Iran and support the massacre of Palestinians to appease the interests of powerful political allies. He pretends to be an anti-abortion Christian for the same reason. In reality, he's not even a Republican. He's a Narcissistic Sociopath out for himself.

"Follow the money" is the traditional advice for figuring out the moves of politicians around the Monopoly board. The Top Hat, Battleship and Racing Car own Park Place. They routinely PASS GO and collect $200 (million or billion) from The Banker. The Boot & Wheelbarrow (working men), Iron & Thimble (working women), and Dog (natural world), are stuck on the 2 purple spaces.

Today, "follow the money" still applies. But, also, the dice are fixed and the guy rolling them is most interested in accumulating GET OUT OF JAIL FREE cards!

Reading between the Epstein card lines...

i didn't get why a bawdy birthday card to J Epstein garnering headlines and a billion dollar lawsuit. I considered it might be staged by the WSJ and Prez to distract the press and re-unify his base. But after a week, the truth clicked when i finally heard the 4 or 5 middle lines of the card that mainstream media had omitted in their reporting.

the complete contents of the card's message, though not legally incriminating, are embarrassing and damning

why was the mainstream news story half-baked? Because the bully tactics worked. News outlets didn't want to risk being next on the Prez's legal or personal hit list!

it doesn't matter that the Prez has no chance of winning his WSJ lawsuit. ABC, CBS, law firms and universities already settled nuisance lawsuits as the cost of doing business with the White House. This WSJ lawsuit goal was to swiftly silence other media outlets.

so add that to the BULLY BULL💩:

1. attacking the press for asking hardball questions

2. coining derogatory schoolyard nicknames for opponents, competitors, etc..

3. supporting violence against protestors and calling in the military

4. suing and/or threatening networks, newspapers, universities, etc..

but why do you think the Wall Street Journal took the risk of exposing the Prez?
(especially, given it's connection to News Corp/Rupert Murdoch/Fox News)

A dictator needs a military loyal to him, not to a country or Constitution. I guess i was naive to laugh when Americans on the right said they needed guns to protect themselves from government.

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Therapists Warn This Normalized THE LYIN' KING Behavior Is Causing Real-World Harm

Should the President's campaign slogan be “Make America Mean Again”? It turns out, maybe.

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Who could possibly feel that the AI video of The President flying a jet dressed as a King flying over a protest dumping poop is an appropriate response to a peaceful protest of 7 million people? Imagine if Obama or Biden did something like this. The Republicans freaked out when Obama wore a beige suit. Do I agree with Trumps freedom to be able to post such a disgusting and churlish piece of 💩? Yep I sure do. Should this man-baby be our president? Absolutely not. The Speaker of the house, Mike Johnson needs to go too. Such a religious man with no morals whatsoever. He is the ventriloquist dummy, sitting on Trumps lap. All Americans should be appalled.

yes, as the conman himself said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me in." But i did think there were limits to how low Republican's in Congress would go. And now we know. As low as their base will allow. As deep as his colon will take them.

but there are signs that some of the base, draw an Epstein line. we'll see

5 hours ago, Lindy said:

...The Republicans freaked out when Obama wore a beige suit...

and when Obama talked directly to his attorney general for 15 minutes in air-force one on the tarmac

1 hour ago, susan said:

...But i can also say that after protesting at No Kings in NC with my daughters, and feeling the beautiful energy from so many truly good people, i have a renewed hope that good WILL triumph over evil and eventually the nightmare will end.

Hi Susan. The protest was very uplifting. I have 2 daughters also and it was so good to be able to share the experience with them. You are correct, nothing THE LYIN’ KING does should shock me or any of us at this point. It’s hard to accept that so much has changed in such a short time. The families and friendships THE LYIN' KING has destroyed is one of the hardest things to accept. I can’t imagine 3 more years of this but I have to believe good will triumph over evil and we will get through this. Hopefully we come out stronger. At least we have taught our children you have to fight for what you believe in and everyday be grateful for the freedoms we have.

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the new swamp headquarters to facilitate bribery and corruption and represent the interests of the rich and powerful

and WhoTF among them is going to be ballroom dancing anyway?

“He’s gonna get a third term,” Bannon said in an interview The Economist published on Thursday. “THE LYIN' KING is gonna be president in ’28 and people just ought to get accommodated with that...There’s many different alternatives,” Bannon said. “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan.”

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous THE LYIN' KING ‘friend’ to pay military members.

The next step towards privatizing the U.S. military to serve a King and all the corporate royals who'll be dining in a golden ballroom at the White House.

On 10/23/2025 at 1:16 PM, V.3 said:

it's the new swamp headquarters to facilitate bribery and corruption and represent the interests of the rich and powerful

and WhoTF among them is going to be ballroom dancing anyway?

I can’t imagine much dancing going on, nor do I want to, ick. He has managed to alienate all our allies and even his dictator besties are turning their backs and doing exactly what they intended to do all along. The ballroom symbol should be 🖕. It’s a 230 million dollar FU to the American people. While he is doing whatever he damn well pleases, the government remains shut down and people are truly struggling. The most insane part is they still defend him. Maybe when they are starving, living in a cardboard box on the street reality will kick in.

i'm afraid the only dancing connected to that building is the spin they're doing about why it's being built. speculation is that, like everything else he does, its purpose is nefariously connected to building and protecting his kingdom.

his kingdom come
his will be done
on earth
because he'll get nowhere near heaven

the contractors have to sign No-Disclosure agreements
beneath the ballroom will be his bunker and headquarters when he moves on the constitution and against democracy

technically, i believe you "can fix stupid" with education. What is much harder to fix is emotional imbalances once embedded. Right-wing ideology is fear based and propaganda enhanced.

43 minutes ago, macphysto said:

Ahhh but, before someone can be educated, he/she must want to be educated...

likewise, we can't help an adult addicted to drugs, alcohol, FOX News lies, etc.. if they don't want to be cured. BUT, we do educate children even though they don't want to be. So it gets back to raising children with proper education, and even more importantly, raising them to feel loved, valued, respected, and safe. Instead of fearful of everything and everybody.

i learned many of life's most important lessons by observing the accelerated life-cycle of cats. A kitten, nurtured by both humans and its mother, assimilates well with humans and other animals. A feral that struggles to survive is prone to fighting, competing, and ill temper. Most can still be turned into adoring companions, appreciative and reciprocative of affection -- but will remain hostile to "others" and "outsiders."

Moral of the story:
Today's Republicans needed wet food and a tongue licking (not lashing) when they were young. Now, it's too late to change their stripes, but turning off FOX News might make them sociable and manageable again. Like they were in the Nixon, Reagan, and George H. Bush years.

You can fix stupid with education but this administration is doing everything in its power to destroy our education system. They want children that are uneducated, and uninformed. This way they can mold their minds to believe anything they want them to. Adding religion into a classroom setting will inevitably make things much worse. Children need to be taught from a very young age how to treat people, how to have and show compassion and have the courage to speak up when they see something wrong. Home life is going to be more important than ever before. Growing up is not going to be easy for this generation of kids and young adults. Actually, it’s not going to be easy on any of us.

I propose that we need to examine the underlying causes as to how we find ourselves in this situation and in doing so, it's fairly clear that it's a culmination of a multitude of factors that date back to the establishment of this country. The authors of the Constitution obviously could not foresee the tremendous growth to the west coast and beyond as well as the technological advances that make the Second-Amendment obsolete along with the developments in transportation, medical science, industry, and communication among others. The growth in the number of states skews the power to the smaller ones in both the Senate and Electoral College. The separation of powers requires both self-discipline and independence from the other branches in order to fulfill the mission of a democratic republic. Fast forward to today and those walls of separation are largely broken when you have a Congress and a Supreme Court that capitulates to the whims of an authoritarian bordering on a full-blown dictator. THE LYIN' KING v. The United States may be the worst Supreme Court ruling in my lifetime, if not in the last 150 years because it exonerates any president for actions they take while in office, legal or not. With some 40% of the voters, a majority on the Court, and a gerrymandered majority in both houses firmly behind this unintended atrocity, I submit that a planned and civil separation may be the only viable solution. It's one of the only points I may find myself agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene on. Ignoring climate change and gun violence while censoring books and muzzling teachers in schools, and failing to act on income inequality and lack of healthcare while we fund a military to the tune of nearly $1 trillion, among others, is not rational nor viable. THE LYIN' KING's election is a manifestation of all of our prior and current shortcomings and a new nation, either fully independent or quasi independent of the current United States, likely needs to be formulated.

yes, Chris you're on the mark on all of it. It will all have to be dealt with but the first critical step is regaining the House and/or Senate in one year.

1 hour ago, macphysto said:

"Proper education" is a loaded, subjective, and contentious perspective.

indeed, what is "proper" is in the eyes of the beholder. What's a proper wage, proper healthcare, proper sexuality, etc..

our father's Republican Party complained that the Beatles didn't have a proper haircut. Today the Party believes it's proper for the President to poop on half of the people.

but we can, and must try to define what is and isn't proper for American government, business, and citizens. At the very least, we can do a better job of defining it than the current arbiters -- right-wing media and corporate media in general.

"prophetic?" or pathetic that it even took that long for a U.S. newspaper to air the obvious after a decade of supporting evidence?

On 10/31/2025 at 2:03 PM, V.3 said:

yes, Chris you're on the mark on all of it. It will all have to be dealt with but the first critical step is regaining the House and/or Senate in one year.

I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Short term yes, we can volunteer and assist in campaigns and spread the word via social media or contribute monetarily. The conundrum is that all of this is being done within a nearly 240 year-old framework that remains largely unchanged with two senators per state, regardless of population, the Electoral College, and a House where there is only only one representative for every 750,000+ of population which puts each one further out of touch with individual constituents. The First Congress had one rep for each 60,000 in population. Why not increase the number of representatives to one for each 100,000 population which would hugely inflate the number of members to 3500 if we stay intact as one country? Having a truly local and nearby rep should, in theory, make each one more accountable to your voice.

Having been around a bit and with my first small steps of active involvement while in high school with the 1972 McGovern campaign, I can say that subsequently we've always put hope for change in the future within the current structure. To some extent, we made some bits of progress with Carter, Obama, and Biden, but often wind up with partially effective half-measures. And, let's not forget that Republican Gerald Ford was pro-ERA and pro-choice on abortion. Even Nixon supported the ERA. In the early to mid-70s you had a cadre of moderate to liberal Republicans (mostly from the Northeast) which no longer exists. With population shifts changing ideologies regionally, that's why I suggest that we need to put our heads together to create a new entity commensurate to the European model economically and socially.

On 11/2/2025 at 9:47 AM, Chris said:

...I suggest that we need to put our heads together to create a new entity commensurate to the European model economically and socially.

indeed, Chris, there are many, many things we can and should do. And the European models are a good start. My plan is to explore all the options via the 3001: Space Colonoscopy thread where we will simulate building a new society from scratch.

with each criminal activity he becomes more desperate, dangerous and determined to stay in office!