“I have the right to do anyting I want to do.”

"I'm the president of the United States."

—Donald Trump, August 26th, 2025 on live TV during his White House cabinet meeting.

I guess we'll see.

Threats From Within?

  "Donald Trump on Veterans' Day, 2023"

 

I clipped that out of an NPR mp3 audio segment. Screen-grabbed the waveforms of those 10 seconds of Your Favorite President while I had it up in Adobe Audition.

 

Majorly apropos of Barb McQuade's forthcoming book (uh, see prior post).

 

People will differentially ask "who poses the threat?" "Where will the attack(s) originate?"

 

It's not like we lack clues. e.g., PBS Frontline “American Insurrection.”

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Also, see below for your viewing pleasure..

Trump Shares Messianic Video About God Sending Him To Save World

V/O transcript: "And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his plan Paradise, and said, I need a caretaker. So God gave us Trump.

God said, I need somebody willing to get up before dawn. Fix this country. Work all day. Fight the Marxists. Eat supper. Then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight. And a meeting of the heads of state. So God made Trump.

I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle the deep state, and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to ruffle the feathers. Tame the cantankerous World Economic Forum. Come home hungry. Have to wait until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends. Then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon and mean it. So God gave us Trump.

I need somebody who can shape an ax but wield a sword. Who had the courage to step foot in North Korea? Who can make money from the tar of the sand turned liquid to gold? Who understands the difference between tariffs and inflation? We’ll finish this 40 hour week by Tuesday noon, but then put in another 72 hours. So God made Trump.

God had to have somebody willing to go into the den of vipers. Call out the fake news for their tongues as sharp as serpents. The poison of vipers is on their lips. And yet. Stop. So God made Trump.

God said, I need somebody who will be strong and courageous, who will not be afraid or terrified of the wolves when they attack a man who cares for the flock. A shepherd to mankind who will never leave nor forsake them. I need the most diligent worker to follow the path and remain strong in faith and know the belief of God and country. Somebody who is willing to drill, bring back manufacturing and American jobs. Farm the lands. Secure our borders. Build our military. Fight the system all day and finish a hard weeks. Work by attending church on Sunday. And then his oldest son turns and says, God, let’s make America great again, dad. Let’s build back a country to be the envy of the world again. So God made Trump."

I have a nagging feeling of spoofery. Suck everyone in.

Is it too early to start drinking?

 

 

LATE FRIDAY UPDATE

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has "granted cert" (agreed to hear) Donald Trump's appeal of the Colorado ruling declaring him ineligible for placement on their presidential primary campaign ballot under the contentious 14th Amendment Section 3 specifications.

 

AND, OF COURSE, YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT ON FRIDAY

 

 
JANUARY 6TH 2024 UPDATE

 

1,095 days since the Trump Insurrection. 304 days until the 2024 national elections.

 

MARCY WHEELER’S LATEST

“STAND BACK AND STAND BY:”JACK SMITH’S HIDDEN CARDS

GENUINE "PATRIOT," ANYONE?

 

READ DAMMIT:

I have been alive long enough to see presidents shot dead in the street; civil rights leaders gunned down in their hotel rooms; horrible, horrible wars started on the wretched basis of disgusting lies ... but of all the things I have seen in my long life nothing compares to January 6, 2021.

On that day ... a terrible, singular day that will live in our broken hearts forever, an evil, broken sociopath who had been voted out of power by the citizens of the United States of America did everything he could to hold onto that power and set the match that led to a gruesome attack on his own country.

And when that attack was at full boil, he watched and did nothing to stop it for three hours except hope that it would prevail.

Even his ghastly family was begging him to call off his rabid dogs, while brave, overmatched police officers were stomped into the pavement and beaten with flags -- FLAGS!

Members of Congress -- Republicans and Democrats -- ran for their lives.

Finally, when somebody or something was able to penetrate the sociopath's thick, fat skull, he grudgingly called a halt to the attack, but not before telling his army of pathetic, anti-America  losers that he loved them.

He f*cking told him that HE LOVED THEM!!!

I am seething as I type this. Raging ...

Why ... WHY is this man still free? Why hasn't he been jailed forever? WHY must WE continue to deal with this monster, who most certainly will try this again?

My God, LOCK-HIM-UP already.

Elon's TwitterX is increasingly a cesspool of raw rhetorical sewage. But, not (yet) totally.

 

OFF-TOPIC ERRATA

 

Cheryl and I went to the Baltimore Museum of Art on Friday to see an exhibition of "Women artists in Europe, 1400-1800 Ad."

Click to enlarge to read. It was fascinating. Photographing the art pieces was prohibited (though people were doing so anyway; I abstained). Below, pic from the BMA website.

 

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