It is Trump’s style to insult anyone who disagrees with him. Ever. He can never speak of “the honorable opposition” or his esteemed colleague with whom he disagrees. No, anyone who disagrees is a radical Marxist or a stupid fool or whatever epithet comes to mind.
Here is his Memorial Day greeting to his fellow Americans and to those men and women who gave their lives to protect our country and its ideals:
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What a disgusting individual he is.
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His base will see a sanitized version of this that is so edited that it will make the Sixty Minutes version of Kamala Harris look like an archived recording. Few in his base would ever read such a post anyway, too many words.
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Did anyone take the time to count the number of lies in the convicted rapist, fraud, felon, and January 6, 2021, traitor’s horrid, hideous, repulsive deplorable rant?
Thanks to the fundamentalist evangelical KKK fascist MAGA cult that thinks he is their messiah:
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706
Jesus taught the importance of forgiving others, just as God has forgiven us.
Donald Trump is all about revenge and getting even.
Jesus modeled and taught his followers to be compassionate and merciful towards all people, especially those in need.
Trump doesn’t have one atom of compassion in his body. The human body has seven billion billion billion atoms. His are all about greed, revenge, hate, threats, et ao.
Jesus encouraged people to serve others, including the poor, the hungry, the sick, and the marginalized.
Trump encourages his followers to bully and rob the poor for the rich and wants his loyalists to physical abuse and intimate anyone that isn’t a MAGA cult member, or murder them.
Jesus taught the Golden Rule, emphasizing the importance of treating others as we would like to be treated.
If Trump was treated like he treats everyone who isn’t a loyalist MAGA cult member, Donald Trump wouldn’t exist anymore. A lawless, angry mob would have lynched him decades ago after they tore off his arms and legs.
Donald Trump broke all Ten Commandments in the Old Testament, long before 2016 and he hasn’t’ stopped breaking them.
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Two thoughts:
Yes, Trump does break the Ten Commandments on a daily basis. Plus, his method of operations (MO) every day are the Seven Deadly Sins. And expects his minions that he has appointed to positions of authority to follow the same MO.
I honestly believe that if Trump and his father had not bought Donald J. Trump’s way out of the military draft by claiming bone spurs that he would have gone to Viet Nam. If he did make it to Viet Nam he would have come home in a coffin and the cause would not have been by enemy fire. With his narcissistic attitude I firmly believe that fratricide would have ensure we do not have the problems we are currently are having at this time. I was drafted in 1967. Served. Served with many GI who would have been more than happy will to take care of the problem. This is not a Christian thing to write by that was just the way things were at the time. And, I am not encouraging it to happen now. That is not the way to make the change in what is going on in this country today. Vote him and his minions is the right way to make the change this country needs.
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Would a small asteroid strike be acceptable .
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Well, folks, the cat’s out of the bag. The U.S. Constitution and the rule of law, habeas corpus, etc., are “sick ideologies” and “very dangerous for our country.” I KNEW IT! CBK
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Jesus who? CBK
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Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I love Tom Hanks. And what about all those people who died defending freedom and the Constitution? ummmmmm . . . . all losers . . . ???? ummmmmm . . . . you guys figure it out. I’m going for a walk. . . . .
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I will not be surprised when the Malignant Narcissist, who is Putin’s Agent Orange, signs an executive order making in mandatory for all christian churches to remove Christ from the cross and replace Jesus with a gilded (with the cheapest, thinnest gold-paint possible) superman Donald Trump doll.
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Lloyd: The whole thing really does inspire the imagination. And “thin, fake gold” is absolutely the most solid of metaphors. CBK
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I saw today that some or all Cabinet members are wearing a U.S. flag pin with Trump’s image on the flag. Does this mean he is an object of veneration? That violates the First Commandment.
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#TodaysAcronym ☞ #OSDI
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#OneSeriouslyDisturbedIndividual
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DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!!
Buried at the bottom of Page 562 in the Republicans’ 1,116-page “Big Beautiful Bill” is a provision that will end all federal court challenges to anything that Trump orders and that will allow Trump to declare null and void all previous rulings against his orders.
It will be the beginning of genuine dictatorial rule.
The provision on Page 562 invokes enforcement of Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c) which says that a federal court can ONLY issue an injunction AFTER a plaintiff has posted a bond to cover the costs of damages that an injunction could have on the party against which the injunction was issued if subsequent appeals overturn the injunction.
Because Trump and his federal agencies could claim billions of dollars in damages if an injunction is overturned by the pro-Trump U.S. Supreme Court, there is NO ONE WHO CAN AFFORD to seek any future injunction against Trump’s orders or those of his agencies.
IN ADDITION: Rule 65(c) will be applied RETROACTIVELY to all the injunctions issued so far against Trump and his agencies, and all those injunctions will be removed because no bond was posted with any of them.
THE EFFECT WILL BE that everything that has been blocked by the federal courts will be unleashed and there will be NO FUTURE INJUNCTIONS issued against ANYTHING that Trump orders to be done.
Even if none of the many other odious things are removed from the Big Beautiful Bill, this provision to invoke Federal Court Rule 65(c) MUST BE ELIMINATED or there will be no future restraints on Trump. He will be free to dictate anything he wants with NO COURT INTERFERENCE. Rule by law will end in America.
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Let’s hope senators are aware that the dictatorial power of page 562 and get it removed before the vote. In fact, people should contact their senators and urge them to remove it.
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Unfortunately, the focus of Democrats in both branches of Congress is on the changes to Medicaid and other social programs because that’s where they think they can gain votes. House Democrats didn’t even notice this provision on Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c), and — sadly —even those Democrats who even noticed most likely had no clue about what this provision will do…so it sailed through without any Democrat raising an alarm.
Unless people contact their federal Democratic Senators and point out the impact of this provision, the same thing is likely to happen in the Senate…and then America will cease to be a Republic.
It is astounding how little informed our federal Democratic representatives actually are about rules such as this one — but the people who wrote Project 2025 know all about federal rules like Rule 65(c) and have an arsenal of such tricks in at their disposal, while Democrats in Congress are clueless.
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Most big bills are so long, hundreds of pages of small print, sometimes more than 1,000 pages, that very few people read them. They will try to pass this mammoth package as quickly as possible so that the public doesn’t know what poison pills are hidden. Not even the Congress people or Senators will know.
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quikwritDo you really think that elected Democratic officials are not privy to the same sources as you and I are. That Democrats have Nicole Wallace Et al on parental block. You think they have not noticed the attack on the Courts or any of the other anti Democratic actions of the mad King and his fascist league. What do you propose they do about it ? Perhaps they should hang pictures of Mussolini hanging on their office doors. To remind Republicans how these things end.
Me I am rooting for Peter Navarro to be allowed to run wild. He will do for the Nation today what Yamamoto did on 12/7/1941. The destruction of the American Economy may be a wake up call Then again it may not. In 1947 after losing 5-6 million people, 37% of Germans said the elimination of Jews and Poles was necessary for the security of Germany. (Lofgren) https://www.salon.com/2025/04/05/goose-steppers-in-the-name-of-freedom-the-nonsensical-that-now-rules-america/
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Is it possible to change the constitution with a line in a piece of legislation? Sounds unconstitutional. Oh! Wait! Republicans doing something unconstitutional while they complain about Democrats doing something unconstitutional. I have been hearing that music for all my life.
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Rule 65(c) is existing law and doesn’t change the Constitution. It has always been required by Rule 65(c) that bonds be posted to cover possible damages arising from issuing an injunction against something. But in cases like the injunctions against Trump’s executive orders the rule hasn’t been invoked. The big beautiful bill Is now going to require that Rule 65(c) now must always be applied, not only going forward from now, but also retroactively to all the injunctions that are blocking Trump’s orders. There is nothing unconstitutional in doing that — but if it happens, all of the injunctions that are in place will be void andit is unlikely that there will be any future injunctions.
Robert Reich posted about this today, saying that if the invocation of Rule 65(c) stays in the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump will become king and unstoppable by the courts.
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I read today that it was pulled from the final version that passed the House. Have you heard something different?
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This law professor says that the despotic change was passed by the House.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republican-house-bill-trump-court-contempt-rcna209184
Open the link to read in full.
By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College
In his farewell address to the nation more than 200 years ago, President George Washington warned the branches of government to “confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres.” Encroachment on other branches, he wrote, “tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.”
Today’s Republican Party never heard that advice. GOP majorities in the House and Senate have stood by as President Donald Trump has brazenly usurped congressional authority and evaded court rulings. But apparently that is not enough for them demonstrate their fealty to such a despotic executive.
This provision was clearly written with the current administration in mind.
Now, the House GOP caucus is using the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act to try to further insulate the president from judicial accountability. Republicans snuck in a little noticed but very important provision into the megabill that would effectively remove from judges the ability to hold litigants who defy court orders in contempt. If the provision becomes law, it would be an unmitigated disaster for the Constitution and the country.
At the end of page 562 of the 1,118-page bill, a brief section entitled “Restriction on Enforcement” says:
“No court of the United States may enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.”
Rule 65(c) says judges may only issue preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders if litigants provide a security bond “in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained.” Judges have wide discretion on that amount, and, as The Intercept’s Shawn Musgrave notes, the rule requiring such a financial guarantee is “generally relaxed when the lawsuit alleges illegal conduct by the government.”
But no more, if House Republicans get their way. Under this provision, anyone seeking an injunction or restraining order would have to put up a financial bond, in an amount determined by the judge in the case, if the litigants wanted to keep alive that judge’s contempt power. As Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, writes, “Those seeking such court orders generally do not have the resources to post a bond, and insisting on it would immunize unconstitutional government conduct from judicial review.”
Whether the provision survives the Senate is unclear. The megabill is being passed under the budget reconciliation process, which is supposed to be used only for fiscal matters. A change to the rules around contempt would appear to be disqualified under that process, but already Senate Republicans have shown willingness to play fast and loose with the chamber’s procedures. If it does survive, the provision will go a long way toward neutering the courts and do more to insulate Trump from accountability than anything since the Supreme Court’s scandalous decision all but eliminating the president’s criminal liability.
This provision was clearly written with the current administration in mind. Note its seemingly odd application only to injunctions and restraining orders rather than to any use of the contempt power. And recall the number of times since Jan. 20 that courts have issued them to stop the administration from violating the law.
Retroactive application of a newly enacted law is always problematic.
If that wasn’t enough to signal the way this provision would help the president, consider the part that would apply it to every order entered “prior to” its enactment — all temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions and permanent injunctions. Conveniently, in none of the cases previously filed against the Trump administration has the security or the bonding requirement been fulfilled.
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Oh my Lord. This is really, really, really bad news. But surely the courts will throw this out.
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One can’t predict what the courts will do.
Why does the GOP want this idiot to have despotic power?
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It’s insane. I have news for them. Karma’s a bitch.
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I can’t believe that the Supreme Court, even one as reactionary as this one is, would be OK with this because it basically gives the Executive carte blanche, the judiciary be damned.
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If this passes and is not thrown out by the Supreme Court, it is the end of democracy in the United States. Full stop.
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I agree with Bob’s take [5/27 at 5:36pm). Trump’s memo on “enforcing” rule 65(c) has issues. He can direct agency heads/ AG to demand that the courts enforce it. In fact, they do— and judges have waived/ minimized it. Yes, there has been legal discussion/ controversy about this: bonds have been waived more frequently since 1975; and judicial discretion has been applied differently among the circuits.
There’s a helpful law review piece from 1995 referenced in a couple of articles on this topic. https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3215&context=hastings_law_journal [Erin Connors Morton]. It’s not a slam dunk– in fact it’s critical [“Security for Interlocutory Injunctions under Rule 65(c): Exceptions to the Rule Gone Awry”]. But it shows where waiving security bond is justified.
Always appropriate when defendant cannot identify damages it would suffer if enjoined. That was the situation in Bass v Richardson (Eliot Richardson, Sec’y of HEW – SDNY 1971), a case by NYS against cuts to its Medicaid funds.
But (crucially), also this: “Bass has been read to stand for the broad equitable principle that the bond requirement should not be imposed if to do so would block judicial access for citizen enforcement under a federal statutory scheme.” Court ruled “Congressional intent that the programs … be vigorously and properly administered…. If any difference exists between the language of Rule 65(c) and Congressional intent clearly embodied in the remedial statutes at issue, the federal statutes control.”
It seems to me that many of these recent Trump EO’s enjoined by district courts fall into the Bass category.
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https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2025/05/0525-mike-luckovich-old-excuse/#
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Terrific cartoon!
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I can’t open this.
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Diane, it works for me.
Diane, it works for me.
Still, here’s another video and a transcription of it…
https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer-On_Stupidity.pdf
Also, this short article, with subtitle, As both major US political parties continue to centralize power, Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer’s warning, …
https://fee.org/articles/dietrich-bonhoeffer-on-the-stupidity-that-led-to-hitler-s-third-reich/
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Good. Trumpism is a cult:
The EZ Guide to Becoming a Cult Leader | Bob Shepherd | Praxis
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He forgot to mention the sickest minds and the scummiest of them all: his staff, consultants, advisors, and Trump himself (he who has been sued approximately 1900 times throughout his life), all of whom play the “victim card”, which appeals to many out there who claim “victimization” themselves.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/ensuring-the-enforcement-of-federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-65c/
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Just close your eyes, and quietly imagine what Righties would be saying if this were Obama, Biden, or any Democrat. They would be wanting the FBI, DOJ, Secret Service, and every committee in the House to be investigating them. How any decent, supposed patriotic Republican (I know, I know what you’re thinking) isn’t shouting from the rooftops at how demented this message was, then they should resign immediately, cuz this guy is unfit to hold any public office, anywhere.
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He says crazy things like this every day, and the media sanewashes him.
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Why do you think Republicans have so much trouble with the simple concept of treating other human beings like human beings?
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There are no words to describe this idiot.
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Edward,
Thanks first to discovering economist Carlo Cipolla’s 5 basic laws of human stupidity and then to discovering Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters and papers from a Hitler prison, I have come to know the word “stupid” in a new, reality-based, highly focused light instead of the usual understanding of the word to mean greatly lacking intelligence or common sense. So, I now believe the word “stupid” best describes Trump and his loyal servants and cultish followers. Stupid Trump. Stupid Trump Cabinet members. Stupid MAGA Republicans. Stupid Trump voters. Stupid Trump whatever.
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I normally just lurk here. His reference to “21,000,000 MILLION ILLEGALS…” does not pass the test for this retired math teacher.
That comes to 21,000,000,000,000.
Our president needs that remedial math class.
HalfFullClass
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That’s another class he failed: math.
He also failed history.
He never took the class in civics and government.
Or failed that too.
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He’s a total moron. When a reporter recently asked Trump, in the Oval Office, what the Declaration of Independence meant to him, he said, well, it’s a declaration about respect and unity and love.
This moron doesn’t even know that the Declaration of Independence announced our independence from Great Britain. He thought that stealth airplanes were actually invisible, you know, like Wonder Woman’s plane (“You could be standing right next to one, and you couldn’t see it.) He thought the Continental Army “captured the British airports,” and that lots of people are noticing that Frederick Douglass has done a great job.
“Belgium is a beautiful city.” –Donald Trump
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Just today, the Clown Prince, IQ 47, said of his desire to make Canada the 51st state that “They are considering it.”
Moron. Total moron.
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Yes, he said Canada would be protected by his “Golden Dome” if they agreed to be our 51st state.
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He was in Michigan or Wisconsin recently and talked to the National Guard about the new airplanes he was ordering and said that they would be stealth planes (invisible). I guess no one ever corrects him
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Trump is what you get if you order Hitler from Temu.
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