In advance of T-Rump’s state of failure speech tomorrow night:
(Ben Jennings’ cartoon found at the Guardian).
History reveals even the most shitty of US presidents honored America — Michael Tomasky at The New Republic this morning:
We cannot say remotely the same of Donald Trump. He is largely and proudly ignorant of those traditions; to the extent that he grasps them, he has contempt for them. He is interested in unlimited power and in squeezing every corrupt dollar out of the presidency that he can cram into his pockets. And he’s in desperate need of the fulsome and brain-curdling sycophancy of those around him, a hallmark of both a weak, insecure man and a leader with an undeniably fascistic personality. The only thing keeping him from facing accountability for very real crimes is the supplication of his fellow GOPers in Congress, who have readily accepted being beaten down into cultlike submission.
These things and many more enrage millions of Americans. That rage is given expression every day, in streets protests all over the country, in social media posts, and in columns for those of us who are lucky enough to be paid to write them.
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And worst of all, in a way, is the cocoon of fantasy in which he lives. He surrounds himself with flatterers and flunkies. He spends his weekends surrounded by extraordinarily wealthy people who have no idea what working people’s lives are like and who know that if they want his attention for 10 minutes, they must tell him that he is the greatest president ever. This is ridiculous, but it is not just ridiculous: It’s profoundly undemocratic and destructive. It is not how democratically accountable leaders live.
This totalitarian-style toadyism will be on full display Tuesday night. Trump will tell lie after lie about the economy, about his tariffs, about America being the “hottest” country in the world, about countless other things, and congressional Republicans will interrupt him 40 or 50 times with rapturous applause. Yes, Democrats interrupt their presidents with applause excessively too, but Barack Obama and Joe Biden—and for that matter George W. Bush—weren’t openly engaged in a war on democracy. Trump is, and Republicans in Congress are cheering him every step of the way.
It’s enraging, but it’s also heartbreaking and disgusting, to see this malicious buffoon and his evil and cowardly minions destroy the world’s oldest democracy and congratulate themselves for doing so. They are an affront to everything we have, or once had, to be proud of as Americans. To one degree or another, most of the country now feels this way, and that, this week, is the real state of this union.
Read the whole piece, Tomasky strikes the right chord for the piece-of-shit T-Rump.
And the T-Rump will speak from the toilet:
"of course people should have known, he didn't hide any of it!" is a valid complaint but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people self-evidently did not understand what they were voting for and they don't like it
Further:
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-02-23T13:35:51.171Z
Set for an orange jumpsuit, or not, yet once again here we are …
(Creepy, vile, and dangerous image out front found here.)