Comment was not funny. Comment was thoughtless. Comment should not have been said. Comment was never looked at mentally before coming out of someone’s mouth. Comment is cruel. What the efffff did he think he was doing?
On Thursday evening, while taking questions from reporters from the Resolute Desk, Trump demurred from answering questions about whether he would meet with victims’ families. But in one exchange, he suggested to a reporter that he didn’t plan to visit the site of the crash, which happened above the Potomac River, because he didn’t want to “go swimming.” What the hell? That was extreme, even for him. Well, maybe it was. After thinking about it, I’m not so sure. But jeesh, what a thing to say!
Nothing has been said about the families of the people that were lost. Nothing! Has been said to the families of those who were lost. Instead it’s all about me, me, me. I need to quit being surprised by this jerk. I keep thinking WWBD (what would Biden Do) and it’s completely! Different from this. It’s about WOKE and DEI and swimming. I fail to see how the first two could have anything to do with this. And the swimming? Ugh. *Might* have been different if people had lived. Maybe. Sortof. Kinda. Naaaaaahhhhh it’s all about him and whatever excuses he can make. For a President this is some bullsh*t stuff. I’m almost willing to bet that the families are looking at their TVs or phones thinking “WTF is it with this asshole?”
They *have* to be hurting for their family members. They *have* to be hurting for the other families. But there is NO support from the President of our country. And that’s sad. That is going to get out to other countries and continue to make us look worse and worse. With the way things are going, I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to being the leader of the free world. I’ll tell ya, I don’t want to say I’m an American anymore. I don’t want to be laughed at. I don’t want to be embarrassed. I don’t want to try and explain our crazy President, because I can’t. I just … can’t. I don’t have the right mindset to even possibly look into his head and figure out WTF is going on there. How are we supposed to live with a President we don’t understand? How are we supposed to live with a President that is so cruel? Because … it’s alllll about him? I don’t get him. I don’t get what he’s doing. I just don’t understand. He’s making a mess. Yet he couldn’t say a few words of support for the victim’s families. That’s heartbreaking. Who decided this had to happen, either the crash or the Mango Mandarin? I want it to stop. Please.
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Susan…in many of your articles you act and sound surprised…I don’t quite get it. He is a malignant narcissist. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anything or anyone other than his perverse ego. You do know tyrants are known for mass murder, and incalculable evil acts over the course of history, including the over million citizens he’s ALREADY KILLED, by hiding and lying about covid, providing no PPEs, no vaccines, no masks, and encouraging tens of millions to deny the science. People will continue to die due to mutations THAT DIDN’T HAVE TO happen. He destroyed 6000 CHILDREN at the border. He has no capacity for remorse, empathy, compassion or any normal human emotion. What makes you believe he will ever do anything good, true, etc.? If Ted Bundy knocked you out, tied you up and threw you in his trunk…would you expect anything good to happen? Look up sociopath, psychopath, and every other evil personality disorder, and put your surprise away. It is naivete. More people are going to die at his hands…believe it. Oh…and it will NEVER be his fault. NEVER. Ted defended himself as he was much smarter than Trump will ever be. It was the match of his teeth impressions from THE BITE MARKS on the women he kidnapped, raped, and murdered that did him in. BITE MARKS! Think about that level of depravity…then give him the power Trump has…that’s where we are. Believe it…and save your surprise. Its wasted on him. He’s as predictable as the earth turning. If Ted were loose today…more coeds would wind up dead. FACT.
Yah, Susan, I’m with Scott! I have answered many of your posts doing some homework to respond to you and try to educate you and still you say “whuh? I don’t get what’s happening. Poor me.” I don’t know if that is some role Ursula asked you to play…dumbed-down devil’s advocate?! Well, I’m done. Do your own homework from now on! Buh-bye! 👋
That’s awfully fucking harsh from the both of you, and given how much I respect you rather disappointing. Many, many millions of Americans (and people from other countries that have been our friends) keep being gobsmacked. What I think you overlook is that it’s not only over Trump himself, but that over sixty million people voted for him in 2016. And over seventy million in 2020. And again last November!
What I see in this author’s writing is the struggle to understand how so many have been willing to support and vote for Trump. Some of us are idealistic and want to believe the best about others. EACH of us has the capacity for both good and bad, even evil. A perspective that forces us to confront that seventy million people are, or are willing to tolerate the evil that now holds power in this country came to no longer care.
We have a LOT of work to do to start beating that back. However no problem can be fixed without first fully understanding it. Or the enormity of it. Many don’t want to believe the problem is as big/deep-seated as it is. Dismissing opinion writing as “That’s how he is – deal with it” dismisses just how much work it will take for years, generations even to get this country on the proper path of working for “A more perfect Union.”
So you don’t need any convincing. Fine. However I keep the stats for this site in addition to trying to write and offer thoughts and knowledge. This author has in a short time developed a readership. She strikes a chord with a lot of people and by engaging THEM, people who need a wake-up call and/or some motivation to engage. My own opinion is that it deserves better than what the two comments I’m responding to suggest.
Point taken, Denis. I want each day to grab lapels and shake folk. Susan was an easy target. Sorry, Susan, I’ll edit my consternation in future and won’t point fingers inside the “family” anymore. 🫶
Most of us have made an intemperate comment to others whether face to face or in writing. I sure as hell have. I wish I could say in my case it was all because I was just stressed the hell out or in the midst of a bad day or time and distracted. And that’s usually been the case but not always and I still carry guilt over a few things I’ve said to people over the years. Apologizing and having it accepted doesn’t erase it. It does remind me to be try and hold my tongue. Then again there are some people who say or do such mean, even vile things that I WANT to inflict hurt if I can. One of my faults is that while I try to be a forgiving person overall in the case of some people I’ve lost my capacity to even try. People here wouldn’t recognize the Denis that existed before the rise of Trump back in 2016. Through my adult life I was regularly referred to as a ‘gentle giant’ or ‘big teddy bear’ (I’m 6’4″) because overall I had a relaxed, easygoing and genial demeanor. It took a LOT to piss me off. Most of the time I’d just brush off bullshit unless I saw someone else being hurt or taken advantage of. It was easy for me to laugh off idiots and bullshit. That guy however is gone. I don’t like that hate has taken hold of me. And worse that it keeps growing towards ever more people. And that all flows from Trump and how he’s unleashed the worst tendencies of conservatives and conservatism.
Anyway I wanted to point out I have found MYSELF apologizing to others here on PZ. Sometimes I don’t get what someone is trying to say. Or flat-out disagree with the sentiment. Then later thought to myself I should have waited before reacting. And if I still didn’t like something been more temperate in my remarks. Then again with certain people and topics I find myself wishing I’d been harsher or more clever! For now I’m glad you see our little community like I do. A family of sorts. And in families people sometimes have spats. Feelings can get bruised but we find a way to make up and move on.
Apparently his fancy military school.didn’t teach basic decency and good manners.
Think about it, Gillian, the Mango Moron probably paid a classmate to sit in and take all his tests…..