The World Is Laughing. Not WITH Us But AT Us and Trump’s Clueless

Yet another good one to share with you folks. This one comes to us courtesy of the publisher of The Bulwark. She completely lays it all out, and this time, we’re not defending Democrats. It starts with a new court case and ends with Trump. This piece was great to read in any number of ways.  Shall we? From MSNBC via Raw Story:

The Bulwark’s publisher, Sarah Longwell, criticized President Donald Trump for “humiliating” himself and the United States with his handling of classified documents and information. Trump was found to possess a number of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago country club and refused to return them to the government. The Justice Department subsequently indicted him, but in July 2024, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed the entire case in a controversial ruling, finding the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional. This week, the indictment of former National Security Advisor John Bolton was announced after he was found possessing classified information in his home. 

Are you still with me? I hope so because it gets better. Now, we all know about Trump’s cavalier storage of “his” boxes, right? The ones where they found classified materials? It was all mixed in together with miscellaneous Trump “stuff”, for lack of a better word. But it was in there. In the bathroom. In the ballroom. Behind a single locked door. Just one. Jack Smith’s case for them was thrown out for bullshit reasons. But they have indicted John Bolton for the same thing. What the hell! And it continues!

“Is it the fact that the economy is also a big suck, according to large majorities of the American people? So this looks like a distraction?” asked MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. “Yeah, it’s that latter piece. I mean, boy, I just can’t tell you. You ask people how things are going in the country, including Trump voters, and they do not think things are going well. You know, and this is where vibes over substance tend to come in. Like they just — they see the chaos. Right? It’s the shutdown. There’s the National Guard in different cities. And people will sort of put things on either side of the ledger. Right? They’ll say, ‘Well I’m glad Trump is securing the border, but I really need prices to come down. And I’m really frustrated with it.'”

That’s an understatement. It’s doing horribly except for the 1% of rich Trump cronies who got a *permanent* tax cut. That’s like one of the reasons the House passed it right away, for Trump to sign on July 4^th, per Trump’s demand. (It’s going to be a long time before I forgive Joni Ernsy. At least she’s retiring.) But it screwed the rest of us with taxes and cutting Obamacare assistance for millions, or cutting Medicare. Those two are the most anger-inducing. And the economy? Not even going to get started on *that*.

She explained that’s where the frustration is coming from among Americans. The Bolton arrest only brings back all of the examples of things like Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal. “You’ve got Trump himself using his janky social media site, Truth Social, to communicate with his attorney general. Our op-sec in America is not clean,” Longwell said. “We have a problem. And if they’re going to prosecute John Bolton for this, then my hope is that they use that to reestablish some real guidelines for what people are doing, because it appears that nobody is taking these things seriously, and that I can’t imagine there isn’t a foreign country now who isn’t looking at the way that we are handling our classified information and laughing at us.”

We know THAT’s the truth. They started watching Trump and his gazillion pardons just to start in almost his first hour as president. Our allies are getting stupid, ridiculous tariffs. Sure, the rest of the world is, too, but.. And China’s are the worst. We are losing crops that we used to export. No one wants to get them from us. Trump is losing his mind to dementia a little more each day. The world can see *that* just by looking at our news.

We are becoming an “island” because no one wants to deal with Trump or the US. And Petey Boy is giving this “manly man” speech to our top military officials, whose knowledge and brains are more than he’ll ever know. And we can’t import the things that are more efficiently made overseas. The list goes on and on, so those are a few of the “highlights” (or should it be “lowlights? “). We are in a world of hurt. That’s more obvious every day. And there is no end in sight.

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