I heard someone call this "a new low for Trump" but I don't know. It seems about as low as everything else he says and does.

Yes. He is the man who refused to lift a finger when his people ( I use the term very loosely ) were trying to hang his Vice President on gallows that they built specifically for that purpose. They had text book malice aforethought. Too much cognitive dissonance to this day for weak minded people to realize it really did happen and is still happening. He continues almost daily to intentionally inspire death threats and actual violence and attempted murder. His debased followers refused to believe the attempted murder of Pence when they watched it on tv right before their eyes and they still erase it from acceptance of the reality of it now.

The morally depraved monster never even once said anything about the police officer who died that night from a heart attack or the 4 officers who committed suicide within 4 months.

This country re-elected a morally depraved sociopath.
What does that mean about them??
One day that must be examined more closely.

I have not said it for a while that we have a dumb stupid ignorant inferior population in the United States but depending upon whether he loses at least 20% of his base after his celebration of the murder of a man so morally superior to him then I must start saying we have a stupid and morally depraved country.

Trump has written the book for American politics and cowardly moral depravity. And he has quite the loyal following. We will see how many say no mas. I predict just a handful.

Trump has a certain psychological derangement syndrome. It can be defined as a dereliction of truth telling. But he is such a world class purveyor of lies. There isn’t even a hustler alive living on the streets to support a drug habit who can rise to his level of deceit and bullshiit.

I watched a snippet of his harangue tonight and in 30 seconds he told 8 or 9 boldfaced lies. That is impressive. He is now in a state of desperation.
One day he will lie in state.

And whenever he is crazier than usual there is probably some trouble and pressure from Putin.
Something is going on. Just today Russia said that Trump “promised” that Russia would get land from Ukraine in a deal. When push comes to shove and blackmail comes to compromise.

Which brings it back to the Epstein files. He is cooked if all are released or he cooked if they use phony excuses to not release some of them.

Norms must be replaced by laws and there needs to be a process where pardons can be recommended by the president but granted only by an independent group of scholars and professors and highest rated ABA lawyers. It should be publicly disclosed and public hearings like the Supreme Court has and certain criteria must be followed. Sort of like a parole board.

No more destruction of government property by a president.

No retaliation against members of the press for bringing cases of defamation and harassment
against federal employees including the president. Decorum must be observed.

There is nothing involving Trump released. A few photos were shown and quickly removed.

The DOJ has said they will hold back anything that could be involved in an ongoing investigation.
Technically by prior norms the DOJ was almost entirely independent. Now they are Trump’s law firm.

But even so they can use this fake loophole to serve Trump.
Say that or imply or leak that Trump is under investigation so nothing with his name or image or tapes he is in can be released because it would jeopardize or taint the investigation.

It would not shock me.

From the Beatles
It’s Getting Better Every Day (it can’t get much worse)
The rejoinder was from John Lennon.
2026 will be worse.

For Laramie Bob - a Christmas music gift that you probably already have.
There is an Americana guy named John Fullbright who had a Grammy nominated album about 10 years ago give or take called Up From The Ground.
And except for some live music album after it he fell off the face of the earth.

There is a song on it called Gawd Almighty.
I had heard the song when it came out and I was blown away. I consider it to be an all time song.
Any iconic singer songwriter would kill to have it in their repertoire of compositions.
It is an extremely dynamic song - thunderous.

I never knew the artist or the name of the song anltjough I hoped to hear it again one day and finally earlier this year by luck I found it. Thanks to Pandora and a generated playlist it did off of an artist or song I had picked.

Im sure there are people out there that know who John Fullbright is and the song.
If not you will thank me.

Those who look at the polls from time to time on Realclear politics might take notice of two pollsters.
Ive mentioned them a few times. AtlasIntel and Rassmussin.

Rasmussin is either 2 or 3. Very reliable. In 16 they were considered very conservative like in the pocket but when all was said and done they were right on target. I think the best. Great again in 20 and 24.

AtlasIntel is the gold standard. Extremely accurate.

Right now their current polling has Rassmussin having 8% more disapproval. That’s telling because they have never had Trump polling so poorly.

AtlasIntel the best pollster has a whopping 18% under water mark; 57 dis and 39 for.

I have taken the AtlasIntel poll and it is impressive.
No ambiguous or poorly written questions and no questions that cause a mistaken answer. And every question gets to the bottom line. This is not true for all and most are not so comprehensive.

I don’t know which is more in decline - Trump’s cognition or his approval.

And he is 80 in 6 months.

Our Lips Are Sealed

Trump better not **** any government official or employee with confidential info or he can get into big trouble; especially about Epstein. Congress should bring in for questioning the people doing the sorting and redacting.

Rasmussen now minus 10% and whopping minus 21% from AtlasIntel. Last week it was minus 8 and minus 18 respectively.

Trump has admitted that Epstein would be allowed to take some underage Maralogo girls to “work” for him.
This could be explored as to how this went down.

Our Lips Are Sealed

Trump better not **** any government official or employee with confidential info or he can get into big trouble; especially about Epstein. Congress should bring in for questioning the people doing the sorting and redacting.

Rasmussen now minus 10% and whopping minus 21% from AtlasIntel. Last week it was minus 8 and minus 18 respectively.

Trump has admitted that Epstein would be allowed to take some underage Maralogo girls to “work” for him.
This could be explored as to how this went down.

2026

Measles cases in 2024 - about 284.
2025 - more then 2000.
What is not known by the general public is that measles causes in many an immunity amnesia. People lose their immunity of many serious diseases and illnesses.

Parents who do not let their kids get a vaccine should be sued by their kids if serous problems result.
It has very little precedent if any due to
a doctrine of parental immunity ( ironic isn’t it ) but the right to sue is taking root across the country.

Most cases since 1992!!!

Thank POS RFK jr. - he is a public enemy who needs to be put down for the sake of the country.

Ukraine - Russia is now mockingly thanking Trump for more Ukraine losses. That is their true opinion of Trump. Every time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky Russia starts a fresh bombing campaign. With friends like Trump who needs enemies. The way Trump gets mocked is further evidence of being compromised.

Putin even embarrassed Trump
with a readout of last phone call - showing subservience. And after the meeting with Zelensky he spoke glowingly about Putin saying Putin wanted Ukraine to succeed and would sell them energy from a reactor on Ukraine’s land. Zelensky smirked.

There ought to be a law - reporting is that Trump wants to destroy 9 or 10 historical buildings in DC
snd wants to build a new DHS building on the land.
They are claiming an emergency which they always say to do illegal things .

This is very sad and dangerous. I for one love historical building and the architecture. To do such a thing is pure evil. He has destroyed the character of the people and now he wants to destroy the topography of the city. Once it gets done it cannot be fixed.

Trump closed the borders the day he was sworn in. Like he said he would.. He ended the fun for men who would use the Little girls bathrooms, and changing rooms. The democRATs championed that. He is the best POTUS since Reagan, but that aint saying much. If you are tipped as a waiter (ess) you are not taxed on your tips, any more. He has cut your taxes, yet you ***** and whine. He protects religious freedoms, The lefties are godless wonders, so
they' don't and he LOVES the American people. The democrats hate you... and their words prove it

Posted by lostnfound74 on 1/1/2026 1:24:00 AM (view original):
Trump closed the borders the day he was sworn in. Like he said he would.. He ended the fun for men who would use the Little girls bathrooms, and changing rooms. The democRATs championed that. He is the best POTUS since Reagan, but that aint saying much. If you are tipped as a waiter (ess) you are not taxed on your tips, any more. He has cut your taxes, yet you ***** and whine. He protects religious freedoms, The lefties are godless wonders, so
they' don't and he LOVES the American people. The democrats hate you... and their words prove it

Without doubt......... THE most uninformed poster on this site.
Loves to comment on U.S. Politics but doesn't even LIVE here OR know much of anything about our system.

For example---- that tip thing? What a complete joke. You need to read the fine print.
His "new" rule doesn't actually exempt tips. PLUSWISE it just make all the diners stop tipping.
Why would you use your hard-earned (and TAXED) dollars to give untaxed dollars to folks making more than you do??
Nobody would--------- and they don't.
Ask any waiter or waitress in America.
Oh wait, you can't. You don't LIVE here.

Last point. Trump only loves Trump.
He don't give a flying you-know-what about any peoples!

Happy New Year!
Try doing some reading in 2026.
It certainly can't make you dumber.

Most waitresses don’t make enough money to declare their tips or they do declare but with standard deductions and what not they do and still pay very small taxes if any. So the alleged benefit to waitresses is a fiction except maybe to waiters and waitresses in very high end restaurants.

If you worship the golden calf you should excommunicate yourself from your religion.

Donald Trump is a very sick man but is he evil or is he delusional or is he both? Nobody knows. And what about all the sad saps who think he is good?

Dumb country.

Just wait until those premiums hit home.
The morons will rise.

The Venezuela thing is only about oil.
Cocaine does not come from Venezuela it comes from Bolivia and Colombia and Peru. A tiny fraction comes from Venezuela. It is a transport country but almost all of it and fentanyl comes through Mexico.

30,000 deaths that are cocaine related per year but the majority are not pure cocaine. Most involve other stimulants like fentanyl mixed with cocaine.

If it was really about the drugs he would go to war on Colombia and Peru and Bolivia and at the end Venezuela could be irrelevant.

And what about the way Covid was handled. The libertarians wanted the right to spread lethal disease and the right to stop mandates and spread measles etc. So Trump does not really care about cocaine. It is bullshiit.

It is all about oil and once the use of force started the power play and blood lust kicked in.

Worry more about the actually innocent people dying or put at risk by communicable diseases and the relentless power play over the good and morally responsible people who are the ones who do care about people and Americans.

There is voluntary usage of drugs by people willing to lose their souls but the the people who are moral and sane are called evil and unAmerican. That is what Trump supports he who went to war on masks and mandates etc so it is ridiculous that he cares about people choosing to use cocaine.

This is all about oil.

And of course the pardon of the ex prez of Honduras after given a 45 year sentence in USA for the all time massive cocaine distribution shows that nothing is really about drugs. Trump uses more phony pretexts then Carter has liver pills.

Remember how we found out that because Iraq fell that Iran became a powerful war mongering potential nuclear power.

In other words the Iraq war had world affecting dangerous unintended and unforeseen consequences.

This is perfect timing for China to try to take over Taiwan and if Taiwan says NO it will be quite bloody.

These anti American and barbaric adventures is not good for Ukraine. How is Trump going to even be a little neutral after this. The lip service will be worse.

And we already have practically no economic leverage on China. Maybe zero now. Trade with Latin America including Mexico and Central America will suffer more in the form of some refusal to buy American products.

And if there are boots and American deaths look for an uproar like when soldiers were killed leaving Afghanistan.

You cannot rule out depending, on where this all goes, actual terrorism. Some Venezuelans could get very very angry if Trump tries to steal the resources like oil and minerals. It could lead to violent revenge.

And then you give birth to a terrorist movement in the Americas.

This is not good.

And let’s not leave out the loss of the national soul. This is no manifest destiny. This is no in god we trust and one nation under God. We are losing the American identity. It was enough that we became a manifest dumb country and now we are resembling Russia.