Andrew: "For good measure, despite months of Trump insisting the project would be privately funded, some Republican lawmakers insisted Congress must now allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for its construction."
< Tim starts laughing hysterically >
You mean the same Congress that stood silent when the East Wing got demolished? You mean the same Congress that has abdicated its Article I responsibilities with respect to a war of choice with Iran?
There are no words to describe the burning, infinite contempt I have for these people.
You know what's funny? You read about all these nationalist conservative types talking about our "heritage" and all that stuff. Why aren't these guys complaining about one of the most historic buildings in the country getting wrecked?
Given the way the Iran war is going, and given that France has the "Arc de Triomphe", perhaps if Trump's arch is built, it should be named the "Arch of Failure"? Maybe actually appropriate as a monument to Trump...
I figured it out. If we want to save the White House or the reflecting pool, we have to paint large figures of Confederate generals on them. It's the only way.
This is what happens in a narcissism world. The entire view is from the “center of the universe” person, whoever that may be. If Trump wants something, that works. If Trump doesn’t want the same thing, that works too.
The answer w/regards to why all these, “conservatives” aren’t complaining is pretty easy; Like the members of this administration, they all removed every mirror from their homes, their office restrooms, even the rear-view mirrors from their cars, more than ten years ago. It’s preferable to the other option, that being stealing a glance at themselves and having to reconcile what they see to what they’ve done. May they all live very long lives in order to experience every bit of rot they have unleashed on this world.
I hope I live long enough to see them all tried for treason, convicted, and imprisoned for the duration of their lives... After all, following orders is NOT a defense... AND may every dollar they have "stolen" from the American people be paid back from their personal bank accounts... Always follow the money.
I like your ideas and share faint hope it happens. But many if not all will be pardoned if (big “if” trump lives through his term. Also likely to issue a ‘blanket pardon’ for all. Certainly his staff and cabinet will get Suzy wiles or someone else to autopen it all for themselves.
I just hope that the next President is a Democrat and that there is a Constitutional amendment that puts severe limits on the President. We have been too lax about Executive priveledge. There should be no executive priveledge. The president serves at the pleasure of the People.
Congressional Democrats have put forth articles of impeachment of Trump but the Republicans refuse to even bring to the floor for debate. Nothing in the media.
The Democrats also managed to get the DHS funding bill passed with zero (0) dollars going to ICE. The media is all in for Trump so will not report any of this.
Oh I know, I'm just very frustrated that my reps are taking money from AI and Crypto. But I do understand that the media makes things look much worse for the Democrats than they are.
If the next President is a Democrat and the Congress is controlled by Democrats, there should be serious restrictions put on the Presidency passed into law and added to the constitution. I know it will be hard and require new laws, but it has to be done. Also very strong laws against allowing the President's family to profit from the executive office. Like the Republicans did with Hunter Biden and the investigation into his dealings with Burisma (before his father was President.)
I suspect Stephen Miller is being ragged about the widespread photo of Stephen using his pregnant wife as a shield from the correspondents dinner gunman. Courageous move, Stephen.
Unnecessary comment. It’s likely happened after she married Trump’s Rasputin. Stress and fear ages you—there is no doubt in my mind that Miller is a domestic abuser.
One of the vilest people in government but there's never been any reason to believe he's been guilty of this. In fact as The Atlantic reported in January he has a reputation for looking out for his people.
"Several people described Miller as an exacting boss, even a micromanager, but one who looks out for his team—including younger aides. In Trump’s first term, he was not yet married, and he spent many of his nights out, grabbing drinks or dinner with everyone from Cabinet secretaries to more junior staff, who were eager to get time with him. When Trump’s first term wound down, Miller helped ensure that everyone on his staff (and even some not on his team) had a job lined up."
All that shows is that he knows how to keep his minions loyal. God forbid he shows that kind of concern for our country and Constitution. He's a loathsome scumbag, no amount of polish is going to shine that piece of shit.
I mean, no. Helping them line up jobs elsewhere as the Trump admin wound down is pretty straightforwardly gracious behavior that Miller can't have expected to benefit from personally. (In fact it's what JVL did for me and other junior staffers on his webteam years ago when the Weekly Standard closed down.) Miller's a human being, not a cartoon villain--the fact that he fights for any number of loathsome objectives doesn't ipso facto mean he's guilty of all crimes a person could be accused of.
I remember at some point I think in Trump 1.0 there was some story about Jason Miller abusing a girlfriend, and Sarah and I believe JVL were comparing Jason Miller and Stephen Miller. Sarah was remarking that as abhorrent as Stephen is he doesn’t have the reputation for mistreating women that Jason has. For what it’s worth.
C’mon Andrew, it was growing up in that godforsaken CA- People’s Republic of Santa Monica to be specific- that sapped his soul. Imagine having to pick up one’s own trash. The horrors! That’s what Brown people are for.
As for his equally soulless wife- just read Jacob Soboroff’s account in his book FIRESTORM of how she chose to personally respond after Jacob checked on Steven’s parents home at her request. Let’s just say it wasn’t “thanks”.
So before he got married, he went out drinking alcohol with his junior staff? Eeesh, I'm not sure about that one, but I suspect it's just my bad experiences with male bosses handing out alcohol. I wish we could get alcohol out of professional settings altogether, but again, I'm pretty sure I'm in a tiny minority on this.
My favorite Katie Miller story is from Trump 1.0. Apparently she visited one of the facilities where immigrant children that had been separated from their parents were being held. According to various accounts, Katie felt nothing for these poor kids. She's a moral monster married to a moral monster who is in the orbit of the biggest moral monster in our history. I think Katie is exactly where she wants to be.
Attacking her looks is just juvenile. And, unless you have either experienced or worked with those in abusive relationships, you have no idea how the brainwashing works or impacts the person’s behavior. Maybe she is the same as Miller, but given the kind of man he is I suspect he is in control of the marriage.
Believe it or not, I *do* have a bit of knowledge on what women with abusive spouses go through, and it's enough to understand that it's a very dicey emotional/psychological situation for those kind of women. I'm not just an engineer, Diana. I've lived a bit and seen some shit, and my heart does go out to them.
But even if I accept your premise of Katie's an abused spouse, that does not let her off the hook for her public behavior (interviews, social media activity). And it's also worth pointing out that the same Katie Miller took a shot at the looks of anti-Trump men like me last week. My view is if someone's going to go after me, buckle up because that someone isn't going to like where this ultimately leads.
Her high school and college classmates have said she was just as bad when they attended school with her. She was like that before she met her lack of soulmate.
Why do you find it so hard to believe that women can be evil, and that evil people with similar evil values would end up in a relationship together? You’ve made up an entire fantasy story about Katie Miller that has 0 basis in fact. Just because Stephen Miller is a horrible person in one dimension doesn’t mean he’s guilty of every bad thing your imagination can come up with.
Please no. Can we not make Katie Miller into a victim? There is zero evidence that she is a victim of abuse. If anything, she is every bit as cruel, sadistic, and depraved as her husband. She is far more likely to be an abusive person herself than she is to be a victim (although there is no evidence for either of these things).
Why must we always do this?
Melania, Usha Vance, Katie Miller, are not damsels in distress. They are complicit and deserve no presumption of victimhood.
Assuming people are evil is not the answer. And equating a victim or survivor as a damsel in distress suggests you don't understand what is involved in an abusive relationship, even if both behave cruelly to each other.
That’s a wild assumption to make about a complete stranger, but it seems you have a habit of inventing narratives about strangers so I guess it doesn’t come as a surprise. I wish I didn’t understand what was involved in abusive relationships, but I digress.
Let me repeat this: You literally made up a story about Katie Miller that has no basis in fact and no evidence because you cannot accept that a woman can be a morally deficient person. That’s actually quite a toxic, anti-feminist mentality to hold. Women don’t need to be put on pedestals and excused for their abhorrent behavior. You are distracting from the actual crimes and misdeeds we KNOW Stephen and his equally vile wife are committing by inventing a narrative in which Katie Miller is the victim, not the tens of thousands of immigrants and non-white citizens who are being traumatized every day by Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
By your logic, we shouldn’t assume Stephen Miller is evil either. Maybe he is a victim of domestic violence. Or maybe we shouldn’t even bother stopping at domestic violence. We can also invent fantasies in which he’s a serial killer, a thief, a rapist, an axe murderer, or whatever else your vivid imagination can come up with. As if the things we actually know about him aren’t bad enough, sure, let’s just make shit up.
They're living in a house on a military base near DC. They didn't want to see people exercising their 1st Amendment rights outside their original house anymore.
I feel Miller has no redeeming value in general but to be fair there is another video out there that (assuming it's real) looks a little better than what we have been seeing to date
He did that already. Remember when the visitor to the Oval Office fainted? Jr was out the door while the felon stood there like a dazed statue. Jr later claimed he went for help. Where did he go? There was a phone on the desk, and a small army of people there to help.
In that case I think the Secret Service didn't give him a choice. They basically pick up the protectee and carry them out. I don't think cabinet members' spouses rate protection details.
Have to defend Miller in this case. The Secret Service was herding folks out of the back of the room, which means the perceived threat was from the front of the room. Miller placed himself between the threat area and his wife. And his hand around his wife was likely to try to protect their child -- the photo just caught it at an awkward moment. No need to invent stuff.
Eye of the beholder: I saw him rather gallantly shielding his wife, quite a contrast with Bobby Junior, who fled surrounded by protectors leaving Cheryl Hines to clamber over tables in his wake. It may have been a different photograph than the one you saw, but it appeared to me to be a rare moment of decency in the life of this otherwise frightening and odious man.
Even in the world of infinite outrages that we suffer daily, the picture of Kid Rock addressing the Pentagon about the Strait of Hormuz stands out. "You've gotta be kidding" seems inadequate but really, what can one say that captures the insanity of this particular moment? As has been noted before it is a wonder that satirical humor media like The Onion can survive our current reality.
In this house, we often say that The Onion writers probably feel like throwing in the towel. What can they write that is more absurd than reality? Love The Onion, it does make me laugh all the time.
Melania, our #FirstHookerofTheUnitedStates (fHOtus), is a despicable human (no offense to hookers). In Miller's disgusting view, she has an "anchor baby" and brought in her parents through "chain migration." Which tells you all you need to know about both of them. She has been silent in the face of so many atrocities -- including her husband's recent bombing of a girls' elementary school in Iran. So spare me the speeches, Melania. You sound like a cartoon villain.
I think she’s playing to an audience of one, trying to prove that she isn’t actually the gold digger, and her husband isn’t the fool, Kimmel’s joke suggested they are.
That really was a real photo of Kid Rock lecturing the Pentagon, not an Onion article? We truly are living in the stupidest of timelines. (And here I thought, after the way this Administration spazzes out over Jimmy Kimmel, that they had no sense of humor. As Scrooge once said, “I’ll retire to Bedlam”.)
I guess he also did a flyover in an apache helicopter as King Charles arrived at the White House. This is all about Pete Hegseth. He reinstated the Apache pilots who buzzed Kid Roch's swimming pool over the objections of their base commander. This is Child Hegseth flipping his middle finger.
That sort of bugged me. Those young pilots operate under a set of very strict rules for very good reasons. They're not supposed to freelance for, again, very important reasons. In the Navy, it's said those NATOPS rules are written in blood because pilots and ground crews died to learn the lessons that informed those rules.
The message should NEVER be sent that those rules can be violated if doing so would be cool.
Blast from the past, but I remember a bunch of Navy fighter pilots being interviewed after Top Gun came out. The reporter asked what would happen if they buzzed the tower on an aircraft carrier like Tom Cruise did. Deadpan, one of the pilots said, "I think that would be my last day in naval aviation." And, yeah, for good reason, but not in Pete Hegseth's military. You can do anything you want, as long as it's Alpha Cool.
What if someone gets killed doing something "cool?" Who's blamed for that? Hegseth shut down the investigation of the Kid Rock stunt, but if someone gets killed, there's going to be an investigation. And I'll guarantee the guy taking the blame won't be the guy who did the cool thing. It'll be his chain of command, the guys who gave him the idea that the cool stuff was okay.
Are these guys' CO's supposed to just ignore the "cool" stuff, even though those more experienced officers know it could get their guys killed? Who goes to that kid's funeral? Who goes to tell his parents? (A buddy of mine had to do that. Said it was the worst thing he's ever had to do.) Let's say the guy doing the cool stuff doesn't die doing it, but other people do? What if that Apache pilot hit a power line or something that he didn't know was there and the helo goes down in a residential area, killing someone. What then?
Think of the impact on good order and discipline here. There are rules. Everyone's supposed to follow them for really, really good reasons. LT Smith decides it'd be really cool to do some stunt. He does it, violating the rules. Smith knows what's supposed to happen. His boss knows what's supposed to happen, too. His boss makes that stuff happen (like an investigation) and then Hegseth finds out about it and shuts that investigation down. What's the CO supposed to do? What's he supposed to say? How's he supposed to react to the smirk on LT Smith's face. "I'm cool, sir, and you're ... what, exactly?"
"Miller tweeted out a thesis statement. “There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country,” he wrote, “which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved.” This ideology has “one unifying thread,” he added: “the insatiable thirst for destruction.” . . ."--------Uncanny how descriptive Miller is of his MAGA movements own character while directing this vitriol at the opposition. That seems to be a common thread with them that they sum up their own hate so well.
Melania and her husband smiled from ear to ear and gave a big thumb's up while holding a baby who was orphaned by the Wal-Mart shooting in El Paso (done by a Trump supporter).
She also accepted a $40 million bribe from Jeff Bezos for a movie that (as Sonny Bunch points out) was worth a fraction of that price.
And (as Tim Miller is wont to point out) she's been in public life for more than a decade and barely speaks English.
If anyone should be fired, it should be Melania. Unfortunately, the founders gave us no remedies for impeaching and removing a First Lady.
This really is the death of our democracy. All of the incumbents are focused on how to gerrymander control of the legislature. No efforts are being made to appeal to voters.
None whatsoever by anyone. All they care about is picking the voters beforehand. My right to vote has never been in so much jeopardy and I doubt my Democratic reps care.
In my case, I'm represented by a Democrat who's a complete non-entity. He's not interested in doing anything to push back against anything. He votes with the Democrats, sure, but other than that, he's just taking up space.
Actually, many Democratic states went with independent commissions. Republicans refused to pass anti gerrymandering legislation. It is finally time for Democrats to bring a tank to a gun fight.
"For good measure, despite months of Trump insisting the project would be privately funded, some Republican lawmakers insisted Congress must now allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for its construction."
Let's build a big ass wall because Mexico is going to pay for it!
Not sure about that. Simply because Miller is so loathsome and stomach-turning, I suspect it would actually serve our cause better if he is on TV as much as possible between now and the midterms. And I suspect the regime realizes this too, which is why he's been sidelined for now.
Just because Miller has gone quiet doesn’t make him any less dangerous. Russell Vought keeps a low profile and continues to put Project 2025 into effect.
The sudden call for tax payer funding for the Trump Bunker, masterfully camouflaged by a ball room, is pure gaslighting and stupidity. This is the same man whose first assassination attempt came during an open field campaign event, his second on a wide open golf course, and who spends more time in the unsecure Mar a Lago ballroom than he does in the very secure situation room. Give me a break.
Stephen Miller maybe toning it down in public, but I doubt he's toning anything down in the White House. Markwayne is a far better looking talking head than Himmiller so no Sunday shows for Stephen for now.
Andrew: "For good measure, despite months of Trump insisting the project would be privately funded, some Republican lawmakers insisted Congress must now allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for its construction."
< Tim starts laughing hysterically >
You mean the same Congress that stood silent when the East Wing got demolished? You mean the same Congress that has abdicated its Article I responsibilities with respect to a war of choice with Iran?
There are no words to describe the burning, infinite contempt I have for these people.
I'm fine with a presidential bunker being built on site.
They can cap it with either a rebuilt East Wing or a rose garden.
Their choice.
And Trump can pay for it.
After all, he's the one who demoed the original without permission.
You know what's funny? You read about all these nationalist conservative types talking about our "heritage" and all that stuff. Why aren't these guys complaining about one of the most historic buildings in the country getting wrecked?
They gotta give the man-baby what he wants.
Notice, too, not a peep out of them regarding Trump's proposed 250' tall monumental arch to himself?
I can't wait to see that blown up into tiny bits.
Same here.
On pay-per-view.
Given the way the Iran war is going, and given that France has the "Arc de Triomphe", perhaps if Trump's arch is built, it should be named the "Arch of Failure"? Maybe actually appropriate as a monument to Trump...
I figured it out. If we want to save the White House or the reflecting pool, we have to paint large figures of Confederate generals on them. It's the only way.
And share attention with his Coppertone Highness? He wants his face on our money, FFS.
OK, new idea. We paint Trump as a Confederate general. That should please everyone.
He can be one of the generals in the background as Lee surrenders at Appomattox. Oh...that's right. The south lost that one didn't they?
It would be a step down from being portrayed as Jesus the Doctor of Love.
This is what happens in a narcissism world. The entire view is from the “center of the universe” person, whoever that may be. If Trump wants something, that works. If Trump doesn’t want the same thing, that works too.
The answer w/regards to why all these, “conservatives” aren’t complaining is pretty easy; Like the members of this administration, they all removed every mirror from their homes, their office restrooms, even the rear-view mirrors from their cars, more than ten years ago. It’s preferable to the other option, that being stealing a glance at themselves and having to reconcile what they see to what they’ve done. May they all live very long lives in order to experience every bit of rot they have unleashed on this world.
I hope I live long enough to see them all tried for treason, convicted, and imprisoned for the duration of their lives... After all, following orders is NOT a defense... AND may every dollar they have "stolen" from the American people be paid back from their personal bank accounts... Always follow the money.
I like your ideas and share faint hope it happens. But many if not all will be pardoned if (big “if” trump lives through his term. Also likely to issue a ‘blanket pardon’ for all. Certainly his staff and cabinet will get Suzy wiles or someone else to autopen it all for themselves.
That's just soooo sad
I just hope that the next President is a Democrat and that there is a Constitutional amendment that puts severe limits on the President. We have been too lax about Executive priveledge. There should be no executive priveledge. The president serves at the pleasure of the People.
Monuments to racism and patriarchy = our heritage
Beloved historic buildings and irreplaceable natural areas = useless things that must be bulldozed in the name of profit and power.
A septic tank in the bunker leading to a drain field outside .
Congress ? What dat? Some invertebrate form of life?
It went extinct a while back .
My grandparents spoke of an institution called Congress, but they told me it was full of cheats and liars.
Congressional Democrats have put forth articles of impeachment of Trump but the Republicans refuse to even bring to the floor for debate. Nothing in the media.
The Democrats also managed to get the DHS funding bill passed with zero (0) dollars going to ICE. The media is all in for Trump so will not report any of this.
Oh I know, I'm just very frustrated that my reps are taking money from AI and Crypto. But I do understand that the media makes things look much worse for the Democrats than they are.
Still is.
My Congressmam is solid and honest. I've the done research.
Blob-like gooey substance...
If the next President is a Democrat and the Congress is controlled by Democrats, there should be serious restrictions put on the Presidency passed into law and added to the constitution. I know it will be hard and require new laws, but it has to be done. Also very strong laws against allowing the President's family to profit from the executive office. Like the Republicans did with Hunter Biden and the investigation into his dealings with Burisma (before his father was President.)
Should Kimmel be fired if he suggests the bunker be supplied with cyanide and 7.65mm Walther PPK's?
I think Kimmel could do a Bugs Bunny-like monologue on the things he'd never say so he won't get fired.
"I can shut up, when people tell me to shut up, I shut up. I'd never suggest that Trump was hiding teenagers in the bunker, for example. Not me!"
Tim, you are not alone!
Those would be the same Congressional Republicans that have floated the idea of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell
I suspect Stephen Miller is being ragged about the widespread photo of Stephen using his pregnant wife as a shield from the correspondents dinner gunman. Courageous move, Stephen.
He also managed to cop a feel on the way out.
I noticed that.
Given his wife has a face that makes a train take a dirt road, I wouldn't consider that an accomplishment.
Unnecessary comment. It’s likely happened after she married Trump’s Rasputin. Stress and fear ages you—there is no doubt in my mind that Miller is a domestic abuser.
One of the vilest people in government but there's never been any reason to believe he's been guilty of this. In fact as The Atlantic reported in January he has a reputation for looking out for his people.
"Several people described Miller as an exacting boss, even a micromanager, but one who looks out for his team—including younger aides. In Trump’s first term, he was not yet married, and he spent many of his nights out, grabbing drinks or dinner with everyone from Cabinet secretaries to more junior staff, who were eager to get time with him. When Trump’s first term wound down, Miller helped ensure that everyone on his staff (and even some not on his team) had a job lined up."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/stephen-miller-trump-white-house/685516/
All that shows is that he knows how to keep his minions loyal. God forbid he shows that kind of concern for our country and Constitution. He's a loathsome scumbag, no amount of polish is going to shine that piece of shit.
I mean, no. Helping them line up jobs elsewhere as the Trump admin wound down is pretty straightforwardly gracious behavior that Miller can't have expected to benefit from personally. (In fact it's what JVL did for me and other junior staffers on his webteam years ago when the Weekly Standard closed down.) Miller's a human being, not a cartoon villain--the fact that he fights for any number of loathsome objectives doesn't ipso facto mean he's guilty of all crimes a person could be accused of.
I remember at some point I think in Trump 1.0 there was some story about Jason Miller abusing a girlfriend, and Sarah and I believe JVL were comparing Jason Miller and Stephen Miller. Sarah was remarking that as abhorrent as Stephen is he doesn’t have the reputation for mistreating women that Jason has. For what it’s worth.
C’mon Andrew, it was growing up in that godforsaken CA- People’s Republic of Santa Monica to be specific- that sapped his soul. Imagine having to pick up one’s own trash. The horrors! That’s what Brown people are for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmxTksbTVQ
As for his equally soulless wife- just read Jacob Soboroff’s account in his book FIRESTORM of how she chose to personally respond after Jacob checked on Steven’s parents home at her request. Let’s just say it wasn’t “thanks”.
A union formed in the hate of others.
So before he got married, he went out drinking alcohol with his junior staff? Eeesh, I'm not sure about that one, but I suspect it's just my bad experiences with male bosses handing out alcohol. I wish we could get alcohol out of professional settings altogether, but again, I'm pretty sure I'm in a tiny minority on this.
My favorite Katie Miller story is from Trump 1.0. Apparently she visited one of the facilities where immigrant children that had been separated from their parents were being held. According to various accounts, Katie felt nothing for these poor kids. She's a moral monster married to a moral monster who is in the orbit of the biggest moral monster in our history. I think Katie is exactly where she wants to be.
Attacking her looks is just juvenile. And, unless you have either experienced or worked with those in abusive relationships, you have no idea how the brainwashing works or impacts the person’s behavior. Maybe she is the same as Miller, but given the kind of man he is I suspect he is in control of the marriage.
Believe it or not, I *do* have a bit of knowledge on what women with abusive spouses go through, and it's enough to understand that it's a very dicey emotional/psychological situation for those kind of women. I'm not just an engineer, Diana. I've lived a bit and seen some shit, and my heart does go out to them.
But even if I accept your premise of Katie's an abused spouse, that does not let her off the hook for her public behavior (interviews, social media activity). And it's also worth pointing out that the same Katie Miller took a shot at the looks of anti-Trump men like me last week. My view is if someone's going to go after me, buckle up because that someone isn't going to like where this ultimately leads.
Her high school and college classmates have said she was just as bad when they attended school with her. She was like that before she met her lack of soulmate.
She is the perfect concentration camp director’s wife; she is as evil as he is. I suspect she is in control of the marriage.
Why do you find it so hard to believe that women can be evil, and that evil people with similar evil values would end up in a relationship together? You’ve made up an entire fantasy story about Katie Miller that has 0 basis in fact. Just because Stephen Miller is a horrible person in one dimension doesn’t mean he’s guilty of every bad thing your imagination can come up with.
Please no. Can we not make Katie Miller into a victim? There is zero evidence that she is a victim of abuse. If anything, she is every bit as cruel, sadistic, and depraved as her husband. She is far more likely to be an abusive person herself than she is to be a victim (although there is no evidence for either of these things).
Why must we always do this?
Melania, Usha Vance, Katie Miller, are not damsels in distress. They are complicit and deserve no presumption of victimhood.
Assuming people are evil is not the answer. And equating a victim or survivor as a damsel in distress suggests you don't understand what is involved in an abusive relationship, even if both behave cruelly to each other.
That’s a wild assumption to make about a complete stranger, but it seems you have a habit of inventing narratives about strangers so I guess it doesn’t come as a surprise. I wish I didn’t understand what was involved in abusive relationships, but I digress.
Let me repeat this: You literally made up a story about Katie Miller that has no basis in fact and no evidence because you cannot accept that a woman can be a morally deficient person. That’s actually quite a toxic, anti-feminist mentality to hold. Women don’t need to be put on pedestals and excused for their abhorrent behavior. You are distracting from the actual crimes and misdeeds we KNOW Stephen and his equally vile wife are committing by inventing a narrative in which Katie Miller is the victim, not the tens of thousands of immigrants and non-white citizens who are being traumatized every day by Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
By your logic, we shouldn’t assume Stephen Miller is evil either. Maybe he is a victim of domestic violence. Or maybe we shouldn’t even bother stopping at domestic violence. We can also invent fantasies in which he’s a serial killer, a thief, a rapist, an axe murderer, or whatever else your vivid imagination can come up with. As if the things we actually know about him aren’t bad enough, sure, let’s just make shit up.
Oh my !
Probably the first time; he did it while she was distracted.
Last night, Jon Stewart compared Stephen Miller heroically protecting his wife to RFK Jr. leaving his wife in the dust.
https://youtu.be/X_JEZMEw_-Q?t=279
Thank you for this wonderful clip. Truly hilarious.
Really? That happened?
Sort of like in "The Dead Zone" film when Greg Stillson shielded himself from a firearm using a baby?
The photo is out there. I don’t think I can attach it here.
I thought that was Musk and his baby shields? Man, these people all make Greg Stillson look Churchillian.
It's already on Snopes.com. You can see the photo everyone was talking about. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/miller-pregnant-wife-human-shield/
There is something satisfying about the Millers having to live in the world they've helped create.
he can totally relate now to -
Schoolchildren in Columbine, Sandy Hook, Florida, Uvalde, Tx
Walmart shoppers El Paso, Tx
Outlet mall shoppers in Allen, Tx.
Music festival fans in Las Vegas
Bowlers in a Maine bowling alley
They can peacock about in their rarified air but a gun equalizes everyone. Their mouths writing checks their worthless @sses can't cash.
They're living in a house on a military base near DC. They didn't want to see people exercising their 1st Amendment rights outside their original house anymore.
I feel Miller has no redeeming value in general but to be fair there is another video out there that (assuming it's real) looks a little better than what we have been seeing to date
https://x.com/WallyPetersIV/status/2048334423456686453
Unfortunately, Snopes says no, Miller was actually between the shooter's location and his wife so if anything he was shielding her.
Stephen Miller is horrific in so many ways. No need to invent horrible facts about him when the buffet is right there.
The actual shooter wasn't in the ball room, he was a floor above.
But people didn’t know that.
The Nazi scum didn't know that.
The shooter was on another floor.
shoot, that group of cowards is cursing him for the ability to procure extra cover for himself.
And RFK Jr. evacuated, leaving his wife to fend for herself.
Heroes all.
Ha!
This is the group who likes to tell us men protect women. While they prove the opposite every minute of the day.
He did that already. Remember when the visitor to the Oval Office fainted? Jr was out the door while the felon stood there like a dazed statue. Jr later claimed he went for help. Where did he go? There was a phone on the desk, and a small army of people there to help.
To do a couple or 3 bumps obviously . ⛄
In that case I think the Secret Service didn't give him a choice. They basically pick up the protectee and carry them out. I don't think cabinet members' spouses rate protection details.
I read that too.
Damn right !
“Steven Miller’s pregnant wife” just stay with that a minute. EEEWWWW.
If the Universe has a sense of humor the kid will come out looking like Elon Musk! LOL!
Like a little trumper .
Yeah I know . 😖
There's a whole lotta "ICK!" coming off of that thought!
Have to defend Miller in this case. The Secret Service was herding folks out of the back of the room, which means the perceived threat was from the front of the room. Miller placed himself between the threat area and his wife. And his hand around his wife was likely to try to protect their child -- the photo just caught it at an awkward moment. No need to invent stuff.
Eye of the beholder: I saw him rather gallantly shielding his wife, quite a contrast with Bobby Junior, who fled surrounded by protectors leaving Cheryl Hines to clamber over tables in his wake. It may have been a different photograph than the one you saw, but it appeared to me to be a rare moment of decency in the life of this otherwise frightening and odious man.
I’m interested in the after action report about the Secret Service agents left her behind.
I mean that was my first thought.
Q: "Where's Stephen Miller?"
A: "From what I've seen, hiding from a gunman behind his pregnant wife."
Ba-dum-TISH
What a country- after the *third* attempt to kill the current president, the rallying cry is not "ban the guns !" but "ban Jimmy Kimmel !".
What is the best evidence that the gun incident at the correspondents dinner wasn’t staged? No one put an insider bet on Kalshi or Polymarket.
The best evidence that it was is that Trump had no reaction to the gunshots and security was lacking.
Trump is rapidly, increasingly cognitively impaired, and this entire maladministration is just breathtakingly incompetent.
Even in the world of infinite outrages that we suffer daily, the picture of Kid Rock addressing the Pentagon about the Strait of Hormuz stands out. "You've gotta be kidding" seems inadequate but really, what can one say that captures the insanity of this particular moment? As has been noted before it is a wonder that satirical humor media like The Onion can survive our current reality.
The Cheap Shots should be compiled into a textbook for future students. Best way to teach the coming generations of our purposeful run to decline.
In this house, we often say that The Onion writers probably feel like throwing in the towel. What can they write that is more absurd than reality? Love The Onion, it does make me laugh all the time.
What could he possibly say about the Strait of Hormuz? Those poor soldiers having to listen to that twat
Melania, our #FirstHookerofTheUnitedStates (fHOtus), is a despicable human (no offense to hookers). In Miller's disgusting view, she has an "anchor baby" and brought in her parents through "chain migration." Which tells you all you need to know about both of them. She has been silent in the face of so many atrocities -- including her husband's recent bombing of a girls' elementary school in Iran. So spare me the speeches, Melania. You sound like a cartoon villain.
But she doesn't care--as her outfit made clear.
She understands one thing very well , being rich means never having to give a shit about other human beings .
There was a time when "free Melania" was going around, as if she was somehow suffering through this whole thing.
Then people who know her started correcting the record. She hangs around at the spa in Mar-A-Lago. That's pretty much it.
I think she’s playing to an audience of one, trying to prove that she isn’t actually the gold digger, and her husband isn’t the fool, Kimmel’s joke suggested they are.
That really was a real photo of Kid Rock lecturing the Pentagon, not an Onion article? We truly are living in the stupidest of timelines. (And here I thought, after the way this Administration spazzes out over Jimmy Kimmel, that they had no sense of humor. As Scrooge once said, “I’ll retire to Bedlam”.)
I guess he also did a flyover in an apache helicopter as King Charles arrived at the White House. This is all about Pete Hegseth. He reinstated the Apache pilots who buzzed Kid Roch's swimming pool over the objections of their base commander. This is Child Hegseth flipping his middle finger.
This can only mean one thing. Kid Rock is next in line for interim Secretary of the Navy.
That sort of bugged me. Those young pilots operate under a set of very strict rules for very good reasons. They're not supposed to freelance for, again, very important reasons. In the Navy, it's said those NATOPS rules are written in blood because pilots and ground crews died to learn the lessons that informed those rules.
The message should NEVER be sent that those rules can be violated if doing so would be cool.
Blast from the past, but I remember a bunch of Navy fighter pilots being interviewed after Top Gun came out. The reporter asked what would happen if they buzzed the tower on an aircraft carrier like Tom Cruise did. Deadpan, one of the pilots said, "I think that would be my last day in naval aviation." And, yeah, for good reason, but not in Pete Hegseth's military. You can do anything you want, as long as it's Alpha Cool.
And just as I've been thinking about it...
Who's the judge of what's cool?
What if someone gets killed doing something "cool?" Who's blamed for that? Hegseth shut down the investigation of the Kid Rock stunt, but if someone gets killed, there's going to be an investigation. And I'll guarantee the guy taking the blame won't be the guy who did the cool thing. It'll be his chain of command, the guys who gave him the idea that the cool stuff was okay.
Are these guys' CO's supposed to just ignore the "cool" stuff, even though those more experienced officers know it could get their guys killed? Who goes to that kid's funeral? Who goes to tell his parents? (A buddy of mine had to do that. Said it was the worst thing he's ever had to do.) Let's say the guy doing the cool stuff doesn't die doing it, but other people do? What if that Apache pilot hit a power line or something that he didn't know was there and the helo goes down in a residential area, killing someone. What then?
Think of the impact on good order and discipline here. There are rules. Everyone's supposed to follow them for really, really good reasons. LT Smith decides it'd be really cool to do some stunt. He does it, violating the rules. Smith knows what's supposed to happen. His boss knows what's supposed to happen, too. His boss makes that stuff happen (like an investigation) and then Hegseth finds out about it and shuts that investigation down. What's the CO supposed to do? What's he supposed to say? How's he supposed to react to the smirk on LT Smith's face. "I'm cool, sir, and you're ... what, exactly?"
This whole thing is just ridiculous.
Now I’ll quote Bugs Bunny: “What a bunch of maroons”.
Apparently he reads Kid Rock's lyrics as closely as the Bible.
Now THAT just made me chuckle. Thanks!
"Miller tweeted out a thesis statement. “There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country,” he wrote, “which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved.” This ideology has “one unifying thread,” he added: “the insatiable thirst for destruction.” . . ."--------Uncanny how descriptive Miller is of his MAGA movements own character while directing this vitriol at the opposition. That seems to be a common thread with them that they sum up their own hate so well.
Every accusation from Miller is a confession.
Projection is a beautiful thing, eh?
Are we going to drop Kid Rock on Iran?
We don't hate the Iranians *that much*.
I am reminded of Les Nessman and the 'Turkey Drop' WKRP epiosode.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…
The big guy! :-)
They'd have to convene an entirely new Geneva Convention.
Escorted by a bunch of ICE dudes.
Just the threat would make the Iranians surrender.
Is that the "nuclear" option?
Melania and her husband smiled from ear to ear and gave a big thumb's up while holding a baby who was orphaned by the Wal-Mart shooting in El Paso (done by a Trump supporter).
She also accepted a $40 million bribe from Jeff Bezos for a movie that (as Sonny Bunch points out) was worth a fraction of that price.
And (as Tim Miller is wont to point out) she's been in public life for more than a decade and barely speaks English.
If anyone should be fired, it should be Melania. Unfortunately, the founders gave us no remedies for impeaching and removing a First Lady.
This really is the death of our democracy. All of the incumbents are focused on how to gerrymander control of the legislature. No efforts are being made to appeal to voters.
None whatsoever by anyone. All they care about is picking the voters beforehand. My right to vote has never been in so much jeopardy and I doubt my Democratic reps care.
In my case, I'm represented by a Democrat who's a complete non-entity. He's not interested in doing anything to push back against anything. He votes with the Democrats, sure, but other than that, he's just taking up space.
Not Brad Schneider, by any chance?
Nah. Bill Foster.
Pretty close.
There's about 1000 examples by now but this one does put a bow on it.
Actually, many Democratic states went with independent commissions. Republicans refused to pass anti gerrymandering legislation. It is finally time for Democrats to bring a tank to a gun fight.
In this moment, I agree 100%.
As far as principles go in an ideal world, there should be no gerrymandering.
"For good measure, despite months of Trump insisting the project would be privately funded, some Republican lawmakers insisted Congress must now allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for its construction."
Let's build a big ass wall because Mexico is going to pay for it!
Just curious, but what will be done with the $400 million Extortion Fund. Hmmm, let me guess….
Was really getting sick of all the Trump photos that lead this newsletter. Then it got worse.
I expect that we'll see a lot more from Miller after the midterms, but every day without his odious presence on the nation's TV screens is a win.
I agree. He's been loud and atrocious for years. Now that he's been more in the public, he will make sure he's back in it.
Not sure about that. Simply because Miller is so loathsome and stomach-turning, I suspect it would actually serve our cause better if he is on TV as much as possible between now and the midterms. And I suspect the regime realizes this too, which is why he's been sidelined for now.
Ya, my sense is he is laying low untilo after the midterms, when it won't make a difference any more if he opens his mouth.
It's Miller Time...Just drink it out of the brown paper bag, you know, for decency sake.
Just because Miller has gone quiet doesn’t make him any less dangerous. Russell Vought keeps a low profile and continues to put Project 2025 into effect.
I saw the huge bags under the eyes of markwayne the other day, I assume s miller is still pounding on him, what he must do.
The sudden call for tax payer funding for the Trump Bunker, masterfully camouflaged by a ball room, is pure gaslighting and stupidity. This is the same man whose first assassination attempt came during an open field campaign event, his second on a wide open golf course, and who spends more time in the unsecure Mar a Lago ballroom than he does in the very secure situation room. Give me a break.
Stephen Miller maybe toning it down in public, but I doubt he's toning anything down in the White House. Markwayne is a far better looking talking head than Himmiller so no Sunday shows for Stephen for now.
Yes, but Miller looks better in his SS uniform.