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Tim Coffey's avatar

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.

orbit's avatar
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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.

Tim Coffey's avatar

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?

orbit's avatar
3hEdited

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?

Tim Coffey's avatar

I can't wait to see that blown up into tiny bits.

Kate Fall's avatar

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.

Andrew Joyce's avatar

And share attention with his Coppertone Highness? He wants his face on our money, FFS.

Kate Fall's avatar

OK, new idea. We paint Trump as a Confederate general. That should please everyone.

Andrew Joyce's avatar

It would be a step down from being portrayed as Jesus the Doctor of Love.

Brent_in_FL's avatar

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?

Dawn Kucera's avatar

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.

Timothy M Dwyer's avatar

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.

Maria Browning's avatar

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.

James Byham's avatar

A septic tank in the bunker leading to a drain field outside .

Daphne McHugh's avatar

Congress ? What dat? Some invertebrate form of life?

Kate Fall's avatar

My grandparents spoke of an institution called Congress, but they told me it was full of cheats and liars.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Blob-like gooey substance...

James Byham's avatar

It went extinct a while back .

Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

Should Kimmel be fired if he suggests the bunker be supplied with cyanide and 7.65mm Walther PPK's?

Kate Fall's avatar

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 Matchette's avatar

Tim, you are not alone!

Catherine Hill's avatar

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.

Catherine Hill's avatar

He also managed to cop a feel on the way out.

TomD's avatar

I noticed that.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Given his wife has a face that makes a train take a dirt road, I wouldn't consider that an accomplishment.

Diana E's avatar

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.

Andrew Egger's avatar

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/

Richard Kane's avatar

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.

Ann Williams's avatar

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.

Kate Fall's avatar

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.

Tim Coffey's avatar

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.

Diana E's avatar

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.

Tim Coffey's avatar

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.

Richard Kane's avatar

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.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

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.

D.J. Spiny Lumpsucker's avatar

I dunno, Tim. The first time I saw video of Katie Miller, my first thought was that her appearance was appealing enough that she must be really messed up in the head to wind up with Stephen Miller. I mean, she's one of the few Trump-woman who still look half-way real instead of Maralagoed horror ala Kristi Noem.

If anything makes a train jump track there, methinks it's the darkness of the soul.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

Probably the first time; he did it while she was distracted.

Justin Lee's avatar

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

Sharon Herrick's avatar

Thank you for this wonderful clip. Truly hilarious.

Tim Coffey's avatar

Really? That happened?

Sort of like in "The Dead Zone" film when Greg Stillson shielded himself from a firearm using a baby?

Catherine Hill's avatar

The photo is out there. I don’t think I can attach it here.

Kate Fall's avatar

I thought that was Musk and his baby shields? Man, these people all make Greg Stillson look Churchillian.

LHS's avatar

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/

Tim Coffey's avatar

There is something satisfying about the Millers having to live in the world they've helped create.

Jeri in Tx's avatar

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.

max skinner's avatar

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.

Dave's avatar

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

Ben Johnson's avatar

shoot, that group of cowards is cursing him for the ability to procure extra cover for himself.

Catherine Hill's avatar

And RFK Jr. evacuated, leaving his wife to fend for herself.

Katherine B Barz's avatar

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.

James Byham's avatar

To do a couple or 3 bumps obviously . ⛄

Kate Fall's avatar

This is the group who likes to tell us men protect women. While they prove the opposite every minute of the day.

wiredog's avatar

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.

Jeff Bernfeld's avatar

Unfortunately, Snopes says no, Miller was actually between the shooter's location and his wife so if anything he was shielding her.

drlemaster's avatar

Stephen Miller is horrific in so many ways. No need to invent horrible facts about him when the buffet is right there.

Diana E's avatar

The actual shooter wasn't in the ball room, he was a floor above.

Richard Kane's avatar

The Nazi scum didn't know that.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

The shooter was on another floor.

Dawn Kucera's avatar

“Steven Miller’s pregnant wife” just stay with that a minute. EEEWWWW.

Richard Kane's avatar

If the Universe has a sense of humor the kid will come out looking like Elon Musk! LOL!

James Byham's avatar

Like a little trumper .

James Byham's avatar

Yeah I know . 😖

Richard Kane's avatar

There's a whole lotta "ICK!" coming off of that thought!

willoughby's avatar

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.

Dawn Kucera's avatar

I’m interested in the after action report about the Secret Service agents left her behind.

Bryan Fichter's avatar

What a country- after the *third* attempt to kill the current president, the rallying cry is not "ban the guns !" but "ban Jimmy Kimmel !".

Kathleen Weber's avatar

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.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

The best evidence that it was is that Trump had no reaction to the gunshots and security was lacking.

Jeff Bernfeld's avatar

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.

Kate Fall's avatar

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.

LHS's avatar

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.

Julia Morrell's avatar

What could he possibly say about the Strait of Hormuz? Those poor soldiers having to listen to that twat

Ginny K's avatar

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.

TomD's avatar

But she doesn't care--as her outfit made clear.

James Byham's avatar

She understands one thing very well , being rich means never having to give a shit about other human beings .

dcicero's avatar

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.

Kate Laking's avatar

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.

Linda Oliver's avatar

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”.)

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

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.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

This can only mean one thing. Kid Rock is next in line for interim Secretary of the Navy.

Linda Oliver's avatar

Now I’ll quote Bugs Bunny: “What a bunch of maroons”.

dcicero's avatar

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.

James Richardson's avatar

Apparently he reads Kid Rock's lyrics as closely as the Bible.

D.J. Spiny Lumpsucker's avatar

Yes, Kid Rock was actually there at the Pentagon. But what you can't tell from the photo is he was lip-synching his 'remarks'.

Anna Livia's avatar

Now THAT just made me chuckle. Thanks!

Karen Katzenyammer's avatar

"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.

Katherine B Barz's avatar

Every accusation from Miller is a confession.

LHS's avatar

Projection is a beautiful thing, eh?

D.J. Spiny Lumpsucker's avatar

"Insatiable thirst for destruction" and I immediately thought of Schumpeter: Capitalism!

Either Miller is lying or he didn't get the memo. Look East Stephen! Destruction is progress, renewal, the engine of Greatness!

Al Keim's avatar

Are we going to drop Kid Rock on Iran?

wiredog's avatar

We don't hate the Iranians *that much*.

Al Keim's avatar

I am reminded of Les Nessman and the 'Turkey Drop' WKRP epiosode.

John McGrath's avatar

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…

Kate Fall's avatar

They'd have to convene an entirely new Geneva Convention.

dcicero's avatar

Escorted by a bunch of ICE dudes.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

Just the threat would make the Iranians surrender.

Caroline (PDX)'s avatar

Is that the "nuclear" option?

Mike Lew's avatar

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.

Kate Fall's avatar

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.

dcicero's avatar

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.

John McGrath's avatar

Not Brad Schneider, by any chance?

dcicero's avatar

Nah. Bill Foster.

James Richardson's avatar

There's about 1000 examples by now but this one does put a bow on it.

ERNEST HOLBURT's avatar

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.

Mike Lew's avatar

In this moment, I agree 100%.

As far as principles go in an ideal world, there should be no gerrymandering.

Justin Lee's avatar

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.

Bryan Fichter's avatar

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.

Hortense's avatar

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.

R Mercer's avatar

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.

Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

Was really getting sick of all the Trump photos that lead this newsletter. Then it got worse.

Kate Fall's avatar

"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!

Cindy's avatar

Just curious, but what will be done with the $400 million Extortion Fund. Hmmm, let me guess….

Ben Johnson's avatar

It's Miller Time...Just drink it out of the brown paper bag, you know, for decency sake.

Ann Anderson's avatar

Miller goes underground periodically to suck the bones of the dead and replenish his life force.

Ann Anderson's avatar

Available in gallon jugs on the dark web.

Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

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.