We should all wear black on July 4th. There is nothing to celebrate. We allowed a tyrannt into The People's House and he destroyed it, figuratively and with actual construction machinery. Our elected representatives stood by and did nothing to stop him from dismantling our institutions. Our highest Court did not protect our laws and handed him the power of a monarch. We lost our "more perfect Union". We gave up our "Great Experiment". Rub our faces with aches and put on our hair shirts. We should all be in mourning.
As of now, trump's tanking polls have fallen enough to not be disregarded by anyone as mere polls. It is a bad idea for trump to think there would not be another Impeachment and this time a conviction in the Senate. Many of us Republicans are ready to support that NOW.
trump has shot himself and the Party in the foot daily since he took office to the point where he is the earliest Lame Duck President since Nixon and has destroyed our political chances in November. Nothing in his addresses changed that or could.
If he doesn't turn his polls around 180 degrees by June (he won't, he's trump) we are DONE with him. We are close to the point that is a physical impossibility. Events and inertia are completely in the wrong direction. Everyone must deal with the reality that trump has completely screwed up his presidency.
In fact, inside the Party we are already planning on The Day After trump. That day is a certainty and we must repair the trump damage to the Party if we want any future. It is a reality that could happen in 2027, not in 2029.
Do you have plans to repair the damage he's done to the Constitution, our laws, every institution, and the majority of Americans who've all been negatively impacted in so many different ways? Our elected officials' have refused to stand up to him/maga and protect this country since 2015. The party should have ended this after January 6th. If he had been rightfully impeached then by the Republican majority in the Senate, we would not be in this mess now, but the party wouldn't do the right thing. It's time to start doing the right and decent things because they are right and decent - and focusing on what's best for the country over any personal desire for power
While I'm glad that you're in the big tent of anti-Trump, I have to ask - how can you still consider yourself a Republican? Republican primary voters as well as Republican electeds have almost all followed Trump's directives in everything, even things which obviously are harmful to our country.
He already said a few months ago that if the Democrats take the Congress, they will impeach him. This is why he wants state voter records, why hr wants new districts created. This is why he told the Supreme Court to get rid of Civil Rights Act. Now he wants to forbid mail in voting even though he votes by mail. He is now trying to get the Postal services to collect all the Mail in ballots so can "check them for illegal immigrants voting." He is desperate to the point of shutting down the midterm elections for some reason.
It took three weeks from mailing my spring ballot in WI to my receipt in VA. It only took two days for it to be returned to my township. I have a sneaking suspicion this is already occuring.
I’m interested in the activist alternatives planned for July 4- No Kings, Women’s March, etc. Remember No Kings on Flag Day? We’re the patriots fighting to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. We need to render them an autocratic aberration.
The last thing we want to do prior to the looming midterms is to give them a huge ability to paint Democrats as America-Hating - Imagine the ads with footage from across the country?
Eh, my opinion on these things is "nobody is gunna." You can't make everyone wear black, you can't not make everyone wear black. I prefer myself to let different people pull in different directions. If we live in fear of right-wing media, we'll never do anything. But the average person making their opinion known is just life until it becomes illegal. Nobody is gunna do what we recommend or don't recommend. They're gunna do what they feel is right.
And that would be different from now how? They already paint us as America-hating "radical left lunatics". But we just act like nothing is happening. We deserve what we get if we do nothing.
You are welcome to suggest your own thing to do. But I don't think having a party is sending any message at all (except "we're fiddling while Rome burns").
I would love to see crowds of people in black on the National Mall, protesting how Trump has killed the best things about our country.
But what if the culture and institutions that make America great are, as they say, only Mostly Dead?
Mostly Dead is slightly alive. And slightly alive, supported by a few friends, is how Humperdink gets where he belongs.
[My apologies to the 3 of you who don’t accept The Princess Bride as a font of invaluable life advice. But I hope you, too, will set aside mourning while so much of value remains to stick up for!]
Your suggestion combines mourning (black) with repentance (ashes, hair shirts). We mourn the dead to accept death. We repent to resist accepting sin, to turn toward the good in defiance of what is evil (including our own complicity in it). There is still a life in repentance that there isn't in mourning.
Memorial Day was a few days ago. It's a somber holiday, combining gratitude with ruefulness, depending on how you look at it. It's also colorfully patriotic. One attraction of the No Kings movement to normies like me is its displays of ordinary patriotism.
Repentance, when we stray, IS patriotic, and looking like it is helps normies like me appreciate it.
At first I thought wearing black was a good idea, but now I have changed my mind. The idea of a black armband with an upside down flag might make sense because our country is in distress. The best thing we can do is to not attend the “festivities” in Washington DC in June and July. I seriously doubt that much of MAGA can afford a trip to the Capitol at this time unless they are funded by the Tech Bros.
I haven’t seen any mention on here yet, but there will be several NO KINGS demonstrations around the country on June 14, 2026! Indivisible Alamance and Alamance Hour of Action are quickly planning an event. I can’t be as big as our previous No Kings demonstration because we don’t have time to get a permit. The National Indivisible is organizing “Rise Up and Sing”. Watch Mobilize.us.com for events near you.
Oh, Clarence is a deeply sour, spiteful man. He probably likes it. Come to think of it, this probably fits Alito too. Maybe only Roberts is worth Kate's time wondering about.
Think about it: Alito and Thomas dedicated their young lives to becoming elite legal scholars, assembling their scholarship like scaffolding around their shared worldview. Meanwhile, the world around them developed in such a way that a term for their worldview entered the common lexicon: Troll.
We don't have to wonder about Roberts anymore. He tried to trick us with his 'institutionalist' brand that he applied to himself, but he is the same as Thomas and Alito. Well, actually he's worse.
they call themselves textualists, then they purely made up the name originalist, right out of thin air, it sounds so good, it's made up
some of these judges say are three thing, all I know Kavanaugh was involved in our only stolen election, he was down in florida, deciding about hanging chads, he's a scoundrel, not right now, but soon.
Wow - I have to admit that is horrifically accurate - the image of what MAGA has done to this country. It used to be a flawed nation. Now it is hallow. Heartbreaking - and this comes from a left wing socialist!
He knows he’s a loser because his dad convinced him. A tough guy wouldn’t be so desperate. Imagine spending almost 80 years being a lying crook to compensate for your true low self esteem.
It would be the ultimate “funny money”. He could add a proclamation that it was actually worth $45.00 when ‘radical leftist Marxist democrats” were in charge of the House and $47.00 when “MAGA” is in charge as an incentive to, “vote American”….in either case it won’t be worth a plug nickel at the rate we are going.
I thought to myself, why does he have to his ugliest picture on the currency. There ARE better pictures. Or at least less evil pictures. I suppose that's dominance.
Oh Cheap Shots. This is why I think Trump is going after E. Jean Carroll, by the way. People like Boebert have to take Trump's abuse and say thank you. Of course they hate anyone who didn't say thank you sir, may I have another.
Anyway, it sure got Trump the headlines he wanted. How does the NY Times describe a court case where a jury - a JURY - found Trump liable for rape?
"Scrutiny turns toward private citizens who antagonized Trump."
The New York Times calls Trump's rape victims "citizens who antagonized Trump." They call his rape victims people who antagonize HIM. His victims. Are people. Who antagonize. Trump. According to the New York Times. His rape victims. And apparently I'm the only person gobsmacked by how much the Times hates women.
My reaction to read about Trump siccing the DOJ on E. Jean was white hot rage. The rapist wants to find some way to criminally charge his VICTIM. 🤬🤬👹👹👹
It's so, so bad. Honestly, the only thing saving me from being a hermit is having a son in my 20s. Otherwise, I might believe the constant propaganda that all young men are MAGA pigs. But I see a lot of young men in my real life, and they're all liberal, so I know it's hogwash. But man does it get me down how much the men with money and influence in the media hate women.
The North Carolina GOP legislature has introduced a bill for the ages. It defines abortion as first degree murder and allows for armed intervention to save the life of the fetus. Nothing like giving men a get out of jail free card to murder their wives and girl friends.
If that doesn't help turn NC blue, nothing will. These reps seem to think their voters don't notice when women die. Newsflash: Men actually don't like it when their wives are killed by lawmakers looking for new podcast content.
I think I'm going to need a citation needed here, but I will be honest and say that's because my mind has been poisoned of decades of anectdata in the form of men saying to me something like "If only the GOP would drop this crazy anti-birth control crusade by religious nuts, I might support them." But politics is local, and I guess people haven't been saying that since the 1980s in other areas of the nation.
How does killing a woman wanting an abortion protect the fetus? The fetus depends on a living mother. And if they wait until its born, you will have an awful lot of babies without mother's. Wouldn't it be easier if you wanted a woman to not abort is pay her a salary for a year so she can live well while carrying a child? Most women abort because they are situations that make it impossible for them to have a child.
Not just to save the life of the fetus, but violent intervention against anyone who prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the uterine wall. Any woman with an IUD or using other birth control that does that can now be "legally" murdered by vigilantes.
Or anyone who is struggling to get pregnant and using IVF. I currently have multiple frozen embryos, so I suppose I'm glad I don't live in NC or they would have me killed! These people, man.
I still subscribe to The Times, is only $4 a month and it's worth it to me to be able to comment on articles, and many reporters are very good. I view that in the same way as the fact that the guy who founded Substack allows Nazis on his website...
I remember the Bicentennial vividly. The country was coming out a tumultuous time in our history, and people let loose with goofy fun all across the country. The striking difference between the Bicentennial and the Semiquincentennial is that the 70s were a time of expanding individual rights and freedom, and the 2020s are, sadly, a time of contracting individual rights. Here's hoping the country will be in a better place 50 years from now for our Tricentennial.
I remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor, majestic even when viewed on a 12’ black and white CRT in a trailer (sigh). The President didn’t have his mug all over everywhere or make it sound like that milestone was celebrated only because of his own gracious munificence. This wasn’t a nation of Hatfields and McCoys. That universal happiness is missing. May this country live to see a better 300, keeping in mind that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Doxxing my own age, my parents would mention from time to time how cool it was that I was a "Bicentennial Baby." Corny as it sounds, for most of my life I was genuinely and patriotically looking forward to the 250th as having a particularly special meaning to me. Now I dread it. We'll probably stay home and pointedly cook something from a foreign cuisine.
I certainly hope Donald is planning a pre FCC fight by having Melania mud wrestle Candice Owens on the lawn, both in red white and blue T shirts. That would certainly be in keeping with the crassness that maga culture enjoys
I love the World Cup and have attended games in the US (‘94), Germany (‘06) and South Africa (‘10). I love the Olympics and ran with the torch in 1984. It makes me sick that he is our president during these events that will never happen again on our soil in my lifetime. And, make no mistake, he is killing this year’s World Cup and will do the same for LA ‘28.
Very cool (and very lucky). I was born in Tokyo in 1964 during the Tokyo Olympics as my Dad was stationed there. Then, at 20, I ran with the torch down main street in my college hometown (and still have the torch!).
Whatever Iran says about the control of the strait, the whole world saw that they can close it and the U.S. cannot deter them. The strait will be controlled by the Iranians.
The only things this waste of a war proved was that under trump the US is weak and that the Iranians control the World's oil spigot. The only winner is Iran.
While Trump learns absolutely nothing from the experience. He is now determined to go after Cuba and is planning a military operation with Guatemala. He is truly like a child waging war with his toy soldiers. Americans hate this Imperialism, can't the Republicans see this is costing them?
Republicans including their voters bear equal responsibility for this. They love the disfiguration of America. They love how much it pains so many good and decent people out there. America is being raped right now, and being forcefully disfigured so we will never truly free ourselves from Trump and his cultist. This is only going to get worse. As we continue to fight, Republicans will disfigure us more to break our spirit. They will tattoo our faces, brand us a traitors, and do everything in their power to break our will.
Never forget who did this to us, and never let them have a moment of peace.
VOTE in the midterms in November. KEEP voting in every election. VOTE as many of them out of office as we can going forward, at EVERY level - local, state, and federal....
Id love to see that. I pray that Trump doesnt rig the elections. He is trying to. Getting rid of mail in voting (even though he votes by mail). He said he is having ICE patrol polling places. He is desperately trying to get voter data, I bet so he can disenfranchise Democrats.
He doesn't have to "fix" elections. All he has to do is cry "fraud" at any result he doesn't like. Those claims will be advanced by a credulous media, and justification for not seating the "fraudulent" legislators is provided!
It is kind of darkly ironic and appropriate that if the $250 bill fiasco is approved, such a unit of currency would mostly only have value to criminals
I can't wait for ads that say, "your good old American greenback $100 bill not going so far anymore? Well, Trump has an answer for your rising cost of living: a new red-white-and-blue $250 bill with his face on it, to remind you what $100 used to buy." Not quite accurate? Who cares? I don't want the Democrats to become vice signalers, a la JVL's suggestion, but a little poetic license in advertising seems like agood thing to borrow from Republicans right about now.
I am still in shock over what the White House looks like! I keep telling my wife but is wasn't till Steve Schmidt showed her that she gasped and hollared out loud. That is MY house not this idiot's! He is the worst tennant in world history. Congress needs to get busy with an eviction notice.
America is becoming a cashless society, almost everyone uses debit or credit card or PayPal or Venmo. If they do flout the law and print these bills, very few people will ever see one.
I hear you, Garvin, but are we all that sure that our cost of groceries isn't going to require more of a $500 bill soon enough? Just one Boomer to another, I assume...
I'm an old woman, but haven't used cash in months. The last 2 times I tried to use cash, it wasn't accepted--I HAD to pay electronically.
Okay, that first statement isn't entirely true--I don't have laundry at home, so I have to go to a laundromat. Used to go to the place across the street from my mom's facility, but she couldn't afford it so she moved into a nursing home, so this month I had to find a new place, and the one close only took quarters. I detest paying $6.75 in quarters (they're heavy if you have 2 washers to feed). I found a new place that has a payment card. SO MUCH EASIER! Most stores don't accept anything over $20, what place is going to take a $250 bill? Who uses cash for something that expensive?
As some folks have pointed out, Kari, I think the $250 bill is for drug deals and other criminal activity - you know, for friends of the administration.
Don't say "old and worn out", say "well used and loved". I grew up in Philadelphia and it spurred my love of history. I thought it was so cool that many important buildings were still standing. Then I was stationed in England in the 80's, a fellow airman and his wife were living in flat in a building that was well over 400 years old! Made Independence Hall seem like new construction!
I recall, with amusement, explaining to a couple of US tourists that the castle keep we were admiring was 850 years old, but that the surrounding Roman walls were 1750 years old.
I could see 'Does not compute' in their faces, bless 'em...
When I lived in France there was a Roman well from the 2nd century. It was small and outside of a building that had a niche and gate so you could still see it. Cool.
I loved England! Everyday I was "marinating" in history. My only regret is not having enough time to visit even more places in England and the rest of the UK.
At some point back in the 1980s I remember meeting an American airman stationed in the UK. He was in Lincoln and was entranced by many monuments and had become an expert on the cathedral. I have degrees in history, but after I finished high school I took hardly any American history classes, it didn’t seem old enough.
I was in a group of friends who would take the train to see different places. We were all history nerds. Of course with London being a short train ride away (barring any British Rail labor concerns LOL!), we were there a lot.
Bill wrote: "[The law prohibiting the portrait or likeness of any living person ... being engraved or placed upon any .... currency] harkened back to the example of Washington, who during his lifetime turned down having his portrait struck on the first silver dollar, believing this would be reminiscent of a monarch and inappropriate in a republic." But this is exactly what Trump wants: to be remembered as a monarch who doesn't care about the republic. While I admire Bill's hopeful tone, and thank you, it annoys me that 21 percent of the public agrees with Arch Abomination.
Oh, and Trump has done more damage to America and Americans than he has to Iran.
We should all wear black on July 4th. There is nothing to celebrate. We allowed a tyrannt into The People's House and he destroyed it, figuratively and with actual construction machinery. Our elected representatives stood by and did nothing to stop him from dismantling our institutions. Our highest Court did not protect our laws and handed him the power of a monarch. We lost our "more perfect Union". We gave up our "Great Experiment". Rub our faces with aches and put on our hair shirts. We should all be in mourning.
How about a black armband with an upside-down American flag patch?
Don’t be defeatist! Let’s not let it go without a fight. In sorrow, but with pitchforks…
There is nothing more American than taking to our streets. OUR STREETS!
There is nothing more powerful than the overwhelming sound of our boots and our voices.
That's right!. This nation was founded on protest. It's in our DNA.
Yet it's conspicuously absent in every federal GOP politician. They've happily turned Trump into a king who must never be questioned.
America would totally like to be there, but they have a thing....
We had three (4) NO KINGS, protests. Did it do anything? If nothing else you see that you are not alone.
I think a D C one, or maybe nationwide is on the washed up old prick on his birthday, he gives no honor or dignity, so he deserves none.
on 06/14, maybe another No Kings
What did Ol' Ben Franklin say about our Republic?
Yup yup. We have failed at keeping it for sure.
It's like the sun chair in Independence Hall. Let us hope that the sun is rising, not setting.
It will start to set on DJT, starting this November.
It already is.
As of now, trump's tanking polls have fallen enough to not be disregarded by anyone as mere polls. It is a bad idea for trump to think there would not be another Impeachment and this time a conviction in the Senate. Many of us Republicans are ready to support that NOW.
trump has shot himself and the Party in the foot daily since he took office to the point where he is the earliest Lame Duck President since Nixon and has destroyed our political chances in November. Nothing in his addresses changed that or could.
If he doesn't turn his polls around 180 degrees by June (he won't, he's trump) we are DONE with him. We are close to the point that is a physical impossibility. Events and inertia are completely in the wrong direction. Everyone must deal with the reality that trump has completely screwed up his presidency.
In fact, inside the Party we are already planning on The Day After trump. That day is a certainty and we must repair the trump damage to the Party if we want any future. It is a reality that could happen in 2027, not in 2029.
I still find it hard to believe that there will ever be 60 votes to convict.
Losing big time clarifies the mind.
Do you have plans to repair the damage he's done to the Constitution, our laws, every institution, and the majority of Americans who've all been negatively impacted in so many different ways? Our elected officials' have refused to stand up to him/maga and protect this country since 2015. The party should have ended this after January 6th. If he had been rightfully impeached then by the Republican majority in the Senate, we would not be in this mess now, but the party wouldn't do the right thing. It's time to start doing the right and decent things because they are right and decent - and focusing on what's best for the country over any personal desire for power
The Day after Trump? didn't we already have that day after the 2020 elections and again after J6?
While I'm glad that you're in the big tent of anti-Trump, I have to ask - how can you still consider yourself a Republican? Republican primary voters as well as Republican electeds have almost all followed Trump's directives in everything, even things which obviously are harmful to our country.
"If he doesn't turn his polls around 180 degrees by June (he won't, he's trump)"
At this point, the only real question is - what will he do next to make his polls sink even LOWER?
He already said a few months ago that if the Democrats take the Congress, they will impeach him. This is why he wants state voter records, why hr wants new districts created. This is why he told the Supreme Court to get rid of Civil Rights Act. Now he wants to forbid mail in voting even though he votes by mail. He is now trying to get the Postal services to collect all the Mail in ballots so can "check them for illegal immigrants voting." He is desperate to the point of shutting down the midterm elections for some reason.
It took three weeks from mailing my spring ballot in WI to my receipt in VA. It only took two days for it to be returned to my township. I have a sneaking suspicion this is already occuring.
Updated: a dictatorship if you want it.
Yes, that should have been the second part of Franklin's answer. Much easier to descend into a dictatorship than keep a republic.
NO!
I’m interested in the activist alternatives planned for July 4- No Kings, Women’s March, etc. Remember No Kings on Flag Day? We’re the patriots fighting to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. We need to render them an autocratic aberration.
The last thing we want to do prior to the looming midterms is to give them a huge ability to paint Democrats as America-Hating - Imagine the ads with footage from across the country?
Eh, my opinion on these things is "nobody is gunna." You can't make everyone wear black, you can't not make everyone wear black. I prefer myself to let different people pull in different directions. If we live in fear of right-wing media, we'll never do anything. But the average person making their opinion known is just life until it becomes illegal. Nobody is gunna do what we recommend or don't recommend. They're gunna do what they feel is right.
Like wear red white and blue.
And that would be different from now how? They already paint us as America-hating "radical left lunatics". But we just act like nothing is happening. We deserve what we get if we do nothing.
Sorry, Kass, but there's a whole lotta room between doing nothing and everyone dress in black, isn't there?
You are welcome to suggest your own thing to do. But I don't think having a party is sending any message at all (except "we're fiddling while Rome burns").
I would love to see crowds of people in black on the National Mall, protesting how Trump has killed the best things about our country.
He’s *trying to*.
But what if the culture and institutions that make America great are, as they say, only Mostly Dead?
Mostly Dead is slightly alive. And slightly alive, supported by a few friends, is how Humperdink gets where he belongs.
[My apologies to the 3 of you who don’t accept The Princess Bride as a font of invaluable life advice. But I hope you, too, will set aside mourning while so much of value remains to stick up for!]
The Princess Bride rules!
you are not here, no consequences, from a far away stance
I am an American. I'd like to come home.
Suggestions?
I don't know about anyone else, but I am not letting what 'THEY' do manipulate my response.
We don't get to stop any of the s**t going on without winning control of at least the House in November, and ideally also the Senate.
Spot on MoosesMom! I can hear Sarah saying that.
You can edit creating & baking an American apple pie into a work of hostility if so inclined. So I vote for some reasonable resistance.
Yes! Then we need to fight like hell to take back our country from this regime and all it's backers.
Your suggestion combines mourning (black) with repentance (ashes, hair shirts). We mourn the dead to accept death. We repent to resist accepting sin, to turn toward the good in defiance of what is evil (including our own complicity in it). There is still a life in repentance that there isn't in mourning.
Memorial Day was a few days ago. It's a somber holiday, combining gratitude with ruefulness, depending on how you look at it. It's also colorfully patriotic. One attraction of the No Kings movement to normies like me is its displays of ordinary patriotism.
Repentance, when we stray, IS patriotic, and looking like it is helps normies like me appreciate it.
At first I thought wearing black was a good idea, but now I have changed my mind. The idea of a black armband with an upside down flag might make sense because our country is in distress. The best thing we can do is to not attend the “festivities” in Washington DC in June and July. I seriously doubt that much of MAGA can afford a trip to the Capitol at this time unless they are funded by the Tech Bros.
I haven’t seen any mention on here yet, but there will be several NO KINGS demonstrations around the country on June 14, 2026! Indivisible Alamance and Alamance Hour of Action are quickly planning an event. I can’t be as big as our previous No Kings demonstration because we don’t have time to get a permit. The National Indivisible is organizing “Rise Up and Sing”. Watch Mobilize.us.com for events near you.
And don’t forget that June 24 IS FLAG DAY!
14th I think. My wedding anniversary.
That is a great idea! I’m in.
I have been and remain in deep mourning for my-our- country.
But not for long.
How about we just put on a series of better events?
... or we should all be in action; time to get off our butts and make him stop.
the word we should use in discussions like this is 'disgorgement'
look it up! then write your rep ...
Nope. Wear a rainbow. Mourn with flair. The experiment in self-government only dies if we let it.
Isn't his favorite portrait of himself the mugshot? IMAGINE SOMEONE PUTTING A MUGSHOT ON A PIECE OF US CURRENCY????
It boggles my mind hourly that this is the outcome that makes Sam Alito and John Roberts happy and proud of their work.
Don't forget the other hard-core besides Alito, one Clarence Thomas.
Oh, Clarence is a deeply sour, spiteful man. He probably likes it. Come to think of it, this probably fits Alito too. Maybe only Roberts is worth Kate's time wondering about.
Think about it: Alito and Thomas dedicated their young lives to becoming elite legal scholars, assembling their scholarship like scaffolding around their shared worldview. Meanwhile, the world around them developed in such a way that a term for their worldview entered the common lexicon: Troll.
Same mold (& moldiness) those two. Can be counted on to back Trump.
We don't have to wonder about Roberts anymore. He tried to trick us with his 'institutionalist' brand that he applied to himself, but he is the same as Thomas and Alito. Well, actually he's worse.
they call themselves textualists, then they purely made up the name originalist, right out of thin air, it sounds so good, it's made up
some of these judges say are three thing, all I know Kavanaugh was involved in our only stolen election, he was down in florida, deciding about hanging chads, he's a scoundrel, not right now, but soon.
Don't leave out John Roberts here. He is known to hate the legislative branch of the government. (a third and equal branch)
That assumes they understand either of those concepts as something that applys to ALL of us.......
Imo, John Roberts and Sam Alito have a very limited understanding of what constitutes happiness and pride
Why wouldn’t He make the new bill a, “$45.47” dollar bill?
Dont give him any ideas!! 😬
It could say “forty-five” US. Dollars on the front and “forty-seven” US Dollars on the back !
Yeah, one side is for portraying your net worth to Forbes; the other for listing assets with the IRS.
Thats worth nothing.
It would require the ability to add in one's head. So MAGA won't go for that.
Wow - I have to admit that is horrifically accurate - the image of what MAGA has done to this country. It used to be a flawed nation. Now it is hallow. Heartbreaking - and this comes from a left wing socialist!
Is that a typo? Hallow means consecrated and sacred.
Most likely. I typed "wander" the other day. It ended up "wonder." Strange are the spellcheck gods.
I have a Samsung phone that does the same thing. But type "thr" instead of "the"? Never corrected 😆
There's definitely no machine learning (something like gen1 AI) as they're next to each other on the qwerty keyboard. Have a great weekend - TGIF.
Maybe he left out the S.
For some reason he think it makes him look tough.
It’s a very WWE conception of “tough”, and sadly, about a fourth of the country totally buys it.
Millions unfortunately agree with him.
Unfortunately
I think that’s it. He sees himself as Mr Tough Guy.
He knows he’s a loser because his dad convinced him. A tough guy wouldn’t be so desperate. Imagine spending almost 80 years being a lying crook to compensate for your true low self esteem.
Indeed.
That struck me, too. He's a terrible smiler, but he's also unable to look somber or serious, except maybe when he's drifting off to dreamland.
It's because he can only envision himself as a caricature of a president ... because that is what he is.
Thats why he uses AI images of himself, the real thing scares him to death when he looks in the mirror!
The closest he usually gets to a smile is sneering. But he can smile if he's receiving unconditional adulation.
He looks like a cheshire cat when he smiles
The mugshot shows what a victim he is, tho, which is the highest aspiration of all of MAGA.
You got that right.
It's actually fitting, isn't it?
ROFLMAO
And also hanging it on the Fed building
It would be the ultimate “funny money”. He could add a proclamation that it was actually worth $45.00 when ‘radical leftist Marxist democrats” were in charge of the House and $47.00 when “MAGA” is in charge as an incentive to, “vote American”….in either case it won’t be worth a plug nickel at the rate we are going.
That itself says it all.
Well, if you're a mug...
I thought to myself, why does he have to his ugliest picture on the currency. There ARE better pictures. Or at least less evil pictures. I suppose that's dominance.
"a commemorative $250 bill with the image of President Donald Trump...."
$250 is the wrong denomination. It should be a $3 bill.
I won't take credit for this since I saw it earlier on another article, but it should be a $8647 bill.
Oh Cheap Shots. This is why I think Trump is going after E. Jean Carroll, by the way. People like Boebert have to take Trump's abuse and say thank you. Of course they hate anyone who didn't say thank you sir, may I have another.
Anyway, it sure got Trump the headlines he wanted. How does the NY Times describe a court case where a jury - a JURY - found Trump liable for rape?
"Scrutiny turns toward private citizens who antagonized Trump."
The New York Times calls Trump's rape victims "citizens who antagonized Trump." They call his rape victims people who antagonize HIM. His victims. Are people. Who antagonize. Trump. According to the New York Times. His rape victims. And apparently I'm the only person gobsmacked by how much the Times hates women.
My reaction to read about Trump siccing the DOJ on E. Jean was white hot rage. The rapist wants to find some way to criminally charge his VICTIM. 🤬🤬👹👹👹
No you are not, I never used to think about it, but misogyny is rampant.
It's so, so bad. Honestly, the only thing saving me from being a hermit is having a son in my 20s. Otherwise, I might believe the constant propaganda that all young men are MAGA pigs. But I see a lot of young men in my real life, and they're all liberal, so I know it's hogwash. But man does it get me down how much the men with money and influence in the media hate women.
The North Carolina GOP legislature has introduced a bill for the ages. It defines abortion as first degree murder and allows for armed intervention to save the life of the fetus. Nothing like giving men a get out of jail free card to murder their wives and girl friends.
If that doesn't help turn NC blue, nothing will. These reps seem to think their voters don't notice when women die. Newsflash: Men actually don't like it when their wives are killed by lawmakers looking for new podcast content.
Abortion restrictions haven't helped Democrats at the ballot box yet.
Maybe not in the south, but they most certainly have impacted State Supreme Court races and that's just as important.
I think I'm going to need a citation needed here, but I will be honest and say that's because my mind has been poisoned of decades of anectdata in the form of men saying to me something like "If only the GOP would drop this crazy anti-birth control crusade by religious nuts, I might support them." But politics is local, and I guess people haven't been saying that since the 1980s in other areas of the nation.
Yep, and he'll get re-elected to his state house district representing a hamlet of 4,000 people, many of whom believe Jesus tamed the dinosaurs.
How does killing a woman wanting an abortion protect the fetus? The fetus depends on a living mother. And if they wait until its born, you will have an awful lot of babies without mother's. Wouldn't it be easier if you wanted a woman to not abort is pay her a salary for a year so she can live well while carrying a child? Most women abort because they are situations that make it impossible for them to have a child.
Maternal benefits! That's crazy talk!!!! We're a Christian Nation (tm), everyone is on their own! /s
What was I thinking!
not really,
Not just to save the life of the fetus, but violent intervention against anyone who prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the uterine wall. Any woman with an IUD or using other birth control that does that can now be "legally" murdered by vigilantes.
Or anyone who is struggling to get pregnant and using IVF. I currently have multiple frozen embryos, so I suppose I'm glad I don't live in NC or they would have me killed! These people, man.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/north-carolina-bill-would-authorize-deadly-force-for-women-seeking-abortions/275-353d54a3-9231-4341-ae44-a127546db76f 🤯
Idiots
Maybe it's just me, but how is killing the mother going to save the not-yet-a-child4?
Rampant and not only acceptable but desirable in certain groups. 🤬
Will Trump task the DOJ with finding out who the jurors were and go after them individually?
Wouldn't be surprised!
This DOJ investigation will go nowhere, Zilch, Nada, Nothing. It is just another Trump intimidation tactic.
The Republicans remind me of Oliver in Oliver Twist: "Please sir, can I have some more"?
Pathetic headline at best. Sanewashing at worst.
Mostly they love money and status more than journalism. It has been that way for a very long time......
Sultzberger is well aware of his mandate. He was raised in and among a certain class and will not let them down. It has been ever thus.
Yeah, that's why as a New Yorker, I always subscribed to the Washington Post. Until a year ago anyway. *sobs*
Yes, Bezos really wrecked that, didn’t he?
I still subscribe to The Times, is only $4 a month and it's worth it to me to be able to comment on articles, and many reporters are very good. I view that in the same way as the fact that the guy who founded Substack allows Nazis on his website...
I remember the Bicentennial vividly. The country was coming out a tumultuous time in our history, and people let loose with goofy fun all across the country. The striking difference between the Bicentennial and the Semiquincentennial is that the 70s were a time of expanding individual rights and freedom, and the 2020s are, sadly, a time of contracting individual rights. Here's hoping the country will be in a better place 50 years from now for our Tricentennial.
I remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor, majestic even when viewed on a 12’ black and white CRT in a trailer (sigh). The President didn’t have his mug all over everywhere or make it sound like that milestone was celebrated only because of his own gracious munificence. This wasn’t a nation of Hatfields and McCoys. That universal happiness is missing. May this country live to see a better 300, keeping in mind that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Of course not, because the president was Jimmy Carter, probably the most humble president we've had (to his own detriment).
Wasn’t Ford still in the White House, in July of 1976?
Actually, you're right. But he also didn't make it about himself.
I remember the flag themed fire hydrants!
Don't give DJT ideas. He may want his face on hydrants.
That would be the time for all to take their dogs for walkies.
How did SCOTUS rule on that thing that dogs do to flag painted fire hydrants?
They were barking mad! Ha! :)
Doxxing my own age, my parents would mention from time to time how cool it was that I was a "Bicentennial Baby." Corny as it sounds, for most of my life I was genuinely and patriotically looking forward to the 250th as having a particularly special meaning to me. Now I dread it. We'll probably stay home and pointedly cook something from a foreign cuisine.
Tacos for 4th of July deems like an EXCELLENT idea.
Seems. Not deems
I certainly hope Donald is planning a pre FCC fight by having Melania mud wrestle Candice Owens on the lawn, both in red white and blue T shirts. That would certainly be in keeping with the crassness that maga culture enjoys
Or Trump mud wrestle Candace. Like some weird half sumo wrestling competition. I bet good money that she'd kick his ass.
Better yet; DJT and Steve Bannon mud wrestling! Two pigs who love it. "lets get ready to rummmmble"!
I would certainly pay good money not to watch that!
I wonder who's going to MC the celebration of an old truck being put up on blocks?
Nice! Now how about this three: Melania; Candice and Rhonda Rouse. M and C get their asses kicked" Nice image. :)
and B Rollins too, she is a nasty one
put kristi in the mix, she has tough talk, still getting a gov't check, I think, prob with special permission, still hogging the admirals home
It's all "kayfabe" at this point. Unfortunately.
I love the World Cup and have attended games in the US (‘94), Germany (‘06) and South Africa (‘10). I love the Olympics and ran with the torch in 1984. It makes me sick that he is our president during these events that will never happen again on our soil in my lifetime. And, make no mistake, he is killing this year’s World Cup and will do the same for LA ‘28.
You ran with the torch? How cool is that!
Very cool (and very lucky). I was born in Tokyo in 1964 during the Tokyo Olympics as my Dad was stationed there. Then, at 20, I ran with the torch down main street in my college hometown (and still have the torch!).
Now I get this image of Kid Rock bearing the torch in 28.
Sorry!
sigh
I really think that the Drear Leader should have his ugly mug on a new bill worth $17 and 76 cents.
As phony and useless as he is...
That makes sense. In the old days it would have been a $3 bill (as in "as phony as a ...," but with inflation ...
Now a days: A phony as Trump University
I'd happily settle for 'useless' as opposed to the reality of insanely destructive.
A fair point, to be honest! :)
I'm sorry, America, but your long national nightmare is scheduled to remain in office for another 966 days.
Bernhard - Old Scratch may come a-callin for his due at any time
Depends on the terms of the arrangement that apparently was made…
I was thinking the same thing.
On the down side, this is all going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
On the up side,, it's about to get a lot worse.
Unless providence is kind to us...
Whatever Iran says about the control of the strait, the whole world saw that they can close it and the U.S. cannot deter them. The strait will be controlled by the Iranians.
The only things this waste of a war proved was that under trump the US is weak and that the Iranians control the World's oil spigot. The only winner is Iran.
Richard - over on the sidelines, China is counting up its good fortune as well
Oh shit! Thanks for saying that! Iran and China are the winners. Russia will also benefit.
China has been saying that since Trump 2.0....... Happy days are here again!
免费 - I’m told these characters mean “free” - gift from our president
Trump and Hegseth got way over their skis on that one. Ill-conceived, ill-executed, and ill-exited, but to be expected.
Trump thought it would be a big win, fast and effortless. What a moron. I bet they all told him it wouldn't work.
Bibi told him he'd end up with a Nobel Prize at the end of it. That's all he heard anyone say.
While Trump learns absolutely nothing from the experience. He is now determined to go after Cuba and is planning a military operation with Guatemala. He is truly like a child waging war with his toy soldiers. Americans hate this Imperialism, can't the Republicans see this is costing them?
"Strait," please.
Noted.
Republicans including their voters bear equal responsibility for this. They love the disfiguration of America. They love how much it pains so many good and decent people out there. America is being raped right now, and being forcefully disfigured so we will never truly free ourselves from Trump and his cultist. This is only going to get worse. As we continue to fight, Republicans will disfigure us more to break our spirit. They will tattoo our faces, brand us a traitors, and do everything in their power to break our will.
Never forget who did this to us, and never let them have a moment of peace.
VOTE in the midterms in November. KEEP voting in every election. VOTE as many of them out of office as we can going forward, at EVERY level - local, state, and federal....
VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE
Id love to see that. I pray that Trump doesnt rig the elections. He is trying to. Getting rid of mail in voting (even though he votes by mail). He said he is having ICE patrol polling places. He is desperately trying to get voter data, I bet so he can disenfranchise Democrats.
He doesn't have to "fix" elections. All he has to do is cry "fraud" at any result he doesn't like. Those claims will be advanced by a credulous media, and justification for not seating the "fraudulent" legislators is provided!
"Gee, I hope it doesn't come to THAT!" laughed Mike Johnson.
That is why we must remove him from as much as possible ... except for the history books.
THIS!!!
And we must fight, if not for ourselves, for our children. They deserve better than the world we now have offer.
It is kind of darkly ironic and appropriate that if the $250 bill fiasco is approved, such a unit of currency would mostly only have value to criminals
I can't wait for ads that say, "your good old American greenback $100 bill not going so far anymore? Well, Trump has an answer for your rising cost of living: a new red-white-and-blue $250 bill with his face on it, to remind you what $100 used to buy." Not quite accurate? Who cares? I don't want the Democrats to become vice signalers, a la JVL's suggestion, but a little poetic license in advertising seems like agood thing to borrow from Republicans right about now.
I am still in shock over what the White House looks like! I keep telling my wife but is wasn't till Steve Schmidt showed her that she gasped and hollared out loud. That is MY house not this idiot's! He is the worst tennant in world history. Congress needs to get busy with an eviction notice.
As an old man who still uses cash, I for one am looking forward to being able to pay for most of my weekly groceries with just one $250 bill.
Hell, at this rate, you could use it to fill up your tank with regular unleaded.
America is becoming a cashless society, almost everyone uses debit or credit card or PayPal or Venmo. If they do flout the law and print these bills, very few people will ever see one.
I would get one, if we all agreed to meet at the Capitol to burn them en masse!!
Another instance that whatever Trump touches dies, like CBS news.
I hear you, Garvin, but are we all that sure that our cost of groceries isn't going to require more of a $500 bill soon enough? Just one Boomer to another, I assume...
ROFL
My greatest fear is that, again as an old man who frequently loses things, I'll just misplace this bill or drop it in the parking lot.
I'm an old woman, but haven't used cash in months. The last 2 times I tried to use cash, it wasn't accepted--I HAD to pay electronically.
Okay, that first statement isn't entirely true--I don't have laundry at home, so I have to go to a laundromat. Used to go to the place across the street from my mom's facility, but she couldn't afford it so she moved into a nursing home, so this month I had to find a new place, and the one close only took quarters. I detest paying $6.75 in quarters (they're heavy if you have 2 washers to feed). I found a new place that has a payment card. SO MUCH EASIER! Most stores don't accept anything over $20, what place is going to take a $250 bill? Who uses cash for something that expensive?
As some folks have pointed out, Kari, I think the $250 bill is for drug deals and other criminal activity - you know, for friends of the administration.
this old woman tries to pay cash or sometimes writes a check. Last time I wrote a check, the 18ish year old clerk had no idea what it was.....
Good luck trying to get someone to take it. Most places I go to won't take anything larger than a $20.
I do love me some big words. The ones I struggle to pronounce, especially.
I was just thinking of my school celebration of its' tercentenary back in 1966 - so that worthy seat of learning is 360 years old this year!
Slightly different perspective in the UK, 'cos everything is old and worn out, including me...
Don't say "old and worn out", say "well used and loved". I grew up in Philadelphia and it spurred my love of history. I thought it was so cool that many important buildings were still standing. Then I was stationed in England in the 80's, a fellow airman and his wife were living in flat in a building that was well over 400 years old! Made Independence Hall seem like new construction!
I recall, with amusement, explaining to a couple of US tourists that the castle keep we were admiring was 850 years old, but that the surrounding Roman walls were 1750 years old.
I could see 'Does not compute' in their faces, bless 'em...
When I lived in France there was a Roman well from the 2nd century. It was small and outside of a building that had a niche and gate so you could still see it. Cool.
I loved England! Everyday I was "marinating" in history. My only regret is not having enough time to visit even more places in England and the rest of the UK.
Me too - and I've lived here all my life!
At some point back in the 1980s I remember meeting an American airman stationed in the UK. He was in Lincoln and was entranced by many monuments and had become an expert on the cathedral. I have degrees in history, but after I finished high school I took hardly any American history classes, it didn’t seem old enough.
I was in a group of friends who would take the train to see different places. We were all history nerds. Of course with London being a short train ride away (barring any British Rail labor concerns LOL!), we were there a lot.
Older and wiser!
Just say 250th, that's my plan. ;D
Bill wrote: "[The law prohibiting the portrait or likeness of any living person ... being engraved or placed upon any .... currency] harkened back to the example of Washington, who during his lifetime turned down having his portrait struck on the first silver dollar, believing this would be reminiscent of a monarch and inappropriate in a republic." But this is exactly what Trump wants: to be remembered as a monarch who doesn't care about the republic. While I admire Bill's hopeful tone, and thank you, it annoys me that 21 percent of the public agrees with Arch Abomination.
Oh, and Trump has done more damage to America and Americans than he has to Iran.