Trump's Second Term

[Fast Eddie B]

He may not know percenrages, but Trump put the star in the star hole! Genius!

Jonathan Pie (@jonathanpienews) on Threads

"I put the star in the star hole. A lot of people can't do that. They try to put it in the hexagon hole. But I put it in the star hole, and it only took me three attempts. I'd like to see AOC do that."

www.threads.com

That quote does not appear in the video associated with that Threads post. So I’m assuming it was fabricated.

 

[Helen]

Jonathan Pie, aka Tom Walker, is a satirist (a very good one), so that's his take on that particular Trumpian flight of fancy.

 

[Andy_Ross]

That quote does not appear in the video associated with that Threads post. So I’m assuming it was fabricated.

Jonathan Pie is a fictional character portrayed by British comedian Tom Walker. He is a political correspondent who rants angrily about Western politics
He has a podcast and radio sitcom both available on BBC sounds as well as his social media accounts.

 

[shemp]

My scarred retinas are such perfect examples of chorioretinitis in someone with congenital toxoplasmosis, that I've made several national tours to be fêted by ophthalmology students. "Perfect", they have sighed, while they've reverently whispered "up to your left" and "down to your right" (not even hesitating when I seemed not to understand the left and right stuff, only rapidly following my lead), "absolutely perfect, no one has ever had such perfect scarring!"

So that makes at least three of us with perfectly bad results!

My bowel movements are so perfect that doctors come from everywhere to watch!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Johnson: They think the government can do a better job by taking over health care. We believe in the private sector and the free market and individual buyers

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982821814813507866

 

[thaiboxerken]

They believe the free market is best for health care, despite decades of evidence showing otherwise.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Johnson: They think the government can do a better job by taking over health care. We believe in the private sector and the free market and individual buyers

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982821814813507866

Neither of the words "health" or "care" involved, clearly.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[lobosrul5]

What do you mean! Our healthcare is working great for.... someone.

According to KFF’s Employer Health Benefits survey, the average premium for family coverage (non-subsidized) was around $25,572 per year in 2024 (which works out to about $2,130 per month)

What is the cost of health insurance for a family of 4? | My Private Health Insurance

The average cost of private health insurance for a family of 4 is $750 to $1200 per month depending on the age of the adults on the plan

myprivatehealthinsurance.com

Imagine if we changed to a system like the NHS where the average person pays about 4.5% of their income for healthcare. Why, every married couple making over $568,000 per year would be screwed!!!

And imagine having to wait up to 4 hours to get treatment and discharged in the ER like in the UK!!!!.. lol I've had a 6 hour wait before in the USA just to see someone at the only ER in the area that accepted my insurance plan.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I SOOO want to see this. Let them get together in a room and have a test administered by an independent expert. She should challenge him to that immediately.

I'm thinking of the Armstrong & Miller spoof of the Krypton Factor where the loser is killed.....

 

[P.J. Denyer]

My bowel movements are so perfect that doctors come from everywhere to watch!

Well, they say they're doctors....

 

[Safe-Keeper]

View attachment 65241

Someone tell all his supporters that he's decided to sterilize himself.

 

[Aridas]

Not in charge

Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"

"I don't take responsibility at all."

With that said, if this is what you're saying, Mike, maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't have cut them out of the process entirely and then worked so hard to browbeat and insult them into rubber stamping your outright murderous efforts. Efforts that hurt Republicans more than Democrats, no less. We all know you and the rest of Republican propagandists will just blame Democrats and the government for the harm and death that you wrought, of course, making it even less enticing. Oh, and a particularly pathetic thing is that the Republican Party is already letting Trump and co illegally refuse to disperse funds anyways, so your choice to actively pursue and continue a shutdown with the what and how of your actions is even more transparent and indefensible when the deceptions you've been spewing are reviewed.

Jonathan Pie, aka Tom Walker, is a satirist (a very good one), so that's his take on that particular Trumpian flight of fancy.

I would think that the satire in that quote should be fairly obvious, honestly... but, to be fair, this is Trump that is being invoked. Trump often goes beyond satire in how stupid and dishonest the BS he spouts is.

 

[Tero]

That quote does not appear in the video associated with that Threads post. So I’m assuming it was fabricated.

Damn. I'm sure he would put the star in the star hole, if we just tested him.
By the way, Fred Trump failed the clock test, at this age. They gave him that fake office then.

 

[Tero]

By the way, every senior on Medicare gets the clock test. My nurse told me of an architect who drew the clock with every minute marked off before he was asked to put the two hands on it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Evidence of declining US influence?

The UK has secured a deal worth up to £8bn to supply Turkey with 20 Typhoon fighter jets.

The deal is the culmination of long-running negotiations, with Britain and Turkey signing a preliminary purchase deal for 40 Typhoons in July.

Starmer signs £8bn deal to supply Turkey with Typhoon fighter jets

The agreement will support thousands of jobs across the UK, the government says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TellyKNeasuss]

Minus 17% and falling.

Below Trump 1.0, far below Biden, so far below Obama you'd probably tap the gauge and ask "is this thing on?".
Literally the lowest approval at any point while he's been in office, and the deluded emperor thinks it's the best poll numbers he's ever had. At least so far we're spared the spectacle of the invisible emperor's new clothes, but how far away can that level of delusion be?

Well, he does like golf, and in golf the lowest score wins.

 

[Aridas]

MIKE JOHNSON: We're evaluating this day by day. The House did its work. House Republicans are doing some of the most meaningful work of their careers. I don't want to pull them away from it.

Also, just to ask... what meaningful work is this, specifically? It was you, Mike, who advised House Republicans not to hold town halls only a few months ago and it was a House Republican from Iowa who said that she'll hold a town hall "when hell freezes over." Should we give a couple guesses as to what work you're speaking about is, then?

Perhaps the "meaningful" work includes virulently racist Rep. Randy Fine of Florida trying to "denaturalize and deport" New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

“I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Fine told the New York Post Saturday.

Then there’s Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who met with the leader of Russia's sovereign wealth fund during his visit to the United States to try to convince Trump and the GOP not to impose sanctions on Russia for targeting innocent civilians in its evil war on Ukraine.

And we can’t forget Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who’s been continuing his investigations into the Biden administration in an attempt to gin up anger among the right. What a “meaningful” use of his time.

Other Republicans are merely using their time off to defend Trump from whatever new scandal is plaguing his administration, whether it be his demolition of the White House, his demonization of the massive “No Kings” protests, or his $230 million shakedown of U.S. taxpayers.

Such meaningful work! As for you, Mike, your meaningful work has been stuff like braying from your pulpit about how it makes perfect legal sense to starve the poor and gaslighting about why you're refusing to seat a Democratic Party Representative who would be the final name to force a vote regarding the Epstein files!

 

[dirtywick]

well they've somehow both cut a bunch of programs and increased spending to near covid levels. that's meaningful in a bad way i suppose

 

[Tero]

Eric Swallwell on MSNBC: Trump's Achilles heel is that he wants to be liked. November 1 cuts will hurt MAGA voters. Air traffic controllers also will miss first paycheck.