The Burnt Orange Emperor was, in fact, “not wearing any clothes”

To my way of thinking, Simon Rosenberg properly understands our Mad King. Rosenberg has the Truth Social style down. Here's a sample:

The Big Blubbery Baby Man had a really bad week ... So, here we are. Paul Krugman called it “Caracas on the Potomac.” Others have described it as “enshittification.”

... The anger and “off with her head” rage exploded yesterday ... Trump has had a remarkably bad last two months and the “success” of his tariffs and economic plan had begun the process of restoring his STRENGTH and POWER. This period of struggle and decline, of weakening and losing, began with Elon’s three day long Twitter attack that introduced the Epstein files to our discourse and deeply wounded Trump.

Trump then began a series of acts that [were] designed to restore his MANHOOD that had been wounded by Elon - his immigration escalation and MARINES in LA; his sad birthday parade with THE MILITARY; his BOMBING of Iran; the signing of his big ugly bill on THE 4th OF JULY. 

None of it worked. His poll numbers kept dropping Putin and Bibi continued to defy him. No country agreed to a trade agreement, not one, in his 90 deals in 90 days fantasy. His desperate attempt to bury the dangerous Epstein files exploded, spectacularly. Dozens of young girls died in a Texas camp due in part to his undermining of FEMA and the National Weather Service.

Something needed to be done. His STRENGTH had to be restored. And so our mad leader announced that on August 1st the world would feel his STRENGTH and know his POWER through his TARIFFS. If the world and the American people would not BEND THE KNEE he would BEND it for them.

Yes, it was true that THE PEOPLE were unhappy with these TARIFFS. They did not want prices to rise, businesses to be hurt, our economy to slow and our allies angered. But they did not KNOW as he did. And they would come to KNOW and BE THANKFUL to the leader for his GREAT WISDOM. He would SHOW them.

And then the TARIFFS came. 35% for you, 41% for you, angry mean Truths for you Brazil. q2 GDP came in at 3%. Inflation while rising had not yet run wild. His economic plan, despite the critics and the naysayers and the evil Fed Chair, was working. The markets rose. His STRENGTH, at long last, had begun to be RESTORED.

His trade advisor Peter Navarro went on Fox News this celebrated the BRILLIANCE and COURAGE of our leader and said that only did President Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize he deserved the Nobel Prize in economics too: A new $200 million BALLROOM fit for his GREATNESS was announced. Ghislaine, his dear friend, was moved to a country club prison. Texas committed to give him 5 more Congressional seats. POWER was being RESTORED.

But then that terrible Fed Chairman did not cut interest rates as he was ORDERED, saying, with great hubris and traitorous lies that in fact the TARIFFS were increasing prices and inflation was rising. And yesterday, that BLS harpy defiantly reported that in fact Trump’s economic plan was not working; that his critics were in fact were correct; that the economy was not strong but weak; and thus the source of his renewed STRENGTH and POWER was an illusion, and was no more. The Burnt Orange Emperor was, in fact, “not wearing any clothes” exclaimed the Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all to hear.

 The markets, our leader’s friend, did not take the news well and fell, sharply, rudely, wiping out all of the gains since Inauguration day. Here’s The Dow:
    •    Day 1 - 43,487 
    •    Friday - 43,588

Again, something had to be done. Nuclear Submarines were moved into a more offensive position. And so, SHE was FIRED ... 

Rosenberg leads his online band of "proud, plucky patriots" in entreating and berating office holders, Dems and Republicans alike, to stand up and do their jobs, while also helping key Democratic candidates win elections. He's too Democratic Party-loyal for my taste and for a lot of my friends, but these folks are WORKING in their way to stop the Trump regime. Check 'em out at Hopium Chronicles.

A view of our world from a responsible US Senator

This is so good, I must pass it on. By way of The Status Kuo. Concurrently, Mr. Capeheart, a long time fixture at the Washington Post is moving on. He won't gloss over "threats to democracy" from the Trump regime and the MAGA Republicans.

Netanyahu’s Stalin-grade, Mao-height lie

 

Chicago journalist Gerald Farinas puts Israel's atrocity in Gaza in proper historical perspective:

 

“There is no starvation,” said Stalin, Mao, and now Netanyahu.

We are watching people starve to death in 2025, and someone is telling us it isn’t happening.

The pictures coming out of Gaza make my stomach turn. Children who look like skeletons with skin stretched over their bones. Babies who weigh less than Winston, my friends’ white kitten. Mothers holding their dying babies, not from bombs this time, but from hunger.

There have been precedents. 

In the 1930s, Stalin’s government took food away from Ukraine. Between 4 and 7 million Ukrainians starved to death in what’s called the Holodomor.

Stalin’s officials denied it was happening, even as people collapsed in the streets.

In the late 1950s, Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s policies in China led to a famine that killed between 15 and 45 million people.

The Chinese government called it “three years of natural disasters.” They said it’s impossible for them to be at fault.

In the 1980s and beyond, as famines swept through Ethiopia, Somalia, and other parts of Africa, much of the world looked away. We treated African hunger like it was just the way things were, instead of recognizing how wars and politics created these crises.

Each time, people in power said the hunger wasn’t real, wasn’t that bad, or wasn’t their fault. Each time, people died while the world debated.

Are we seriously going to accept Netanyahu’s Stalin-grade, Mao-height lie that there is no famine? 

We seem to have gotten to the moment when even our reality-challenged, narcissist President seems to have noticed. Never of course admitting he's abetting the problem. Never again?

Friday cat blogging

 

It's hard being confined indoors when you're optimized for hunting any small critter that moves. Several times a day, Janeway and Mio hear or spy some animal outside their windows and go into full alert mode.

Sitting around behind them, we usually can't see what all the fuss is about. But they have senses and instincts we lack.

It's a cooperative practice for these two.