I fail to see how such madness is supposed to win votes.
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At a Nebraska rally, Trump called higher prices a “small price to pay” before suggesting allowing Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego.
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- What the F*** did I just hear?
- I know it’s worn-out and tired, but imagine if a Democrat talked about rural states like Mississippi or Alabama or West Virginia the way that Republicans talk about Los Angeles, New York, Chicago or San Diego? It would be a multi-day story about how Democrats hate America.
- Does this stinking pile of fetid orange flesh know about the miltary presence in San Diego?? I guess Republicans don’t #SupportOurMilitary nor miltary families. #NavalBaseSanDiego #NavalBaseCoronado
- What insanity is this?
- Whatever he meant, a Commander in Chief should never talk this way about the people he swore to protect.
- Our servicemembers sacrifice everything for us, and he just told the world their hometowns are expendable.
- The amount of hate Canadians have for this fascist overlord of bulls**t is immeasurable. He’s by far the most universally despised American in Canadian history. “F*** Trump” is our new national anthem.
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What’s going on?
To parphrase reddit:
You hear horns honking, look out your window to see people dancing and shouting joyously in the streets. What just happened?
hope he doesnt know someting we dont about San Diego
Can’t wait to see his reaction when the humble pie is served right in front of him. “It’s all the republican’s fault. It’s not me.They like me” “But sir, your told them to vote like you were on the ballot.” “I did no such thing. Fake news, FAKE NEWS!!!”
Love the dumb blonde who does the mental gymnastics to let people know that the DOGE checks will be coming at the end of his term. So glad she cleared that up. I had already spent the money in my own mind. I was afraid my check had gotten lost in the mail…
With such insane comments, lots of people suggest he has dimentia etc…
I suggest a simpler explanation. He rose to power and has held on to power by echoing the word that his supporters and sychophants to hear. Plenty of other leaders/dictators have trod the same path without reaching ages where mental decline is expected.
The problems comes when that that circle of supporters and sychophants shrinks. When that occurs leaders loose touch with the majority. Propaganda and oppression can keep such leaders in power. Trump has tried modest methods here. (Modest by historical standards, not modest but US democracy standards)
He is losing support because he is listening only to the echo chamer of sychopants and die hard supporters.
Comments such as “Let them [Iran] take out Los Angeles or San Diego” will bring cheers from die hards. But most rational civilians (hopefully) are see the insantiy.
(I don’t think he is ‘insane’ just an idiot that will say anything that he thinks will please his worshippers.)
There’s a lot of truth to your post. Trump discovered via “The Apprentice” that there were a a huge number of fans out there who were hungry for a ‘tough guy’ who would verbalize the conspiracy theorists and liked his racist dog whistles, like the Obama birtherist stuff.
Then he honed his speech lines in real time at his rallies.
Problem is, his supporters actually believed he would govern competently.
Stupid people produce stupid results. He weaponized stupid.
And yet he has so many supporters…which is more sad…
Read some more of that speech…..to be honest, he sounds drunk.
In case you didn’t have the experience of an elderly relative suffering from dementia, that’s how they sound like.
They tend to be impervious to the introduction of new facts. They tend to live in a sawed-off version of the delusions of their youth.
First Paxton sign is up in my wealthy neighborhood. One. In 2024 there were a lot of Trump signs and flags. No Talarico signs inside the brick wall, but there are plenty of them right outside.
The guy is, and has always been, just a bag of Shiite. He’s had a hell of a ride bamboozling all the low IQs, but it seems that the economic pain is overriding the fantasies of some his supporters. It’ll interesting to see how much more delusion induced pain the remaining supports are willing to absorb. The human mind is a curious thing
You can not fix this level of stupid. It is a wildfire and it needs to burn itself out. A large part of the fuel are the boomers and thank goodness we all have limited life span. At least 10 more years of real pain. Hope in 2036 if there is still an America left.
Yes. Its awful since the US has some really serious issues, which he pretends to address, but the citizenry is too ignorant and uneducated to hold him accountable and worse – believes his simplistic , self serving BS
Throw in a whole propaganda industry of conservative media.
Here is the bad news: my generation (gen x) and roughly ages 45-64, broke harder for Trump than people 65+ did. The 65+ crowd has many people who remember Nixon and Vietnam- my generation has none of those. I have ex friends who went Trump and did so out of sheer ignorance of history.
I have a boomer Uncle, die hard Trumper, who raised 4 gen x kids to be as stupid as he is and only one broke free partially. He was the “patriarch” so he desperately tried to get the extended family into his stupidity and mostly failed. No one but the cult members talk to this clown anymore. His health aint great so maybe when he goes bye-bye his kids wont play along anymore but who know how deep the cult cut is here.
So when I blame the boomers, it extends beyond the boomer generation to the mess they created with their own offspring.
And trump picked up the Latino and Black vote but that too is in tatters now.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-approval-record-low-hispanic-191705091.html
This was who put Trump over the top last election and I knew it would be a one time deal.
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“I’m literally a U.S. citizen. I’m literally a U.S. citizen.”
An employee at Target is detained in January 2026 in Richfield, Minnesota.
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/
That’s quite a boomer fixation you have there, and it is surfacing more and more. Your rage is palpable. Good luck with that. “I know a guy” is rotten sampling, worthy of what you think you have a superior sense of.
Rest assured this country is brimming over with people exploitable for manipulation along lines of demographic resentment. MAGA is perfectly in line with that kind of susceptibility, along various fault lines. So you fit right into this moment.
Anyone can win an election, under the right circumstances. But the US system is self-correcting.
Trump picked up 2 percent or so of a bunch of groups that would not vote for him. It is my belief if someone was to investigate you would find some very targeted social media combined with early ai all from musk.
its the fact we grew up during Reagans rah rah era.
There may not be, but that shouldn’t be a problem for you.
We’ll be lucky to have a modern civilization by that time if they let Ai loose.
That could be the subject of a Master’s thesis on cult membership retention
He’s doing exactly what he wants: hogging the news cycle and winding up the left like clockwork.
I tend to agree that this story is a waste of time and a distraction. We know he’s a piece of shit already. This isn’t even in the top 20 of awful shit he’s said or done.
No contest
Biggest blow hard in history
Bigger than Baghdad Bob
A worsening deranged mind is totally unpredictable. I assume the MAGA group are just like him.
They are highly perishable vegetables. We just have to make it until they’ve all filled their last diaper.
When i was a kid i was watching wrestling on tv. It was the american vs russians theme at the time. My dad walked by and said when he was a kid it was the Japanese. Flash forward to my twenties. Started noticing the republicans always got to have some bad guy or threat to unite behind.
Its got worse over the years. Think its the rise of conservative talk shows. The money from the very wealthy is root cause. Because the very wealthy need a number of voters to keep their people in office. I hope trump is so bad the republican voters are waking up to the facts they are being duped. We would be way better off if voters held their politicians to the same standards as the opposition.
If your kid did something bad and pulled tge little johnny down the street does it. You would not let it fly.
I find it funny during the rake the forest era in ca. trump threw a ton of his base under the bus. Then they blamed everyone but trump.
A Scary Enemy is always needed, regardless who is in power.
You can track the progress of society in cinema as a parallel to politics.
1970s: Paranoia, social upheaval, and the “anti‑hero”
The 1970s are often seen as Hollywood’s most cynical and politically charged decade, shaped by Vietnam, Watergate, inflation, and civil rights/feminist movements.
1980s: Reaganism, greed, Cold War, and spectacle
The 1980s saw a turn toward big budgets, high concept stories, and more overt ideology, influenced by Reagan/Thatcher conservatism, renewed Cold War tensions, and rising consumer culture.
1990s: Global threats, irony, and indie realism
Post–Cold War, the 1990s mix glossy genre entertainment with a rise in independent cinema, often marked by irony, self‑awareness, and more explicit treatment of social issues.
2000s (2000–2009): Post‑9/11 anxiety, globalization, and fractured identities
After 2001, cinema is heavily shaped by 9/11, the “War on Terror,” rapid globalization, and digital culture, alongside continuing identity politics.
The last 10 years have been “savior” complex with Marvel movies showcasing “heros” like Spiderman, Ironman, Avengers, etc because everyone wants to be saved by a superhero. Trump rolled right into that one for MAGA morons.
No one is going to save you guys except YOU.
In my adult life since the 90s, I went so few times to the movies that I could probably count them just using my fingers and toes, except for the last decade, when no finger or tow is necessary. I just don’t watch grown men doing childish stuff, which includes sports.
Yeah, what is the deal with humans and superhero movies?
Like grown-up humans watching Batman. Do they still wear Underoos?
Man I am so with you on this. Cannot understand it- why are grown ass adults watching this stuff? I have a grown male adult acquaintance who is infatuated with Disney, like, what the hell?
Curious he didn’t say NY city if he has an axe to grind.
President Henry Fonda took out NYC 62 years ago.
In the very last scene!
He also called South Carolina Democrat Annie Andrews a “tranny” because that’s literally all he has. Democrats are polling close in SC right now, by the way. I wonder if that will help them.
This is oblique, stupid, data-free, “imminent threat” scare talk, dressed up as some sort of casual cool-guy snark. So these adversaries have been hating on America for 47 years, and have not managed to tip over an ice cream cone here. But they will climb in our windows tonight and annihilate us before the midterms. Anyone dumb enough to vote on that, meanwhile fronting blood and treasure daily into unnamed strategy and mired war and absurd claims, deserves what they get: a huge cost with no clear path through the self-engineered mess.
Remember Saddam’s WMD and a 45-minute threat to European destruction? And the affordable war that was needed to fix it?
This insane demon needs to be impeached and committed to a mental institution. I would normally say he needs to be sent to the Hague, tried and imprisoned for war crimes, but I have to make an exception here as he is clearly insane.
He’s clearly feeling out how the public would feel about a false flag attack.
One major attack like 9/11 on American soil to galvanize the public behind the war effort. We went into Iran/Afghanistan outraged and looking for blood in the wake of 9/11. The presumption is the public would react in the same way and these kinds of statements are feelers.
The problem with Trump is everyone knows he’s a lyin’ sack of $hit. Maybe except the 0.1% of the population that attends his rallies. Since he doesn’t do maths, he’ll probably think he has the go ahead. In reality, he’ll get Mussolinied.
An older friend just had me watch the movie iRobot and suggested that I watch it with the perspective of co-pedophiles Musk as the owner of the robotics company and Trump invisible in the background as president.
The real twist? No Will Smith or theatrics to stop the robots.
Kind of a “Holy Shit” experience since we all see what robots are capable of as agents of death.
Mish is being deliberately disingenuous here. Clearly Trump wasn’t calling for it, or saying that he would allow it. To believe this is moronic, beyond imagination.
Clearly he was saying that the price of losing LA or San Diego is much worse than the higher gas prices now being paid.
Mish is being intentionally ignorant here. This is deliberate, and its deceptive. He thinks his readers are too supid to see the obvious. Mish is LYING. What he said is not even remotely close to what Mish (and other liars in the media) is suggesting.
“These gas prices hurt, but much less than losing LA or SD” That is what he said. Or, believe Mish telling you Truimp is just fine with Los Angeles being obliterated.
LIES from a fallen and disgraceful LIAR.
Mish simply quoted the President. A President who cares about no one but himself. He hates the Democrats in LA, were you not paying attention when he made comments about the fire there, or when he sent ICE in?
You are the liar, not Mish.
Trump was definitely joking, in that LA and SD are liberal bastions. His MAGA crowd got the ‘joke’.
But suppose Trump was, as you suggest, “Clearly he was saying that the price of losing LA or San Diego is much worse than the higher gas prices now being paid.”
He should immediately acknowledge it as an incredible gaffe and say that he ‘misspoke’.
Well, we all know he won’t.
And for you to immediately assail Mish just reinforces how MAGA has lost every possible shred of credibility with fair-minded observers.
If you played the video, you would have heard Mish quoted Trump’s literal words. He said letting Iran take out LA and SD would be a small price to pay. To contest that is to reject factual reality, which is required to be a Trumper.
Demagoguery. “the price of losing LA or San Diego is much worse than the higher gas prices now being paid.” The price of gas IS being paid, NOW. The “price” of losing those major cities is so speculative and contingent, these cannot earnestly be weighed together today. It is a false equation.
You’re lying. He literally said: “let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”
His fans cheered wildly. It’s funny how much MAGA has to tell lies to keep their self-delusions and worship going. It’s like watching a Christian evangelist try to defend some belief with a quote from the Bible. Then you simply point out what the Bible actually says. This is the result of underfunding public education.
Mish has never intentionally lied to readers. I am confident of this. However, honest smart people often perceive data differently, especially if the data is noisy.
After reading your comment, I decided to watch the longer video rather than rely on the short transcript. It changed my mind. I appended my thoughts to my original reaction way down below.
I would +1 your comment for offering a different interpretation but refrain from doing so because of the extra baggage of insulting our honest host.
To think that people called Biden not fit to serve because he’d lose his train of thought or looked sleepy. Meanwhile they cheer a guy who struggles to put together two coherent sentences in a row and is caught snoozing at meetings on the regular.
Uses threats of genocide to try and get what he wants, I don’t recall Biden doing that either. Biden also never doubled gas prices after promising to halve them in 12 months.
Yeah, but Trump hates the same people they do and hurts them on the TV.
Pointing out Trump’s obvious imbecility does not make one a supporter of Biden. Noting Biden’s senility does not make on a supporter of Trump.
There are not words to describe how low Trump is on the human scale. He simply has no regard for other humans and absolutely no capacity for empathy.
We might as well have a Fox News robot at the helm of the greatest nation on earth.
He will be replaced with decency, count on it!
“He will be replaced with decency, count on it!”
You are much more optimistic than I
The USA did elect Jimmy Carter once, on that sort of sentiment. That doesn’t mean the next one will “be” a Jimmy Carter, per se.
Jimmy Talarico
Power inevitably ends up int he hands of sociopaths, because, unlike normies, sociopaths will do whatever it takes to get power, and will weaponize normie reticence.
Let hem eat Mar a Lago.
This is the kind of rhetoric that got him elected in 2024. He’s simply falling back on it.
Look, I hate Trump as much as anyone here, but I think what he was clearly trying to say – inartfully, as usual – was that if he didn’t stop Iran from getting nukes, the alternative is that they would “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego. He wasn’t offering up those cities to Iran. Besides, Israel would never let LA be destroyed. San Diego, maybe, but not LA.
People should not need to read between the lines or struggle for rational intepretations of what the US president has just said publicly, especially when it involves war and attacks on US soil.
I agree with that.
I don’t think your interpretation is suitable, due to the cheers of the crowd when he said it.
He was throwing SD and LA under the bus, and his words definitely sound like a threat.
But I agree, there are two possible ways to take the literal wording. Trump’s word salads are getting worse by the day, it’s like trying to parse my dog’s whines while she’s sleeping.
“the cheers of the crowd when he said it”
This is the crux of the problem with his statement.
Our president should be able to speak basic English well enough to be perfectly understood when saying big things like this.
agree
Stop with the ridiculously high standards. Next you’ll demand that Presidents be honest and competent.
Ah, another subtlety… like Melanoma’s “I dont’ care, do you” raincoat
or could just be the ol dog whistle ploy.
Too many John Wayne old trashy movies.
Trump jumped the shark a long time ago.
The Donald Falstaff Tartuffe is the shark.
Let the shark eat
Small hands still hold the nuclear football. Or, say, plague responses.
I would guess that if I were around my Dad he would say that Trump makes him smile. “Entertaining.”
He is DIE-HARD RED.
Yeah, my dad is the same. Dad doesn’t do anything anymore but watch Fox, so the brain corrosion is incredible to see.
If Biden had praised Allah in a Truth Social post, or struggled with his words like Trump has recently, the howling on the right would have been deafening.
Now, we’re greeted with deafening defense from MAGA instead.
Pudding Heads
My father died last year. He was a retired Florida Deputy Sheriff. About as conservative a guy as you’ll ever meet. He told me that Donald Trump with the biggest moron to ever get elected by a nation of morons. After 40 years in law enforcement, he didn’t have a lot of respect for the integrity of the average American.
Trump: “With the war, it’s just artificial. It’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay … let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”
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(Control Middle East Oil Supply).! (‘Finishing Off – Iran’)
Gen W. Clark 2001
Minutes ago, I drove past a great deal of the military infrastructure (and people) that sent our carriers to the Iran conflict, and comprise the cornerstone of our Pacific force. Knowing a substantial number are Trump supporters, I wonder what rationalizations they would make to mentally dance around this. I assume the primary one is, Trump is at least 50% BS’ing at all times. Strange to think that of a principal leader in the world, and contemporary world history. But how is this rant “owning the libs,” as I gaze across miles of GOP-dominated bases, and the SoCal region of massive business activity?
Trump and Netanyahu both have hugely important elections coming up. I would not be surprised to see a false flag attack on either of their own populations to rally support behind them.
Just another day in the life of King Chaos the Shit Talker….
@Mish – what is your current take on gold??
Nebraska deserves what it gets.
It is like he is trying to set the US up for unrest over the next few months. What on earth is he planning.
From this I would say he’s planning a false flag operation in Los Angeles or San Diego.
Declare national emergency and suspend elections.
I wonder if you can bet on that on Kalshi yet?
He knows if the pedo protectors lose power, President Pedo Pig is getting spit roasted.
He will do literally anything to prevent it. Think about it. Imagine Chris Hansen telling him to have a seat over there, and Trumpstien whipping out the nuclear football.
Because if false flag doesn’t work, he will turn the military on us. If that doesn’t work, he will nuke us.
We are literally at the whims of a nuclear armed pedophile that will not accept justice.
I don’t think he is the planning type, but his instincts clearly drive towards creating division, conflict and chaos, a context in which he has proven to be able to thrive.
In a non-stupid universe, he’d be in a Medicaid rest home, expressing his instincts by chucking diapers at his roomie and paint the walls with poop.
He is planning what the Epstein class has always planned: maximizing their own welfare at the maximum cost to the proles.
On the plus side, that easy living makes their flesh tender and succulent.
Why would anyone be surprised by someone that hides his grades and taxes?
why would anyone be surprised by someone who cowers in a food truck on a tarmac in Turkey while he uses a.mother of a newborn baby as a decoy?
“The food truck had the most delicious falafel in Turkey. We had the truck to ourselves. It was wonderful. I said to one of my aides “isnt this the best?”. She is Turkish and agreed with me.”
How’s my spin?
The disclosure of grades by Presidential candidates has changed over the last few decades. Biden and GWB both released their grades, even though they were really bad, because they thought it was necessary. Obama and Trump did not disclose their presumably awful grades, and we learned the public doesn’t really care. I don’t expect any candidate in the future to release their grades unless they are good.
No, because then they’ll be a “nerd”, and reduce their electability by seeming “elite”. Or egghead, or out of touch, or ivory tower intellectual or some other dumb phrasing.
Obama was president of Harvard Law review
Clinton was a Rhodes scholar
Blame people still trying to emulate Reagan “folksiness”
President of the Law Review just means Obama has good political skills, not that he had good grades. It is an elected position, like student body presidents. From Wikipedia:
Becoming a Rhodes scholar, on the other hand, is a very impressive academic achievement.
GWB and Trump are Nepo babies
Biden a hustler
But Obama is easily one of our most intellectual presidents, agree with his policies or no
Biden seemed pretty sharp 30 years ago. I still remember how he tanked his own campaign via plagiarism.
He was always a gaffe machine, though.
aint no stupid like Maga stupid.
Stupid You Can Depend On
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Just watched it, belatedly. It’s possible he meant “suppose” instead of “let”. The latter sounds like pandering to an R crowd. But it’s possible he didnt mean it that way.
So, although he often says nasty things about many people including people who voted for him (perhaps most infamously calling MAGA voters “losers”), I won’t count this one against him.
TexasTim might be correct about the false flag feeler or just general fear mongering.
The tell here is that he used two big blue cities, not a local city or one in Florida.
It was a joke that landed, at least with the crowd.
I noticed that too.
You’re point sat with me.
At the very least, its a kind of Freudian slip from a demented narcissist. It does show he hates (at least) half the country.
So, yeah, I count it against him…again.
Oh, lawd…I made the your / you’re error. First time in my life. Apologies to everyone. 😉
Haha! There is an edit function for ‘you’re’ own posts, if you click on it you’ll get a tiny little ‘settings ‘ icon.
It’s kinda like an editor from the early days of the web but it is functional.
It times out though. I noticed my error only after returning too late.
Glad u enjoyed my little note. 🙂