OK, us GenXers might be made of tough stuff, but what the hell explains the Cruzes, Musks, and Hawleys? No fun during the 90s? Not enough hugs? Not enough bullying? Lead poisoning?
And just FYI, my son born in 1979 was ALWAYS securely seat belted in my car. Maybe I am a helicopter mom. Nah, he definitely rode his bike all over the neighborhood.
My daughter was born in 1979, I was insistent on a seatbelt. However, she rode her bike and roller bladed around the neighborhood all without a helmet. On the other hand, horse back ridding, when I was around, she wore a helmet. I’m guilty of being somewhat of a 🚁.
My dad always made me wear my seatbelt also. But he was the only parent who did. My mom used to let me ride standing up in the front seat (I was short & couldn't see).
Gen post boomer here-one word comes to mind with a few adjectives, entitled, weak, whiny, lying, bull shitting dipshit who is the scariest man on the planet because he is tearing down are democracy brick by brick and we have to get him out of that job before he does more damage!🖤🌚😱Soulless!
I always thought of it as silver spoon hemorrhoids and when he went looking for his silver spoon, he got his head stuck, anal-cranial fusion, if you get my drift. Heck, he can't even spell, when he wrote his book he spelled Steal - Deal. The actual name is "The Art of the Steal"
Those were the douchebags that bullied everyone else and were mush inside. You most likely remember these fuckers all through school. They should have been killed then...but somehow they escaped their well deserved fate.
Thete are so many from our generation that drank the kool-aid. I don't get it. I grew up hearing "Russia is bad and our enemy" from MSM in the 80s and now look.
Totally agree!! Did no one else remember all the villains in movies were Russian?? And now they want to have free for all AI... Dude- the machines will take over and I am NOT fit enough to fight!
I agree with you…but how do we explain the hords of sycophants that surround him and do his bidding with no regard for our country’s constitution or the rule of law. Baffles my mind.
Totally agree. I’m 75 and have a really hard time figuring out how so many “old” people in my age group continue to defend him? They’re old enough to spot a snake oil salesman when they see one.
Too many of them watch state media, i.e. FoxNews, Newsmax, and OAN. They are bombarded over and over with how great MAGAs are and how bad everyone else is, and that's the trick—say something loudly and often enough, people start to believe it's true. Throw in the ingrained bigotry and misogyny that is part of too many of our generation (I'm almost 79), and they're easily convinced.
For example, I had a man who is a few years younger than me defend Trump's pardon of the January 6th crowd by saying that many of them were held in jail "without due process." Huh? Yes, I have no doubt that some of them were held in jail until their trial, but that is called NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE BAIL! It is unfair to poor people, but IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY!!! It was not some denial of due process, they did get a trial or hearing, and they didn't get shipped off to a third world prison before they did. You can bet he heard that "denial of due process" argument on "state TV."
I also know several retired police officers who are loyal MAGAs. It boggles my mind that they actually support a man who incited a mob to attempt a coup (make no mistake—that's what it was, an attempted coup, not a riot) and, in the process, multiple police officers were injured. My neighbor works at a county jail, and most of her coworkers are also MAGAs. She's told them that she hopes they'll donate their brains to science when they die so we can figure out what is wrong with them!
Every day their getting scammed on the phone and internet, their not as smart as they think they are. And here comes Trump to put a stamp on their heads with the words "IDIOT".
Totally agree, Joan. It's amazing how he fooled so many for so long. It's worth remembering that Trump was a New York liberal Democrat until they (New Yorkers) got wise to him decades ago. One can only hope that the "masses" who continue to support him will eventually get wise, too.
Every time he puts something like this out, I get sick that enough people thought this monster was “just fine” for them. I read this and am repulsed that a sick, mentally ill monster like this literally has the ability to completely destroy the planet with one moment of rage and the push of a button. I hope he eventually has his ass handed to him and he gets what he deserves.
Indeed. Every single accusation is something he himself has done, is currently doing, or will eventually do. Truly hypocritical, narcissistic, deplorable, and downright sad that a human like this ends up in the White House somehow, and twice, no less.
Spot on and the mental gymnastics that his supporters perform to justify posts like that ("he fights back", etc.), show the same level of childish intellect that Trump displays.
I'm convinced that a deep cognitive study of his brain would show his mental growth stopped at early adolescence.
Seriously I have never seen a luckier human being in my life. He is rarely held accountable for anything - ok he did get 30+ felonies in one trial and was convicted for SA in another but he made sure the election was rigged so he’d never have to face the truly serious trials for the insurrection and stealing classified documents AND NOW HE IS PRESIDENT because the Founding Fathers or Framers forgot to write “NO FELONS CAN EVER HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE PEOPLE!” He gets to sit at the Resolute Desk watching Musk destroy the federal government and Russ Vought go line by line making Project 2025 a reality and sits with the N@zi Stephen Miller praising ICE as they kidnap people right and left sending them to foreign gulags. And now he’s saying f*** you to the SCOTUS. And of course, Joe Biden gets cancer. I’m sorry I’m not a horrible person - I was born at the beginning of Generation X so I know how unfair life is but wow this POS goes on and on and on. Truly I have never seen a human being escape so much accountability in my life. 😩
Trump is so weak and pathetic...maybe he should go without eating today...and a few more days...like he and the Republicans want others to do here and around the world...then he could have something real to cry about...lying in bed feeling the pangs of hunger and wasting away. So stop wasting our time...and do your job. Really pathetic...him and the Republicans...
Proud GenXer here (barely - just made it in '77)! A childhood without cell phones, social media, and helicopter parents (at least in the case of mine and my friend's parents - I'm sure there were some out there) was a wonderful thing! By 1st grade, if not before, I was walking the block and a half to and from my best friend's house - yes, she is still my best friend and I'm the luckiest person in the world - on my own. When I got home from school and my parents were still at work, I knew how to get my own snack and do my homework (we still had that then, even in elementary school). Drank plenty of water from the hose in the backyard. And looking back, I'd say I was pretty darn self-sufficient for a kid. And I loved almost every minute! I mourn for all the kids growing up now, including my own, who will never know a life without social media and cell phones, will never know how to occupy themselves on a long car ride just looking out the window or listening to music, and will never know the peace of a life without constant noise and stimulation. But to someone else's point, yes, there are absolutely some GenXers who suck! There are bad apples in every bunch! The snowflake in chief and his minions at the top of the list!
My younger daughter was born in August 1977, and she is the most self-sufficient, independent woman. Her sister was born in May 1974. Although older, she doesn’t have the same grit as her sister (because of many factors). Adam and all, are correct in that it was a different yet in-between time with a foot in the pre-social media moving into the personal computer and social media era. I am grateful for the women they are now. And today, my 47, almost 48-year-old daughter is the reason her nephew is starting his post-college graduation job at a high-end interior design firm. Having your Aunt as the one who opens the door to opportunity is priceless.
AS a very young boomer -Trump is - to most of us older folk - and ALWAYS has been disgusting. He has CONSISTENTLY been the butt of jokes and an embarrassment and he has always been a racist, a sexual predator, hateful, cruel and just gross. (And as to this election, he cheated... but here we are.) Currently, he is mentally gone. He's ill and has all the markers of a man in obvious mental decline, but no one removes him from office. 25th amendment? I'm exhausted with him. Completely over it. Further, I am sick of him and his followers, enablers and sycophants. Narcissists are ALWAYS victims. Nothing new here.
I'm also late-stage Boomer, and I find it shocking that Gen X and younger were really not aware of Trump until "The Apprentice" television show. And they never looked more closely than that before they became cult members.
He doesn't even dress himself or do any of the things that the majority of active Americans do during their days. The most fragile and fractured human is what the Toddler King is.
Too bad we can’t just take our ball & go home (or find another court)every time he calls foul. Adam you are absolutely right…..The emperor has No Clothes !!!
Right now we feel stuck -and there are good bits of progress happening: people being released from custody, the regime losing court cases, more & more folks pulling their heads put of the sand & taking a look around. … hey I didn’t vote for this !! Please don’t forget about we elders who have much, maybe everything to lose as medical care & social security are on the chopping block….I’d much rather see certain heads on that block. We still live & breathe & march & have a lot of fight left in us ..!!!!
You nailed it Adam! Trump and his cohorts (who "follow their leader) are only able to Lie, complain, blame and deflect. How can anyone get anything good done when they spend all of their time doing those things?
Can you imagine anyone outside the United States reading this with their morning coffee ? I have been really cheered up by this newsletter. We should be embarrassed by his behavior but I am beyond embarrassment. As Charlie Sykes says: “we are not the crazy ones.” With all the hotspots in the world today, he is worried about Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen? I just cracked up typing that ! Thanks - I might have ended up crying this morning until I saw this .❤️
True story. I feel the second-hand embarrassment on a daily basis with this guy and his wholly unqualified administration. Truly astounding amounts of ineptitude and selfishness the likes of which the U.S. has never seen before. It's like having to sllap myself every day to realize the fact that this is who represents the most powerful nation in the world, and somehow it has happened twice.
OK, us GenXers might be made of tough stuff, but what the hell explains the Cruzes, Musks, and Hawleys? No fun during the 90s? Not enough hugs? Not enough bullying? Lead poisoning?
I mean, some of our cohort sucks out loud.
Hahaha who knows. Dropped on head?
Here is an old but hilarious YouTube video from the pandemic days! https://youtu.be/AVetNcRKTF0?si=iv8v3PM5C2zTRWF3
Every time I watch this it shakes me out of my “firehose” haze. We all need to have a good laugh once in awhile.
LOL. About as intelligible as Donny's replies to pretty much anything. "IIII ybbbbyyynnoo noonnoonoonoo," LOL! Great video.
How many of those MAGA men had abusive fathers? No data to prove it, but seems to be an association.
And just FYI, my son born in 1979 was ALWAYS securely seat belted in my car. Maybe I am a helicopter mom. Nah, he definitely rode his bike all over the neighborhood.
My daughter was born in 1979, I was insistent on a seatbelt. However, she rode her bike and roller bladed around the neighborhood all without a helmet. On the other hand, horse back ridding, when I was around, she wore a helmet. I’m guilty of being somewhat of a 🚁.
My dad always made me wear my seatbelt also. But he was the only parent who did. My mom used to let me ride standing up in the front seat (I was short & couldn't see).
BINGO!!!! 😵💫🥴
Hey,Thanks for all the content your providing. I'm getting far more then I ever expected. Thanks!!! 😊
Born with a SILVER SPOON in their mouths : ‘entitled’ but without the ethics of ‘service’.
Gen post boomer here-one word comes to mind with a few adjectives, entitled, weak, whiny, lying, bull shitting dipshit who is the scariest man on the planet because he is tearing down are democracy brick by brick and we have to get him out of that job before he does more damage!🖤🌚😱Soulless!
Correction “our democracy,” I got a little too worked up!😳🤣
I always thought of it as silver spoon hemorrhoids and when he went looking for his silver spoon, he got his head stuck, anal-cranial fusion, if you get my drift. Heck, he can't even spell, when he wrote his book he spelled Steal - Deal. The actual name is "The Art of the Steal"
Coward Hawley? Raised in the hyper-hypocritical evangelical church, taught that white men should rule all. Especially women and minorities.
Those were the douchebags that bullied everyone else and were mush inside. You most likely remember these fuckers all through school. They should have been killed then...but somehow they escaped their well deserved fate.
Thete are so many from our generation that drank the kool-aid. I don't get it. I grew up hearing "Russia is bad and our enemy" from MSM in the 80s and now look.
Totally agree!! Did no one else remember all the villains in movies were Russian?? And now they want to have free for all AI... Dude- the machines will take over and I am NOT fit enough to fight!
I saw terminator when I was a kid. AI not necessarily a good thing.
I agree with you…but how do we explain the hords of sycophants that surround him and do his bidding with no regard for our country’s constitution or the rule of law. Baffles my mind.
Totally agree. I’m 75 and have a really hard time figuring out how so many “old” people in my age group continue to defend him? They’re old enough to spot a snake oil salesman when they see one.
Too many of them watch state media, i.e. FoxNews, Newsmax, and OAN. They are bombarded over and over with how great MAGAs are and how bad everyone else is, and that's the trick—say something loudly and often enough, people start to believe it's true. Throw in the ingrained bigotry and misogyny that is part of too many of our generation (I'm almost 79), and they're easily convinced.
For example, I had a man who is a few years younger than me defend Trump's pardon of the January 6th crowd by saying that many of them were held in jail "without due process." Huh? Yes, I have no doubt that some of them were held in jail until their trial, but that is called NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE BAIL! It is unfair to poor people, but IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY!!! It was not some denial of due process, they did get a trial or hearing, and they didn't get shipped off to a third world prison before they did. You can bet he heard that "denial of due process" argument on "state TV."
I also know several retired police officers who are loyal MAGAs. It boggles my mind that they actually support a man who incited a mob to attempt a coup (make no mistake—that's what it was, an attempted coup, not a riot) and, in the process, multiple police officers were injured. My neighbor works at a county jail, and most of her coworkers are also MAGAs. She's told them that she hopes they'll donate their brains to science when they die so we can figure out what is wrong with them!
Every day their getting scammed on the phone and internet, their not as smart as they think they are. And here comes Trump to put a stamp on their heads with the words "IDIOT".
Spelled MAGA
Totally agree, Joan. It's amazing how he fooled so many for so long. It's worth remembering that Trump was a New York liberal Democrat until they (New Yorkers) got wise to him decades ago. One can only hope that the "masses" who continue to support him will eventually get wise, too.
Our country may have “eventually” to wait.
May not have
evidently not
I think it’s as general mccrystal says we’ve lost track of basic morals “character” every one of the sycophants has a personal agenda.
The opportunity for money💰and power!!
Every time he puts something like this out, I get sick that enough people thought this monster was “just fine” for them. I read this and am repulsed that a sick, mentally ill monster like this literally has the ability to completely destroy the planet with one moment of rage and the push of a button. I hope he eventually has his ass handed to him and he gets what he deserves.
Can't wait for the corruption trials!!!!
Omg, this guys a clown. It’s funny how he talks about what’s illegal in his tweet when everything he does is illegal. Does it have a brain?
“Every accusation is a confession.” Projection is his only tool. Also, he’s a tool.
Indeed. Every single accusation is something he himself has done, is currently doing, or will eventually do. Truly hypocritical, narcissistic, deplorable, and downright sad that a human like this ends up in the White House somehow, and twice, no less.
Exactly!!
Romania just turned the Putin puppet out, wakey, wakey America (those who STILL support puppy/baby/monkey)!
Wasn't that GREAT NEWS? It's starting to happen elsewhere, as well.
Yes! The margins are still close, but heading in a good direction!!
Thank you, Adam for highlighting our victim in chief who otherwise claims to be the strongest and toughest leader of the world.
I like that victim in chief !
Spot on and the mental gymnastics that his supporters perform to justify posts like that ("he fights back", etc.), show the same level of childish intellect that Trump displays.
I'm convinced that a deep cognitive study of his brain would show his mental growth stopped at early adolescence.
Toddler hood
Very young toddler hood
I want to know how he gets away with EVERYTHING! Perhaps mob bosses and the wealthy with crooked lawyers always did, but weren't seen by the public?
Seriously I have never seen a luckier human being in my life. He is rarely held accountable for anything - ok he did get 30+ felonies in one trial and was convicted for SA in another but he made sure the election was rigged so he’d never have to face the truly serious trials for the insurrection and stealing classified documents AND NOW HE IS PRESIDENT because the Founding Fathers or Framers forgot to write “NO FELONS CAN EVER HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE PEOPLE!” He gets to sit at the Resolute Desk watching Musk destroy the federal government and Russ Vought go line by line making Project 2025 a reality and sits with the N@zi Stephen Miller praising ICE as they kidnap people right and left sending them to foreign gulags. And now he’s saying f*** you to the SCOTUS. And of course, Joe Biden gets cancer. I’m sorry I’m not a horrible person - I was born at the beginning of Generation X so I know how unfair life is but wow this POS goes on and on and on. Truly I have never seen a human being escape so much accountability in my life. 😩
I’ve wondered that too.
He wins a election!!!
Trump is so weak and pathetic...maybe he should go without eating today...and a few more days...like he and the Republicans want others to do here and around the world...then he could have something real to cry about...lying in bed feeling the pangs of hunger and wasting away. So stop wasting our time...and do your job. Really pathetic...him and the Republicans...
This is the most clear, accurate description of him that I’ve ever read.
You nailed it Adam!
Proud GenXer here (barely - just made it in '77)! A childhood without cell phones, social media, and helicopter parents (at least in the case of mine and my friend's parents - I'm sure there were some out there) was a wonderful thing! By 1st grade, if not before, I was walking the block and a half to and from my best friend's house - yes, she is still my best friend and I'm the luckiest person in the world - on my own. When I got home from school and my parents were still at work, I knew how to get my own snack and do my homework (we still had that then, even in elementary school). Drank plenty of water from the hose in the backyard. And looking back, I'd say I was pretty darn self-sufficient for a kid. And I loved almost every minute! I mourn for all the kids growing up now, including my own, who will never know a life without social media and cell phones, will never know how to occupy themselves on a long car ride just looking out the window or listening to music, and will never know the peace of a life without constant noise and stimulation. But to someone else's point, yes, there are absolutely some GenXers who suck! There are bad apples in every bunch! The snowflake in chief and his minions at the top of the list!
My younger daughter was born in August 1977, and she is the most self-sufficient, independent woman. Her sister was born in May 1974. Although older, she doesn’t have the same grit as her sister (because of many factors). Adam and all, are correct in that it was a different yet in-between time with a foot in the pre-social media moving into the personal computer and social media era. I am grateful for the women they are now. And today, my 47, almost 48-year-old daughter is the reason her nephew is starting his post-college graduation job at a high-end interior design firm. Having your Aunt as the one who opens the door to opportunity is priceless.
AS a very young boomer -Trump is - to most of us older folk - and ALWAYS has been disgusting. He has CONSISTENTLY been the butt of jokes and an embarrassment and he has always been a racist, a sexual predator, hateful, cruel and just gross. (And as to this election, he cheated... but here we are.) Currently, he is mentally gone. He's ill and has all the markers of a man in obvious mental decline, but no one removes him from office. 25th amendment? I'm exhausted with him. Completely over it. Further, I am sick of him and his followers, enablers and sycophants. Narcissists are ALWAYS victims. Nothing new here.
I'm also late-stage Boomer, and I find it shocking that Gen X and younger were really not aware of Trump until "The Apprentice" television show. And they never looked more closely than that before they became cult members.
He doesn't even dress himself or do any of the things that the majority of active Americans do during their days. The most fragile and fractured human is what the Toddler King is.
Too bad we can’t just take our ball & go home (or find another court)every time he calls foul. Adam you are absolutely right…..The emperor has No Clothes !!!
Right now we feel stuck -and there are good bits of progress happening: people being released from custody, the regime losing court cases, more & more folks pulling their heads put of the sand & taking a look around. … hey I didn’t vote for this !! Please don’t forget about we elders who have much, maybe everything to lose as medical care & social security are on the chopping block….I’d much rather see certain heads on that block. We still live & breathe & march & have a lot of fight left in us ..!!!!
You nailed it Adam! Trump and his cohorts (who "follow their leader) are only able to Lie, complain, blame and deflect. How can anyone get anything good done when they spend all of their time doing those things?
Can you imagine anyone outside the United States reading this with their morning coffee ? I have been really cheered up by this newsletter. We should be embarrassed by his behavior but I am beyond embarrassment. As Charlie Sykes says: “we are not the crazy ones.” With all the hotspots in the world today, he is worried about Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen? I just cracked up typing that ! Thanks - I might have ended up crying this morning until I saw this .❤️
True story. I feel the second-hand embarrassment on a daily basis with this guy and his wholly unqualified administration. Truly astounding amounts of ineptitude and selfishness the likes of which the U.S. has never seen before. It's like having to sllap myself every day to realize the fact that this is who represents the most powerful nation in the world, and somehow it has happened twice.
I really don't know how I stopped being embarrassed , it just happened. I am trying to focus on gallows humor.