27 April 2026

Re the shooting incident yesterday...

"Meghan McCain bleated out, “I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House,” which — briefly — seemed likely to be the most vacuous comment of the evening. Even by Meghan’s increasingly wooly standards, using the shooting at the DC Hilton as a pretext for building the $400 million ballroom seemed like a non-sequitur.

But it was quickly followed by what I am sure was a completely spontaneous and not at all coordinated flood of almost identical comments from the MAGA toady gallery, which didn’t feel the need to change the wording or the message.


One does not have to be a member of the august punditocracy to note that MAGA reacted this way because MAGA was told to react this way..."
Text and image excerpted from the Charles Sykes substack To the Contrary.  I'll append Trump's own tweet at 05:46 this morning about his "Militarily Top Secret Ballroom" -


- which has been demanded by every President for the last 150 years.  For fox ache.

4 comments:

  1. This is not a bait question but I understand if you prefer to ignore it - does it bother you that people try to kill Trump? How would you feel if someone succeeded?

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    1. That is a very complicated question that really warrants prolonged discussion over a couple bottles of wine. Under current circumstances, I'll pass on it for now. Perhaps some readers will chime in.

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  2. The international respect for the United States, already dismal due to the parade of orange clowns running that country (surely one man can't be that stupid that often) has been brought down another notch by the lacklustre performance of their assassins.

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  3. mister 34 felonies wants more security. Know what has more security? A prison.

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