Trump makes Michigan Democrats nuts: They have a perfectly sane candidate in the centrist Stevens but are going for the progressive lunatic El-Sayed instead

 

 New Poll Shows El-Sayed With Big Lead in Dem Senate Primary in MI

I'm going to vote in this primary for Stevens. 

Creating space for taking the insane mullahs of Iran seriously is insane, Senator

 

 Sen. Eric Schmitt: Trump Created "Space For Diplomacy" With Iran That Experts Thought Was Impossible

Like I said, Trump is making us all nuts. 

Real Clear Politics puts a guy in its lineup this morning to whom the Obama presidential library denied access three times

 

A Tombstone for Obamaism

Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

 

"... the Obama Foundation denied my media credentials for the opening three times ..." 

 

Gee, why would Obama do that to someone who traffics in fabricated anti-gay slurs, even if they're about Trump?

 

 

 I carry no brief for Obama. I've been whaling on (look it up) the guy since 2009.

 

But criticizing Obama's so-called library because it's all about Obama, and Obama himself post-2016 for being apolitical, strike me as bizarre criticisms.

 

Isn't the latter what we want in an ex-president? In fact if the comparison is between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama in their post-presidencies, it is Obama who has been far more political, most recently sealing the fate of Biden at the eleventh hour of the 2024 race. Bush merely fancies himself a painter.

 

That the Obama library isn't really a library only reminds us that the Affordable Care Act provided neither care nor affordability, just as America will not be great again when Trump leaves office and millions of illegal aliens will still be here.

 

To say that there isn't anything very tangible left of the Obama era can be said of all the presidents in our lifetimes to one degree or another.

 

Yes, it will be hard to ignore Obama's giant tombstone jutting up into the sky from Jackson Park, if you happen to be traveling there. Otherwise he'll be as forgettable as the next guy.

 

But to speak at this hour of Obama's excess of vanity when there has never been a more self-important and grandiose spectacle erupting daily from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than now in the person of Donald Trump is as batshit crazy as Trump is.

 

Trump is making us all nuts. 

Fetterman is still not right in the head

 Fetterman's recent history of saying some reasonable things makes people on the right treat him like he's some oracle now.

But another lunatic tries to shoot Trump and suddenly America is on the hook for a new ballroom, which wouldn't be necessary AT ALL if Mad King Ludwig hadn't torn down the East Wing in the first place?

I don't think so, pal. Not when Trump promised it would be funded entirely from private donations.

Fetterman: Dems Should 'Drop the TDS,' Fund WH Ballroom

Alexander Bolton, The Hill

 

... “We were there front and center. That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these,” Fetterman posted Sunday on the social platform X, referring to “Trump derangement syndrome,” a term the president uses for his critics. ... 

 

Study finds that female liberals believe words can harm, tend to be emotionally less stable, see themselves as victims, experience higher levels of anxiety and depression, support laws which make you stfu

... “People higher in the belief that words can harm tended to be younger, female, non-White, and politically liberal.”

... restricting speech feels like protection as opposed to censorship.

... mental health appears to influence political ideology more than political ideology influences mental health, with increases in psychological distress predicting a subsequent shift toward political liberalism. 

... the most empathic people support the least tolerant policies. ... 

More.

Trump keeps escalating the domestic militarism in order to foment unrest where none exists, so that he can justify federal martial law if unrest does occur

Trump wields the military like it's his own personal plaything, just itching to violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

Meanwhile those liberal fanatics at the American Enterprise Institute have really gone off the deep end in their Trump derangement.

 

Pentagon readying thousands of 'reaction forces' as DOMESTIC missions widen...

Troops across country being trained for civil unrest...

 

... Trump has mobilized thousands of National Guard members in D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, with deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, delayed by court decisions. He has claimed unfettered authority to deploy military personnel onto American soil, including active-duty troops, which by law are prohibited from performing law enforcement duties except in extreme cases or if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.

 

... “They are increasing their ability to mobilize National Guard forces, federalize them and use them over the opposition of localities and governors,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

 

... While the courts have at times contested Trump’s domestic military deployments, Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibility, Schake said, prompting larger concerns of institutional decay.

 

 “They’re behaving like a parliament, not like a presidential system,” she said. “And it’s going to break the American order, our constitutional order, if Congress and governors can’t check executive power.”

One nutball era takes over where one left off: Trump's big ugly bill had no money in it to replenish the Strategic Oil Reserve gutted by Joe Biden, at a time when WTI is half the price it was in 2022

 US seeks 1 million barrels of oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve

... The previous administration of former President Joe Biden sold record amounts of oil from the SPR, including a 180-million-barrel sale after Russia, one of the world's top oil producers, invaded Ukraine in 2022. The reserve, which has about a 700-million-barrel capacity, is now holding nearly 409 million barrels. ...

 

Trump's tax and spending bill included about $171 million for the SPR oil purchases and maintenance, much less than the $1.3 billion that had originally been in the legislation. Buying more oil for the SPR will likely require the passage of new legislation. ...

 

Buying a million barrels is a drop in the bucket. Maintenance costs are eating up most of the $171 million. Joe Biden reduced the reserve by 244 million barrels during his tenure.

 

A reserve of 600 million barrels would run the country for only 30 days in a real emergency, max. 

 

We are governed by imbeciles, who think we currently have about 50 national emergencies. 

 

 

 

Nutball Sasha Stone is Exhibit A in the case of the hysterical American who never gets it

 She's so upset at the prospect of hearing her former No Kings self today that she forgets who's actually in charge of the asylum right now, lol.

 

Reminds me of Trump blaming Biden's FBI for January 6th when he himself had had control of it for four years already.

 

Down deep, they still don't believe they've won.

 

No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum

Sasha Stone, Substack

 

... Protests are meant to be the voices of the unheard. Yet these protests are the voices of those who never shut up. Not for one minute, not for ten years, and all of us have had to endure them . . . I try to remember being one of them and feeling the same way. But why did we think we had the right to protest an election just because it didn’t go our way? ...

 

You don't lose your rights because you lose an election, including your right to demonstrate for all to see that you are an unreasonable lunatic. It's the American Way. 

 

You can take the totalitarian out of the Democrat Party and put her in the Republican Party, but she's still a totalitarian crying, Just Shut Up!

 

 

  

Nutball Tucker Carlson: We have to have an authoritarian crackdown in order to prevent a totalitarian takeover

 

Tucker Carlson: This Country Is On The Brink, Restoring Order Is The Only Way To Prevent Totalitarianism

Bill Pulte, the too big for his britches nutball who doesn't stay in his lane

Every nutball era needs its nuts.

 

Here's the latest chart for grand total foreign holdings of US Treasury securities 2000-2025

 I don't remember why I started doing this chart in May of whenever it was, but I stuck with it over the years.

It was probably some nutball during the Great Financial Crisis screaming that foreigners were dumping U. S. Treasury securities and we were all doomed!

The nutballs have been saying that for a loooooooooooooong time.

 

These are the raw, as-reported numbers at the time, and do not incorporate any subsequent revisions.

In May 2025, 43% of the over $9 trillion in outstanding value for foreign held UST was "Official", that is, by governments. And 89.8% of that 43% is invested in longer term Notes and Bonds.

Year over year in May the value of what is owned by foreigners is up a whopping 11.25%. 

Many people in addition to governments around the world are banking on the full faith and credit of the United States because they can't really bank on their own governments.

And that's a fact, Jack. 

Update:

And, of course, there's a government chart of this, updated quarterly. 

 

 

The derangement syndrome is all his

 Here.

 

Nutball worlds in collision: Trumpism defends freedom in Europe with its right hand, stabs it in the back in Ukraine with its left, Biden defended freedom in Ukraine with his right, attacked it in America with his left

 

 But The Federalist has its blinders on. Biden baaaaaaad! Trump gooooood!

"Let's see if we can find some naive kid to write a story about it!" 

By Defending Free Speech Worldwide, Team Trump Reclaims America’s Global Moral High Ground:

Under President Donald Trump, the suppression of natural rights by Western powers will no longer be ignored by the United States.

Yep, J. D. Vance goes to Europe to beat up on our friends. But suppression of freedom will be ignored, in places like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. And above all in Ukraine.

This is the essence of libertarianism: Make the good the enemy of the perfect.

But defending freedom where it really counts would take some courage, and they don't have it. 

The author of this article, who graduated from college in 2022 with a BA in political "science", ends it touting the execrable Darren Beattie at Marco Rubio's State Department, a Taiwan surrender monkey. 

 

The article is the second in the queue at Real Clear Politics this morning. One goes there looking for some serious editorial judgment and gets this.

Trump/Vance don't have the moral high ground. They are just the cowardly other side of the same old hypocritical American coin.

If you think Trump is a nutball with this Napoleon stuff, Luigi Mangione announces that in himself we have now finally achieved the classless society of which red diaper doper babies everywhere have long dreamed

The mental illness problem in America is much worse than I thought.

 

 

Jim Cramer says take the nutball more seriously

 

Wall Street needs to take Trump more seriously, Jim Cramer says

One nutball era ends, another begins, Wednesday edition

 

Trump says U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza to develop it, and Palestinians should leave

 

‘Deranged’ and ‘problematic’: Bipartisan lawmakers bash Trump’s Gaza proposal

 

He's the Gentrifier in Chief lol, move the poor out, let the wealthy take over:

 

Trump: Gaza Could Become "The Riviera Of The Middle East," "We'll Make Sure That It's Done World-Class"

 

Tulip Mania returns in the Trump nutball era

 

One nutball era ends, another begins

 

One nutball era ends, another begins

 Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz under scrutiny as House Ethics report on sex and drug claims takes focus :

On Thursday, an attorney for the woman who alleges she had a sexual relationship with Gaetz when she was a minor said the Ethics panel should release the report.

“Mr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report,” John Clune, a partner at Hutchinson Black and Cook, wrote on X.

“She was a high school student and there were witnesses,” the lawyer added.     

 

Trump picks vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary

Kennedy, in a post on X, thanked Trump and wrote, “I’m committed to advancing your vision to Make America Healthy Again.” ...

Andrea Ducas, vice president of health policy for the advocacy group Center for American Progress, in a statement called Trump’s choice of Kennedy “nothing short of disastrous for the country.”

“His track record and open skepticism of longstanding medical science could jeopardize the incredible public health gains we’ve accomplished as a nation – including the gains we’ve made in combatting infectious disease through childhood vaccination programs and in making our food supply safer through pasteurization,” Ducas said.

 

End of the Nutball Era

Sure, sure it is.

 

 

 

 

"Weird" didn't work, try "bizarre" lol

 

The Bizarre Home Stretch of Trump's 2024 Campaign

 

Zack Beauchamp, Vox

In which we learn that Zack Beauchamp is just jealous, wishing he could be as perceptive as Salena Zito, dammit:

In late 2016, the Atlantic published a campaign trail dispatch by Salena Zito, a conservative reporter, exploring Trump’s appeal to his voters. The piece was forgettable save one line, a description of Trump’s relationship to his fans that has been quoted endlessly for the past eight years: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."...

If we took all of [Trump] literally, really integrated the reality of what these steps would mean into our daily behavior, it would be hard to live life normally. The specter of out-and-out authoritarianism, a crashing economy, and an international system shorn of the alliances that keep the global peace sounds apocalyptic. Actually trying to envision the enormity of this world is psychologically taxing; trying to live as if this were indeed an imminent possibility invariably leads to a life monomaniacally devoted to trying to stop it.

Poor fella knows he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It's a cry for help.