Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY CONDENSED INTO A SINGLE DEBACLE: THE REFLECTING POOL










"This will last for at least 50 years and you'll never have a leak," Trump said at the time. "I don't want to give anybody ideas, [but] if you had a knife, you can't even cut it. So strong, so powerful. It's like powerful rubber." 

 Donald J. Trump, May 2026 


CBS: We were in here in April when you first showed us plans…

Trump: I did what? 

 CBS: When you showed us pictures of what you were going to do on the Mall. You said you had a guy who was going to do it in a week for about a million dollars. It’s been two months and $14.5 million… 

 Trump: Okay. Okay. Are you ready? Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him? 

CBS: Yes. 

Trump: He spent two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it. [Obama spent $37 million.] And you know what happened to it? It never even opened. [Yes, it opened.] He took the water from the river. You know about that, right? It turned out to be putrid. And it destroyed the whole thing. [No, it didn’t.] He spent over $100 million. [No, he didn’t.] Him and Biden together spent $147 million. [No they didn’t.] You know what happened. It never opened. [Yes, it did. And it was open under Trump in the intervening years.] You don’t mention that, right? We spent about ten. [They spent $16 million.] They were going to spend $300 to $400 million, you know that, right? [No, they weren’t.] And it was going to take four years. I spent, I spent six or seven weeks. Probably $10 million. [$16 million.] They say $16 million, but a lot of that is workers that work around there. [No. Only the lobbyists on K. Street are pulling down that much, not the ground crew on the Mall.] So they were going to spend $400 million. [No.] I spent $10. [No.] They were going to spend four years. [No.] I spent two months, maybe, less. And I have a better product. Now I can’t help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up.”

 







Michael Jochum:


"The Reflecting Pool was supposed to be a monument to Donald Trump’s greatness. Instead, it has become a monument to his presidency. I honestly cannot think of a more perfect metaphor if I tried. There it sits in the heart of the nation’s capital, a fourteen-million-dollar vanity project that was supposed to showcase competence, efficiency, strength, and the legendary deal-making prowess we have been hearing about for a decade. Instead, Americans are looking at algae-green water, peeling paint, dead ducks, accusations of sabotage without evidence, no-bid contracts, missed deadlines, ballooning costs, and a president insisting everything is beautiful while everyone can plainly see otherwise. If that is not the Trump presidency condensed into a single image, I do not know what is."

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

IF EVER THERE WAS A METAPHOR FOR THE 2ND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, THIS IS IT:

 

#ETTD






And here the stable genius is blaming a former president who's been out of office almost 10 years:







GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 



A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

  • Iran had uranium enriched to 4%.
  • IAEA inspectors were busy combing through Iran’s nuclear facilities.
  • US and UN sanctions were wreaking havoc across IRAN.
  • Iran was unable to sell oil internationally.
  • Their economy was in tatters.
  • Iran had agreed to forgo pursuing a nuclear weapon.
  • A coalition of nations including Russia, China, France, Germany, the UK and the EU were allied to monitor enforcement.
  • The Strait of Hormuz was open.
  • President Obama was mocked mercilessly for releasing $1.8 billion dollars that was due Iran by the US because the US reneged on a weapons deal years ago.
  • The Mullahs were in charge.

That was then, this is now.

  • Iran has uranium enriched to over 60%.
  • IAEA inspectors are not allowed in Iran.
  • The crushing sanctions have been reduced or removed.
  • Iran can sell their oil on the world market.
  • Their economy and infrastructure is in tatters.
  • Iran refuses to forgo pursuing a nuclear weapon.
  • There is no world wide coalition allied to confront Iran.
  • The Strait of Hormuz is open, then closed, then open, all at the whim of Iran, creating global shipping chaos.
  • The US is brokering an international reconstruction plan of at least $300 billion in private and regional investments to repair damage from the war and help Iran's economy recover. 
  • $100 billion in frozen assets is set to be released to Iran also.
  • The Mullahs are still in charge.

Someone, anyone, please tell me again, why did we go to war with Iran?

Monday, June 22, 2026

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

 

The Mother Ship posted:

"Obama JUST doesn’t get it

OBAMA SLAMS AMERICA’S FOUNDERS..……."



This is wrong, of course.

Former President Obama actually "gets it." The blogger and her MAGAs are the people who don't "get it." 

The Founding Fathers wrote (Jefferson) and signed the DoI that said all men are created equal in the eyes of God and are granted inalienable rights. But those inalienable rights were not granted to women, non-property owners, and the slaves that the Founding Fathers themselves owned. They fell short of their own words! TRUTH!

This is the preamble to the Constitution:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 

The Founding Fathers KNEW we had to work toward "...a more perfect Union."

The woman who runs that blog has no understanding of this, so she happily attacks former President Obama, who actually taught Constitutional Law, for being Constitutionally accurate in his speech.

This is more evidence of how appallingly ignorant many MAGA cultists are.


But NOT OBAMA!   He picks that day, in our 250th year to slam our forefathers…to bring up SLAVERY!   NO context, NO understanding of White people also having been enslaved, NO knowledge of slave owners who actually were good to their slaves (I saw a Black man maybe 35 years ago explaining that…though nobody thinks having human beings as slaves, of course!), NO love of country which would prohibit his slamming our founding fathers at a big event……………….NOT OBAMA! 


She actually believes slave owners  "...were good to their slaves." Did she ever question the idea of being "good" to people you OWN? Does she even think about the evil inherent in the ownership of a human being? The question answers itself. She doesn't "think" at all. She reacts with MAGA emotions and ignorance. 

BTW, she also has no sense that the opening of the Obama presidential library was a PRIVATE affair, it had nothing to do with the 250 anniversary of the founding of this country. But, again, she is MAGA; she doesn't think; she reacts with her hatred of a president who outshines Trump in every desirable human trait: dignity, intelligence, grace, and decency.

This blogger and many other MAGAs continue to slander Mr. Obama by lying about his love of America.  IMO, it shows how indecent they are -- and mendacious.


Geeez:

“ I HOPE that some of the contractors saying how they’re owed millions of dollars for having worked on the Obama Library.”


(This is rumor. I fact-checked it, and there are disputes, but no factual evidence of being stiffed, she must be thinking of her hero, Trump, who actually took contractors to court to get out of paying them what he owed. That is fact.)  

AI:

"Donald Trump has a documented history of stiffing contractors, subcontractors, and employees. Investigations and court records have revealed that over the last several decades, his companies have been involved in thousands of lawsuits and mechanic's liens from workers alleging they were short-changed or never fully paid for their services."

Geeez smears Mr. Obama's daughter, Malia:

Not content with attacking a beloved and admired former president, she had to attack his older daughter, saying she looked like "a streetwalker."

If anyone needed more evidence of their roiling racism, GEEEZ never disappoints with her wallowing in it. A streetwalker is another word for "whore," and "hooker." She used that word to describe Malia Obama. This is a perfect example of the disgusting misogyny and bigotry of MAGA:

 GEEEZ wrote: "One poor Obama daughter was wearing a very low cut tailored suit which made her look like a streetwalker….I guess her mother doesn’t have any clout or doesn’t think young women in the public eye might not want to show half their breasts at noon?   Do it in the evening…do it in private, but …really?

Can you tell I’m not an Obama fan BY A LONG SHOT?!

(Trump was not invited)

Z

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GEEEZ, always one to demonstrate her Christian charity and kindness, left out the fact that while Trump was at the G7 in Europe last week, he second-handedly insulted by proxy, Mr. Obama, and called him a "stupid son of a bitch." And last weekend a half-witted UFC fighter uttered a disgusting slur about former First Lady, Michelle Obama, in front of Trump and the world, and Trump let it pass without comment or condemnation. This disrespectful incident happened on the tax-payer grounds of the White House.

GEEEZ can't understand why the low-class, trash-talking, Obama slandering Trump, wasn't invited by the Obama's to their private and dignified opening of his presidential library?

Tell us you're drowning in MAGA misogyny, racism, and resentment while not telling us.

This is why Trump is so vicious in his attacks against the Obamas, and why, it appears, Geeez is too. They can't handle the truth!:



From AI:

Barack Obama is consistently more admired than Donald Trump, with recent national surveys reflecting a clear double-digit advantage in both overall favorability and public admiration. 
A nationwide poll conducted by CNN reveals exactly where the two figures stand: 
  • Favorability Ratings: Obama holds a 57% favorability rating among U.S. adults, compared to 34% for Trump. 
  • "Most Admired" Figure: When asked which president throughout U.S. history they admire most, 30% of Americans named Obama, placing him ahead of Trump at 19%. 
  • Independent Voters: Obama's favorability among political independents is more than double that of Trump’s. 
  • Bipartisan Appeal: While views on both men are largely shaped by party lines, Obama still garners a notably higher share of cross-party support than Trump does.

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Friday, June 19, 2026

PALATE CLEANSER

 

The Tartan Army took over Boston, and we love it! (Bostonian speak: "The Tahtin Ahmy.)










Boston City Hall Plaza



Why Are Scottish Soccer Fans Putting Traffic Cones Atop All The Statues In Boston?



The late former Mayor of Boston, Kevin White statue, @Quincy Mahket




General George Washington statue at Boston Public Gahdens


The Charlestown Navy Yard


John Harvard (Hahvid in Boston speak)





And my neighborhood, the Paul Revere statue in The Prado, North End, Boston