Author and educator Amanda Nelson has a few words about Trump’s no good, terrible, lousy week:
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Shamelessly stolen from MockPaperScissors...
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2026/04/24/great-memes-cont-104/
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Funny and wise.
And she posts often:
@amandasmildtakes@www.tiktok.com
In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson examines evidence supporting accounts of a President so emotionally unstable, so lacking in impulse control, that his staff resorts to gimmicks to keep him from exploding in rage.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/#heathercoxrichardson
So, as I understand Vance:
The Iran theocracy practices economic terrorism against the entire world.
(True)
So Vance promises Trump will be an even bigger terrorist against the entire world.
News Corpse points to the weird Trump logic that applies Mel Brooks type comedy reasoning to serious foreign policy.
Since Iran threatens to disrupt the world economy by keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed, Trump retaliates by disrupting the world economy by keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/18/week-of-trump-war-trump-straits-trump-messiah/#newscorpse
“I’ve done more for you than your parents, OK? Your parents are good, I’m not gonna knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents.”
Are MAGA followers really looking to Trump as a new daddy, like Trump seems to be telling them?
https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/27/bonus-quote-of-the-day-2392/
Shamelessly stolen from the Borowitz Report:
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/don-the-dunce-has-learned-nothing
Dave Barry delves into a California True Crime story, and the detective work that solved it.
A bear attack turns out to be a fraud
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/#DaveBarry
So the investigators got a search warrant, and in one of the suspects’ homes they found what is known, in the world of professional crime detection, as a “clue”:
The clue:
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That is my understanding of the primary American founding principle.
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I dunno.
If he's careful and has a vegetable garden in the back, he might make it.
driftglass is skeptical about the current Democratic strategy of appealing to white rural voters who hate them.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/#driftglass
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To be fair, our conservative brethren are just adding a bit of punctuation to Scripture.
"Suffer, little children."
As ticket sales fall off a cliff, I really thought this "renovation" story was satire at first:
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for Two Years"
https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/01/trump-says-kennedy-center-will-close-for-two/
Under this DOJ, laws apply to everyone...
...well...
...with some exceptions.
https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/18/washington-d-c-police-were-about-to-arrest-cory-mills/
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Better than some alternatives.
I recall Trump believing that "seeking asylum" means immigrants are sent from mental institutions.
What threat did Iran make involving thermonuclear fallout that gets Trump thinking "Nuclear Dust" is a good thing?
Maybe the term means something different now.
It's like a new version of an old cliche describing the obvious.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Does Vance do what he does in the woods?
https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/16/pope-john-david-vance-the-first/
Donald Trump considers himself to be a self-made man
and, being a bit of an evangelist,
demands that others join him in worshiping his creator.
Our weekly list is on line (and on time YAY!!)
Links to posts reflecting 34 often unrecognized sources of blogging wisdom.
Week of Trump Losses, Trump Rage, Trump Abuses
- Gerry Gets Mandered,
- Trump Gets Loathed,
- Iran Gets Stuck,
- AI Gets Resisted,
- Trump Runs for new Messiah
And More
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/
I suppose you can come up with reasons to support Trump if you are willing to invent your own mathematics.
https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/22/bonus-quote-of-the-day-2357/
This must be a new use of an old term.
According to what we were taught in elementary school about bomb-shelters and fallout (called nuclear dust)...
...Iran has agreed to give Trump thermonuclear war.
That can't be right.
https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/16/trump-claims-iran-will-hand-over-nuclear-dust/
So Ken Paxton, campaigning on his manliness, panics during his own press conference and runs away from questions about all the properties he managed to acquire on his public salary.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ken-paxton-press-conference-scandals-texas
Disaffected and it Feels So Good reviews Trump’s middle of the night posts on solutions for the Iran war:
AI dress up
and
Blame Biden
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/08/08/week-of-trump-slump/#disaffectedanditfeelssogood
Trump comes up with a compelling legal argument!
https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/22/trump-tears-into-weak-stupid-and-bad-justices/
Infidel753 provides a list of worthy information sources.
"With the legacy mainstream media now owned and controlled by billionaires, and largely pushing their agenda, alternate sources of information are a necessity."
As might be expected, some of his recommendations are especially good.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/08/08/week-of-trump-slump/#infidel753
At Tan-ag Elementary School in the Philippines, kids get to simulate a bus ride, while learning basic empathy:
https://youtube.com/shorts/xSZwzN1MX2c?si=HCrpF7ae-Lp_hpQE
Nan’s Notebook considers the newest breakthrough in long-distance car travel that I’m gonna spend the whole rest of the day not thinking about.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/#sayitnow
US Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) knows what ails Anthony Fauci.
The man is just plain vain, especially about Covid.
"…he was so drunk with his own fame that he was emotionally conflicted since he funded this virus."
Dave Columbo takes a look at those comic book levels of personal vanity:
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/08/08/week-of-trump-slump/#davecolumbo
@whiskeywhistle98 learns how hard it can be to tell someone bad news:
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I'm missing something, I guess.
I trust BlueSky to the same extent that I trust my landline. It is a medium of communication.
So I know that's not your point.
I'm often considered elderly, possibly because of age.
What am I missing?
Got up on line our weekly list of 40 links to blogs and posts reflecting our usual suspected sources of internet wisdom.
Completely and exactly almost on time!! YAYY!!!
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/18/week-of-trump-war-trump-straits-trump-messiah/
@whiskeywhistle98 learns how hard it can be to tell someone bad news:
Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has more numbers, as Trump approval drops yet again. Yet again.
Drops for Trump himself. Drops for Trump on almost every issue.
And it isn’t just Trump.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2026/04/25/week-of-trump-losses-trump-rage-trump-abuses/#jobsanger