unfortunately this administration is rich with the most embarrassing line up starting with Trump, then you add in the mix of Hegseth, the Road Rules guy running transportation, Patel, Gabbard, if you don’t get mass destruction and chaos with that, it would be a miracle.
It's suggested that we have a pageant for the "most embarrassing" . . . after all, Donald is big into pageants. The cringe factor in this missive from Mr. Sykes is excruciating to endure.
Not knowing who Karoline Leavitt with the requisite cross necklace was, I looked her up on Wiki, which the Trumpers are going after next. She went to college on a softball scholarship, ran for Congress and got trounced by the Dem incumbent. Just this month:
"In 2022, Leavitt faced a Federal Election Commission complaint from End Citizens United alleging Leavitt's campaign and treasurer illegally accepted campaign donations over the legal limit and never repaid her donors.[24] In January 2025, Leavitt disclosed in 17 amended campaign filings $326,370 in unpaid campaign debts she had failed to disclose for several years.[24] Roughly $200,000 of the debt was composed of illicit campaign donations made in excess of campaign finance limits she never paid back, in violation of campaign finance laws.[24] [Wikipedia]
So glad we have the goofy dog pics to recover. The "Don't look at me! I'm hideous" expression on them was priceless. It must have taken quite a time to dress all that, all while the dogs are holding it in.
“In Alice in Wonderland the phrase “Sometimes up is down, sometimes, down is up.”
This is said to refer to the dreamlike and nonsensical nature of wonderland, where reality and logic are distorted.
I can understand the lunacy of Trump. He is seriously mentally ill. It’s the people like Ted Cruz, a Harvard Law graduate, that can go on TV and give credence to the nonsense spewed by Trump and his band of degenerates. Today, Cruz goes on Fox to extol the virtues of a morally and ethically compromised Kash Patel.
Or Ron Johnson saying on the record that America has prayed for a man like Robert Kennedy Jr to head our medical system.
It’s these sycophants that are the most dangerous to our democracy.
Trump is nothing without them. Kevin McCarthy resurrected Trump from the ashes of the 2020 election.
Mitch McConnell recognized the danger to democracy that Trump presented but wouldn’t impeach him, allowing this moment in time.
The sanity of this country, as a whole, is the worst part of this administration. They believe the outlandish lies and filter out logic, reality and truth.
It had to happen at sometime in history. I just wish it wasn’t in my lifetime. “We deserve the government we elect. “ T Jefferson.
Look what was elected. “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”
This is something, that upsets me again and again - people, invcluding media people, totally ignore the enablers and their enormous influence. They are the ones who carry this madness out of the Tr-bubble, right into the middle of society...where it is amplified and further spread.
The more capable of them have to bend like pretzels to somehow rationalize all this crap...just to be kicked and laughed at by their leader when they become unnecessary.
I am reminded of Dave Chapelle’s SNL monologue a couple weeks ago and a couple lines especially. He states the American presidency is no place for petty people and he entreats Trump to do better this time because we are all (whether we voted for him or not; or like him or not) counting on you. Whether we voted for him or not; like him or not; all our lives are intertwined with his. We simply cannot escape the fact that a petty man was elected to an office for which he is ill suited and for which he reminds us daily that we are and will continue to be ill served by him, unlike your dogs’ polar vertex suits. I seek kindness and joy where I can…whether it is watching Coach re-runs or taking joy in the adoption of a beautiful little girl by my friend’s son. Thanks to the collective here that reinforces the belief that we are not the crazy ones. It is just batshit crazy right now.
As a Wisconsin resident, Ron Johnson never ceases to embarrass me. Friends and family regularly contact me after yet another inane comment he's made to say "WFT? Who is this moron?" There is some small chance that I may have included the following comment in my recent letter to him: "If I find your balls, I'll be sure to mail them back."
As for those dog outfits...they are hysterical, but I might sleep with one eye open!
Oh my goodness the puppies are adorable kitted out for winter. I listened to your interview with Taegan today while driving but all I can respond to is the dogs, otherwise, I'll be too depressed to sleep and just doom scroll. But the puppies are adorable if annoyed by all the gear.
Even though Twitter brought me you, your Mrs and the boys, I had to delete it a few weeks ago as it has become a cesspool of misinformation and just meanness. Luckily for me, you both have Substack accounts so I don’t miss out on anything you all or pooch related.
I find my mental health in a little better space without the doom scrolling….
Trump 2.0 is Cucks all the way down. Trump is Putins cuck, Bezos, Zuck, etc., are Trumps cucks, and so it goes. Sturgill Simpson should remake his Turtles All The Way Down song to be Cucks All The Way Down.
Republicans are out to kill their constituents
Love the dog photos!
unfortunately this administration is rich with the most embarrassing line up starting with Trump, then you add in the mix of Hegseth, the Road Rules guy running transportation, Patel, Gabbard, if you don’t get mass destruction and chaos with that, it would be a miracle.
Oy. What a week.♥️. Just getting started I know. Thanks Charlie to you and yours for keeping us sane. Stay well.
It's suggested that we have a pageant for the "most embarrassing" . . . after all, Donald is big into pageants. The cringe factor in this missive from Mr. Sykes is excruciating to endure.
Not knowing who Karoline Leavitt with the requisite cross necklace was, I looked her up on Wiki, which the Trumpers are going after next. She went to college on a softball scholarship, ran for Congress and got trounced by the Dem incumbent. Just this month:
"In 2022, Leavitt faced a Federal Election Commission complaint from End Citizens United alleging Leavitt's campaign and treasurer illegally accepted campaign donations over the legal limit and never repaid her donors.[24] In January 2025, Leavitt disclosed in 17 amended campaign filings $326,370 in unpaid campaign debts she had failed to disclose for several years.[24] Roughly $200,000 of the debt was composed of illicit campaign donations made in excess of campaign finance limits she never paid back, in violation of campaign finance laws.[24] [Wikipedia]
So glad we have the goofy dog pics to recover. The "Don't look at me! I'm hideous" expression on them was priceless. It must have taken quite a time to dress all that, all while the dogs are holding it in.
Next to donOLD
Perfect title. He is a disgrace
There is a quote from an American historian and philosopher…
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.”
He also said
“When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.”
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it’s destroyed itself within.”
Will Durant died in 1981 but his words are prophetic.
These are sad times for sure. It’s tough to resist this wave of idiocy when all the life guards are laid off.
“In Alice in Wonderland the phrase “Sometimes up is down, sometimes, down is up.”
This is said to refer to the dreamlike and nonsensical nature of wonderland, where reality and logic are distorted.
I can understand the lunacy of Trump. He is seriously mentally ill. It’s the people like Ted Cruz, a Harvard Law graduate, that can go on TV and give credence to the nonsense spewed by Trump and his band of degenerates. Today, Cruz goes on Fox to extol the virtues of a morally and ethically compromised Kash Patel.
Or Ron Johnson saying on the record that America has prayed for a man like Robert Kennedy Jr to head our medical system.
It’s these sycophants that are the most dangerous to our democracy.
Trump is nothing without them. Kevin McCarthy resurrected Trump from the ashes of the 2020 election.
Mitch McConnell recognized the danger to democracy that Trump presented but wouldn’t impeach him, allowing this moment in time.
The sanity of this country, as a whole, is the worst part of this administration. They believe the outlandish lies and filter out logic, reality and truth.
It had to happen at sometime in history. I just wish it wasn’t in my lifetime. “We deserve the government we elect. “ T Jefferson.
Look what was elected. “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”
This is something, that upsets me again and again - people, invcluding media people, totally ignore the enablers and their enormous influence. They are the ones who carry this madness out of the Tr-bubble, right into the middle of society...where it is amplified and further spread.
The more capable of them have to bend like pretzels to somehow rationalize all this crap...just to be kicked and laughed at by their leader when they become unnecessary.
I am reminded of Dave Chapelle’s SNL monologue a couple weeks ago and a couple lines especially. He states the American presidency is no place for petty people and he entreats Trump to do better this time because we are all (whether we voted for him or not; or like him or not) counting on you. Whether we voted for him or not; like him or not; all our lives are intertwined with his. We simply cannot escape the fact that a petty man was elected to an office for which he is ill suited and for which he reminds us daily that we are and will continue to be ill served by him, unlike your dogs’ polar vertex suits. I seek kindness and joy where I can…whether it is watching Coach re-runs or taking joy in the adoption of a beautiful little girl by my friend’s son. Thanks to the collective here that reinforces the belief that we are not the crazy ones. It is just batshit crazy right now.
As a Wisconsin resident, Ron Johnson never ceases to embarrass me. Friends and family regularly contact me after yet another inane comment he's made to say "WFT? Who is this moron?" There is some small chance that I may have included the following comment in my recent letter to him: "If I find your balls, I'll be sure to mail them back."
As for those dog outfits...they are hysterical, but I might sleep with one eye open!
Oh my goodness the puppies are adorable kitted out for winter. I listened to your interview with Taegan today while driving but all I can respond to is the dogs, otherwise, I'll be too depressed to sleep and just doom scroll. But the puppies are adorable if annoyed by all the gear.
Even though Twitter brought me you, your Mrs and the boys, I had to delete it a few weeks ago as it has become a cesspool of misinformation and just meanness. Luckily for me, you both have Substack accounts so I don’t miss out on anything you all or pooch related.
I find my mental health in a little better space without the doom scrolling….
Charlie, you have to do a coffee table book of dog pictures. You will rake in the dough.
I am here for those dogs!!
Trump 2.0 is Cucks all the way down. Trump is Putins cuck, Bezos, Zuck, etc., are Trumps cucks, and so it goes. Sturgill Simpson should remake his Turtles All The Way Down song to be Cucks All The Way Down.