111 thoughts on “The “stable genius” thread”

1. Trump:

   Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

   Jones:

   This is not a Christlike Easter message.

   You think?

   ETA: That reminded me of Bill’s comment that our criticisms of Trump were not consistent with “Judea Christian values”, lol. And that Trump is “a choir boy” compared to me.

   Jones:

   I didn’t vote for this.

   Oh, yes you did.

   Still, it’s good when people like Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene come (halfway) to their senses.

2. Speaking of MTG, she posted this yesterday:

   On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.

   Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.

   I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.

   I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.

   The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.

   You know who has nuclear weapons?

   Israel.

   They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.

   Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.

   On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.

   Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.

   Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.

   Not escalating war that is hurting people.

   This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.

   This is not making America great again, this is evil.

3. You can count on the Stable Genius to appoint stable geniuses to important positions in his administration:

   No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

   Gregg Phillips, who is in charge of responding to fires and floods, says the hand of God suddenly and mysteriously moved him to a 24-hour breakfast spot in Rome, Ga.

   …On Wednesday, Mr. Phillips wrote on Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, that the incident took place while he was heavily medicated as part of a cancer treatment. But he also described it as a miracle performed by God.

   “The word ‘teleportation’ was not mine,” Mr. Phillips wrote. “It was used by someone else in the conversation reaching for language to describe something with no easy name. The more accurate biblical terms are ‘translated’ or ‘transported’ — not new ideas for people of faith.”

   He’s in charge of a $300 million FEMA budget.

   Trump, in 2016:

   I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. We want top of the line professionals.

   ETA:

   Austin Spears, 29, a land surveyor, also found Mr. Phillips’s story to be dubious. But he also acknowledged that all human lives are studded with little mysteries.

   “I can say I’ve been drunk and ended up in a Waffle House,” Mr. Spears said. “Don’t know how I got there. But I was there.”

4. dazz: Where is Billy Bob complaining about the orange dirtbag asking for 200 billion dollars to fund the war in Iran?

   There is a lot you can say about colewd, but I noticed he knows perfectly well when to keep a low profile.

5. A good time for colewd to return is right about now, because Trump has ended another war and achieved a peace worthy of Nobel Peace Prize.

6. keiths,

   Oh my. You can’t make this stuff up.

   Allan Miller: Small change. That’s the kind of money they spend on pianos, lobsters and steak at the end of the fiscal year. At least it’s going on killing people, as intended.

   Yeah, the corruption is so fucking brazen, it’s not that Trump isn’t trying to hide it, he even brags about it! Look at all the gold in the oval office you peasants payed for! ain’t it pretty? “Libertarians” in particular, they see this and think, well, as long as he keeps the ethnic cleansing going I’m OK with it. Probably.

7. Trump believes Diet Coke kills cancer cells in his body

8. A reporter asked Hakeem Jeffries about Trump referring to him as “low IQ”, his favorite insult. Jeffries:

   Yeah, if Donald Trump wants to debate me anytime, any place, in the Oval Office, publicly on camera, I’d be happy to do it. And we’ll see who’s intellectually superior in that type of contest. I’ve got no doubts as to what the outcome would be. And it’s extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling this low IQ insult. This is from the dumbest president ever to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And there’s not even a close second.

   He’s right. It would be a bloodbath. I hope a reporter asks Trump about it.

9. A YouTube short on Trump’s targeted use of the “low IQ” insult:

   Trump repeatedly calls Black and brown lawmakers, women of color “low IQ”

   This from a guy who doesn’t know how to compute percentages, thinks wind turbines cause cancer, and thinks no one knows how magnets work and that they don’t work when wet:

   All I know about magnets is this: give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.

   Trump, 2019:

   The USMCA is a GREAT deal for America and it will help our roaring American economy!

   Trump, 2026:

   Who would ever sign a thing like this?

   Trump, 2017:

   Accordingly, it’s my pleasure and my honor to announce Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

   Trump, 2025:

   He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed — surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him.

   What were you saying about ‘low IQ’ people, Donald?

10. RFK Jr two days ago, commenting on Trump’s alternative math:

    I was reminded when the President was speaking of a conversation that I had yesterday with one of the Democratic senators who was questioning me during a hearing, and she was ridiculing President Trump for his math. And she was saying, it’s mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600 percent cost, which he had claimed. And I said, well, if the drug was $100 and it raised the price to $600, that would be a 600 percent rise.

    Um, no, Bobby, that would be a 500% rise. If it rose by 100%, it would double to $200. If it rose by 200%, it would triple to $300. So if it rose by 500 percent, it would sextuple to $600. 500%, not 600%.

    If it drops from $600 to $100, that’s a 600 percent savings.

    No, a drop from $600 to $100 would be (600 – 100)/600 = 0.83, or 83%. What is wrong with these people?

    RFK Jr is scientifically illiterate, so it’s at least possible that he actually believes what he’s saying, but Mehmet Oz has no excuse. He defended Trump’s math in October, but as I commented at the time:

    He’s pretending. He may be a quack, but he graduated from a top medical school (Penn) and went on to become a professor of surgery at Columbia. I daresay you can’t make it that far if you don’t understand percentages. The current lying fits well with his history of deliberate quackery, though.

    He also said this about a reduction in price from $242 to $10:

    I don’t know what the math is on that. We can’t even calculate it. It’s a lot. It’s too high to calculate without a more studied approach.

    He knows full well that it’s trivial to calculate, but he was afraid to contradict the Dear Leader in public.

    In the meeting where RFK Jr spoke, Trump doubled down on his idiotic math:

    Thank you, Bobby. Amazing. It is amazing, and you’re right, I took a lot of heat. I’d say 500, 600, 700. But we also say sometimes 50 percent, 60 percent, a different kind of calculation — 70, 80 and 90 percent, and people understand that better. But there are two ways of calculating it. But either way, it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s 60, 70, or 80 percent, nobody’s ever heard of it. But it’s also 500, 600, 700, depending on the way you want to look at it. So the way — the way you word the calculation, it’s either one.

    I get tired of pointing this out, but can you imagine the reaction on Fox News if Biden had said that?

11. There’s an interesting phenomenon that occurs when you listen to Trump, which is that when you first hear his voice and recognize it as his, your expectations immediately plummet. You expect what he says to be inane, inarticulate and incoherent. Well-formed sentences are optional and well-formed paragraphs are nonexistent. After years of exposure, this lowering of expectations is so automatic that you don’t even notice it happening. You’re no longer surprised at what comes out of his mouth, because his voice has primed you for it.

    You can be jolted out of your low expectations when instead of Trump’s voice, you hear a different voice reading his own inane words, at length. There are a few YouTube channels that do this, and I just heard a hilarious rendition of Trump’s reflecting pool soliloquy on one of them, by Juliet Jeske:

    A Trump Quote Without His Voice or Face – Trump without Trump: My Crowd Was Bigger!

    It’s remarkable how ridiculous his words sound in someone else’s mouth. Check out her channel for more of these.