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June 12, 2025

Les Mis premier: A lot of noise signfiying Trump.

One thing is for certain. Donald Trump is no Jean Valjean. When asked whether he identified with Valjean, the exconvict who became a force for good in the world or police inspector, Inspector Javert, he couldn’t answer and instead told the reporter to ask Melania. (Perhap’s this could be a new quiz show: “Ask Melania.”)

This morning, shown below, are the featured articles on HUFFPOST with the opening page of their website on top:

The HUFFPOST headlines say it all about Dear Leader and Dear First Lady attending the Kennedy Center premier of the wildly popular musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s acclaimed novel Les Misérables. Throw in a story about J.D. Vance…

Here are the separate articles:

Trump Unironically Attends 'Les Misérables' As Protests Spread

Donald Trump Ducks ‘Les Misérables’ Character Question, Internet Brutally Answers It For Him

Trump's Cheers At 'Les Mis' Got Interrupted By A Whole Lotta Boos

'So Cringe': JD Vance's Theater Joke Falls 'Incredibly' Flat On Social Media

It is a side issue about Vance, but apparently the author of Hillbilly Elegy knows nothing about pop culture:

You can see in the photo (which HUFFPOST featured) that Melania is far better at hidng how she really feels under a pasted on smile than the supposed master performer and TV celebrity she married. You can click to enlarge the image below.

Here’s another photo, this is from Reuters:

It isn’t just the liberal HUFFPOST covering this story. Here’s the Google News search.

Clicking above will enlarge image. Click here for articles.

What does all the brouhaha signify? In a way it signifies a great deal about Trump. On the other hand, to quote Shakespeare, it is merely ‘a tale told be an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’…

What this one vignette in the tale of Trump tells us is that the country is being led by an idiot bent on becoming a dictator who is well on his way to destroying democracy using the vast military might at his beck and call to thwart any opposition.

He’s even going to have a parade on Saturday.

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June 10, 2025

While anxiously waiting for Trump's next move on his dictatorial juggernaut I found two small things to be pleased about. By Hal M. Brown

I was looking at my friend Sabrina Haake’s Facebook page. She writes the Substack The Haake Take.

This is what I saw:

I wrote the following comment:

Last night watching Stephanie Ruhle's MSNBC show with her talking to Jon Meacham about LA and Trump, and at the end of a long segment she (I'm paraphrasing) said we should get alarmed yet and he (again parphrasing) said it is acceptable to be alarmed. On Lawrence O'Donnell's long first segment about this, I was pleased that for the entire time he had this photo on the screen. Trump is known to watch the show and I suspect this was done just to piss him off. I'd seen the photo on the lower left but not this one. (click image to enlarge) I still haven't decided what to write my Substack about - this is hardly a big story but I am tempted to share it if I can't think of something else. Here's an article about the tripping video going viral. (The photo I posted with my comment is on the top of this page.)

I wonder whether there was any debate among staff at Lawrence’s show about which photo to feature. The photo of Trump’s face is one of the least flattering I’ve seen recently, but the one from the back shows how badly he tripped. Lawrence showed a video of Trump walking up the stairs to Air Force One and said that this was the video Trump did not want you to see.

Back to Jon Meacham and what he said to Stephanie Rhule.

I’ve referred to the impact Walker Chronkite had on LBJ and the country when he editorialized about the Vietnam War and how this is considered by historians to have been a seminal event leading to the United State’s withdrawing from Vietnam.

Excerpt:

It may be hard to believe in the current era of declining media credibility and amid President Donald Trump's bitter condemnations of "fake news," but mainstream journalists once were trusted figures in society who could sway public opinion in a major way.
A historic example occurred 50 years ago this week: the stunning commentary of CBS anchor Walker Cronkite on Feb. 27, 1968, in which he dissected the U.S. role in Vietnam, stepped away from objectivity, and came to a very negative conclusion. He crystallized public opposition to the Vietnam War and dealt a setback to the credibility of the U.S. government.

Today we don’t have any one person with the influence and credibility of Walter Chronicle. If I could chose one it just might be Jon Meacham.

Of course, back in the Chronkite days we didn’t have cable news. There were three networks. Of the three networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC, in the 1960s and 70s, CBS News was widely considered to be the best in the business (reference).

For those too young to remember here’s an article:

Note that the above article is from CNN and entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner (who was married to Jane Fonda for 10 years) didn’t launch the first 24 hour news network until 1980.

With all the horrible news at least I was pleased to see how Lawrence O’Donnell may have sent a message to Trump that would piss him off, and I was glad that Jon Meacham gave permission, of a sort, to Stephanie Ruhle and her audience not only to be alarmed, but basically said that they should be alarmed.

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June 9, 2025

"When they spit, we hit." As if we needed more proof that Trump was sadistic malignant narcissist he shares a viscious ditty... by Hal M. Brown He thinks he's being clever. This just shows what a warped mind he has.

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Here’s the HUFFPOST article about this:

You can listen to Trump saying this here.

It was posted by Acyn (full name Acyn Torabi) who has over 600,000 followers on X and frequently has his tweets shared in the progressive media.

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When I looked at this tweet about Trump’s vicious ditty this was the first comment:

Next was the tweet I have on the top of the page. It was followed by those I show below.. A few are pro-Trump but most are very cirtical of his making this comment.

J Johnson approves:

The FAFO tweeter also approves:

Trump said something like this before. Remember this (watch video):

He basically told police officer to bash a suspect’s head when putting them in the back of police cars. This got a big laugh from his audience.

Update: Gavin Newsom tweeted this. Clicking will enlarge image. If you want to see the replies to this tweet click here.

Trump and his cohorts are sadists. I wrote about them in January here. Tragically many of his followers are sadists as well. I used the same illustration I used here for this Substack.

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