Friday, October 9, 2026

DUM(B)

A lot of people don't know there is a B in dumb, but I'm here to tell you there is.

Folks, I've been gone a long time again! It was a summer of travel and other Important Life Things that kept me away. Once again, there is no way to catch up on all of the poop pellets that have rained down on us in the last several weeks, but I'll hit a few tidbits in our DUMB situation.

D is for Dementia
It is progressing. There are so many signs of serious health issues. It's no wonder. When you have an anus for a mouth there have got to be problems!

Cognitive, speech and language, and physical symptoms abound. Let's take a look.


The Gait Problems: Disordered Standing, Walking, Evidence of Leg Braces
He has shown weird bumps and bulges under his clothes indicating that he is wearing possibly AFOs on his lower legs or a full medical exoskeleton to help him balance and walk. Just look at this caboose!

Hmmm.....




And look at his wonky legs as he is standing here:

Article here

And definitely some sort of leg brace under his pants:


Look at this walking pattern. This is typical of stroke patients or other folks with upper motor neuron disorders. It's called a scissor gait. 
The Incontinence
Rumors abound about his #1 and #2 incontinence. He farts in public – a lot – and there is speculation that many of those are sharts or full-on poopy pants. Only Natalie knows for sure.

The Diaper Bag
Natalie Harp, Secretary of Diaper Bag, has been following him around everywhere he goes. She must have an impaired olfactory lobe! 

Here is a picture which shows that inside is like a "chux," a paper-and-plastic pad that protects surfaces in the event of incontinence. If you've ever been through a hospital or nursing home, you know these things. You may use them as puppy pads or to line your bird cage.

Catch a glimpse of them here, trying to escape their fate: 

The Speech and Language 
I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist and I've been writing about his disordered speech, language, and cognition since 2017. Lately, a few others in the short-form video world have also started to weigh in, and I'm grateful to this creator who keeps the analysis going on a daily basis. Because I'm short on time and patience today, I'm going to let this Instagrammer show you some very alarming signs and symptoms of Dear Leader's rapid decline. Here she is showing clips of this week's rally in Alabama. For the full rally, if you can stomach it, watch here. 

He's got some serious neurological issues. It's gone beyond typical dementia and stroke. Now he is showing signs of seizure activity.

She doesn't note his right-sided facial weakness, but it is obvious to me. Watch for his lips drooping on the right. 


"We're repressive also." 
Trumplethinskin had initiated a media ban in the Whitewash House, banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. Later that day, he was asked this question by a reporter. 

Does he not know what repressive means? Does he think it's a positive? Is he finally saying the truth out loud? Or does he simply have some language difficulties due to dementia and/or stroke? What is going on?


"I can go ramp. I can go stair."
What a flex!

We've never had a president in the history of the world that can go ramp and can go stair!

And note the speech error: "When Biden left the stage he spake– spoke...."


The Memory 
What happened on January 6? What are you talking about? Rioters? Huh??


The Sleeping

He continually falls asleep in public. Cabinet meetings, meetings with foreign leaders, funerals, you name it. He sleeps sitting down, he sleeps standing up. He cannot stay awake. Indy100 has complied a list of 29 times he has fallen asleep in front of cameras. 

He is not fit to be president! 

The Angry Outbursts 
If you have a loved one with dementia, you know that sometimes their personality changes – or enhances – as the disease progresses. It's not a given, but a nice person can get mean; a "mean" person can get meaner. 

This mean person is getting really mean. Here are a couple angry outbursts caught recently.

Leaving Marine One a couple weeks ago


Video of that encounter: 
(side note: notice how he has to catch himself a bit when his balance goes off as he steps toward and away from her)

You remember this one from a few months ago:

And of course:

Relatedly, he has always had a foul mouth, but he has started swearing a lot more and a lot more harshly. Recent quotes:

In a speech during an Ohio rally, he said, "Just get out and vote. If you do that, we're going to win, and we're going to win big! And we're going to shove it up their ass, ok?"

In the recent Time interview (below), he said, "You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question.”

The Time Magazine Transcript
Oh my lordt. His stark raving senility is on display in black and white. Time magazine did an interview, and to their credit, instead of writing an article to try to make sense of his bizarre ramblings, they published the transcript verbatim. 

It's disturbing. I've had similar conversations in the memory care unit.

You should read it. Find it here. And Time's fact check here, as if anyone who has been paying half a neuron's worth of attention needs it. 

Gotta love the photo that accompanied the transcript:
Grandpa Shartsinpants flummoxed once again

The Experimental Drug
According to records, there is one person in the world who has been approved to receive an experimental weight-loss medication on a "compassionate use" basis. The person is male, 79 years old (at the time of the request for the drug), and weighed 238 at a May physical, up 14 pounds from the previous check-in. All of that aligns with published reports about one diaper-clad clown currently stinking up 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 

The Whitesupremacy House is not giving answers to questions, so one can take the circumstantial evidence and make one's own conclusions. Here is a breakdown of the matter from FackCheck.org.


U is for Unhinged
Also for the Umbrage we feel!

WTF? Inviting Iran to destroy Los Angeles and San Diego?
This crap has got to end.

During a rally in Nebraska, in talking about Iran's nuclear capabilities, Confusedcious said, "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."

What the actual fuck?

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

This Bullshit Bribe: $5000 checks 
So he says he is going to send out $5000 checks to all voters if the Republicans hold on to the House and the Senate in next month's midterm elections. 

First of all, it's illegal. Secondly, he's panicked. Thirdly, we're still waiting for other promised payouts. What about the tariff refund checks? The DOGE dividend checks? The direct payments for healthcare? 

This Unhinged Shit.
Betraying an ally. That tracks.


He "feels badly" for the Cornell 7
Betraying women. That double tracks.


It's been difficult reading about the rape case at Cornell University, where seven men gang-raped a woman after giving her drugs. The Rapist-in-Chief says he "feels badly" for the men after their case was turned over to New York Attorney General Letitia James, the woman who successfully prosecuted him for 34 felonies.

Deranged. Unhinged. Insane.

Ads paid for by taxpayers on official websites. 
What the fresh recycled propaganda is this?

On the public airwaves we can find three ads, including a reused campaign ad from his 2024 campaign.

They claim they are public service announcements. Hogwash. It's plain propaganda. It features a disclaimer that reads, "Paid for by the U.S. government." Understand this: more than $1.5 million of your tax dollars were wasted on this propaganda.

Here's one of them. It's just weird. Repeated "love me" (ewwwww) lyrics underlie the nauseatingly quick edits. 

Illegal. Unhinged. 

Find another one here if you care.

Side note: MAGA harps and harps on the Socialists that will destroy our country, yet they do not know what Socialism means.

The people on the street do not know.

The Vice President of the United States does not know (hint: Socialism is not boys playing in girls' sports).

"Small Potatoes" War: $37 billion, six months, and 18 deaths in Iran war
Oh, what's a few soldier deaths in the ill-gotten war? 

We are now six months into this failure. When confronted on the the fact that he claimed at the start that the war would last just a couple weeks, and that he has said multiple times that the war was "over" and Iran's military capabilities were "destroyed," he flies a false flag by comparing this war to other wars, such as Vietnam, that lasted much longer and had many more deaths and casualties.

To whit: the 18 deaths that United States families have suffered are "small potatoes."

Tell that to their mothers, you evil, unhinged scum. 


M is for Malice
Malice continues toward women, people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants. 

There is widespread malice throughout the regime, but today I focus on the malice coming from the Secretary of Defense Whiskey Pete Kegsbreath.



The Malice of Hate
Pete dwells on an image of the All-American, white, studly, testosteroney, smooth shaven (everywhere?) G.I. Joe. He has proclaimed:
"We are no longer the “woke department” or the “weak department.” Simple translation of that — no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. Just tough, ready, committed troops. The War Department, as you know, is color-blind, gender-neutral, and merit-based.

Or, as the president says to me, 'Pete, central casting. I want central casting.' The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
So much disgusting shit in just 74 words out of that smarmy pale-souled jerk. 

The regime is so anti-trans, yet Kegsbreth has ordered gender-affirming care for the troops in the form of forced testosterone testing and treatment. What the hell place are we living in?

And how many times must we ask that question?

And the irony. Oh, the delicious irony. Pete lusts for the most perfect physical specimen of manly man, yet we get videos like these.

Poor form, pooping out, and the grapevine!! OMG. Can you say Low T?

Laugh at will.









The Malice of Racism and Misogyny
Petey has fired the military's best and brightest simply because they are the wrong gender or color, or have a little more body fat than others. He has culled the ranks of generals and admirals by about 20%. Keep in mind that the number of generals was down 30% already from the 1960s. 

The Malice of Indifference
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln just returned to port in San Diego yesterday after 321 days – almost 11 months! – including a record consecutive 286 days at sea. 

Over the last months, there were reports of inadequate food rations, inadequate water and water contamination, few hygiene supplies, delayed or absent communications from family, and many sailors suffering mental health crises, several of whom attempted suicide. 

The Defense Secretary's response? Indifference. 

In April, when reports of food shortages started appearing, it called it "fake news from the Pharisee press."

On August 13, he said that the conditions were "completely misrepresented" and that "we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment...."

At that point, Diaper Don was asked whether he thought the Lincoln had been deployed too long. He replied, "No, no, no. Not nearly long enough."

And now, October, after the Navy had acknowledged tough conditions and eight suicide attempts, Petey had softened a bit but still did not take responsibility, saying, "Yes, it’s hard. That’s why you’re here. You do difficult and hard things" and "there wasn't an easy resupply."


The Malice of Murder
This just in: Pete has announced that the firing squad execution of Ft. Hood shooter Nidel Malik Hasan will be live-streamed for the public to watch. 

What kind of sicko is he? This is positively sociopathic. Seriously. Full stop. 



B is for Bright Spots
Jack Smith appeared before Congress to explain his actions. He was intelligent, measured, reasoned, and calm. 

He calmly, forcefully, and resolutely defended his safeguard of the Rule of Law and his pursuit of criminal investigation of the Orange Menace.

Here is his opening statement. He is a goddamned American hero.


And in that hearing, another bright spot: Seeing Sen. Eric Schmitt (R - Mo.) get shredded over his misguided questioning of Smith's whereabouts on February 3, 2024.


47's Approval Ratings are in the Tank 
They've reached new lows, historic lows.

The latest polls are showing him with about 30% approval and 68% disapproval, which puts him 38% underwater. 

He has the lowest average approval rating of any president since 1945.

This is bad news for the overall MAGA movement. So many candidates in next month's election are scooting away, removing him from their websites and declining offers for him to campaign for them.


The midterms are in 24 days! 
All indications are that there is a blue wave coming, despite all the efforts by H.R. PuffingStuff to disenfranchise voters and sow distrust in the system. By my estimation, though he has tried a lot of nefarious tactics, very little of it has worked. The courts are holding, secretaries of state are holding, the voters are ready.

Many Dems are in competitive races or pulling ahead handily. 

Let's look at some exciting races.

Polling going the right way. 
Here in California, Xavier Becerra holds a handy 10-point lead over former FAUX News talking head Steve Hilton.
Michigan: Abdul Al-Sayed is 4-5 points ahead in his Senate bid.
Alaska: Mary Peltola is holding her own against her Repug opponent in the race for Alaska Governor. 
Texas: James Talarico has been +6% in his Senate race over Korruption King Ken, while Gina Hinojosa for Texas governor is ekeing out a lead in some polls against the icky Greg Abbott (who, by the way, is simply too darn busy with other events to attend his Tangerine buddy's Texas campaign stop). 

Wouldn't it be amazing if Texas could flip? 


Many other races are competitive. It won't be an easy task for the House to flip to Dem control, but it's possible. Voters are fed up.

There are many seats deemed tossups, but slowly and surely they are inching toward blue. Cook Political Report is moving races from "red" into "tossup" and then even into the blue columns. It's possible we will be living in a whole new world soon. See the New York Times's analysis of latest polls here. 

We have three weeks to move the needle. Contribute money, time, or energy to your favorite candidates! My favorite contribution: postcard campaigns. They are still chugging along. Check in with Postcards to Voters and help out! 

Just a Few Memes n Toons



Don't threaten us with a good time, Larry

You too, Stepheratu!













Hope in Memes
Just a funny


We've been there before, we can get there again.


Elle is one of my favorite creators out there. She is creative, funny, and super smart. Here she is, giving us hope.





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