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sop

(18,431 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:29 AM 8 hrs ago

'The President Who Forgot Who the President Is' - jojofromjerz

"Let’s just start with the baseline reality here, because I feel like we are all being slowly marinated in such a thick brine of daily insanity that the national brain has begun to treat things that should set off every alarm bell from Bangor to Bakersfield as if they’re just another Tuesday in the clown-car constitutional collapse."

"The sitting president of the United States sat behind the Resolute Desk today....The Resolute Desk."

"That big historical slab of wood where Franklin D. Roosevelt steered the country through war and depression, where John F. Kennedy stared down nuclear annihilation, where Ronald Reagan faced off with the Soviets, where Bill Clinton signed laws that shaped a generation, and where Barack Obama expanded healthcare— a desk that has seen more actual leadership than whatever the hell is happening there now."

"And this man, surrounded by reporters, flanked by his vice president, in that room every American can picture without even trying, referred to the governor of California as the president of the United States."

Continued at link:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/the-president-who-forgot-who-the?r=r38w4&utm_medium=ios

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'The President Who Forgot Who the President Is' - jojofromjerz (Original Post) sop 8 hrs ago OP
"He is three raccoons in a trench coat pretending to be a president." nt eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #1
;-{) MIRROR MIRROR...... Goonch 7 hrs ago #2
Maybe he is being prescient? mwmisses4289 6 hrs ago #3

mwmisses4289

(3,967 posts)
3. Maybe he is being prescient?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 09:07 AM
6 hrs ago

Although I have a few doubts about Newsom, he certainly would be millions of times better than t.

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