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Aristus

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31. I just chalk it up to simple incompetence.

Reply to Trueblue Texan (Reply #12)

Thu May 7, 2026, 02:07 PM

11 hrs ago

This isn't the Presidency's first foray into terminal ineptitude.

How quickly we forget.

GWB's odd little painting hobby, and his schoolboy crush on Michelle Obama shouldn't make us forget what a thin-skinned incompetent little man he was. We were hoping he would be the worst of it, and then we could go back to competent governance. How little we understood that the repukes were just softening up the ground for Trump.

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So now we know why Trump is desperate for his underground bunker. [View all] Baitball Blogger 19 hrs ago OP

Yeah truddy777 19 hrs ago #1

...stocked with Lugers. Loaded, within easy reach. Girard442 19 hrs ago #3

I'm grateful that Lard Ass doesn't have a dog to kill first. 11 Bravo 8 hrs ago #36

Hitler's bunker Whip-poor-will 19 hrs ago #2

Dunno. Peggy Noonan reported in 2001 no_hypocrisy 19 hrs ago #4

Yes, there was always a bunker. Baitball Blogger 19 hrs ago #5

not enough gold paint. rampartd 18 hrs ago #6

He wants a "luxury" bunker vankuria 18 hrs ago #8

For a billion bucks, the bunker walls ought to be solid gold. nt allegorical oracle 12 hrs ago #30

The XL potty chair. NameAlreadyTaken 11 hrs ago #33

You know...that whole thing is crazy to me about 911... Trueblue Texan 17 hrs ago #12

There are a LOT of things from that day that johnnyfins 17 hrs ago #15

I just chalk it up to simple incompetence. Aristus 11 hrs ago #31

It was rather small.... SergeStorms 17 hrs ago #13

Speaking of shithole - There is no gold toilet in the present bunker. Yonnie3 16 hrs ago #17

It increases the cost of construction. More opportunity for grift, perhaps. Auggie 18 hrs ago #7

K&R orangecrush 18 hrs ago #9

Hmm... OldBaldy1701E 18 hrs ago #10

If you want to be terrified, read this. liberalgunwilltravel 18 hrs ago #11

He's anti-democratic, and he never understood or wanted a democratic election FakeNoose 16 hrs ago #19

Whoa. Thats chilling Ruby the Liberal 15 hrs ago #20

Oh, pish-tosh dpibel 13 hrs ago #28

I thought that there was one already under the White House LiberalArkie 17 hrs ago #14

Probably cannot withstand a bunker-busting missile. Baitball Blogger 15 hrs ago #23

Hmm LiberalArkie 14 hrs ago #27

Agree. He is looking at a possible permanent residence to operate from. wnylib 13 hrs ago #29

Bannon has repeatedly said, "There are ways to do it" -- DJT's not leaving in '28. And that allegorical oracle 11 hrs ago #32

He might also be afraid of assassination. wnylib 9 hrs ago #34

Putin is hiding because he knows, sooner or later... Fiendish Thingy 16 hrs ago #16

Zelenskyy is a superhero. Baitball Blogger 15 hrs ago #22

And maybe Trump is afraid of retaliation against him personally wnylib 9 hrs ago #35

He shouldn't have ripped out the old bunker. Emile 16 hrs ago #18

Can't play out his "Hitler in the Bunker" scenario without a bunker... Wounded Bear 15 hrs ago #21

The ballroom is just the cover of a bomb proof shelter the_liberal_grandpa 14 hrs ago #24

They all have a plan until they bring on Doomsday. Baitball Blogger 14 hrs ago #25

Since when has he governed? That is news to me. Ferrets are Cool 14 hrs ago #26