<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Deanne’s Newsletter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Observations on the World from an LA Historian]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VAsG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fdeannemencher.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.png</url><title>Deanne’s Newsletter</title><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:30:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/deannemencher.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[deannemencher@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[deannemencher@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[deannemencher@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[deannemencher@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[ LOCKED OUT OF SUBSTACK ! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[How I got back in!]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/locked-out-of-substack</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/locked-out-of-substack</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:04:28 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day I discovered I was locked out of my Substack account.  Truly locked out. I could see all of my pieces  I&#8217;d written  but could not access the &#8217;dashboard&#8217; whatsoever and a few people reached out to help and I followed their instructions step by step but it went nowhere.  In fact, I accidentally set up another account under Deanne and it kept sneaking in when I pressed Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter. I spent a few hours on my own trying to figure out what happened since  it used to be completely accessible by touching a couple of keys. </p><p>I could not imagine never ever again being able to write on my account and yet that was the worry.  It is a feeling we all have had over different issues when you are completely flummoxed as to what to do. Like being in the middle of the ocean naked.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>That used to be a childhood anxiety. I would be on a ship naked and come to the realization that I had left my luggage on shore!  Is this called helpless? I tried not to panic but to think how to solve it but again if you don&#8217;t have sufficient information, and you  don&#8217;t even know what information you specifically need, it really is a conundrum.</p><p>I also become speechless trying to explain the problem because it is so out of my daily need.  It is inexplicable.  So I stopped thinking about it and drank some wine last night  and avoided listening or watching any news.  The news today just exacerbates my depression over the state of our country.  Even though Trump&#8217;s ratings are at 32 percent, it isn&#8217;t low enough to calm me.  Who are these 32 percenters who still believe in this man who has the ability to turn a silk scarf into a monkey&#8217;s ass?  Every time a new person enters my life as a salesman, a new neighbor, a delivery person, a waiter, I look at them and ask myself &#8220;Could this person be part of that 32 percent who cling to the belief that this piece of burnt up linoleum  is a &#8216;great president?&#8217; As some of his fans express it, &#8220; The Greatest President in the History of the United States&#8221;   <br>Barf and barf again.  </p><p>But I digress, just saying what I avoided watching last night. Instead I read a book about a guy in his late twenties coming to Hollywood to see if it was for him.  He ends up going to the same bar night after night, making friends with the people who frequent it, having sex with one or two of the women, then his ex girlfriend calls from afar and pledges her undying love, so he leaves Hollywood and returns to his home back East to set  up housekeeping with her. It was a good outcome and it made me think that if this book could end well, maybe my being locked out of my Substack.com could have a happy ending also.</p><p>So I called Ivan, my smart friend and told him I was desperate.  He arrived a few hours ago and worked his magic. Well, there were a few minutes when it looked really grim. He asked me for my password for my google email and well, me and passwords do not get along, and of course i had no idea what it was. I also told him that yesterday I tried to change the password of that google email address which I never use, and was not successful.  I then remembered that when I opened this account I had my friend Mick take my Substack pieces I wrote on Google Drive and transfer them to Substack for me. Bingo.  Turns out that Mick made the password and the account was  in his name.  Mick moved to Queeensland, Australia two years ago.  What? Yes,  For the last two years all I did was click on Substack.com after logging in without a password and voila, I was at my dashboard with no complications.  Now Ivan is yelling at me to try to remember the email pw Mick used! </p><p><br>- Don&#8217;t you have it somewhere?-  <br>- No, I don&#8217;t.-</p><p>-Well the only way you can get it is by getting in touch with Mick.-</p><p>-Mick is in Queensland- I don&#8217;t have his phone number-</p><p>-Well the account recovery is sent to this number ending in 99-</p><p>-99? He doesn&#8217;t have that number any more-</p><p>I stared at a blank wall. This was the end of my substack.com writing ! <br>All will vanish. four years of my essays, gone.  How am I going to reconcile this?</p><p>Ivan continued to go from one computer site to another. Fast and deliberate. I am about to cry from my lack of care of passwords. I am so shabby about them. And now they are biting me in the fanny, hard.</p><p>I leave the room to attend to my baking.  I am gone about ten minutes. I return and there in front of me is my substack and the dashboard waiting with the number of subscribers coming now close to 200 - some paid, some not.  </p><p>He warns me:  From now on you open with Google and there is the icon for your newsletter - and THAT IS IT.</p><p>A genius, a kind, skilled, extraordinary human being who deserves great praise for his versatility. I can write again. I promise I will not be negligent and I promise I will try to write worthwhile essays, easy on the eyes, challenging to the brain, and sometimes amusing, soulful, wise, with limited rambling. Be of good cheer and know as Ivan said, &#8220; There is a solution to just about everything. It may take awhile to find it.&#8221;</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I AM the GREATEST CONQUEROR]]></title><description><![CDATA[and I may even be God - I'll let you know in a couple of weeks]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/i-am-the-greatest-conqueror</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/i-am-the-greatest-conqueror</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:02:22 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Principal at a school where I taught  was complimenting me on receiving a Grant I had written on my own, with no prior knowledge of Grant writing -telling me the other teachers had to get coached and even after  much coaching,  I was the only  one who GOT the grant - so I said  &#8220;I guess it comes naturally  to me because I am a very smart person and I know how to write.&#8221; He thought that was too bold and audacious.</p><p>So when I heard that Maggie Haberman reported that Trump  told her earlier this year, that he is more powerful than all the great historic rulers and  dictators - for example, Genghis Khan and Hitler, I thought of  that incident and how asserting my excellence was criticized, but here is a man - a man - functioning  on a much broader swath of the world who brags and boasts incessantly  and few call him  out for boasting  or being audacious.  &#8216;He is just who he is&#8217;, most of his supporters would say. In that warped mind of his I&#8217;m sure he thinks he is God -  maybe even more powerful than God but with different  concerns. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>  When a panelist  on CNN criticized  Trump for focusing on the condition of the Reflecting Pool and  too much time  concentrating on the details of the new ballroom, instead of on the people&#8217;s kitchen table concerns,  Scott Jennings ranted that algae has been here for 1 point 6 million years and it will not go away and for sure, it is not Trump&#8217;s  fault and Scott never commented on the President&#8217;s total  lack of interest in the peoples&#8217; concern -  as if they are inconsequential.  Powerful men are not generous men. Powerful men think selfishly about acquisitions, and broader world power, forever increasing their personal wealth  and planning enormous take overs. There is nothing democratic in those ambitions.</p><p>While the majority of us are concerned with our cost of living and the ability to work and pay our bills, wishing for our children&#8217;s future that there is a  stabilizing of  climate change, getting  billionaires to pay higher taxes, or wish for the days that  diplomacy and tact were used in negotiations and yearn for the Obama style government, this mfker is simply bullying his way through our lives insisting that he and only he can fix it and only he knows the right way as he drags us through chaos on a daily diet. Aren&#8217;t you sick of it? I am.</p><p>His focus seems to be  on deliberately  preventing us from being calm. The more he muddies  the waters, the more we must need him to fix it.  His expertise is  in being able to threaten and bully his way through negotiations. He is a deal maker through intimidation.  Most of us do not want to acquire  nor do we have any need to take over Greenland or invade Cuba but he has his sights on taking every country he can until he leaves office. And there are those who are in his corner 100 percent. AND that is worrisome.</p><p> It is very clear that my ideals are 360 degrees from his.  So the grass on the White House Lawn died as a result of the boxing ring he built and costs a million or so to repair.  How much did it cost to remove his name from the Kennedy Center? How much is he spending trying to return the blue color to the Reflecting Pool?  The paint is already peeling at the bottom of the pool.  He made over two billion dollars this year and he is asking taxpayers to pay for these repairs and improvements. If he is a generous and great man as he brags, why not donate the money? </p><p>I am witnessing the most corrupt government in the history of our nation. He gets that  free pass more than any other previous President in the history of these United States! I hear Trumpers insist he is doing the best job of any previous leader.  I shake my head in wonder and  no matter how hard I look, I can&#8217;t come to that same conclusion. All I see ( and I am in vast company)  is the most inhumane President I have ever witnessed. He wouldn&#8217;t know how to do something personal, loving and altruistic for any country, city , village or human.  It is not in his DNA. He is absent  compassion. I know I&#8217;ve said it before, but it is really hard for me to believe that such a man attained the highest office of this country.</p><p>He is absent kindness, thoughtfulness or consideration. On Juneteenth he never mentioned anything referring to the celebration of the day. On any holiday he is absent sentiment. He only cares about the stock market as an indicator of our country&#8217;s well being, and only cares about being credited for every accomplishment no matter whose it is.  He cannot clasp a medal of honor,  nor resist commenting that he should have one, along with his beautiful sons who might get one for .. for.. &#8220;good hunting.&#8221; He cannot walk soundly down the stairs of his rotten plane that he describes as the most expensive, state of the art, protective AIR FORCE ONE ever, having been gifted it by the Saudis. And today he changed planes abruptly as there must have been a vulnerability leaving Turkey. He used the old Air Force One which is better fortified.</p><p>He is leading us into a war - again. Some are wondering if he really knows what he is doing. I&#8217;m glad that number of people is increasing but it is not enough yet. He was asked to release the money he owes E Jean Carroll.  Will he or will he defy the court order because even though we know he is not GOD , he thinks he is. </p><p> If we are not outraged sufficiently to demand impeachment for crimes extraordinaire, old, former and present crimes, I think we are in for a very bumpy ride ahead.  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[WISHING YOU ONE HELLuva FUTURE]]></title><description><![CDATA[let's drink to that]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/wishing-you-one-helluva-future</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/wishing-you-one-helluva-future</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 04:46:09 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Trump celebrated Colbert&#8217;s final show in a Truth Social post, writing, &#8220;Amazing he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. &#8230; Thank goodness he&#8217;s finally gone!&#8221;</p><p>Just you wait and see, Mr. Trump. We will be shouting this about you  from every crevice and corner of our nation and possibly a gigantic broadcast from the newly refurbished reflecting pool -  when you&#8217;re gone and not only that, hopefully we will have your nasty brain analyzed by the coroner&#8217;s assistants and determine how one man could incorporate  and spout such consistently mean spirited rants.  Were there worms in there? Some kind of parasite?  The only people who cheer you on are the ones that have that evil and greed within themselves and use you as their conduit.   </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Perhaps your sons and daughters see you as a nasty man with bad taste but because of your wealth they suppress their real feelings, constantly aware that their father is one of the least human humans on the planet. Only money. Only money and power. Only money and power and powerful men around you - Natanyahu, Xi, Putin and your lover in North Korea. Never in the history of America has there been such a person as you. </p><p>We shake our heads citing, &#8216;There is no precedent for this.&#8217; AND  just think of your suing the IRS , a one man band, there is no precedent for this.  We are exhausted from the larceny in your soul -less being.  We are exhausted by your rants and violent rhetoric. We are exhausted by the corruption that lurks and lurks  looking for any outlet to apply your mighty skills of insults and degradations that all should - if there was really justice in this world, boomerang  onto the person shouting them.</p><p>It is gratifying to see your rating at 34 percent. It is gratifying to see some Republicans defying your outlandish demands for one billion for a ballroom after you have decimated and desecrated our country&#8217;s ethical, constitutional government  by demolishing a portion of the White House for your own crazy purpose. It is gratifying to see the resistance to the 1776 slush fund .</p><p> You talk about the hurt the people suffered, the lives that were ruined in the Insurrection which you are responsible for, and ask for compensation for them while the majority of the country is suffering from super high gas prices and an inability to get enough food for the family, and  the lives of the farmers you have destroyed through your tariffs. <br>Where is your sympathy? Of course we guessed: It is with the criminal element. The buddies you revere.  Only criminal minds entice you. You do not know NORMAL. You have never recognized NORMAL.   Epstein&#8217;s twisted mind and yours are so similar. Perhaps the jealousy you felt toward him, led you to displace that anger onto the mores of our nation, attempting to destroy all sanctity of institutions. </p><p>You have honed these abnormal skills with pride. Your egomaniacal demonic outbursts and diatribes , your poisonous barbs, have become  your daily affirmations.</p><p>You are the sickest human ever to lead our country and I can&#8217;t wait,  along with millions of others around the world, for us to cheer and repeat the words you have stated to our beloved Steven Colbert. He will have another opportunity to shine, but your shining is coming to an end and all we will have in your place is  a pile of unrealized  objectives going to the FAILURE CEMETERY. </p><p>Good riddance, Good God, let us pray those Republican House and Senate members will increase tenfold and will fight against your selfish goals and your willful  desire to turn our country into a commemorative for only you and  let&#8217;s acknowledge  some of that gold  surrounding your office is fake, like you. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AN OPEN LETTER TO TRUMP'S SUPPORTERS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get back to me]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-trumps-supporters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-trumps-supporters</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:13:52 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> In the last couple of weeks I have had reason to touch  base with a fraction of Trump supporters who are still insisting&#8217; he is doing the right thing and in the long term it will turn out well for us.&#8217;</p><p>I would venture to say that this is magical thinking.  This is something the president and his supporters are experts at. Based on the evidence I&#8217;ve seen, including the cloudy lackluster speech last night, I would say we&#8217;re in for a reckoning- more sooner than later. In fact some of you supporters (who are probably not reading this) agree that the speech which was supposed to clarify the goal of this war and the  exorbitant price of gas and everyday items, plus giving a completion date, unfortunately sputtered  on all sparkplugs.</p><p>Last night when there was a post discussion on CNN, of the veracity of his words  and recognition of the brutality in language, as in  &#8216;blasting them back to the Stone Age&#8217;  in Trump&#8217;s broken speech, the token REPUBLICAN Scott Jennings pulled out the statistics of murder and crime being at its lowest since the President took office. Talk about irrelevance.  Today in Bondi&#8217;s going away speech it is the first thing she mentions. She has destroyed the integrity of her Department of Justice. She has stonewalled all efforts for her to be forthcoming, so the decline in the murder rate  is her great accomplishment during her term in office.  She has damaged its reputation and I doubt that Todd Blanche is going to do much to repair.  It is like being in the midst of a disaster of  great  magnitude, running for cover, praying that you are out of the danger zone,  heart beating rapidly, that someone  tries to comfort you by telling you that you just avoided stepping into some poop on the ground.  Absurdity.  It is an infinitesimal victory that has no relationship to the danger at hand. It was such a shallow remark. Just as her going away speech is total  BS.   Of course the whole administration is composed of the greatest BS artists in our country. Perhaps there is an aptitude test they take before being hired to see how high they can sling it. You Trump supporters seem to have a pipeline that none of us others have to what the real story is.  No matter how awful he is, you  have an ability to brush aside what we think is important and  you think is of no importance.  Apparently what is important to you is his governance. Not his character, not his appearance, not the way he dresses or addresses people - simply how he governs. But now with the &#8216;military operation&#8217; as he terms it since he did not get permission of Congress to start this flame, some of you are beginning to lose patience.  I am happy to see that.  I hope your eyes get rid of the fairy dust that has been blinding you for so long, and get rid of the notion that this man is doing anything for anyone except for himself. The greed that is abundantly obvious to the rest of us, and what we disdain as a moral absence, especially  a sitting President making a billion dollars while in office, has to eventually make some sense in your noggins. I believe that the Christian Nationalists among you, envy the amount of money he is bringing in and somewhere in your subconscious you think he will share it with you.  What has he taught you?  Forgiving is a virtue?   I have a hunch that one of your favorite activities is forgiving sinners.  Let me know, thanks.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A CRY FOR HELP - THIS IS HELL]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have gone a few weeks without writing one of these because I was waiting to see if there is any thing spinning that is the MOST important subject to write about, but lately it is about the war and lies about the goings on in it.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-cry-for-help-this-is-hell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-cry-for-help-this-is-hell</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:25:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have gone  a few weeks without writing one of these because I was waiting  to see if there is any thing spinning that is the MOST important subject to write about, but lately it is about the war and lies about the goings on in it. One thing that is glaringly clear, too clear is that we have a president who truly believes that &#8216;only I can fix it.&#8217;  When that phrase surfaced, I thought, &#8216;Yeah, he is an egotist,&#8217; but now a couple of years later it is so obvious he is truly convinced and always has been that he is the smartest and brainiest, the most shrewd and clever man on earth. He has more insight into war than any military figure. He has more knowledge than any person who has gone to an Ivy League school, or any college, or even having a PhD  and he knows how to make money better than anyone in the world of finance. Finally, he has the most degrading foul mouth , and takes the brass ring for being the most insulting, demeaning, mean and cruel being on this earth.</p><p>So, how does the rest of the world deal with a man who has those qualifications?  I got to say it&#8217;s a challenge to deal with a pathological person of such extremes.  I am not a diplomat, or trained in any form of governance, so I cannot really imagine what each leader of every country is thinking about our President.  I am sure they are strategizing daily to figure it out,  whereas he doesn&#8217;t know the meaning of strategy. He thrives on his compulsions. His venomous tongue, a lethal weapon, serves him well .  How long can this go on?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I ask how can his supporters condone his words, his contradictions, his flip flops that showcase his lack of knowledge, and lack of any ability in thinking that leads to problem solving. He is simply a specimen of the worst compilation of traits that went into his gene pool to bring us this rotten torn up rat who parades his gaudy taste as if it had value.  He is proud to brag about his wealth and belittle those who cannot attain it.  He punishes them. The people who love him are mostly wannabees who think his brand of lawlessness is to be admired and replicated, because  they don&#8217;t know how to do it themselves. It is their vicarious thrill to see this man destroy our country,  word by word, step by step.  They do not have the insight to see the imminent destruction so they are content.  That is my only answer to why millions of Americans voted for this vile creature who adores to tease and vilify innocent people and so far  no one has the power to act  above his voice. If heard, they seem to be helpless to get rid of him, to soften or deter his goals. </p><p>I weep sometimes at the helplessness I feel.  These are unhappy times - a moron who is a genius in the art of  evil is at the helm, and we are just sight seeing , far away from the mechanism that can actually remove him .  Over half of our country is fed up and yet we seem to be impotent to make any dent in his powerful position. Will the No Kings protest help? Maybe.</p><p>I have no solution today. Let us hope the midterms change the fate and face  of our government, but even then he will likely still be yapping in our ears with rants raging about the left wing lunatics.   His rhetoric will become more vile, more poisonous, more divisive.  It is then the medics should come with the strait jacket and take him away.</p><p>We must not lose hope but it is a hard call. Do whatever you can to move the needle.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A FOOLS' WORLD]]></title><description><![CDATA[enough already]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-fools-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-fools-world</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:26:40 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s getting so tiresome and scary  to witness the spectacle of chaos, borne from a terrified president and his magnificent seven:  Noem, Hegseth, Bondi, Lutnick, Rubio, Vance ,Mike Johnson all on the take and &#8220;in on it&#8221; with  Donald because they don&#8217;t appear  to utter one word without approval from  the conman of the centuries.   As the saying goes, &#8221;Birds of a feather flock together&#8221; There must be  written instructions to perfect obfuscation, stonewalling and arguing against truth.  -  Their lies will come back to bite them in the butt hopefully sooner than later.  His meandering speech at his  BORED OF PEACE conference is a hallmark of a filthy, sleazy mind. He is telling us between the lines, that he is a depraved, authoritarian inclined, baby.  He wants to be a &#8216;good boy.&#8221;  I figured out that  the appointees to the Supreme Court are symbolically  his family.  He is &#8216;ashamed&#8217; of them.  They have no &#8216;courage&#8217;. Between the peace conference and the reaction to the Supreme Court curtailing his tariffs, anyone who still thinks this man is competent  or having integrity- must desperately need a father figure).  His cabinet are his babies. Everyone is somehow in his mind related to him and therefore owe him loyalty. There is nothing professional about Donald J. Trump.</p><p></p><p>It is beyond a clown show.  At least clown shows are  amusing.  He  is the personification of  sewage forever flowing from his mouth. See his speech to the Board of Peace. Each person is both condemned and flattered. He is conflicted. </p><p>Policy? Policies?  He knows how to  politicalize  a water faucet in a  kitchen  and a windmill in the fields..  I gasp at such a put down of our democratic ideals and  it is incomprehensible to me and dangerously close to the tipping  of the see-saw.</p><p>I don&#8217;t recognize any of the formerly esteemed offices like the DOJ or FBI. It is a wonder that any of its various offices accomplish anything positive at all. Kash Patel is a fool. The scene in  the Hockey locker room is just another freshman celebrating with his buddies. He is sickening and foolish and an embarrassment in our government.</p><p>Speaking of fools- those of us who still think there&#8217;s truth coming from any place in the government are the biggest fools of all.  </p><p>How can anyone  still consider TRUMP  innocent in the EPSTEIN affair.  He was  an accomplice and participant for all of the late 90s and early 2000s. Where are the missing 53 pages Pam ? Slimy slob Steve Bannon ,Pam Bondi and Howard Lutnick were definitely involved.  </p><p>And now for the topping on his own balding head , he attacks Iran. There is no strategy,  planning, joint  cooperation between branches of the government -it is simply unilateral  - adding to the chaos we are all living with. Good luck.   God knows what is coming next. It is more and more clear to me that he is a child - and a very mixed up one at that.  No matter what he does, it is not Presidential. It is all about his personal needs. He has no diplomacy.  He is all reactive, yearning for approval through foolish ego driven assaults. What will the fall out be? Where is the sense in all of this?  Just a reckless kid and his buddies on a dangerous sleigh ride. He is delusional and it is confirmed by his calling this era during his SOTU   &#8216;the golden age..&#8217; the only golden is wherever  he has installed his gold plated garbage.</p><p></p><p></p><p>&#8216;</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[MY HEAD IS LIKE A SALT SHAKER DOWN TO THE LAST GRAIN]]></title><description><![CDATA[WONDER OF WONDERS]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/my-head-is-like-a-salt-shaker-down</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/my-head-is-like-a-salt-shaker-down</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:24:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last Sunday our foul smelling President took to Truth Social (in itself a lie) to castigate BAD BUNNY setting a bad example for children. That phrase caught my eye as most of us have been aware for the last few years that our President sets a bad example for children every time he opens his mouth. It brings home how lacking in self awareness he is. If I&#8217;m not mistaken he is the first president to use profanity addressing the public;  Many parents have had second thoughts about allowing their children to watch his speeches, or expose them to his rants.  Children, in their wisdom, have often come to the conclusion he is an&#8217; evil&#8217; or at least, a &#8216;bad&#8217; man.</p><p>The verbalization  of love is  a foreign subject to this leader.  I do not recall when he urged the citizens of the United States to &#8216;unite&#8217; &#8220;love&#8221; &#8220;do unto&#8221; etc. He is completely absent of that vocabulary. The closest I have heard him come to loving is his condemnation of so many humans being killed in one war or the other, but he has done nothing of consequence to alleviate that pain and speaking of consequences, </p><p>Epstein papers reveal a deep and constant association with each other.  Now I hear he</p><p>is mentioned over a million times.  No one is mentioned over a thousand times in any matter unless they are participating in activities with the other person. I am so sick of the excuses of others equally accused. Lutnick, my favorite person to despise, is a walking slob of a guy no matter how rich.  I would say he and Bannon tie for most slobbery, and now Howie  L. insists he had no relationship with Epstein and yet they dined together in 2012!  I guess the restaurant was very crowded and by chance put these two families at the same table. Of course they had nothing in common.  They ate silently, glancing at each other across the table. Since they lived next door to each  other they sensed a familiarity.  (This is the kind of pablum excuses these giants of excess come up with)</p><p>This is typical of the twists that these men will come up with to a hopefully gullible public. Their power to stay in office because of a well oiled crooked machine, seems to be winning at the moment.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[LET THE SUN SHINE IN...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump&#8217;s recent verbal attack on Ilhan Omar is just plain hideous.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/let-the-sun-shine-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/let-the-sun-shine-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:07:29 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Trump&#8217;s recent  verbal attack on Ilhan  Omar is just plain hideous.  As she said in her remarks about his words, he spent a lot of time  discussing and dissing her on his own platform  and shortly thereafter, when he was asked about his knowledge of the cider attack,  he makes his usual derogatory and BS remark that he &#8216;hasn&#8217;t heard about it&#8217; but if  he did he would assume she had  made it up  and he added he  has no interest in hearing further about it. </p><p>THIS IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES doing everything possible to turn  us into the DIS-UNITED  AND UN-UNITED STATES.  This is not the jerk who hangs out at the corner store or the drunk next door. And furthermore in his response to the question of what he would say to Alex Pretti&#8217;s family regarding their loss  is equally heinous.  &#8220;I love all families.&#8221; he begins and ends with something equally mindless, unable to bring himself to saying something humanly decent but  catching himself before he says something even more horrific and dumb. </p><p>This man does not have dementia;  likely  he was born with an  inability to acquire civility or anything resembling  manners  or morals.  Although he was traumatized by the separation from his mother when he was a toddler, it cannot be the sole reason he developed into a psychopath of such immense quantity.  His brain should be sent to  Johns Hopkins or another prestigious institution upon his death to prevent future children of having the same malady.  His  lack of insight and downright ineptitude blow my mind every day. How did this monkey on  our backs become the head of the country. </p><p> &#8220;Out of the mouths of babes&#8217; is the expression  when a child unknowingly blurts out  a truth. I am waiting to hear some clarity from a child as I am completely worn out from trying to find the key to this strange and dangerous human.</p><p>No one can really justify allowing Kristi Noem to remain in her role as ignoramus  except this monster who doesn&#8217;t want to be perceived as a person who fires his staff as he did so much of that in his first term. .</p><p>The  child of five years old,  taken to a detention center means nothing to this amoral moron or his administration for that matter.  On anyone else&#8217;s watch  this child and his father would be given special attention  as a result of the child sinking into depression. </p><p>Every day in more ways than we can count, we are assaulted by more bad news. Senseless mayhem.  He has a gift for tumultuous situations. Nothing seems to bring the temperature down because  they do not want the temperature brought down!</p><p> Any pause in this storm trooper approach will open another opportunity to expose the Epstein files. This man knows he is in there ,and even if he weren&#8217;t, he knows what he is, a child predator and I wager  this guilt spurs him to infinite heights of frenetic energy to keep all balls rolling  dangerously toward us. We have no respite. We have small recourse. </p><p>Even today regarding the votes on the spending bill, Mr. Lindsay Graham might throw a wrench that will paralyze any efforts to pass this compromise and the government will be shut down. Don Lemon is arrested. He is suing the IRS and Treasury for billions.  He is gunning for Iran.  and on and on and on -</p><p>Please let the  SUNSHINE  in and get rid of our endless stormy weather.  </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AGAIN, AND AGAIN WTF]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today 2 of the 5 Republicans who were set to vote to limit his war powers in Venezuela, caved to the persuasion of Trump and Rubio.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/again-and-again-wtf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/again-and-again-wtf</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:47:09 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Today 2 of the 5 Republicans who were set to vote  to limit his war powers in Venezuela, caved to the persuasion of Trump and Rubio. I find it totally fascinating  as well as disagreeable that he is still able to con them.. Rubio promised that Congress would have a say in matters.  It&#8217;s always the same: Bravery resisting Trump&#8217;s wishes but giving in at the last minute. Was it because he said these men were being stupid and  he would ruin them if they voted against his wishes?   His frequent threats are at rip tide speed.  And guess what? Transcripts have been unearthed proving  Lindsey Graham  told his friend Donny hundreds of times  he  was wrong about the election being stolen.  Many of  Donald&#8217;s allies told him the truth, but he has no interest  in &#8216;truth&#8217;  because the only guide he trusts is himself He will refute any truth that doesn&#8217;t agree with his world view.  </p><p>He is a rapier -a precise tool of weaponry - through and through. He is all weaponry. That is his make up.  He personifies a knife, a rifle, a net, a rope, a horde of locusts let loose, a machete, a machine gun, a cannon and anything else that interrupts and rapes a peaceful life.  He is all those powerful images wrapped into one totally evil person.  He fits the variant definition of rape beyond the physical  which is  &#8220; encompassing acts where power, manipulation and vulnerability over rides free will.&#8217;&#8217;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Has anyone ever heard  one word of warmth, comfort, sympathy, empathy, a hug, a glance that says, &#8220;I&#8217;m with you.&#8221;  NOTHING. The only outrage screaming that people are being killed was in connection to Iran.   This is the American President who gives the bird to a  worker at a Ford Plant and the White House defends his action.  If he was greeted by a bird from a high school kid, he would probably scream&#8221; &#8220;Get him outta here!&#8221; Get that SOB outta here! Arrest him~!&#8221;</p><p>This, I repeat, is the President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who is tearing apart  the United as he  perseveres in the Blue States to  blitz HAVOC.  There are laws protecting the ICE men who are aggressively pursuing people to capture.  Forty people have been killed by ICE.  &#8220;The price of doing business&#8221;  is how it&#8217;s described. </p><p> Every day  the majority of the public is crying either literally or figuratively over what this crackdown on immigration has wrought.  Innocent people whose only sin is to be here illegally, maybe 40 years who  have built a life for their family as proper and clean as any ideal family can- and yet with a knock on the door, they are taken away and the family is aggravated, separated, doomed  and destroyed.   THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY! That&#8217;s the justification for the thugs that are invading our cities.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to so many. We are upset and heartbroken from the coldhearted and cruel manner in which these otherwise innocent people are being taken. They are  assaulted, robbed of their dignity. Generic comments abound by the pundits and lawmakers, such as &#8220;they broke the law.&#8217; No depth of thinking in that. So when you run a light you broke the law and all you get is a ticket.  Due Process. You can fight it too.  Not with these kidnappings though.</p><p>Trump reminds me of  a swarm of locusts, a KING KONG of terror, a BRONTOSAURUS trampling over terrain, devouring any thing in its path. He is  a Genghis Khan, a Napoleon.  </p><p>He is about winning, not about any other moral or ideological theme.&#8217; WIN at any cost, do not back down, just push on through to the goal.&#8217;  Venezuela, win the conflict and get the oil. Greenland, no price is too great to deter WINNING  of a country. &#8220;I need it, therefore it will be mine.&#8221;   There is not a truth, or a lesson, or any cautionary advice he may receive from any living person that will rein him in or make him change his mind - at least up to now. The more challenging the win, the more energy he exerts and it does appear that no matter who is damning him behind his back, there are enough cowards to bolster his ambitions.</p><p>This is megalomania at its most pathological. He sows Confusion and Uncertainty  creating chaos to  to make us forget that he is a major player in the EPSTEIN FILES and those files are put aside  as we are swamped by news of  ICE, distracted by Venezuela and Greenland, taunted by whether he is going after Medicare or Social Security.  He has thrown so many bones out to chew , that we can&#8217;t even chase them anymore.  He takes and then restores if the courts insist. He does that with the domestic  stuff while the International scene is a bunch of loose ends.  What happened to Ukraine?  Where is Putin?  We can no longer compare any previous President&#8217;s flaws to his. There are none.  Objectively  he is the most hateful, mean. cold and  cruel leader ever to preside over our country and like the  single  cockroach in the kitchen who remains in spite of the attempts to kill him off ,there he is.   </p><p>So far we have no solutions. Talk is big about his falling asleep in public or having had a stroke, or insisting his health will  fail shortly.  To wake up each day seeing our country &#8216;s values being shattered , children having to see this cesspool of a man as the person who they should model?  Will this nightmare  never end?  We need a think tank to help us solve our dilemma.  Perhaps they are already at work and soon we will bring an end to this destruction. .</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>have</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEWSNIGHT ON CNN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who is funding Scott Jennings?]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/newsnight-on-cnn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/newsnight-on-cnn</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:47:54 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I just read an amazing piece by Kristoffer Ealy on Substack. He took down Scott Jennings , reducing him to an  blithering idiot.   I have been very bothered by Scott&#8217;s facial expressions and a need to be a smart ass in conversation. I have been perplexed as to why he is constantly invited to appear on this otherwise intelligent show.  His views are so patently patent, , unoriginal, unimaginative answers.  Unthinking and downright stupid. I have to leave Scott for the moment as I digress to another famous Republican.</p><p>I saw Mike Pence on The Source on CNN and sat in awe as Caitlin Collins was expressionless as she interviewed him regarding the event in Minnesota.  This sanctimonious man is full of himself and has a reserve of about 5 standard responses to any question.  I suppose I could have mouthed what he was going to say because his answers are always the same: hedging, dodging, safe and noncommital . Pleasantly addressing Caitlin, as &#8220;Caitlin, you see I don&#8217;t have time to spend on those remarks..but I will say this: and then he goes into some b s..like a fake pastor,  as to when he was a boy he was told to do whatever the police asked him to do. ((I doubt that, but okay).  Sounds like he borrowed it from a black boy.</p><p>Who is Mike Pence.  He doesn&#8217;t want to reflect on the insurrection except to say he is not happy with the revisionist version of the event which blames the Capitol Police for the rioting. Wow. He finally said one thing he disagrees with Trump about. Other than that he is perfectly content with his former association with our President and well, he is a dried up coconut .. all white -  as far as I&#8217;m concerned and anyone who would vote for him in any governmental position ever again, has to be nuts.</p><p>So back to Scott:  He is a surface person. I see nothing deep or profound in him. He is akin to an executive secretary and that is even giving him too much credit. he is also non-committal about any issue of importance:&#8221; Wait&#8221;, he says,&#8221; let&#8217;s get the facts. Or he says, about Trump, &#8216;He is the president, he does what he wants.  All sounds like giving short shrift to important issues.  No profundity here. No smart answers here. No change in tone or manner except perhaps a little less grimacing and a little less smirk. But when he finishes saying something, it seems like he has a secret mirror to assess how he looks after his responses. Very strange. I  ask you all to read the piece on Scott Jennings and then invite CNN to justify his presence.</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOOL FOOL FOOL]]></title><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/fool-fool-fool</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/fool-fool-fool</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:17:38 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is a fool trying to fool us into believing he is a good man hoping to save face for those Libs that are mentioned in the Epstein files. Can we remember he was a Lib at the time as well?  He was hanging with buddy boy Epstein and probably knew more than anyone about Epstein&#8217;s escapades. Perhaps he just witnessed some of them but then he participated a lot as well. You betcha.  </p><p>How much of a fool does he think the public is to believe  that we take a statement from the DOJ as fact , that what is said about him in the files is all untrue? I have to laugh out loud on that one. What about the others in there? Is that all untrue also?  Then who is the evil one spreading these ugly rumors about the guys in the files. The FBI  should be investigating and have some suspects who infiltrated the files and added all these malevolent tales that even  a very talented writer with a great imagination  would have a hard time conceiving. Find that talent . We need this person writing books and screenwriting! </p><p> So a baby is dead. Jeffrey buries it and Trump is a witness.   Not a bad plot.  Trump makes phone call  and chats up an Uber driver compelling the driver to seriously think about dumping Trump at the side of the road. And in the meantime, Trump is repeating Jeffrey Jeffrey many times through the cell phone he is on intermittently in the car.  And this story is all made up?  A girl is asked to go to a hotel, the guy gropes her and rapes her. Oh, well, that&#8217;s kind of a common plot.  But every time any girl is within touching distance of Trump it seems it&#8217;s the  exact same scenario: </p><p>&#8221; He saw me and started groping me all over, I demurred but he kept it up. He didn&#8217;t wait and didn&#8217;t listen to any pleas I  uttered.&#8221;</p><p>If the DOJ is to be believed, every girl ,not even knowing  the other girls who had the same experience with the Donald, is lying. Why do so many girls say the same thing? Trying to fool us into believing  they are money hungry  girls who want fame or notoriety?   I believe he is guilty of every thing he is accused of.   His lust is endless. His appetite for the lowest form of it is insatiable. </p><p>How stupid are we supposed to be ? And I ask myself, are there people who are that stupid?  I have not met one myself. I have met people who deny that he could be as depraved as he is described. They just want him to be not so bad  so they don&#8217;t have to face the error of  voting for him.   He is a pudgy perverted pig.</p><p>And that &#8216;s what I&#8217;ve been thinking about the past week. Don&#8217;t take any wooden nickels , keep your eyes open and ears to the wall.  There are a lot of people out there wanting to pull the wool over your eyes  insisting that the color red is the color blue,  It just seems to me that everyone in the current administration is playing cover up for each other.   I&#8217;ll be back shortly with some more opinions.</p><p>Have a good pre New Year&#8217;s week.   </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>t</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The See Saw ]]></title><description><![CDATA[He wants us to see the underground in the sky and the sky in the underground- and if you don't, we, not he, are missing some marbles.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/the-see-saw</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/the-see-saw</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:54:52 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing at this point in the goings on of this  presidency should surprise me but it does anyway.  It sickens me  - let&#8217;s call it  revulsion and repulsion &#8230; akin to seeing a dead cat on the road and the feeling of helplessness and sadness as well as thinking about the person who ran over it - and I  know I&#8217;d be emotionally better off not knowing  what he and his cronies are up to  as it is clear they are always up to no good unless you like his power grabs and reckless statements.</p><p>He gets the first FIFA prize  offered from the  President of the  World Cup as a bribe. so now  he can wallow in his fakery of being a hero. He insists he has helped to stop 6 wars, or is it 8. The picture is grainy at best. He says he is  upset about people dying, but evidently he is not concerned about  innocent people on the boat they attacked on Sept. 2nd, that was not destined for the U.S  so it seems to be that&#8217;s just plain murder and how about the immigrants we are treating cruelly by  torturing and splitting decent families, creating heartache and leaching the backbone of workers that so many businesses depended on - all so he can exult in a whiter society  with further egregious insult to the people here from Somalia - and  he is unwilling to address bringing  down everyday people&#8217;s expenses, going so far as to call  affordability a scam.  OMG ..and we&#8217;ve only just begun to enumerate the insanity.</p><p>The profanity, the vulgarity, the lewd manner in which he governs, has to make most Americans sick - but some, otherwise decent people,  (apart from voting for him) just look away and say, well, this has to be done. It is a form of ethnic cleansing, the slow cooker, rather than a war fought with ammunition.  Little by little, step by step he is doing everything within his power to rid the USA of everyone who  has come from another country in the last 50 years. </p><p>Exceptions may be the very well educated who can immediately find upper echelon work in tech and AI. </p><p>It is really hard to keep track of the enormous quantity of chaos he creates each day, and in case you missed it, in the 1990 Vanity Fair interview with Marie Brennan he confesses that he deliberately makes things more complicated than need be, obviously to obfuscate and torpedo any ideas and actions he does not like from anyone else. </p><p>The media goes over and over his actions, repeatedly citing that his many insults, costs of his additions to the buildings he has either refurbished or is in the process of rebuilding and mention everything in between.  Although the pundits are made aware of his tasteless barbs, they concentrate on something within his speech, like affordability, avoiding giving an opinion about his heinous attacks. I find that more and more they are deflecting from outright criticism of his bigotry and lack of class. As much as many commentators want to see a decline (he sleeps a lot at meetings) in his mental acuity, I think it is only the decrease in  stamina.   I do see a desperation in him to hold his base through a display of mockery and racism they apparently go for.<br>As I told a friend, years ago as a builder developer he had a small range of people to influence, now  he has a gigantic canvas on which to spread his venom.  A snake oil salesman who is a snake himself- for sure, as well as  being  the same prejudiced, narrow , money obsessed, sexually depraved,  power driven man he has always been, a toddler whose wounds have led to a gross appetite to wreak havoc and vengeance on those who made his early life miserable. He  yearns  to devour the world and make it over in his own image.  </p><p>On to thinking about what next to decorate for Christmas. How many more gifts to buy and hoping next year we will have more calm.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ THE SHET HETS THE FAN]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE SHET HETS THE FAN]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/the-shet-hets-the-fan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/the-shet-hets-the-fan</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:16:15 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Dirty Donald&#8217;  one phrase I never have used but will borrow it from the late Jeffrey Epstein.  While I have read almost hundreds of adjectives for  Prince Shitsinpantz  in others&#8217; writings  this is stunningly simple and apt. Dirty  is so perfect to describe every deal this &#8216;brilliant deal maker&#8217; has in front of him. Steve Witkoff, his latest clone  offspring, and wellspring to Putin, seems to think that Dirty Don is superb at making deals with the Russians.  Not true but again one of those imaginary accomplishments that appear in print but are not closed deals. It seems that Dirty Don&#8217;s threats are falling empty and his foundation in life is pretty shaky too.</p><p>Oh, Epstein, thank you for your letters.  It takes more than genius on the part of Donny&#8217;s  acolytes to spin these facts in the emails to Ghislaine, as fake.  Trump&#8217;s  staff and cabinet swear loyalty to paper thin tissue with holes in it, to boot.  It&#8217;s going to collapse one way or the other and I hope we will be awake to witness it. Perhaps Donny will have a seizure. He reminds me of Rumpelstiltskin  having a meltdown when his name is guessed.  Oh, just to see this Red White and Blue man shiver, shake, snarl and snake.  </p><p>After he signed the end of the shutdown deal that speech he recited was such a blame game that I thought omg, he&#8217;s just repeating what he&#8217;s said many times before. After awhile it is as important as the soapsuds we see in the washing machine daily. Drivel, I&#8217;ll say, old and boring and so desperate. Of course he has a limited vocabulary and his favorite words seem to be&#8217; radical lunatics and Democrat.&#8217;   How about developing a contest to come up with the best speech  using his favorite phrases  as starters to make new speeches for him. His rants are vacuous assaults to cover his fundamental weakness.  No brains, no gains.</p><p>He will badger everyone  until the sky falls.  The outrage of using the DOJ  to prosecute his enemies. I love that people who support him unwaveringly insist that he is simply doing what he promised to do in his campaign.  Remember the interview with Dr. Phil who calmly suggested it was time for him to go rest and smell the flowers but Dirty Don was hellbent on retribution and as the pounding on the anvil intensifies,  he is panicking and who knows the kinds of eruptions that will soon follow. Will we have a war in Venezuela? Will we have a manufactured crisis of immense proportion to distract us from the voluminous times his name is  mentioned  in the Epstein files.  Whether or not he did anything precisely  illegal, he still smells of depravity. He could have been present in many of the scenarios,  but like a poisonous snake crawling toward you, strikes surreptitiously and saves himself.  He is alert to the background noise but acts like he is not.  </p><p>I am struck by the lengths of excuses his friends make for him. I don&#8217;t know if this woman who was the Lieutenant  Governor  of New York  is simply stupid, unaware or deliberate but she swore on TV the other night that she double dated with him a number of times and she &#8220;never saw him eyeing underage girls.&#8217;  mmmm </p><p>There are designations where men go for salacious perversions. Whore houses, friend&#8217;s homes, Thailand and places I have never heard of, but that remark  sent me into  a tailspin because that is what his friends come up with to save his reputation and it is &#8230; simply beyond explicable.</p><p>I leave you to your own speculations. <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES - OR MAYBE A WEEK]]></title><description><![CDATA[.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/what-a-difference-a-day-makes-or</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/what-a-difference-a-day-makes-or</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:30:21 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No matter how much Chatty Choo Choo Gripe Gripe  Trump wants to reiterate his falsehoods, the dye was cast when the Dems won a number of elections last Tuesday. For me, no matter how loud he yells, shouts and demeans, the future is looking just a tinge brighter than before.</p><p>The last straw was when he said that affordability is something the media is conning about and then insisting that Walmart&#8217;s dinner for less is the proof that prices are coming down.  Personally I have never shopped at Walmart. I would bet that most shoppers there are in the 30-60 thousand income brackets. A family of four trying to hold it together at this time of UN -affordability.  Even though it clearly stated that there are less items this year and that they are using generic brands, Mr. Motormouth is still insisting the rest of the U.S. A. is wrong and only he (can fix it) knows the truth.  </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This statement of his is so much like the many others that he has bragged about with his God complex, raving that his knowledge is superior to all others, no matter what experience or degrees they may hold. No matter their expertise in their fields, Mighty Man Truncated Trump holds the answers to all questions - and only his are the pure unadulterated truths.  Mr. Liar  tell us again.</p><p>Wouldn&#8217;t you think that by now most people would only hear his words as idle chatter, not idol truths? How can they be so dumb as to believe him when his onslaught  of insults never cease and they are REPETITIVE. &#8216; NBC  is a failed network.  CNN is going down fast.  This person and that person are  evil or dumb or stupid or sleepy or crooked&#8217; or &#8230; and well, these phrases are now over cooked  and over used.  Not one word is positive about our world unless it is about an accomplishment of his, which is likely false anyway.  Some people are inherently nice, some people are inherently kind, some people are inherently generous and he is inherently mean and divisive. Perhaps he can&#8217;t help himself any more than a person who is compulsively generous giving away whatever to whomever.</p><p>That&#8217;s what we have folks, a POS , a man who has no clue as to the devastation he is causing, and if he did have a clue, he wouldn&#8217;t care anyway. Wake up America!</p><p>As I said, there is a wind of change blowing down the mountain and the Gods of Good are bracing for a continuing victory on the side of decency and compassion.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRUMP PLOY TROMP L'EOIL]]></title><description><![CDATA[We Are Still Here with the World We Knew Fast Disappearing]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/trump-ploy-tromp-leoil</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/trump-ploy-tromp-leoil</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:19:19 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another startling few weeks  with the man about the world. He was taking care of foreign issues much better than he cares for matters at home.  Well, home is too personal and he&#8217;ll get caught up in the messes he&#8217;s made for himself, but anything away from home that can give him a lift he&#8217;ll gladly do for attention more than applause - you know any publicity is good publicity for a narcissist.  </p><p>Although he may not get into heaven, he was in heaven negotiating for the peace between Israel and Gaza. I am doubtful Hamas will cooperate down the line. This situation reminds me of some of my relatives  who  do wonderful things for strangers but are horrible to their own children and  treat step children with grace.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>So we have this man who cannot accept praise or glory without name bashing .I have recently heard that Biden had a similar plan for peace but Orangeman asked Nay ten Yahoo. (my new name for him)  to refuse to sign  because it would lessen his chances to become President.  I have not fact checked this but it sounds like a  typical Trump ploy.  Is that like Trompe L&#8217;oeil? an illusion curiously enough - the man is full of illusions  and I do think delusional. He is still striving for the Nobel Peace Prize when he should get a prize for inciting  the most violence of any president  the USA known to man.</p><p>The Epstein files get  juicier as more information is released and the intensity of Mr. Bad Boy accelerating his activities to distract,  increases accordingly.  Taking the biggest headline is the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. It is a tragic moment in history when a symbol of our country is removed to build a ballroom - for what? Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers coming to perform?   After all, this excuse for a human has caused  more destruction than any President in history, he now undoubtedly thinks he can bring people back from the dead! </p><p>The shut down of the government, the indictments  he has won, the boats he has destroyed, the ICE arrests, the  law suits he has brought all take up headlines that dismay rather than lift our mood.  No grace, no comfort for us, no apologies, no reflection, no confessions,  just a crude self centered wreck of a human wrecking other people&#8217;s lives including a lecture to America&#8217;s cattle ranchers after he told them he  may now buy beef from Argentina - talk about going for the jugular -  and scolding the farmers of USA for &#8216; being ungrateful &#8216;and insinuating that they were failing before , and he saved them and on and on like a righteous  preacher to a flock of subservient  parishioners.</p><p>A Republican senator  shouts that the NO KINGS DAY was sponsored by the American Communist Party .  Eric Trump has a best seller  UNDER SEIGE complaining of all the attacks on his family, the assassination attempts etc. and he cannot really understand why but because of those attacks his father has every right to hit back where ever and whenever he  can.  Oh Eric  you poor boy.  It is a shame there were no drugs, alcohol or smoking  allowed when you were growing up,  probably why  you had to go shoot Big Game in Zimbabwe and  Mongolia and get  photographed with your spoils. I guess the biggest topic around the dinner table was how much money you won or lost that day  -   you had  lots of moolah but not much cultcha.  did you go to the metropolitan museum of art, or go to a Leonard Bernstein concert , the theater, hear a poet, read a poem?  I guess you were brought up to be money warriors.</p><p> Listen to the lack of music or timbre in their  voices. . Daddy Trump has not a whit of warmth in his voice.  Not a whit of compassion in his soul. When he talks about so many people being killed in the ongoing wars, I don&#8217;t believe it comes from anything genuine in his soul, but knows that it will resonate with some people.</p><p>Perhaps the boats he has destroyed are really drug running vessels - but does he have the right, unilaterally, to make those strikes? Perhaps they are not coming to the United States but going to another country to market? Does he have the right to interfere in another country&#8217;s business?  </p><p>  I just heard Jamie Raskin quote a line from the  Constitution that a sitting President is not supposed to accept any money  except for  his salary. So how is it he has billions now from crypto and just pardoned a CEO of a crypto company that was known to enhance his own finances - and speaking of pardons, His judgment is impaired since many of the people he pardoned for January 6 are out there getting arrested for other crimes! </p><p> Each and every day we are assaulted with a new outrageous event  - suing the FBI for 230 million dollars?   Ms. Leavitt and Mr. Johnson stand by his every word, making light of his dark.  They are both skillful liars who know well how to manipulate language to avoid telling the truth or exposing any wrongdoing. He is a skilled liar as is Ms. Leavitt - it must be a secret course Trump gives to the newly minted, but these two emmisary  are doing their level best to support  Trump&#8217;s lies as truth.  She is sort of funny insisting that his AI  tweets are just his way of having fun - I have to laugh at that! If that is his way of having fun, then what most of us have sensed and seen, since he came down that escalator,  that he is hell bent on shitting on us, and grabbing whatever riches are within or out of his reach,  is now  proven.  That&#8217;s it. A dry drunk, mean spirited, malignant narcissist, megalomaniacal despot.   </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>.</p><p>s </p><p></p><p>t</p><p></p><p>  </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ TROMP  L'OEIL  again ]]></title><description><![CDATA[ANOTHER WEEK IN THE WEIRD WORLD]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/tromp-loeil-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/tromp-loeil-again</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:41:37 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[MY LOST WORLD]]></title><description><![CDATA[please help restore]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/my-lost-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/my-lost-world</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:50:41 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I withdrew from writing for awhile as I was reading everyone else&#8217;s opinions about our national sewage problem  aka Donald J. Trump.  This man creates more filth , slime and grime  than all the former presidents  together.  I watched and read other&#8217;s articles listing the factual turmoil he is causing and all I  have done for the past couple of weeks  is intermittently cry and then distract myself  from the news. When I return I am in shock and tearing up again. There is nothing good coming from this President and if you think there is, better think again. </p><p>Oh, I suppose the  Argentinians are happy  he is bailing them out.  </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I am outraged by the Republican attitude which goes,  &#8220; He is President and  he told us when he was campaigning that he was going to seek retribution from his enemies, we should not bemoan or complain because that&#8217;s what we voted for - overwhelmingly&#8217; </p><p>  and another Republican remark, &#8220;If ICE agents mess up by occasionally  attacking  and injuring people , it&#8217;s a small number compared to  the success  in  their duties to rid us of millions of  illegal immigrants.&#8217; This is the equivalent of Charlie Kirk saying that &#8216; it goes without saying that some people will  be killed - that is the sacrifice  made  in order to save the second amendment&#8217;. There you have it.</p><p></p><p> DJT gets satisfaction from  riling up his enemies and causing them to spend tens of thousands of dollars on attorneys and security even if he loses the case.  He is the most depraved human being harnessed by  a disease that forces him to speak of anyone he imagines has done him wrong  with at least five strongly demeaning insults  - for instance regarding  both Comey and Bolton: sleazebag, lowlife, the worst human being, a crook, wants to kill everyone, crooked cop, bad person . And now his latest lie relating to the Comey indictment: This is justice, not revenge.  </p><p> There are millions of   Americans who share the same  despair as I.  Watching the national sewage (aka Donald Trump)  as he takes over our nation with  his personal  stench  I equate with  every dirty toilet in America.  The  sight of them  overflowing and pouring out into the by ways and highways - his bile and poison seep into the smallest crevices and provide an intolerable contamination  that we can no longer tolerate-  Soon  we will not  be able  to breathe clean air - it is the  asphyxiation of our souls  by the bastard extraordinaire. We are suffocating  under his  load of  vengeance and spite .  With the precision of the rat a tat tat of a machine gun, he spews his vindictive spit  every time he opens his mouth:  He is the worst of the worst of humanity.  He wages war on  Tylenol, Schiff, Comey,  Bolton,  United Nations. Kimmel ,  Colbert, the Democrats  and is trying to order  the firing of a salaried attorney at Microsoft. Little by little  - step by step, he is doing his damndest to choke the life out of us  - trying to grab us by whatever means he can so we will bend to his power. </p><p>You can bet he is sweating the release of the Epstein files. It is the number one threat to his well being but he keeps himself so busy creating chaos to deflect and distract still hoping it is going to go away.   He has gathered his cronies to do everything he can to  bewilder, maim and confuse any and every person or institution that may contribute to the release of this damning information. Just today I read that one of the victims reported that Jeffrey took pictures of him with &#8216;many girls.&#8217;  Now to find those clips  and release them for general consumption.  Naturally he will insist it is fraudulent, just as he denied the signature on the Epstein birthday card he created. </p><p>  Underneath this despotic reach for dominance, is still a little baby pooping in his diapers, peeing and perhaps even throwing up. Nightmares?  I am sorry to say that  those who continue to believe his lies and support him have to be as hate filled and vengeful as he. I was once able to allow that perhaps they were one issue voters: anti abortion, pro IDF , looking for cost of living reductions, getting rid of the illegal criminals, getting better jobs, and a bright economy. and forgave them. But seeing the destruction  everyday in front of our eyes, on television and seeing  a mad, power hungry maniac using profanity and crass vocabulary to win the embrace of the poorly educated.  He is the most pernicious  POS  as he heavy handedly, gracelessly, attempts to destroy everything laid out in our Constitution.  Our cherished ideals are going down the toilet and we stand helplessly by  and they still talk about him as &#8216;doing more for this country..&#8217;  &#8220;</p><p>  </p><p> Will the people rise up and revolt, or will they succumb to his rule?  He cancels  the meeting with the Democrats and then spews venom about how they want to support millions of illegal immigrants etc. etc. so he will not waste his time. HE is clearly saying he is the President for the Republicans and the Dems are effectively shut out.  And I can hear his fellow Republicans saying, &#8220;well he has the right to do this.&#8221;  But I don&#8217;t think you have a right to shut out half the country .. not when you are the leader.</p><p> I am ashamed and embarrassed  that he represents us world wide. This  poor excuse for a rat,  a  louse filled rodent. </p><p> </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A STRANGER IN A STRANGLING LAND]]></title><description><![CDATA[get me out of this!]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-stranger-in-a-strangling-land</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/a-stranger-in-a-strangling-land</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:14:02 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just when I think there can be nothing worse he can do - oops, he does it. Which ? What? Yes, the Department of War. I am foaming at the mouth. The new name implies we are preparing and aggressively moving forward. He is failing at making positive connections with Putin, Xi and Kim Jong you know the name, the one he had the fling with and sent him love letters to boot. He is plagued by the Epstein files and knows he is mentioned, and involved so he is throwing confetti and stink bombs in every direction to deflect his depravity.</p><p>This is a man who wants the Nobel Peace Prize. I would give him the &#8216;&#8220;Destroy the Peace Prize &#8220;and the &#8216; Piece of Rotten Pie Prize&#8217; with the servers in his face - I&#8217;d give him a prize for being the most flagrantly stupid pos that ever lived and what does that say about the people who voted for him? I have to add that it is becoming more and more<strong> loud</strong> that Elon Musk rigged the vote. He spent 227 million to help his ex boyfriend. Wow that was a powerful fling that flung Elon out past the old Rose Garden.. Who knows, maybe they are chatting privately these days discussing how clever Elon was to rig it so well.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>As I surf through the messages on Threads there are so many people who have given up on their relatives who voted for Donald Trump. They no longer speak to them. Have wiped , childhood friends, work friends, hobby friends, ALL dropped because of their admiration of Donald Trump.</p><p>Lest we forget they have dropped Mothers Fathers Brothers and Sisters Cousins, and beyond the blood ties let&#8217;s mention church buddies, bowling buddies, pals at the hairdressers&#8230;. gone vanquished from their visits, dinners, births, christenings, graduations, and weddings. They say it has to be because if you voted for Trump you yourself is identified as unworthy and all the qualities and attributes this man implies are part of YOU.</p><p>A woman wrote that she is married to a Trumper and they carefully avoid any mention of politics. She is not divorcing him. HOW can you look at this person everyday and at the same time see how Trump is changing our world, our people, our habits, our institutions and sleep with your partner comfortably?  It is called Rationalization and it works well when you are in a tight fix and your morals are being compromised.</p><p>We like to think that those who voted for Trump are low IQ or uneducated. Unfortunately there is a disproportionate number of people who have degrees from Ivy League schools, some who work in public schools as administrators and teachers who voted for Trump because , because of what? Oh - this:</p><p>The economy was going to get better. Countries who deserved payback would get it in spades. His administration would see that everyone pays equally and there are no deadheads. He was gonna tell it like it is and actually he is telling it the way he sees it, bluntly and cruelly.</p><p>Over the weekend he paraphrased the famous Apocalypse Now line about the smell of napalm in the morning</p><p>Substituting for it, &#8216; the smell of deportations&#8217; with flames arising in the poster and warning Chicago they are next. Is this a real person? Can you give him the benefit of the doubt calling him a &#8216;person&#8217; ?</p><p>Isn&#8217;t this an inhuman and inhumane monster? Once again it takes my breath away to realize that I am living in a country I used to cherish for its values and now the same country is a bag of shit.</p><p>One conservative economist praised Trump yesterday in an op-ed citing that he had done everything he promised to prepare America for the coming prosperity. This analyst was</p><p>happy to see the preparation but has great doubts that Trump can build a prosperous country on the foundation he has created so far.</p><p>Trump has been called out by the Governor of Illinois as being abnormal. We are going into the territory of a madman. The fact that he has ultimate power is beyond frightening although a constitutional attorney said that the act of announcing war on your own citizens is treason and he is asking why Trump isn&#8217;t being arrested. Trump has walked back the Chicago threat, but I am not sure he has done it sufficiently.</p><p>Where do we go from here? He certainly knows how to make headlines and he is a master of denial. When asked what he thought about the rumors of his death he said he hadn't heard -</p><p>What a president! What did he think of the hearing with RFK ? oh darn he missed it. But he put in an assurance that RFK is &#8221;a good guy.&#8221;</p><p>My question is this: How can a President miss so much relevant information? Isn&#8217;t he the Commander In Chief and at least is briefed on these matters? What&#8217;s wrong with his aides?</p><p>Are they told not to bother him with such nonsense? Well, that and Epstein which he now insists is just a waste of time since he is so successful, the most successful president in history</p><p>And why waste your time on petty problems?</p><p>Another week is about to begin.<br>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://deannemencher.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deanne&#8217;s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOMING PAST THE SPEED LIMIT]]></title><description><![CDATA[STOP!]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/zooming-past-the-speed-limit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/zooming-past-the-speed-limit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:16:54 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, that&#8217;s it&#8230;Our President has gone the limit as far as I&#8217;m concerned, bearing down more on the Smithsonian practices declaring that they are focusing too much on how bad slavery was.</p><p>This man is demented ,oxygen deprived, dry weed addict , dry alcoholic, crazy bullsh* talking MORON.</p><p>Now and before, but more than ever he is handing down his judgements based on NOTHING BUT HIS IGNORANCE or what is being dictated to him by the other bigots and faux brains around him.</p><p>His audacity to attempt to contaminate everything decent, bright, educated people revere,</p><p>Is beyond the most bent imagination in the world. How can he, and who allows this idiot</p><p>To break and deface our norms?</p><p>Aren&#8217;t you fed up? What will it take for us to shut him up? Now he is speaking for Putin.</p><p>His incompetency is only recognized by those who are more competent and there don&#8217;t seem to be any hovering around him to say NO! against his YES.! (I WILL REMAKE AMERICA)</p><p>God Help Us. He is insulated by his 2025 playbook playboys, and National Christians and has cleverly surrounded himself with the same mental incompetents he treasures. And those of greater mental capacity, like maybe Marco Rubio, have caved to him. If they are Catholics, they just go to church and confess their sins and they are scot free until the next time. Clear conscience because they have gotten it off their chest. No character . No nobility. Just boot licking co -conspirators who are afraid to turn around because they will be stabbed in the back if they make one false move.</p><p>That goes for all of them and here we are being embarrassed by foreign statesmen who see</p><p>The INCOMPETENCE level of Trump&#8217;s diplomacy. There is NO diplomatic vessel in his body.</p><p>He probably has prompter cards somehow invisible to get him through any high level meetings.</p><p>In the last case he had to call DADDY PUTIN to see how to progress.</p><p>What a bloody mess we have on our hands( and the &#8220;we&#8221; stands for the people for peace and prosperity - for honoring our Constitution, and being constructive) a foul man of a breed we have not really had a chance to take to the lab to find out what is causing that brain of his to reel out the most rebellious and hateful ideas, unexamined and blurted out words, as fast as in a gumball machine.</p><p>He is detestable. His group is detestable. And we have to suffer. We all cry in our own ways. Some of us by actually shedding tears and others by working out at a gym, pumping iron,</p><p>Throwing discs, whatever it takes to undo ourselves from this messy, ill bred, ill fed and ill read</p><p>Conman. Just had to throw a fit today and I know there are some of you who are virtually</p><p>Throwing it with me. But don&#8217;t throw in the towel, just keep fighting and yelling and making yourself heard for a better America, a restoration of civility and charity - , maybe not tomorrow, but another day. And it can&#8217;t come too soon.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old New Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a new day and the same old Epstein stuff is upsetting our President and his staff who certainly know he is implicated.]]></description><link>https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/old-new-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://deannemencher.substack.com/p/old-new-day</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanne Mencher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:54:18 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a new day and the same old Epstein stuff is upsetting our President and his staff who certainly&nbsp; know he is implicated.</p><p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting that he said Epstein stole girls from him who were working in his spa, including Virginia Giuffre but there was a full omission of why Epstein took them? An empty spot like on a reel when something has been deleted.&nbsp; Full stop.&nbsp; Why Mr. Bloated Orange Murhtp - I deliberately misspelled Trump because it is probably what his thought processes are like. All mixed up and I am hoping something is going to slip out as the rope tightens around his neck. But Mr. Houdini will probably get out of the stranglehold someway, somehow - much to my regret.</p><p>He sort of screwed up his words with the speech about not having the privilege of going to the Island, throwing in that Clinton went 28 times, which tells us he has read the files or how&nbsp;would&nbsp;he be aware of that?&nbsp; He also indicated that he wanted to go - but then he didn&#8217;t.&nbsp; Listen carefully to every word in that last big rant on the situation and&nbsp;you will see he is flummoxed.&nbsp;</p><p>I can imagine the chaos that would occur if the files were opened and he was there participating and the girls were naming him. Let&#8217;s face it, Katie Johnson&#8217;s testimony is available on youtube. He raped her. He is a rapist. Obvious old news. So wtf.</p><p>How much more do his supporters have to know before they turn on him? Denial! Let sleeping dogs lie? I guess they don&#8217;t really want to know because he is doing so much to rid us of violent alien criminals.&nbsp; He is doing so much by the installation of tariffs. He is doing so much by reinventing the Kennedy Center.&nbsp; He is doing so much golfing. He is doing so much remodeling in the oval office, it will be like a City of Gold Plate. He is doing so much that we will not be able to recognize the FBI, CIA or HHS&nbsp;or any other cherished institution.&nbsp; Isn&#8217;t it interesting how his &#8216;gang of thieves&#8217; is leaving no stone unturned to remake America as they want it and leaving us scrambling for stronger leadership and a way to win at this very difficult game of chess?</p><p>I am so worn out. I feel so betrayed. The Liar&#8217;s Club is what the Republican leaders should honestly name themselves.&nbsp; His policies are beloved by them. His gaffes are apparently ignored. His blatant vulgarity and reversal of values is okay by them because he is making them rich? Making them humble? Making them remember that he is boss and they cannot breathe on their own, he is the King and they are his lackeys.&nbsp; I wonder how often they allow themselves to remember how self deceiving they are - how immoral they have become, how they have sold themselves to the devil. The closing of one door and another door opening is how they are reacting to his presence, but the door that opened is leading to hell but of course it is irrelevant.&nbsp;</p><p>What does Lindsey Graham know?&nbsp; What does JD Vance know? Mike Johnson?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Until the victims come forward with direct assertions we are in limbo.&nbsp; Unless they are willing to testify, I don&#8217;t think the truth will be known, and it seems to me that the results of transparency will upend a lot of people&#8217;s lives and cause an explosion,&nbsp;like ending a war, the aftermath, how do you deal with it? Have a good week friends!</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>