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Miles Archer

Miles Archer's Journal
Miles Archer's Journal
December 15, 2025

Trump offers KEEN INSIGHT into the Brown University shootings: "Great school. Things can happen."

Trump addressed Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University in a manner that was very Trump-like.

“Brown University, great school, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world,” Trump said Sunday from the White House. “Things can happen, so to the nine injured, get well fast. And to the families of those two who are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and respects from the United States of America. Thank you very much. It’s a very important thing to say. And we mean it.”

Trump also mentioned the deadly attack in Australia on Sunday morning as well as the fatal attack on U.S. soldiers in Syria, saying he wanted to “pay his respects to everybody.”

On Saturday afternoon, a gunman opened fire in Brown University’s engineering building, killing two people and injuring at least nine others. Police said a person of interest was in custody as of Sunday morning.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-brown-university-shooting_n_693f0afae4b0f14dd5de4574?origin=home-latest-news-unit

December 15, 2025

"NO...WIRE...HANGERS!" When it comes to parenting, it's a fine line between Fred Trump and Joan Crawford.

It shocks me that Fred Trump so thoroughly ruined his son Donald.

Specifically, that the cardinal sin is weakness...and, as defined by Fred Trump, that means if you are ill, you can never admit it, and if you lose, there's nothing worse you can ever do in your life, and you can't admit that either.

It's why, after Trump returned to the White House after being treated for COVID, he "wanted to" rip open his shirt to reveal a Superman "S" underneath (and was talked out of it).

It's why, 1,867 days after the 2020 election, Trump is "promising" to release "truckloads of information" that "prove" it was "rigged."

All because of one evil bastard who should have kept it in his pants.

December 15, 2025

Trump's entire 2025 has been a slow-mo version of January 6th...gerrymandering, every angle to cheat in 2026

I guess that since we're not seeing images of MAGAts urinating and defecating in the halls of Congress, Trump's really not trying to pull every sneaky and underhanded trick he can get away with to rig / screw with the 2026 midterms. PHEW! What a RELIEF!



Personally, I see Steve Bannon as a walking cautionary tale for people who are most at risk to contract sexually transmitted diseases.

So I don't cower in fear when he says Trump will be president in 2028, and "suck on it."

And I personally don't think Trump would "cancel" 2028. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.

I DO THINK he'd try the same stunt with MAGAt Moses Mikey that he tried with Pence.

I DO THINK he might call upon Musk to once again prove "how good he is with election system computers."

I just don't think it will be a media spectacle this time. I think it will just be as clandestine and devious as possible.

And I base that on what I see and hear daily, not some bombastic "event."

December 15, 2025

Hello, hello, hello...is there anybody IN there? Just nod if you can hear me. IT'S THE EVER-FESTIVE Melania Trump!

Melania Trump could only stare into space as her husband recounted the less-than-glowing reviews of her holiday decorations from Christmases past.

The first lady, 55, stared blankly next to Trump, 79, as he delivered remarks at the White House on Sunday—and took credit for the Christmas decorations this year.

“Melania did all of these decorations, and she’s gotten great reviews. The first year, year one, she did the trees, they were white and they were so beautiful. And the fake news hit her hard. The next year, they were red. Gorgeous red. They hit her hard. The next year, they were another color. They hit her,” he said.

“I said, ‘Baby, do me a favor. Do me a favor. Make the trees green. Let ‘em just be green. It’s so beautiful. Let it be great.’ Anyway, she has gotten the greatest reviews I’ve ever seen, and nobody has ever gotten reviews like this for the White House,” he went on.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-stares-blankly-while-trump-lectures-on-holiday-decorations/

December 15, 2025

"Boy, you look like Ivanka. I'm looking and saying, 'is that Ivanka?'" Doesn't she look like Ivanka?"

Sweaty Trump Rambles About Snakes and Thirsts Over Ivanka Lookalike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sweaty-trump-rambles-about-snakes-and-thirsts-over-ivanka-lookalike/

Later, Trump paused midway through what he described as an “interesting” story and grinned at a woman in the crowd.

“Boy, you look like Ivanka,” he said, referring to his 44-year-old daughter. “Has anyone ever told you that? I’m looking and saying, ‘is thant Ivanka?’”

Trump then took it a step further, asking the woman, “Can you just turn around for the camera?” He invited the crowd to weigh in on her resemblence themselves. “Doesn’t she look like Ivanka? It’s the most unbelievable thing,” he declared.

“You look just like Ivanka, which is a great compliment, actually,” he concluded.
December 14, 2025

It's MUCH easier to cope with the Brown University school shooting knowing Vance offered his thoughts & prayers.

"Terrible news out of Rhode Island this evening. We're all monitoring the situation and the FBI stands ready to do anything to help," Vance wrote on social media before adding, "We're all thinking of and praying for the victims tonight."

Sophomore Zoe Weissman, who also survived the Parkland shooting, was asked on MS NOW about the vice president's comment.

The host asked her, "Is that enough from leadership in this country? What more do you think students want to hear?"

Weissman replied, "It's honestly laughable."

"This administration was the same one that was in power when the shooting in Parkland happened, and they said the same exact thing. They sent their thoughts and prayers and told us that they were thinking of us. Clearly they weren't," she said. "If they actually cared about us and they were actually praying for us, and they actually wanted us to do well, they would do something to end the gun violence problem in this country. And I think a lot of my fellow students can agree with that, that we're fed up with the current administration and congress is inaction."

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-shooting-laughable-brown/

December 14, 2025

Oh, that's RICH. Susie Wiles plans to have Rapin' Sleepy Cankles Grampy "campaign like it's 2024 again" between naps

Former Obama campaign advisor Ameshia Cross, who often appears on MSN NOW and its predecessor MSNBC, was asked on the network about Wiles' stated plan to combat the common pattern that Republicans lose when Trump himself isn't on the ballot. According to Wiles', she's going to "put him on the ballot" by making him "campaign like it's 2024 again."

After being asked her take, Cross said, "I don't think Donald Trump is physically able to campaign like it's 2024 again, but all that withstanding, he also has something now that he didn't have against him in 2024."

According to Cross, "He is now holding the bag for the disaster of peoples' pocketbooks, for the massive unemployment that we're seeing, for underemployment, for people lacking affordability."

"Putting him out on the campaign trail when he's saying specifically that affordability is a hoax, is probably not the best thing to do," she added before pointing out that the affordability issue goes across party lines.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-susie-wiles-2674398387/

December 14, 2025

OMG NO! OMG SWEET BABY JESUS IN THE MANGER NO! "Mike Johnson's speakership is in trouble"

Mike Johnson’s speakership is in trouble

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/14/mike-johnsons-speakership-is-in-trouble/

Trump declared last week that House Speaker Mike Johnson “has been a fantastic speaker,” making it clear that he considers Johnson to be one of his most important subordinates. Trump wasn’t doing Johnson any favors. With his latest approval ratings firmly in the thirties, the president is increasingly seen as more of an albatross than a benefit to the GOP. And right now, with House Republicans on the verge of a full-scale mutiny, Johnson needs all the help he can get.

In fairness, Johnson is not the first Republican speaker to find himself in that situation. In fact, it has become something of a ritual sacrifice for the leader of the House GOP to be unceremoniously deposed by his own members. Johnson himself won the post after his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Ca., was removed from his post after a painful series of votes in which the caucus finally settled on the virtually unknown congressman from Louisiana to lead them.

McCarthy had a tumultuous nine-month tenure after the Republican members staged a raucous spectacle by taking an historic 15 votes to elect him to the job. Before him, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, had been pushed to take the job when the caucus forced out former Speaker John Boehner. But Ryan was so disillusioned that he ended up quitting politics altogether after just three years. Boehner abruptly quit when he lost support after deigning to compromise. His predecessor, Illinois Rep. Dennis Hastert — now a convicted sex offender — resigned due to scandal, as did Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich before him.

Republicans eat their own. And apparently a speaker of the House is a delicacy. So it’s not surprising that Johnson would find himself on the run at this point in his term.

December 14, 2025

Musk & DOGE SH*T "made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing"

Elon Musk thinks DOGE wasn’t worth it — hundreds of thousands of dead people agree
The MAGA tech billionaire says he wouldn’t work on something like the Department of Government Efficiency. It’s a shame that he ever did.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-doge-deadly-legacy

Members of DOGE with no government or foreign aid experience — such as 23-year-old computer programmer Luke Farritor or 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who went by “Big Balls” — were responsible for investigating USAID staff for evidence of “insubordination.” This allegation was then weaponized to destroy the entire agency. Musk declared: “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” The following day, Musk said Trump had given him the authority to feed the agency into the woodchipper.

What a difference a few months can make. Musk has gone from swinging his chainsaw around at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), siccing his DOGE goons on career civil servants and bragging about his power to crush entire agencies to meekly arguing that he was a “little bit successful.”

But DOGE hasn’t just been exposed as a fiasco — it somehow accomplished the twin feats of utterly failing to reduce government spending in any meaningful sense and causing a global calamity at the same time.

DOGE will forever be a cautionary tale: This is what happened when messianic tech oligarchs and political neophytes were temporarily handed the reins of government. They didn’t just fail — they destroyed one of the U.S.’ most important organs of soft power. They made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing.

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Name: Miles Archer
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