Hi DBT2:

These social protocols are what these people expect or demand, but I guess it's up to the supplicant to proffer it. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr demanded to be called "Ambassador" his entire life after serving in that capacity for less than two years.

A retired NYS judge drinks and eats at a resto-saloon that I frequent and I always address him as "Your Honor."

During the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, the governor of Tennessee appointed William Jennings Bryan a Colonel in the State Militia, just so Bryan would be addressed as "Colonel" in court and Clarence Darrow may have asked for the same appointment to equalize the social situation.

Then there's always this fellow:

"The director of the FBI apparently does not want to answer the question about whether or not it's a crime to lie to Congress, and I find that extremely troubling," US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) declared.

"I find it troubling that you lie to the American people every day," D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel whined.

"You are a disgrace, Mr. Director," Van Hollen scolded.

The aliens take regular people and turn them into trolls or AIPAC-ers and then we gotta sift thru everybody to ID these pod people. Like in the classic film or its remake.

#180 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-12 11:35 PM | Reply | Flag: The real reason behind AIPAC dead-enders attacking AOC

The nefarious Trumpf junta and the oligarchs pushed the expenses to power their mega-AI data centers down to the masses.

The winning ticket platform for any POTUS candidate in 2028:

1) Immediately abolish ICE and DHS. First by Executive Order, and then through Congress. On 20 Jan 2029, immediately after the WH luncheon, this E.O. can be in the Federal Register by 1600 hours: "All ICE and DHS personnel will operate unarmed and unmasked at all times and will bring aliens before Immigration Judges (IJ) for due process. Should DHS or ICE personnel feel insecure about conducting their mission, the USAG will deploy one pair of armed DUSMs to accompany them. A Presidential Task Force will then purge the DHS and ICE records of Americans and Permanent Residents obtained without warrant."

2) Immediately stop funding Israel. First by Executive Order, and then through Congress. This E.O. can be published in the Federal Register by 1605 Hours, 20 Jan 2029: "The US government immediately stops sending hardworking American taxpayer dollars to the State of Israel."

3) Expand Medicare for all to provide Americans with universal healthcare, as enjoyed by the residents of Germany, Israel, Canada, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, tiny Albania, and in 2027, Mexico.

4) Investigate all oligarchs who made billions under the nefandous Trumpf junta and use the federal courts to claw back their ill-gotten pelf with lawsuits.

5) Enlarge the size of the Supreme Court by adding enough Justices to outnumber the reactionary Republicans who have constipated the execution of justice for years. There is no Constitutional limit on the number of SCOTUS Justices nor is there a legal requirement that a justice must be an attorney.

And the Number One replacement on the Tonight Show in case Johnny Carson couldn't make it because of illness or other unforeseen circumstances.

Tony Randall honored last second requests because he lived nearby and was a real mensch.

Here's an oldie, but goodie episode of What's My Line.

Panelist Dorothy Kilgallen was on the trail of JFK's real killer when she "committed suicide" in Manhattan in November 1965.

"Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents from Deadly Floods"

This is longer than our allotted 60 characters when we title our Pulitzer Prize-winning OPs for drudge.com.

Life can be so unfair and cruel at times. Sniff-sniff....

As I wrote on drudge.com last year, this is why AIPAC and Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Laura Loomer, Chuck Schumer (D-Israel), Benjamin Netanyahu, John Fetterman (D-Israel), and Randy "the Hebrew Ham Sandwich" Fine (D-Israel) were all desperate to beat the "socialist" Zohran Mamdani (D).

Mamdani's FDR-like "socialist" message was their excuse or smoke-screen.

AIPAC simply cannot abide a Muslim Mayor of NYC with a global platform speaking up for the down-trodden-- like the Palestinians.

One of the most decent men to ever walk the planet was an Ashkenazi Jew from Oklahoma who made his way towards the top of Richard Nixon's "enemies list."

Between the battleship contracts and all of the shady Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) deals, why should this morbidly-obese draft-dodging silver-spooned golf cheating pedophile care about those of us in the hoi polloi?

"To be a Jew is to always side with the oppressed, never the oppressor."

And people that are justifiably angry about the Gaza genocide who want to destroy Israel because of the Likudnik crimes will harm innocent Jews who are against these outrages.

Jewish lawyers represent the Palestinians in court just as hard as our public defenders in the Legal Aid Society.

Wanting to destroy Israel would be like one sin heaped on top of another and a never-ending cycle of blood-thirsty vengeance and vendetta, just like we read in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Indeed, Doc Sarvis. My friend is a Cold Warrior who flew USAF missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also shook hands with JFK, MLK, Jackie Robinson, and a galaxy of other plenipotentiaries.

"V.C." relates the same kind of stories to me and it's always a treat when he relates his firsthand eye- and ear- witness details.

In these past 63 years the US straggled away from a potential nuclear apocalypse to today's certain economic Armageddon.

Remarkable.

These trolls aren't Jews condemning antisemitism, but paid subversives.

They infect many progressive websites.

Phony liberals on these websites are artful AIPAC-ers and covert MIGAts.

Like mobsters, they come smiling and act all A Friendly on the blogs but they have one sinister agenda: Israel's primacy in the US body politic.

"Only AIPAC Democrats can win US elections or we'll suffer perennial Republican rule! Who cares if the IDF killed 72,825 Muslims with US weapons and money? My family's life here in the US is more important than those hijab-wearers in Gaza and the West Bank!"

Unlike Israel, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the IAEA, UN, MI6, CIA, DIA, the Mossad, and USGS never recorded a nuclear weapons test emanating from Iran.

This illogical stance is pure Islamophobia which is bankrupting America financially and morally.

One economist wrote, when all is said and done, this illegal war against the people of Iran will cost Americans "trillions" of dollars.

Thanks Bibi and AIPAC. GFY!

@4 I am sad to read that, Dutch46.

Many Americans die with less than $1,500 in savings and some are completely impecunious.

Hi Doc Sarvis

I read Essence of Decision years ago about the Cuban Missile Crisis, which I'm sure you read or heard of.

After JFK made a televised speech about the potential of an "atomic war" with the USSR, people began buying nuclear fallout shelters and some built their own.

Ted Sorensen, the wordsmith behind JFK, made it all sound so patriotic, that JFK's approval rating increased after this speech about a potential apocalypse.

Time permitting later tonight, I'll post an OP with some factoids from "A Question of Character: A Life of JFK" by Thomas C. Reeves, as I did with Sinclair Lewis' 1927 tome Elmer Gantry.