JT takes a minute to go after both of his potential GOP opponents:

"... the average American pays about 14 percent of their income in Fed Income taxes, the wealthiest 400 billionaires pay about half that percentage."

James Talarico announces "Close Billionaire Loopholes" agenda

"Cheeto Christ, Super Bizarre"

"Resurrecting this classic Short:"

Then there's this; Historicity of the Bible and the Quran:

And the Iranian leadership, reportedly now more radical than those Trump murdered, aren't schoolgirls... as much as Trump might like them to be.

"The Iranian Islamic regime is widely characterized as a brutal authoritarian, and increasingly totalitarian, theocracy that maintains power through repression, ideologically loyal security forces, and a network of coercion.

The regime is defined by its blending of republican elements (elections) with supreme, unelected theological authority (the Supreme Leader), creating a complex authoritarian structure that has survived multiple mass protests."

Aborted trans immigrants using mail-in ballots!

"Pope Leo brushes off Trump criticism amid growing Vatican"U.S. tensions over Iran war

"I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among states to find just solutions to problems," he said.

"Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there's a better way."

A Vatican spokesman responded to Trump's social media posts, saying they reflected his "impotence" in the face of the Vatican's criticism of the Iran war.

"When political power turns against a moral voice, it is often because it cannot contain it," Father Antonio Spadaro, under-secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery of Culture and Education, wrote in a social media post. " ... Unable to absorb that voice, power tries to delegitimize it. Yet in doing so, it implicitly acknowledges its weight."

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Trump's rebuke came as three U.S. cardinals chose to speak out against the Iran war in a rare joint television appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

"In Catholic teaching, this is not a just war," Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., told the program.

"This is a war of choice. ... I think it's embedded in a wider moment in the U.S. that's worrying: We're seeing before us the possibility of war after war after war."

The Iranian president also took the opportunity to weigh in. President Masoud Pezeshkian posted a message on Monday that said in part -

"I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person."

He prolly thought the robes, clouds, and angels were standard doctor gear.

Trump now tries LYING his way out of posting himself as Jesus:

WATCH: Trump says he thought AI image of him as Jesus showed him as a 'doctor'

Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - London 1978

on #18... one of the interesting things is who created the Jesus Trump meme; Nick Adams, who then got a newly made up title of, Special Presidential Envoy for American Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values.

Of course, one suspects that Blasphemy is worth a fake title.

Yeah, some friends of friends in TX were drummer and guitarist for the early version of ZZ Top who got drafted and lost their spots.

The Brits did seem more expressive earlier, less conservative perhaps. Not long after that The Who concert, I was in my first black light poster room smoking my first joint, and listening to the Doors' Paint it Black.

So it goes.

#49

The band I saw most, 3 times in the 70s, was Jethro Tull.

My first concert was when I had just gotten my drivers license at 16, and some girl talked me into taking her to see Herman's Hermits at Market Hall in Dallas.

Well, the opening act was... The Who. They did My Generation, Happy Jack, Substitute, some others, and then proceeded to smash guitars and tear up the stage.

In Texas, ffs! No one had seen anything like it. I barely remember the Hermits, but that concert changed my musical life.

Trump Portrays Himself as Jesus
Antichrist45

My doc has an, "Overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome" following him around behind a tall PC cart on wheels taking notes and looking at records.

I've never seen his face. He's like Cousin It with glasses, only taller.

Eric Burdon & The Animals : San Franciscan Nights

Haim performs Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" live at T in the Park - BBC

@13

The whining is loud in this one.

"That position brings El-Sayed closer to his two rivals for the nomination, Rep. Haley Stevens, the most centrist candidate, and State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who ideologically falls in between the other two.

Neither Stevens nor McMorrow supports Medicare for All. Instead, each has argued for creating a "public option" to compete against private insurance companies by allowing Americans of all ages to buy into Medicare.

Stevens believes a public option in the ACA is necessary "so that the insurance companies that are acting as a near-monopoly have competition," says Arik Wolk, her campaign communications director.

That approach has become the preferred alternative for many Democrats resisting single payer.

In Texas, Talarico promoted such a plan " what he called "Medicare for Y'all" " in his victory over Crockett. Several House candidates in competitive seats, such as Christina Bohannan in Iowa, have endorsed a public option, too."

"The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman," CENTCOM posted on social media on Sunday.

"CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports."

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Trump musta gotten bored with starving African famine children to death for tax cuts for the wealthy, and decided that Iranian civilians should be punished, too.

Monterey

Down to the River to Pray

The Crawdad Song

Oh, so it must ours to control?

Hopefully Trump never tells you to jump in front of a speeding train.