Working on behalf of my employer, who was an Epstein bosom buddy (both liked them vulnerable and young) until he says he wasn't, I can say without hesitation that my benefactor's name does not appear on Epstein's list of clients. If there was such a list. Which there isn't. Which is not the same as saying there wasn't. Know what I mean?
~ Pam Bondi
Flunky

#21
AU -
You're lucky she didn't smile, run her fingers down the blade of a fine samurai sword, and murmur, "You appear to be in need of a second."

Nobody in this administration will leave their area of responsibility better off than they found it.
Nobody.

Can some magat scum explain the ethics behind ...

Ethics? MAGAts?

The large majority of voters there voted for this but they don't realize it

My guess is, lots of MAGAts probably thought someone else was going to get screwed and they were just fine with that.

Putin intimidated the bejayzus out of Fat Boy Naranjo behind closed doors in Helsinki, and the failed casino magnate has been shaking ever since.

"Add all of these things together," writes Applebaum, "and they are something more than just a pattern."

They are a set of incentives that help persuade Putin to keep fighting. Sanctions are disappearing, weapons are diminishing, counterpropaganda is harder to hear. All of that will encourage Putin to go further"not just to try to defeat Ukraine but to divide Europe, mortally damage NATO, and reduce the power and influence of the United States around the world.

#50
Flagged: Rookie swing and miss

A dictatorship with masked thugs rounding people up willy-nilly in the streets is not a look one usually associates with a tourism hotspot.

Don't need no jarheads on the streets.

#19
I'd advise anyone who is a naturalized US citizen considering moving through American immigration/passport control to really do some serious thinking about whether it's worth the potential risk.

#21
Flagged: El oh effen el

This country has plenty of form when it comes to concentration camps. There were times Native Americans were confined to concentration camps, e.g. the Navajos at the Bosque Redondo. And you could certainly argue that the boarding school experience for many kids from reservations amounted to time spent in a concentration camp. Then there's the WW2 treatment of Japanese and Americans of Japanese descent. Yup, we have form. And this administration is loaded with goons who really get off hurting others. So here we go.

62 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
63 There laid they Jesus,
64 And rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Thomas Jefferson (Ed.), The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Trump thinks he can change weather by fiddling with his Sharpie.

Meeeeeeeeeeow!

#22
TWINPAC
He's the headachy bender buster who finds himself waking up on the barroom's floor, slowly coming to as he surveys the wreckage from the previous night's disaster, lazily blinks, spittle smiles and mumbles, "Sorry?"

Kudos!
~ Mathias "Red Square" Rust

"No one knew this flood was coming," Kelly said. "We have floods all the time."

Is this what's meant by a diminishing-returns learning curve?

"they passed down stories with vivid accuracy across generations"

Don't lay down any dough on that.
The stories in those oral info cultures change. Always have, always will.
Unless they're using formulaic sounds telling a tale nobody understands, e.g. abba-zabba-doo.
Text, written and/or verbal, changes on repetition.
That's just the way it is.

What Rein just said.

"Brawndo's got electrolytes!"

The only health care GOPers seem to care about is the health care business.
But tax breaks for gazillionaires?
Bring it on!
Such a bunch of swine.

The beanie to hide whatever's happening on his head where hair once grew, the slouching towards Bethlehem posture, the jerky-jerky governance, and the stupidities gushing from his pie hole do tell a tale. Drugged, damaged, dumb, and demented. Not a good look. Too bad his family doesn't care enough to intervene. So sad.