And I probably did more in my 20 years in the military than any ----- you know.
#43 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Give it a rest, Tarzan.

"By simultaneously waging war on American higher education and the federal government's research-funding infrastructure, Trump and his allies apparently hope to de-educate millions of Americans and force them into menial, low-wage industrial jobs," writes Matt Ford.

A man I knew served in the US Army in Europe during WW2, rising in rank through combat service from private to captain. He was a hard bitten guy with the proverbial tender heart, a real student of people. He first encountered the Russians at the Elbe River, which would make it late April 1945. They came down towards the river not as an army but a mob, he recalled, a horde burdened with loot from their passage through Germany. Later, his unit was stationed near Russian outfits. One day the Americans captured four or five Soviet troops inside their zone stealing chickens, called the Soviet h.q. and told them to come and pick up their guys. A Soviet officer drove over, put the offenders at attention, shouted out a few words, unholstered his pistol and shot each one of them in the head. That was s.o.p. at the time; it remains an inherent part of the Russian Army's dubious ethos.

This carries over for Ford into the idea undergirding the creation of the American experiment with a republican form of government.

In Trump's America, all of us are not created equal. There is a hierarchy atop which the Lutnicks and Kennedys and Thiels and Musks of the world can prosper, free from government regulation or union negotiations or press scrutiny or law enforcement investigations. Everyone else is part of a underclass whom the wealthy can abuse and immiserate at their own discretion. The Epstein emails give the rest of us a glimpse into this world, where even the most grotesque crimes can be forgiven or ignored out of a sense of elite solidarity"at least until they become too publicly awkward to privately sustain"and where amorality is required to participate.

The Founders were not without their own sins, of course, but at least they had higher aspirations for their new nation. "Avarice, ambition, revenge, and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net," Adams once wrote to another friend. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral ... people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." So far, Americans are failing that test"and the republic itself.

For perspective's sake, authors Mark Penn and Andrew Stein are relics from NYC's endless tribal wars. Stein is an adjudicated tax evader and Penn helped run Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign into the ground. Caveat emptor.

"We're gonna make the American dream a word that " two words that you didn't have. You didn't have those two words. Remember when Biden said, It's all about three words: the American dream'? You don't ever want to get in that situation. Remember that? That was not good."

When you populate an administration with people who pass muster with Trump, expect a clusterflook which, in this instance, takes the form of a poorly organized coverup. And in the world of botched coverups, this one really is a wowzah.

Isn't Pissant a soy bean farmer in his off hours?

The only thing Biden was filling when he left office was his adult diaper.
#24 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I think you'll find Trump fills his at least as fast but doesn't get changed out until the graveyard shift takes over.

"This ----- & More -----" is a hard-sell campaign slogan.

" ... a government of the poorly educated, by the poorly educated, for the poorly educated, shall not perish from the earth."
MAGAt Mantra

And another one bites the dust.

Maybe Tom Homan needs another bag of cash.

What a talent.

In a nationwide poll conducted by Pew Research Center, 84% of respondents called the comic unpresidential and said they were disturbed by the Time Pedophiles traveling back to ancient Egypt in the "Groom Like An Egyptian" storyline and getting two breastlike pyramids constructed in their honor for molesting 14-year-old Cleopatra. In addition, 77% were appalled by the Time Pedophiles rescuing Joan of Arc from being burnt at the stake only to heave her back into the blaze upon learning she was 19.

Similarly, 89% of those polled said they disapproved of the chapter where Don deliberately lands the Chronolita Express in the Miss Teen Mesopotamia changing room, and 68% said that Trump should immediately resign if he did indeed pen the issue in which an incident at a 19th-century girl's boarding school leads to Don unwittingly becoming Jeff's great-grandfather.

"Your money and your life! Gawd bless America!"
Republican Party Platform

Two points:

1. Unless there's persuasive evidence to the contrary, it may be best to assume the files have been diddled with during the time they were going to be released, then not, the ongoing coverup, and now (coverup still in place).

2. The House Republicans must have produced one helluva whip count on the upcoming vote, with support for Trump's coverup position eroding as in-district voters grabbed their pitchforks and lit up the torches

"There's a saying, you know, all great causes begin as a movement, transform into a business and degenerate into a racket."

Maybe where MAGAty types hang out, sure, but normals usually don't think that way. However, observing the behavior of DeSantis and the other MAGAts, yeah, sure, a founding mantra of sorts.

These goons know Trump has drifted into ballroom talk as he stumbles off into the sunset of his premature lame duckiness.

Why they want the Admiral Donitz role beats me, but, hey, you rats in that sack, have at it.

#52
LIMP FLAG: MAGAty cluelessness

#24
"Welcoming the stranger" is not a place; it's an attitude.
My family often assisted people trudging north in the Sonoran Desert border country.
We didn't invite them into the house to spend the night.
But we did make up sandwiches, get them something to drink, refill their canteens, dispense some dinero.
Because they were people caught in one helluva crunch and they could use help.
It didn't seem like a lot to ask or a lot to do.
In fact ,it seemed to me at the time exactly like what it seems like now: the bare minimum.

Trump was also slapping ----- up about Massie remarrying 1 1/2 years after his wife of 31 years died. Very low. Even for a yuuuge human disaster like Trump: a constantly whiney, thrice married, adjudicated sexual abuser.

Effing around on Ivana while married to her. Effing around on Melanie while married to her. That's between them, but ...

Old Yeller may be a practiced adulterer, but he sure comes up short in the successful marriage department

Faith leaders performed a crucial role in the Civil Rights Revolution the Republicans are now hell-bent on reversing. They were also involved in Vietnam War opposition. I think what they do in general is broaden the field for discussion and involvement, provide a permission structure.

#8
Speaking on behalf of Clarabell the Clown and the Peanut Gallery: Bravo!

In a long-winded blurpityblurp he inflicted on military leaders at Quantico on Sept. 30, Trump's finally got to the subject of military enlistment, something about cops, and ...

I always put the fire department in because they're great. They're great, and I got 95 percent of their vote too, that helps. When you get 95 percent of the vote, you always have to mention them, but they're great. And they're brave in our inner cities, which we're going to be talking about because it's a big part of war now, it's a big part of war. But the firemen go up on ladders and you have people shooting at them while they're up on ladders. I don't even know if anybody heard that. And actually don't talk about it much, but I think you have to. Our firemen are incredible. They're up on one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them -- shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory. You fall off that ladder, it's over, it's over. They don't even have to inspect you when you hit the ground. And you have people shooting bullets at them in some of these inner cities. We're not going to let that happen. So, I always mention the firemen because that's actually a big problem we have. They are unbelievable.

That may help explain the MRI.

From everything I have seen Mexico, geography and climate is California, only bigger. Clean up the cartels and Mexico would be a Superpower in its own right.
#6 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You'll need to go well beyond Tijuana to "see Mexico."