"Now if, uh, six, uh, ha, turned out to be nine/I don't mind, I don't mind ... "

Time to shoo the swine away from the war money trough and take better control of the situation. Because we are already at the stage where the regime is saying, by way of "explaining" the rationale behind the endless flood of money used to finance a forever war: "Well, shucks, we done shot off so many fireworks we need more dough so we can continue to shoot off more fireworks so we can get more dough so we can continue to shoot off more fireworks so we can ... comprende?"

The list Jason Linkin provides is definitely worth reading on full. Barebones, the topics featured on Trump's endless loop are:

Tariffs
The War in Iran
ICE Violence
Self-enrichment
Voter Suppression
Bad Renovations
Everyone's Getting Sicker

"There are, of course, two and a half more years of this presidency," Linkin observes. "Is it possible that an eighth Trump story emerges? For once, I'm rooting against variety"we need Trump to discover a new thing to fail at like we need a hole in the head. Let us instead work in our own ways to bring a future of relative calm and solemnity back to these lands. We all would rather be getting different push alerts from the ones we're getting now. I know there's one in particular that I'm really looking forward to, and it's definitely not whatever my readers at the FBI think it is."

I can't imagine another country that actually survived spending this big a chunk of its national treasure on a revolving-door military-corporate-political elite's ravenous hunger for weapons, wars, more weapons, and more wars.

Weird, because with all those people with all of their supposed expertise and gazillions of dollars spent on some stuff that works and plenty of useless crap - mountains of moolah shoveled to donor/investors through "privatization" - you might think the US might, just once in a while, squeeze out something resembling what is known as a "win"?

Instead, the US holds the distinction of world's expert at creating monumentally expensive, hugely destructive losing wars.

Congrats ... and a special kiss to MAGAts for this beaut.

That clunky term "The Founding Fathers" refers to what were once flesh-and-blood people. Like us and yet not like us.

British novelist L.P. Hartley wisely observed, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

Kids? Unless they have some allowance money in their pocket, there's seldom anything worth stealing. Ever seen Trump with kids? Yeah, wrapped in a cloud of natural affinity. And his own? Whew.

Do a Mussolini.

This is what happens when you elect an idiot to be your president
#2 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

With only 30 months left in his term.

To spy on people?

No, because it's Gavin Newsom's fault because reasons. And Sleepy Joe Biden and Barack HUSSEIN Obama because problems annd all the other commies, too.

Scary.

BILL - Please don't take anything I've written here as dissing your historian wife, as that was not the intention. Clio's passionate disciples can make for interesting company and you sound like a big fan.

Uh, Bill, Jefferson owned Hemings, inheriting her via his wife when she was about a year old. Indeed, she was his wife's half- sister. (Such interesting people!). Jefferson was Sally's legal owner when he started screwing her, not later (and possibly earlier) than sometime when she was between the ages of 14-16.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

I'm against presentism, Bill, but strongly favor focus and perspective.

This is what happens when you elect an idiot to be your president
#2 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

"But wait! There's more!"
Ron Popeil

So ... much ... more.

Trump don't do lettuce. What's the problem?

#61 | POSTED BY DBT2

Indeed! Yup, that's it.

Surely you've known people without formal credentials you still consider experts.
#56 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

I didn't bring up degrees, Bill, you did in order to "qualify" your wife. Here's what I wrote:

"Experts"? Too often, I think, the word is employed to imply infallibility or some variation on that theme. I prefer to think of people possessing different states/stages of knowledge and expertise and the ability to apply them bringing that to the delicate art of piecing together all those scattered tesserae from which we attempt to assemble a reasonably accurate mosaic.

I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
#31 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Then she should probably be in a position to opine that an MA in History does not an "expert" make; neither, for that matter, does a PhD. She should also be able to point put public history, especially, is informed by many factors. History is a lot like archaeology, in that interpretation plays a huge role. And that interpretation is, hopefully, driven by a well-informed perspective assisted by encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, training in relevant techniques and disciplines, plus the ability to apply reasoning and reach (tentative?) conclusions based on said encyclopedic knowledge, training, and research.

"Experts"? Too often, I think, the word is employed to imply infallibility or some variation on that theme. I prefer to think of people possessing different states/stages of knowledge and expertise and the ability to apply them bringing that to the delicate art of piecing together all those scattered tesserae from which we attempt to assemble a reasonably accurate mosaic.

My Christian faith is where I get my peace.
#37 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Seems it's doing a pi##-poor job of it. Maybe shop around some more?

These entitled pols take themselves way too seriously - their jobs and responsibilities, much less so.

"'But he's fookin' dead!?!' said a little child."
Hans Christian Andersen
"The Emperor's New Clothes"*
*(Revised)

"All the things he accomplished and they were obsessed with the fact he had owned slaves"

Here's a shocker for you, BILL: Jefferson was obsessed by the simple fact he owned human beings. And he remained a perplexed hypocrite on that topic his entire life. So what? A complex hero with complicated views? Oh, the horror. So awful, being informed. Turn on the night light!!

The US also created the first modern concentration camps - for the original inhabitants of the land. There it is, live with it.

Ideology is easy. History is often hard. Definitely not a child's tale, unless one chooses to remain a child.