Gotta say, Jeff's tribute to Butterfly McQueen's memorable interpretation of GWTW's handwringing "Prissy" is totally convincing.

For Trump, getting his substantial hind end handed him as a consequence of own actions is like just another bankruptcy. And as long as nobody named "Trump" is exposed to danger ... well, that's the breaks, right?

No, go ahead, Republicans, take a curtsy. You've earned it with this one.

A fool enabled by larcenous lickspittles.

I occasionally wonder the degree to which especially empathetic/sensitive researchers may be haunted to a degree by the subjects they investigate. Iris Chang's suicide post-publication of her The Rape of Nanking certainly comes to mind. How people like Raul Hilberg - author of the groundbreaking The Destruction of the European Jews - kept their marbles properly aligned while immersing themselves in pure horror, I do not know. I remember a scene from Claus Lanzma s monumental Shoah where Hilberg holds up a piece of office paper, explaining this was the manifest for a transport to an extermination center. "This is" - he mentioned a number - "people," he said with a sigh. Madness could not have lurked far off.

Trump's war is, in its entirety, a war crime - indeed, the "supreme crime" at the Nuremberg Trials.

Hitler's Brownshirts (SA) experienced similar problems with violent, generally antisocial behavior exhibited by its membership. Interestingly, the Gestapo not so much; it was a more professionalized operation than either ICE or the SA.

Grim stuff, indeed.

No, not a war, nope, it's a ... Trump "brain" f#rt. Nothing more, nothing less, sorry for your loss, yep, super-sized, extra fries, fore!

Jeff steps in it ... again. The existential humor of insincere "consistency" on parade straight out of Trump's ridiculous clown car.

Try actually reading the posts instead of blowing it out your --------.
#62 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

" ... and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

"Why the separate standards?"

For Jeff? That's easy: hypocrrisy.

Ka-Ching!

"There are lessons to be learned all around."

You haven't even begun to scratch the surface of that one, Bill.
Frankly, you show zero sign of being capable of doing so.
What you should be is goddamn ashamed of yourself.
But shame is alien territory for MAGAts.

Of course the people who've enabled Trump get to shoulder the blame, Bill.
It's not like he didn't tell them, not like they can say, "Uh, we didn't know."
That's why it's called "personal responsibility."

Yeah, Hegseth is incompetent, dumb as a box of rocks, and loaded-up with a perpetual loser's kit of grievance.
But so's the rest of the regime.
What really sets this mook apart is that US flag nose blower in the breast pocket of his funny too-small suits.
Arranged to resemble a ribbon bar, no less.
C'est pathetique.
And Republicans in Congress?
They are enabling this and share responsibility.

Bush just might squeak by and secure the only title he actually deserves: second-worst president.

So, when China starts unloading boatloads of humanoid robots against Taiwan, what is the US going to do?
#5 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Not much.

Imbeciles gonna imbecile.

Meagain Kelly, career behind her, approaching SocSec claim age, and now she's got the hots for Obama. You go, girl!

You can look it up.
#47 | Posted by fishpaw

Nobody is going to save you from sounding beyond ridiculous.
God help you kid, because you do yourself no favors.

TWINPAC - If one was to set about writing an account of Trump's yuge war blunder/loss, it might be a. Ice touch to reference Roman real estate mogul and pol Crassus, whose own brand of what appears have been narcissism caused him to waste many lives before he fell victim to his own hubris via, metaphorically, the famed "Parthian shot."

Operation Epstein Coverup is a total success: not a single Trump casualty! Be thankful, peons, be thankful.
I forget: Which branch of the services is Barroom avoiding today?

Don Diego: Don Diego from San Fernando.
Don Francisco: Don Francisco from San Jose.
Don Fernando from San Diego: Don Fernando from San Diego.
Don Jose: Don Jose from San Bernardino.
Luis Obispo: Luis Obispo from Bakersfield.

(Zorro: The Gay Blade [1981])

Mike Rogers "expanded" on the truth with the ease of a practiced political fabulist and appropriator.
He's just the usual self-serving trash politics attracts like ---- draws flies.
Not a good sign.

The best golf was Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier (1993) - bad golf played well.