Vindman ran like he was waiting to be installed into the office he sought, possibly more focused on the vote this coming November instead of the one this August. Nixon, the winner of the primary, probably won't carry the state in November. But she is loaded with charisma, a hard campaigner, and may help energize voters who otherwise might take a hike.

Hey, c'mon, Fat Bear Week's coming up and Randy was peckish.

Is a puzzlement.
~ Yul Brynner
Former King, Siam

Is this the woman who ... .
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This is E. Jean Carroll, who a jury found Trump sexually abused and defamed.
She is not associated with the 34 felony convictions Trump acquired from illegal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
She also has no close associations with any of Trump's four wives.
Nor is she linked to Trump's longterm Jeffrey Epstein friendship.

The fingernails of a Balinese choreographer scraped slowly across a blackboard.

TWINPAC - Is it true the announcement emanated from a crusty Trump Shuttle coffee-tea-me cart groaning under the weight of its load: a pliable valet and washed-up caddy plus Baldo & Binkie?

"what it is I don't know."

Just a guess, but a form of mental illness and/or beta dependence must be on the menu.

Friedman. Ores: "These new weapons amplify another advantage the small have over the big: They don't have to win. They just have to avoid losing. We have to win, end the war, go home and never look back. Good luck with that now."

What is truly alarming today is how easy it is becoming for the small to act big " and by "small," I don't just mean in size, but also in age. A teenager with a laptop, a Starlink connection and an open-weight A.I. model can now disrupt a municipal water or power system by identifying and exploiting old software vulnerabilities.

So don't be surprised if one day soon you hear your mayor sounding like Trump: "Turn my water back on, you crazy ... "

Jeffy must be devastated, because it looks like Trump's Natalie has a lock on his dream job: the Tudor-ish Groom of the Stool to Trump's waddling, belabored of breath, heavy on the stink Henry VIII.

Memory-holing

The ICE-ish, BROWNSHIRT-ish Republican ethos perpetrates a public school system. Shock gloves? Only if those pushing the idea get their ------- and dangly bits clipped and cabled to a crank-operated Hummer EV Pickup battery which every normal in the school district is free to give a heartfelt turn. Zzzzzip! Zzzzzzzap!!! Volunteers?

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It is getting easier to appreciate the intensity of feeling that transformed an attempt to reform the existing political order into something far more complicated and threatening.

For Trump, acquisition and possession of wealth is a sign of "a winnuh."
Yes, he's that stupid.
Although he may also assume they're crooks, like him.
In which case, he definitely has a nose for the nefarious (and easily compromised).

At Nuremberg, aggressive war was categorized as the "supreme international crime."
Wouldn't you think starting an unauthorized war might be some sort of offense, somewhere?
Not in the United States of America.
Why?
Ask a Republican.
These are their man-babies and their war, all the way up.

Trump doesn't hire advisors for their knowledge, sagacity, or candor.
He hires flatterers and flunkies because he can humiliate and mock them.
It's one of the few things that makes him feel good, possibly approaching the elusive "pleasure."
And they call him "Sirrrr."
That's very important when you're a effed up as this bum.

President PedoProtector believes in collective punishment for all people living in states he failed to carry - lost - through democratic electoral choice.

Collective punishment will continue until there is total obedience to the regime.

The Republicans could bring this to a stop right quick ... today, in fact. But they won't. They've found fascism kinda fuzzy and that coercive control through collective punishment thang just feels sooo good.

"an engineering casualty involving its generators" = Broken Boat

"an engineering casualty involving its generators" = Broken Boat

Vandals and Huns and Visigoths ...
Oh, my!

"When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail."
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

So Trump snarls he will bomb Oman if they somehow (unspecified) get in the way of him ending - somehow (also unspecified) - the war he and Israel launched nearly six months ago, but he's really not in any hurry - a point he makes repeatedly, not in a hurry.

So, basically, Old Demento is ---- scared and desperately wants out of the colossal mess he made now. In the world of the Iranian bazaar, a preening, plump peacock appears just about ready for the picking. Unfortunately, it will not be enough for the Iranians that Trump simply loses his war. He (and we by association) must be humiliated and retaught a lesson every president but one since Jimmy Carter easily absorbed. It's not tough love; it's called getting educated about that pride going before destruction thang.

Fun fact: Ms. Harp is of the same age as Melanie or Melody or Melania or whatever the name of Trump's disappearing wife is when she married Trump. Not as young as in the Epstein party days, but dementia blurs the lines.

Piggy gonna be pi$$ed.