Coriolanus, in an obit this week for Sean Phillips - Emma Thompson's mum and the memorable "Livia" in "I, Claudius - she recalled that while filming that wonderful series the cast thought it was a sort of soapy Roman bodice-ripper, not the classic it became.

#35
I take your point, HIGHMASS. And there's also this: Trump is demonstrably incompetent, deeply dumb, woefully uneducated, manifesting deep psychological issues, and waltzing with dementia The man has driven his "business empire" into bankruptcy one, two, three, four, five ... no, six times.. He is a proven failure at running casinos, plural. How could such a broken, damaged, greedy cretinous creature not be counted on - with just a few prompts and fluffs - to do irreparable damage to the US, grin, and expect to be thanked for accomplishing the task?

But the real responsibility for this catastrophe goes to the people who voted for nihilism and the Republican Party that has enabled him and his gang.

Mean? Fuhgedaboudit. It's inevitable.

Economy skidding, debt soaring, war lost, and this fascistic, thieving dumbcluck tells us he's "good at flagpoles."

For Republicans who hoped installing an ignorance flimflammer in the White House would make their Richard Nixon look like a better president than had heretofore been the case?

Congrats, mofos: Mission Accomplished.

#5
Tedious.
Romney's long gone, McCain's dead, Dewey's no more, JFK's in the ground, Lincoln done been and gone.
Big wheel keeps turning.
If you have a point, please try and make it.
It won't amount to much, but the mental exercise might do you a world of good.

At #23, Jeff, you're on Ossoff's case because he made what you characterize as a "---- innuendo."
One minute later at #24 you point out your understanding the moniker refers to infant pacifiers.
Sooooooooo, no ---- innuendo?
Or are you sexualizing infant pacifiers?
I just don't see how it can be both.
God, what a tedious MAGAt lewzerboi.

#22. I thought a binkie/ binky is an infant pacifier.
#24 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

That's correct, Jeff.

Correction to #20:

"He was implying a Lewinsky 2.0 scenario ... ."

Trump, 80, demented, bald, caked in make-up, spray paint, shellack, and Old Spice, near-dead, wrapped in day-old adult diapers, getting fellated by his peroxided "binkie" (thank you, Maggie Haberman) seems an unlikely scenario.

More likely? Trump, 80, demented, bald, caked in make-up, spray paint, shellack, and Old Spice, near-dead, wrapped in day-old adult diapers, *Binkie* robotically handing him flattering cartoonish grabs from his online fanboys, patting his sweaty forehead, murmuring, "You're the best, the greatest, the bestest greatest ... " just like when he and that other bender of a few rules Jeffrey Epstein were frolicking friends back in ...

Trump got shellacked with 34 felony convictions in NY, where he remains eligible to vote. Because FL defers to the state where the criminal acquired his felony conviction - or, in Trump's case, felony convictions - Trump can vote in FL.

What Trump cannot do is own a gun. Federal law bars felons like him from gun ownership.

Trump and his MAGAt lickspittles are way out of their lane on this.

Article I Legislative Branch
Section 4 Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

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 ... .
#13 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

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?

#2
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.