Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest -
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
James Madison, "Federalist No. 51)

Madison explained carefully why he advocated for three separate, equal, fully operating branches of government. The current coup by neglect (see: Republican Party in Congress) would, in his Enlightenment mind, provide justifiable cause for rebellion. In fact, allegations of royal overreach and trampling on parliamentary prerogatives did arise as a rationale for rebellion in the 1770s.

Open the wallet and switch on Old Presidente Pay to Play's trademarked Pardon Sharpie.

When the money keeps rolling in, you don't ask how ...
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin'

Rollin' on in, rollin' on in
Rollin' on in, rollin' on in
On in

Your doc just messaged: Those reality blockers you're gulping? No muy bueno.

"Terminated" is the legalistic term used in the letter MAGAJeebus tossed Congress' way on Day-60. It's a sop that will satisfy the Republicans so they don't have to actually meet, discuss, or vote on the forever war they've embraced - just duck and hide, as usual.

It's doubtful Trump himself actually said, "Terminated." I mean, really ... .

#13 ... the US has been stalling its military spending for decades while it fights wars."

That translation program you're using to post? Oil it.

The Dems turned on Biden and dumped him.
The Republicans?
"Thank you very much. I love you, sirrrrrr!"

Just tell your friends and neighbors it's an American primitive rendering of an extreme close-up of the back end of a working Clydesdale taking a yuge dump during a lunch break at Busch Gardens.

From the NYT 1/9/25:

Laika, Belka, Strelka, Ham, and Enos would've blown Old Yeller clear out of contention in the first-glance stage of astronaut selection.

Humiliation and public displays of inferior status are Putin requirements, and Trump does his best to please.

Basically, someone who carefully studies a suitably adaptable creature can often get an animal to perform as desired (or adjusts the act accordingly). In terms of the Putin-Trump relationship (which Putin totally controls), Vlad hasn't trained/conditioned Old Yeller to be a challenging perimeter patroller. What alpha Vlad wanted was a a beta lapdog, and that's what he got.

A good animal trainer can get an animal to perform as desired (or adjusts the act accordingly). Putin hasn't trained Old Yeller to be a perimeter patroller. Vlad wanted a lapdog, and that's what he got.

Why? Because the regime oozes opportunistic corruption, from hoarding monogrammed coasters to latching onto free, upscale housing.

And security.

It's not beyond the pale to wonder whether MAGAJeebus' closest enablers - Noem is in that sty up to her eyeballs, to the point of actually covering up murder - may feel a compelling need for walling themselves off from normals for the pretty much the rest of their miserable lives. (As for being alert to the psychos factor, they might consider the case of former SecDef Robert McNamara's encounter with an unfan one night in 1972 on the Martha's Vineyard Ferry. Just being friendly, no charge.)

Busy day for la famille Sanson.

$10 billion is probably what MAGAJeebus thinks Todd "Thank You, I Love You, Sir!" Blanche owes him for field generating the case that netted Old Yeller 34 felony convictions (goes well with his legally-imposed sexual abuser moniker).

Well played!

The Epstein Coverup proceeds apace, distraction guaranteed by the Republicans enabling their MAGAJeebus' Forever War, possibly the yuugest strategic blunder this country has committed since another gaggle of fabulists, fools, careerists, and hinge necks dragged us into the Vietnam quagmire.

This is what MAGAts and Republicans who claim not to detect a whiff of the staggering stench voted for.

Because a Black woman terrified them.

Happy 250th, America.

By the time we're finished with it, the guy will have been found in a trunk in the bed of the pickup.
Which, even in OK, might be considered a somewhat suspicious circumstance.
Where's Bass Reeves when you really need him?

Thanks for your service, Barney, and goodbye.

"As President Donald Trump claims ... ."

Setup or punchline?

I wanna go back to Dixie
Take me back to dear ol' Dixie
That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me
Ol' times there are not forgotten
Whuppin' slaves and sellin' cotton
And waitin' for the Robert E. Lee ... .

If Lil'Jeff actually had any real-world friends, surely they'd have staged an intervention by now?

If China fights a war it will involve a place, time, and conditions most advantageous to itself.
Not complicated, but contrast that with Vietnam, MAGAJeebus' Forever War, etc.
Sycophancy could be a weakness militarily, as it is in any authoritarian regime.
The Chinese, however, rarely reward idiocy.