Happens occasionally! Lol.

Tetchy. Lol.

#34
It's clear he didn't mean Massie is/was a Democrat.
No charge, you're welcome.

#22
Your head spinning yet?

Trump's shtick, much like Old Yeller himself, has gotten old, repetitious, tired, and boring. Which only highlights this creature's status as an energy vampire of the very worst sort. And nobody needs energy vampires.

The Trump Epstein Coverup, while holding for now, is an ongoing mess that keeps dominating and damaging his presidency. Like his promise to release his tax returns, the Trump Epstein Coverup shines spotlights on promises made, promises broken, and one big question: If there's nothing to hide about Trump's association with Epstein, why is Trump sweating bullets trying to keep as much information about it as possible from seeing the light of day as he can?

And then there's Trump's War of Choice, which he initially explained as being conducted at the behest of what appears to be the single nation with which the US actually has a "special relationship" - Binyamin Netanyahu's expansionist, ethnonationalist Israel. Given that the Trump end of Netanyahu's war - Trump, of course, always blames his many failures on others - got bogged down and has remained so ever since US war planners appear to have suddenly discovered the location/vulnerabilities of the Strait of Hormuz, this cockup is another ongoing, festering problem. Such a monumental screwup cannot be playing too well with Trump's acolytes and enablers. To be sure, they're happy as pigs wallowing in their own mess if bad stuff happens to other people. But, hey, what the hell, this is affecting them, too.

Welcome to what happens when the Republican Party knowingly paralyzes and destroys the system of checks and balances so carefully created by people so much more clever - but far less venal - than they.

Happy 250th, folks.

Suffer the little children. Period.
Thank you, GOPers, for your inattention to this matter.
~ MAGAJesus

They may see it as an extension of the ongoing conflict.

The stars' alignment for catastrophe required only a consummate fool and his manipulator, as the essay's author makes clear:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel urged this war on Mr. Trump because he, too, recognized the musical-chairs logic of the moment. Once the music stops, the United States may lack the firepower to protect Israel from its neighbors in the traditional manner and will probably lack the inclination. Ironically, the war's catastrophic outcome shows Mr. Netanyahu's basic understanding to have been sound: Israel's prospects for enlisting the United States in such anachronistic adventures were dwindling. Mr. Trump's gullibility provided Mr. Netanyahu with a last chance.

Re #28 ...

"I love the poorly educated."
Donald J. Trump AKA MAGAJesus

Boy, howdy.

#12
In American English, an "effigy" used in this fashion is roughly equivalent to a pinata or the burning of Guy Fawkes ... uh, effigies. Nobody believes the people doing this are actually inflicting harm on living creatures or believe themselves to be doing so.

Oh, my goodness, do you?

Do, then, most definitely stay away from Santa Fe when they torch old Zozobra come August-September in New Mexico. You might keel over with fright.

Why, you poor dear.

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.