"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
George Orwell, 1984

The goonish Tom "Bagga Cash" Homan is poster boy for the most corrupt presidential administration in American history, bar none.

"They said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be."
Don Trump, 2018

Blindingly disqualifying statement.
Yet here we are, more than seven years later:
A Putin fl*ffer tearing down the White House.
Enabled by cat-got-your-tongue useful idiots in Congress.
The Ukrainians will pay for the GOP's craven behavior.
As will we.

"In short," Mona Charen observes, "there has never been a president who has made the United States less respected than you have. We are, to borrow a phrase, disrespected like never before. Whether your twisted ego can recognize that is open to question, but what is not debatable is that virtually the whole world knows."

Dow Chemical Company
Vietnam
Napalm
Agent Orange

Obviously, I don't fully understand Blockchain, but looking at these results makes me feel like this is a six-player poker game, with the other five people in a room somewhere, showing their cards to each other.
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"If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."
Attributed to Warren Buffett

That's a piece of advice I put right up there with some other words of wisdom: "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own" (Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side).

No congressional authorization equals murder.
Oh, right, SCOTUS gave Trump (of all people) immunity from the legal consequences of his behavior.
And (for a price) he can pardon his coconspirators and enablers.
You built this, MAGAts.

Trump may be needing one as well, after the boat massacres.
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SCOTUS handed Trump what he clearly views as a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
His criminalistic associates?
They will need pardons from the Don.
But on the upside, SCOTUS says they, too, can take bribes ... uh, signs of gratitude and esteem ... if done in a timely fashion.

Old Yeller whining and whinnying yet again about the Nobel? Jesus, Maria y Jose, somebody needs to tell him it's a sign of recognition he has all but guaranteed he will never, ever be able to shove into the trophy case where he keeps his fake awards?

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Continues unraveling its way to Donnie Too Fats doorstep.
Sad!

"Pricing" ...
So ...
Affordability.

The once great Kennedy Center, like everything Trump touches, ensh*ttified.

Welcome to the "concept of a plan."
No plan, other than casual, callous cruelty..
The Republican Party is now a yuuge death panel.

From the article: "Frustrated lawmakers are looking to 2026 in the hopes that they can reclaim some of the power many fear they've ceded to the White House under President Trump." If they are actually thinking along those lines and are aware of the quality of pols around them, they must be as delusional and dim as the low-wattage voters who put them there.

Good on ye, TWINPAC!

That's your Trump Christmas, folks, a time for failing to make yourself look big with smalltime score settling.

TWINPAC
What a horror show. Your description of it brought to mind the scene in Zorba the Greek (1964), where rapacious villagers descend on the home of the dying "Madame Hortense" (Lila Kedrova), ready to strip it bare even before she draws her last breath. In its outlines, all too common behavior when a demise leaves property to be reallocated. Often brings out suboptimal behaviors.

From Rudyard Kipling's "Tommy" ...

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.

DEI judge or she's on the take.
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Interchangeable.
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Small net in need of repair cast across yuuge waters by possessors of teeny minds. Hilarious run up to the New Year. Thanks, cosplayers!

"Matriphagy," not "matripjagy."

Being totally ignorant as to the ladybird spider, I opted for a brief trip down the proverbial rabbit hole. And that's where I learned a new word: matripjagy? Whoosh. Live and learn. Thanks for posting that key to a small rabbit hole door, always interesting.

TWINPAC
Condolences on the reason for your rite of passage visit to West Virginia.

Some people see Weat Virginia as real "Take Me Home, Country Roads" country. I've been there a few times and always found it to be one of those locales with a decidedly "The Land Where They Eat Their Young" vibe. And it's not the topography that does that.

PFC Chickenhawk MacBonespurs is a giddy wars freak.
Like a lot of bloviators who keep themselves and theirs well clear of it.

"The sentence for nothing is ten years".
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1