"If there is a neck, there is a collar"
Russian proverb

JD "They're Eating the Cats - They're Eating the Dogs!!!!!" Vance has no credibility, having made it clear he will spread lies in order to garner attention.

He said it, he did it, and he keeps doing it; it's is, clearly nothing more or less than his m.o., s.o.p.

Which makes it truly tragic if what he says ever actually turns out to be true.

Such is the lot of immature folk who cry "Wolf!" when none lurk about.

Cassandra's they ain't; despicables they most assuredly be.

Not to worry - the pros from Dover are arriving any minute now.

See, that's your problem: "no doubt."
People as ignorant and thick as you appear to be absolutely need to have doubts.
If you ever do, it will be a sign of some developmental progress.
No, you can thank me later.

When Trump grabs it by the poosie, nary a peep and he doesn't notice the difference.
Melanie must be so ...
IReally Don't Care Do U ?

Even Robert Mugabe wasn't so caught up in himself - and he was definitely pretty caught up in himself - that he pulled this sort of middle school stunt.

Then again, these are Trump Dollar$ - worth less every time he starts a war.

Politics often seems works as a magnet for people suffering from various degrees of sociopathy.
But these Republicans really are revealing themselves to be something else.
Have these MAGAts never seem to have heard of or met anyone they won't happily grind down or kill for the thrill.
Or a few bucks.

Enjoy the day.

Morning and well put.

He's already lost his war. Lost it when he let Netanyahoo lead him around like a bloated pig with a ring in its snout.

And now he's sooprised.

AU ...
I'm telling you, Kurt Vonnegut was a prophet!

Read some of your comments on McCartney, the music business. Thanks for posting. I've know a few folks in that line of work and it's a toughie. I cannot sing at all, abandoned guitar ages ago, yet over the years I've come to think of music as the most magical of the art forms. Bardic and beyond.

Trump, a bloated - festering cowpie of writhing insecurities, is obviously a mental case, really gone over-the-top gaga - simply can't help himself.
And neither, evidently, can his MAGAts - so addicted they are to groveling and bootlicking.

#4
Coriolanus -

Your point on Kovic and Kerry well put. The anti war movement eventually generated so much fuel in part because the participation of returning troops helped in the legitimacy department. They'd been there, many complicit in horrors, and they were really angry.

I think it was probably 1966 when I went to a friend whose dad was an intel officer with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, KY. En route, I recall being in an airport bathroom (probably Nashville), talking with four uniformed Black soldiers sitting/standing along a wall, drinking some wine. They invited me to join them, which I did, and, boy, were they in a collective bad mood: orders to Vietnam. But what really got them going was the final solution to their sergeant problem. This sergeant, who every time they were out and about maneuvering and such got them "killed." Every time. They planned to toss a grenade at him in Vietnam in an act of self-preservation. Yeah, the wine, bad news talking, and so forth. But the fragging idea was already kicking around, even that early (pre-Tet).

Nah, we need more MAGAty self-hooted fiscal watchdogs and budget balancers to reinforce the Congressional Capon Caucus.

Trump hires the needy because they practically beg to become complicit.
They are easily found, used, and replaced.
MAGA derives its strength from gathering together a mob of weak people in search of a tribe and chief.

But, the author cautions,

hating Newark airport is like hating Mondays, or splinters, or wet socks, or the inevitability of death's cold, cruel tap on the shoulder. Or air travel in general. The truth is, all airports are bad. You've heard. They are unlovely and unloved, designed to be passed through, and doomed by decades of disinvestment. They are a vortex of everything annoying: confined spaces, limited options, bad Wi-Fi, overpriced food, fluorescent lighting, other people. They are the opposite of vacation, even as they are inextricably linked to it. And they lay bare the fragility of this modern life, how easy it is for everything to go wrong"right now, especially. The worst airport isn't Atlanta, or Dallas, or Newark. The worst airport is whatever airport you are in.

I'm joking, of course. The worst airport is Newark.

Well, there goes Sutton's Law.
For MAGAts, the money clearly lies not in robbing banks but in looting the people's treasury.

The 4.2% protection is

Based on previous and current behavior, the IDF's primary job is to terrorize people. It's secondary job is to lie about it.

Thanks, MAGAts.

I'd make some cheap remark about Corey Lewandowski no longer being in the cockpit, but, surely, there are better ways to spend one's time.

"Personally, I don't know what the truth is."

Yeah, hard werk, that. Sheesh.