#24
"Welcoming the stranger" is not a place; it's an attitude.
My family often assisted people trudging north in the Sonoran Desert border country.
We didn't invite them into the house to spend the night.
But we did make up sandwiches, get them something to drink, refill their canteens, dispense some dinero.
Because they were people caught in one helluva crunch and they could use help.
It didn't seem like a lot to ask or a lot to do.
In fact ,it seemed to me at the time exactly like what it seems like now: the bare minimum.

Trump was also slapping ----- up about Massie remarrying 1 1/2 years after his wife of 31 years died. Very low. Even for a yuuuge human disaster like Trump: a constantly whiney, thrice married, adjudicated sexual abuser.

Effing around on Ivana while married to her. Effing around on Melanie while married to her. That's between them, but ...

Old Yeller may be a practiced adulterer, but he sure comes up short in the successful marriage department

Faith leaders performed a crucial role in the Civil Rights Revolution the Republicans are now hell-bent on reversing. They were also involved in Vietnam War opposition. I think what they do in general is broaden the field for discussion and involvement, provide a permission structure.

#8
Speaking on behalf of Clarabell the Clown and the Peanut Gallery: Bravo!

In a long-winded blurpityblurp he inflicted on military leaders at Quantico on Sept. 30, Trump's finally got to the subject of military enlistment, something about cops, and ...

I always put the fire department in because they're great. They're great, and I got 95 percent of their vote too, that helps. When you get 95 percent of the vote, you always have to mention them, but they're great. And they're brave in our inner cities, which we're going to be talking about because it's a big part of war now, it's a big part of war. But the firemen go up on ladders and you have people shooting at them while they're up on ladders. I don't even know if anybody heard that. And actually don't talk about it much, but I think you have to. Our firemen are incredible. They're up on one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them -- shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory. You fall off that ladder, it's over, it's over. They don't even have to inspect you when you hit the ground. And you have people shooting bullets at them in some of these inner cities. We're not going to let that happen. So, I always mention the firemen because that's actually a big problem we have. They are unbelievable.

That may help explain the MRI.

From everything I have seen Mexico, geography and climate is California, only bigger. Clean up the cartels and Mexico would be a Superpower in its own right.
#6 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You'll need to go well beyond Tijuana to "see Mexico."

Have the GOP's Brownshirts been raiding pubs, dragging away illegal Irish pint pullers?
Nope.
The profiling for Trump's goons is appearance, color, language.
In other words, profiling based on language and where you fit on a color chart.
Racist in concept, racist in execution.
Racism, it's what racists do.

Trump wrangled up a mob of poorly educated, resentful mental wobblers ever on the lookout for ... well, whatever boogeymen and boogeywomen you'd care to plop in front of them. Oh, and don't forget the ridiculous "alternative facts" and absurd "doing my own research" yammering from this crew. Of course the cult is devouring its own.

Only Trump could fix that. (Vance and Rubio are too busy arguing over his not yet cold political corpse, and they haven't got the heft anyhoo.). But he's too mired in his own terminal problem: covering up for Jeffrey Epstein.

Rats in a sack.

Capital punishment is way too much power with too much margin for error to entrust to the state.

Depends on the circumstances, of course. But, as a sandbox exercise my guess is, unfortunately, the vast majority of enlisted personnel would follow much of the junior officer corps and almost certainly err on the side of obeying orders.

The Republicans have been swear-to-gawd promising they're on the verge of inveiling an improved alternative to Obamacare.
For 15 years now.
That's how long they've been working on this dazzling piece of legislation.
And what have they produced?
An obese, overly tarted-up dementia sufferer burping out "Concept of a plan."
Still ...
No concept.
No plan.
They are not serious about a "plan."
They are serious about screwing you over, though.

Let's hear Trump's full explanation for the causes and effects of World War I, unedited for either length or coherence, with special focus on the brief US involvement in that conflict.

Surprised it took until the fourth paragraph for the odious Corey Lewandowski to make an appearance in this raggedy tale of grifters run amok.

So, as Trump sees it, Americano workers are lacking talent and just aren't up to it. Hmmmmmmm ...

Perhaps he could salvage his misadministration from terminal mega-mediocrity by hiring a new, improved Cabinet filled with folks bearing the same credentials as his wife: a H-1B visa.

Do these "conservative influencers" know what's actually in those files?
No.
But Trump does.
And he is in a panic because he most definitely does not want us to see them.
Now, MAGAts, why do you suppose that's the way of it?

Well, there's Boondoggle Ranch - the cluelessness really wraps itself around that one - and then there's ...

Coriolanus, regarding how long it took King to write that book - read a bit by a British comedy writer recently in which he was asked about inspiration. Basically, he explained the creative process as follows: Take a piece of letter-sized paper and carefully insert it into into your typewriter's carriage. Then, next to it, place the gas bill.

We often encounter references to the Ancient Greek concept of isolative hubris triggerimg the retributive effects of nemesis. Less often do we learn the nature of that retribution. It was, frequently, mania: madness.

Objection: Speculation
#39 | POSTED BY BOAZ

You've either been watching those Night Court late night reruns again or raising the bar by taking in a couple of Perry Mason episodes. (Hint if you're going down that road: Hamilton Burger never gets it right. Ever.)

"[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop."
Stop what?
No context here.
#40 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Probably refers to her eating too many stone crab claws at the buffet. That or her endless pro-windmill tirades poolside.

From the emails:

Added to that, the US just isn't any damn good at this sort of stuff.
The initial blasting, kabooming, and lighting up the night sky stuff?
Yeah., okay, grrrrrrrrr.
But the actual hard werk afterwards?
Pretty wretched, when you think about it.

You guys know you are inferring he had sex. Nothing in any of that specifically said Trump was banging kids.

Until the person who was actually in the room with Trump comes in and says "Yes, he ------ me", it's only hearsay and Epstein's and Maxwell's word.

#29 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2025-11-12 01:04 PM

Per the article:

April 2011
EPSTEIN TO MAXWELL: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump." He added that an unnamed victim "spent hours at my house with him ... he has never once been mentioned."
MAXWELL TO EPSTEIN: "I have been thinking about that."

Someone I don't know, never heard of, wouldn't recognize in a lineup came up to me on bended knee, cheeseburglar in hand, and roared, "Sirrrrrrrrrrrr! Mr. Trump spent time with that underage female type human person, but only to teach her how to play the piano. Specifically, Nearer My God To Thee.' Thank you and retrospectively submitted,
~ John Barrrron