Biden was a place-holder, someone elected to steer us clear of oligarch-manipulated rube insanity. And it worked. But four years passed, Biden and his people lied, Harris was a terrific candidate considering the job at hand, but a narrow percentage of Americans opted for more Jerry Springer governance from a poorly informed, mentally challenged felon in steep physical and mental decline. Go figure.

Class act of the day?

Harris, of course.

"I won't bite," she cheerfully informed the mega-MAGAruderube.

Because it werks so well on whatever ketamine-fueled Leon is calling his online, lit up dumpster fire.

My son is a huge Chief's fan and he did himself proud accepting my Christmas gift of a "Go Taylor's Boyfriend" cap with good grace, wearing it with pride.

GOPer goober keeping it classy.

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Segal's doctorate was from Harvard; he taught at Yale.

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Aided and abetted by a mob of manipulated mouth breathers mobilized and directed by those who care about them fully as much as Putin "cares" about his Nork mercenaries: foolish fodder.

GOP hasn't a monopoly on corruption, but they have raised it to industrial levels. Right, Leon?

Pence is speaking to an audience of two: himself and Mother.

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Good points and hard questions. I'd suggest, per your last sentence, that much of the movement (certainly from Latin America) can be traced to the actions of US political/business interests backed by US military/intelligence agencies. Usually in support of autocratic caudillo-types and their regimes, presumably because it's good for American business.

MAGAt scum of the earth attempt to overthrow the Constitution because of their devotion to a grifting slob. You built this one GOPer goobers. Now do as Leon tells you and bow down. Horrible day, horrible people.

Old Crew Medicine Show

"No Women Need Apply"

Should be grossly amusing.

Cut-rate theologians like Johnson would do well to take note of where The Jefferson Bible brings down the curtain because it sure as hell runs counter to the snake oil folks like him have on offer:

"Then Joseph put the body in his own tomb that had been cut into solid rock and had never been used. He rolled a big stone against the entrance to the tomb and went away."

Excellent essay.

Krugman writes: "Muskaswamy and friends aren't helping their case by insulting Americans' culture and intelligence."

Fair enough, but that hasn't sunk into the thick collective MAGAt skull. In the end, they'll do whatever Trump tells them to do.

Try telling a prospective buyer a Navajo rug from the 1920s with a swastika design is simply "whirling logs" (or a concession to the marketplace's tastes). Ancient symbol, found over times and places. But the jackbooted goosesteppers effed it up. For how long? As far as anyone reading this? Forever.

There really is no evidence those who worked in secret cobbling together the Constitution envisioned anything even remotely akin to the establishment of a creaking, hoary gerontocracy. Come on, "originalists," let's get original, eh?

For the same reason commemorating the OKC Bombing became so controversial - lots of people hold the same cretinish views, but they really don't think they belong in the same garbage can as nihilists and nutters.

I think that shows the way Thomas and Musk and Trump"and everyone who has bought into this vision of a First Amendment"based right to buy elections"has created an oligarchy that entrenches itself, keeps itself in power, and ensures that its own privileges and benefits are never diminished or taken away. Thomas can keep taking free megayacht trips. He can keep going on private planes. He can even refuse to disclose all of it! We might whine about it, but nothing bad will happen to him, because his man is in the Oval Office. He's got a protector who will ensure that Clarence Thomas gets to do whatever Clarence Thomas wants to do.

The payback on this and what it represents will be a beast.

Message received?
~ Leon