"Stone-stick-stupid" was a favored invective my grandfather was prone to utter when faced with dealing with people hopelessly addicted to making poor choices. He was a homicide detecive, by the way.

Tariffs? The price for a PS5 Pro just ballooned to $1000 from $700 on the Sony store, according to the neighbor's kid I swap games with occasionally. He's quite despondent, as it effectively prices him out of acquiring one anytime soon, given the daunting challenges this particular enterprising11-year-old faced to earn the $700 in the first place. That's a lot of mowed lawns & yard work, ya' know? Don't feel the squeeze yet? You will...eventually Trump's DOGE wrecking crew will price you out of something you now take for granted. Count on it, you clueless, stone-stick-stupid pilgrims.

And...Presto!...along comes the provenance to my point.

When the house burns down, Biden will get framed for it. We've seen this fact-free re-run before, so how 'bout we change the #%@?! channel, hmm? I've never come closer to un-plugging my cable. By assiduously avoiding CNN, MSNBC, local news, etc., my sense of disbelief is thankfully manageable with liberal consumption of Alice B's wonder gummies. Pun intended.

The relentlessly pissy tone and dearth of any salient points in this discussion alone amply demonstrates why all the old-timers like me don'r come 'round here much anymore. It's kind of sad what this place eventually bacame.

re: #19...I fully expect Trump's quisling cabinet picks at Justice and the Defense Dept. to cover for him, should anyone have the temerity to drag Trump's Richy Rich hand puppet through court. It was glaringly obvious watching Musk bunny-hop around the stage when Trump first introduced him that Musk seemed quite keen to play the fly in our Chardonney. Some guys want to smash things just to show they can, ya' know? If Musk does wind up incarcerated, no one will be pleased more to be wrong than I.

As it seems his name is on the tips of everyone' tongue these days, how many will experience the revelation that the "T" is silent?

My VA doctor retired last year, only to be replaced 7 months later by a nurse-practitioner from within VA system. Now I heard that she'l be gone soon meaning in order to see a physician at my local VA facility, I'll have to present in the ER, even if the complaint is minor, over-taxing already thin care to the point of breaking the system enough for his criminal Wall Street buddies to call for complete privatization, exposing the vets to substandard and/or possible denial of treatment from notoriously indifferent HMOs.

From the admittedly sketchy info I've seen peppering the googly tubes of the internets, I have a hunch the plane blew a tire upon touch down. If correct, I don't believe it's something we can honestly lay at Trumps small feet. Look...Trump's the misdirection...I'd pay closer attention to Musk's shenanigans if I were you--especially you who still consider yourselves REAL Republicans.

Re: #78...I believe his fascist predilections were given ample light and exposure well before his first campaign in 2016, yet alas...there appears to be so many brownshirt-adjacent voters who evidently agree with him. (I blame the Bell Curve) If you fine folk are waiting for a Savior to end this blatantly unlawful period of American history, you're going to require more than a lunch to see you through. Something tells me we ain't seen nuttin' yet.

Bronze Age zombie yarn, one of many remarkably similar "savior" archetypes that differed according to the diverse subcultures they sprung from. I suppose I should expect a visit from the Bible Police now? Why can't Christians keep their beliefs to themselves, and leave the rest of us alone? The question's rhetorical, of course. Persecution is part of the allure.

I suppose its just a matter of time before the Kennedy Center starts hosting pro wrestling and boxing extravaganzas. Oh, and it provides our ever-leering leader a swanky new venue to get back in the Teen Pageant business, should those pesky democrats successfully thwart his amateur hour Sham Wow! '25 plans for world domination.

I'll say it again...Musk is the fly in the Chardonney. And keep in mind this is only their 2nd week. If this doesn't give you the heebie-jeebies, just wait...no doubt they'll start tinkering with some aspect of your life you DO care about.

Trump's presser this morning more than amply demonstrated just how unfit he is to hold that office. Prove me wrong. Frame his response as actual, ethical leadership. That, and his make-up made him look like a orange panda in a blue suit.

Perhaps they're hoping the SC will, at long last, stand up to our Day 1 Dictator, and show him--and his loyal acolytes, exactly where the line is.

As of this morning, a dozen A-grade eggs at my local supermarket were $5.74 for a dozen. The refrigerated case was " stocked," yet the kid that was fluffing the display said the entire egg stock would be empty by 3pm, and each daily delivery was becoming noticeably smaller. I'm getting a uncomfortable feeling we've been here before, only this time it's going to test us as a nation and society to keep even usually plentiful items stoked on the shelves, and naked price-gouging to become rampant. For the record, I dtopped eggs from my diet some diet years ago under advice from my doctor, but how long before something else I do still enjoy consuming becomes uncomfortably scarce regardless of price?

He did say he had something along the lines of a plan. He didn't say anything about you liking or benefiting from it.

"Charged and hung..." In MAGA speak that translates as "why bother with the fuss of a trial when it's so much more expedient to simply have the arresting officer drag the poor fellow out of his home and string him up from the nearest lamppost." Knee-->jerk.

The Old Hippie that still hangs around my psyche keeps chiding me that karma is real, whether one believes in it or not.

$20 says he'd sell the IP to PornHub if the price was right.

First, a "fashion" observation...Who dressed Melania, the Hamburgler? Cad Bane? Hideous. By the twitchy body postures, everyone seemed to be holding their breath...either waiting for the proverbial foot to fall, or another long complaint about the nature of toilets to flush too inconsistently for his tastes. There also seemed to be a creeping pervasive Zeitgeist of uncertainty sitting just under the surface. The one thing I am certain of is my pot gummy intake is undoubtedly going to increase exponentially with each new kick from Trump's hobnailed 2025 boot. You xian-type Maganoids probably missed where the man "neglected" to place his hand on the bible whist taking the Oath of Office. Hmm...

Re: #26....My hunch is old-fashioned Prescedence. My fervent hope is the Joint Chiefs of Staff and AG will refuse to follow any obviously unlawful order--especially ones violating Posse Comitatus statutes. Trump has amply demonstrated he considers himself above The Law, proffering a mind-set that any ill-advised act he may initiate will be completely free from any meaningful consequences. Thanks, Mr. Garland. Hopefully, who/what will stand in his way is the real character of the American People. I can't help but see the next four years as a long-overdue stress test of our laws and institutionally inequitous way of life in this country.

Smart...moving the Swearing Ceremony indoors allows Orange Caligula the opportunity to treat the spectacle as one big televised fundraiser in front of a mostly hand-picked crowd of loyal sycophants and MAGA toadies. The man is a creature of television, after all. I'm going to gobble a couple of funny gummies and take in whatever current fare is showing at the local multiplex Monday evening, thereby saving me from what will no doubt prove to be a gut-punching kind of night.

Accountability seems a rather passe notion these days among those who disingenuously continue to repeat the obviouslie that the Count of Mondo-Lardo is being unjustly persecuted for the crimes they all witnessed him commit.

Anyone else getting the nagging suspicion that Trump just clumsily drove home the reality of how obscene money can completely trump justice now? Pun intended.The man lives in a house made of playing cards, each a lie told ad nauseum until it became "true." I also keep entertaining the eventuality the cheese completely slips off his diaper-wearing cracker long before his term is up, given his bizarre pontifications spewed just over this past week.