#11 "I guess I should have complied with the officer's warn.... aaaaaaaa..." plunk - Last whispered words and actions of the soon to be hors de combat, Ashli Babbitt

#11 Ashli Babbitt: Proud to be 1,790 days sober

#11 "Meet a woman who takes a load to her chest." - Ashli Babbitt epitaph

#6 Two strokes brought on by the beating he took the day before at the hands of domestic terrorists "patriots," ...

...right, Left Hind Turds?

One by one the canaries were being asphyxiated.

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Just days after he called for the death penalty for prominent Democrats, Trump called the governor of Minnesota "severely retarded" and railed against immigrants from Third World countries.

He threatened to "denaturalize" migrants who had become citizens and endorsed the far-right policy of "remigration"" as he lashed out at Afghans and (for some unfathomable reason) Somalis.

But Trump's ban has been met by virtual crickets from the GOP; and his tirade has all but vanished from the news cycle.

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Last week, Donald Trump observed Thanksgiving with a nakedly racist rant that was unhinged even by Trumpian standards (more about that below). Reacting to the shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington DC, Trump announced a "permanent pause" in immigration from poorer countries. Trump's animus quickly became policy. The administration paused all visas for Afghans, and then closed the door on all asylum decisions, "until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible."

But that hardly captures the virulent malice of his Thanksgiving diatribe.

#37 Enjoyed our chat the other day.

What I learned: That Utah is a closed primary state.

Fascinating.

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In one corner, Pete Hegseth is turning the Caribbean into his own personal live-fire video game, with U.S. drones directed by SEAL Team Six blowing up supposed "drug boats" off Venezuela. (Pete, get Battlefield 6; it is the best in the series in a long time and might help you sublimate some of that rage.) While no one in the Pentagon can quite explain who we are killing or why with any detail, we are doing it with vigor.

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There is a point in any declining republic where foreign and domestic policy stops looking like strategy and starts looking like a racket. We are well past that point.

Look at the map.

#3 Always remember: A Proud Boy is a gelding who thinks he's still a stallion.

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People don't like this. There was a lot of reporting that on Election Day this year that Democrats flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, but there was little reporting about why. Everyone was too excited about Democrats winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia by large margins and Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor of NYC. But The New York Times was curious about the Georgia PSC elections and sent a reporter down there to talk to the voters about them. Here is what he found.

#24 You mean Quota-based law enforcement, like this:

President Trump's administration has set a goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day to fulfill his mass deportation promises, a target confirmed by White House adviser Stephen Miller

Sounds like Quota-based law enforcement

#47 #48

You've got me under your skin
You've got me deep in the heart of you
So deep in your heart that I'm really a part of you
You've got me under your skin

#6 And where is the current braggadocio from the right about how underwater the approval rating is for the Democratic Party?

It seems to have disappeared like the Joe Biden/"I Did That" gas pump stickers.

Reality intruded.

Amid the fog of war, clarity is often hard to find. But, if this story is true, there is nothing unclear or ambiguous about it. Here are five crucial points:

This was either a war crime (if we believe that the killings are covered by the laws of war) or it was simply cold-blooded murder.1 Via Michael Sellers:

In the law of armed conflict, a blanket directive to kill all occupants of a vessel " regardless of status, circumstance, or capacity to resist " is known as a "no-quarter order," " and such orders are one of the oldest and clearest prohibitions in the entire body of international law. To be very clear, International law treats a no-quarter order as one of the few absolute red lines in the law of war: it is inherently illegal the moment it is spoken, regardless of circumstances. Every modern military " including the U.S. " teaches that such an order must be disobeyed immediately, because carrying it out constitutes a war crime. Full stop.

#78 So? Left Hind Turds?

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imagine being so corrupt that even JPMorgan wants no part of your corporate shake-down schemes.

but here's what Dimon understands that Piss-Drunk Pete, in his short-sighted arrogance, doesn't: Pamnesia Bondi " who can't remember if there are Dead Pedo Bestie files on her desk, much less if it's wrong to murder Venezuelan fishermen clinging to the hull of their burning boat " isn't going to be head of the DOJ forever.

the next Democratic administration is going to bring in a new Attorney General, and " presuming it's not useless lump Merrick Garland " there could actually be, at long last, accountability. and let's not forget what Pete's been accused of here...

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which would you rather have"

a government of psychopathic ----------- who bark kill everybody!' as casually as they drunk-text classified war plans to reporters?

or a government of greedy grifting -----------, milking the country dry?

what if I were to tell you that you could have both?

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Meanwhile, in the Real World

... and this is where it all falls apart.

This is where the fantasy collapses, and the world in which we live rises and strikes down the idea of courage, integrity, or the good of the nation aside. Every American can see it. Every American, including Trump's most passionate backers, knows his mental state and physical health are collapsing in front of the eyes of the world.

Even if Congress sent this letter, Vance and the cabinet are creatures of the same ecosystem that made Trump president. Admitting he's unfit is, in effect, admitting they enabled a deeply sick man in mental decline to hold ultimate power. For years, they've sold a story: Trump is strong, sharp, chosen, blessed by God, incorruptible and puissant, persecuted by petty enemies.

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The Vice President of the United States
The Members of the Cabinet
The White House
Washington, D.C.

To the Vice President and Members of the Cabinet:

We write to you with a deep sense of both our constitutional responsibility and personal reluctance. The question we must raise is among the most solemn contemplated by our system of government: whether the President of the United States remains able to discharge the powers and duties of the office as required by Article II and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

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I was thinking today about what a real set of leaders in a real Republican Party would do in the face of Donald Trump's grotesque physical and mental collapse. Of course, they would never, ever, ever recommend to the Cabinet and Vice President that they step in with any meaningful action, even if Trump drooled on the Resolute Desk on live TV.

Still, sometimes I like to put my brain back in Official Washington mode and write something in the vernacular of Big Historical Documents. With that, I present a fantasy of what should and could be said - but will certainly not be said - to start the ball rolling on the 25th Amendment process.

#44 My dear ole mom died more than 2 decades ago.

You, of course, know that... right?

So, is your interest geriatric sex ...

... or necrophilia?

Or are you particularly into very old corpses for your sexual satisfaction?

As I said earlier,

Invest in some etiquette classes and, perhaps, a dance lesson or two.

The chicks will love you for it.

Kinda like taking Home Ec in high school as a guy in the 1970s...

...or typing classes...

...or the guy who hangs out in maternity wards because, after all, it is obvious that they do it.

Or the guy in the early 1980s, at the Crown Lounge, with his "I'm A Playboy Photographer" printed-at-home business cards ...

Your frustration levels will increase or decrease exponentially.

Your choice. But guaranteed.

You are most welcome, nonsentientsmoothbrainedapplesauceofahuman.

#12 and #13

Invest in some etiquette classes and, perhaps, a dance lesson or two.

The chicks will love you for it.

Kinda like taking Home Ec in high school as a guy in the 1970s...

...or typing classes...

...or the guy who hangs out in maternity wards because, after all, it is obvious that they do it.

Or the guy in the early 1980s, at the Crown Lounge, with his "I'm A Playboy Photographer" printed-at-home business cards ...

Your frustration levels will increase or decrease exponentially.

Your choice. But guaranteed.