Big deal. Somehow Mitch will be kept alive or declared to be alive until the 2026 election. The alternative is that Kentuckys Dem governor will put forth a Dem senator to fill the seat until the election. That would be rich ...

I hear the USAID folks are being flown home, by way of Gitmo...

For I was hungry and you had me arrested,
I was thirsty and you urinated on me,
I was a stranger and you sent me to Gitmo,
I needed clothes and you posted my photo on Instagram,
I was sick and you denied my insurance claim,
I was in prison and you raised the gallows.'

Hey all you phony Christians out there: does this edited version of 'The Sheep and The Goats' ring true for you? Good luck in your chat with St. Peter...

Get a Red Ryder BB gun and shoot his other eye out. Then beat him with a softball bat for, oh, 20-25 minutes. Problem solved...

When we said we voted for Trump because he was strong, we had no idea he would go strongly against us. Can't anyone stop this maniac?
--African American Trump voters, soon to be called 'Colored' Trump voters from Africa

The easiest way for these folks to remain in Florida is to (1) grow white skin (2) lose the Spanish accents, and (3) become Jewish. All others should plan to leave. Today...

Heard in the crowd at the announcement:

Gaza for Americans and Americans only! Arabs out of Gaza! Go home!
--Stephen "Peewee German" Miller, noted self-hating Jew

Sounds OK to us, Boss!
--MAGA Party functionaries, eager to send low income Americans off to be killed in car bombings

Wait. This is not what we agreed to. We voted for this man Trump! And now this betrayal!
--Suckered residents of Dearborn, Michigan

Want to support the police, all you 'Thin Blue Line' types out there? To a person every police officer will ask for stronger gun control laws. Many of my relatives are or were police officers. One lost out in divorce court because of it, and another quit her job as an officer because she got tired of drawing her weapon EVERY DAY...

Of the 17 major reservoirs managed by the California Department of Water Resources, as of 2/3/25 all but three reservoirs were at 97% of historic average water level, or higher. The lowest was at 80% of average. The state's management of its water is well-documented, careful and crucial to the state's ability to house its people and generate the wide variety of agricultural products from its farms.

Meanwhile, this country has a president who doesn't understand why all the water in the world doesn't flow to the South Pole, then fall off the planet...

Until this dork carves a swastika in his forehead I will question his manliness. After he does so, his insanity will be unquestioned. Just like Charlie...

Cryptocurrencies are vehicles for criminal activity and naked speculation, nothing more, nothing less. Anyone who says otherwise is either too stupid to know better, or the president of the United States, or his chubby puppet master...

Will never happen. Operators of private US prisons will complain if they don't get to house these folks. Lawyers for any convicts sent offshore will end up with a class-action case arguing for their clients' 8th Amendment rights. Cruel? Probably. Unusual? Certainly.

Memo to all you Central American governments: You can keep L'il Marco. No need to send him back at the end of his visit...

By and large Cali farmers do not want the water released now. Remember how Tulare Lake re-emerged, decades after being drained dry? It may well re-appear this year. Nothing says 'water for farms' like a flood that takes months to dissipate. Yep--farmers out of business, but those Libs and that pesky governor have been shown who the boss is...

This situation is one of the dumbest actions that any president in this country's history could have taken. Protect the American people? Nope--the opposite has occurred. Americans have been sold out to a creepy, un-elected foreign-born government contractor. DOGE is the deep state...

King Dotard II is such a poor bargainer that in his unending quest to "win" at someone else's expense he will agree to terms that do not help his cause, and results in less of a deal than it he negotiated in a principled manner, so as to produce a "win-win". The problems with negotiators like Trump are many, and are demonstrated here. After boasting of his super-spectacular great deal known as USMCA, he realized that he got much less than hoped, so had to go back for another three bites at the apple. The result was chaos, and the world's opinion of Trump and the US have again been wounded, in a self-inflicted manner...

So long as one can play Fortnite or Destiny 2 faster, who cares?
--Leon Skum

"As always, should you or any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This country will self-destruct in five seconds.".

If the Mavs had to take Bronny in the trade it would have been worth it for the Lakers...

Wait. King Dotard I declared that USMCA was the greatest trade agreement ever. Now he wants to renegotiate? What went wrong? Or does he want to has out the greatester trade agreement ever? Dotard II clearly is a guy not taking 'Yes' for an answer. He clearly must win everything, from his morning defecation to his golf game to world domination.

At this point the best we can hope for is a heart attack--for him or us...

Um. Wait. We voted for Trump. We supported him. Aren't we supposed to be heard? Don't we get a say in this matter?
-Log Cabin Republicans, realizing they have been duped again

I set the over/under on how long King Dotard II blames Diamond Joe for anything, from a loud fart to the impending cancellation of SS checks at four years ...

We have nothing to do with this. It is a matter for the market to resolve. Now, send more sandbags to the Southern Palace at Mar-A-Lago. Our liege demands it. So it is written, so it shall be...
--The Court of the Dotard King

Toto--I'm glad we're not in Kansas anymore...
--Former Kansas, upon deciding to stay in the Emerald City

Near term West Texas Intermediate is at $72.70 this morning, and has traded in a range of about $67-88 over the past year. Oil companies continue to say they are focused on extraction from current wells and returning profits to investors; little is being discussed about new exploration. The new administration is not reading the room. Those in the business have already found all the easy oil. That which is sought now is expensive--either way out in the ocean, in some freezing climate or requires fracking. When oil producers say the price of oil is not worth them finding more, listen to them.

Now continues to be a great time to develop alternative sources, e.g., solar and wind. Doing so is faster and cheaper than the process of brining an oil or gas well on line. Further development of these sources is hindered by one thing--naive politicians who are not paying attention to what their special interests are telling them...

Apparently there are limits to being a 'free speech maximalist', right Leon?