I guess the video ends just before the car bombs explode and the missiles land. Every Arab worth his salt will live to oppose this wet dream...

Not playing square with a federal judge is a great way for a lawyer to ruin their career and reputation. Not being able to argue a case in federal court is a black mark against a lawyer, and being held in suspicion by ANY judge is an easy way out of the profession. The attorneys who appeared run the risk of losing their job, or royally honking off the judge, in which case they lose in court, then lose their jobs. Remember: El Rey Dotardo II is not a trained lawyer, and his late pal Roy Cohn was a bully at all times, in all circumstances. Trump thinks all lawyers should act in a similar manner, not realizing how detrimental such actions can be to the case...

For what he is being paid, one would think he would try harder, jump higher or show up for work clean and sober...

Lands included in the "Make an Offer" category: all non-tribal lands of Okiehomie, formerly known as 'The Unassigned Territories'...

Still included in the daily press briefing: Grit, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Garden & Gun...

For the umpteenth time: cryptocurrencies are vehicles for criminal activity and naked speculation, and nothing more. I am pleased that some criminal, grifter or sap got their phony money taken...

Remember how, two months ago all manner of loudmouth MAGA party hacks were jumping on the DOGE bandwagon, declaring that the whole thing was better than sliced bread. Now--crickets. Funny how your local MAGA congressguy or gal doesn't want to talk about cuts to all those useless departments like the Park Service, IRS, SSA, FAA, etc. Instead, they are expressing relief that some foreign-born K addict and his band of teenaged hackers are doing all the work--good or bad--and the elected officials whose constituents are affected need not take the blame...

Hmmm. Lie to a federal judge and protect one's job, or tell the truth and risk one's employment? I'm told that lawyers lying to judges is not a good career move...

The Republican Party is different from the MAGA Party. They both have the same fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat at their head. The removal of that person would kill one of the parties, but not the other. But which one would remain standing? Asking for Barry Goldwater...

Lara Trump will soon be named Artist in Residence. She will perform nightly for the next umpteen weeks. She will also have to sweep up, collect tickets, serve refreshments at intermission, check coats, handle the lights, be the stage crew and shovel the walkways during snowstorms. But she won't have to back down. Get your tickets now, from $15,000-1.25MM per seat...

Well, this makes perfect sense to get rid of this Telehealth thing. Doctors should be required to come into the office, every day! We can't have them literally phoning it in! If they are not in the office, how can anyone take attendance? As for patients, well, who cares about them, with all their head colds and heart attacks...
--Muskrats on the special 'Medical Arts' team of DOGE

El Rey Dotardo II is such a bag negotiator that the Russians and Chinese could probably ask for California in exchange for featuring Trump's face on the cover of The Daily Worker for a year. The orange one would agree--but only the eastern half of the state, since that's just farmland, reservoirs and mountains...

Wait. This has got to be right. We all took that Excel class in community college last year. It's simple--just key in the numbers on the spreadsheet, get a calculator, add up the numbers and there you go. Right?
--Muskrats, numerically challenged all

Her work with Donny Hathaway was, IMO, stunning. She brought to a wider audience a soul singer without parallel. My faves from her are "Where is the Love?" or her excellent "The First Time Ever I saw Your Face". RIP...

After recent comments from El Rey Dotardo II, JV had better not stand near any windows, and perhaps should consider going back to the private sector. Being VP in a dictatorship can be a lonely, dangerous job...

Yep--bigtime lake effect snow in that part of northern New York. Ask anyone who wintered at Ft. Drum, and they will tell you. I once visited Massena, further north, and they would typically get more than 10' of snow in a winter. Cleared roads and parking lots with a road grader and front end loader. Snow piles would remain until Memorial Day. Beautiful country in the Summer. February--not so much...

Yep--those Trump signs by the road next to the corn or soybean fields of so many sucker voters now signify that a loser used to own the farm passersby are looking at, and now they just work there on behalf of some bank or farm credit bureau. Until the next crop comes in, and then...

MAGA is now spelled COWARD...

At this rate reaching the $1T savings will take longer than thought, which will mean either (a) those continued tax breaks for the patricians and tech bros will go by the wayside, or (2) those continued tax breaks for the patricians and tech bros will just be shoved through Congress, like the wedding night activity after some MAGA functionary gets married in the jailhouse...

Trying to blame stuff on Diamond Joe. Love it. That went over like a lead balloon. This guy can now buy a calendar with Election Day 2026 as his final day of employment in his present job ...

Cute. These complainers still think they have a say in the dictatorship now in control of the US. That are about 90 days from appearing in chains ...

El Rey Dotardo II wants half of Ukraine's rare earth minerals. I'll wager the price will be a permanent US military presence in the country. 20,000-50,000 personnel, including ground, air and missile deployments must be present and operable at all times. Here you go, deal artist--what say you?

Polls are important only to those who, in an open society, face repercussions for their actions, e.g., by voters selected other leaders. Well, that's something that may not happen in Trumplandia, formerly known as The United States of America. If there are elections in 2026, the way things are going there will be Dems coming out of every nook and cranny to beat up on MAGA Party incumbents, no matter the state or how deeply red that state is now...

DOGE continues to prance around claiming to having cancelled office leases for gajillions of dollars. Being in the world of commercial real estate, I know for a fact that the vast majority of such leases cannot be cancelled. Cancellation language that exists in such leases is restricted to on-going default on the part of the landlord. Oh, tenants can move out, but must keep paying. Cheap talk about terminating leases will set the GSA and its users up for not being able to lease space at all.

If you ever encounter a DOGE Muskrat, keep in mind that other than knowing cheat codes for some video game, nearly none of these people know anything about what they are currently doing, or saying...

All these government cutbacks come at a price. In this case, JV now has part-time protection from a 58-year old female Secret Service officer, who formerly was office manager at the SS branch in Tulsa. We all have to tighten our belts...