JayDee, current spokesman for the He-Man Womun Haters Club (apologies to Spanky, Alfalfa, and Buckwheat), should feel downright at home in the Catholic Church.

Two features of this election that have not yet had time to sink in yet:

1. JayDee as a purveyor of insufferable pomposity and smug jackassery.
2. Orange Julius as an aged, senescent convicted felon and sower of looney tunes.

Put those two bits together, mix well, and with Biden out of the game the whole age/brain thang is now a monkey on Trump's back. What a hoot. And as for Vance, if you factor in Trump's evident mental and presumed physical health, well, a vote for Trump is a vote for JayDee as POTUS.

The man isn't well. Too bad his kids don't care enough about him to stage an intervention.

Good points, all. Historical memory can be quite fickle. For example, we often hear that phrase "peace and prosperity." Yet for my entire life - since I, as an uncomprehending kid, heard the Korean War armistice news announced as a voice-over with some photo board displayed on the black-and-white screen (same way I learned the Rosenberg were executed) - this country has been at war, in one form or another (covert/overt), in this hemisphere or others. I'm sure others have a quite different take on those decades, but that's one of mine.

Morning, Cariolanus ...

On that 1918 epidemic, my father lived through it as a young adult. When I asked him - he was deep into history - if he could account for how/why the memory of it faded, he opined that the war's end blew everything else away, then we were in the Twenties, and people didn't want to dwell on the recent, unpleasant past. We may be seeing the same dynamic in action with COVID.

"his eyes smiles like he's dreaming a happy dream"

It's so nice and warm and sunny, that place he travels to in such moments, through the air, across the sea ... There it is, just up ahead ... There! The seashells on the sand by the lapping waves? A spell-out? Yessssss! "PEDO ISLAND" ... Ahhhhhhhh.

Given Trump's observable mental and physical state - glutton, obese, tottering, freezing in place, endless word garbling, utterly delusional - a vote for Trump is a vote to put JayDee in the Oval Office some time between early 2025 and early 2029.

Obvious at the time, except for the terminally delusional.

"Berated"? The warped freak said his daughter is "dead." Another ----- living in "his own truth."

Thanks for posting that.

Morning, TONY. First time you've been overly bold, Lol.

Landslide!

JD Vance (or Mandel, or whatever he's calling himself this week) is the human equivalent of an ever-returning political boomerang.

We already knew he is a proud member of the He-Man Woman-Hater's Club. (What a little rascal!)

Now he hates little moneys and puppies, too!

Keep it up, JayDee. What a guy!

CORIOLANUS
Empathy. Good point. Its absence seems to make it easier for those folks to be so casually, unremittingly cruel. They are extremely not-nice people. I prefer to vote for people who are both intelligent and empathetic.

Doing good, thanks.

And, yup, these days just doing normal stuff sometimes becomes a risk-assessment exercise. I'm unable to find suitable words to describe my anger and sadness on this topic. Goobers with guns is a bad idea. Period.

#5
Definitely a big "yes " on the ensuing period of international expansionism and imperialism. The myth in the US, of course, is that the country never, ever embarked on an imperialistic course. It was all just part of the sky god's plan in ushering in that tired fable of "American Exceptionalism."

C0RI0LANUS

Two things.
First: You have a strong stomach, digging up those images. Whew!
Second: You have the thanks of a grateful nation, having gone where only the strong of stomach dare venture. Kudos!

Texas! Yeehaw! Bulls, boolshee, and drugstore cowboys galore! Hook em horns? He'll, hook em some people on them wires. Them's just Messicans and such.

#24
That "just kidding" dodge Trump, his cultists and other enablers wheel out to excuse his crazy man rants is simply ridiculous. It's clear the crazy rants are vomited out of the pie hole of a person attempting to cope (poorly) with serious cognitive and mental health issues.

Hahahaha. New model window dressing same as old model window dressing.

Well, he's told you:
Vote for Orange Julius and you'll never have to vote again.
Ever.

If one of my grandkids ever gets a shameless chameleon with beady eyes, I'm going to suggest a name for the wee beastie (the lizard, not the grandkid): JayDee.

Paraphrasing some of Fran Lebowitz's observations about Trump, Vance comes across as a stupid person's idea about what a smart person is like.