1. Elon Musk lies a lot.
2. Elon Musk may or may not have his ketamine intake under control.
3. Adjust your evaluative instrumentation accordingly.

Always!

CORIOLANUS, thanks for posting that clip - it gave some of what he said better context,

Clarity? You want clarity? Clarity is Trump University, Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Magazine, Trump Steaks. Trump Wine, and Trump Puke-in-a-Box Box. Clarity, such a beautiful word. And big, too: four, maybe five or six whatyamacallem sillybles. So they say. But real clarity is finding my box of strawberries. Tariff em!
~ Old Senescent

I had a half-brother from an older generation who traveled from the US to Canada so he could enlist in an army that was actually fighting fascism while the US was playing isolationism nonsense. He and other Americans enlisted in that army, saw mountains of commando action, most definitely suffered from PTSD (getting buried for a few days under a bombed building could do that), and who would undoubtedly be royally and justifiably both hugely angry and wildly disappointed at Old Senescent's behavior toward longtime allies.

What's next, gambling at Rick's Cafe Americain?

Trump definitely represents the Ugly American side of America. Plenty more just like him. Usually, they've been kept in the background, as warning and comedic relief. It's a deeply ugly look and we are going to be stuck with it for years to come, thanks to this imbecilic oaf and his deeply stupid investors and moronic hat wearing MAGAt trash "base."

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Oh, and years and years of heroin to round it all out. I mean, is this a GREAT country or what?!?

Fat Donnie Stab-in-the-Back, still busily polishing Mad Vlad's --------.

I guess the cruelty is the point.

Good to see a positive development once in a while.

Polygraph the bejayzus out of the based-wielding thugs one encounters along the border - want to hiked on US la d where you've hiked r for decades? Nope, badged thug shows up, glaring. Polygraph those punks. Any of them pulling my illegal sheet on the border like robbery, aiding and abetting cartels?

Come primaries time Trump will have a good deal more on what's left of his mind than Thomas Massie.

How many golf days has Old Senescent put in since slithering back into the WH?

Between golf and "executive time," i.e. long naps, what with pancake makeup applications, hair gluing, and girdle cinching, there's not a lot of time for actually doing, like, a job.

So she's migrated from St. Amy to Whore of Babylon?
MAGAts are so fickle,
My question: If Old Senescent'thinks for the MAGAts, who thinks for Old Senescent?

Another day, another hole drilled in Ild Senescent's girdle cinch, must be time for waddle golf.
No pain, no gain me arse.

"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies."

#28
Doff headgear, bow noggins, and ruminate on Darwin Award Winner Herman Cain.

Trump appeals to the ----- side of our natures.
He provides the permission structure for his fanboys to behave the way they do.
Who wants to live with that?

Effing around with Canada and Mexico, and poor Old Senescent is too far gone to realize he just keeps wetting himself.

Don't know what, if anything, Newsom intends running for in 2026. He's term limited from another go at the governorship that election. Ultimately, he's seems to have quite the presidential hankering.

Almost forgot: from next Tuesday (renamed Thursday) anyone asking for books by Gay Talese is required to ask for works by "Gaetano Talese." Otherwise, fuhgedaboudit.

No, let him have the original in the Oval Office, provided it's turned into an "oxygen-free, argon-filled case that can retract into the wall at night for security." And only if Trump stays with the document, inside that case.

Thanks of a grateful nation.

A brain composed of rancid compost affixed to flypaper.

The long promised investigation into the Oct. 7 attacks, the business of figuring out what happened, who did their jobs and who effed up, how's that coming along?