If the Great Unwashed can be so easily hornswoggled into trusting a convicted felon and deadbeat conman to lead them, I hold no illusion that they will refrain from taking that next, unthinkable step when commanded to do so. That cartoon criminal is pathologically lying and relentlessly flaunting the law right in front of them, yet the inexplicable response from the Great Unwashed appears to be "so what." So my question now is...can the center hold?

Womp womp, womp, waa!
Don't mind me...that's just the popcorn talkin'. Let the obsequious deflections commense!

Opinion? Go cry "FIRE" in a crowded theatre, then try using that "opinion" malarkey on the cops hooking you up.

It appears the only accessory now abscent from his usual baggy Blue Suit/Red Tie couture, is epaulettes.

You can parse and quibble all you want--HATE screech is not, in any comparable way, FREE speech.

All part of the Greenbay Sweep, I suppose. What is it with you back-shootin' polecats and sock puppets?

Magic 8-Ball sez: Booker/AOC '28. That should really rile up the 4/8Chan paint-huffing sock puppets. Of course I'm trolling, yet the more I contemplate the pairing, the more intriguing the notion becomes.

What exactly is the end game here? Make Indentured Servitude Acceptable Again? Meanwhile, at my local supermarket this afternoon, I observed a somewhat unnerving smidge of panic buying. I guarantee you, more retirees are going to start running out of SS check way before they run out of month.

I found rather unsettling to learn half our B-2 bombers are currently sitting on the tarmac in Diego Garcia locked & loaded. The next thick-brick maga moron that mewls to you about waste/fraud/abuse/etc., ask them how many gallons of Jet-A it took to get those irreplaceable weapon systems there, and how many gallons it will take to fly them back. My hope is the JCoS will refuse to follow any of his insane orders, prompting congress to then finally 25th Amendment his fat, soiled-diapered behind.

Wonderful! And should TrumpCo actually grow/rent/buy himself a spine and stand up to his Russian master(s), no doubt we'll finally see the Damoclesian kompromat Vlad's been holding over Trump's artfully-quaffed head all thes years. Perhaps I should dig out the popcorn I squirreled away for just this occasion.

As I read the headline, the image of a snake devouring it's own tail instantly came to mind.

Gracie is a troll, constantly looking for a bridge to lurk under. When you fling poo, you knockoff Baba Yaga, you always seem to wind up with more than a little on yourself, don'cha?

"Improper ideology." Here's where I invite the usual suspects around here to seriously chew on that brutally Orwellian gut-punch, then go #%?! choke on it. Forewarned: You rewrite history at your own peril, you thick-brick mountebanks.

I can tell the a**hat above (#17) has never stood a post, and has no regard or respect for those who do.

I do understand the somewhatintransigent responses my take on the man's plight engendered, but also couldn't help but notice how glossed over my point became. Granted...TrumpCo--and the brownshirt knuclke-draggers who blindly carry his fetid water--are slime incarnate, and will undoubtedly crash and burn spectacularly without any assistance from the left. Yet...how hollow will that victory be if we become our enemy in order to defeat him?

Hmm...I see someone found my earnest admonition somewhat humorous. What I saw in the man's plight was a opportunity to offer him hope, not condemnation. I saw a crack in the MAGA facade that just might allow him to see through TrumpCo's smoke & mirrors, providing him a sincerely offered path away from MAGA's unacceptable worldview. Nyuk nyuk..silly me.

Meanwhile, sitting 5' behind my chair, is a Monster in a Box that has been pleading for a rewrite for a long, long time. I've been avoiding it mostly--like the political situation we all find ourselves in currently--I simply don't know how the story ends. Perhaps it will come to me this pass through. What's your story, and how does it end?

I'm not going to pile on the fellow, nor kick him when he's obviously down, and would remind all real progressives that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Offer them a hand up, not one across their face.

My concern now is what fresh, unacceptable outrage will TrumpCo pull to take America's attention off this? I mean, it will have to be a real humdinger, eh? Say...re-taking the Panama Canal by force? Boots on the ground in Greenland? Buckle up...

re:#26...Curses! Beaten to joke once again.

My slightly inappropriate snark back when she and Jr were bumping uglies is that the woman had a mouth like a sea bass. I mean, once you see it...

Hmm...Let me guess..."I don't know anything about it." Seeing how he habitually uses that rhetorical strategy to duck sticky questions that might make him look either stupid and/or complicit, without first checking out the sound bite, was I close? Hot damn...verbatim!

It's OK...let them burn, seeing how TrumpCo has officially deemed trees, and their re-planting another liberal DEI plot to prevent the rich from owning EVERYTHING! No? Do a lttle digging, and you will find a somewhat anti-aboreal sentiment being enacted currently.

Now, now, Bozo...just because the man's point eludes you, doesn't mean you can start dropping F-bombs. I'm sorely tempted now to reach into my bottomless bag of zingers, but frankly...you're just not worth the snickering I might glean from it.

#9...Retort Clue...I doft me cap, Doc.

Geez, Itchy...I've never seen someone grind both nostrils at the same time. That takes some talent.