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What are the chances that Republicans stop worrying about Covid and Communism the second week of November? They are running a full throated campaign against ghosts. That’s their best platform. Covid and Communists.

Forget all these generations, Boomers, X, Millennials, Z, etc. I have a much easier system, much more binary. You have seen an episode of Gilligan’s Island, or you haven’t. That leaves us with Generation G, and Generation Not-G.

I talked to Mitch McConnell this evening. Long line.

I’m thinking of visiting the Islamic Republic of Japan to get my turban and kimono shopping done at the same time.

I’m calling for a National Waffle Strike until after the Belgium game! Who’s with me?

Talking to the deli guy about Trump napping at the Knicks game. “Unlike Biden, Trump works hard all night. So I’m okay if he sleeps through unimportant stuff. He works on the big stuff at night. That’s just how he gets it done.”

The Trump administration and its cronies have made us safe from Colbert, 60 Minutes, and Leslie Stall. The hard work is done.

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"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

National Security cannot determine an "imminent threat" - only the gut feeling in the lower GI track of POTUS can do that. - Heaven help us.

The United States, where POTUS has a private definition of unconditional surrender that doesn’t include surrender and has only symbolic conditions. And those conditions are in his “bones”

We have entered a war where the DOD (or war?) has no victory conditions or public objectives. Is it regime change? Unconditional surrender? We have a war without a why.

So according to Sec. Hegseth this war (operation) is 47 years of retribution free of politically correct restraints. Stripping the political content out of his briefing we are left with Epic Fury is necessary because past administrations have failed to Epic Fury to deny Iran Nuclear clear arms.

Greatest deliberative body in the world, and they refuse to deliberate on a war they have the votes for. These were the exact sentiments for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution for Vietnam in 1964. This is your Republican Senate Today. Refusing to be a co-equal branch of government.

The gas station I use was up 43 cents a gallon overnight. I wonder what's going on? Joe Biden must have planned this!

A gentle reminder: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. Apparently since 1979.

GOP Goalposts of Old logic: Harris will send the US to war, Trump won’t. GOP Goalposts of New Logic: Harris would have never had the guts to send the US to war, Trump did.

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And the Iranian-Epstein war has begun.

Eat liver, you broke-ass bitches. - Love RFK jr.

The absurdity of the political moment - a President taking a victory lap for his Golden Age economy - which is worse than when he took office.

53 missing pages from DOJ on Epstein/Trump. Kind of sounds like the 18 minutes missing from the Nixon tapes.

Personally I am happy to pay for cabinet level perks like Kash Patel flying to Milan to investigate domestic crime and Epstein stuff even if it takes him to swigging beer in an Olympic locker room. Don’t we feel safer with this man out of country. Investigating, well, you know, crime.

Fun with AI

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Halftime show: I didn’t understand a word and it was fucking awesome!

Society has the right to require of every public agent an account of his administration. - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Isn't it time we started living like this? Thinking of Pam Bondi on Capitol Hill, Trump with Caitlin Collins, The failure to release Epstein Files...

How many pedophiles has Pam Bondi protected today?

Apparently recording or obseving the government is a capital offense. no trial necessary.

It looked like a murder to me.

He’s in the full throws of dementia folks. Time for 25

The independence of the Federal Reserve underpins both the U.S. financial system and global trust in it. Losing that independence would be costly.

Trump suing his own Justice Department for 230 million means we have entered the shameless public looting phase of American History.

Starting the weekend, feeling a lot poorer. Thanks for spiking the markets Mr President.

Just to be clear, Kimmel was fired for a milquetoast joke about MAGA, not a joke about Charlie Kirk.

Say what you want about Trump, but he always wanted and wasn’t going to quit until he ran a successful Casino - and now your living in it.

Trump certainly can bring a majority together. Uniting India, China, Russia, (and Iran with it) against the US is Nobel prize winning work.

Tremendous crossover move right here:

Take note America, if your team is performing badly, fire the statisticians. If you want more efficiency, fire the inspectors and auditors. The flag waves over the Land of the Make believe, and the Home of the Brave.

It’s time for congress to put Ghislaine under oath.

I guess I’m done with CBS.

We need a Special Council for Epstein. Who went to rape island?

Dear Generation X and Millennials, The Big Beautiful Bill and killing Medicaid will make it necessary for your parents to move in with you when Medicare runs out after 100 days in a nursing home. Hope you have the space or the spare cash.

So a million little steely barbs in the BBB. 1% Remittance tax on money sent abroad. Careful if you have a US/Canada business, or you are paid in US and work abroad. (But a least Trump stuck it to our immigrant population helping out Mom and Dad.)

And with today’s Supreme Court (non)decision on deportation, due process no longer matters, and thus the Constitution no longer matters.

Within a day of Trump practically screaming that he deserves but has never won a Nobel Peace, Trump starts a war.

Just a reminder: Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the sole power to declare war. (We've seen executive over-reach too many times.)

For over 200 years there was a consensus, a bipartisan consensus, that the US military should not be used as a political prop. Sadly this is no longer true.

If Dems were smart they would be saying the "Trump Debt Crisis" on repeat until Nov. 2026 all the way to Nov. 2028.

Noem is a steward of the laws she misundertands the most. Ay-ay-yeye!