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Just one more week for last minute negative ad lies that are meant to dissuade people from voting at all. Imagine the amount of damage that can still be inflicted by Musk's money. And by our money-run media ecology.

I always say The cornered rat does things like that. In the coming days--then following weeks--we may just learn what those "things" are.

Name That Scandal! Destruction of Eisnhowe's globe by hegseth dolts Ironic Ikeonic Destruction All the King's Horses Asses Move Assed and Break Things Apt Mapped Op The Axis of Oafish Adnoid Hynkel, the Great Dorktator Hegseff

When you cut sanctions, why? Then their diesel you buy--- That's---- appeasement--!

Various journalists and pundits have characterized TRump in recent days as "entirely at sea". At sea? I'd peg him at D-. And just about to slip to F. And to "See me."

Putin Escrow [To the melody of "Goody Goody"] All the U.S. global policy has been sold-- --Put in escrow! Every move is now by Putin’s firm hand controlled--- --Putin Escrow! It’s like puttanesca too--! A salacious, saucy brew--! ‘Cause “putta” means whore and garbage-- Quid pro quos ensue!

We the People must stop THIS the madness.

I intend to spend the $90 rebate/bride from the Federal Government on a 2026 Democratic Senate capaign that could be decisive. Any recommendations on which campaign is close enough to win?

Time to vent my spleen on the social media kibitzitorium. I've got some spleenin' to do.

Katie Zacharias is eminently Scarmucciable.

Let's see how Zacharia does on the Scarmucciometer. She may not even last a single Scarmucci.

We're adults. We can ask these questions. AT what point is Trump's purchase of diesel form Russia--which can use those funds to decimate Ukraine and to support Iran against the U.S.--treason? And what about relaxing sanctions against oil sales by Iran?

How do we tell children and grandchildren in the future that the 2026 election turned on a mystifying, ludicrously irrelevant issues such as trans people in sports? And not on democracy vs. dictatorship?

The article in The New Yorker about ideological fragmentation among Conservatives. Set to a Gershwin tune: Fascists in a schism! The fractures start to grow! Each folk has an ism--- The right is RIVEN! Fascists in a schism! The ducks were in a row! Now it's exorcism--! Diremption's driven!

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 affirms Kantian universalism in human rights and dignity It "Kantilevers" a better planet. You got the right one baby. Uh-huh!

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" updated: "You wouldn't be hiding the Epstein Files from public knowledge against the will of Congress and the courts if you weren't immoral. But you ARE Blanche, you ARE!"

I'd love to hear the chime master play "This Land Is Your Land" on the Cornell carillon. My father was chime master at Cornell when he was an undergraduate.

How many mature adults does it take to replace a dim bulb? If Senator John Kennedy tries to run for President, and fails miserably, we may find out.

Ready for more moving of the gall posts? It is a new month. And anew session for the SCOTUS. But on the positive side, it's also eh week for Nobel Prizes.

"Self-regulation" is an oxymoron. Full stop.

A.I. could be the single technological innovation that jars people into the consciousness of Technological Citizenship, teh Technosphere, the Technopolity. We'll. See.

A question about our place in the cosmos: Where in the whirled are we?

Does ANYONE feel better that Melania Trump declared she loved living under a Communist system during the visit by China premiere Xi? But. The Republicans will still childishly, demagogically brandish the "communist" label against Democrats during the 2026 midterms. Horrified? Be.

That monster represents mortgage payments.

As horrifying and even globally criminal as Trump's rambling, irrelevant, self-referential screed AT the members of the United Nations on Tuesday was, just think of al of those MAGAts who are shrieking and bellowing "U! S A!!!! He STUCK IT to those ragheads, effete global elites and commies!!!

If the irk de T-Rump is really an arch, does it contain bone spurs?

Trump's banning of MS Now, Politico, CNN from the WH press corps is nothing short of Orwell that ends will. What a petulant little tyrannical child Will this same diseased temperament lead him to start WWIII? IN a nation built on consent of the governed, we all deserve to know. Now.

Banning MS Now, Politico and CNN from the WH press corps is Orwell that ends will. Instance #9,547.

Trump's stance of an entirely untrammeled development of A.I. amid known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and even some unknown knowns is childishly irresponsible. Pause before you cause. Know before you D'OH!!! Wonder before you blunder.

Those companies that scam you with charges are banking upon your having a basta costah ledger and a rut toss cut loss ledger. And on your giving up. Fight all unwarranted charges. And join class action lawsuits when you can.

President Obama has called on Democrats to make A.I. and its impacts on job displacement and imperiling cybersystems the single central issue for 2028. And possibly for 2016. Technological Citizenship and the social contract for the technoscientific society. Pact for the journey.;

Plus, the fact that your lobotomy was bought at a group rate.

Lest we not forget that after the attempt to use explosives to bring down the support pylons of the Twin Towers in February 1993, Rudy Giuliani later used an executive order to consolidate ALL emergency response personnel, equipment for NYC in the Twin Towers. Vs. dispersed location. Foolhardy.

Trump's lies about being on site at 9/11 and being "rescued" by NYFD personnel is horrifyingly grotesque and vulgar. And entirely believed. By those who WANT to believe it. Who number as many as 70 million people. Our civilization is brutally diseased.

If you are horrified by Trump's lies that he was on site during 9/11, you should also be even MORE horrified that there are 70 million Trump followers who actually, ferociously BELIEVE that lie. Because they WANT to believe it.

Anyone who is so ferociously--and warrantedly--insecure that he builds gilded monuments to himself should be given a tube of K-Y jelly.

On Labor Day, we should all at least MULL the prospect of A.I. inflicting a cataclysmic jobspocalypse onto our political economy. One element to mull? What percentage of jobs displaced would constitute cataclysmic and a jobspocalypse?

Every day, members of the Trump administration continue to move the gall posts. Again. We the People must stop this the madness.

This bears repeating. So here it is. Again: We the People must stop this the madness. Now.

WE may be past the point of an incremental march to dictatorship--the ratchet access of wretched excess and "These things must be done . . . dellllllll-- icately!"--to a more sudden, synoptic imposition of despotism. Something inflicting, something inflecting.

"Lake America"? Kids say the darndest things.

If I were to compose a musical about the present Zeitgeist, it would be titled "I've Got Apocalypse of Monocles".

Will Trump say something disparaging about Dolly Parton's philanthropy for books, marching band uniforms for black high schools in the South or the Moderna Covid vaccine? He opposes all science. It leads to envrio science, governance, costs to his constituent polluting industries.

Knowing your party is staggeringly behind is ALSO not an excuse to cancel elections.

I have yet to read a single article concerning Trump's unilateral,--then reciprocated--tariffs on Canada that contain the terms "mutually beneficial" or pareto optimal". Trump failed to exercise D'OH!! diligence regarding outputs, outcomes.

In the coarsening of human events, We the People must remove from office those who are perpetrating the coarsening. Now.

Thought experiment: Have you ever wondered what would happen to a person speaking to a general audience--not MAGAt cultists--who stated that being "certain that Trump has America's best interests in mind."?

Another name for the Natalie Harp affair: Gumbit

A modest proposal: Every time Trump or w-one of his mendacious officials lies, I'd like to see people post a GIF of that line in the 1970s TV ad for Burger King with the perky brunette presenting the burger to the customer and chirping, "Here's your Whopper!" The actress? Debra Winger.