If I was a betting man, I would wager he had a stroke.

He claims he's dealing with a "medical issue" and will be back to work in a few weeks, but here it is three months later and no further details have been given.

My Magic 8 Ball has confirmed that he had a stroke.

So the New York Times went on an old-fashioned journalistic-shoe-leather hunt for him, but couldn't find hide nor hair of him anywhere.

Should have used a Magic 8 Ball, what with the price of jet fuel and everything. :)

Incorrect history as relayed by Donald Trump.

Many don't know that it was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World's Fair.

~ Donald Trump

Totally false!

The facts: "La Tour Eiffel" was completed in 1889 to serve as a grand gateway entrance for the World's Fair and had a two decade permit and scheduled for demolition 20 years later in 1909. Gustave Eiffel saved the tower by self-funding and promoting its scientific worth. He installed a military wireless telegraph and weather equipment at the top and performed radio experiments and was subsequently granted a 70-year extension on the permit after proving the scientific value.

Fast forward to August 1944 during World War II where Adolph Hitler ordered Dietrich von Choltitz to blow up the tower upon exit from an over four-year occupation of Paris; however, the French Resistance had disabled the elevator cables wherein the Germans would have had to climb over a thousand stairs in order to rig it to blow... which didn't happen, and the rest is history.

Question everything Trump says because he lies like he breathes and has been proven repeatedly to be exponentially ignorant of history and to just make things up in order to suit his own self-serving agenda.

On the bright side, Trump can recognize animals on a MoCA test that is designed to screen those who exhibit cognitive decline for signs of dementia.

The state budget calls for a 2 percent "millionaire’s tax" on an estimated 2,400 households.'
https://wgme.com/news/local/gov-mills-signs-budget-featuring-millionaires-tax-free-community-college-more-economy-tax-dollars-highest-tax-brackets-wealthy-tax-dollars-cost-of-goods-groceries-education-maine

'Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who became a hero of the pro-Palestine movement after treating patients in Gaza, is heading to Congress after winning a Democratic primary in southern New Jersey on Tuesday.
...
Republicans and pro-Israel groups launched attacks on Hamawy, tying him to the so-called “Blind Sheikh” convicted in connection with the 1995 bombing of the World Trade Center and with a medical charity Hamawy volunteered with during the Bosnian genocide that was later accused of being a front for Al-Qaeda. '
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-hamawy-tammy-duckworth-heading-to-congress_n_6a1f30b6e4b08a03cfbd0fed?origin=home-latest-news-unit

An Elephant is showing a ripened pear to Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is pointing at the Elephant while exclaiming: "I said, 'I want you to grow a PAIR!'" ;)

2-0!

Yasssssssssssssssssss! :)

The first is that Trump pretty obviously does not care what happens in the upcoming midterm elections.

Oh, he claims not to care, but I see these midterm elections very differently; you simply do not pressure Red-state leaders and legislatures to crack and pack their voters into gerrymandered districts in the middle of a census cycle if you don't care what happens. If Trump truly believed he was as popular a POTUS in the fashion he constantly claims on his American Pravda psychotic social media rants -- or that his policies were actually popular -- he'd have no need to prattle incessantly about the primaries or to rig the maps in the middle of a census cycle in order to disenfranchise particular voters.

He's already sounding pretty defeatist on the issue, a sort of shoulder shrug and "Well, what can you do?" attitude that is alarming to those Republicans who are trying to get re-elected and trying to avoid losing control of one or both chambers of Congress in November.

Well, what you can do when you know you and your policies are unpopular and your Party has lost every special election since the day of your inauguration is exactly what Trump is doing: Rig the election while continuing to whine incessantly that your opponent is cheating (without a scintilla of any evidence whatsoever).

Whining when he's losing isn't new for Trump; his needy ego simply cannot handle being bested by anyone. Reminder that over a decade ago when he lost in Iowa to Ted Cruz, Trump whined like a toddler and accused Cruz of cheating the Wednesday following the (stupid) caucuses, via tweet:

Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. Bad!

The tweet was then deleted and replaced with another that didn't contain the word "illegally."

He followed that up with a tweet demanding:

Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.

He further claimed that he had actually won Iowa and said that he'd likely sue and that what Cruz did was "unthinkable" and he wanted a "do-over." Sound familiar?

That is Trump: All bullshit... all the time. Trump lies like he breathes; when his needy ego requires it, he pulls bullshit out of his backside as if it's gospel. You would think the cult minions would "clue in" to his modus operandi, but sadly that would require their admission that he played them for fools.

What actually happened in Iowa? Trump skipped the Fox GOP debate before the caucuses and failed to invest in a ground game. It's that simple.

The second is that Trump is also signalling that he just does not care what voters are going through economically right now.

Right now and also never: Trump has never cared about what voters are going through. Trump only cares about Trump, and his ego is so needy that it needs constant feeding... witness those backside-licking sessions that they refer to as "cabinet meetings." An 80-year-old man with a healthy self-esteem does not require other adults to abase themselves, and neither do they need to constantly denigrate former occupants of the White House (when they resemble that remark) for doing or not doing things that they also did not do when they were occupants of that same space (not rocket science). This group of co-dependent bowing and bleating sheeple absolutely does not "make America great again" (stolen slogan of Ronald Reagan), rather confirm America's so-called leaders are a group of weaklings and prostrating sycophants and suck-ups in service to a small man in constant need of praise and prizes, but I digress.

Great article, CW. :)

Damn, I was hoping nobody would notice that...

Not bloody likely!

I have reached out to a musical expert, and will post such a link if I get one, I promise.

Musical expert, you say. Heh.

Praise The Lord And Pass The Snakes
Hot Tuna

SSSSsssssssssss

I said down in Louisiana where a man is a man
And gotta prove his manhood any way that he can
Don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord and pass the snakes

Praise the Lord, pass the snakes
I said, don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

I said, the whole congregation got to show its guts
There ain't really lot of time, baby we can go first
Don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Praise the Lord, pass the snakes
I said, don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Get your mojo workin', get your gris-gris too
Then you jump right in, grab a big handful
Don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Praise the Lord, pass the snakes
I said, don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Now they're so very venomous, and they might bite
So you must believe with all your might
Don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Praise the Lord, pass the snakes
I said, don't be a coward, show some faith
Praise the Lord, pass the snakes

Pass the snakes
Pass the snakes
Pass the snakes

SSSSsssssssssss

You seem here to have discounted the fact that the term "ugly" is not solely used to define a person's appearance; the term used here is factual on multiple levels. Having said that, I agree with you that a better quality response was definitely in order, as an example:

Try to keep up, Stephen. James Talarico actually won the nomination several months ago; meanwhile, you're transparently bearing false witness in obvious violation of God's sacred commandments in order to deflect attention away from the Republicans' newly-elected candidate who is in violation of multiple of them. In conclusion, shut up you ugly fuck, and as response in advance to your highly likely hypocritical snowflake whiny weak-ass retort: "Fuck your feelings."

Maybe a little too wordy, but definitely factual. I can see why they likely shortened it. ;)

She sounds just like a Republican, and it should honestly surprise no one that the Tiki torch carrying "Jews will not replace us" Party of the KKK and white nationalism would boost a demonstrable moron like Galindo. While Democratic leaders rightly denounced and rejected her, you have the flip side of that wherein Trump has pardoned and/or commuted the sentences of hundreds of self-admitted far-right white supremacist neo-Nazis that the leader of the GOP not only condones and champions but also wishes to pay them reparations with your taxpayers' dollars.

But it is increasingly looking like that dynamic could undergo a rather large shift in the next few years, especially if Netanyahu remains in control of Israel.

@cw,

that's the big question, isn't it? does bibi maintain his iron grip on Israeli politics, or does the coalition of the sane finally retake control of the Knesset? it's a parliamentary system, so the coalitions aren't nearly as tidy as they are here in the US, but some of the dynamics are similar.

I think one of the biggest and most frequent mistakes in US politics is failure to understand the relationship between the Israeli public and their political representatives, both in Israel and here.

In November, the mayor's race will be Dem vs Dem with GOP shut out completely.

Heh. :)

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

~ Theodore Roosevelt, May 5, 1910 Nobel Lecture,
University of Oslo

I have another good question to add. If Paxton wins, how many Paxton voters will get behind him? Heh.

In all honesty, we here in Texas have known Cornyn was going to lose since he failed to garner 50% +1 vote in order to avoid a runoff. I may have mentioned a time or ten that a runoff election in Texas is where incumbents generally go to die, and there's a simple explanation for that (which, not surprisingly, generally goes unmentioned by the mainstream news media): Texas has open primaries.

* No one registers by Party in the State of Texas.
* On primary election day, everyone can make the choice to vote in either Party's primary.
* Everyone can vote in one Party’s primary per election cycle but not both Parties. When you vote during the primary, you are asked in which primary you choose to participate during that cycle and receive the ballot for that Party.

Contrary to the popular belief of many, it definitely was not just Republicans who chose Paxton, and hundreds of thousands of those who chose him in the primary will most definitely not be choosing him again in the general.

Making Republicans divert many more millions that could have gone to other races all over America is a win for Democrats nationwide whether or not they win the Senate seat in Texas. :)

It'll cost Republicans a lot

Yes, sir, San Juan Island, specifically a 13-year boundary war with Great Britain over the ownership of the San Juan Islands that was resolved by arbitration in 1872 wherein Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm I of the German Empire awarded the islands to the United States.

Although no troops were technically killed in battle during the long war, there were many who needlessly lost their lives on the island due to accidents, illnesses, and suicides.

That's what comes to mind at any rate... but didn't it wind up defining the boundary lines?

International arbitration in Geneva decided the boundary lines ending the stupidest war.

at least that is a somewhat-positive outcome (unless my memory is totally wrong... forget the name of the island that war was fought on but I should remember it...)

There was neither fighting nor battles during the Pig War, although it was definitely ordered. Captain George Pickett (future infamous Civil War traitor with epic failure at Gettysburg) was ordered to San Juan Island to lead the American's charge (not unintentional wording), whence Great Britain responded with five Royal Navy warships and thousands of troops; however, the commanding officers refused to engage over a dead pig, there was joint occupation of the area for the duration of the war, and the rest is history. :)

look, I am trying, ok?

-CW

(Ha!)

-CW

Springsteen's always kinda seen himself as the heir to the whole Woody/Arlo Guthrie protest baton...

-CW

And, yeah, Springsteen! Never was a huge fan of him back in the day (was into other things), but he has certainly grown on me over the years (as have others), that's for sure...

-CW

Thanks! I just have to get over my crushing depression at the state of politics these days...

It's not you guys... it's me... it's just such a drag, that's all...

:-)

But thanks for the encouraging words!

-CW

Good point. I missed that.

-CW

yeah, it's hard to keep up, sometimes. I did notice the Allred thing... the Al Green thing I didn't know who to give an award to, really, but I will miss him during SOTU speeches, that's for sure!

-CW

while it's undeniable that Democrats face a real challenge on Israel policy, senator Van Hollen didn't do anything impressive about it. his regurgitation of rhetoric and policy prescription from the left is not going to solve the problem any more than status quo apologists taking their AIPAC money and pretending everything is fine. there is a needle to thread, outside of which a policy will lose us more support than it gains. i read the Van Hollen op-ed, and I'm a fan of his work on immigration, but his current take on Israel/Palestine is not workable.

super to see you joining us here in the peanut gallery once again. i for one have been very psyched to see Springsteen reinvent himself as a protest songwriter, from the artistic perspective as much as the political.

'Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from Florida known for championing education causes and expanding opportunities for Black communities, announced Friday she will not seek reelection.
...
“I know all of you are saying, ‘What is the congresswoman going to do?’ Well, the congresswoman is going to not seek another term,” she said to a collective “aw” from the crowd gathered.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/florida-congress-frederica-wilson-reelection-miami-00942342

The first paragraph of his NYT opinion piece says it all:
'Democrats need to face a hard truth. While Republicans’ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has failed, so has ours. The Democratic Party has provided reflexive and unconditional support to Israeli governments, even as their actions have increasingly undermined American interests and values.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opinion/democrats-israel.html

:-)

-CW

Thanks for the kind words!

Damn, I was hoping nobody would notice that...

Look, I was in my usual Friday frenzy, and tried to find lyrics for the song, but for some reason with this particular song, Google seems to not understand, "No I want to see the LYRICS, dammit!" and so I had no link for the citation...

I have reached out to a musical expert, and will post such a link if I get one, I promise.

(For those who haven't heard it, Google does provide video/audio links, and it is pretty hilarious!!)

-CW

Was that the war on the island in Puget Sound? That's what comes to mind at any rate... but didn't it wind up defining the boundary lines? at least that is a somewhat-positive outcome (unless my memory is totally wrong... forget the name of the island that war was fought on but I should remember it...)

-CW

true, and we even won some really surprising naval victories, but even so -- when you compare before and after, not much changed really.

-CW

Ha!

Good point...

-CW

I'm putting my ballot in a drop box, which you can do up to Election Day.

My personal preference would be the current system in Alaska: in the primary, a jungle primary, but with the top FOUR advancing (this would preclude hanky-panky to influence who came in second). In the general, RCV. Which isn't that hard to tally, since there are only four candidates -- only 3 rounds of counting ranked-choice ballots would even be possible. Seems kinda like the best of both worlds...

-CW

Ha! serves 'em right...

-CW

We had our first primary under this outrageous system this month. It didn't work out like they planned. In November, the mayor's race will be Dem vs Dem with GOP shut out completely.

I think going up to ten choices to allow any voters that want to get precise with how they express their political will. Those that want to could still vote for just one candidate if that’s all they wanted to vote for.

The Pig War, circa 1859 was notable in that no humans were killed in the making of this war with Britain, but there is no amount of lipstick that can dress up that pig.

Thanks for reading that garbage so we don't have to. :)

Looking forward to it. :)

The GOP has spent about $90 million (not a typo) into the reelection of Cornyn so they have every right to be irate at Trump.

Sitting Senator John Cornyn was seen as a much safer bet for the GOP, but Paxton is about as rabid a MAGA supporter as can be imagined, which tilted the scales for Trump in the end.

Cornyn is definitely a much safer bet for the GOP, but Paxton isn't so much "MAGA" as he is a crook, total fraud and opportunist. Trump simply endorsed Paxton for the simple reason that he's led Cornyn in the polls for weeks and weeks, and Trump is an opportunist.

I said it before, and I'll say it again: A political runoff in Texas is where incumbents go to die.

Running Paxton will cost the GOP millions more to hold onto that seat, and that'll be millions taken from other races.

Here in Texas, I'll take the daylight savings time. :)

another donkey in the room: justified voter dissatisfaction with the Democratic brand. with few exceptions, Dems just don't seem to understand what it means to have priorities and fight for them.

What’s more, three of those Democrats — Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez and Vindman — are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.

The Republican bill they just supported, the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act, requires elementary and middle schools to get parental consent before changing a student’s pronouns or preferred names on any school forms, or for making gender-based accommodations for things like locker rooms or bathrooms.

It also bars teachers from talking about transgender people or issues in the classroom, which means books that include transgender characters or that address the existence of transgender people would be banned. It would also ban LGBTQ+ school groups.'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-democrats-pass-bill-forcing-teachers-to-out-trans-students_n_6a0f2d3ee4b084c012e3b6d4?origin=home-latest-news-unit

“I have a jar right here, this is the current drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Right after a data center was constructed, the Meta data center was constructed; the only difference between the clean water and this was that data center.”

The congresswoman visited Morgan County two weeks ago, according to a press release from her office.'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-epa-data-centers-water-pollution_n_6a0f8ecfe4b084c012e4d5d1?origin=home-latest-news-unit

'Keisha Lance Bottoms is the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor, as the party seeks to flip the state’s top seat for the first time in nearly three decades.

Bottoms, who defeated a crowded field to win the race outright Tuesday, can pivot to the general election — even as Republicans are headed toward a costly runoff of their own.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/bottoms-wins-georgia-governor-primary-00929086

I do wonder if this is the general decline of the big networks more than just late night comedy. I only watch "network" when watching pirate streams of sports these days as I ditched cable long ago. I couldn't tell you what the new sitcoms or dramas are, though I could with Netflix.

I hear Colbert, being a serious Lord of the Rings nerd, is working with Jackson and writing the script for new Lord of the Rings movie. That could be interesting if they don't string it out to 3 movies like they did with the Hobbit...

Public opinion is already meaningless to Trump; he has never cared about anything except money and fame and will invent his own reality, facts be damned. You'd think after all these years that his low-info moronic cult minions would finally figure this out, but they're too busy making excuses for him and claiming hysterically that he's playing "3-D chess" when the only thing he's playing is them. *laughs*

I know, right!? It's freaking hysterical, and the inflation that'll either raise the fed or at the very least leave it in place (not lower it) is all on Trump and his very own ignorant decisions to start a unilateral illegal global trade war that caused inflation to soar to new heights and add to that by Trump starting his war of choice in Iran that caused inflation in gasoline, jet fuel, and energy prices in general.

Personally, I can't wait to see Trump explode into a tantrum if that happens!

Lowering the fed at the present time in order to please Trump would be absolute nuts, a catalyst for an even worse economy, and Trump owes it all to his own greed.

At what point do the MAGAts finally clue in that Trump could not care less about them... and never did. It's hysterical to watch them make excuses for their grifting con artist.

They already did. Should they change it back the way it was?

Yes. :)

Withhold their pay until 2103. Much better idea.

Typo. ;)

'A Pennsylvania state Supreme Court justice said Monday he is leaving the Democratic Party over what he sees as a rise in antisemitism from mainstream party figures.

Justice David Wecht, who was elected to the court as a
Democrat in 2015, said in a statement he is switching his party affiliation to independent due to an “acquiescence to Jew-hatred” becoming “disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”'
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/pennsylvania-supreme-court-antisemitism-democratic-party-00914943

'Denise Powell won the Democratic primary in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday in a contest focused on the state’s “blue dot” status in presidential elections.

The Omaha-area district, where Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon is retiring, is one of Democrats’ biggest targets this midterm season. It’s also a national focus every four years in presidential contests because Nebraska is one of just two states that splits its electoral votes. '
https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-election-house-powell-cavanaugh-7df6ec05acc59dc6a1a834b35b3a1e67

I'm still mystified why CW has, up until yesterday, completely omitted any mention of the Senator from Pennsylvania. Despite his faithful allegiance to the GOP, as was made clear early in the current Congress when he approved almost every one of Trump's Cabinet nominees (look it up if you don't remember), it is clear that CW has a blind spot when it comes Sen. Fetterman.

In addition to the vote cited by CW in awarding him MDDOW, Sen. Fetterman was the lone Democrat in another important vote this week:
'The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh’s nomination to a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors on Tuesday, teeing up a final vote to make the ally of President Donald Trump the central bank’s next chair.

The 51-45 vote was largely along party lines, with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania the only Democrat to vote in favor of Warsh ....'
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/senate-warsh-fed-board-chair-trump-00915835

This week, for example, Nos 1, 2, 4, and 6 meet this definition. The others are befuddling ('Road Trip!'?), unless they're supposed to make someone 'click here to learn more'.

as long as Donald is naming military operations after Peter Gabriel songs, I think "no self-control" would be a better choice.

(borrowed from the Guardian comments section)

Do you have a strong preference among the Dem candidates? I have to mail my downloaded and printed ballot very soon to ensure it arrives on time. I've been surprised by left-leaning people supporting Steyer on account of his environmental position.

Breaking News! *laughs*

Poor MAGAts: The pathologically lying fat balding tiny-handed con artist with the orange makeup, concealer, lifts, and a girdle is their alpha male!

Trump has painted himself into a corner in several ways during this entire fiasco, if that doesn't strain the metaphor too badly (how can you paint yourself into more than one corner?).

Compounding lies... sort of like compounding interest (where earnings also generate additional earnings) except lies beget lies and inevitably snowballs into a bullshit mountain.

And unlike other crises which cause widespread economic pain, this one has a clear and easy-to-understand cause: Trump's decision to go to war with Iran, and Trump's refusal to find any sort of quick end to it all. This one's all on Trump, period.

Trump's illegal unilateral decision to go to war with Iran because the United States Constitution explicitly grants Congress, not the President, the power to declare war. Compounding lies that we're not at war is additional snowballing bullshit which is also compounded with Trump's unilateral global trade war wherein the Supreme Court ruled his IEEPA tariffs unconstitutional and illegal, which is further compounded by Trump's unilateral 10% global tariffs imposed thereafter.

Exactly!

Iran's Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News

~ The White House, June 25, 2025

https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/

Operation Midnight Hammer was quickly followed by Trump and his White House team denouncing as "fake news" any reports that the June strikes on Iran only set back Iran's nuclear program "by a few months."

Fast forward a few months, and Trump is now repeatedly bragging about knocking out Iran's nuclear program while simultaneously threatening to knock out Iran if it doesn't drop its nuclear program: Operation Midnight Gaslight... OMG!

Trump reportedly had added in a demand that Iran completely give up all nuclear materials (the 970 pounds of highly-enriched gaseous uranium that Trump idiotically keeps calling "nuclear dust"), forever forswear all ambitions for a nuclear bomb and forever end all uranium enrichment.

Forever? *laughs* Forever!? *can't stop laughing*

Such an agreement between Iran and the United States would be about as beneficial as the 1994 Budapest Memorandum between Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom wherein Ukraine gave up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for "assurances" that proved not to be worth the paper they were written on.

So I ask you: What kind of absolute moron would you have to be to believe the utter asinine assertion that Operation Midnight Gaslight would mean anything?

Does Frank Liberati need to resort to running on right-wingnut culture wars instead of substantive political issues because he resembles a Conehead? You decide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Liberati#/media/File:Frankportr.webp

My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says. The president could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays, and my party would suddenly hate them. Such pointless pile-ons and attacks are unproductive.

~ John Fetterman

This is just prattling ridiculous utter nonsensical false equivalency that John Fetterman has used on multiple occasions and on regular repeat regarding multiple issues that Fetterman himself supports and that the Democratic Party does not, most notably Fetterman's support for Trump's decision to demolish the East Wing and for a bill wherein taxpayers' fund the building of the Trump Whorehouse Ballroom.

Obviously, Democrats who oppose the unilateral decision of Trump (or anyone, for that matter) demolishing the East Wing and building a ballroom at taxpayers' expense aren't opposed to ice cream or Sundays whether lazy or productive.

Fetterman states he would make a "terrible Republican" (his words), but his repetitive false equivalency and prattling senselessly on repeat about ice cream and a fake disease is indicative that he'd fit right in with the Castrated Caucus of Republican bleating sheeple.

You'd think the Trump cult minions would finally catch on at some point, but then they'd have to admit they got played.

I mean, really! The bullshitter who keeps incessantly bragging about being a genius *laughs* for "acing" (his term) a hysterically simple MoCA test for dementia that contains drawings of animals wherein you are asked to identify a certain one actually put out a picture of himself on social media in biblical robes with divine light coming from his hands and when identified as being blasphemous claimed he thought he was being depicted as a doctor because he heals people and anyone saying otherwise is just "fake news"!

So the press focuses on the fact that Trump claims he thought it was a "doctor" while seemingly lost in all of this is that Trump actually claimed that he heals people.

You would think the MAGA morons could connect the dots here, but they are trained monkeys who just knee-jerk resort to the deflection of claiming anyone who doesn't agree with everything Trump says or does has a disease that doesn't exist *laughs* because that's so much easier for them than questioning their Orange Worship who genuinely has claimed that he heals people.

So, to recap: Trump lies like he breathes. Clue in MAGAts; you got played.

Really? Is Saudi Arabia hurting? Seems odd that they would dictate that the US wasn’t allowed to use military forces stationed there to participate in opening the strait if they were being hurt by it being closed. It would be interesting to know how the “war” has economically affected each of the Middle East countries.

So she was a pastor of a megachurch at the age of 14? And what megachurches hire pastors and then pay them (and for them) to be in conversion therapy for 15 of their 20 years on staff??? That doesn’t sound like most megachurches that I am familiar with!

this got me wondering, when he decided he wanted the DoD to be called the department of war, maybe he meant the card game, since that appears to mirror his strategy - whatever's at the top of the deck, just throw it out there and see what happens.

JL

Since the enslavement of the first African, North American colonists justified slavery with passages from the Bible. Now that the Supreme Court has sanctioned discrimination against sexual minorities due to "sincerely-held beliefs", the clock is ticking on protections against race-based, religious-base, and even gender-based discrimination.

Greene, a firefighter and Marine veteran, defeated Republican Jason Tunney, a former prosecutor, in the race for Michigan’s 35th Senate District, which includes Saginaw and Bay City and is surrounded by more conservative rural areas. Democrats had held a one-seat majority in the chamber, putting control at stake.'

But to get real, Jim Crow won't really return until the Supremes invalidate the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that outlaws discrimination by private businesses that serve the public.

Barry Goldwater railed against the law, because it tells private businessmen what they can and cannot do when running their businesses. "No Black people allowed in this restaurant" ... "on this bus" ... "in this store" ... what's wrong with that?

Waiting. Waiting. How much longer til the Supreme Court takes this next step?