Well, the world got a little bit brighter Tuesday morning with the announcement of the passing of that Dick Cheney. He was 84, meaning he likely lived 83 years too long. Cheney once set the standard for American evil, corruption, and greed. Donny has long-since shattered every low Cheney ever hit, of course. Donny makes Cheney look like a choir boy. After all, Cheney was bad, but he wasn’t the anti-Christ. (Though millions in Iraq and Afghanistan might disagree.)

See, Cheney was one of the main architects of George’s Wars. Remember when Bush 43 invaded the wrong country looking for Osama Bin Laden and when Bin Laden wasn’t there, he invaded a second wrong country? Yeah, that Dick was leading the charge. Coincidentally, and purely by accident, I’m sure, that Dick’s company made lots and lots (and lots) of money, so, for them, it was all worth it. After all, HE didn’t know any of the people who died.

Cheney once shot a friend in the face with bird-shot – and made the friend publicly apologize! “Sorry, Dick. I didn’t mean to be where you were shooting your gun.” Way to follow the rules of gun safety there, Dick. The best summary of Dick Cheney is that people took to calling him ‘Darth Vader’ – and he liked that.

To be fair, Cheney did NOT like 47, not one little bit. In a weird way, he thought of himself as a patriot – despite the damage he did to the nation – and he did not like nor endorse Donny’s destruction. Dick and his daughter, Liz, both, decried Donny’s J6 insurrection and Dick publicly endorsed Kamala in the 2024 “election.” I don’t know. When your standards aren’t violated until you get to Donny-level corruption and incompetence, I suspect late-in-life conscience development is too little, too late. Now, if we can just get Donny to follow Dick’s lead…

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This really sucks. Hundreds of previously unpublished documents have been uncovered that prove that Exxon funded right-wing stink-tanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. We – humanity, that is – missed our mark of staying under a 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures. Did you know that? We’re… I want to write ‘slowly but surely,’ but the sad reality is, we’re surely destroying our own living environment very, very fast. All in the name of profit and in the service of stupidity.

In the US, the oil companies did this exact same thing with climate change going back some seventy-five years. They got out in front of climate scientists who warned of the danger of ongoing fossil fuel use and spread their message that climate change is a hoax far and wide. They hired “people” to create fraudulent and misleading charts, graphs, supporting data, and any other information they could create to combat the challenge to their profits.

Obviously, the denials haven’t changed anything. Our demonic misleader can remove all of the information he wants from government websites. He can deny it’s happening until he’s blue in his orange face – OMG, he would be BROWN! Would the ICEholes have to deport him? Climate change isn’t going away.

That cartoon says a lot. See the kids? Do you want to sacrifice children to a future that looks like that? No, neither do a lot of other people – so they’re not having kids. I do not claim that’s the only reason, but it IS a factor often cited by people who chose not to have kids…

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Was there ever a more apt metaphor for the state of our once-great nation than to have The First Felon throwing a “Great Gatsby” themed party at Mar-a-Lardo on the very night he was denying food aid to millions by withholding Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) payments? Well, I suppose it could have been a Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette party. That would have been appropriate, too.

I think the photos of the event should be saved. I think we’ll need to identify the kinds of people who attend parties like that while SNAP benefits are being cut off and Americans are going hungry. You know, later, when the new Reign of Terror begins. Then again, maybe the hungry masses will be satisfied with the information that there’s plenty of money for remodeling the White House. Isn’t that worth missing a meal or two? I mean, sure, you’re starving but Donny gets to crap in a solid gold toilet, so, there’s that…

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Donny has come out and publicly said he feels “very badly” for the Andrew formerly known as a prince. Of course he does. He has said he feels badly for Ghislaine Maxwell, too. He probably felt badly for his one-time very good friend Jeffrey Epstein, too. He hasn’t mentioned feeling badly for the victims, I’ve noticed. Probably just an oversight…

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Well, THAT was fun. It was pretty much a blue sweep. Mamdani becomes mayor of New York. Democrat Mikie Sherrill becomes governor of New Jersey. Democrat Abigail Spanberger becomes governor of Virginia. Democrats maintained a 5-2 advantage on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court by keeping three liberal justices. Proposition 50 passed in California.

Here’s the part that bothers me. Democrats are going to think they’ve won something. Democrats are likely to think people support them. Democrats are probably going to decide they’ve fixed their likability problems and people are coming home to the fold. The Democrats will be wrong. The Democrats didn’t “win” anything. The Republicans – most especially ONE “Republican” – lost. That’s different.

People voted Democrat because in this once-great nation, voters get up to TWO choices: malignant, horrifying nightmare, or wholly incompetent confusion. People voted against the nightmare. People voted against the Republicans. Specifically, people voted against 47. Of course, he’s having none of it. Donny is NEVER at fault, most especially when he is. So his big comment? “‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.”

Trump wasn’t on the ballot? I think you were, Donny. I think you were…