Aw, crap. Do you know what today is? It’s the first Monday in October. That means the Roberts Supremely Corrupt, Kangaroo Court re-convenes and starts issuing more of those “transformative rulings” they’ve been making. When it comes to these guys, “transformative” is a euphemism for “bullshit…”

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“His city is a war zone and he’s lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy people’s lives.” (I added the emphasis.) That’s a claim by dog-killer Kristi Noem, and it’s a dumb one. Just think about it for one second. Noem is claiming that the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, Brandon Johnson, WANTS criminals in his city to destroy people’s lives. IF that makes sense to you, you probably require constant supervision.

Mayors don’t want crime in their cities. There are probably some who oppose crime unless they, themselves, are the beneficiaries of the crime, but most mayors are not beneficiaries of street crime. Noem insisted on Fox Not-News that residents supported the government intervention. I’d guess that if you beat the bushes hard enough, you might find a handful that do. But millions, billions, and kajillions do not. (Hey, this ‘making-up-numbers-as-you-go-along’ thing, like the cons do, is kinda fun!) Kajillions. Who knew?

Meanwhile, US District Judge Karin Immergut, (a Trump appointee, no less) has temporarily blocked deployment of any national guard troops to Oregon. The judge seems to be using the logic that saying a city is a war zone does not, in fact, render the city a war zone. It turns out, a couple of hippies standing around with protest signs in front of ICEhole headquarters doesn’t constitute a war zone…

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Speaking of protests, I saw a group of Jews, led by a couple of Rabbis, marching in protest against the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza. It’s going to be quite the laugh when the morons in the White House try to label this group anti-Semitic…

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Hey, I learned a new word today. Despite all of the chaos going on around us, now is probably a good time to remember that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for something like fifteen years. The evidence is still sketchy but from what I can see, Donny didn’t just participate with Jeffrey as a “beneficiary” of the child sex trafficking, he was part of the scheme.

Since the whole goal was to have sex with girls under the age of eighteen, everybody has been calling 47 a pedophile. It’s the word we know. It turns out, Donny is more likely an Epheophile. Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. That sounds more like his preferred target group, mid-to-late adolescents…

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Last week, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Penn.) cornered MAGA Mike the Johnson in a hallway and this exchange took place:
Dean: “The President is unhinged.”
Johnson: “A lot of folks on your side are, too. I don’t control him.”
Dean: “Oh, my God, please. That performance in front of the generals…”
Johnson: “I didn’t see it.”

“A lot of folks on your side are, too,” is Whataboutism that accidentally tells the truth. MAGA Mike knows the President’s (or in this case, The First Felon’s) mind isn’t working right. He doesn’t care. Then he tries to dismiss the insanity during the speech to the assembled generals with a blithe, “I didn’t see it?” Well you should have, Mike. You should be paying very close attention to what your madman is doing.

You might have heard when he mentioned to a reporter, later, that he’ll be largely protected by his corrupt court’s immunity ruling – but you won’t, Mike. Clearly, you’re protecting him, but are you protecting yourself, Mike? He thinks about himself and his future. You might want to give a little thought to your own, Mike. History WILL remember your name…

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Ah, yes, about the shutdown. Democrats are fighting for the return of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that help people pay skyrocketing premiums for health insurance. The cons are just, “No.” Well, that’s not right. They DO have their lie, “Dems want to give health care to illegals.” But they KNOW that’s a lie. They know the Dems aren’t trying to give health insurance to illegals.

Besides, undocumented people CAN get health care and they do – at hospital emergency rooms where it’s illegal to turn anybody away, and for vastly more expensive care. Sure, it’s stupid but the cons are in charge so “stupid” is the order of the day.

So, here’s the catch about this shutdown. Let’s pretend the cons suddenly, for some reason, decide to get reasonable and do the right thing and return the subsidies. Now the left and the right have a deal in place and the legislation passes. How does one stop the grifter in the White House from just stealing the money, instead?

Despite the actual words written in the actual US Constitution, the way-high court has decided the Constitution is quaint, but not intended to constrain the worst impulses of his troubled mind. They’ve decided that if 47 wants to withhold money Congress has approved, he should be able to do that. So even if Dems and cons come together on an agreement, how do they get 47 to honor the thing?

That’s always the challenge when one is dealing with con-men and grifters, isn’t it? When a person won’t honor an agreement, it’s like there’s no agreement at all…

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“Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, healthcare?”
“Fox should either get on board or get off board…”
“They refuse to put up polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity…”

Those are actual quotes posted on social media in one post, by one guy. I’ll just let you guess which one. “Totally unabated or challenged?” It sounds like he’s trying to use big words he doesn’t fully understand. “…get on board or get off board?” Yeah, that’s a thing people say, except that it isn’t. “65%” in Popularity? In what world? Which poll? I suspect it’s the “In Donny’s mind” poll. The only polls I see say his popularity hovers just above the MAGA line, 30-35%. Even at that, I’d say there are several MAGA, out there, who won’t confess doubt to pollsters, but will among themselves.

Speaking of which, I’ve learned something about life in Nazi Germany. The people DID know Hitler was a babbling buffoon and they, likely, DID say so to each other, in private. I base that on conversations I have with like-minded people about MAGA and Donny. It’s nice to get historical insights. I just wish it hadn’t come at the expense of the nation I loved…

Hey, remember when Donny swore up one side and down the other he knew nothing of Project 2025 and had absolutely, positively nothing to do with it, whatsoever? Yeah, he lied about that, too. Oh, I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

MAGA will tell you I’m misrepresenting what he meant or said, or in this case, posted. So let’s see, shall we? July 5, 2024, during the “election,” after details about Project 2025 started to be a thorn in his campaign trail side, our Fearful Misleader lied that he had, “no idea who is behind Project 2025.” He added, “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” and that “anything they do, I wish them luck, but have nothing to do with them.”

So, that’s why MAGA believes what they believe. But the truth is, Project 2025 was put together by the evil Heritage Foundation, a conservative stink tank. It was primarily overseen by a guy named Russell Vought, a stink of a conservative. It has all kinds of mean and nasty things rich people want to do to everyone else. In fact, it came across as so mean and nasty, many people simply dismissed the threat. “What, do you think they can pull that off here? In the United States? Get real!” Okay.

Forty-eight percent. Donny has infested the Oval Office (this time) a little over nine months and the “baby” he’s birthing is a grotesque mockery of a decent government. Forty-eight percent of Project 2025 has been completed! In a little over nine months. By Donny and Team Evil. Implementing a program he claimed he had no idea about but now gleefully inflicts on Americans AND MAGA equally. (Only MAGA is surprised.)

In fact, between the evil he’s inflicting on the US in general, and the specific evils he’s visiting on those he considers political enemies, it’s hard to find a happier guy. He gets genuine joy, watching his “lessers” suffer. There’s a website, ‘The Project 2025 Tracker’ (click here). It counts 318 proposals. It lists 118 completed and 67 in progress.

Here’s a short list of some of the 67: End the Flores Settlement Agreement (which sets basic standards of care for immigrant children in custody), “downsize” the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which focuses too much on “climate alarmism,” Direct the military to assist in building border wall, Ban “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from public school curriculum, Repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage programs, End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, Eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force, Privatize TSA screening, Cut off DOJ grants to states/localities that do not cooperate with Trump’s immigration plans, Terminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, Eliminate DEIA programs in Labor policy, Close the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; treat the participation in any DEI initiative as per se grounds for termination, Repeal the Corporate Transparency Act, Require the FAA to “operate more like a business,” Weaken federal employee unions, Remove all unions in the Dept. of Homeland Security.

That’s a hell of a list – and I’ve only selected a choice few. There’s a LOT more stuff they want to do to you and NONE of it is going to benefit you or feel good to you. Much of it will do you direct harm. It’s an agenda built to benefit the One Percent, racists, misogynists, and men. If you’re not in one of those groups, well, it sucks to be you…

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There’s another “in-progress” item on the evil Heritage Foundation’s to-do list: Reduce the corporate income tax rate. This one, in part, is why our dysfunctional government is currently mostly not functioning at all. Greed. Remember, greed kills.

See, in order to starve the government of the money it needs to function, pamper the One Percent, and punish the working class, Team Evil has implemented massive tax cuts, both for (rich enough) individuals and corporations. In order to pay for those cuts, at least in part – they STILL add $3.4 trillion dollars to the deficit – Team Evil cut Medicare subsidies. Of course, MAGA doesn’t know about THAT, either.

See, MAGA was told that the $880 billion dollars Team Evil cut from Medicaid was all fraud, waste, and abuse. It defies logic that a governmental agency like Medicaid would allow $880 billion dollars of fraud, waste, and abuse to continue. If you want THAT kind of fraud, waste, and abuse, you have to look to the Pentagon – but nobody looks at the Pentagon. And, really, how DARE I even suggest it? I’ll flog myself appropriately later.

Meanwhile, people are already beginning to receive notices of increases in their health insurance costs for next year. I’ve heard that some people are receiving notices that their premiums are going to increase as much as 97%. Some people will be asked to pay over $800 dollars more – each month! Quick question: with the upper classes doing everything they can think of to impoverish the lower classes, how the hell is Joe Six-pack supposed to come up with an additional $800 a month to cover the increase?

So, the Democrats have dug in their heels. So have the Republicans. The Democrats to restore the Medicare subsidies that made health insurance affordable in this pseudo-free market, capitalist hellhole. Democrats don’t WANT to see millions of Americans (or MAGA, either, for that matter) lose their health insurance. For their part, Republicans don’t want millions of Americans (or MAGA, either, for that matter) to realize they’ve lost their health insurance to the Big Beautiful Bill forced on us BY the GOP.

Fortunately, the GOP has a proven, successful tool to help them get over the hump. They’ll tell a big, beautiful, but scary lie. “Democrats,” they lie, “want to give health insurance to illegals.” While I would prefer a national health care system that just treated whomever needed treatment, that’s not the system we have, here, in MAGAmerica, and in THIS country, it’s illegal for undocumented people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act.

We, the people, don’t DO that. Because, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me,” (Matthew 25:40) and “whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” (Matthew 25:45).

Democrats are trying to restore funding for the premium subsides for American citizens, MAGA, and no one else. Republicans have a message of their own: “Screw you, Jesus!” It’s a bold message, but they’re running with it. I stand with Jesus and the Democrats on this one…

Typically, the President of the United States gains some extra powers during wartime. Presumably, this applies to Donny, too, and he knows it. The Heritage Foundation told him. In fact, in order to do whatever evil he wants to do on any given day, he needs the extra powers of wartime. To that end, he keeps declaring the US is in an “armed conflict” with… well, fill in the blank.

At first it was gangs, but a smarter person – namely a judge – pointed out that a few gang members – or even a lot of them – hardly constitute an invading army. So now it’s drug dealers. He says we’re in an armed conflict with drug dealers and he has declared some of them terrorist threats. He’s using this story as legal cover for his “extrajudicial killings” – they mean “murders” – of people out on boating trips off of the coast of Venezuela.

There have been three boats, seventeen people, he has murdered this way, as of this writing. He makes jokes about attacking them. HE claims they were just chock-full of drugs – the boats, not the people. Then again, he IS the Father of Lies. With him, it’s the occasional truth slipping out that becomes noteworthy. Mostly, he just wants the power and this is the deceit he has chosen.

It seems to be an idea he lifted from Rodrigo Duterte, the ex-president of the Philippines. Now might be a good time to mention, Duterte’s current position is “defendant” at the World Court. He’s on trial for crimes against humanity. He, too, murdered an awful lot of people pretending they were all drug dealers. See? That’s a promising outcome in the long run and we can, collectively, hold the thought.

If it’s good enough for Duterte, it’s certainly good enough for the trumpster. He has already ordered the murders. Now all we have to do is get him to the Hague…

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The other day, Donny told a reporter that the Roberts Supremely Corrupted Kangaroo Court’s ruling that the President – or in this case, Donny – has near-perfect immunity would probably help Obama a lot. “But,” he added, “it doesn’t help the people who worked for him at all.”

Tell the truth, if you were one of the people working for 47, wouldn’t that statement make you just a wee bit nervous as he careens on his rampage of revenge and shatters law after law? Donny will claim immunity. His minions will have no such claim…

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Well, he’s done it again. Donny is a very small person and he knows it. Still, he wants everybody to think he’s important and so, from time to time, he tries to prove how important he is by sharing some secret he has. I’m pretty sure that’s how Putin gets information from him.
“Donald, I know you’re important but I bet they won’t let you have the nuclear codes.”
“I do TOO have the codes because I’m the importantist!” Donny whines. “They’re right here, see?”

Vlad does see. So does his lapel camera. As Donny offers up the proof of his “importance,” Vlad just snaps a photo, smiles, and says, “Ah, yes, I can see that you ARE important.”
“The importantist!” Donny insists, proud that he foiled his adversary.

And now he’s done it again. The Felonious Fraudster posted a video of himself because, of course he did. But, it wasn’t “himself.” It was AI generated. I’m not sure he realized. Presumably, he can’t remember making the video and he should know that it’s not really him but I don’t take anything for granted with this guy. He sees himself, that’s good enough for him.

The AI generated video is for Med Beds, a device that is said to restore human beings back to perfect health. It can even restore severed limbs! The video said Med Bed hospitals were to be made public, with every citizen given a free access card. I suppose this was him, teasing the ‘replacement for Obamacare’ he has long promised but never delivered.

The video didn’t stay up long. I suppose because such technology is OBVIOUSLY not intended for the great unwashed. Those things cost, like, an arm and a leg to get into, which is okay, since it puts the arm and the leg right back but still, they’re intended for rich people, not the poors. Donny should NOT have said the poors will gain access and down came the video.

Oh, Med Beds are also said to be a gift from aliens. THAT got me thinking. It sounds so… familiar. Then it came to me. I know the alien species we got that tech from! They’re called The Goa’uld! (That’s ‘Gua,’ as in ‘guacamole’ and ‘oold’ as in, um, ‘oold,’ or sometimes just ‘Gould’ as in ‘Elliot.’) Of course, THAT means Donny also, accidentally, spilled the beans on a super-de-duper, extra-elite US fighting force called ‘Stargate Command.’ The warriors of Stargate Command use other ancient alien technology to travel from planet to planet, liberating each from the evil clutches of the Goa’uld as they go.

The Goa’uld had exactly that technology, only they didn’t call them Med Beds. They called them sarcophagi. (They had a whole ancient Egypt vibe going. It’s a long story.) One could climb into the sarcophagus all beaten and battered and emerge young and beautiful and in perfect health again. I learned all about them by watching what are apparently historical documents recording the exploits of the lead Stargate Command team, called SG-1. And here I thought it was just a television show.

But the President of the United States, or even Donny, wouldn’t be posting videos about fictitious technology created as a plot device on a television show, and promising to make said fictitious technology available to everyone, would he? I mean, would he? A person would have to be ridiculously stupid to fall for such a… um… okay, never mind…

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Man, the Niners won a squeaker on Thursday night, didn’t they? It’s been fairly ugly, the way they’ve been winning. BUT, they’ve been winning – and an ugly win is better than a picture-perfect loss. The Niners are banged up. Then again, the Niners are ALWAYS banged up. The Niners don’t have a sideline, they have an infirmary…

Remember Rudy Giuliani? Of course you do, despite the fact that we’ve ALL done so much to try and forget him. Rudy worked for Donny. Father of Lies Donny wanted to, well, lie, about the 2020 election and Rudy did as he was told. He lied. In court. He also lied out of court for his Precious. He proved to be a bad lawyer, but a good soldier.

Rudy did Donny’s bidding, faithfully. But when Rudy was no longer useful to 47, 47 brushed Rudy aside. He refused to pay Rudy’s bill. Then, Rudy got sued for $1.3 billion dollars by Dominion, a voting machine company he defamed. Then Rudy had to pay more millions to two women he had defamed. Then, Rudy lost his license to practice law as a direct result of doing Donny’s bidding and filing several frivolous, baseless lawsuits. Donny got his lies. Rudy got the comeuppance.

The reason I mention it is this: Lindsey Halligan is the person Donny has tapped to destroy her professional future representing more of Donny’s ongoing lies as he attempts to re-write history. She’s perfect for that, by the way. Her LAST gig was attempting to re-write the history of slavery in the US. Now she is going to try to convince a court that James Comey’s legal investigation into 47’s criminal activity with the Russians was selective prosecution and that the selective prosecution of Comey is actually a legal investigation.

She’s in WAY over her head and, apparently, all she has accomplished, so far, is to embarrass herself. She’ll be lucky if, once this ends, she walks away with nothing more than egg on her face. Too many people just never seem to notice, the Father of Lies is also the Don of Destruction. But it’s never his destruction. It’s always the people around him that get destroyed. When it comes to Lindsey Halligan, I’m pretty sure I can see the future…

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We’re starting to get a more clear picture of exactly whom in the regime – once this evil is behind us – will be prosecuted for the murders of the people on those Venezuelan boats the US has been blasting out of the water with no evidence of a crime committed by the passengers or crew. Weird little Stephen Miller is at the top of the list, apparently. It’s his idea, his program.

That dude IS weird, too, isn’t he? He likes to pose for photos looking like he thinks he’s a tough guy, large and in charge. But I can’t forget that he’s a “cuck” on the national stage. His wife is off with Elon Musk. One assumes she has been selected to add to Musk’s army of unwanted children and Musk is happily banging away at Miller’s wife on the “project,” though, that’s just a theory. But when she turns up pregnant and hasn’t been anywhere near her husband…

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Okay, so here comes the government shutdown. Whose idea was this, anyway? If you ask MAGA, they’ll tell you it’s all the Dems fault. If you ask anyone else, they’ll tell you it’s Donny’s fault. It will be the same end result for the masses, regardless of whose fault it is. More economic upheaval. Great, just great.

The Dems are fighting to restore cuts to the Affordable Care Act the GOP inflicted. “If we don’t extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, more than 20 million Americans are going to experience dramatically increased premiums, copays, deductibles, in an environment where the cost of living in America is already too high,” Hakim Jeffries told CNN on Sunday.

The GOP responded with the predictable, “The American people suck and really don’t deserve health care. Rich people need more money. Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes… or me?” It’s quite the philosophical battle shaping up…

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I hear, unofficially, that people who once left California are coming back. Probably not red-hats, who leave for political reasons. They’ll stay away for political reasons, too. But others looking for better affordability? Yeah, they’re coming back. I get it. California is expensive. For a while, people were fleeing the high cost of living in the state. But it turns out, upon further review, one doesn’t just replace California. If you leave California, you leave California.

Take Texas. Please. I lived in Texas for a short time after I got out of the service. I lived along the gulf coast. It was a nice enough place, but I never got used to the humidity. Yes, you can buy a house for less in Texas, but the state is going to hit you hard on property taxes and you’ll be re-assessed annually. Texas isn’t bad, exactly, but it isn’t California.

I suspect it’s the intangibles of California that bring people back. I’d describe them for you but, they’re intangibles. You just have to sort of feel it for yourself. But I know, having left the state for a time, it doesn’t take long to miss California and want to come back…

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As of this writing, the only thing we know, for sure, about this latest nutball attack against innocent people is that the attacker got out of a truck “with two American flags raised in the truck bed and started shooting,” according to Police Chief William Renye. Then he set the place on fire. He was killed in a shootout with police.

Do you know which side is NOT running around with big American flags sticking up from their vehicles? Yeah, that would be lefties. Just the flags, alone, cause me to believe we have yet another nutball rightie who chose violence for his message. They’re almost always righties, so, of course, Donny is looking to the left. That boy just gets everything wrong…

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Have we caught up? So many crazy things are happening so fast, it’s hard to keep up. I know, that’s the goal, but I’m still trying. I disregard things like releasing the Amelia Earhart files as a distraction from the Epstein Files. Or the AI photos the White House keeps posting as a distraction from the Epstein Files. Or the troops he deploys as a distraction from the Epstein Files. But no matter what he does trying to distract from the Epstein Files, there’s still tons and tons of foolishness, groups and oodles of incompetence, and mountains of criminality we should try to keep our eyes on. It’s just so effing hard to keep up…

Our so-called border czar, Tom Homan, allegedly took a bribe for $50,000 to steer contracts to the briber. It came from an undercover FBI agent and it was filmed. An investigation was launched, then squelched by Team Evil. Now the official word is, Homan did nothing wrong. Yeah? Release THAT tape when you release the Epstein Files, would you? Could you? Go ahead, I dare you.

That’s the problem with having a criminal like 47 running the show. He doesn’t know right from wrong. More likely, he just doesn’t care. But I’m of the opinion that taking bribes is wrong…

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We now return you once again to our regularly scheduled daytime fun show, ‘Who’s fault is it THIS time?’ Yes, ‘Who’s fault is it this time?’ the game show where two teams try to convince the world the government shutdown is the other team’s fault. Both teams have strong showings this round as Team Useless blames Team Evil for eliminating billions in health care coverage for millions of families and demands the return of the money.

Meanwhile, Team Evil clearly intends to rely on it’s proven response strategy of, “Nah-uh!” with a side of “I know you are, but what am I?” It has been a startlingly successful strategy so far and there’s no reason to change so long as it’s working, right? Team Evil has the advantage in this battle for perception, having a deep bench of media outlets to repeat anything they’re told thousands of times a day.

Team Useless has been less open about their strategy but based on past events, one might guess a strongly worded letter is in order. Meanwhile, work-a-day Joes, average Americans, and MAGA will all suffer as the government shutters once again. It’ll probably be great for our credit rating as a nation, too. “Hey, maybe we’ll pay our bills, maybe we won’t. Deal with it.” Yeah, creditors love stuff like that.

It really sucks to be an American, these days. I’d guess it sucks to be MAGA, too. The One Percent have taken the gloves off and the rest of us stand ready to get pummeled. If the vast majority of this once-great nation can’t figure out how to defend ourselves and figure it out quickly, we should expect to be beaten, battered, and bloodied by the group that sees the masses as parasites and problems.

Perhaps this time, when they shut down the government, we, the people, should take the next step, take a cue from France, and shut down the whole effing country. Regardless of the stories they tell, they need us more than we need them…

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Team Evil took money from you. Now they’re going to give it to Argentina. Argentina’s economy is a mess and has been for a long time. Their newest President, Javier Milier, was elected promising a different approach and he brought it. It was slash and burn to spending, very similar to Donny’s DOGE cuts. It cut inflation dramatically.

Of course, it also shoved more than half of Argentina’s population into extreme poverty. Nearly 60% of Argentinian children live in poverty now, with the overall rate in the population hovering around 50%. The rich are doing okay, though, so, there’s that. Donny’s going to send $20 billion of the dollars he took from you to Argentina in an effort to prop up those rich people a little while longer. This whole thing is a crisis in progress so we’ll all just have to wait to see how it plays out…

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I really do NOT like this euphemism, “extra-judicial killings.” Those are murders, straight up. The Drumpfster didn’t “engage in extra-judicial killings” when he attacked two different boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing everyone on board. That was murder, pure and simple.

And while we’re on the topic of fact-hiding euphemisms, 47 does not rack up “wins” in his corrupt courts. He gets a rubber stamp. A “win” implies there was some contest. A “win” implies the possibility of a loss. It was a brilliant move to corrupt the higher courts, leaving the lower courts pretty much alone. The lower courts rule according to the law. Then, a corrupted higher court overturns the lower court’s proper ruling and 47 gets his rubber stamp. But it’s not a “win,” it’s corruption. It’s a predetermined outcome as we slide further and further away from our Constitutional Republic…

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There was a shooting at an ICE facility. Officially, the word is there was an anti-ICE message written on one of the bullet casings. The only people shot in the attack were detainees, not ICEholes. Why would someone write anti-ICE messages on bullet casings, then go out and shoot the victims of ICE actions and not the ICEholes? (No, I’m NOT suggesting shooting ICEholes, so stuff it.)

Details are still coming out, of course, and it has become a great American pass-time trying to discern if the latest shooter is on the left or the right, though they are FAR more commonly from the right so it’s a little easier on the left. I’ve heard he was radicalized on 4chan, once a bastion of political incorrectness, and a staging ground for incel culture, white-power groups, mass-shooting manifestos. 4chan is now one among many platforms, like Truth Social and Parlor, just as conducive to hate speech.

But the right really, really wants – no, needs – this guy to be a leftist. Donny wanted to issue a new authoritarian order cracking down on “leftist violence” and all of this right-wing violence is making is difficult for him to make his lying case, so someone with a little authority on Team Evil told some stooge to go out and stage the scene by writing an anti-ICE message on the bullet casings and taking a photo.

Being the Einstein he clearly is, the stooge just wrote ‘Anti ICE’ on the bullet casing. Then the official story is that authorities found a bullet casing with “anti ICE messages etched into the casing.” Well, it wasn’t “etched,” it was written with what could be a Sharpie. And the “anti ICE message?” Well, that was just, straight up “Anti-ICE.” Of course it was. Who doesn’t convey their anti-ICE sentiments by simply saying “Anti-ICE?” Why would anyone say, “Screw ICE!” or “ICE is bad!” when they can say, “Anti-ICE?”

If it feels like I’m not buying the whole “leftist shooter” story, that’s because I’m not buying the whole “leftist shooter” story. ANYBODY can write “Anti-ICE” on a bullet casing, right? I wonder who did…

“You can’t fix stupid. There’s not a pill you can take. There’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.” That’s sage advice from the comedian Ron White. You can’t fix stupid. Really, it’s a law of nature. Sadly, through a series of unfortunate and nefarious events, stupid has been elevated to the highest levels of government, these days, and it infests every level below it. But there’s a second, stupid-related law of nature, too. It goes like this: ‘Stupid hurts.’

As an example, Floriduh. Floriduh Surgeon General, “Dr.” Joseph Ladapo, has declared that Floriduh will henceforth eliminate vaccine mandates for children before they start school. The stupid Surgeon General says that stupid parents should be allowed to pick and choose which vaccines their children get. This, of course, leaves stupid parents ACTUALLY choosing which preventable, possibly fatal, often crippling illnesses and diseases their precious children should get. They just don’t understand that.

Smart parents will continue to get their children vaccinated, if they can. Those kids will be better off. But now there will also be a group of children – possibly a large number of children – catching and spreading things like hepatitis B, chickenpox, haemophilus influenza type b (Hib), Pneumonia, and Meningitis. That’s just a short list. Floriduh’s legislation has to act to remove the requirement for other vaccines, but stupid rules the day and I’m sure they will, and soon.

THAT will leave the population of Floriduh vulnerable to poliomyelitis (that’s polio), diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, and rubella. Oh, but not JUST Floriduh. Illnesses have a way of ignoring borders and boundaries. It’s almost as if they don’t even care. So what starts in Floriduh WILL leak out to other states. Thanks, Floriduh.

But stupid hurts. A stupid parent opts to avoid vaccines for stupid political reasons. Their kid gets polio. Young parents, these days, have possibly never seen – nor even heard of – an iron lung. Imagine the joy they’ll feel when their precious child, the one they chose not to protect for stupid political reasons, contracts polio and gets to live their lives in an iron lung. No, you won’t have to imagine. All you have to do is wait.

That could be over the top. I’ve known polio victims that could manage to get around using crutches. Maybe it will “only” be that. (That’s a key phrase: “I’ve known polio victims…” I’m an old. Many younger people today never have known a polio victim.) The point is, these diseases are out there. They don’t CARE, even a little bit, about your politics. YOU score political points on the right, your CHILD dies of Meningitis – because stupid insisted it should be so.

There’s a whole group of Americans out there trying to get MAGA to see dangers of this path they’ve chosen. That’s not going to work, because Ron White is right. You can’t fix stupid. All you can really do is protect your own child – they haven’t outlawed vaccines, yet – and keep them away from the victims of MAGA stupidity.

We’ve already had a preview. Texas suffered a measles outbreak in an area where vaccination rates were low and exemptions were high. 762 people got sick, 2 in Texas died. Ultimately, the state turned to vaccines to get the outbreak under control. Floriduh will do the same, but, likely not until a large number of people contract some of the more heinous and horrifying illnesses. The worst part about it? It’s the stupid parents who should get the illness. The kid doesn’t know right from wrong. The kid can’t make the choice. But it’s the KID who pays the highest price.

If you know someone who has decided against vaccines and you’ve tried talking some sense into their heads but they’ll have none of it – because Ron White is right – you’ve done what you can do. In other words, you’ve satisfied any possible moral obligation you might have had to that person. You can lead a horse to water, right? Now? All you can do is wait. They won’t talk to you, you libtard. What do YOU know? Well, what DO you know? If you believe what science tells you, you don’t have to convince them. Living will convince them.

It’s easy to pretend vaccines are stupid and we should go without so long as things are stable. But as vaccination rates drop and infections increase, panic will set in and, just like they did in Texas, people will rush to the doctor to get vaccines. It’s not just vaccines. It’s climate change. It’s the economy. It’s every debate you’ve ever had with a con in which they’ve adopted some new, stupid position just to be politically contrarian – and those positions are legion. Endless.

Americans know that insisting the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease it prevents is a losing proposition. We’ve tried to explain it. We were trying to help. We’ve been told we’re stupid and called names for our efforts, but we tried anyway. We’ve lost the “debate,” so all we can do now is wait. The illnesses will explain it to them.

Denying climate change doesn’t make one immune from the disasters and destruction of climate change. Instead, it will leave them less prepared. We’ve tried to explain it. We were trying to help. We’ve been told we’re stupid and called names for our efforts, but we tried anyway. We’ve lost the “debate,” so all we can do now is wait. Climate change will explain it to them.

HAS Dim Leader fixed the economy? They walk into grocery stores just like you do. It doesn’t matter what they might be willing to confess to you. THEIR bacon got twice as expensive, too. It turns out, tariffs ARE a tax on the American people and prices ARE rising – just as some people projected. We tried to explain it. We were trying to help. We’ve been told we’re stupid and called names for our efforts, but we tried anyway. We’ve lost that “debate,” too. So all we can do now is wait. Poverty will explain it to them.

I saw Bill Maher this week sort of scolding everyone, left and right, on the fact that people don’t talk to each other anymore. He took the philosophical position that we should all talk to each other instead of, say, a more Charlie Kirk “solution.” He’s right. It’s a solid philosophical position but it lacks practical application. One side won’t talk in any effective way. I mean, some of them will engage, but it’s usually to deny science and proven facts and inject false assertions into the conversation.

So what we can do now, is wait. We tried to help. Our moral obligation has been satisfied. We did what we could, to the extent that we could. Our help has been refused and flatly rejected – so we wait. It turns out, one CAN manipulate perceptions with lies and misinformation. But one can NOT lie their way out of illness and disease, climate change, or a crashing economy. Those things are going to happen. We’ll just have to pick up the conversation again once MAGA has had enough…