Saucy Susie

Truth: POS Yes, the Mango Mussolini’s post about Rob Reiner was vile. But, consider the source.

Make America Pirates Of course, he’s keeping the oil. And isn’t it comforting that they say they got a warrant to seize the oil tanker in international waters. Our nation has been tarnished in so many ways by this regime, why not be pirates?

Not Falling For It Kegsbreath can dodge and weave, but it looks like even some Trumpublicans are not falling for it.

VETTING The incompetence of most all the cabinet secretaries in this administration makes just about anything possible. Here’s another dress-up option for Cosplay Barbie.

SLEEPY DO’ Or, should that be Sleepy, Doh!? It’s all so ridiculous.

EYE ROLL When the world is going to shit, why not indulge in some obscure literary humor? Please post a comment below if you get the reference. My wife tells me that nobody’s gonna get it.

We go to maybe 1 or 2 games every year, but I couldn’t help but get sucked into the playoffs this year with the Seattle Mariners making a good run at it. Game 7 of the ALCS was painful. I’m not even a huge fan, but have to admit I got a taste of what the true fans must’ve been feeling this week.

One of my impressions from Saturday’s No Kings march.

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"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

The charlatan posing as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services made some typically stupid statements the other day that pretty much got lost in the noise that is the Trump Administration. I was particularly struck by his statement that they were doing studies to “make” the proof 1/2

Blondie What a show this incompetent women put on for the nation on Tuesday. Representing “the most transparent administration in history,” she refused to answer questions posed by US senators performing their constitutional role in overseeing the executive branch.

I’ve been struck by how much enthusiasm is being expressed in the MAGAverse for Dear Leader setting the military against “we the people,” with absolutely no concern whatsoever for compliance with laws like the Posse Comitatus Act or constitutionally protected state sovereignty, that pesky 1/2

Camouflaged agents. Ziptying women and kids. In the middle of the night. Many were US citizens. This is Trump’s America—and next it could be YOU.

N Words I spent some time Tuesday wondering what those senior officers must have been thinking during that spectacular clown show.

War Game Are we sick of this crap yet, America?

This is a particularly interesting discussion on the Coney case with the unique insights of Andrew McCabe as a podcast co-host.

Another craven institutional capitulation to creeping authoritarianism as Disney takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air. And the freakin’ fascists hadn’t even started to push very hard yet. This is what Timothy Snyder warns not to do in “On Tyrrany.”

Dontcha Just Hate Speech? More massive Trumpist incompetence on display this week as Pam Bondi totally steps in it with some impassioned remarks inspired by some of the tasteless Charlie Kirk mockery. She bravely bragged about how she will gladly crush such “hate speech” “on both sides of the 1/2

Saint Charlie For verily he said unto them, “Readeth between my lines…” The sanctification of Charlie Kirk has really been something to behold.

The moment when it becomes most difficult, perhaps even impossible, to tell the truth, is the moment when it is most critically important to tell it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

In the rush to be first, mainstream media has been false. America deserves only the facts and accurate reporting from its journalists.

OOPSKI! Another Russian drone incursion into NATO airspace on the heels of the Poland incident Tuesday is no mistake, despite Dear Leader’s willingness to brush it aside as a mere “mistake” earlier this week. Some say that Putin is sending Donald a message. Ya think? More like a one-finger salute.

Narrative Forensics The MAGAverse is in a massive State of Denial about Dear Leader’s signature on the page in that disgusting Epstein Birthday Book.

Cue the next Tulsi Gabbard accusation!

Sicko-fant Even the gutless GOP senators who originally voted to confirm this douchebag were visibly put off by the flagrant assholery displayed in the hearings yesterday. These people are an embarrassment to the United States on the world stage. The worm would be a better choice for HHS secretary.

How timely! I posted this drawing earlier today and then just now came across this new Neil Young song for the very first time.

Back to School Class: let’s begin with a short lesson, shall we?

Very well written. Spot on.

This piece excellently expresses a state of mind that I can entirely relate to: a constant undercurrent of simmering outrage over the daily, incremental harms that Trump and Trumpism are effecting on our country, our communities, our lives, our liberties and our institutions.

Put Lipstick On It What WAS that on Friday? To me, it looked like some form of foreign policy amateur hour. Red carpets? One of the things that struck me the most was Trump greeting Putin with what looked to me like the broadest smile I’ve ever seen on that mango visage.

Cop Out, Call Up The glaring hypocrisy is so bluntly obvious, it’s been normalized for so long now, but we must not look away. Yes, the impetuous acting out on impulses by this irresponsible man-child is now our daily diet. It seems that our timeline really pulled one of history’s shorter straws,

American Phony Last Friday, JD Vance weighed in on the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad controversy. Vance claimed that left had come “unhinged” about it, but I had to google it to find out WTF he was even talking about. And then yesterday, Dear Leader piled on. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and 1/2

The Orange Queen Every day, Trumpism chews away at the institutional infrastructure of the United States. The firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because Dear Leader didn’t like the reported results marks another dark day as we witness the value of truth in America crumble.

NosferFU Another horror show committed in the United States Senate this week, where they confirmed this hyper-partisan creep to a Federal Appeals Court judgeship. The Trumpist ass-kissing senators were evidently not bothered by his reported contempt for the courts, 1/2

Fed Up Dear Leader and sycophantic sidekick Senator Tim Scott seemed to have planned an ambush in front of the cameras during the visit to the Federal Reserve renovation site. Trump tried to pass a casual comment that the project was about half a billion over budget by including the cost of 1/3

Orangeskins Just how stupid is this timeline we’re living in?

Tulsi Faketard Can it be any more obvious that despite two expensive, years-long investigations, Tulsi Gabbard just happens to produce a “report” that is undoubtedly intended to distract the MAGA hordes from the Epstein File rages that even Dear Leader seems unable to quench?

They’re Stupid People: Stupid and Weak Dear Leader on concerns about the administration’s failure to release Epstein files as long promised: "It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans, and foolish Republicans fall into the net…They're stupid people."

Another Scottblurt The tweet is exactly what Scott Adams posted on Xitter earlier today. I will admit, many years ago, I got quite a kick out of Scott Adams. Not anymore.

Kashing Out

This is a really good interview, well worth the time. It’s been increasingly clear to me that Anne Applebaum may be one of the most insightful political analysts we have these days, particularly on the stunning authoritarian drift in the United States, on par with Timothy Snyder.

Rodeo Clown Now Taco says he won’t be issuing any more extensions. I sure wouldn’t bet on that.

But, It’s Gettin’ There What started out as a doodle on the morning of Independence Day evolved into something more involved and it got darker as I progressed. July 4th mood.

Paramounted Waking up to another news day on Wednesday, needing to stifle a gag reflex. Perhaps the sickest part of this latest institutional capitulation is that CBS News did nothing wrong, by all accounts they would have easily won in court. The inference of what appears to be open extortion 1/3

Slackers I can’t believe they just left the birthright citizenship issue hanging. It’s so blatantly unconstitutional. The judicial system is slow enough already. When you have a major question before you, decide it!

Obliteration Conniption One more instance of our national leaders traveling abroad making an embarrassing spectacle of themselves. And Hegseth came home and did it some more this morning.

A Bomb Nomination

My brain is breaking a little. The Cato Institute us saying ICE is going too far