This two-month old post seems a lot more relevant after Hegseth’s murder order today.

“It’s not the voting that makes democracy. It’s the counting.” RIP Tom Stoppard

I was just asking myself, why don’t the people of Russia rise up against the dictator ruining their country and stealing their freedom? Then I asked myself, is some old dope like me over there asking the same question about us?

The Great Anti-Drug Warrior Strikes Again

“No celebration till we succeed in our efforts to kill anyone who has it,” added the State Department.

Headline Translation: AI is a humongous bubble and when it pops soon we are all fucked, and will pay the tab for the phonies that created the coming train wreck.

Trump’s “many legal scholars” at their last meeting

If the President intentionally lied when taking the Oath of Office - if he knew he intended to break constitutional law - was that a criminal act? And because he began taking the Oath before he was officially President, does that mean he would not be protected by Presidential immunity? Just asking.

Now that RFK Jr. has revised the CDC website to connect autism to vaccines, I wish he would provide more information on how to balance our four humours and which animal parts combine with specific prayers to relieve extreme pain.

It’s all about elections integrity now. No one can defend this sociopathic ignoramus anymore and even his own party is sick of him. Get on your election committee, sign up as a polling place volunteer, join groups driving people to the polls and protecting polling sites. A fair vote means he’s gone.

Right now on Tuesday at noon there are 13 news stories on the FoxNews site before a mention of the Epstein vote, and their only story is how Mike Johnson will vote. One of the stories above it reports how Bill Maher told Patton Oswalt progressives live in a “Bluesky bubble.” Right.

A major driver of the high cost of beef: New World Screw Worm

Trump is about as big a populist as Louis XVI. But he is a grifter, a con artist who tells the chumps whatever they want to hear to help him rob them blind.

This is completely on the Republican members of Congress now. We know that a child rapist is President, and that he has used his position to enrich his family beyond all legal bounds, and has betrayed the Constitution and endangered every aspect of our security. Either he goes, or they go.

At what point do the generals lock him out of the Pentagon and say, “OK haha we get it, funny. Now send over the real one, right?”

They say they want to send the homeless to “treatment camps.” This is their favorite way to transfer government dollars to their Mar-a-lago friends - keep building prisons and concentration camps. Did the Times ask about that? Don’t bother looking. No, they didn’t.

A long time ago a beautiful young woman who lived two floors below me was looking through my records, obviously unimpressed. Then: “Oh, Neil Young! Lots of Neil Young. Me, too.” She smiled. We’ve been married 42 years now. Happy 80th Birthday, Neil, and thanks!

After all this time and seeing all we’ve seen, is anyone really going to be surprised if you-know-who is confirmed as a child molester?

Trying to remember where that part is in the Bible where Jesus says “the racist tech bros will inherit the earth, because they learned to code as kids and they are really good at lying to shareholders.” Or maybe Jefferson said that?

Whoever did the deep spinning behind The NY Times “win for Democrats” analysis, I’m surprised they didn’t find the center of the earth

Posing a real question, not making any recommendation or suggestion: What happens if everyone just stopped paying taxes? Just stopped the withdrawals from their paychecks, stopped filing, stopped paying corporate, real estate, property, all taxes - what happens? Serious answers only, please.

Any Democrat emailing out fundraising appeals right now is clueless.

This sums it up perfectly. The complicit Dem senators and the Minority Leadership betrayed their colleagues in Congress, their party and all US citizens. The entire party will have to reform dramatically to command any trust again.

What went on behind the scenes leading to the Senate Dems fold? National polls showed voters blamed Trump/GOP for the SNAP crisis. But was that true in the compromising senators’ states? Did they betray the nation for their own interests? We should be told and some should be booted from the party.

Tonight likely marks the end of the Democratic Party. It’s not a matter of where it stood on any policy. What matters is that the word of the Party is meaningless. Any stand it commits to is written in water. A third party will rise out of this betrayal, but it could not have come at a worse time.

#GVerse Um. WTF??? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings." This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.

Seems like every Republican governing or policy strategy can be summed up in three more words: Kill more kids.

It’s amazing how, even after their lies blew up in their faces on Election Day, the GOP is still at it. They still don’t get that only hardcore MAGA are buying this garbage. Mike Johnson is a laughing stock.

Join ICE for respect, the kind of respect reserved for the most hated group of Americans this century.

I can’t get outraged about Ross Douthat in The NY Times. He’s their village idiot. They know it, we know it, only he doesn’t know it. It’s just required that every newspaper has to have one. They probably gave him a podcast because his writing was so embarrassing.

Dept. of Defense announces new weapons system to respond to Putin’s nuke threat is already rolling off assembly line

If we learned anything tonight, it’s that no one wants to hear this crap anymore

Throughout history people have remembered famous phrases spoken in times of conflict: “Remember the Alamo!” “I only regret have but one life to give for my country!” “Fire when ready!” And now we can add: “I could smell the mustard and onions.”

If I was House Minority Leader I’d tell every Democratic rep that starting Monday, we’re sitting at our desks on the House floor every day ready to work. If the GOP won’t show up, fine. We’re going to do our jobs, and we will spend every hour every day telling the country about Republican crimes.

Of course Vought is behind this. It takes a special kind of evil to gang up on people drowning in medical debt, the kind that can only be incurred in the US. But with the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidy cuts, Vought seems to take real pleasure in inflicting this kind of pain.

Two judges have ordered the administration to feed the people they were willing to starve for political leverage. If they refuse or stall, they own it. If they appeal and SCOTUS backs them, they both own it. They will forever be the hacks that defied the law and starved children to make a point.

The Rise of Trump has always been about racial hatred. Sure, they hate the poor, women, democracy, LGBTQ+, veterans, the sick, pretty much everyone but the rich and greedy. But the thread that runs through the whole rotten movement is race hate. They don’t even try to mask it anymore.

Just got back from the supermarket. I’ve been shopping for food for 50 years, seen prices go up and down, sometimes dramatically. But this is crazy. Prices have doubled on many items in a matter of weeks. My weekly bill is 50% higher, even when I shop carefully. Republicans will starve us all.

A year ago I decided to check in with FoxNews daily, to keep in touch with the other side’s viewpoint. Well, I’m done. It’s now utterly deranged. Up is down, on is off and white is always right. They’ll defend the most extreme crime if their masters require it. They have sold their souls for dust.

For years we’ve heard “we should have a President that runs government like a business.” Well, Trump cutting off SNAP payments to hungry families is no different than Bezos making billions and not paying a living wage. So you got your wish, folks. Now gov’t and business both starve children.

Chris Murphy is the smartest, sanest and most honest politician in America. But he’ll never be President, because big-money donors will never back him. Why not? Because he’s the smartest, sanest and most honest politician in America.

Nice to know my taxes are paying for the Reich’s ubermensch campaign.

I think they should build the Trump Memorial Arch in DC, with huge letters chiseled across the top that say, “Crooked Moron.”

The NY Times makes me nuts frequently, but with the Post, the LA Times, CBS, ABC, all the local tv networks, and soon CNN and HBO and socials all run by oligarchs, with PBS defunded and private equity choking local papers, I gotta say: God save The New York Times. It’s a thin wall, so stay strong.

Bought with power, like the evangelicals. Bought with support, like the new Klan. Bought with positions, like Rubio. Those who can’t be bought will be threatened, blackmailed and even killed. That’s what the giant private army is for. But you’re right, most for cash, the lowest price for a soul.

David Brooks is the epitome of useless pundits. Bemoan the degrading of America, point a finger at all and sundry, and … stop. Well, what would have us do, sir? Let the bulldozer tear us down, too? Allow our integrity to shine and the snake will retreat in shame? If we don’t fight, America dies.

He’s not focused on the ballroom. He’s focused on filling his pockets, eliminating threats, keeping racists and religious fanatics happy, and stoking the rage and confusion at full boil. Oh, and fixing it so we never have another free election. The ballroom is just for bribes and ass kissing.

Ezra Klein’s latest misses a huge factor in rural resentment - the belief that the soldiers sacrificed and betrayed in the last two wars were mostly from poor rural communities. The GOP has successfully sold the myth that Dems alone were responsible for the failed wars and abandonment of veterans.

First tech told students to learn to code and you’ll always have a job. We know what happened. Then they said learn AI and you’ll always have a job. Today META’s AI division laid off 600, so they could be “more nimble.” Gee, wonder where this is going? Pop goes the bubble.