Pro tip to concerned Iowans: maybe don’t vote for cowardly and ignorant electeds who care more for excessively self-centered capitalist pigs than they ever will for you. In a nutshell, don’t vote Republican. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

New post: Castelo de São Jorge & Lisbon Cathedral The Castle of St. George overl https://pursuit.olbert.com/?p=6713

New post: Portugal: Arrival We spent the first week of our https://pursuit.olbert.com/?p=6702

New post: Portugal! We may be establishing a patte https://pursuit.olbert.com/?p=6671

Few people know how politically astute dragons are… 😀

Exodus 8:1-4 8 1 [a]Then the Lord said to Moses, [tell Pharaoh]…I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country…They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials…The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.

Had fun creating my No Kings sign!

Or, in simpler terms, no one in politics wastes time attacking things that’s not an aren’t a threat to their power. No kings!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Leavitt, says “the Democrat Party’s main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.” I’m none of those. But I am a staunch opponent of tyrannical fascists. Like Leavitt and her boss.

Unbefrackingleavable! Ignorance as a form of suicide! Medical professionals shouldn’t have to deal with this kind of crap! If they’re that ignorant and bigoted, Let Them Die. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I think the idiots who voted for Trump should offer to pay the extra costs imposed on us by his tariffs. That’s be the decent thing to do. thehill.com/business/555...

Alex Jones lost his Supreme Court appeal on his Sandy Hook verdict. Hurray! Too bad he isn’t up for becoming an involuntary organ donor. Although I’m pretty sure he has neither a heart nor a brain 😀

Which is also why, duh, being led by mindless idiots like Trump and RFK, Jr is a sure ticket to ossification, economic servitude and, possibly, collapse. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

“The chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee… [told] reporters that the deliberation process for choosing the awardee prioritizes courage and integrity.” No way could Trump win, then. Maybe he should brush up on his physics or chemistry. Nah, he’s too stupid to win in those categories either.

Finally, a judge recognized the emperor is butt fracking naked! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

If you watch Fox Myths and Bullshit — and believe some or all of what they spew — you’re likely a moron who won’t appreciate this. The rest of us, though, can enjoy a real belly laugh.

Why the frack isn’t every single decent Christian pastor in the US coming down against Brian Sauvé? Pro tip to any pastors who read this: if you want your Christian beliefs to be taken seriously, you can’t afford to tolerate guys like Brian claiming to be a member of your fellowship in Christ.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My opinion is that, in any remotely rational, critical thinking society, the author of this website would be seen as either a cynical comic or batshit crazy. heavenisfun.com

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here's today's post: "let’s laugh at the sad loser who didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" — and let’s congratulate the woman who did. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

If this ‘hole is serious he’s delusional and should be committed. If he’s playing politics he should be forced to spend his fortune justifying his actions. Frank Herbert observed government and religion traveling in the same cart is disastrous. Let’s not test that observation wapo.st/4q5wR6S

A wonderful side effect of awarding Machado the Nobel Peace Prize is that she is a Venezuelan opposition leader, fighting tyranny. Since Trump also opposes the Venezuelan gov’t, he can hardly diss her, can he? Of course, he will anyway. But I bet the award burns him. And that’s fantastic!!!

Glad she won! She should’ve gotten more. Hopefully it’ll screw the financials of that stupid conservative county. Excuse me, that’s redundant 😆 wapo.st/48WBx8Q

The arrogance of these terrified and power mad fools — thinking that they alone know god’s will — always astounds me. But not as much as the large numbers of greater fools who believe people like this jackass actually do know god’s will. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

I’m in Portugal (which only recovered from fascism in the 1970s) watching the USA descend into authoritarianism. This is not who we are and not what we can be. Reject the fascists! Can’t stomach the Democrats? Fine. Expel the fascists from the GOP and refocus it on freedom and liberty.

Someone should remind those idiot GOP attorneys general of the old phrase “the worm always turns”. They are arguing it’s okay to use federal power against states that limit freedoms. Like the right to vote. Or the right to keep church and state separate www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/10/08/t...

They know who they work for!

Hegseth’s ancestors were apparently active in 17th century Portugal. Which proves assholes will always be with us.

I just love having my tax dollars go to bail out those idiot welfare queen farmers that backed Trump. Let’s follow GOP orthodoxy instead and let ‘em all starve and lose their farms because they obviously can’t make it on their own. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

The second Civil War has already started: Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas: “You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it,” he wrote on social media. “No Guard can match the training, skill, and expertise of the Texas National Guard.”

Darkly funny! www.facebook.com/reel/2853985...

Exhibiting massive mental derangement in front of every single military leader of any significance or power does not strike me as a wise move.

Good to see our Wall Street nitwits are at it again! Lending creates money. Money is regulated because it's a community asset. Only the regulations don't extend to businesses engaging in this kind of idiocy. But don't worry. The Masters of the Universe will protect you. Not :( on.ft.com/4mzlIbt

This op ed gives insight into why people fight to avoid cognitive dissonance. It’s because they want to hold onto their tribe, which was, and is, a great human strength. But we’re also intelligent, so we can and do override our instincts when we need to. And today we most definitely need to.

It’s beginning to look like Nehemiah Scudder showed up 12 years late. And if that name means nothing to you, google it. You’ll be horrified (i hope) about how this dangerous fusion of government and evangelical Christianity was forecast almost a century ago.

Only gutless cowards want to suppress criticism. Because they’re so unsure of themselves, deep inside, that they can’t handle the cognitive dissonance criticism engenders.

LOL! These morons have no clue how they’re, projecting, attributing to others the sick things lurking in their own minds. Miller is exhibit #1 of those who celebrate “everything that is warped, twisted and depraved.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Violence is not to be condoned or go unpunished. But those who live by the sword... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Funny how this doesn’t happen, isn’t it?

NSFW, very funny…and deeply disturbing open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Gee, I’m so relieved. Not. www.npr.org/2025/09/07/n...

If R Frack You All Kennedy Jr understood science, he wouldn’t cast doubt on existing studies. He’d launch double blind trials to prove vaccines were harmful. But he won’t. Because he’s all about amassing power from people who don’t know any better. And enriching his quack medicine buddies.

Ah, good old Long Island bigotry strikes again! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/n...

New post: Great Smoky Mountains We were recently in Asheville, https://pursuit.olbert.com/?p=6652

Cheryl Hines, RFK Jr’s wife

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