Happy Anniversary! 25 years ago today, the Supreme Court elected George Bush president (later, unofficial recounts showed that Gore would have won); the failson of former president Bush was happy to leave the boring presidenting to oil baron Dick Cheney, which ended with me getting sent to Iraq.

A billion dollars and the idea is basically Star Wars JibJab

Is keeping the condoms next to the baby food considered a a form of birth control?

Public service announcement.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

How do you know that Trump knows that he's breaking the law?

The REASON one does not simply walk into Mordor is that no pedestrian traffic is allowed. One waits for the free public transportation.

Obama’s tan suit and Howard Dean’s ‘scream’ got days of wall‑to‑wall coverage. Now Trump’s ICE can drag a U.S. citizen nurse out of her car and it’s gone in a news cycle. That’s what happens when you let them flood the zone with shit instead of doing journalism. Do your job "news" organizations!

WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive? TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water

That's a good plan. Trump should step down in favor of Jimmy Kimmel. If for no other reason, because Jimmy Kimmel does not clearly have dementia. Grampy is sundowning.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

Trump just removed Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth from the days you get free entry into national parks, and added his birthday. Remember, MAGA gets cranky if you suggest Trump might be racist.

That's what they call me at the salad bar.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

My Spotify Unwrapped list is empty because I know what they pay Joe Rogan to host his podcast and what they don’t pay the musicians who keep Spotify’s digital doors open.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but not before demanding an investigation on any Democrat Epstein knew, abusing the provision about "open investigations." But a Florida judge just used that law to unseal all the 2005-2007 grand jury material. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Donald Trump has his own Giving Tuesday, but it involves penicillin and Valtrex.

Thought for the day:

It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.

i will not be made a fool of [life] lol hold my beer

The cyc in 'cycle' actually looks like a bike and now that I've seen it, you have to too!

“Running from Trump is how you lose. Running with Trump is how you win,” Van Epps said. Running WITH Trump was how he took a strongly pro-Trump district (R+22), and scraped out an R+6 win (the closest a Democrat has come in this wildly gerrymandered district since 1982).

Marco Rubio posted this video of Trump dozing off during an afternoon meeting, while Little Marco actively tries to wake him up by gently massaging his prostate. Are they tired of his angry tantrums when he's awake? Are they setting him up for a 25th Amendment removal?

Our Founding Fathers planned for a lot of contengencies as best they could. But they didn't imagine that the plot to install a King would fail with Nixon, and Newt Gingrich would consider that to be a challenge, and immediately start recruiting a new type of Republican.

Here's what you get when you say "I do my own research." (This post is about vaccines.)

In two weeks, when the ACA subsidies are cut and over 22 million American citizens find their insurance payments doubling, tripling or more, there's one thing to remember. This happened because Republicans wanted to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and nothing to the rest of us.

Over on Xitter, Dan Bongino has an algorithm that will repost anything that mentions his name. (That same algorithm "liked" it first.) When I said "social-media obsessed," I wasn't kidding.

Thanks to Trump's choice of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, an insecure, incompetent lawyer and a social media-obsessed radio host, to run the FBI, the Bureau is floundering and leaderless, according to a report provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Christopher Tolkien explained that his father eventually had to write down the text of "The Hobbit," despite it originally having been intended as simply a bedtime story that he made up as he went along. Never be scared to challenge authority. You may help reinvent an entire literary genre.

My mother-in-law had dementia before she died. The sleepiness, the angry outbursts - this is all very familiar. Remember the reporters swarming every time Biden stumbled, or GOP Congresscritters screaming about a White House coverup? Where are they now?

Is JC Penney being ironic?

I think I've found the next candidate RFK Jr. is going to recommend for Surgeon General, once Trump makes Canada the 51st state.

"Unvetted by Joe Biden." The shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was granted asylum in April, under the Trump administration. Why is it that Trump and his cabinet can't open their mouths without lying?

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The fact that Netanyahu is requesting a pardon in the middle of his corruption trial does not really point to his unassailable innocence.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

At the Grand Cayman Turtle Centre, they have to be very specific, and they have to post reminders. Because people are stupid.

Why does the @VP think that everybody hates turkey? The core of his argument is "If you don't cook up an 18 pound ball of meat every week, then obviously you hate it."

Here's a resolution that will NEVER make it to the floor for a vote. newrepublic.com/post/203728/...

And here's the stupidest memo ever produced by the Secretary of Day Drinking. Please notice that he used the word "potentially." Because he's trying to claim "It's illegal to tell people not to break the law!"

The economic report accurately reflects what Trump's policies have done to the economy. That makes Trump so mad that he keeps blocking its release.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

Somebody just pointed out that when Elon Musk bought Twitter, he renamed the website to the letter X. He used to be a programmer, and the ASCII code for X is 88. Since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, white supremacists use it to indicate "Heil Hitler." Just a coincidence, of course...

Over on Xitter, Elon felt that it would be a good idea to show the "country or region where a user's account is based." It didn't go well. Turns out that a lot of MAGA accounts post from Eastern Europe and Asia. Who could possibly have seen this coming? Aside from everyone sane, that is.

Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?

Based on this story (if true), and what I know about capitalism, I wouldn't recommend buying the first generation of "household" robots. Or the second. (And I'm talking about THIS style of robot, not the roomba that you bought to torment your pets.)