#Trump "promising" to bail out #Argentina with $20 billion should immediately result in folk thinking about all of those businesses and suppliers he "promised" to pay over the years and stiffing most of them. Remember - Trump's promises are like ice cream - easily melted.

What does dementia sound like? The Caretaker's epic five hour set broken into six increasingly terrifying stages - from whimsical melody (stage one) to little more than white noise interspersed with distorted fragments of order (stage six). This is a MASTERPIECE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Af4...

C'mon - what is this bullshit? Somebody's been watching way too many repeats of The Man With the Golden Gun!

It's one thing to be paranoid thinking people are conspiring against you. It's a whole different level of paranoia when you think the escalator is conspiring against you.

I really think Taron Edgerton is developing into a fine actor. And the supporting cast all give largely excellent performances. Photography is visually arresting. But the script? It's as dumb as shit.

It's a measure of me as an anachronism I didn't include the possibility of a similarly incriminating Discord chat. But still ... CALLED IT!!!

There are three certainties in life. Death. Taxes and the Jets being the Jets.

It's pretty wild to think Charlie Kirk was murdered because he wasn't right wing ENOUGH! But these are wild times, to be sure.

Groyper is just another word for a group of people who've been hovering around US politics since the early 50s. They trace back to MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence - Charles Willoughby and the "Reverend" William Potter Gale (and his Christian Identity Group). Well financed. Extremely dangerous

I'm calling it early - whoever they pick up for the Charlie Kirk murder will have written a rambling, incoherent but totally self-incriminating diary ...

What should we do with America? Make 28 Years Later provided the answer ...

One thing about the Right in America is they hate their own as much as they hate everyone else. George Wallace learned this the hard way. He knew who really put him in a wheelchair ...

Everybody's talking about this killer as if he's Mark Wahlberg in Shooter. Even the worst marksmen can hit triple 7. Is it likely? No. But it's a possibility. As for evading the Kash Patel's FBI....

Political violence isn't "spreading" in America. It's endemic. It's always been endemic and right under your noses since the very beginning. But there are none so blind as those who will not see.

The first thing I thought when I saw the Charlie Kirk incident was - it's either blown out his carotid or the jugular vein to be bleeding that fast that quickly and with such volume. If it was the carotid you'd really need an experienced combat medic or a doctor/surgeon just to stand any chance.

"Son, why are you sleeping downstairs on the sofa?" "There was a giant spider in my room. Enormous!" "Did you not try to catch it?" "I threw my pillow at it and then it chased after me!" 😂

It's weird how society changes over the years and you forget. I was thinking about the death of my grandfather in the early eighties and how two police officers knocked at the front door to inform us. And they did this for every death. Not just those part of criminal investigations.

When people talk about American involvement in war it's always Ukraine, or the Middle East etc. But there's never any mention of the 40+ countries US special forces are currently deployed in either fighting covert war or training indigenous forces to fight proxy war.

The conflict between simply switching Trump off or reacting to everything he says and pushing back is a profound question. Without an audience Trump dies. It's that simple. But if we all ignore him he can do a hell of a lot of damage before he does. Navigating this dilemma is a challenge.

Anyone looking at #Spain under #Franco as the model for how the US can recover under #Trump has no understanding of Spanish history. Or Franco. The usual play for fascist governments is for them to become more fascist until the whole system implodes and the country is left in ruins.

Much wants more. Always.

Getting glazed by AI (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok ... take your pick) very quickly becomes tiresome. I could tell it I'm opening a tin of beans and you'd swear I'd just penned the Magna Carta!

What THE HELL is #Adobe playing at? For years Photoshop just worked. Now it's buggy as hell and requires massively parallel super-cooled GPUs and a fifty terabyte swapfile just to type a line of text. 🤬

I was a WACOM man for years. Then I was a XENCELABS guy when WACOM began dropping the ball (the build quality is so much better - especially the pens). But right now neither come close to the Apple Pen combined with my iPad Pro. The control and feel in apps such as Procreate is just next level.

Are the Jets going to stink again this season?

For nearly a week I've been depressed after dropping my phone and cracking the screen. Then I realized I'd only cracked the screen protector. Phone intact - good. Feeling like the world's biggest dummy - bad.

If corporations can hire ex-spooks, wire-tappers, psychological warfare specialists, former special forces, hackers, mob strike-breakers then it's only fair Joe Public should be able to crowd-source their services, too - right? More job satisfaction than you'd get working for ICE!! Capitalism, baby!

Did Pam Bondi buy a Monkey's Paw at the old curiosity shop in DC? You can literally see her age one year for every month she spends working for Trump.

Governments DO NOT like putting troops, cops and paramilitaries on the streets of the capitol unless they sense jeopardy.

This is how you make a sequel. Not rehashing the same old shit over, and over, and over again. It's interesting that the island society set up in 28 Years Later very much mirrors those who went into the movie with expectations not met.

"Poison Lips" by Vitallic. What an absolute BANGER! Taken from "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser" (2012) starring Vincent Gallo (dancing very, very badly). Reminds me of Curve's "I Feel Love" although someone pointed out it's very similar to Blondie. youtu.be/TWzagif6Jag?...

Most people don't know Peter Hyams' 1978 thriller, Capricorn One, about three astronauts caught in NASA's plan to fake a Mars landing was, up till shooting, about faking a lunar landing (NASA threatened to sue). It's the reason they use an Apollo LEM which is totally unsuitable for Mars insertion

If you didn't think Giuffe's death was suspicious before - you do now ...

With my professional head on - shout out to Zohran's graphic designers. No democrat or republican would be seen dead rocking a red, orange and blue combo with a damned Flash Gordon font! "Zohran! A-ah! Saviour of the Universe Zohran! A-ah! He'll save every one of us"

"How's your day been, love?" "Oh ... terrible. Couldn't find the debit card. Had to report it lost or stolen. Total nightmare." "You mean the one on the chair arm next to you?" 🙄

Criminals are creatures of habit. If something worked for them really, really well in the past logic dictates that more of the same can only be a boon. I just thought I'd write this in advance of what might very well occur in the next week or two's utterly wild politics ... 😉

Anyone else getting weird James Forrestal vibes from Dan #Bongino?

If I were to offer Ghislaine #Maxwell any advice it would be - "Take the train and avoid the plane" ...

You know, there was a brief moment in time when I actually thought 3D could really work. Dredd IS Alex Garland's best movie and one of the most satisfying, poetic and cinematic endings in action theatre #dredd youtu.be/hyjfNQ0lJn4?...

You know - there was a time when Mission Impossible required nothing more than a table and chairs, two actors (Cruise is at his best here!), a fish tank, a stick of gum and a visionary director to achieve what several hundred million dollars struggles to today ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi9...

Whilst the entertainment industry seems to be increasingly colonized by nepo-babies of dubious quality - there are exceptions such as Jared Harris, Harry Melling, Jack Quaid etc. who more than carry their own weight. And Esme Creed-Myles carries the ENTIRE weight of #Sandman Series II.

Nov 14 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan flew to Guyana on a fact finding mission to investigate reports that Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, was holding Americans against their will in Jonestown. This footage was shot by the NBC crew that accompanied Ryan to Jonestown. It is a horror story.

Does #Trump realize - everything Ghislaine #Maxwell touches dies?

It's weird how watching the chaos unfold in #America this last six months is increasingly like being a participant in Mystery Science Theater 3000. #MST3K

Trump's problem probably isn't that he's listed as one of the #Epstein clients (why would he keep a file on #Trump whose antics are flouted in public?). It's that he knowingly provided the hotel space for these meets to take place.

Whilst #Trump takes credit for ordering the release of all files related to #JFK the fact is this EO was issued by Clinton in 1992. Why have they not been released? Because FBI/CIA aren't obliged to release any files which threaten national security. Keep that in mind when thinking of #Epstein ...

The latest episode of Everything-Trump-Stole-From-Nixon series - excerpt from Fr. Theodore Hesburgh's biography mentioning that following his re-election for a second term Nixon immediately demanded the resignation of nearly 2,000 high level government officials. BTW - AI says this never happened 🤔

The problem with the #epstein files is even if they were ever released in entirety (not that I think they are extant) their contents have been blown up in the imaginations of many it's doubtful they could ever live up to expectations. I foresee only disappointment, recriminations and acrimony.