Trump is on TV now talking about perhaps resuming the bombing of Iran.
Almost two months since he started the war.
And the position of GOP members of Congress is that the people's representatives in Congress should have no say on this. They really do think Trump should have the power of a king.
Republicans have been choosing corruption for decades--at least since Nixon.
I haven't flown to SFO since 2004. I flew there for business a couple of times in 1997 and 1998 (back when I was a Ninth Circuit clerk). I don't have many memories of the flights. They were all out of SeaTac, and I don't recall any real problems.
But I have never had many flight problems anyway.
I always take a paperback and just sit and read. It's a blessed time for me.
But I'm not traveling like I used to. I used to travel a fair amount for my job. But I haven't flown anywhere for three years now. The joys of Zoom!
I missed one flight. After that, I started arriving even earlier at the airport. Now, I feel crazy if I don't arrive at the airport at least two and a half hours before the flight.
Sure thing, J. Edgar Boozer!
That last part doesn't sound so bad.
Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson is encouraging Republicans to back a bill defining the "nuclear family" as a husband, a wife, children, and the husband's Grindr hook-ups.
The left would have us believe that all cultures are equal. But in reality, some produce marvels while others turn out AI slop and descend into cocaine-fueled fascism.
by Alex Karp
And that shows a commitment to Nazism.
Naw, getting a tattoo is pretty danged committed. I'd say it's a pretty good index to where what counts as his brain resides.
He might as well answer in Russian.
I don't know whether Hitler was inauthentic. Authenticity is important, but only if it's authentic decency, authentic empathy--in short, an authentic form of ethics or morality that doesn't make me want to projectile vomit.
Well, he has a Nazi tattoo. That's pretty committed.
Donald fucking Trump has an organized base of supporters, and he's as inauthentic and hateful as they come
Oh, okay. Yeah, I think that the working assumption should be that Trump hires or appoints the very worst people, in terms of both ethics and competence.
A lot of successful businesspeople are surprisingly stupid. You don't have to be smart to get rich.
"Inexperienced and stupid U.S. negotiating team."
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
"Yes, I remember when the principal would call us into the playground and assemble us before the gallows. 'Today is the day set for execution of sentence on Jimmy Martin, who was convicted of dipping Cindy Mathers's pigtails in an inkwell.' Then the last sad words; the hood; the sudden drop . . ."
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.
Senate Dems say a 27-year-old died in ICE custody on Sun. Just one day prior, a 47-year-old Mexican national also died. Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has blasted “serious deficiencies in ICE detention centers,” calling them “incompatible w/human rights standards and the protection of life.”
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.
We should be learning from other countries...
Reasonable minds can't disagree about the 2020 election.
But I'm operating on the assumption that conservatives are p-zombies.
This is a story out of France. What's wrong with them? Have they forgotten how to build guillotines?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
We do like to pretend that traders are smart.