CNN headline: Inside plans to rebuild the 'top-secret' bunker beneath the White House East Wing

outstanding use of scare quotes

my wife, reading a clue where the answer is a pair of words that are reversals: " '3 feet & a sturdy cart.' (pause) Is there a thing called a ... dray?"

smdh. she forgot about dray

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times, a lady.

the First Amendment guarantee that anyone who writes the honest feelings of their heart must get at least a B on the assignment

tautocracy (n.) - rule by the powers-that-be

The Accidental Harvard Letter
The Accidental Deportation
The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island
The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist
The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers

Oops! All Tariffs

What fun America is right now. We've a bunch of insipid lunatics running around the building knocking down load-bearing walls because it'll "open up the space" and now we're all just sitting here waiting for the fucking building to collapse on us.

If it's not fully setting in how ominous this is, try reading it this way:

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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The 100 Worst Things Trump Has Done Since Descending That Escalator Some were just embarrassing. Many were horrific. All of them should disqualify him from another four years in the White House.

You, a man who led six businesses into bankruptcy and are now leading our country, know that “10" is a nice round number for a list such as this–a way of focusing the attention on a pattern. You know that this symbolic shortlist could easily be extended by dozens and dozens, if one were so inclined.

10. Trade favors with corrupt politicians. You take a personal meeting with a mayor under federal indictment for bribery and corruption. A few weeks later, your DOJ orders prosecutors to drop the charges. They instead resign en masse, alleging a corrupt quid pro quo.
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Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what's at stake Rights groups say that behind U.S. President Donald Trump's vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land.

9. Promote a foreign policy of ethnic cleansing. You announce your administration’s new plan for Middle East peace: A 21st-century Trail of Tears (forced relocation) for the people living in Gaza.

14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional The lawsuit is one of several accusing President Donald Trump of skirting the Constitution and Musk of operating with unchecked power.

8. Enable unprecedented corruption and cronyism. You appoint a multi-billionaire, who runs multiple large companies, to a made-up position with vast, unchecked, unsupervised authority. Your press secretary assures the public that he will “monitor his own conflicts of interest.”

Trump administration fires prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and moves toward ousting FBI agents The Trump administration has fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so that they can possibly be ousted.

7. Carry out purges. You unlawfully fire over a dozen inspectors general (senior-level agency watchdogs for waste and fraud). You fire the head of the Office of Government Ethics. You fire career employees at DOJ and FBI for investigating and prosecuting your crimes.

The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway. Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...

6. Unlawfully seize powers reserved by the Constitution to Congress. You issue royal decrees (executive orders) to freeze or slash massive portions of spending appropriated by Congress. You dismantle entire federal agencies created by Congress.

Donald Trump stored, showed off and refused to return classified documents, indictment says Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierl...

5. Steal government secrets, lie about it. You steal dozens of boxes containing classified national-security documents. You lie to investigators and secretly move boxes to a bathroom to keep the government from finding them.

Video Of Capitol Riot Shown During First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing YouTube video by NBC News

4. Encourage political violence. You send an angry mob to march on Congress. You sit on your hands for hours while they storm the Capitol and force lawmakers into a bunker. Later, you pardon the rioters, including ones who violently assaulted police.

3. Abuse your office, attempt election fraud. You call up a state election official, threaten him, and tell him he needs to somehow find just enough votes for you to win.

The phone call that could get Trump impeached YouTube video by Vox

2. Withhold aid to extract personal political favors. You call up a foreign leader and corruptly suggest that he must investigate your political rival’s family before you’ll release military aid that’s required by law.

Trump administration family separation policy - Wikipedia

1. Tear children and families apart. Your border policy separates thousands of children from their families, keeping them in cages. With no tracking system in place; hundreds of children remain separated from their parents for years.

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You’re an aging reality show host/steak salesman who has somehow become the President. Knowing that laws, honesty, and basic decency are for sad, low-IQ losers, you do things like:

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I will never finish setting up my PC or any other device

Screenshot of Wikipedia text: "... Mozambique's 15-year-long civil war. I'm addition to moral support and publicity, Swaggart Ministries was repeatedly accused of providing funding and material support to the group. In September 1985, government forces supported by Zimbabwe captured RENAMO's headquarters inside Mozambique, Casa Banana."

There's always money in the banana stand