I sure hope the term “post-apocalyptic“ doesn’t mean next week.

If they agree to take the money, he’ll make them sign an NDA.

There are people who know for sure whether the Butler, PA assassination attempt was staged. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’ve watched frame-by-frame videos of the event and to me, it smells fishier than a tin of anchovies. Closeups of the ear, showing no permanent injury, seal the deal for me.

Religion is the only area of human endeavor in which people claim, and are often granted, special privileges or deference based solely on what they say they believe.

JD VANCE:

“Cookie Monster should be careful talking about baked goods.”

Sounds like they’re putting the pressure on Alito and Thomas to resign while Trump can still replace them with younger models. I can see Alito giving in, but not Thomas. He knows resigning would instantly render him useless to the billionaire sugar daddies who subsidize his luxurious lifestyle.

Hungary’s journey inspires us all, but remember- we will face different and possibly, greater, obstacles to reclaiming democracy. He will use every means, military and technological, to hold power. Our only hope is to show up to vote in such enormous numbers there can be not even a shred of doubt.

Picture the frantic calls between Peter Thiel, Kevin Roberts, Russell Vought et al, scrambling to save their christofascist dream for the US now that Hungary has gone to the Dark Side. Failing Trump AND the loathsome Vance must go ASAP. However they attempt to pull it off, it ain’t gonna be pretty.

“Blasphemous” means nothing to me, as I don’t believe in gods of any kind. But stupid? I can totally get behind stupid.

There are powerful and hopeful lessons for us in Hungary’s election results. In droves, voters led by young people rejected the false promise of a return to a mythical past. Similarly, we must reject the false promises of MAGA and Christian nationalism.

To end the Iran war, I propose “The Stormy Daniels Solution.”

Pull out, pay them a trillion dollars and make them sign an NDA.

My wife this morning:

“I may be out of fucks to give, but I have plenty left to hurl.”

I love her.

We should be paying close attention today to the actions Victor Orban takes to subvert the Hungarian election. Whatever he does there will be repeated here in November.

What could we possibly have expected? Iran sent its most skillful negotiators. Trump sent three chumbalones.

Maybe Melania was trying to use the Epstein files to distract us from the war that was started to distract us from the Epstein files.

Yes, but the “steal” is 100 percent American.

Trump Regime:
“ It’s just a flesh wound.”

What do you think?

Of course he backed down; it was Taco Tuesday.

Even if the President is removed under the 25th Amendment, JD Vance is in the pocket of the same people who got us to this point, so there’s little doubt he’d be just as likely to continue the madness.

If the people who have the power to remove him via the 25th Amendment don’t act now, he is likely to cause irreparable harm to this country and the world.

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Wouldn’t you just love to see Bondi do a “woman scorned” number and release all the Epstein files on her way out the door?

Bye-bye, Pam. Guess those painful lip injections were for naught.

His purported plan to replace Pam Bondi with Lee Zeldin is like swapping chlamydia for shingles.

You know that old saying, “Lead, follow or get out of the way?” He can’t seem to do any of those.

Once wasn’t enough?

The only way now to avoid total catastrophe in the Middle East is to cancel the military buildup, withdraw ours and Israel's forces and, in return for reopening the Straits of Hormuz, reimburse Iran for the damage we’ve caused. I’d say the chance of that happening is slightly less than zero.