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Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. -Rudyard KIpling
A picture is worth a thousand words.Remember the old novel about our mistreatment of US colonial populations entitled "The Ugly Americans"? Still apt after all these years.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words.Remember the old novel about our mistreatment of US colonial populations entitled "The Ugly Americans"? Still apt after all these years.
Is a stalled escalator a better metaphor for the Trump Presidency than a treadmill to nowhere?
September 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Is a stalled escalator a better metaphor for the Trump Presidency than a treadmill to nowhere?
Trump is sensing his impending doom. Maybe it's because the Epstein scandal is torturing his already frazzled nervous system or because of other intractable moral problems eating away at him, but his behavior lately shows how desperately he needs to display power. Next stop: Portland and more chaos.
September 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump is sensing his impending doom. Maybe it's because the Epstein scandal is torturing his already frazzled nervous system or because of other intractable moral problems eating away at him, but his behavior lately shows how desperately he needs to display power. Next stop: Portland and more chaos.
Looks remarkably like Stephen Miller, doesn't it?
September 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Looks remarkably like Stephen Miller, doesn't it?
A sadistic regime draws sadistic personalities to serve within it. Don't expect less police brutality after the incident shown here; instead, expect more. Trump and those around him are classic sadists. They will continue to rule with a iron hand because it gratifies their inner need to hurt people.
September 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A sadistic regime draws sadistic personalities to serve within it. Don't expect less police brutality after the incident shown here; instead, expect more. Trump and those around him are classic sadists. They will continue to rule with a iron hand because it gratifies their inner need to hurt people.
Is this new babe Hope Hicks Two? And is she a threat to the rest of the Trump harem? Pam baby, watch your back, there's a an interloper in town and it looks like you might soon be a former Attorney General. You're gonna have to do something dramatic to save your job. Panic time at Main Justice.
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Is this new babe Hope Hicks Two? And is she a threat to the rest of the Trump harem? Pam baby, watch your back, there's a an interloper in town and it looks like you might soon be a former Attorney General. You're gonna have to do something dramatic to save your job. Panic time at Main Justice.
This is what happens when someone yells "Netanyahu!' in a crowded theatre.
September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is what happens when someone yells "Netanyahu!' in a crowded theatre.
"When he steps down." Presumably still in one piece- as Putin will be- after years of war in his backyard. Ever notice how the men who plan wars, who start wars and who benefit from wars when they're finally over always come out alive and well, while millions of nobodies lie dead forever and ever?
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"When he steps down." Presumably still in one piece- as Putin will be- after years of war in his backyard. Ever notice how the men who plan wars, who start wars and who benefit from wars when they're finally over always come out alive and well, while millions of nobodies lie dead forever and ever?
The Madness of King Donald. It deepens by the day. More and more bizarre behavior. Ever increasing pursuit of social disruption and intrusion into everyday lives of Americans. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Keep the pot boiling. Prolong the lunacy. Drag the country with you into the abyss.
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Madness of King Donald. It deepens by the day. More and more bizarre behavior. Ever increasing pursuit of social disruption and intrusion into everyday lives of Americans. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Keep the pot boiling. Prolong the lunacy. Drag the country with you into the abyss.
Sadists are continuously seeking novel diversions from their internal deadness. They feel nothing but their own emptiness and are desperate to fill this void, so they must constantly create situations that produce this sense of artificial excitement. War is the ultimate diversion.
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sadists are continuously seeking novel diversions from their internal deadness. They feel nothing but their own emptiness and are desperate to fill this void, so they must constantly create situations that produce this sense of artificial excitement. War is the ultimate diversion.
Trump poisons everything and everybody.
September 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Trump poisons everything and everybody.
I wonder if we Americans realize how bad things really are. I doubt it. Our indifference to the brittleness of democracy has led to today's precarious situation. Seventy-seven million US citizens paved the way for this moment to arrive when they unthinkingly returned Trump to the White House.
September 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I wonder if we Americans realize how bad things really are. I doubt it. Our indifference to the brittleness of democracy has led to today's precarious situation. Seventy-seven million US citizens paved the way for this moment to arrive when they unthinkingly returned Trump to the White House.
I'd like to know if Joe Manchin thinks.
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'd like to know if Joe Manchin thinks.
Just another act of an imperial president who simply will not let up in his compulsive drive toward total authoritarianism. The pathology only worsens with each passing day. And the saddest part is that it is already too late to stop him. We had our chance way back in 2017, but we were intimidated.
September 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Just another act of an imperial president who simply will not let up in his compulsive drive toward total authoritarianism. The pathology only worsens with each passing day. And the saddest part is that it is already too late to stop him. We had our chance way back in 2017, but we were intimidated.
You know what the Democrats need in order to win the next presidential election? They need a general! Or an admiral or an astronaut. Or a major sports hero. They need a male with all the macho trimmings that the country - and especially the overlooked working man subculture - really craves.
September 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You know what the Democrats need in order to win the next presidential election? They need a general! Or an admiral or an astronaut. Or a major sports hero. They need a male with all the macho trimmings that the country - and especially the overlooked working man subculture - really craves.
Why is a gay man a bad election risk but a minority woman is not?
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Why is a gay man a bad election risk but a minority woman is not?
Pete has been quiet for some time. Is he no longer interested in a run for the presidency? The Dems need an eloquent spokesperson who can - and will - enter into daily combat with the hijackers who are running our democracy into a ditch. If Fate doesn't stop the 79-year-old Trump, a Democrat has to.
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Pete has been quiet for some time. Is he no longer interested in a run for the presidency? The Dems need an eloquent spokesperson who can - and will - enter into daily combat with the hijackers who are running our democracy into a ditch. If Fate doesn't stop the 79-year-old Trump, a Democrat has to.
I suggest you revise your optimistic regard for Notre Dame, who just concluded their game against Texas A&M in inglorious fashion, muffing an extra point attempt and whiffing on an interception in their own end zone with only seconds left. A&M proceeded to score the winning touchdown and win, 41-40.
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I suggest you revise your optimistic regard for Notre Dame, who just concluded their game against Texas A&M in inglorious fashion, muffing an extra point attempt and whiffing on an interception in their own end zone with only seconds left. A&M proceeded to score the winning touchdown and win, 41-40.
Let's not overload poor Kash Patel's in-box. Asking him to release the Epstein files AND solve the Kirk assassination is going way too far. Keep in mind his primary FBI responsibility, to serve and protect Donald Trump. So everything Patel does has to pass through this special filter.
September 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Let's not overload poor Kash Patel's in-box. Asking him to release the Epstein files AND solve the Kirk assassination is going way too far. Keep in mind his primary FBI responsibility, to serve and protect Donald Trump. So everything Patel does has to pass through this special filter.
What do you suppose Trump was thinking when he made this maniac a presidential advisor? Was he trying to poison American discourse to the point of no return? Yes, I think he was doing exactly that. Trump loves chaos.
September 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
What do you suppose Trump was thinking when he made this maniac a presidential advisor? Was he trying to poison American discourse to the point of no return? Yes, I think he was doing exactly that. Trump loves chaos.
Sheer pathology. Real clinical stuff. Brings to mind the predictions of the old sages who saw "the men in the white coats" coming to pull the nutjobs off the streets. Which is precisely what Stephen Miller is, a nutjob at large.
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sheer pathology. Real clinical stuff. Brings to mind the predictions of the old sages who saw "the men in the white coats" coming to pull the nutjobs off the streets. Which is precisely what Stephen Miller is, a nutjob at large.
If you're eagerly awaiting news from the FBI on Tyler Robinson and his motivations, associates and background, you'd better be patient. Kash Patel is running things, so it will take time for the facts of the case to pass through his Trump filter.Don't expect a factual account to emerge anytime soon.
September 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If you're eagerly awaiting news from the FBI on Tyler Robinson and his motivations, associates and background, you'd better be patient. Kash Patel is running things, so it will take time for the facts of the case to pass through his Trump filter.Don't expect a factual account to emerge anytime soon.
Trump will do nothing of the sort. He thrives on chaos. The more turmoil there is, the more power he can seize under the guise of restoring order. Peace is the furthest thing from Donald Trump's mind. Sustaining disorder is foremost.
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump will do nothing of the sort. He thrives on chaos. The more turmoil there is, the more power he can seize under the guise of restoring order. Peace is the furthest thing from Donald Trump's mind. Sustaining disorder is foremost.
The more these right wingers get worked up and vocal, the plainer it is to see how unstable and rabid they really are. Insanity has found a permanent home in MAGA politics. If you doubt me, see Stephen Miller's latest foamy-mouthed diatribe about annihilating leftists. He is an authentic psycho.
September 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The more these right wingers get worked up and vocal, the plainer it is to see how unstable and rabid they really are. Insanity has found a permanent home in MAGA politics. If you doubt me, see Stephen Miller's latest foamy-mouthed diatribe about annihilating leftists. He is an authentic psycho.
Can there be any doubt whatsoever that this man is a raving maniac? No one should wonder why his wife left him. The bigger question is how he ever found a woman who wanted to marry him.
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Can there be any doubt whatsoever that this man is a raving maniac? No one should wonder why his wife left him. The bigger question is how he ever found a woman who wanted to marry him.