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An interesting question came up yesterday: Is the stupid barking dog actually a space alien sending us sophisticated messages we are incapable of comprehending? Is the pup into Trumpian genocide, or world peace? It's worth a thought. I watched Disclosure Day yesterday. And I couldn't help noticing some remarkable similarities to our annoying Pavlov's dog. First, in the film the aliens come to us as animals. What's the difference between a cardinal or a deer, and a constantly yapping dog? Second, the aliens try to communicate with us in a garbled language we can't understand. Very much like a barrage of Tik Tok videos. Third, there is an overall air of conspiracy, lies, deflection, paranoia, and - most important - banal stupidity. Very much like a barrage of Tik Tok videos. So perhaps there is some very sophisticated message here. Or, more likely, the vast and profound message the yapping dog is sending us is simple: DON'T LISTEN. If empathy and intelligence are going to come from somewhere, it won't be from Trump. Or from his good and loyal and true dog. Or Tik Tok. The world seems to be learning this together. Well, at least we'll always have Israel. And genocide. So we just get conspiracy, lies, deflection, paranoia, and - most important - banal stupidity. Oh, and higher gas prices. 😱 Personally, I find it satisfying to NOT listen to a stupid lonely old man who posts banal videos that say stupid old things. On the other hand, if Emily Blunt or Josh O'Connor have something to say, I will gladly listen.

If fairness, Dog Think is way less complicated than you make it sound. It works like this. Dead Protestor that ICE kills - 3 LOUD BARKS Dead Iranian School Girls - 7 LOUD BARKS JD Vance says we won the war we lost - THREE MINUTES OF LOUD BARKING Lindsey Graham says we lost the war JD Vance says we won - RIP HIS THROAT OPEN It's actually pretty simple. Plus, give the pup some credit. He is good and loyal and true. Besides, his first post on this thread was "Song Song Blue." Great song, great movie. Granted, our dumb pup is no Hugh Jackman. But what's a dog to do?

Or he could just bite off the foot of Tom Cotton. That said, truth to be told, JD Vance has more fashion sense than Tom Cotton and certainly more than Trey Gowdy (I know, Sis. You may disagree,) Fox's Trey Gowdy complains about the MOU: Iran is “better off than they were before the hostilities began” And JD's turn in Trump's line of fire is coming. Maybe Barky will have to chew off JD's shoe? It's all so depressing. Barky had such potential when his Momma looked kindly on Joe Biden. One wonders where the ignorance and cruelty came from?

Which is why they are about to lose their temporary power. Can someone adopt @Barknaway? I am worried sick that when Trump finds out all his stupid yapping was worthless, and only reflected his own ignorance, that Trump will turn @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. Please let's be compassionate to @Barknaway. He is good and loyal and true.

Tom Cotton, the Senate’s foremost Iran hawk, is in a Trump-induced jam A decade after blasting a remarkably similar Iran deal, the Intelligence chair is now treading carefully. Will @Barknaway have to take out Tom Cotton? Will @Barknaway have to take out Jordon Bardella, and a world full of right wing leaders who reject Trump's pig-headed "USA First And Only" stupidity? My heart bleeds for @Barknaway. Yes, he is a dumb dog that will go along with genocide. And destroying American prestige to fuel Trump's ego. But it is only because he is good and loyal and true. What else is a sadistic dog loyal to Trump supposed to do? Poor @Barknaway!

Times are tough! Our sadistic pup @Barknaway is good and loyal and true. What if Trump orders our sadistic pup to assassinate The Genocide Jew? To me, being a dog lover, having @Barknaway take out The Genocide Jew on Trump's command is better than seeing Trump turn @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. But who would have thought it would come to this!!!!!!!!!! Wasn't the whole point to kill a lot of innocent Iranian school girls? Excuse me. I meant, wasn't the whole point to kill Gay-hating theocratic mullahs? Instead we gave them a "Get Out Of The Strait Of Hormuz For Free" card. Please God! Do not let Donald Trump turn good and loyal and true @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. Better to off The Genocide Jew.

Who knows. Maybe Trump will ay Canada $300 billion in reparations, too! 🤔

The Most Surprising Miscalculation of Trump’s Second Term He has underestimated the power of patriotic sentiment in countries besides the United States. Trump is good at three things: ego, greed, and genocide. Oh. I forgot. Rape. As a diplomat ....................... well, he sucks. As a POTUS ................... duh! He is an abject failure. Wonder how many languages he knows how to "stupid flailing asshole" in?

Are you happy precious barking pup? Lots of people are dead like Iranian school girls. Maybe you even got to chew off the legs of one of the Gaza children that The Genocide Jew targeted for mass murder. What fun! All so the US can be humiliated. And so you can bark and bark and bark about how Obama and Biden and Clinton are to blame. You are a very stupid and murderous pup. But we still love you! Now the US is weaker and Iran rises. Go kill some Iranian to celebrate!

Talarico is actually ever so slightly leading Paxton in a new poll. Even better, Sherrod Brown is leading in a poll in Ohio. If there is anyone in the US who has credibility as a working class, pro-union guy who fights for the working class, it is Sherrod Brown. The fact that he was taken out as Ohio Senator in 2024 despite that, because people were pissed at Democrats for inflation, says a lot about the challenges Democrats face. The best hope I see is that Democrats manage to win the latest coin toss in 2026 and 2028 and then actually do something to help the working class. Then, like AMLO and his movement in Mexico, they might actually be able to sustain power for a decade or so. Rather than just set up the next coin toss.

Gas prices. And the "L" word. One of the guys I have been listening to a lot lately is Robert Pape. He predicted when the Iran War started that Trump would get caught in an escalation trap. And now he has. So Pape is now predicting Trump's base will further degrade for two reasons. And to be clear what he means by that, the swing voters - young men, Hispanics and Blacks who were fed up with Biden thanks to inflation - are already lost, Pape says. He's talking about the roughly one third of Americans who are true blue MAGA folk. Gas prices will be one thing that just keeps slicing away at Trump's support. But the other one is the "L" word: loser. Trump is spinning cartwheels with his cankles and genocide threats to avoid looking like a loser. But if he wants an agreement with Iran that will get gas prices down, he's going to have to look like a loser. So maybe the MAGA echo chamber can look past more corruption. But even the Divine Miss Graham will shit her dress when she learns Trump really is a loser! What a dumb fuck genocidal POTUS to do? Consult with Justin, maybe?

And you can't let the US government have his tax returns and he and his family fleece the world.

The new polls are devastating for Trump. I have not seen a specific poll on "gas prices". If you asked 100 people if they like higher gas prices, 100 would probably say NO. The more MAGA-oriented question would be, "Is this short term sacrifice in higher gas prices worth it so we can Make America Great Again by nuking Iranian civilization, killing tens of millions of people, disrupting the global oil infrastructure, and creating a big recession?" 😱 No doubt some loyal MAGA folks would say, "Sounds great to me." Patriot Pete would be down on his knees voraciously sucking Trump's cock while the nukes drop incinerating Iranian children. You gotta give Patriot Pete credit for even being able to find Trump's cock, really. Or maybe he just sucks on the fat ankles instead. President Trump Job Approval - Inflation As far as MOST Americans - not to mention most people on the planet - go, Trump is in big trouble. He ran for POTUS to lower prices. Only 30 % approve of the way he is handling inflation. 2 in 3 Americans disapprove. Probably many of those are Trump supporters who usually don't vote. And won't vote in 2026 because Trump actually gave us a war that caused gas prices and inflation to spike. The exact opposite of what he promised. Narcissistic piece of shit. If Democrats could win the votes of the 2 in 3 Americans that don't like how Trump is handling inflation, that would of course be a landslide. Now is the time for Democrats to be talking about how they will help Americans in the pocketbook. I'm a one trick pony. But I keep going back to those child tax credits. For tens of millions of Americans, they did basically offset the sting of inflation while it was spiking the most. For one year, child poverty was cut in half for White, Black, Asian and Hispanic working class families. That's not DEI. That's decency. At least Democrats did something. It's not the same as a factory job. But they did something that helped tens of millions of working class Americans in their pocketbook. Just bitching about how Trump sucks is fine. That will be sufficient to do well in the midterms. It will not be sufficient to govern. Which arguably is the sad lesson of the Biden/Harris Administration.

To intentionally mix stock and flying metaphors, you will have to decide. Is this a buy the dip moment? Or is this Trump just crashing? Both can be true at the same time! Speaking of which, it is possible to despise Trump, and profit off his antics. I made a lot of money buying the big dip last April when he had a tariff tantrum. And, speaking of dips: If you don't recognize him, that's Tom Lee on the left, Wall Street perma-bull. I found that graphic because it is simple. Here is Tom Lee's own version of it: Note that was from January of this year. He has been right so far. It's probably not exactly clear, but that chart is basically a composite of US stock market performance in every midterm election year since 1928. The standard vocabulary I keep hearing is midterm elections are "choppy" market years. Usually followed by a year with unusually good returns. That has nothing to do with who the POTUS is. It's the way the stock market has been. And what seems to be accepted by many Wall Street people as dogma. So in any midterm year, odds are we'll have a "crash", to use the word in the image above, going right into the elections. In a year when we are losing a war, oil prices are rising, inflation is hot, and mortgage rates are up, it's probably even more likely. So Wall Street, if this plays out, will basically be saying: "Donald Trump, you are a worthless piece of shit. You, worthless piece of shit, are losing a war that is fucking up the global economy. You, worthless piece of shit, are bringing back inflation. You, worthless stupid piece of shit, are making long rates go up. What part of being a worthless piece of shit do you not understand, you worthless piece of shit?" Granted, it's not exactly news that Trump is a worthless losing piece of shit. Except to him. But if anybody can pierce the worthless piece of shit's narcissistic armor, it may be Wall Street. Greed loves greed, and listens to it. Speaking of greed, I wouldn't mind a nice buyable dip this fall. Meanwhile, back to the airline thing. Buckle your seat belts. It may be a bumpy ride.

Gosh! That's a tough one. Even for a smart ass like me. So I consulted with one of the best American leaders ever. But I guess you have to give credit to Trump. They did get fooled again.

What makes you think that? 😉

Has anyone else noticed how great it is when America Is Great Again? You can feel it in the air. Not a day passes when some socialist Canadian doesn't call me and say, "How do I get out of my shit hole? Can't Canada be the 51st US state?" Nope, bitch! You had your chance. That said, I'll make a small exception for the two hockey dudes from Heated Rivalry. But back to serious matters. When America Is Great, you can see the spattered legs and brain matter of dead US soldiers all over Iranian fields. God Bless America! When America Is Great, you can smell the burning flesh of Iranian school girls. It makes me want to sing the National Anthem! It is only when we let Weak Extremist Black Obama Type Americans rule that Bad Things happen. Like Evil Iranian Theocrats Hanging Gay People. (Did I mention that when America Is Great, Gays can be Treasury Secretary? Sorry, Sis!) When America Is Weak, Bad Things can happen at home, too. Like allowing Weak Extremist Obama Supporting Black House Members to win US House seats in the South. Ugh! We have to get Extremist Black Democrats out and Strong White Republicans in! And therein lies the problem. Seems like as Great As Universal Lord And King Donald Trump is, and as much as he has Made America Greater Than Ever!, we still have a small problem Robert Kagan: "Full-Scale Invasion" Only Way To Open Strait Of Hormuz And Overthrow Islamic Republic This dude is saying we have three choices. We can invade Iran and have a bloody land war, which Americans won't tolerate. Or we can nuke Iran. Kagan doesn't even mention that option. Since I guess he's too much of a pussy to advocate righteously killing millions of Iranian kids. Or we can let Iran run the Strait Of Hormuz in one form or another, and end up worse than when we started. Now I know what you are thinking. This must be some Socialist Canadian. Or some Extremist AOC Type Loser who needs to go back to the shit hole she came from. But, no. This is Robert Kagan, neocon who a few decades ago fiercely advocated for the US to invade Iraq to spread democracy. Given how well that worked, you would think he would be shouting that we need to do it again. But in Iran this time. Nope. He's saying Americans are pussies and they won't. Poor neocon! This is the kind of noble bullying he has advocated his whole life. And it turns out it just doesn't work out well, in practice. But just this time. Well, actually. It didn't really work well in Iraq, either. But who could have seen that coming? I guess that leaves option three. Give Gay Hanging Iranian Theocrats more power than before. Kagan says this makes Iran more powerful than a nuclear weapon would. Who could have seen that coming? Personally, I think these people are all pussies. We should deport all the Extremist Black House members and weak neocons who wouldn't recognize American Greatness if it slapped them in the face. Send them to Montreal or Toronto or some other Socialist shit hole. Then nuke the fuckers. After we have a Nice Big Glow we can let Alberta be our 51st state. After all, Ontario has all The Gays and Alberta has all The Oil. That's a pretty easy choice! Isn't it just awesome when America Is Great Again!

You may also be right that it will be this quasi-Independent force. Roosevelt was a Republican, mostly. But he did form the Bull Moose Party, aka the Progressive Party. And it was a springboard for a lot of progressive ideas that played out for decades to come, in reaction to out of control capitalism. I think we are stuck - both Democrats as a party and the US as a nation - for as long as we have these red states like Iowa and Montana and North Dakota that reflexively elect Republicans only these days. Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, is someone I sent money to for several cycles. In 2018, he won. In 2024, he lost. He allegedly texted someone and said the party brand was like "poison" to him in Montana. Duh! Tester slams Democrats, voices support for potential independent in Senate race I agree with Tester. We have two strong Independent candidates running this cycle who are kinda sorta Democrats, in Montana and Nebraska. There was a time, not that long ago, when moderate Democrats could win in those states as moderate Democrats. Such a time could exist again in the not too distant future, after Trump's mess ends. The thing I liked about people like Jon Tester and Heidi Heitkamp and Claire McCaskill (recent moderate Democrats who won and then lost in Montana, North Dakota, and Missouri) is that they mostly kept their mouths shut and played as team players, knowing that the AOC/Bernie end of the party was a drag on them. We need both to win. And that is clearer then ever. Had we had those three Senators in the US Senate in 2022 we could have had permanent child tax credits. That would have cut working class child poverty in half for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. That is better than $1 billion ballrooms if Democrats want to win power and keep it for a while. Like AMLO did in Mexico by focusing on people's pocketbooks and keeping the college-educated woke crowd at bay. Disclaimer: I am part of the college-educated woke crowd, but I recognize that I am NOT a majority. My actual woke college professor was named Paul Wellstone. And he ended a long Democratic drought in Minnesota in 1990 by being the woke college professor who rode economic populism to the US Senate. Tim Walz was an acolyte of progressive training school Wellstone Action. The formula works! Then we have money whores like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. I might be arguing against myself by saying i want moderate Democrats, but not Manchin and Sinema. They are moderates. But they are also pocket sucking money whores who suck up lobbyist money. And they were never really good team players. Even though they claimed to be. At least with Sinema it worked out well. We got rid of that pocket sucking money whore and replaced her with Ruben Gallego, who is a team player and will fight for progressive stuff. Talarcio kind of falls in that category in Texas. He is running as a Democrat. But he is branding himself as young and fresh and independent. If any of these three can win, either as a Democrat or an Independent, I think that's good news. Maybe people are getting sick of the craziness. One reason I like Gavin Newsom is he can and will tell people on the left - like me - to go fuck ourselves. He has a good enough radar for the center that he can maintain popularity while appeasing the left on some things. Maybe Kamala Harris or others can do that. But Newsom has proven it in California. So my hope is by 2028 someone like Newsom or Harris gets elected POTUS. And can also get a stable Senate majority, which in theory could include some "red state" Independents. I think Carney is proving adept at the same thing in Canada. Then again, maybe it's time for a Bull Moose Party again!

And the answer is: in 2018 and 2020, America had had enough of Trump. Kinda. Sort of. I decided a while back there basically are two Americas. We now know pretty much for a fact that up to 40 % of America will eat Trump's shit for breakfast. For many of them - like one of my nieces and one of my nephews - they are Trump voters for whom times have never been better. My niece is buying a condo in Florida. My nephew texted me to say how wonderful it is that NVDA has gone through the roof. Another nephew, who despises Trump, just become a multi-millionaire on a bet on SOXL (semiconductors) that paid off very well. So we live in a K-shaped economy. For many Trump voters, and for many upscale Democrats, times have never been better. But that's not most Americans. The rich love tax cuts and ballrooms. Who cares if we spend $1 billion on a ballroom while gas prices soar? These are all signs of the times. Trump won again in 2024 with less than 50 % of the vote. He won for two reasons: high prices, and open borders. He did do slightly better than he did in 2016, when he lost the electoral college. I do blame this on Democrats as much as Trump. Biden was old and tired. And even if he was not old and tired, I never got the feeling that he or Harris could tell working class America how they would fight for them every fucking day. Biden was no FDR, even though he wanted to be. We'll see how Kamala does in 2028, if she runs. The polls say she is leading. If Democrats want a fighter, I think it is just as likely they will pick Newsom. That is the role he is auditioning for. He was on the cutting edge of same sex marriage as Mayor of SF when I lived there. And I think he has been a competent relatively progressive Governor of one of the largest economies in the world in a time of COVID crisis. Whoever Democrats nominate, they have to be able to explain how they will fight like hell for the working class in a way Harris simply could not in 2024. Maybe the third time will be the charm for her. I'm hoping. Or maybe Mayor Pete or somebody else will emerge. Emotionally, I already feel like America is lost. When the President of the United States is brazenly threatening to end a civilization and burn millions of Iranian children to death, how can America claim to be a shining city on a hill? We are a corrupt moral cesspool right now. And the billionaires, starting with Trump and his family and friends, are building ballrooms and grabbing every fucking penny they can. They deserve it! I can't tell you when this will end. But I'm pretty sure it won't end well. The better question for me is: what Democrat can clean up this disgraceful and harmful mess when it collapses? But for now, Trump wants gold statues of himself, ballrooms, and parties!

I don't disagree that it would be better if NO billionaire ran for office. But that's really not the way it has ever worked in the US. We started out with the following criteria: 1) be White, 2) be male, 3) be rich, 4) own slaves. Not all the Founding Fathers met that description. Just 12 US Presidents owned slaves. 🤔 But you all get the point. Lucky for us, we at least get to have a Republican President and SCOTUS that wants to disempower Blacks and take their representatives away. 😱 I am tempted to vote for single Mom Katie Porter. But given the polling, I feel like it would actually be a vote for Village People Republican Guy Chad Bianco. He's polling third, behind Hilton and Steyer. Becerra is fourth, according to Real Clear Politics. Porter is #5 and in the single digits. She was in the lead early on. So she seems like a lost cause at this point.

Sorry, Sis. But on this one I beg to differ. I want Genocide POTUS and The Genocide Jew to burn in hell forever, chained to Yasser Arafat. The Genocide Jew and Arafat would make a lovely couple. Trump, Netanyahu, and Arafat are three of the worst leaders in my lifetime. All three are or were corrupt. Which is small ball. The bigger issue is that all three used mass violence to stay in power. The thing that makes Trump and The Genocide Jew different is they openly support genocide. By that standard, Arafat was only a garden variety terrorist. But the best is yet to come. Having been rebuked by the world and the Pope for threatening to nuke Iran and end a civilization in genocide, Trump says, "Fuck that shit." Now he's just being cute in how he states his depraved and evil impulses. By the standard of many organized religions, including Christianity and Judaism, Genocide POTUS and The Genocide Jew deserve to burn in hell forever. Trump’s remark fuels nuclear speculation We've all heard of some religion that talked about "an eye for an eye." Who said that? 😉 The Genocide Jew had the brilliant idea of mass murder of Iranian leaders. Now Iran's leader is saying, "Fuck that shit. We ain't giving up on nukes." Iran now has control of the Strait Of Hormuz, which they did not before the wat. How is this winning? So Trump, the victim of his own sick impulses. threatens to nuke them instead. This is not leadership. This is not even bad politics. This is evil. We now return you to your regularly scheduled $1,000,000,000 ballroom. Maybe the rich can watch millions of Iranian kids burn to death at a gala dinner! How glowing and festive!

Here's an informative article about this issue. This article and another one on AI sealed the deal. I'll vote for Steyer. More than anything else, he is a voice for left of center economic populism that can win. Becerra seems like an underwhelming government bureaucrat, if Politico is right. Steyer is very much a sign of the times we life in. You can say a scion of wealth should not be Guv. Then again, FDR was much more a scion of wealth than Steyer. Steyer made his wealth, whereas FDR inherited it. Few Democrats hate FDR or the New Deal because he was very rich. Tom Steyer vows to cut electricity bills by 25%, but experts say the details fall short I'll say something bad and something good about Steyer. The bad thing is, as the article spells out, it's almost certainly an exaggeration to say anyone could cut electrics rates by 25 %. So Steyer is practicing Trumpian politics. He's being a populist and saying he's going to focus on prices that hurt people's pocketbooks. And lower them. That's how Trump won in 2024. He ran against Bidenflation. The good thing is, as the article spells out, this is 100 % consistent with Steyer's rich man economic populism. I know more than I want about electric dereg. I spent four years of my life on it, and won hugely. "Dereg" in California and Oregon in the 1990's was all about catering to investor-owned utilities and companies like Enron, that are now known as some of the biggest corporate villains ever. Steyer is saying the opposite. He's saying these electric companies are screwing rate payers. And he wants them to cut their prices. It gets very policy wonky about wildfires. Which is a huge driver of higher rates in California. You could generalize that to "climate change" and saying similar things are happening in Florida thanks to flooding, not fires. Steyer is probably right that utilities are choosing the most expensive way to upgrade wires to prevent forest fires. Again, it gets very policy wonky. But he's putting himself on the side of people pissed about higher electric rates and saying, "Let's do something about it." It's an exaggeration to say Steyer is anti-AI. But he sounds kind of anti-AI. And I love it. I have watched lots of long form videos with experts on AI, most of whom worked in the industry. It is very scary. There is the ultimate doomsday scenario that the machines will be way smarter than us and ultimately decide humans are pests. Which, by the way, leaders of the AI industry are publicly saying could happen. But before we get to that, we have kids being told to kill themselves by AI. And at least the potential for massive white collar unemployment as workers are displaced. Did I mention massive increases in electric rates for power-hungry data centers that DO NOT create jobs. They create wealth for billionaire AI investors. And yes, it will all be wonderful. And when AI agents replace us we can all spend our free time being Michelangelo or designing space ships to Mars. What pro-AI investors are saying is such total bullshit. This is the same investment class who told us two decades ago not to worry our pretty little heads about working class factory job loss, which was just a lefty fearmongering myth. And then we lost 6 million factory jobs. And then Trump won in 2016 running against "Clinton/NAFTA". Again, this is very much a sign of the times. But Steyer stands for something. And it is something I like. I like Katie Porter more. But the polls are very clear. She's gradually going down, and Steyer is going up. It may not be fair, since Steyer is rich and can buy all the ads he wants. But this is as new to American politics as FDR and The New Deal. I want more of that. We need it. Especially after billionaire Trump, who is in it for himself and his family and friends. Rant over.

I was just thinking about how things that made sense a decade or two ago, and still do in my mind, are now wildly out of sync with Trump era bloodthirsty partisanship. Schwarzenegger championed the jungle primary. And it won on the ballot in 2010 with 53 % of the vote. Both political parties opposed it. The idea made sense if you view politics the way leaders like Arnie - who I deeply admire - did. Moderation is good. Compromise is good. Bipartisanship is good. So I think the idea was that instead of having highly partisan primaries where the most extreme elements of both parties nominate very partisan people, the jungle primary elects people who move to the middle. This all belongs in a world where we don't have partisan gerrymandering. It belongs in a world where Maine elects moderate Republicans, and North Dakota elects moderate Democrats. There was just an article in Politico about how former Massachusetts Guv Mitt Romney hosted a political fundraiser in Utah for Susan Collins. And how they are part of a dying breed of Senators of both parties who tend to want to meet in the middle. The article pointed out how most of these Senators retired or were voted out. Republican Cassidy is a doomed man, probably. So is Susan Collins, maybe. All those Indiana Republicans who pushed back against Trump on gerrymandering just lost. Times have changed. What is clearly very popular today is balls to the wall partisanship. And I'm there. I was part of the 53 % that was for "meet in the middle" primaries in 2010. And this year I was part of the much bigger majority that basically said, "Fuck that shit. Trump is an animal. And we'll fight the son of a bitch every way we can." Barely related thought. At some point I decided it may have been better for America and the world if Mitt Romney won in 2012. It would have been sad at the time. Particularly because Obama was our first African American leader. Several Black intellectuals wrote at the time that America was less racist for not only having elected Obama, but also for having re-elected him - warts and all. That said, we paid a price, as we always we do in politics when we get what we want. The GOP clearly said "fuck that shit" about Romney-style bipartisanship. No more Mr. Nice Guy. They found the most partisan asshole they could find: Donald Trump, aka King Graft. He thrives at divide and conquer. Especially if he can lie, rape, and steal. I think the better angels lost. I was most active in politics in my 20's and 30's. And despite being a liberal Democrat who worked on and won some very progressive things that no one thought we could win, it worked precisely because there were Republicans who would compromise. I miss that world.

I guess you really liked my song. Wanna hear it again? JD Vance JD Vance Every morning you greet me Sycophant Yes man brand I don't want you to lead me. Hillbilly lies told so he can rise He thinks he's so clever. JD Vance JD Vance Hope you will lead me never. Problem is if we could get rid of Trump, we'd have the hillbilly sycophant instead. I suppose if there were some barbarian country that had a policy of assassinating all the leaders of another country, that would solve the problem. And maybe kill some women and children, too. Anyone close to The Genocide Jew? Even Gay hating Iranian theocrats won't pull that kind of shit. But The Genocide Jew will.

There's a word for that: democracy. It's frustrating as hell for me. But I know plenty of people who felt the same way when Obama, or Biden, was POTUS. The difference is that, as you state, especially Trump 2.0 is Graft, Incorporated. That's why that Lincoln Project ad worked so well. The 2024 ad should have been, "Kamala is for us/them. I'm for me." The Trump-appointed SCOTUS just helped and made it a little easier for Team Trump to ignore the voters they don't care about. Meaning Black voters. I send money every month to a list of Dems who might win Senate seats. But Republicans are obviously doing everything they can to use their minority status and power to hold on to the House. Finally, it helps that Trump learned from Roy Cohn. He does what every great American POTUS should do: try to relentlessly ignore and break the law, and then lie and somehow get away with it. Speaking of legacy, how many people love the legacy of Roy Cohn? Trump will forever be the twice failed POTUS many Americans despise for being a raping lying narcissistic piece of shit, who a majority of Americans never voted for. And are disgusted with. Some legacy. Piece of shit! Piece of shir! Piece of shit! I think what Democrats can do is simply try to not fuck up and be ready to replace the steaming greedy raping pile of shit when 50.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 % of Americans wake up to the fact that the failing raping piece of shit is destroying us. And the world, it appears. We need a competent clean up crew who actually cares about America and the world. Not just as something they want to own and rule. In the meantime, less than 50 % of voting Americans delivered the steaming pile of shit. Some of whom are family members I love. I'm sure people around the world feel the same way, who probably also have family members and friends in the US that are frustrated. So we are stuck with it. Unless Iran returns the kindnesses and takes out The Genocide Jew and King Graft. Although since what The Genocide Jew and King Graft excel at is killing Palestinian and Iranian girls, and then lying about it, maybe Iran will avoid the kind of kindness The Genocide Jew and King Graft have manifested. May they burn in hell forever.