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I have to say I'm impressed. First we find out the barking dog can write. Now we're learning he can make important contributions to our fashion conversations, Sis. I'm thrilled. The hat raises an obvious question. And I don't think my Sister In Cock @Suckrates is any better than me at Spanish, or English for that matter. Why did the hat say "Make Spain Great Again."? It should have said, "I Made Spain Great Again. I Scored The Winning Goal." Perhaps he's modest, as well as adorable. Regardless, I'd like to suck his cock. Wow. He likes to be on top. I'd like him to fuck me, too. But, Sis, here's the really intriguing question that I need an answer to. Is he Gay? If so, I really want to give him a blow job. Since you are focusing on domestic politics with Zohran and Senator BDE, Sis, may I suggest you leave the international diplomacy to me? And, finally, another very important question has arisen, that I suspect only you can answer, SIs. When you give him his victory blow job tonight, my beloved Sister In Cock, would you be so kind as to inquire whether Abdul is referring to percentage points, or inches?

I'm sorry. I know we're all supposed to be polite and shit. But this is really unfair. How come you get to talk about how big Canada's economy is (great news, by the way) but we can't talk about Ossoff's big penis? (Disclaimer: 8 out of 10 whores surveyed said BDE does not correlate with a large penis. Past performance does not guarantee future results.)

I am swelling with pride for my Sister!

Note that I did not point out I am sending money to Troy Jackson. But let's be honest. Would you want that finger up your butt? There. Now that I said it, you won't get the image out of your brain. My sister takes personal responsibility by making her Mayor happy. So, yes, she is a whore. And, yes, she likes to brag about it. I never brag. 🤔 What would I have to brag about? So at least, in my fantasies, I can provide a small taste of pleasure to Senator BDE, other than by paying him money. I do feel this is my personal responsibility. Just like my devoted Sister In Cock. It's a bit like escorting. Money and sex. Who am I to be against that?

I realize I have used way more than my bandwidth on this issue. But I learned some things in revisiting it. I'm posting this video specifically because of the part with Dr. Birx, who literally stood side by side with Fauci through much of this. It is timestamped at about 19:00. I think she is right that the fuel to this is anger, from the right especially, that somehow the government fucked up. Birx says we ought to be trying to think about what we do next time and not sort ourselves to red and blue. There is no county where everyone is either red or blue, she says. True. But the fact is that in red counties in Michigan that supported Trump the most, people were 7 times as likely to die after the vaccines came out, because they did not use them. So if the point of "debate" and "meeting in the middle" is to lynch Fauci - and Birx - because they told us lies that killed us, there is zero value in that. It's like interviewing that evil bitch Elon Musk who smugly laughs and says there were "zero deaths." As if we should applaud his arrogance and ignorance and pretend we learned something or know something. I like that Birx singles out John Fetterman as a voice of reason at this hearing. Fetterman, like Birx, was pushing the "meet in the middle" approach. I think they are well meaning and sincere. I don't believe Ron Paul is well meaning. I think he wants a partisan lynching. Saager Enjeti on Breaking Points took his typical anti-government line and went with the idea that all these people someone screwed up. But he had some interesting fact-based perspectives. He said we were lucky because, unlike the Spanish flu, this virus mainly killed "fat and old" people. While blunt, that explains why Australia had a death rate about one-fifth of the US. And why many of the people who died were vaccinated. And fat or old. Australia closed the gates and waited until after most people were vaccinated to open then. But the virus still killed old and fat people. The "zero facts" crowd wants to pretend somehow Fauci and Birx lied to them. It's whining bullshit. Assessing the impact of Australia’s mass vaccination campaigns over the Delta and Omicron outbreaks Even in Australia, which had an overall death rate 80 % lower than the US, whether you got vaccinated - after the vaccines came out - increased your chances of living 7 to 11 times if you were over 50. The part about "over 50" matters a lot. As Enjeti said, that made COVID very different than the Spanish Flu, which for reasons still unknown targeted and killed younger men and women like him and his partner Krystal Ball, both young parents, in particular. Birx tells grandmother’s story in social distancing plea So there is a two minute video and a related new article there. It explains why the right wing should lynch Deborah Birx, if they want a good lynching. Why? Because Birx followed horrible social distancing rules, as explained in the first video, because she was worried about killing President Trump or Vice President Pence. Why was she worried? Because her own grandmother never forgave herself for killing her own young mother, when she brought the Spanish flflu home from school and unknowingly infected her own Mom. Who died in 1918. This is the kind of story our stupid dangerous dog loves. The barking dog could care less when children die of HIV. He would probably be barking loudly and happily when the pitchforks go into Dr. Birx for pushing the same rules that Dr. Fauci pushed. Which the mad barking dogs now say caused death, when actually they prevented death. To me, one of the worst moments of COVID, in retrospect, is when Birx told that story. The story is simple. Sending a child to school innocently killed her young mother, and meant the young girl felt guilty her whole life. On the face of it, it explains why Dr. Birx felt passionately about masks, school closures, and social distancing. I feel bad about a specific conversation I had with a friend who was the CEO of a well known education corporation. He said in late 2020 these school closures would have devastating consequences for school kids and test scores. I told him the store of Trump's expert, Dr. Birx. Happily, I'm not Joe Rogan. I don't have to worry about giving anyone bad advice. Turns out, as Enjeti noted, this virus was less fatal to young adults than the Spanish flu. By late 2020 we knew that. In retrospect, as Birx gets at in the recent interview, I think those kinds of stories and fears did cause people to overreact. As Birx said, we learned this along the way. And, as Birx said, the partisan war prevented Americans from using that knowledge the way some other countries did. My own simplistic and overly rigid view is this. Everyone should have gotten vaccinated, just like we do with measles. Had everyone gotten vaccinated, it would have made it far easier to keep schools and businesses open. Older grandparents or obese Moms might have died anyway, after vaccination. But all the facts say they had a better chance. Of course, the vaccines did not come out until 2021. What pisses me off is the "zero facts" lynch mob wants all of us to live on their fact free diet. Nobody tells me a fucking thing! And Birx and Fauci were dead right. Lots of Republicans went to the grave fighting for their principles.

First, not to be disrespectful, Sis. But get your pronouns right. It's "her." Second, I am throwing my money around to James Talarico every month. And Senator BDE in Georgia. And once he wins the primary, which he looks like he will today, El-Sayed goes on the list. Granted, unlike you I don't get to give them a blow job as well. Yes, my life is a fucking tragedy. But not all of us get to be as young and pretty as you and your BFF Zohran. So don't press your luck. But do, always and forever, press your VPL. 😉 Third, guilty as charged! I'm an optimist. Since you are being a smart ass and can "see it coming", I'll ask you this. It relates to past predictions, where we know how things eventually played out. Who is Bev Stein, and what does she have in common with Francesca Hong? Who are Paul Wellstone and Jeff Merkley, and what do they have in common? And how is the stupid barking dog not like any of them?

Well I definitely have a contrarian opinion on this. I'm not in any way trying to paint either Tillis or Cornyn as heroes. They're not. Like I said in a different post, I'll Paxtonize them (not a word, either) and use Senator BDE's word to describe them both: scumbags. I give Tillis marginally more respect. He got into it with Trump about the impact of Medicaid cuts on North Carolina constituents. You can argue he was only looking out for his own ass. But his point, bluntly, was, "If we do this, it increases the odds I will lose." Trump essentially said, "Why the fuck should I care? Good riddance." So you could say it all proves they only care about themselves, not the impact of Medicaid cuts. But all of this is helping Roy Cooper and James Talarico. If Talarico wins, it will really be a textbook example of serial political malpractice. Cornyn's role is it's a little grudge match. Of course nothing is ever over with Trump, whether it is rape or grift or really awful genocidal judgment or whatever. But it does not make matters worse that the payoff to insurrectionists is rescinded. Mostly, I accept the grift for what it is: something that tragically has to happen. The same way I accept that there are millions of stunningly stupid and dangerous barking dogs being stupid and cruel to Medicaid recipients in North Carolina and kids in Asia with HIV. I'm not happy for the grift or stupidity or cruelty or war or death of kids with HIV , of course. But, sadly, in America you really do have to take it to the extreme until the pendulum swings and goes the other way. The barking dogs have to deny that kids with HIV are dying so that ignorant stupid Joe Rogan can be told by James Talarico and Bono that, geez, kids with HIV are dying. And the dog barks and barks and takes pride in ignorance and cruelty and the death of children. The ‘Zero’ People Who Died After USAID Was Dismantled So all this to me is a calculus about how far it has to go one way to start to go back the other. But Tillis and Cornyn and the barking dog won't change, or be less dangerous.

Let's not split hairs when we should be focusing on VPLs, Sis. I don't disagree that under Trump, any piece of paper is worthless. Let's take the MOU with Iran, for example. If Democrats win the House and impeach Trump again, it will be worthless. Because they won't have the votes in the Senate. I would not discount the idea that Trump will go the way of Nixon, when his Republican "friends" in the Senate like Thune place the dagger in his fat worthless ass. It's unlikely. And it partly depends on what I wrote above about stock market bubbles and the economy. My nephew and I disagree, and he is no Bob Shiller. But he thinks the economy is on its last legs, as do many Americans. If we have are in a recession by 2028, which we could be, Trump will really look like the loser he is. He is losing voters and allies by the day. Trump has already said he doesn't want to be the next Herbert Hoover. I think his problem is more like being the next George W. Bush. A loser Forever War and an economy going into recession after a bubble collapses (housing, in the case of W.)

You are truly tragic. Fauci started PEPFAR, which saved 26 million lives of people with AIDS all over the world.. Your heroes Trump and Musk cut it. Your hero Rogan is a self-proclaimed "moron" who can't get his facts straight. You revel in lies and cruelty. Especially cruelty to kids with HIV. 5 times as many Americans died as Australians because MAGA Americans rejected Fauci's advice to get vaccinated. You're ignorant and dangerous. Please. Keep posting this stuff. Every day. Lots of it. It will help fair-minded moderates understand what it wrong with the ignorance and cruelty. It reveals what a miserable ignorant excuse for a Gay man you are.

Or make money from it. My nephew who is my stock trading buddy will make over $1 million on leveraged semiconductors today (SOXL). It's a bubble, but he's playing it. It's funny. He rents an apartment with his wife and tends bar. His wife was born in the US. But her older sister and parents immigrated from Ireland. Her sister runs a business she started that is very successful. And now my nephew and his wife are going to be multi-millionaires. So hopefully all this happens right before the Democrat who replaces Trump raises taxes on the rich. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He and I actually joke about. He thinks Trump is a piece of shit, like me. We both think it is likely the AI bubble will pop by 2028, leaving Trump and Vance holding the bag of shit. Couldn't happen to nicer guys. I will believe until I die that Dwight Eisenhower's Socialist America was a great place to be. The middle class thrived, tax rates on the rich were near the highest they had ever been thanks to FDR, small businesses (the one my Dad started, for example) prospered, and America grew. Men were men, and they wore wrestling singlets. 😉 My nephew and his wife live in a prosperous and nice Chicago suburb and are modeling the same thing. Without the singlet. Meanwhile, as you note, Sis, all Republicans are still wimps, and "scumbags", to quote Senator BDE from Georgia. Regardless, it was a small victory. And a taste of what is to come when Senator BDE chairs an oversight committee. Hopefully he'll wear a wrestling singlet when he pins those Trump Grift Motherfuckers down.

Great question. So three videos. Two of which are short. Like two minutes each. And one of which is longer, but sexy. Sorry, no wrestling singlets though. 😉 I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find a short clip where some democratic socialist talked about how they will create jobs, in their own words. I couldn't find anything that was short and made any sense to me. This is the clip that I thought came closest. No surprise that Bernie would be the one to define the movement Bernie as much as anyone started. But that definition fits for me, based on my own understanding of what people who want "democratic socialism" want. They don't want Putin to revive the Soviet Union so they can live in it. They want a set of economic rights. Bernie grounds it in FDR and MLK. I think that's right. Many people seem to view it as New Deal Plus. Or Equal Rights Plus. Like King in the latter stages of the Civil Rights Era, who tied the movement more and more to universal economic rights. What universal economic rights? I thought for a two minute video, that did a pretty good job of defining what lots of young democratic socialists want. Affordable housing. Decent wages. More unions. Affordable child care. Affordable health care. What Bernie would call a set of economic rights. That all begs the question: but how do you actually create jobs? I think what a democratic socialist would say is we don't want to replace a free market. We want to fix all the inequalities it creates. And this is where you get into the Green New Deal, as one example of how public investments will create all these great new jobs. Biden and Harris did not lose because of that idea. They lost because of inflation and things like seemingly open borders. The core idea to me has always been very simple: raise taxes on the rich and corporations and use the money to support the working class and middle class. This always polls very well. And that is certainly what Mandani, El-Sayed, Sanders, and Talarico are talking about. Talarico is on the cutting edge, in my mind. Texas has NOT elected a Democrat statewide in a long time. And Talarico is NOT a democratic socialist. But going after the "billionaires" who the current economy is rigged to benefit sure ain't hurting him. So there. That's my answer. As long as they are talking about these things, they are doing pretty well. Even in swing states and Texas. When they talk about getting rid of ICE, and the US Senate, and borders, and the police, and prisons, it's not "democratic socialism" so much as "a way to scare people and lose elections." To me, at least. One other idea, before I get to the sexy part. I was struck back in 2017 by some interview I read with a Republican Senator. Who I don't recall. But it was a really good interview. The Senator said that there was a broad awareness that all the lost factories and factory jobs in the Midwest/Rust Belt had created a huge political sore spot after eight years of Obama. And this Republican said, correctly in my mind, that Trump did a very good job of picking the scab off that wound. Those fallen Blue Wall states gave him his victories both times. But the Senator said we are very aware we can't just drop tire and steel and auto factories down from the sky and bring back the 1950's. My point is we have now gone through two Trump Administrations. And in fact they have never offered a comprehensive solution. It's now just a fact that cutting taxes for the rich didn't bring back factories. So that's what democratic socialists can run against. But what can they run for? I think the best answer so far is what Bernie says. A bill of economic rights. You may drive an Uber or work at Walmart. But at least you should have certain economic things. And if a capitalist economy can not produce those things by itself, a democratic socialist politics should tax the rich and provide it to you. I think two Trump Administrations, not to mention Trump Grift, set the stage for this to seem like a very legitimate idea. And now the sexy part. Talk about BDE. In a way that gym bro chat was disappointing. You'd think if you put a Sandernista like David Sirota in El-Sayed's home gym you'd get some type of policy wonk discussion about a Green New Deal or preventing AI job loss. No such luck. We do learn why El-Sayed thinks Fetterman is an asshole. And I'll leave it up to my younger and prettier Sister In Cock to comment on their less than perfect gym fashion choices. But the guy has BDE + GBE. And if Gym Bro Energy is not enough, he has his own ideas about masculinity. It's an interesting chat. Nice arms and legs, too!

As always, Sis, your sense of fashion and glamour exceed all expectations. Given your exceptional talent, I do have a teeny tiny little favor to ask. There have been various complaints about the authenticity of The Odyssey. But, given it's financial success, I'm guessing we can expect a sequel. Perhaps you could serve as costume designer? Or if not, at least fashion consultant? For example, lots of people complained that the armor didn't look authentic to the time. My complaint is a bit different. Nolan was obviously going for a more modern interpretation. I'm fine with that. Still, there were things that just seemed inauthentic. We get to see Tom Holland's gorgeous biceps and underarms. But am I to believe his pecs and 8-pack really look like that? You can't fool me! Perhaps in the sequel Nolan could instead use wrestling singlets for the warriors. It's not as novel as a Black Athena. But it's something. And, as you note, a little VPL goes a long way. I think Chris Nolan would find this kind of interpretation to be brilliant. In fact, he'd probably come up with some kind of Cyclops or whatever that would want to just eat these guys up! 🫢 Anyway, sorry for digressing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled post about a weak and genocidal President who is failing.

Have you tasted any of them, Sis? Just asking for James, of course.

I may be giving too much credit to Fetterman here. But I see his thing as different than Sinema/Manchin. With Sinema/Manchin I would say 100 % of it pointed to them being money whores, Sinema in particular. Manchin can say he is not and never was in no way, shape, or form a liberal. 😱 But Sinema was. 😍 They both can say we just want to be centrists and meet in the middle. And there is truth to that. But the middle also happened to be where there was tremendous amounts of special interest and corporate money waiting for them. I was a small money Sinema donor when she first ran. For months I sent her borderline sexist emails complaining she was a money whore and "pocket sucker" who just lunged at the money of special interest lobbyists with money in their pockets. I bet she got enormous amounts of nasty emails from donors and Arizona voters complaining she was a gutless wonder. She got the memo. And now we have a fighter in Gallego. Hope he doesn't turn out to be the next Eric Swalwell. But I digress. As you said, Manchin and Sinema knee capped Biden on higher taxes on the rich and things like the expanded child tax credit. I don't see Fetterman as a sell out money whore. Nor does he. Now THAT is Democrats being irrational. We desperately want a Democratic Senate. And yet we want Fetterman to leave? Huh? It confirms what seems to be part of Fetterman's bitch. Which is that the Democratic Party has too many purity tests. And fundamentally does not want to be a big tent party. By all accounts, Jon Tester feels the same way. But he didn't whine about it publicly. Tester said some Democratic Party positions made it too toxic for a Democrat to win in Montana. My standard is very simple. And I think indisputably mathematically correct on this. If we want a 60 seat filibuster proof Senate majority we have to win in Iowa, and Montana, and Indiana, and North Dakota. And certainly Pennsylvania. Those are the last Senate seats Democrats had in what could be called "Trump" states that we lost. A Heitkamp or a McCaskill would have been much more loyal than a Manchin and a Sinema. That's the difference between money whore and not money whore to me. But we can't have a McCaskill and Heitkamp and Tester if we want purity tests. Fetterman says the right needs to stop bullying trans kids. So, again, I may be wrong. But he seems like a decent, if weird, guy. I had the same feeling when he spoke at the Fauci Lynching Trial. He talked about being Lt. Guv while there is chaos and death due to COVID. And how he wonders in retrospect what he could have done differently, and better. If the hearing had been about THAT, it might have been a good bipartisan hearing. Some of this is he feels Democrats want to be the "anti-Israel" Party. For reasons I spelled out at length, I disagree. I would argue the Genocide Jew is "anti-Israel" and I am "anti-genocide." And I have the polls on my side. But Fetterman is not a big AIPAC money whore - yet. If he is smart, he won't take a penny from AIPAC if he runs again. He'll just say, "Sorry. I am with Israel. I see Hamas as a bully. I feel the same way about Republican attacks on trans kids. Period." Bottom line: I like to win. So does Chuck Schumer. I'm betting Chuck Schumer is trying to figure out how to work with him. Not to get rid of him. I've read that Fetterman may be more likely to just not run again. He is a small donor guy. And he still has a decent approval rating in his state. His problem is probably more a Democratic primary than a general election. If he just steps aside and lets someone else run and win, I will respect his decision. If he runs and wins the primary, I am with him 100 %. I hope he means what he says and is with us 100 %.

We agree. All this is just a small preview of what to expect if Democrats take either chamber. They won't be settling for crumbs. They will want Trump's head on a platter, And they will have to be careful. They will be elected to focus on affordability and health care and ending a forever war, just like Trump was in 2024. So if it's just more "Trump is evil" stuff, that's proven to be insufficient. That said, it is necessary. Expose every little shitty and stinky part of the Trump grifting empire. When it comes to Fauci, Republicans are saying they want truth and transparency. Well, guys. Hold that thought.

Here's something to scare you. Rick Wilson says he has a deep understanding of Trump. I agree. If you watch the video, he's not arguing Trump will win. He is arguing Trump will run, and cause chaos. Any sentence that strings "Trump" and "chaos" together always seems possible. Anyways, Trump can't be demented or dead in 2029, as well as POTUS. Or could he be?

I'm rooting for my oldest nephew's daughter. It's a fun stage of my life. This young woman did go to an arts school that she recently graduated from. And she does want to win either a Tony or an Oscar. So all I have to do is be the uncle who at dinner says, "I already have my fantasy about how you win an Oscar. You're going to be living in Paris with your husband (she gets married in September) directing your first film. For which you will win an Oscar. And when you win I want to be the old guy in the rocker saying, "I know that woman!" I'll stop there. But she did smile and look me in the eye and say, "I like your fantasy!" I was visiting their state because her sister, who is now in college and wants to be an actor, starred in a local non-profit production of Hadestown. She lives in the South. But she has pictures on her Instagram of shots on Broadway, when Mom and Dad took them to see some play they had to see. My point is, I think Broadway will be fine. My nephew's daughter, as I said to her Mom and her Mom knows, is much more likely to do Thoroughly Modern Millie than Doubt or Schindler's List. It's all good. We need both. Somebody will come along and dazzle us again. And, since my standards are low, it'll be easy. 😉 Have fun in Bangkok.

The formula is remarkably simple. If you are famous and appear on my show, I make more money. So if you appear on my show, I will like you. Because you make me money. It's basically the same old same old as mainstream media. It's a business. Of course they always had an agenda. One big difference is that with mainstream media there is a standard around facts. With Joe Rogan, there obviously is not. He concedes the point to Bono that maybe 300,000 people have already died thanks to cuts in USAID. But then he goes right back into his false rant about "trillions" of dollars in fraud. Rogan is going out of his way to say, "I could give a flying fuck about facts, and math." That said, Bernie Sanders appears on his show and Rogan endorses him for POTUS. Donald Trump appears on his show and Rogan endorses him for POTUS. James Talarico appears on his show and Rogan says you should run for POTUS. So the formula is very simple. Rogan wants to be rich, and is. If you appear on his show and make him money, he will probably help your political career. What a shocker! How moronic is that? 🤔 If there is a moron in the room, it is Kamala Harris. What if Kamala Harris appeared on his show and made him money, and Rogan endorsed her instead? Some votes would have changed. She did it with Charlemagne Tha God. Biden bent over backward to insult Charlemagne, and all Blacks. Kamala dazzled him with warmth and recipes. Rogan really is that guy who you always want to make sure you're the last voice he hears before he opens his mouth. And you also want to make sure you're helping him get clicks and make money. It's very simple. Trump of all people knew that. It all helps tear the system down. And it invites disaster. True or not, I have resolved myself to that. Now it's just a question of whether we can keep the disasters contained, Or they blow us all up somehow. Maybe, as Talarico says, we will build back a less corrupt system that is less unequal.

I'm going to post several videos which I found interesting for specific reasons I will point out. This whole thing has been litigated to death. And I have now beaten it to death, again. That said, I personally found it helpful and interesting. I learned some things I did not know before. The clearest and saddest thing about is is that this is culture war and political war, not science. There are interesting debates that could still be had about the value of gain of function research. Or about how we could have had a lower death rate with COVID. Or about what we do to get test scores for kids back to what they were before COVID school closures. But this is about none of that. And I blame it on Rand Paul. Which is a partisan thing to say. But this looks, feels, and sounds like a one man partisan crusade to paint Dr. Fauci as Dr. Frankenstein. Happily, my guess is the American people are ahead of the politicians on this. While it is suspect, 87 % of people in one non-scientific poll said that Congress should grant Fauci immunity in return for his testimony. I'm reading into what that could mean. It suggests to me people understand what Fauci did say: that Rand Paul is "unhinged", and is simply looking for any reason to paint him as Dr. Frankenstein and put him in jail. So 87 % of Americans say take that threat away and just let the guy speak his mind. I agree. What is weird about that is that I think we have now heard everything we could possibly want to know from Fauci. Including that he likes Barbara Streisand's music, and didn't like the public adulation "one bit." We have certainly openly heard his views about gain of function research and the likely origins of COVID. For like a decade. But if we want to hear it again, give him immunity from Rand Paul and a MAGA lynch mob and let him speak. The one thing I credit Rand Paul for is putting the public spotlight on gain of function research, and the lab leak theory. But, like before, if Fauci does speak, I think Fauci will make Rand Paul look like an unhinged zealot who thinks his opinion is God's word. I started this thread as a rant about Halperin. His website has an email portal. And I sent him a bitchy email saying he did a great job covering the 2024 election. But here he sounds jealous and petty. Maybe he got a bunch of backlash. Because, to his credit, in the video above he has almost completely dialed back the petty and jealous nonsense. He gets one dig in at Fauci for going out to lunch with Brad Pitt after his testimony. Ha ha ha. I timestamped that video to 9:30 because I think the most interesting part of it is what Republican talking head Larry O'Connor has to say. O'Connor's rant is longer than that. But I think that is enough to explain the core of it. I think that explains what is happening. Probably with Rand Paul, too. Rage. Irrational rage. Of course, rage is always irrational. At least Paul can keep a lid on the rage, when his neighbor is not beating the shit out of him. Robert Kennedy, Jr - who is no moral icon - just flew into the same kind of rage with Dana Bush because she focused calmly on facts. What testosterone! What men! They probably have three foot long cocks, too! What BDE! But, sorry. Here's my rage. They are stupid dangerous barking dogs who got hundreds of thousands of their own Trump voting older Republicans killed by pushing their irrational and unscientific anti-vaccine theories. So my rage goes like this: YOU REPUBLICAN FUCKERS KILLED YOURSELVES! Affluent liberal Democrats in Marin County did not die at anywhere near the rate as you OLD REPUBLICAN BARKING MORONS in red California or red states. Why? Because we listened to Fauci and got vaccinated. I find it infuriating that Republicans now want to have a witch hunt and blame it all on Fauci. You should have a fucking hearing on Trump. Trump rape. Trump lies. Trump graft. Trump Forever Wars. Trump burning Iranian girls to death and lying about it. Trump cutting Medicaid and killing poor Americans. Trump cutting PEPFAR and killing hundreds of thousands of poor women and children with HIV all over the world. PEPFAR saved 26 million lives all over the world, AI says. And you want a witch hunt against the guy who started THAT? While you cut it and lie aboiut fraud and get hundreds of thousands and eventually maybe millions of poor people in Africa and Asia and South America killed? YOU are the monsters. YOU are the fucking Dr. Frankensteins. YOU are the cruel irrational barking pieces of shit. PLEASE. Have a hearing. Let Fauci say what he has said publicly and openly without threat of throwing him in jail or clobbering him with your irrational manly rage. This is obviously about partisan axe grinding and political witch hunts. Not facts. And I am sure it plays well among the MAGA base. Who want to believe Dr. Fauci is Dr. Frankenstein. That's the other thing this video in its entirety makes clear. As Hyma Moore, the one calm voice in the video says at 18:00, this is about politics. And "we are on a fool's errand." I agree with him. If we want to talk about the five worst things we did wrong on COVID that caused more deaths, let's do THAT. Doctor Fauci was Dr. Vaccination all through COVID. The whole world proved that vaccination worked. Americans were 5 times more likely to die than Australians because of vaccines. Meaning anti-vaccine dogma. Americans were more than twice as likely to die as Canadians because of vaccines. Trump voters in reddest parts of Michigan were about 7 times more likely to die than Biden voters in the bluest parts of Michigan because of anti-vaccine dogma. These are established facts. So blaming the disaster on Dr. Vaccination is irrational. What a shocker! Measles cases in the US are above recent historic norms for the second year in a row. It's not a disaster yet. But if fewer and fewer people get vaccinated, science says it will be. But who cares about science, and facts? It is very sad. And it is very much America and the world, 2026.

Republicans want to talk about James Talarico’s manhood. Talarico says let them. Why am I not surprised? Sis, your taste in singlets - and cocks - is better than mine. Can you design Jimmy a singlet that shows off his manhood? You know the old line. Speak softly. But carry a big dick. If Republicans have to argue that Talarico is not a man, and Fauci is Dr. Frankenstein, it shows how weak and stupid they are. This could backfire on them. I came. I saw. I BDE'd. 😉

I was working out with Joe Rogan today. And I mentioned we have a goofy dumb mascot dog here that mostly just barks all the time. When I mentioned his name Rogan was stunned. "Dude, you don't know about @Barknaway? Damn! I mean this dog is smarter than any human being! His IQ is 407. He's even smarter than Elon. Who everyone knows is the smartest guy alive." So I was like, "Shit. And here I thought the dog was stupid, and dangerous. Should I apologize?" "Fuck yeah," Rogan said. "You better apologize fast. And while you're at it better apologize to Elon, too. Elon stopped the biggest fraudster money laundering operation in history at USAID." Well, sorry to say. But never mind. I came back from the gym all excited to have my Big Mea Culpa moment. Miss Graham is gone. So there is a natural opening for some drama and ass licking, I figured. But when I looked into this Elon stuff, the numbers literally did not add up. So in an effort to draft my apology, I asked AI. Here's what I learned. It took me maybe two minutes to figure this out using AI. And it fact checks with several articles I then read to confirm all these facts. Right after being informed hundreds of thousands of people may already be dead thanks to these USAID cuts, Rogan could have Googled it in real time before he opened his mouth. It seems clear to me Rogan really doesn't give a shit whether anything he says is true. As long as he's not giving bad medical advice he can be sued for. Some dead kid in Africa or Asia? They're not gonna sue Joe Rogan. No Basis for Corruption Accusations About USAID AI confirmed the same, and added this about how shoddy Musk's butcher job was: I have to say I am disappointed. Call me vain. But I thought it was kind of cool to be associated with the smartest dog, or human, alive. Sadly it turns out that's not mathematically possible, either. The highest claimed IQ is in the 200s. But most guidelines say few people have an IQ over 160. I'm thinking if you put Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and @Barknaway in a room, maybe you could get a decent IQ score if you added them. Just not any actual facts. So I guess there is no need for an apology after all. And it confirms that with our bad dumb barking dog, there's no need for facts either.

We need someone with clout to push this over the edge. Someone who can unite all Americans, red and blue, around the obvious fact that Trump is insane. I think there's only man up for the job.

Well there ya go. Like I said, my standards are lower than yours. I did see Sweeney Todd with Patti Lupone. I felt honored that she looked at me, just because I was sitting in one of the front rows. It doesn't take much with me. And I should have gone to see Cabaret with you. I left that one out in my comments above. I took my Mom to see it on the same trip. And she hated it as well as Mamma Mia. Again, my bad. At least Mamma Mia was upbeat, but loud. Cabaret, of course, was not upbeat at all. Again, she loved 42nd Street. 1 out of 3 ain't bad. But now that I think about it I should have listed Cabaret and Chicago as my two favorite musicals. And movies. Arguably, they are the same musical, with plot differences but the same writers (Kander/Ebb) and similar themes. The Alan Cumming version was great, other than my discontented Mom. But there was no way to top the movie. And Liza. My love for that movie (and Liza) was an early indicator as a child that I was Gay. Which I somehow missed at the time. But it's okay. I caught up later.

Echoing what @Olddaddy said. It is fun to read your comments. You have deeper knowledge and higher standards than I do. As my answers to your question will reflect. I loved the revival of 42nd Street. I took my Mom to see it on her birthday. It was her only trip to Broadway. She hated Mamma Mia. My bad. Too modern. But she loved the old time swag of 42nd Street. She's passed away now. But that evening will always be near and dear in my heart. I loved the Producers, based on strange criteria. I was sitting in the front row. And at one point I think Nathan Lane spat on me. By accident, of course. Or maybe it was all a dream. Regardless, that was all it took for me. Jersey Boys falls in the same category. Just fun to watch. But nobody spat on me. The musical that impacted me the most was Next To Normal. It won the Pulitzer. So I guess I have good taste. Or maybe I have Mommy issues. But it left me deeply moved. You are one of the few people that was not impressed with Wicked. Neither was I. But I saw the stage musical three times. Mostly because I had friends that wanted me to see it with them. My best friend has seen the films I don't know how many times. So eventually I figured out the best thing was just to smile and go along for the ride. Which is of course easier when Jonathon Bailey is a fellow traveler.