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Trump hasn't changed though! Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge The president’s willingness to sacrifice his attorney general’s confirmation shows how deep his contempt for his enemies goes.

I'm wondering if this is one of the few positive side effects of the Iran War. Trump seems to have pivoted on Russia and Ukraine. And Europe. One positive side effect, in my mind, is it weakens Trump and underscores that, geez!, the US needs allies. Most Trump supporters probably see it differently: those ungrateful fucking Europeans! Trump makes clear constantly he feels that way, too. But he is enough of a realist to know he has a problem with the rest of the world. Even his friends on his Board of Peace LOL. The Europeans at some point will perhaps play some role safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz, if and when some peace or permanent ceasefire is negotiated. Trump in recent months has seemingly become more open to Ukraine, and Zelenskyy. I assume he's been told by European leaders that if you want our help with Iran, we need your help, too. Beyond that, I would say it's a kind of victory for Trump's idea that Europe should take the lead in its own defense. You can argue whether that is good or bad. But it seems to be happening. And there is this: Russia continues to aid Iran in war with US, Ukraine says Even though Miss Graham can no longer whisper that message in Trump's ear, in between her delightful ass licking, I am sure Trump is getting it. Vlad always had a legitimate bitch with his FIFA Peace Prize Winner pal Trump that you're arming my enemy. Well, now Vlad is too. In a way that probably helps take out US bases, not to mention US soldiers. Sucks for Vlad and Trump, who seem to be genuine peacemakers. 🫢 Meanwhile, China sits back and wins the long game. One can hope Americans would digest that when they think about ways in which Trump has Made America Great Again. But if they vote against Trump and his Republican submissives because they are pissed about gas and food prices and a new Forever War, that will be enough for me.

Good to know. But couldn't he run for President of the United States instead?

I was curious so I spent a few more hours going down rabbit holes. Several other boring conclusions. 1. Maybe there was a CIA coverup. And there should be more oversight, regardless. I did not make it clear. That Rand Paul press release I posted above was from a May hearing with a CIA whistleblower, James Erdman. Not Fauci. Here's the whistleblower: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYSRl_SRcJS/ Everything he says makes sense to me. The main complaint regards "CIA refusal to comply with lawful oversight". What a shocker! He says the CIA downplayed or dismissed analysis that a lab leak was the probable cause. So if they want more oversight of any part of the CIA, I'm all for that. It suggests, but does not prove, that maybe the CIA is funding bioterror research that they don't want to talk about publicly. Just a guess. The main bitch about Fauci is that he is alleged to have helped form a scientific consensus that Erdman, and Paul of course, don't agree with. The closest you can get to "Fauci lied" is this. If I assume the worst about Fauci, that he didn't want people - or Senators - looking into what kind of research his agency funded, he sure lost that fight. I know very little about China. Llike most Americans I suspect. But for some strange reason, for years I have known all kinds of things about bat research in Wuhan. I hope one thing that came out of 2020 was more oversight of these weird science experiments with possible bioterror weapons. And, by the way, 2020 could be child's play compared to what kind of bioterror tools AI might be able to create soon. Why don't we have more oversight of that, too? 2. There is no there there with a Fauci coverup. Rand Paul and the Wall Street Journal cite these facts to argue that Fauci put pressure on other scientists to change their views to conform to his dogma. https://www.paul.senate.gov/266583-2/ So what you have is one scientist who thinks maybe there is a 30 % chance of a lab leak. Another thinks maybe a 10 - 20 % chance. Fauci himself says publicly and privately it can't be ruled out. When four scientists write a paper, including these two, it concludes the virus was not created in a lab. It's fair to say maybe the paper should have expressed more doubt. Regardless of what any one paper said, there was a very public debate about the lab leak theory. Fetterman said at the hearing maybe we should not be so quick to label some ideas as "red" or "blue". That's true. Again, polls say something like 2 in 3 Americans believe the theory. Fauci himself said publicly and wrote in his private notes that he leaned to the idea of natural origin, and that "alternate theories were not equally probable." All this suggests you have scientists who have doubts, and don't feel 100 % certain. Including Fauci. Doubt is not a conspiracy. In science, it's a plus. 3. Rand Paul would better serve America by calling for Trump and Elon Musk to be prosecuted for mass murder. Elon Musk said in a recent interview that there were zero deaths due to DOGE cuts in health programs like PEPFAR. Why don't we have hearings on that? Here's what Google says. Sweeping U.S. foreign aid cuts and freezes to programs like PEPFAR and USAID driven by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have severely disrupted HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa. Predictive public health models estimate tens of thousands of excess HIV deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, with broader modeling tracking hundreds of thousands of total preventable deaths globally from suspended medical logistics Here's something Fauci said at a 2024 speech: AND THAT IS MY POINT! This started with a rant about Mark Halperin being jealous and petty. Our heroes are hollow. Our institutions suck. The media sucks. Maybe Mark Halperin would argue Fauci is just a publicity whore for saying he had something to do with saving the lives of millions of AIDS patients. I'm no fan of George W. Bush. But as Fauci says, that's a great example of what leaders and governments can and did do. But not this President. And not Elon Musk.

You missed it. The yapping dog already posted Black Fauci on a different thread. I love Black Fauci. I think Black Fauci should run for President in 2028. I told the yapping dog maybe Black Fauci could be Trump's Veep when Trump wins a 3td term in 2028. Or maybe Trump and Black Fauci could buy FIFA with Genocide-Adjacent Jarod. Remember. @Barknaway is good and loyal and true. And really fucking stupid. So I figured he'd just take it as a treat. It's actually really way too DEI for a MAGA dog, when you think about. A Black and a Jew? Sounds like Warnock and Ossoff to me. Fuck that shit! But with you, I'll let my guard down and tell ya what I really think. We should run Black Fauci as a Democrat. I think. It's like having Fauci, Eddie Murphy, and Rev. Warnock all on the same ticket. Maybe with a touch of Robert Kennedy, Jr. even. How could that idea go bad?

I'm on a big old rant. So I will post three more things to make three points. 1. COVID vaccines were like the World Cup. It's a world thing. So you see there the US, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and China. If we are talking leaders in modern technologies, nothing on that list is a surprise. It speaks to global collaboration. I do think it is one of Trump's greatest achievements, even if it happened as much despite as because of him. 2. Fauci was at the center of saving lives all over the world. That's exactly what I expected to find, and it took like one minute. It's a Canadian study about how the vaccines played out in Canada. At the end of the day, it had less to do with whether you were Canadian or American, and more to do with whether you were vaccinated. The US had about 3600 COVD deaths for every 1 million people. That made the US #16 in death tolls of all nations, I think. Way higher than average. I'm guessing I could find vaccine-averse parts of Canada that had higher death rates than pro-vaccine counties in Northern California. That said, Canada's COVID death rate was about 1400 COVID deaths for every 1 million people. So, yeah. America did this to itself. Like I said, it was an interesting and tragic combination of MAGA people in red states or counties, but also poor Blacks and Hispanics with less access to health care. I said it above, but this is worth repeating. This is where Halperin literally sucks and fails as a journalist. The whole point about Fauci and TV is that Fauci's job, like Deborah Birx, was to be very public. They were both on TV a lot, and they both urged people to get vaccinated. Not to inject Clorox in their bodies. Especially older people. Turns out being on TV helps. So Halperin's jealous and petty accusation that Fauci just had a big ego and liked to see his face on TV is really shitty journalism. Australia was an interesting case. In the end, they had about 960 deaths per million. So they did better than most nations at keeping people alive. What was interesting is they could, and did, simply close the gates. To vastly oversimplify. But when they did open the gates, even a lot of older vaccinated people died. So some of it simply had to do with age. 3. A century ago, this was devastating to young people and young families. That's a remarkable and tragic fact that no one talked much about. The Spanish flu targeted young adults for reasons I'm not sure anyone still completely understands. But in one year, thanks to so many young adults dying, the average life span in the US dropped by 12 years in 1918. Then it rebounded just as quickly. The "sharp" drop from 2020 to 2021 was small ball by comparison. And now life spans are higher than ever. I am really in a minority on this one. But I would argue these facts speak for themselves. What happened with COVID, to me, was an example of what government can do when you have good science and global collaboration. The numbers speak for themselves. COVID was a disaster. One bad outcome we still have is lower test scores because young kids lost part of their education. So you can argue government leaders dropped balls. But, overall, we came out so much better than we did a century ago. And at least some of that had to do with government and science, I think. So I just reject Halperin and Paul's message that this is an example of how our institutions and leaders suck. And if we want to attack leaders who suck, I'd put Trump before Fauci. Call me a liberal Democrat!

Chairman Paul Delivers Opening Remarks During Whistleblower Hearing on the Multi-Agency Cover-Up of COVID-19 and Gain-of-Function Research I really won't try to guess what Rand Paul's motivation is. To give him the benefit of the doubt, the majority of Americans (and maybe the majority of most people on the planet) believe in something like the lab leak theory The main thing I think is that if there was a lab leak, it's the same as the Kennedy assassination. It was covered up. And we will never know for sure. It is one more thing that undermines trust in government, institutions, and leaders. And both Rand Paul and Mark Halperin are throwing fuel on that fire, in ways that look petty and jealous to me. The CIA comes into this, just like they did with the JFK assassination. There probably is "stuff" there about covert operations and biological weapons and funding for research they don't want us to know about. The CIA, Paul says, also thinks there was a lab leak. So if the CIA and a majority of Americans think there was a lab leak, maybe there was. Fauci was NOT head of the CIA. Paul says this: Note the words "may have". Paul does not know. He is fishing. So if there is a "there" there, that is where it is. And this is not new. Paul has been making this claim for years. Fauci knew something. Fauci lied. Fauci is somehow at the center of some vast government conspiracy. It's kind of foolish. I can tell you I have actually choreographed hearings where the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who by definition is someone to fear, rubbed the noses of redlining banks in shit. It helped us to create billions of dollars in "public/private partnerships". So even the idea that poor Rand Paul has no idea and no power to prove what his own government knew or did is kind of insane to me. And if there is some secret hidden, I'd be looking at the CIA. More likely, the secret was hidden by China. I think that is what most people, including Trump, think. So let me offer two journal entries, both by Anthony Fauci. If there was a journal entry like that in Fauci's diary, I think Rand Paul would be putting that on X. Instead, here is an actual journal entry: To oversimplify, six days after what Paul labels as this "infamous" phone call that has something to do with a cover up, Fauci is telling himself in his own diary that he doesn't have a fucking clue where the virus started. I think the words on the page exonerate Fauci, and humanize him. It may be that Fauci is smart enough to think that. Maybe he has gamed out that he trusts the majority of Americans who trust him. Let them read my words. Let them know what I was thinking. I have more faith in Americans than this dipshit Rand Paul and his conspiracy theories. I'll tell Rand Paul to go fuck himself. If that is what Fauci is thinking, I am on his side. But unlike my MUCH younger and MORE beautiful Sister In Cock, I will never reveal - even in my diary - how I show Fauci my appreciation. 😉 My rant is that it pisses me off that people like Paul and Halperin just want to tear down institutions and leaders. At least it feels that way to me. Especially right now, when President Shit Hole has literally fucked up a century of coalition building with NATO and Europe and Canada and Australia and (name a country) and started this loser war in Iran. As my Sister In Cock, who is truly more lovely than me, noted, shouldn't we be talking about that?

No. We are fucked.

I'll respond to this separately than your first post, which is more complicated and interesting. Note that I said "back in 2021" or so. I was not trying to defend Trump. I agree with your points. All you need is the Clorox moment to prove what an asshole Trump is and was. The first poll in 2021 supports my point. Biden was viewed as a much more stable leader. Poor Joe. If he had only been a bit younger, and voluntarily been a one term President. That said, I do think of the COVID vaccine as one of Trump's biggest accomplishments. It happened under his leadership. It is a sign of how fucked up MAGA is that instead of praising Trump for that, they go after Fauci with pitchforks. And this is a matter of life and death. They literally died to defend the idea that these vaccines are bullshit. The second poll excludes 2020 or 2021. But if I hunt, or you do, I am certain around 2021 there were polls that showed global opinion of China got really low around COVID, because of a global belief in a coverup. So I think by 2021 when the vaccines were getting out all over the world it is true that the US under Biden looked better, and China under Xi and a seeming COVID coverup looked worse. Again, I know your point was about The Great Incompetent. And I agree. I will now bring in for a few paragraphs a rant from a different post about Iran. Because, to me, this is even more tragic. And it could have even more fatal consequences. Piers Morgan did this great interview where you had these two US generals, one a Bush-era hawk and the other a Democrat who ran a successful air war to stop a genocide in Kosovo. They both made great arguments that we can't let Iran get a nuclear bomb. The President ought to be able to rally the nation and the world. I don't disagree, in theory. But we have the precedent of Bush 43 and Iraq, which was a disaster - after he at least tried to rally the nation and the world. Trump didn't even try. And his own Veep and Secretary of State told him this intelligence you are getting from The Genocide Jew is bullshit. And this will be a disaster. N.O.F.U.C.K.I.N.G.I.M.P.U.L.S.E.C.O.N.T.R.O.L. So during this debate Piers Morgan set up Robert Pape says if we continue down this escalation trap with Iran we are flirting with economic disaster. Recession. Depression. And the whole world will blame the US for it. You could see the generals shaking their heads. And I don't disagree with the generals, on military strategy. It won't be a better world when Tehran can nuke New York or London. But this is the difference between a general and a political scientist. Pape is right. That poll about China and the US above proves it. China is winning and the US is losing. And we deserve to lose. Pape thinks if Democrats win in November they will starve the war to death, just like VietNam in 1974. I hope so. I am sending money to Democrats every month. But solving THAT problem does not solve the nuclear problem. Trump may go down in history as the strategic idiot who empowered Iran to have nukes. And maybe the Strait of Hormuz, too. So, yes. America is a shit hole. And Trump is President Shit Hole. And the best hope now is we avoid even worse disasters. There are many Americans like me who appreciate the fact that leaders from places like Mexico and Canada are being clever and smart about trying to keep this from going too far off the rails. That is what friends and allies are for.

Or read Rand Paul's X. To me, that proves Fauci's case. This is a petty and personal attack. I do have mixed feelings about this. It is never a good thing when someone refuses to answer questions of members of Congress. There are threats that they will try to get for Fauci for THAT. I'm not a lawyer, but I think Fauci's lawyers probably knew what they were doing. I said it above and I will repeat it. Fauci has proven he is the kind of savvy bureaucrat who could survive and thrive under seven Presidents of both parties. He has testified hundreds of times and never before taken the 5th. And he explained why he did it this time. You guys are trying to entrap me, and use anything I say to try to support your baseless theories. And throw me in jail if you can. So fuck you. I am keeping my mouth shut. The image above suggests Rand Paul has no case. If there were secret meetings with the Chinese government or Epstein files that showed Fauci knew there was a lab leak in Wuhan and he was covering it up, Rand Paul would put that on his X. And I would agree with Rand Paul that the American people and the world have the right to know. As of today, a majority of Americans do think COVID did originate from a lab leak. I personally think it's possible. But China will make sure we never know. Unrelated point. Back in 2021 or so, America looked good and China looked bad. Frankly, I'm a patriot. So I liked that. The world thought China birthed a virus and covered it up. The US, under Trump, and as part of a global initiative, quickly came up with a vaccine that I think saved countless lives. Fauci was at the heart of that. Now it is the opposite. The US looks like shit. And we deserve to look like shit. We start stupid wars that raise the price of food and gas all over the world. Because we have a strategic midget with no impulse control as our leader. So Rand Paul looks like one more part of this stinky pile of shit. He ain't got nothing on Fauci. Paul released Fauci's diary to intimidate Fauci, in Fauci's words. I don't think it was Fauci's intention. There is some stuff in it about COVID, and not Barbara Streisand. At one point early on he says something about how the Wuhan wet market has to be an accelerator, not the cause. But the virus had to jump from animals to humans somewhere, he wrote. To me, that probably discredits any theory that Fauci is hiding something about some gain of function project he knew about or funded that went awry. You could build a paranoid theory that somehow Fauci constructed a fake diary full of bullshit and lies knowing that years later Rand Paul would get the diary and release it. So it cleverly suggests Fauci really didn't know where this virus came from, and he was speculating in his own diary. Team MAGA would like the conspiracy theory. Trust no one. Institutions suck. Tear them down. Or, you could believe Fauci is just telling the truth. And he's gonna tell Rand Paul to go fuck himself. You mistake me for my MUCH more beautiful and MUCH younger Sister In Cock, I think. She will publicly brag about her liaisons with sexy public officials, like Mayor Mamdani. I'm just not a kiss and tell kind of gal. 😉

I LOVE BLACK FAUCI!!!!! 💞💞💞 CAN WE HAVE A REUNITE? LIKE BLACK FAUCI AND BLACK TRUMP? MAYBE BLACK FAUCI CAN BE BLACK TRUMP'S VEEP IN TRUMP'S 3RD TERM? OR AT LEAST TEAM UP WITH GENOCIDE JAROD AND THE SAUDIS AND BUY FIFA? BEATS THE RATINGS ON THAT CLOROX SHIT!

I'm sorry. I'm slow, and I get confused. Was this before or after we are going to make a deal with really reasonable people that are going to give Trump everything he asks for, so it's a huge victory for Trump? I'm not as smart as my yapping dog. I can never tell which is which. 🤔

This is a long rant about Mark Halperin. It involves Anthony Fauci. And the general pessimism about having any trust in anything or anyone anymore. I said in another recent post I have a love/hate relationship with Halperin's journalism. I think he did the best job of any journalist covering the 2024 election. Mostly that means his 2way platform was a way for countless undecided voters to say day after day what was on their minds. And it was, in most cases, a lesser of two evils decision they were trying to make. I love it that Halperin just let them speak their minds. This post and this video is what I really dislike about Halperin. He arguably was Mr. Institutional Media until Me Too. Then he was accused of being too handsy by at least five women. So he was cancelled. My sense is he still deeply resents that. He's a natural skeptic, anyway. Which probably helps his journalism. Maybe it turned him into a cynic. Because basically it sounds like he is jealous of the respect and adulation Fauci got, especially during COVID. So Halperin seems to be bending over backwards to tear Fauci down. People Living In Pro-Trump Counties More Likely To Die From Covid, Study Finds I suppose if we are going to go full on MAGA, we have to assume that Forbes is not a capitalist media institution to be trusted It is a tentacle of the nefarious and dishonest Deep State. Whatever. If you Google Republican v. Democrat COVID deaths you get countless studies showing, in general, Republicans were far more likely than Democrats to die from COVID due to vaccine avoidance. Whatever. Must all be Deep State bullshit. You were also more likely to die if you were poor and Black, too. So West Virginia and Washington DC both were at the extremes on US death rates. Educated liberals up in Northern California counties had unusually low death rates. I think Fauci's goal was to keep everyone, including Republicans, alive. I wrote snidely at the time that if Republicans want to kill themselves in greater numbers, it sure won't hurt Democrats in 2022 and 2024. In retrospect, I think it's true that Democrats turned off lots of Moms and some young men, as well. Not so much due to vaccines themselves. But due to what were seen as excessive school closures and excessive restrictions on younger people much less likely to die from COVID. If Halperin wants to document what he thinks Fauci did wrong in his professional life, great! Go after him. But this is a rant about how the media should lynch Fauci because he liked being admired and respected. If Halperin has substantive reasons to think Fauci should not be respected - masks, school closures, gain of function - he should focus on that. Instead Halperin is petty and whining. As Halperin alludes to, which most if not all older Gay men know, Fauci got all kinds of crap from ACT UP and the LGBTQ community. Rightfully! Nobody cared about whether he had a diary. They cared about whether he kept Gay men alive. So this idea that Fauci has always been revered as some kind of saint is just bullshit, anyway. Lots can be said about that. But my own view is that, as this LGBTQ writer says, that too humanized Fauci. Roughly the first 25 minutes of this video is Halperin's rant about Fauci, the media, and the "Washington insiders" he says he once "dabbled in," before his fall from grace. I watched this video because I thought if there is some "there" there about Fauci and COVID, I'm more likely to get it from Halperin than from Rand Paul. I was wrong. What this confirms is that there probably is no there there. And that Halperin is petty and jealous. He uses this diary to grind his big axe about how the media institutions he used to be at the pinnacle of no longer give him the respect he deserves. Because he was too handsy with women. Based on what he can now read in Fauci's diary, Halperin goes after Fauci for being "obsessed" with celebrity. An example of this is how he liked being called by Barbara Streisand. He liked telling her personally he listened to her music. I thought the words Fauci wrote humanized him. But Halperin thinks it is a "scandal" that he even kept a diary. Halperin is a good enough Washington hack to know a guy like Fauci doesn't survive and thrive under seven Presidents unless you are a very savvy bureaucrat. The fact that Fauci kept a diary and was willing to release it proves that, in my mind. He has nothing to hide. To me, the diary humanizes him. There's a telling moment early in this video where Halperin reads the first part of what Fauci says about a swanky dinner he goes to at a swanky DC restaurant. Halperin thinks this proves that Fauci was "obsessed" with celebrity. Here's what Fauci writes: "Although some people may think this is great to have people treat you like Elvis Presley, it is really very unnerving." Fauci worries that he could have gotten COVID, even though proof of vaccination was an entry requirement. He states he's going to cancel an appearance at another swanky engagement the following night for that reason. Sounds like a mere mortal with mere mortal fears to me! It only gets worse. Halperin lets his jealousy get in the way of his journalism. He shows clips of Fauci saying on TV that the White House restricted his access to TV. I assume most Americans remember that time Trump said, on TV, that we should maybe be injecting ourselves with Clorox. So instead of assuming Fauci maybe wanted to be on TV to do his job, and give people sound advice to keep them healthy and safe, Halperin just assumes Fauci was on a crusade to be on TV. If you just listen to the words of Fauci and CBS, the issue was the "restriction" put on Fauci. As the CBS reporter accurately stated, people were very upset about Trump and Clorox. They wanted to hear from Fauci. They trusted Fauci, and not Trump. Halperin lets his personal jealousy get in the way of his journalism, it seems. Should we assume Fauci liked getting death threats, too, because it made him feel like a celebrity? This invites a question to Mark Halperin, if he wants to hold himself to a similar standard. Were you keeping a diary when a woman subordinate to you claimed you rubbed your erect penis against her during a meeting? And refused to get the memo when she kept telling you she didn't want to come upstairs to your room? Can we read what you wrote about it? And is that better or worse than Fauci writing about fawning over Barbara Streisand's music in his personal journal? Why is what he did a "scandal"? Because the women who said you were a pig with them didn't fawn over you? Because Morning Joe cancelled you> But respected Fauci the way they used to respect you? What really bothers me is that Halperin seems to be doing his piece to tear down whatever institutions and heroes we have left. Because he is jealous and angry, it seems. It make me respect Halperin and trust Halperin less. This is not an argument about specific policies Fauci failed on. Or about some scandal with China. It's a whining rant about how the fact that Fauci was seen as a comforting expert by many, including celebrities and media, is somehow a "scandal." Google says Fauci's approval rating peaked at 78 % early in COVID. It dropped to the mid-50s as Trump and MAGA tore him down. I'm obviously in the majority who view him as a comforting expert, and also a hero. I think he tried to keep people alive. There was one other moment I experienced with Halperin like this, months ago. He was talking about how he spends time every week learning to be good at AI. He suggested his viewers do so. Which sounded like good advice to me. Then he said, I thought very smugly, some of you will lose your jobs because AI will do what you do better than you can. But I'm going to have a job, because I'm training up. And what I do is special. It made him sound like a cold prick to me. If that is the future, Halperin should not be bragging about it. He should be reporting on it. It made it sound like he would welcome a world where we have an AI oligarchy and mass unemployment. As long as he gets to be one of the trusted reporters. And, by the way, Halperin should know the last thing an AI oligarchy would want is a reporter who is unbiased reporting on what THEY are up to with their money. And their survival bunkers, if what they are building goes awry somehow. It's all a sad sign of the times. I still think Halperin did the best job of any journalist helping me to understand what happened in 2024. But I also think Trump and Halperin deserve each other. Rant over.

FIFA is going into business with a Kushner. Democrats smell blood. I give the Kushners credit for this. They make the Bidens - especially Hunter - look like small ball amateurs.

Please. More of this! I hope the yapping dogs go out of their way to document that this strategic peanut with no impulse control has been a stupid fucking idiot for 40 years. He was a stupid fucking idiot then, and he is a stupid fucking idiot now. Can we bring back Barbara Walters, too? And don't be a bad dog and rip her neck open, Barknaway. She asked Trump to explain how he could win a war then, and he couldn't. He is the same arrogant grifting dumb fuck today. He has no idea how to win a war he started. And that the generals and even his own Veep warned him against. What a stupid dumb fuck. He gets US soldiers killed after generals tell him he can't do what The Genocide Jew spewed out of his hateful genocidal mouth. Even Rubio told him it was bullshit. He will probably kill some more Americans in some symbolic invasion to prove he is tough, and then retreat. But we do care about our stupid dog. Please do not let him turn you into Trump Steaks to feed the troops!

That's from the article I hyperlinked above. It's the equivalent of saying that Jan. 6th was a peaceful rally of patriots and sightseers. And the cops were part of some Deep State conspiracy to undermine democracy and make Nancy Pelosi Queen. In this theory, all the judges that convicted the Jan. 6th crowd had to be part of the Deep State. When Paxton paid $271,000 in restitution and spent over 100 hours on community service and ethics classes, it was just to demonstrate what a swell guy he is. Talarico is ahead of Paxton by five points in a new poll. Again, headlines about Trump Grift while Texans struggle to buy gas and food ain't gonna help Paxton. We'll see. Texas is interesting in another regard. They gerrymandered House districts based on the gains Republicans made in 2024. I accept it as a fact that Hispanics are more open to voting Republican than ever before. That does not mean they will be more open to voting Republican in 2026. In fact, the same thing that hurt Biden and Democrats in 2024 - higher prices - will probably hurt Republicans in 2026. So this could be a stunning reversal for Texas Republicans. So we have grift involving billions of dollars by Trump and Paxton, who promised to lower your prices. Or a nice young man who seems earnest. He could use just a hint of color. But let's not push it. 😉

I guess. But if we're being honest, I just wish I had your youth and beauty. Oh well. At least I have my idealism. 😉

Ken Paxton has survived years of scandals. Can James Talarico change that? I'll post this as a separate point, that reinforces what you are saying, Sis. It's not just Trump. The True MAGA Folk will overlook anything. If they ran Maine, which they don't, and Platner were a Republican, their problem would be that he didn't lie and rape enough. Platner does not meet the Trump standard. Paxton does. Paxton has been able to get away with lies, grift, and sins based on "biblical" grounds, even. Not only when he is running against a Democrat. Put a Bush on the ballot and MAGA will go for the lies, corruption, grift, and infidelity every time, it seems. So if your point is they are a lost cause, Paxton's career seems to make your point. Talarico is slamming Trump hard. And he is slamming Paxton on corruption. Having Cornyn making headlines about Trump Grift sure ain't gonna hurt Talarico. I think on this one we are both young, beautiful, and right, Sis. Lucky us!

Blanche nomination hangs by a thread as Cornyn stands by settlement ultimatum “Maybe they think I'm just going to give up or, you know, go along, but they're mistaken,” the GOP senator said. I completely understand your aversion to having shit in your mouth, my beloved Sister. How I miss the days when we were young girls, and we avidly deep throated teen Bobby and Tommy in the boarding school locker room. Sisters, side by side, forever! But now they have grown to be US Senators in a pissing match with Trump - to badly mix metaphors. Times have changed. I suppose you don't like having a stake driven up your ass any more than having shit in your mouth. But poor Blanche and Trump had a stake driven just a little further up their ass today. My main point is that the more Trump Grift is exposed, the better. It is really the job of Democrats to do it, when they have power. If Cornyn and Tillis want to give us a preview of what's to come, it helps Democrats and hurts Trump. That's a fact, I think. Your point is that MAGA could care less. And it does not redeem Cornyn and Tillis. I agree. That's a fact, too. They have served as loyal MAGA ass kissers. I find it ironic that despite their loyal ass kissing, Trump stabbed them both in the back. So now he gets it up the ass from them. Fair is fair. It just makes many Senate Republicans hate Trump even more. And know they are worms who have to be careful so he doesn't step on them. Maybe it's symbolic that Lindsey is gone. Being a closeted little worm just ain't what it used to be! But, as always, we are sisters forever. Fact is, their cocks were inferior to some other ones. Like Zohran, to be specific. So i am just happy for you. 😉

So, to be clear, your main point is that MAGA people are helpless, ignorant, loyal Pavlov's dogs. They would literally kill for Trump. Who knows. We may still have a Civil War. Why don't we consult with @Barknaway on that? I mostly agree. But it depends on how you define "MAGA." We know for sure that about one in 4 Republicans do not identify with MAGA. We also know that many 2024 Trump voters are Independents. We know some of these people regret voting for Trump, and say so. I'm hoping a Democrat can win the Presidency with over 50 percent of the vote in 2028. To do that, we absolutely need some people who voted for Trump in 2024. That's not an opinion. That's math. Trump is our best asset in moving some of those voters away from him. He has done so already. But I think what I laid out are three things a Democratic Congress could do to help that project along. 3. Shine a massive spotlight on Trump Grift. 2. End the war and the global misery it is causing. Draw a map for stability in that region that does not involve Forever Wars. Involve allies rather than insult them. Europe is already figuring out how to be a neutral party that makes the Strait of Hormuz safe again. Stop pretending Israel is a friend. The Genocide Jew dragged us into a genocide war that is hurting the world and dividing America. 1. Have a huge list of ways to make life more affordable. It should include taxing the rich more. As far as your main point, I have no doubt that some MAGA diehards would thank Trump for shooting them on 5th Ave. We have known that from the beginning. Robert Pape brought up a good point in an interview with Steven Bartlett. If the Iran war causes a global recession, it helps Democrats win. If Iran retaliates with a mass casualty event - some terrorist attack - it may help Trump and Republicans hold on. If it were another 9/11, we know where that goes. It would rally the MAGA faithful to the cause. Even if they are a minority. I'm not rooting for either a recession or a terrorist attack. But, I would argue, Trump and MAGA are - through their actions. I'm hoping Iran is strategic enough to realize this. They seem to understand they can use democracy to achieve their theocratic ends. They are doing a very good job humiliating Trump. They are helping the US look like the asshole that insults you, kills your children, and makes your food and oil more expensive. So hopefully they know rallying the MAGA faithful to want to nuke them is not a good idea. We'll see.

Fair enough, Sis. We don't even get to see Troy Jackson's nipple. Which is probably a good thing. Perhaps if Platner was better at keeping his dick in his pants, none of this would have happened. But if Platner is one of the 4 wins Democrats need to have a Senate majority, that will give me a political hard on. And here are three things 51 Democrats could do that will give me a political hard on, from least important to most important. 3. Hold oversight hearings on Trump Grift. Make sure every MAGA voters know how Trump is grifting them. 2. Stop the Iran war. Draw a map for how we have stability and leadership in the Middle East when Democrats rule. 1. Deal with affordability. Restore the extended child tax credit, for starters. Cut child poverty in half - again. More housing vouchjers. A national housing trust to help small businesses build affordable homes and cut regulations that make it harder. Raise wages. Tax billionaires to p[ay for it. Let Trump veto it. This will all be fine, Sis. If I could just have that small list of small things, perhaps I wouldn't be so jealous that you get to suck Zohran's cock every day. There. I said it. 💞

So I will do a typical "throw shit at the wall" thing and completely change the subject. I'm the OP in this case. So I guess I can. I spent the day doom scrolling on all the horrible shit happening. So here's a doom and gloom reaction to what you said. And I'm shifting the topic to Iran. The Democrats are going to stop Trump, based on one condition. They have to win either the House or the Senate. If they do, they will stop the Iran War. They will stop it by refusing to fund it. Which will probably create yet more Trump Drama. Since he will argue I can fund my Forever War however I want. I have all the power. If this is correct, it will be like 1974. The Democrats controlled the House anyway. But they had landslide wins in 1974. And they used the power and momentum to stop the VietNam War. If they take the House or Senate, the Democrats will have power. And they will actually look like they stand for something most Democrats, and I think most Independents, actually care about and agree with. Stop the war. This is one of the best and saddest interviews I have watched on the Iran War. As bad as Trump's grifting is, there is something far worse. His utter stupidity, at least when it comes to having a strategy. Maybe Trump can barely win when Biden fucks up and people are sick of inflation. But the idea that this piece of shit has a strategy that will help him pull off something no President since Jimmy Carter has tried? Good luck with that! Pape predicted recently in a different interview, with Steven Bartlett, that if Democrats take Congress this will be like 1974 again. They will end the war by cutting off the funding for it. It's more complicated than that, of course. Even if you argue Nixon ended the war, he did so knowing that a Democratic Congress was cutting off the money pipeline. This was a tragic interview to watch. Pape is a centrist, not an anti-war leftist. And you have a Republican and Democratic general saying it ain't gonna be a good thing for America, or the world, when Iran has a nuclear weapon. Probably even Putin and Xi would agree with that. Wesley Clark, who did show how military power could be used to stop a genocide in Kosovo, says that this is bigger than politics. This is about America and the West's long term security interests. And a POTUS should be able to rally the nation around that. He's not wrong. And maybe if he had been elected POTUS as a moderate Democrat (who was against the Iraq War) in 2004 he might have been the kind of guy that could do it. Trump is not. Even smart conservatives like John Bolton know that and say it. Trump is a narcissistic grifting idiot with the strategic brilliance and impulse control of an orangutan. So we are just fucked. If I had to bet, this will play out like in 1974. Democrats will force Trump to wind down a war he can't win, and that is fucking up the global economy. If that helps Iran rise as a superpower and test a nuclear weapon while Trump is still POTUS, that is a problem for later. For now, Iran seems to want to rub Trump's nose is his own shit. And they will probably be successful. And the stupid grifting arrogant piece of shit did all this to himself. And America. And the world.

Now, Sis. Let's not go overboard. My point was very specific. Cornyn and Tillis are shoving a stick up Trump's ass where it actually hurts ........... his greed, and his grifting. Even if Blanche is confirmed , there's already a little tear in Trump's fat disgusting ass because they used Blanche. Basically to get revenge. And/or hold a little bit of the Trump grift and barely legal Trump crime in check. I'm not saying these guys are heroes. It's more accurate to say they are political whores who want their pound of flesh in revenge. But when it's Republicans doing it, and the pound of flesh comes out of Trump's fat disgusting ass, it is fun to watch. It will be interesting to see what Blanche does. As far as Clayton goes, like I said, with Trump there is always plenty of shit to go around. Which piece of shit would you prefer to eat? Tulsi Gabbard is a sad embarrassment. And I'm guessing whether they voted for him or against him, Clayton was a slightly less smelly piece of shit than Pulte. But I think we know with Trump, you are going to be eating shit. Period. And we agree. Most of them are dutiful shit eaters. I have a slightly different take than you. Some of these Republicans have to eat shit just so they can lose a general election. Half of them probably would fucking love it if they could put Trump's head on a pike. At least Tillis and Cornyn get the small loser's pleasure of a taste of revenge. But, of course, even the revenge tastes like shit. The whole thing is just a massive piece of shit. And the legacy for Trump, and America, will be shit. The question is whether, and how long, it takes to scrape away the shitty reputation and image of the US once the piece of shit is actually gone. For now, it just gets worse.

Thanks you for posting that. Boy is this a sign of the times. A great unifying sport is degraded, so that Donald Trump and the Kushners can get rich. Meanwhile, kudos to Mexico and Canada. Sheinbaum and Carney both outclassed Trump. Sheibaum gave her tickets away and made it about young Mexican women soccer players getting a chance. And Carney simply evoked what was said above. It's a great world sport. No wonder they are loved and admired in a way the greedy narcissistic piece of shit Trump never will be. Trump probably thinks the clever grifting compensates for that. But of course it doesn't.