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The Cowards in the Congress

The Onion called them on it.

The MSM, not so much.

Today, they lambasted the Democrats.

John Roberts is the Worst Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Since Roger Taney

That pretty much sums it up, since he is busy making his court a willing partner in Trump's kaki-kleptocracy. His court basicaly held today that migrants are not people.

An Insecure and Petty Man Took Us to War Because He Wanted to Look Tough on Fox News

Apparently, it doesn't get any deeper than that as far as justification for Trump's bullshitzkrieg

What is clear is that there was no role played by new intelligence findings or new strategic analyses. It was simply that Trump saw Israel getting a lot of positive attention on Fox News, and he wanted some, too.

That's it. That's all there is to Trump. As long as he gets his ego fluffed regurlarly ofn Fox News, he cares nothing about anything else. Nothing about the law, nothing about casualties, nothing about consequences. All he wants is love from some of the dumbest people in broadcast media.

It's foreign and military policy run by a president with the emotional maturity of a tweener. Think of him crying to his mommy that Bibi is more popular than he is and what can he do to fix that. When you want to know what he's going to do in any given situation, ask yourself "what would a greedy, spoiled petulant child do" and you'll be right 95% of the time.

We are so screwed.

And if your EAOS is coming up, think hard about finding a job back in the world.

Trump is Suffering from Dain Bramage

This is why:

Trump now calling for a regime change in Iran. Just FYI.

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— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) June 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM

We are still dealing with the fallout from the last time we engaged in regime change in Iran. What a dumbass.

The Couch-Fucker is no better, claiming that we are not at war with Iran. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that dropping brloody great bombs on a country is an act of war. We kind of took it that way in December of 1941, but Vance will plead ignorance because he wasn't around then.

Remember This Lie?

Or this?

2024 foreign policy tweets that aged like milk 🤡

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— Wesley Whitaker 🏳️‍🌈❌👑 (@wessaidwords.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Or this?

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— Wesley Whitaker 🏳️‍🌈❌👑 (@wessaidwords.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM

One thing is also clear: None of Trump's clan who are of military age will serve in his war. They all have hereditary bone spurs.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

EE Lightning:

“No New Wars” Trump— ”I Meant to Say Mo’ New Wars.”

That was then:

This is now:

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.

So off to another half-baked Sandbox war. Trump didn't even bothered to try and sell the need for this war to his supporters, much less American people. He just went ahead and did it. Because he believes that his supporters will back him no matter what he does or to whom. He could strangle Melania on primetime TV and he wouldn't lose more than one percent of his supporters.

Caturday

Chip enjoys some night-time cat TV:

Masked Goons With Guns

One of these is from this country, one is not:

Are we being conditioned to accept that anyone riding around in an unmarked van, fully masked up, wearing a plate carrier, a helmet, and a Batman belt, with no visible identification and carrying a gun is a cop of some kind?

What happens when the criminals recognize this and begin acting accordingly? How do you know that the unmarked goon invading yur home is a cop or a criminal? Anyone can shout "police" and the bad guys do.

Beyond that, are we setting ourselves up for having private militias and death squads roaming around unhindered?

Third, if the bad guys, however you define them, are wearing plate carriers, then shooting for the center-of-mass is a waste of ammunition. So start training for hitting the suprasternal notch (or the center of the nose, if you're that good).

Because It's Friday

19th Century military transport re-enactment.

Chomping These Down, Here

Kristi Noem loves cosplaying:

Juneteeth Should Be National Fuck Texas Day

Juneteeth celebrates the day that the slaveowners in Texas were forced, at bayonet point, to recognize that the Civil War was over and that their slaves were free. They knew the war was over, of course, but they hung onto their slaves until they couldn't.

That's one thing.

The other thing is the big lie over Texas's war of independence. For it seems that it was yet another war fought over the desire of rich white southerners to own slaves, as Mexico had abolished slavery and the rich white Texans wanted to own them. So when you see or read crap about "Remember the Alamo", keep in mind that it was a fight by slavers over abolitionists. Which is why the Mexicans let the two Black men who survived the fight 9one a slave, the other free) leave unmolested.

Inflation and War

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell set talk about President Donald Trump’s tariffs straight on Wednesday after the central bank kept interest rates steady as officials expect higher inflation and lower economic growth in the coming months.

During a press conference following the Fed’s decision, Powell said that the central bank is waiting to cut rates until it understands the impact of tariffs. He stressed that the current strength of the economy allows for patience, but noted that “every forecaster you can name” is predicting a “meaningful increase” in inflation due to Trump’s signature economic policy.
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“All through that chain, people will be trying not to be the ones who can take up the cost, but ultimately, the cost of the tariff has to be paid. And some of it will fall on the end consumer,” he continued.

The Dictator of Crypto responded, of course, with his usual stream of juvenile insults. Chief among them is threats to fire Powell and put himself in charge. Which would likely result in an immediate crash of stock markets around the globe and even he is probably not stupid enough to do that.

But nobody's made money ascribing smarts to that fat old fuck.

Meanwhile, Israel is screeching about an Iranian missile hitting a hospital. I don't expect the world to care very much. We haven't seen global outrage from the kitsaps striking Ukranian hospitals. And correct me if I'm wrong, but israel has repeatedly struck hospitals in Gaza, often killing scores of patients, doctors and nurses, while claiming there was a terrorist in there, somewhere.

Stupid People Repeating History

Everything happening in Iran traces back to the American and British governments staging a coup in 1953, because the government nationalized the oil industry. The CIA and MI6 installed a puppet, the Shah. That did not sit well with the Iranian people. The Shah and his secret police, the SAVAK brutally suppressed dissent until they no longer could. The Iranian Revolution was the result, bringing about the theocratic quasi-dictatorship that isn't terribly popular in its own right.

The neo-cons may yet achieve their wet dream of regime change, having converted "no more wars" tRump to their view. But then what? We're not going to be able to occupy a country of 92 million people, not unless we send the entire army. For it's pretty evident that nobody's going to help us this time around in occupation duty. The resentment that will follow will persist into the 22nd Century.

And while the U.S. is then fully tied up fucking around in Iran, China may see its chance to deal with Taiwan.

You, Too, Can Buy and Drive Your Own Personal Apollo 1

A Tesla Cybertruck owner in Texas was unable to escape after rolling it into a ditch last year, experiencing an unthinkable demise as the batteries powering the $100,000 stainless steel SUV burst into flames with such intensity the helpless driver's skeletal system literally disintegrated, his family says.
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On April 25, 2024, [Michael] Sheehan purchased a brand-new Cybertruck from a Tesla showroom in the Houston suburb of Cypress, Texas, according to his family’s complaint, which was filed June 13 in Harris County District Court.

Just 102 days later, the complaint says Sheehan was driving home when the Cybertruck “left the road” and struck a large concrete culvert, after which the vehicle’s “hyper volatile” battery system went into “thermal runaway” – a chain reaction of short-circuits ultimately resulting in uncontrollable temperature escalation – and caught fire.

Once power was lost, it was impossible for Sheehan to open the Cybertruck’s electrically operated doors in the normal way, the complaint goes on, highlighting a major issue that has similarly doomed others riding in Teslas. The external door handles also failed to work, and the emergency manual door release handles within the Cybertruck are “unreasonably difficult to locate in an emergency,” the complaint states.

Someone else said that "Apollo 1 mode" comes standard with Cybertrucks, so as much as I'd like to take credit for that snark, I can't.

If you bought one, you might want to consider parking it until you can find some other sucker to burden it with.

Chump Mobile

Trump Says the US is at War With Iran

President Trump declared in a social media post Tuesday, "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran" — a claim that departed from earlier U.S. statements that Israel's offensive against Iran was being carried out without U.S. involvement.

It's our war now, folks. Expect hostile actions against American interests and citizens in other countries.

A Hate-Filled and Racist Administration (and it's not me saying that).

A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination.

U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration’s process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.

In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed.

Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, went on to address what he called “a darker aspect” to the cases, calling it “palpably clear” that what was behind the government actions was “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community.”

After 40 years on the bench, “I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” Young added. He ended Monday’s hearing saying, “Have we no shame.”

No, we don't. The Decrepit Orange Blob and his cheif minion, Discount Goebbels, are fueled by hate. And there are tens of millions of Americans, and an entire political party, that is OK with that.

The GOP is a hate group. That is beyond dispute.

Rolling These Down, Here

I’ll tell you what. If you voted for Trump, and now it’s coming back to bite you, I don’t want to hear about how sad you are. I want to know what you’re gonna do about it. Start there.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) June 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM

It should be no problem to find 7 white guys willing to work on a hot roof in the Florida sun all day for the same pay. Finally taking those jobs back that they’ve totally been clamoring for.

— Mike Francis (@elgordopoppy.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM

Then and Now

2009-10, a few hundred thousand people turned out for Tea Party rallies. The press almost twisted themselves into knows covering it. There was stuff about the "people sending a message" and that the politicians needed to take heed.

Last Saturday, somewhere between four and nine million people turned out, protesting in every state of the Union. And for that, relatively crickets. The coverage was dismissive, at best. The Grey Lady of Trump (NYT) wrote of "thousands" protesting nationwide.

The MSM doesn't think that we matter. We need to teach them overwise.

Throw every Republican, and crypto-Republican, such as John Fetterman, out of office.

Malicious Compliance, or DILLIGAF. Plus RW Terrorism

I watched some of the footage from the Rotted Mango's birthday parade. There seemed to be a something going on with the soldiers, from simply not giving a shit to malicious compliance. The marching was more of organized strolling. The formations weren't marching in step and appeared to make no effort to do so. The Ft. Bragg campaign rally had soldiers creeened for political reliability. The parade had soldiers that appeared to not only not give a shit, but were resentful at having to spend an entire Saturday performing for a draft dodger who regards them as chumps.

And what the hell was up with them playing "Fortunate Son" while the soldiers marched past? It's an antiwar and antidraft song. It mocks people like the Hair Furor.

Meanwhile, the Minnesota assassin was indeed a Trumpanzee.

And Trump is still a terrible person.

Four to Six Million People

That's a rough estimate of the number of people who turned out yesterday for the No Kings protest.

One protester is probably equal to ten or twenty who feel the same way and didn't march.

The politicians should pay attention.

Your Sunday Morning Airplane Noise

A restored Bf-109:

Bf-109s were in front line service from the beginning of the war until the Luftwaffe ran out of flyable ones in 1945, and then in other nations' air forces for twenty more years.

The Assassinations Begin

Someone impersonating a cop shot two state legislators in Minnesota.

Caturday

Chip, of course.

Because It's Friday

Strasburg RR's taking on a rebuilding job.

Yes, I mistakenly set this for PM instead of AM. So sue me.

Care to Bet That He's Since Changed His Tune?

Welp, Here We Fucking Go Again

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Israel took “unilateral action against Iran” and that Israel advised the U.S. that it believed the strikes were necessary for its self-defense.

“We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” Rubio said in a statement released by the White House.

Anyone who belives that has rocks for brains. We're Israel's patron, we supply most of their weapons, we give them billions in aid. The chances that Bibi would do this without express clearance from Trump is infintesimally small.

No, we are involved and once again, a Republican president has involved us in a Muddle Eastern war that could easily turn into not only a quagmire, but this time, it could blow up into a global conflagration.

Heckuvajob, Donnie.

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