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Giving a peace prize to Trump is like giving Oedipus a "World's Greatest Son" coffee mug.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

The Mach Loop:

Caturday

"Ma, it's dinner time!"

(It wasn't.)

Because It's Friday

Southern 4501 in classic green paint.

Affluenza: Poorer and in Prison

A Los Angeles county jury has found the socialite Rebecca Grossman and former MLB player Scott Erickson negligent in the deaths of two young brothers who were struck by Grossman’s vehicle in Westlake Village in September 2020.

Following an eight-week civil trial, the jury on Wednesday awarded $176m to the family of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his eight-year-old brother, Jacob. The boys were crossing the street with a skateboard and inline skates when Grossman fatally hit them with her car.

Without seeing the transcripts, I'd bet that those sleazebags were still trying to blame the kids and their parents for the kids being killed, or anyone else they could think of.

(Earlier posts.)

Slushing These Down, Here

JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap

If the Knicks fans don't do that when Trump is at Game 3, then shame on them.

FLOTUS Keeps Losing

The upshot of this lengthy article in Foreign Affairs is that Trump/Netanyahu's war with Iran has spectacularly backfired. The "decapitation strikes" not only created martyrs, but they created a more nimble and focused leadership, less focused on ideology and more focused on nationalism, one with stronger backing from the Iranian people.

Part of that is because of the stupidity of Hegseth and Netanyahu:

According to a Bloomberg analysis, two-thirds of the targets struck in Tehran before the cease-fire were residential, commercial, and other civilian buildings. In interview after interview, Iranians described explosions that reverberated through their bodies night and day, leaving deep psychological wounds. To them, the Iranian armed forces were no longer the oppressors but the defenders. A chant heard at rallies across Iran to cheer on Iran’s missile and drone strikes captured the shift in mood: “Strike, for you strike so well.” As the Iranian philosopher and dissident Mohammad Mehdi Ardebili said in Tehran during the fifth week of the war: “In this moment in time, the Islamic Republic and Iran are one and the same. If the Islamic Republic falls, Iran falls.”

Hitting civilian infrastructure to weaken a regime has a nearly-100% failure rate going back over a century, back to when German dirigibles were dropping bombs on London and German long-range guns were shelling Paris. But ghouls like Whiskey Pete and the Zoomie goons keep trying.

The Word of the Day Is.....

FLOTUS It Is

Ask and ye shall receive, FLOTUS.