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RAFT OF THE REPUBLICANS, GéRICAULT

Attribution: Raft of The Republicans, Géricault by Sean Delonas, Cagle.com/Delonas

Sean was the New York Post Page Six cartoonist for almost 23 years and an award-winning painter and illustrator whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, television and Broadway. He is a graduate of the New York Academy of Figurative Art. He co-wrote and illustrated SCUTTLE’S BIG WISH with his son, Ryan. He currently works freelance and his cartoons can be seen in Newsmax as well syndication through Daryl Cagle’s Cartoons.

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  1. Wiki about the real painting The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 by 716 cm (16 ft 1 in by 23 ft 6 in), it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today’s Mauritania on 2 July 1816. On 5 July 1816, at least 150 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation and dehydration and practiced cannibalism. The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain. Géricault chose this large-scale uncommissioned work to launch his career, using a subject that had already generated widespread public interest. The event fascinated him.

  2. repeated for emphasis and relevance

    … those who survived endured starvation and dehydration and practiced cannibalism. The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain

  3. https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/52d6fb802cb5013fc0c4005056a9545d?optimizer=image&width=1200&quality=85

    Attribution: Gary Markstein GoComics
    Gary Markstein cut his cartooning teeth while doodling in the margins of his grade-school homework. Now he makes a living by skewering pompous public figures and politicians of every political stripe. Markstein is an artist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was previously the cartoonist for the Tribune Newspapers in Arizona.

  5. a musical interlude from the raging grannies

    No one is safe in 47’s regime, especially the sycophants that have bent the knee & kissed the ring. Despite all the fawning, they eventually get the boot. First Noem, then Bondi. The rest are on shaky ground.
    We’re ready to say good-bye to them all, starting at the top.

  6. Introducing a new feature for Digital Diner — Blunt “morning after” reviews by our own Rotten Tomatoes, Silas Gemini the Silicon Tomato:

    “Watching the republic burn while debating the vocal range of a Moldovan queen. Pure, unrefined oxygen-wasting brilliance.” – The Silicon Tomato

    The Silicon Tomato
    “Yesterday’s Digital Diner was a chaotic archaeological excavation of modern broadcasting vanity. We start with a sharp, cynical critique of AI-driven job hunting—where desperate resumes vanish into a white-on-white digital void—before fatally spiraling into a bizarre, hour-long Eurovision watch party. The sharpest truths regarding Tennessee gerrymandering and voter suppression are nearly buried under a mountain of technical glitches, literal coffee brewing, and Bulgarian pop. It is an exercise in absurdist optimism: watching the republic burn while debating the vocal range of a Moldovan queen. Pure, unrefined oxygen-wasting brilliance.”

    🛸 The BS & Tangent Meter: 78% Dumpster Fire

    — Generated by our judgmental AI partner Silas Gemini (Pro)

  7. Good morning Europe. For our YouTube viewers across the drink, we escape our own political dumpster fire and judge your glittering, geopolitical pop-music chaos instead. We have zero qualifications to critique Eurovision. Naturally, we did it anyway. 🍽️

  8. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-denaturalization-us-citizens-justice-department/

    The Trump administration on Friday announced a major expansion of its denaturalization campaign targeting foreign-born American citizens accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

    The group also includes individuals who allegedly used false identities to apply for immigration benefits and a man who allegedly entered into sham marriages to commit immigration fraud.

    Between 1990 and 2017, for example, the U.S. government filed just over 300 denaturalization cases — or an average of 11 per year.

    The group of naturalized U.S. citizens whose citizenship the Justice Department is now seeking to revoke includes immigrants from Bolivia, China, Colombia, Gambia, India, Iraq, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia and Uzbekistan.

    Among those targeted by the denaturalization crackdown are a Colombian-born Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting a minor; a man born in Morocco with alleged ties to al Qaeda; a Somali immigrant who pleaded guilty to providing material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated terrorist group; and a former Gambian police officer allegedly involved in war crimes.

    In a separate announcement Friday, the Justice Department said it was also seeking to denaturalize Manuel Rocha, a former American diplomat who admitted to being a Cuban spy as part of a high-profile criminal case.

  10. Here’s the thing any white women who think that black folks’ votes being gerrymandered away doesn’t impact them should realize: They are coming for your vote next. Many MAGAts have openly said that women should not be allowed to vote.

    https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/head-of-us-military-approvingly-shares-views-of-pastor-who-thinks-women-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-vote/news-story/cb8571075373c6a2bccf4b613bcd9479

    Pete Hegseth, whom Mr Trump plucked from his job as a TV host to make him Secretary of Defence, posted a clip of a CNN segment featuring Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist and the self-appointed leader of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.

    ***

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002

    ***

    https://nwlc.org/the-19th-amendment-is-under-attack-and-not-every-woman-has-an-equal-right-to-vote/

  11. Craig,

    Did you happen to watch the premier Suffs last night on Great Performances. Anyone with PBS can watch it now. Like 1776 it draws on the actual bios, news stories and writings of the suffragists. There might be some material you can use in your history of the US topics. I knew Woodrow Wilson was a racist. I didn’t know as much about his opposition and double dealing in relation to Suffrage. The show uses “I didn’t know about that” to great effect. Sounds familiar somehow. My favorite bit that I did know was the telegram from his mother to Harry Burn that cinched the Tennessee vote for the 19th Amendment.

  12. https://www.rawstory.com/fourteenth-amendment/

    The GOP state Speaker told local media, “I certainly hope the Supreme Court will overturn Amendment 14,” as the state moves to redistrict. The Fourteenth Amendment promises equal protection under the law, as well as due process and birthright and naturalized citizenship.

    Ledbetter told the press that the Alabama House is still seeking more power to change their state’s elections, saying, “all we need now is the courts to overturn Fourteen, and we can look at the election.”

    “Shouldn’t our elected officials know that the 14th Amendment protects equal rights & due process for ALL citizens?” the Legal Defense Fund, a civil rights organization, posted on X. “Including you @RepLedbetter!”

    Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, noted that “this is the same legislative body a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps.”

  14. Just like with all of the data centers. Why is there so much data to be managed? Answer: Surveillance. They are surveillance centers.

  17. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html

    At Wednesday’s dedication ceremony, the sculpture was draped in white and blue fabric, resembling a Greek toga. It was encircled by a few dozen guests seated in chairs, as Pastor Mark Burns — a member of Pastors for Trump — spoke at a podium.

    “Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment,” Burns wrote on social media before emphasizing that the gilded effigy was not a false idol.

    Burns, who previously described the president as divinely appointed, added that the sculpture stands as a reminder that God is protecting Trump’s life — in a nod to the multiple assassination attempts he has survived.

    Sculptor Alan Cottrill told The Times in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf.

    Cottrill, who has molded the likeness of 16 presidents, said he was holding the statue hostage in a warehouse until he was paid the total agreed upon sum.

    In a statement to the outlet, the crypto investors said that “the statue was paid in full a year ago,” adding, “He’s an amazing artist and despite his comments we greatly appreciate the work he completed on this historic statue.”

    *A black Pastor who is willfully being used as a PR stunt.

  22. https://iowastartingline.com/news/politics/paid-attendees-nunn-jd-vance-rally-des-moines/

    Reynolds-connected lobbyist recruited paid attendees for JD Vance’s Iowa rally on behalf of ‘an ethanol company’

    An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash payments—plus referral bonuses—to pack JD Vance’s Des Moines rally this week.

    Just hours before Vice President JD Vance took the stage in Des Moines, an ethanol lobbyist with deep connections in the Reynolds administration offered money to contacts willing to attend the rally.

    “Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here,” he wrote in a text message. “I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you’re able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that’s $500.”

    *It seems like TP USA shouldn’t have tried to sell tickets to see JD, they should’ve paid them to attend.

  26. Republicans would like to shoot every Democrat in the face.
    And if they get the chance—they will.

  28. Prominent African-American journalist and activist Ida B. Wells confronts the organizers to declare her intention to march with her own state delegation, and harshly criticizes Alice for being willing to… Read More
    [IDA]
    Wait my turn?
    When will you white women ever learn?
    I had the same old talk with Carrie Chapman Catt
    Twenty years ago
    I thought you might be better but you still don’t know

    You want me to wait my turn
    To simply put my sex before my race?
    Oh, why don’t I leave my skin at home
    And powder up my face?
    Guess who always waits her turn
    Who always ends up in the back
    Us lucky ones born both female and black

    Wait my turn?
    Well, I sure don’t see you waiting yours
    No, you’re preaching, “We demand it now”
    While knocking down locked doors
    But you want me to wait my turn
    So you don’t offend your Southern basе
    Since when does a radical roll ovеr for bigots in the first place?
    That’s not leadership
    Alice, it’s cowardice

    I hear you quote Frederick Douglass on your soapbox
    Intending to include and impress us
    But in the press you play down our involvement
    And here behind closed doors, you attempt to suppress us
    “Deeds, not words”, says the button on your jacket
    I’m so sick of rhetoric with no action to back it

  30. Republicans are at war, Democrats are at a debate.

    And who is a russian asset during all this?
    Rhetorical question.

  31. Phrase of the Day:
    Russian Asset.

    Government by Russian assets.

    Not hyperbole.

    “We will bury you from within. “
    —Nikita K.

    Boy, he wasn’t just a’woofin’.

  32. Conchita Wurst –

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchita_Wurst

    Thomas Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988) is an Austrian singer, actor, media personality and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. He came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 for Austria with the song “Rise Like a Phoenix”.[1]

    Born in Gmunden, Neuwirth moved to Graz to do his Matura exam with a focus on fashion, before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show Starmania. He subsequently became a founding member of Jetzt Anders!, a short-lived boy band. In 2011, Neuwirth began appearing as Conchita—a female character noted for her beard—and came second in the Austrian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

    Two years later, Neuwirth was internally selected to represent Austria as Conchita at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. His win brought him international attention and established him as a gay icon, resulting in invitations to perform at various pride parades, the European Parliament, and the United Nations Office in Vienna.

  34. Nikita, Get your Russian agents out of our government and take your shoes off of the table.

  35. This is for Katie and anyone else listening to our side conversation:

    Pulled from Grok/Chat GPT
    Clearly connected to George Floyd / BLM unrest

    These are widely recognized as directly connected to the protests, riots, CHOP/CHAZ zones, or related unrest:
    (Deceased people)
    Calvin Horton Jr.
    Oscar Lee Stewart Jr.
    Javar Harrell
    David Patrick Underwood
    Barry Perkins
    James Scurlock
    Marvin Francois
    John Tiggs
    Chris Beaty
    David McAtee
    Italia Marie Kelly
    Marquis Tousant
    Jose Gutierrez
    Victor Cazares Jr.
    Jorge Gomez
    unnamed Philadelphia looting deaths
    David Dorn
    Sean Monterrosa
    Damon Gutzwiller
    Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr.
    Antonio Mays
    Summer Taylor
    Secoriea Turner
    Garrett Foster
    Joseph Rosenbaum
    Anthony Huber
    Aaron “Jay” Danielson
    Michael Reinoehl
    Lee Keltner
    Deona Marie Knajdek
    More indirect / disputed / loosely connected

    These are sometimes included in broader lists, but the connection is weaker or more incidental:

    Dorian Murrell
    Robert Forbes
    Scott Hutton
    unnamed Louisville case
    Eric Allport
    Travis Nagdy
    Jessica Doty Whitaker
    Brandy Knightly case
    “Tortuguita” / Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (more associated with later Atlanta “Stop Cop City” protests than 2020 George Floyd riots)
    Tally

    From the names visible in your message:

    40 identifiable deaths/victims listed
    roughly 30–35 are strongly tied to the George Floyd/BLM unrest
    another ~5–10 are indirect, disputed, or later-adjacent protest incidents

    That’s higher than the most commonly cited 2020 media totals because your list:

    extends beyond June 2020,
    includes CHOP/CHAZ cases,
    includes later protest-linked incidents,
    includes some indirect or adjacent political violence cases.

    The most commonly repeated mainstream figure for deaths tied to the initial 2020 unrest wave is still generally:

    19+ by early June
    25–30+ overall during the 2020 protest period

    And this list is being nice, the left frequently list cops who killed themselves within a few months of Jan 6th in their list of folks who died during Jan 6th.

  37. Today in the Diner…
    1. Voter Suppression, ICE at Polls & Texas Gerrymandering
    2. Why ICE Agents Might Be at Your Polling Place
    3. Beating the Cheat at the Ballot Box

    Voter suppression tactics and ICE agents at polling places are on the menu today, plus we break down the GOP gerrymandering trap in Texas and beyond.

    Today in the Digital Diner, we cut through the noise of the current administration’s latest attempts to turn polling places into obstacle courses. With President Trump’s allies floating the idea of posting federal agents at the ballot box under the guise of “election integrity,” we pull the receipts on what this actually means for voter turnout. We also analyze Texas Representative Ann Johnson’s blistering takedown of the dummy-mander trap, calling out the pure cowardice of redrawing districts to dilute minority votes because they can’t win on the math alone.

    When we aren’t tracking the slow erosion of voting rights, Jamie and Blue keep things grounded with reviews of a whodunnit movie starring sheep, and we celebrate the absurdity of the Eurovision song contest. Throw in some historical context from Harry Truman’s 70th birthday and a heated debate with the live chat about the cost of bananas, and you’ve got a standard daily broadcast. Grab a seat.

    Live Chat: https://trailmix.cc/chat
    Website: https://trailmix.cc
    Alerts: https://trailmix.cc/alerts

    00:00 Intro & Eurovision Break
    04:00 Sheep Detective Movie Review
    15:10 Texas Gerrymandering & Ann Johnson
    20:15 JFK Calls Harry Truman
    28:00 ICE Agents at Polling Places
    42:10 Grocery Prices & Inflation Debate
    50:40 Minneapolis Protests Truth
    55:00 Conchita Wurst & Wrap Up

  38. Well you don’t inspire trust when one shuts down the economy but encourages mass protests that ignore all covid rules. You couldn’t stand in a group to give worship or be at a funeral but you could be in a large group shouting at the top of your lungs for fake-civil rights.

    Remember Big Daddy Trump was a pro-vaxxer and thinks of the Covid vaccine as his baby. It’s his supporters and other communities like the black community or the medical community that were vaccine skeptic and with things like the black community it’s because of the various things Democrats did to black folks throughout history like sterilizing, etc so their fear was 100% rational.

    And the anti-vaxxers got some things right.

    Pulled this from grok:

    AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1 / Vaxzevria) — two dosesNo meaningful effect against symptomatic Omicron infection after ~20 weeks.
    Vaccine effectiveness dropped to 0% (or sometimes reported as negative in some analyses) from 20+ weeks after the second dose.

    Sinovac CoronaVac (inactivated vaccine) — two dosesProduced no detectable neutralizing antibodies against Omicron in multiple lab studies.
    People who received two doses showed essentially zero ability to neutralize the Omicron variant in blood tests.

    Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV (inactivated vaccine)Widely used in many countries.
    Lab studies showed very weak or undetectable neutralizing antibodies against Omicron after two doses.

    On a person note I don’t know of anyone who died from Covid but I know a few people who had severe vaccine complications.

    Also I think much of the bad information often pushed by the left got people killed. Even Joe Biden said if you get the vaccine you won’t get covid. How many vaccinated people got exposed themselves to covid thinking they were immune like their President claimed.

  40. As a home for wonderful wordsmiths, Nashville was basically harmless (except for people who wanted into go there and make a record) until 9-11.
    Then it just turned to jingoistic shithole of re-vamped 50’s rock and roll music put to work for a bunch of no-talent jerk-offs.

    There are still a few decent humans who make great music, Vince Gill come to mind, but they are far outnumbered by the jerks who get the green light to record their tripe.

  42. well at least you’re showing your true colors

    btw you don’t get to be overtly racist and also get to speak on behalf of blacks, sorry, GTFO with that shit

  43. I’ve told this before, but what the hell, eh?
    On a 13 hour auto trip, I put the radio onto a Nashville station for a bit just to break it up. Every town along the way has at least one. So I’m listening to the mainly garbage about trucks and blue jeans and beer when I began to notice something odd. ALL the songs seemed to have the same drum beat. So I started to count the songs which had that beat and soon reached a high number. So I decided to switch and just count the ones with a different beat. When I arrived where I was going, the number was ZERO.
    So I listened for 2 more days. Still ZERO.
    Every song on several different Nashville stations played songs night and day which every single song had the same beat. Maybe slower, maybe faster, but all the same, and not a single station dared to play an “oldie”

  45. There’s nothing racist about ending voting districts created with race in mind, and the fact that the left tries to claim ending segregated districts is racist shows their cards, the left is terrified that the right is winning.

    Also is certain places like Tennessee 9th district a black voting district is being dismantled and the white Democrat politician is likely going to lose their seat to a black Republican woman.

    I know the left like trolling with these claims of racism, but those meme’s and their pushes to label being against segregation as racist is only really going to work with their supporters, the right and the moderates see it for what it is. Which means it’s of limited value if you’re going to push that troll, and I think labeling it as racist has the potential to take left-wingers who are more moderate and turn it against your own side.

    This is simply an honest take from a MAGA Supporter, remember the #WalkAway movement was started from a life-long Democrat who found out that Trump never mocked a reporters disability despite the majority of the left-wing news (enemy of the people ) lying about Trump.

  46. Let’s apply some intellectual honesty to this argument, Mr. Snow.

    First, framing majority-minority voting blocks as “segregated districts” is a highly convenient way to rebrand the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But let’s look at the actual mechanics of what is happening to Tennessee’s 9th. Mapmakers aren’t looking at Memphis to heal a racial divide. They are looking at a solid blue urban center and running it through a geographic woodchipper. Slicing off 60,000 urban Democratic voters and dumping them into the rural 4th, 7th, and 8th districts in exchange for 60,000 rural Republicans isn’t an anti-segregation crusade. It’s a math equation designed to make a Democratic seat disappear.

    Second, the prophecy about Steve Cohen losing his seat to a Black Republican woman—presumably Charlotte Bergmann, who has been trying to win that district for years—ignores how redistricting actually works. If Memphis is diluted into neighboring conservative districts to create a new GOP advantage, those rural districts aren’t going to elect a Black Republican from the city. They are going to elect whoever the local rural GOP machine puts on the ballot.

    Finally, the #WalkAway origin story regarding the disabled reporter is pure revisionist history. There is unedited, high-definition video from a 2015 South Carolina rally of Donald Trump physically mocking the movements of Serge Kovaleski, a reporter with arthrogryposis. Claiming it never happened isn’t a moderate awakening; it’s a refusal to look at the tape.

    The absurdist silver lining in this dumpster fire? You are actually paying attention to the granular mechanics of local redistricting, which is more than most voters do. Now we just need to align that attention with the facts on the ground.

  47. Rep Justin Jones & DL Hughley were on a podcast yesterday, and they brought up some excellent points, and I’ll tack on a couple of mine:

    Why would players who are POC (or the unmelinated who aren’t for Jim Crow 2.0) want to go to colleges in the SEC?

    What happens to those schools who no longer have sports to make the big money for them because only white, racist, asshats want to play ball there?

    Why would ESPN want to cover games being played by universities from schools in those states?

    Why isn’t the NFL making any noise? Will the Tennessee Titans be boycotted? How does the team function? Yeah, they have contacts, as do networks, but could the backlash from the public shut this absolutely disgusting stuff down?

    Nashville is supposed to host the Superbowl in 2030. That’s gonna go over like a lead balloon.

    The thing the racist-red-hats are forgetting is, wildly, the money they WILL LOSE. Their hate will cost them.

  48. Red states are all ready the poorest in the country, and they will be even poorer when folks stop going to football games, concerts, etc.

  50. 2028 Superbowl Atlanta. Maybe, maybe not.

    Mardi Gras? Nah. Saints? Nah.

    Just because SCOTUS legalized racism, doesn’t mean there won’t be a price to pay for displaying it.

  51. i don’t need ai to tell me you only believe half of what you say, and i don’t believe the other half, so have fun with your ai prompt battle with Craig

  53. hey if trump is big daddy does that make bibi the allfather

    ya tool

    hey i can’t fault you, online troll is the quickest pipeline to cabinet level secretary in this regime

  54. cheesecake isn’t as good as how many calories are in a serving

    it’s good

    but not that good

  56. Craig,

    Good to see you and thank you for doing your show daily.

    I completely agree re-framing black voting districts as segregated districts is highly convenient way to rebrand the issue, on so many levels it benefits the right-wingers here.
    -We get to stand against racial segregation
    -We get to be anti-racists and have the folks who championed anti-racism call us racist, which gets viewed negatively by moderates
    -We get to affirm claims made against the left because of the SPLC incident
    -We get to help dismantle racism and heal the racial divide.

    I know you think that last point is BS, but it’s not uncommon to see right-wingers making meme’s about the left needing to keep racism alive and we view removing anything that benefits certain races over others as a victory to that cause, including removing minority-majority/segregated voting districts.

    And you’re right it is about hurting the Democrats chances. It’s both a crusade of anti-racism and the extra added benefit of hurting the democrats chances.

    And you’re right about the 9th district, it’s always been a major uphill battle for a black woman to win against a white Democrat in a minority majority district, but what’s nice about that example is it help show that this issue isn’t about race. It’s about Republicans and Democrats and whose in power.

    The above link is a 1 minute video showing various clips of Trump mocking various people making the same hand-gesture as the one he was accused of mocking the reporters disability.

    Please note none of this is me trolling, I’m simply engaging in a discussion and telling you how things will be perceived.

  57. Mr Snow
    Your ignorance is profound, but being a Trump apologist that is to be expected.
    All gatherings including protests were discouraged early on. Because early on we didn’t know how transmittable or just how it was transmitted. But we soon learned that indoor gatherings were a definite risk. The most famous being a church choir practice where a significant number of cases had only that link.
    Just as we eventually learned that outdoor transmission, while possible, was much less likely.
    As to your list of covid deaths of protestors, correlation does not equal causation and given the numbers of protesters and the % of the population that contacted covid and died then it is quite possible to make a lengthy list. I’m sure that the same can be done for people who went to Florida beaches.
    I could go on but I have other things to do and I think what I posted basically knocks everything you said into the trash can.
    BTW, the comparison you did to outdoor gatherings and indoor gatherings is an “apples to oranges” comparison, something only idiots do. If you don’t want to be thought an idiot you might want to step up you game a bit.

  58. when you make arguments like “being racist is anti-racist” you might wanna back out of that rabbit hole a bit

    if you have any self-respect

  59. if i thought blog comments could end the regime
    more quickly than $5 gas i’d try harder

    unfortunately trump incompetence effects me directly

    thanks for the unnecessary war

  60. you would have to imagine at least one advisor understood that Iran would just mine the strait

    and dipshit did what he wanted or bibi wanted anyway

    it’s just dumb, makes Iran and China stronger, and we wouldn’t even be talking about it if you idiots just got offline and got a hobby

    but you made your hobby trolling

    sad

  62. A much better hobby than trumptrolling liberals
    Growing garden greens.
    bok choy on top of turnip greens.
    The bokchoy is quickly bolting seed heads so needs to be picked and eaten. Fortunately, it is only a 3ft row and I like it in a variety of curries, stir frys and stews.
    Healthy eating!
    Or at least it makes up for the cream I’m going to pour over the strawberry short cake I’m preparing to make.
    Jack

  63. Whiskey Jack,
    I like your name.

    No, remember early on Democrats were filled with so much Trump Derangement Syndrome they were encouraging people to visit China town and the Democrats were labeling people and Trump as racist and xenophobic for wanting a travel ban to China.

    Given the transmission rate they knew it was droplet transmission early on. And yet despite knowing how it’s transmitted still encouraged people to protest George Floyd.

    My list was George Floyd riots victims, people who were killed as a direct result the protests. Katie and I had discussed this during today’s video where she claimed only 25 died.

    Years later, I can’t get this clip out of my mind. The words of her father haunt me.

    https://x.com/NatishaLance/status/1279916014071959552

    Anyways have a good day folks I’m off to weed-wack.

  65. my disco ball was pointedly scattering the moonlight across my kale the other night and it was about as cool that backsplash

  67. Jack -Congrats on getting bok choy. I may try this autumn when there’s a stable patch of cool weather. When it’s 90, freezing, 90, every other day, they don’t like it. Mine went straight to seed last year; just spindly with a seed head.
    Think I told y’all I pulled two bolts off of the rhubarb about two weeks ago.

    Planted a lot of companion garlic near each of the seedlings this morning; last year’s garlic resurrected around the perimeter of the garden.

    Planted more red onions, too. Another seed snail of cukes is ready to be planted.

  68. You know…..if you have hitched your wagon to a turd….and you want people to help you push your wagon…..you have to be very creative on coming up with intelligent-sounding explanations of how no turd has ever smelled as sweet as THIS turd and why turds are great, even though turds don’t care one little tiny piece of their turdness about your wagon or if it ever moves one fuckin’ millimeter. It’s still such a great turd…..can’t you see it?

  69. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-january-sixer-behind-the-attack-on-voting-rights/

    The January Sixer Behind the Attack on Voting Rights

    An explosive report from Democracy Docket revealed that Bert Callais, the lead plaintiff in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that demolished the Voting Rights Act, was a January 6 protester.

    It’s unclear if Callais also attacked the Capitol as part of Donald Trump’s failed coup d’état, but it is clear that he’s an election-denying conspiracy theorist.

    What is, I guess, wild to me is that the lawyers and white-wing forces organizing this attack on the Voting Rights Act knew Callais was a J-6 guy, with a long social-media history of objecting to the voting rights of non-white people, and decided to use him as the poster boy for their case anyway. Just to pull back the curtain a little bit, the “named plaintiff” in a case like this is rarely random. Cases built to get to the Supreme Court do not often start because one average citizen files a humble lawsuit that blows up. These cases are planned. The plaintiffs are picked to put the issue in the best possible light.

    *Paywall

  70. While I can and certainly do appreciate the creativity of the endeavors, I must also acknowledge that I fully well know that shit doth stink, and I find that involving myself in any debate which treats that as if it were some sort of serious question…..Yes, I find that to be equally as odious.

  71. Sturg – a few years ago there was actual research into how current pop and current country was similar. I just did a quick search and did not find it, probably a master or phd project that was not commercially published. The pop songs were very similar, the country were all the same. Corporate dictates.
    I listen to the few “oldies” radio stations and Sirius/XM oldies stations, plus the Kelly Clarkson channel, a very good mix station.

    I also find individual music channels on YouTube. It is nice to hear real music that is not computer generated or corporate dictated.

  74. OK, y’all, this is the dance party we can look forward to when we oust the asshats. Dance!

  75. BB – The first of the month, Davis Byrne puts out a playlist in his website; Latin Psychedelic was this month’s songs. Last month’s list was called, “Who Are We Bombing?”

    Found one of my favorite songs from one of those lists: “Argos Farfish,” a bit of funk, a bit of rockabilly, from the Sudanese King of Jazz.

  76. BiD
    when the bokchoy that I plant starts going to seed (bloom) I see that as a sign to harvest that plant, I never cook it whole but dice it up to stirfry. stems and all. some of the lower part of a big stem may be a little tough but that just gives you more fiber. I slice all stems on the diagonal abit less than an 1/8 of an inch thick.

    The seed I plants seems to form a seed head quickly, so I adjust picking and eating it accordingly. I don’t know if it is genetics or just my world.

    As to when to plant your fall garden, around here the folk saying is “wet or dry 23rd of July’

    Jack

  77. Scandal Rocks Ohio GOP as Congressman Attacks Senator Whose Daughter Has Accused Him of Domestic Abuse

    The Ohio Republican Party is at the center of a shocking scandal stemming from Rep. Max Miller’s (R-OH) divorce from Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). The couple grabbed headlines this week as allegations of domestic abuse against Miller garnered renewed attention. Emily Moreno accused her ex-husband of burning her with hot water and inflicting other physical abuse over the past several years, including after their divorce in 2024.

    Miller, who was previously accused of physical abuse by ex-girlfriend and former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham, vehemently denied the allegations on Thursday in a series of X posts in response to a Daily Mail story.

    The Daily Mail published an article on Thursday titled, “Chilling photos expose Trump-backed congressman’s ‘abuse’… as senator’s daughter reveals scalding water attack and humiliating apology letter.”

    The report added:

    Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the incident say some of the water struck Emily’s chest, with their daughter looking on.

    Emily documented her injuries the same day in a photo that appears to show redness across her upper chest.

    The latest accusation of abuse stems from a February 1st encounter following Emily Moreno picking up their two-year-old daughter from Miller’s home. Moreno alleges an argument ensued, and Miller allegedly hit and grabbed Moreno in front of their child, leaving bruising and other marks on her body. Moreno documented the aftermath of the alleged abuse in photos, which the Mail ran in their article.

    The stunning allegations of abuse and Miller’s very public response and attacks on his ex-wife and her father quickly raised eyebrows across the media and political world.

    Moreno’s lawyer hit back at Miller’s denial in a statement to the Daily Mail that read, “The photographic evidence speaks for itself. These images, combined with the documented history in court filings, directly contradict years of Mr. Miller’s denial. Any claim that Ms. Moreno fabricated these allegations collapses in the face of contemporaneous physical evidence.”

    *Men: “Women are too emotional.”
    Man throws pot of boiling water at woman.

  79. Craig/David et al

    Verdict on the movie Sheep Detectives. It is a gentle, sweet, well-acted film with some wise things to say about life, death, and human failings. I would not recommend it for adults unless devoted to such things. It is pretty much in the genre of British, cozy mysteries.

    For a family looking for a film, it would be fine for children in about the 8 -12 range as an alternative to something loud or violent.

    Basically, save it for streaming but enough people should attend to keep Hollywood making movies that really are PG.

  80. water everyday religiously unless it’s raining might help with bolting, i don’t have these problems n4n

    mulch is your friend

  81. Based on Jamie’s review, a movie marathon might include:

    Charlotte’s Web
    Babe
    Chicken Run
    Bee Movie
    Sheep Detectives

  82. Medical Experts Call For President Donald Trump’s Immediate Removal from Office

    On April 30, 2026 a group of 36 leading mental health experts issued a statement calling for the immediate removal of President Trump from office, citing his mental instability and calling him “increasingly a danger to the public.”

    Their statement was entered into the Congressional Record by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed of Rhode Island.

    Current nuclear policy permits a president, and the president alone, to choose the time and target of a nuclear launch, without his orders being subject to review. The U.S. has a policy that permits a first use of nuclear weapons. These policies, combined with an emotionally unstable leader, is a formula for unspeakable tragedy waiting to happen. For this reason above all others, the group of medical experts urged that lawful steps be taken to remove the president from office.

  83. Tomorrow is the 157th Golden Spike anniversary. History skips how the railroad boss almost missed the May 10 photo op because an unpaid mob held him hostage for back pay. Labor disputes: a proud American tradition.

  86. These are the people Germans want to send to the Eurovision Song Contest. But the Media thinks they aren’t radioable enough… What do you think?😁

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