84 thoughts on “Dupont Circle Open Mic — Live at 2pm ET”

  1. Attribution: In Washington DC. by Becs, CagleCartoons.com
    [Alejandro Becares (aka “Becs”) is from Argentina, he publishes in magazines and newspapers as well as foreign digital graphic media. He’s won international awards.]

  3. BB, I’m glad my dad and uncles – all of whom served in WWII – aren’t alive to see this. With the exception of 1 of my 3 uncles, all 4 of my immediate male relatives in that generation would be appalled and pissed off, and the one who was a trumper died of dementia, which explains a lot to me about his descent into the world Faux showed him all day every day for years.

  5. Trump did “nothing inappropriate.”

    In other words, all his cheese log competition with Eppie was fake.

  7. David just got back from a business trip to Minneapolis:

    “I was glad to see a city I’ve never been to and created my own Mary Tyler Moore tour: the statue where she threw her hat in the air; the exterior of the house Mary and Rhoda lived in; and the park she walks thru in the opening credits. Craig turned my photos into a video”

  10. So when the nun at my school called you “a mighty bold article” she did not mean it to be a compliment.

  11. None of this is normal.

    As Governor Wes Moore said, HE is the CIC of his state’s NG and he will not participate unless there’s an honest and necessary mission.

    Deploying troops from other states to Chicago? That seems super problematic.

    Can’t imagine how military feel about this. Can’t imagine most are very jazzed about cuts in future benefits while being commanded to act against civilians.

    Stephen Miller seems to be the one itching for a civil war. Deporting or imprisoning brown folks here isn’t enough to feed the hatred. Bullets are cheaper than concentration camps. Buncha sickos in this administration.

    The rest of the world is moving on without the US. If we weren’t such a prolific munitions factory, we would have zero to offer.

    FDT

  15. The national guard is cheap labor, this all-out war against the undocumented is failing because of the need for more manpower. Ice is having recruitment problems and has lowered its standards to a level where if you are breathing, you are hired. But still they don’t have enough people to do the job.
    The good news is there are a limited number of people who want to dress up in black masks and disappear mothers and fathers off the streets.
    So Team Trump is using national guard.
    It is an abuse of patriotic Americans. Who signed up to help their neighbors in cases of natural disasters and protect this nation in time of war. They didn’t sign up to be cheap labor.
    Just some thoughts before I finished my first cup of coffee
    Jack

  17. If I can remember.
    It is a lot of fun and I get to tell my stories to someone who hasn’t heard them mumblemumble times. ;-0
    We are just a bunch of oldfolks hangin’ at the local diner.
    Maybe we can get a reporter to come interview us for local color.

    I think Jamie posted last night that she could make it. She was going to get out and ride a local tourist train. It sounded fun.

    Jack

  18. Just some short biographies of people I’ve never heard of.
    A change of pace for a Saturday morning.

    Gwendolyn Adams was born in Ellesmere, Shropshire, the daughter of a plumber. By the age of 15, she had left school and was apprenticed to a milliner (a maker of hats). During the First World War, she worked as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse at the Auxiliary Military Hospital in Ellesmere and the 1st Southern General Hospital in Birmingham, providing medical care for men wounded in action.
    Between 1925-1929 she was one of several women employed by the British motorcycle industry to make long and difficult journeys across Britain and Europe. These trips were used to generate publicity for the products through press coverage and public appearances at motorcycle dealerships along the route. Gwendoline Adams specialised in solo trips through Europe, at a time when roads were poor and a battle-scarred continent was undergoing major political changes. In 1926 she travelled from Britain, across the Alps, to Venice, and in 1928 undertook a major journey to Spain – travelling from London to Gibraltar.

  24. DHS has transferred FEMA employees to ICE. The Pentagon has asked civilian DOD personnel to volunteer for ICE duty, and the sign up was through FEMA.

  25. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-uganda-deport

    The Trump administration might try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda in the coming days, according to a notice sent by a Department of Homeland Security official to his lawyers on Friday.

    The notice, made public in a court filing in Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling criminal case in Tennessee, came minutes after he was released from criminal custody pending his trial on the federal charges.

    *He was their test case and it continues to fail, but they aren’t letting it go.

    “Let this email serve as notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now (absent weekends),” the notice read in part.

    That requirement is meant to give him time to raise a claim that he may face torture or persecution in the third country identified by the government.

    The filing submitted by Abrego Garcia’s lawyers Saturday morning to the federal judge overseeing his criminal case also said that earlier this week, the government tried to cut a deal with him in which he would plead guilty to the two federal charges and, after serving any court-imposed sentence, be deported to Costa Rica.

    The Central American country would accept him as a refugee or give him some form of legal status, according to a letter sent from its government to a State Department official at the US embassy in Costa Rica.

    That offer was renewed Friday evening, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said in court papers. They told the judge that their client now has until Monday morning “to accept a plea in exchange for deportation to Costa Rica, or else that offer will be off the table forever.”

    The offers, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers argued, are evidence of what they described as the government’s effort to punish Abrego Garcia for challenging his wrongful deportation earlier this year. They told the judge, Waverly Crenshaw, that the developments buttress their request for him to throw the case out on the grounds that Abrego Garcia is the subject of “vindictive and selective prosecution.”

    There can be only one interpretation of these events: the DOJ, DHS, and ICE are using their collective powers to force Mr. Abrego to choose between a guilty plea followed by relative safety, or rendition to Uganda, where his safety and liberty would be under threat,” the attorneys wrote.

    “It is difficult to imagine a path the government could have taken that would have better emphasized its vindictiveness,” they continued. “This case should be dismissed.”

    Uganda? Another foreign gulag. Orange Adolf and his administration are basically war criminals.

  27. @caslernoel
    When Trump gets those detention camps built in every state and
    ICE has implemented their nation-sized military budget and staffed it with all the tattooed jackbooted dipshits wanting to cosplay soldiers we are gonna be truly f*cked. Know that, USA. No court or Congress saving us.

    https://people.com/tv/former-apprentice-noel-casler-accuses-donald-trump-drug-use/

    ***

    *It does appear that time is running out, and there is no clean way out. Even if cholesterol finished Taco today, the entire administration is corrupt, plus there’s Peter Thiel, Heritage Foundation, etc.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91175859/this-jd-vance-founded-donor-organization-big-plans-million-dollar-budget-match

    Before JD Vance began his rapid rise to vice presidential candidate, he co-founded a Silicon Valley-backed donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations and election polls with a goal of spreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism, according to previously unreported documents on the group.

    Rockbridge oversees five political groups and one super PAC focused on financing right-wing investigative reporting, underwriting polls, turning out voters in battleground states and spurring churchgoers into political activism, according to a seven-page Rockbridge prospectus issued to donors…

    Many want to weaken the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates Wall Street, and reduce oversight of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.

    A longtime associate of Vance’s, Republican businessman Chris Buskirk, is Rockbridge’s other founder. Rockbridge Network’s donor outreach is run by Rockbridge Network LLC, a for-profit Delaware company that helps manage donations for the network’s political groups. Its owners are not identified in corporate records.

    Rockbridge hasn’t disclosed its financial backers and isn’t required to reveal them under campaign-finance laws.

    But according to two sources with knowledge of Rockbridge, they include Peter Thiel, a German-born libertarian billionaire who poured millions into Vance’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. Its members also include venture capitalist Blake Masters, a Thiel protégé and former candidate for U.S. Congress in Arizona, and investor Omeed Malik, a former Democrat who now backs conservative-friendly companies, the sources said. Right-wing activist and heiress Rebekah Mercer, a major donor to Trump, is also a backer.

  28. I only know what side arms and rifle we had in the 60′ and 70’s. They were bullet proof (hehehe). 45 that was older than rocks, M16A1 which went through a few rough years, 38 police special that had been around since the invention of fireworks. Plus attachments like grenade launcher. 9MM was “new” compared to the others. WWII M1 was no longer issued, M14 was for others.

    Edit: I just realized my brain blocked out the manufacturers of almost everything I touched in the military. I need to send my shrink a note (if I remember by Monday).

  32. Those old 45s were tough, I suspect most of them are still out there unless destroyed by some police department.
    If I was to carry a pistol it would probably be a revolver for much the same reason the rifles I own are either bolt action or lever action. I don’t trust the safeties on most guns they are too easy to bump and turn them off.
    As to the NG and fire arms, they shouldn’t have one in the chamber anyway, plenty of time to jack a shell in after you’ve got your butt down and undercover.

    Jack

  34. I need to give it for Newsome. He is really getting into a lot of magat shorts like a sit in chigger nest. I hope he and his team can keep this pace going until election day.

  39. It’s not the lions, tigers and bears that will get you. It’s the ticks, the chiggers and the mites.

  40. do you ever think maybe the reason Hitler was so mad was all the time-travelers trying to assassinate him?

    -Benji Rothman

  41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

    Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired about 67 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom sustained permanent paralysis.

    Eight of the shooters were charged with depriving the students of their civil rights, but were acquitted in a bench trial. The trial judge stated, “It is vital that state and National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable.”

    During a press conference at the Kent firehouse, an emotional Governor Rhodes pounded on the desk,[39] which can be heard in the recording of his speech.[40] He called the student protesters un-American, referring to them as revolutionaries set on destroying higher education in Ohio.

    *The revolutionaries were un-American. OK, then.

    Rhodes also claimed he would obtain a court order declaring a state of emergency that would ban further demonstrations and gave the impression that a situation akin to martial law had been declared; however, he never attempted to obtain such an order.

    *What could go wrong?

    Had to read up on this, because I only know that it happened, and I only know that because of the song.

  42. Light bulb just clicked on.
    Soon:
    Benzedrine will be legal again……
    Black Beauties, green amps, frisco turn arounds, speckled birds, etc

  43. oh, I meant more like testosterone and human growth hormone and all that shit. human beings aren’t supposed to be the size of bears, that’s all drugs

    lol “frisco turn-arounds”

  46. Bill Maher Revives Prediction Of ‘Slow-Moving Coup’ Amid Trump’s DC Takeover

    Did the MAGAs not let Bill in their club? ya frickin goon

    hey Bill, maybe stop bitching about liberals for Clickbait? how about that idea? fucking goon

  52. I am putting my token on December 31, 2025, hopefully early so everybody who wants ’em gets extra fireworks. Range is November 15, 2025 to March 15, 2026.

  53. A seventies soft rock revival? Why? The mind boggles.
    Here is an original, an old blues man.
    Kinda clear the air.

  54. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/economy/furniture-tariff-trump

    President Donald Trump on Friday…

    “Within the next 50 days, that Investigation will be completed, and Furniture coming from other Countries into the United States will be Tariffed at a Rate yet to be determined,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

    Furniture stocks, such as Wayfair, William-Sonoma and Restoration Hardware, all tanked in after-hours trading Friday evening following a big day of gains across the stock market after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell opened up the door to an interest rate cut.

    *Mmmm, Jerome Powell said nothing definite about cutting interest rates.

    Anyway, if JD needs a new couch he should probably get it now.

  55. I look good in that hat.
    If I headed out in a better pair of pants, I might just find me a woman.
    It could happen, now that I’m a youtube star.

    Jack

  56. https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20250822a.htm

    “This year, the economy has faced new challenges. Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are remaking the global trading system. Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth. Over the longer run, changes in tax, spending, and regulatory policies may also have important implications for economic growth and productivity. There is significant uncertainty about where all of these polices will eventually settle and what their lasting effects on the economy will be.”

    “Changes in trade and immigration policies are affecting both demand and supply. In this environment, distinguishing cyclical developments from trend, or structural, developments is difficult. This distinction is critical because monetary policy can work to stabilize cyclical fluctuations but can do little to alter structural changes.”

    “Overall, while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers. This unusual situation suggests that downside risks to employment are rising. And if those risks materialize, they can do so quickly in the form of sharply higher layoffs and rising unemployment.”

    *He basically blamed Taco Don and his boot-licking n&zis in Congress for economic chaos/uncertainty.

    “Monetary policy is not on a preset course. FOMC members will make these decisions, based solely on their assessment of the data and its implications for the economic outlook and the balance of risks. We will never deviate from that approach.”

    “The Great Depression presented different challenges from those of the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation, which in turn are different from the ones we face today.”

    *This is the only thing he said and was a maybe:

    “Risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment are to the downside — a challenging situation” –
    The Fed will “proceed carefully” but the shifting balance of risks “may warrant adjusting our policy stance.”

    *May. May. May.

  57. A seventies soft rock revival? Why?

    kids now like the old yacht rock because it’s evocative of what seems to them a simpler time, plus there is a lot of good music there, made with actual instruments

    The current band “Whitney” is chill, I haven’t heard a bad song by them

    70 soft rock revival is definitely a subgenre right now and if nobody else is staying that, I am, I’d make a playlist, but who has the time

  59. Jack – who would have guessed that fifty plus years in the future Pop Rock and Folk would still be popular. In the sixties we would call anything a year or two old “moldy oldie”. Now, fifty or even sixty years later music from the era is still popular.

    Due to whatever happened to me brain, I do the comparison thing. In nineteen-sixty eight, who listens to music from nineteen eighteen? Now, who listens to music from nineteen-sixty eight?

  60. Lieutenant General Jeffrey Cruz was fired as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency due to a “loss of confidence,” following the release of a report that contradicted claims about the effectiveness of U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program. His dismissal reflects ongoing tensions within U.S. national security leadership regarding intelligence assessments.

    https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-dia-iran-intelligence-trump-kruse-5cb1fb89b8f12c3b517f139f6d840b48

    Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

    Hegseth also fired Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, who is chief of the Navy Reserve, as well as Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversees Naval Special Warfare Command, another U.S. official said.

    *FDT and all of his boot-licking n&zis.

  61. There’s actually a yacht rock revue that tours around; an acquaintance has gone and they are a couple of decades behind me.
    You can find clips on YouTube if you are so inclined.

  62. Lawmaker Reveals What’s In First Batch of DOJ Epstein Docs Released To Congress: ‘Only 3%’ Are ‘New’

    “Let me break some news this morning. Our lawyers were up all night, and we now have a fact that only 3% of the documents that were given to us were new. 97% were already in the public domain. And less than 1% of the Epstein files have actually been released. The Epstein files are 300 gigabits. We know this because that’s what the FBI has said. And they’ve released less than one gigabit,” Khanna said.

    *He’s in the files & it’s bad & they’ll never be released.

  64. To be a musician in the big band era and before, you had to actually know a thing or two about music and had to have had some kind of formal training.
    It arguably began with Fats Domino but after simmering a few years “Rock” became “Freedom from education” when in 56 Elvis took over the swooning girls department from Mr Big Band Frank Sinatra.
    All of a sudden thousands of kids were turned on to guitars and maybe knowing 3 chords or 4 (Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Everly’s, Chuck Berry, etc) could step into the spotlight as a full-blowed Moo-Jician and we wound up with some pretty great music.

  65. Today while enjoying the train area, the gift shop was playing Big Band era music that had even the littlest ones dancing to the music of their great great grandparents.

  66. because you can’t listen to new music when you’re dead here’s Bieber’s new album, I am here for it

    Solid R&B album, lesson for Dems is Bieber considers himself Christian and yet some
    of his lyrics are very “suggestive” to be euphemistic

  68. That is wildly unusual of the National Mall on day like today, Jack.

    Some folks marched, or at least slowly walked, a couple of streets over from out house tonight, chanting about freedom — i was in the middle of take out brisket that was too good to leave

  69. The media isn’t covering the areas where crime is highest all while Trump mumbles on about all the “black ladies” thanking him.

  74. That is what you get for laughing at dope smokers.
    Machines ain’t got no sense of humor.
    When machines run the world this is what happens.
    Jack

  75. eh TikTok is under the microscope. They need to make it look like they’re trying to protect children.

    which is absurd, of course, but that’s what’s going on

  77. Don Was killin’ it as usual on his satellite radio show

    he does a really good job, 2 or 3 hour playlist every Saturday

  78. Christmas 1975, I was at a party with friends that Christmas, We were that drunk and stoned but we didn’t have near that good of music.
    Jack

  80. lol he knows all the good stuff

    ok that’ll tune your algo a bit 🤝

    lol he’s onto Yacht Rock now, i’ll spare you

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