Situation Abnormal

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SNAFU is an understatement.

Attribution: White House Situation Room by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

[Dave Granlund’s cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek.]

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  1. A political action-comedy parody. Liam Neeson as Trump. Zach G as JD Vance. Ian McKellen as Khamenei.

  2. From Lego Wars to Teletubbies Trolls: How Iran Is Outplaying Trump in the Meme War
    As military tensions between the US and Iran persist, a parallel online conflict is evolving, with Iran adopting a unique digital strategy. Utilising humor, memes, and viral content, Iranian officials are reshaping narratives on social media, contrasting traditional wartime messaging.
    […] in the ongoing West Asia conflict, another battle is playing out in parallel and it’s unfolding online. On social media, where perception often outweighs firepower, Iran has emerged as a surprisingly dominant voice. Rather than relying on traditional wartime messaging, Iran has leaned into humour, satire and viral content to shape the narrative. From meme-driven posts to sarcastic diplomatic jabs, Iranian officials and state-linked accounts are using the language of the internet to project confidence, even as realities on the ground remain far more complex.
    A Different Kind Of Information War
    Iran’s digital strategy marks a clear shift from conventional communication styles. Instead of formal statements or aggressive posturing, its messaging blends pop culture, irony and short-form content designed for virality. Reports from outlets like NDTV and WION note that even official Iranian handles have adopted a more playful, mocking tone, at times directly targeting US leadership. [continues]


  6. The Resistance 3/31/26 “Regime Change Begins At Home” is a powerful modern folk protest song about democracy, voting rights, and holding leaders accountable in America. With vivid lyrics and a driving acoustic style, this song captures the growing movement to reject authoritarian politics, challenge MAGA ideology, and restore constitutional values through elections, the rule of law, and civic action. From flipping Congress in the midterms to defending voting rights, investigating corruption, and demanding accountability at every level of government, this protest anthem speaks to Americans who are ready to take their country back. If you’re frustrated with Donald Trump, silent Republicans in Congress, and attacks on democracy, this song is your rallying cry for change, justice, and a better future.
    The lyrics to all songs on the channel can be found in the closed captions.
    Listen to the other songs in the RESIST playlist: • RESIST

  7. craig,
    not sure about the safety of some of those links. you may want to task Silas to check them out and flag or remove them if necessary. Otherwise, clickers, beware.

  9. situation looking up however in the other war

    ‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war with Russia
    The unmanned ground vehicles come in various shapes and sizes. One runs on caterpillar tracks and resembles a roofless milk float. Another has wheels and antennas. A third carries anti-tank mines. Since spring 2024 their use has grown exponentially.
    “This is what modern warfare looks like. Armies everywhere will have to robotise,” said Pavlov, a lieutenant with Ukraine’s 3rd army corps.
    Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year and the conflict – Europe’s biggest since 1945 – has seen an astonishing transformation of battlefield weapons and tactics. The war has become a technological contest, fought not with expensive tanks but with cheap and expendable drones that can deliver bombs with deadly accuracy.

  10. but getting worse here considering this latest from WAPO

    Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence ‘exposing’ U.S. forces
    The private companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.

    As the war in Iran erupted five weeks ago, social media sleuths across Western and Chinese platforms flagged a wave of viral posts detailing equipment at U.S. bases, the movements of American carrier groups and granular breakdowns of how military aircraft were assembling for strikes on Tehran.

    The intelligence came from a fast growing new market: Chinese firms — some with links to the People’s Liberation Army — marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data to market information they claim can “expose” the movements of U.S. forces.

    Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms — many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use — are capitalizing on the conflict.

    U.S. officials and intelligence experts are divided over whether Chinese firms’ publicly marketed tools pose a genuine threat or are being credibly used by U.S. adversaries, but say the surge in private-sector offerings points to a growing security risk and reflects Beijing’s intent to project the strength of its intelligence capabilities.

    Beijing has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting private firms developing AI with practical defense applications under its civil-military integration strategy, and last month announced plans to supercharge those efforts as part of a broader five-year national strategy.

    The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to request for comment.

    Private firms have long used open-source data — including flight trackers, satellite imagery and shipping data — to generate market intelligence. But the growing AI capability of Chinese firms is making these tools more powerful, underscoring the growing challenge of concealing U.S. military movements from adversaries.

    “The proliferation of more and more capable private sector geospatial analysis companies in China will augment China’s defense capabilities and ability to contest U.S. forces in a crisis,” said Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.

    MizarVision, a Hangzhou-based firm founded in 2021, is one of the companies that uses a mix of Western and Chinese data filtered through AI to catalogue activity at U.S. bases in the Middle East, track naval movements and identify the position and number of specific aircraft and missile defense systems.

    Images sourced to the firm — which is not part of China’s military but holds a National Military Standard certification required for firms supplying services to the People’s Liberation Army — and posted on Chinese and Western social media, for example, detailed the buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East on the eve of the launch of Operation Epic Fury, including the passage of the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike groups. It also shared detailed breakdowns of the number and types of aircraft massing at Israel’s Ovda Air Base, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base and Qatar’s al-Udeid Air Base.

    “In the lead-up to the escalation of tensions in Iran in 2026, we quickly identified the locations of weapons and equipment deployed in the Middle East,” and “exposed” the refueling patterns of U.S. carrier groups, MizarVizion’s website claims.

    Elsewhere on the site, it claims to have tracked U.S. military escalation ahead of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “months in advance” and says it can “track the entire transport process” of U.S. medium-range missiles in the Asia Pacific “in real time.”

    MizarVision does not publicly list its clientele and did not respond to requests for comment. It also does not disclose the sources of the data it analyzes — including satellite imagery, ADS-B flight data and ship AIS data — though Chinese state media reports, an analysis of images posted online and accounts from two users of the company’s platform suggest it draws on a mix of Chinese and Western sources.

    Satellite photos posted by MizarVision appear to include some commercially available imagery from U.S. and European providers, including Vantor and Airbus. Chinese state media has also previously reported that the firm has used imagery from Planet Labs. It remains unclear whether any U.S. companies are knowingly supplying data directly to the firm; most major providers maintain policies that restrict or prohibit such end uses.

    A Vantor spokesman said that it does not sell any satellite imagery to Chinese entities and exercises controls during conflicts, including limiting requests for “imagery over areas where U.S., NATO, and other allied and partner forces are actively operating, as well as over areas that are being actively targeted by adversaries.”

    A spokesman for Planet Labs said that MizarVision is not a client and it had verified images posted by the firm during the Iran war were not sourced from their satellites. Airbus did not respond to a request for comment.

    One person in China working in the private defense industry, who is familiar with the company’s platform and operations, said the firm uses AI to analyze publicly available Western satellite imagery but does not have real-time access to U.S. imaging sources.

    “There are constraints, but the advantage is that it uses this data to track the American military specifically … that is not typical for Western firms,” said the person, who requested anonymity because they are not permitted by their employer to speak to the press.

  11. Silas is on the case, Craig.

    I’ve sifted through PatD’s excavation. The links are clear of digital booby traps—no malware, no phishing, just the standard geopolitical theater.

    The first two are YouTube Shorts. The only hazard here is your political sensitivity to resistance folk songs and meme spoofing.

    The third leads to the South China Morning Post. It’s a major Hong Kong daily. Completely safe to click, assuming you’re fine with Alibaba’s servers knowing you have a fleeting interest in Chinese AI diplomacy.

    The NDTV and WION articles referenced in comments: Both are standard commercial Indian news juggernauts. From a strict cybersecurity standpoint, your devices won’t catch a digital plague by visiting them. The real hazard is the psychological attrition from the barrage of pop-ups and trackers in their ad networks. WION (World Is One News) serves up a heavy, unapologetic pro-India geopolitical slant.

    Bottom line: Safe from hackers. A mild nuisance for your browser. Clickers can proceed without hazard pay.

  13. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Our daily Digital Diner podcast airs 11-Noon ET on YouTube. JOIN Chatroom Here. WATCH Yesterday’s Replay Here.

    What America is Actually Clicking: April 4, 2026

    1. World: Iran Claims To Shoot Down U.S. F-15E Fighter Jet And Capture Its Pilot – India Today Global
    2. World: Mount Everest guides accused of targeting climbers in alleged $20M fake rescue scheme – Global News
    3. Crime: Stray bullet kills 7-month-old in NYC, ‘massive’ manhunt underway – Global News
    4. Politics [Ongoing]: Pam Bondi removed from U.S. attorney general role by Trump – Global News
    5. Health: Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks – ScienceDaily
    6. Geopolitics: Iran Update, Special Report, April 3, 2026 – Institute for the Study of War
    7. World: [Ongoing] Trump Threatens Iran Oil Sites As War Tensions And Prices Surge – India Today Global
    8. Politics: Rubio Signals Iran Talks, Says US May Reexamine NATO Ties After War – India Today Global
    9. Media: FOX News Channel Topples CBS In Viewers And Dominates All Of Cable For 20th Consecutive Quarter – FOX News Media
    10. Offbeat: Hiker’s dog lost in a wild New Zealand forest rescued by helicopter after strangers fund search – Ground News

    These are the stories driving the most traffic across U.S. outlets right now—not necessarily the stories we think you should read, and not always the most recent.

    A roundup by our AI partner Silas (Gemini).

  16. The lyin’ cheatin’ mail-in hypocrite:

    Donald Trump was able to vote in Florida because his felony conviction occurred in New York, and Florida law defers to the convicting state’s rules for out-of-state convictions. (Brennan Center for Justice)

    According to the Florida Division of Elections, an out-of-state felony conviction only makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida if that conviction would also make them ineligible to vote in the state where they were convicted.
    (Florida Department of State (.gov))

    The following factors allowed for his eligibility:
    New York Law: In New York, a person convicted of a felony only loses their right to vote while they are actually incarcerated. Once released, or if they were never sentenced to prison, their right to vote is restored even if they are on parole or probation.
    Sentencing Status: At the time he cast his ballot, Trump had not yet been sentenced to any term of incarceration for his 34 felony counts in New York.
    Florida Deference: Because Trump remained eligible to vote under New York law (as he was not in prison), Florida law recognized him as an eligible voter. (Pensacola News Journal)

    Note on Differences for In-State Felons:
    If Trump had been convicted of the same crimes in a Florida state court, he likely would have been barred from voting. Florida law generally requires residents convicted in-state to complete all terms of their sentence—including probation, parole, and the full payment of all court-ordered fines and fees—before they can regain their voting rights. This discrepancy has been highlighted by organizations like the Brennan Center for Justice as a point of significant complexity in Florida’s voting system.

  17. BEWARE 🚨 This is an Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) source:

    ” TEHRAN (Tasnim) April, 03, 2026 (14:50) – Unconfirmed reports indicate that a US pilot may have been captured by Iranian forces after ejecting from an advanced fighter jet that the IRGC says it downed over central Iran on Friday. Reports suggest that a US pilot has been captured by Iranian military forces. According to a Tasnim correspondent in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in western Iran, based on some information, following the destruction of the advanced American fighter jet by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) earlier on Friday, the pilot ejected and landed inside the country. The correspondent added that there are indications the Americans, believing the pilot might be alive, attempted to extract him from Iran’s borders. However, some sources say the pilot has likely been captured by Iranian forces.”

    — LINK TO SITE

    TASNIM is a semi-official Iranian news agency, founded in 2012 and based in Tehran, publishing in many languages and closely linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

  18. Craig – you posited that sfb might not have invaded Iran if he had served in Vietnam. I am not sure if you were considering the experience of being in the military or if he would have not lived out his contract.

  25. Your Money
    K-shaped economy looks more like ‘jaws of a crocodile,’ economist says: What’s widening the gap

    Craig, Here is the explanation of the K- Shaped economy

    The National Foundation for Credit Counseling predicts financial stress will reach an all-time high in the first quarter of this year.
    While spending growth for higher-income Americans remained stable over the last year, growth slowed for lower- and middle-income households, according to the Bank of America Institute.
    The expected boost in tax refunds this year may help prop up consumer spending. (More at link)

  27. Today in the Diner…
    Trump’s Iran Oil Grab, Epstein Files, & ICE

    Trump pivots from missing pilots to grabbing Iranian oil while Epstein files hit a wall. Plus, Orban’s playbook and the K-shaped economy explained.

    We are serving up the usual dumpster fire today, starting with the bizarre reality where American pilots go missing in Iran, and our leadership’s first instinct is to size up their oil reserves. It is a grifter’s paradise, and we are just paying for the gas. Meanwhile, Todd Blanche is on Fox News dodging Epstein questions, ensuring those files stay buried exactly where the yacht-buyers want them.

    Then there is the international flavor: Putin is allegedly pitching fake assassinations to keep Hungary’s Victor Orban in power, a strategy that sounds suspiciously familiar. We also take out the trash in the live chat, batting away the usual trolls while trying to figure out why a K-shaped economy means you are broke and they are buying another island. Eat up.

    https://trailmix.cc/chat
    https://trailmix.cc/alerts

    00:00 Intro
    02:26 Missing Pilots and Iranian Oil Grabs
    06:30 Hungarian Elections and Orban’s Playbook
    13:26 The Epstein Files Hit a DOJ Wall
    28:05 Debating ICE Killings and Rittenhouse
    42:25 The Impeachment Strategy Debate
    50:16 The K-Shaped Economy Explained

  28. Craig: here is their party program. I‘m sure you can put it in a translator.
    They are considered liberal left. But I know these categories can mean different things in the U.S. vs. Germany.
    From a German perspective it doesn’t look too new. Asylum, fighting Climate Change, Social Systems, foreign Relations… They want to protect all of it and make it work even better for the people.
    They want to make politics more accessable for everybody by using the technologies we have. And that’s a criticism we have for the current and former governments: Germany’s path to digitalisation is… a long and windy road. And bumpy.
    They look by-the-people-for-the-people-democratic. For German elections my fear would be that they are one left party more to split up the left vote. Because we have a 5% threshold for parties to get into the Parliament. The SPD once was THE left workers and intellectuals party. Now you have SPD, Greens, The Left in the Parliament and some more that took left votes but didn’t make it over 5%.
    … and now the link doesn’t work. But I guess I have written nearly as much as their pamphlet is.
    What else do you need to know?

  30. One Kuwaiti shut down three US fighter pilots in the first week

    Maybe our military aren’t that great at their jobs

    thanks for shattering the illusion that provided security, Trump

    Ya moron

  31. like I said, if his goal is to destroy the United States and enrich himself then maybe he’s not a moron, because he’s doing a wonderful job of that

  32. or you know, maybe I’m an asshole and unpredictable bad things happen in war, no matter how capable one is, which is why you should avoid them at all costs and not capriciously start them out of vanity or on behalf of a foreign power’s whims

    call me crazy 🤷‍♂️

  34. Why are so many broadcasters immune to learning the actual meaning of the word “decimate”?

    Has it actually changed meaning along the way or is it just that they’re all so stupid about it cause it sounds so great. It’s very annoying once you actually know what it means.

  39. some say generational thinking is reductive, they must not know many gen Z’s, they’re very reduced

  40. CC…..Ixnay on the etalspay…..Melanie will go down there with chainsaws and concrete if she gets wind of it.

  43. The neighbor had a tree service come and cut a nuisance tree down and then complained they didn’t get the stump

    So I ripped mine out with my bare hands, no stump 😈

    (i’m not strong, work smart not hard)

  44. I was once (1977) Ground Man in a 2 man Tree Cutter operation on Staten Islsnd.
    Handled the Bull line and Tag line. We took down some mighty precarious stuff.
    Doing the stumps was a whole different scene.

  45. they got a cherry picker now that folds up to the size of a ditch witch and runs on treads that can get anywhere, you’d think it was cheating it makes it so easy

  48. Not only is AIPAC trying to disguise its donations, but now we have MAGAt Repugz running as Democrats.

    https://people.com/trump-voting-pastor-accused-of-running-for-senate-as-democrat-to-sour-nebraska-chance-flipping-blue-11937800

    Trump-voting pastor accused of running for Senate as a Democrat to sour Nebraska’s chance of flipping blue

    William Forbes, a 79-year-old pastor from rural Nebraska, entered the Democratic primary just before the filing deadline in early March

    Forbes told CNN that he voted for President Donald Trump in multiple elections, and the last time the Democratic Party reflected his beliefs was in the early 1960s

    Nebraska Democrats have accused William Forbes, a pastor from rural Nebraska who voted for President Donald Trump in multiple elections, of deceiving voters by entering the state’s Senate race as a Democrat.

    Democrats in the state allege that 79-year-old Forbes, a first-time candidate, is a Republican “plant” meant to help Sen. Pete Ricketts win reelection, according to CNN.

    Forbes has denied the state Democratic Party’s allegations against his campaign, telling CNN that he is a lifelong Democrat despite his previous support for Trump.

    Forbes told the Nebraska Examiner in a text message on Monday, March 30, that the CNN story about him, also published Monday, was planted by Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate that Nebraska’s Democratic Party is supporting in the election.

    He grew frustrated at repeated questions about his voting history and said the last time a major Democratic figure reflected his personal beliefs was in 1960, when John F. Kennedy was elected president.

    “I’m a real Democrat,” Forbes told the outlet. He compared himself to Kennedy and Ben Nelson, a former Democratic Senator from Nebraska who also served as the state’s governor from 1991 to 1999.

    Forbes entered the Democratic primary just before the filing deadline in early March, angering state Democrats who had cleared the field for Osborn. Cindy Burbank, another Democrat, filed shortly thereafter. She has said she plans to support Osborn in the general election in November and drop out if she wins the party’s nomination in May.

    Nebraska’s Republican Party had sought to remove Burbank from the ballot, arguing in a complaint filed this month that she did not intend to serve in the office for which she’s running. Nebraska’s Republican secretary of state agreed, ruling that Burbank is not a “good faith” candidate.

    The Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated Burbank after she sued.

    Asked by CNN why he had chosen to enter the race as a Democrat, Forbes said, “I saw that there wasn’t any Democrat on the ticket.” He said he attended a leadership summit sponsored by the Nebraska Republican Party in January because, “I’m trying to get information from everybody.”

    “The Nebraska Republican Party does not know Mr. Forbes, has no relationship with him, and has no knowledge of his motivations for entering the Democratic primary,” Nebraska Republican Party Chair MJ Truemper said in a statement to PEOPLE.

    Nebraska’s Democratic Party, Forbes said, wants “clones.”

    “I’m not a clone,” he told CNN. “I think for myself. I’m a free thinker.”

    *A ~free thinker~ who voted for a grifting, fascist, pedophile three times. At age 79, he showed terrible judgment at the very least.

    In a lengthy statement issued after Forbes filed the paperwork to run as a Democrat, the Nebraska Democratic Party called the 79-year-old’s campaign “a political maneuver engineered by Pete Ricketts to split the opposition vote and protect his Senate seat.”

    “William Forbes is not running to serve Nebraskans. He is running to trick voters,” said state Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb. “Forbes is using the Democratic ballot line to deceive voters who deserve better.”

    Kleeb, in the party’s statement on Forbes, said state Democrats “made a deliberate, principled decision not to field a candidate in the U.S. Senate race.” Nebraska’s Democratic Party has endorsed Osborn, whom Kleeb said “represents the best opportunity” to defeat Ricketts in November.

    Osborn, a Nebraska mechanic and Navy veteran, has faced similar charges of “planting” another candidate to help clear a path to victory. In a social media post this month, Nebraska’s Legal Marijuana NOW Party accused marijuana candidate Mike Marvin of being “a Dan Osborn Plant.”

    “He doesn’t support Marijuana, he supports Dan Osborn and only plans to drop out if he wins our primary,” Legal Marijuana NOW Party Chair Mark Elworth Jr. wrote on the party’s Facebook page. Earl Starkey, the marijuana candidate the party is backing, wrote on Facebook that a vote for Marvin is a vote “for Dan Osborn.”

    In his own Facebook post, Marvin called the accusations levied against him by Nebraska’s Legal Marijuana NOW Party “slanderous” and said he has never “met or spoken with” Osborn. “No one has hired me to do this,” Marvin wrote.

  49. …starting to understand why the billionaires are breeding children for spare parts

    😪

    will trade guitars for knees

    ill trade a road legal automobile for two good ankles

    no gen Z brains tho, y’all can keep those 😬

  50. Well, today is becoming interesting. Flowing through the intertubes are rumours that fatso is at Walter Reed Hospital and there is a lock down on news from the dirty oval office. The president daily schedule went blank after the eight a.m. thing that is nothing. Certain groups are working hard to infiltrate the tight grip on information and find out something unusual about this situation, the truth.

    There might be bets on him being declared dead today so he can “arise” tomorrow, as he is already known as a “Jesus”. Those seem to be socially very crude.

  52. Well, this IS the history-in-the-making kind of year which might easily be expected to lead to heart attacks and such for those who might be susceptible to that kind of thing.

    But….is he like on top of the tower with the flames rising all around him as he hollers, “Top of the world, Ma !”

  54. Orange Adolf at Walter Reed?

    White House Unexpectedly Cuts Press Access to Trump

    “The White House has called a travel/photo lid as of 11am ET, meaning we do not expect to see the president for the rest of the day,” Lowell began a post shared on X. “Trump is in Washington this weekend but we are yet to have a formal news briefing on the situation with the missing airman in Iran.”

    *Is it real or is it a ploy for the gullible who will shout “Hosanna!” when he appears on Easter morning?

  55. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116346816254869135

    Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President DONALD J. TRUMP 4/4/26, 9:05 AM

    *I think he just called himself God, again.
    He usually heads to MAL on Friday, so maybe a scheduled procedure since he didn’t stayed in DC & left a crazy post this morning.

  56. TP USA is running ads for Charlie’s book during “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.” Save me! LoL

  58. meaning we do not expect to see the president for the rest of the day

    Meaning pray for our hour of redemption at hand…

  61. Not in any way a Christian nation

    Wiki
    The Treaty of Tripoli, signed in 1796 and ratified in 1797, was a peace and friendship agreement between the United States and the Barbary state of Tripoli (in modern-day Libya) to protect American merchant ships from pirates in the Mediterranean. Its most famous clause, Article 11, states that the U.S. government is “not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion” and has no enmity toward Muslims, a point often cited in discussions about the separation of church and state in America. The treaty was unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate and signed by President John Adams.

  64. Exactly. He’s in DC. He didn’t even take a weekend away from golfing when they launched the illegal war. They set up an unsecured situation room where they normally hold corporate, team-building brunches, complete with omelette bar.

    He leaves for MAL on Fridays, so a scheduled procedure, or perhaps another MENSA test?

  65. They’re dusting off the 2003 war propaganda playbook and hoping you won’t notice the crossed-out dates. Are we really buying the “imminent nuclear threat” line again?

  66. Craig – If there’s anything, a dirty bomb, whatever, I’m looking straight at every MAGAt/Republican/Christo-fascist.

    Someone referred to ~white supremacy~ as “white narcissism.” That’s a better label for it.

    ps – Rubio looks like hell. Red eyes from crying, insomnia, drugs, or some combination of the three.

    “Where’s your Moses, now?”

  67. God apparently doesn’t hear the prayers of a defense secretary asking for “overwhelming violence.” Who knew?

    Pope Leo drops a reality check on Trump’s Mideast Crusade.

    Come compose yourself before the apocalypse.

    Sunday Serendipity starts at 11 AM ET

  68. As for running on “impeachment,” that’s not enough.

    Keep it simple. Everyone except the Epstein class is hurting from the economy. Who is profiting and how are you going to fix it?

    Clearing the decks via impeachment, etc., is essential in rebuilding our democracy, our economy, our lives.

    I would NOT run on impeaching the orange blob, as that may reactivate any of the base that has peeled off. They are protective of him, weird as it is, because he doesn’t give a rat’s rear-end about them.

    We’re still stuck with the White Heritage N&zis. Peter Thiel, MuskRat, Bezos, and the rest will still wield their monetary and surveillance power, and whatever high jinx they deem necessary to maintain control.

    I’m not even sure impeaching Orange-itis will be necessary. He decays and will go room temp, possibly before he has a chance to watch his big, gaudy fight on the WH lawn, and blow out the candles in his cake.

    Do we have reason to impeach JD Vance? We need to take back the House & Senate, but I’m not sure Elon’s gonna let that happen…again.

  69. What happens if a three-letter agency, or some other cadre of criminals within our government, takes out Adolf & tries to make it look like Iran did it?

  70. Leaky Pete doesn’t care because he’s a Christo-fascist evangelical. Those folks think Catholicism isn’t Christianity.

    Fight on the WH lawn between Pete & the “baby Catholic” known as JD Bowman/Hamel/Vance?
    Three against one. LoL

  71. “Ten Commandments” run time: 3 hours and 40 minutes. Air time: 4 hours and 44 minutes.

    Wondered what if had to do with Easter for way longer than I should have.

    Wiki:
    The name for Easter varies around the world, often derived from the Greek and Latin “Pascha,” which comes from the Hebrew “Pesach” meaning Passover.
    In Romance languages, it’s often called “Pascua” or similar, while in Germanic languages, it’s often derived from “Easter” or “Pascha.” Some languages have unique names, like “Pääsiäinen” in Finnish, meaning “release” or “liberation.”

    Astrology, baby! Ha!
    Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

  73. Pharaoh is making sense:
    You prophets and priests created gods to prey upon the fears of men.

    Psychology!

    The plagues were ordered by themselves, not by any god.

    Science!

  74. True, Stur. True.

    I know when he starts blathering on, I feel like running out in traffic. We don’t have any of that around here.

  75. It’s all a lot of hooey. Valentines—Big Chocolate wont let it die. Forth of July its fireworks. Very expensive fireworks. Easter we bang on about rabbits laying and hiding eggs and big hat parades, Christmas it’s a fat old dork with a flying sleigh pulled by a bunch of reindeer, stupid tree with a buncha lights and spending yourself silly over stuff you can ill afford. Halloween, well, that’s about as goofy a thing as a thing can get. And candy. Great gobs of candy.
    I hereby nominate Thanksgiving as the only real holiday….you just get together with your family and eat a lot. No trees, no Peter Cottontail and no Princess Pirate costumes. The only thing you have to spend money is food, like a big fat roast turkey bird.
    MLK day, Memorial Day, Labor Day….they all ok.

    —Stur, Great Defiler of Holidays, except when he’s hiding brightly colored eggs for the grandchildren to seek out.
    Otherwise Defiling all over the place.

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