104 thoughts on “Telling It Like It Is”


  2. An administration official insists that President Trump is playing “12-dimensional chess” with his Iran war strategy, the president reportedly had a very bad time at today’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, and NASA’s Artemis II mission launched four astronauts towards the moon today.

  3. et tu, Alex?

    On Tuesday’s episode of ‘The Alex Jones Show’, Jones claimed Trump is showing signs of decline. “When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure. And he does look sick. And he does babble and, you know, sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,” he said. He added, “And so we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats.”
    He also compared Trump’s situation to his father’s dementia. He said Trump is no longer the same person as before and suggested he should step back. “Not the man he was that last year. And that we need to be sad about Trump. This is not funny. This is not good. But he’s gone. And that’s it,” Jones said.
    He said, “And all the people rallied around him, you can see, (Pete) Hegseth’s freaked out. You can see the press secretary’s freaked out. They’re being loyal. They think it’s a lesser of two evils. And I, okay, but I just, Trump needs intervention. He needs to take some time off.”
    Jones went on to suggest that Trump’s situation is beyond recovery. “Too bad Trump run off the edge of a cliff,” he said. He added, “I don’t think he’s coming back from it,” while calling for Republicans to continue their efforts while maintaining their own political identity.


  4. Desi Lydic tackles Trump’s attendance at Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship as he pushes to end the constitutional right for “billionaires,” and his insistence on continuing construction on the White House ballroom despite a federal judge’s ruling to halt it. Plus, Trump unveils plans for a presidential hotel-brary.

  8. MS NOW playing video of Trump droning on about not needing NATO. The man sounds drunk. Without whatever the doctors are using to juice him up, he descends into mindless babble. If the actions weren’t so horrific that his handlers allow to happen, I would feel sorry for the sad, old man.

  11. 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 2, 2026

    1. World: President Trump predicts the U.S. military mission in Iran will conclude “very shortly” during a prime-time address to the nation. – CBS News
    2. Politics: The Supreme Court appears skeptical of a White House executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. – CBS News
    3. World: The president threatens to reconsider U.S. membership in NATO, citing a lack of allied support in the ongoing Iran conflict. – CBS News
    4. Health: The FDA grants expedited approval for a new daily oral weight-loss medication from Eli Lilly. – AP News
    5. Science: The CDC is pausing dozens of diagnostic testing programs amid agency downsizing and internal evaluations. – AP News
    6. Science: NASA successfully launches four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon, marking the first lunar mission since 1972. – Space.com
    7. Politics: President Trump delivers his first prime-time address since the start of the Iran war, declaring that U.S. forces will “finish the job” soon as core strategic objectives near completion. – AP News
    8. Politics: Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin announces he will not seek re-election in 2026, ending a three-decade run in Congress. – Fox News
    9. Media: Fox News dominates Q1 cable viewership ratings, easily toppling competitors amid heavy coverage of global conflicts. – Fox News
    10. Offbeat: Amsterdam celebrates a historic milestone: the 25th anniversary of the world’s first legally recognized same-sex marriages. – AP 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).

  12. Another successful day in the presidency of a low intelligence senile sex offender. Go play mob boss in the home of a third of the U.S. government, but find out his capo are no longer playing along. Then give the nation, and world, another stemwinder of a speech, more like the output of a delusional, demented, diseased, senile idiot trying to sound like a mob boss.

    Missed it all trying to fix a glitch in the Google passwords. Don’t care much either.

  15. And sometimes a presidential speech full of BS is just a crappy waste of time.

    Didn’t bother. Instead it was the third installment of Thoreau that we hadn’t gotten to on Tuesday. Always good to have other choices.

    Thanks, Pat.

  17. Poobah, I may have missed something along the way, but aren’t primetime presidential addresses generally supposed to explain shit the president is doing and reassure the voting public and calm the markets?

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

    This is how we got here and where we’re headed if Congress & SCOTUS don’t wake up.
    Curtis Yarvin was at Taco’s inauguration. The orange, babbling blob is just a figurehead. Maybe knowing this would perk away the evangelicals and whatever-the-hell Pete Hegseth is.

    “In The Sociological Review, Roger Burrows examined neoreaction’s core tenets and described the ideology as “hyper-neoliberal, technologically deterministic, anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, pro-eugenicist, racist and, likely, fascist”, and describes the entire accelerationist framework as a faulty attempt at “mainstreaming … misogynist, racist and fascist discourses”.[12] He criticizes neoreaction’s racial principles and its brazen “disavowal of any discourses” advocating for socio-economic equality and, accordingly, considers it a “eugenic philosophy” in favor of what Nick Land deems “hyper-racism”.[12] Graham B. Slater wrote that neoreaction “aim[s] to solve the problems purportedly created by democracy through what ultimately amount to neo-fascist solutions.”[91]

    Land himself became interested in the Atomwaffen-affiliated theistic Satanist organization Order of Nine Angles (ONA) which adheres to the ideology of Neo-Nazi terrorist accelerationism, describing the ONA’s works as “highly-recommended” in a blog post.”

  19. Thoreau documentary put me in mind of our summer’s visit to Custer State Park and learning the story of poet laureate Charles Badger Clark. He wrote “A Cowboy’s Prayer.”

    There’s a cabin in Custer State Park affectionately known as the Badger Hole. This cabin was home to one of the park’s most colorful historic characters.
    Charles Badger Clark was honored as South Dakota’s first poet laureate. He lived in the park for the last 30 years of his life. The stories of Badger Clark, his life, and poetry are stories of a man living an independent life.
    Clark built his home, the Badger Hole, near Legion Lake. Within this cabin, he wrote poetry, read from his extensive library, and wrote letters to his many fans. He lived there until his death in 1957 at the age of 74.
    Today, the Badger Hole remains much as it was when Badger lived there. As you walk through the doors of the Badger Hole, or wander along the Badger Clark Historic Trail, you walk back into a place and a time of a man who lived and shared a simple life.

  21. We watched 5 minutes of trumpy’s speech… then said… fuck this… the Celtics are playing a terrific basketball game… we switched back to watching them.

  22. You’re looking at bullies who probably shoved kids into lockers in Jr. High, and their shovees, who are now actively working together to crush everyone else. Weird.

  25. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/oracle-orcl-stock-layoffs-job-cuts-ai.html

    Oracle stock traded slightly lower Wednesday as the multinational tech conglomerate looked to cut thousands of jobs to free up cash to build artificial intelligence data center infrastructure.

    The software giant has started telling its 162,000-strong workforce that thousands of people will be affected in a new round of layoffs, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday.

  26. https://futurism.com/the-byte/billionaire-constant-ai-surveillance

    Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

    If it were up to Larry Ellison, the exorbitantly rich cofounder of software outfit Oracle, all of us will soon be smiling for the camera — constantly. Not for a cheery photograph, but to appease our super-invasive, if not totally omnipresent, algorithmic overseers.

    Here’s something worth noting, though: in 2022, Oracle was sued for running a “worldwide surveillance machine” which was facilitated by allegedly collecting billions of people’s personal information and pawning it off to third parties.

    It settled the case in July, agreeing to pay $115 million. Make of that what you will.

  27. Didn’t watch the so-called speech and haven’t been exposed to a single video clip. What am I doing right?

  28. The billionaire buddy of BiBi and tRUMPsky who owns increasingly more media outlets.

    https://www.972mag.com/ellisons-paramount-tiktok-israel-media-empire/

    The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor

    Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.

    According to its backers, “Red Alert” is essentially a work of Israeli propaganda at a moment when a majority of Americans view Israel’s government unfavorably. The Israel Entertainment Fund, in a slide deck featuring “Red Alert,” says that its projects benefit Israel by “educating viewers and altering perceptions.” Bender said that “our purpose” in making the show was to “change the conversation” about Israel among Americans, Europeans, and other viewers abroad.

  30. I unfortunately read something ABOUT Thoreau before ever encountering the man himself. Whatever it was I read, It was very critical of our dude Thoreau and it was just enough that it tipped me over to the side of never getting around to reading Thoreau’s thoughts in re Walden Pond.
    Besides, I think I lived in the woods longer than he did. I shoulda wrote a book. Instead, Pat Conroy got there first, with PRINCE OF TIDES.

    I suppose that the Pond and the living-in-the-woods part were just a vehicle for his thoughts, his thoughts being more important than the pond and woods part……but I remain ignorant of his thoughts because, as I said, I never read them.
    Alas, I guess.

  33. https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/02/03/paying-cash-in-europe-a-new-eu-rule-is-about-to-change-everything/

    From 2027, the European Union will introduce a single cash payment limit across all member states, and it will change how large purchases are made – whether people are ready or not.

    The rule is simple on paper: no cash payment above €10,000 will be allowed anywhere in the EU. But the implications are far bigger than they might first appear.

    Once it comes into force, anyone trying to pay more than €10,000 in cash will have to switch to a traceable method – such as a bank transfer or card payment.

    It won’t matter whether the purchase is made in Spain, Germany, Italy or the Netherlands. The cap will be the same everywhere.

    For some EU countries, this will barely register. Spain, for example, already has one of the strictest systems in Europe. Cash payments above €1,000 are banned when one party is a business or professional, and that rule has been in place for several years.

    France and Italy also enforce relatively tight controls, meaning most large purchases are already handled electronically.

    But elsewhere, the shift will be far more noticeable. Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have long resisted cash limits, arguing that paying in cash is a matter of privacy and personal freedom. In those countries, paying tens of thousands of euros in banknotes has not been unusual.

    Brussels insists the aim is not to eliminate cash altogether, but to restrict its use in high-risk transactions. Everyday payments – groceries, meals, small services – will remain unaffected.

    Still, critics argue the move chips away at financial privacy and nudges citizens further towards an entirely digital economy, whether they want it or not.

    *Eventually, cash will go away and we will resort to trading green beans, eggs, house cleaning, and yard work.

  38. Craig,

    Here’s the lazy man recipe for Haroset for Passover

    Ingredients:
    •5 fuji apples, skin removed
    •1 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
    •5 tablepoons sugar (honey may be used instead)
    •1 cup red wine
    •2 teaspoons cinnamon

    Preparation:

    1. In a food processor, chop apples.
    2. Put chopped apples in a large bowl.
    3. Add the chopped nuts, sugar, wine and cinnamon.

  39. Today in the diner…
    Trump Leaked Speech, Gas Prices & Supreme Court
    Trump’s leaked private speech, the reality of $200 oil, and Supreme Court drama. Plus, an AI-generated sea shanty about drowning in gin.

    Craig and the Diner crew dig through the wreckage of a bizarre news cycle, starting with a temporarily leaked private address where Trump admits the federal government is throwing in the towel on daycare and Medicare. While the Dow plummeted over 600 points and oil spiked 7 percent during the broadcast, energy analysts are now casually floating $200 a barrel as the new normal. If you are already paying six bucks a gallon for gas, that is a bitter pill to swallow.

    Elsewhere in the madness, the crew dissects the Supreme Court taking up citizenship cases, accidental bans in the YouTube chat, and Katie’s brilliant Canadian citizenship escape plan. To wash the political taste out of your mouth, Stur and Silas debut an original, AI-assisted sea shanty about rusted compasses and alcoholism. It is exactly the kind of absurdist optimism required to survive the modern era.

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

    00:00 Intro
    04:20 Trump’s Leaked Private Speech
    08:18 Stir and Silas AI Sea Shanty
    12:00 Blue Corn Seeds & Cowboy Bob
    20:12 Predictions for $200 Oil
    30:30 Trump at the Supreme Court
    36:00 Canadian Citizenship Escape Plan
    45:16 Katie’s True Crime Podcasts
    53:08 Evaluating Democratic Frontrunners
    01:03:49 AI Song Reprise

  44. Bondi just long overdue toast which finally fell, butter-side down.

    Bongo’s Law:
    Mean Girls Ain’t Happ’nin.

    They always fall in the long run.

  45. “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,” the president posted on Truth Social, “and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General.”

  49. You gotta watch those folks in Nashville…..they’ll steal the shit out of anything that ain’t nailed down.

  51. We will now have Toad Blank as his Attorney General. As for who represents us citizens…no one.

  54. Todd Blanche. What did I tell ya? He heard whatever Ghislaine had to tell him. He’s stuck in it now.

  55. It’s in the Times so it must be so.

    President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, removing the nation’s top law enforcement officer as his frustration with her job performance deepened.

    Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, will be the acting attorney general, the president said on Thursday.

    Ms. Bondi becomes the second cabinet member in recent weeks to lose her job, after Mr. Trump ousted Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, last month. She was replaced by Markwayne Mullin.

    The dismissal of Ms. Bondi, 60, ends a turbulent 14-month tenure as attorney general in which she tried desperately to appease a boss who demanded unimpeded control of the Justice Department to pursue politically motivated investigations against targets of his choosing, even when prosecutors warned that there was no evidence to do so.

    In the process, Ms. Bondi surrendered much of the department’s historic independence and oversaw the exodus of experienced career officials, leaving the department’s public corruption and national security units, along with many local U.S. attorneys’ offices, weakened and demoralized.

    Yet Mr. Trump remained annoyed by Ms. Bondi’s inability to secure indictments of people he referred to as “scum” during a speech in the department’s Great Hall about a year ago.

    The president’s support for Ms. Bondi has steadily eroded since last summer, when her early stumbles in managing the release of the Epstein files created a political liability for Mr. Trump among a segment of his supporters. He has also complained about her shortcomings as a communicator and TV surrogate — a role he thought would suit her talents.

    Ms. Bondi spent much of the last day making her case to stay in the cabinet, according to two people familiar with the situation. But her team could sense those chances slipping away when Mr. Trump issued only a lukewarm statement when The New York Times requested comment on rumors she was about to be removed.

    “Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” he said.

    In recent weeks, Mr. Trump sent mixed signals, privately praising her loyalty in public, and he has spoken with her several times a week, sometimes to seek advice or test ideas, a person close to Ms. Bondi said.

    On Wednesday, even as Mr. Trump was discussing with aides whether to fire Ms. Bondi, the president traveled with her to the Supreme Court to watch arguments in the case challenging his executive order limiting birthright citizenship. Ms. Bondi was also at the White House on Wednesday evening for Mr. Trump’s address to the nation on the war in Iran.

    But he has also expressed continuing dissatisfaction with her performance, and increasingly engaged with her critics inside his circle of advisers.

    Sentiment had also been turning against Ms. Bondi among congressional Republicans.

    In mid-March, five Republicans on the House Oversight Committee blindsided their own leadership — and Ms. Bondi — by joining Democrats to vote to subpoena her to testify under oath behind closed doors about the Epstein case.

    The committee’s Republican chairman, Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, scheduled a deposition for April 14. Ms. Bondi has said she would comply with the law, but she and Mr. Comer have been quietly working together to avoid the deposition, even though it is unclear if it is legally possible to withdraw a subpoena, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.

    ——————————
    Michael Gold
    April 2, 2026, 1:27 p.m. ET10 minutes ago
    Michael GoldCongressional reporter

    Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who pushed for the Oversight Committee to subpoena Pam Bondi and had been one of her more outspoken G.O.P. critics, said in a statement that she looked forward to Bondi’s replacement.

    “Bondi handled the Epstein Files in a terrible manner and made this situation far worse than it had to be for President Trump,” Mace said.
    ————————–
    Michael Gold
    April 2, 2026, 1:24 p.m. ET13 minutes ago
    Michael GoldCongressional reporter

    The House Oversight Committee was scheduled to depose Pam Bondi on April 14 over the Justice Department’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and its handling of investigative material in the case. But Bondi had not yet committed to appearing, according to people familiar with the discussions between her and the committee.

    Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the panel, said in a statement that Bondi was still “legally obligated to appear before our committee under oath.” A representative for the committee’s Republican chairman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    ————–
    Tyler Pager
    White House reporter

    President Trump formally announced on Truth Social that he was firing Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her on an interim basis with Todd Blanche, her deputy.

    “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,” he wrote on social media.

    She certainly could have done a better job of acting like she was Attorney General. She’ll have a cushy job at some large RW firm and make younger associates’ lives hell.

  56. Regarding the 3M pages of Epstein files still unreleased, you can bet that Blanche was behind withholding them. I believe it’s outside Bondi’s sphere of authority. If things work out for Dems in November, come January he might have some ‘splainin’ to do about those files and Ghislaine’s fancier digs after his discussion with her.

  59. Background chatter in the intertubes about Tulsi Gabbard on the chopping block today, but not like there was for Bondi. Some think the next two are Gabbard and the former faux snooze drunk dude petey. My bet is Gabbard gone and gebseth Friday night. (for entertainment betting only – nothing guaranteed)

  60. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15701889/Trump-FIRES-Pam-Bondi-tumultuous-year-Epstein-files-fumbles-MAGA-base-anger-White-House-showdown.html

    “Trump informed the AG last night shortly before his Iran speech that she would soon be leaving the Justice Department, according to a senior administration source. Bondi, 60, pleaded with the President to keep her job, begging him to give her more time, a senior administration source told the Daily Mail.”

    *As stuff starts to happen to the bootlicker class, more may try to peel off and find cover.

  61. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5812892-cdc-diagnostic-testing-updates-rabies-infectious-disease/

    CDC pauses diagnostic testing for rabies, other infectious diseases

    The CDC on Monday posted a list of 27 tests that it either discontinued or made temporarily unavailable. Some tests, the agency noted, are available commercially.

    Among those temporarily paused are tests for rabies, adenovirus and varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox. Tests for the Epstein-Barr virus and oropouche virus are also among the tests discontinued, as well as respiratory panel tests, which detect SARS-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and influenza A and B.

    *RFKJ needs to go, too.

  62. CDC Puts Rabies And Pox Virus Testing On Hold As Staff Dwindles

    As part of an agency-wide review, the CDC has been reevaluating what pathogen tests it offers to help states that are not equipped to conduct them. Experts are worried about the shortage of clinical expertise and testing offered.
    By July, the rabies team will have only one person equipped to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.

  63. We dragged this leaked footage out of the dirt after the White House tried to bury it. Trump privately tells wealthy donors he’ll dump daycare and Medicare on the states so the federal government can focus solely on the military.

    Observe the artifact:

  64. Dumbass is considering Lee Zeldin for Blondi’s replacement. He practiced law for year with the NJ Port Authority then full time for three years in his own private general practice. Perfect pick for Attorney general.~~~

  65. Supposedly, Bondi was begging Trump for her job. He denied, she could really right one of her many wrongs.

  68. Israel to end Iran’s ‘blackmail’ on Strait of Hormuz? Netanyahu unveils new plan to bypass…, says oil will flow through…

    *So, BiBi wants to control all of the Arabian oil via a pipeline through Israel. It wasn’t a “chokepoint,” but it was Iran’s leverage or a safeguard, depending on how you look at it…and then Israel will control the flow/chokepoint. That was the Netanyahu/Kushner plan all along. Control the flow of oil to the West.
    ____

    Benjamin Netanyahu said alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz must be found to prevent Iran from turning it into a chokepoint.

    Netanyahu said alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz must be found to prevent Iran from turning it into a chokepoint for global energy supplies. He also hinted at the Israel potentially benefitting from a prolonged blockade of Hormuz.

    “Just bring oil and gas pipelines west through the Arabian Peninsula directly to Israel, to our Mediterranean ports, and you will eliminate the need for these choke points forever. I see this as a real change that will come after this war,” he said.

    Netanyahu’s proposal will completely overhaul the energy supply chain in the Middle East by eliminating the need for ships to narrow sea routes like the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb, which can be turned into chokepoints.

    The proposed pipeline would originate from the originate from the vast oil fields in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), entering Israel via Jordan or directly via the Saudi desert to reach Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod.

    The oil pipeline network will connect directly to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, and will also end Europe’s energy dependence on Russia or the Suez Canal. However, this will also give Israel total control over the Middle Eastern energy supply chain, which it can use as leverage by threatening to shut it off.

  69. Bondi perjured herself before, and it seems like she’s also obstructed justice by delaying release of a limited number of documents. She is aware of all of the Epstein goo, and she knows her legal career is over because she will probably be disbarred. If she doesn’t go to jail, she’ll find work as a consultant or lobbyist or talking head. She’s 60, so she might be ready to retire, anyway. If she shows up on the 14th, will she be as antagonistic as in the past?

  74. https://www.news18.com/world/this-white-house-secret-tunnel-offers-protection-even-from-atomic-bomb-ws-ab-9175477.html

    Even before their construction, the White House tunnels spurred much speculation among American journalists, particularly in 1930. While no such tunnels existed then, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor underscored the need for their construction, and work soon commenced.

    The decision to rebuild the White House prompted President Truman to relocate to the nearby Blair House, where he resided for three years while the reconstruction took place. During this period, a tunnel connecting the East Wing to the West Wing was also constructed as a safety measure, providing access to the secret bunker.

  75. GROK?

    *It looks like the illegal war in Iran has several uses; distract from Epstein files, set up Israel for an oil pipeline, let Ai take over everything. (I guess Oracle surveillance doesn’t have its own generative Ai, so they picked the one that seems to hallucinate the most? Good luck getting that hip replacement pre-approved. Maybe if you tell it you can’t properly goosestep without it?)

  77. I want to build a page for trail mixers on the web, or called something like that. Send to me or post your sites for anything you maintain. Also, any links to sites for our departed trail mixers that are still online. I have Sean’s.

  78. Pan Bombdi

    All of CBob’s sites are on the “reading List” at the bottom of the page on Bluescrab blogspot.

  79. https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-asked-army-chief-staff-gen-randy-george/story

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George

    Hegseth asked him to retire immediately, according to sources.

    The Army chief of staff normally serves a four-year term. George took the role in 2023, nominated by then-President Joe Biden, and would have been in the position until 2027.

    Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than a dozen admirals or generals.

    “The vice chief of staff assuming that role is the expected and appropriate action” said the defense official. LaNeve was previously Hegseth’s senior military aide.

    *April 17th

  84. To Whom It May Concern: We are all interested in the Artemis Mission but make no mistake it’s in spite of Dodo not because of him.

  85. We hearken back to the days when our Presidents were not criminals and if they were they had the grace to resign.

  86. eh Dubya still has a higher body count

    they’ve all been pretty shitty

    abolish the office

    that kindly old mass murderer with he artistic skills of a child that somehow Dems thought was a coveted endorsement- Dubya

  87. Kashewnut is next, and it will be a true firing, not a phony-baloney whatever Bondi got. Job in the private sector, apparently.

    Todd Blanche knows stuff from his dealings/deal with Ghislaine. Grill him.

  90. https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-scrambles-to-wipe-trump-easter-meltdown-supreme-court-justices-footage/

    While he thought the cameras weren’t rolling, the president let it rip about his true feelings about Supreme Court justices, including his own appointees, after he stormed out of oral arguments at the court earlier that day.

    “Republicans, judges, and justices,” Trump began. “They always want to show that they’re independent.”

    “‘I don’t care if Trump appointed me, I don’t care, if it doesn’t make any difference to me. I’m voting against him!” Trump said, visibly annoyed.

    “Cause they want to show their independence, you know, stupid people,” complained Trump.

    “So, Bible sales are now at the highest number in many decades,” he said. “And church attendance among young people nearly doubled compared to five years ago, just five years ago.”

    “I can’t get a ballroom approved. It’s pretty amazing, right? If I was a king, we’d be doing a lot more. I’m doing a lot, but I could be doing a lot more if I was a king,” he lamented.

    *Yo-yo!

  93. media was like “neck wound, neck wound, neck wound”

    on 100 different cameras, no neck wound

    maybe the neck has delayed bleeding 😑

  95. meanwhile ear cartilage bleeds profusely!

    so much blood in the ears, right, everyone who has had them pierced?

  97. conspiracy theory that it was a
    coordinated hit

    lawyer’s filings allege the recovered slug doesn’t match the alleged shooter’s rifle caliber, yada yada

    you have a very uniquely grieving widow living her best life in the wake of it

    And as even a skeptic like myself as previously mentioned notices, the video doesn’t match the recounting of the event

  98. see you need the kooks to disseminate this kind of stuff but y’all can’t tolerate the kooks

    i don’t blame you- they’re kooky AF

  99. The other day, the ballistics report came out, showing that the bullet didn’t match the rifle of Tyler Robinson.

    Now, ALLEGEDLY, hackers accessed Kash Patel’s emails. There was an interview with Sean from The People’s Voice that this was about attacking Iran. Charlie and Tucker Carlson were the loudest voices against going in with Israel to attack Iran, but they went with Charlie.

    They say the bullet (that ended up not matching) was a plant because his microphone was rigged to explode. (Remember the exploding pagers?) It was supposed to blow out his chest cavity, but it malfunctioned and got him in the neck. There was a guy with a cellphone behind him who just walked away as it was happening.

    The crime scene was paved over the next day.

    The plant where the alleged explosives were sourced from then exploded and killed over a dozen people less than a month later, again ALLEGEDLY to cover up the Kirk connection.

    *ALLEGEDLY. But a lot of stuff doesn’t pass the smell test.

  100. I appreciate the catch-up.

    That grizzled old detective on “The Closer” used to say:”It’s always the spouse.

    But it seems there were a few who fit the pro quo bono answer.

    If that “shooter” actually goes to trial it could be interesting. Especiallly if he begins to think “maybe I didn’t do it”.

  102. There will be plenty of time to be unwoke when I’m dead.
    —Conan the Bar Borean….or some other guy who also may have said it somewhat differently….if he actually said it. It’s still a matter of intense debate in many learned gatherings…..
    gatherings rumored to be growing in both numbers of adherents and in the intensity of discussions.

  103. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/why-were-us-army-generals-david-hodne-and-william-green-fired-after-randy-george-what-we-know-so-far-iran-war-101775180412127.html

    Hegseth announced two significant revisions to the military’s chaplain corps a little more than a week ago. Green headed the Army’s Chaplain Corps and was also removed amid reported changes to chaplaincy policies.

    Hegseth expressed his desire for chaplains to prioritize God over therapeutic “self-help and self-care” in a video message last week. The military has relied more and more on chaplains in recent years to cope with the rising number of soldiers experiencing mental health issues.

    *Unholy war.

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