Before the current escalation, Donald Trump was unequivocal:
- “Completely and totally obliterated.” — June 2025
- “Obliteration is an accurate term!” — June 2025
- “We wiped it out.” — February 2026
Those are claims of finality—not partial damage.
Yet Iran’s nuclear program is again central to conflict. If it was “obliterated” then, what justifies this war?
the profound and the profane
Attribution: Jeffrey Koterba
and one more bunny joke
Attribution: Showing His Cracks by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com
‘Absolutely bonkers’: Trump stuns after praising ‘Allah’ in curse-laden Easter message
President Donald Trump left onlookers baffled on Easter Sunday after, rather than issuing a customary message for the Christian holiday, he praised “Allah” – the Arabic word for God – while delivering a profanity-laced threat to destroy civilian infrastructure, actions that would likely constitute war crimes.
[…]
His profanity on Easter Sunday, coupled with his praise for Allah on the foundational Christian holiday, left even self-proclaimed MAGA supporters confused.
[…]
“Great Easter message from the leader of the party of Christian values,” quipped author Luke Epplin to their more than 8,000 followers on X.
Some onlookers pointed to Trump’s Easter Sunday message as evidence of the president’s alleged mental decline.
“He has gone absolutely bonkers,” wrote X user “Roti Khol Deyo,” an infrequent political commentator, to their more than 14,000 followers.
“He’s having a nervous breakdown,” wrote X user “Another,” an anti-Trump social democracy advocate in a social media post on X.
posted on X yesterday:
@VinGuptaMD
Erratic.
Can’t finish sentences.
Often confused.
Illogical train of thought.
Word finding difficulties.
Developing and worsening gradually over time.
The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.
5:40 PM · Apr 5, 2026
Craig & David
They’ve got their followers believing Iran was “two weeks” away from nuking us. It’s the new 2020 lie.
Thank you Jamie. Thirteen years since the Supreme Court made us legal, 39 since we met.
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What America is Actually Clicking: April 6, 2026
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).
My Dodgers!!!!!
You can take the girl out of Los Angeles, but you can’t take Los Angeles out of the girl.
MTG responds to Trump’s post, calls him “insane” and “not a Christian”…
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshiping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
He has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.
I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons?
Israel.
They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.
Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.
On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.
Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.
Not escalating war that is hurting people.
This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.
This is not making America great again, this is evil.
I woke up this morning thinking April 6 is important for some reason, my dog’s birthday? Tartan Day? Thanks to Jamie for reminding us the real significance… Craig and David – Happy Anniversary!
Good work keeping it together for 39 years. Less than half of all relationships even approach that sort of milestone.
Who would have ever thought that MTG would see through the stars in her eyes and get it? She sounds like a Democrat these days. Good on her. (I still wouldn’t vote for her on a dare).
Being in Congress is a really nice gig. If it were fixed so that being a member of congress were not so lucrative and there were not so many opportunities for corruption, people might serve a term or two and leave. Make it much harder to live as a member of congress.
Reduce the pay, make them have to work harder, reduce vacation time….. all of that and more.
REDUCE THE PRESTIGE
The Smithsonian has a book on offer of the 250 US history.
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In Today’s Diner 11-Noon ET: Trump thinks screaming “open the f***ing strait, you crazy bastards” is high-level foreign policy. The rest of us call it a fast track to $6 gas. Watch the breakdown:
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Happy Anniversary Craig & David!
May you have many more…
today’s meme…
Olbermann’s comment to Pres Elect Obama, given at the time to convince Mr Obama to prosecute war crimes.
“point of fact, every effort to merely draw a line in the sand and declare the past dead has served only to keep the past alive, and often to strengthen it. We compromised with slavery in the Declaration of Independence, and four score and nine years later, we had buried 600,000 of our sons and brothers in a civil war. After that war’s ending, we compromised with the social restructuring and protection of the rights of minorities in the South, and a century later, we had not only not resolved racism, but black leaders were still being assassinated in the cities of the South.
We compromised with Germany in the reconstruction of Europe after the First World War. Nobody even arrested the German Kaiser, let alone conducted war crimes trials then, and 19 years later, there was an indescribably more evil Germany, and a more heart-rending Second World War. We compromised with the trusts of the early 1900s.
Today we have corporations too big to fail. We compromised with the Palmer raids and got McCarthyism, and we compromised with McCarthyism and got Watergate. We compromised with Watergate and junior members of the Ford administration realized how little was ultimately at risk.
From Countdown with Keith Olbermann: SO…NUCLEAR WAR ON TUESDAY? – 4.6.26, Apr 6, 2026
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“They grew up to be Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. But Mr. President-elect, you are entirely correct. As you say, what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future, as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past.
But that means prosecuting all those involved in the Bush administration’s torture of prisoners and starting at the top. You are also right that you should not want your first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt. But your only other option might be let this set and fester indefinitely.
Because, Mr. President-elect, someday there will be another Republican president or even a Democrat just as blind as Mr. Bush to ethics and this country’s moral force. He will look back to what you did about Mr. Bush or what you did not do. And he will see precedent.
Or as Cheney saw, he will see how not to get caught next time. Prosecute, Mr. President-elect, even if you get not one conviction, you will still have accomplished good for generations unborn. Merely by acting, you will deny Mr. Bush[…]”
From Countdown with Keith Olbermann: SO…NUCLEAR WAR ON TUESDAY? – 4.6.26, Apr 6, 2026
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lol they’re looking at your infographic
AI is super racist if you didn’t notice
meme #2…
Today in the Diner:
Unpacking Trump’s unhinged Iran tweets, 25th Amendment buzz, MAGA family drama, and end-of-life rights.
The Middle East is a powder keg, and the former guy is tweeting about opening the “f***ing straight”. Naturally, we dig into the sheer absurdity of threatening global oil supplies while an Easter egg roll plays out in the background. If you’re looking for a silver lining, well, at least the tankers are getting insured, and the sheer chaos might finally push us toward renewables.
We also take a detour into the trenches of dealing with MAGA family members, explore a bizarre true crime story near the Mary Tyler Moore house, and welcome David to discuss his work with Compassion & Choices. Because if the world is a dumpster fire, we should at least have a say in how we go out.
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00:00 Intro & Unhinged Tweets
06:01 Strait of Hormuz Tolls & Renewables
15:18 Live White House Presser Absurdity
26:42 Easter Bunnies & The 25th Amendment
48:12 David on Medical Aid in Dying
56:02 True Crime & Mary Tyler Moore
Today in the Diner: David explains his end-of-life advocacy work. Jamie says, “We treat our pets with dignity, so humans deserve the exact same respect”. A necessary dose of reality to counter the political circus.
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
Think back just a little over 20 years ago. You probably knew the words but didn’t hear in public much less in media. Anything more than damn could get an R rating. Your foul-mouthed uncle might use them regularly, but it just wasn’t publicly condoned and never in front of children. Now it is everywhere from just about everyone at least on occasion, even from some of the youngest.
The coarsening of society is not an improvement as it makes worse actions more acceptable. I’m holding with the old Victorian adage: “Say or do whatever you want, just not in the street where you can scare the horses.”
My fave
do you mean the era when racial slurs were more acceptable in public than profanity?
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/swearing-and-intelligence
Dr. Tworek’s words: “They noticed a trend. The more curse words that you can generate, the more regular words you’re generating as well. So it’s likely that you have a larger vocabulary on both ends.” Put differently, the more words you know, the more bad words you know. Fluency is fluency.
As Dr. Tworek puts it, “I think if we’re going to do a fair assessment of intelligence, you really would need a full neuropsychology battery.”
Most studies that look at swearing conflate intelligence and vocabulary. A wide vocabulary may indicate intelligence, but it’s not the same thing. Sounding smart and being smart are wildly different. It might be more accurate to say that cursing indicates a broad vocabulary.
Congratulations, you’re a human thesaurus!
*It used to be that a well-place blue word was funny or drove home point, now it’s just noise.
Interesting that Adolf used it to play tough guy in public, while in actuality he is literally sh/tting his pants…allegedly.
Forget global politics. Jack spent Sunday slicing a beef roast while two dogs worshipped him like a legitimate deity. We found the ONLY true loyalty left in this terrible world.
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
observe that liberals’ societal influence began waning when they became the speech police
also note that correlation does not equal causation, but there are reasons libs can’t win public opinion
and look who they’re losing it to- holy shit 🤦♂️
Trump is so desperate to brag and take credit for the rescue he’s telling our enemies exactly how we do it.
MTG says he’s not a Christian which he’s not but he is also not a decent human being.
This is how I felt grabbing all my stuff for Real ID. Now imagine if the Save Act passed.
Is he having the Easter Egg grenade roll today?
“This is one of our better Easters I think in a lot of different ways. I can say militarily, it has been one of the best.”
-The Deranged Easter Bunny
For Craig, next time someone asks.
Can only hope he’s trying to get himself impeached again.
If that’s what he wants Ivy, let’s win the House and give it to him.
The least we can do, Craig, but I’d like to see Mikey and the Mice wake up now.
You have to get through the Ground News ad, but Randy is going for all the feels this time.
In this short from our daily chats we discuss the strategic moves for Democrats as Donald Trump’s poll standing collapses. Is a passive ‘we’re not him’ approach sufficient? BlueInDallas argues for a stronger move to the left and a focus on social programs over military spending.
Anon
They were never acceptable. Unfortunately, in some quarters, they were more common than the swear words. Old time cartoons were also incredibly racist. The old African trickster tales were wonderful as retold by Joel Chandler Harris, but the images of Brer Rabbit and his cronies were decidedly sourced at the slave cabins.
There simply has never been a time when to good things didn’t live cheek by jowl with the bad things. “The Good Ol’ Days” have never existed. Right now, society is taking on the uglier coloration of Trump rather than the kinder grace of Obama.
Senator Chris Murphy is practically begging the GOP to read the 25th Amendment. Spoiler alert: They won’t. The spineless caucus would rather endure unhinged threats of global warfare than risk getting a mean nickname.
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
Blue
“*It used to be that a well-place blue word was funny or drove home point, now it’s just noise.”
This is my complaint. It’s just the constant stream that I find icky. A little creativity would be appreciated. At least steal from Shakespeare.
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”
“you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!”
“you three-inch fool! “Thou lily-liver’d boy.”
“His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.”
“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”
“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril”
“That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?”
“Thou art a boil, a plague sore”
“Thou art as fat as butter. as loathsome as a toad.”
“Thou art unfit for any place but hell.”
“Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!”
Well, I’ve never seen the gas station I go to this busy…and at 2pm on a Monday. Everyone is filling up their tank before next shoe drops.
How many shoes do BiBi & tRUMPsky have left?
Sorry to be such a scold on the podcast, but the DNC will pull defeat from the jaws of victory if allowed to proceed as usual. Look at what they did to David Hogg. Look how they tried to take out Mamdani.
Our left is centrist compared to the other countries. Dems, Independents, or true progressives all need to point out how are tax dollars are being wasted, and how billionaires are buying politicians instead of paying taxes because it’s less expensive in the long run.
FDT (Does it count if you use initials that depend on the reader knowing a letter stands in for a blue word?)
Now, Trump is saying HE killed Osama Bin Laden. Ok… time to put grandpa in a home.
Tomorrow’s starter topic…
Trump Iran refugee crisis: If the U.S. vaporizes Iran’s infrastructure, who inherits the millions of displaced citizens?
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-donald-trump-say-he-took-out-osama-bin-laden-11789681
“I had killed Qasem Soleimani, who was an evil genius, and the reason I did it, I heard he was going to knock out five of our military bases. And had he lived, I believe we would have been fighting perhaps a different Iran right now, because he’s never, he’s never been replaced, you know.”
Trump continued, “And I also, I did one other, but this one was not picked up, Osama bin Laden. If you read my book, I said you got to take him out, one year before the World Trade Center came down, so I wish you’d read the book. But as a president, to be a good president, I believe you have to have good instincts, and a lot of this is instinct.”
The book the president referenced is The America We Deserve, published in January 2000.
Trump reportedly only mentions bin Laden once in the book. The passage said: “Instead of one looming crisis hanging over us, we face a bewildering series of smaller crises, flash points, standoffs, and hot spots. We’re not playing the chess game to end all chess games anymore. We’re playing tournament chess—one master against many rivals.
Obama lives rent-free in his head, and there’s plenty of room in there.
Jamie, a good friend – financial guy – and I were talking about the Carlin 7 words last Friday. I’m certain he’s a Republican, and I ain’t and we both loved Carlin – especially that routine. We both reeled them off – shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. I used to laugh my ass off at that.
Oh, Sheetz bumped their gas price $.20 today to $4.19.9. Thanks, asshole.
Apparently, the MAGAts are getting following talking point: They’ve wanted to kill us for 47 years. They’ve been saying, “death to America” for 47 years.
And yet, they haven’t done it in 47 years.
Next talking point: Well, they would if they could. Even Hillary Clinton said so.
Hmm, think she meant they shouldn’t have nukes.
Next talking point (probably just a personal take on it): Well, my first concern is for my safety.
My unsaid response: You were safer before old, N&zi Numbnuts attacked Iran.
Since we don’t have cable TV, it’s either coming from Facebook or some radio bro on Sirius.
I’m tired.
Swearing- my wheelhouse. I grew up with parents who were benignly racist, but I never heard either of my parents use a racial slur and my maternal uncle, a good Southern Baptist, taught me about having respect for people, even if those people were illiterate black folks. Did I hear racial epithets from friends and neighbors? Of course. But my mom was clear that we did not use that type language or treat black folks with disrespect. Mom also corrected me when I swore, and there was no question whether using god or jesus as part of a swear – well, I didn’t need to test that.
@alidasun
Big tech
fuels violent
extremism & isolation
then sells you Al ~companions~
to monitor & control you.
Friendship is resistance.
if only the use of profanity was trump’s greatest sin
unfortunately it’s his most trivial
the rampant theft and gleeful murder is pretty bad
Grandma swearing: Oh, Judas Priest.
Dad swearing: Crap!
Grandpa swearing: Dammit-the-hell-anyway. Sonuvabitch-anyway.
That’s it. That’s all I ever heard.
I said the F word when I came home from college & Grandma chased me out of the house with a broom. LoL
Anon, true that. Swearing don’t bother me at all, unless it’s directed AT someone or is meant to offend and or demean. Even in Dumbass’ case, it pales in comparison to his actions, But then again, he’s a despicable asshole.
no one polite wants to hear it every other word for sure
I’d agree with that
like, i need to be able to say that every action he takes, especially putting his name on everything is a giant “Fuck You” to everyone but himself
he hates us, and he hates America
why? who knows or cares, not relevant
i’m sometimes flippant, and even I understand that are human legacies behind all of our institutions that he has disrespected and to even those ghosts he says “Fuck You”
…but 77 million people put him there. Fools
WTH? I just got a NWS freeze warning for tonight (in nearby counties) It was mid 80s 48 hours ago.
My racist asshole ex-army misogynistic BIL was one of the 77M. As you might expect, we don’t speak. Haven’t since 2021 when I accused him of not having enough intelligence to do anything other than recite Faux Snooz talking points. I stand by that. – Of course now I’m sure he’s reciting TS lines from the insane late night/early morning ramblings of Dumbass.
it’s not that he’s smart, it’s that we suck 😭
Look at the bright side, if they use the 25th amendment, we get president JD!
😑
always look on the broite soide uh loife 🎶
we just have to wait for the very socially-well-adjusted iphone generation to save us!
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A pedo president surrounded by children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/04/06/white-house-egg-roll-trump/
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