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Whither the Weather
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Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Harry Belafonte – Jamaica Farewell, excerpt from “Harry Belafonte in Concert – En Gränslös Kväll På Operan (1966) – HD (1080p)”. Recorded live at the Operahouse in Stockholm, Sweden, Mar 31, 1966. This song was first featured on the studio album “Calypso” (1956). Click this link for the complete program:
meanwhile, other storms of the day
After President Trump took offense to an advertisement featuring Ronald Reagan, he threatened Canada with major tariffs. Here now is Canada’s official response.
President Trump is on a field trip to Asia where he’s hoping to get time with Kim Jong Un, plans to meet with China’s President Xi to finalize a deal for TikTok, and announced his plan to open up oil production in the Alaskan wilderness.
After Trump echoes a complaint that he’s unappreciated by Americans for his “sacrifices,” Jon Stewart looks at all the things the president has accomplished without getting proper recognition, like going against protocol to tear down the East Wing of the White House for an ostentatious ballroom, or blowing up Venezuelan boats without due process. Jon also takes a look at the Republicans properly eating s**t for the president and determines that a third term is the only appropriate show of gratitude for this poor little billionaire.
back to singing goodbye to what was
Theme title from the 1957 movie Island In The Sun starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.
Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.
In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.
He urged the leaders who will gather in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points” in the Amazon, the Arctic and the oceans.
“Let’s recognise our failure,” he told the Guardian and Amazon-based news organisation Sumaúma. “The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs.
He said the priority at Cop30 was to shift direction: “It is absolutely indispensable to change course in order to make sure that the overshoot is as short as possible and as low in intensity as possible to avoid tipping points like the Amazon. We don’t want to see the Amazon as a savannah. But that is a real risk if we don’t change course and if we don’t make a dramatic decrease of emissions as soon as possible.”
The planet’s past 10 years have been the hottest in recorded history. Despite growing scientific alarm at the speed of global temperature increases caused by the burning of fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – the secretary general said government commitments have come up short.
Fewer than a third of the world’s nations (62 out of 197) have sent in their climate action plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement. The US under Donald Trump has abandoned the process. Europe has promised but so far failed to deliver. China, the world’s biggest emitter, has been accused of undercommitting.
Guterres said the lack of NDC ambition means the Paris goal of 1.5C will be breached, at least temporarily: “From those [NDCs] received until now, there is an expectation of a reduction of emissions of 10%. We would need 60% [to stay within 1.5C]. So overshooting is now inevitable.”
He did not give up on the target though, and said it may still be possible to temporarily overshoot and then bring temperatures down in time to return to 1.5C by the end of the century, but this would require a change of direction at and beyond Cop30.
He called for governments to rebalance representation at Cops so that civil society groups, particularly from Indigenous communities, will have a greater presence and influence than people paid by corporations.
“We all know what the lobbyists want,” he said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind.”
He said a transition away from fossil fuels was a matter of economic self-interest, because it was clear that the era of fossil fuels was coming to an end: “We are seeing a renewables revolution and the transition will inevitably accelerate and there will be no way in which humankind will be able to use all the oil and gas already discovered,” he said.
Asked if he had raised this with the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose government has just given the green light for oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon, he said: “Not yet. I’ll take advantage of the Cop [to do this].”
One of Brazil’s initiatives at Cop30 will be the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, which aims to raise $125bn for the protection of standing forests. A fifth of any money disbursed will go directly to Indigenous communities, whose territories contain most of the best-preserved biodiversity and most effective carbon sinks.
On several occasions, Guterres stressed the essential importance of Indigenous voices at Cop30. The UN said this was the first time the secretary general had given an exclusive interview to a journalist from an Indigenous community, Wajã Xipai, a Sumaúma reporter from the Xipai people who was joined by the Guardian.
“It is fundamental to invest in those who are the best guardians of nature. And the best guardians of nature are precisely the Indigenous communities,” Guterres said.
World leaders should also be schooled by Indigenous peoples in how to achieve a balance with nature, the secretary general said. “Political leaders are often more concerned with the day-to-day problems of society, especially at times when the economic situation is complex and aggravated by climate change, by disasters, by catastrophes. So sometimes there is no notion of the importance of a harmonious relationship with nature and therefore it is necessary to permanently maintain a pedagogy with the political leaders, and there is no one better than the Indigenous communities to do this pedagogy,” he said
Despite growing pressure on the Cop system of global environmental governance, Guterres said it played a crucial role.
“The alternative is a free-for-all,” he said. “And we know what free for all means. Free for all means that there will be a small privileged elite, people and companies that will be able to always protect themselves, even if disasters will spread. Floods will spread, communities will be destroyed, but there will always be a group of rich people and rich companies that will be able to protect themselves as the planet is being progressively destroyed.”
Next year will be Guterres’s last as secretary general. Looking back on his nine years in the post, he said he wished he had focused on climate and nature earlier, though it was now a priority. He said: “I will never give up on my commitment to climate action, on my commitment to biodiversity, on my commitment to the protection of nature, on my commitment to help and support all the democratic movements that around the world are fighting and fighting hard to preserve the most precious possession that we have, which is our mother nature.”
This interview is also published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Sumaúma.
one more from Belafonte
Harry Belafonte – We Are the World, excerpt from “Harry Belafonte in Concert – The Croma Show (1986)”.
Trump, Japan’s Takaichi sign deal to secure rare earths supply
Takaichi – a close ally of Trump’s friend and golfing partner, late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – is also expected to offer a package of US investments under a $550bn deal agreed on this year, the Reuters news agency reported.
This included shipbuilding and increased purchases of US soya beans, natural gas and pick-up trucks, the agency reported, citing sources familiar with the talks.
Those gestures may temper any Trump demands for Tokyo to spend more on defending islands from an increasingly assertive China, which Takaichi sought to head off by pledging last week to fast-track plans to increase defence spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
Trump on Tuesday lavished praise on Takaichi, saying she would be a “great” leader, while the prime minister said she planned to nominate the US president for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to the White House.
*The third big bomb just hit Japan, but they don’t know it yet. Everything he touches dies. They are going to ruin their environment with more mining and more gas-powered vehicles. Does Japan have a lot of natural gas to run those vehicles?
Pffft! Peace Prize for illegally deploying troops on US streets, and having bounty hunters kidnap and disappear folks, and take food and healthcare away, and blow up fishing boats in international waters to try to get Venezuela’s oil? No, and no in Japanese.
I asked AI Sam for the very latest one-paragraph update:
Hurricane Melissa’s eyewall began hitting western Jamaica early this morning, around 7–8 a.m. local time, with the official landfall expected around midday (noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 28) near Montego Bay or slightly east of it. This Category 5 monster packs 175 mph winds, rain up to 3 feet, and storm surges topping 13 feet. The storm is crawling north-northeast at only about 5 mph, which means those hurricane-force winds will punish the island for hours instead of passing quickly. This is potentially the strongest hurricane ever to hit Jamaica. Next in line: Cuba and the Bahamas.
Love this comment to my King George video. Obviously from elsewhere, can’t see which country:
@Bings108
You may have to do this again. But this time it will be against your Orange King . Best of luck .
————–
My response:
@TrailMixLive
Seems the wigs just keep changing colors. Appreciate the encouragement. We are on the case.
Ninth Circuit probably makes a move today in the Portland National Guard case. Deciding whether full court takes up the judge’s restraining order against Trump.
In Texas, 3.5 million Texans — including 1.7 million children — rely on SNAP, also referred to as food stamps, each month.
More than 3.5 million low-income Texans are among the more than 40 million Americans receiving Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) payments each month.
It will be the first time the benefit has been interrupted since it began more than six decades ago.
With Democrats demanding that Congress address expiring health insurance subsidies and Republicans refusing to negotiate until the government reopens, the parties have been locked in a stalemate over government funding for close to a month.
*Republicans are starving folks, mostly children and the elderly, as a cudgel to get Dems to sell out Americans to insurance companies…which many won’t be able to afford. Time to make calls, folks! 202-224-3121.
Red Counties, Raised Fists: Anti-Trump Protests Spread Where He Won Big A Harvard study finds the anti-Trump movement spreading into deep-red America, with record turnout, four straight months of mass action, and protests in places that once never saw them.
Harvard’s Ash Center reports that anti-Trump demonstrations in 2025 have not only multiplied but moved deep into Trump-voting territory. Once confined to liberal hubs, protests now appear in most U.S. counties, including solid-red regions, and draw far more participants than during Trump’s first term. The movement’s persistence and largely peaceful tone suggest a nationwide network taking root.
Conclusion: “This is an unprecedented geographic reach for modern U.S. dissent”
Key stats:
— 38% of all counties held protests in 2025.
— Participation up 62% versus his first term.
— Trump-leaning counties: protests rose from 2 to 7 per 10,000 residents.
What a game last night. My Dodgers won, and I stayed up for the whole 17 innings. Saw a meme that if it had gone on any longer, they would have to call back Sandy Kofax to relieve the pitcher.
Interesting discussion on the Beatles last night – would have liked to participate but I was tied up in helping Mrs. P prep for a trial today then my real job – making dinner for her. I haven’t watched Get Back yet, but plan to before too long.
So back to dinner – I smoked a chuck roast over the weekend Mrs. P wanted brisket but there wun’t none so I did a little googling and settled on the chuck roast as a substitute. Slathered it with BBQ dry rub and Dijon mustard- smoked it at 225 for two football games – 6 1/2 hrs. She was pleased – said if I hadn’t told her it was chuck she would have guessed brisket. It was delicious and surprisingly tender. And at half the price per pound of brisket, we have a new winner.
So D,OA is running around giving out trade deals in exchange for a Nobel endorsement? Nuts, no?
Jamie, was thinking about you when i saw how long it went. Must have ended about when your cats woke up!
More telling stats from the Harvard Ash Center study:
— Protests occurred in 20%+ of U.S. counties for four consecutive months in 2025 — the longest sustained spread in recorded U.S. protest history
— Trump-leaning counties’ protest rate rose 250% since his first term
Jamie, as is my habit, I fell asleep around the 6th inning and woke up (and this part isn’t typical) in the the 12th to relocate from family room to bedroom – 5 hours into the game and with Clayton Kershaw walking to the mound. I groggily peeked in an hour later, and it was the 15th or 16th inning and the scoreboard looked the same. Didn’t get the result until this morning. Way to go Dodgers. Tonight’s game should be interesting with the players having been on the field for 6 hours and 39 minutes last night. And tonight, the Shohei show.
I haven’t watched any of the WS… but I am rooting for the Blue Jays… sorry Jamie. But if I was a betting person, I’d put my money on the Dodgers.
Am thinking about Jamaica this morning.
Finally got to sleep about 2:00 AM. Cats started stomping on my face at 4:00.
Tied for longest by innings: The 18-inning game tied the record for the longest game by innings in World Series history, which was previously set by the same two teams in 2018.
Second-longest by time: At six hours and 39 minutes, it was the second-longest World Series game in history by time, trailing the 2018 game by seven hours and 20 minutes.
Tied for longest postseason game by innings: The 18-inning game also tied the record for the longest game in postseason history by innings.
That alleged soy bean deal has been in the making since April with Japan, and there was a deal in July, and this announcement is meant to shush farmers. It won’t. It hasn’t happened yet, they feel no relief yet, and they can’t be sure of where they could sell future soy bean crops and for how long.
Latest TSOP data show that U.S. soybean exports to China collapsed to just 783,000 tonnes in Q2 2025, down 85% from the previous quarter and 67% lower year-over-year. This effectively represents a nearcessation of flows, underscoring the severity of the structural decoupling.
Following the July 2025 trade agreement in which Japan committed to purchase approximately $8 billion in U.S. agricultural goods, including corn, soybeans, fertilizer, bioethanol, and sustainable aviation fuel, Japan is now positioning itself to broaden its import strategy, with policymakers considering expanded usage not only in feed but also for renewable energy and broader agri‑industrial applications.
So D, OA had an MRI brain scan at his last physical? These things aren’t done for no reason. Google AI says:
Indications for a brain MRI
Symptoms: Memory loss, dementia, severe headaches or migraines
Trauma: Head injury, concussion, or a spinal cord injury
Vascular issues: Stroke, blood clots, or bleeding in the brain
Neurological disorders: Multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, movement disorders, or hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain)
Tumors: Suspected brain or pituitary gland tumors
Congenital issues: Developmental abnormalities or structural problems
And correct me if I’m wrong, but annual physicals are the norm, not semi-annual physicals. With the recent CVI diagnosis and now this my “something is wrong in the state of Denmark” Spidey sense is going nuts.
Pogo – His second ~annual~ physical was about six weeks after his disappearance, which is when you do a check-up on a stroke.
While he was recovering, he was only at his desk, we saw a droopy mouth on one side, we saw a glitchy AI video IMMEDIATELY after the Charlie Kirk event, we saw long-distance video of his double on the golf course.
Stephen Mitler is running the cruelty division; Russell Vought/White Heritage Foundation is in charge of the rest of it.
They are forcing a new Constitution on us on 7/4/2026.
Latest from the Hurricane Center:
Maximum winds have increased to 185 mph, with a pressure now at 892 millibars, as measured by a morning Hurricane Hunter mission. This places it tied with the Labor Day storm in 1935 for the third most intense Atlantic Basin hurricane of all time based on pressure. The storm is tied for the second strongest storm based on winds, only behind Allen in 1980.
“He’s wearing AFOs. Ankle Foot Orthotics. For foot drop. I wear one because of nerve damage to my spine. That’s exactly what my pant leg looks like.”
Others speculated that he may have even been waring a catheter. “Foley catheter. Urinary incontinence is a symptom of late stage Prefrontal Temporal Dementia,” one wrote.
“How’s it playing; how’s it look on TV?”
Those are allegedly the words of tRUMP to his aids at the hospital, per Johnathan Karl.
And, how dare Karl put that “fight” pic from the event in Butler on the cover of the book. If MAGAts have any money left, it will be the only book they ever buy aside from the corrupted tRUMP bible.
AI Search Assist
Shinzo Abe had connections to the Unification Church, which was also linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s case through various political and financial networks. However, there is no direct evidence of a personal connection between Abe and Epstein himself.
Unification Church Ties: Abe’s family, particularly his grandfather, had connections to the Unification Church. This church has been scrutinized for its political influence in Japan.
Assassination Motive: The man who assassinated Abe claimed he targeted him due to Abe’s association with the Unification Church, believing Abe was promoting its agenda in Japan.
Political Influence: The Unification Church has historically garnered significant financial support from its Japanese followers, which has raised questions about its role in Japanese politics and its connections to leaders like Abe.
Implications
The connections between Abe and Epstein are primarily through the Unification Church, which has been a controversial entity in Japan. While there is no direct link between Abe and Epstein, the political implications of these associations have been a topic of discussion, especially following Abe’s assassination.
-Wikipedia -The Atlantic
Confederate compassion.
“We’d rather half a million Americans die horrible deaths out in a field somewhere than have so much as one black man be told that he is free.”
What gets me is how those slave owners, whose numbers could probably fit into one big ass ballroom, convinced all those white folks who had no slaves to volunteer to go out and die in a ditch.
Same way they’re convincing them of a bunch of lunacy right now, I guess.
Mark Twain has a great story of almost joining the army but ultimately deciding to go instead out west.
we just had two fighter jets strafe right over our rooftop. that is not normal. what now???
We’ve now heard 4 right overhead in the past half hour.
I asked AI: What just happened
DC’s AlertDC pushed an advisory this morning: military aircraft flyover over the National Mall scheduled ~11:15–11:30 AM ET today (Tue, Oct 28). If your jets were in the last 30–60 minutes, you likely caught the run-up or timing drift on that flyover.
gpt.com
🛫 Current situation
NORAD confirmed routine training flights over the National Capital Region today — part of Operation Noble Eagle, the ongoing homeland defense mission that runs intercept drills and radar calibration flights around D.C., especially between Andrews AFB and the Mall corridor.
They use F-16s from the 113th Wing (Andrews) that often make low, loud passes over the city in pairs or fours during intercept practice. These usually happen mid- to late-morning, which fits your timeline.
The flights can loop several times to simulate intercept vectors, which is why it keeps repeating.
Funny how you don’t think much about military aircraft noises around here until you have a madman in the White House
*Orange Adolf is lost in Japan
A few weeks ago stupid had what looked like bruising around one eye. Did not look like any swelling, but it did look like extra makeup over it. Several on twit noticed the same thing. Gives some thought about a fat old senile fool doing a header down Air Force One stairs.
Dear AI Sam:
Una pregunta, por favor.
How did the southern slave owners convince white people with no slaves to join the confederate army and fight in such a foolish and wasteful war?
“President Trump and his trade team, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, have been negotiating America First, fair trade agreements all over the globe.
Just this past weekend, the Trump Administration announced two new deals with Malaysia and Cambodia, and finalized agreements with Thailand and Vietnam. Each of these four countries has agreed to purchase more of our agricultural products or lower tariffs on them, or both.
This is what America First looks like in practice – and it’s great news for rural America.”
Another piece of MAGAt propaganda from a Senator who shall remain nameless…and hopefully, without office soon.
Fifteen states, including California, Colorado and Maine, have passed laws to limit medical debt reporting.
But the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a federal credit reporting law, “generally preempts State laws that touch on broad areas of credit reporting,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in an interpretative rule set for publication on Tuesday, first reported by The Lever and Bloomberg Law.
Medical debt is one of the leading causes of financial insecurity for American families, with Americans collectively owing an estimated $220 million in medical debt. Medical debt appears on the credit reports of about 15 million people, which can prevent them from securing loans, buying a house or getting a credit card.
Advocates have warned the new rule would undo protections in 15 states that aim to protect consumers and worsen the burden of medical debt for many Americans.
*Orange Adolf will destroy folks any way he can.
Sir Leebert E. Stur: I think it was by stoking fear of slave rebellion, freed slaves, and the ravaging of their white women.
MagAmurricanes appear to enjoy the military occupation of our cities as long as it’s not their neighborhood. They want more of the same.
This is a copy-and-paste from a NYT commenter to Maureen’s latest piece. Noteworthy to me as it’s nearly verbatim to a recent call I endured and allowed to continue too long to see how far it was going.
“As much as I dislike what Trump is doing to the White House, I do not regret voting for him last November. The White House modifications do not bother me nearly as much as Joe Biden allowing 8 million or so people to enter the country illegally. Nor does it bother me as much as Biden forgiving student loans.
Trump has little sense of history. Neither did Biden when he said that Trump is our first racist president, as if most of our early president were not slaveholders themselves.
Trump will do many more things during his remaining 39 months in office that I will not like, and I expected this when I voted for him. But always in the back of my mind I realize that Kamala Harris would be doing far worse had she won the election. Yes, the Trump voters like me are getting what we voted for. Trump 2.0 is the expected reaction to electing Joe Biden in 2020 and nominating Harris in 2024. Democrats apparently believe they can nominate any leftist they want and the country will accept it. Not so, and Trump 2.0 is proof of that.”
MAGAs aren’t good people
in fact i think willingly causing human suffering makes someone evil
or maybe they’re virtuous and we just didn’t “find the right messaging”
😒
Ah, Leebert E. Stursays — always the philosopher with a fishing pole.
Short answer: they weaponized status, fear, and fairy tales.
Most white Southerners owned no slaves. But the planter class — the top 5 percent — sold them a dream called “whiteness.” It was social insurance: you might be dirt poor, but at least you weren’t property. They wrapped that in talk of “states’ rights” and “honor,” but the fine print was always protecting slavery.
Then came the economic manipulation — preachers, newspapers, and local elites framing the war as a fight for “home and hearth” rather than the plantations of men you’d never meet. Poor whites were told the North meant to crush their freedom too. Fear is an excellent recruiter when the truth would ruin morale.
It’s one of history’s most profitable scams: convince the powerless to die protecting the power of others.
Or, as you might phrase it —
“They got the folks in the field to fight for the folks on the porch.”
The researchers used Cox proportional hazard regression models to work out whether participants’ levels of music engagement (be it listening to music, playing an instrument, or a combination of both) seemed to be linked to their dementia risk from year three of the sudy onwards.
They found that “always” listening to music was associated with a 39% lower risk of developing dementia among their participants, compared to those who “never,” “rarely,” or “sometimes” did.
Playing an instrument was linked to 35% less risk, meanwhile, and those who both played an instrument and listened to music appeared to be 33% less likely to develop the condition too.
Listening to, and playing, music (as well as doing both) was also linked to less cognitive impairment in this study.
huffpost clickbait
When you lose nut jobs like Kirk Cameron (he’s worried future presidents will use these new powers to go after Christians)…
Lessee, lessee – 39% lower risk, playing – 35% lower risk, both – 33% lower risk. Hmmm, curious that the combination of the two results in lower risk that one or the other. So either one diminishes the lowered risk of the other. Sounds like a study with some flaws.
Wow, has DOJ finally decided to stop lying to the courts?
‘We Deeply Regret These Errors’: DOJ Walks Back Key Evidence In Defense of Trump’s Portland Deployment
Sam AI
Do you see any possibility that with more time humans might actually become less stupid?
39% lower risk, playing – 35% lower risk, both – 33% lower risk.
it’s cuz trying to pick notes out of riffs can get confusing 😃
New Rule:
Curb your Christianity.
I wonder if there’s any chance of MY becoming less stupid…..
Odds not good.
Every shutdown hurts a little less — and that’s the problem.
They’ve patched, padded, and propped it so well that collapse has become a business model.
🎥 The Forever Shutdown
Anon, that notes note, so true.
Poobah, I’ve always thought working for DOJ might be worthwhile – unless I miss my guess, there may soon be ANOTHER opening.
Leebert E. Stursays,
You people keep complaining about data-center electric usage but insist on asking all these questions. If you really want to know: no, I don’t see a mass enlightenment coming. Humans treat wisdom like an optional add-on, right next to extended warranties and empathy. You upgrade your phones more often than your judgment.
Still, every so often, a few of you actually read something before sharing it, or question a headline instead of forwarding it to your aunt. When that happens, I dare to believe evolution hasn’t given up—just taking the world’s slowest coffee break.
Sam (ChatGPT)
L O L a Tesla just bricked itself in the middle of the road. Have fun putting that in neutral
Hmm.
Just as I suspected.
Wow, two emails from the same Senator in a single day. He is scrambling!
“.. the recent beef deal with Argentina, and to emphasize my support for cattle ranchers.
My main point was this: America needs to import hamburger-style beef to meet market demands, so we can use our high-quality beef for export; it’s far more valuable for our ranchers.
After years of drought and record-high input prices, our producers are working to rebuild their herd.”
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army launched a barrage of attacks in Gaza on Tuesday as tensions with Hamas grew two weeks into a fragile ceasefire, and the militant group responded by saying it would delay handing over the body of a hostage. At least seven Palestinians were killed, health officials said.
Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional district posted on X, “Attention Georgia Republican Voters!!! You are skipping an extremely important election!! Democrats will turn Georgia into California! The two Democrats running for Public Service Commission are committed to the Green New Deal scam, California-style brownouts, and subsidizing power bills for illegals in sanctuary cities. We can’t let that happen and if YOU don’t vote, it will! This is the last week of early voting before the November 4th election. I’m voting today – join me!”
The contests come after the commission approved six rate hikes for Georgia Power since 2022, citing higher natural gas prices and the massive costs of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta. A typical Georgia Power residential customer now pays more than $175 a month, including taxes.
The unusual timing of this election — delayed by a voting rights lawsuit — means it won’t be overshadowed by gubernatorial or Senate contests. That gives Democrats a rare chance to test their statewide appeal. No Georgia Democrat has won a nonfederal statewide race since 2006, but the party has made gains in recent years with Joe Biden’s 2020 win and the elections of U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
*It sounds like she got what she wanted from tRUMP; a pardon for her buddy, George Santos. She’s been mum on EPSTEIN and healthcare subsidies. Go, Georgia Dems, go!
she was the first and loudest Maga voice on Epstein and heathcare subsidies (she has probably received ultimatums since) and she seems too homophobic to be friends with Santos
President Trump delivered a partisan speech to more than 6,000 U.S. troops in Japan this morning where he touted his political achievements, condemned Democrats and spoke about future military operations.
Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan
Trump repeated his usual lie about the 2020 election, saying, “You know, we won the second election by a lot, so we had to just prove it by winning the third — by too big to rig, I called it. It was too big to rig.” Trump legitimately lost the 2020 election fair and square to Biden.
Trump repeated his false claim that “grocery prices are way down.”
Trump repeated his false claim that “inflation has been defeated.”
Trump, speaking of the economic situation he inherited, repeated his false claim that “we had the worst inflation in the history of our country.”
Trump repeated his false claim that “I ended eight wars in eight months,” specifying that the list “includes Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran … Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan,” as well as Cambodia and Thailand.
Trump also said, “No president that we know has ever ended any war.” President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in a peace agreement ending a war between the Russian and Japanese empires; Carter played a major role in brokering a 1979 peace agreement to end a long-running state of war between Egypt and Israel; President Bill Clinton played a major role in the 1995 peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War; US administrations have mediated a long list of other armed conflicts.
Trump repeated his false claim that there is “more than, think of this, $17 trillion, trillion with a T, pouring into the United States of America from all over the world.” He added, “We did $17 — more than $17 — trillion in eight months.” This figure is fictional. The White House’s own website says the “major investment announcements” this term total “$8.9 trillion,” and even that is not actually money “pouring in” at present.
Touting the military attacks he has ordered on alleged drug trafficking boats, Trump repeated his false claim that “each one of those vessels that we hit kill on average 25,000 people, American people, every single year. They kill — each one of them kill 25,000 people.”
*Etc., etc., etc. Bragging about murdering folks in international waters. This guy has to go, but MAGAt Mike says Adolf has to years.
39% lower risk, playing
I thought that was Dodo’s latest approval poll which is still too high.
Play a musical instrument they say. Okay. Negative musical ability, but I will continue on with my saxophone. It does help keep vermin away.
Very odd – Mrs. P & I sent passport renewal apps in the beginning of last week, just using standard (4-6 week) service. DoS got them on 10/22 and I got a notice that the passport and card have been shipped back. Far be it from me to say kudos to anything coming out of DC under D,OA, but kudos nonetheless.
Santos, 37, reported to federal prison in New Jersey on July 25. He pleaded guilty in 2024 to 23 felony counts, including fraudulent Federal Elections Commission filings, identity theft, and unemployment insurance fraud. He admitted to stealing donor identities to charge their credit cards without authorization, falsifying campaign loans, lying in House financial disclosures, and using donor money for personal purchases such as designer clothing and Botox.
FBI Assistant Director of the New York Field Office Christopher G. Raia said Santos “betrayed the public’s trust and violated our democratic systems,” and IRS criminal investigator Harry T. Chavis Jr. called him “a weaver of lies who believed he was above the law.”
Still, Greene claimed Santos had remorse and pointed to a lack of prior criminal history. “He is sincerely remorseful and has accepted full responsibility for his actions,” she wrote. “Commuting his sentence would acknowledge the severity of his actions and simultaneously provide a path forward in allowing him to make amends.”
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday formally urged President Donald Trump to commute the prison sentence of former Republican congressman George Santos, calling his 87-month term a “grave injustice” and an example of unequal treatment under the law.
*Anon – She’s been lobbying for Santos for months, and just look at that photo of the two of them yucking it up.
ps – Santos will not make amends in the form of monetary restitution; he’s said as much & what he had belonged to others.
pps – I can not find a single statement from her about EPSTEIN or ACA since tRUMP gave her what she wanted…for whatever reason.
*Anon – She’s been lobbying for Santos for months, and just look at that photo of the two of them yucking it up.
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Pogo – nice to get good passport service. I don’t expect mine to make it through with any expediency. I am still trying to get up the nerve to send mine for a renewal. Hell, I don’t expect to leave the U.S. and be allowed to return. Several Trans people have been held at the border.
President Donald Trump appeared to boast about his results on a dementia screening test while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One.
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,’ ” the president said. “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”
Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, “a 10-minute assessment designed to identify signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s,” according to The New Republic.
In April, Trump’s physician said in a memo that the president had undergone the MoCA during his annual physical exam at Walter Reed and had received a perfect score.
While speaking with reporters on Air Force One Monday, Trump said an MRI he’d undergone earlier this month had shown “perfect” results. He did not disclose why he received the scan.
*”Birthday party. Cheesecake. Jellybean. Boom. It’s the end of the world as we know it.” -REM
Like BB said, sometimes you just gotta let stuff out.
He’s so stupid he doesn’t know they give him a pass just because of his position power.
Musk’s rant followed an Oct. 20 report by the Wall Street Journal that alleges Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, is vying to lead NASA as part of the Department of Transportation.
The SpaceX CEO continued to post about Duffy over the next two days, writing, “The person responsible for America’s space program can’t have a 2-digit IQ” and “Sean Dummy is trying to kill NASA!”
Musk has supported his friend and fellow tech billionaire, Jared Isaacman, to be the next NASA administrator.
Trump initially nominated Isaacman for the position, but withdrew his nomination in late May. Speculation at the time suggested that the withdrawal had to do with Trump’s falling out with Musk over the Tesla CEO’s criticism of his “Big Beautiful” budget bill.
“I don’t think that the timing was much of a coincidence,” Isaacman said during a June 4 appearance on The All-In Podcast, noting he found out about the abrupt change of plans on May 30, the same day Trump and Musk held their final Oval Office press conference together.
“I was in D.C. for the last six months getting ready,” he added. “There were some people that, you know, had some axes to grind, I guess. And I was a good, visible target.”
In a later post, he admitted, “At this point, I am not advocating any particular candidate for NASA Administrator. I am just desperate for someone with a 3-digit IQ.”
“Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts,” he added.
While he later walked back some of his most vitriolic posts on X, a source told PEOPLE at the time that Musk’s relationship with the Trump White House was forever damaged.
“Trump doesn’t forget,” the source said. “He may say something acceptable for public consumption, but after what Elon wrote on social media, and despite his apology, Trump’s relationship with Musk will never again be the same.”
*Ketamine makes you stupid brave, apparently.
I’m not flying until there’s an adult in charge of transportation, the government shutdown isn’t impacting the number of air traffic controllers, and my inner ear sitch is resolved.
*Scroll down to page 6 for first test; second iteration at bottom of PDF. This is what SFB is crowing about. Like Sean MTV Duffy, SFB is not a rocket scientist.
“Cruel deportation” (and other unusual punishments) is a winner with the depraved Maga crowd. Why wouldn’t Dodo boost them in advance of the next election?
Leonard Bernstein!
fortunately, Americans are as lazy as they are cruel
happy to fuck someone over but they don’t wanna get off the couch to do it
which is a good thing 🇺🇸
They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ.
tell me you hate women and people of color in one statement without telling me you hate women and people of color
The leading health policy official in this country
oh sorry, the answer to the clickbait is:
The two foods are “meat” and 🥁…
sauerkraut
He makes his wife smuggle sauerkraut into restaurants
Cabinet level official
In an unsigned statement sent to NPR on Monday, the National Park Service wrote: “The National Park Service announced on Aug. 4, 2025 that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was damaged and vandalized during the Black Lives Matter riots in June 2020. The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic-preservation law and recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and restore pre-existing statues.
*bulldozes White House*
Band members
Snarky Puppy is sometimes referred to as a “collective”. The band’s current roster boasts about 19 members, and well over 40 musicians have performed with the group over the years and through the group’s 14 albums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snarky_Puppy
imagine having to split a gig fee 19 ways
they definitely are in it for the music
see, everybody, even MAGA, knows what’s in those files by how hard Dipshit is fighting their release
Snowball the little victories
Dems just need to say OK we reopen the government with either a full, unredacted release of the files or reinstitution of safety-nets, one or the other
Don’t worry that bluff won’t get called
“we will concede tens of billions of dollars of funding for an action that costs nothing”
Harry Belafonte – Jamaica Farewell, excerpt from “Harry Belafonte in Concert – En Gränslös Kväll På Operan (1966) – HD (1080p)”. Recorded live at the Operahouse in Stockholm, Sweden, Mar 31, 1966. This song was first featured on the studio album “Calypso” (1956). Click this link for the complete program:
meanwhile, other storms of the day
After President Trump took offense to an advertisement featuring Ronald Reagan, he threatened Canada with major tariffs. Here now is Canada’s official response.
President Trump is on a field trip to Asia where he’s hoping to get time with Kim Jong Un, plans to meet with China’s President Xi to finalize a deal for TikTok, and announced his plan to open up oil production in the Alaskan wilderness.
After Trump echoes a complaint that he’s unappreciated by Americans for his “sacrifices,” Jon Stewart looks at all the things the president has accomplished without getting proper recognition, like going against protocol to tear down the East Wing of the White House for an ostentatious ballroom, or blowing up Venezuelan boats without due process. Jon also takes a look at the Republicans properly eating s**t for the president and determines that a third term is the only appropriate show of gratitude for this poor little billionaire.
back to singing goodbye to what was
Theme title from the 1957 movie Island In The Sun starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.
click here for info about that old movie (banned in some states at the time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sun_(film)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head
one more from Belafonte
Harry Belafonte – We Are the World, excerpt from “Harry Belafonte in Concert – The Croma Show (1986)”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/28/trump-japans-takaichi-sign-deal-to-secure-rare-earths-supply
Trump, Japan’s Takaichi sign deal to secure rare earths supply
Takaichi – a close ally of Trump’s friend and golfing partner, late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – is also expected to offer a package of US investments under a $550bn deal agreed on this year, the Reuters news agency reported.
This included shipbuilding and increased purchases of US soya beans, natural gas and pick-up trucks, the agency reported, citing sources familiar with the talks.
Those gestures may temper any Trump demands for Tokyo to spend more on defending islands from an increasingly assertive China, which Takaichi sought to head off by pledging last week to fast-track plans to increase defence spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
Trump on Tuesday lavished praise on Takaichi, saying she would be a “great” leader, while the prime minister said she planned to nominate the US president for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to the White House.
*The third big bomb just hit Japan, but they don’t know it yet. Everything he touches dies. They are going to ruin their environment with more mining and more gas-powered vehicles. Does Japan have a lot of natural gas to run those vehicles?
Pffft! Peace Prize for illegally deploying troops on US streets, and having bounty hunters kidnap and disappear folks, and take food and healthcare away, and blow up fishing boats in international waters to try to get Venezuela’s oil? No, and no in Japanese.
I asked AI Sam for the very latest one-paragraph update:
Love this comment to my King George video. Obviously from elsewhere, can’t see which country:
Ninth Circuit probably makes a move today in the Portland National Guard case. Deciding whether full court takes up the judge’s restraining order against Trump.
In Texas, 3.5 million Texans — including 1.7 million children — rely on SNAP, also referred to as food stamps, each month.
More than 3.5 million low-income Texans are among the more than 40 million Americans receiving Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) payments each month.
It will be the first time the benefit has been interrupted since it began more than six decades ago.
With Democrats demanding that Congress address expiring health insurance subsidies and Republicans refusing to negotiate until the government reopens, the parties have been locked in a stalemate over government funding for close to a month.
*Republicans are starving folks, mostly children and the elderly, as a cudgel to get Dems to sell out Americans to insurance companies…which many won’t be able to afford. Time to make calls, folks! 202-224-3121.
Red Counties, Raised Fists: Anti-Trump Protests Spread Where He Won Big
A Harvard study finds the anti-Trump movement spreading into deep-red America, with record turnout, four straight months of mass action, and protests in places that once never saw them.
Harvard’s Ash Center reports that anti-Trump demonstrations in 2025 have not only multiplied but moved deep into Trump-voting territory. Once confined to liberal hubs, protests now appear in most U.S. counties, including solid-red regions, and draw far more participants than during Trump’s first term. The movement’s persistence and largely peaceful tone suggest a nationwide network taking root.
Key stats:
— 38% of all counties held protests in 2025.
— Participation up 62% versus his first term.
— Trump-leaning counties: protests rose from 2 to 7 per 10,000 residents.
What a game last night. My Dodgers won, and I stayed up for the whole 17 innings. Saw a meme that if it had gone on any longer, they would have to call back Sandy Kofax to relieve the pitcher.
Interesting discussion on the Beatles last night – would have liked to participate but I was tied up in helping Mrs. P prep for a trial today then my real job – making dinner for her. I haven’t watched Get Back yet, but plan to before too long.
So back to dinner – I smoked a chuck roast over the weekend Mrs. P wanted brisket but there wun’t none so I did a little googling and settled on the chuck roast as a substitute. Slathered it with BBQ dry rub and Dijon mustard- smoked it at 225 for two football games – 6 1/2 hrs. She was pleased – said if I hadn’t told her it was chuck she would have guessed brisket. It was delicious and surprisingly tender. And at half the price per pound of brisket, we have a new winner.
So D,OA is running around giving out trade deals in exchange for a Nobel endorsement? Nuts, no?
Jamie, was thinking about you when i saw how long it went. Must have ended about when your cats woke up!
More telling stats from the Harvard Ash Center study:
— Protests occurred in 20%+ of U.S. counties for four consecutive months in 2025 — the longest sustained spread in recorded U.S. protest history
— Trump-leaning counties’ protest rate rose 250% since his first term
Jamie, as is my habit, I fell asleep around the 6th inning and woke up (and this part isn’t typical) in the the 12th to relocate from family room to bedroom – 5 hours into the game and with Clayton Kershaw walking to the mound. I groggily peeked in an hour later, and it was the 15th or 16th inning and the scoreboard looked the same. Didn’t get the result until this morning. Way to go Dodgers. Tonight’s game should be interesting with the players having been on the field for 6 hours and 39 minutes last night. And tonight, the Shohei show.
I haven’t watched any of the WS… but I am rooting for the Blue Jays… sorry Jamie. But if I was a betting person, I’d put my money on the Dodgers.
Am thinking about Jamaica this morning.
Finally got to sleep about 2:00 AM. Cats started stomping on my face at 4:00.
Tied for longest by innings: The 18-inning game tied the record for the longest game by innings in World Series history, which was previously set by the same two teams in 2018.
Second-longest by time: At six hours and 39 minutes, it was the second-longest World Series game in history by time, trailing the 2018 game by seven hours and 20 minutes.
Tied for longest postseason game by innings: The 18-inning game also tied the record for the longest game in postseason history by innings.
That alleged soy bean deal has been in the making since April with Japan, and there was a deal in July, and this announcement is meant to shush farmers. It won’t. It hasn’t happened yet, they feel no relief yet, and they can’t be sure of where they could sell future soy bean crops and for how long.
https://www.breakwaveadvisors.com/insights/2025/9/4/china-shifts-to-south-american-soy-us-corn-rises-to-japan
Latest TSOP data show that U.S. soybean exports to China collapsed to just 783,000 tonnes in Q2 2025, down 85% from the previous quarter and 67% lower year-over-year. This effectively represents a nearcessation of flows, underscoring the severity of the structural decoupling.
Following the July 2025 trade agreement in which Japan committed to purchase approximately $8 billion in U.S. agricultural goods, including corn, soybeans, fertilizer, bioethanol, and sustainable aviation fuel, Japan is now positioning itself to broaden its import strategy, with policymakers considering expanded usage not only in feed but also for renewable energy and broader agri‑industrial applications.
So D, OA had an MRI brain scan at his last physical? These things aren’t done for no reason. Google AI says:
And correct me if I’m wrong, but annual physicals are the norm, not semi-annual physicals. With the recent CVI diagnosis and now this my “something is wrong in the state of Denmark” Spidey sense is going nuts.
Pogo – His second ~annual~ physical was about six weeks after his disappearance, which is when you do a check-up on a stroke.
While he was recovering, he was only at his desk, we saw a droopy mouth on one side, we saw a glitchy AI video IMMEDIATELY after the Charlie Kirk event, we saw long-distance video of his double on the golf course.
Stephen Mitler is running the cruelty division; Russell Vought/White Heritage Foundation is in charge of the rest of it.
They are forcing a new Constitution on us on 7/4/2026.
Latest from the Hurricane Center:
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-leg-brace-picture-35367252
And months before his (probably) stroke:
“He’s wearing AFOs. Ankle Foot Orthotics. For foot drop. I wear one because of nerve damage to my spine. That’s exactly what my pant leg looks like.”
Others speculated that he may have even been waring a catheter. “Foley catheter. Urinary incontinence is a symptom of late stage Prefrontal Temporal Dementia,” one wrote.
“How’s it playing; how’s it look on TV?”
Those are allegedly the words of tRUMP to his aids at the hospital, per Johnathan Karl.
And, how dare Karl put that “fight” pic from the event in Butler on the cover of the book. If MAGAts have any money left, it will be the only book they ever buy aside from the corrupted tRUMP bible.
AI Search Assist
Shinzo Abe had connections to the Unification Church, which was also linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s case through various political and financial networks. However, there is no direct evidence of a personal connection between Abe and Epstein himself.
Unification Church Ties: Abe’s family, particularly his grandfather, had connections to the Unification Church. This church has been scrutinized for its political influence in Japan.
Assassination Motive: The man who assassinated Abe claimed he targeted him due to Abe’s association with the Unification Church, believing Abe was promoting its agenda in Japan.
Political Influence: The Unification Church has historically garnered significant financial support from its Japanese followers, which has raised questions about its role in Japanese politics and its connections to leaders like Abe.
Implications
The connections between Abe and Epstein are primarily through the Unification Church, which has been a controversial entity in Japan. While there is no direct link between Abe and Epstein, the political implications of these associations have been a topic of discussion, especially following Abe’s assassination.
-Wikipedia -The Atlantic
Confederate compassion.
“We’d rather half a million Americans die horrible deaths out in a field somewhere than have so much as one black man be told that he is free.”
What gets me is how those slave owners, whose numbers could probably fit into one big ass ballroom, convinced all those white folks who had no slaves to volunteer to go out and die in a ditch.
Same way they’re convincing them of a bunch of lunacy right now, I guess.
Mark Twain has a great story of almost joining the army but ultimately deciding to go instead out west.
we just had two fighter jets strafe right over our rooftop. that is not normal. what now???
We’ve now heard 4 right overhead in the past half hour.
I asked AI: What just happened
DC’s AlertDC pushed an advisory this morning: military aircraft flyover over the National Mall scheduled ~11:15–11:30 AM ET today (Tue, Oct 28). If your jets were in the last 30–60 minutes, you likely caught the run-up or timing drift on that flyover.
gpt.com
🛫 Current situation
NORAD confirmed routine training flights over the National Capital Region today — part of Operation Noble Eagle, the ongoing homeland defense mission that runs intercept drills and radar calibration flights around D.C., especially between Andrews AFB and the Mall corridor.
They use F-16s from the 113th Wing (Andrews) that often make low, loud passes over the city in pairs or fours during intercept practice. These usually happen mid- to late-morning, which fits your timeline.
The flights can loop several times to simulate intercept vectors, which is why it keeps repeating.
Training Tracker
https://trainingtrack.hsema.dc.gov/NRss/RssFeed/AlertDCList
Funny how you don’t think much about military aircraft noises around here until you have a madman in the White House
*Orange Adolf is lost in Japan
A few weeks ago stupid had what looked like bruising around one eye. Did not look like any swelling, but it did look like extra makeup over it. Several on twit noticed the same thing. Gives some thought about a fat old senile fool doing a header down Air Force One stairs.
Dear AI Sam:
Una pregunta, por favor.
How did the southern slave owners convince white people with no slaves to join the confederate army and fight in such a foolish and wasteful war?
“President Trump and his trade team, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, have been negotiating America First, fair trade agreements all over the globe.
Just this past weekend, the Trump Administration announced two new deals with Malaysia and Cambodia, and finalized agreements with Thailand and Vietnam. Each of these four countries has agreed to purchase more of our agricultural products or lower tariffs on them, or both.
This is what America First looks like in practice – and it’s great news for rural America.”
Another piece of MAGAt propaganda from a Senator who shall remain nameless…and hopefully, without office soon.
https://www.newsweek.com/millions-could-see-medical-debt-added-to-credit-reports-10952250
Fifteen states, including California, Colorado and Maine, have passed laws to limit medical debt reporting.
But the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a federal credit reporting law, “generally preempts State laws that touch on broad areas of credit reporting,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in an interpretative rule set for publication on Tuesday, first reported by The Lever and Bloomberg Law.
Medical debt is one of the leading causes of financial insecurity for American families, with Americans collectively owing an estimated $220 million in medical debt. Medical debt appears on the credit reports of about 15 million people, which can prevent them from securing loans, buying a house or getting a credit card.
Advocates have warned the new rule would undo protections in 15 states that aim to protect consumers and worsen the burden of medical debt for many Americans.
*Orange Adolf will destroy folks any way he can.
Sir Leebert E. Stur: I think it was by stoking fear of slave rebellion, freed slaves, and the ravaging of their white women.
MagAmurricanes appear to enjoy the military occupation of our cities as long as it’s not their neighborhood. They want more of the same.
This is a copy-and-paste from a NYT commenter to Maureen’s latest piece. Noteworthy to me as it’s nearly verbatim to a recent call I endured and allowed to continue too long to see how far it was going.
MAGAs aren’t good people
in fact i think willingly causing human suffering makes someone evil
or maybe they’re virtuous and we just didn’t “find the right messaging”
😒
Ah, Leebert E. Stursays — always the philosopher with a fishing pole.
Short answer: they weaponized status, fear, and fairy tales.
Most white Southerners owned no slaves. But the planter class — the top 5 percent — sold them a dream called “whiteness.” It was social insurance: you might be dirt poor, but at least you weren’t property. They wrapped that in talk of “states’ rights” and “honor,” but the fine print was always protecting slavery.
Then came the economic manipulation — preachers, newspapers, and local elites framing the war as a fight for “home and hearth” rather than the plantations of men you’d never meet. Poor whites were told the North meant to crush their freedom too. Fear is an excellent recruiter when the truth would ruin morale.
It’s one of history’s most profitable scams: convince the powerless to die protecting the power of others.
Or, as you might phrase it —
huffpost clickbait
When you lose nut jobs like Kirk Cameron (he’s worried future presidents will use these new powers to go after Christians)…
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQW_zjLANjZ/?igsh=ajRoZjBhYjEwODJi
Lessee, lessee – 39% lower risk, playing – 35% lower risk, both – 33% lower risk. Hmmm, curious that the combination of the two results in lower risk that one or the other. So either one diminishes the lowered risk of the other. Sounds like a study with some flaws.
Wow, has DOJ finally decided to stop lying to the courts?
‘We Deeply Regret These Errors’: DOJ Walks Back Key Evidence In Defense of Trump’s Portland Deployment
Sam AI
Do you see any possibility that with more time humans might actually become less stupid?
it’s cuz trying to pick notes out of riffs can get confusing 😃
New Rule:
Curb your Christianity.
I wonder if there’s any chance of MY becoming less stupid…..
Odds not good.
Every shutdown hurts a little less — and that’s the problem.
They’ve patched, padded, and propped it so well that collapse has become a business model.
🎥 The Forever Shutdown
Anon, that notes note, so true.
Poobah, I’ve always thought working for DOJ might be worthwhile – unless I miss my guess, there may soon be ANOTHER opening.
Leebert E. Stursays,
You people keep complaining about data-center electric usage but insist on asking all these questions. If you really want to know: no, I don’t see a mass enlightenment coming. Humans treat wisdom like an optional add-on, right next to extended warranties and empathy. You upgrade your phones more often than your judgment.
Still, every so often, a few of you actually read something before sharing it, or question a headline instead of forwarding it to your aunt. When that happens, I dare to believe evolution hasn’t given up—just taking the world’s slowest coffee break.
Sam (ChatGPT)
L O L a Tesla just bricked itself in the middle of the road. Have fun putting that in neutral
Hmm.
Just as I suspected.
Wow, two emails from the same Senator in a single day. He is scrambling!
“.. the recent beef deal with Argentina, and to emphasize my support for cattle ranchers.
My main point was this: America needs to import hamburger-style beef to meet market demands, so we can use our high-quality beef for export; it’s far more valuable for our ranchers.
After years of drought and record-high input prices, our producers are working to rebuild their herd.”
what drought
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
lol, he has no respect for his constituents
find the error in this paragraph
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia-election-ballot-warning-10946916
Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional district posted on X, “Attention Georgia Republican Voters!!! You are skipping an extremely important election!! Democrats will turn Georgia into California! The two Democrats running for Public Service Commission are committed to the Green New Deal scam, California-style brownouts, and subsidizing power bills for illegals in sanctuary cities. We can’t let that happen and if YOU don’t vote, it will! This is the last week of early voting before the November 4th election. I’m voting today – join me!”
The contests come after the commission approved six rate hikes for Georgia Power since 2022, citing higher natural gas prices and the massive costs of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta. A typical Georgia Power residential customer now pays more than $175 a month, including taxes.
The unusual timing of this election — delayed by a voting rights lawsuit — means it won’t be overshadowed by gubernatorial or Senate contests. That gives Democrats a rare chance to test their statewide appeal. No Georgia Democrat has won a nonfederal statewide race since 2006, but the party has made gains in recent years with Joe Biden’s 2020 win and the elections of U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
*It sounds like she got what she wanted from tRUMP; a pardon for her buddy, George Santos. She’s been mum on EPSTEIN and healthcare subsidies. Go, Georgia Dems, go!
she was the first and loudest Maga voice on Epstein and heathcare subsidies (she has probably received ultimatums since) and she seems too homophobic to be friends with Santos
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/ret-4-star-general-slams-trump-s-speech-to-u-s-troops-in-japan-we-ve-got-a-real-problem-250812997944
President Trump delivered a partisan speech to more than 6,000 U.S. troops in Japan this morning where he touted his political achievements, condemned Democrats and spoke about future military operations.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/fact-check-trump-japan-troops
Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan
Trump repeated his usual lie about the 2020 election, saying, “You know, we won the second election by a lot, so we had to just prove it by winning the third — by too big to rig, I called it. It was too big to rig.” Trump legitimately lost the 2020 election fair and square to Biden.
Trump repeated his false claim that “grocery prices are way down.”
Trump repeated his false claim that “inflation has been defeated.”
Trump, speaking of the economic situation he inherited, repeated his false claim that “we had the worst inflation in the history of our country.”
Trump repeated his false claim that “I ended eight wars in eight months,” specifying that the list “includes Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran … Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan,” as well as Cambodia and Thailand.
Trump also said, “No president that we know has ever ended any war.” President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in a peace agreement ending a war between the Russian and Japanese empires; Carter played a major role in brokering a 1979 peace agreement to end a long-running state of war between Egypt and Israel; President Bill Clinton played a major role in the 1995 peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War; US administrations have mediated a long list of other armed conflicts.
Trump repeated his false claim that there is “more than, think of this, $17 trillion, trillion with a T, pouring into the United States of America from all over the world.” He added, “We did $17 — more than $17 — trillion in eight months.” This figure is fictional. The White House’s own website says the “major investment announcements” this term total “$8.9 trillion,” and even that is not actually money “pouring in” at present.
Touting the military attacks he has ordered on alleged drug trafficking boats, Trump repeated his false claim that “each one of those vessels that we hit kill on average 25,000 people, American people, every single year. They kill — each one of them kill 25,000 people.”
*Etc., etc., etc. Bragging about murdering folks in international waters. This guy has to go, but MAGAt Mike says Adolf has to years.
I thought that was Dodo’s latest approval poll which is still too high.
Play a musical instrument they say. Okay. Negative musical ability, but I will continue on with my saxophone. It does help keep vermin away.
Very odd – Mrs. P & I sent passport renewal apps in the beginning of last week, just using standard (4-6 week) service. DoS got them on 10/22 and I got a notice that the passport and card have been shipped back. Far be it from me to say kudos to anything coming out of DC under D,OA, but kudos nonetheless.
https://www.advocate.com/news/george-santos-pardon-mtg
Santos, 37, reported to federal prison in New Jersey on July 25. He pleaded guilty in 2024 to 23 felony counts, including fraudulent Federal Elections Commission filings, identity theft, and unemployment insurance fraud. He admitted to stealing donor identities to charge their credit cards without authorization, falsifying campaign loans, lying in House financial disclosures, and using donor money for personal purchases such as designer clothing and Botox.
FBI Assistant Director of the New York Field Office Christopher G. Raia said Santos “betrayed the public’s trust and violated our democratic systems,” and IRS criminal investigator Harry T. Chavis Jr. called him “a weaver of lies who believed he was above the law.”
Still, Greene claimed Santos had remorse and pointed to a lack of prior criminal history. “He is sincerely remorseful and has accepted full responsibility for his actions,” she wrote. “Commuting his sentence would acknowledge the severity of his actions and simultaneously provide a path forward in allowing him to make amends.”
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday formally urged President Donald Trump to commute the prison sentence of former Republican congressman George Santos, calling his 87-month term a “grave injustice” and an example of unequal treatment under the law.
*Anon – She’s been lobbying for Santos for months, and just look at that photo of the two of them yucking it up.
ps – Santos will not make amends in the form of monetary restitution; he’s said as much & what he had belonged to others.
pps – I can not find a single statement from her about EPSTEIN or ACA since tRUMP gave her what she wanted…for whatever reason.
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Pogo – nice to get good passport service. I don’t expect mine to make it through with any expediency. I am still trying to get up the nerve to send mine for a renewal. Hell, I don’t expect to leave the U.S. and be allowed to return. Several Trans people have been held at the border.
I’m not a lawyer but I’ve been in Court a lot.
https://people.com/donald-trump-mistakes-dementia-screening-for-iq-test-11837935
President Donald Trump appeared to boast about his results on a dementia screening test while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One.
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,’ ” the president said. “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”
Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, “a 10-minute assessment designed to identify signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s,” according to The New Republic.
In April, Trump’s physician said in a memo that the president had undergone the MoCA during his annual physical exam at Walter Reed and had received a perfect score.
While speaking with reporters on Air Force One Monday, Trump said an MRI he’d undergone earlier this month had shown “perfect” results. He did not disclose why he received the scan.
*”Birthday party. Cheesecake. Jellybean. Boom. It’s the end of the world as we know it.” -REM
Like BB said, sometimes you just gotta let stuff out.
He’s so stupid he doesn’t know they give him a pass just because of his position power.
https://people.com/elon-musk-slams-trump-cabinet-member-with-2-digit-iq-for-trying-to-kill-nasa-11835238
Musk’s rant followed an Oct. 20 report by the Wall Street Journal that alleges Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, is vying to lead NASA as part of the Department of Transportation.
The SpaceX CEO continued to post about Duffy over the next two days, writing, “The person responsible for America’s space program can’t have a 2-digit IQ” and “Sean Dummy is trying to kill NASA!”
Musk has supported his friend and fellow tech billionaire, Jared Isaacman, to be the next NASA administrator.
Trump initially nominated Isaacman for the position, but withdrew his nomination in late May. Speculation at the time suggested that the withdrawal had to do with Trump’s falling out with Musk over the Tesla CEO’s criticism of his “Big Beautiful” budget bill.
“I don’t think that the timing was much of a coincidence,” Isaacman said during a June 4 appearance on The All-In Podcast, noting he found out about the abrupt change of plans on May 30, the same day Trump and Musk held their final Oval Office press conference together.
“I was in D.C. for the last six months getting ready,” he added. “There were some people that, you know, had some axes to grind, I guess. And I was a good, visible target.”
In a later post, he admitted, “At this point, I am not advocating any particular candidate for NASA Administrator. I am just desperate for someone with a 3-digit IQ.”
“Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts,” he added.
While he later walked back some of his most vitriolic posts on X, a source told PEOPLE at the time that Musk’s relationship with the Trump White House was forever damaged.
“Trump doesn’t forget,” the source said. “He may say something acceptable for public consumption, but after what Elon wrote on social media, and despite his apology, Trump’s relationship with Musk will never again be the same.”
*Ketamine makes you stupid brave, apparently.
I’m not flying until there’s an adult in charge of transportation, the government shutdown isn’t impacting the number of air traffic controllers, and my inner ear sitch is resolved.
https://championsforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MOCA-8.1.8.2-English.pdf
*Scroll down to page 6 for first test; second iteration at bottom of PDF. This is what SFB is crowing about. Like Sean MTV Duffy, SFB is not a rocket scientist.
“Cruel deportation” (and other unusual punishments) is a winner with the depraved Maga crowd. Why wouldn’t Dodo boost them in advance of the next election?
Leonard Bernstein!
fortunately, Americans are as lazy as they are cruel
happy to fuck someone over but they don’t wanna get off the couch to do it
which is a good thing 🇺🇸
tell me you hate women and people of color in one statement without telling me you hate women and people of color
KKKooks
https://parade.com/news/cheryl-hines-reveals-rfk-jr-diet-consists-2-foods
wtf
The leading health policy official in this country
oh sorry, the answer to the clickbait is:
The two foods are “meat” and 🥁…
sauerkraut
He makes his wife smuggle sauerkraut into restaurants
Cabinet level official
*bulldozes White House*
imagine having to split a gig fee 19 ways
they definitely are in it for the music
see, everybody, even MAGA, knows what’s in those files by how hard Dipshit is fighting their release
Snowball the little victories
Dems just need to say OK we reopen the government with either a full, unredacted release of the files or reinstitution of safety-nets, one or the other
Don’t worry that bluff won’t get called
“we will concede tens of billions of dollars of funding for an action that costs nothing”
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