I bet Don Jr. wept bitter tears.
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I bet Don Jr. wept bitter tears.
Anywhere the Trump family landed (that would accept them) would greet them warmly, extend great hospitality, strip them of all their assets and drop them down a hole.
I think they're the guys with the thorazine darts. Y'know, just in case he goes bughouse and off script.
We're creating a list of future pariahs.
The Kim Jong Un haircut is the icing on the cake!
Booby prize for the man who sold his soul to become Attorney General and never got it, or anything else from Trump.
Has he threatened a motion to vacate the chair?
If they don't trot him out in front of the cameras, the real bullfrog's chorus will begin. Either way, there's a good chance for a lose/lose situation this afternoon for the Painted Jackass.
Whatever his topic is, everyone should be watching the performance. All made up? Using the good makeup today? Can he speak coherently? Or is he gonna go off topic? Will he wander away from the podium? It might not be a "make or break" moment, but we're getting close to one.
Alas, they wouldn't get the meaning.
Makes me wonder what would have happened if my great-grandfather Mike had emigrated from Ireland to Australia instead of going to Iowa in 1881.
A lot of our smaller shops, particularly liquor stores, seem to have bollards in front of them, while most larger stores and restaruants are wide open to errant drivers.
We had three separate incidents in August where a driver ran his vehicle into a restaurant in my town. Makes you wonder what September will bring. gvwire.com/2025/08/30/v...
Hospitalized Former Somebody Gets Consolation Prize. Film at Eleven.
And the ECHR saves Nigel from being hanged, drawn and quartered (Article 3).
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Would learning the "Trump Shuffle" be considered a true performance of the craft, or merely method acting?
How long will Miller last once Trump assumes room temperature?
Wyoming: Lebensraum for California.
Shouldn't he have gone to St. Elizabeth's instead?
King George V was given morphine and cocaine by his personal physician to ease him out and so that the news would make the morning Times rather than "less appropriate ... evening journals."
Probably posted by Stephen Miller before he turned into a bat and flitted out a White House window for the night.
Or fix it.
Proud Boys Shot Running Away From Indiana National Guard. Film at Eleven.
Unless he used up the last his hell-spawn given powers on his ear. Remember, the Devil has been breaking contracts a lot longer than Donnie has.
And it was a rental.
There's a potential fortune to be made in that recovery business model.
Who wants to look like a Habsburg?
Or the Beagle Channel between Chile and Argentina.
When the deepest part of the Marianas Trench was discovered, they named it the Challenger Deep after the survey ship HMS Challenger. By rights the Sigsbee Deep should be named the Blake Deep after the survey ship George S. Blake.
If he doesn't surface soon, the Death Watch will really begin. Edith Wilson and Dr. Grayson were able to hide Wilson's medical issues a century ago, but that won't work today.
He'd get stomped at a Chinese Buffet.
Who's the Edith Wilson of this Administration?
Has he sent a "get well" Truth to Rudi yet?
Did you know that the Sigsbee Deep in the Gulf of Mexico has a depth of over 14,000 feet? What a fine place for a certain burial.
Who in their right mind would rent Rudi a car?
Remember all the hoopla about the Space Force uniforms? And he lets his Homeland Security goons go out dressed like that? Bargain basement Stosstruppen...
He's gonna die soon?
If Julian the Apostate hadn't caught a Persian spear in his side in 363 AD, we might all be praying to Sol Invictus.
Bloody Hell! It's the Santissima Trinidad!
I had a cat that was absolutely transfixed by the screen saver of my old HP Pavilion w/Windows 98.
These days I'd trust the CHP more than the Secret Service.
Are more lights burning tonight at the White House than usual? Is the press camping out near Walter Reed? Are we starting a Death Watch? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
I made an 11,000 mile bucket-list trip across the US back in 2013. I stopped at a Cracker Barrel in Monroe, Louisiana which was jam-packed. Went to a catfish restaurant instead. I suspect I didn't miss anything.
Good lord, no! Rejoice in the passing of that man with a dozen jelly donuts! Bismarcks! Apple Fritters! Custard filled!
According to his schedule, he's at the White House all weekend. Is he okay?
And it's not a football game or the World Series.
"I heard of you, man. You're famous!"
It was better than Waterworld. And it had Tom Petty!
Wizard prang!
The last couple of dynasties that decorated their houses like that aren't around anymore. Surely there's a lesson there that Idiot Boy missed.
Treadmills aren't really an efficient way to power AI, are they?
Hope the kids bring Chapstik. Chapped lips chafe butts.
When does the Great Mulch Mutiny begin?
We need more Fox viewers to emulate the Hulkster. The US Funeral Industry can always use the work.
Whiny Bitch Whines. Film at Eleven.
Careers die sooner than bodies, I guess.
And not much fun in the hunt either.
It's all plugged in to a power supply somewhere. Find out where it is and file for reference.
I'm sure Stephen Miller has already shown this story to Trump.
Survived hunting U-boats in WW2 only to be sunk alongside a pier in Saigon in 1964 by VC saboteurs with two explosive charges on the hull. Was refloated in 17 days.
And seeing what he can skim off the top while he's at it.
Interestingly enough, none of the houses have mirrors.
It would be fun to release him to a pack of wolves. Probably be unfair to the wolves tho'. Rancid meat.
Never thought about Nazi deputies in the Reichstag chanting "We want the G38 and we won't wait!"
Lucien Lebvre and Marc Bloch are sitting somewhere laughing their heads off.
And a few churches called "Our Lady of the Blessed Homaridae."
A supervisorial cat merely improves the quality of the work. Think of him as your personal Colonel Saito.
Tom Clancy's Stranger in a Strange Land
Hell, I was calling him "Idiot Boy" during the last term!
All he needs now is the Taco Bell Dog.
"Anathema" is a word that should be used more often.
Now we know where the Harkonnens get their looks from.
We have a locally owned sub shop that's better than any of the chains. The No. 27 is a hot roast beef and pastrami!
Good advice anyday, really.
I think the US is rapidly catching up!
Remember when Elon got a black eye back in May?
The original 13.5" gun was also known as the 67 ton gun, for good reason.
Also read that Drudge was in fact used as a hopper to "deep six" slag from the Armstrong Works. She lasted until 1969 when she was scrapped in France.
Drudge and Handy were both built as weapons test platforms by Armstrongs and later handed over to the RN. Here's Handy testing out the 13.5 inch gun used in early British predreadnoughts.
The United States can now proudly boast that we have more eunuchs in the current Administration than any Byzantine Emperor or Ottoman Sultan could claim.
The hulks of two Australian flatiron gunboats, the Gayundah and the Protector, orginially built in 1884 for the colonial navies of Queensland and South Australia respectively can still be seen where they were scuttled as breakwaters.
The flatiron gunboat remained in vogue from the late 1860s to the 1880, but were soon outclassed by larger vessels that mounted quick-firing guns. Many in the Royal Navy were converted to subsidiary purposes, and lasted well into the 20th century.
However, the idea of gunboats for coastal defense did have an appeal for many navies, including Imperial Germany.
Aside from coastal defense, there was a concept that smaller craft with a large gun could take on larger ironclads and use their agility to evade the bigger ships. Generally speaking, this didn't work out well. The Rendell gunboats fared poorly against the French and Japanese.
The idea of small ships with one large gun became popular among the navies of smaller nations, and the Rendell gunboat became a staple of the fleets from China to Greece. Of course there were variations based on the needs of the particular navy.
Two prototypes, Staunch and Plucky, were completed before the Ant class became the standard for the Rendell Gunboats. The ships mounted a 18 ton, 10 inch muzzle loading rifle on the bow, had twin screws for manueverablility and a draught of six feet to operate in coastal waters.
Little ships, big guns! In the late 1860s, Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. in Britain contracted with a shipbuilder, Charles Mitchell. Mitchell would build warships and Armstrong would supply the guns. An Armstrong engineer, George Rendell was put in charge of the designing the ships.🧵 #NavalHistory
Does this qualify as "Strength through Joy?"
I wonder who ties his shoes for him. And who trims his toenails. And puts his socks on.
When it goes, it's apt to go fast. Nicolae Ceaușescu gave his last speech in Bucharest on December 21, 1989. He was put up against a wall and executed on December 25th. And he had been the ruler of Romania since 1965, had a massive security apparatus and an entire army.
They've been trying to split California into various parts for decades. The troglodyte counties can't survive without the rest of the State. And they know it.
Man steps on dick without knowing he's stepped on dick. Film at eleven.
Coming soon: THE REVENGE OF PLASTIC WOMAN!
Their personal grooming habits would be more slovenly.
Vance doesn't have a constituency aside from Peter Thiel. Every other Republican, particularly in the Senate would be licking their lips at the chance of a run against him in '28.
