A general curmudgeon. JHU alum. Go Ravens! Former journalist with an interest in political comedy. The only secret chat groups I get invited to are cryptocurrency scams. Sigh.
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So... stop trusting the people with the most knowledge and experience about a specific topic, huh? Leave the decisions to the people learning on the fly, per RFK Jr. I'd like Kennedy to practice this approach the next time he needs a plumber or a neurosurgeon. Let him be their lab rat.
I'm curious: do you check out paper books from the library or use an e-reader? My wife is a big fan of the Libby app, but she misses the feel of paper.
Hey, @eliassports.bsky.social, can you tell us how many times this has happened in MLB?
We'll only get bipartisan change when Republicans link *guns*--not antidepressants, not video games, not movie violence, but GUNS--to every mass shooting.
The cynic in me replies: We can only hope.
…just like a “good” Christian man of God would, when your god is Donald Trump.
Um, Sean, the shooter fired through windows **from the outside**. He never entered the building. Does Hannity wanna have metal detectors randomly set up on the street to (gasp!) violate people's Second Amendment rights?
RFK sounds really eugenics-y.
The Phillies just hit a cycle in four consecutive hitters: Bukter: triple Stott: single Turner: double Schwarber: home run C'mon, stat geeks, how common is that?
They should pose, unironically, in front of the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial in Penn Quarter, honoring the soldiers who fought to preserve and protect the Constitution during the Civil War. (Note to MAGAts: those weren't the Confederates.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_A...
"Hannity says he left New York City because he got too many mean looks from people at restaurants." Isn't Hannity the guy who spent night after night on Fox "News" claiming liberals are "snowflakes" b/c they can't take someone disagreeing with them? But HE flees NYC because of dirty looks? Sheesh.
Can one reporter simply ask Kennedy, repeatedly, what research data he can cite that supports anything he claims? Don't just let him spout his "facts" but challenge him to cite his sources and explain his expertise to interpret that data. He has none. Make him say it.
Ashlii Babbitt died how she lived: Stupidly.
This POTUS bankrupted four casinos. This POTUS has proven incapable of making sound financial decisions, unless it involves leveraging his political power to line his own pockets.
Maxwell will adopt Sgt. Schultz's tagline from Hogan's Heroes: "I see NOTHING. I see NOTHING."
I don't think this guy was trying to drug his granddaughters. It's worse. I think this guy was using his granddaughters to try to set up non-white workers at the DQ to get airtime on Fox "News" crying about how immigrants and The Others are ***so*** bad for society. www.wral.com/news/local/s...
There is only one reason this is happening: Last week, Vance, Pete Hegseth and Nosferatu Miller were booed mercilessly as they walked through Union Station. Trump seeks revenge **against the building** because he considers booing his lackeys a crime. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
... like that's a *bad* thing? You'll likely kill the Florida Man meme permanently. Ron DeSantis is the Jim Jones of Scott Browns. There are too many jokes. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/u...
Robby is doing a great service to all Americans by demonstrating that the subtleties of sarcasm and satire are lost on The Stupid. When people cannot discern reality from over-the-top bravado and boasting, they end up like Robby and believe Trump.
Trump’s whining about crime in DC misses one key point: the current location of the biggest crime spree in DC is Pennsylvania Avenue.
Is there a sufficient amount of brown clown noses in the room to reflect the amount of butt kissing from these buffoons?
And people wonder they think today's young adults are unprepared for the world. Parents, let your kids try (and maybe fail) at the simple stuff like decorating a dorm on their own. It'll make recovering from future shortfalls--like not getting a good grade--easier to learn to cope with.
It's challenging to charge someone with a crime for interfering with a legally-dubious kidnapping. Federal prosecutors will first have to prove the defendant did something legally wrong, and stepping in when unidentified armed men are abducting someone is a duty of law-abiding citizens.
It's not a "could" proposition. It is a "will" certainty. RFK Jr.'s anti-science position will end up killing patients, just as the GOP's anti-choice policies have already seen a spike in maternal and infant mortality rates in Red States. Republicans are a systemic danger to human health.
"Scott Bessent praises Trump like a parent praises their 3-year-old" Apt on many levels.
Inviting an unconstitutional dictatorial takeover of your district. That is not what any government official should be doing, but given Chavez-DeRemer is a Trump appointee, her brownnosing must overtake her Constitutional duty to her old constituents. Trump's ego > constituents' rights.
Pam Bondi was the AG of Florida. Never once did Pam Bondi indict someone for being drunk on a boat, and she's had plenty of opportunity given the cruise ships and booze cruises in Florida. Pam Bondi is an unmitigated idiot. She's a perfect Trumpee.
"...but I stop crime." Um, Trump **commits** crimes. He doesn't stop them. He's been found guilty of dozens of felonies, charged with hundreds more, and settled innumerable civil suits detailing his illegal actions. Trump himself *is* the crime wave he boasts of stopping
"...but I stop crime." Um, Trump **commits** crimes. He doesn't stop them. He's been found guilty of dozens of felonies, charged with hundreds more, and settled innumerable civil suits detailing his illegal actions. Trump himself *is* the crime wave he boasts of stopping.
This is how false this claim is: Donald Trump didn't even try to use his fictional friend "Jim" to claim this is true. He didn't say, "I have a friend named Jim--a very successful guy--who told me everyone would like me to be a dictator."
Noted whale decapitator RFK Jr. is now an expert not only on marine mammals, but also on everything having to do with human health and medicine. Funny how he never studied a "hard science" in his life, but he's an expert on everything discussed. Sounds a lot like your average MAGA podcaster.
Whales follow food. The krill whales normally feed on aren't in the open ocean because the microfoods they eat, which form on the bottom of icebergs, don't have icebergs anymore. The whales food is found in shallower waters now. It's climate change killing whales, not windmills.
Jackson, Mississippi and Birmingham, Alabama have significantly higher violent crime rates than DC or Baltimore. Mississippi, in general, is crime ridden: it's the worst murder and violent crime rate in the nation. But crime prevention is truly needed in one place: Capitol Hill.
Trump's anti-vax stance and Abbott's anti-science and anti-public health policies have permitted Texas's measles outbreak to spread to several states and cause a massive measles outbreak in Mexican border towns. Soon, foreign countries will ban Americans who come from diseased, crime-ridden areas.
Trump's already destroyed the 1st Amendment rights to protest, a Free Press, free association, and freedom of religion. Now he'll destroy Free Speech to preserve his desired dictatorship, removing Americans' right to show our disgust with his administration. Free Americans will not comply.
Let me get this straight: JD Vance (a.k.a. James Donald Bowman, James David Bowman, or James David Hamel) says the man with the dyed hair, whole body bronzer and shoe lifts is "authentic." I don't think JD Vance really knows what "authentic" looks like. He thinks naugahyde is leather.
No one will speak up when Trump and his lackeys go after individuals. "At least it's not me." But it will be you someday. And it won't just be you individually. We must stand for our rights together.
The footnotes on decisions are insightful. In the Heller decision, Scalia said explicitly in a footnote that the gov't has the legal authority to regulate the sale, purchase & possession of guns. Conservatives claim Heller erased all gov't power over guns, tho, in opposition to Scalia's footnote.
I think your comment is two words too long.
This is honestly the result of Democrats not pushing for deeper hearings into Clarence Thomas's alleged misogyny during his confirmation hearings. The GOP learned it could manipulate the nomination process and timeline, and Dems had no countermeasures. The GOP then rooted itself in the courts.
Yes, because Trump believes that cancelling the funding will make all trans people disappear immediately. Sheesh. This is such a stupid timeline.
Ghiselaine Maxwell is the Karla Homolka of Ma Barkers.
At one point in the Presidential campaigns between 2016 and 2024, Republicans understood that Trump and his brand of fascism and corruption were bad for the nation. Since then, many of the GOP ruling class have determined Trump's fasicm and corruption are good for their bank accounts and egos.
The Attorney General is head of law enforcement in the United States, not the President, who sets policy not enforcement operations.
I wanna hear what Kevin Sorbo says because everyone knows he’s the brains behind RGK Jr’s ideas about medicine.
They’re propping Donald up for the Florida governorship and can’t expose his incompetence on a national level.
If it’s so unsafe in DC, why would the Secret Service permit such a public event in what Trump called “a war zone”? A known coward, Trump would never put himself in danger.
From whom? Putin?
In the US, the Trump Administration would be looking for a way to get taxpayers to supplement the company's profits.
Somebody's cloning your account trolling for phone numbers, @atrupar.com
"Article 5-like language" In other words, exactly the same as the NATO Pact that Trump whines about. Sounds a lot like when Trump re-branded NAFTA as the USMCA, altered it to the detriment of Americans, and then called it horrible policy that requires the current trade war.
Trump not only has no cards to play, the only game he knows is tic-tac-toe, and he's hoping to not lose that game one day.
In my house, that entire process takes about 74 minutes.
Putin: "I won't slaughter *all* the Ukrainians. I'll spare the ones who prostrate themselves to me." Trump: "That's the way I am with my enemies, except I don't let them near my prostate."
Sounds like Trump got exactly zero concessions from Putin and was dictated what Russia will do in the future. Trump is a weak, feckless negotiator with no diplomatic tact or skills.
It's not the first time the Trump Administration has misrepresented numbers. Remember the $2 trillion error in the 2017 budget... because of a simple accounting error? No wonder he bankrupted four casinos. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
The Fox "News" make-up artists deserve an Emmy for their work constantly covering up the brown stain on the end of Hannity's nose.
Can ANYONE--and I mean **anyone**: Republican, MAGA, Dem, Proud Boy--name a single war Trump has negotiated to an end? Just one. I'm looking for solid evidence Trump initiated the end of a full-blown war. Can anyone help? Anyone?
His staff will whip up the "Noble Piece Prize" as a coming-home grift... I mean, gift.
So... Trump's now admitting he was and continues to be powerless in making the Ukraine war end? It went from "it'll take one phone call" to "I can't do anything; it's up to Zelenskyy" in less than six months.
The cynic in me hopes Trump gave it up and thereby surrendered two Republican Senate seats...
This was a foreign policy gaffe on *so* many levels for the Trump Administration. Not only was it an embarrassingly obvious photo op, part of Trump's campaign to get a Nobel Peace Prize, but Trump re-focused attention on his failed claims that he would end the Ukraine war "with one phone call."
This is the face of a man who has read the Epstein files.
C'mon. You already knew there wouldn't be a Ukraine deal. This is just another photo op in Trump's grotesque attempt to "win" a Nobel Peace Prize because he's jealous Obama got one. Overall, though, it's a win for America: Trump didn't give Alaska back to Russia. www.yahoo.com/news/us/live...
For the release of the Epstein files? For a lifetime membership at Mar-a-Lago? A licensing deal in Moscow?
I wonder how Trump would react if Putin asked in the photo op, "So, Donald, what about the Epstein files?"
I'm pretty sure your accurate use of the word "bitch" to describe Putin's toy sums it up.
Like it or not, Democrats tend to be pragmatic. Their policies are thought through and considered. I don't fault Jeffries' statement: when a Dem politician makes bold claims, Democrats want to "see the work" not just the solution. It's why no Democrat buys Trump's BS claims, but Republicans do.
I don't know the academic credibility of Fordham. After all, they admitted a young Donald Trump, a nepo baby who wouldn't have gotten into college except for Daddy's checkbook.
So RFK Jr., Mr. All-Natural Foods, the guy who promotes raw foods that don't undergo pasteurization or anti-bacterial measures, is A-OK with consuming foods sprayed with chemicals on farm fields. Yeah, THAT'S a consistent policy position, isn't it?
A reminder that Trump asserted he would stop the war in Ukraine "with one phone call" after his inauguration. That clearly didn't work. Trump also claimed he would stop Israel from attacking Gazans "within days." He failed that task, too. Trump is obviously delusional and cannot be believed.
But... isn't the point of a carjacking to get the driver out of the car fast?
I would lay money that Trump couldn't even name the pieces in a chess set. Trump doesn't play chess. Trump doesn't understand chess. Chess requires thinking through the consequences of your actions. Trump is more of a Chutes 'n' Ladders kinda man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Let me get this straight: Trump deploys the National Guard to DC for a non-existent crime wave, but refused to deploy the NG for January 6th, when his supporters were on a violent crime spree. Seems sketchy, doesn't it?
Apparently, the only experience you need to be an advisor to Trump on vital domestic and foreign affairs is hosting a podcast. Loomer, Kirk, Kelly, etc. have not practical experience in anything except shouting stupid theories they haven't thought through.
Deep dish pizza, in general, is a big no from me. It's also a warning sign.
We can add pedophilia to the list of things Trump supporters condone: -Adultery -Spousal Abuse -Sexual Assault -Oogling teen girls -Sending well-wishes to a sex trafficker That's not even counting his felony convictions, fraud, and holding national secrets in a toilet at a geriatric supper club.
There is a non-zero chance that Trump impulsively awards Putin the Presidential Medal of Freedom during this meeting. The fact that this is even a possibility is horrifying.
Dean Cain is the Steven Seagal of Rob Schneiders.
Predictions for the outcome of the meeting: --Trump declares Alaska a "wasteland" and cedes it back to Russia. --Trump issues an international arrest warrant for Zelenskyy, per Putin's request --Trump announces a crackdown on anti-Russia rhetoric in the US "to help our friend's reputation."
Corporations sucking up to a wannabe dictator is SO 1930s Germany.
I want to point out that “amazing” doesn’t necessarily mean a positive.
Note that the government bureaucrat who oversees the actual compilation of the data in the report was a Trump appointee from his first term in office, not the official he fired. Trump kept his lackey in place.
Trump's alma mater isn't punished by the regime? How shocking.
You understand that’s nothing like the political leader of the host nation solely determining an individual athlete’s eligibility for a specific event, like Trump thinks he can do as the head of the host nation, right?
This is nothing short of an effort to intimidate professional, ethical law enforcement officials from **daring** to investigate Trump-allied corruption. Full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
Also note that the Census isn't a count of ONLY American citizens; it's supposed to tally all RESIDENTS of the United States: legal or illegal resident, citizen or not.
Why doesn't the NYT note that the political leader of the host country of the Olympics has ZERO power to enforce any rules on the competitors; the Olympics Committee determines eligibility. Trump thinks he rules the world though he is the most unpopular POTUS in the nation's history.
1. Election rolls have nothing to do with the Census. 2. The Constitution is clear on when and why Censuses take place. 3. Congress has not allocated the hundreds of billions needed to undertake a Census. As usual, Trump is full of BS.
A reminder that former conservative "America First" action hero Steven Seagal did the same thing--joining law enforcement to crack down on the "others" he saw endangering the United States. That's before he accepted full Russian citizenship from Putin. www.latimes.com/nation/la-xp...
Dean Cain is the Kevin Sorbo of Rob Schneiders.
So the guy who fired the statistician because he didn't like the reported numbers thinks Americans are going to believe the outcome of his newly-commissioned private Census he's ordered because he thinks he's popular politically. This man is a major idiot if he thinks we believe his claimed data.
"... ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BALLROOM" ... where no-longer-a-doctor and no-longer-an-admiral Ronny Jackson will get blubbering drunk, sexually solicit diplomats and throw up on guests' shoes. Or as Ronny Jackson's Congressional staff calls it: an average workday.
Um, people who live "in the inner city" don't do farm work because they don't live near farms and can't get to farms to work there--for an insanely low wage. It doesn't pay to spend hours to travel to and from the farm to work. And no one is "naturally" bred for solely manual labor.
AP fails to note in this that the reason Trump is infuriated by Charlamagne The God is because Charlamagne pointedly attacked Trump as a pedophile who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Please, AP, report the instability and criminality of Trump BEFORE saying how upset he is when held responsible.
The American public sees through Trump's economic chaos and deflections. We lived through the first trade war he lost badly: the US trade deficit increased dramatically during his first term. We remember his stock market fiasco. We remember skyrocketing debt. The US public is rightfully worried.
Big Oil companies made more than $113 billion in profits in 2023. That included more than $20 billion in taxpayer subsidies. Why are US taxpayers subsidizing the profits of oil company shareholders to increase their wealth?
For those who won't do the math: If you take Trump seriously and he imposes a 1,500% reduction in the cost of a $75/month drug, Trump will have to pay each and every user of that medication $1,050 per month. Where's that money coming from, Donnie?
Markwayne Mulling: "I'm proud of President Trump." Mullin publicly announces his support for a man who declared he could sexually assault any woman he chooses and gets away with it. Mullin is a sick person who condones rape and is proud of rapists.