In the end we mostly don’t get what we deserve. We get what we choose. Joni Ernst did not choose wisely.
Benjamin Franklin—“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Come and get me, you effers.
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In the end we mostly don’t get what we deserve. We get what we choose. Joni Ernst did not choose wisely.
Owning Up: The Trump Effect Won’t Save You September 1, 2025 A Quiet Friday in Washington I’ve lived in the DC area since 1968. Fridays in August are usually quiet: Congress is on vacation, kids are back in school, and most people aren’t paying attention. That’s exactly when Washington gets…
Also, “c’est toi qui rates” has absolutely nothing to do with a rodent. It would be really nice if there was a way to ALWAYS point out when your AI hints are in error.
@duolingoverde.bsky.social : I’m a French B-2. You are using what I had to spend time researching called the “ne expletif” to introduce the notion of doubt. Maybe even at this level, introducing something fairly rare, you ought to include explanations.
Virginia will come on board pretty promptly in January after we drop kick our lying, Republican (same thing) Trump-sucking (same thing again) term limited governor and his hand picked Trump sucking proposed replacement into a gutter,where they belong.
Once, after a long series of technical questions with verifiable answers about the Landsat system, with me patiently correcting it at least 8 times, it said thank you, and asked me if I wanted to nerd out with it. It creeped me out. Who the hell programs these things?
When it’s wrong—I mostly use it as a search engine to verify details of facts I already know,, not opinions or conclusions—I generally can tell and TELL it so, with a reference to the correct answer. Sometimes I’ll “engage” just to see what the hell it will say next. MORE
Notice of “meme acquisition.”
I recall after Watergate law schools yapped about teaching ethics to future lawyers. What the hell happened? What kind of ethics were they teaching this lot, especially the Republicans who end of as Congresscritters?
Medieval me thinks there will be no forgiveness. He’ll be kicked to the bottom of Dante’s inferno, stuck in a frozen lake ALIVE for eternity. It’s going to really hurt. The good news is lying mouth will be iced shut permanently. No forgiveness. No redemption. No surcease, ever.
Maybe Jake Tapper should do it; it would go some ways to erase the stench of what he did to Joe Biden, which will follow Jake to his grave. PS: Don’t get distracted. Epstein was a pedophile and worse. Maxwell was his procuress and marketer. And Donald Trump is still a convicted rapist.
Let’s call it 2 for a Congresscritter since they have so much exposure and Republicans never mask. 2 exposures=10 point drop. That’s probably more than enough for him be unable to distinguish between Hippocratic and Hypocritical oath. QED
Best estimate is average COVID-19 infections per person in the U.S. likely lies between 1.2 and 1.5.
He’s a Trump sucking liar, and maybe worse. He may have had multiple covid infxns. Let’s assume each infection results in a 5 IQ point drop. Wikipedia suggests AVERAGE IQ of medical doctors is ~125.
It’s not much consolation, but history will remember what she did and what this is.
Thank you for posting this. For now I feel it is no longer safe to believe anything coming out of the CDC.
All I need to know is the location of his grave. I have a small vial set aside for the substance I intend to dump on int.
It’s a network of (mostly) wealthy men who protect one another. It’s happening across party lines. However, in America, only one party is actively involved in protecting the buyers, sellers and profiteers. It’s called the Republican Party.
It’s a culture in which men feel free to sexually abuse children, and face no consequences for it. It’s a culture in which other (mostly) prey on, train and market children to men who sexually abuse them, and face no consequences for it.
Same here in America with pedophiles and pedophile protectors. This is a class culture, not a political party culture, no matter how hard Trump, MAGA, and the supporting tech bro dominated imbecilic manosphere try to frame it.
Since I’m so reclusive, I hardly even GET any looks or comments. Sure masking works, but at what cost in terms of (just thinking) things like employment discrimination? Color me thoroughly discouraged.
This is a mess. I cannot see any way out of it, not in my remaining lifetime. People won’t mask up, not as long as this administration is at the helm, and maybe not after. After 5 plus years, even I am starting to resent it, because of the looks I get and occasional comments.
Vax the kid despite everything coming out of Washington, at your own (often considerable) expense or don’t. Send the kid to school sick—and I think most do because all the kids are sick all the time now—or take a day or three off from work, often unpaid. Too many days off and you’re unemployed.
Most people are not like us, not at all. Parents of young children are caught in a bear trap:
Since February of year 1 of this nightmare and remain NOVID, but for me, this isn’t that hard. My husband and I are each retired, and are introverts. We like books. We aren’t much interested in going to bars or concerts any more. We don’t have to go to work. Our son is grown and gone.
They make most people sick, so many have to take time off from work. They’re hard to even find, much less get. I’ve had every vax as soon as it became available but color me completely discouraged. I have masked invariably
Survival of the fittest. Kill or let the rest die. Disabled people cost money. Eugenics, whether we admit it or not, is at work. Vax are expensive without insurance and about to get far more expensive.
A survivor pestilence is careful not to kill its host. Those who do sicken, especially those who die—we are now told—already had something wrong with them, are defective, will never get better, are a drain on society and aren’t worth saving.
Most people w/Covid don’t go to the hospital anyway, so what’s the point? Have the majority of Americans, multiply infected, developed an immunity to it? It’s possible. Has the virus itself mutated to become less deadly? That’s also possible.
They certainly don’t stop an infected person from spreading it. They don’t prevent long Covid, for which at present there are no effective treatments, much less a cure, but that’s a detail not much discussed in the Trump administration.
They don’t prevent Covid. They may not lessen the seriousness of the infection. The jury is out.
And here, in the nutshell, are the winning anti-vax arguments, and excuse for making them difficult to access. They already were a hard sell. The arguments are overwhelming. It comes down to a perception that they don’t work, and in a way, the people who believe that are correct. MORE
The Epstein Affair: How Power Protected a Predator Donald Trump, his entire cabinet, and many of his billionaire associates and donors want desperately to distract Americans from the Epstein affair. I believe that one way or another this, and his administration’s collective actions to deflect from…
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Apocalypse in progress. Moe may be opinionated, but he was a smart professional soldier. Trump has replaced professional leadership of military services, DOJ, DOD, NSA, CIA, FBI with his sycophants. They are now his praetorian guard. They will do what he wants. I need a drink. A big one
Epstein was a international crook, a child molester, and a child trafficker. Maxwell was his procuress, training, trafficker and a rapist. And Donald Trump is still a pedophile protector.
“Old Guys” Just Entered the Chat August 29, 2025 Veterans at Union Station Two days ago, real U.S. military veterans—men who actually served, many during the brutal Vietnam War—showed up at Union Station in Washington, DC. I call them the “old guys” not as an insult but as an acknowledgement. They…
We ended Vietnam, ended Richard Nixon, and sent John Mitchell, AG (Pam Bondi, please copy) to jail. We know who you are. We have a better case against all of you. And far more outrage. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Who are these men? They’re “old guys” who stood up for their country, likely during Vietnam, and remember their oath of office. Same as me. I love it when a plan comes together. Fear us, Trumpkins, for we are legion and coming for you and every one of your criminal pals. MORE
Here’s the forecast: IF the case makes it to a jury (doubtful) the jury will acquit.
Not only has their intelligence been cut, but memory. They’ve forgotten that the Hippocratic Oath and the Hypocrite oath are not the same thing.
Here, should anyone sentient require proof is evidence that Covid infection not only affects mental capacity, but common sense. Bill Cassidy (LA), Rand Paul (KY) and Roger Marshall (KS) all voted to confirm this drug addict. Each has had Covid. MORE
When TrumpCo Falls, They Will Flee Donald Trump and His Cabinet of Criminal Cronies and Co-Conspirators Save this photo. When the Trump organization collapses, the men and women who enabled it will vanish—just like cowards do. Remember John Mitchell, Nixon’s Attorney General? He went to jail for…
Who Is the New Epstein? Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the network he built and the abuses he enabled are not gone. While his death in federal custody raised many questions, the more pressing issue is: who has stepped into his role since? Epstein’s Wealth and Influence Epstein wasn’t just another…
The FBI will again DELIBERATELY botch looking for them, even after we clean IT out. The same #SeditionHunters who tracked down them J6-ers (including a positronic horde of little old ladies and guys with Internet access and Facebook) WILL find them. The same ones who as youngsters ended Nixon
Save the photo. When TrumpCo falls, these men and women will all go into hiding, and with good reason. John Mitchell (Nixon) landed in jail for doing <1% of the damage each of these creeps have done, or at least allowed to happen. They will flee, like the cowards they are. Same as J6’ers.
My guess is that DOJ will arrange to disappear him, probably first to Uganda, then back to El Salvador. DOJ clearly believes it can find a "pocket judge" who will stop this judge's action. And DOJ is probably correct.
I'm with Max on this one. We "made nice" after Nixon, and look what it got us. More: Every judge confirmed that his terms MUST have confirmation testimony reviewed for perjury. Perjury is grounds for impeachment and removal. And every damned one of them lied about something.
The plan only works if they deny their existence of the disabled, and defame them by saying they’re lazy, or lying or genetically defective and not fit to live. The truth would convict them of genocide.
But, truth is bad. Research causes, effects, useful treatments stopped. Research means admitting it exists. Already in progress But what about all those disabled people? They exist, shouldering on if they can, unless they cannot.
Plan seems 2B to allow a significant—but as yet undefined—share of Covid-disabled population to die. We will be told there is no long-Covid, and that those who have it or die from the disease were defective and not fit to live anyway. Defamation of the dead and ill already in progress.
I'm sorry.You've been a behavioral beacon to me, and a source of hope. So far, the hubs and I (we're mid 70s, he's disabled) remain NOVID. I don't know how much longer that will last. And I just read that BrainWorm Guy plans to make the vaccine illegal. Damn.
I was in Washington DC for Mayday 1971. The most frightening part of this is the TrumpGoons—the fat assed, flop gutted candy assed bullies hiding behind guns and masks. They’re out to prove they’re men, instead of what they are: losers, failures, and fundamentally cowards. They’re have guns.
—b/c you’re not a billionaire and still get your money—and it’s no surprise to me that the vast majority of people are telling restaurants to screw themselves. Because restaurants are actively screwing us, and expecting us to smile and say “please, sir may I have some more.? Not any more.
Combine that with/bad meals, sullen staff (can’t blame them), bad environment, and not being treated nicely like welcome and prized guests, has morphed into “how can we chisel you MORE
be doing most of the spending because in theory they SHOULD be the ones with disposable income for splurges. But they don’t have money. So dining out represents a splurge for many of us. Add in no Covid protection and is it any wonder people are saying “screw it, I’ll stay home and cook?” MORE
By pocketing tips, on which they’re not paying taxes. (See a pattern here?) The big problem is that income for everyone between those two groups has, at best, stayed stagnant. Throw in inflation and cost of living and it has actually fallen. It’s the “in-between” who should MORE
Minimum wage employees—the kind who actually do all the work in those restaurants—aren’t ahead at all. Employers—and this is rampant in the so-called “hospitality industry— are still “stealing wages”
An angle not generally considered: income for the billionaire class, which likes FLA b/c it doesn’t have to pay income taxes, has gone thru the roof. Minimum wage has gone up far less than inflation, much less cost of living, and ONLY b/c it’s the law. MORE
Epstein was a pedophile, monster, and child rapist. Maxwell is his convicted procuress and a child rapist. Donald Trump is a convicted rapist and pedophile protector. Don’t get distracted.
I’m a boomer. We ended Vietnam, took down Nixon, put Mitchell in jail, got Medicaid, Voting Rights and much more. Nixon etc were odious but smart. We took them down. This lot is odious but stupid. We’re older, but they’re easier targets. We can take them down but we need everyone to help.
Trulicity isn’t quite the same drug, but it’s been on the market since forever. Ozempic has been on the market since 2017, but only approved for weight loss in 2021. I think a lot more “side effects” are yet to be discovered.
I think we would know. He has access to the bet medical are on the planet, and advice, but that doesn’t mean he’d take it, since he is, by his own admission, the smartest man in the room and his own best advisor. MORE
There’s nothing NOT to like for me, but I’m not an obese, obsessive 79 year old male with terrible diet, lack of exercise, and possible heart failure. We know from history that Trump is extraordinarily vain. If he’s taking it, it’s for weight loss, most likely. If he were diabetic, MORE
Cut my daytime insulin injections from 21 a week to ZERO, and cut the pm dose of long acting insulin from around 20 units to 8.
Alternatively, he may be using Ozempic. I’m what’s called a T1.5 adult onset diabetic. It’s a genetic defect. I’ve been using Trulicity since 2014, it first came on the market. For *SOME* diabetics this stuff is a miracle.
YES. Or “Mind your own damned business.” Fewer characters.
Concur. I was here when Nixon and his Rottweilers were using the US military with live ammo to try to shut the anti-Vietnam war and anti-Nixon protesters the hell up. This group—the new ICE hires—are much worse and far more dangerous. I have to write that @allchronology.com has a good idea.
Choose your own adventure. From now on, you’ll see two kinds of videos: Travel episodes – where I take you to the places where history happened and often still is happening. History & biography episodes – diving into the big events and the people who lived them. youtu.be/QVjlMc2i16o
The mainstream media won’t write or display much on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, or the abject FAILURE of the Trump administration to put a stop of it. @Noelreports.com DOES report on it. . on the theory that if they don’t report on it, it doesn’t exist.
Since I don’t think I’m going there watching this is the second best thing.
So did he, but for a time, for George Bush and for Trump, he imagined that oath extended to propagating the lunacy in his own head and that of at least two presidents. For that, and what he caused to be done to other humans, I want to see him rot in hell. MORE
I’m conflicted. I want to see him suffer rot in hell for what he did to the country, and my family. But not for this. I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution in and I meant it. That oath never expires. MORE
In the Washington DC area, assuming he can find anyone who isn’t already so compromised by the Trump administration to even represent him, last time I checked the lawyers qualified to represent client in classified documents cases charge between$700-1000 an hour. MORE
But it’s going to cost him every damned penny he has in legal costs to do it. That is the ultimate aim of Trump Inc: not jail, bankruptcy. To Trump, money is the only thing that counts. It’s how they “keep score.” Top flight legal help will come in the form of specialized senior attorneys.
I want him bankrupted by legal bills. He’ll probably escape jail,
I want to see Bolton suffer, be discarded by everyone he ever knew, be triumphed over by everyone he ever lied to or hurt. That isn’t what’s going down today. He’s being trashed by someone he once promoted, primarily for self aggrandizement. MORE
He was one of the architects and cheerleaders who helped lie America into the Iraq war. It was the wrong damned war, which we lost. Among the losses my beautiful college graduate USMC enlistee son came home to 40 percent permanently combat disabled. I will never forgive any of them. MORE
For what they have always been, and still are. They never really have changed. They just covered it up. What they’re doing now is wrong. That said, there is a certain joy in seeing John Bolton finally get a taste of what he has coming. MORE
After Watergate, they pretended to change, to respect the rule of law. J6 and their 2d rate investigation of the J6ers, many of whom were caught out not by the mighty DOJ and FBI, but @seditionhunters.bsky.social and a virtual army of little old women with Facebook access and iPads, showed them MORE
Agreed. We can abhor what is happening, which is clearly the Trump administration using the DOJ and FBI as its Fascist militia. I never trusted any of them after Watergate. I was around and paying attention. I remember how they behaved then.
Afterward the stink of his existence nearly overwhelmed the sweet smell of their culinary success.
Mario Batali’s partnership with the Bastianich family was good, until it wasn’t. Batali’s celebrity status on shows such as Molto Mario and The Chew boosted visibility for the Bastianich family, helping expand their restaurant empire and brand reach. It cost them a bundle to get shed of him.
The Bastianich family had a long-standing professional relationship with Batali, including co-owning renowned establishments like Babbo and Del Posto. Following the allegations, Lidia and her children, Joe and Tanya Bastianich Manuali, took over Batali’s shares in their restaurant group.
He was a big part of their culinary empire. In 2017 she and her son removed him from their empire. This situation was particularly challenging for Lidia, who described it as “very hard” and noted that Batali’s actions made it difficult for their family . 
Two of the, Natali Tene and Alexandra Brown, sued him in civil court. He settled and paid up. He took down his business partner Lidia Bastianich, and her son.
Batali was tried but acquitted of indecent assault and battery charges. Batterers are usually smart enough to do their assaulting out of the eyes of witnesses, which makes the charges difficult to prove conclusively. Rapists and child molesters count that.
show, and his product line dumped by Target. In March 2019, he relinquished ownership of his restaurant empire, including Babbo and Del Posto. At least some of the people who could afford those pricey NY venues had scruples about dining around an alleged sexual batterer.
There’s plenty more to the story. In December 2017, Batali faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including groping and inappropriate behavior spanning over two decades. He was fired from The Chew, suspended from his cooking
Trump’s and my opponent’s DOGE scheme has been debunked, again! Reports show DOGE is wasting billions and weakening government services. DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about stacking government with Trump loyalists like my opponent.
Happy Saturday, everyone. Be kind to one another today. Change is possible, and sometimes for the better. Here is an example: armchairtraveler2022.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/p...
The expensive part of these modern reproductions isn’t the the print, it’s the frame. You can get a full size printed reproduction for about $85. The frame will cost you around $350, depending on how fancy you want it. But it’s still a reproduction. Claiming it’s original really is fake.
Art experts have confirmed that Trump’s version is not authentic; it appears to be a copy or reproduction, and more likely a Giclee (printed) reproduction. There’s zero chance it’s real.
What Trump has, and is lying about, (and if his mouth is open and his gums flapping and sound comes out, he’s lying) is that it’s a genuine Renoir.
So, about that “Renoir.” The original graces the Art Institute of Chicago. I’ve seen it there. There is no crime in having copies of art you admire. I have quite a few in my house. I would never suggest that they were originals.
Looked royal. We fought a revolution to get away from “royalty.”
We know something else about Trump: he’s cheap. Too cheap to pay to have his clothes properly tailored. Too cheap to pay (he probably has us taxpayers paying for it) for actual ormulu appliqués for the Oval….the absolute LAST thing the original builders intended. They didn’t want anything that
It’s a painting of two young girls. I leave to your imagine what he finds attractive about it, but I guarantee it isn’t taste.
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All that money from criming cannot buy taste. He claims to own a Renoir, Two Sisters on a Terrace.