Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Win With Trump!

And then he lists his accomplishments: If I didn’t have the video, you wouldn’t believe me. Tell that to Paxton. 🤷‍♂️  Win with Trump! He's an expert on space. His head’s full of it. And what fills the space...
Trump: There's a tunnel going to what will be, I think, the greatest ballroom ever built. It's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port.

You literally will be the first group ever to enter. Don't fall over the edge because it's a long way down. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall.
... is racism. Don’t expect to hear any of those sound bites on the news tonight, or Sunday morning.
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Now Shut Up And Take Your AI!🤖

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Bubble? 🫧

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AI Is More Trustworthy Than Your Doctor 🤖

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The Trump Effect

Hasan Piker on Trump 2.0: “What did he do? He enriched his favorite friends in the Epstein Class. Refused to release the Epstein Files. Did liberation day tariffs that he had to back away from. The ICE funding led to killing Americans and kidnapping many more American neighbors. War in Ukraine has not ended in the first 24 hours, neither did America’s unlimited loyalty to Israel. He’s now waging war with Iran that’s skyrocketing gas prices because Benjamin Netanyahu urged him to. DOGE cuts didn’t lead to a subsidy. Your food is poison, the lettuce gives you diarrhea. Everything sucks”
HOW HOT IS IT? And what Trump has made possible:
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The Old Ways Are Still The Best

As MS Now has reported, FBI officials say the bureau has been placing people on the Most Wanted list whose capture is believed to be imminent. In other words, these officials tell us—they are gaming the system. One fugitive was captured in Mexico an hour and 13 minutes after being placed on the list.
Patel learned something from J. Edgar.
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Schmitt Was Their Perjury Trap 🪤

It's like watching the “bad guy” trying to fool Bugs Bunny. Basketball can only be NBA. Right?
He can't even get his cover story right. There were multiple NBA games that night.

Somebody should tell Sen. Schmitt about the Law of Holes: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

This is what Republicans are doing instead of working to solve the very real crises facing American families.
Schmitt bought his perjury trap from Acme. Sure, dude. Tell it to Katie Britt. Cue the Looney Tunes closing music.🎶 
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Quacks And Idiots And 🤖

Sure, we can trust AI:
In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

Over the next eight months, Van Rootselaar, who identified as transgender and used she/her pronouns, continued to use this second ChatGPT account to focus on violence. She discussed building and using firearms and homemade explosives, fantasized about becoming a notorious mass killer, and asked about the timing of previous real-world school shootings just before committing her attack, according to three separate sources with knowledge of the matter and material I reviewed from Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT history.

Van Rootselaar carried out a suicidal mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School this past February, killing a total of eight people and injuring dozens of others. In the aftermath, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had banned her first ChatGPT account for discussing “scenarios involving gun violence” but had decided not to alert authorities, despite the urging of some employees on OpenAI’s safety team. In a subsequent open letter to Canadian government leaders, OpenAI confirmed the ban and disclosed the existence of her second account, but gave no information about what the second account contained.
Medical advice, legal advice, plain old fashioned good advice, is not a matter of just data; nor of a large language model. My daughter has a larger vocabulary than almost anyone I know She was tested, in high school, with a box of cards. A simple test: give the meaning of the word until you hit a word you don’t know. The box ran out of cards before she ran out of words she knew. The cards went well past the collegiate level. But as much as I love her, and as smart as she is, I would not blindly follow her advice. I might follow the legal advice of a lawyer I trust. I know what legal analysis involves, and it’s a great deal more than data and vocabulary words. So why would I ever trust a computer with my medical diagnosis? AI may also tell you how to plan a mass shooting. Which I guess is the power to free us from ethical tyranny… 🤷‍♂️ Better to be led by Kennedy and Oz and Vance, and ChatGPT? Yeah, I don’t have to be an expert in anything to call “bullshit” on that.
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The Song That Never Ends

This is reaching Tuberville levels of stupid, and Trump levels of delusional.
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The Takeaway From Today 😹🤡

(Benny had to delete that one.) The horror! The horror! (What does this have to do with the price of diesel? Or food?)
Kennedy: Here's my opinion about Mr. Smith. I'm sure Jesus loves him. But everyone else who believes in the rule of law thinks he's an idiot. He's a bottom feeder in the Washington swamp. He's a political operative masquerading as a prosecutor. He's the kind of Washingtonian who would unplug your life support to charge his cell phone.
Well, opinions are like assholes. (Is Jack Smith moving to Louisiana to run for the U.S. Senate?)
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Gotta give you some flowers. Dang! So you had text messages from Jack Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he sat there acting dumbfounded?

ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on at that time in Atlanta. He claimed later that he was at another game. Here's the thing -- my job is to ask the questions

(All of Schmitt's facts were wrong and were debunked during the hearing in near real time, but The Charlie Kirk Show hosts won't acknowledge that)
Reality is such a bitch! BTW: This picture convinces me that Schmitt’s questions were supposed to be the perjury trap 🪤 of this hearing. 🤡  It’s also the reason Hawley ended the hearing with this: But that didn’t sell it, either. Katie Britt proves me right.
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By The Way…

They’re selling snake oil… ...with the plan... ...to simply own and control everything.
Musk: When you have robots and you have superintelligence, that means that everyone in the world can have better medical care than anyone here, including me. And wouldn't that be wonderful?

Reporter: Not if they haven't got a job

Musk: Well, jobs are going to change. Jobs have always changed. But being a computer used to be a job. It used to be buildings full of people doing calculations. But now digital computers do those tasks. I don't think anyone is pining to go back and do calculations all day. So I think we'll see an evolution of roles.
With Tech Bros as the Lords of Evolution.

Nice work if you can get it.
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I See Dumb People 🤡

Sure he does.
Trump absurdly claims: We had a convention a couple of weeks ago that a lot of you said, oh, it's a midterm. It's never been done before. It's going to be a failure. And they put it against the NFL. And we had 107 million views, and the NFL had 25 million views. It was really successful
Everything he says is trustworthy.
He thinks the Oval Office is beautiful now, too. Maybe he can get a data center built next to Mar A Lago.
Trump: This a group that loves local communities they love our country. They're going to work with local communities for the data centers in particular and they're going to work to make the community happy. That might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education. It may be helping teachers financially, helping people along financially. You’re going to see that Data Centers are very popular.
Trumplandia. The sad thing is, he thinks it works that way. Yeah, about that:
BREAKING: Texas state Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies, after roughly 1,400 pages of records released last year were heavily redacted.

The state previously argued that portions of the communications could be withheld because they contained “intimate and embarrassing information.”

In a letter sent to Abbott’s office today, Hinojosa invokes a provision of the Texas Public Information Act governing information requested by lawmakers for legislative purposes. She is seeking the same records previously released to the Texas Newsroom, but “without any redactions whatsoever,” including material deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate.”

Hinojosa says the records could shed new light on Musk’s relationship with Abbott, including his companies’ lucrative state contracts and tax incentives, as well as Musk’s campaign contributions. She argues Musk has turned Texas into a corporate playground and says greater transparency is needed to expose what she describes as corruption in Abbott’s relationship with powerful tech interests.

She is requesting that Abbott’s office arrange an inspection of both the redacted and unredacted records on or around October 13.

Now Texans may finally learn what was considered so “intimate and embarrassing” that it was kept from public view.
Abbott was heavily promoting data centers until the polls showed how unpopular they are. Not exactly an answer. So maybe this is: "Trust us.” Tech bros as the vox populi. Or not. 🤡
You knew this was coming. 🤦‍♂️
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The Jack Smith Senate Hearing In One Exchange

Graham: Do you really believe Lindsey was going to destroy evidence that was not even in his possession?

Smith: I believe your brother was a patriotic public servant. He was not a target of our investigation. In fact, he likely would have been a witness in our case. Your brother investigated the claims that Donald Trump was making. He found them to be false.

Graham: I think you were just trying to bully my brother. You should be ashamed of yourself. Shame on you!
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No, I’m Not Through With This Yet

Yes, Sen. Leghorn actually did that: And Schmitt really thought he’d triggered the perjury trap the GOP wanted this hearing to be: And then Sen. Klobuchar pointed out Smith went to see the Hawkeyes play in Maryland on February 5, 2024, and not the Hawks in Atlanta. Which is what Smith testified to. He even told the committee to check with the U.S. Marshals, as two were with him at the game.

And yeah, that’s gonna be the takeaway. Grassley knew it; he left early. Sen. Leghorn took charge, called on Sen. Graham, and announced he would turn the committee over to her, because he had better places to be.

🤡
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Your Reminder That The SOE Made Her Money Promoting Fake Wrestling

Education Secretary Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"
...it was movies; and film strips; even speed reading machines (anybody remember the ‘60’s push for “speed reading”?). Lots of “education technology.” I learned more about the basics of atomic physics from the public library (I still remember some of the books I read in 5th grade) than I did from the Disney movie (I think it was “Our Friend the Atom.” Whatever the title, it was bald propaganda).

It’s all bullshit. Learning from looking at a screen is equivalent to watching a YouTube video about riding a bicycle; without ever getting on a bicycle. Or learning to play piano, by watching someone play the piano. If you don’t do, you don’t learn. Period.
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OMG, It Gets Worse 🤡

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Anyone Wanna Tell Him?

Apparently Trump is establishing a government AI program. He thinks that means he wins: Who’s going to tell him Congress won’t be back until November, and Save America was dead in the Senate already? Even if it passes in December, the Democrats will repeal it in 2027. It also knows who won in 2020: Even what hasn’t been done by Trump’s DOJ:
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🫥🍔

Grassley's opening statement said:
This hearing will highlight the committee's investigation into the special counsel's political work and weaponized conduct," Grassley said after thanking Smith for appearing. "Today, the special counsel's own record and those of his staff will tell the tale."
He proceeded to question Smith without reference to any of those documents, only introducing records into the record between the question time of Senators on the committee. Such records probably as valuable as the text messages Schmitt misread and tried to hide (maybe some staffer read them as the poster went up).

Grassley did introduce the record of checks Smith subpoenaed.
But criminal investigations always involve the principal: “Follow the money.” And making a political donation is not a private act which cannot become evidence in a criminal proceeding. Anyone who watches murder mysteries, or reads them, knows that serious crime turns over all the rocks.

Grassley was just throwing rocks. It’s what people do in congressional hearings. But it doesn’t constitute evidence of anything. Even Trump’s DOJ has so far tacitly declined to investigate a perjury charge against Smith for his prior House committee testimony. Schmitt tried to crank that up by literally accusing Smith of perjury for denying he went to Atlanta while he was investigating Trump. An allegation Schmitt couldn’t sustain.

This hearing is the nothing burger everyone expected it to be.
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My Favorite Part Of The Jack Smith Hearing So Far…

... is Eric Schmitt getting pantsed and spanked in public. Schmitt alleged Smith went to an NBA game in Atlanta, as cover for meeting with Fani Wallis when she was trying to investigate Trump. Schmitt wouldn’t share a copy with Smith, who testified he’s basically never been to Atlanta, and ended his time berating Smith, declaring he (Schmitt) was a former prosecutor and so could say Smith is a “dirtbag” who deserves to be remembered in infamy.
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
Smith said he remembered going to a game in Maryland to see Caitlin Clark play, and Clark is mentioned in the text messages.
🤡 Eric Schmitt beclowns himself during Jack Smith hearing 🤡

Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atlanta to go to a Hawks game and collude with Fani Willis, and briefly displayed his "evidence" on a poster board before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- Schmitt's facts were totally wrong. Smith was actually in Maryland at a Hawkeyes (not a Hawks) game and never met Willis. As Klobuchar told him, "You have your teams wrong."

Here's the whole deeply embarrassing sequence:
Definitely the highlight of the hearing. Reports are Schmitt is standing by his debunked allegations. He went back to his office to kill some staffers, no doubt.

Klobuchar, following Schmitt’s questioning, said she was a former prosecutor, and Schmitt owed Smith an apology for calling Smith a dirtbag, and for getting the allegation laughably wrong.

Nobody’s holding their breath.
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Monday, September 28, 2026

Do They Hear Themselves?

Or are they simply incapable of reflection? Let’s see, Trump promised:

No foreign wars 
To lower inflation 
To remove only dangerous, criminal immigrants 
To end the Russian/Ukraine war 
To lower prices 

(360 degrees? Isn’t that a full circle?⭕️ Does she mean they consider all points?)
DOGS AND CATS! LIVING TOGETHER!! MASS HYSTERIA!!! The DNC would happily fund that trip, if it would help.
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Biblical Grounds

Maybe Paxton shouldn’t talk to people. And this, is chef’s kiss. 😚 
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A Sign Of A Problem

The wonder is the media dutifully playing stenographers and “gotcha!” as if that is real journalism. Although they do get frisky if you don’t let them into the White House. They do love to talk about themselves.  We could debate the distinction between “literally” and “genuinely,” but the real question is: if he wasn’t psychotic, would it make a difference? Even if we dare not call it “insane” or “psychotic,” can we at least ask why an 80 year old man is doing this? A man who is also POTUS? And by “we,” I mean the public discussion. The one carried out in print and on TV Abby officeholders. Yup. Or, so long as he says it, it’s true. To him; and he’s all that matters. Yes, that is the essential problem. He’s not necessarily changing reality. He’s just insisting that he gets to define reality. Well, yeah. And we’re back at the journalistic question: why can’t we state the obvious? 🤷‍♂️  Getting harder and harder to argue with that.
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“He’s Always Working!”

He’s diligently checking his eyelids for holes. Always keeping busy.
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October Surprise

He’s going to declare victory in October and hope nobody notices it’s what we had in 2018 before Trump tore up the JCPOA (because, Obama), and that he got back only after a multi-billion dollar war, and doing more damage to the world economy than Covid did.
According to the unnamed U.S. officials, Trump is willing to unfreeze Iranian funds and offer sanctions relief in exchange for major nuclear concessions. The admission comes as a fresh round of talks is expected to take place this week in New York between U.S. and Iranian negotiators, done by proxy through Qatari and Pakistani mediators.

During his first term, Trump famously tore up the Iran nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama — a deal built on sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian funds. But in June, Trump warmed to those same concessions, agreeing to lift all U.S. sanctions on Iran and release all of its frozen or restricted funds.
He walked away from it, but now he’s back. The only question is: will Iran do him a solid in October?
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Why Trump Wants $88 billion Now And $1.5 Trillion For DOD Next Year

"Follow the money.”
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About That…

The White House revealed Sunday evening that President Donald Trump will deliver an announcement Monday at 2 p.m., followed by a print interview shortly thereafter, setting off a flood of predictions about what he plans to say.
What happened? That clearly wasn’t it.

It was going to be the announcement of a steel mill in Iowa. That could still happen, sometime. But not at 2 pm EDT today.

The White House announced this. And then it didn’t happen. Does it matter?
“We’re going to win.”  Who is “we”? Three guesses; first two don’t count. And let’s talk again about what matters.

Sorry, he did announce it:
And then talked over it so much nobody even noticed it.
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THE BROWN PEOPLE ARE COMING! THE BROWN PEOPLE ARE COMING!!

Just in time for the midterms.  But it’s okay! Football players will protect us!

Just the way God intended. 😎
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🗳️👑🇨🇦

But he is a xenophobe. Old man mutters to himself in a room full of people. If he says it, he thinks it is so. Yeah, it’s only the polls that are fake. We don’t need Canada, but doesn’t Canada realize they need us?
Trump: How is the governor treating you because I freed up the iron ore and I said I absolutely won the election, but they cheat like hell…

“We were there only 10 days ago actually to initiate the mine..”

Trump: We can supersede the state, right? If we can supersede the state, it's good, otherwise the state will never be good.
"Fuck state sovereignty.” And winning elections now means he is king. 👑 
Trump: Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can't because the Democrats don't have any income and they're going to drive us into a depression.

(As many have pointed out, tariffs wouldn’t cover the cost and he has made similar promises before without following through)
"Profit”? And this “income” belongs to Republicans, who will only share it as a bribe for votes? Is he talking to the guys behind him? Confidence building.... They’re counting on that $88 billion package passing to replenish what you wasted in Iran in just a few weeks. I look forward to the resolution in the next Congress affirming that the lake is “Lake Ontario,” and the gulf is “the Gulf of Mexico.” Sometimes it’s just the little things. Grandpa needs a nap. And his anti-psychosis drugs.
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The People V. The Rich Guys

Somebody in Texas owns that property; or lives on it, or near it.

But the real question is: why is Paxton throwing away the rural Texas voters? That’s where the GOP strength is. Paxton’s talking like what he is: a rich city boy. But the cities are where the Democrats are.
Talarico: So many of our Latino neighbors across Texas supported the president in 2024 because they thought he was going to lower prices. They thought he was going to end the forever wars. They thought he was going to drain the swamp and release the Epstein files.

A year into this administration, we've seen the president do the exact opposite. So I'm extending an open hand to all of our Latino neighbors who supported the president.
The people v. the rich guys.
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“My Death, Is It Possible?”

Not that I mind mortality as an incentive to act (or not act, in this case), but maybe somebody should tell the Senator that if he dies in office, he won’t be around to care who replaces him.

(My father left rather explicit, and detailed, directions about what NOT to do for his funeral; like no funeral procession. Ironically, the last one I drove in was for my mother’s younger brother, about a year ago, now. In a very small community in the Dallas suburbs. And it was a short trip from the church to the cemetery. I told my father he wouldn’t be around to complain. He said he’d come back and haunt us. In the end a family friend arranged an honor guard, because Dad was in the Navy at the end of WWII. The honor guard was six very patriotic bikers. Also almost as old as the man being buried. It was perfect. And not something he’d included in his objections. Or probably ever imagined. No funeral procession, though.)

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“But We’ve Got To Continue What We’re Doing”

Culling the herd. And no, that’s not the most pathetic thing Mike Johnson said today. This is: Granted, the day is young.

🎶 “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow!”🎶
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It Won’t Lower The Price Of Diesel…

... , so it won’t fix the major problem farmers, and everyone else face in Iowa face right now. It won’t lower inflation or food prices, either! It won’t even lower the interest rate.

And the plant, if construction is finished on time, won’t start producing steel until 2030. So hang in for four  more years, Iowa! The sun’ll come out tomorrow in 2030, and everyone in Iowa will have a job in the steel plant! In the meantime, you can all be construction workers! 👷‍♀️ 

Now you have to vote Republican, or Tinkerbelle will die!

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