Sunday, February 22, 2026

Who Is Going To Ask The White House?

“Where’s the hospital ship?”

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🫠

BASH: Let's start with the big question -- will you refund the roughly $134 billion taken by these tariffs?

BESSENT: That's not the big question. That's bad framing

BASH: Refunds are clearly gonna be up to you

BESSENT: No no no no, Dana. It's not up to me or the administration. It's up to the lower court
Can we first determine what the #%@! number is? 😡 Or who the caller is? Trump’s brain is melting. 🫠 *
Premier of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen posted the following on Facebook:

It will be a no thank you from here.

President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship to Greenland has been noted. However, we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. That is a deliberate choice — and a fundamental part of our society. That is not the case in the United States, where seeing a doctor comes at a cost. 💵💰

We are always open to dialogue and cooperation — including with the United States. But please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media. 👍

Dialogue and cooperation require respect for the fact that decisions about our country are made here at home. 🇬🇱

(Photo of Jens-Frederik Nielsen with his Minister of Health)

*TBH, it sounds a little too much like Trump, and not enough like Trump. And the line about Schumer, “who can’t cook a cheeseburger,” is too good for Trump, who’s never been that clever. But given the deranged post about Greenland and a naval hospital ship, it’s not impossible that this is real. Which is a sad commentary, indeed.
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Reporting From Greenland

The Arctic Command has this afternoon evacuated a crew member from a United States submarine.

The crew member required urgent medical treatment and has been transferred to the Greenlandic health authorities and the hospital in Nuuk.

The evacuation took place within Greenlandic territorial waters, 7 nautical miles off Nuuk. It was carried out by the Danish Defence Seahawk helicopter.

The helicopter was deployed from the inspection vessel Vædderen

—Arctic Command
No thanks!!!!
We in Greenland 🇬🇱 are healthy and doing well, sustained by our own traditional foods — including seal blubber, which is rich in vitamins and nutrients that have kept our population strong for generations.

Instead, you may want to focus on the internal challenges in the United States, where many citizens are in need of healthcare and cannot afford necessary treatment!
Important issue? All is well here in Greenland.

There was one submarine crew member who required hospitalization in Nuuk. He was evacuated by the Royal Danish Navy and is receiving proper care. He is in safe hands with skilled doctors from Greenland and Denmark. There is no need for a hospital ship.

Perhaps it would be better to focus on the needs of your own state.
Greenlanders shake their heads

TV 2 reporter Marie Rønde is currently in Nuuk, where she has gone to Queen Ingrid’s Hospital.

“I arrived just as the night shift was leaving, so I managed to speak with a couple of staff members who work here at the hospital.

“They shook their heads and think it sounds like a hoax,” Marie Rønde says.

It is Trump’s statement that he intends to send an American ship to Greenland to help care for the sick that has prompted head-shaking among parts of the population.

—TV2
Mette Frederiksen comments on Trump post

🇩🇰Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has addressed healthcare in Greenland in a social media post.

Her post follows a statement made overnight by President Donald Trump, in which he wrote that he would send a hospital ship to Greenland to care for the sick, though he did not elaborate on what he specifically meant by that announcement.

The Prime Minister did not directly mention Donald Trump or his post, but wrote:

“I am grateful to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where it is not insurance coverage or personal wealth that determines whether you receive proper treatment.

The same approach applies in Greenland. Have a good Sunday, everyone,” Mette Frederiksen wrote.

—DR
The whole world is watching.
This Sunday morning, I've now seen a number of comments on this mysterious Truth Social post from Donald Trump. It demonstrates with absolute clarity that the man is suffering from dementia and cannot grasp the most basic connections.

Why do I say this? Because what his post is almost certainly prompted by is the fact that the Danish navy evacuated a sick crew member from an American submarine near Greenland within the last few days.

Trump has been informed of this and told that the sick submariner (or whatever his rank may be) has been evacuated. But Trump's dementia-addled brain cannot process even the most straightforward information. Hence his bizarre post.

In the White House, everyone knows that this is what has happened. The question is, when will they finally acknowledge that he is no longer mentally present?
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Trump IS Contagious!

You need what, now? And I haven’t been ID’d for a beer in almost 50 years. Maybe JD has other problems.

I’ve also never voted without identity confirmation.
Trump is also getting incredibly poor advice.
Seems hard for the President to rely on the 15 percent statute (sec 122) when his DOJ in our case told the Court the opposite: “Nor does [122] have any obvious application here, where the concerns the President identified in declaring an emergency arise from trade deficits, which are conceptually distinct from balance-of-payments deficits."

If he wants sweeping tariffs, he should do the American thing and go to Congress. If his tariffs are such a good idea, he should have no problem persuading Congress. That’s what our Constitution requires.

Trump Says He Will Raise Global Tariff to 15 Percent https://nytimes.com/2026/02/21/business/trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share via @NYTimes
And, he’s just an idiot: The tedious reality:
“The USNS Mercy, commissioned in 1986, departed San Diego last July for a one-year scheduled maintenance period at Alabama Shipyard under an $18.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 153-calendar day mid-term availability, including drydocking. The timing and logistics of any potential deployment to Greenland remain unclear given the vessel’s current maintenance status in Alabama.”

The USNS Comfort , the U.S. Navy’s only other hospital ship, is also docked at the same port as the USNS Mercy, and is secured in place away from its homeport in Virginia, suggesting the ship is also undergoing maintenance.
I’ll be surprised if it’s even brought up. Don’t want to scare the children, after all.
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Saturday, February 21, 2026

All In How You Look At It

Except the authors of this situation are….?

Meanwhile, Talarico is getting the reference.
Lauren Boebert: I would rather my children see the Ten Commandments, that gives a moral standard, rather than saying, you can pleasure yourself and here's how.

James Talarico: Seeing politicians force everybody to put up a poster of the Ten Commandments when they don't even follow them themselves.

(I don't think she got the reference)
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Where Else Should The Pope Be?

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration.

The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation.

On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants — not in Washington — drawing another stark line between the Trump-Vance White House and the Catholic Church under Leo.
Under Trump, the 250th anniversary will whitewash the American history of genocide, racism, slavery, class warfare and economic injustice, and abuse and exploitation of the immigrant.

The “Board of Peace” is an Orwellian Minitrue label for a cynical attempt to turn Gaza into a resort for Trump’s profit, and for currying favor with the U.S. by the lowlife members of the “Board.” It dissolves as soon as Trump is clearly a lame duck.

Why would the Pope appear alongside a man who kills people in boats indiscriminately, and claims credit for it?
Lampedusa is a destination on what has become one of the world's deadliest migration routes, where many people land after crossing the Mediterranean often in simple fishing boats or makeshift dinghies.
Pope Leo’s purpose is pretty clear.
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🎶”Lies! Lies! I Can’t Believe A Word You Say “🎶

A) Because it doesn’t exist, and never has?
B) Because Trump has already spent it?
C) Because you lied to the court?
D) Because you’re lying now?

And if Congress tells you to give the money back? And tells you how? Could you do it then?

And is it $175 billion?
I’ve also read it’s $170 billion.Funny how the amount changes depending on who’s saying it.

And it’s not like this Administration has never lied to us:
And that you haven’t taught your supporters to lie:
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Friday, February 20, 2026

USA! USA! USA!!

Everybody pays. One way or the other.
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How It Actually Works

Hear that dripping? That’s my heart, bleeding for you. Wait for the courts or Congress to establish the mechanism? You know, how government works? WOW! And I thought Trump had a huge ego! No, there isn’t. The issue here is, who has the authority to impose that tax? The Supreme Court today ruled that the POTUS doesn’t have that power.  EOD.

As I said, talk to Congress. That’s the way our federal governments works.
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That Keeps On Giving

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Why Trump Used The IEEPA

Klobuchar: "The scariest part from his press conference, in addition to the continued assault on the rule of law and the Constitution, is that he plans to continue doing this ... [but] I think you're starting to see bipartisan opposition to the president's tariffs, which would affect the 150 days under this new statute he's throwing out"
But Trump has read all the case law and the statutes, right?
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“When Elephants Fight, The Grass Gets Trampled”

Congress can do something; or the courts can do something. But the odds of money being returned to the people who paid the tariffs (U.S.) are low.

Thus does the system “serve” us.
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NO KINGS!

😹🤡 It’s like he’s talking to his mirror. *YAWN!* I remember the days of “Impeach Earl Warren!” You’ve gotta up your game, old man. Press the Congress to “pack the court” and give you four more Alitos, Thomases, and Kavanaughs before January! C’min, you know you can do it! 😹 That certainly should have made them respect your authoritah! 😹😹😹 So, for all the bitching, he’s accepted the authority of the Court. Now, let’s get him to specify the statutes he’s going to use, and how they won’t be tariffs, because the majority has said “tariffs = taxes, and the POTUS can’t impose taxes; only Congress can.

He’s gonna be cussing the courts for years.
Yeah, about that…. Really? When was that? Yeah. Go back to court with that argument. We’ll call it the Copium defense.😹😹😹
“Although I firmly disagree with the Court's holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a President's ability to order tariffs going forward," Kavanaugh wrote. "That is because numerous other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs issued in this case...Those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232); the Trade Act of 1974 (Sections 122, 201, and 301); and the Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 338).”

Trump thanked Kavanaugh, the second of three justices he nominated during his first term, and claimed the ruling actually granted him even more authority than he had previously claimed.

"In actuality, while I am sure they did not mean to do so, the Supreme Court’s decision today made a President’s ability to both regulate Trade, and impose TARIFFS, more powerful and crystal clear, rather than less," Trump said. "There will no longer be any doubt, and the Income coming in, and the protection of our Companies and Country, will actually increase because of this decision. Based on longstanding Law and Hundreds of Victories to the contrary, the Supreme Court did not overrule TARIFFS, they merely overruled a particular use of IEEPA TARIFFS. The ability to block, embargo, restrict, license, or impose any other condition on a Foreign Country’s ability to conduct Trade with the United States under IEEPA, has been fully confirmed by this decision. In order to protect our Country, a President can actually charge more TARIFFS than I was charging in the past under the various other TARIFF authorities, which have also been confirmed, and fully allowed."

"Therefore, effective immediately, all National Security TARIFFS, Section 232 and existing Section 301 TARIFFS, remain in place, and in full force and effect," he added. "Today I will sign an Order to impose a 10% GLOBAL TARIFF, under Section 122, over and above our normal TARIFFS already being charged, and we are also initiating several Section 301 and other Investigations to protect our Country from unfair Trading practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Unless tariffs = taxes, which is the decision Kavanaugh dissented from; and which would mean the majority didn’t overlook the statutes Kavanaugh cited. Let’s find out, huh? Or maybe Congress can step in…🤔 That one is even better. Go with that! It’s time for his nap.💤  Delusion as ego defense mechanism. This guy will wind up in textbooks. POTUS gets the best legal advice. The Peter Navarro defense. Yeah, that’s where he’s going. It’s not going to work out well for him. See? Begun, it already has. Please tell Johnson to tell the Sergeant at arms to only admit Scalia, Thomas, and Kavanaugh! 😹 The investigators who went to Hawaii to find Obama’s real birth certificate are on it! Time for his meds. Sure he did, Grandpa. Well, of course.
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Ox. Gored. Whose.

Although I agree with Cardinal Dolan in this point, and those who are not against us are with us (Jesus said), it’s still Dolan.

And more often than not, he’s against us.
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When Optometrists Try To Practice Law

But can she still impose Sharia law? The Texas GOP wants to know.
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😹😹😹 “These fucking courts!😹😹😹

BlueSky:
Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.
I haven’t read the opinion (I’m honestly waiting for Professor Vladeck to do that for me. What? This is not my job!), but if this analysis is correct, Trump is done. His administration has been saying since oral arguments that they have other options. But if it’s correct that the majority ruled tariffs are taxes, then they’re ruling that only Congress can levy taxes, which moots any further action by Trump.

My own reaction was that Trump has meddled with primal forces, and the smarter members of the court (I.e., not Alito, Thomas, or Kavanaugh), realized it. I also don’t discount that the three conservatives finally see that Trump is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state.
CNN: Now that these tariffs are off, I am hearing from the Port of Los Angeles, the executive director there, saying that they are now bracing for a surge of cargo vessels to come into the United States, landing on the shores of Los Angeles.

We are in the Chinese lunar new year, so factories are largely shut down in China. But he is hearing already from business groups and importers saying that they want to get those factories up and running as soon as possible to bring in key items into the United States that are heavily imported toys, shoes electronics, appliances, because they are also nervous about the fact that potentially president trump could find another way to impose tariffs.
ETTD is an iron law of the universe..
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Well, I Guess We’ll Find Out

Well, I guess we’ll find out.
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But! But! “National Security!”

Hmmm... so did Trump v U.S. And the ruling overturning Roe. Anyway…
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The Truth Is Way Out There

The senator from Pennsylvania knows “The X-Files” were fictional, right?

It’s just that, these days, you have to ask. I mean, my daughter grew up watching them, too. But she wouldn’t say that, even as a joke.
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Immediately Following Up On That 👇 Post

The camp in Dilley, Texas, to be clear. Yup.
Homan: "We don't racially profile. When we detain somebody and question somebody for a short period of time, we need reasonable suspicion. That's what we're doing. But people say 'The Supreme Court allows you to racial profile.' That's not what the Supreme Court said. They said we're doing things legally."
Thanks, Justice Kavanaugh. And they got lots of white people in those concentration camps, Mr. Border Czar? What was the probable cause for sending a 9 year old to a concentration camp for 4 months?
After what they described as hours of questioning, the mother and daughter were reportedly placed in a room together. Maria Alejandra described her phone being confiscated, leaving her unable to contact her husband, who was waiting for them at the airport. Maria Antonia said she was confused; if her mother was applying for a green card — and if she herself had a valid tourist visa — why were they being detained?
The 9 year old spent 113 days in Dilley. All she’d wanted to do was go to Disneyland.  This is as friendly and welcoming as North Korea. There’s no other way to put it. See?
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Abolish 🧊. Impeach Noem. End This Government Sponsored Horror

185,000 new jobs in 2025 is only making America more affordable for billionaires. The cities of Los Angeles and Portland and Minneapolis and Houston would question your definition of “safety.” And that’s just the highly publicized cases:
Thirty-two people died in ICE custody nationwide last year, surpassing the previous high of 20 in 2005, according to federal data. Nearly a quarter of last year’s deaths occurred in Texas.

Scott Shuchart, a former head of policy at ICE under Biden and senior adviser under Trump’s first term to DHS’ Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, said the agency “struggled to ensure adequate medical care” when its detainee population was 35,000. Now it is more than doubling that number.

The government last October also temporarily stopped paying many medical providers due to bureaucratic changes under the administration. As a result, ICE for months has been unable to reimburse health care officials, including for prescription medication, dialysis and chemotherapy, according to redacted ICE documents first reported by Popular Information.
Safety, huh? For whom? Select white people? From whom? “Dangerous criminals”? Try again:
Unlawful border crossings have plummeted due to the administration’s restrictions. Federal data shows that most current ICE detainees are not accused of crimes beyond civil immigration offenses.
The camps ICE is building under Noem’s watch are concentration camps where cruelty and incompetence is the point:
Constructed in a record two months last summer after the government granted a $1.2 billion contract to Acquisition Logistics, a small Virginia corporation with no listed experience running detention facilities, the camp has been plagued with problems since it opened. Claims of medical neglect, spoiled, insufficient food and unsanitary conditions are rife and advocates call it an “unfolding humanitarian crisis.”

More than 45 people detained there alleged abuse and serious injuries to attorneys, according to a letter advocacy groups sent to DHS and ICE supervisors in December. Those allegations included a teen hospitalized after he accused staff of slamming him to the ground and beating him. The detention staffers blocked the security cameras, he said, and “grabbed my testicles and firmly crushed them.”

ICE’s own inspectors found at least 60 violations at the facility shortly after it opened, the Washington Post first reported in September, including that the contractors had employed little more than a half of the security personnel it had promised. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, who did not respond to repeated requests from The Texas Tribune, said in a statement that “any claim that there are ‘inhumane’ conditions at ICE detention centers are categorically false.” She said detainees are provided “proper meals,” medical treatment and clean clothing.

Two officials who viewed that ICE investigative report or were briefed by the agency additionally told the Tribune that the facility had no policy detailing when or how contractors can use force. It lacked a compliance manager designated to oversee sexual assault allegations, required under federal regulations. Contractors were also provided only 40 hours of training, a fraction of at least 42 days typically required of regular ICE agents, according to those officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Acquisition Logistics and two of its contractors in charge of detention and medical care did not respond to questions so it is unclear if those conditions have since improved and if new policies were instituted.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, an El Paso Democrat who has visited the site at least a half dozen times, said the conditions at East Montana are rapidly “deteriorating.”

After tuberculosis and COVID-19 cases, both highly infectious contagions, were confirmed there, Escobar said that employees told her not to enter a certain area because detainees had yet to be tested. Few people wore masks.

“All it takes is one major public health issue where there’s not been enough oversight, where human life and safety and welfare is not prioritized, for there to be a massive health impact on the community,” Escobar said in an interview. “Americans should care when these massive tent cities or massive warehouses are very quickly put up and filled with thousands of human beings and are run by corporations that are prioritizing profits, not people.”
I haven’t seen the government work this hard to lie and cover it’s backsides since Vietnam:
Congress imposed strict rules on how deaths in ICE custody should be reported, which include publicly posting “relevant details” within two business days and requiring ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate each death and provide a report to senior management. Within 90 days, ICE must make the reports public.

But under Trump’s second term, experts said, death reports from ICE detention have often been delayed.

After Lunas Campos died at East Montana, for example, ICE waited nearly a week to issue the release claiming he died from “distress.” Only after the medical examiner advised his family that it might be a homicide, did ICE officials allege a suicide attempt.
This is ICE.
Historically, many deaths in ICE custody likely could have been avoided with better medical care, experts and advocates said, a pattern that sparks concerns given the government’s skyrocketing detention.

The ACLU examined the deaths of 52 people in ICE custody between 2017 and 2021 and found that 49 of them were “likely preventable,” most often resulting from faulty medical diagnoses by detention staff. In 40% of those deaths, ICE staff failed to provide timely care, the report found.

Lawyers and congressional representatives say conditions have worsened at such centers, including the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, 70 miles south of San Antonio, which drew widespread attention after photographs of 5-year-old Liam Conjeo Ramos went viral following his detention last month in Minneapolis. More than 1,300 parents and children are currently at that facility, congressional representatives have said. At least 1,000 complaints of poor medical care have been lodged since the administration reopened the detention center last April, according to Faisal Al-Juburi, co-chief executive at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas nonprofit that works in that facility. Last month, at least two cases of measles were confirmed at the facility.

Among the many cases of alleged medical neglect is a 2-month-old boy detained there for three weeks who was hospitalized in the past few days after “choking on his own vomit,” according to U.S Rep. Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat. The infant had bronchitis, he said, and was unresponsive for hours before being discharged. Late Tuesday, he and his family were suddenly deported despite attempts by Castro and lawyers.

“To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous,” said Castro, who in recent weeks has escalated concerns about the nation’s only facility currently holding parents with their children. He called ICE’s decision “monstrous,” pledging to seek details. DHS officials said on X that the mother “chose to take her child into custody with her” and “enter and remain in the country illegally.”

Attorneys, echoing complaints in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump administration from terminating a decades-old settlement governing the rights of children in detention, describe at Dilley impotable water, barely any schooling and detainees forced to sleep under fluorescent lights. Medical care is lacking even for those with terminal conditions such as a 6-year-old with leukemia who was detained along with his family last year. He had little access to care, his lawyers said, before they were able to free him.
SNAFU.

Abolish ICE. Remove it root and branch. And impeach Noem. She’s responsible for this.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026

We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia

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How Do You Like Us Now?

I’ll vote for the candidate who promises to sponsor a bonfire to burn all those things in 2029. A real spectacle, with video of the banners being pulled down and heaped on the fire. Something that Riefenstahl would envy.

Meanwhile, Grandpa thinks he is the king: Our translators are working hard on this next one. We’re confident the MSM will find a way to make it sound coherent. Or, more likely, just ignore it altogether. There’s only so much mortals can do.* Saying the quiet part out loud? Or incapable of putting two coherent thoughts together? Lines are open. This is a free call.📞  He talks like a man a big, tall tree just fell out of. Crazier’n a shithouse rat.🐀  Or just an old man suffering from dementia. It’s been over 5 years now. When does that actually start happening? And if you don’t think so, you’re rigged! Who’s going to explain to the innumerate idiot that it doesn’t work that way? C’mon! Points for trying! Anybody? Anybody?



*See?
Greeting Paraguay's President Santiago Peña, Trump rambled, “It’s always nice to be young and handsome. It doesn’t mean we have to like you. I don’t like young, handsome men. Women—I like. Men, I don’t have any interest.”

In a moment flagged by Mediaite, a CNN host, likely Sara Sidner or Kate Bolduan, was caught on a hot mic blurting out, "What?!"

Co-host John Berman scrambled to save the segment, stammering about "Right, President Trump is speaking to his, uh, Board of Peace….”
A grateful nation is once again pulled back from the brink of seeing reality clearly.(If by “speaking” you mean Trump is making word noises.)
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Burning Down The House 🔥

President Donald Trump announced that the US will contribute $10 billion to the Board of Peace, which is aimed at resolving international conflicts and began with the mission to reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
“I want to let you know that the United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace,” Trump said, adding that the amount “is a very small number when you look at that compared to the cost of war.”
Speaking to the board’s member countries, Trump went on to say, “Together we can achieve the dream of bringing lasting harmony to a region tortured by centuries of war, suffering and carnage.”
Trump has also announced a $2000 check from the “tariff shelf” for everyone in the U.S. And that he was going to bailout the farmers: Although I do wonder, where he imagines the money is coming from, and where it’s going? I know it’s a grift, but seriously: is it a numbered Swiss bank account? Is it in the U.S.Treasury? Has anybody actually paid their billion dollars? Is that really couch change to all those people on stage? Do they expect no accountability for it?  And what does the “Board of Piece” need with another $10 billion? Golden gavel meeting souvenirs? Or is Trump just priming the pump with more lies?

It’s not that he’s fit to be POTUS. He isn’t. But inchoate outrage is do…inchoate. I’d much rather see Congress investigate (rather than just hold public hearings) and find the fuck out. Start impeaching responsible Cabinet Secretaries if they don’t like the answers. (Yes, I know what I said about impeachment taking over the legislative process. But what are our options now?) If not now, then in 2027. Start heads rolling and whips cracking and remind the Administration that the Article I power is superior to Articles II and III.

Congress put those people in power*; it can take ‘em out again.

*It even ratified Trump’s election. The “Founding Fathers” meant for Congress to have the whip hand. There’s a great scene in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” where Sen. Claude Rains is told what outcome the President wants on a bill. Rains sneers at the idea of the President telling the Senate what to do. We could use a bit more of that sense of independence right now. And a bit less partisanship. I really don’t care that Fetterman doesn’t talk like AOC. I was amazed at an MS NOW reporter who was herself amazed at South Texans who loved Henry Gonzalez (a Democrat), but voted for Trump. It didn’t surprise me at all. I really don’t care what Fetterman does. My senators are bigger assholes, that’s my concern. What we don’t need is more rabid assholes on our side as a direct response to MAGA. We just need people who will stand firm for the rule of law and the constitution. The Democrats I like talk about getting things done, not about burning down the other guy’s house. MAGA talks like that, and I think most of the country has decided they mean it literally. And they don’t like it.
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Butterscotch Is The New Black

That’s it? And you’re bragging about it by posting this? One lift in 20 seconds?  I do 35 minutes of exercise with weights every morning. In 20 seconds I’ve usually done 20 reps. And you couldn’t even put the weights back in the rack.

Kegsbreth is a 🤡.

Speaking of disasters:
And if we take Trump at his word now, does that make him any more fit for office? Oh, well, maybe they can put Kegsbreth on the campaign trail with RFK.
I just want to start with something that happened actually last night, because last night, Trump's top political advisers met for a private meeting," said Psaki. "This included his former campaign manager, his pollster, his chief of staff. They all huddled together at the private members-only Capitol Hill Club in D.C. to discuss what they think should be Trump's midterm strategy. And according to the Wall Street Journal's Josh Dawsey, a big part of that crack team's plan is to encourage Trump's Cabinet secretaries to visit competitive districts."

"I for one, I think that's a freaking phenomenal idea," said Psaki. "I fully endorse it, given that these are the kind of people that they are talking about here."

...

If Vance is "too busy," Psaki continued, Trump should try some of his other bizarre Cabinet members — like Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr.

"Here he is. This is a real video, I kid you not," said Psaki, playing another clip. "In an official HHS video he just put out with right-wing musician Kid Rock, too, I guess. And this is really a reach here, and I'm not here to get in the heads of their strategy, I guess, to encourage the country to work out and eat healthy, I guess. And they thought — RFK Jr. specifically thought it would be a good idea to film himself and Kid Rock doing some sort of strenuous exercises inside a sauna shirtless, because we all need to see that, getting into a cold plunge with jeans on, as one does, jumping into a pool with jeans on, I don't even know."

"And here's my favorite: drinking whole milk in a hot tub because — and cheering, cheering the whole milk," said Psaki. "Nothing says 'I'm just a normal and relatable guy' like drinking whole milk while relaxing in a hot tub with Kid Rock, right?"
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In The Annals Of Peace ✌️

I understood governments paid to be on this “board.” Where did the money go? Payable to…? Sure, Grandpa. Mentioning the UN was a trigger. Speaking of falling on stairs…. Checking his eyelids for holes. He’s always awake to talk about the grift. "We"? Sure. 🙄 He expects this “Peace Board ” to secure him the prize.  See? Even Hamas is not that bad. Sure, they killed all those people! But they dug up the bodies!  MARBLE ARMRESTS! Three hours is enough work, right? Of course he has a golden gavel. 
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💊💉💊

I understand the GOP wants to run on prescription drug prices because they got nothin’.

Now, government doesn’t run on deals, it runs on enforceable agreements and laws. Sen. Sanders wants the federal government to contract with pharmaceutical manufacturers to buy drugs at set prices, and sell them to patients at those prices, the way several European countries do it (and many of the major drug manufacturers are in Europe, so…). That’s law, and contract.

Trump makes “deals.”  Or claims he does. He also claims he won the 2020 election (still), and that the economy is in better shape than it’s ever been in American history.

Now, between the Lovely Wife and I, we take our fair share of prescription drugs. Not as many as my sainted mother took, but she had three serious medical conditions and took insulin injections 4 times a day. But we haven’t seen the price of drugs drop at all, much less 1000 to 5000 percent.

So I have to wonder if Trump’s dementia isn’t contagious, and it’s affected the entire GOP. Because job growth is non-existent, costs are up, the Feds are literally killing us, if they aren’t locking us up, and I don’t hear anyone saying; “But thank God, Ozempic is paying me to take their drug!”
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