Friday, August 14, 2026

“Joe Biden Torched The Economy”

Good for you. When Karl Rove is speaking sense…. Uh-huh. The ads just keep writing themselves. I mean, seriously. He’s been promising that for 7 years. Any day now….
Trump: The golden age of America is upon us.

We will make America powerful again. We’ve already done that.

We will make America wealthy again. We’ve already done that.

We will make America healthy again. We’re trying to do that.

We will make America strong again. We’ve done that.

We will make America proud again. We’ve done that.

We will make America safe again. We’ve largely done that—above all, we will make America great again. Thank you very much.
The bubble is real.
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Only Trump Matters

It’s like Karoline Leavitt never even left. I guess that includes the families of Navy personnel. We’re certainly tired of all the winning.
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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Called it.
Now you know why he so desperately wants that ballroom. He really thinks he needs it. Probably wants to put his bed in it. And his office.
But national security is not the magic wand that lets Trump do whatever he likes. At least, it shouldn’t be. So far, the courts have allowed the expanded bunker to go ahead as a security measure. But they aren’t buying the ballroom as part of it, not without Congressional authorization.

I’d like to say that standard will remain. If the Sinister Six don’t deal with it on the shadow docket by year’s end, Congress can. Of course, Congress can deal with this anyway. Even if the Supremes say he can do it, Congress can bar it. Even Roberts isn’t going to say Trump has a constitutional right to build whatever he wants on federal lands.
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Boomers Cannot Be Trusted, Amirite?

It’s all about the paranoia:
The guidance, released in July, removes previous recommendations on how nursing home staff can assist residents in exercising their constitutional rights and warns facility employees against violating “federal or state voting laws.” The guidance points to a highly dubious Texas case in which a social worker was charged with orchestrating an election fraud scheme, even though no improper votes were cast.
The case involved a social worker at a state supported living center who:
...submitted voter registration applications for 67 residents without their signature or effective consent, while purporting to act as their agent. Under Texas law, only a parent, spouse or child who is a qualified voter of the county may act as an agent in registering a person to vote, after being appointed to do so by that person. None of the SSLC patients gave effective consent to be registered, and a number of them have been declared totally mentally incapacitated by a court, thereby making them ineligible to vote in Texas.
Maybe a vote fraud scheme; maybe a well meaning person who should have known better.  Hardly the basis for a nationwide alert about Boomers voting from nursing homes, and a fear of voter registration. Although:
Working-class voters, a group that has historically broken strongly for Trump and Republican candidates, are especially angry over gas prices, according to Enten. Among Americans earning less than $50,000 a year, disapproval reaches roughly 86 percent overall, and broken down further, about two in three working-class Republicans disapprove, along with 90 percent of working-class independents and 93 percent of working-class Democrats.

I mean, what is that we're talking about more than six in seven – I don't even know when we get the fractions that high – my goodness gracious," Enten said. "I mean, you just don't ever see numbers like these. These are just atrocious numbers among the working class. A trifecta indeed, and a very clear trifecta of the working class turning against President Trump, regardless of party identification."
The old adage is, just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
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Everyone In The Military Is A Liar?

And this is only happening under Trump and Hegseth?
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No Comment On The USS Abraham Lincoln

Or on this: Raising again some serious questions:
The June 2025 “Spiderweb” operation, a coordinated long-range drone strike launched simultaneously against multiple Russian airfields deep inside Russian territory, illustrates yet another new form of Ukrainian drone deployment. It took only 117 FPV drones costing about $117,000 altogether to damage or destroy more than 40 Russian aircraft across five airbases valued at more than $7 billion. Long-range Ukrainian drone strikes have also targeted oil extraction, refining, and fuel infrastructure hundreds of miles from the frontline, periodically forcing shutdowns and compelling Russia to redirect its resources from the front.

Home-produced long-range unmanned systems allow Ukraine to strike targets deep inside Russia while avoiding the need to get permission that likely wouldn’t be granted to use weapons provided by Western allies to hit targets inside Russian territory. The debate over these restrictions has been a constant part of the war. The United States and its partners have repeatedly limited or conditioned Ukraine’s ability to strike beyond its borders with arms supplied by the West. In contrast to Western-supplied missiles such as ATACMS or Storm Shadow, which cost more than $1 million per unit and may be subject to those kinds of restrictions, Ukrainian drones can be used freely, and cost between $400 (for tactical frontline operations) and $400,000.
The cost of military weapons is often blamed on the contractors. The truth is, it’s the Pentagon that sets the terms of the contract. It’s the demands of the Pentagon that end up setting the price; and the availability.
A Sting interceptor costs about $2,500. In comparison, a single U.S.-made Patriot interceptor missile that does the same job costs more than $3 million and requires significantly more time and resources to build and operate than a drone. Lockheed Martin produced approximately 600 of the most advanced PAC-3 type of Patriot missiles last year; meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used about 700 of these interceptors in the span of only four winter months in 2025-2026.
This is your reminder that, while Nazi Germany was a major industrial power, the United States overwhelmed them with massive output. Pretty much what Ukraine is doing. And Patriot missiles aren’t much use against the weapons threatening ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

And we’ve already lost 25% of our drones in just 5 1/2 months. Against Iran. With a budget deficit so large, interest payments are now the largest single federal government expenditure.

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋

 You mean like this?

Or replays of your impeachment trial? Or replays of your campaign appearances?
Ken Paxton panics and refuses to answer multiple questions from reporters, forcing his handler to intervene:

Q: James Talarico is calling you out for owning 15 homes on a government salary, can you respond?

Paxton: *dodges question*

Q: Will you answer a question about your alleged voter fraud?

Handler: We’re going to get out of here
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The Difference Between A Report And A “Suggestion”

🚫 CLAIM: Over the past 48 hours, multiple media outlets have reported several false claims related to USS Abraham Lincoln's (CVN 72) deployment to the Middle East. One report alleged seven Sailors died in a brawl aboard the aircraft carrier and others have recently suggested a spike in suicidal ideations. These reports are FALSE.

✅ FACT: USS Abraham Lincoln has maintained among the highest crew reenlistment rates (84.4%) of all aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy. The Sailors and Marines of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group remain resilient and resolved after more than 260 days at sea, 10,000 aircraft flights, and 1.5 million pounds of ordnance expended. No service members aboard the aircraft carrier have died, and the one Sailor who fell overboard Aug. 3 was quickly and safely recovered. The rampant misreporting on Abraham Lincoln's historic deployment is a disservice to our men and women in uniform and their loved ones.
Unfortunately for CENTCOM, the civilian leadership has traded their credibility for a mess of pottage.
Parnas on the dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: Just imagine if the president wasn't Donald Trump and the president was Joe Biden. Imagine if the Secretary of Defense wasn't Pete Hegseth and it was Lloyd Austin.

If you had these facts come out, just one of these stories, let alone dozens and dozens of service members experiencing the same thing. Imagine one service member tries to jump off an aircraft carrier under the Biden administration.

Number one: We'd never hear the end of it. Fox News would be running it on 24/7. Jake Tapper would have written another novel.

But number two: Congress would have opened up investigations by now. They would have hauled Lloyd Austin up to Capitol Hill. They would have asked military leaders to testify. James Comer would have opened up an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

This is as bad as you can get. This is a dereliction of duty.
That, and brushing these widespread and credible claims off with a tweet that reads like it passed through the hands of Stephen Cheung, CENTCOM’s credibility is no better than Kegsbreath’s. Unless the military newspapers are lying, too. And the military families? Lying, too? The sailors on the Lincoln, liars?
“Why isn’t there milk?!” the family member asked in one exchange. The sailor explained that the ship’s supply runs simply can’t keep perishables fresh long enough to make the trip out to the carrier. “So the supply ship that comes here can’t bring fruits and stuff cause it can’t stay fresh long enough with the time it gets them to get here,” the sailor wrote. “So we haven’t had anything fresh but meat cause it’s freezed. Sometimes it gets here rotten.”

In a separate message, the sailor sent a photo of a plastic container of what looks like cereal, writing: “Hey honey I’m eating cereal rn. Wish there was milk tho. Haven’t had milk in 3 months.”

The sailor also described a deployment that veteran crew members are calling unlike anything they’ve experienced. “This deployment is the worst one and I pray no other boat goes through the same,” the sailor wrote. “Even people that have been deployed a hundred times claim this one to be the worst and believe it can get worse than this. The Navy does not care. The mission will always come first.”

In the same message, the sailor relayed a conversation with another crew member: “I was talking to some random dude at the smoke pit and he was saying it’s an experiment the government is doing to see how far they can push sailors limits of being out to sea with the worst experience.” The sailor was careful to frame this as something someone else said, not a claim the sailor is personally making, adding, “Idk anymore.”
The question is no longer “Is this true?”  The question is: “Why the fuck is this happening? DOD budget still not big enough? Or is the fish rotting from the head down?
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🍓Desperately Denying Reality

Hegseth is not the liar here. The Stars and Stripes, the Navy Times, family members of crew on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln? All lying to make Hegseth look bad.

But it was the strawberries where he had them! The strawberries, and he proved it with geometric logic! 🍓
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Question Of The Day:

 Why is the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln so royally fucked?

A: Pete Hegseth 

MacFarlane: Democrats who are in some of the briefings that do exist say those briefings are a hot mess. I talked to three Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee today in advance of speaking with you, Katie, and they used the following terms to describe the briefings they’ve gotten from the Defense Department about Iran: useless, empty calories, laughable, and an inability to answer basic questions about readiness and strategy.

What they’re saying is that when they get briefings from Pete Hegseth’s team at the Department of Defense or Hegseth himself, it’s a bunch of political talking points. They blame President Biden or President Obama for things. They talk about what they aspire to do, but they’re not getting any meat on the bones in these briefings.

And the Democrats who are on the Armed Services Committee will also tell you Republicans aren’t pleased with these briefings either.
That last paragraph I heavily discount, because all reports are that in private, the GOP Congress hates and despises Trump as much as you do. But in public, to a person, they remain loyal Trump lapdogs.

Actions speak louder than reported words.
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Speaking Of Sounding Better In His Head

According to Blanche, the best DOJ and FBI employees "are perfectly comfortable arguing fiercely in the conference room or in your offices about the best strategy or the best path forward. But when they walk out of that room, when they walk out of that conference, when they write that brief, when they go into court, they execute the decided plan as one team, one mission, one goal." 4/
A) Like Trump, Blanche has learned to listen entirely to the voice in his head, regardless how it sounds outside;

B) Like Trump, Blanche has learned to believe that whatever he is saying at the moment, is true. At least at that moment.

C) These are not mutually exclusive positions.

D)  ETTD remains the iron law of the universe.
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First Rule Of Holes 🕳️

The curious thing is that he keeps going on television, where he knows he’s going to have to explain his vote for RFK, who clearly isn’t fit to run a lemonade stand. And his explanations don’t get any better. 🕳️

Speaking of which:
Remembering Whitewater and “WMD” in Iraq, I’m starting to question where the NYT got their information. 🤔 I mean, we’ve got this going on: Which is known publicly largely because of Navy families. And we’re supposed to trust the NYT sources who say Iranian intelligence is scary good? With the implication somebody in Turkey leaked information (because they knew where Trump was staying)? And no reference whatsoever to this Israeli intelligence warning, that the CIA discounted?

History is rhyming again, isn’t it? Something about the devious Orient, isn’t it?
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I’m Pretty Sure That Sounded Better In His Head

Like the lawyer I worked for often said: “They don’t pay us to be wrong.” Except: Trump does. And there’s the problem. Is this Blanche’s Ron Burgundy moment? ‘Cause that sure sounds like the kind of typo I get when I expect autocorrect to finish my word, and it doesn’t.
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As American As 🍒🥧

The majority of Muslims in the world live in Asia. And Africa. Odd we don’t associate those regions of the world with being “anti-American” and “anti-west.”

So this really is just naked racism.
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But Republicans Are Businessmen…

... so they handle the economy and government spending far better than Democrats do.

That’s just a fact!
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So This Is ICE Correcting A Problem?

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Framing Is Everything

🤔
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He Really Doesn’t Get It

Iran has “..no Navy, they have no Air Force.”
Citing The New York Times, TWZ reports that a senior U.S. military official said Iranian drones provided commanders with the F-15E’s location, speed and direction, potentially allowing a dispersed missile team to target the aircraft.

The significance may be less about a sophisticated “drone swarm” than the use of inexpensive drones as airborne sensors. After U.S. and Israeli strikes degraded Iran’s conventional air defense network, drones could provide a relatively cheap and expendable way to detect and track aircraft and pass targeting information to dispersed shooters.

The report also connects the account to the previously reported “jellyfish” or “minefield” of drones seen by the F-15E crew shortly before they ejected, while cautioning that it remains unclear whether those drones were actually involved in the shootdown.

If accurate, the incident illustrates a broader lesson demonstrated in Ukraine: cheap, distributed sensors can help cue much more expensive weapons against high value targets.
Iran doesn’t seem too hampered:
Iran is adapting its tactics to wear down U.S. air defenses, and exploit dwindling interceptor stocks, according to new reporting from The New York Times.

During five days of attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan last month, Iran combined drones with maneuvering ballistic missiles to overwhelm defensive systems. On July 17, one missile penetrated the defenses at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, killing 3 U.S. soldiers and wounding more than 100.

The scale of the expenditure is becoming increasingly important: the U.S. has fired more than 1,500 Patriot interceptors during the war and reportedly has fewer than 1,700 remaining, while producing only about 600 Patriots in all of 2025. On one day during the Jordan attacks, U.S. forces reportedly fired around 50 Patriots, at roughly $4 million each.

Iran has also demonstrated other adaptations, including using drones to provide targeting data that helped shoot down a U.S. F-15E in April and expanding attacks through partners such as the Houthis to force U.S. forces to defend against threats from multiple directions.

The Pentagon continues to publicly deny that the U.S. has a munitions shortage.
New reporting sheds more light on why Trump was secretly removed from Air Force One in Ankara last month.

U.S. intelligence reportedly picked up multiple streams of information indicating a specific surface to air missile threat against the aircraft carrying Trump. Someone near the NATO summit was also reportedly observed with a shoulder-fired missile.

Even more concerning is that U.S. officials say Iranian intelligence knew where Trump was staying in Ankara, including the floor of the building.

The threat was considered credible enough to trigger an extraordinary deception. Trump publicly boarded the legacy VC-25A 'Air Force One', was secretly removed in a catering container, and departed Turkey aboard a C-32A. The VC-25A then flew on with senior officials, staff and reporters aboard, creating the appearance that Trump was still onboard.

There is no public evidence Iran actually attempted to attack the aircraft. But the combination of a potential missile threat and highly specific knowledge of Trump's location was apparently serious enough for the U.S. to treat the threat as real.

The biggest unanswered question may be how Iran obtained such detailed information about the president's movements and lodging.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Socialism Is Bad!

Unless Trump does it.
Fascinating to see the polling by ideology and party. The moderates, liberals and democrats are against government ownership of businesses (socialism) while less than half of MAGAs and Republicans think it’s a bad idea and just half the conservatives think it is bad. Socialism!!!! This is absolutely stunning. Do they not understand what government owning businesses is? I thought they wanted small government? I’m speechless.
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How Is This Going To Lower The Price Of Gas?

So let’s talk about “birth tourism.”
American citizenship is not for sale.

But elaborate birth tourism rings are profiting off the exploitation of America's laws- coaching foreigners to defraud the U.S. visa system, arranging travel and housing, and even forging documents, all to enable foreign nationals to obtain citizenship for their children.

The State Department established a Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force to review the activity of visa holders, dismantle illegal birth tourism networks, and put an end to this heinous abuse of our nation's laws. In just one month, the Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force has taken action to revoke more than 600 visas from foreign nationals across the globe and will continue to safeguard our nation from this abuse.

The State Department will use all available tools to dismantle birth tourism networks and defend the integrity of U.S. citizenship.
"Birth tourism” isn’t exploiting American law; it’s violating it. “Illegal birth tourism networks” is the tell. It’s illegal because there’s already a law against it, not because Trump lost in the Supreme Court and Thomas wrote a dissent. Revoking visas to prevent “birth tourism” is something State has been doing since the law was passed. And it wasn’t passed last week. Yeah, that’s the funny part. Rubio needs to talk to his boss.
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Never Take Political Advice From Social Media

Good advice if the entire electorate in 50 states is composed solely of people on Twitter who already hate Trump, and who think the midterms exist just to fuck him up.

But short of that….
See?
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ABOLISH ICE

No shit. What could go wrong?
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👴

His references all date back to when my daughter was born. Of course, “communism” as a shibboleth goes back to before I was born. And had already disappeared from general usage by the time my daughter was born. Not unlike this. ☝️ Really strong old man vibes. Moment of lucidity?  Only a moment.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Hornbook Constitutional Law

If I was going to reduce the likely response of the courts to any attempt by Trump to declare a “national emergency” and suspend the midterms/negate the outcome, it would be this paragraph:

“Where the EO is presently causing confusion and threatening both increasing chaos and an erosion of trust in our democracy,” Talwani wrote, “the court finds that enfranchisement heavily outweighs the executive’s attempt to unconstitutionally insert itself into the domain of election regulation.”
Because the court also found that:
“The executive branch has no authority to regulate elections."
Hornbook constitutional law. And in an echo of the 60+ cases Trump lost in 2020:
The court also found no evidence in the record supporting the purported election-integrity justification for the changes.

“The record is devoid of any evidentiary support of illegal or fraudulent absentee voting,” Talwani wrote. The ruling separately noted that the record contained no evidence suggesting that mail-in voting had resulted in voting by noncitizens.
Three strikes, you’re out. No authority; no grounds; no evidence. Once again, Trump can’t even get in the courthouse door.

I’ll wager Trump has as much evidence to assert a national emergency around the midterms as he does to enforce this EO.

Which has just been rendered unenforceable; in no small part for an absolute lack of evidence to support it.
"Alarming” is par for the course, now. “Effective” would be news. And this is your regular reminder that even the Sinister Six declined to give credence to Trump’s insane 2020 efforts by even allowing briefing on the question. Any question. “Effective” has never even been in the cards.
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Imagine That

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😬

Things are not going all that well for Paxton.
Yeah, about that: Paxton has earned “six figures” every 18 months since 2006 for a cell tower in Frisco, Texas located on the Baylor, Scott & White clinic campus. Paxton acquired the leasehold when he was on the board of directors of the clinic. In other words, he took care of himself. The response of the Paxton campaign is telling:
"The New York Times is not a newspaper anymore; it is an opposition research slop shop," Senior Paxton advisor Nick Maddux said in a statement. "It hired a journalist with a long history of manufacturing fake stories that have all been debunked to continue its slop on the Texas Senate beat."

"Last week, every major publication in Texas covered the overflow crowds at Attorney General Paxton's 'Protect the Texas Promise' tour, and the Times spent that same week combing through 20-year-old lease paperwork on a cell tower that Ken Paxton has disclosed publicly for many years," he continued. "That is not journalism; that is a search for a story that does not exist."
That’s not a denial of anything in the story. At best, it’s an attempt to call it old news. But I don’t recall Paxton publicizing his income from that lease; or how he got it. And he’s not answering those questions now; or denying the reporting.

And since I started it, let’s talk about “overflow crowds.” Talarico drew over 1000 people in Pasadena, not exactly a deep blue area; neither is Port Arthur, but: Paxton filled up a Mexican restaurant in Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb. The crowd did over flow the restaurant, but there is no report on the crowd estimate. I know of at least one Mexican restaurant where an overflow crowd would, indeed, be a lot of people. But it’s one of the largest Mexican restaurants I know. And it is in Austin. This restaurant in Allen could be that big, but that would be unusual.

It was Paxton’s third trip to Allen.

You can’t draw any solid conclusions from this. But Paxton is running against his own record, and not outrunning his record of corruption and self-dealing.

All in all, I’d rather be in the Talarico campaign.

BTW, that phone call was worse than I thought:
TOWN HALL CALLER: Hi Paxton, nice to meet you. I'm just wondering -- why did you cheat on you wife?

KEN PAXTON: Um. I'm not going to talk about personal issues that relate to my family, just like I don't think you would want to discuss your marriage on a call with thousands of people. All I can tell you is that I'm proud of my kids.
Still don’t know how that ended on “I’m proud of my kids.”
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🍻

 Here’s that problem with “accountability,” again:

Mortgages for a person’s main home tend to receive more favorable terms, like lower interest rates, than mortgages for a second home or an investment rental property. Legal experts said that having more than one primary-residence mortgage can sometimes be legitimate, like when someone has to move for a new job, and other times can be caused by clerical error. Determining ill intent on the part of the borrower is key to proving fraud, and the experts said lenders have significant discretion in what loans they offer clients. (In this case, Trump used the same lender to buy the two Florida homes.)
Trump bought two Florida homes (neither one MAL) while he was living in NYC, and got favorable mortgage rates by declaring at time of purchase that each would be his “primary residence.” They are both investments he leases out, and has never lived in.

That could be criminal fraud, if the lenders cared. But they don’t. What this is, is not criminal, then: it’s hypocritical.
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance. “Trump has deemed that this type of misrepresentation is sufficient to preclude someone from serving the country.”
Someone who is a Democrat, or insufficiently loyal to Trump, is Trump’s only concern. Applying his dictates to himself is never Trump’s concern. But this is also why he hung up on the Pro Publica reporter. Trump knows when a good con is over.

Now, you can say Trump’s not paying for this indiscretion, for this possibly criminal act (I didn’t say it wasn’t, just that you’d have as good a chance prosecuting the guy who stuck his hand in the reflecting pool, for pretty much the same reasons.). But the music has stopped playing, and the beer’s gone sour, and the bill has been presented and payment is due. I still think Carville could be right, and Trump will start thinking about Vance giving Trump a pardon, if Trump will give Vance the job. Something Vance may agree to until he’s sworn in, and suddenly decides he doesn’t want to be Gerald Ford 2.0.

Don’t you wish real life was like that?

Something’s gonna give, because Trump has overstayed his welcome. What it is may not be accountability, but whaddya want, eggs in your beer? 🍻 
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“That’s Not How Any Of This Works!”

 So, what's the legal theory here?  That there is "damage" to the restored pool work that was not caused by poor installation, and since Hearne was seen putting his hand somewhere in the 338,676 square feet of the pool, he caused that damage? Where ever and whatever it is?

That's not how this works.  That's not how any of this works.  In fact, that's why charges were dismissed in the first place. So sure, let’s try again! 🤦‍♂️

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“Accountability” Is The New…Orange

Trump rants:
“Chandler Hall, representing, on Television, the foolish Center for American Lack of Progress, stated that adding the National Guard to Cities, including our now Great Again, Washington, D.C., had ‘NO impact on Crime.’ How crazy is that,” Trump posted.

“Hall was met with furious dissent. The report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics, including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal. Foreign support includes the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (Taiwan), and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates,” he continued. “The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything ‘TRUMP.’ These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country. Their stated course is anything to hate or demean ‘TRUMP.’

I am also strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization. Crime is way down since I took Office, and they know it. Liars, at this level, must be held accountable! President DONALD J. TRUMP.
Unfortunately for Trump, not every “lie” is actionable. Libel law is a little more particular than “I don’t like what he said!” Trump’s remedy at law is to publish this post, in disagreement with the findings of CAP. It’s then up to the public to decide who has more credibility.

It’s as simple as that. But Trump wants to hold CAP “accountable.” And there the problems, such as they are, arise. 

“Accountability” is the new black: everyone wants to be wearing it. But accountability is responsibility, and nobody wants that. I’ve noticed the rise of demands for criminal punishment for decidedly non-criminal actions. Some people demand Mitch McConnell and all who serve him be charged with crimes simply because…the Senator wants some privacy? I think we should know the medical condition of the President. We only have one at a time; we provide him a house, staff, a private plane and helicopter. He’s on call 24/7. If McConnell misses a floor vote in ordinary circumstances, who even notices? Are we entitled to know the private lives of all 100 Senators the way we should know about the POTUS? Even the President withholding his medical information is not a crime, not even a misdemeanor. I get the frustration over McConnell’s absence; but calling for criminal punishment is Trump’s favorite distraction. When he can’t get that, he threatens to sue. It’s another cudgel the rich have.

It’s easy to forget NYT v Sullivan was decided in the context of local, racist governments suing civil rights organizations for alleged libel, the better to shut them up. Fortunately, the NYT had the money to fight the common use of the libel law, which, as a common law tort, was the privilege of the privileged. No commoner could ever claim damages to his reputation; only the landed gentry and public figures had that privilege. Libel laws were never about lies (despite truth being the “absolute defense”); they were always about preserving privilege. Which is how Sullivan was using it, when the Supreme Court democratized libel law under the First Amendment.

Trump can’t possibly sue CAP (not credibly, anyway), and he really should be penalized if he tries to. But plaintiffs are generally too privileged to face that consequence, either.

There are fair distinctions to be made here, though they seldom are. Accountability at the ballot box is one thing. Accountability in the court of public opinion, another. Accountability under law should be handled carefully, and sought judiciously (pun intended). But if you want to scream and yell about it, then there really is no difference between you, and Trump.

I’ve noticed the most “radical” politicians: AOC, El Sayed, Hong, Mamdani, are labeled such by inflammatory GOP rhetoric. The politicians I listed aren’t screaming for blood or demanding Trump’s head on a pike or swearing loyalty to a legal jihad/ass kicking. They are promising, or working towards, concrete solutions to problems average people are facing. Here in Texas, Paxton quit talking about “Talafreako” and started talking about helping Texans…through federal tax credits. Something most working Texans can’t access, because they don’t have the money and tax bracket Paxton (and Trump) does. Talarico is pointing out how corrupt Paxton is, but that’s to win the election, not a promise of retribution. Paxton’s not going to lose his homes if Talarico wins; except as a consequence of no longer being a government official who can help his rich friends. And I’m okay with that.

Accountability is a good thing, and a Democratically controlled Congress needs to apply it to Trump. But if that Congress doesn’t do what the “radical” candidates promise, accountability will just mean failure. Accountability won’t put food on their tables; or raise the minimum wage; or lower inflation and shrink the deficit. Gotta do what the people need, like Mamdani is doing.

Screaming on social media about “accountability” may make you feel better. But it won’t win horse races. 🏇 
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Protecting The Epstein Class

I’m having a hard time coming up with any legal basis for the federal government to oppose a NY state tax that only affects non-residents owning second (at least) homes in NYC at or above a certain value.

The closest I can come up with is the Commerce Clause, but state taxation on real estate doesn’t come anywhere near “interstate commerce,” and the 10th amendment pretty handily blocks the Feds from overruling state tax law (poll taxes are specifically outlawed by federal law; that’s a different story entirely from this tax). Basically, if Congress can’t do it, Trump can’t invent a superpower to let him do it.

Of course, it does help make clear Trump is only concerned with protecting the Epstein class.  That’s another arrow in the quiver for November.  Especially since early voting is as little as 75 days away.


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Idiocracy

 Yup:

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines autism as a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal communication, nonverbal communication, and social interaction. Other characteristics often associated with autism are: engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements; resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines; and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The characteristics of autism are generally evident before age three, but a child who manifests the characteristics after age three could be identified as having autism if the eligibility criteria are satisfied. Texas has also published Commissioner’s Rules regarding autism eligibility (§ 89.1040).

In the 2025-2026 school year, 160,218 Texas students received special education services due to the disability condition of autism (TEA 2025-2026 Special Education Reports).
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was passed under Ford in 1975, and amended in 1990 to include autism as a covered condition. It literally became a diagnosed condition rather than “difficult child,” or the reprehensible “mentally retarded.”

Maybe someone should remind RFK that “idiot” and “moron” were once legal terms of art, tied to IQ scores or, in the case of Carrie Buck (and others), simple social opprobrium. Maybe someone should ask the Secretary why we don’t have any “idiots” and “morons” around anymore.

When your argument is that weak (“We didn’t have them before!”), you don’t have an argument.
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Is It Too Late To Move To Michigan?

Next thing, you’re gonna tell me he’s not in favor of DST.
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Let Me Put It This Way

Trump lost 60+ cases trying to reverse the 2020 election. He has yet to produce evidence that it was “rigged.”

Trump’s DOJ has lost at least 20 cases seriatim trying to get voter rolls from states that refuse to bend the knee. (Texas did early on, then had to tell DHS it’s “analysis” had massive errors, and Texas didn’t make any changes pursuant to that DHS “finding.”)

Trump not only has no “right” to declare a national emergency over elections, he has no authority under statute or the Constitution to do so. “National security” is not a secret Presidential superpower that brushes away all legal opposition; otherwise his ballroom would be out of the ground by now, and Trump would be declaring all his EO’s national security measures.

Trump can make all the declarations he wants about the midterms. He can’t get 50 states to go along with him, and the example of Texas is that few would be foolish enough to suspend, or substantially alter, their voting procedures this close to Election Day. After all, even Texas refused to purge their rolls when DHS alleged Texas needed to. Performative actions are one thing; actual performance is where the rubber meets the road. Even the Congress wasn’t willing to give Trump what he wanted in January, 2021. A few said they’d oppose accepting the results, but that’s because they knew it was a futile gesture. They didn’t really want to be responsible for throwing the presidential election into chaos.

Trump’s DOJ is so hollowed out and useless, it makes the legal teams led by Giuliani in late 2020 look like legal juggernauts.
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Why Data Centers Are Inevitable

How can we do without them?
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How Many Journalists….

... is the DOJ going to subpoena over this story?
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That Would Be…

... the single payer system that everyone over 65 in America is eligible for?
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Monday, August 10, 2026

Safety First!

Tennessee Brando on Abdul El-Sayed: Donald Trump came along, and he resonated with the working class by tapping into the absolute worst, by tapping into the fears and the paranoias and the racism and the white supremacy.

And it's ran its course.

It came to a point where people are realizing this guy's name is not raising my gas prices. This guy's name is not causing my grocery bill to go up. This guy's name is not why we're in Iran. This guy's name is not out there going to bat for the billionaire class and the Epstein class.

And so that's why you're seeing these people just get more and more terrified every day of Abdul El-Sayed.
💯  Rafael started his Senate career claiming the UN was going to take all our golfs. I don’t think anyone is listening anymore. ICYMI: Now you know why he so desperately wants that ballroom. He really thinks he needs it. Probably wants to put his bed in it. And his office. I really, really think Trump has become the Ourobouros, and brought the GOP back around to eating its own tail. A circle excluding everyone, and devouring itself.
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Probably So…

They really don’t listen to what they say, do they? Well, yeah, but…Trump’s a Republican; and he didn’t say it during a debate.  So Jake Tapper is not concerned. Which still makes him the most qualified person in the room.

Think about it.
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Why Don’t We Trust The Government Anymore?

truly WILD story. This appears to be the order of operations:

1. Trump flies to Turkey on the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the NATO summit.

2. An Iranian assassination threat triggers a secret “deception operation.” Security officials devise a plan to conceal which aircraft Trump is actually traveling on.

3. The Qatari-gifted Air Force One leaves Turkey first, without Trump.

4. Trump publicly boards the legacy Air Force One in Ankara, walking up the stairs and waving for cameras, creating the appearance that this is his plane home.

5. Trump secretly exits Air Force One through the other side of the aircraft and gets into an airport catering truck raised to the plane’s door.

6. The catering truck drives Trump to a smaller Air Force C-32A, a modified Boeing 757 parked nearby.

7.. Trump secretly boards the C-32A. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also boards separately.

8. Reporters and some White House staff board the legacy Air Force One, apparently unaware Trump is no longer aboard. They are instructed to close their window shades. (Remember all that reporting from the time?)

9. The legacy Air Force One takes off as a decoy and eventually uses the “AF1” call sign despite Trump not being aboard.

10. Trump’s actual C-32A flies secretly to Britain under the nondescript call sign “Reach 18,” with its normal flight-tracking systems reportedly switched off.

11. Trump arrives at RAF Mildenhall in Britain on the C-32A, shortly before the decoy Air Force One arrives.

12. Trump somehow transfers back onto the legacy Air Force One after landing. The Post says exactly how this transfer occurred remains unclear.

13. Trump then emerges from the legacy Air Force One in front of cameras, making it appear as though that was the aircraft he had flown from Turkey.

14. Trump boards the Qatari-gifted Air Force One in Britain and finally flies back to Washington with the press and staff.

P.S. Remember when Trump told the reporters on the plane, "I go, you go," in regard to the plane being targeted? It actually seems Trump left and endangered the lives of everyone on board.
So Trump didn’t even think the legacy plane would protect him. 🤔

(And just think! You could have paid $100,000 to get that blatant lie first!)
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“72 Jabs”

According to the CDC in 2025, the recommended vaccines for children totaled 12, with only 1 requiring five doses (spread out over 4-6 years), and 3 requiring 4 doses. 5 are recommended at two months, and a second dose at four months, a third at 6 months, and of those five, two have a fourth dose recommended at 12-18 months.

The total number of doses, over 6 years, is 31, at most. The number 72 Trump cites is a complete fiction.
So his order strikes one recommended vaccine? The RSV vaccine on the schedule is recommended only on the mother’s vaccine status or, after 6 months, the child’s health status. The COVID vaccine is listed, but not recommended below the age of six. I’m at a loss to determine what this EO changes.

MMRA is recommended in two doses: at 12 months, and at 6 years. Trump is clueless.
5 doses are recommended, at ages 12-15 months. So there is plenty of space to spare. Again, Trump has no idea what his government is doing. Covid vaccine, as of 2025, was not recommended. The other two are, but what Trump is saying reduces the number of vaccines recommended to 9, not 11. Ah, those halcyon days before the hepatitis vaccines, or chickenpox, or even polio (Trump was 9 when the Sabin vaccine was announced). Yes, dem was de days. Of all the things that never happened, these things never happened the most. A guy who sniffs cocaine off toilet seats is not a paragon of logic or science. We have diagnostic criteria for autism that we didn’t have a few decades ago. It’s the same reason we no longer call arthritis “lumbago,” or TB “consumption.” Or think an autoimmune disease like arthritis, is affected by wearing a copper bracelet.

Although I suspect RFK still believes in the efficacy of copper.
This is the guy who wanted “herd immunity” to protect us from Covid. The weak must die so the strong will live. Why we are so screwed. "I just know what I’m told by the people I hired.”

Speaking of what he’s been told:
This will be a surprise to the rest of the world. And the Navy. Trump is not talking to his staff, and they aren’t talking to him. He always is. His statements above are proof of that.
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