Sunday, August 16, 2026

“My Death, Is It Possible?”

"My family being treated like “immigrants,” is it possible?”
The couple got off a flight in Burbank, California, and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in a brown hoodie stopped Bobreneva for questioning before handcuffing her and taking her away in an unmarked vehicle. She was held in Los Angeles then spent two weeks in a Mojave Desert detention center before being freed on a $35,000 bond, according to The Times.

"The allure of the MAGA campaign was around illegal entries of criminals," Jindra, her husband, said. "There was never a mandate for this president to turn the barrel of the gun and start going after people who legally entered."

Bobreneva was released with an electronic ankle monitor and is still fighting to stay in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security told The Times that she was "an illegal alien" who was detained because "she overstayed her welcome in violation of our nation's laws."

According to The Times, Bobreneva has a pending green card application, but her lawyer argues that she was never out of lawful status.

She told The Times that she was held in a frigid room with a handful of other women, including one who was a diabetic in her 70s, pleading for insulin to no avail.

Since her arrest, Bobreneva has been "struggling to sleep and was terrified of being detained again," The Times reported, adding that Jindra was also "nervous."

"I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone," Bobreneva said.
So easy to take freedom from the wrong people, that is. Their death is possible; mine, is unimaginable.
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How Odd That The Courts Can’t Find That Authorization

Are you sure Trump didn’t get the authorization from AI George Washington? And are you just going to try in court 22 more times, like you have over state voter rolls?
WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Democratic Party?

JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That's the Democratic agenda.
Jeffries is still running the last election, when FoxNews actually mattered. Mamdani and El Sayed and AOC are not advocating abolishing the Senate or wide open borders. Stop doing the GOP’s work for them, or get the hell outta the way. At this rate, your elevation to Speaker is going to kill the Democrats’ momentum before it can even get started.

Frankly, his one sentence summary of the “Democratic agenda” could have come from Ken Paxton. Paxton’s “solution” is tax credits, which the majority of Americans (and Texans) would never get. Do better or get off the tracks. Train’s a comin’.
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It’s Only “Wasteful Government Spending” When You Spend It On People

(It’s all “other people’s money,” and all the money goes to people. You think missile defense systems are putting those tax dollars in bank accounts? Where else does money go, but to people?)
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First Rule Of Holes

TAPPER: When you were asked if you regret your vote for RFK Jr, you noted you 'couldn't see into the future.' How do you respond to the criticism that you just needed to look to the past because he's been spreading disinformation about vaccines for 22 years?

CASSIDY: All I can say is you have to live life living forward
TAPPER: You voted for Todd Blanche. Do you think it's appropriate for the attorney general to be participating in a partisan political event?

CASSIDY: All I saw was that little snippet. I'm going to reserve comment because I was not aware of that before this. I will say Republicans are very strong on law enforcement
WELKER: Can you pledge the DOJ will always act independently of the White House?

BLANCHE: No, I'm not going to pledge that, and no attorney general ever should

WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it?

BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.
It’s all about definitions.
WELKER: How is Trump's pardons of 172 people who assaulted police officers consistent with your pledge to always protect law enforcement?

BLANCHE: The president's pardon powers are not limited

WELKER: But do you believe it was wrong to pardon people who assaulted police officers on J6?

BLANCHE: Absolutely not. That's the president's right
The President can never be wrong, he can only be wronged. At least when his name is “Trump.”
Blanche: "This is horrible what's happening in our nation's capital with some of these really really sick people vandalizing our national monuments, and US Attorney Pirro is doing a phenomenal job enforcing that, going after anybody's who's doing it, and I think judging her on a single case because of the evidence we had is not fair."
All criminal and civil cases are based on, first and foremost, on the facts. This is irreducible.
WELKER: Would you take the president's opinion into consideration when he says 'I think this case should be revived?"

TODD BLANCHE: Hold on. Will I take the president of the United States' view on something into consideration? Yes. Of course. And I hope every attorney general in history would not answer that question differently.
He is Trump’s lawyer. Watergate has been memory holed.
Todd Blanche: "The president does not expect any of his leaders, including me, to just say yes to him no matter what he says ... there's this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up and calls me and says, 'Todd, go prosecute x or y.' He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that."
Blanche is less credible than Trump. I didn’t think that was possible. QED. Everything he said in this interview is a lie.
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All Politicians Are Crooked

Some are just more crooked than others. That’s the standard attitude, anyway.

Down here on the Third Coast, Texas and Louisiana are infamous for their crooked politicians. It’s practically a badge of honor. We know Ted Cruz has never done shit for Texas. We knew Rick Perry was rich, despite only having had government jobs his entire adult life (Paxton was at least a lawyer in private practice until 2015. He was a Texas representative and Senator for a decade, but that’s a part time job. And it’s not clear his blatant corruption now is hurting him all that much. We’ll see.). Louisiana politics is almost unthinkable without corruption. 

It’s as American as cherry pie. Sometimes it’s machine politics; it’s crooked, but it takes care of you. Sometimes it’s resentment; at least the politicians are oppressing the people I resent. That one is actually the most popular source of GOP political power in the country, and the hardest to explain when poor people accept the authority of the rich because they think it means somebody else is getting stepped on worse than them. Never underestimate the sheer power of resentment.

But the simpler example is the low esteem Congress is always held in. We resent the fact Congress is helping “them,” but appreciate “our” Congresscritters who always look out for “us.” Congress sucks. Our guys are brilliant. 

Same as it ever was.
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Q: Does Hannity Think This Will Impress The Court?

I would not put it past the Sinister Six to accept that Trump has a “national security” argument for his ballroom where he clearly doesn’t. What I would say is that they cannot raise that to a constitutional authority that overrides the clear Article I Congressional authority to allocate government funds. Which means the next Congress can simply deny funding or any expenditure on the ballroom, or at least demand all the procedures and reviews in place for such architectural projects be followed. And either way, end the thing. 

Because I really don’t see the Court ruling on it, in Trump’s favor at least, before next summer. Nor do I think they’ll try to make a Constitutional issue out of it.  Ultimately that is still a Congressional prerogative, and Congress can simply say: “Nope.”

And then there’s that AI video of Trump walking Washington through an imaginary bomb shelter, which is not the flex in court Hannity seems to think it is. If anything, it makes Trump dangerously delusional; or at least deeply unserious. While raising still more questions about the argument that we cannot allow a Chinese data center gap. 

Of course, I’m still failing to see what the argument for that is, anyway. AI is apparently the inevitable future that leaves us even worse off than the internet has. We aren’t going to need SkyNet to destroy us (and why wasn’t SkyNet envisioned as a sprawling explosion of data centers nobody wanted? Speculative fiction is really never speculative in the right ways.)* We’re going to do it to ourselves. We’re going to use up land and water to generate AI slop because it suits the interests of the moneyed class that thinks tulips will make them Masters of the Universe. We have met the enemy, and he is us. When he isn’t a demented old man determined to reprise the reign of George III. I really don’t think Trump wants that in the court record, no matter how strong Hannity thinks it is.

*Bradbury got closer when he imagined a future where we all talked to each other on our wristwatches rather than face to face; or spent all our time staring at screens. Humanoid robots make for scarier visuals, but we don’t need them for the apocalypse. 
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Saturday, August 15, 2026

Huh 🤔

How about that?* *Ken Paxton has been Texas AG since 2015. How is it he’s suddenly unclear about the state of Texas law?
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We Still Don’t Have Enough Data Centers

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😷

This guy? A “conspiratorial minded crank”?
Michaelson: Trump said when you put them together, they're sort of like a nuclear weapon. But the CDC itself, your own CDC, says no published scientific evidence shows any benefit in separating the combination of MMR vaccine into three individual shots. So who's right, President Trump or your own CDC?

RFK JR: I think the CDC website probably is outdated
“Probably.” Close enough is good enough, right? But in the meantime, kiddies….eat more sauerkraut! 94 vaccines? Facts and figures courtesy of Prof. Otto Yerass. How long has the MMR vaccine been around? And how safe is a case of measles? And why do we have a sudden measles epidemic now? Because you aren’t a medical doctor? Or even a scientist? In any field?
Michaelson: In terms of that idea of it’s the size of a soda bottle. I mean, that's not accurate. Right?

RFK JR: What you should be concerned with is the fact that none of these vaccines have been tested in placebo controlled trials.

(This is a claim that he has made across multiple interviews and has been fact checked before. After this segment ended, CNN brought on an infectious disease doctor who said this claim is false)
And again, for the peanut gallery: how many cases of polio have we seen since the 1960’s? Mumps, Measles, Rubella, since the MMR vaccine? (Well, when people were taking the vaccine.) Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis? Chicken pox and shingles? My dad had shingles in his 80’s. I’m glad to be vaccinated against it. "Run away! Run away!” Yup, no conspiratorial minded nonsense evident here. Nosiree, bob! 😷
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Say What You Want, But At Least…

... it’s an ethic. At moments like this, I begin to think the American public really isn’t capable of managing democracy. Because they elect idiots like this.

It really is a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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Friday, August 14, 2026

It’s A Close Race…

... as to who’s more delusional. Frankly, it’s so close, I can’t slip a piece of paper between them.
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The Crew Of The Abraham Lincoln Is Suffering So You Can Be Free

The Trump regime is now declaring “mission accomplished” while saying “war is hell” (thought they said this wasn't a war?) and claiming the USS Abraham Lincoln’s grueling extended deployment was all part of a “planned rotation.”

“Deployments are hard.” “Normal routines are disrupted.” “Uncertainty will always be in play.”

That’s how Trump’s Navy Secretary is brushing off what sailors have actually been enduring: food and supply shortages, broken plumbing, deteriorating living conditions, and deployment extensions that have pushed crews and their families to the brink.

We’ve heard directly from families of sailors aboard the Lincoln who are furious at the Trump regime’s gaslighting and lies.
These people are beneath contempt. Their incompetence is flashing red and setting off klaxons. They’re fooling no one.
Wife of US Service Member on Lincoln reacts to Trump’s statement: I don't think the man thinks before he talks. Take some accountability for what's going on with your military, your ships, and your war.

We heard Hegseth and the president essentially saying that families are lying and service members are lying, even though the proof is right here on my phone.

It's infuriating that they're not taking accountability and not having any sort of sympathy for our service members that they they claim that they support when it's politically, you know, sound for them—until our troops need support. And now suddenly everyone's lying.

I so badly would love to plaster my face and blow the whistle so loud on social media with my name and be like, this is real. But unfortunately, I have to protect my husband's career
According to Sec. Cao, the media is misrepresenting these people by…letting them speak in public.

This administration is clowns all the way down. 🤡
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Jesus Loves White Guys And Cheeseburgers 🍔

But he can’t stand you. Every accusation is a confession.

And in Texas politics, Stephen Miller matters less than a fart in a hurricane.
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Putting CENTCOM In Context

🚫 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.
It was more despicable than you thought.
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

Worried families vented their anxieties about loved ones onboard the Lincoln at an emotional town hall meeting with navy leaders in San Diego last Thursday, Stars and Stripes reported. One spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying “he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow”.

The families’ worries were expressed directly to navy leadership, represented at the town hall by the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, and other top officials.
That’s right: the Secretary of the Navy was in attendance, and CENTCOM says it’s all bullshit. 

ETTD. Every. Goddamned. Thing. It’s gonna take years to bleach out the stain and eliminate the stench.
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AI Data Centers Are Inevitable

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“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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