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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Snoopy’s Birthday 🎂

I’m not sure the first thing I didn’t read avidly was Peanuts. I do know I clipped dailies and glued them to notebook paper before I found out I could buy collections of the strips in books. It was Peanuts, through Robert Short, who introduced me to the names Bultmann and Barth and Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard.

So many Northern Europeans….

Anyway, a good day, and a good excuse, to dance….

Down a Gothic nave 
comes our Pfarrer now, blessing the West with water: 
we may go. There is no Queen's English 
in any context for Geist or Esprit: about 
catastrophe or how to behave in one 
what do I know, except what everyone knows - 
if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

🕺 💃🏾

—“Whitsunday In Kirchstetten,” W.H. Auden

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✋🛑

Oddly, this is not driving traffic to Truth Social.
According to the New York Times, despite the ever-present media attention that his policy pronouncements and personal attacks on the site attract, traffic to the social media platform has collapsed at an alarming rate this summer.

Monthly visitors to the platform declined approximately 36 percent compared to the previous year, according to Similarweb, an online traffic tracking firm, the Times reported, adding, "Monthly visitors to the site fell by a slightly greater amount in June, compared with last year."

By contrast, larger social media competitors including X and Threads posted higher visitor numbers during the same period.

...

Similarweb data shows the disparity starkly. For the first seven months of 2025, Truth Social averaged 28 million monthly visits. For the same period in 2026, the average dropped to 25 million visits.

Howard Polskin, publisher of the newsletter "theRighting," which monitors right-wing media, expressed surprise at the severity of the decline.

"I have been following traffic to Truth Social for years and I am really struck by the steepness of the plunge," Polskin told the Times. "When you think of how much Trump uses Truth Social as a megaphone you would think the numbers would be skyrocketing."
Yes, you’d certainly think. Then again, Nate Silver (remember him? The “winged with awe, inviolable”? “Aiee, aiee! Slow on the leash! Pallid the leash men!”) says that, as of August 7, Trump’s approval rating is -20.6. Yes, negative.

Few people care what he has to say. Even fewer want to pay for it.
The traffic collapse arrives "at a critical time" for Trump Media. Last month, the company launched a controversial premium service offering Wall Street traders instantaneous access to Trump's posts—a product positioned to provide subscribers trading advantages. Trump Media charges companies up to $100,000 monthly for the early access, but only ten firms have signed up so far, according to the report.
Imagine paying $1.2 million annually to get a 5 second advance on the world for a message like that. Or this: I’m sure those companies will consider that money well spent. Especially when most of what Trump is selling is early notice about his next decision in Iran.
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Where Are The Ted Koppels Of Yesteryear?

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Sure, Whatever

Sure, whatever. 

Matthew 25:31-46 (SV)

"When the Son of Adam comes in his glory, accompanied by all his messengers, then he will occupy his glorious throne. Then all peoples will be assembled before him, and he will separate them into groups, much as a shepherd segregates sheep from goats. He'll place the sheep to his right and the goats to his left. Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, inherit the domain prepared for you from the foundations of the world. You may remember, I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a foreigner and you showed me hospitality; I was naked and you clothed me; I was ill and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to see me.' Then the virtuous will say to him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you or thirsty and gave you drink? When did we notice that you were a foreigner and extend hospitality to you? Or naked and clothe you? When did we find you ill or in prison and come to visit you?

And the king will respond to them, 'I swear to you, whatever you did for the most inconspicuous members of my family, you did for me as well.'

Next, he will say to those on his left, 'You, condemned to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers, get away from me! You too may remember, I was hungry and you didn't give me amything to eat; I was thirsty and you refused me a drink; I was a foreigner and you failed to extend hospitality to me; naked and you didn't clothe me; ill and in prison and you didn't visit me.'

Then they will give him a similar reply: 'Lord, when did we notice that you were hungry or thirsty or a foreigner or naked or weak or in prison, and did not attempt to help you?'

He will then respond: 'I swear to you, whever you didn't do for the most inconspicuous members of my family, you didn't do for me.'

The second group will then head for everlasting punishment, but the virtuous for everlasting life.
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Imagine That

I guess they needed focus groups to tell them that? 🤷‍♂️
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Sunday, August 09, 2026

Dems In Disarray

Tim Scott says Democrats want to turn DC and Puerto Rico into states/Pack the Supreme Court and the only way to stop them is by preventing James Talarico from becoming Michigan’s next senator….

“We have to stop Talarico in Michigan by electing Mike Rogers”

Talarico is running for the Senate in Texas
Are Republicans that desperate to avoid mentioning Ken Paxton’s name?
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Fear Of A Brown Planet

The Constitution will be replaced by Sharia law. IT COULD HAPPEN!

Or we’ll have a President who is the next Constantine, and make us all convert to Islam.  IT COULD HAPPEN!
Might as well explain physics to a donkey.🫏 
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… Signifying nothing…

 So to speak:

“We are low-keying it,” Trump told Axios in what the outlet described as a “brief phone call” regarding the U.S. war against Iran. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”

It was Trump’s next remark that bore a striking similarity to his past remarks made just before the war.

“It will work out. It always works out,” Trump said.
Just stop there, because the phrase is the thing. Trump used the phrase with Tucker Carlson, back in February. You remember February. The assault on Iran began on the last day of that month. Trump was reassuring Carlson that all would be well.

How time flies, huh?
“He said to me, 'everything's gonna be okay' because I was getting overwrought [and told him] 'don't do this.' He said, 'it's gonna be alright,' and he said, 'do you know how I know that?' And I said, 'no.' He said, 'because it always is,’” Carlson told the Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Now, Carlson thinks this is a sign Trump was blackmailed by Bibi into attacking Iran. Seems a bit too inventive, to me. Occam’s Razor, and all that. I remember Trump during Covid, saying (before the vaccine) that one day it would just go away. When it didn’t, he decided it could be treated with bleach, ingested or injected was not specified, or with black light; methods of insertion again unspecified.

He might as well have said it was going to be alright, because it always is. It seems to be his coping mechanism. I wonder how many times he’s used it when his plans turned to shit and he ran out of people to blame.
It’s a cult. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…

Trump also thinks the statement of the DPS employee is “proof.” Except that statement was what Pirro used to get an indictment, an indictment she couldn’t support in court once the pool was drained.  (FoxNews psychosis: the inability to consider that the opposition gets to have their say. And in a criminal case, that means the defendant gets to examine the evidence. That’s exactly the point where the case turned into a dismissal.) The “proof” was not substantiated by the condition of the drained pool.

…signifying nothing.*

I’m sure it’s going to be alright; because it always is.

*Pirro went to Trump with a box full of evidence establishing that no criminal case could be made against any individual. Trump here even agrees the installation was bad. But he can’t let go of it. He learned all the wrong lessons from Cohn. That’s finally catching up to him.
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MAGA Logic

WELKER: President Trump says he deserves an A+ on the economy. Do you agree?

SEN. JIM BANKS: I do. And here's why -- every single jobs report except for this one has exceeded expectations

(This is a blatant lie! One-third of Trump's job reports in his second term have shown job losses)
It’s not a lie if you expected job losses to be worse! And expected to blame Biden, Obama, Hillary because they were.

Because narratives are all that matter:
Clearly Hasan Piker is an albatross and the Donald Trump of the Democratic Party.
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Sadly, Yes

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And We Don’t Trust Medicare…

... because of Medicare fraudsters who become Senators?

(And I’m pretty sure any distrust of the CDC, FDA, or NIH is traceable to Trump, then and now.)
No notes. Like the working stiff said: “I know. I have three of them.”
WELKER: Some Americans worry you can only make Medicare free and universal if you increase taxes. Would you need to do that?

EL-SAYED: Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, instead you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare that you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that kind of system if we knew our healthcare would be free at the point of care.
This is precisely my experience on Medicare. I pay a small monthly premium (smaller than I ever paid for private insurance), and a small annual deductible (again….). I use more healthcare at 70 than I did at 30, but that’s just an argument for covering everyone. More money in the pot, but fewer people relying heavily on it. That lowers the financial burden on everyone.

But this is America, and we can’t have nice things. I honestly think this latest iteration dates back to the ‘50’s when there was remarkable equanimity about public burden sharing (education, public health, etc. )…
But then came the Civil Rights Movement, and we had to share with black people. 

And that’s been the hidden obstacle ever since.
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Dangerous Radical Leftists

El-Sayed: "It means hauling up people like RFK Jr and holding them accountable for the DOGE-ing of our public health apparatus, for which we now need to be dodging lettuce across the state of Michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea, which nobody ever thought you be a consequence of electing Donald Trump, but here we are"
Why can’t we have nice things? Better:
El-Sayed on Trump posting an image of him and his wife in a restaurant with the caption "two VERY DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other but joined in the interest in making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other enjoying some pancakes together ... "
I wish Democrats would discuss concrete issues that voters care about.
AOC on Trump saying oil companies are making too much money: "Everyday Americans, we can see the very large gap between what Trump says and does ... what Donald Trump is doing is starting a reckless war in Iran, having closed-door meetings with oil companies saying 'you give me money and I'll do whatever you want' ... he's jacking up the price not just at the pump, but everything that you buy that requires the transportation of goods."
I mean, seriously! Why can’t she call it inflation, like all the pundits do? Making it easily passive and just another unfortunate circumstance.
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Biden Redux

TAPPER: You said in June this was 'the strongest job market in your lifetime.' By what metric?

HASSETT: The bottom line is if you look at the overall economy, things are really booming

TAPPER: There have been job losses for a third of the months during Trump's second term. 2 million jobs were created in the last 18 months of Biden's presidency. Are you really arguing your numbers are better than that?

HASSETT: I disagree with your number. We'll have to follow up by email
All the pundits know that Biden did a poor job “messaging” his economic policies. Because only messaging matters.
President Donald Trump claimed from the Oval Office Thursday that gasoline was already selling for as little as $1.85 a gallon in Iowa, but a community note pointed out that the figure he cited was for E85, a niche ethanol blend available only to vehicles capable of using flex fuel. Iowa’s statewide average for regular gasoline was $3.79 a gallon as of August, according to the note, meaning Trump’s $1.85 figure does not reflect what most drivers are paying for regular gasoline.
Because nobody sees what they pay at the gas pump. They only know what Trump tells them from the Oval Office. 🙄 In the Biden Administration, the argument was that inflation was worse in Europe (it was). That didn’t make Americans feel any better.

Maybe Trump should tell us gas is even more expensive in Europe. 😜

Meanwhile, enjoy the blood in the water:
Even though it won’t lower inflation, reduce the price of gasoline, or help you pay your bills. But whaddya want? Eggs in your beer?🍻 
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Old Man Shouts At Clouds ⛅️

You should have been here in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

In fact, when has fascist bigotry not been a feature of American political culture? Culture is like genetics: you can’t really outrun it.

“The first of all shall be last of all and servant of all,” is the only antidote I know. But that’s never even been honored in the breaching. Where’s the moral outrage?
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What A Strong Man

With such an aura of invincibility. And Trump is an ignoramus who learned all the wrong lessons from Roy Cohn.
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Saturday, August 08, 2026

Iran Wants To Make A Deal

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School’s Out!

Today:
Senators wrapped up a busy final stretch of work early Saturday, confirming Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department (DOJ) and passing a stopgap funding bill before adjourning for the August recess.
The Senate is out until mid-September.

Two weeks ago: Amanda B. Reckondwith
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Freedom Of…Exploitation?

And a continuing series on why we need AI data centers. Because China could beat us in the race to make the most “historically accurate” film about a fictional journey of a fictional man which is one of the pillars of what we know as Greek mythology.
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😶‍🌫️🙃

Ogles? Trump never heard of him.
Trump’s perfect record of endorsements remains intact.
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ETTD: Missile Gap Dept.

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Friday, August 07, 2026

Well, We’re Running Out Of Missiles…

... and Trump dare not send in the troops.

So what’s left?
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Democrats Need To Stop Arguing About Abstractions…

...said…somebody….
Buttigieg: You don’t have to be a lifelong Democrat to believe that one job ought to be enough in the American economy. You don’t have to be a bleeding-heart liberal to see that costs need to go down and wages need to go up, not the other way around.

You don’t have to belong to this political party or that political party to recognize that God does not belong to any political party in the United States of America, or to insist that people of every faith and any faith, if any, all deserve equal treatment, respect, dignity, and safety in this country.
Buttigieg: The choice could not be clearer. When it comes to the U.S. Senate, we have Abdul El-Sayed, who insists that money in politics has gone too far. And we have him running against Mike Rogers, who insists on being part of the problem.

We have one candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, who wants to expand affordable health care and keep more money in your pocket. And we have another candidate, Mike Rogers, who literally voted against the Affordable Care Act. And you better believe he will cut health care one more time if you give him a chance in the United States Senate.

So we will not let that happen. Mike Rogers has disqualified himself from going back to Washington.
The bubble is real.
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‘Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.’

Trump: “Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that ‘Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.’ We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so. This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
You know that quote in the title is what set Trump off.

"which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so." 

 Oddly, the courts don’t know that history at all. Maybe because it’s completely fictional. 

Next time, instead of reading parts of the court opinion to him, maybe someone on his staff can read him Articles I and II of the Constitution.
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If Your Parent Was Doing This…

Trump: “Now that people are able to see it up close, they are reporting pure VANDALISM at The Reflecting Pool. Thank you Andrew Leyden for your observation! The material was cut right where the video tape showed, for 300 feet or more. People were on their knees with their hands in the water at the exact location of the ‘slashes.’ Additionally, there were witnesses to the VANDALISM, and the flexible areas of the material were cut with a knife. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro should re-visit her hastily made decision, especially since it turned out that the ‘gentleman’ involved is a big player in ActBlue, a disgraceful fundraising SCAM, and is represented by a TRUMP DERANGED SLEAZEBAG, Political Hack Lawyer, Norm Eisen, and CREW, a group that uses “charity” for political purposes which is, to the best of my knowledge, ILLEGAL! I have been beating Eisen, a complete LUNATIC, in Court for 10 years, or more. He just keeps coming, but I always WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
...you’d be removing sharp objects from reach, and calling a lawyer to find out about a guardianship.
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A+ On The Economy

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Somebody’s Gonna Have To Explain It To Me

I know everyone has a story like this, but my little sister had a beloved stuffed dinosaur (Doobie) that was lost on a family vacation in eastern Washington. My parents called the hotel, called every restaurant, and couldn't track Doobie down. I remember my mom actually crying she felt so badly for my sister. It was such a disaster that the whole neighborhood knew about it, and everyone was bereft at the loss of Doobie.

A few months later, we pulled into our driveway... and there was Doobie, sitting on the fence.

My parents told my sister he had walked all the way back to Seattle from Lake Chelan. I learned 20 years later that our neighbors saw a new Doobie at Costco, bought him, and made him look a little beat up to give the story credibility. But this is how normal people behave: When a child's most beloved stuffed animal is left, you move heaven and earth to get it back.
Any parent of a small child can tell a similar story to this. I know I’m only reading headlines, but according to them, this reprehensible representative has kept the favorite doll of his daughter away from her on multiple occasions. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Why this man is not restricted to severely limited, supervised visitations, is beyond me. 34 years ago when I was practicing family law, I could have gotten those limitations on a father like this just on the headline record I’ve read.

I am baffled by the lack of concern for the best interests of this poor child.
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Canada Took All Our Immigrants And Gave Them Jobs?

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Who?

Which Democrats is he talking about? Ossoff? Talarico? Dr. El-Sayed? Justin Pearson?

It may come as a shock, but the country can’t vote for Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. All politics is local, and all midterms are about local races, representatives, and maybe a statewide Senate race.

The Democrats I mentioned are all talking about pocketbook issues. Maybe close your mouth and open your ears. I know the national political narrative is always about what matters to BosWash pundits. But the country doesn’t know your name.

The electorate does know who they’re voting for; or against.
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I’m Not Worried About The Pundit Narrative “Dems In Disarray”

Speaking of Platner: I have never seen a parent in a custody dispute face credible allegations of physical abuse and not say it’s a “hit job.” It always is, but the hits are physical, and not on the whining parent. Unemployment is GOOD for the economy!
VARNEY: We've had 3 months now of real weakness in the job market. Is the economy moving into a new phrase where we're losing jobs? That would not be good politically for the president

HASSETT: I don't think that's what we're seeing at all. One of the things we have to remember is that because we've been deporting folks, that put downward pressure on what the breakeven job number is.
See?
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Yeah, About That…

Touch grass.
Fox News melts down on live TV over Ken Paxton’s failing campaign: “WHERE IS PAXTON?! I’ve seen Mitch McConnell more than Paxton... Get out of your hole Paxton and DO SOMETHING! I can’t win this race for you! It’s not on Fox! ... Talarico is younger and has energy... THIS CANNOT HAPPEN!”
This is the most aggressive attack on Black political power since Jim Crow. You look at the last 12 months, you look at these Supreme Court cases, you look at this racist redistricting map in Texas — and I say racist because it is systematically diluting the voting power of Black and Brown Texans.

When you look at how the districts are now drawn, a white Texan has a lot more political power. Their vote matters more than the vote of our Black and brown neighbors. It’s why, a year ago yesterday, my colleagues and I in the Texas House took the extraordinary step of breaking quorum.

We left the state of Texas and we went up to Illinois in order to prevent them from getting quorum. They couldn’t take up these new maps because we were gone. They called the Texas Rangers on us to find us and and arrest us and bring us back to the Capitol.
The only people paying attention to the pundits are…the pundits.
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Baghdad Bob Explains It All For You

And if you use Trump math, drug prices are down 600%. If you take into account how many people have stopped looking for jobs, the unemployment numbers are actually better than reported!
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Birthright Citizenship

It’s the “birth” part that seems to confuse him. You can “come in with a family.” But only the statutory naturalization process will make that entire family citizens.

He clearly doesn’t understand that. 🤦‍♂️
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“They’re not angry with me!”

"They’re not angry with me!”
"They're angry at Republicans," Trump said, "but they're not angry at me."

Trump argued that his hands were tied when it came to helping GOP candidates because he isn't running himself.

"If I am not running, will those people go out and vote?" Trump asked. "Because a lot of them are very angry at Republicans, to be honest with you."
That’s Biden’s fault. Biden’s fault, too. But the AI data centers! And the factories! 🏭 

How many days is it until the midterms?
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Thursday, August 06, 2026

😱 v 🦗🦗🦗🦗

When Trump hints he might stay forever (a/k/a trolling), the usual fish bite. But when he hints that Carville may be right…

🦗🦗🦗
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Just A Reminder

There is no such thing as Christian megalomania. It’s the opposite. It’s Christian servanthood. “The first of all shall be last of all and servant of all.”
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And This Shall Be A Radical Sign Unto You

"Radical” comes to English from the Latin radix, or “root.” To be “radical” is to start from the root.
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New Border Sign:

"BILLIONAIRES AND THEIR FAMILIES WELCOME! All others, get in line. And have your financial statements ready.” Does he understand human biology? On people able to bear 98 children?
Miller: The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretend to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland… but the real reason they're here is to have a child, to make that child into automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a US citizen child…

That practice is now banned
It’s already banned. By law. You know, those things Congress makes, and Presidents don’t?
Stephen Miller: The president is using his authority as commander in chief, to sign first an executive order using the new rule in the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship

That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments
"Commander-in-chief" doesn’t reach as far as you think it does. And the Supremes did not give Trump authority to augment the law with new definitions. Alien enemies have always been exempt from birthright citizenship. People who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments can be U.S. citizens, and so can their children. Congress gets to make those distinctions. Trump doesn’t. "Ending in a different way”? Trump is certainly out of ideas. Less than 100 days until the midterms (far less, if you calculate early voting), and while Trump is anxious (arguably): This is what he thinks is an appropriate response.

And all he can offer is “Vote Republican to keep us in power!” It’s the only thing about the job he understands.
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Is It Some Kind Of Disease Process In The GOP?

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What We Now Call Communism

The young people here might not remember this, but those of you who are a little older might. Not so long ago, you could afford to live a good life here in America.

You could buy a home in your 20s. You could go to college for cheap or free. You could support a whole family on one paycheck. You could afford to get married, have kids, and retire comfortably. You could fulfill your God-given potential.

We called it the American Dream.

In the middle of the 20th century, we invested in healthcare and education. We built homes and highways. We protected workers' rights and paychecks. We blocked consolidation and encouraged competition. We built the largest, strongest middle class in the history of the world.

But today that middle class has disappeared. For too many of our neighbors, the American Dream has become an American Nightmare.

We can't afford a home, but Jeff Bezos has at least a dozen. We can't afford to fill up our tank, but Mark Zuckerberg is launching helicopters from his mega-yacht. One in five Texas children live in poverty — but one of our residents became the world's first trillionaire.

The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.

The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.

And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.

Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.

We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
We are getting screwed. Whether you're a little more conservative or a little more progressive — none of us can afford groceries, none of us can afford gas, none of us can afford healthcare.

The billionaires buying politicians like Ken Paxton don't care who you are. They don't care about your politics. They only care about their profits.

They see us as one opposing team — so we might as well start acting like one.
When Greg Abbott starts sounding like James Talarico, the Overton Window is moving:
We cannot let artificial intelligence become yet another arena where billionaires write the rules for the rest of us. Working people must get a say and a share of that AI future.

We can start by cracking down on the data centers that are jacking up our utility bills and using up all our water.

And we can establish an AI dividend, so every American citizen owns a piece of these American AI companies. If they are going to use our human ingenuity and our collective intellectual property, then we want our royalty checks.
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