Monday, March 09, 2026

Just A Quick Follow Up👇

Even Lindsay Graham recognizes reality once in a while:
Our allies in Israel have shown amazing capability when it comes to collapsing the murderous regime in Iran. America is most appreciative.

However, there will be a day soon that the Iranian people will be in charge of their own fate, not the murderous ayatollah’s regime.

In that regard, please be cautious about what targets you select. Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses. The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor.
The toxic rain caused by Israel bombing refineries in Tehran (but Israel doesn’t target civilians! It’s just unfortunate they hadn’t fled the city….) was too over the top, I guess.
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It Occurred To Me…

... to connect this… ... with this. Well, and this: Iran’s best response was to merely threaten the Straits of Hormuz; the insurance companies did the rest. Nothing can protect the tankers except the end of belligerence. The economic pressure is going to be immediate and intense; and Russian oil will hardly make up the difference.

Public pressure will follow, but the price of oil affects the price of everything, not just gasoline. Which means it will drive inflation, and the Fed can’t fix that by lowering interest rates. 

So what’s the connection? I suspect Trump is being pushed closer to declaring victory and scampering off. “Short term oil prices … will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over”? What the hell does that mean? An empty phrase that Trump thinks sounds like a plan? Could be. Very likely, really. But he announced the “obliteration” of Iran’s “nuclear threat” last summer. After a bomb run. And now Hegseth tells “60 Minutes” that we are switching to conventional bombs. The stockpile of “smart bombs” is probably; almost certainly) diminishing, and it’s time for less discriminate destruction. Why not claim some bombs somewhere did the job? And declare Iran’s nuclear capability “obliterated” again? Before the stockpile is further diminished? (He doesn’t care about the death and destruction, except to revel in it before he gets bored again.)

BTW: Trump says he won’t sign any laws until the SAVE act moves to his desk. Has anyone told him about the Presentment clause?
If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Art. I, sec. 7, cl. 2

All Trump did was threaten to hold his breath until his face turned blue if he didn’t get a pony.
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Sunday, March 08, 2026

Yeah, I’m Havin’ Flashbacks, Man!

And I never even went to ‘Nam, man!

I was honestly just remembering the government reports that told us how successful we were being in Vietnam. And I don’t mean just the body counts. The rosy accounts of how supreme we were went on for decades. They not only sold it to us, they believed it themselves. The dismissive phrase “little brown men in black pajamas” came from the government. It was who they thought they were up against, and why the government, for decades (again), thought our military superiority would carry the day.  We dropped about 7.5 million tons of bombs in that war. By comparison, we dropped 2.15 tons of bombs in WWII. Bombing didn’t win that war (although we thought it would). It certainly didn’t win the war in Vietnam.

The real legacy of the Vietnam war is that truth really is its first casualty. And that affects the people, and their government.

That’s what we learned from Vietnam. Small wonder few of us are relying on the word of the Liar in Chief and the dry drunk SecDef. Two men with no military experience, and half a brain between them.
Sure it will. Again, we were assured Iran’s nuclear capability had already been destroyed. About 8 months ago. And only fools would complain about the price of gasoline.

It’s Déjà vu all over again, man!
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O Brave New World

BREAKING: Yesterday I wrote that ships in the Persian Gulf were changing their transponders to broadcast “Chinese Owner” and “All Chinese Crew” to avoid Iranian attack. The ocean’s rules had changed. The new rules were written in Mandarin.

There is now a 30,000 ton Chinese intelligence vessel sitting in the Gulf of Oman confirming exactly what those transponder signals already told you.

The Liaowang-1 is a next generation signals intelligence and space tracking ship commissioned in 2025. It displaces 30,000 tons. It carries at least five radar domes and high gain antennas capable of tracking 1,200 air and missile targets simultaneously with over 95 percent identification accuracy using deep neural network algorithms. Its sensor range reaches approximately 6,000 kilometers. It is escorted by Type 055 and Type 052D destroyers.

It is parked in international waters near Oman, watching the war.

China officially describes these vessels as satellite tracking and rocket telemetry ships. That is true. They track space launches and missile tests. The plausible deniability is built into the design. The same sensors that track a Chinese satellite can track an American carrier. The same algorithms that identify a ballistic reentry vehicle can identify an F-35 launching from the USS Gerald Ford.

Defense analysts across multiple publications assess that Liaowang-1 is collecting real time electromagnetic intelligence on US and Israeli naval and aerial operations. Whether that intelligence is being shared with Iran is unconfirmed. No official Chinese or Iranian statement acknowledges data transfer. But the ship’s position, its timing, and its capabilities create an inference that every analyst in Washington is already drawing.

Consider the operational picture from Tehran’s perspective. Iranian air defenses are 80 percent destroyed according to the IDF. Iranian radar coverage is degraded. Iranian satellite imagery is limited. But a Chinese vessel with a 6,000 kilometer sensor range sitting in the Gulf of Oman can see every carrier movement, every aerial refueling track, every missile launch corridor, and every submarine surfacing event in the theater. If even a fraction of that data reaches Iranian commanders through any channel, the value to Iran’s remaining defense is incalculable.

China has not fired a weapon. It has not violated international law. It has not entered Iranian territorial waters. It has deployed a surveillance platform in international waters where any nation has the right to operate. And it has done so at the precise moment when the information that platform collects has maximum strategic value to the country the United States is bombing.

The Cold War had a name for this: intelligence support to a belligerent without direct combat involvement. The Soviets did it for decades with AGI ships shadowing American carriers. China is doing it with a vessel whose neural network processing exceeds anything the Soviets imagined.

The ships are spoofing Chinese identity to survive. The Chinese intelligence vessel is watching to ensure it knows everything that happens next. The new maritime order is not approaching. It has arrived. And it is 30,000 tons of radar domes and neural networks, anchored in the Gulf of Oman, seeing everything.
A Chinese ship not concerned with seeking a port(insurance, again), but also not interested in taking a random missile.
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“Nothing Less Than World Domination!”

Like this:
BARTIROMO: Trump had an interesting exchange about troops on the ground. Moms are worried we're gonna have a draft and see their kids get involved in this. What do you want to say about the president's plan for troops on the ground?

LEAVITT: President Trump wisely does not remove options from the table
Trump is not the sovereign monarch. He doesn’t have the authority to declare a draft by EO.  Congress still won’t approve a military draft, and the Administration has proven itself incompetent to organize a two car funeral procession. Re-establishing selective service and a draft lottery, and then administering it, all for a war already underway, speaks of a commitment to this war effort that is shocking.

And also moronic. This is not worth worrying about, except as another example of the incompetence of this administration. A military draft is as likely to happen as Trump is likely to become as eloquent a speaker as Barack Obama.
Great minds thinking alike.

And speaking of world domination:
"I wish I had better news: the world is now a little more than a week into the largest oil disruption ever in history,” McNally said, appearing on CNN Sunday. “The 20 million barrels a day that have stopped flowing from [Strait of] Hormuz to the world is twice the amount of the biggest last disruption, which is all the way back in the 1950s, the Suez Crisis.”

...
“This is an authentic crisis, it needs to stop soon. We need to get freedom of navigation going and that flow through Hormuz restarted,” McNally continued.

“Before this started, people didn't think it was possible, no one thought that an adversary could shut down the Strait of Hormuz, that didn't happen even in the 1980s during the tanker war. Now everyone's asking how long can it last. Can't take another few weeks of this, I think we're going to see galloping further increases in oil prices, and it's going to start to hurt equities as well.”
So, sure, let’s drag this out until we need a draft 

Did I mention the world is very different from what it was in the ‘50’s, at least as regards oil consumption? And from what I understand, the canal is shut down because insurance companies won’t cover the damages possible. Which is probably what’s changed since the ‘80’s. Missile technology, in brief.
I think Trump has pretty much taught that lesson to everyone likely to learn it.
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Why I Enjoy Derek Guy’s Twitter Feed

I'm surprised anyone disagrees with this. The growth of my social media account and root of my legitimacy is purely in the fact that I know how the ruling classes in Britain, Italy, and the United States dressed during the 20th century.

When Vivek Ramaswamy and Pete Hegseth wear tan shoes with navy suits, I can say "this looks like shit to most people because it's not how King Charles and Gianni Agenlli would have dressed." When Kash Patel puts contrast buttonholes on his suits, I can say it's wrong because the ruling classes across these countries during that period would have never chosen such a thing.

You read this as legitimate purely because you accept the legitimacy of these classes in forming our sense of aesthetics. Someone who has no interest in these classes — such as Paul Harden and Yohji Yamamoto — rightly disregards all of these notions and makes tailoring according to different rules.

The polo shirt is no different. The spread of the polo shirt is a story about how a pullover garment migrated from the polo fields played by British imperialists to tennis legends in France and eventually to the golfing middle classes in the United States. This is entirely a story about race, class, and gender. Football jerseys and basketball shorts don't enjoy such history, and thus they are not seen as legitimate business clothes.

The difference between me and other menswear writers is that: 1) I make this history and dynamic transparent and 2) I don't think the white upper class are the sole source for cultural legitimacy. There are many legitimate aesthetics that have nothing to do with this class, such as biker gear, workwear, punk and rap aesthetics, etc.

I just think it's weird to shit on contemporary women's athleisure while wearing a polo shirt, one of the original pieces of athleisure, albeit primarily worn by upper class white men.
Until Ralph Lauren came along, I never knew they were polo shirts. 👕 I called them “Izods.” If I understand correctly, the precursor to the soft collar polo shirt was the button down collar, so they wouldn’t flap in the player’s face.

I only have a couple of polo shirts now, but almost all of my regular shirt have button down collars. I suppose I’m still a slave to the “upper” classes. What can I say? I learned to dress when the Preppie Handbook came out. That and my boss wor button down dress shirts, and I greatly admired him.
I can’t think of a better reason to put this phone down and pick up that Kierkegaard biography I’ve been trying to finish.

Or maybe just try to revive my long neglected piano skills. 

It’s much more likely I’m gonna read the biography….
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It Was An Iranian Missile Dressed Up To LOOK Like A Tomahawk!

You know! The way antifa wears MAGA caps in riots! Stephen Miller wants them deported, too. No room in America for people who disagree with Stephen Miller. Even Meghan McCain has seen enough. And although the messenger is nuts, there’s no improving the message.
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What You Didn’t Have On Your Bingo Disaster Card

 Corpus Christi, Texas running out of water next year. For real:

The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petroleum ports, triggering potential shockwaves through energy markets in Texas and beyond.

Without significant rainfall, Corpus Christi is headed for a “water emergency” within months and total depletion of the system next year, according to the city’s website. “The impacts are going to be felt tremendously through the state, if not internationally,” said Sean Strawbridge, former CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, the nation’s top port for crude oil exports, in a 40-minute interview Thursday. “This should be no surprise to anybody. We were talking about this over a decade ago.”

Other current and former officials, alarmed at what they call a lack of preparations, have suggested the potential for an economic crisis involving mass layoffs, disruption of fuel supplies and billions of dollars in emergency spending to avoid an evacuation of the city.
It's like this:
The region’s largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region’s water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment. These multi-billion-dollar refineries, petrochemical plants and liquified natural gas facilities are built to run at a steady rate and can’t simply throttle down production in accordance with water availability. They consume large volumes of water primarily in cooling towers to prevent excessive heating and explosions.
Which probably means:
Depletion of this region’s reservoirs would lead to “controlled depression” for the local economy, “mass unemployment” and “industrial total shutdown,” according to a two-page report by Don Roach, former assistant general manager of the San Patricio Municipal Water District, which supplies many of the region’s large industrial water users.

That includes refineries operated by Flint Hills Resources, Valero and Citgo that provide jet fuel to Texas airports and meet much of the state’s daily demand for gasoline.

“This waiting disaster is under the radar for the rest of the state,” said Roach, who worked 20 years at the water district and retired in 2014. “We hear nothing from the Texas politicians about the seriousness of the situation or any state plan to mitigate it.”

He no longer had access to current water data and contracts, he stressed, but produced the report based on his own knowledge. It said the costs of trucking in emergency water “would bankrupt many local small businesses and low-income households” while state emergency managers would need billions of dollars to “build emergency temporary pipelines or subsidize desalination barge rentals to prevent a total evacuation of the city.” Strawbridge, a former director of the Port of Long Beach, said Roach’s assessment was “spot on.”
And what does the region need?
The last hope to avert disaster, the official said, was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.

“It would basically have to be a hurricane,” he said.
To put that in perspective, Houston go 50+ inches of rain during Harvey. And since then we’ve had to restrict water usage from time to time, because of drought. If a hurricane is your last hope, you’re really screwed. Especially when a hurricane would just be a stop gap measure.

Nothin’ but good times ahead!
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“We Have Always Been At War With….”

1979?
This is Teheran this morning - Yes, this morning.

Thick black clouds are covering the city - oil and ashes are raining down on the streets.

War is hell.

A PH test of the water in Teheran also shows that the water has become acidic- resulting from the oil and ashes leaking into the fresh water supply of the city. The corrosion of the cities water and sewage pipes will become a problem for the city; a problem for the generations to come.
When are they going to welcome us as liberators? But Israel did that: At least until Hegseth says we did it, and we’re damned proud of it.
TAPPER: Is targeting Iran's oil industry going to be a continuing strategy for the US and Israel?

CHRIS WRIGHT: No. There are no plans to target Iran's energy industry. If these are Israeli strikes, these are local fuel depots.

TAPPER: Where are the health impacts of strikes on fuel sites?

WRIGHT: I would focus on the thousands of American soldiers that the Iranian regime has killed
Wait, what? There’s been more than 6? Lindsay unleashed. Your regular reminder Fort Sumter was in South Carolina. And they shot first. I’m guessing he’s too old for sex, and this is his substitute.
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The Only Possible Good Thing About DST

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But I Was Assured He Was Going To Use China To Suppress The Vote

Of course the SAVE ACT would be struck down before the ink had dried on his signature. Has nobody in the White House read Shelby County v Holder? Roberts pretty much gutted the authority of the Feds over elections in his reasoning gutting Section 2 of the VRA. SAVE is just VRA for white people, with the same level of interference in state affairs Roberts rejected before. And with even less due process. States could challenge determinations made under Section 2. What do states who use mail in ballots beyond the proposed limits of SAVE do? Bend the knee?

Didn’t Alito just turn abortion law back to the states in a strongly anti-federalist decision? Seems to me that covers “mutilization” of children (which is only happening in Iran, at the receiving end of U.S. bombs), something no one is doing now for transgender surgery, since it’s unethical. A concept inconceivable to Trump. 

And “men in women’s sports” is as much a state issue as men in women’s bathrooms (where did that one go, by the way?).

I’m gonna go back to worrying about China in the conservatory with the candlestick. That’s a much more realistic concern than Trump blackmailing the Senate into revoking the filibuster.
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🤦‍♂️

We held elections during WWII. We held elections during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, after 9/11. I think the only time we didn’t have national elections was during the Civil War.

Trump may (emphasis on “may”) imagine he’ll suspend the election. He’ll find out, again, the limits of his power.

National security is not a reason to suspend elections. National security is a reason we have elections.

And by the way, there is no provision in Article. I, sec. 4, cl. 1, that gives the POTUS the power to suspend Congressional elections. Period.

Or it could be China in 2020; in the study, with the lead pipe:
The premise that this “will unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting” is total bullshit.

As we used to say: “The stupid, it burns.”
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Saturday, March 07, 2026

Bonfire Of The Vanities

He can’t. He can’t risk his combover flapping in the wind like a rabid bat.
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Deja Vu All Over Again

Suddenly I’m in high school again, reading the “radical” anti-war essays.

The more things change….
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Schlachthof Funf

Because the Iranians haven’t welcomed us as liberators. I guess. That’ll teach ‘em not to pour into the streets and welcome…our missiles.
America is run by psychopaths and quislings.
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Because Sometimes God Needs A Helping Hand….

What was that, Sen. Kennedy? Any fair minded person has to conclude that Trump will allow any idiocy that he thinks helps him in the immediate moment.

Trump doesn’t even believe that end times shit. But he’ll take it if it gets him what he wants. He’s an entire interstate highway system past normal.
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He Doesn’t Know What It Looks Like Now

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Idiot-In-Chief

Trump: The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer — But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!
Based on what he’s seen, he’s never lost an election, and the economy is the best it’s ever been.
Hegseth does not confirm what the president is saying, and many major news organizations say their analysis shows this was likely a U.S. military error.

U.S. military investigators are also telling members of Congress that they believe — but have not confirmed for sure — that it was a U.S. military error.
Well, that’s reassuring. Fuck sovereignty, amirite? We got the bombs, you get the short end. It’s the American way! 🇺🇸
Reporter: What are the circumstances where you would send in ground troops?

Trump: I don’t think that’s an appropriate question. Could there be? Possibly. If we ever did that, they would be so decimated that they wouldn’t be able to fight.

Reporter: Don’t you need ground troops to secure the enriched uranium?

Trump: We haven’t talked about it. It was a total obliteration. Maybe we will.
None of your business whether we send in troops. Trump answers to no one.

And there was no risk of nuclear weapons. Or there was. It depends on who you ask, and when.

Trump answers to no one. 
The “tough” kid on the playground who’s scared of the bully. He’s proud of that. He’s also a sociopath. At least. How much longer do we tolerate this?

Vocabulary (and behavior) of a five year old. OMFG. Was he on his way to the golf course?
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A Flying Circus

When they lose, would you refund them? I know it’s Souza’s “Liberty Bell” march, but it’ll always be the “Monty Python” theme to me.

Very appropriately, in this case.
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Everything They Know…

... they learned from Venezuela. Or it’s just that only white lives matter.

And, I was told those are precision munitions. Not the stuff we dumped pell-mell from bombers in WWII.
Fetterman is the 16th: Fetterman is also why I think it would take a complete wiping of the Senate slate to remove Trump before the end of his term. Or from bad movies. Really, Kegsbreth? Really, asshole? Slip a piece of paper between them. I dare you.
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Friday, March 06, 2026

“Of Course You Know, This Means War!”

Disruption from the war isn't just to the oil-and-gas industry:

"The Middle East is one of the world's largest fertiliser producers, while the Strait of Hormuz is a crucial shipping route for exports. About 35 per cent of global urea exports pass through the waterway... the route also handles 45 per cent of global sulphur exports."

"If the disruption continues, consumers could see higher prices for bread within six to 10 weeks, eggs within a few months and pork and broiler chicken within six months."
Higher egg prices!?!??!! That’s when people take to the streets.
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Springtime For Arms Makers

Trump: "We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production Schedules. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the 'Exquisite Class' Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels. The Companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months. States all over the Country are bidding for these new Plants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
So...  

How does he pay for this?

“Plants and production are already underway” doesn’t sound like replacements are in storage and ready for delivery. It sounds more like we will have some at some point in the future.And “plants”? Does he imagine those will bloom in the springtime? And not take years to complete and be productive?

Or does AI take care of all that? You know, like in the movies….
A reminder that someone always profits from war.
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Trump Wants To Fight A TeeVee War

President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.

Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops with aides and Republican officials outside the White House while outlining his vision for a post-war Iran in which Iran’s uranium is secure and the U.S. and a new Iranian regime cooperate on oil production similar to how the U.S. and Venezuela are, the sources said.
I watch a lot of action movies/TV series on Netflix. I like the background noise, and I don’t have to pay attention. It’s alcohol without the hangover and, besides, I prefer coffee.

I know exactly what he’s thinking. He’s thinking our guys will kill ten bad guys apiece every time there’s an encounter, and the bad guys can’t hit the broad side of a barn. And it only takes a few good men to overthrow a government and carry the day.

That, and everything he knows, he learned from Venezuela.

This is such a clusterfuck.
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I’m Sorry I Missed This

"Yeah, Doocy! The topic is college football!🏈 This is serious!”

In case you missed that topic:
When the FUCK! does it matter?
Trump on why he wants to talk about college sports instead of his war in Iran: "We're talking about colleges that are gonna go out of business. Many, many colleges. This isn't just about student athletes. This is about our whole educational system is gonna go out of business because of this. So I understand what you're saying in terms of the level of importance, but to me this is very important."
MUCH more important than soldiers dying in war! (And colleges make money on football, because of TeeVee contracts and alumni with more money than goddamned sense. And the majority of the colleges with serious football programs are public, not private. And frankly, would be better off without major football programs. But the genie left that bottle a long time ago.) No wonder he got pissed at Doocy. Well, the Iran war is running itself, and this college football thing can be fixed with an EO (that’ll show them pesky courts!), so: next?
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Finger On The Pulse

Or not. Now are they? Or are we waiting until oil hits $100 bbl again?
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Being A 🏈 Hero

Yup; that’s what he’s doing. Fucking Constitution. Fucking rule of law.

College football is part of the executive branch, right?

The Speaker of the House is there. The Governor of Florida is there. The Secretary of State is there.

I guess Hegseth was in the gym. I can’t imagine what else they’d all have to do.

Or is Trump just counter programming the Jesse Jackson memorial?
Probably why Johnson is there. There is no spoon war.
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Building That Off-Ramp

Leavitt on what Trump means by demanding Iran's unconditional surrender: "When he as commander in chief determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the US and the goals of Operation Epic Fury have been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender whether they say it themselves or not"
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On Whose Side?

Yeah, about "providing what they need”: Funny that never includes providing the leadership the military needs. That’s a Congressional responsibility, too. You know, like “advise and consent” on Cabinet Secretaries, such as SecDef.
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Beginning To Make Sense

 Beginning to see a pattern here:

"You're fighting for light," Johnson said while introducing Moore. "Christians throughout the world, quite frankly, under persecution. Christians always are the ones who get persecuted, beheaded, slaughtered."

"They're always the ones who get trod under and nobody ever talks about them and it's evil," he continued. "You're a man of faith yourself that is actually talking about it."

For his part, Moore claimed that protesters had demonstrated outside of his church in West Virginia, but did not allege they broke the law.

"I had people protesting me outside of my church. My family and I going on," he explained. "They showed up from wherever the hell they're from. And, you know, me and my family were just trying to go to Mass. And here they are. You know, I mean, no, no space is sacred to them."
Sounds like they respected the worship space, and even all the interior space of the building. How do you feel about churches as “sanctuary” from ICE agents?
"Now we just got to make sure that James Talarico doesn't get into the Senate," Johnson said before ending the interview. "I mean, that guy saying that Jesus loves abortion and loves transing of the kids and that God is non-binary. I feel dirty, Congressman, just repeating his blasphemes and heresy on my show. I'm telling you what he says. It is antithetical to the Bible. It's actually anti-Christian. It's actually Antichrist's ideology."

"I think he is demonic," Moore remarked. "And I think we need to keep an eye on that and watchful eye because there are other forces of work in my view."

Johnson replied: "It's a defiling of God's order. It's a defiling of God's nature. Yeah. And it's pretty simple. It's nice. Even a even a, even a community college graduate like me can get it, Congressman."
Yes, “Xtian” is being very narrowly defined, there. Julian of Norwich described God as both Father and Mother. And I would remind you that when some of his followers went to Jesus to complain that non-members o the group were casting out demons in Jesus’ name, he told them that whoever was not against them, was with them. Which is a much more inclusive reversal of the more common, “whoever is not with us, is against us.”

I think Talarico is following the example of Jesus, who also accepted everybody in 1st century Palestine, which got him in trouble with people who said he was violating “God’s order.” As Jesus also said: “Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged.” That’s a hard one for all of us.

But these reactions to Talarico remind me of Lucy in a Peanuts strip. Mickle in her wroth, she appears chasing her brother Linus, who finally turns and reasons with her about how brothers and sisters should work out their differences. Before he can finish, she slugs him, and explains to another character as she walks away: “I had to hit him quick. He was beginning to make sense.”

That’s what these opponents of Talarico fear the most. That he’s beginning to make sense. They can’t stand that.
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No, He Really Meant It

And he has a firm grasp on reality: "In  4, maybe 5, months. Or two weeks. We’ll see.”
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MIGAs? Now I’m Hungry….

Trump: "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).' Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Like he’s done for America? "Unconditional surrender” of the Axis Powers took 4 years of war by America and its allies, cost unbelievable amounts of blood and treasure, and only occurred by obliterating their power to wage war. It was not just a bombing campaign. And we tried to rebuild Iraq after Hussein. How’d that work out? Focused like a laser beam. Looney as a clockwork orange.
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The Toddler In Chief At War

No plan for refugees at all. The U.S. policy is, that’s somebody else’s problem.
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Dire Straits

What to do, O what to do? Because, of course.
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Thursday, March 05, 2026

Follow The 💸

ETTD. Everything.
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Breaking Eggs

“I’m an old narcissist with intimations of mortality dancing in my head. In the first place, I don’t care if you live or die. In the second place, sucks to be you, and not me. Losers.”
“You were expecting eggs 🥚 in your beer?🍻”

Anybody else think he’s giving up on this whole POTUS thing? I mean, it’s not like he’s going to jail, or anything. He won’t even lose the money he scammed from his crypto fraudulencey. Not to mention he’s still fundraising for no reason except it’s another way to make money.
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Isn’t The Job Of The President To…

To recap - Trump just fired Noem because she revealed he let her do some corruption too... replaced her with the most dimwitted obedient senator he could find... and didn't even tell her, letting her do an event here in Nashville where she was the only one who didn't know she had been canned.

leadership!
... administrate?

Or just know things?
Yeah, well....
According to AAA, the average price for regular unleaded fuel in Houston since has risen from $2.48 to $2.78 per gallon. Over the past month, Houston prices are up $0.35 per gallon. Diesel prices have also risen over the past week, climbing from $3.17 to $3.62, according to AAA. In the past day alone, AAA said diesel has risen $0.15 per gallon.

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Prices in Houston are still lower than the state and national averages, which as of Thursday were at $2.87 and $3.25 per gallon, respectively, for regular unleaded, according to AAA.


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In the past five days, crude oil prices have risen nearly $9 per barrel, from $72.50 per barrel to more than $81 per barrel on Thursday. That's the highest price since July 2024, according to Yahoo Finance.
So, it ain’t necessarily so. As with all things Trump, wishing does not make it real.

And “political risk insurance”? He has no idea. At. All.

Isn’t it his job to have the knowledge provided by someone? And the ability to understand it?
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