Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Wrapping Up Another Turn Around The Sun

Focused like a laser beam on the concerns of the electorate.

And now, lessons from VP Vance:
A “moral win” in court and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee. Is he expecting Roberts to die? Or retire? Or Comey Barrett? Because the likeliest candidates for replacement before 2028 are Alito and Thomas. And changing either of them won’t change the results.

But if that’s the morbid campaign promise you want the GOP to run on, don’t let me get in the way. Besides:
Did they teach you anything at Yale Law School! Or they just don’t have the votes. Me, I’d prefer the filibuster be eliminated. It still won’t get the SAVE America act passed, and it would speed the plow in 2027.

Be careful what you ask for, little boy.  The Senate GOP may be doing you a favor.
Only if the inmates are running the asylum. You can’t be a part of this Administration and be coherent. Still not familiar with the concept. He is just too ignorant to stop and realize how ignorant he is.
I like AOC, but boo-fuckin’ hoo. Boomers born ten years in rode waves of boom and bust that kept most of us in economic straits long after our parents were at our age. The long term boom of the postwar era ebbed in the late ‘60’s, and turned into inflation that lasted into the ‘80’s. Double digit inflation the likes of which nobody not a Boomer and alive today has seen.

The world “you’ve” been left with? Boomers didn’t like the world they were “left with,” so they fucking changed it. Not completely; the economics of it got worse, not better.  But you have two choices: light a candle; or curse the darkness.

And while we’re on the subject, what about the generation born into the Great Depression? The same generation that had to go to war against Germany and Japan. Do you think they felt “a tremendous amount of betrayal about the world [they’d] been left with’?

As Chris Rock used to say: “Whaddya want, a cookie?”

Don’t whinge; nobody likes whingers.

On the other hand:
Stephen Miller on Birthright Citizenship Decision: I can step tomorrow onto the deck of a 747. It does not mean that I'm the pilot of that plane and I'm qualified to fly it.

We have people from all over the world from third world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel, and they can just come into the country, have a baby, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? The baby can sit on a jury when they turn 18??
He’s afraid of non-white babies. (He’s ignorant as a stump, too.)
Collins: Do you really think the president has dementia?

Pritzker: I do. Look at any of the videos from 2015 or 2016 and then you fast forward and look at him now, I really think that there's something genuinely wrong with him.
Dementia. Or incompetence that has him in so far over his head when he looks up he can’t see bottom. He only did this to stay out of jail, after all. And he’s so demented he’s grifting like mad? He seems to know what he’s doing there.
TRUMP’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE JUST DROPPED…AND IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT.

The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s 927-page financial disclosure today. Here’s what a sitting U.S. President made in 2025:

💰 $635 MILLION from the TRUMP memecoin, while retail investors watched it crash from $74 to $1.68

💰 $594 MILLION from World Liberty Financial token and stablecoin sales, a crypto venture co-founded with his own sons

💰 $65 MILLION from selling equity in that same company

💰 $80+ MILLION in media settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and YouTube, paid to his own presidential library

Total crypto haul: over $1.4 BILLION. In one year. While serving as President of the United States.

His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office.

And while Trump pocketed $1.4 billion from crypto, the everyday Americans who bought his memecoin? They lost. 764,000 wallets ended up in the red.

This is the most corrupt presidency in American history. Period.
Square that circle for me. Just don’t call it “feral cunning.” Much better than whinging.

Swinging back around to VP Vance (not coincidentally):
It's hard to know what to make of the Vice President's bizarre, almost nonsensical, comments here. It sounds like he is equating the use of these "hideous signs" to an alternative version of the Nicene Creed.

A little background: The Nicene Creed, formulated by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, is an essential profession of faith used by the Catholic Church (among other churches). It is also the familiar creedal formula spoken by Catholics during Sunday Masses: "I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth..." It's a statement of belief, mainly about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It obviously doesn't talk about "hideous signs" welcoming people.

However, the Nicene Creed does affirm belief in the church as "one, holy, catholic and apostolic." (These are the four traditional "marks" of the church.) This means, among other things, believing that the church comes to us directly from the apostles (it's "apostolic"). Thus, it derives its authority not only from Jesus Christ, but also through the "apostolic succession," an authority passed down from the apostles in the early church to the Pope and to the bishops today.

It's ironic, then, that the Vice President is mocking things like love and the church's teaching on migrants in the same breath that he is professing his faith through the words of the Creed, which includes belief in authority of the church. Because this "one, holy, catholic and apostolic" church has long proclaimed the Gospel message of love and care for the stranger, which Jesus himself preached during his public ministry.

So a butchering of the Creed would mean, in fact, not listening to the church's teaching on these matters and, even worse, not listening to Jesus's own teaching on love and loving the stranger.

Because, in the words of the Creed, we also believe in "one Lord, Jesus Christ."
"Care for the stranger" is one of the consistent messages in the scriptures, starting with Abraham at the oaks of Mambre, all the way through to the Christian epistles. It is a primary feature of the law of Moses (care for the strangers among you, for you were strangers yourselves), and a primary teaching of the major and minor prophets, as well as throughout the four gospels. 

Vance really is just a relentless boob.
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