To put to bed finally once and for all the Musk allegations. The list was already released but not the list list. We don't really care about Jeffrey Epstein's plumber or electrician or all the celebs he hobnobbed with. We want the List and so far Pam Bondi has not provided.
Bad blood between Trump and Musk. Is Musk talking to any Democrats yet?
You can pursue certain goals but I kind of like to uphold the Constitution. He doesn't like birthright citizen. He doesn't like habeas corpus. I don't think he likes people. He's so anal about everything. As a serious species this Trump worship is unbecoming. I don't get it.
Some candidates for the renaming of the U.S.S. Harvey Milk Navy ship:
The USS John Wayne
The USS Kate Smith
The USS Pat Boone
Something safe. Can't send a gay ship into battle. Read somewhere that one of Trump's political advisors says there's some signs of a little cognitive decline going on and he may not finish out his second term. However what does it say about the Right these days that they may have been vigorously defending the mutterings of a cognitively declined man all this time?
If we're living in great times I must be missing something.
Musk calls Trump's bloated budget bill "a disgusting abomination. " Musk vs. Trump. Never thought I'd be rooting for Musk. Meanwhile Sec'y Hegesth orders Harvey Milk's name be removed from some old Navy ship. That's Trump in a nut cares more about some gay Milk than milk in the actual grocery store or butter or eggs or coffee or bread. Maybe he can issue an executive order against Smokey the Bear one of these days. Trump navigating this strict rightward course onward towards the midterm shoals. Still far away but you can kinda spot them. The Crazy Captain.
Pass the popcorn.
Still aways away but closer than you think. Dems currently in disarray and panic mode but they really don't have to do much if President Trump continues on his present course. Every time I go to the grocery store it hurts. Bought a few things today and it came to just under $100. Didn't even buy cat food. Trump is focused on other things though. He changed the name of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He's fighting Harvard. Changing geographical names. A bloated budget bill with ai deregulation. Tariffing the world. Building more ICE centers and a laundry list of other things. Cultural tangential stuff with no real impact on the average American. No trans soldiers. Scale back the Jackie Robinson walks through history. Just let Trump be Trump. MAGA becomes a historical footnote. Maybe a future category on Jeopardy.
Conservatives got everything they ever dreamed of but didn't know what to do with it. No focus or narrow pragmatic workable agenda just Righties gone wild. The freakoff should end around the midterms. Patience. They'll blame the immigrants in the end;)
The majority of people have not cultivated the political ability to criticize their own side. They are either down with everything their preferred political side does or if they do have some issues from time to time they simply keep quiet about it and look the other way I'm guessing for what they see as the greater political good after all the other side is worse. A very binary view of things. BOTH sides do this btw it's not just a MAGA thing although it may be particularly politically pronounced there. Basically it's why we never have any real political progress in this country. So how's your bunker doing today?
Should it come to that Trump would consider all of the facts in a potential Diddy pardon. So says the wire. Potentially speaking of course as the trial is still going on. The Framers put this in as a plenary power whatever the logic. I'm guessing they figured in their founding fatherly wisdom the judicial branch can mess up too. Don't just dump on Trump about this btw. All the recent presidents issued their share of controversial pardons. The question is if Diddy does get convicted but later pardoned by Trump will he celebrate with a freakoff?
They'd be getting the bulk of the proposed tax cuts according to the CBO. The bill would also explode the deficit and national debt. Proposed millions or billions to build ICE infrastructure read detention facilities for illegals. Also making it harder for folks to access Medicaid and food stamps thereby amounting to cuts without technically calling them cuts. More Republican opposition in the Senate where the bill may not pass or stall. Musk is against the bill saying it would undermine the whole work of DOGE. He's not wrong. Democrats have no power at the moment and can't seem to get back on track. Still hard for me to process that a cognitively impaired old guy with cancer was in the WH for 4 years. Budget bills are usually boring topics but merits some discussion. So that's it for today.
Speaking as one who voted for the man. Trump's game of Gotcha! with world leaders. Next he might hold a press conference saying the government captured a Bigfoot meanwhile it's just some giant eco-hippy who shops at Whole Foods.
Got off the Trump train awhile back ever since Gulf of America. Many of you are still on it happily blowing the whistle. A new OTA channel came on my TV the other night - Newsmax 2. Must be important. Watched a little bit and my impression is I don't think Newsmax fully understands the idea that people have the right to protest proposed Medicaid cuts. A few channels over I have OAN. It's usually at this time I'll watch the infomercial for Omega XL or the Emeril Lagasse air fryer. Don't know why almost the whole conservative movement has hitched their wagon to Trump. Sure there are some lone critics and holdouts here and there like Glenn Greenwald and Candace Owens but for the most part it's this massive nonstop collective right-wing orgasm. A real freakoff.
I'm not against the idea of a Golden Dome but how do you fire tens of thousands of federal workers shutter entire agencies and then say we need a multi-billion dollar Golden Dome to maybe even include our neighbor up North? The tariffs are confusing and need to end but Trump wants businesses to just shut up and absorb the extra costs without passing them along to the consumer. Executive orders don't strike me as having the quality of durable law, comes totally out of his whimsy and not the Congress but he feels this is the way to govern and on and on it goes.
Geeeeeez......
I don't want any President to fail. We've had presidents in the past whom I never voted for but I still wanted them to do good things. Trump however doesn't seem to be on a track to do too many good things. He doesn't always get his facts straight either. Everyone can get their facts wrong once in a while but with him it's all the time. It's like he has his own version of reality. It'd be nice if he rights his course over the remainder of his term and becomes semi-normal at least but doesn't seem likely. At best it's the kind of Administration you endure although there's still a hell of a lot of stalwarts out there.
I'm not a political junkie. I follow politics in a tangential general sort of way but I don't follow say every bill working its way through the Congress. My cats need to eat. I have yardwork to do. I'm not like the old people who look at the TV screen all day and follow the news 24/7. I see the headlines on my devices that's enough. Ok so the leader of South Africa met with Trump at the WH. Trump has given refugee status to some white Afrikaaners. Trump has accused the leader of some kind of genocide. Perhaps Trump is projecting onto him what he should be saying to Bibi but I'm not a shrink. I know way back in the day the South African government was harassing the white landowners but again I'm too busy of late to dive down these rabbit holes. Media calling it false. Again I'm not up to speed on a lot of stuff. I'm more likely to google lizards of New York State as I have varied interests. I don't discuss politics with my vet or when getting an oil change. FWIW I don't think Biden was healthy enough to hold the most important position in the land but at the same time I don't think it amounts to treason so you can call me not a team player.
Just some light opining here. Pour yourself a drink and let's have a chat. Not everything is binary.
Latest conspiracy theory. How did Biden's A-team of doctors miss the early signs? The PSA is known to be one of the more accurate medical tests out there. My tiny bit of medical knowledge proferred here. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men but is often the most manageable except when it turns aggressive and even that takes time so how did Biden get a clean bill of health in July of 2024? I believe presidents even have oncologists on staff now so did this just show up now and at such an advanced stage? So many people are now saying he had the cancer while in the WH the whole idea being to keep Trump out of the WH in the first place so it was covered up basically.
Can Woodward maybe get to the bottom of this?
Never short of something to blog about. As you know former FBI Director James Comey posted something on FB (later deleted) that he was walking along the beach one day and found a sea shell configuration in the form of "8647." Major controversy followed and the SS is currently investigating him for possibly calling for Trump's assassination. In restaurant parlance to 86 someone is to deny them service. Also bouncers in bars may have to 86 or remove someone. Perhaps the most common interpretation is when the mob uses the term it means to take someone 8 miles out of town and put them 6 feet under. Trump is of course the 47th president hence the sinister meaning of "8647." Tulsi Gabbard wants Comey in jail over this. Comey's a dick and Chris Wallace recently destroyed him in an interview over the whole Russiagate hoax. He's as corrupt as they come but what do you make of all of this?
Just talking about it might earn you an NC-17. If I were to provide verbatim court transcripts this post might come with a warning for sensitive viewers. Court TV is covering it in their own way of course but so far when I turn Court TV on during primetime they're not discussing Diddy as you'd expect but some other trial. Court TV is a family show after all where they talk about serial killers and spousal murder. I myself don't have the money to run freakoffs. Hey Google didn't correct that word must be in the vernacular now. I just want to make sure I have enough money to pay my energy bill so ConEd doesn't flicker my lights.
Some people feel he's gonna get off. Weird sex is not a crime so long as there's consent. I'm into vinegar. Been buying tons of it to kill off poison ivy in my backyard. Diddy likes the baby oil for his hobby. It's I don't know not making a prediction here but he ain't livin' right.
Is President Trump will soon officially recognize a Palestinian State. Angling for a Nobel Peace Prize to show Obama. Meeting with the Saudis, the new Syrian president putting Netanyahu on the back burner for now. Helped free the last American hostage without his help. Rumor has it he has cut off direct contact with Bibi. As part of the nuclear energy agreement with the Saudis he has dropped the Biden era stipulation that they recognize the State of Israel. Also got a major investment deal going. More than major.
Down through the decades with each succeeding president the Middle East has taken up way too much of our foreign policy time. If he does officially recognize the State of Palestine I'll give him more than a few points for this. Would be a good legacy if he controls the other zaniness. So far Trump is an assortment.
It's spooky. I personally know at least three of them. Now we all have our political leanings. I'm not talking about those who are supportive of Trump but the true believers out there. When you gingerly and politely bring up even a mildly negative point about Trump they rationalize it. There's no hesitation about it either as if they've imbibed the talking points. They agree with and defend EVERYTHING the man does and says. For me personally Trump is not positive. He doesn't inspire and unite and has no real gravitas for the most important position in the land but for them it's always the Democrats and the media's fault. The Trump cultists it's a phenomenon.
The new American pope Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago now Pope Leo XIV was a heavy retweeter of Trump criticism on social media before his election to Pontiff in particular re Trump's immigration policies. Trump said on his Truth Social the first American pope in history is a great honor. I say it would be great if Leo and Homan shared an ale together.
Stay tuned......
Diddy trial to start any day now with jury selection still underway. Don't know the questions the potential jurors get. "Did you ever see the music video 'Hypnotize' with Biggie and Puffy?" Got to thinking if I had even a fraction of Diddy's money uppermost for me would be major home improvement e.g. electric staircase going up into the attic with wifi and cupholders. Telescope up there too. Kitchen and bath remodel. The backyard - Inground swimming pool, small Chinese garden/pond with exotic fish, some Greek statuary here and there. It would never dawn on me to run a sex trafficking ring. He ain't livin' right.
The Conclave - I don't follow the stuff. Mainly older Italian guys with a few Africans thrown in the mix. Keep getting videos in my YouTube feed about the last pope of the End Times but I don't get my theology from Mel Gibson. You have your Catholics who are more into bingo and bake sales then you have your more eschatologically-minded Catholics who speculate about Antichrist stuff. YouTube sends me things all the time I never searched for. A gorilla fighting an alligator. Clickbait.
So we got a couple of topics going. A diversion from the usual Trump stuff.
