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Honestly, I had to check. All that "pride" talk almost made him sound Gay. He's not. Being a refugee and Canadian is bad enough. A Gay Canadian refugee? I don't know how you overcome that! 😉

Um ................... will a JPG do? 😉

To be fair, that is a biased perspective. For some of us, cruelty is good. Rape is awesome. Murder and genocide are swell. Hell, Sis, as much as I love you, wouldn't it still be great if I could just blow your fucking brains out on 5th Ave? 🫢 All this could be ours, if we could simply stop being stuck up bitches and just engage in Dog Think. With Dog Think, you just have to be good and loyal and true. Like our MAGA Pup. Because if you are good and loyal and true, there is no cruelty or rape or genocide. There is just American Greatness, which is good for loyal and true dogs. But not for Us Gays, of course. Case in point, according to The Economist/You Gov poll: In hindsight, do you think the decision to go to war in Iran is the right decision or wrong decision? Democrats: 5 % right decision, 81 % wrong decision Independents: 14 % right decision, 60 % wrong decision Republicans: 61 % right decision, 16 % wrong decision MAGA: 75 % right decision, 13 % wrong decision All voters: 26 % right decision, 54 % wrong decision MAGA means never having to say you're sorry .............. for cruelty, or rape, or murder, or even genocide! Don't you wish you were a dog like our MAGA Pup? If you are a MAGA pup, you can't lose. Lies are winning. Rape is winning. Cruelty is winning. Kill Iranian school girls? That is a huge fucking victory in Dog Think! Just make sure you lie about it. If you are a MAGA pup, you will and must get your little loyalty and stupidity fix by posting thousands of Tik Toks about how Trump gloriously won the Iran War. Frankly, our stupid lonely MAGA Pup is coming up short. Stupid, I guess. MAGA says the US won the Iran war. 65 % of MAGA voters say the US won. 54 % of Republicans say the US won. 14 % of Independents say the US won the Iran war. 7 % of Democrats say the US won the Iran war. Overall, 25 % of voters say the US won, 22 % say Iran won, and 44 % say neither side won. Most people who are not MAGA think the whole thing was a mistake. God bless MAGA! God bless cruelty! God bless Trump and Republicans cutting Medicaid and food aid while they raise gas prices! God bless killing Iranian children and lying about it! God bless our Trump Pup for taking out errant Republicans who call victory "losing". Every good and loyal and true MAGA Pup knows MAGA, and Trump, can never lose!

The stupid lonely old dog lives in an alternative reality. Jordan would have fun with it. So would Bill Cassidy and a bunch of other Republican Senators. Of course, our murder pup used his teeth. Trump brought our sadistic pup to the meeting with him, and ordered Barknaway to rip Cassidy's throat open. So much for dissent. We did win the Iran war, right? Barknaway doesn't need any treats today, by the way. He got to eat Bill Cassidy's throat. And there is no need to send our genocide loving pup to the dog house. Apparently there won't be a housing bill, since Trump and Barknaway value loyalty and blind obedience over affordability and bipartisanship. Who knew? Who needs lower prices when you can be cruel instead? Barknaway is in his glory.

He's a perfect metaphor for Trump. I love it how he wastes all his time just proving to a few people how stupid he is.

An interesting question came up yesterday: Is the stupid barking dog actually a space alien sending us sophisticated messages we are incapable of comprehending? Is the pup into Trumpian genocide, or world peace? It's worth a thought. I watched Disclosure Day yesterday. And I couldn't help noticing some remarkable similarities to our annoying Pavlov's dog. First, in the film the aliens come to us as animals. What's the difference between a cardinal or a deer, and a constantly yapping dog? Second, the aliens try to communicate with us in a garbled language we can't understand. Very much like a barrage of Tik Tok videos. Third, there is an overall air of conspiracy, lies, deflection, paranoia, and - most important - banal stupidity. Very much like a barrage of Tik Tok videos. So perhaps there is some very sophisticated message here. Or, more likely, the vast and profound message the yapping dog is sending us is simple: DON'T LISTEN. If empathy and intelligence are going to come from somewhere, it won't be from Trump. Or from his good and loyal and true dog. Or Tik Tok. The world seems to be learning this together. Well, at least we'll always have Israel. And genocide. So we just get conspiracy, lies, deflection, paranoia, and - most important - banal stupidity. Oh, and higher gas prices. 😱 Personally, I find it satisfying to NOT listen to a stupid lonely old man who posts banal videos that say stupid old things. On the other hand, if Emily Blunt or Josh O'Connor have something to say, I will gladly listen.

If fairness, Dog Think is way less complicated than you make it sound. It works like this. Dead Protestor that ICE kills - 3 LOUD BARKS Dead Iranian School Girls - 7 LOUD BARKS JD Vance says we won the war we lost - THREE MINUTES OF LOUD BARKING Lindsey Graham says we lost the war JD Vance says we won - RIP HIS THROAT OPEN It's actually pretty simple. Plus, give the pup some credit. He is good and loyal and true. Besides, his first post on this thread was "Song Song Blue." Great song, great movie. Granted, our dumb pup is no Hugh Jackman. But what's a dog to do?

Or he could just bite off the foot of Tom Cotton. That said, truth to be told, JD Vance has more fashion sense than Tom Cotton and certainly more than Trey Gowdy (I know, Sis. You may disagree,) Fox's Trey Gowdy complains about the MOU: Iran is “better off than they were before the hostilities began” And JD's turn in Trump's line of fire is coming. Maybe Barky will have to chew off JD's shoe? It's all so depressing. Barky had such potential when his Momma looked kindly on Joe Biden. One wonders where the ignorance and cruelty came from?

Which is why they are about to lose their temporary power. Can someone adopt @Barknaway? I am worried sick that when Trump finds out all his stupid yapping was worthless, and only reflected his own ignorance, that Trump will turn @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. Please let's be compassionate to @Barknaway. He is good and loyal and true.

Tom Cotton, the Senate’s foremost Iran hawk, is in a Trump-induced jam A decade after blasting a remarkably similar Iran deal, the Intelligence chair is now treading carefully. Will @Barknaway have to take out Tom Cotton? Will @Barknaway have to take out Jordon Bardella, and a world full of right wing leaders who reject Trump's pig-headed "USA First And Only" stupidity? My heart bleeds for @Barknaway. Yes, he is a dumb dog that will go along with genocide. And destroying American prestige to fuel Trump's ego. But it is only because he is good and loyal and true. What else is a sadistic dog loyal to Trump supposed to do? Poor @Barknaway!

Times are tough! Our sadistic pup @Barknaway is good and loyal and true. What if Trump orders our sadistic pup to assassinate The Genocide Jew? To me, being a dog lover, having @Barknaway take out The Genocide Jew on Trump's command is better than seeing Trump turn @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. But who would have thought it would come to this!!!!!!!!!! Wasn't the whole point to kill a lot of innocent Iranian school girls? Excuse me. I meant, wasn't the whole point to kill Gay-hating theocratic mullahs? Instead we gave them a "Get Out Of The Strait Of Hormuz For Free" card. Please God! Do not let Donald Trump turn good and loyal and true @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. Better to off The Genocide Jew.

Who knows. Maybe Trump will ay Canada $300 billion in reparations, too! 🤔

The Most Surprising Miscalculation of Trump’s Second Term He has underestimated the power of patriotic sentiment in countries besides the United States. Trump is good at three things: ego, greed, and genocide. Oh. I forgot. Rape. As a diplomat ....................... well, he sucks. As a POTUS ................... duh! He is an abject failure. Wonder how many languages he knows how to "stupid flailing asshole" in?

Are you happy precious barking pup? Lots of people are dead like Iranian school girls. Maybe you even got to chew off the legs of one of the Gaza children that The Genocide Jew targeted for mass murder. What fun! All so the US can be humiliated. And so you can bark and bark and bark about how Obama and Biden and Clinton are to blame. You are a very stupid and murderous pup. But we still love you! Now the US is weaker and Iran rises. Go kill some Iranian to celebrate!

Talarico is actually ever so slightly leading Paxton in a new poll. Even better, Sherrod Brown is leading in a poll in Ohio. If there is anyone in the US who has credibility as a working class, pro-union guy who fights for the working class, it is Sherrod Brown. The fact that he was taken out as Ohio Senator in 2024 despite that, because people were pissed at Democrats for inflation, says a lot about the challenges Democrats face. The best hope I see is that Democrats manage to win the latest coin toss in 2026 and 2028 and then actually do something to help the working class. Then, like AMLO and his movement in Mexico, they might actually be able to sustain power for a decade or so. Rather than just set up the next coin toss.

Gas prices. And the "L" word. One of the guys I have been listening to a lot lately is Robert Pape. He predicted when the Iran War started that Trump would get caught in an escalation trap. And now he has. So Pape is now predicting Trump's base will further degrade for two reasons. And to be clear what he means by that, the swing voters - young men, Hispanics and Blacks who were fed up with Biden thanks to inflation - are already lost, Pape says. He's talking about the roughly one third of Americans who are true blue MAGA folk. Gas prices will be one thing that just keeps slicing away at Trump's support. But the other one is the "L" word: loser. Trump is spinning cartwheels with his cankles and genocide threats to avoid looking like a loser. But if he wants an agreement with Iran that will get gas prices down, he's going to have to look like a loser. So maybe the MAGA echo chamber can look past more corruption. But even the Divine Miss Graham will shit her dress when she learns Trump really is a loser! What a dumb fuck genocidal POTUS to do? Consult with Justin, maybe?

And you can't let the US government have his tax returns and he and his family fleece the world.

The new polls are devastating for Trump. I have not seen a specific poll on "gas prices". If you asked 100 people if they like higher gas prices, 100 would probably say NO. The more MAGA-oriented question would be, "Is this short term sacrifice in higher gas prices worth it so we can Make America Great Again by nuking Iranian civilization, killing tens of millions of people, disrupting the global oil infrastructure, and creating a big recession?" 😱 No doubt some loyal MAGA folks would say, "Sounds great to me." Patriot Pete would be down on his knees voraciously sucking Trump's cock while the nukes drop incinerating Iranian children. You gotta give Patriot Pete credit for even being able to find Trump's cock, really. Or maybe he just sucks on the fat ankles instead. President Trump Job Approval - Inflation As far as MOST Americans - not to mention most people on the planet - go, Trump is in big trouble. He ran for POTUS to lower prices. Only 30 % approve of the way he is handling inflation. 2 in 3 Americans disapprove. Probably many of those are Trump supporters who usually don't vote. And won't vote in 2026 because Trump actually gave us a war that caused gas prices and inflation to spike. The exact opposite of what he promised. Narcissistic piece of shit. If Democrats could win the votes of the 2 in 3 Americans that don't like how Trump is handling inflation, that would of course be a landslide. Now is the time for Democrats to be talking about how they will help Americans in the pocketbook. I'm a one trick pony. But I keep going back to those child tax credits. For tens of millions of Americans, they did basically offset the sting of inflation while it was spiking the most. For one year, child poverty was cut in half for White, Black, Asian and Hispanic working class families. That's not DEI. That's decency. At least Democrats did something. It's not the same as a factory job. But they did something that helped tens of millions of working class Americans in their pocketbook. Just bitching about how Trump sucks is fine. That will be sufficient to do well in the midterms. It will not be sufficient to govern. Which arguably is the sad lesson of the Biden/Harris Administration.

To intentionally mix stock and flying metaphors, you will have to decide. Is this a buy the dip moment? Or is this Trump just crashing? Both can be true at the same time! Speaking of which, it is possible to despise Trump, and profit off his antics. I made a lot of money buying the big dip last April when he had a tariff tantrum. And, speaking of dips: If you don't recognize him, that's Tom Lee on the left, Wall Street perma-bull. I found that graphic because it is simple. Here is Tom Lee's own version of it: Note that was from January of this year. He has been right so far. It's probably not exactly clear, but that chart is basically a composite of US stock market performance in every midterm election year since 1928. The standard vocabulary I keep hearing is midterm elections are "choppy" market years. Usually followed by a year with unusually good returns. That has nothing to do with who the POTUS is. It's the way the stock market has been. And what seems to be accepted by many Wall Street people as dogma. So in any midterm year, odds are we'll have a "crash", to use the word in the image above, going right into the elections. In a year when we are losing a war, oil prices are rising, inflation is hot, and mortgage rates are up, it's probably even more likely. So Wall Street, if this plays out, will basically be saying: "Donald Trump, you are a worthless piece of shit. You, worthless piece of shit, are losing a war that is fucking up the global economy. You, worthless piece of shit, are bringing back inflation. You, worthless stupid piece of shit, are making long rates go up. What part of being a worthless piece of shit do you not understand, you worthless piece of shit?" Granted, it's not exactly news that Trump is a worthless losing piece of shit. Except to him. But if anybody can pierce the worthless piece of shit's narcissistic armor, it may be Wall Street. Greed loves greed, and listens to it. Speaking of greed, I wouldn't mind a nice buyable dip this fall. Meanwhile, back to the airline thing. Buckle your seat belts. It may be a bumpy ride.

Gosh! That's a tough one. Even for a smart ass like me. So I consulted with one of the best American leaders ever. But I guess you have to give credit to Trump. They did get fooled again.

What makes you think that? 😉

Has anyone else noticed how great it is when America Is Great Again? You can feel it in the air. Not a day passes when some socialist Canadian doesn't call me and say, "How do I get out of my shit hole? Can't Canada be the 51st US state?" Nope, bitch! You had your chance. That said, I'll make a small exception for the two hockey dudes from Heated Rivalry. But back to serious matters. When America Is Great, you can see the spattered legs and brain matter of dead US soldiers all over Iranian fields. God Bless America! When America Is Great, you can smell the burning flesh of Iranian school girls. It makes me want to sing the National Anthem! It is only when we let Weak Extremist Black Obama Type Americans rule that Bad Things happen. Like Evil Iranian Theocrats Hanging Gay People. (Did I mention that when America Is Great, Gays can be Treasury Secretary? Sorry, Sis!) When America Is Weak, Bad Things can happen at home, too. Like allowing Weak Extremist Obama Supporting Black House Members to win US House seats in the South. Ugh! We have to get Extremist Black Democrats out and Strong White Republicans in! And therein lies the problem. Seems like as Great As Universal Lord And King Donald Trump is, and as much as he has Made America Greater Than Ever!, we still have a small problem Robert Kagan: "Full-Scale Invasion" Only Way To Open Strait Of Hormuz And Overthrow Islamic Republic This dude is saying we have three choices. We can invade Iran and have a bloody land war, which Americans won't tolerate. Or we can nuke Iran. Kagan doesn't even mention that option. Since I guess he's too much of a pussy to advocate righteously killing millions of Iranian kids. Or we can let Iran run the Strait Of Hormuz in one form or another, and end up worse than when we started. Now I know what you are thinking. This must be some Socialist Canadian. Or some Extremist AOC Type Loser who needs to go back to the shit hole she came from. But, no. This is Robert Kagan, neocon who a few decades ago fiercely advocated for the US to invade Iraq to spread democracy. Given how well that worked, you would think he would be shouting that we need to do it again. But in Iran this time. Nope. He's saying Americans are pussies and they won't. Poor neocon! This is the kind of noble bullying he has advocated his whole life. And it turns out it just doesn't work out well, in practice. But just this time. Well, actually. It didn't really work well in Iraq, either. But who could have seen that coming? I guess that leaves option three. Give Gay Hanging Iranian Theocrats more power than before. Kagan says this makes Iran more powerful than a nuclear weapon would. Who could have seen that coming? Personally, I think these people are all pussies. We should deport all the Extremist Black House members and weak neocons who wouldn't recognize American Greatness if it slapped them in the face. Send them to Montreal or Toronto or some other Socialist shit hole. Then nuke the fuckers. After we have a Nice Big Glow we can let Alberta be our 51st state. After all, Ontario has all The Gays and Alberta has all The Oil. That's a pretty easy choice! Isn't it just awesome when America Is Great Again!

You may also be right that it will be this quasi-Independent force. Roosevelt was a Republican, mostly. But he did form the Bull Moose Party, aka the Progressive Party. And it was a springboard for a lot of progressive ideas that played out for decades to come, in reaction to out of control capitalism. I think we are stuck - both Democrats as a party and the US as a nation - for as long as we have these red states like Iowa and Montana and North Dakota that reflexively elect Republicans only these days. Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, is someone I sent money to for several cycles. In 2018, he won. In 2024, he lost. He allegedly texted someone and said the party brand was like "poison" to him in Montana. Duh! Tester slams Democrats, voices support for potential independent in Senate race I agree with Tester. We have two strong Independent candidates running this cycle who are kinda sorta Democrats, in Montana and Nebraska. There was a time, not that long ago, when moderate Democrats could win in those states as moderate Democrats. Such a time could exist again in the not too distant future, after Trump's mess ends. The thing I liked about people like Jon Tester and Heidi Heitkamp and Claire McCaskill (recent moderate Democrats who won and then lost in Montana, North Dakota, and Missouri) is that they mostly kept their mouths shut and played as team players, knowing that the AOC/Bernie end of the party was a drag on them. We need both to win. And that is clearer then ever. Had we had those three Senators in the US Senate in 2022 we could have had permanent child tax credits. That would have cut working class child poverty in half for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. That is better than $1 billion ballrooms if Democrats want to win power and keep it for a while. Like AMLO did in Mexico by focusing on people's pocketbooks and keeping the college-educated woke crowd at bay. Disclaimer: I am part of the college-educated woke crowd, but I recognize that I am NOT a majority. My actual woke college professor was named Paul Wellstone. And he ended a long Democratic drought in Minnesota in 1990 by being the woke college professor who rode economic populism to the US Senate. Tim Walz was an acolyte of progressive training school Wellstone Action. The formula works! Then we have money whores like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. I might be arguing against myself by saying i want moderate Democrats, but not Manchin and Sinema. They are moderates. But they are also pocket sucking money whores who suck up lobbyist money. And they were never really good team players. Even though they claimed to be. At least with Sinema it worked out well. We got rid of that pocket sucking money whore and replaced her with Ruben Gallego, who is a team player and will fight for progressive stuff. Talarcio kind of falls in that category in Texas. He is running as a Democrat. But he is branding himself as young and fresh and independent. If any of these three can win, either as a Democrat or an Independent, I think that's good news. Maybe people are getting sick of the craziness. One reason I like Gavin Newsom is he can and will tell people on the left - like me - to go fuck ourselves. He has a good enough radar for the center that he can maintain popularity while appeasing the left on some things. Maybe Kamala Harris or others can do that. But Newsom has proven it in California. So my hope is by 2028 someone like Newsom or Harris gets elected POTUS. And can also get a stable Senate majority, which in theory could include some "red state" Independents. I think Carney is proving adept at the same thing in Canada. Then again, maybe it's time for a Bull Moose Party again!

And the answer is: in 2018 and 2020, America had had enough of Trump. Kinda. Sort of. I decided a while back there basically are two Americas. We now know pretty much for a fact that up to 40 % of America will eat Trump's shit for breakfast. For many of them - like one of my nieces and one of my nephews - they are Trump voters for whom times have never been better. My niece is buying a condo in Florida. My nephew texted me to say how wonderful it is that NVDA has gone through the roof. Another nephew, who despises Trump, just become a multi-millionaire on a bet on SOXL (semiconductors) that paid off very well. So we live in a K-shaped economy. For many Trump voters, and for many upscale Democrats, times have never been better. But that's not most Americans. The rich love tax cuts and ballrooms. Who cares if we spend $1 billion on a ballroom while gas prices soar? These are all signs of the times. Trump won again in 2024 with less than 50 % of the vote. He won for two reasons: high prices, and open borders. He did do slightly better than he did in 2016, when he lost the electoral college. I do blame this on Democrats as much as Trump. Biden was old and tired. And even if he was not old and tired, I never got the feeling that he or Harris could tell working class America how they would fight for them every fucking day. Biden was no FDR, even though he wanted to be. We'll see how Kamala does in 2028, if she runs. The polls say she is leading. If Democrats want a fighter, I think it is just as likely they will pick Newsom. That is the role he is auditioning for. He was on the cutting edge of same sex marriage as Mayor of SF when I lived there. And I think he has been a competent relatively progressive Governor of one of the largest economies in the world in a time of COVID crisis. Whoever Democrats nominate, they have to be able to explain how they will fight like hell for the working class in a way Harris simply could not in 2024. Maybe the third time will be the charm for her. I'm hoping. Or maybe Mayor Pete or somebody else will emerge. Emotionally, I already feel like America is lost. When the President of the United States is brazenly threatening to end a civilization and burn millions of Iranian children to death, how can America claim to be a shining city on a hill? We are a corrupt moral cesspool right now. And the billionaires, starting with Trump and his family and friends, are building ballrooms and grabbing every fucking penny they can. They deserve it! I can't tell you when this will end. But I'm pretty sure it won't end well. The better question for me is: what Democrat can clean up this disgraceful and harmful mess when it collapses? But for now, Trump wants gold statues of himself, ballrooms, and parties!

I don't disagree that it would be better if NO billionaire ran for office. But that's really not the way it has ever worked in the US. We started out with the following criteria: 1) be White, 2) be male, 3) be rich, 4) own slaves. Not all the Founding Fathers met that description. Just 12 US Presidents owned slaves. 🤔 But you all get the point. Lucky for us, we at least get to have a Republican President and SCOTUS that wants to disempower Blacks and take their representatives away. 😱 I am tempted to vote for single Mom Katie Porter. But given the polling, I feel like it would actually be a vote for Village People Republican Guy Chad Bianco. He's polling third, behind Hilton and Steyer. Becerra is fourth, according to Real Clear Politics. Porter is #5 and in the single digits. She was in the lead early on. So she seems like a lost cause at this point.