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And speaking of being bitchy. Not to be a bitch. But I do find a certain satisfaction in Bessent. I loved the first two seasons of The White Lotus. Part of why is the inside joke of a dark comedy Gay guy like Mike White making it all about The Evil Gays. Season three was okay. But instead of The Evil Gays, we got Arnie's pretty boy and Sam kinda sorta maybe being Gay, but not really. And neither one even ingested! So there is a certain satisfaction in having an Evil Gay Treasury Secretary in The White House. Arguably, even better than The White Lotus. Melania clearly won't get within a mile of that toxic worthless shit in between Trump's fat legs. Neither will Satan, apparently. So at least we have an Evil Gay that will fully ingest Trump's bile and bullshit and rancid cum - if there is any left at all - and regurgitate it on national TV. Yes, Sis. It is distasteful in the extreme. I look forward to a day when Trump and Bessent will be gone and reviled. And I can get my Evil Gays from Mike White again.

I'd never call you a bitch. You are my Sister In Cock. Beloved, warm, and stunningly intelligent. And beautiful, of course. That said, we are not historians. If you missed something, it was that Trump LOST the Presidency in 2020, after being twice impeached. Although the second impeachment was precisely because he was a whining violent bitch after he lost the Presidency. So I don't consider it a waste of time. It is an open secret that Trump gives a huge shit about the 2026 midterms. Not because of some legislative agenda. But because he is a whining little bitch who hates being impeached. You are correct that being a raping lying felon, twice impeached, who blew up the economy and national debt did not prevent Trump from winning 49.8 % of the vote in 2024. That is sad. I blame it on inflation. And Biden looking like a corpse.

Well, I decided to consult with Jeb! Bush about this. Here is what he said about The Gays and our purses: In other words, Jeb! could not fathom why The Gays not only have fashionable purses (and shoes!), but also fought for and won the legal right to fall in love and be married. (Without having to grab women by the pussy or rape them like our possibly pedophile POTUS does.) So, to your point. Can this raping lying felon who can't win 50 % of the vote in three tries, and who deeply disgusts about half of America, change hundreds of years of American culture and history? I would not bet on it. But remember. We were a slave nation and we did have a Civil War. So all the bile and rape and racism and hate and lies and stupidity that is wrapped into the pathetic doomed to hell evil body of Trump with his fat feet and tiny dick is in fact part of US history and culture. But it is only one part. So in a pinch, I would count on the awesome power of The Gays, like us, over this evil worthless piece of shit. He is well on his way to having his sorry pathetic raping lying ass kicked in the midterms, again. And then the possible pedophile rapist felon will be impeached again. Were it up to me, this sorry stupid piece of shit would be impeached every fucking day for the rest of his miserable lying bankrupt the US to pander to billionaire donors term. This is what Trump fears. Being impeached. He can not stand truth. So let the raping lying felon suffer. He deserves it for being such a cruel and stupid piece of shit, who dishes out lies and hate every time he opens his mouth. The piece of shit POTUS was and will remain the worst piece of shit POTUS in all US history. Sorry if I seemed rude. By the way, I need a new purse. Wanna go shopping tomorrow, Sis? 😉

Gays gonna slap that raping lying piece of shit POTUS in the face, Sis. We don't take that pedophile shit lightly.

What Dems need to do is figure out how to win in red states again. Without that, there really is no need for a Democratic agenda. Because Democrats won't have the votes in the Senate. Even assuming they can cobble together the minimum necessary electoral votes. The idea that more progressive Democrats can co-exist with more conservative Democrats is so ........................... well, Democratic. Several generations of older Democrats knew what it was like to have to co-exist with Southern Democrats like George Wallace. If we could do that, surely we can co-exist with Andy Beshear or Laura Kelly. That said, I'm up for what Gavin Newsom and the other Dem Guvs plan to do with gerrymandering as a Band Aid, if Texas moves forward. As @RockyRoadTravel keeps saying, Trump only fears and respects people who look him in the eyes and say, "Fuck you, you fucking raping lying maybe pedophile fucking fuck." Or something like that.

How rude of you! Elon Musk deserves every penny of it, what with his sacrifices and services to America. Can't we just deport all the poor riff raff and send them to Gaza for the Genocide Jew to starve or shoot, anyway?

Silly guy! There's no need to outlaw facts.

Frankly, I think I have better chances if I look and act like Lindsey Graham. A total ass kisser. And, thanks to my Beloved Sister In Cock, I learned long ago how to be ladylike.

The thing that was most surprising to me in the video is that Trump himself brags about cheating on golf, his taxes, and his wives. But then when I thought about it, I realized there's nothing surprising about that. The video did leave me feeling empty, and sad. I don't have my own personal Trump cheating story What's a guy gotta do around here to get one of those? 😉

My takeaway, too. And I'll say another thing that runs aground of DEI, too. Kamala Harris should stay out. I actually figured she would run for California Guv. Nixon and Trump were two amazing "rose from the dead" stories in US politics. I thought being Guv and running for POTUS after 4 years as Guv might be Kamala's rebrand story. But I guess not. In 2028, she is just Biden Revisited. More specifically, she said something just now about how the system is broken, and she wants to work outside the system. Which more or less gives Republicans great material for attack ads in 2028 if she does run. If the system is broken, who broke it? Biden, perhaps? If you want to work outside the system, why run for POTUS? I'm really stretching the topic here. But that is an interesting video of which Democratic potential candidate passes certain litmus tests. I personally like the AMLO test. The one Halperin uses that maybe comes closest is the "fire in the belly" test. Which he says Klobuchar and Buttigieg rank at the top of. What Halperin says "fire in the belly" means is they have to really want the job. I agree that Klo really wanted the job. But that was the problem, in part. All those stories about staffing problems did make it sound like it was all about her. Pete came closer to laying out a vision of "us". But I'm not sure. It seemed a bit too much like "friendly Gay woke bureaucrat" to me. But he is young. And I think he could be even better second time around. Maybe. The AMLO test to me is more like "fire in the party". Who can lay out a vision of what the Democratic Party should be that deeply inspires people? Clinton did. Obama did. Both got two terms. AMLO did that in Mexico. He started a new party, and redefined what politics does for working class people in Mexico. That is what we need. I have no clue who that person is. But, as you say, it is not Karine Jean-Pierre. She did the job, and wrote a book. Same old same old. Nothing wrong about it. But nothing inspiring. We need fire.

I have no doubt, either. I always trust in a woman's intuition. Especially when it is my beloved OLDER sister's. 😉

I get your point. But I'm not sure it works that way. Tariffs lead to inflation. And I'm not sure if that part of Trump inflates anymore. 😨

What a worthless piece of shit POTUS! I'd call Trump evil, but he is unworthy of the term. Genocide Man in Russia and the Genocide Jew in Israel earned the title "evil". One can argue W earned it in Iraq, with the genocide or at least ethnic cleansing and fanatical ISIS slaughter he set off. Trump is just a moronic dumb ass. I guess maybe that's better? Trump, escalating war of words with Russia’s Medvedev, mobilizes two nuclear submarines Why is Trump even engaging Genocide Man's Genocide Boy? What a weak dumb ass! His ego is so big and is his brain and cock are so small that Trump doesn't even realize he's supposed have his Hillbilly Boy do that. It must be hard for Trump to begin to fathom he won't be winning a Peace Prize for being the weak stupid dumb ass he has been, being rolled by Putin. And he has not even begun to fathom that the Genocide Jew has set him up for a twofer: Trump War with Iran, and Trump Genocide, with a special kosher slavor, against Palestinian women and kids. What a weak incompetent worthless piece of shit. No wonder his approval is dropping like a knife. And Iran is his best issue. Now let's talk about how he is handing over Ukraine to Genocide Man. And creating a massive debt hole to give himself and his donors tax cuts. What a disgrace to America!

I had no idea what that space was used for currently. But it makes perfect sense. Why would Trump give a shit about encroaching on the space of any woman. Including his own wife? Happily, at least the poor thing has her own bedroom.

Don't tell me. He was a young asshole who dated her but never sent her flowers? 😉 And it is on topic. Two nobody Jews can go to some nobody public school in Brooklyn and end up famous and beloved. That's the America I love. We are a melting pot. I was going to add this to my comment above, since the video clearly has a Jewish subtext. America today is not the America of 1980. And Israel is not the Israel of 1980. Kudos to Jewish Bernie Sanders and Jewish Jon Ossoff - but not Chuck Schumer - for voting against arming Israel in its genocide. Which is a word Israeli human rights groups are now using to decry the Genocide Jew's ethnic cleansing. Schumer is all talk and no action.

You guys are so small ball. Jesus Christ! Have an imagination. We need to rename America itself. Trumpland seems the most obvious. Trump likes the way Macron speaks. The translation for Trump in French is "Atout". Sounds cool. But MAGA folk may think it's too stuffy? Let's not forget "freedom fries", Maybe Trompette? We could perhaps consider Magerica. Amerimaga? Amagaca? But I think it probably has to be something with the name TRUMP in capital letters. In gold, ideally. MageriTRUMP? And we definitely don't want to call it Palestine. On a more serious note, I was looking for a trailer for the Neil Diamond play A Beautiful Noise and ran across this. I always liked this song. The comments are more interesting than the song and lyrics. These two comments portray the range: @MALTESEFALCON1 6 months ago Congratulations on the golden age of America. Pray for Trump and all Americans. @storbokki371 4 years ago I was at my dad's house today, he's a rabid Trumper, and he was enjoying Neil Diamond's "America". Lots of very patriotic lyrics, but I don't think he realized the song was about immigrants "coming to America". Ya think? I'm obviously in the latter camp. Happily, thanks to Trump's cruelty, a record 79 % of Americans say that immigration is good for America. And a record 78 % want to give immigrants living in the US illegally a chance to become citizens. In case anyone else is curious, that is Laurence Olivier (not Jewish in real life) and Lucie Arnaz in the audience. It's from the 1980 film The Jazz Singer. Maybe America is not dead yet. Thanks, Donald. Sing it, Neil!

Mamdani backs away from ‘out of step’ defund the police posts Other than having had ESP so he would have known an immigrant cop would die while he was on vacation, I am not sure what Mandami could have done better. After landing he went directly to the home of the slain officer to grieve with his family. He stood with the police association and union that represented the victims. Most importantly, he ate his tweets. "Defund The Police" is no doubt the most self-destructive thing elected Democrats said in 2020. And I say that tongue in cheek. Because very few elected Democrats ever said "defund the police". Joe Biden ran away from the phrase, which is partly why he won the nomination. So it's now up to New Yorkers to judge how they view Mamdani's words, past and present. And the most important thing we don't know is whether Mandani, if elected, is good at governing. But the optimistic slant on this is it sets up a good opportunity for Democrats to move on from past excesses in a Democratic bastion. Eric Adams, a former cop who is a centrist by NYC standards, had his chance to do so and blew it. I hope NYC gives a democratic socialist a chance. I do think some good came out of all the craziness and protest. I remember reading a long and moving essay by a Black Oakland cop who was nearing retirement age right in the middle of the 2020 protests. He talked about how he'd became close friends with fellow White cops. Their kids played together. They were decent people. And you get further by trying to get along than by calling each other names. He talked about how he got hired after a similar period of racial strife and protest in Oakland in the early 1970's. And about how working together was better than fighting. All excellent points. But the one excellent point he left out is that lots of Black cops got hired right around when he did precisely because of those protests about racism and the lack of representation. Who knows? Maybe he was a DEI hire before anyone even knew what DEI was. It was affirmative action back then, right? Lots of stories about Islam have described how he offered the NYC Muslim Bangladeshi community exactly the same kind of representation. They clearly grieve losing it, as well as the man. So I don't particularly regret "Defund The Police." Even though the net effect is it was a way for Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot. And it may still cost Mamdani the election But if he gets elected, it is a chance to move on.

He's a sad case, as is Newsom. They both just seem inauthentic. I think Newsom is a good Governor. But it does feel like he is just performing in the way he needs to perform to run for POTUS. As is Booker. And I also just disagree with their strategy. There's not a lot Democrats can do to stop what Trump is legally doing. And even if he has SCOTUS in his pocket, it is still legal - thanks to Mitch McConnell blocking Obama, and RBG not retiring when she should have. So I'm counting on Alinsky: "The action is in the reaction." Things are going to fester for a good long time. And we'll see what voters have to say next November. Speaking of which, the generic Congressional vote says right now Democrats are +3. That's not bad. They were further ahead at this point in 2017, which did play out with a big Democratic House win in 2018. So at the same time voters are saying +3 Democrats some of the same people are saying Democrats are weak and aimless. This will be the broken record until at least January 2027, when Democrats hopefully can block Trump in the legislative branch. But it won't really be solved until 2028, assuming Democrats can nominate someone who is NOT weak and aimless. I hope it is not Booker or Newsom.

Add another great Clinton line. Or word: "Arithmetic" Clinton: "Arithmetic" created surplus budgets Dick Cheney said a long time ago that Reagan proved deficits don't matter, politically. He has yet to be proven wrong. But maybe that is where Zoomers come in. I have a lot of fun teasing my nieces and nephews about their cynicism. But their argument is that if I grew up in an America where the government actually got shit done, maybe I would be less cynical. So now it seems like everybody under 40 likes to blame Boomers for this big ass deficit they will spend the rest of their lives paying off, for shit Boomers got and they didn't. Assuming they have a job. Meanwhile, it was our first Boomer POTUS, Bill Clinton, that got us a surplus. Hopefully a lot of Zoomer men learned the hard way in 2024. And in 2028 they might want to talk about jobs and deficits instead. If some Democrat like Clinton can figure it out.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! That is so unfair. Talk about bait and switch. If Jonathan Groff ruled us all, I would love him until my dying days. And he could kill my friends and family. Who cares? Actually, he just did. Just got together with a friend last night who just got back from NYC and saw Groff's Bobby Darin gig. He loved it. GROFF FOR KING IN 2028!

It's already happening. Youth unemployment keeps going up. And there are lots of stories about unusually high unemployment rates among recent college graduates, who usually have low unemployment rates. Maybe it is uncertainty about the Trump tariffs. Or maybe it is AI. Or maybe it is all of the above. So on the one hand there is this false promise that you're gonna pay more for your big ass truck so we can have more blue collar factory jobs. And meanwhile white collar jobs will be shredded by AI. I don't get how that is progress, yet. All those young Zoomer men who thought the blue collar billionaire Trump understood their problems ain't gonna be happy. Growing China trade deficit cost 3.7 million American jobs between 2001 and 2018 Jobs lost in every U.S. state and congressional district That's a nice summary. We know that while Bill Clinton was POTUS manufacturing was stable - from 16.8 million jobs in Jan. 93 on his first month to 17.1 million factory jobs on his last day. From there it was freefall to 11.4 million jobs by the Great Recession bottom in early 2010. So you can ding Obama for inheriting a financial crisis and Clinton for advancing the WTO based on promises of US job gains. But mostly this played out under Republican rule and Republican "free trade" policies. Biden was actually one of the ones who protested it at the time. And as you note it was some combination of being replaced by cheaper labor somewhere else, or automation. More for capitalists, less for labor. What a shocker! One nice thing about Trump is he has identified the problems, without really putting forward solutions. He lost in 2020 in part because people who live in these former factory towns said nothing really got better under Trump. In 2024 he won thanks in part to young men who felt at least Trump did not call them toxic. Now they get toxic Epstein drama, and the right to pay more for their big ass trucks to support Elon's tax cuts while the deficits that will fuck them good go up. Woo hoo! Maybe at some point Democrats will actually fight back to solve these problems.

I think it is both more complicated and worse than that. First, there will be tariffs on imported parts on cars manufactured in the US. It's a war on North American supply chains and auto workers in Canada and Mexico. Screw those auto workers! Second, as a result, prices will go up because cars cost more - thanks to Trump taxes. How do Trump taxes lower prices? They don't. Third, if prices go up thanks to Trump taxes, how does that help US auto workers negotiate higher wages? Pressure will be on auto makers to NOT raise prices any more than they have to. Do they achieve that by giving auto workers big raises? It makes no sense. One of my family members who is an Establishment Republican type and works for a large consulting firm is working on this now. He told me one prevailing view, I guess he meant among the consulting class, is that the last one to raise prices wins. That makes sense as a business strategy, if that is what happens. If there is any such thing as a car or SUV made 100 % in the US, in theory it could give a US car maker a competitive advantage in the US. My response to this was to cite Ruben Gallego's claim that every Latino man in America wants a big ass truck in his driveway. And they won't be happy when those big ass trucks cost more. This family member could not relate. We were actually sitting in his brand new luxury SUV with all the latest gadgets. How could he relate? It seems like a misguided policy. The same Establishment Republican types were behind the loss of millions of factory jobs when W. was President a generation ago. That was when the great shredding of US manufacturing happened, while Republicans ruled and Democrats like Biden protested in favor of "fair trade". So Trump has kind of embraced the slogan. But these days "fair trade" basically means "you pay more for your big ass truck". It's not gonna go down well.

Well, I'm a Christian. We believe in grace and charity. Besides, The Divine Miss Graham is a fashion goddess. How could I not be proud of her?

Satan won't even fuck the disgusting rapist felon. Does Satan know Trump fucked girls with Epstein? What a disgusting man. Our POTUS is a disgrace to the US. Did he rape girls, or just be best pals with a scumbag who did? We need to know!

Did felon rapist Trump rape girls with Epstein? I am with MAGA. MAGA wants to know. I want to know. Did rapist Trump rape girls? We know the lying rapist felon Trump was hiding something. What the lying rapist felon Trump is hiding is beginning to emerge. What a sick evil fuck! Child rapist? LIAR!!!!!!! Would felon rapist Trump be put to death for being a felon rapist? Did felon rapist Trump rape girls with Epstein? What a sick evil fuck Trump is! What a sick evil raping lying Trump our POTUS is! What a disgusting man! MAGA wants to know. I want to know. Did the felon rapist Trump rape girls with Epstein at Mar-A-Lago?