It was insane to go along with Bibi and sneak attack Iran to start this disaster. We never had a plan to begin with. The WH is still in denial that we got our asses kicked out of all our bases. Billions of dollars of infrastructure, gone. Any plans from the WH to re-escalate this fight are ridiculous. Iran has been busy with drone factories and testing new missiles. They have a list of 2 trillion worth of stuff we still have there and I don't think they'll hesitate to retaliate if we start bombing them again.
That reporter didn't ask Trump if he was too "unwell" to go to the rallies. He asked him if he was sick of going to the things. That's an entirely different question and our Idiot in Chief misunderstood it because he is an idiot.
One thing that keeps me going—statistics. As in >90% chance Dems take the House, getting about 240 seats, and 70% that they take the Senate, getting 52 seats. Cautious optimism, but I like our chances.
There’s a woman in a nearby town who keeps running for the town council, and her first name is Moira. Her lawn signs just have ‘MOIRA’ in big letters. It’s not the lift she thinks it is, and has obviously never seen the show Schitt’s Creek. I really really REALLY want to go there and add a picture of Moira Rose in her raven costume to one of the signs.
I love it! There is a ton of Moira Rose iconography you could reply with!
I'd plant a whiteboard sign next to one of your local Moira's with a rotation of cryptic messages, like "Worry is but undernourished enthusiasm." or "I just want a bathtub and a hair dryer, please."
I continue to worry about Alito and Thomas being "encouraged" to retire and TFG getting 2 more SC wingnut lunks confirmed during the lame duck session.
Maybe they'll stay because once they can't legislate from the bench, the spigot will be turned off. As far as I know, Harlan Crow hasn't offered them a pension plan.
That’s why the Dems need to take the senate too, so the senate majority leader can refuse to seat any nominee until after the election…in two years, and say “Fuck you McConnell” on the senate floor.
"Big Oil minted big money as the Iran war delivered American drivers the highest gas prices on record for the third quarter.
The two biggest US oil companies posted huge jumps in profit on Friday. ExxonMobil earned $15.4 billion in the third quarter, slightly more than doubled from what it earned a year ago, while Chevron’s adjusted earnings were up 186%, to $10.4 billion. Analysts forecast both could report record profits for the full year.
Global oil prices are spiking as the US-Iran war drags on, leading to blockbuster profits for oil companies and higher gas prices for US drivers. The national average for gasoline during the third quarter was $4.12 a gallon, according to AAA, up 96 cents from a year ago and the highest on record for the quarter."
"I could just see the fake headlines. 'President Trump is talking about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump.' That'll be the headline. But I said, 'I don't give a damn. I'm gonna say it.' We're making a freaking fortune."
“Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happened in the Middle East, because they’re coming to Texas and they’re coming to Oklahoma and they’re coming to Louisiana and they’re taking that oil,” [Trump] said at a campaign event in Georgia on Saturday. “We’re making a freaking fortune.”
Ah come on now. People will pay trillions to make AI art, diagrams, pic, videos and music.\
Why high school and college students alone will make them rich paying for reports, essay answers, papers, and book reviews. Not to mention grocery lists to make Michelin restaurant dishes. Car maintenance, cat feeding, sock drawer schematics.....the needs for AI use is endless!
I'm starting to think that the nature of money* is like energy, in that it cannot be meaningfully created or destroyed, and can only move or change states.
*which is sort of a collectively agreed upon delusion bestowing value onto silly little bits of paper anyway
Kennedy Center leaders jeopardized the institution’s operations by tying millions of dollars in foundation funding to keeping President Donald Trump’s name on its building, a Democratic congresswoman who serves on its board alleges in a court brief filed Friday.
The foundation transferred $17.5 million to the center this year, according to the brief prepared by lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio). According to a Trump administration lawyer, that money came on the condition the center was named after Trump — a condition barred by a federal judge in May.
Internal messages quoted in the document describe a paralysis that followed, with officials warning that returning the money would force immediate furloughs and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick rejecting a request to let the center keep some of it without the naming requirement.
The allegations concern the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, a nonprofit created before Trump’s takeover — and since rebranded with his name — to raise money for the institution. They suggest that money intended to support the center became leverage in the effort to keep his name on it.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), who serves on the center’s board and is the ranking Democrat on the committee with oversight responsibility over the center, challenged the foundation’s rules in a separate letter Thursday. He accused officials of changing its name and governing documents without the trustees’ approval.
The center did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It was insane to go along with Bibi and sneak attack Iran to start this disaster. We never had a plan to begin with. The WH is still in denial that we got our asses kicked out of all our bases. Billions of dollars of infrastructure, gone. Any plans from the WH to re-escalate this fight are ridiculous. Iran has been busy with drone factories and testing new missiles. They have a list of 2 trillion worth of stuff we still have there and I don't think they'll hesitate to retaliate if we start bombing them again.
That reporter didn't ask Trump if he was too "unwell" to go to the rallies. He asked him if he was sick of going to the things. That's an entirely different question and our Idiot in Chief misunderstood it because he is an idiot.
How are things in Mexico?
One thing that keeps me going—statistics. As in >90% chance Dems take the House, getting about 240 seats, and 70% that they take the Senate, getting 52 seats. Cautious optimism, but I like our chances.
As a Texas Democrat, I’ve been disappointed many times. Hope starts to creep in, and then I have to tamp it back down.
I’m basically white knuckling it at this point.
*hug to you and Axl*
There’s a woman in a nearby town who keeps running for the town council, and her first name is Moira. Her lawn signs just have ‘MOIRA’ in big letters. It’s not the lift she thinks it is, and has obviously never seen the show Schitt’s Creek. I really really REALLY want to go there and add a picture of Moira Rose in her raven costume to one of the signs.
I love it! There is a ton of Moira Rose iconography you could reply with!
I'd plant a whiteboard sign next to one of your local Moira's with a rotation of cryptic messages, like "Worry is but undernourished enthusiasm." or "I just want a bathtub and a hair dryer, please."
Think only this O great Goddess of Mercy
THe Moirai - the three Fates
Clotho The Spinner, Lachesis The Allotter, Atropos The Inflexible
I continue to worry about Alito and Thomas being "encouraged" to retire and TFG getting 2 more SC wingnut lunks confirmed during the lame duck session.
Maybe they'll stay because once they can't legislate from the bench, the spigot will be turned off. As far as I know, Harlan Crow hasn't offered them a pension plan.
That’s why the Dems need to take the senate too, so the senate majority leader can refuse to seat any nominee until after the election…in two years, and say “Fuck you McConnell” on the senate floor.
Thune will continue to be the lame duck Majority Leader until Jan3 or thereabouts when the new Congress gets in. There's plenty of time for fuckery.
Maybe we're protected by the outsized egos of Alito and Thomas.
They've already shown that they can be bought.
I’m counting on it. They never met a fair fight they wouldn’t run from.
Heh, too bad it's not a movie. Don't know if I actually want to read something like this.
"Nazi Werewolves From Outer Space"
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WxsAAeSw~Bdqm0hp/s-l1600.webp
And oil company profits are through the roof. Someone explain to me how this works.
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"Big Oil is raking in huge profits. Shareholders like Trump are cashing in. You’re paying for it with high gas prices." –https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/30/business/big-oil-profits-trump-gas-prices
"Big Oil minted big money as the Iran war delivered American drivers the highest gas prices on record for the third quarter.
The two biggest US oil companies posted huge jumps in profit on Friday. ExxonMobil earned $15.4 billion in the third quarter, slightly more than doubled from what it earned a year ago, while Chevron’s adjusted earnings were up 186%, to $10.4 billion. Analysts forecast both could report record profits for the full year.
Global oil prices are spiking as the US-Iran war drags on, leading to blockbuster profits for oil companies and higher gas prices for US drivers. The national average for gasoline during the third quarter was $4.12 a gallon, according to AAA, up 96 cents from a year ago and the highest on record for the quarter."
"I could just see the fake headlines. 'President Trump is talking about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump.' That'll be the headline. But I said, 'I don't give a damn. I'm gonna say it.' We're making a freaking fortune."
Well, they got what they paid for.
Very good ROI!
“Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happened in the Middle East, because they’re coming to Texas and they’re coming to Oklahoma and they’re coming to Louisiana and they’re taking that oil,” [Trump] said at a campaign event in Georgia on Saturday. “We’re making a freaking fortune.”
For a very small group of “we.”
Present day AI is the Pets.com of 2026.
These companies think other businesses will pay them trillions of dollars for what is basically back-office functions, not revenue generating centers.
I would wager most "efficiencies" just computers can provide have been nearly fully realized before AI showed up.
In a nutshell, for AI to "earn trillions" other businesses would have to "lose trillions".
I can't see the latter really excited about that . . .
Ah come on now. People will pay trillions to make AI art, diagrams, pic, videos and music.\
Why high school and college students alone will make them rich paying for reports, essay answers, papers, and book reviews. Not to mention grocery lists to make Michelin restaurant dishes. Car maintenance, cat feeding, sock drawer schematics.....the needs for AI use is endless!
I'm starting to think that the nature of money* is like energy, in that it cannot be meaningfully created or destroyed, and can only move or change states.
*which is sort of a collectively agreed upon delusion bestowing value onto silly little bits of paper anyway
I dunno about money, but I do know the nature of beer is rental.
"devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law"
This is Tramp SOP.
More like Putin's instructions . . .
"The Pentagon also has plans for alien invasions, it’s their job to prepare for any scenario.)"
Come, Saucerians, come!!
Destroy our planet before we bring out warlike ways into Space
Ok, so when Skynet and the T-1000 come after our asses, don't say I didn't warn us.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/
Every now and then my faith in my fellow Americans gets a nice little boost of acceleration. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mz6rmetyik2h
Paxton: Tell your friends the difference between me and James Talarico.
Audience member: Paxton, you take bribes!
I’d love to buy him a beer or 5!
Masterful delivery of that heckle. I love the note of contempt. It just drips.
"...a decrepit old fossil with no juice whose rallies are more sparsely attended than a pauper’s funeral..." Chef's kiss.
To be fair, Emperor Norton was a pauper, and there are (admittedly conflicting) reports of thousands of people who came to view his body:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton#Later_years_and_death
(As someone who lived in the Bay Area for twenty years, I'm still annoyed we still haven't named any part of the Bay Bridge after him.)
Wishing the decrepit old fossil record-breaking sparseness.
𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘀
𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴.
Kennedy Center leaders jeopardized the institution’s operations by tying millions of dollars in foundation funding to keeping President Donald Trump’s name on its building, a Democratic congresswoman who serves on its board alleges in a court brief filed Friday.
The foundation transferred $17.5 million to the center this year, according to the brief prepared by lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio). According to a Trump administration lawyer, that money came on the condition the center was named after Trump — a condition barred by a federal judge in May.
Internal messages quoted in the document describe a paralysis that followed, with officials warning that returning the money would force immediate furloughs and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick rejecting a request to let the center keep some of it without the naming requirement.
The allegations concern the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, a nonprofit created before Trump’s takeover — and since rebranded with his name — to raise money for the institution. They suggest that money intended to support the center became leverage in the effort to keep his name on it.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), who serves on the center’s board and is the ranking Democrat on the committee with oversight responsibility over the center, challenged the foundation’s rules in a separate letter Thursday. He accused officials of changing its name and governing documents without the trustees’ approval.
The center did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://wapo.st/4f3M5Fk
https://archive.ph/jbAPi
Heads I win, tails you lose. Classic narcissistic abuse.
I don't think this is the baby Grover Norquist had in mind . . .
I’m annoyed at the world in general, present company excluded, of course, so I’m all for anything that makes President Moron pissy.
Drumpf telling someone else to get in shape…
…there’s projection and then there’s IMAX.