One day LBJ was in a cabinet meeting and suddenly realized: McNamara, Rusk and alllllll his CIA people were either completely wrong or had deliberately lied to his face to further their own agenda and they were alllll pointing fingers at each other. Then came the TET offensive and Hue City was cut in half by a "completely defeated enemy".
LBJ then knew a loneliness he had never known before. The loneliness of holding the bag filled with bad news with no one else to blame for the debacle.
And he knew he could not run for President in 1968, that Humphrey was also tarred with the defeat and that Nixon was going to be President.
'Bitter' is hardly a strong enough word to describe LBJ in those months before he left office.
A bunch of Saudis under the command of Saudi Bin Ladin actually killed Americans in America. So far we have retaliated by attacking Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. This is illogical.
I’ve never tried it on grout, but the trick for cleaning up a stained and scratched porcelain sink is toothpaste. Spread it on and buff it, then rinse.
Wowee wow wow---and just like that Pammy is gone----seemed like she did her damnedest to keep the Epstein files off the front pages--and this is how she's repaid!
It has been Pickled Pete's job to keep the Trump-Epstein Files off the front page and provide sufficient glorious victory to make people forget everything.
And the unhelpful Iranians keep messing up the plan.
But yeah....punish the handiest woman in the room. That's the ticket.
The rhetoric sounds like Bush, Jr. in 2002, but substitute Iran for Iraq.
Bush, Jr’s bullshit about WMD’s and Saddam being a state sponsor of 9/11* only works once, when the nation was still reeling from a great big terrorist attack.
Donnie’s speech writers can’t think of anything else to explain this “war” then crib speeches from the second biggest loser president this century.
*Bush, Jr’s speechwriters made sure he never actually said Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. They cleverly wrote speeches that talked about 9/11 in one sentence, and then Saddam Hussein in the next sentence, so people made the association without explicitly saying it.
Ha ha, why yes, I CAN tell you what Trump's objective for the war a/k/a Operation Epstein Fury is. There are in fact three such objectives:
1. Continue to enrich himself and famiy by currying favor with and welcoming capital influx from the Saudis, who have been pouring cash into his and/or Jared's pockets.
2. Cater to the interests of the Kremlin (viz. relief on sanctions, boosted oil revenue, distraction from ongoing atrocities committed in Ukraine) for reasons known only to Donnie and Vladimir and those who photographed/recorded some long bygone event(s).
3. Direct our collective attention to something other than his administration's continued failure to release the full, unredacted Epstein files.
So actually, a strategic coup by President Pedo Pal. Well done!
“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,” he wrote on social media.
The fact that Trump won't hit oil infrastructure isn't that it's a war crime. Trump, Pete and Bebe have proven they have no problem with any crimes of war. It's also why Trump–claiming he has no skin in the game for control of Hormuz–keeps begging for someone to take care of it themselves. It's that the oil infrastructure is exactly why Trump invaded Iran in the first place.
And Iran knows this. They hear Trump's bombast about bombing their refineries and plants, and they set up a cabbage somewhere to see how long it lasts before TACO occurs. In fact, they've probably been able to use the same cabbage again and again with TACOs coming by the hour.
It's also a fact that Trump does not know Iran knows, and he will keep escalating until we start seeing thousands of troops injured or killed in a ground war.
And also a fact that all this will happen before Trump is removed from office as a lame duck or as a stroke victim. And while the mid-terms are important which will hopefully set up a favorable push in 2028, this should have never happened if ALL members of Congress have done their jobs in 2019, in 2020, in 2021, etc. And they all must be held accountable. Vote them all out already.
"One thing about Trump, he IS good at explaining things simply. He entirely invents facts, but you never come away from an encounter not knowing how he expects a person to feel about a thing. " So you're saying Trump is a chatbot?
Hey Meenahsota lost 4 as well. As they both had their playoff games on the Frozen Tundra in snowstorms even. Sunny Cal Boy Me has a Theory about them. Both of them.
My $.02 : The Buffalonians have to play indoors and they will win one someday.
But not go to the Show as often. Will be just like all the other better than average
teams that play indoors or in good weather. Until then getting drunk and frozen will
be the usual.
I too look at the odds and stuffs for shits and giggles.
Does explain why the Casinos and sites are rich and we are poor.
I actually played ice hockey. That statement actually makes sense to me.
I, however, am a Robert Morris fan. Yeah they suck. And occasionally dont have a team for years..but watcha gonna do? It ain't Boston College. I like the Colonials for some odd reason. I dont even know anyone that went to RMU.
This is it. If one is committed to non-violent action and adherence to the law, even in the face of indecency, there are a few avenues left to change the government at Washington.
One tool remains. High risk difficult to coordinate in a country of more than 300 millions that spans a continent. It may backfire. It may hurt the people it aims to help.
But it is a powerful tool. And it is this:
A national general strike.
No compliance with the regime plus no productive activity. At all. Everything stops.
The advantage of a general strike is that if it goes on long enough it can affect policy of moderates. The down side is it causes more pain for the poor than it does for oligarchs who are running the show.
Then maybe expanded food pantries need to be a part of the equation. It needs to last long enough to hurt those who whisper in trump's ear. Weeks, if need be. And fuck his brown shirts if they try anything.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat said "these megalomaniac wanna-be autocrat types end up hiding out from their people" and I'm like
"Yes, it really feels like that"
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat talks to David Pepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwaJgakgDs
One day LBJ was in a cabinet meeting and suddenly realized: McNamara, Rusk and alllllll his CIA people were either completely wrong or had deliberately lied to his face to further their own agenda and they were alllll pointing fingers at each other. Then came the TET offensive and Hue City was cut in half by a "completely defeated enemy".
LBJ then knew a loneliness he had never known before. The loneliness of holding the bag filled with bad news with no one else to blame for the debacle.
And he knew he could not run for President in 1968, that Humphrey was also tarred with the defeat and that Nixon was going to be President.
'Bitter' is hardly a strong enough word to describe LBJ in those months before he left office.
A bunch of Saudis under the command of Saudi Bin Ladin actually killed Americans in America. So far we have retaliated by attacking Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. This is illogical.
I’ve never tried it on grout, but the trick for cleaning up a stained and scratched porcelain sink is toothpaste. Spread it on and buff it, then rinse.
I have heard also that Listerine mouth wash was originally developed to clean floors with.
Why someone decided to start gargling with it may never be known.
Wowee wow wow---and just like that Pammy is gone----seemed like she did her damnedest to keep the Epstein files off the front pages--and this is how she's repaid!
It has been Pickled Pete's job to keep the Trump-Epstein Files off the front page and provide sufficient glorious victory to make people forget everything.
And the unhelpful Iranians keep messing up the plan.
But yeah....punish the handiest woman in the room. That's the ticket.
Sad, that is. So how is everyone?
I wish she'd get mad and release them out of spite.
The rhetoric sounds like Bush, Jr. in 2002, but substitute Iran for Iraq.
Bush, Jr’s bullshit about WMD’s and Saddam being a state sponsor of 9/11* only works once, when the nation was still reeling from a great big terrorist attack.
Donnie’s speech writers can’t think of anything else to explain this “war” then crib speeches from the second biggest loser president this century.
*Bush, Jr’s speechwriters made sure he never actually said Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. They cleverly wrote speeches that talked about 9/11 in one sentence, and then Saddam Hussein in the next sentence, so people made the association without explicitly saying it.
For some reason Trump reminds me of a Chuck Palahniuk novel.
Baconz finds that frightening (especially because Choke comes to mind first)
The written translation almost makes him sound slightly competent. Not at all like the weird old man brain farting on TV.
Ha ha, why yes, I CAN tell you what Trump's objective for the war a/k/a Operation Epstein Fury is. There are in fact three such objectives:
1. Continue to enrich himself and famiy by currying favor with and welcoming capital influx from the Saudis, who have been pouring cash into his and/or Jared's pockets.
2. Cater to the interests of the Kremlin (viz. relief on sanctions, boosted oil revenue, distraction from ongoing atrocities committed in Ukraine) for reasons known only to Donnie and Vladimir and those who photographed/recorded some long bygone event(s).
3. Direct our collective attention to something other than his administration's continued failure to release the full, unredacted Epstein files.
So actually, a strategic coup by President Pedo Pal. Well done!
Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/02/trump-white-house-ballroom-republicans-dhs-funding-deal-tariffs-latest-news-updates
Men get words, women get action. Expect Todd and Kash and Hegseth to be around for Trump's full term.
SIGH!
“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,” he wrote on social media.
You just know she got fired for not using the legal system to punish his enemies enough.
"Why is Obama still out walking around Pam?!"
Someone clever realized firing her might prevent her from testifying before Congress in a couple of weeks.
The fact that Trump won't hit oil infrastructure isn't that it's a war crime. Trump, Pete and Bebe have proven they have no problem with any crimes of war. It's also why Trump–claiming he has no skin in the game for control of Hormuz–keeps begging for someone to take care of it themselves. It's that the oil infrastructure is exactly why Trump invaded Iran in the first place.
And Iran knows this. They hear Trump's bombast about bombing their refineries and plants, and they set up a cabbage somewhere to see how long it lasts before TACO occurs. In fact, they've probably been able to use the same cabbage again and again with TACOs coming by the hour.
It's also a fact that Trump does not know Iran knows, and he will keep escalating until we start seeing thousands of troops injured or killed in a ground war.
And also a fact that all this will happen before Trump is removed from office as a lame duck or as a stroke victim. And while the mid-terms are important which will hopefully set up a favorable push in 2028, this should have never happened if ALL members of Congress have done their jobs in 2019, in 2020, in 2021, etc. And they all must be held accountable. Vote them all out already.
Yep, well said.
I like your cabbage reference. I see the lettuce one wouldn't quite do.
Just to mention, one time I used a head of cabbage after 2 months in the fridge
to make cole slaw and it was fine. Peeled off the outer leaves and chopped away.
However I did have it wrapped in plastic and in the bottom bin so no air flow.
“[I]s middle age too late to start taking Ritalin?”
I didn’t find out I had ADHD until I was thirty-two, so no.
"One thing about Trump, he IS good at explaining things simply. He entirely invents facts, but you never come away from an encounter not knowing how he expects a person to feel about a thing. " So you're saying Trump is a chatbot?
OT
So...well baconz used to have a gambling problem in the 90s (Fuckin' Bills! How do you lose 4 Super Bowls in a row) when I was a teen.
I still look at the odds with those gambling sites and keep "my ear to the ground" as they say. For fun.
OK here is some inside info (keep this under your hat).
There is a a rumor...Trump may be bat shit crazy.
Bet against him in 2028.
Just for wonkers. Keep it on the QT.
Edit: you will make a cleaning on those MAGA chumps. Fish in a barrel.
Hey Meenahsota lost 4 as well. As they both had their playoff games on the Frozen Tundra in snowstorms even. Sunny Cal Boy Me has a Theory about them. Both of them.
My $.02 : The Buffalonians have to play indoors and they will win one someday.
But not go to the Show as often. Will be just like all the other better than average
teams that play indoors or in good weather. Until then getting drunk and frozen will
be the usual.
I too look at the odds and stuffs for shits and giggles.
Does explain why the Casinos and sites are rich and we are poor.
I actually played ice hockey. That statement actually makes sense to me.
I, however, am a Robert Morris fan. Yeah they suck. And occasionally dont have a team for years..but watcha gonna do? It ain't Boston College. I like the Colonials for some odd reason. I dont even know anyone that went to RMU.
Oh yeah. Agree.
Just so you know, it ain't always warm out here.
When we surfed before class it was cold.
We peed on ourselves to keep warm.
Dumb ass kids yes we were.
I still pee on myself, but by accident.
Not to keep warm.
This is it. If one is committed to non-violent action and adherence to the law, even in the face of indecency, there are a few avenues left to change the government at Washington.
One tool remains. High risk difficult to coordinate in a country of more than 300 millions that spans a continent. It may backfire. It may hurt the people it aims to help.
But it is a powerful tool. And it is this:
A national general strike.
No compliance with the regime plus no productive activity. At all. Everything stops.
Would you support a national general strike?
Targeted boycotts seem to be effective, without causing too much pain that people get pissed off about the general strike.
May 1st:
https://maydaystrong.org/
The advantage of a general strike is that if it goes on long enough it can affect policy of moderates. The down side is it causes more pain for the poor than it does for oligarchs who are running the show.
Then maybe expanded food pantries need to be a part of the equation. It needs to last long enough to hurt those who whisper in trump's ear. Weeks, if need be. And fuck his brown shirts if they try anything.
Could get messy, but I don't see any other way.
100%
National strike, shut it down. Make it hurt.
NO WAR
I thought there was a call for a general strike on May 1.