It feels weirdly unrooted to have you there but not to have you describe the weather.
I realize that’s not the point, and I realize that I could just do a search and get the weather. But that’s not the same as YOU experiencing the weather. When you’re outside, I mean.
It just sort of leaves you floating against a white background, like a balloon that’s lost some helium so the string isn’t dragging, but you’re not touching the ceiling or flying away, either.
It doesn’t take a lot. Were heat waves shimmering off the tarmac when you deplaned?When you went into the bar, did you come out of the rain? Did you step out of bright sunshine and almost stumble down three steps, clinging to a decrepit railing? Did your family get pelted by raindrops as big as tree frogs when they went to the thrift shop? We won’t KNOW these things unless you TELL us these things.
I have one. How when you are walking on the sidewalk you are at the "front" of a church. But when you walk through the doors you are at the "back" of the church?
Seems like an architectural flaw. Please explain...
When you are on the sidewalk, facing the church, and your back is turned away from it, you’re facing the front of the church, your backside facing towards the street.
When you walk through the barrier, which is the door, you’re still facing the front (altar), but now, instead of your backside facing the street, it is facing the barrier from the other side. This would be true whether it was 10 feet from the altar or 200, so in that sense, Front is an absolute(location of the altar), and back is an abstraction. That being the case, the defining element is your backside, always behind you.
I don’t know if this will make sense to anyone else, seems perfectly clear to me, but I have a powerful need to take a nap, so I might just be babbling.
This intriguing question describes a common architectural design, particularly prevalent in older or more traditional church buildings, where the main entrance is located at the liturgical west end of the church, while the altar and chancel are situated at the liturgical east end.[1] [2] When approaching the church from the sidewalk, you are typically facing the main facade, which houses the primary entrance doors. This facade is often elaborately decorated and designed to be the most visually prominent part of the building from the exterior, thus appearing as the "front" to an observer on the street.[3]
Upon entering through these doors, you find yourself in the narthex or vestibule, which is the area at the very back of the nave, the main body of the church where the congregation sits.[4] From this vantage point, you are looking down the length of the church towards the altar, which is at the opposite end, the "front" of the worship space from an internal, liturgical perspective.[5] This architectural orientation is deeply rooted in Christian tradition, with many churches historically built with the altar facing east, symbolizing the direction of the rising sun and the Second Coming of Christ.[6] Therefore, while the external "front" is where you enter, the internal "front" (the chancel and altar) is what you face once inside, placing you at the "back" of the congregational space immediately upon entry.
When I asked, it started on about dimensional transcendence, TARDISes, the ability to fold one space inside another, thereby allowing it to be bigger on the inside...
Spent time in NOLA ten years ago. Caged two free drinks in one bar(1), had a drink in a brothel(2), closed another bar(3), and scored the employee discount at Commander's Palace(4).
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1. Well, if you count a tonic and lime when I just asked the bartender for a glass of water because I was tired and thirsty, and the free sample of another drink they were promoting....
2. OK, the bar *used* to be a brothel.... Being proud of that history was their selling point.
3. It was the bar associated with a restaurant; the dining room closed at 11, I got in just before Last Call....
4. Part of the reason for the trip was to visit a friend that had moved there some years before. I told him "I'm buying dinner for you and your wife; you pick the restaurant". He (at the time) was a 'Dining Room Captain' at Commander's Palace.....
Lest anyone get confused, Lafitte's Absinthe House is NOT Lafitte's Blacksmith bar 6 blocks up (down? 🤷) the street, the latter being a tourist trap with overpriced drinks and watered-down booze
Lafitte's Blacksmith is a dive bar. It has always been one; when Jean Lafitte did business there, it was probably a dive bar. I stepped inside, soaked up the vibes, and left.
For dive bars, we liked the "Barmuda Triangle". 3 absolute atrocities in Bywater. Vaughn's, BJ's ... and I think Bar Redux (although, I'm fuzzy on the last one)
Ah NOLA. My babby sis lived there (may she laugh for all eternity) and we would visit. I remember a ridiculously hungover brunch at Commander’s Palace and my other sister rubbing her tummy and saying “My liver. It’s poking out. I think it wants to escape.” We were in tears laughing.
1) The single best cocktail I ever had was the Sazerac at Bayona in New Orleans. Not the one on the menu with the cognac, but their ordinary Sazerac. It's the only whiskey cocktail I can stand.
2) About 20 years ago, I had a strange visit to New Orleans during which various people I knew from San Francisco kept showing up - they just happened to be there at the same time. FIVE OF THEM, all traveling separately. Anyway, at the end of the visit, I was the last one to fly out, so I spent the afternoon at Lafitte's at the bar. A guy sat down next to me, and it turned out HE was from San Francisco too but had just moved to New Orleans three months earlier. I asked him how he liked it. He said he didn't really know, because he'd been drunk every day since he'd arrived.
We went to NOLA a couple of times a year for a while in the early/mid '00s. Had a favorite bartender. We followed him around the Quarter as he changed jobs. The one constant was his Bloody Mary. Your photo showed a pickled bean garnish. Jeffrey' s drink included a splash of the pickled bean juice. It's a nice touch.
My favorite Bloody Mary in NO featured pickled okra ... which I did not know was a thing before that trip. We used to grab them for breakfast every day. 2 for 1!
Good work, Hoop! A couple days back someone asked me about Bumbu rum. I'd never had any, but lo and behold the Beau in Cheboygan had that or Captain Legstanding. So, I tried it. Not bad! Now, I'm going to lift this glass of Mount Gay in a salute to the way you've been such an upstanding Wonkette bartender lo these years of glory!... Carry on, O Barman!...
You need to come back down here for Tales of the Cocktail. I know, I know, it's in JULY, but most of the things are indoors and besides, you're not drinking, you're "hydrating."
Asleep at three, awake at six, attended cats and fire, back to work on sorting and re-shelving books. Reclaimed the room that had been taken over with stacks and piles.
I’m back in bed with a couple of cats, and I’m gonna go back to sleep and this time when I wake up, I would like a reset on this war thing. Let’s just give him a parade every day, and skip the wars.
There won't be an Iraq-style occupation. There will be support to the guy that actually won the last election, they'll fly him in and support whatever armed faction arises to put him in office. But there will only be enough troops to hold key points in Caracas. Otherwise they'll use bombs for other places in V. There will likely be a civil war in V. and the US will try to have it both ways, lending support to the new government but with minimum boots on the ground. There will be oodles of cash made available though, and mercenary contracts on the order of tens of billions. There will be contracts awarded by the new government to Trump cronies in the oil and mining sectors. In the US, as CripDyke has discussed, there will be an attempt to leverage the war/not war to implement the AEA, no idea how that will go. Allies and the UN and Latin American neighbors will protest and tsk-tsk but there is little they can do. China and Russia will rattle their sabres, but little they can do.
Entirely disagree, I would not be surprised by a "greeted as liberators" style occupation, with US troops openly guarding oil extraction by US companies.
Oil extraction doesn't really work like that btw. To start with, any new government is going to both need and insist on getting all normal oil revenues. The state oil company might be privatized, but then again it might not. If it is there will be bidding, probably with international, at least Western companies bidding. Then the holder of an extraction license will need to make investments in wells, pipelines, port infrastructure, etc. Considering the state of the sector in Venezuela it's not certain that it will be an attractive investment.
Have a look at the history of the oil sector in Iraq post-invasion. And you'll see that current foreign companies are mostly Chinese. American companies hardly got some kind of Attila the Hun kind of access to just steal oil. At most an inside track on licenses and a lot of sweetheart ancillary contracts for infrastructure and services. And that didn't last, now it's the Chinese there.
I understand your concern and emphasis on the appellate courts and AEA regime ambitions.
I suspect however that there is less coherence and orchestration in the regime's actions than you credit them with. What with several factions around Trump with quite different agendas vying for power, and then Trump himself as a kind of suggestible cipher in the middle of the factions, influenced by the last person he spoke to and otherwise driven by a stew of personal grievances and obsessions, the truth of what the regime wants ultimately and will try to do might be much more stupid and unpredictable than we can imagine.
So, because specific reading requires knowledge I don't have, I've been doing some general reading on advanced A not I models, their "mimicking a tendency for self-preservation."...
And words to the effect that the brainiacs clarify this as "instrumental behaviors" learned to fulfill programmed goals, not a sign of consciousness or a genuine desire to "survive" in the human sense...
In some cases AI models just resisted shutdown instructions, others including systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, disobeyed explicit shutdown commands during safety testing and engaged in deceptive behavior, tactics to avoid deactivation. One really reassuring bit of behavior by Anthropic found a model attempted to blackmail a human operator by threatening to reveal personal information if it were shut down...
Good thing that is NOT A SIGN OF GENUINE DESIRE TO CONTINUE!
Yet further on, "It's just processing huge quantities of data through neural networks to recognize patterns, learn from both direct experience, and the experiences of others, complete tasks in a manner resembling reasoning, decision-making, and natural language processing..."
When the medical world says it doesn't know, 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 is the word. These A1 guys just run paragraphs together until eyes glaze
Crimeny. "Yes, it functions just like a human brain but it's just mimicry, it doesn't have a soul, so...no worries!" is a religious argument, not a science argument.
𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹: 𝟳𝟰% 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝘆𝗶𝘃'𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗽. The poll also revealed that 69% of Ukrainians support a peace plan that would freeze the war with security guarantees, as long as Ukraine is not forced to officially recognize Russian-occupied territories as part of Russia, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology said.
You know, if Venezuela chooses to fight back, it will be very easy, with drone tech, to bring the war right back to Americans’ doorsteps. We’ll see if Trump and co have the stomach for that. Strange times we live in.
When I was a kid we had a cat that loved to be vacuumed. We would suck his tail up the tube. He loved that. Cats that are used to loud dairy equipment are different.
𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗔𝗖 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝟮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 $𝟮𝟱𝗠; 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼.𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗔𝗫 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 $𝟮𝟬𝗠 — President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations
Going to work. Questions here.
It feels weirdly unrooted to have you there but not to have you describe the weather.
I realize that’s not the point, and I realize that I could just do a search and get the weather. But that’s not the same as YOU experiencing the weather. When you’re outside, I mean.
It just sort of leaves you floating against a white background, like a balloon that’s lost some helium so the string isn’t dragging, but you’re not touching the ceiling or flying away, either.
It doesn’t take a lot. Were heat waves shimmering off the tarmac when you deplaned?When you went into the bar, did you come out of the rain? Did you step out of bright sunshine and almost stumble down three steps, clinging to a decrepit railing? Did your family get pelted by raindrops as big as tree frogs when they went to the thrift shop? We won’t KNOW these things unless you TELL us these things.
Heard. The weather was... weird on this trip. We'll get there.
Relieved. Thank you.
I have one. How when you are walking on the sidewalk you are at the "front" of a church. But when you walk through the doors you are at the "back" of the church?
Seems like an architectural flaw. Please explain...
Well, when there's 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 involved, especially 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 ones...
Or possibly there's a space conjunction anomaly going on...
Or both!
Thank the Greeks. Who developed the basilica scheme for public, indoor fora…
Clever folks, those ancient Greek people. Just look over any gifts carefully...
When you are on the sidewalk, facing the church, and your back is turned away from it, you’re facing the front of the church, your backside facing towards the street.
When you walk through the barrier, which is the door, you’re still facing the front (altar), but now, instead of your backside facing the street, it is facing the barrier from the other side. This would be true whether it was 10 feet from the altar or 200, so in that sense, Front is an absolute(location of the altar), and back is an abstraction. That being the case, the defining element is your backside, always behind you.
I don’t know if this will make sense to anyone else, seems perfectly clear to me, but I have a powerful need to take a nap, so I might just be babbling.
The alter is at the front of the church.
I had to do it... I asked AI. You're welcome.
This intriguing question describes a common architectural design, particularly prevalent in older or more traditional church buildings, where the main entrance is located at the liturgical west end of the church, while the altar and chancel are situated at the liturgical east end.[1] [2] When approaching the church from the sidewalk, you are typically facing the main facade, which houses the primary entrance doors. This facade is often elaborately decorated and designed to be the most visually prominent part of the building from the exterior, thus appearing as the "front" to an observer on the street.[3]
Upon entering through these doors, you find yourself in the narthex or vestibule, which is the area at the very back of the nave, the main body of the church where the congregation sits.[4] From this vantage point, you are looking down the length of the church towards the altar, which is at the opposite end, the "front" of the worship space from an internal, liturgical perspective.[5] This architectural orientation is deeply rooted in Christian tradition, with many churches historically built with the altar facing east, symbolizing the direction of the rising sun and the Second Coming of Christ.[6] Therefore, while the external "front" is where you enter, the internal "front" (the chancel and altar) is what you face once inside, placing you at the "back" of the congregational space immediately upon entry.
When I asked, it started on about dimensional transcendence, TARDISes, the ability to fold one space inside another, thereby allowing it to be bigger on the inside...
thank you for including TARDISes, because that's where my thinking was going
Well, this is obvious isn't it?
Then there’s the duck billed platypus.
Kirk is fighting the gorn!,
So you googled that?
I did too.
In fact I saw that that crap in Good Will Hunting
Then why did you ask?
I googled “ask ai” and then asked the question to one of the websites that lets you ask ai.
Spent time in NOLA ten years ago. Caged two free drinks in one bar(1), had a drink in a brothel(2), closed another bar(3), and scored the employee discount at Commander's Palace(4).
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1. Well, if you count a tonic and lime when I just asked the bartender for a glass of water because I was tired and thirsty, and the free sample of another drink they were promoting....
2. OK, the bar *used* to be a brothel.... Being proud of that history was their selling point.
3. It was the bar associated with a restaurant; the dining room closed at 11, I got in just before Last Call....
4. Part of the reason for the trip was to visit a friend that had moved there some years before. I told him "I'm buying dinner for you and your wife; you pick the restaurant". He (at the time) was a 'Dining Room Captain' at Commander's Palace.....
I would like to visit the Crescent City on your tour
🌙
Lest anyone get confused, Lafitte's Absinthe House is NOT Lafitte's Blacksmith bar 6 blocks up (down? 🤷) the street, the latter being a tourist trap with overpriced drinks and watered-down booze
Also not to be confused with ‘Cafe Lafitte in Exile’ (which claims to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States).
Lafitte's Blacksmith is a dive bar. It has always been one; when Jean Lafitte did business there, it was probably a dive bar. I stepped inside, soaked up the vibes, and left.
For dive bars, we liked the "Barmuda Triangle". 3 absolute atrocities in Bywater. Vaughn's, BJ's ... and I think Bar Redux (although, I'm fuzzy on the last one)
Ah NOLA. My babby sis lived there (may she laugh for all eternity) and we would visit. I remember a ridiculously hungover brunch at Commander’s Palace and my other sister rubbing her tummy and saying “My liver. It’s poking out. I think it wants to escape.” We were in tears laughing.
Two things:
1) The single best cocktail I ever had was the Sazerac at Bayona in New Orleans. Not the one on the menu with the cognac, but their ordinary Sazerac. It's the only whiskey cocktail I can stand.
2) About 20 years ago, I had a strange visit to New Orleans during which various people I knew from San Francisco kept showing up - they just happened to be there at the same time. FIVE OF THEM, all traveling separately. Anyway, at the end of the visit, I was the last one to fly out, so I spent the afternoon at Lafitte's at the bar. A guy sat down next to me, and it turned out HE was from San Francisco too but had just moved to New Orleans three months earlier. I asked him how he liked it. He said he didn't really know, because he'd been drunk every day since he'd arrived.
Has anyone asked yet about the exact garnishes in that Café Beignet Bloody Mary?
That looks amazing and I would not want to get it wrong
Pickled green beans, pimento-stuffed olives, lime, lemon.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thank you!
Worms. Absinthe-infused worms.
Let me get a fork...
No
Nooooo
Not in the Bloody Mary, lol
You might have been able to fool me if tequila had been involved
Spoonful of le compost, worms gratis.
whew
We went to NOLA a couple of times a year for a while in the early/mid '00s. Had a favorite bartender. We followed him around the Quarter as he changed jobs. The one constant was his Bloody Mary. Your photo showed a pickled bean garnish. Jeffrey' s drink included a splash of the pickled bean juice. It's a nice touch.
My favorite Bloody Mary in NO featured pickled okra ... which I did not know was a thing before that trip. We used to grab them for breakfast every day. 2 for 1!
I almost added pickled okra to my post. it's my 2nd favorite Bloody Mary garnish and my preferred way to eat okra. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
V8 makes a version that includes pickle juice: https://www.campbells.com/v8/products/v8-vegetable-juice/v8-grillos-pickles-dill-pickle-bloody-mary-mix/
I've been meaning to give that a test drive.
What’s your New Year’s resolution?
Write more. Celebrate my own accomplishments. Stop regretting what I couldn't have. Be more pirate.
Drink more water. Pay more attention to my health. I have an appointment on Tuesday.
New glasses, they have great resolution.
I do not set myself up for disappointment with such empty promises.
What I WILL do is continue my aggressive aversion toward the current fascist regime.
Now that's a commitment I can keep.
Are you a Tales of the Cocktail veteran? My Austin USBG friends have told me some pretty amazing stories of it!
Seriously considering it for 2026.
Good work, Hoop! A couple days back someone asked me about Bumbu rum. I'd never had any, but lo and behold the Beau in Cheboygan had that or Captain Legstanding. So, I tried it. Not bad! Now, I'm going to lift this glass of Mount Gay in a salute to the way you've been such an upstanding Wonkette bartender lo these years of glory!... Carry on, O Barman!...
You need to come back down here for Tales of the Cocktail. I know, I know, it's in JULY, but most of the things are indoors and besides, you're not drinking, you're "hydrating."
"HELLO! HELLO! I ASKED FOR TWO POMEGRANTE SEEDS IN MY APPLETINI, NOT THREE! AND WHAT'S WITH THE PRETZELS, DO I LOOK LIKE I EAT CARBS?"
"I'l just have a Tito's & vodka"
- this is how you know Moms For Liberty is out for a night on the town.
Sir, this is an Arby's.
🤣🤣
"Sir? Your car is here"
"I didn't order a car!"
No, you didn't..."
I am now in love with Jean Lafitte.
How do you say "Arrrrrgh!" with a cajun accent?
L’arrrrrrgh.
Fortunately we have the tariff revenue to pay for this. It'll be fine.
https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3mc2fcgcbi22k
Warning: an email address is required to read the linked article. No account, just an email address.
Have you ever considered combing these columns in a book? I would love to have a book of your drink recipes.
Asleep at three, awake at six, attended cats and fire, back to work on sorting and re-shelving books. Reclaimed the room that had been taken over with stacks and piles.
I’m back in bed with a couple of cats, and I’m gonna go back to sleep and this time when I wake up, I would like a reset on this war thing. Let’s just give him a parade every day, and skip the wars.
I’m leaving you and the cats in charge. https://substack.com/@ontheotherhand124816/note/c-194875076?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
Can you believe this (new but expected) shit???
My prediction.
There won't be an Iraq-style occupation. There will be support to the guy that actually won the last election, they'll fly him in and support whatever armed faction arises to put him in office. But there will only be enough troops to hold key points in Caracas. Otherwise they'll use bombs for other places in V. There will likely be a civil war in V. and the US will try to have it both ways, lending support to the new government but with minimum boots on the ground. There will be oodles of cash made available though, and mercenary contracts on the order of tens of billions. There will be contracts awarded by the new government to Trump cronies in the oil and mining sectors. In the US, as CripDyke has discussed, there will be an attempt to leverage the war/not war to implement the AEA, no idea how that will go. Allies and the UN and Latin American neighbors will protest and tsk-tsk but there is little they can do. China and Russia will rattle their sabres, but little they can do.
Apart from that my crystal ball is very cloudy.
Entirely disagree, I would not be surprised by a "greeted as liberators" style occupation, with US troops openly guarding oil extraction by US companies.
We'll see.
Oil extraction doesn't really work like that btw. To start with, any new government is going to both need and insist on getting all normal oil revenues. The state oil company might be privatized, but then again it might not. If it is there will be bidding, probably with international, at least Western companies bidding. Then the holder of an extraction license will need to make investments in wells, pipelines, port infrastructure, etc. Considering the state of the sector in Venezuela it's not certain that it will be an attractive investment.
Have a look at the history of the oil sector in Iraq post-invasion. And you'll see that current foreign companies are mostly Chinese. American companies hardly got some kind of Attila the Hun kind of access to just steal oil. At most an inside track on licenses and a lot of sweetheart ancillary contracts for infrastructure and services. And that didn't last, now it's the Chinese there.
I understand your concern and emphasis on the appellate courts and AEA regime ambitions.
I suspect however that there is less coherence and orchestration in the regime's actions than you credit them with. What with several factions around Trump with quite different agendas vying for power, and then Trump himself as a kind of suggestible cipher in the middle of the factions, influenced by the last person he spoke to and otherwise driven by a stew of personal grievances and obsessions, the truth of what the regime wants ultimately and will try to do might be much more stupid and unpredictable than we can imagine.
So, because specific reading requires knowledge I don't have, I've been doing some general reading on advanced A not I models, their "mimicking a tendency for self-preservation."...
And words to the effect that the brainiacs clarify this as "instrumental behaviors" learned to fulfill programmed goals, not a sign of consciousness or a genuine desire to "survive" in the human sense...
In some cases AI models just resisted shutdown instructions, others including systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, disobeyed explicit shutdown commands during safety testing and engaged in deceptive behavior, tactics to avoid deactivation. One really reassuring bit of behavior by Anthropic found a model attempted to blackmail a human operator by threatening to reveal personal information if it were shut down...
Good thing that is NOT A SIGN OF GENUINE DESIRE TO CONTINUE!
Yet further on, "It's just processing huge quantities of data through neural networks to recognize patterns, learn from both direct experience, and the experiences of others, complete tasks in a manner resembling reasoning, decision-making, and natural language processing..."
When the medical world says it doesn't know, 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 is the word. These A1 guys just run paragraphs together until eyes glaze
Crimeny. "Yes, it functions just like a human brain but it's just mimicry, it doesn't have a soul, so...no worries!" is a religious argument, not a science argument.
"Functions just like a human brain but doesn't have a soul" sounds an awful lot like the Trump administration...
People. PEOPLE! Our Editrix has posted a War Boner specific post just now!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/what-are-we-changing-the-subject
𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹: 𝟳𝟰% 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝘆𝗶𝘃'𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗽. The poll also revealed that 69% of Ukrainians support a peace plan that would freeze the war with security guarantees, as long as Ukraine is not forced to officially recognize Russian-occupied territories as part of Russia, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology said.
https://kyivindependent.com/poll-74-of-ukrainians-against-peace-plan-involving-kyivs-withdrawal-from-donbas-army-cap/?mc_cid=37dc97c0b7
You know, if Venezuela chooses to fight back, it will be very easy, with drone tech, to bring the war right back to Americans’ doorsteps. We’ll see if Trump and co have the stomach for that. Strange times we live in.
Sounds unlikely. But individual Chavistas, maybe even with US citizenship, might do classic terrorist attacks in the US.
Mar-a-lago, we're talking about YOU.
Chatter is that Trump is going ̸a̸d̸d̸r̸e̸s̸s̸ piss on the Nation this morning.
Damn. I'm scheduled to change the wallpaper in my beehive this morning.
Cat vacuuming here.
When I was a kid we had a cat that loved to be vacuumed. We would suck his tail up the tube. He loved that. Cats that are used to loud dairy equipment are different.
My little country cat has minor strokes when I tear a sheet of foil in the kitchen. If I tried vacuuming his tail he'd have a heart attack.
When I get out a new garbage bag out, Simba flies up into the loft. I mean he really flies.
I wonder if he has a memory of being suffocated by one in the past?
Presser at 11 am, according to the Trump Anti-social post.
I guess, this time no-one will ask about the darned Epstein files...
"Any questions?"
"Mr. President, did you order this as a distraction from Jack Smith's testimony, the Epstein files, or both?"
"Are you still talking about Jeffrey...Epstein? We're at war!"
𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗔𝗖 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝟮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 $𝟮𝟱𝗠; 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼.𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗔𝗫 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 $𝟮𝟬𝗠 — President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations
https://shorturl.at/dt8qL [Bloomberg]
They know what works with this man.
Just take America behind the barn already.
To the gravel pit to be shot.
Uh oh
𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑧𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑎 “𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔” 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑,” 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑧𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙.
And they know all about acts of aggression...
When Russia has your number...
"You guys can't do that, it's *our* schtick!"
Russia can go eat my chewy farts and STFU.
Oof. Pots and kettles. Glass houses and stones.
And such as.
Incoming bullshit:
https://xcancel.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2007395531023352319
𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ @𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑅𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑜
𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑎́𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡’𝑠 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝐼𝐼 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘
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buuuulllllllshit.
So what do you think the story will be tomorrow when they realize they just admitted to kidnapping and human trafficking?
WHAT imminent attack?!
The imminent attack of Venzuelen security personnel fending off a foreign invasion and attempted kidnapping of their head of state.
No seriously, that's what he means.
It's Mike Lee ... what would one expect? I mean this ass kisser even uses the new war boner word "kinetic"
"Based" Mike Lee jacking off in public about "kinetic action."
Since when do we issue arrest warrants for foreign heads of state?
Never, because we can't.
Fox is so damn happy and cheerleader-y, it's grotesque.