I never knew where "You're killing me, Smalls!" came from, yet I'd say it to my defendants sometimes, and they always laughed, though I imagine they didn't know where it came from either.
"More than 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in Gaza, according to witnesses,, with a hospital run by the Red Cross confirming it was treating many wounded.
Witnesses told the Guardian that Israeli forces had opened fire as they headed toward the aid distribution site in Rafah run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)."
Just walked approximately 10.something miles from one end of Rome to the other, pausing for pizza and beer and then getting the train back. Originally it was going to be about a 2 hour walk, but it turned into 5.
You went traditional! No horses in old Rome during the day. Everybody walked... except the ultra rich who got carried in palanquins. I wonder what they called them way back then?
Saw James Carville on MSNBC this morning. I usually think he's overrated and a font of the best wisdom that 1996 has to offer, but he said two things I agree with. First, shitcan the term "oligarch". They need to be called what they really are: Rich Scum. Second: sure, go ahead and engage the Bros, but also point out that they need to , as he put it, "game up". Women in academia and the professions are getting ahead because they put in the goddamn work. They are the ones sitting in the front of the classrooms with their hands in the air, and in the libraries at night. Men need to do more of that.
It's really a matter of capitalism at its more basic form. If no one is buying what the Bros & Incels have to sell, they need to change their product to meet the needs of their target customers.
Males think that listening to Joe Rogaine and Andrew Tater is intellactuel (sic). Unfortunate side effect of denying (mostly white) male privilege* as they don't know what hard work really means.
*I'm not immune from that stupidity either, but I learned... sort of.
By October, they had come down substantially. But all we heard about was a coming recession that never happened and inflation that was blamed on Biden but never explained as to what caused it. All you heard was people bitching about it, again, with no attempt at explaining it.
<Biden said at a labor union event this month that Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), opens new tab "made more money than God this year" and sent a letter to seven oil and gas companies calling on them to increase production to help ease the burden on consumers.
Biden, who campaigned on a promise to reduce dependence on fossil fuels which contribute carbon emissions linked to climate change, is leaning on the industry to curb inflation. Oil and gas companies are reaping higher profits than they have in decades and mostly returning that windfall to shareholders in the form of buybacks.
Industry executives complain Biden isn't asking for help in the right way. "Your administration has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry," Chevron CEO Michael Wirth wrote in an open letter to Biden released on Tuesday. "The outreach from the administration is lacking," said Frank Macchiarola, a senior policy executive at the American Petroleum Institute trade body.
TFG does one thing well: uses social media. He hammers points over and over till the media has no choice but to cover them, regardless of how batshit they are. Dems need a constant presence on social media, not just one hit and done.
"...Trump’s own wife Melania has also been the subject of similar conspiracy theories, with the idea that Melania had been replaced by a body double gaining credence during Trump’s first term,..."
"Underwhelming report" per an X poster. 57,737 books sold in the 1st week versus the Bob Woodward book "Fear" which sold 1 million copies in its first week.
When figuring out orbital mechanics for satellites, one would think taking into account the HUGE-ASS FLAMING BALL OF HYDROGEN eight light minutes away from us would be a good idea. Unless, of course, you're Elno Musk.
It would be poetic justice if some country or non state actor were to put up a satellite filled with buckshot and blew it up in the Starlink orbits. The beauty is when you take out one, the bits and pieces of it will spread out an take another and so on liker a nuclear cascade.
I hope Vietnam and every other country who made Starlink as part of the Trump deals slow walks that shit until Trump signals it's okay to dump that shit.
Ukraine smuggled a truck full of drones 3000km+ into Russia, to strike multiple airbases and destroy potentially 40 aircraft (including one of the very few operating A-50 'AWACS' types.)
If I'm a civilian in any country with an interest in total surveillance or discrete elimination of malcontents, which is most of them Katy, I'd be freaking out right now.
Turns out you can fit a LOT of drones in a shipping container and if you have even half-decent intelligence agents, you can just ship that shit deep into enemy territory.
And once you are beyond the air defenses close to the front, open season.
The next question has to be, when will the next strike be? Will they either finish the job and go after more long-range bombers? Or strike at fighter bases?
Since Trump admitted in 2017 that he gave Israeli intelligence to Russia, why would anyone trust the current administration? If I were a foreign government I would not trust the US with the daily weather report.
Who is included the statistics for "long term" unemployment? Or "unemployed" at all? Is the number just the people who are claiming benefits or do they also count people who can't claim any longer (or who never did claim), and people who just gave up looking? I'm assuming they don't count SAH parents and people who *could* be working in paid employment but are being financially supported by someone else.
I'm not trying to argue, I'm just wondering out loud.
I can't verify this, but I found this article from The Kyiv Independent to have the ring of truth. Commercial satellites will prove or disprove this, ultimately.
Wow. This would be really bad for Russia (like I care).
Most of those are notorious hanger queens (like the B-1) that require a lot of maintenance just to get them up in the air and they don't have many in service for that reason.
So far the Russians have lost at least 3 A-50's. Sounds like they only had a handful operational at the start of the war.
This might have been the last A-50U that got taken out.
And several billion dollars of literally irreplaceable heavy bombers.
Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, Russia just lost perhaps as much as half its operational bomber fleet.
Even back in the glory days of the USSR this would have been a disaster of the first order and just building replacement aircraft would take several years.
But we’re grading the two party’s on a much different scale here. To say that Biden didn’t deliver on his promises and inspire confidence in voters is a lie. Not only did he deliver historically progressive legislative wins, he over saw an economy that was literally the envy of the world and brought down inflation.
The only thing Trump did In 2024 was get indicted on 91 felonies, convicted of 34, lose a rape defamation case, lose a real estate fraud case, and ramble about sharks, batteries and Arnold Palmer’s penis.
And yet everyone acts like Trump is this amazing politically savvy genius and Biden is the worst thing to ever happen to America.
Yes. Also, those who wouldn't vote for a colored lady. Unfortunately, what I have to say to that would earn me a thunk on the head from the Hammer of Banning.
I've been trying to figure out a way to say what you said. I'm not bashing Dems anymore. WE are not the problem. WE don't nominate and support felons and frauds. WE believe in good governance and the separation of powers. The rule of law. That republicans and the people that vote for them are okay with all this and are doing nothing about it, IS NOT the fault of Democrats. But, quit confirming his shitty nominations.
People are using this time to push the agendas they've always had. How they frame the Biden administration is based on what benefits that agenda - as does how much, or how little, their framing reflects reality.
It looks like that smarmy prick Mike Johnson is doing the Sunday shows. Again. After seeing the damage, incompetence and corruption of the last six months, do these fuckers really need a platform?
"I love you, Mike Johnson. But it's only because I don't want to be a hypocrite. The Bible says I detest those. Oh, one more thing. Stop touching yourself!"
We took our son to see this movie when it came out. I loved it. especially the dog. who I don't think dies in the movie.
I never knew where "You're killing me, Smalls!" came from, yet I'd say it to my defendants sometimes, and they always laughed, though I imagine they didn't know where it came from either.
"food aid" as bait . . . Yes, this IS a fucking genocide.
•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•
"Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says" –https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says
"More than 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in Gaza, according to witnesses,, with a hospital run by the Red Cross confirming it was treating many wounded.
Witnesses told the Guardian that Israeli forces had opened fire as they headed toward the aid distribution site in Rafah run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)."
“the matter is still under review.” - IDF
And that's the last you'll hear about it from them.
Just walked approximately 10.something miles from one end of Rome to the other, pausing for pizza and beer and then getting the train back. Originally it was going to be about a 2 hour walk, but it turned into 5.
You went traditional! No horses in old Rome during the day. Everybody walked... except the ultra rich who got carried in palanquins. I wonder what they called them way back then?
So you ended up Roming.
Saw James Carville on MSNBC this morning. I usually think he's overrated and a font of the best wisdom that 1996 has to offer, but he said two things I agree with. First, shitcan the term "oligarch". They need to be called what they really are: Rich Scum. Second: sure, go ahead and engage the Bros, but also point out that they need to , as he put it, "game up". Women in academia and the professions are getting ahead because they put in the goddamn work. They are the ones sitting in the front of the classrooms with their hands in the air, and in the libraries at night. Men need to do more of that.
It's really a matter of capitalism at its more basic form. If no one is buying what the Bros & Incels have to sell, they need to change their product to meet the needs of their target customers.
Now, they're encouraged to find someone to blame.
Males think that listening to Joe Rogaine and Andrew Tater is intellactuel (sic). Unfortunate side effect of denying (mostly white) male privilege* as they don't know what hard work really means.
*I'm not immune from that stupidity either, but I learned... sort of.
Our pal T. Wrecks always makes good points about media bias. Regarding "What has Biden done?" I go back to June 2022, when oil prices were extremely high (and electricity because of natural gas plants) and he called out the oil companies for profiteering. https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/06/22/remarks-by-president-biden-on-gas-prices-and-putins-price-hike/
By October, they had come down substantially. But all we heard about was a coming recession that never happened and inflation that was blamed on Biden but never explained as to what caused it. All you heard was people bitching about it, again, with no attempt at explaining it.
<Biden said at a labor union event this month that Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), opens new tab "made more money than God this year" and sent a letter to seven oil and gas companies calling on them to increase production to help ease the burden on consumers.
Biden, who campaigned on a promise to reduce dependence on fossil fuels which contribute carbon emissions linked to climate change, is leaning on the industry to curb inflation. Oil and gas companies are reaping higher profits than they have in decades and mostly returning that windfall to shareholders in the form of buybacks.
Industry executives complain Biden isn't asking for help in the right way. "Your administration has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry," Chevron CEO Michael Wirth wrote in an open letter to Biden released on Tuesday. "The outreach from the administration is lacking," said Frank Macchiarola, a senior policy executive at the American Petroleum Institute trade body.
Asked about the Chevron CEO's letter, Biden said "I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that easily."> https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/deep-rift-lies-behind-bidens-criticism-oil-gas-industry-2022-06-22/
TFG does one thing well: uses social media. He hammers points over and over till the media has no choice but to cover them, regardless of how batshit they are. Dems need a constant presence on social media, not just one hit and done.
There do seem to be those that want to lead, or atleast be snarky af - we need more of that *mean*
Paul is dead miss 'im miss 'im
Trump has lost it entirely
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-shares-bonkers-conspiracy-theory-about-joe-biden-being-replaced-by-clones/
If Biden had been cloned, you'd think that scientists would have fixed his stutter and made him more spry...
His body would have looked more like the fake AI pictures PAB uses in his propaganda.
"...Trump’s own wife Melania has also been the subject of similar conspiracy theories, with the idea that Melania had been replaced by a body double gaining credence during Trump’s first term,..."
Well, that one I can believe...
So, 2020...
Is Trump admitting he had Biden killed?
How else could he know?
That the media finds it more significant that Biden forgot a guy's name shows that they are doing this on purpose.
Most people are not sufficiently important that it is worth the neurons to remember their name. It is good to see that Joe can prioritize.
The Depraved Despot is out of his gawd damned mind.
The man is delusional, emotionally reactive and DAMNED dangerous.
Nothing To See Here Libs --NYT
I think that Trump is a Slitheen from Dr Who. A farting blobby alien lizard in a bad skin suit.
"I'm very bored" –President TACO
Seems Fake Flapper's book is a fucking bust. Sent to the remainder bin only a week after it was dumped onto a uncaring public.
Good.
"Underwhelming report" per an X poster. 57,737 books sold in the 1st week versus the Bob Woodward book "Fear" which sold 1 million copies in its first week.
https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1928610011619512425
CNN probably bought 50K of them.
Memo to all employees: "This year, your Christmas bonus will consist of something better than cash!"
Nobody told Trapper that American fascists are functionally illiterate?
But Lindy Li, "former Biden supporter" talks about it at length every day on Fox News
Like MAGAts read.
Shipped directly to the CostCo bargain bin.
It was an abhorrent waste of perfectly good paper in the first place.
So many trees died to print that garbage.
When figuring out orbital mechanics for satellites, one would think taking into account the HUGE-ASS FLAMING BALL OF HYDROGEN eight light minutes away from us would be a good idea. Unless, of course, you're Elno Musk.
𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸’𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵
https://gizmodo.com/solar-storms-are-pushing-elon-musks-satellites-back-to-earth-2000608452
they last five years, currently 7,500 in orbit, and spacex wants to put up 40,000 at one time. Grrrrreeaaaat.
Big Ballz is NEVER WRONG!
lol
I was trying to figure away to work Big Balls into a snark!
lol
It would be poetic justice if a piece of that space trash fell onto Husk's preferred domicile.
Or Merde-a-Lardo.
It would be poetic justice if some country or non state actor were to put up a satellite filled with buckshot and blew it up in the Starlink orbits. The beauty is when you take out one, the bits and pieces of it will spread out an take another and so on liker a nuclear cascade.
I hope Vietnam and every other country who made Starlink as part of the Trump deals slow walks that shit until Trump signals it's okay to dump that shit.
Well Musks pick for NASA administrator is already gone, so about now?
So let's have the FAA use them for inter-airport communications!
Of scrap metal, like our ax-funded WALL!!1!
Perhaps if he paid less attention to the the HUGE-ASS FLAMING BALL OF GAS in the White House...
OT.
Ukraine smuggled a truck full of drones 3000km+ into Russia, to strike multiple airbases and destroy potentially 40 aircraft (including one of the very few operating A-50 'AWACS' types.)
Its a whole new world of asymmetrical war.
https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/
Meanwhile ... the Ukraine citizens are making sure none of that shit happens on their soil.
Brilliant!
I saw they hit them from Murmansk to Irkutsk. Booooyah.
Risk factor.
If I'm a civilian in any country with an interest in total surveillance or discrete elimination of malcontents, which is most of them Katy, I'd be freaking out right now.
I was baffled at how they'd gotten them so close.
I'm wondering how they controlled them, especially since they're saying that everyone involved has already been extracted from Russia
yes, me too and also!
Turns out you can fit a LOT of drones in a shipping container and if you have even half-decent intelligence agents, you can just ship that shit deep into enemy territory.
And once you are beyond the air defenses close to the front, open season.
The next question has to be, when will the next strike be? Will they either finish the job and go after more long-range bombers? Or strike at fighter bases?
Smuggled not simply in trucks but in pre-fab cabins on the trucks, with the roofs opened remotely to release the demons!!!
All hail those Ukrainians, forever.
If I'm the USAF or any AF I'd freaking out right now.
News item: senile demagogic racist idiot in chief amplifies ‘Biden secretly replaced by a robot’ net craziness...
... note to self: never say that’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard. They take that as a challenge...
... besides, ‘they’re eating the cats and dogs’ was possibly stupider. Tho at this point, it’s an honour just to be nominated.
... also also robot Joe Biden seems still to have been pretty good at his job.
But it was tfg pulling the levers! Take *that*, lib!
Now imagine the reaction if a Dem said the same thing about Stinky.
A security threat? . . . yeah, I think we can safely file that one with the Dept. of No Fucking Shit . . .
Anyone, raise your hand if you think there was any chance Ukraine was gonna let the WH know in advance 🙄 . . .
David Frum
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https://xcancel.com/davidfrum/status/1929176001235284037
Since Trump admitted in 2017 that he gave Israeli intelligence to Russia, why would anyone trust the current administration? If I were a foreign government I would not trust the US with the daily weather report.
"Wha...? I don't understand it! Someone must have left them off the Signals chat list. HA HA HA HA HA! Get it? 'Signals chat'?"
A Ukrainian official says the Trump administration wasn't notified in advance, so neither was the Kremlin.
That's how you do OPSEC, for real.
Its been in planning for over a year, they could easily have told someone who knows how to keep a secret. And we'd never know.
Which leaves out the entire FOTUS NatSec team.
Elsewhere in the Turmp "Economy":
𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝟮-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/31/long-term-unemployment-2-year-high/83909279007/
"The Party of Fiscal Responsibility," voters and tax-payers...
Who is included the statistics for "long term" unemployment? Or "unemployed" at all? Is the number just the people who are claiming benefits or do they also count people who can't claim any longer (or who never did claim), and people who just gave up looking? I'm assuming they don't count SAH parents and people who *could* be working in paid employment but are being financially supported by someone else.
I'm not trying to argue, I'm just wondering out loud.
Perplexity says:
Who is included?
Individuals are included in long-term unemployment statistics if they are:
Not employed (have not worked for pay for at least one hour in the reference period).
Available to work and actively seeking employment within the past four weeks (or as specified by the survey).
Have been continuously unemployed for the minimum required period (either six months or one year, depending on the country or organization)
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-is-included-the-statistics-HCkGWIggQlSUJoaknj0gfQ#0
shithead....
Shitheads, if you consider the voting fecal matter who supports him.
Traitor.
Biden handed him an HISTORICALLY stable and prosperous economy and THIS is what he does with it.
He'd be wealthier today had he taken his father's money and just put it in stocks instead of grifting for his whole life. This was predictable.
His grift has really been paying off since the election, though.
It was. Add to the fact that he feels entitled to fame and popularity for no reason.
Oh, there's reasons...
1) Character flaws; all flaws, no character
B) Personality disorders; all disorder, no personality
sums it up!
In 100+ days. They must've been working late at the Kremlin.
Thanks, Republicans!
I can't verify this, but I found this article from The Kyiv Independent to have the ring of truth. Commercial satellites will prove or disprove this, ultimately.
https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/
Blyat!
The BBC has published photos from Russian sources that seem to confirm the Ukrainian reports.
Now Russia will have some used planes to gift to Trump!
'Smoke Flavoring'
Not the artificial kind.
Ukraine hit Russia hard in the backfield. From Murmansk to Mongolia, blowing up Russian planes on the ground.
They hit them in Vladivostok, which is about as far from Ukraine as you can get in Russia.
https://www.twz.com/17853/fire-at-russias-vladivostok-submarine-base-sure-doesnt-look-like-an-exercise
Wow. This would be really bad for Russia (like I care).
Most of those are notorious hanger queens (like the B-1) that require a lot of maintenance just to get them up in the air and they don't have many in service for that reason.
So far the Russians have lost at least 3 A-50's. Sounds like they only had a handful operational at the start of the war.
This might have been the last A-50U that got taken out.
And several billion dollars of literally irreplaceable heavy bombers.
Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, Russia just lost perhaps as much as half its operational bomber fleet.
Even back in the glory days of the USSR this would have been a disaster of the first order and just building replacement aircraft would take several years.
They only had 6-7 A-50 AWACS before the war. Lost 3 to SAMs and one was badly damaged by a FPV drone.
A tragedy… if you’re Pootin. Fucking hilarious for everyone else.
As bad or worse than losing a naval war against a country with no Navy?
It's par for the course with Russia unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4
Putin: "Hello, Comrade Xi? I need more loan."
Xi: "Sure, buddy! Whatever you need!" [eyes narrow] "Say, what have *you* got for *me*?"
China wants Russia's oil fields.
They want Vladivostok back
At this point it might not be long before they can just take them.
Esp. now that Vlad has shown the world how suck-ass Russia's military actually is.
Do Democrats need to improve? Absolutely.
But we’re grading the two party’s on a much different scale here. To say that Biden didn’t deliver on his promises and inspire confidence in voters is a lie. Not only did he deliver historically progressive legislative wins, he over saw an economy that was literally the envy of the world and brought down inflation.
The only thing Trump did In 2024 was get indicted on 91 felonies, convicted of 34, lose a rape defamation case, lose a real estate fraud case, and ramble about sharks, batteries and Arnold Palmer’s penis.
And yet everyone acts like Trump is this amazing politically savvy genius and Biden is the worst thing to ever happen to America.
Make it make sense.
Part One: How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
https://youtu.be/URABscYOjRE?si=Tm5LlhvIRSHe1pAk
We need new leadership.
Corrupt media.
A lot of racism.
These.
I wish they'd fight more instead of just folding under minimal pressure (and ignore the fucking MSM who's showing their true colors more and more.)
In the alternative universe these deplorables inhabit everything is ass-backwards. They live on the OTHER side of the mirror.
There are a lot of stupid fucks and cult members in the country. I think it could be that simple and basic.
This! But I've also always maintained that we underestimate the power of propaganda.
It's a combination for sure. But you have people that wouldn't vote for Assface but wouldn't vote for a Democrat. I don't know what to say to that.
Yes. Also, those who wouldn't vote for a colored lady. Unfortunately, what I have to say to that would earn me a thunk on the head from the Hammer of Banning.
I've been trying to figure out a way to say what you said. I'm not bashing Dems anymore. WE are not the problem. WE don't nominate and support felons and frauds. WE believe in good governance and the separation of powers. The rule of law. That republicans and the people that vote for them are okay with all this and are doing nothing about it, IS NOT the fault of Democrats. But, quit confirming his shitty nominations.
Your quote "quit confirming his shitty nominations" should be LAW.
People are using this time to push the agendas they've always had. How they frame the Biden administration is based on what benefits that agenda - as does how much, or how little, their framing reflects reality.
No sense will be found, I've stopped looking.
It looks like that smarmy prick Mike Johnson is doing the Sunday shows. Again. After seeing the damage, incompetence and corruption of the last six months, do these fuckers really need a platform?
He needs everyone to back his shitty "Big Bullshit Bill" ... so call your Senators!
HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNINGS!!!!!!!!
No no no... rules don't apply to him, he's very special.
They need a platform raised up above the ground with nooses hanging from it.
Why aren't you in church, Mikey? Keep the Sabbath holy, fucker. Commandment 4, Smarmaduke.
Jeebus does not know Mikey.
"I love you, Mike Johnson. But it's only because I don't want to be a hypocrite. The Bible says I detest those. Oh, one more thing. Stop touching yourself!"
no