Scared Much?

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, as “evil” during a campaign rally here Monday.

“I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” said Vance, addressing several hundred people at an event put on by MAGA Inc., a super PAC closely aligned with President Donald Trump.

“And it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation fighting for every single person — whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or Black or brown — but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others, and that is how, ladies and gentlemen, you destroy the United States of America,” Vance added.

Is he referring to white nationalist scumbags like himself & the other Republicans, who are interested only in helping wealthy white people get wealthier on the backs of working Americans?

Meanwhile ...

Embracing blatant Islamophobia, CBS News makes bizarre attempt to tie El-Sayed to 9/11

CBS News tried to scandalize Abdul El-Sayed's argument about 9/11 and the pandemic. His banal comments aligned with other mainstream commentators — and Trump too.

El-Sayed really puts the fear of Gawd in them, doesn't he? What exactly frightens them so about him?

Considering this is an intramural fight, why don't all three "Abrahamic" religions derived from the Big Book of Jewish Lies & Hallucinations just get lost? Enough is enough already. None of them actually worship their alleged Gawd, but instead kiss the asses of the three mentally ill, sun-fried desert dwellers who hallucinated all the lies & had them transcribed (Moses, Jesus & Mohammed, scam artists all.) I say all three are a complete fucking joke, like virtually all human activity. Stop wasting your time & effort.

And since you don't care what happens to it, why not give me all your money, pathetic chumps?

How Many Times Must I Tell You Cretins NOT To Buy From Amazon?

That's US$20 billion (W/ a "B"!) stolen from small businesses & your sorry asses!

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

The FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it “secretly and systematically overcharged” advertisers more than $20B since 2019 by using “hidden surcharges”

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:   The FTC and 20+ state AGs sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:   FTC, states plan lawsuit against Amazon over ad price fixing

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:   Amazon Stock Falls After FTC Lawsuit Over Advertising Prices

Reuters:   Amazon sued by U.S. FTC, over 20 states alleging company deceived advertisers

About Amazon:   Amazon's response to the FTC's lawsuit regarding Sponsored Ads

Financial Times:   US regulator sues Amazon for manipulating advertising prices

Forbes:   FTC Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Alleging Manipulative Ad Prices

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over alleged secret ad surcharge scheme

Bloomberg Law:   Amazon Sued by FTC Over Claims It Misled Advertisers on Pricing

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:   FTC to file lawsuit alleging Amazon deceived advertisers, WSJ reports

Andrew Ferguson / @afergusonftc:   Digital markets play a critical role in the American economy—but they only work when participants can trust that powerful tech platforms play by the same rules as everyone else. That trust is foundational. Today, the Trump FTC—joined by 22 states—filed suit alleging that Amazon

IJR News:   FTC plans lawsuit against Amazon over ad pricing

@ftc:   FTC, states sue Amazon over secret ad surcharge scheme. FTC and 22 state attorneys general allege Amazon concealed unfair charges in its digital advertising auction pricing: https://www.ftc.gov/...

Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:   Amazon Shares Tumble Amid News Of FTC ‘Advertiser Deception’ Lawsuit

Federal Trade Commission:   FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme

Karen Weise / New York Times:   F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices

While working the wage-slaves in their warehouses to early graves. Give Bezos all your money, sucker-ass chumps! Somehow, he deserves it, not you!

Remembering Milo

Making space on the hard drive & cloud storage, a stab from the past I can now delete.

And piss on the grave of Der Stürmer, which went away just this April, after being on the losing end of defamation suits to the tune of 18.1 million smackers, & "cancelled" by many hosting services after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Self-Diagnosis

The hernia that popped out about four months ago is now what the croaker called "a big hernia". He suggested surgical consultation, but there's no consultation w/o an ultrasound, & the first one I could schedule was 5 December. Three months, if you've lost track. Worst things that could happen? More pain, inability to evacuate & gangrene.

Other crap: Exhaustion & enervation are probably not due to sleeping sickness, as I've no symptoms beyond the inability to remain upright, even in a chair, for more than three hrs., & certainly don't remember being bitten by a tsetse fly.

Depression? The heat? The sheer droning boredom of your awful idiot-filled world?

Dehydration, for which the nurse practitioner actually advised me to consume more salt? (Bought a bag of Fritos® & some cheese dip, as there's almost no protein in me either.)

I also suspect that gravity (Weakest of the four forces.) is increasing, especially in the outside world. Or the atmosphere is denser/heavier, to the point of pressing me down.

It's On Him Alright

No Gates or Brin in the rogue's gallery? Off w/ all their heads anyway!

Stolen from Ten Bears as I am too lazy, unmotivated & exhausted to look for the "funny".

A Brace Of Earworms

Yea, 'though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Still I & I will fear no evil
Still I & I will fear no evil Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
But the wicked he will smite by nightWhenever the fuck you're ready, Jah! We wait, but our patience grows thin.

Getting Worse Every Day

Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

How it will first affect you before everything else turns to shit. Have the common sense & simple human decency not to buy from Amazon or the Walton family. They are predatory scum who will be hanged from a lamppost.

[The Guardian]

250 Yrs. Of Disposable Crap

50 yrs. later, everything is at least 50 times worse.

These are among the items that have shaped the nation.
Here are their stories.

On the United States' 250th birthday, "American Objects" chronicles items that have impacted the culture.
Keep tuning in for tales of new objects as the year unfolds.

One could do worse things on a late-August Sunday than look at some of these objects. Here are three: Comic books. The baseball. Whites-Only signs.

Your "President", As A Waterfowl

Is this an invasion threat?

Trump just posted this video featuring armed geese — all sporting what appears to be Trump-style hair.pic.twitter.com/JNjQuaesAw

— Orla Joelsen (@OJoelsen) August 29, 2026

Those are some hideous mutations. Not even mental illness explains this, unless Natalie Harp's mental problems are the explanation.Digby has the origin of The Worst Pres. ever's "Greatest Presidents" list. Just sad.

Big fat sissy "Pres." is afraid he'll be seen as "weak", like Jimmy Carter. Don't forget pathetic & repugnant, either.

This reporter, old & wretched as he is, fully believes he could knock Fat Don off his fucking lifts w/ just one punch or kick, & would love to have an opportunity to demonstrate it for the entire planet. Fat sissy couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag.

Not To Worry (Much)

Music starts around (3:15). I'm old & deef & couldn't really hear the introduction.

Sure, consider it a threat. Going to call the police?

Hating America, A Never-Ending Series

The how & why of "Americanism".

The world constantly looks at the United States and asks one question: "How did they get so dumb?" But the truth is much darker. Americans aren't naturally stupid - their system was meticulously engineered over 200 years to destroy critical thinking. Today, we’re looking at the "engineered ignorance" of the American public. From importing a 19th-century Prussian military school model specifically to mass-produce obedient factory workers, to the 1950s Red Scare that literally labeled "critical thinking" as Communist propaganda. And the wildest part? America is actively exporting this hyper-narcissistic, tribal dysfunction - from the prosperity gospel to toxic internet culture wars - straight to the rest of the world. If you thought failing test scores were the only issue, you haven’t met their media machine.

"They made you a moron", to coin a phrase.

If this doesn't prove that the "social order" is irredeemable & must be destroyed, what will? NIHILISM NOW!!!!!2310-ish: Just watched it. Testify, sister!! Stops pulling punches w/ about 10 mins. remaining.

Ka$h Patel's New Improved F.B.I.

Speaks well of the F.B.I.'s attitude toward women & theft, dunnit?

Eric Tucker / Associated Press:

FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring  —  The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates …

Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:   At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

Nathan Brooks / Political.org:   FBI Quietly Drops Automatic Hiring Ban for Applicants With Prostitution History, Citing ‘Whole Person’ Review

"Whole person" my sweet ass!

Tragedy At The Top Of The World

Here's A Truly Stupid & Awful Person

The real problem is capitalism, & the morons who embrace it.What an absolute witch! Talk about just not getting it. Or it is it a deliberate refusal to understand?

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

What Darline Graham's Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals  —  Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents.  They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin's lymphoma and her father of a heart attack.
Lindsey Granger / The Hill:   Woefully underqualified: Darline Graham gives confusing victory speech

Why does she hate all her fellow Americans so, & wish them to an early grave after working themselves to death? Apparently wants them to be misdiagnosed as her mother was, too. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?

Fiery Friday Finger

As The Planet Burns

Hand of an Angry Gawd?

More Melting To Follow?

How many fucking sheep will die before anyone does anything? Rhetorical question. Obviously, no one is going to do a damn thing & you're all going to drown or boil soon.

Here's a New One: "Leninist Capitalism"

Or "Stalinist Capitalism"

Why Are We (and Were We) in Vietnam?

Today on TAP: The nation that defeated the U.S. 50 years ago now has the largest trade surplus with us of any nation.

A quarter-century ago, when advocates of normalizing trade relations with China insisted that doing so would compel China to transform itself into a democracy, America’s unions, a number of social democrats (including at the Prospect), and a smattering of China hands (James Mann in particular) called that argument a non sequitur: Capitalism had co-existed with right-wing authoritarianism and dictatorship, and would with its left-wing (or ostensibly left-wing) counterparts, too. Today, Leninist one-party rule (or in China, neo-Stalinist one-leader rule) gets along just fine with the C-suites of America’s corporations and banks, for the same reason that Wall Street prefers production in “right-to-work” states: the absence of worker power and the ensuing low levels of workers’ wages.

Meet the new boss, chumps!

I know one of the major Murkin model railroad manufacturers (w/ SoCal roots; started at a hobby shop on Hollywood Blvd.) has moved most if not all its production from China to Vietnam. Great fucking job, from Eisenhower through Kennedy, Johnson & Nixon.

Ha ha. Defeated in war & then in economic competition. Tell us again how the Democrats are all "Commies" & you're all for "free markets" you corporate fellow travelers. We won't be free until we've purified this evil species by eliminating the highly functioning psychopaths.

As The Planet Melts: Water Water Everywhere

Glaciers giving up.Here is your "Ho-lee Shit!" moment.

No Thing Thurs.

Not a damn thing.

Shorter Trump Appointee: "No Jewish Science!"

Heard this one before?

In a 2023 interview, Trump’s new FDA pick laid out a vision for ‘conservative-based’ science

Probably not, because you are ignernt buffoons. Learn something, it probably won't kill you.

When the Nazis entered the political scene, Lenard quickly attempted to ally himself with them, joining the party at an early stage. With another Nobel laureate in Physics, Johannes Stark, Lenard began a campaign to label Einstein's relativity as Jewish physics.

Lenard and Stark benefited considerably from this Nazi support. Under the rallying cry that physics should be more "German" and "Aryan", Lenard and Stark embarked on a Nazi-endorsed plan to replace physicists at German universities with "Aryan physicists". By 1935, though, this campaign was superseded by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. There were no longer any Jewish physics professors in Germany, since under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews were not allowed to work in universities. Stark in particular also tried to install himself as the national authority on "German" physics under the principle of Gleichschaltung (literally, "coordination") applied to other professional disciplines. Under this Nazi-era paradigm, academic disciplines and professional fields followed a strictly linear hierarchy created along ideological lines. In his 1938 paper, "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics", Stark contrasted a "pragmatic spirit" driven by experimentation, against a "dogmatic spirit" dominated by theoretical frameworks. He claimed that pragmatic spirit was exhibited primarily by men of the Nordic race while physicists with dogmatic spirit were primarily Jewish.

This awful person will be soon killing your children w/ "conservative-based race" science & anti-vaccination lies.

Who Cares Wednesday

Yesterday was as miserable as Monday, & I fully expect today to be as bad if not worse.

I certainly don't care anymore, & none of the rest of you ever did.

Military-Industrial-Congresssional Complex Of Death

Proud of yourselves? Never has my contempt for your species been more justified.Boil in your own waste, self-destructive consuming sheep.

World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows

[Ten Bears/The Beeb]

Strengthening America

Eff The Farmers!

Stupid, ignernt, Common Clay of The New West morons got precisely what they voted for.

Martha McHardy / The Daily Beast:
Key Voter Group Rages at Trump for Sparking Historic Crisis  —  FIELDS OF ANGER  —  Farmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.  —  Donald Trump's farm-country stronghold is struggling due to an economic crisis that farmers say he is making worse.

Good. Hope they're all bankrupted & die homeless on the streets of a big city, especially since I don't need their fucking food anymore now that I have hormones!

And The Military!

In other national security areas, what do all the phony patriots & closet cases squealing like little girls about their testosterone & masculine manliness have to say about the reality away from their silly fairy stories?

New York Times:
Hegseth's Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless … A series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.

NBC News:
Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites, sources say  —  The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.  —  WASHINGTON — Iranian missile and drone attacks have inflicted damage …

How much did Russia & China have to pay to get these billions in damage done for them? Or was all they had to do help Fat Don get elected?

Note well that two of these three items may be behind a paywall. So much for the First Amendment, & yet another excellent reason to start the killing now, wouldn't you say?

Bi-Polar

Constantly shuttling between the absolute blue-hot rage that fuels my righteous & well-justified desire to torture & kill all my enemies (It's a long list. Just about everyone I've ever known, met, or heard of is on it.) & complete exhaustion & enervation that so saps my strength I can't remain upright & must lie down, in a fitful state between sleep & consciousness. (One of these days I won't be exhausted when I get up; the rage & energy will continue unabated & you'll all be in trouble.)

Thank you all again for all the support & concern that I've never heard from anyone, ever. Now I know who were never my friends. Only some little prick who likes to call the police on people. Little bastard apologized to me the first time he squealed, when nothing happened; last yr. I was imprisoned for a wk. & yet not a peep so far. Been almost a yr. & a half, jerkwad. (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)

But I'm the one w/ the "problem", not a heartless society of uncaring pigs!! No, yours is a perfect world of greed, corruption, bullshit, denial, perversion, degeneracy & Republicanism. And, of course, squealing rat informers.

Now tell me this is the best of all possible worlds, you deluded idiots!