Meanwhile, On The Domestic Front ...

More Murder, Just Like Israel.

Jack Crosbie / Rolling Stone:
How Trump's War on the Left Will Come for the Center  —  The far-left activists catching charges set a dangerous precedent for mainstream liberals  —  By and large, when my parents go to a protest, I don't worry about them.  Over the past few years, they've attended several of the large No Kings demonstrations in Fresno, California.

Norman J. Ornstein / New Republic:
The Republicans Are Going to Kill People—but Not Until After They Vote  —  One of Ronald Reagan's most famous lines, referring to disarray in his White House, was, “Sometimes the right hand doesn't know what the far-right hand is doing.”  More appropriately for the Trump White House: “Sometimes the far-right hand doesn’t know what the radical lunatic right-wing hand is doing.”

In the Big Beautiful Bill, the GOP put off Medicaid cuts until after midterms. America is about to find out why.

Hix in Stix to get exactly what they voted for, good & hard!NB: Rolling Stone's website sucks hard. Fuck them & their pathetic incompetence.

Another Saturday In The Murder Capital Of The World

Well, that was certainly full of information. Thank you so much, AP.

Friday:

Teen boy among 6 dead including suspect in Michigan shootings; girl survived

Just 'phoning it in now. Easiest stories in the world. Angry asshole(s) w/ a gun or five has had it. Then, the body count. This fucking country is beyond absurd.

Trump To Navy: GFY, Sailor Boys!!

"Supporting" Our People In Uniform

 Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:

Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships  —  Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service members across multiple ships and even multiple branches.

Discussion:

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Sailors on Aircraft Carriers Have “Virtually No Food, Water, or Soap”

TMZ.com:   U.S. Sailors Complain of Broken Toilets, Undercooked Food at Sea

Katherine Plummer / Military.com:   USS George Washington Heads to Middle East Amid USS Abraham Lincoln Condition Concerns

CBS News:   Sailor's dad expresses concern over conditions, length of deployment on USS Lincoln

Middle East Monitor:   US Senate minority leader calls for defense secretary's firing over conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:   'Haven't had milk in three months': Sailor's texts reveal deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln, report says

 Kevin Liptak / CNN:

Trump says USS Lincoln's deployment was ‘not nearly long enough’  —  President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed claims that families of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have concerns about conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, which has been deployed for nearly nine months supporting operations in the Middle East.

Discussion:

Marianne LeVine / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Downplays Concerns About Conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln

Filip Timotija / The Hill:   USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home, acting Navy secretary says

Walter Einenkel / Staff Stories:   Trump says struggling sailors haven't been at sea ‘nearly long enough’

Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:   Trump Dismisses Sailors' Nightmare Deployment as He Escapes to His Private Club

Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:   'No they're not': Trump claims reports that families are worried about man-overboard USS Lincoln crew are lies

Odafe Oghen / TheGrio:   Families raise alarm over USS Abraham Lincoln sailors' mental health during extended deployment

Patty Nieberg / Task & Purpose:   Navy sending more mental health help to the USS Abraham Lincoln crew

Dan Gooding / Newsweek:   Trump Rejects USS Lincoln Deployment Concerns—'Not Nearly Long Enough'

Adam Kinzinger:   They Signed Up to Serve. They Didn't Sign Up for This.

Justin Walker / NewsNation:   USS Abraham Lincoln to return home soon amid controversy over living conditions

The Bulwark:   BREAKING: Trump Says USS Lincoln Deployment Hasn't Gone on “Nearly Long Enough” | Command Post

Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com:   CENTCOM Slams USS Lincoln ‘Misreporting’

Kate Brannen / Just Security:   Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here.  —  A curated weekday guide …

Straight Arrow:   USS Lincoln crew strained by record deployment; Midwest flooding turns deadly

WBUR:   Reports raise concerns about conditions aboard the long-deployed U.S.S. Lincoln

Leif Le Mahieu / The Daily Wire:   U.S. Military Responds To Disturbing Claims Coming From American Warship

Scott MacFarlane Reports:   Crisis Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln - Live with Scott MacFarlane & Aaron Parnas

CBS News:   Hegseth says conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are “completely misrepresented”

Melissa Koenig / Daily Mail:   Pete Hegseth hits back at reports of distressing conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln amid claims sailors tried to jump overboard as it emerges one was rescued from the water

 NBC News:

Trump dismisses military families' concerns about grim conditions on USS Lincoln  —  Asked if he was worried that the ship's deployment had gone on too long, Trump said it was “not nearly long enough.” … President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns from families of service members …

Discussion:

Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:   USS Abraham Lincoln returning home

NPR:   Sen. Ruben Gallego on handling of USS Lincoln conditions: 'That's not proper leadership'

Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:   New aircraft carrier heads toward Mideast after reports of issues on long-deployed USS Lincoln

Nia Prater / New York Magazine:   War-Beleaguered Crew of USS Abraham Lincoln Will Finally Get Some Relief

France 24:   Trump says record Navy deployment in Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’

Ian Prasad Philbrick / Slate:   Trump on Long-Suffering Sailors: “Not Nearly Long Enough”

Bloomberg:   Trump Dismisses Concerns Over Conditions Aboard USS Lincoln

Charlie D'Agata / CBS News:   USS Abraham Lincoln sailor's dad worries about crew: “They should not be deployed this long”

Shea Taylor / Straight Arrow:   USS Lincoln nears relief after record deployment amid reports of strain aboard

NewsNation:   Sailor mental strain peaks aboard USS Lincoln: Reports

Nathaniel Reed / Scripps News:   Lawmakers demand answers about deteriorating conditions aboard US warships

Washington Times:   ‘Completely misrepresented’: Hegseth disputes reports of poor conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:   A Floating Nightmare  —  A note to readers: This piece discusses attempted suicide and self-harm.

ABC News:   Democrats demand answers about conditions aboard USS Lincoln

 Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:

Trump dismisses families' concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions  —  The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea has been deployed for nearly nine months.  —  President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the concerns of military families about worsening conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln …

Discussion:

Politico:   Trump's demands threaten Navy's progress

Donica Phifer / Axios:   Trump shrugs off concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln

Alex Sundby / CBS News:   Iran War Updates: Trump dismisses concerns about U.S. warship, says nearly 9-month deployment “not nearly long enough”

Sara Dorn / Forbes:   Trump Says USS Lincoln Hasn't Been Deployed ‘Nearly Long Enough’—Denies Families' Concerns

National Politics:   President Trump Says USS Lincoln is Moving and Has Not Been Deployed “Long Enough”

 Associated Press:

Trump says USS Lincoln's record time at sea during Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’  —  President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard …

Discussion:

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:   3 Reasons Extended Carrier Deployments Take Such a Heavy Toll at Sea

Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:   USS Abraham Lincoln controversy likely to loom over Pentagon

Rachel Dobkin / The Independent:   USS Lincoln sailor's wife blasts dismissive Trump over ‘appalling’ conditions on ‘floating metal prison’

The Guardian:   Trump downplays concerns about sailors onboard USS Abraham Lincoln amid record deployment

Don Jacobson / UPI:   USS Abraham Lincoln ending long deployment amid health concerns

Stephanie Bai / The Atlantic:   Eight Perfect Series Finales

Honolulu Star-Advertiser:   USS Abraham Lincoln deployment ‘not nearly long enough,’ Trump says

Emily Goodin / New York Post:   Trump shrugs off concerns about conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln, says deployment has been ‘not nearly long enough’

Washington Times:   Trump says sailors on USS Lincoln were not deployed for too long

Priyanka Shankar / Al Jazeera:   US threatens ‘indefinite’ blockade against Iran: How long can it last?

Bloomberg:   Reed: No Good Choices at Moment With Iran

CBS News:   Families of USS Lincoln crew report dismal conditions as record deployment continues

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:   U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

 Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Dismisses Reports About Dire Conditions Aboard U.S. Aircraft Carrier

Discussion:

Atrios / Eschaton:   Logistics Is For Girlymen  —  Did Pete even send them their testosterone doses?

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Pressed on conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump says all the wrong things

Filip Timotija / The Hill:   Trump: USS Abraham Lincoln family members not concerned about conditions

Torrie Herrington / NOTUS:   Trump Says Relief Is Coming for Beleaguered Sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln

 ABC News:
Trump says record USS Lincoln deployment ‘not nearly long enough’

Discussion:

CBS News:   Trump downplays concerns of mental health issues aboard USS Lincoln

Priya Sridhar / MS NOW:   Navy scrambles to deploy aircraft carrier to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln in Iran war

Al Jazeera:   Trump dismisses mental health concerns on USS Lincoln aircraft carrier

TMZ.com:   Trump Says USS Lincoln Deployment ‘Not Nearly Long Enough’

 MS NOW:
‘The boat is finally getting to me’: Wife of USS Abraham Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard shares texts

Discussion:

CNN:   The Lead with Jake Tapper

Los Angeles Times:   Trump says USS Abraham Lincoln deployment ‘not nearly long enough’ amid outcry from families

To the Contrary:   A Hot Independent Summer?

Phillip Nieto / Daily Mail:   Trump's callous response as US sailors throw themselves overboard in Iran war and grim photos of food emerge

The Hill:   House incumbents are having a historically bad year

Evan Hurst / Wonkette:   Secretary Of Playing Dress-Up Calls Sailors On USS Abraham Lincoln Liars

Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Trump Brushes Off Concerns About Sailors Living in Squalid Conditions

William Kristol / The Bulwark:   The Troops Deserve Better than Hegseth

FIRST DRAFT:   Trump Logic Fails To Launch (Again)

Tengrain / Mock Paper Scissors:   Cadet Bone Spurs Great Adventure: Iran Going Swimmingly Well

Eleanor Watson / CBS News:   New aircraft carrier heads to Middle East amid concerns about USS Lincoln conditions

Anthony Orrico / HuffPost:   Wife Says Navy Failed To Inform Her Of Sailor Husband's ‘Suicide Attempt’ For 4 Days

BBC:   Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   Carrier Sailor's Wife Says Husband Jumped Overboard And Pentagon Is “Just Trying To Cover This Up” [VIDEO]

Joseph Stepansky / Al Jazeera:   Reports of US sailors in Middle East trying to jump ship spark outcry

NBC News:   No supplies, a food shortage and dark thoughts: Families of sailors describe life on the USS Lincoln

Katherine Plummer / Military.com:   Lawmakers Demand Answers From Navy on USS Abraham Lincoln Conditions at Sea

Brett T. / twitchy.com:   CNN's Erin Burnett Looks Into ‘Multiple’ Sailors Trying to Go Overboard on the USS Abraham Lincoln

Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:   Dems quiz Pentagon about conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln after reports of sailors trying to jump overboard

Two Of The Worst People In The World Today. Not That There Aren't Millions Of Other Despicable Moron Shitheels Out There.

Your Father The Convicted Bank Robber, Rudy?

Media Matters for America:
Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are “privileged little shits” who need “somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them”  —  Giuliani: “Well who cares if they're squeezing?  Their grandparents felt the Depression and were pro-American.  They don't have anything like the Depression.
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   Giuliani: Younger Generation Is “Privileged Little Shits Who Need To Have The Shit Kicked Out Them” [VIDEO]

What'll you bet Rudy had "the shit kicked out of him" more than once by his loving pater? Italians just suck, & I say that as someone of one-quarter wop-a-dago descent.

One other horrid person who certainly needs the shit kicked out of her, because there is a lot of it in her behind that cross.

Are you f'ng kidding me?:
Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud  —  Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House.  —  Good.  —  The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth …

OUT DEMONS OUT!!When are you fucking sheep going to wise up & expel the demons, & w/ bullets, not ballots. We need a final solution to these people, if you know what I mean.

Total Destruction

🎼It's Not Genocide, It's Just Fun!🎶

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Proud of yourselves, murdering Israeli scum?

On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.

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— Sandeha Lynch (@sandehalynch.com) August 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Will no one stop them before they reap the whirlwind?

"Shithole Nation" Indeed

Physician, Heal Thyself

Political Wire shares:

“When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper. Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus… I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room and nobody would know.”

— Dr. Sean O’Mara, whose dietary recommendations have been embraced by JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Howard Lutnick and Sean Duffy, quoted by the New York Times Magazine.

So this "doctor" spends a lot of time contemplating evacuating "behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room"? Good to know. The Irish really are total sick-o morons, aren't they?

And not quite, Nature Boy:Like any right-winger's mouth, sprays shit 24/7.

Riddle Me This!

What is it about your species that makes me repeat my mantra, "I will slit your fucking throat", virtually every day upon awakening? (Could be the non-stop bullshit, lies & cheating.) Nothing wrong w/ me; the trouble must be on your side of the equation. Like Brainworm Bobby Jr. here, a veritable piece of human waste & roadkill, who is beyond disturbed.

Frankly, I'm so sick & tired of the non-stop bullshit, lies & cheating my fingers are crossed hoping that your world of shit & pain does have another mass death event. And soon.Ten Deadliest Viruses.

They are lying-in-wait for you.

No Organ Meats, Damn It!

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef:"Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"

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— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) July 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM

More like "Eat real shit, losers." No relief offered, just "Let them eat gâteaux* & groatcakes†." Why does this sick sumbitch hate America so?

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*Marie Antoinette didn't think all the Frogs had access to rich buttery cakes. She damn well meant "Eat shit".

In older culinary usage, a gâteau (plural gâteaux) did not strictly refer to a sweet layered dessert. Historically, it described basic baked blocks of flour and water eaten like bread.

Not even actual bread. 

†Note to Google's moron robot: "Groatcakes" is not from some Johhny Come-Lately Star Drek hacks but the Firesign Theatre. 1970, not 1997.

Don't Say A Word!

A reminder from Dan Froomkin at Press Watch:

Covering Race

The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it.

But it left out another key superlative: Musk is also the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

Something about that ought to have been at the top of the articles. But it was nowhere.

So why do our top news organizations consistently fail to mention this very obvious and important fact when they write about him?

Truly a despicable piece of racist Boer shit who apparently wants a race war, like the chickenshit media that cover him.

Once again, a simple message comes of all this bullshit: Fuck everybody & everything to hell, at least twice!!

Nowhere Is Safe: There Is No Escape

Hemant Mehta / Friendly Atheist:

Christian preachers are turning airplanes into unwanted worship services  —  Evangelists are exploiting captive audiences who can't walk away—and broadcasting it online  —  What is it about being in an enclosed space, surrounded by people who can't escape, that makes evangelical Christians even more insufferable than usual?

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Evangelicals are force-feeding sermons to air travelers: ‘I just love a captive audience’

All of this reeks of Christian privilege. These kinds of stunts would never be tolerated—even for a moment—if the evangelists weren’t Christian.

It’s telling that these Christians believe a captive audience is the best way to spread their message. They’re basically admitting other people wouldn’t listen to them otherwise. The only thing they accomplish with their impromptu sermons is reminding people why they should avoid Christians when they have the option.

Are there no Air Marshals? Damn jet travel. W/ a nice four-engine turboprop the 'plane could be slowed enough that such people could be safely tossed out an open door.

From The Official White House Executive Mansion Account

Hop in... best dimension yet. pic.twitter.com/7dRJnUVANc

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 27, 2026

More of the same at Hullabaloo.

Non-government by a senile 80-yr. old who was born human garbage, a bunch of brain-dead twenty-nothing anti-social media "influencers", a delusional fuckhead who thinks some fairy in the sky is talking to him (Item below.) & the lawless, post-Constitutional Supreme Court. Now you'll get it, good & hard.

Is this shithole nation just screwed, or poked in the poop-chute forever?

Republicans = Nazis

"Moses" & his fellow Jesus-loving vermin pray for your death.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he grows more confident "with each passing day" that the GOP will retain control of Congress. Why? "This is a God thing. We have intercessory prayers who are on the ground at the Capitol praying."

"We"? Is the House paying for this praying?

They lie to themselves & they lie to you, every day of the wk. & twice on Sunday. String up the theocrats before they send you to the MAGA Inquisition!!

Fat Donnie From Queens Calls In W/ His Hot Takes On Sport

Repugnant. Ass-kissing billionaire owner scum. Shove it, Mark Walter!Fat Donnie knows nothing. He's just reading from the teleprompter.

Reading from prepared remarks honoring the Dodgers' title defense, Trump rattled off a string of stats — the team's Tokyo season opener, a record-breaking travel schedule, and a historic 229-day season — before admitting he had no idea what any of it actually meant.

"I don't know," he said. "That's a different kind of a fact mark than I ever heard of, but that's what they give me to read. So what can I tell you?"

"220 the longest season ever," he added. "I don't know what the hell that means."

Nor could he figure it out. Thought he was smart, played baseball at the military academy where he was shipped & could have been a major league prospect. What a lying sack of shit. This reporter has no idea what the hell "fact mark" means either. How stupid can a life form be?

 Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Trump says he thinks LeBron James is ‘racist’ when asked if he or Michael Jordan is the GOAT
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:   Trump suggests LeBron James is ‘a racist,’ says he prefers Michael Jordan

Julia Manchester / The Hill:   Trump on LeBron James as he joins Philadelphia: 'Maybe he's a racist'

Ryan Anderson / New York Post:   Trump's odd response to the great Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James debate

TMZ.com:   President Trump Says LeBron James Is ‘Maybe’ A Racist

Gabe Whisnant / Newsweek:   Trump and Shapiro's Wildly Different Reactions to LeBron James' 76ers Move

Armando Tinoco / Deadline:   Donald Trump Says LeBron James Is “Maybe A Racist” After 76ers Move & Prefers Michael Jordan: “I Only Like People Who Like Me”

Jordan Conradson / The Gateway Pundit:   (VIDEO) Trump Calls LeBron James a Racist When Asked if He's Better Than Michael Jordan - “Maybe He's a Racist, or Maybe He Doesn't Like Trump”

Any honky calling any African-American "racist" is ridiculous, but for Fat Donnie from Queens it's the height of absurdity.

Not next yr., adds Steve Lopez of the L.A.Times!

Mookie Betts didn't go. He can use my initials any time.

Friday Finger

Bonus: Fuck Off & Die Friday!!

You scum have brought nothing but murder, rape, pillage, war, violence, abuse, lying, cheating, stealing & stupidity to this world, & are making the very planet an unlivable hellworld. Fuck alla y'all up the ass w/ a splintery broomstick!!

Funny how no one ever refutes this or similar statements. Can't handle the truth, can you, grain-dead idiots?

Doesnt Know Anything

Can't stop his fat ignernt mouth, either. Ohtani has barely played the outfield,

Shohei Ohtani has played the outfield, but only sparingly in the major leagues. He made 7 brief defensive appearances in the outfield (6 in right field, 1 in left field) during the 2021 season with the Los Angeles Angels, totaling about 8 1/3 innings without recording a putout.

Earlier in his professional career in Japan with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, he played the outfield much more frequently, logging 64 total games across left and right field before shifting to strictly pitching and designated hitting.

but Lumpy has to make him the best outfielder ever. Fat Gay Don likes Ass. Football or greased-up, almost-naked furrin men hugging & hitting each other, so he doesn't know a damn thing about American sports. I hope he hasn't cursed the former Bums of Brooklyn w/ his ignorance. At least he'll probably be too scared to come to L.A. for home games during the Series.

Summer Re-Run

The Daily Caller, Xmas 2013.

They seemed nice.

Summer Re-Run Time

So effing exhausted, & sick & tired of typing crap here for neither reason nor reward. And of course every time I express myself &/or the truth I am at risk of being taken into custody & condemned to the psychiatric gulag, Soviet-style. What a shithole country. Proud of yourselves? Or just so fucking dense you have no fucking idea what's going on around you?

Here's a good one, from October 2009:

"Easy". Same paranoid sissy-pants bullshit for decades. You fucking cretins, I despise you all!!

Communism Is On The March Again!

And I Am A Gargantuan Electric Comm-u-niss Golem!

Big thanks to Trump, Rubio, et al., for reviving the International Communist Menace.

United States Department of State:
Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism
Frances Martel / Breitbart:   State Dept: Cuba Set ‘Infiltrating American Universities as a Top Priority,’ Fueling Campus Unrest

Noah Rothman / National Review:   In Trump's Campaign Against ‘Third Worldism,’ Cuba Is at the Center

Sharon Zhang / Truthout:   As Trump Threatens Invasion, Admin Releases Report Vilifying Cuba and the Left

Andy Ngo / The Post Millennial:   ANDY NGO REPORTS: State Department links Antifa's lawyers to decades of Cuban communist influence

Don Feder / Washington Times:   Fight communism now — or buy a parrot

These stupid jerks are trying to scare the chumps about Cuba. Yes, Cuba, giant, powerful Commie island to the south, & its "influence" & "infiltration".Here we come, capitalist pigs!

Also on the subject, from The Rude Pundit.

Rubio is promising that the administration is going to be naming more groups as "terrorist organizations" and going after their funding, which they claim comes from foreign governments. The ideological criteria is broad: "This is what radical leftism is.  It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.  They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist." Except it's not illegal to believe any of those things. You can be a communist in the United States. It's allowed. Or it used to be.

And the net is going to get wider and wider and "communist" is going to mean "wants health care for everyone," and this effort is going to work hand-in-hand with the voter suppression efforts, one being used as an excuse for the enforcement of the other. Rubio teed it all up: the coming pretext to destroy everyone on the left.