Milions In Your Money: Demonstration And Shakedown Operation

No reason to keep this in the cloud any longer.

No memory of running it previously.

Sunday Supercut

I know Lindsay Graham is dead, but where'd all the others go?Every one of these lying bitches & sons-of-bitches will tell you to your face that they are big Xians, even as they ignore every one of the Ten Commandments.

Don't qualify as Xians or Mohammadeans. 

Friday The Thirteenth, Two Days Late

Worst-Case Scenario

In The New Republic, retired Federal Judge Michael Luttig clearly illustrates the possibility of "Moses" Johnson & House Republicans not seating elected Democrats come January.

Judicial review of the House’s decision not to seat Democratic representatives-elect in the 120th Congress would take weeks, if not months, during which time the United States would be in the throes of a paralyzing constitutional crisis, helplessly vulnerable to all the world’s evil, as it would have been in January 2021 had Mike Pence not thwarted Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

It is not difficult to imagine the many possibilities, some of the most critical being entirely realistic. It would be the ideal moment for China to move against Taiwan, by way of military blockade, attack, or even invasion. It would be the perfect moment for Vladimir Putin to complete his conquest of Ukraine, and perhaps even to move militarily against Estonia. Every passing day could bring a deepening economic crisis, worsened by our angry allies around the world who would welcome the opportunity to requite Donald Trump for his belittling mockery of their countries and presidents. Without the Congress, the United States would be powerless to respond to any of these crises.

What? The "Dep't. of War" can't defend us w/o Congress?

He may be just a bit too optimistic here.

I don’t intend to be overly sanguine about this Supreme Court. This is the court that shattered the one constitutional truth in the U.S. since 1789 that “no man is above the law” and placed Donald Trump of all presidents above the law in Trump v. United States. This is the court that betrayed the Constitution by refusing even to decide whether Trump was disqualified from the presidency under the Fourteenth Amendment because of his insurrection against the Constitution, which he clearly was. This is also the court that has cynically authorized Trump’s lawlessness for the past two years through its aptly named “shadow docket,” without so much as briefing, argument, or written opinion.

But surely by now this court must understand what it has wrought for the U.S. and the Constitution, and is aghast as we all are, even if it is not penitent. Surely, surely, it will understand the signal moment in American constitutional history that would be presented, and this time understand its supreme obligation to the nation.

"Wish in one hand, crap in the other. See which piles up first."

The judge (surprise) is legalistic & lengthy; Heather Cox Richardson summarized it, included some newer developments

As if to illustrate Luttig’s warning, House speaker Johnson told attendees at Trump’s convention in Dallas on Thursday: “We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress. We’re not gonna do it.”

& brought it to our attention. Hizzoner summarized himself as well.

Unsummarized:

Actually, Should Read "Twice-Convicted Sex Offender"

Kee-rist on a kee-rutch, how many times do I have to embed a version of "Hypocrites" here? Haven't heard this one.And let's call these sickos sex criminals instead of "offenders". Or we could say "rapists". Murderers, for example, are seldom known as "offenders".

Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina

A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”

The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records.

[...]

Some 30 years ago, King was a marching band assistant at a high school outside Raleigh when he was charged with statutory rape and indecent liberties with a 15-year-old student, The News & Observer reported at the time. King, then 31, was convicted in 1998 and served nearly five years in prison before being paroled, according to state department of corrections records.

In 2010, he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage female relative and served close to three years in prison, state records show.

King is required under North Carolina law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

[...]

Democrats have blasted Whatley over association with another convicted sex offender

Since March, Whatley has been dogged over his ties to West, who served as a congressional district committee chair in the state GOP when Whatley was chairman.

West, a former small-town police officer, was convicted of five counts of indecent liberties with a child and served six years in prison, corrections records show.

Rapists under color of authority, yet.

[The AP]

Get Over It Already!

No Phony Patriotism Here

It's been 25 yrs., & you dumb Yankee s.o.b.s are still doing the same things & are asking for it now even more than before w/ increased unprovoked aggression across the region, possibly leading to serious all-out non-sissy fighting, like World War III. Can't think of a stupider fucking nation. You'll deserve anything & everything you get!

And remember, second-worst Pres. Bush let it happen. He never "kept us safe" from the beginning, & put us in greater jeopardy w/ his war-mongering. Thanks, Republicans!! You're the fucking best!!

Many other cartoonists' first cartoon was of a weeping Statue of Liberty. As one of the few who lived in Manhattan on 9/11, this was mine.

There it is, the truth Americans can't handle.

Those of you clinging to literacy can read what should have been done.

The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels. Without our dependence on oil, we would never have been entangled in the Middle East in the first place. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, citizens of an oil kingdom that we helped to build, our “ally.” The right reaction in September 2001 -- as I wrote to a friend in the White House -- was to fund fusion and other clean energy sources. Had we done so, we could have headed off global warming, prevented further Middle East wars -- and indeed prevented the rise of Vladimir Putin’s hydrocarbon oligarchy and his invasions of Ukraine.

Today we face the reality of rising oceans, vast fires, and resource conflicts. We were given a chance to halt all of that.

But we did not take it. George W. Bush became president of the United States, despite probably losing an election to Al Gore, after the Supreme Court stopped the counting of ballots in Florida. Gore was an environmentalist who cared deeply about global warming. Had 9/11 happened during a Gore presidency, he would have intensified the search for safe energy. Gore was also a more experienced and competent person than Bush, who came from a political oil family and had done nothing notable himself. Had Gore been president, 9/11 might well not have happened. But it did happen, on the watch of the inexperienced oilman. Bush’s White House was never going to link the terror attack to its basic causes.

As if the oilagarchy would have put up w/ that for even a minute.

Suuure He Will

I know he'll get away w/ it, but is it legal?

Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms  —  President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
Matt Dixon / NBC News:   'I'm on the ballot': Trump tries to energize his base by placing himself front and center

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:   Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet

Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:   Trump Offers $5,000 ‘Dividend’ to Every American Adult if Republicans Win Midterms

Bloomberg:   Trump Floats $5,000 Payment to US Adults If GOP Wins Midterms

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   President Trump Shakes Up Midterms: Announces $5,000 Dividend for Every Adult American If GOP Wins US House and Senate in Midterm Election (VIDEO)

No one who wouldn't be voting Republican anyway believes a word of this. Getting a bit desperate there, fellers?If the polls worsen will he up the ante?

Today In Mental Illness: No Philistines At The Polls!

If this deluded sumbitch is telling people how to vote, he'd better not be getting tax-exemptions; this is all political.Do enjoy the end. He's quite a speaker.

Netanyahu Knew

Ooops. He lied, thousands died.

Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs

As all decent people suspected. And then he chumped Trump into starting a war w/ Iran. Lovely. Governments run by fucking con men & morons.

Democracy is a joke!

25-47!

holy shit, Dear Leader is fucking nuts

another day, another shit-blizzard of posts

Very well documented.

he’s got a screw loose. he’s lost his marbles. he’s crazier than a shithouse rat. he’s stark barking bonkers. he’s mad as a hatter. he’s off his rocker. some village is missing its idiot. he’s out of his mind. he’s nutty as a fruitcake. he’s out where the buses don’t run. he’s got bats in his belfry. he’s wandering in the tall weeds. he’s a basket case. he’s gone off the deep end. he’s not all there. he’s out of his skull. he’s a few french fries short of a happy meal. he’s mad as a March hare. he’s foaming at the mouth. he’s a brick or two shy a full load. his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor. he’s not playing with a full deck. he’s a dim bulb. he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. he’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic. he’s not playing with a full deck. the lights are on, but no one’s home.

Summer Re-Run

Apparently From Late May 2016. Anyone remember a "War On Suburbia"?

They must've been really scared of something to have come up w/ this absurdity. "Diabolical" alright. Ten yrs. later, they've completely lost their minds. Everyone to the left of Attila, King of the Huns, is now a Satan-worshipping Muslim Comm-u-niss, if not demon-possessed or a literal demon. Try to reconcile those three "belief systems".

Election Season Officially Opens!

Three hours later, an armed individual attacked Acton at a county fair. https://t.co/akcF8YduiW

— Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) September 6, 2026

Kurt Knue / WLWT-TV:

Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured  —  Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.  —  According to a statement put out by Acton's campaign, an armed individual lunged at Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair …

Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:   Armed person confronts Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at event, campaign says

Washington Post:   Armed individual ‘lunged’ at Democrat nominee for Ohio governor, campaign says

Fox News:   Amy Acton campaign says armed individual lunged at Ohio governor candidate, injuring multiple people

Gary Fields / Associated Press:   Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor at fair, campaign says

Jalen Beckford / Politico:   Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton ‘lunged at’ by armed person, campaign says

Jenna Monnin / NOTUS:   Campaign Says Ohio Governor Candidate Amy Acton Was Attacked by an ‘Armed Individual’ at a Fair

Addie Bullock / Dr. Amy Acton for Governor:   Acton Campaign Statement on Incident at Canfield Fair

Carter Schroppe / Washington Examiner:   Amy Acton attacked by ‘armed individual’ at campaign stop in Ohio

Hayden Cunningham / The Post Millennial:   BREAKING: Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton attacked at campaign event: report

Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:   Multiple People Injured After Armed Man Lunges at Democrat Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton at Campaign Event

Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:   Important Update: Trump Launches Concerning Truth Social Spree, Mitch McConnell Gets Ultimatum, Dr. Amy Acton Attacked, Plane Crash

Stolen Valor

Stolen By A Big Fat Sissy-Boy

El Generalissimo Puto in George Patton drag. Note gloves & ivory-handled revolvers.

Five stars, a Medal of Honor, & pilot wings? My pasty (but thin) ass! Fat Donnie's scared of his own shadow. What's next, his ugly mug on Robert E. Lee astride Traveller?

"Robert E. Lee on Traveler" by Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Or will it be directly to a Hitler/SS combo? A mere sample of his Idiotic Majesty's latest droolings. See Hullabaloo.

Saturday Night At The Movies

I stand 100% w/ our relatives, friends & neighbors in Canada in their struggle w/ the idiots in the current Republican regime & its active attempts to destroy North America*.Interesting that Charles Smiley Presents released this ©2009 compilation just five days ago.

Also of interest? Two of the Class I railroads operating in these United Snakes are Canadian.

Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway trade the top spot depending on the metric used. Based on the most recent full-year data (2024):

• Union Pacific Railroad – $24.3 Billion Revenue, 32,100 route miles, 32,400 employees
• BNSF Railway – $23.4 Billion Revenue, 32,500 route miles, 41,000 employees
• Canadian National Railway – $17.1 Billion Revenue (CAD), 20,000 route miles, 24,000 employees
• CSX Transportation – $14.5 Billion Revenue, 21,000 route miles, 20,900 employees
• CPKC – $14.2 Billion Revenue, 20,000 route miles, 20,000 employees
• Norfolk Southern Railway – $12.1 Billion Revenue, 19,400 route miles, 19,600 employees
The 2023 CPKC merger significantly reshaped the competitive landscape. Before the merger, Kansas City Southern was the smallest Class I with revenues of just $2.75 billion and 4,000 route miles. The combined CPKC is now comparable in size to CSX and CN, making the six freight Class I railroads much more evenly matched than at any time in modern history.

If you didn't figure it out, the CP in CPKC is Canadian Pacific. That 2023 merger was the result of CP purchasing the KCS from NdeM, the national railroad of Mexico. Them furriners have a stranglehold on us! What will happen when Yank farmers run out of fertilizer & whatnot because of tariffs & oil scarcity? We won't be able to afford Canadian imports either!

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*Does that make me a traitor? I hope so. Slap the bracelets on, G-Men!

Money-Grubbing Corporations Betray Their Workers On "Labor" Day

Fuck you, greedy Nazi pigs! Workers get to work an extra day. You think the Bosses are in their offices in their cushy chairs? And the office workers who do no physical labor or interact w/ consuming sheep daily get a day off/three-day wknd. Not that they're free: The sheep w/ time off must consume during every free moment they have, or the system breaks down. Every last one of you a sucker-ass chump who buys into the lie!

What’s open on Labor Day? Most retailers. Closed? Government, banks and the stock market.

We'll give Costco credit for closing.

Don't get you fucking lemmings who insist on travelling during holiday wknds. either. Frankly, I'd be terribly amused if there were a hideous crash between two aircraft that resulted in 1,000+ deaths, because I am reduced to a bloodthirsty ghoul who wants only to see others suffer as he has suffered. Like this:As we make America great again by returning to the 1950s, you can expect more of the above, & it'll be well-deserved!

Academic Freedom & The First Amendment In America's Diseased Penis

You know where I mean.

Hot, humid hellhole.

I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.

Academic censorship is very real.

Sharia Law & Holocaust denial:

I know all about restrictions. I’ve been a U.S. citizen for 18 years. But where I grew up in the Middle East, I witnessed a different intrusion of politics in the classroom. This was Dubai in the early 80s. Before the ski resorts and island hotels and excess.

Once every school year, a representative from the Ministry of Education would come to class, distribute black markers, and ask us to open our atlases. We were shown where, on the map, to locate Israel. We were to use the markers to strike out the word. Next, the same directive for the dictionary. In our history book, pages covering parts of WWII were pasted together. The chronology went from Mein Kampf to reparations. A bunch of us attempted to “steam” the pages open over a saucepan of simmering water and made a pulpy, scalding mess. Someone needed ointment.

When we asked our teacher about the missing content, she quietly said, “I will lose my job if I speak about it.” Decades later, I would lose mine for making a different choice.

Fuck censorship & damn all these fascist bastards for Jesus to hell!

[Persuasion]

Everybody Is A Lying, Cheating Crook

Epecially the wealthy fucking pigs who have already stolen billions from you. Greed never stops, does it?

As noted at the end here.

The NBA has ordered the Clippers to forfeit five first-round draft picks in future NBA drafts, along with paying the $30 million fine.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been suspended from all league and team activities for one year as a result of his involvement in helping Leonard obtain income opportunities and approving business deals that violated the circumvention rules.

Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker has been suspended without pay for one year after being found culpable for her role in the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for providing false and misleading statements to investigators.

Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank has been suspended without pay for six months for his involvement in the endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Leonard.

Are there no firing squads? These people need to be made into a glaring example that the rich will not get away w/ their constant cheating. First Sicko Sterling, now this baldhead crook. As pathetic as everything & every one else.

[Los Angeles Magazine]

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!

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.

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.