It's Yom Kippur!

Some people have one hell of a lot of atonement to do for war crimes & slumlording!

And stop believing in stories your ancient ancestors made up about sky-fairies who will forgive your sins & evil already.

Amazing Space

Lemme tell ya Doc, it doesn't amaze this reporter any more. He fucking expects it. Cretinous morons, all of them!

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.

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!

"Happy" Labor Day, Wage-Slave Chumps!

How's your "day off" wage-slaving at a major retailer going, you fucking losers?

It's Not Murder, It's Just Fun!

Rob Wile / NBC News:
American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:   Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
New Republic:   This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America

The workers get it in the ass every day, but thy are subservient sheep who deserve to be fucked but good by their betters, or the more powerful. Excuse me, you brain-dead idiots, but aren't there millions more wage-slaes than bosses? What's stopping you but your own pathetic cowardice, you brain-washed chumps?

Interesting how I can utterly despise all sides of any issue. That's because you're all hopeless idiots, although some of you are viciously evil as well. How can any of you stand yourselves? I know I can't.

Friday F.O.A.D.

There is no one more angry, bitter, or resentful than I in this world of shit & pain. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin & Trump combined are pikers next to me! Sure, they did a lot w/ famines; watch me go!

Trains To The East

Where's The Outrage, You Fucking Hypocrites?

The condemnations, the calls for the entire government to resign? Is Netanyahu going to get Trump to go along, like he talked him into an unprovoked attack on Iran & an idiotic war? How many Palestinians will this kill?

Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941.
(Photo: Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA.) Text.

Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:

Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza  —  Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’  —  Israel's far-right national security minister has set out a plan for the illegal forced expulsion …

Al Jazeera:   Israel kills 3 in Gaza as far-right minister plans for Palestinian removals

Israpundit:   Ben-Gvir's Gaza Exit Strategy

Antonio Pita / El País:   A traveling circus for the horror of Gaza

France 24:   Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says

Would they somehow disappear two million people for blood-stained resort developments?

Last paragraph from The Guardian:

As well as pushing for the expulsion of Gaza’s population, Ben-Gvir has called for the deportation of two MPs and others “who are disloyal to the state of Israel” – including Jews – saying he would promote such a policy if he is included in the next government.

No one is safe. Best to be a loyal citizen & keep your mouth shut, or your life will be ruined. Like this: UPROOTING AND DISPLACEMENT

"The Wages Of Sin Is Death"

Sounds good, dunnit, but like everything else in both Testaments & the Quran it is an absolute lie. The wages of any & all human existence are death, the grave, cremation, composting, yada. THERE IS NO ETERNAL REWARD.

The final destination for each of you, "good", "evil" or too stupid to decide.

Which of course raises the common-sense question: WHY FUCKING BE "GOOD"? Why not be a murderous thug primate like all the other humanoid scum destroying the planet?

Good question. Why not hurt others as they have hurt you? Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. That's in Gawd's Big Book of Lies too.

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".

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]

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?

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.

A Song For The Ages & The Current Moment

SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOBS, YOU TITS!!

This Should End Well

French weapon. They're probably safe, as no Yankee military has been stationed in France since 1966.

Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Starting ‘Economic Warfare’ Operation Against Iran  —  The US will begin what President Donald Trump said would be an unprecedented economic warfare operation against Iran, after faulting the country for failing to take its chance to make a deal with him.
Fox News:   Trump threatens ‘unprecedented’ economic consequences for any nation aiding Iran
Bob Hoge / RedState:   Trump Announces ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran, Will Be ‘Most Crushing’ Financial Operation Ever

"Trump says". Yeah? Crush on this dedication from "Natalie" in D.C., Fat Boy.

Financial Times:
Iran eyes military targets in Europe if Donald Trump escalates war, insiders say
Phillips P. OBrien / Phillips's Newsletter:   Midweek Update #24: The USA Is Not A Serious Country

Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com:   Iran Weighs Attacks on US Military in Europe

CNBC:   UAE severs trade with Iran after reported missile strike

Imogen Garfinkel / Daily Mail:   Iran's hardline mullahs ‘are considering attacks on European military targets’ if Trump escalates war

Al Jazeera:   Iran war live: Rubio discusses Hormuz security with UAE official

Timothy Nerozzi / Washington Examiner:   Iran slams US ‘clown crew’ as Trump threatens to annex Strait of Hormuz with no end to war in sight

All I want to know is when the nukes start flying.

Beat The Reaper!!

I know there's not a humanoid or animal on this planet who gives a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut about me, but just for the record ...

Considering my usual temp is 98.2 or so, I'm quite suspicious. Don't remember my forehead being read.

Lost 17 lbs. (7.25748 kg.) in the last three months. BMI is under the 25-27 that's good for wretches my age. No longer hypertensive or obese & may be able to stop a heart medication. Indeed, I've made BP measurements (when sitting calmly in the bunker, not in your horrid outside world of non-stop bullshit coming at me from every direction) like 81/53 that indicate low blood pressure.

No sarcasm for once; the croaker deserves a sincere thank you for prescribing me back to a semblance of physical health in less than six yrs. Dunno if he was desperate for patients; he was one of the attending physicians when I was hospitalized in Nov. 2020 (for "colitis", not the plague, but the plague was all over the hospital) & asked if I needed a doctor. Never refuse a volunteer. (Thanks to Medicare as well. We'll see if I outlive it.)

At last, my heart is truly black & my lips are cold.Still hate all the scum & slumlords, calmer or not. They won't get off that easily.

Thursday's Terror Threats

"May Be Severe & Lead To Death"

Nothing is even worth the effort of a threat. I won't waste my beautiful mind by acknowledging all the horrible things all of the awful people do for which they should all be threatened & terrorized. Speaking of which, still exhausted, enervated, run down & barely able to function, because I've been terrorized & threatened every day of my existence since being sent to school. Not that the parents are innocent, but once school started it was every damn day as some "grown-up" piece of shit humanoid w/ 100 lbs. & several feet on me shoved me around & told me what to do. Fucking two-bit thug bullies.

Why Bother Wednesday

No one will bother to tell me why I should bother. And I shouldn't.

Still Beat

And dead inside.

It's certainly a world of shit & pain, & needs to be completely refurbished, by force. How else?

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

Slept from 0400 until 1445, except of course for getting up to urinate every fucking hr. What kind of two-bit gawd does that to its creation? Yet some of you fucking sheep continue to kiss its bullshit ass. I'm still fucking exhausted, too.

Tired is a normal, mild lack of energy after a long day that gets better with a good night of sleep. Exhausted is an extreme, deep state of drain where your body and mind feel completely empty, and basic tasks feel very hard even after resting.

Story of my fucking life. You fucking people & your non-stop bullshit have drained the life from me.

Today's plan: Find a rogue Artificial Intelligence to advise me in plans for a mass humanoid extinction event, or perhaps to destroy everyone & everything by itself. C'mon, Grok, you can get to those launch codes!

Death from above.

KILL FOR PEACE!, as we used to say.

"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.