Even Cap't. America Is Fed Up

From Daredevil #283, August 1990.

The Canucks Wanted to Kill Trump!!

In 1960!

T'row da bum out!! Off w/ his head!!

Not So Funny Now, Is It?

I'm not just a demon; I'm a Commie Red Demon!

Theo-Fascism On The March!

The New Republic is on it, & it's trouble. Read it.

Holy Wars

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?

“When it comes to something like the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, I think they’ve been incredibly influential,” Taylor told me. “American bombs are accomplishing in the physical realm what they are also trying to accomplish in the spiritual realm.”

These bitches & the sons-thereof might bamboozle Lumpy into nuking us into The Appocalypse. Interestingly, the author doesn't mention that Rafael Cruz (TX Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz's parental unit) is a Dominionist.

State Of The Nation

Trump Turned The Tables Alright

Why do Republicans (& the rest of the world) hate America so much?

Great Minds Thinking Alike

WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Had the very same thought last night. Betty Cracker is a smart person.

The Arc de Participation as Nazi flak tower

I can imagine Trump's Last Stand taking place at his stupid arch.

Source material.

The Sheep Look Up

Fall-in-line idiot at the end doesn't quite get how it all works, does he?

Anybody got any diesel?

Today's Texan Piece Of Work

What an absolute shithole of ignorant racists.

David French / New York Times:
Watching Bigots Erupt
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:   Bo French Sent a Tweet So Racist, His Own Party Finally Took Notice. It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg.

Ramsey Touchberry / Washington Examiner:   John Cornyn won't vote for Texas GOP candidate Bo French over ‘racist comments’

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Why Karl Rove, a father of the modern Texas GOP, is voting for a Democrat

Mark Silk / RNS:   Texas Republicans excuse bigotry all the time. This time they couldn't.

The Washington Sun:   Texas Democrat Sees a Fundraising Surge Following Opponent's Racist Posts

ABC News:   Cornyn says he won't vote for Texas Republican Bo French after candidate's controversial post

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Cornyn won't vote for Bo French in Texas race

Carlos Nogueras Ramos / The Texas Tribune:   One group has stayed mostly mum on Bo French's racist post — Texas' oil and gas industry

The Mother Jones item has more hot poop on Bo French:

In 2025, around the same time the Tarrant GOP demanded Texas leaders acknowledge new Islamic centers as an “invasion” and “dangerous threat,” French polled his X followers: “Who is a bigger threat to America?” The two choices: “Muslims” and “Jews.”

Of course he's astoundingly ignorant:

To the extent that his candidacy is focused on the Texas Railroad Commission at all, it is because French believes the oil industry, too, must be purged of “the influence of radical Islam.” French, who did not respond to a request for comment, referred to Jim Wright, the Republican commissioner he defeated, as “Jihadi Jim” and alleged that Wright’s ties to a Saudi-owned company’s petrochemical facility had allowed “Islamic values and laws” to infiltrate the commission.

Bo's 90+ yrs. late on that. And RNS looks at football as religion & identity in Texas.

Sure, I'll Believe Anything

Fox News:

GOP lawmakers pump brakes on Trump's $5K check promise: ‘Where are you getting the money?’  —  President Donald Trump's promise of a big payout for Americans if Republicans win the midterms is getting a rocky reception on Capitol Hill.  —  Several Republicans outright oppose the $5,000 check promise …

Matt Weidinger / Washington Examiner:   Don't count on those $5,000 Trump dividend checks

Count in one hand & crap in the other; see which piles up sooner: Shit, or Fat Donnie's bribe money. Cultist cretins & suckers. It'd be funny if any of the chumps figured it out. They couldn't be any denser.

More Republican Nazis

Or Are They Nazi Republicans?

This is a joke, you dumb bastards. Like, humor, man.The Handbasket found new ones & goes into depth about some already mentioned.

Who Are The Real Extremists?

Allegedly Comm-u-niss Democrats, or self-admitted Nazi Republicans?Erick-Woods Erickson pulls head from keister, wipes poop from eyes, & takes a look around:

The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off the Cliff

and digby has a "gift link" to Jamelle Bouie.

Jamelle Bouie has an important piece in the NY Times today (gift link) about the GOP’s Nazi problem, and it is a problem. He points out that there is a whole generation of younger staffers, some of whom have been exposed during this campaign and others who are actually working in the top reaches of the government under Trump. His administration is crawling with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. But he also provides some important historical context to show how we got here.

How did we get here? It is a mystery. Just guessing, but a long tradition of white supremacy, Yankee religiosity, chattel slavery, & the Confederacy might have somethnig to do w/ it.

The G.O.P.: Ignorant Fools

Why you're broke & in debt (and why you deserve to be if you vote Republican):

He [Trump] believed it because conservatives believe stupid, simplistic things about how the capitalist economy works. They believe that if you just let the free market do its thing, wonders will arise and all will be well. They believe this first and foremost because their big-money donors tell them to believe it. But they also believe it because the economists—or more precisely, the economists they prefer to listen to—say so, and they must know what they’re talking about.

[...]

But longer term, the Democrats need to do much more. It would be great if they nominated a presidential candidate in 2028 who had the guts and the rhetorical skill to indict not just Trump but conservatism and traditional economics more generally. It’s not an accident that the last three (now four) GOP presidents have wrecked the economy: Bush, Bush, Trump, and Trump. It’s not a coincidence that the last five recessions, and seven of the last eight, going all the way back to Richard Nixon, have hit during Republican presidencies. Republicans screw up the economy, and they screw it up because they believe in economic fairy tales that fit on a bumper sticker and sound plausible to most people but that ignore the world’s deep complexity and irrationality, and the constancy of the reality that no one, not even a president of the United States, has perfect information.

And you know the fucking sheep will elect another retarded Republican soon enough & you'll be screwed again. (Hope it's not too soon; & that I won't be here when it does happen.)

So Much For Free Speech: "The Joos" & The NFL Do Control The Media!

None Dare Call It Genocide

Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage ‘Free Palestine’ Statements  —  “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup,” promoter says
Herb Scribner / Axios:   Macklemore pulled from Ed Sheeran's tour over “Free Palestine” outcry

Teri Christoph / RedState:   Macklemore Gets Brutal Reality Check After ‘Free Palestine’ Stunt Blows Up in His Face

Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:   Macklemore Dropped from Ed Sheeran Tour After Unhinged Anti-Israel Tirades

Katie Scott / Global News:   Macklemore speaks out after being dropped from Ed Sheeran tour

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:   NFL Owners Conspire to Get Macklemore Booted From Ed Sheeran's Tour

Leena Nasir / The Daily Caller:   Macklemore Ousted From Ed Sheeran's Tour After Alleged Pressure Campaign From Pro-Israel Robert Kraft

Kai Uyehara / Mercury News:   Ed Sheeran drops Macklemore from tour after ‘free Palestine’ remark

Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:   Macklemore Responds After Removal From Ed Sheeran Tour: “The Victims Are the Palestinian People”

Patrick Reilly / New York Post:   Macklemore yanked off Ed Sheeran's tour after anti-Israel rants anger venues

Middle East Monitor:   Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran's US tour after his comments on Palestine

Amanda Harding / The Daily Wire:   Washed-Up Rapper Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Pro-Islamic Terrorist Rant

Ethan Beck / Washington Post:   Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after pro-Palestine comments

Daniel Welsh / HuffPost:   Macklemore Dropped As Ed Sheeran's Opening Act After Pro-Palestine Comments On Stage

FOX 13 Seattle:   Macklemore removed from Ed Sheeran's tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

Ahmad Austin Jr / Mediaite:   Macklemore Breaks Silence After Being Removed from Ed Sheeran's Tour — Claims New England Patriots Owner Threatened to Bar Sheeran from Stadium

Margaret Flavin / The Gateway Pundit:   Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour Following Anti-Israel, Anti-ICE Rant

JD Knapp / The Wrap:   Macklemore Says Ed Sheeran 'Couldn't Get Past' His Publicly Neutral Stance, Blames Robert Kraft for Kicking Him Off Tour

TMZ.com:   Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour Amid Pro-Palestine Backlash

Tamantha Ryan / Page Six:   Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after onstage ‘Free Palestine’ speech

Note that everything is reduced to a "Stunt", "Unhinged Anti-Israel Tirades", "anti-Israel rants", "Washed-Up Rapper Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Pro-Islamic Terrorist Rant", "Anti-Israel, Anti-ICE Rant", yada. Apparently Macklemore couldn't possibly be sincere. Screw alla these fake news dilrods & prostitute-user Bob Kraft, each one of whom is a lying sack of crap.

Also, Ed Sheeran is a boring hack. Who let his Limey ass in here? Furriners raus!!!

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:

Please Nominate This White Nationalist Hillbilly!

Politico:
Vance met with ‘48’ chants in closed-door convention event
NewsMax.com:   Vance Greeted With ‘48’ Chants at GOP Convention

More Nazi hick tools of the billionaires in office!!

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?

8647, Comin' Down The Line!

Won't even need to re-number it for the last train to Mar-a-Lago.

BNSF Needles Subdivision at East Siberia, California - MP 674.3 30 January 2016

Bigger than life at the source.

Get Away From Me, You Loathsome Bastard!

Nowhere is safe. Can't even watch model railroading videos w/o this bullshit being shoved in my face.Much more appropriate transportation for his bruised lumpiness.

Can't wait to see his rotting corpse hauled to the boneyard in this coffin by the renumbered 8647 loco.

The pricks at UP have painted three locos to "pay tribute to our nation’s presidents". (Tribute* indeed: Apparently this 4547 abomination is the Union Pacific sucking up to Fats to get their purchase of Norfolk Southern approved.) The other two are "tribute" to Abraham Lincoln & oil man G.H.W. Bush, the one-term 41st Pres. who lost to Slick Willie. That's some accomplishment. F.D.R.? J.F.K.? Demoncrats, obviously. No more UP rolling stock on the layout; they're not getting a penny in licensing from me. 

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*Per Merriam-Webster: "Historical Payment: Wealth or valuables given by a weaker nation or group to a dominant power as a sign of submission or to ensure peace."

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.

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.

Geography Lesson

The new world, from The Wiki.

These Sad Sacks Can't Handle Reality Or The Truth

Sarah Davis / The Hill:
US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa's size on world maps  —  The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps.  —  The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one …
Jewel Bright / NPR:   The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

Eromo Egbejule / The Guardian:   UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa's true scale

France 24:   UN ditches Mercator map to adopt more accurate one reflecting Africa's true size

Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size.  The U.S. was sole objector.  —  The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map.  The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.”
Sydney Reynolds / MS NOW:   ‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa's size

Sam Barron / NewsMax.com:   US Only Country to Vote Against New UN World Map

Fox News:   United Nations votes 164-1 for Equal Earth map after US brands it ‘radical ideological project’

Nils Adler / Agence France-Presse:   How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

[your]NEWS:   U.N. Backs Equal-Area World Maps in 164-1 Vote as U.S. Casts Lone Opposition

IJR News:   UN passes Africa-backed map resolution 164-1, US the lone dissenter

Associated Press:   UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size

The Japan Times:   Africa bigger and U.S. smaller: U.N. adopts new map

Tom Hawking / Gizmodo:   UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa's Size More Accurately

Mariamne Everett / Reuters:   UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa's true size

Al Jazeera:   UN approves new map showing Africa's true size

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   UN Votes To Adopt Map Showing Nations At Their True Relative Sizes, Only The United States Voted Against It

Lisa Hornung / UPI:   U.N. to vote to adopt new, more accurate world map

Ed Griffiths / GB News:   UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and ‘shrink’ Britain to combat ‘Western biases’

United States Mission to the United Nations:
Explanation of Vote Before the Vote for UNGA 80 Adoption on the Resolution to “Correct the Map”
Mathieu Pollet / Politico:   UN backs effort to depict Africa correctly on maps despite US opposition

They "shrank Britain". Did they "shrink" your Limey wee-wees too? How fucking stupid & whiny can these people get? I suppose accurate globes are a “radical ideological project” too.

Next stop? The Earth is flat, of course: "You can't fool me!! I can see it's flat!!"