Bobby Brainworm Outdoes Himself

The trifecta: Stupid, ignorant & mentally ill!This is an excellent message for Republicans to repeat daily until the election.

Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:

FACT FOCUS: Kennedy's 'Arabs don't produce science' claim meets a Nobel Prize reality check  —  His remarks in Michigan have been widely condemned as untrue and racially biased, especially in a state with a large Arab American population.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity’s scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections.

“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don’t produce science,” Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. “They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”

The health secretary’s comments — widely condemned overnight by critics as untrue and racially biased — were made while campaigning in a state with a large Arab American population.

An HHS representative did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.

Arab refers to an ethnic and linguistic identification, while Muslim refers to a religious identity. So while Arabs can be Muslim, Christian, Jewish or of another faith, the vast majority of Muslims worldwide are not Arab.…

Bayliss Wagner / New York Times:   Kennedy Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs at Michigan Campaign Event

Washington Post:   RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don't produce prizeworthy science, literature

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   RFK Jr., on the campaign trail in Michigan, trashes the accomplishments of ‘Arab Muslims’

Cooper Williamson / Blaze Media:   RFK Jr. delivers scathing message about the Muslim Brotherhood in Michigan speech

Hank Berrien / The Daily Wire:   RFK Jr. Unloads On Muslim Brotherhood ‘Death Cult’ That Creates Stagnant Societies

Al Jazeera:   US's RFK Jr claims Arabs 'don't produce science': Why he's very, very wrong

Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:   RFK Jr accused of ‘blatant bigotry’ after claiming Arabs 'don't produce science or literature'

Newsweek:   RFK Jr. Says 500M Arabs 'Don't Produce Science' at Michigan Rally

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World

Madison W / Louder With Crowder:   Here's what RFK Jr actually said about the Arab World (Hint: It's not what the media is reporting)

Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:   RFK Jr. Goes on Stunning Rant Against Arabs: 'They Don't Produce Literature,' Only ‘Hatred’ and ‘War’

2028 should be real fun.

Tuesday Turkeys

All Dead Now, But None Of Them Soon Enough

There will come a time ...

Americans

There's One Born Every Minute

Ugly Stupid Assholes.

Sickest Nation In The "High-Income" World

Might be you any day now.

Where's the outrage? Wut if it wuz dirty Ay-rab Muslim terrists named Muhammad doin' all th' shootin'? Would that outrage the two-faced shits? Why are they perfectly fine w/ daily acts of terror? It's O.K. because it's Yankees exercising their Second Amendment rights on each other?

Three Shootings in America

A week of our entirely-ordinary *extraordinary* violence

The shooting is another reminder of how right-wing and white nationalist violence remains the biggest threat to the United States domestically. And yet the FBI and the federal government have all but given up investigating it, and the President is in fact one of the nation’s leading spreaders of hate speech and extremist rhetoric, including just this week mocking the Arab-American candidate for Senate in Michigan and the politically motivated targeting of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Indeed, racist targeting of South Asians — like those at the Aurora temple — appears increasingly to be a central political strategy of the GOP.

“The threat of such violence shows how dangerous anti-Indian hatred and white supremacy have become, and we cannot wait until innocent people are killed to take these threats seriously,” Krishnamoorthi said last week in a statement.

We do not talk enough about how central the threat (and reality) of political violence is to the Trump movement and to the paralysis that so many GOP figures feel when they attempt to speak out or act against President Trump and the MAGA movement. We are “both-sides”-ing a threat where one side is a gasoline-fueled mass arsonist by pretending that the other side also plays with matches.

[...]

We suffer a rate of gun homicides that, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, “is 26 times that of other high-income countries.”

There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined.

Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.

SICK, SICK, SICK!!

Mental Illness On Parade

"If a friend told you Democrats are a bunch of 'sick pedo cannibals,'
you'd back away slowly and seek professional help for her"

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Social media posts: incoming WH press secretary Katie Zacharia echoed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, made pedophilia accusations against Democrats, and more  —  Donald Trump Fighting disinformation Social media Epstein files  —  President Donald Trump's incoming White House press secretary …

Discussion:

Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile:   Just weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Zacharia also posted seemingly in support of Vladimir Putin, reposting a post that the Russian president was fighting a secret network of powerful elites. https://www.cnn.com/...

Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile:   In another deleted tweet, she shared a post accusing the DOJ of covering up for people implicated in the Epstein scandal. She also promoted on Truth Social a repost that claimed that comedian Joan Rivers died mysteriously after saying that former President Barack Obama was gay and that former first...

Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile:   NEW: President Trump's incoming White House press secretary echoed the debunked pizzagate conspiracy theory, accused Hollywood elites of being pedophilic cannibals, and said Michelle Obama had a penis in posts, reposts, and deleted tweets. (And more) https://www.cnn.com/...

Judd Legum / Popular Information:   New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist

John A. Daly / @johndalybooks:   So... Perfect fit, then?

Addie Davis / One America News Network:   Katie Zacharia begins new role as WH press secretary, first news conference set for Tuesday

James Tate / @jamestate121:   She spreads Russian propaganda like a good communist.

Nina Burleigh / @ninaburleigh:   This is the new White House press secretary. She is paid by taxpayers to inform the public.

Isabel Keane / The Independent:   Trump's new press secretary has a history of pushing banana conspiracy theories

Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan:   Despite now being one of the high-profile members of the US government these comments of hers will get 1% of the media coverage and outrage of that a Twitch streamer's got. Our media is broken. Support independent journalism like Judd's and like Zeteo: https://zeteo.com/...

Aaron Rupar / @atrupar:   Between Natalie Harp and now Zacharia, Trump is surrounding himself with women who believe some very strange things. If a friend told you Democrats are a bunch of “sick pedo cannibals,” you've [sic] back away slowly and seek professional help for her

Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:   Trump's New Press Secretary Exposed as Pizzagate and QAnon Conspiracy Peddler

Every accusation being a confession, should we be looking for evidence of MAGA cannibalism? Wouldn't surprise this reporter in the least.The "Elmer" defamed in the recording.

He Could, & He Does

The Old Jezebel*.

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap https://t.co/9LLyA30UzI

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2026

Note the Witches for Trump coven positioned behind him.

How many more yrs.?

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*New Testament Reference: In the Book of Revelation (2:20), the name is used symbolically to describe a false prophet who leads people into immorality.

From The "No, Really?" File

Dep't. Of Derp

PseudoIntelligence-generted telebision for viewers w/ "lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability".And for the literate:

“One of the most consistent predictors that Americans adhere to Christian nationalism is that they have lower education,” Perry told PsyPost. “But there have also been a number of studies that find that persons who subscribe to Christian nationalist views (even after accounting for level of education) exhibit significant knowledge gaps across a variety of different domains.”

For example, people who strongly endorse the ideology tend to score poorly on tests about “American history or scientific knowledge,” Perry noted. “They are also more likely to hold factually incorrect beliefs about vaccines,” he said, referencing a 2021 study he co-authored, which was covered by PsyPost. “And related to that last point, they are also more likely to affirm ridiculous conspiracy theories related to COVID-19, January 6th, or QAnon.”

“The dominant explanations for these substantial knowledge deficits and the apparent credulity of Christian nationalist adults have been motivated reasoning and siloed information sources,” Perry explained. “Both of those theories are no doubt true. But we have yet to consider whether there may be evidence of a gap in cognitive resources, one that can’t be explained solely by educational background or other relevant factors.”

Common sense tells us these "people" are cretinous morons. Sg't. Schulz Syndrome: "Zey Know Nozzing!". This reporter is quite certain most of them have psychological or psychiatric problems as well, like delusions & hallucinations.

Via Ten Bears invaluable daily "As The Planet Burns" aggregation.

Senator "I Know Nutting! Nutting!"

In sad contrast w/ an American giant like John Coltrane, more of Alabama's Senior Senator & his tiny, simple mind:

To follow on from the furry kerfuffle (furkuffle?), the following caught my attention. Via RawStory: EXCLUSIVE: Close Trump ally admits he doesn’t read — as only his opinion matters.

“No, I read very little,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story. “I want my own opinion, not somebody else’s.”

Cheeses, this dumb-ass mo-fo is exactly 364 days younger than this reporter. Let's hear it for the State of Alabama & Southern Arkansas Univ. Good job, cracker morons!

There's more. (He may already be under robot control. Seriously.) I s'pect Sen. Potatobrain is functionally illiterate. People who say they don't read or don't like to read usually have trouble reading anything. That's why STOP signs are red & octagonal (For the illiterate, that means "eight-sided".) Because many of the sub-humans out there couldn't read their way out of a paper bag. And illiterate fucking dimbulbs are everything wrong w/ this shithole nation. When do we start dealing w/ this clear & present danger, & by any means necessary?

Brainstorming: How 'bout having the illiterate crackers replace the migrant farmworkers they want deported, & have the goobers work in the fields for board & room? The South seemed to like the idea 150+ yrs. ago.

Back To The Fifties!

The Comic Book Commie Fifties, That Is

Via Ten Bears; I thought this was an amusing addition.

Does anyone really believe this Red-baiting? This reporter is a child of the '50s, but by the mid-'60s this stuff was laughable propaganda. Joe McCarthy, anyone? Maybe you have to be 80 & stupid to swallow this now. Yet who's sucking up to Comm-u-niss China at this moment?

Republicans Should Keep Lying, But Even Harder, Sez Republican

These deluded buffoons live in a sad fantasy world.

Lies? As Long As They "Resonate", It's Fine

Axios:
House GOP's top messenger: Socialism attack line “doesn't really resonate”  —  House Republicans' top messenger has three pieces of advice for candidates trying to survive the midterms: Call Democrats “communists,” don't gaslight voters on inflation — and trust your district if it tells you to deviate from President Trump.

Washington Post:
Why Democrats are starting to feel bullish about a midterm wave
Luke Fountain / CNBC:   Trump's $403 million war chest is finally being spent on the midterms. Now comes the hard part

NPR:   Republican ‘cavalry’ arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key races

Mike Catalini / Los Angeles Times:   Trump pushes his $5,000 ‘dividend’ pledge if GOP wins midterms. Republican candidates, not as much

Republican racist (Redundant?) Bo French has retrieved "Bolshevik" from the dustbin of history.

French has begun to direct his venom Rosenthal’s way. Texas Monthly’s Robert Downen, the foremost chronicler of French’s rise and the Texas far-right, recently reported on a fundraising email from the campaign that accused Rosenthal, who is Jewish, of “mocking Christianity” and compared him to the Bolsheviks who killed Russia’s ruling Romanov family—a trope with a deep antisemitic history.

"Commie Jew Comm-u-niss!"

Friday Freak Out

Blues Guitars

My life too. Oh, the sufferation.Bonus live track:

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.

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.

Milions In Your Money: Demonstration And Shakedown Operation

No reason to keep this in the cloud any longer.

No memory of running it previously.

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!!

Republicans Vs. Modernity

Mental Illness On Parade

Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century

We read the legislation introduced across all 50 states this session and pulled out the worst of it. 1,182 bills, 48 states, everything from abortion bounties to studying chemtrails to a proposal to legalize cockfighting against robots.

Abortion bounties, brass knuckles, chemtrail studies and a bill to bring back the gas chamber. All of it introduced this session.

Republicans are trying to make a case at their convention in Dallas this week that they’re responsible stewards of the government, while their opponents are extremist ideologues. However, a review of legislation introduced across all 50 states indicates that they are the ones with an extremism problem. From banning no fault divorce to studying chemtrails, the Republican Party has gone off the rails.

Delusional paranoids, sex criminals, & racist pigs, every last one. It's long past time to commit them to the asylums & throw away the keys.

[Heartland Signal]

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.

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.

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!!"

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.