Raking Nowhere Man Graham Over The Coals

Steve Schmidt does a fine job.

Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.

Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country:

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.

I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute, utter disaster for the Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it.

We would get wiped out and it would take generations to overcome a Trump candidacy.

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee of the Republican party. If he is, that’s the end of the Republican Party.

Trump is an interloper and a demagogue of the greatest proportion.

When Donald Trump attacked America, and tried to burn down the republic built by Washington, saved by Lincoln and redeemed by King, he was aided by Lindsey Graham who supported the lies, dismissed the insanity and sought personal gain from it all.

Lindsey Graham was a pathetic man, a true cynic and a faithless servant of the Constitution.

He was a simple man to understand and a tragic one. He lacked a moral core and any sense of right and wrong. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.

Let there be no confusion about what Lindsey Graham was. There was no complexity to the man, nor much in the way to plumb and analyze about his journey to the bottom of the Trump sewer.

Josh Marshall makes the same follower, not leader observation. Probably won't hear much about what an effing sheep he was in the corporate press. See? [Don't click. Started autoplaying fake news.]

Media ghouls, commentators across political aisle mock Lindsey Graham’s death with ‘good riddance’ posts

Graham, who served South Carolina in the Senate since 2003, died Saturday at 71 after a brief illness

Good riddance indeed to the two-faced twit. Apparently he wasn't under much medical care, or was a victim of malpractice. At least he died happily, knowing that cowardly air attacks ("The War") on Iran continue on the telebision.

M. Bouffant, "Media Ghoul". I like it.

Dropping Like Flies

Attempted 2016 presidential candidate. Dropped out before the primaries began.

New York Times:
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Dies at 71  —  Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said.  He served in the Senate for more than two decades.Dan Diamond / Washington Post:

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71  —  Graham, first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, was running for reelection this year.  He died of a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said.  —  Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican senator from South Carolina …

Bloomberg:   US Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71 After Sudden Illness

Outlived another wretched bastard. How's that other sick cracker doing?

Music For Painting Plastic

Has other uses as well.Not only the version, but the original!Again, the original. You get it all here! I prefer this arrangement anyway.The 20-odd ft. of butcher paper used for packing makes a good surface for painting.

It Arrived!

Delivered at 1025, US$78.95, plus $32.94 S&H & $10.90 tax worth of plastic & nickel/steel from The People's Republic of China. Now I will cut it open & show you every item, one at a time. NOT!! Sweet Blood of Jesus, what is duller than an "unboxing" video? This is all track, nothing interesting, & now I have to paint all 24+ linear feet of rails & ties before I can try my luck laying it.

Want a mind-numbing video of that?

I am disappointed that the Postal Service didn't put it on a 'plane but trucked it across the country. Expecting some interesting plastic & electronics Fri., which left N.Y.C. this a.m.; maybe the P.S. will send that on a 'plane. I can at least hope for Thurs. delivery, air mail or not.

Jeeze, I'm like a consumer. When did that happen?

Holding Pattern

Definitely have to wait for the flex track."Expected Delivery" is Monday, but the pkg. left PHX suburb Avondale at 0822 today, so my optimistic heart hopes it's already in town & will be at the Nat "King" Cole station in time to be delivered tomorrow. If not, an exciting wknd. of replacing plastic wheelsets & couplers w/ metal ones & adjusting coupler heights.

Auto-focus my ass, SONY.

Even the Catalina is in a holding pattern atop the desk.Minutes later: My stuff arrived at the L.A. Reg. Dist. Ctr. at 1916, so my optimism may not be wrong. Sad when all one's optimism is because one's somewhat wiser than a Postal Service robot.

Friday F.O. & D.

A finger, or even two, are not enough to express my sheer disgust at this wk.'s pointless bullshit.

Friday Freak Out

Supposedly many big names played in Eckstine's band before they became big names.

Inanity & Idiocy Become Exponential

Talking Points Memo:
A Pro-Trump Christian Group Wants to Put a Cross on the Moon
Bennito L. Kelty / Raw Story:   Pro-Trump group has plans for a robotic lunar cross — and Elon Musk holds the key: report
The Register:   Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Stupidest thing ever? Sounds familiar.Do these buffoons live in an '80s &'90s cartoon universe? Shouldn't they be reading their "Good Book" (All other books are bad, dontcha know!?!) rather than watching telebision? 

Not that I think carving "CHAS." into the moon would be a bad idea, but what do I know?

Of course there's no lander yet. Bezos (Blue Origin) & Musk (SpaceX) are idiots. Are there no contractors other than the ones who bribe Fat Don?

You-Know-What Your You-Know-Who

Phony Tee Vee War Renewed

"Clash of civilizations" my sweet ass. Buncha grade-school sissies throwing rocks at each other.Men would put boots on the ground, throw punches & kick. How long have we been attacking Iran from the air? Off & on since 1987.

"ONLY CASH & Z"

Big Rock In The Sky

Further Proof Of The Existence Of A Kind & Loving Gawd

Got up at noon, felt like vomiting, had dry heaves & bile. Felt like crap, went back to sleep at 1400 & slept unil 1800. Jesus certainly 💘 me, does't he?

Now, some pictures of clouds & birds.

If there were a just gawd, birds would have pecked out your eyes that refuse to see & ripped your lying tongues from your ugly mouths long, long ago.

Impasse Hiatus Momentary Pause

Came to the realization that short bits of sectional track are not conducive to electricity or good running,

& I'll have to give flex-track another shot. Might neeed a slighty better voltmeter, too.

Decided to try TrainWorld again, so was awake before 1600ET, when they close, & spoke to a nice enough woman who set up a new acc't. for me & e-mailed the link to their form as we were on the 'phone. But it looks as if the pkg. won't be shipped until Tues., due to the holiday.

In other consumption news, I finally got an undamaged USN boxcar from Yankee Dabbler. Only took a couple of months.

Looks nice & rolls well. Certainly worth the US$34.99. Not worth the aggravation!

And the pirates at DoorStepInk have promised me a refund. Not there yet, & "It may take up to 10 days for this refund to appear in your account." Didn't take any 10 fucking days for the money to be taken from my acc't.! (Forget quite when I started this, but the refund did show on 5 July. Thanks again, clowns!)

I have been making good use of my time by getting the two areas that go nowhere fine-tuned again, & decided that amusing as it was to have the stock pen so close to the Yard Cafe & depot, it could be moved.

And the transload facility works better on the other spur as well. Win-win.

Then I realized that as soon as I have the new track laid everything will need fine-tuning again. And once I've bought turn-outs to replace some I bought when I didn't know what I was doing, or would eventually do, another round (theoretically the last🤞🏻) of alteration & adjustment. Gah!

Not to do anything the upper classes would, like set a goal, but having had this for four months less than seven yrs. now, it would be nice to have fully electrified, runnable track & even have glued a structure or two together & slapped it on the layout before Nov. I've had seven building kits, trees, plants, 'phone poles & other details in layout limbo for yrs. Pprobably beat inflation & Fat Boy's tariffs by buying early. Speaking of, even laying track like a dirty 19th-century Irishman beats the hell out of current events. An hr. passes like nothing.

Mounjaro® & Moi

Why I laugh & laugh (Sneer, even!) at your pathetic need for food. See? Breatharianism works!

I'm like a death camp inmate.

Note visible sternum, & hiatal hernia around navel. Not the one in the groin that is irritating. And tightened belt. Have gone from a 42" (107 cm.) to a 38" (96 cm.) waist & lost about 50 lbs. (23 kg.) in two yrs.

I now pay US$47.00/month for the stuff, but have literally no appetite. It's a struggle to consume a whole banana at one time; have to bag the remainder & refrigerate it until later. Occasionally I'll eat half a slice of toast (current loaf is "best if used by 6 May") or have a slice of cheese for protein. Haven't had or wanted meat for months now.

My only exercise is walking. No car, no moolah for Big Oil. (Gas & groceries? Wise up already!) Net result? Having paid all creditors their monthly pound of flesh, there is $1,150+ in the checking acc't. Barring disaster or emergency, I can't imagine necessary expenses being over $250, leaving me w/ 900 bones to blow on anything my foolish heart desires. Charity, maybe?

No, Eli Lilly and Company ("A Medicine Company") aren't paying for this, but I'll gladly take my money back from them if they're looking for a testimonial from a "real person" who is an "actual user".

"Stop Yowling About High Prices!"

Gaya Gupta / The Guardian:
Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds
Lauren Pearle / Straight Arrow:   Affordability crisis becomes rare point of agreement in divided America

Bradley Cortright / New York Sun:   Half of Americans Struggle To Pay for Gas and Groceries, Poll

Kathianne Boniello / Mediaite:   Bill O'Reilly Slams Struggling Americans Who Are ‘Yowling About High Prices’

You voted for this, you pieces of impoverished shit. Ha ha ha & fuck you! This reporter has no use for silly bullshit like gas or food, & he's sitting pretty. He'll laugh & laugh & laugh when you all starve to death in your shitmobiles while waiting for gas.

Via Ten Bears, what Big Gay Donnie's cost you sucker-ass chumps.Billions upon billions. Ha ha ha.

Knew It

It did arrive a day earlier than estimated, a die-cast PBY5-A Catalina. What a Navy seaplane w/ early WWII insignia is doing over an Army camp close to 150 miles from the Pacific & around 125 miles from the Gulf of California in the mid-'50s is anybody's guess; maybe it's a Twilight Zone episode.

Not bad for US$17.75. (Just saw the same model for $39.99. And I didn't even compare prices. Hah!) I do resent those pirate bastards at FedEx getting $8.99 for shipping. (And Jesus, next time leave it at the door to the bunker, not the mail boxes, & knock before you run away.)

No tax, which I think violates California law. Ah. Only if your operation moves more than $500,000 anually in Calif. I dunno; populous state full of chumps & suckers. Maybe someone should look into it.

There are few HO scale aircraft available; this is 1/144th scale & should look better flying from the convenient hook, used on the prototype to lift it from or lower it to the water.

Does not want to be grounded.

Not balanced for flight either, so my story is it's struggling taking off from a short field, heavily laden w/ poison gas or an H-Bomb, especially as the landing gear is still down. May have mentioned that the Rice area was considered for the Trinity test. Pretty damn sure something nefarious is going on at Camp Patton.

Now I have to figure how to attach it securely to the ceiling.

Provenance:

Does Macau/Bangladesh mean no Trump tariffs, or has this been on a shelf for yrs.?

The actual item.

Two Sevens Clashing

They Either Don't Know What It Is, Or They're Against It

From the yr. 1984. How do they know?
Not sure what to make of the LDS reference.

I s'pose the sheep have always been this way. They're apparently worse in 2026.

The evidence for this startling conclusion comes from the most significant opinion study you’ve never read or read about. Published in May, the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute and ReD Associates conducted an in-depth research of conservatives in three red counties in Michigan, South Carolina and Wyoming. The authors describe the content of “Faith, Freedom, Family, Place: An Ethnographic Study of Conservative Americans’ Relationships to Democracy” as follows:

This study relies on ethnographic research: sustained immersion in people’s homes, lives, and communities through extensive interviews, observations, participation, and relationship-building. Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.

The most fundamental issue the researchers attempted to resolve is the relationship their subjects had with what is commonly thought of as the American secular faith in democracy. What the study found is that the respondents either had a notion of what constituted democracy that greatly differed from what is taught in Civics 101 — when such a course is even offered — or rejected outright the very concept of democracy. In fact, the latter view was the majority opinion:

14 out of 21 participants in this study had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy . . . Sarah (mid 30s, WY), a homeschooling mother, put it plainly: “I don’t like the word democracy.”

Spotted at Hullabaloo. As noted, worth reading. No reforms or promises will give these people functioning minds that can be changed. Members of the "godless and wicked majority" who they think are "besieging" them had better get to work on actual besiegement, before it's too damn late.

Tuesday?

When I saw it was in Chino yesterday p.m., I figured it would be here today. But the estimated delivery date hasn't changed. Nonetheless, it's on the FedEx vehicle, so step on it, Jesus. My patience grows thin!

Mental Monday

Get Help Before It's Too Late For All Of Us!!

Bring anyone to mind? This reporter is reminded of several glaring examples in high positions.

Poetry Corner

I will piss
on your
mass grave,

& then

I WILL BURY YOU
under the rubble
of your
civilization ...

Now tell me I'm not sensitive as shit, you heartless rat bastards!!

Can't Handle The Truth, Can He?

Every accusation is a confession, especially w/ this small but loud voice obsessed w/ denial.The right to free speech, unless you actually try to use it.

Jah Is Not Happy [Up-Dated]

Listen to this testimony.

 New York Times:
Crowds Evacuated as Storms Menace Washington Ahead of Trump Speech  —  Thousands of people stood in security lines for hours in severe heat to reach the National Mall, only to be ordered to leave as events were set to start.  Some refused.  —  Federal officials ordered thousands of people …

Was it the you-know-whos & their "space lasers" controlling the weather? Apparently not a joke to this person:

Who is effing "deranged" here?

Still A Shithole, 50 Yrs.Later

Patroitism is bullshit, & even for cretins like Yankees it should be non-existent this fucking yr. This reporter has had it w/ you people, your bullshit, & your bullshit country.

No, I'm not leaving. Everyting everywhere is made of shit why bother? I'm staying here to burn it all down & piss on the ashes.

Question Of The Day: "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?"

Well?

Another question you sheep might ask: "What to the wage-slave is The Fourth of July?

Saturday Supercut

Close to two hrs. of tunes, chosen by a mindless robot for me! Not a one by Yankee artistes, you'll note. The robots know what I like. Assuming embedding this will play the other tunes as well. Every one good, if not a 20th century classic.So I'm taking the lazy way. Last note: Between seeing what was in "My Mix" & posting this the devil-box was off; the previous list was all reggae but the last, "I'm Movin' On" by Ray Charles. When I opened it again Ray had disappeared, & it was all Jamaican, w/ a few new ones at the end.

There's That Word Again!

HYPOCRISY!!

Cassandra Dumay / Politico:

‘Hypocrisy’: Congress wants more homes.  HUD is closing its low-income housing pipeline.  —  While Congress celebrates bipartisan legislation to boost affordable housing for working-class Americans, local authorities are scrambling to build rental homes for their poorest residents …

Marisa Kendall / CalMatters:   Judge shoots down Trump's homeless funding shift: ‘The hallmark of unreasoned decision making’

"Unreasoned", translated: He's a retarded fucking moron.

Friday Finger

America speaks

Enjoy your phony wknd. filled w/ pseudo-patriotism & Nazi bullshit, you brain-dead chumps. You are all truly beneath contempt & I will see you all IN HELL!!

Flying Frogs?

Yes.

Actual Independence Day

Not The Fourth. Admittedly, "Declaration of Independence" is stronger than "Resolution of Dissolution".

Signing of The Declaration of Independence by Armand-Dumaresq, c. 1873

A letter from an American. More myth-making.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

Also known as the “Lee Resolution,” after Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, who had proposed it, the resolution was the final break between the king and the thirteen colonies on the North American continent that would later become the United States of America.

Historians now think the signing wasn't until 2 August. The Continental Congress did approve the final draft on 4 July. More. Added trivia.

QOTD

"These problems can be severe & lead to death."
— An OPDIVO Qvantig™ advert on the telly, advising of side effects.

Tell me, inane ad agency drones, what the fucking hell doesn't lead to death?

Uncaring, Unconcerned Nation

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

There were 16 kids living in squalor in an Ohio home. Why weren’t they found sooner?

Uh, because no one in this hypocritical shithole gives one shit about anyone else, even "The Children" about whom they profess to care so fucking much?

Authorities wouldn’t publicly share the nature of the other investigation that led them to the house Tuesday. However, court records show a warrant was issued for Siders Jr. that day on misdemeanor indecent exposure charges related to alleged incidents on four days in May. He has pleaded not guilty.

Breeder scum. Put it back in your pants & keep it there. Makes one wonder what horrid things were they doing to their spawn, doesn't it?

[AP]

Thurs. Throbber

The Weekend Starts Now!!*

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*Well, 25-30 yrs. ago it did. Now every day is Saturday.

Thursday Troll Or Threat: You Decide

You think I need a fucking gun (which I didn't & don't have) to kill those who make me suffer? Think again, idiots!! Any sharp or pointed object can poke out your eyes or slit your damn throat.

Much more visceral & satisfying. Like strangulation.

A wk. in psychiatric jail sure helped me, didn't it? How 'bout you call the police again, Ratty, & see if two wks. in hell improve my outlook in any fucking way. Or three or four wks. of being warehoused. Now ask me why I despise each & every one of you horrid pukes. Why have you done this to me?

Daily Affirmation

Every day, in every way, I become angrier & angrier, because I am constantly being provoked by you fucking retarded dimbulb morons who let robots control you & your pathetic lives.

Words fail me.

Exactly how much more of the incessant lying, cheating & incompetence I deal w/ every fucking day am I expected to take from you cretinous shitheels? And why should I take even one milligram of shit from you subhuman jerkwads?

Amerca Gets It In The End, Good & Hard

Diarrhea Has The Runs GIF from Diarrhea GIFs

Alicia Sitz / The Hill:
CDC seeks source of parasitic outbreak linked to ‘explosive’ diarrhea in multiple states
State of Michigan:   Outbreak of cyclosporiasis occurring in Michigan

Lois M. Collins / Deseret News:   CDC investigating severe intestinal parasite outbreak in 17 states

Ed Cara / Gizmodo:   Oh Great, a Parasite That Causes Explosive Diarrhea Is Spreading Right Now

Peter Stevens / GB News:   Explosive diarrhoea outbreak sparks panic across America as experts scramble to solve what's behind it

Rachel Sacks / New York Post:   Mystery of explosive diarrhea parasite outbreak in the US — as experts try to figure out what's causing it

Ben Tumulty / The Post Millennial:   Foreign parasite causing explosive diarrhea infiltrates US—with largest outbreak in New York

Do note this runny load of doody: "'Foreign' parasite; 'infiltrates' US". "Blame Canada" or some other dirty furriner, right Ben? Just pathetic. Absolute losers.

Let's hope "diarrhoea" isn't a developing theme here. Wouldn't have expected it to show up twice in one day.

Scared Of Something?

Notice that the Nazis are no longer screeching "Cultural Marxism" (Whatever that was.)
but have returned to the straight-up "Communist" smear.

Here come the frightened fascists & the whiny liberals, who've been running things into the ground for 250 yrs.

Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:

There's Nothing Democratic About These Socialists  —  The DSA was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become.  —  The general idea that Democratic Party loyalists seem to have about members of the Democratic Socialists of America is that they're a lot like Democrats, but perhaps a bit more passionate.
Wall Street Journal:   Democratic Socialists Are On the Rise. What to Know About the Movement.

Ryan Mancini / The Hill:   Vance says Democrats headed toward communism: ‘This is not raising taxes a little bit’

Will McDuffie / MS NOW:   Democratic socialists are winning. Their ambitions don't stop at Capitol Hill.

Ryan King / New York Post:   One-third of Dems say they want far-left democratic socialists in office: shock poll

Jon Levine / The Washington Free Beacon:   'She Hasn't Asked for My Endorsement': New York Democratic Party Chair Keeps Distance From Darializa Avila Chevalier as Party Frets Over Socialist Surge

Norman Solomon / The Guardian:   Progressive primary victories have corporate Democrats panicking

Stu Smith / City Journal:   Actually, a Lot of DSA Members Are Communists
Andrew Solender / Axios:

House Dems rocked by another socialist upset: “Wake up call”  —  House Democrats were staggered Wednesday by the loss of yet another one of their longtime colleagues to a democratic socialist challenger. … So why did she become a target of the left?  — “One more case in the growing dynamic …

Emily Davies / New York Times:   Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado

Scott Bland / NBC News:   A Colorado primary defeat highlights a dangerous political environment for Democratic incumbents

Colorado Politics:   Colorado's Diana DeGette concedes defeat to Democratic socialist Melat Kiros

Cortney Weil / Blaze Media:   Yet another establishment Democrat taken out by a Mamdani-like socialist from a foreign land

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   DemSoc Goes National: Socialists Boot Progressive Dem in Colorado

Yash Roy / Bloomberg:   Democratic Socialist Ousts 15-Term House Incumbent in Colorado

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:   Centrist Democrats Privately Panicking After Another Major DSA Win

David Brady / The American Conservative:   Democratic Socialist Wins CO Congressional Primary

Issues & Insights:
The Closet Door Of Socialism Has Been Opened
Ward Clark / RedState:   Socialism in America: Not New, But This Time, Worse

Matt Vespa / Townhall:   John Fetterman on Dems: Our Party Has Become an Orgy of Socialism

"Orgy". Take your depression & damaged brain & shove it, Fetterman. You too, Jonathan Chait, & the corporate Democrats. And all the fake news Nazis. We'll see your lying scum asses in the socialist reëducation camps.

Oh, Great!

A boil-water notice was issued Wednesday for a section of Koreatown because of E. coli contamination.

My bunker is quite close to the affected area. Not sure I boiled the water seen in the previous item for a minute, as is suggested.

On the other hand, can't make much difference to me. I already have all these symptoms regularly, other than the diarrhea & fever.

And of course existential agony up the wazoo.

Can't wait for this half of this miserable fucking yr. And I'll guarantee now that next yr. will be even worse.

Nobody Knows ...

... And Obviously No One Cares

Well, one of you does care enough about the slumlord to call the police because I was justifiably angry, but not to help me. You people are the best! No one has ever had such wonderful friends. Now you won't even squeal when I make threats every day. Chickenshit hypocrites. 

Road King

Almost made it worth leaving the bunker.

The Worse Things Get ...

The More You Suffer

Bend over, here it comes again. Worse shit, different yr.