Bernie slams the Tyrant at a rally in Idaho yesterday:
At another rally, location not given, Bernie says "We are the 99 percent" and "we're scaring the hell out of Trump and Musk":
And Trae Crowder recommends empathy to all the rightwing voters who just don't give a fuck if innocent people are "disappeared" and sent to hell on earth:
Look who's sporting a new beard and stache. I'm lovin' it:
Ya know, fellas, I can't keep up with all the bad news, even if I wanted to. Our national nightmare keeps spiralling further and further into polymorphic perversion and raving madness. And did I mention all deliberate stupidity with malice aforethought? Between bouts of nauseated disgust and horrified astonishment, I have to turn my mind to pleasant subjects before it goes right off the rails. So I intersperse my news & opinion posts with more inspiring thoughts, or pretty things, to keep myself calm and stable here in the happy little cottage M.P. and I share. Maybe you can relate.
A few noteworthy political items follow, just for the record.
First up, the Liberal Redneck has something to say about MAGA madness and the DOGE boys:
While we're on that subject, Governor J.B. Prizker of Illinois, in his State of the State address yesterday, rang the alarm bell loud and clear on the Nazi parallel with Trump's actions:
And Senator Bernie Sanders makes plain the parallels between Putin and his American wannabe:
I was never a Bernie supporter, but he would sure get my vote now, if I could cast it for him.
Soon after you turn 60, it begins to dawn on you that you no longer count as a human being and fellow citizen. From 16 to 40, you are in the groove; after that you are on the downhill run but making good money (you hope), so you don't mind. But after you retire on a small pension, and you can no longer shake your booty without throwing your back out, you are just not wanted in the social whirl anymore. A harsh truth of human life. If you can't run with the big dogs, better stay up on the porch.
Old age is no fun, though between aches and pains it can be fairly pleasant as long as your body holds together. A compensating factor is that, having lost your juvenile awe of authority figures, and having no job to protect, you feel free to say exactly where the cow bit the cabbage. And old men who have paid attention through all the stages of life usually have some very keen wisdom to share, if anybody will put down the goddamn smartphone long enough to listen.
Here's a few old guys like your Head Trucker who speak their minds and give some damn good advice. I don't necessarily agree with everything they say, but I do like the way they say it. They can be pretty funny, too.
First up, Tom Powell, Jr., from Illinois, gives a mini-review of a Canadian comedian's rant:
Blue Dot in Texas, down in the southern part of the state, doesn't mince words about the state of the country:
Pissed Off Bartender, somewhere in Alabama, isn't quite an old man yet, but we'll grant him honorary status on account of his awesome beard and stache:
Finally, fired-by-Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton is a Republican with great expertise in foreign and military affairs; I'd never vote for him, but he really knows what he's talking about:
Fabulous, funny, and true: a Texas native tells it like it is, bitch. And I can tell you that everything he says about small-town Texas people is the God's truth.
By the way: As spot-on as this satire is, there is a greater point to be made here. It's not just about Texas, and it's not just about the South. I'll just say two words: Minneapolis. Brooklyn.
No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant." -- Sen. John McCain
Bonus:The New York Times today released a hilarious animation of Trump's sickly-sweet infatuation with Putin:
I understand that some toxic little queens are up in arms about "homophobia" here. Well, I am as gay as they come, and I say it is brilliant satire. Gay romance is merely the vehicle, not the object of the humor here. It is not directed at gay people, it's directed at a monumental buffoon and possible traitor.
Besides, on every gay website, gays themselves have been making this very same comparison, with drawings and cartoons, ever since Trump first declared himself a candidate. So chill out, girls, and go take a powder: you are just waaaaaaaaaaaaay over-sensitive.
Every satire contains a grain of truth - and who among us hasn't, sometime or other, fallen for a seductive, sexy bad boy who later turned out to be a sonofabitch? You never will be mature human beings until you learn to laugh at yourselves - and that goes for all the other chip-on-the-shoulder groups as well, at all points on the spectrum. Grow up, people.
Your word for the day from the Manley-Webster dictionary:
dickopath, n. (from OE dick, a penis + Gr. pathos, suffering, feeling, emotion, sickness, calamity): a massively self-centered hypocrite with an offensive, grandiose ego who lacks any semblance of a conscience and who displays a pervasive disrespect for the rights and dignity of others; usually a chronic, self-serving liar, seeking to mislead, manipulate, or overpower friends and enemies alike for his own sadistic amusement or enrichment.
Back in the Dark Ages, long before there was the intertoobs - or any other way for small-town gays to meet other gays, or even know there were any others on the planet - I used to subscribe to The Advocate. I remember fondly the charmingly satirical cartoons of Donelan that were a regular feature, some of which I just ran across.
Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same, isn't that so, fellas?
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
