Last Week At The Sh*t Show–26Jul26

Here we go again.

Another amazing week to total lunacy in DC….lead by Captain America, Donny Do-Little….and his clueless support staff….

We will begin with the return to airstrikes on Iran in retaliation for Iran’s strikes at US installations in the Middle East…one attack killed 4 American soldiers and upon their return to the US Donny proclaimed….

President Trump on Wednesday again folded his rationale for the war in Iran into a somber ritual usually untouched by politics. Before flying to Dover Air Force Base to witness the return of four service members killed in recent attacks, Trump told reporters that all of the fallen troops shared his view on the war, ABC News reports. “All of them said very strongly, ‘We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,'” Trump said. He called the dignified transfer “one of the hardest things to do as a president,” but said it “has to be done.”

It’s at least the second time in recent weeks that Trump has invoked dead service members to bolster support for the conflict, previously saying grieving relatives urged him to “finish the job.” His latest comments followed a social media post contrasting US deaths in the Iran war with casualties from earlier American wars, which appeared aimed at minimizing the current toll.

This disgusting bullshit….when has he ever talked to a lowly service member?  Pathetic use of the dead to further his ambitions.

Another of his total crap performances was the rescheduled Dinner….

President Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Friday night, delivering a rambling, hour long speech that praised some journalists, took potshots at others, made jokes about public figures’ weight and intellect, and quipped about a third presidential term. He assured the crowd of journalists, though, that he’d scrapped the most biting parts of his remarks, per the AP. “That was going to be a doozy,” Trump said about the speech he’d been prepared to give in April, before a gunman upended the original dinner and forced its postponement.

“As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” the president said to begin his remarks, hailing the decision to reschedule the dinner. He referred to “the attempted mass murder” that could’ve happened that night in April, but then moved largely to humor—and insults. The president’s sometimes off-color speech, which lasted just over an hour, was full of vague potshots directed at individuals he doesn’t like—from Jane Fonda to Bruce Springsteen to “Barack Hussein Obama.” The audience, reacting at first with some friendly laughs, slowly quieted to scattered titters as the insults piled up.

Among other targets of Trump’s humor: late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel; Rep. Ilhan Omar; California Gov. Gavin Newsom; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; and Trump’s own speechwriters, whose jokes he sometimes criticized even as he delivered them. Some of the comments flirted with racism. The president also spent some time expressing pride in the ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, formerly the Trump International Hotel. “It’s great to be back at a place that I know very well, because I built it,” Trump said.

He also made reference to the journalism awards that had been handed out earlier in the evening, most of them for stories challenging him and his administration. “Do I have a say in those awards?” he asked with a grimace. He made a brief mention of the Iran war and several remarks about the ballroom he’s building at the White House. He also used the occasion to joke about the possibility he’d run for a third term—something barred by the US Constitution’s 22nd Amendment. “Just like my presidency, the second time is always better,” the president quipped. “And the third time will be better yet.” He added, “I’m only kidding,” then donned a red cap at the end that said “Trump 2028” and delivered the “scoop” that he was running again.

More here.

As usual Donny did not disappoint….his performance was infantile and just plain pathetic.

Further news from that little nazi prick, Miller….

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller announced Thursday that the Trump administration had officially declared “left-wing violence” as “terrorism” that needed to be stamped out.

Miller spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C., called The Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, hosted at the U.S. State Department.

“Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our republican form of government,” Miller said at the top of his remarks.

He continued:

President Trump issued a directive — in our parlance, it’s called a national security presidential memorandum or NSPM, NSPM 7 to be exact — that directs for the first time in American history all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country. It’s very important to understand that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government. And we’ve seen this has taken place many times in many places throughout the years.

eft-wing terrorism always ends in bloodshed, misery and suffering. It only can travel in one direction. There’s no point at which the left-wing terrorist is satisfied with his gains and ceases progressing. Inevitably, left to run its course, it always becomes a gulag, it always becomes the mass imprisonment of political enemies, the stripping of their rights and freedoms, inflicting immense pain, humiliation, suffering in order to establish complete and total control, control through psychological and physical and actual terror. And we have to understand that that is the scope and the extent of the threat that we face.

Miller did not mention right-wing terrorism in his speech.

Did anyone expect this demented small moron to express anything other than what he stated?

And the Little Prick Marco put together a ‘conference’ on ‘Far Left’ terrorism…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted a conference on “far-left terrorism” on Thursday with representatives from dozens of countries in attendance.

The meeting was aimed at garnering international support to combat what the State Department described as “the resurgent threat” of such terrorism.

“This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good,” Rubio said in his opening remarks.

“This is an international conference because we are facing an international—we are facing a transnational threat,” he went on, adding, “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them.”

Thursday’s conference comes as the Trump Administration has repeatedly blamed left-wing groups for rising political violence in the U.S. and made them a focus of its counterterrorism efforts in a reversal of past policy under the Biden Administration, even as data shows that right-wing extremists have been responsible for a greater share of deadly attacks.

(time.com)

Our Dear Loving Leader, the Moron from Mar-a-largo, has said many things about the war with Iran and most of it has been bullshit….but these four areas covered by CNN is his most smelly cowpies….

Several of President Donald Trump’s key claims about the war with Iran have fallen apart.

Some of Trump’s claims were obviously untrue at the time he made them. Some were boasts that had a factual basis at the time but ceased to be true as the war continued. And others were assertions about what would supposedly happen in the near future but didn’t.

In congressional hearings Tuesday and Wednesday, Democrats pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz over some of the Trump administration’s previous declarations about the war. Here’s a look at four claims Trump has made:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/politics/trump-claims-iran-war-fact-check

Here on the Coast had a Tropical Storm to contend with last week and that means somewhere FEMA will get involved….and that made me think about the ‘new’ policy tying aid to elections stuff…

At issue, Reuters reports: DHS says it will hold back 20% of certain Federal Emergency Management Agency grants—more than $1 billion in total—unless states move to hand-marked paper ballots instead of systems that rely on bar codes or QR codes, conduct manual audits of at least 5% of ballots, reconcile voter participation with votes cast, and check voter rolls against a Homeland Security database to flag noncitizens.

The federal government also wants the states to assist DHS with immigration enforcement, per the AP. The suing states, led by Rhode Island, California, Illinois, and New Jersey and mostly run by Democrats, argue the agency is overstepping, saying Congress never empowered it or FEMA to reshape election law and noting the grants weren’t created for election security. FEMA counters that the rules are meant to safeguard election integrity, dismissing the challengers as “left-wing politicians.” The clash comes against a backdrop of false claims of widespread voter fraud, per Reuters, even as studies continue to find such cases are rare.

Only a despicable piece of shit would refuse aid to a storm devastated area….but then that is what we have as our government….

I know I have given a lot to be depressed about so let me try and lighten the air a bit with this videos….

That Was The Week That Was…..

Please go out and have a bit of fun and try to forget for the day what a terrible government we have….I know you guys can do it….and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

IST Saturday News Dump–25Jul26

Another scorching Summer day here in the Deep South…prediction is 110 and humidity of 94%….hot and sticky….

My question of the week:  When did poker become a sport?

Local–TS Bertha just skirted the Mississippi Gulf Coast we were lucky….a bit of wind and some rain…..

X Games are going on in NOLA.

Personal–I bought a new washing machine….the cheapest and it cost me $700 and then I had to  call a plumber to install a new valve….another $150….been a quiet week on the health front but that all changes next week…..I have a date for a colon check then a urologist then a cancer doctor and not sure what else….I am going to be in a shitty mood the whole week I fear….so please bear with me.

Let’s start with something that is in the news almost daily….robots….

Robot soldiers…..

Robot supersoldiers — what could go wrong with those? A lot, if The Terminator taught us anything. Yet, the reality of robot soldiers could be much closer than one might believe.

Sankaet Pathak, the CEO of the startup Foundation Future Industries — founded in 2024 and having ties to Eric Trump — recently told Wired that the company will soon be exploring giving its humanoid robots lethal capabilities. He explained, “We have some kinetic things we’re exploring. We’ll probably unveil something in the next couple of months.”

These upcoming so-called robot supersoldiers won’t only be suitable for combat. Additionally, plans are for them to be beneficial in other areas, such as reconnaissance and logistics. But just what kind of potential timeline are we looking at for humanoids in the military (and is that even a good idea)?

https://www.themarysue.com/the-reality-of-robot-supersoldiers-might-be-closer-than-you-think/

Those humanoid robots…..

People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades. Movies such as Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a future where robots and AI could interact with humans and save them from loneliness. Today, those sci-fi stories seem to be closer to reality than ever before, as Chinese company Ubtech has recently launched a product it calls the world’s first full-size, mass-produced “ultrabionic” companion robot.

China is already a world leader in humanoid robotics, but most robots have so far been designed for industrial work. Now Ubtech is hoping to enter a new market with its Uworld U1 series of companion robots designed for home use.

The global trend of loneliness is becoming more and more disturbing. Ironically, we live in a time when we have the opportunity to connect with people from all over the world, yet it has become very difficult for many of us to build real-life relationships. That’s exactly the problem that Ubtech is trying to solve with its product.

In the early stages of introducing the new robots, the company made very ambitious claims.

https://newatlas.com/robotics/u1-worlds-first-mass-produced-humanoid-robot/

Okay I bored you so that is enough of the robot stuff….

Food and food stuffs….

The nation is fighting a cripple outbreak and produce is the culprit….

Human waste is at the center of the biggest cyclospora outbreak on record in the US, and investigators are trying to trace how it ended up on our plates. The parasite lives in people, passes out through diarrhea, and can later sicken someone who eats produce tainted with its eggs—often via contaminated irrigation water or the unwashed hands of farmworkers, per the New York Times. More than 6,000 people in Michigan alone have fallen ill, evidence of what one food safety microbiologist calls a “surprising scale” of fecal contamination in the food supply.

Cyclospora is tough to kill and challenging to wash off: Chlorine treatments target bacteria, not parasites, and the organism’s “sticky” eggs cling to textured foods like raspberries and cilantro. Past outbreaks have been tied to Guatemalan raspberries that were contaminated with a pesticide-water mix fouled by latrine runoff, and to bagged salad traced to a Florida farm where a local irrigation canal tested positive for the parasite. Experts say a single sick worker is unlikely to explain the current surge; widespread contamination of water or equipment is more plausible.

Careful what you eat….speaking of eating a 2 star chef just got is pee-pee whacked….

The owner of a South Korean restaurant with two Michelin stars is facing possible prison time over a sorbet topping: dried ants. Prosecutors in Seoul have asked a court to sentence the unnamed restaurateur to one year in jail and fine the company that runs the restaurant 20 million won (about $13,500) for using ants as a garnish in violation of the Food Sanitation Act, reports the Korea Herald.

Ants are not among the 10 insect species—which include grasshoppers, mealworms, and silkworm pupae, per the Guardian—the country allows for human consumption. The BBC reports Ministry of Food and Drug Safety officials realized ants were being used after seeing online reviews with photos that diners had posted.

he owner admitted serving the ants on some desserts in his 15-course menu but says diners were told of the garnish in advance and could choose alternatives like vinegar or edible flowers. Officials believe an estimated 49,000 dried ants from the US and Thailand were used by the restaurant over four years; the restaurant said the figure is incorrect, as it was based on all diners consuming the ants, when only 60% opted to do so. Court documents do not specify the restaurant or its owner, but the Times cites local media as reporting it’s Evett, run by Australian chef Joseph Lidgerwood. The court’s verdict is due Sept. 2.

Please do not get me started on today’s chefs…..it is not pretty.

A little health stuff…..

Men and a ‘bag of worms’…..just a bit of FYI….

Most men who discover they have a varicocele find out by accident. A routine physical exam, an ultrasound for something else, or a fertility workup triggers the diagnosis – and in many cases, the man had no idea anything was wrong. The condition often causes no pain. There’s no lump anyone could feel from the outside. Yet its effects on the internal environment of the testicle can be considerable..

A varicocele is an enlargement of the veins inside the scrotum, specifically a network of small blood vessels called the pampiniform plexus. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, these vessels become abnormally dilated when the valves within the testicular veins stop working properly, allowing blood to pool rather than flow efficiently back toward the heart. The result is a cluster of widened, twisted veins wrapped around the testicle – which is where the “bag of worms” description comes from. Patient.info notes that a large varicocele is sometimes described as looking and feeling exactly like that in the scrotum.

The ‘Bag of Worms’ Testicle Condition Affecting 1 in 5 Men

Once again I bring you one of those predictions that none of us will be here to see if they are right….never mind it was all bullshit anyway….and not worth the effort to post on it.

In closing I have a new one for you….Male Lesbians….

Although there is still a long way to go when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights, in 2026 people are generally able to express themselves, and while they may not adhere to traditional labels, there are now so many out there that one should stick.

Many people within the queer community no longer identify as male or female, gay or straight.

However, even newer terms such as demi-sexual or pan-sexual are failing to fit some people’s identity, and there is a new label on the block.

On social media, the term “Male Lesbians” is taking off as a growing number of people are choosing to identify with a label which at first seems completely contradictory.

https://vt.co/lifestyle/lgbtq/coming-out-as-male-lesbians-what-it-means

That is about all I have to contribute on this Saturday….I hope everyone will have a enjoyable weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

More Fruit And Vegetables

The price of all food has skyrocketed into the stratosphere and the government is doing nothing about the drain on the wealth of the public.

But there is a Rep that is at least trying to bang some help through the House but she must contend with the pseudo-human Johnson.

Rep. Jayapal is using a Seattle program as a guide….

As Americans face rising grocery prices under President Donald Trump and rally behind progressive policies and primary candidates, US Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday introduced a bill that shows what kind of proposals could become reality with more Democrats like her in Congress.

Inspired by a program in her own district in Washington state, the chair emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced the Fresh Bucks for Fresh Produce Act, which would create a pilot program at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that gives households earning 80% or less of their area’s median income $60 per month to buy fruits and vegetables.

The USDA pilot would be modeled on Seattle’s Fresh Bucks initiative, in which enrolled households “experience a 31% higher rate of food security and consume at least three daily servings of fruits and vegetables 37% more often than those assigned to a program waitlist,” according to University of Washington (UW) research published last August.

“I would classify both of those numbers as pretty large,” study co-author Jessica Jones-Smith a professor at UW and University of California, Irvine, said at the time. “We don’t routinely see interventions that work that well. It’s a pretty big impact on diet in terms of what we can do from a policy perspective and expect to make a difference in food insecurity.”

In Seattle—generally ranked as an expensive but livable metropolis—a single person living within city limits on a monthly income of $7,070, or $84,850 a year, can apply for the program. For a family of four, it’s $10,095 per month, or $121,150 annually. In January, the city the welcomed over 4,500 more local households off its waitlist and increased monthly benefits from $40 to $60.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-food-assistance

A good program but will probably go nowhere as long as the MAGA morons run the House….that could change come 2027….we can only hope that there will be some help for the people of this nation coming with the next election.

God knows we are not getting much from the slugs in power now.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Falling Out Of Love

+++This post ought to get the juices flowing especially from mental midgets.+++

The whole idea of capitalism is losing some of its luster….and some are rethinking socialism….before we go any further most people’s concept of socialism is wrong…..and Dems are definitely NOT socialists.  (It is that damn simple)….instead of believe what dimwit tells you and before you commit to believing bullshit maybe do some research (hahahaha…sorry that was just too funny)

This is a post from IST from 5 years ago….

Who’s Afraid Of The “S” Word

Even back then the capitalistic luster was fading….fast forward to 2025….

Both Democrats and independents view capitalism less positively this year, as well. Less than half of Democrats, 42 percent, have a positive image of capitalism. Just over half of independents feel the same, compared to three-quarters of Republicans (whose views on the economic system haven’t changed since 2010).

What about the alternatives? Socialism still polls positively for 39 percent of respondents, holding steady since 2019.

But if you dig a little deeper, there are two diverging perspectives hidden behind that steady number: Democrats’ view of socialism has been increasing, while Republicans’ view has been decreasing.

While around 50 percent of Democrats had a positive view of socialism in 2010, nearly two-thirds do today. They’re the only partisan group who view socialism more positively than capitalism, at 66 to 44 percent, respectively.

It’s not hard to see why people may be fed up with the economic status quo. The cost of buying a home has skyrocketed, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic, and wages haven’t kept up. And since 2001, rents have risen 10 times faster than income.

Democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani have become more popular recently, as voters look to leaders who acknowledge that the cost of living is unacceptable.

Things have gotten so bad, it seems that even President Donald Trump may have lost his faith in capitalism—just ask Intel or Nippon.

(newrepublic.com)

People are starting to realize that all capitalism is doing is expanding the wealth of the already rich and driving more and more people into poverty.

CNN has covered this subject as well…

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/politics/republicans-capitalism-socialism-poll

The House has taken it upon itself to vote on a stupid and worthless issue….

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning socialism Friday morning, with several Democrats crossing the aisle to rebuke “socialist policies” in the U.S. following Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as the mayor-elect of New York City.

Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure in a 285-98 vote. Two members, Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Pa., and Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Ore., voted present.

Notably, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. — who endorsed Mamdani just days before the mayoral election — also voted in favor of the measure.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/86-dems-republicans-condemn-socialism-wake-mamdanis-mayoral-victory

I say worthless because their idiotic vote does NOT represent the voting public….and if I am not mistaken their job is to vote what the people are wanting….right?

Donny is governing with his brand of ‘state capitalism’

When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) lashed out at last weekend’s “No Kings” rallies soon to arrive on Washington’s National Mall, he reached for an old conservative refrain: “They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system.”

I am sure he’s correct about some of the protesters. But the message rings hollow coming from a party leader that stands by as President Donald Trump does precisely what Johnson rightly decries: substituting political control for market choice and ruling by executive order.

Indeed, what began as a populist revolt against so-called elites has become a program of state ownership, price fixing and top-down industrial control. Take a look.

Recently, the Trump administration quietly converted CHIPS Act subsidies into an $8.9 billion equity purchase in Intel, making Washington a 10 percent owner of one of America’s largest technology companies. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insists “this is not socialism.” That’s semantics.

Socialism is government control of the means of production. When the government becomes your largest shareholder, that’s a strong first step.

https://reason.com/2025/10/23/the-gops-capitalism-is-central-planning-with-maga-branding/

If you are one of those people that fears socialism even thought you have no idea what it is, then you should be worried about your boy Donny for he is taking a first step.

That should give you something to think about….oh wait….thinking?  That is a novel concept for the MAGA loyal.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

One Step Closer?

For most of this year the Dems have been trying to make it a policy that the president cannot go to war without permission from the Congress and yesterday they may have come one step closer to making it so….

Lawmakers in the House just sent another warning shot over President Trump’s Iran policy. On Thursday, they passed a Democratic-backed war powers resolution aimed at curbing his ability to continue the conflict, with four Republicans crossing the aisle in a 214–208 vote. GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Tom Barrett of Michigan sided with Democrats on the resolution to require congressional approval for the war, the Washington Post reports. The same four Republicans voted for a similar resolution last month, before the conflict reignited with daily US strikes on Iran.

The resolution’s sponsor, Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, said the war has “no clear mission, no strategy, no end goal.” The measure doesn’t go to Trump’s desk and is widely viewed as symbolic, and any binding curb on his authority would almost certainly face a veto. Still, with the Senate weighing its own war powers measure Thursday morning, the move underscores mounting bipartisan unease over a grinding conflict that has recently intensified, including the deaths of four US troops in the region over the weekend, Politico reports.

During debate on the resolution, Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, read out the names of the 18 US service members killed since the war began, the AP reports. “To belittle this mission is to belittle and demean the very service these members gave their life for,” he said. “Their sacrifice was not meaningless. This operation is bringing reckoning for the hundreds of times Iran has attacked and killed people of the United States of America.” The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, said presidents are supposed to obtain congressional approval for wars. The service members, he said, died in “an illegal unauthorized war that the American people don’t want.”

This is not a done deal but at least we are closer to making Donny ask permission before bombing more countries…..which is a good idea for he is considering another country to be bombed…..

President Trump is considering opening a new military front in another nation, with advisers weighing military strikes in Mali against an al-Qaeda-linked group known as JNIM, reports the Washington Post. The idea is reportedly championed inside the National Security Council by foreign policy hawks such as Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s counterterrorism director, but faces resistance from other senior officials, according to current and former unnamed officials who spoke to the Post. The militant group’s stronghold is in Mali, but it has launched regional attacks throughout West Africa.

The US is pressing African and NATO partners to support Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in the Sahel region. All are ruled by juntas that have ousted democratic leaders and turned to Russia for security help, and the US faults Moscow for being a weak partner. Critics warn US strikes could entangle Washington with Russian forces, empower Islamic State rivals, or push JNIM to target Americans and deepen ties to al-Qaeda. Others argue force is needed to keep jihadist groups from cementing a stronger foothold in the region. If approved, Mali would become the eighth country where Trump has ordered strikes in his second term, after Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, and Venezuela, per the New Republic.

Time for the Congress to put on the brakes on Donny’s blood lust and he is not alone….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Just Another Pervert In The House

WE have another GOP pervert in the House of Representatives and this one is another one from Ohio….

The first pervert was Jim Jordan…..

Jordan was an assistant coach with Ohio State University’s wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.

Richard Strauss was the wrestling team physician during Jordan’s tenure. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.  In April 2018, Ohio State University began an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Strauss.  The report concluded that Strauss had committed sexual abuse against 177 student-patients.  The majority of abuse (143 victims) was categorized as genital fondling associated with medically unnecessary genital or rectal examinations. Of the 177, 153 were student-athletes, of which a plurality (48) were members of the men’s wrestling team.

Several involved persons have stated that Jordan surely knew of Strauss’s criminal misconduct but did not report it.  While at least one victim has named Jordan as knowledgeable of accusations against Strauss, Head Coach Russ Hellickson said he may not have known about the abuse.  A spokesperson for Jordan denied the allegation, saying that Jordan “never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it”. No wrestlers have accused Jordan himself of sexual misconduct, but four former wrestlers named him as a defendant in a lawsuit against the university.  Jordan has denied any wrongdoing and has described his accusers as “pawns in a political plot”.

Let’s be honest if the accusations had been made against a Dem all Hell would have been brought against him….and yet Jordan is still acting like a human in the House.

Ohio has a new pervert in the news….

In mid-March, two detectives, an Ohio county Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) caseworker, and a Cleveland Clinic physician met on Zoom to discuss how the 2-year-old daughter of a congressman and granddaughter of a US senator wound up with a broken collarbone.

“The bruising surrounding the clavicle fracture made the injury suspicious,” wrote one of the detectives who summarized the Zoom meeting. Further, someone on the call “advised the injury would have required a high degree of impact to occur.”

Neither the child’s father, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), nor mother, conservative policy adviser Emily Moreno, admitted to knowing what caused their daughter’s injury or that it occurred while their daughter was under their care. Miller’s primary theory was that the bruising resembled marks from a seat belt. Moreno, who discovered the bruises and took the child to an emergency room, suggested the cause may have been something more sinister. Records of the investigation into potential child abuse show that Moreno told detectives that Miller had previously thrown hot water at her, shoved her, and held a gun to her head; therefore, she couldn’t rule out that Miller caused their daughter’s fracture. Moreover, a child protection specialist reviewing the incident had characterized the bruising near the fracture as resembling a “handprint.”

Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats: Records Detail New Allegations Against Rep. Max Miller

Just another Repub pervert in the Congress…..no big deal, right?

He should have been gone after the hint of scandal….kick his ass to the curb.

What say you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Glenn Beck, The Equivocator

I have never thought Glenn Beck was particularly intellectual as a matter of fat when on CNN I found his show mostly crap….and a little too religious for my liking….and then he moved on and started his own specialty website and the crap just kept flowing.

I will say that recently I found his stuff extremely humorous, at least for me, because he takes issues to the extreme and they makes it even more laughable…..

This is his most recent humor…..

 

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/glenn-beck-far-left-democrats-are-plotting-to-destroy-america-right-in-front-of-our-eyes

 

Seriously, they will destroy America?  I think his buddies the christian nationalists and those slime merchants in MAGA have been doing a fine job of that exact thing….I guess they do not want any competition.

Anyone dispute my conclusion?

I Read, I Write, You Know

Lego ergo scribo”

What’s In A Name?

Since the death of poor Lindsey and the rise of his sister to the highest place in the government….at first I thought she might be her own person but that belief was smashed to pieces when she embraced the whole MAGA BS….

In a show of support for President Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline, has dropped her married name, “Nordone,” and will instead go by her maiden name.

Graham, who took over the remainder of her brother’s Senate term after his sudden death despite having no prior political experience, quietly made the announcement during an interview with Sean Hannity. The name change was noticed in a lower third on the Fox News show.

“I’ll continue to say I’ve been praying a lot, talking to my family,” said Graham as the graphic below her read “Exclusive interview with Senator Darline Graham.” She added, “But with the love of my family, with the support of his staff, I know I’m a hard worker.“

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/lindsey-grahams-sister-changes-name-1949287

Not to worry just another scheming toad in the the Senate who will embrace MAGA beliefs in the destruction of society as we know it.

She needs to be replaced and soon….but do the people of South Carolina have it in them to replace her?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Fight The Enemy Within

Ever since a DSA member won the election of mayor of NYC the Dems have been waging a war against what some call the left wing of the party.

The GOP and its ilk are called the winners socialists, Marxists, Communists and those are the polite names…..the MAGA twats are trying desperately to side line the progressives in the Democratic Party.

Then the corporate Dems are doing the same thing only are being a bit more polite…..people like Carville, Plouf, Khanna, Schumer, Fetterman, by all accounts an idiot, even overpaid sports casters get into the fray like Stephen Smith, who needs to stick to calling soccer games and leave the politics to others….these twats are joining the fight against the tide of progressive candidates…..accusing them of all sorts of things…..dirt bags, factionalist, etc etc….

This is weird…..

Pundits close to the Democratic establishment have a new term to fling at the left-wing insurgents they want to disappear: “factionalism.”

Matthew Yglesias now constantly attacks socialists and their leading figures on the basis that they believe in “factionalism and anty-partyism,” or have “a whole factional project,” “factional talking point[s],” a “passion for factionalism.” At first, he took up this line over the Graham Platner candidacy, but now Yglesias uses it to refer to any attempt by the Left to replace establishment-friendly incumbents by beating them in primary races.

Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden agreed. Platner should have been solely attacking his Republican opponent, “not attacking Dems in factional fights,” she tweeted. Socialists had to be stopped from “giving away the Michigan Senate seat for factional reasons the way they tried (and likely succeeded in) giving away the Maine seat,” warned former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum.

Even the cryptocurrency industry has gotten in on the act, with crypto investment firm executive and former Securities and Exchange Commission official Justin Slaughter adding his voice to the chorus warning that the Platner scandal was the doing of “a coherent and focused faction” more interested in remaking the Democratic Party than beating Donald Trump.

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As one example, recall that to stop Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination in 2020, they coalesced around a candidate, Joe Biden, who they had openly acknowledged was cognitively unfit and whom they had little faith in. As we found out last year, Biden was so out of it, when they filmed him interacting with ordinary voters for that year’s Democratic convention, those who saw the footage were alarmed and convinced he couldn’t serve, and it required “creative” editing to salvage.

In other words, the factionalism-driven election disaster that party centrists are now accusing the Left of trying to engineer is exactly what they already did, risking handing the White House to Trump a second time because they were so desperate to stop Sanders. As Biden’s own adviser acknowledged, that this didn’t happen was only thanks to pure dumb luck, after a global pandemic meant Biden didn’t have to campaign or be regularly seen in public. Self-defeating “factionalism” is alive and well in the Democratic Party — but it’s coming from the establishment side.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/waging-war-on-the-left-within-the-democratic-party-wont-work/

Dems are trying hard to squash the up and coming candidates….why?

They are fighting hard….so does that mean these corporate Dems are against Healthcare, Green New Deal, Democracy for all, end the run away war machine, there is more?

If so then someone please let me know what are these cowards trying to accomplish?

Apparently it is not to make life better for the people of this nation….then what?

Personally I have never trusted centrists….they pretend that bi-partisanship is their goal but never seem to find the handle.

I will take a progressive any day over some corporate funded Democrat hands down.

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo

Adak, A Ghost Town

A colossal waste!

When my late wife, Sue, was in the Navy she served on an Alaskan island in Adak…..and recently I read an article about the island she served on for awhile….

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.

The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed. It costs more than $340,000 per year to provide this building and hundreds of others — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one says they use.

The money being wasted is yours.

It comes from a fee added to nearly every American’s phone bill as part of a Federal Communications Commission subsidy program intended to bring fast, affordable internet to remote towns.

Reporting this year by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica has found that the multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund pays for what often amounts to slow internet access for customers who actually no longer use it.

The FCC keeps the money flowing to telecom companies regardless of their owners’ track records. It kept paying a Fairbanks company to provide internet service while its owner served federal prison time for tax evasion. The government kept paying Alaska’s largest telecom, GCI, even after it signed a settlement for alleged fraud related to the subsidy. (The settlement said it was neither an admission of guilt by GCI nor a concession by the Justice Department that the claims were not well founded.)

On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet

Just another story of how the US government wastes countless dollars and yet cannot seem to help people with their problems.

Time for a change of government….we need help….and we need it now.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”