OMG, Is she kidding?

 I swear they put her up on the right as a commentary on the guy on the left.

What happens under Republican control?

Mad King Ludwig happens. 

 

When yields were hopeful about federal spending cuts from DOGE and federal revenue increases from tariffs

"Fiscal discipline" from Mad King Ludwig: 

Mad King Ludwig blows another gasket

 Trump tells Fed to slash rates or he’ll end trade with countries with U.S. surpluses

If ever an act deserved the hook, this is it.

 

 

 

Natalie's only guest tonight will be Mad King Ludwig discussing The Three Amigos

 

Well, it wasn't because she was hot

 'Why are you naked?': Officers arrest naked woman driving stolen Pleasant Prairie fire vehicle

 

The lunatic whom Democrats want to be governor in Wisconsin, Executive Chef (!) Francesca Hong of the Madison chapter of DSA, wants to cancel "colonialist" Thanksgiving lol

But she has canceled the tweet instead lol.

Chef Francesca oddly finds Culvers acceptable fare, except when there are too many old white people in there.

If she sounds a little crazy, she admits she was diagnosed bipolar in 2006-2007 when she was 18.

She went to the university but dropped out in 2009 and got a job as a dishwasher. 

She rose from dishwasher to "executive chef" at the restaurant with lightning speed, between 2009 and 2011, and was so good at it that that restaurant closed in 2016.

She and her husband then started their own restaurant. 

But evidently she found it easier to succeed as a radical politician from Madison from 2020 than in the restaurant business and in marriage.

Apparently both their restaurant and their marriage were casualties of the pandemic.

Just think of the conflagration she can make out of Wisconsin. 

 

This idiot Scott McKay calls Haley Stevens Heather, doesn't call on Michigan Republicans even at the last hour to vote for her in the Democrat primary to save Democrats from themselves

That's the only way this works, unless you just want to rest on the platitude that you can vote yourself into socialism but you’ve got to shoot your way out, which apparently he does.

Today is election day. These people have been silent until now.

The socialists are serious. No one else is.

If you can't bring yourself to vote for Stevens, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that you would ever pull a trigger. 

 You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics

... [Hasan] Piker is also stumping for Abdul El-Sayed, who is now as much as a 15-point favorite over the more establishmentarian Heather Stevens in the Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed comes from an accomplished academic background and has apparently made a lot of money based on the properties he and his wife own, but we don’t know how he managed it. He’s an avowed DSA socialist whose speeches and pronouncements contain open rejections of the American founding and way of life, and it doesn’t seem to bother Michigan Democrat voters in the least. 

Because Michigan Democrats, like Wisconsin Democrats, are now made up of a majority of lunatics who think that abandoning American culture, economics, and politics and putting people like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed, not to mention Darieliza Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani, in positions of power will create something better. ... 

Mad King Ludwig: To stop Iran from getting The Bomb we have to let Saudi Arabia get The Bomb

 Saudis Reach Deal With U.S. That Could Let Them Enrich Nuclear Fuel

... Prince Mohammed has vowed he would build nuclear weapons if Iran does so, even insisting in one interview he would do so “without a doubt.”

... Mr. Trump’s concessions to the Saudis on the terms of the nuclear deal are significant. When the United States entered into a similar agreement with the United Arab Emirates, which went into force in 2009, there were far more restrictive conditions. The U.A.E. agreed to the stringent inspections, signing what is called an “additional protocol” with the International Atomic Energy Agency. And it agreed to forgo the right to produce its own fuel, cutting off the possibility that it would have the infrastructure to produce a weapon.

That agreement became known as the “gold standard” for nuclear nonproliferation. And while the administration plans to argue that it will have other restrictions in place — including joint partnerships with the Saudis that will allow Washington to keep a close eye on the kingdom’s program — the fact remains that Mr. Trump has retreated from the restrictions negotiated by the Bush and Obama administrations.

While the bulk of the negotiations with the U.A.E. took place while President George W. Bush was in office, it was finished by President Barack Obama and went into effect in 2009. ...

Three weeks ago Trump said Iran has new, rational leadership, but now they're just as cuckoo as before, lyin' scum, et cetera lol

 

The most important thing commanding Mad King Ludwig's attention right now is renewing his threats against our friends in Greenland and NATO, not that our enemy Iran just attacked four ships in the Omani corridor in the last 24 hours

 His brain is a bucket of eels.

Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe

Oil prices rise more than 2% after attacks on tankers in Strait of Hormuz  

UKMTO is reporting that three attacks were reported, not four.

 

 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr endorses Todd Blanche to run the Department of Injustice because Blanche is the only person who has a snowball's chance in hell of bringing Mad King Ludwig back to reality

But that's just Barr's cover story.

 

Bill Barr knows Blanche's only successes defending Trump as his personal lawyer relied on delaying tactics, both in the classified documents case and in the federal election subversion case.

 

Do we really want more of that in his official capacity as Attorney General? 

 

Isn't that what the Justice Department was famous for under Bondi, who dragged her feet releasing the Epstein files?

 

C'mon man. 

 

Other than that, Blanche lost the Manhattan hush money case and Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. 

 

I see no reason for Todd Blanche to fail upwards, unless of course he's probably the best choice to have around if you want to delay what's coming for Trump after November.

 

 

 

Confirm Todd Blanche at Justice

William Barr, Wall Street Journal

 

... Mr. Blanche is likely in the best position of anyone in the country to deliver strong counsel to the president and have him accept it.

 

...  Mr. Blanche doesn’t shy away from giving the president straight-from-the-shoulder advice and, where warranted, pushing back on bad ideas. He doesn’t always prevail, but, frankly, no one has a better chance of getting through to Mr. Trump. ... 

Trump makes Michigan Democrats nuts: They have a perfectly sane candidate in the centrist Stevens but are going for the progressive lunatic El-Sayed instead

 

 New Poll Shows El-Sayed With Big Lead in Dem Senate Primary in MI

I'm going to vote in this primary for Stevens. 

Creating space for taking the insane mullahs of Iran seriously is insane, Senator

 

 Sen. Eric Schmitt: Trump Created "Space For Diplomacy" With Iran That Experts Thought Was Impossible

Like I said, Trump is making us all nuts. 

Real Clear Politics puts a guy in its lineup this morning to whom the Obama presidential library denied access three times

 

A Tombstone for Obamaism

Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

 

"... the Obama Foundation denied my media credentials for the opening three times ..." 

 

Gee, why would Obama do that to someone who traffics in fabricated anti-gay slurs, even if they're about Trump?

 

 

 I carry no brief for Obama. I've been whaling on (look it up) the guy since 2009.

 

But criticizing Obama's so-called library because it's all about Obama, and Obama himself post-2016 for being apolitical, strike me as bizarre criticisms.

 

Isn't the latter what we want in an ex-president? In fact if the comparison is between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama in their post-presidencies, it is Obama who has been far more political, most recently sealing the fate of Biden at the eleventh hour of the 2024 race. Bush merely fancies himself a painter.

 

That the Obama library isn't really a library only reminds us that the Affordable Care Act provided neither care nor affordability, just as America will not be great again when Trump leaves office and millions of illegal aliens will still be here.

 

To say that there isn't anything very tangible left of the Obama era can be said of all the presidents in our lifetimes to one degree or another.

 

Yes, it will be hard to ignore Obama's giant tombstone jutting up into the sky from Jackson Park, if you happen to be traveling there. Otherwise he'll be as forgettable as the next guy.

 

But to speak at this hour of Obama's excess of vanity when there has never been a more self-important and grandiose spectacle erupting daily from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than now in the person of Donald Trump is as batshit crazy as Trump is.

 

Trump is making us all nuts. 

Because he's Mad King Ludwig, that's why

 

 Fentanyl BAAAAAAAAAAD, Ecstasy GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.

 Why Trump reversed course to fast-track psychedelic drugs for mental healthcare

Just about everything ships by diesel in the United States, and the price of it is up 59% since Mad King Ludwig was elected in November 2024

$3.52 > $5.60

 

Elections have consequences as Mad King Ludwig eats his own narrow majority in the U.S. Senate and further alienates it

 

 Trump's self-destructive alcoholic personality will only make him more legislatively unsuccessful this year than he has been already.

 

 Cassidy becomes fourth GOP senator to back Iran war powers measure limiting Trump 

Sen. Bill Cassidy, who lost his bid for a third term in Saturday’s Louisiana Senate Republican primary, on Tuesday became the fourth Republican senator to vote to advance a war powers resolution directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. armed forces deployed against Iran.

Cassidy joined Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) in voting Tuesday for a motion to discharge the war powers resolution sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The motion passed by a vote of 50 to 47, setting up a future vote to proceed to the motion on the Senate floor.

The resolution is privileged under the 1973 War Powers Act, allowing it to pass the Senate with a simple-majority vote instead of having to clear the 60-vote threshold required for most legislation.

Cassidy kept his plan to vote to advance the resolution secret until the last moment. He declined to reveal how he would vote on the measure when asked about it Monday.

Murkowski broke ranks with Senate Republican leaders last week to vote to advance the war powers resolution. ...

 Trump’s ouster of Republican senator sends shock waves through Senate GOP 

The resounding defeat of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) in Saturday’s Louisiana primary has sent shock waves through the Senate Republican Conference, underscoring how Republicans who look to distance themselves from President Trump and his low approval ratings will have to think twice about paying a political price for perceived disloyalty.

Cassidy’s ouster came a few weeks after Trump and his allies helped defeat five state senators in Indiana who defied Trump’s desire to redraw the state’s congressional map, sending a loud message to any Republican on Capitol Hill thinking about clashing with the president. ...

[Republican Senator Thom] Tillis, an outspoken critic of some of the Trump administration’s actions this year, reacted angrily to Cassidy’s loss, sending an email to Republican colleagues on Monday threatening to block a budget reconciliation package from moving on the Senate floor later this week — even though it’s a top Trump priority.

Tillis expressed his disappointment over Cassidy’s loss on Saturday and urged Republican colleagues to delay action on the reconciliation bill so as not to force Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), another Republican colleague facing a tough primary on May 26, to stay in Washington until late this week to vote on the budget bill, according to a source familiar with the email’s details. ...

Senate GOP expresses frustration, anger, sadness as Trump snubs Cornyn in Texas 

President Trump’s decision Tuesday to snub Sen. John Cornyn and endorse state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate Republican primary was met with frustration, anger and even sadness by Senate Republicans.

The move likely sinks Cornyn’s hopes of winning another Senate term, and Republicans warned it could make it tougher to defeat Democratic candidate James Talarico in November.

Republican senators exuded pain for Cornyn, who served as Senate Republican whip during Trump’s first term and is deeply respected by his Senate GOP colleagues. ...

Some Republican senators saw Trump’s treatment of Cornyn as a snub of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who had worked behind the scenes for months to persuade the president to back him.

The NRSC invested in Cornyn through a joint fundraising committee, and One Nation, a fundraising group affiliated with Thune’s political operation, has spent more than $10 million helping Cornyn. ...

Trump’s endorsement of Paxton and his attacks against Cassidy won’t make it any easier for him to muster GOP votes for his ballroom funding or for the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate MAGA allies who believe they were targeted by the government. ...

Attention all you weak dollar lunatics

 Nominal broad dollar index average values

Obama II, first year // 1Q second year // April 2014: 92.75 / 94.51 / 93.99

Trump II, first year // 1Q second year // April 2026: 122.75 / 119.01 / 119.03

Thank you for attention to this matter. 

Fetterman is still not right in the head

 Fetterman's recent history of saying some reasonable things makes people on the right treat him like he's some oracle now.

But another lunatic tries to shoot Trump and suddenly America is on the hook for a new ballroom, which wouldn't be necessary AT ALL if Mad King Ludwig hadn't torn down the East Wing in the first place?

I don't think so, pal. Not when Trump promised it would be funded entirely from private donations.

Fetterman: Dems Should 'Drop the TDS,' Fund WH Ballroom

Alexander Bolton, The Hill

 

... “We were there front and center. That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these,” Fetterman posted Sunday on the social platform X, referring to “Trump derangement syndrome,” a term the president uses for his critics. ... 

 

Study finds that female liberals believe words can harm, tend to be emotionally less stable, see themselves as victims, experience higher levels of anxiety and depression, support laws which make you stfu

... “People higher in the belief that words can harm tended to be younger, female, non-White, and politically liberal.”

... restricting speech feels like protection as opposed to censorship.

... mental health appears to influence political ideology more than political ideology influences mental health, with increases in psychological distress predicting a subsequent shift toward political liberalism. 

... the most empathic people support the least tolerant policies. ... 

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