Trump is a con job of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires

 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says

You need to earn $158,000/year [2.6x = 410,800] for the median home in the United States to be affordable.

93% don't.

 

 

The Dominionist wackos in MAGA allied with Peter Thiel continue to spew falsehood

... Trae Stephens, a Thiel ally and self-proclaimed “arms dealer” who co-founded the drone warfare company Anduril (another warped Lord of the Rings reference), frames his work as part of a quest to “carry out God’s command to bring his Kingdom to earth as it is in Heaven.” Stephens’s wife, Michelle, co-founded ACTS 17 Collective (Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society), which evangelizes to tech workers and is hosting Thiel’s Antichrist lectures. ...

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There is no such command.

Some Christians still understand that:

[Turning Point USA speaker] Leigh-Allyn Baker rallied her fellow parishioners at Conduit Church in Franklin, Tennessee, 20 miles south of the capital, to not let Charlie Kirk’s death be in vain.

In a video the church played for a service Sept. 14, Baker encouraged the audience to speak more boldly and publicly for their conservative values than ever before. ...

Conduit congregants welcomed Baker’s video with whoops, shouts and tears, signaling a shared grief. Among those congregants, one person wore a hat that read: “Pray hard, lift heavy, stay deadly.”

But Christians who are angry over Kirk’s death cannot be violent or retaliatory, [Conduit pastor Darren] Tyler said in his sermon.

“Some of you are angry. Some of you want revenge,” Tyler said. “The Bible speaks very clearly: ‘Vengeance is mine, says the Lord,’” Tyler said. “If you’re thinking about it, I’m rebuking you right now. We do not make Jesus king by force.” ...

My God, that sentence

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/13/nasa-perseverance-rock-helmet-photo/85649312007/

Third time's a charm

 

SPEAKER: THERE WILL BE 3RD IMPEACHMENT IF DEMS TAKE HOUSE...

 

 

Harvey Weinstein to be tried for third time in New York...

 

What fools these people are! What fools they think we must be!

 

Trump's Tax Cuts Spurred Growth. BBB Will Do It Again

Hassett & Miran, USA Today

 

TRUMP'S TAX CUTS SPURRED NOTHING. 

 

AND NOTHING NEW HAS BEEN CUT NOW, JUST EXTENDED.

 

THERE IS NO NEW FUEL FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH. 

 

Real GDP since 1Q2017 has grown at a compound annual rate of 2.43%, 23% BELOW the post-war rate of 3.17% from 1Q1947.

 

The Trump tax cuts have been a failure. 

Nature is self-cleansing

 Cannabis users 6 times more likely to have heart attack, study shows...

Andrew Sullivan throws the title of a recent book by Hillarycon Rod Dreher in his face, who is now at the heart of this new authoritarian Trump presidency through his friendship with J. D. Vance

Dreher has succumbed to the abuse of Trump. He lives by lies. He thinks Zelenskyy was the bad guy in the Oval Office.

Sullivan has not succumbed to our "sociopathic president":

 ... What the world saw last Friday was the same, central Trump dynamic: the leader of a smaller democracy that has withstood three years of brutal attack by a far larger dictatorship ... was still publicly humiliated, because he dared air his concern of no security guarantees against Russia. “Just say thank you,” Vance harangued him. “Have you said thank you once?” I cannot recall any visiting head of state who has ever, ever been thrown out of the White House the way Zelensky was. Why? Because he did not submit.

... The challenge for liberals of all stripes is a familiar one in dystopian democracies and rigid dictatorships: Live not by lies. Keep your grip on reality. Avoid the propaganda now washing down on you like torrential rain. Find a refuge, as I did on Wednesday — a place where eternal truths remain, or where free thinking can endure (Spinoza is a role model, which is why the Dishcast discusses him this week).

Avoid hysteria, which Trump wants and exploits. But avoid also being co-opted by a single one of his lies, to see clearly, and to speak simply. Read those you disagree with; get off most social media; choose doubt over certainty; restraint over impulse; resist this authoritarian and irrational moment by refocusing above all on the simple truth, as best as you can, and fighting all those on both extremes trying to annihilate it. ...

Here.

It's a magnificent essay which everyone should read.

Rod Dreher was a Hillarycon in 2016 because of, wait for it, The Madness of King Donald. And so was J. D. Vance.

Paper tiger misses deadline, tells Hamas he really means it this time as he gives billions to Israel but hangs Ukraine out to dry

 

... Last month Trump called on Hamas to release the hostages by Feb. 15 or "all hell is going to breakout." That deadline came and went. This time, Trump is describing his ultimatum as the "last warning!" ...

“I have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed," Trump added. "This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance.” ...

The Trump Administration has already approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel, according to the State Department’s website. ...

Hamas still is holding 59 hostages in Gaza, many of whom are believed to be dead. ...

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Literally the very last line in this story

 Trump announces plan to stop making new pennies, citing production costs

 In the U.S., discontinuing the penny entirely may require congressional approval.

Luigi's mom: I could see him doing something like that

 

When detectives reached out to accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s mother after the first photos of the suspect emerged, she said she wasn’t certain it was him – but told investigators the shooting “might be something that she could see him doing,” a New York Police Department official said Tuesday.

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OMG: Haitian chef tells USA Today the strict policy of Haitian cooking is "Whatever there is to eat at the house, you have to eat it"

 Nobody in Haiti today can afford the fancy Haitian dishes this chef describes, so they eat . . . you know.

Don't listen to Trump's lies. Haitian chef explains country's rich culinary tradition.

 

 

Our mendacious media

 

Democrats have been trying to protect Joe Biden for years, and look how quickly they betray him: They're users

 

The Dems Must Dump Biden. Here's How

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

 

It's Up To Jill To Get Joe To Step Aside

Jill Filipovic, The Daily Beast

  

To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

New York Times

  

Time To Go, Joe

Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic

 

Biden Is a Good Man & President. He Must Bow Out

Thomas Friedman, NY Times

 

 

Media Establishment Lays on the Horn: Joe Must Go...

 

Hollywood abandons...

 

Exclusive: Influential donors want to pressure Biden to drop out

 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had signaled to political allies that he was open to options other than President Biden if his debate performance was disastrous

 

It's Time for Biden To Pass the Torch

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

 

The Korrupt Kennedy Klan wasn't horrified enough to reject drunk driver Ted Kennedy, who killed Mary Jo Kopechne in this car, but now throws RFK Jr under the bus

 Kennedy family members endorse President Biden in a rejection of RFK Jr.

 

 

Girl changes mind . . . a lot

  Trans man transitioned, detransitioned then transitioned again...

Last August the FBI gunned down 75-year old Craig Deleeuw Robertson in his Utah home, two days ago the ATF mortally wounded 53-year old Bryan Malinowski in his Arkansas home

Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant

Arkansas airport executive shot during attempted search warrant, police say

Totally normal.

Kamala Harris is a millstone hung around shuffling Joe Biden's neck with 52% net disapproval in latest USA Today poll

 54% of survey respondents said Harris isn't qualified to serve as president. ... 56% of independents; 37% of African Americans; and 48% of Hispanic voters said she isn't qualified.

 

 

The new reactionaries: LGB OK, TQ+ a bridge too far

  Hair salon won't serve trans, queer... :

"It's the TQ+ that I'm not going to support," she said, referring to transgender and queer or questioning people.

 

Welcome to 2023: Better make the most of it since you have only eight years left, lol

 

Tennessee has had plenty of much colder temperatures than this Christmas and never had to turn off the power before, but that was before they went insane

 What we know: TVA ordered rolling blackouts for the first time in 90 years amid freezing temps

Tennessee Valley Authority retired 3,370 MW of coal electric power capacity in 2012, 2017, and 2018.

The reason for that isn't because the plants were old, built in the 1950s. TVA still operates a bunch of much older hydroelectric plants dating back as far as 1911.

It's pure anti-fossil fuel ideology driving that, and foolishly allocating new capacity to solar and wind, which can't cut it.

And that's why they had to shut off the power in Tennessee for the first time.

The damn fools got 0.7 inches of snow and said it was one inch deep, too.