I Can't Believe Fox Hasn't cut Away

From his pre Davos speech. He's babbling incorrectly with no end in sight, just making up crazy numbers and can't stay on any topic for more than a few seconds. Frightening.

My Sign (Framingham, MA -2,000 protesters)

Paraphrased from Turkish Proverb

https://www.theatermirror.net/?p=8816

From the Onion: JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns

This is priceless

Here's My Sign from the Suburban Boston Protest - 'Trusk' Must Go! (see photo below)

I just contacted the NOAA for some information...

for an article I'm writing that required accurate information on climate-related disasters. I got a response within hours, and the employee signed off with:

Thanks again!
with best regards,
(Employee name withheld)

Even with the axe about to fall on so many people in his agency (maybe even his), he was still kind and thoughtful, unlike those rat bastards cutting his job. I wanted to send a message of support, but this is all I could come up with:

Thanks for the swift reply and all you do for the American people.

Have a good weekend,

(Johnny)

From a Friend Who's a Citizen of the British Empire:

Many of us who had spent our lives among international 'connected people' felt that Trump danced to Putin's strings from when Putin's shady oligarch pals bailed him out from the failed casinos: we were more certain when numbers of rich Russians began funneling money through Trump's businesses.

When Trump was elected in 2016 ,"we" became more convinced.

These latest actions absolutely confirm those certainties. It is not just Trump's statements, but the appointments of "weak sisters' and known Putin fellow travelers and to the confirmed opinion: a Rubio an international Know Nothing, there to weaken the US influence all around the world: Hegseth, put in place to weaken the US militarily: Tulsi Gabbard, a known Putin apostle for National Security.

There has always been a wonder whether Melania was inserted as a "minder" in view of her father's diehard Moscow support right back to Stalinist days.

Wake up, United States, your President works for Russia!

PLEASE start saying it and sending it out..

"Andrew Johnston".

In case you've ever wondered how "Good Germans" capitulated to Hitler, we're now watching it in real time...

The Republican Party
Joe & Mika
ABC
Jon Fetterman
Cenk Uygur?

My (non-confrontational) exchange with a Trumper

I was walking out of an AA meeting (where we don't discuss politics), chatting amiably with two guys. One guy made a joking reference to someone getting a brain transplant, and the Trumper chimes in with, "The vice president should get one of those."

"You mean J.D. Vance?" I responded.

"No. Kamala. Have you ever heard her speak?"

"Yeah. I like her," I said. "Have you ever heard J.D. Vance speak?"

"No," he replied. "He doesn't say much." (meaning Fox couldn't possibly be playing his insane clips)

"That's probably a really good plan," I said.

He just walked away.

Biden Drops Out

Source: Washington Post

President Biden is ending his presidential campaign, a momentous decision that upends the 2024 presidential race.

“I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the reminder of my term,” Biden said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/21/election-2024-biden-trump-campaign-updates/

The Super Stunt Revisisted: How Pranksters Nearly Pulled Off Greatest Media Prank Ever

From Esquire Magazine:

Fifteen years ago, during the halftime show of the Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears, four improv comedians nearly pulled off what would have been the greatest media prank of all time.

In order to pull off the Super Stunt, as Hargrave named the operation, the team would need to smuggle 2,250 lights into a Level-One (that’s as high as it gets) national-security event—in advance—and stash them in the bowels of Dolphin Stadium until halftime of the big game. On the day of the Super Bowl, they would infiltrate the stadium posing as event staff, with fake IDs and uniforms, and hand off the sequenced lights to the fans. All of this would be done under the eyes of stadium security, multiple state and federal law-enforcement agencies, hundreds of uniformed police officers, and 3,000 additional security personnel.

https://www.esquire.com/sports/a39049222/superbowl-prank-essay/