Colgate 64
Colgate 64's JournalThe late, great H.L. Mencken
once observed that "No one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the American public.
2024 proved him right.
More MAGA B.S. It wasn't a drug boat Rubio illegally blew up
That wasn't a drug boat, and it wasn't headed to the U.S. You will note this modified go-fast had three huge outboard motors, which consume fuel like an alcoholic let loose in a brewery. In drug boats, space is at a premium, as is fuel. so it's content obligatorily is, in order 1) enough gas to get to where you're going. This craft didn't have any of the additional fuel barrels necessary for such a long trip from Venezuela to the U.S.
It also wasn't a drug boat. Second priority for any drug boat is to carry as much cocaine as you can physically pack into every available space. No sight or evidence of bales of cocaine typically carried in go-fast
Finally. drug boats don't carry passengers Their cargo is only supposed to make money by moving cocaine. Drug go-fasts typically carry a crew of 1-3: The pilot, one loader and possibly a second loader. 11 people occupying all the space where the bales of cocaine would have made zero sense.
Well, maybe they were carrying illegal immigrants. Again, the economics make no sense. What does an illegal immigrant pay to be boated to the US?
$1,000? Let's say the fantastic sum of $10,000 per person. That would make the gross revenue for that aborted sailing some $110,000 which is just a rounding error in the cocaine trade. The same craft filled with cocaine would be worth at least $2MM.
Just more fiction and fact from the NeoCon playbook.
Terry Moran was right. Stephen Miller is a walking sack of bile.
Terry Moran lost his job because he accurately reported on Trump's Mini-Me Immigration hater, Stephen Miller, calling him (Miller), a “world-class hater,” “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” and that “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.”
What is even more ironic is that Miller, an enthusiastic advocate for the "I've got mine - f*^k them" school of politics is himself only a second-generation American. Miller's Grandfather, a Russian Jew tired of the never-ceasing Pogroms in Czarist Russia, had the good sense to get out of Dodge and head to more hospitable climes, i.e. the United States where he thrived and prospered. The Miller family is so cognizant of their immigrant heritage that they have all disowned little Stephen. But our xenophobic elf has endeared himself to Fearless Leader by his vitriolic hatred of all immigrants, working day and night, thinking up new ways to not only deport the newcomers (it's called pulling the ladder up after yourself) but additionally to make their lives the most perfect living hell before, during and after their expulsion from the newly-identified Male, White, Christian United States Miller and his coterie of brown-nosed acolytes envision.
They can. and did, fire Moran for speaking the truth about this deplorable and psychologically damaged little man. But that in no way affects the truth about him that Moran bravely reported.
We're being too harsh on Homeland Security Chief Crusty Gnome
After all, how should we expect the person in charge of all homeland security to recognize a sitting US Senator who is on the Homeland Security subcommittee? I mean, really? There are 100 senators, she certainly shouldn't be required to recognize ALL of them. And, anyways, I'm sure she had a legitimate reason for having Senator Padilla forcibly ejected and thrown to the ground and placed in handcuffs. After all, he didn't really identify - ANYBODY can say "I'm a US Senator". And besides, she was probably panicking because she thought he was from the ASPCA. (Oh, for those halcyon days when there was no work, being the Governor and you could dispose of that nasty little puppy that "didn't meet your expectations" by simply shooting it in the face with your pistol, without anybody saying anything! )
Federal Court of Trade blocks all Trump tariffs
Source: Laurence O'Donnell MSNBC 10:00 EST
O'Donnell just reported that the Federal Court of Trade unanimously declared Trump's tariffs unconstitutional and granted summary judgement to the Plaintiffs, the Attorneys General of 17 states that had sued the Trump Administration saying that Trump's abuse of tariffs was unconstitutional. The Court of Trade agreed, stating that the power ceded to the President by Congress re setting tariffs was unconstitutional and that all his tariffs were without legal effect.
No link yet.
About time a court put an end to this s-show of madness our would-be Emperor has been evidencing. A stunning victory for sanity and a crushing defeat for America's Victor Orban
OMFC! Doofus wants a military parade for his birthday
Reported on MSNBC right now, it is reported that Washington City officials have been in contact with the Trump White House regarding having a military parade (with heavy equipment) from the Pentagon to the White House in celebration of Trump's birthday. City leaders say the damage to the streets of Washington could cost millions to repair.
I am excitedly waiting for the next Executive Order requiring all US citizens to refer to Donald Trump as "Dear Leader".
You can't make this shit up.
We've had bright Presidents, dumb Presidents, perceptive
Presidents and clueless Presidents. And with all those, we have survived as a Constitutional Republic. But we have never before now had an Ignoramus for President, a small man who is so intellectually challenged that he firmly believes his own instincts trump whatever science or learning clearly indicates that he is wrong. A person with an inferiority complex so deep and profound that his entire life revolves around seeking and demanding adulation in order to conquer the ever-present ghost of Father Trump who told him he was a "loser".
I don't know how we're going to survive this caricature of a President, a man who is so flawed and so empowered by recent Supreme Court decisions and his echo chamber of adulation that he is impervious to reason, logic, popular opinion or world opinion. He is driving only be his thirst for vengeance against all who, real or imaginarily have taken positions against him and he is prepared to burn the house down in order to inflict punishment against all who have not recognized his inherent brilliance.
Watching Trump flaunt his executive powers by ignorantly
decreeing a tariff war with the world for no reason is like being tied to a chair and forced to watch a toddler play with a loaded gun. There's nothing you can do to stop it and you know that, sooner or later there's going to be a tragedy.
I wonder how all the recent converts to the "Leopards will eat your face" party will react when they find their faces being eaten by leopards?
Does anyone remember the bulldog and pal cartoon?
Remember the cartoon that features a big, hulking bulldog (Spike) and a yappy little sidekick who is forever exploiting the big dog's presence? The yappy one is always strutting around saying "Yeah, Spike - it's you and me. Right Spike? You and me, right Spike right?" while trying to act the part of a bullying big dog using the intimidating presence of the bulldog to cow whoever it was the yappy dog was trying to impress.
Today's yappy little dog was J.D. Vance, playing bulldog to Ukraine's Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of the White House Press Corps. The meeting, (broadcast on MSNBC at4:00 today), was generally bland, i.e. made for public consumption (as the White House had planned when Vance suddenly decided to be a bomb thrower and deliberately picked a fight with Zelensky by unexpectedly hurling the accusation: that the Ukrainian President hadn't been sufficiently grateful to Trump. Needless to say, Vance's deliberate peeing in the punchbowl with comments of "ingratitude" immediately triggered the always-subtle outrage of Trump, who proceeded to seize upon Ukraine's "ingratitude" and then careening on to how much he and Putin had "gone through together" with the "Russia-Russia-Russia Hoax" Trump was, to all intents and purposes, out of control, lecturing Zelensky on "You don't tell us how to feel!!!!!" and similar bon mots. It was beyond shocking and embarrassing, perhaps even to the most die-hard MAGA supporters (although I'm not sure their bottom has ever been reached).
I wonder what Vance's ,motivation for torpedoing the meeting and supposed agreement over Ukrainian mineral rights that Zelensky and Trump were supposedly going to sign? Did Trump put him up to it in order to not sign the agreement but save some face? Or, did Vance go rogue for some reasons of his own? I am inclined to think the latter, perhaps because Vance is feeling left out since nobody even mentions him any more. The focus is on the co-presidency of Trump and Musk and no one even notices Vance, which has to rankle him. Or is it because he is even more radical and unhinged than many of the RW bomb throwers Trump routinely surrounds himself with and is despairing of being able to influence the political agenda toward a more anarchical development? Only time will tell. In the meantime, Trump and Vance have stood before history and the world on videotape showing their complete capitulation to and adoration of Vladimir Putin. I believe the tape will be shown in History and Political Science classes far into the future as indicative of the day we took the first public steps towards renouncing our hitherto unchallenged role as the world leader of free and open democracies.
A very dark day (IMO) for American Democracy and equally dark for our erstwhile allies.
Watching daily discussions of the economic clusterf*k
President Musk and his merry band of incel Dogebags are wreaking on the economy and, by eventual implication on millions of Americans (especially those who voted for Trump) while watching the breast-beating and shock shown nightly on cable news broadcasts, I can't help but be reminded of the apocryphal newspaper headline:
New Members of the Leopards Eat Your Face Club astonished. Say they had no idea that Leopards would eat their faces.
Were these people asleep all through 2024 until November? How do you penetrate such incredibly willful and self-satisfied ignorance?
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