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Rocknation

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February 3, 2026

Melania and Elon AND Putin? Oh, my

and surprise surprise surprise!



I refused to get too steamed up about Epstein-Gate because it was too obvious that President DuhDon's desperation to suppress the files was based on covering up something much "broader" than trafficking broads. So I decided to just lay back and wait for him to VERY predictably overplay his hand -- and my patience has paid off!

Just as I congratulated Barack Obama on winning his first presidency the moment John McCain introduced a running mate that I immediately nicknamed Klondike Barbie, I hereby welcome Donnie to the beginning of his end: let me be the first to wave buh-bye!


Rocknation

January 6, 2026

Absolutely right -- it's never TOO late to vax, but it's always best to vax early

It is perfectly safe to get up to four vaccines at once if they're medically compatible. But it's better to space them at least two weeks apart, and ideal to wait between six and eight weeks.

When I got my Covid booster in mid-September, I was also offered a flu vax. I said I would return for it in early November: my Covid antibodies would be nearly fully operational by then, and my flu antibodies would be fully operational in time for the height of the flu season in January.

My sincerest condolences.


Rocknation

December 23, 2025

If you need something to watch at 8PM EST tonight instead of the Kennedy Center Honors

Here's a list of movies that Rob Reiner either wrote, directed, produced, or appeared in:

This Is Spinal Tap
Stand by Me
The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
Misery
A Few Good Men
North
The American President
Ghosts of Mississippi
The Story of Us
Alex & Emma
Rumor Has It
The Bucket List
Flipped
The Magic of Belle Isle
And So It Goes
Being Charlie
LBJ
Shock and Awe
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
God & Country
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues


And if you're in need of an opening short subject, here's the 60 Minutes segment that Canada "accidentally" broadcast.


Rocknation
December 19, 2025

I love the smell of vindication in the morning. Smells like -- the 25th Amendment?

...After Trump’s budget bullshit got me and my Pathological Narcissism course dumped, I showed up here...

...(S)omeone with a big audience pushed a post claiming Trump is on an Alzheimer’s-specific infusion drug...Sadly, the post is spreading. Well, circumstantial click bait evidence doesn’t hold up in court...

Being reduced to panhandling on Substack simply because his work was potentially incriminating to Trump, Dr. George could do with an infusion of compassion, especially if the person below is the one he is referring to. And just like in court, circumstantial evidence is just as valid as direct evidence -- especially when there's just too damn much of it.




And here's a chaser from him -- note his lack of butthurt.




Rocknation


December 11, 2025

Why You Shouldn't Give A Turd About the "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" Documentary

Its executive producer Curtis "Fifty Cent" Jackson isn't in it.


Fifty claims that his contributions to the documentary were financial (via Netflix) rather than creative, and that it was he who hired its filmmaker Alexandria Stapleton (and who has been escorting her to interviews and barely letting her get a word in edgewise). But it is no secret that Fifty and Diddy have been involved in a decades-long and frequently adversarial relationship, and that Fifty himself has been accused of sexual violence -- neither of which should have been overlooked by either Netflix or Stapleton, because it taints the entire project with a conflict of interest powered by a personal vendetta.

Was Stapleton less than diligent with her research, or was she simply issued a volume of videos to stitch together? Was it she who made the decision to leave Fifty out of the documentary, or did she receive instructions from him and/or Netflix to do so? Was leaving him out of the documentary a condition of Fifty's hiring her?



And most important, do Diddy's victims end up with the attention and sympathy they deserve? Not if Fifty gets to enjoy the decline and fall of Diddy's financial, cultural and moral empires from a revenge-upholstered front row seat, then pull away from the wreckage (including a now compromised Ms. Stapleton) with his pockets fattened (at Diddy's "expense") and his hip-hop "street credibility" upgraded!


Rocknation
December 4, 2025

12/4 UPDATE: Suspicions Confirmed



Why would Trump make the connection between an MRI of his brain and being impeached? Because he is only cognitive enough to realize that as soon as EVERYONE ELSE realizes that his brain MRIs are proof positive that he has been diagnosed with, and being treated for, some type of dementia, both his presidency AND his legacy will be GARBAGE. The debate and speculation are over: He DOES have dementia, he DOES have to step down -- and if he is denying or lying about having dementia, he is also committing a criminal act.

P.S. I love the smell of vindication in the morning.


Rocknation
November 29, 2025

Repeated Infusions and MRIs -- "symptoms" Of A Dementia diagnosis?

FDA.gov (August 2025): FDA to recommend additional, earlier MRI monitoring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease taking Leqembi (lecanemab)

The earlier monitoring can identify individuals with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with edema (ARIA-E), which is characterized by brain swelling or fluid buildup. ARIA-E is usually asymptomatic, although serious and life-threatening events, including seizure and status epilepticus, can occur and there have been deaths...

We are requiring the prescribing information of Leqembi (lecanemab) to include an earlier monitoring MRI between the 2nd and 3rd infusion...To identify patients experiencing ARIA-E, ...(We also) recommend...(that)...(p)atients should...obtain (a)...MRI...within one year before starting treatment...for a baseline comparison...and MRI imaging BEFORE the 3rd, 5th,7th, and 11th infusions...


Facebook, November 19, 2025: Is Trump being treated...with...experimental... Alzheimer's drugs lecanemab (Leqembi)...(or)...donanemab (Kisunla)? The(y)...are designed to slow disease progression by clearing amyloid plaques from the brain in the early stages of the disease...

(Both drugs) are administered via IV infusion and require close...(MRI) monitoring due to risks like brain swelling and bleeding. Doctors say the bruises on his hand noticed recently are consistent with such infusions...Trump also revealed recently that his most recent medical exam included an MRI...(but) said he did not know why the MRI was performed.

I'm not an expert on any of this medical information, but what I have read on reliable medical sites checks out. I also don't know if there are other conditions that also require infusions and monitoring by MRI. I'm just asking questions here.


Trump actually HAVING a form of dementia would explain his monthly annual physical exams, excessive infusions, multiple MRIs -- and what the FDA describes as "loss of memory, problem solving, and ability to think clearly which can interfere with daily life."

President Ronald Regan had Alzheimer's; Trump claimed that President Joe Biden did. But the bottom line is, if Trump has ALREADY been diganosed with some kind of dementia, the world has the right to know it -- and we now definitely have the means (was well as obligation) to advocate his being replaced.

The drugs in question show promise only in slowing the progression of the disease, not in halting or eliminating it. In that respect, the early stages of dementia bear a resemblance to the early stages of pregnancy.

Rocknation
November 20, 2025

Supicions Confirmed!!! (If you'll pardon the expression)

I've watched too many police bodycam videos like these to believe that they merely "get lucky" when finding big-bucks volumes of contraband in vehicles stopped for the most inconsequential of traffic offenses. The cops already have the drop on them -- from snitches, undercovers, banks, the Feds, car/truck rental agencies -- and now I can add algorithms to the list!





I love the smell of vindication in the morning.


Rocknation

October 3, 2025

When one of my sisters informed me that Routledge "really is a really good singer in real life"

I said, "You wasted your breath telling me that -- you HAVE to be a really good singer to sing as BADLY as she does as WELL as she does!"




Rocknation

September 29, 2025

Perhaps Trump has Portland OREGON confused with Portland MAINE

or Portland CONNECTICUT or Portland INDIANA or Portland KENTUCKY or Portland MICHIGAN or Portland TENNESSEE or Portland TEXAS...if not POLAND in EUROPE.


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