@kevinrothrock We basically have a privileged fart who has been swaddled and catered to so long and so hard that he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing." 🫢

In one episode of the '60s TV comedy "Hogan's Heroes," a General asks Colonel Klink whether he is spying. Klink replies, "I assure you, sir, I have nothing to do with intelligence." We used to laugh and laugh at this, in the days of innocence before Marco Rubio. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marco-rubio-angered-by-iran-intelligence-question-forget-about-intelligence/ar-AA1Hfz9P?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=fbec1ad5ba05433fb05feba4ae8a1791&ei=45

The Senate parliamentarian is doing her job, so only budget stuff will remain in the "Big Beautiful Bill" when and if the Senate gets around to voting on it, not the lets-forget-about-the-constitutional-role-of-courts stuff slipped in their by the House leadership. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5363225-senate-parliamentarian-rules-out-contempt-provision/

@alanferrier As Vice-Emperor Vance said in December 1941: "We are not at war with the United States. We are only at war with the Pacific fleet."

@JuliusGoat I ran this idea by the Secretary of Education and she said she has no idea how we could put weird steak sauce in charge of everything.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-calls-for-the-equivalent-of-10-fed-rate-cuts/ar-AA1H2AKW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=b53030e7b14b4bdfa4647b8a4f62e48a&ei=15 Jerome Powell -- unlikely hero of the Resistance, is the new Dr Fauci.

@Byrnejmf At first glance, I thought I read the famous Middle-Earth name of Frodo in there. Thank goodness and Tolkien that it actually says "Fordo".

One can be sympathetic to Zionism and yet fail to see the charms of Mr Netanyahu. Heck, when I was a kid the face of Zionism was Golda Meir. There is a compare/contrast exercise for you.

@Njord Simple process of elimination. Cucumbers get my vote: they are standard in salads, my own and everybody else's SFAIK. I can't remember the last time I've eaten either cabbage or celery. Heck: I think of celery as mostly something for recovering nicotine addicts fiddle with.

@JaneinNJ Can you link me to the "manifesto" I've heard about?

@thatgiga Non trattenere il respiro

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - WS

Vote for Trump, they said. People respect him. He can make deals and keep the peace. If you vote for Harris you get weakness, fruitless yapping, and a world of endless war. Well, I guess they were right. I voted for Harris. And now my country has weakness, fruitless yapping, and a world of endless war.

@nedhamson1 Not sure what I would gain by watching that live, but thanks for the suggestion. I am a two-state-solution guy, and Netanyahu is a jerk, but I have little patience for the St Greta routine. Did climate change get boring?

@fesshole Beauty.

@plaguepoems
Syllable count is close 'nuff
("Real" one beat? two?)
Each stanza is near haiku.

@austinkocher What sort of Mexican food should we use to celebrate this news? Does the word "TACO" come to mind?

@classicTVnews The three of them together in the cell makes a nicer mental image.

@3psboyd Yeah, I've always had trouble with that one. They've heard all the obvious hunblebrags, "oooh, I'm afraid I'm too much of a perfectionist." But honesty doesn't work. "Actually, I get bored with details quickly," has never done it.