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Why did Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US Prez Pedo NOT meet in front of the press as planned yesterday? 

While Trump and his team are often late to their scheduled White House events, having the meeting behind closed doors after telling the press it would be open is significantly stranger. (source) 

Possibly ultra vain Pedo was looking more ill and haggard than usual? Makeup and hair rituals took longer than usual? Was there a last minute, emergency diaper change? Perhaps he was having a particularly bad dementia day? Ya know, he was having an unpresentable and not even vaguely coherent day?

OR maybe Lula just doesn’t want to be seen publicly glad-handing a fascist pedophile even though, for the financial benefit of his Brazil, he has to grit his teeth and play nice?
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I only mention it BUT you should really get buy in from all your players before announcing you're putting on a big production of USA•USA•USA White Hat Heroes to the world.

A refusal by Saudi Arabia to allow the US to use its bases and airspace to provide a military escort for oil tankers passing through the strait of Hormuz lay behind Donald Trump’s decision to shelve the plan days after it had been launched.

Riyadh told the White House it would not allow its Prince Sultan airbase to be used to mount the operation billed as Project Freedom, which the US presented as the successor to the bombing campaign called Operation Epic Fury. (source) 

This nimrodian clownfuck of an administration is all about coming up with heroic Hollywood tough guy names and titles but can’t be arsed to come up with coherent, rational reasons (or believable lies) for actions, and you can forget about well thought out goals and plans. These yutz's are all so disastrously simpleminded, they just think “let’s blow shit up – everyone will immediately surrender and give us everything we want!”

Turns out Saudi Arabia’s not gonna let Pedo and his Secretary of War Crimes use their country as a stage. Huh. Go figure. Saudi Arabia joins the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, Spain, France, Italy and a host of other sensible nations.

‘lil Marco Clownshoes Rubio said this morning that:

If Nato allies refuse permission to use US bases to project force, ‘that’s a problem and has to be examined,’

Is this anything like Pedo having “concepts of a plan” or blah, blah, blah INFRASTRUCTURE – “we’re going to make an announcement in two weeks” or his “big decision on the Paris accord” that he’d have in that magical two weeks? That is, a completely, totally meaningless statement – words uttered and forgotten before they’ve even left his mouth.

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Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog brought up Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals yesterday.

Rule #5:
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Abso-fucking-lutely!!!

Democrats should ridicule Patel mercilessly. They should ridicule Trump’s building and redecorating obsession. They should ridicule Pete Hegseth’s Kid Rock obsession. They shouldn’t leave all this to the late-night comics. They should revive “weird” and make voters see them as the normal ones. (And the funny ones -- people like someone who can make them laugh, and Democrats often struggle with likability.) Democrats can do this and talk about the affordability crisis. (source) 

Double plus abso-fucking-lutely!!! 

You can find the full list of rules (there are 13) here.
 
The complete book is downloadable, free, as a PDF, at this link.

Bad news presented with tart humor is a big reason why I follow Jeff Tiedrich. I like my daily dose of horror with a mondo side of snark. Mind you, I love Heather Cox Richardson – truly – but there are some days when I need a big spoonful of scathing wit to make the medicine go down.

once again, everything in the news is so unbelievably stupid that I don’t even know where to begin. so today, I’m just going to spin the Big Wheel of Moron™ and see where it lands. ready? here we go. (source) 

Watching this government in action is like going to a fourth rate Texas carnival with a mob of sugar bombed 10-year-olds and letting them loose on the bumper cars. It'd be weirdly entertaining (if you like freak shows and movies showcasing out of control kids) BUT these bumper cars are all IEDs, the 10-year-olds are being raised by hate-mongering, meth addicted MAGAts, and the ride is located on the collapsing roof of a maternity hospital. 

This is the USA now. Grab your popcorn and clown shoes. Enjoy the show.