Fun with Leprosy!

Hansen’s disease (AKA leprosy) is one of the least contagious of diseases. 95% of us are naturally immune and it’s not easily contracted by the other 5%.

So tell me, how was there a surge in leprosy cases in Florida in 2025? Hmmm?

Florida reported more cases of Hansen’s disease, commonly known as leprosy, in 2025 than in any other year shown in the state’s modern disease database. (source) 

Florida – of fucking course. How long before they’re hit by another round of Bubonic plague or dysentery?

Unsurprisingly, throughout history, a lot of religions considered the disease a "curse from God" rather than a medical condition. I’m sure we can all, way too easily, walk out our front doors and, within a block or two, run into at least three evangelical assholes who strongly believe that cancer, COVID, AIDS, NF2, and the runs are all punishments from their blonde Republican white god. Leprosy? Sure, why not?

Chaulmoogra oil, pressed from the seeds of a tree found in India, was the standard treatment for leprosy at the Louisiana Leper Home. It was applied either using oil soaked gauze, by injections or in pill form. Unfortunately, chaulmoogra oil gave little or no medical benefit. (source) 

Hmmmmm, sounds an awful lot like all the “cures” Republicans and other assorted quacks (Marianne Williamson, RFK jr, Dr. Oz anyone?) push for autism and what have you, doesn’t it now?

How ‘bout that horse paste, or injecting Clorox or shining lightbulbs up your ass? Isn’t that what President ClownFuck ShitForBrains recommended? Oh wait, maybe Republicans just want us all to die because, ya know, if we're poor. If we were rich, we could buy our way out of being sick so, honestly, this is our own damn fault.

😳 OOPS 😳 I’ve gone off on a rant again. Sorry. Back to Fun With Leprosy.

Scientists discovered an effective treatment in the 1940s and a cure was found 1981. Treatment can last one to two years and delaying treatment can cause permanent nerve damage and disability.

The Louisiana Leper Home in Carville, (later known as the National Leprosarium) established in 1892, was run by an order of nuns — The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. They housed the ill in shacks previously used by enslaved people. Leaving was not an option. This wasn’t a hospital set up, it was a jail. The crime? Being sick in a frighteningly icky way. 

There were also Leper colonies in Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii and a short-lived site on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay in  Massachusetts. 

Nuns, in case you didn't go to Catholic school and aren't in the know, have always been scary. Forget all that Sound of Music/Julie Andrews, Flying Nun/Sister Bertrille crap you've seen on teevee!

At Carville, conditions during the earliest decades were rugged. When the facility was first established in swampy, malaria-prone territory outside Baton Rouge, the afflicted were initially housed in former slave cabins, where they shivered and sweltered through the seasons. Their lives were initially bound by fences—one that divided the men's side of the campus from the women's side (since interactions between the sexes were strictly forbidden) and a tall iron perimeter fence to thwart the many escape attempts. There was even an on-site jail to punish runaways, who were sometimes brought back in leg irons. And patients had to sacrifice their very identities: Upon arrival, they were immediately encouraged to take a new name to protect their families back home from the disease's powerful stigma. (source) 

How can I get my very own personal case of leprosy?

Person-to-person

Leprosy does not spread easily between people. You must have prolonged, close contact with someone with untreated leprosy over many months to catch the disease.

Leprosy likely spreads when a person sick with the disease coughs or sneezes and a healthy person breathes in the droplets repeatedly over a long period of time.

Around 95% of people cannot get leprosy because their immune system can fight off the bacteria that causes it. It’s not spread through sex, and it is not passed to the fetus during pregnancy.

Armadillos

In the soutern United States, some armadillos are naturally infected with the bacteria that cause leprosy, and it may be possible that the animals can spread it to people. However, the risk is very low and most people who come into contact with armadillos are unlikely to get leprosy. (source)

Staying out of Florida seems to be a smart idea. If you must go, wear a mask when out in public.

Also, though armadillos are cute, it might be wise to keep a wee distance. Don’t let them sneeze on you.

I only mention it.

Witch Hunts and Japanese River Otters

Seems to me the whole foofaraw over Dr. Fauci boils down to this – he was a profoundly competent, caring, determined physician-scientist and immunologist trying to stem the spread COVID and that made Trump look bad. WHY? Because Pedo's very being makes him look bad. Trump exists therefore he is rotten, sleazebagian, and the complete picture of failure.

Fauci was working for this complete, nimrodian buffoon of a clown-ass president who cared more about his precious makeup being smudged by a mask then about the people of this country dying. Pedo wants/needs to shift the blame for his own GINORMOUS failures. He’s out for revenge and his renfieldian handmaidens are all “yes Master, we’ll destroy your enemy for you!” 

Reality? Facts? Phhhhht! Immaterial!

FYI, Fauci didn’t create SARS-CoV-2. He didn’t order it up from some lab in China and he’s NOT responsible for the higher death rates amongst Republicans after the vaccine came out. Trump did that. He killed his own people.

MAGAts, the right-wing, the GOP, they’re just NOT good at accepting reality or taking responsibility for their own actions.

Anyway, the Fauci witch hunt has ignited a few good Threads. One, last night, was truly inspired. Here are some excerpts:

Like many, I got the Covid shot at Dr Fauci’s urging. At first it was fine - my arm was sore but no big deal. The following day was when it finally happened - I turned into a Japanese River Otter for several hours. The situation thankfully reversed itself but I did not emerge unscathed - my skin hisses and smokes when near holy relics and I can generate codes for Windows 95 at will. Ten days after receiving the shot…I died. I am here, 5 years later, still dead. Thanks a lot, Dr Fauci.
~ ahistoryofghostsmusic AKA Dan Reifsnyder 

All I got was a sticker.
~ catspolitics

I got my vaccine and the boosters and now I’m SIX YEARS OLDER!
~ selizk

I’m pretty sure all who followed vaccine protocol died in June of this year. So this must be the zombie apocalypse.
~ singin_thru_life_913

To which docdooksie replied:
I’ve been a Zombie since June. It’s not so bad, no one bothers me when I go grocery shopping and the butcher keeps me in brains. And men Zombies… no need for testosterone shots … nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

I’ve gotten the shot every year since 2020 and each time I’ve gotten one degree closer to Kevin Bacon. We’re basically married now.
~ petro6866

I got a nifty prehensile tail that gives added range to the 5g transmitter that was in the second shot.
~ chris.higgins.fairview

If you remain a transmogrified, deceased aquatic creature for more than 30 days, you may be entitled to compensation.
~ todd.south
***THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR LEGAL SERVICES***

I’m so disappointed. I got my Covid shot and all the boosters but never got the added benefits I was told I would get! I expected 5G, telekinesis, being magnetic, weird growths, death. I got nothin.
~ julieann.718

This also happened to me. I got the shot and immediately became a Japanese River Otter for approximately 13 hours. After that, I woke up inside a huge bowl of soup at a tavern in the mid 1800s. I lost my pants in that soup, and my legs had a rash. I went to sleep on a noodle, and when I woke up I was back in my regular life and everything was normal except that I swear profusely in Arabic. Dr Fauci is responsible for this.
~ heatherschiederillustrates_

After the first series of 2 Covid shots, my gender changed against my will. I was a 6’5”, 260 pound man, now I’m a 5’2” 130 pound woman. I can’t even grow a decent beard.
~ friendostradick

I took the Fauci shot and it immediately turned me into a worm. Fortunately, my husband was there to scoop me up and prove to me that he would, in fact, love me even if I was a worm. He kissed my wormy head (or was it my bum? I’ll never tell) and at true love’s kiss the Fauci curse was broken and I transformed back into a real human woman.
~ juliaswriter

Poster dead_duck_2 replied with “same,” kindly validating her experience.

For approximately four hours I could hear the thoughts of squirrels. It wasn’t useful. They were almost entirely about acorns, personal grudges, and what they described as “the coming of the Great Blue Jay.” Then, at precisely 2:17 the following afternoon, I became legally recognized by three different geese as one of their own. One of them kept trying to explain local goose politics, but I don’t speak enough Honk to follow parliamentary procedure. But no lasers. Thanks, Obama.
~ ellenhar1

Lucky. All I got was Vista and a few minutes as a gerbil.
~ baronessgg

Who'll Stop the Rain

The death toll in Lebanon as of this morning is 4,321. There have been 12,207 injuries due to Israeli attacks. 

Meanwhile, they’re def not letting up on the Palestinians. Bast forbid!

Since the October “ceasefire”, at least 1,098 Palestinians have been killed and 3,535 wounded by Israeli attacks. 

Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 73,221 people and wounded 173,643 since October 2023. (source) 
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Here inside the US, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s murder by ICE is the tenth killing by federal immigration officials nationwide since the second Pedo administration began. 

In the 500 days between President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025 and June 4, 2026, 52 people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in the United States. The mortality rate of deaths in ICE custody is at its highest level in over a decade and has more than doubled since Trump’s second term began. (source) 

As of Monday, July 6th, 21 people, that we know of, have been passively (and not so passively) murdered while in ICE custody this year. 

Outside the US, in the year and five months since Prez Laughingstock was sworn in he’s, so far, responsible for around 4,000 deaths — probably more. There’s Venezuela, his War Crimes Secretary’s boat strikes, and Pedo's obscene, vain, and devastatingly stupid cock-up in Iran.

I only mention it but more than 1.2 million people in the US have died of COVID-19. How many of them would have survived if Pedo hadn’t completely, thoroughly botched how the whole business was handled? From masking and distancing to vaccines, he weaponized his imbecilic cult. In this second and final term, is our banjaxed brained prez trying to beat his old death record? Does he want all of us to die before he does? If we're all dead, who will bring him his two Big Mac, two Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, and fries lunches and his 12 daily Diet Cokes?

I’m reminded of the ‘60s Vietnam anti-war chant: Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?

Can someone clever revamp that for Trump?
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According to Statista the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine since Putin’s 2022 invasion is 16,126 with 46,590 injured. This is as of May 31, 2026.

From a July 2nd column in the Kyiv Post:

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.

“Combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties have exceeded 2 million,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said.

It estimated that between 400,000 and 450,000 Russians have been killed since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, out of a total of 1.4 million casualties -- killed, wounded and missing -- among Russian troops.

Ukrainian forces have meanwhile suffered between 525,000 and 625,000 casualties and between 125,000 and 150,000 fatalities during the same period, CSIS said.

“Russian fatalities in Ukraine are more than four times greater than all US fatalities in all wars combined since World War II,” while the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian casualties has likely risen to around 8 to 1 in the first half of this year, it added. (source) 

His little war of aggression, his attempt to be this big-ass, historic, almighty, imperial, conquering warlord; to recreate the Russian empire, is failing miserably. Just as everyone’s now laughing at Putin’s little incontinent and senile lap dog, Trump, they’re now starting to smirk about Vlad.

Russia is the largest country on the planet by area — approximately 6,601,665 square miles but it comes in 9th in terms of population. If Putin wants more subjects to rule over he should maybe try making his kingdom a more appealing place to live. He could learn a few dozen things or so from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland to name just a few successful happy countries.

So could Trump but, as we all know, he and his entire spineless, greedheaded Republican Party are incapable of intellectual enlightenment. All these dictatorial, kakistocratic, kleptocratic, plutocrats understand is money and power. They don’t care how many people have to die for them to get more.

Long as I remember the rain been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?
~ Creedence Clearwater Revival, Who'll Stop the Rain

Jack Ohman

It's Raining Weasels

A new Banksy has dropped in Central London and it’s absolutely brilliant. The placement, in Westminster where there there are so many military monuments, is perfect, of course. The man in a suit – a politician? – is boldly, forcefully, confidently striding off a very tall platform, his face wrapped in his flag.

How he installed a sculpture of this huge size, in a busy area is absolutely beyond me. I realize he did it in the middle of the night but, c’mon, it’s London. NYC is known as the “the city that never sleeps,’ but I’m guessing London isn’t caught napping too often either.

Flawless.

In other news, the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, attempting to bring basic humanitarian aid, including food, medical supplies, hygiene products, and construction materials was, euphemistically speaking, intercepted by the Israeli military. By the by, they were in international waters. They were 500 to 600 nautical miles from Gaza – well outside Israel's coastal waters.

Why bring construction shit? Well, don’cha know Pedo’s new bestie Bibi the genocide addict bombed the fuck outta Gaza so a lot of rebuilding needs to happen. Food, hygiene and medicine? Bibi's been working on starving and mediciding Gazans out of existence. 

Remember, Anne Frank didn’t die in a gas chamber; she died from disease (typhus) and starvation in the Bergen-Belsen. That's right – starved and med-neglected to death. 

Huh, for some reason Jim Wright’s words come to mind at this very moment:

Irony jumped the tracks, careened down the embankment, smashed through a circus, plowed over a mink farm and slammed into the river, where it burst into flames, rolled over, and exploded raining down flaming weasels and burning clown shrapnel over the terrorized countryside.

Yep. Those are the ones.

211 people from the Flotilla were detained. Israel said it would transport the detainees to Greece. Three of them are journalists.

Reporters Without Borders RSF said it “condemns the kidnapping in international waters by the Israeli army” of French correspondent Hafed Mribah and Turkish cameraman Mahmut Yavuz, who both work for Al Jazeera, and journalist Alex Colston, who works for US media outlet Zeteo. 
~~~
Following Israel’s interception of a previous Gaza-bound aid flotilla in October, some activists who were detained alleged that Israeli authorities subjected them to physical and mental abuse, including beatings, forced kneeling, blindfolding and sleep deprivation. (source) 

Kidnapping? That’s right. Call it what it is. Words matter. Israel actually came back with…wait for it…Dementia Donnie’s lame-ass favorite fifth grade schoolyard fight reply – “fake news.” It was undoubtedly uttered with a superior, condescending, chocolate smeared sneer.

Israel (and I’m addressing Bibi, his acolytes, and adherents versus sane Israeli citizens), my dudes and dudettes, please try to keep up. Barking “fake news” is a giant-ass tell. You’ve just given away the game.

What this proclaims in big, bold, Broadway neon lights is I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED! Pedo uses it ALL the damn time and even his own people know it's a lie.

Based on testimonies collected from 59 Palestinian journalists imprisoned by Israel after the Hamas-led October 2023 attacks, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a February report that Israeli authorities routinely subject journalists to systemic abuse, including torture, severe beatings, sexual violence, starvation, and medical neglect while in detention. (source) 

All I can say is 8647, his entire administration and every single goddamn, motherfucking, rotting rutabaga shaped, Republican and get us out of the Middle East.

It’s early in the day but I do believe I need a wee dram. Dammit.

'Sup?

I’ve been down and out with, what I’m guessing is, a cold for the past few days. I HATE this shit. In the immortal words of Jesse Ventura, pro wrestler, actor, AND the former governor of Minnesota, I AIN’T GOT TIME TO BLEED! 

I’m not actually bleeding. I’ve just been napping a LOT, not exercising or even reading. Astoundingly, I haven’t felt like eating – AT ALL. That was a true shocker – I’m always up for a snacky. I’ve basically just been a lump. How utterly lame. 

Being ill from something as piffling as a simple cold sets back my rehab/recovery efforts (from all those past surgeries) and my attempts to stay reasonably functional given my age and general health. This morning I’m feeling a wee bit better though. This means I’ll be getting back on the workout train with the knowledge that the cold has cost me, probably, a month’s worth of my hard won progress. Motherfucker.

Here’s something I came across in one of my rare waking moments over the past few days – posts in The Independent about Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. That’s not really on the radar in US news. I’ve undoubtedly said this before, news is being censored, suppressed, blocked here. If it wasn’t for bystanders recording videos on their cellphones would we even know about Renee Good and Alex Pretti? No. We would not.

Luciano Garbati, Medusa

So, Zorro Ranch was Epstein Island on land. I wonder how often our Pedo Prez flew out to catch some Southwest rape action.

In an episode of 60 Minutes Australia, New Mexico’s Democrat congresswoman Melanie Stansbury said that one alleged victim who’d been invited to a party at the ranch has described “multiple young men... raped at the ranch in front of him after he was drugged”.
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There have been rumours for years that the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein used his sprawling ranch and remoteness to conceal his child sex-trafficking operations. Then there was a much-reported but never-proven story that Epstein also discussed a plan to impregnate multiple women at the ranch to spread his DNA and wanted to use it as a “baby ranch” for a sick eugenics experiment.
   ~~~
…the most chilling detail was the sender’s claim that two foreign girls had been murdered and buried "in the hills" surrounding the compound. The victims, he said, had died during "rough, fetish sex" involving strangulation. (source) 

That tip came from a former ranch staffer. The note was sent to the FBI and was apparently never investigated. In 2019 federal prosecutors in New York “requested” that New Mexico end its Zorro Ranch probe. Ultra interesting, no?

Elisabetta Sirani, Timoclea pushing the
Thracian captain who raped her into a well.

Gee, what orange anus pedo was president and an ex-Epstein bestie in 2019…hmmmmm? Who had dirt that needed to stay buried DEEP?

Epstein was one seriously, ultra fucked up, disturbed-o-rama dude – make no mistake about that. Yet even he said, in response to some absurd claim by Larry Summers about Trump not being dangerous:

"recall ive told you ,, I have met some very bad people ,, none as bad as trump.  not one decent cell in his body.. so yes- dangerous.”

In another convo he advised that:

“you might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don, ignores the fact that he has great dangerous power,” Epstein wrote Weingarten on Dec. 20, 2018. “Tightening the noose too slowly, risks a very bad situation. Gambino was never the commander in chief there was little gambino could do as the walls closed in. not so with this maniac.”

AND he said that Trump is:

“borderline insane” and  “Donald is fucking crazy,” (source) 

Again – Trump's one time bestie, who he had offed, said that Trump didn’t have even one decent cell in his body. Yeah, we’re hip. Like totally.

He could blow up the world, he could set off a nuclear Armageddon. He knows he doesn’t have a lot of time left on his clock. He keeps mentioning Heaven – whether he’ll get in or not. Pedo has nothing left to lose, he’s panicked, the walls are closing in, and even his slavering, dimwitted, renfieldian, Fox News couch sitting cabinet can’t keep him calm anymore. 

Maybe Laura Loomer can come in to give him a blowjob each morning and then his valet, good old Walt Nauta, can lead gramps out to the omelet bar. 

Just keep that angry crazy man away from the nuclear football!!!

Good Guys vs Bad Guys

I really want to think of Iran as the good guys – I mean, those LEGO videos are top-notch. They’re totally selling Iran as not the bad guys in this war. 

Just think of how much good, how many races the Dems would win if the  DNC had the creativity, chutzpah, and talent to do something along the LEGO lines.

This is real life though, not some simplistic Hollywood movie with Jedi and the Rebel Alliance versus Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. Iran is not the Rebel Alliance. The US is most def NOT the Jedi coming to the rescue of an oppressed and beleaguered people.

The judiciary, which announces near-daily executions and arrests of dissidents, and the hardline-dominated parliament were untouched during the war. State television and other media outlets remain directly controlled or influenced by the IRGC or factions like the hardline Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, or Paydari Front, and broadcast state messaging by any means possible, including through artificial intelligence-generated videos. (source) 

You just KNOW the orange shitbag has a wicked stiffy for those daily executions. He can’t understand why HE can’t order those up. 

And JDouche finally gains an ultra tiny bit of popularity – if we can call it that without laughing. 

“Witkoff and Kushner are seen in Tehran as very much aligned with Israel and Netanyahu,” said Alex Vatanka, head of the Iran program at the Middle East Institute. “Why negotiate with these two guys that don’t seem to be the most serious of figures Washington could have sent, and the fact that twice, right after meeting with them, they got bombed? Not only did Witkoff and Kushner not build trust at a time where trust is essential for the process to move forward, they achieved the opposite. (source) 

So, the socially banjaxed couch molester is seen as a preferred negotiator when the only other option is two lying-ass, money-grubbing, on-the-take, incompetent real estate developers. OUCH!

And the Pedophile in Chief keeps pushing his Epstein Memorial Ballroom. He wants taxpayers to pay for it. I’m old but I DO remember him announcing that his Soviet style my-dick’s-bigger-than-yours vanity project would be paid for by private donors – NOT us.

When Trump publicly announced the project on July 31, 2025, he said the ballroom would be funded entirely by private donations, including his own, and pegged the cost at $200 million. He has since doubled that estimate to $400 million and disclosed the names of 37 private donors backing the project.
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A review of federal spending shows that several of the ballroom donors — including Microsoft, Palantir, and Amazon Web Services — receive billions in federal contracts. (source) 

Looks like the donors have already gotten their payoff. Where’d that money go? Trump’s got offshore accounts – bet on it.

In “A stopped clock is right twice a day” news, Prick Scott, the thieving senator from Florida actually said something I agree with (YES, I couldn’t be more stunned):

“I don’t know why you would do it” with taxpayer money “if it’s all funded," said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a Trump ally and spending hawk.

“We have $39 trillion in debt,” he added. “Maybe we ought to stop spending money.” (source) 

So, it’s Tuesday. The world could totally use a whole fleet of heroes. I could use a full body transplant (EVERYTHING aches today). Apart from the whole going-to-war-thing, I SO want to live in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe where body transplants are a thing.

Ballroom Grift

And the man at the back
Said let’s fake an attack
And use it for a ballroom grift.
And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a ballroom grift"

My sincere apologies to Sweet.

It seems absurdly likely that the little shooting event at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was staged. I mean, Prez Pedo, VP Douchebag, Maga Mike, AND Secretary of State Lil’ Marco were all at the dinner together? That’s almost the whole presidential line of succession and security was so lax that a guy ran through security with a long gun? Who allows that? Really?!

The only person missing was President Pro Tempore of the Senate – Chuck Grassley. Just think, IF Cole Allen had been successful (and this hadn’t been a staged event to garner Pedo sympathy, favorable press and give him a perfect set up to shill for his gigantic, gaudy ballroom) our replacement prez would now be 12 years older than the current 80-year-old dementia ridden, diaper clad, rape-y, and otherwise felonious WH occupant.

 Senator Grassley is 92 years old. He was seven when the Nazis invaded Poland and Britain and France declared war on Germany. He was nine when Pearl Harbor was attacked. That same year the desecration of Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe (Lakota for Six Grandfathers – now known as Mount Rushmore) was completed. Chuck was 10 when the Bataan Death March went down. 11 when the Pentagon's construction was done. He was 17 when Orwell’s 1984 came out and, apparently, either never read it or absorbed absolutely nothing. He was 31 when JFK was assassinated. 32 when the Civil Rights Act was passed. He was 57 in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. That was almost 37 years ago. 

He’s seen a lot of history and yet, he’s still a Republican – the party of pedophiles, rapists, and racists. The party of Nixon, Bush, Shrub, and now the lying, orange spackled, pedophile rapist, racist, dimwitted conman. 

Why was Vance rescued first and then Trump? 

Why did some guests stay, continue eating, taking selfies? 

Why did others take the time to pack away bottles of champagne and wine instead of exiting the “dangerous situation” with all haste? 

Why did Trump immediately have a speech ready? 

Because this was all obviously another one of his phoney-baloney, ginned up assassination theater events. He ever-so-quickly turned the shooting, which happened outside the ballroom, into a shopping network/timeshare style sales pitch for his Epstein Ballroom.

Trump is the Asshole Who Cried Assassination one too many times. No one believes him anymore and no one cares. For that matter, I’ll betcha most of the world is just disappointed that this wasn’t a real attempt and it wasn’t successful. We're all tired of his testerical dramatics. Give him a binky, put him on a mocked up sound stage with pretty, paid actors, special effects, and a script with him running the world. Tell him it's all real. Just don't let him out. Fake up stock market reports, Fox news shows, and have his renfields occasionally drop by to flatter him. He'll never know.

I’ve got nothing more to say about Pedo’s latest failed attempt at theater. I saw a Threads post saying, “I’ve seen better staging on Broadway.” Well, of course. Broadway is full of actual pros. The Trump family will never be anything more than a zillionth rated Fort Myers, Florida Murder Mystery dinner theater.

 Like their father, they're all vile, duplicitous, morally rotted, shiftless clowns.

Mission NOT Accomplished

He could only have humiliated himself more if he’d landed on an aircraft carrier with a flapping banner, proclaiming Mission Accomplished, behind him.  

The Strait of Hormuz is NOT open. Prez Pedo lied (I know – of course he did) in saying that Iran agreed to reopen the Strait without any conditions, while the US blockade remained in place. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said “that is not the term we agreed on.” 

Negotiations are ongoing.
Yesterday, Donnie Demento “barred” Bibi from bombing Lebanon. How’s that working out, you ask?

Israel has already attacked Lebanon, saying that Hezbollah violated the ceasefire first. As in Gaza, they've targeted medics and civilians.

The first two ambulances were destroyed, their tyres blown and windows shattered. Six of their eight crew members were covered in blood and lying in the road or the back of one vehicle.

A paramedic in one of the driver’s seats, blood pulsing from his abdomen, was cradling a colleague in his lap, pleading with him to stay conscious.

“I felt sick. I couldn’t believe my eyes,” medic Mohammed Jaber, 43, told The Associated Press.

 Jaber said he and the others hurried to load the most critically injured into their working ambulances. As team leader Mahdi Abu Zaid ran to close the doors, they, too, were attacked. (source) 

So much for that ceasefire, eh?

Anyone with half an ounce of self-awareness would’ve known that:

•  Netanyahu’s a big-ass serious, scary asshole. He’s not some reality TV show “tough” guy. Bibi’s def not about to take orders from some delulu dimwit in ridiculous orange face-paint who reeks of old sweaty armpits, ketchup, shitty diapers, cheap cologne, Aqua Net Extra Super Hold hairspray and postures like he’s at center stage of his junior high auditorium.

•  Iran’s not playing. They, like the rest of the world, see the mental stench factory for who and what he is. They quite understand that Trump’s administration is filled with unprepared, incompetent, none-too-bright actors who are only vaguely aware that they’re in WAY over their heads.

At this point I think even Putin’s thinking of taking the ring back.

No one is on Trump’s side. Hell’s bell, at this point most of the US isn’t even on “our” side. 

In late March, according to an Economist/YouGov poll, 27% of American idiot adults still identify as MAGAts. Incredible. Just stunningly stupid.

 
Maybe the moldy rutabaga brains who continue to cheer him on are mostly only doing it because they’ve sunk so much money into Trump crap? Ya know, they’re thinking the clown shoes, hats, watches, bibles, T-shirts, beer koozies, etc., would be worth big money one day. IT’S AN INVESTMENT! A retirement fund! They just can’t accept that they’ve been had by a carnival barking, child raping, hustler in a bad wig with worse makeup and a fully loaded, smelly diaper.

These people vote.

The Rapacious Ego

Yesterday – that was some motherfucking emotional abuse on a worldwide scale.

FEED MY EGO OR I’M GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD!!! 

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” (source) 

This is – I don’t want to hurt you but you’re forcing me to do this – on steroids.

That narcissistic, child raping bastard threatened genocide. The never to be brought back again theatrical rhetoric is a tell though. When he engages in that type of bombastic bullshit he’s faking it – acting. It's a con. He’s on stage, putting on a show for a rapt audience. We’re in his thrall. He thinks the world is believing every word.

Here’s the thing though – if the fate of mankind weren’t at stake, we sure as fuck would NOT be buying any of his bluster. This histrionic horseshit is so worn out, it’s tired, SO six seasons ago. I mean, it’s embarrassing. Except … what if he really means it this time? We can’t afford to NOT take him seriously.

What IF he’s really going to give the order to nuke the Middle East? We really can’t trust the military, now gutted of responsible, sane generals by Drunk Tank Pete, to do the right thing and refuse illegal orders.

Trump’s too fucking stupid to understand that nuking Iran would be the end of the world as we know it. The planet might survive. Humanity will not.

Nuclear fallout would spread across Iran’s borders. Winds would carry particles from Iran to Pakistan and northern India within 48 to 72 hours. Where else would it travel and how fast? How quickly would it get into the water? How long before China and Russia are affected? They’re not going to be too happy about that.

Does he not understand that Russia and China would react to our crazy aggression? We’re not the only nation with nuclear weapons ya know and, I only mention it, Russia and Iran are buddies. 

Prez Pedo is famous for NOT thinking ahead. He’s a complete bumbling idiot – forever failing upwards, relying on his feral instincts. He doesn't think – just bullies everyone standing in his way. I’m sure it’s never occurred to him that his boss Putin, his rival Xi, or his crush Kim Jong Un could/would just drop a nuke on DC, NYC, or Mar-a-Lago in retaliation. Hint … they totes would. They should start with Mar-a-Lago.

Pedo’s emotional abusive over the top theatrics have gotten so out of hand that he’s now even losing some of his Republican supporters like Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, Texas Rep. Nathaniel Moran, and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. He’ll always have diehard suckers like Lindsey Graham (Trump MUST have some serious blackmail dirt on this spineless wonder), fellow Florida criminal Rick Scott, and Texas doofus Dan Crenshaw to name a few of his faithful cultists.

For what it’s worth though, he’s lost Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owens. That’s something.

In Iran yesterday, people formed human chains across bridges and in front of power plants across the country to protest Pedo’s threat to bomb them back to the “Stone Age.” I guess they figured they were gonna die anyway, better to go out standing in protest.

Why did Pedo walk back his threat for his usual “two weeks” TACO? He got the attention he wanted. His ego was fed. He thinks he’s the king of the world now.

He’s insane. We need to go no contact NOW.

The Humanity Deficit

Re: the Trump/Epstein files and the horrors within – the words of a few authors come to mind.

William Gibson in Count Zero

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Rich Boy 

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. 

Captain Underpants (Trump friend, former law professor, and disgraced human, Alan Dershowitz) called Epstein’s young victims liars, prostitutes, sluts, and druggies. Imagine that. A hit dog’s gonna holler, eh? He did everything except shout out, big and bold,  “I was one of Epstein’s most frequent and loyal customers. I’ve raped countless young teenagers.”

Guffo

He announced that the victims (THE VICTIMS, FFS!!!) could be charged with crimes (like what, you sad, moldy green bean?) AND he's threatening to sue them. That’s obviously not gonna happen because then there’d be discovery and all sorts of nasty things would come crawling out that Alan would really rather leave buried in the dark.

This is an intimidation tactic. We’ve seen it a zillion times before. Remember when the First Hooker was gonna sue Hunter Biden for more than a billion for restating the fact that Epstein introduced her and Pedo? Funny how that suit just vanished, huh? Remember when Pedo dropped his $500 mill lawsuit against his former fixer, Michael Cohen? The discovery process is some scary shit when you’ve got as many ghosts and dead bodies that need to stay buried as they do. Trump’s still trying to fuck that I’m-gonna-sue chicken but the whole world knows the game now. 

So then…Pedowitz? He can fuck ALL the way off. He can go back to whining about not being invited to parties on the Vineyard and being banned by a pierogi vendor at a farmers market in West Tisbury. Of course he threatened to sue. What a pathetic clown.

Drew Sheneman

Back to these billionaire, entitled freaks, John Scalzi (who is NOT a billionaire, entitled freak) asks,

Is one required to become a pedophile when one becomes a billionaire because I gotta tell you right about now the correlation seems pretty high.

There is in fact a relationship between wealth and shit behavior. Berkeley psychologists Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner ran seven studies looking at whether wealth and prestige effect empathy. 

Piff and his colleagues suspect that the answer may have something to do with how wealth and abundance give us a sense of freedom and independence from others. The less we have to rely on others, the less we may care about their feelings. This leads us towards being more self-focused. 

…Piff and his colleagues found that wealthier people are more likely to agree with statements that greed is justified, beneficial, and morally defensible. These attitudes ended up predicting participants’ likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior. (source) 

Bas Van Der Schot

You're shocked. Yeah, me too.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gives it to.
~ Maurice Baring 

You can't be obscenely, filthy rich without being filthy and obscene. The Trump/Epstein files prove that. Having said all this, I’m with Dottie, I’d quite like to give being a millionaire a go. Ya know, maybe I could just test drive it around the block. A single mill would be fine – I'm not greedy.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker