Monty
June 23, 2026, 7:04am
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And this is different from what he’s been doing all his life exactly how?
Monty:
Happy Algea BTQ Pride Month!
Does that stand for “Beg, Threaten, Quit” (How he fought the Iran War) ?
enipla
June 23, 2026, 4:22pm
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“geometric logic” I’m still laughing.
It ain’t logic, it’s simple math. Which he also shows that he fails in.
Draftsman, cartographer and then I became a GIS Application Engineer, database designer. Trump might recognize a triangle from a circle. That’s about it.
Oh, I guess he can recognize a giraffe from a lion. He thinks that makes him a genius.
Watch The Caine Mutiny someday; it’s a riot.
pjd
June 23, 2026, 5:15pm
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Locrian:
You think that’s proof?
Yes. Proof that driving your fucking motorcade over it when it was drained was
“your” referring to the orange bellend, in case that wasn’t clear.
Like what? Playing Lawrence Welk, or something?
enipla
June 23, 2026, 5:48pm
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Nah, Trump is jealous of Lawrene Welk. ‘Class’ that Trump has been trying to achive for decades.
Trump would just throw rocks at his team mates, cause they are easier to hit. Sort of like what he’s doing to the USA. Then he would have his team mates arrested.
Certainly fucked up Iran fight.
It’s like when a bully grabs your arm and goes “stop hitting yourself”, only he’s using his own hand to slap himself while he’s saying it, and somehow he’s still got a legion of loyal cultists praising his brilliant strategery.
There are cameras all around that area (even before the additional cameras Donald has had installed). For someone to cut a 350-foot slit (assuming that’s possible with a coating that is MOSTLY adhering to the granite beneath it, they’d have to be carried the length of the pool by someone in a jet-pack. You know, the guy with the knife leaning down into the water and the jet-pack guy holding him steady as they fly 350 feet.
You’d think that someone might have noticed that happening.
Meanwhile:
(Bluesky was full of speculation on which concentration camp little Tommy would be sent to—one in the USA, or one in El Salvador? Or maybe in Africa?)
I have it on good authority that the Reflecting Pool was maliciously and intentionally damaged by someone , probably Antifa, who poured dihydrogen monoxide into it!
Methinks that same good authority would have pointed out that a much better, even aureate reflection could be achieved if dihydrogen monoxide was drained entirely from the pool and faux gilded paint applied.
Then all that would be required is to alter the building(s) being reflected to glorify a more current popular figure. The sort of thing a New York property shonk has been planning all their life.
Monty
June 24, 2026, 1:04am
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We’re seeing evolution happening in real time: Senate grows a spine!
The US Senate approved a war powers resolution preventing Donald Trump from continuing hostilities against Iran, delivering the president a significant but symbolic rebuke over a conflict that has proven unpopular with the American public.
The resolution passed by a 50-48 vote, with four Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky – breaking with their party tosupport its adoption. John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, was the sole Democrat to vote against the resolution.
The measure, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this month, would require the president to seek Congress’s authorization to use military force against Iran. It comes after Trump dispatched JD Vance to Switzerland to negotiate a settlement that would resolve the conflict the US began alongside Israel in February.
The resolution does not require the president’s signature, and Trump and his Republican allies have questioned the constitutionality of the 1973 War Powers Act under which it was passed. Nonetheless, its success underscores the discontent among Republicans over a conflict that has grown deeply unpopular with voters ahead of the November midterm elections, in which Republicans will be defending their control of Congress.
The felon Reflects and says “Oops!” (The bolding is mine.)
Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool disaster has deepened, with the president admitting the iconic landmark will not be fixed before his much-hyped Independence Day celebrations.
Despite previously promising his taxpayer-funded refurbishment would be complete before the America 250 event, the president announced on Wednesday that the leaky pool will be likely be drained after July 4 to repair damage to the peeling liner.
“The Reflecting Pool is as beautiful as it can be,” he said in his post, before posting another set of images of the landmark.
“We will drain some of the water, either immediately before or after the Fourth of July, to do the permanent repair.”
The felon’s vanity war tally.
Has the Iran war been worth it?
With a Memorandum of Understanding signed and 60 days of negotiations underway, the ceasefire is too fragile and the conflict too fresh to answer that question with confidence. But an early rundown underscores what has been gained − and what it has cost − since President Donald Trump ordered strikes against Iran on Feb. 28.
At the start, he predicted a conflict that would last four or five weeks, suggesting the sort of easy victory and quick spoils that followed the U.S. operation in January to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Let me interrupt just a moment. The key to the arrest of Maduro is the felon grabbed him and ran away. He’s not able to run away from the vanity war.
Continuing.
Instead, the Iran conflict is now four months old and counting, despite Trump’s regular, optimistic predictions that peace was just around the corner. As modern predecessors from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush have discovered before him, wars are easier to get into than out of .
The death toll reported by government agencies includes 13 U.S. service members and 26 people in Israel. In Iran, about 3,500 have lost their lives − including more than 100 children in a strike on a girls’ school on the first day of the war − as well as more than 3,500 people in Lebanon, according to government agencies in each country.
And the repercussions have rippled through the global economy, regional alliances and domestic U.S. politics , with an impact that will take months and years to fully calculate.
The rest of the article has a good rundown. The key things to note are the subheadings (I’m just quoting the subheadings below):
Iran’s military degraded but not demolished.
MAGA’s split; Congress’ pushback
Opening the strait, easing inflation
A breach with Israel
TBD: Iran’s nuclear constraints
Apparently the “perfect health” prez may be experimenting with drugs–obesity drugs.
There’s only one person in the country the FDA has granted access to retatrutide on a “compassionate use” basis: a man who was 79 at the time of his application in April, whose application was personally overseen by a senior doctor at the National Institutes of Health and subsequently approved by the FDA.
Three anonymous sources flagged the highly unusual approval to Stat News , a biotech and medical industry publication, who described the applicant as well connected.
The experimental drug is administered via an injection once a week. Manufacturer Eli Lilly is considering it as a treatment for obesity, Type 2 diabetes, knee osteoarthritis pain, moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, chronic low back pain, cardiovascular and renal outcomes, and chronic liver disease.
Bigoted White House UFC fighter doubles down on his prejudice.
The White House’s UFC 250 Freedom event, which was supposed to be a celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday, was overshadowed by a nasty moment when fighter Josh Hokit yelled “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?” into the microphone after winning a fight, eliciting some cheers from the audience.
The White House called the comments “nasty and false,” and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy called for United States President Donald Trump to officially denounce the comments.
“There was one moment I do think Trump has to denounce, and anybody associated with it has to denounce,” Portnoy said. “And that’s that crazy fighter guy… He won the fight, he took the microphone, and he made a derogatory comment about Michelle Obama.”
“When you have that on the White House lawn on an event you put on, I don’t care what you think about the Obamas or anything, that has to be an immediate denounce,” Portnoy continued. “I have no problem with the event. I guess you run that risk because these guys are lunatics. But that was the only thing; Trump should denounce it. He should say it was totally wrong.”
Rather than make any sort of denouncement, Trump praised Hokit and other fighters on Truth Social after the event.
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Now, Hokit is explaining what he meant by his controversial statement, but his rationale is far-fetched, to say the least.
“I thought I was giving her a compliment,” Hokit said. “I don’t think anyone viewed it as Michelle Obama being a man. It’s more like she knows how to deal with adversity; she knows how to work hard like a man when the times get tough.
The felon’s Make America Hungry Again plan scrapped by judge.
A federal judge on Monday scrapped a set of state pilot programs intended to restrict the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program money to purchase unhealthy foods.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, wrote in her decision that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who oversees the SNAP program, misapplied federal law in approving requests from states to allow them to impose limits on what participants can buy with funds from the nation’s largest food aid program. Her ruling applies to Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia.
“With her solicitation and approval of the pilot projects in this case, the Secretary purports to waive not just a mere administrative or technical obstacle, but the very definition of ‘food’ as it was laid down by Congress,” Berman wrote. “Neither the USDA nor the states can force this square peg into a round hole to avoid the plain language of the statute and the requirements of 2026(k),” referencing the part of the statute that addresses projects to help improve SNAP households’ health status.
And finally, let’s gouge people applying for citizenship.
The Trump Administration is seeking to raise the price tag for immigrants applying to become naturalized U.S. citizens by hundreds of dollars.
A proposed rule from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed on Monday would significantly increase the cost of filing a form immigrants must submit to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to apply for citizenship. Under the rule, the price of filing Form N-400 by paper would rise by 75%, from $760 to $1,330, and the cost of submitting the form online would increase by 80%, from $710 to $1,280.
In addition, the proposal would end the reduced fee option for Form N-400, which is currently available to immigrants whose household income is at or under 400% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. DHS is also proposing ending fee waivers for the form. Current and former military service members who are applying to become naturalized citizens, though, are still eligible for fee exemptions.
It’s not yet clear when or if the increases would go into effect; the proposed rule would still have to go through a process—including a period during which the public is permitted to submit their opinions on the proposal—before it could be enacted.
Interesting about the obesity drug, a similar thing happened with an anti-dementia drug called Leqembi. It was approved five days after Trump took office and announced during a communications freeze. I wonder what the urgency was?
When Eisai announced in a press release this week that they’d secured FDA approval for an Alzheimer’s drug dosage change, it seemed like a break in the Trump administration’s blanket freezes placed on Health and Human Services. But the FDA deems it...
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Oh no!
That must be what killed the ducks! Everybody knows they can’t swim in chemicals, they have to swim in water.
Kimstu
June 24, 2026, 2:16am
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Monty:
Manufacturer Eli Lilly is considering it as a treatment for obesity, Type 2 diabetes, knee osteoarthritis pain, moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, chronic low back pain, cardiovascular and renal outcomes, and chronic liver disease.
Gee, is that all? /s That’s giving some Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound panacea energy there.
[disclaimer: IANAD or a pharmaceutical researcher and am willing to nonsnarkily acknowledge that there could be lots of valid reasons I know nothing about that justify using some new drug to treat so many apparently disparate conditions.]
To be fair, all of those are common comorbidities with obesity; it’s not unusual for someone – and even more so, someone who is past middle age – who is significantly overweight to be suffering from one or more of those diseases/conditions, and obesity tends to contribute to the occurrence of those diseases.
That shit is dangerous! Kills lots of folks every year! At a large range of temprertures.
Smapti
June 24, 2026, 3:44am
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The military is once again mandating flu shots for recruits after it turns out that you can’t scare off infectious diseases by doing push-ups at them.
