…. AND on removing the right of women to vote. Wilson is too modest in his list of reasons for the Republican defeat. He owes it to himself to remind reporters that while he has tried to destroy voting rights for women, MAGA has largely ignored him. Until the movement answers this biblically-grounded call (and not forgetting the call to criminalize pornography and heavily promote public executions), it will continue to rot in the hell of God’s disfavor.

The heroic Poles who took down the Krakow mass murderer. Both are in critical condition.

… It virtually guarantees a greater likelihood of dementia.

Having been turned down by “Ultimate Fighting” Dana White, Trump has turned to Cooke-Case, well-known in her home state of New Hampshire for her feisty, no holds barred attitude. “I can think of no one better prepared to take on the fake media than Van,” said the president. “She totally knows how to defend herself and defend me.”

The White House distributed these background materials.

We’re a couple of shits
We loved old Don to bits
But now that he’s a loser 

We will kick his saggy tits

We’re a couple of fucks
We smell like a garbage truck

This Sunday we will wash it off

In a big old church yuk yuk

***************

Old Don has asked us up for tea
We don’t know how to get there, no siree
No, siree

We would drive up Penn Avenue, but we haven’t got the price
We would skate up Penn Avenue, but there isn’t any ice
We would ride on a bicycle, but we haven’t got a bike

So we’ll run from the Avenue
Yes, we’ll run from the Avenue
Yes, to run from the Avenue’s what we like
—

Remember the Trumpians’ manifesto, Project 2025? It demanded that pornography be outlawed.

Given the predilections of the Republican elite, I’m thinking they would have exempted any form of sadism.

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Anyway, among the reasons to thank the Lord we Dems prevailed in the midterms is the blessed assurance that JD Vance and other sadism-adjacents will certainly forget all about that morsel.

Buttigieg has been trying out the Trump stink meme, and it’s a good one.

Vance can’t keep “the Trump stink” off of him.

I hope others pick it up. It’s… piquant.

‘The suspect had a gun and said, “Give me your money or I will kill you,” and, “I already killed two people; there are no cameras here,” the report said.

The woman told the suspect her purse was inside and offered to leave her car keys while she retrieved it, according to the report. She then returned and handed the suspect money.

The suspect returned her keys and told her, “Have a blessed day.” ’

‘The cancel culture of the MAGA right inflicted immense cruelty on its enemies, and MAGA relished their pain…

[The Republican Party has become like Trump.] That’s why a loathsome politician like Vivek Ramaswamy runs an ad exploiting the rape of a child. That’s why an equally loathsome politician like JD Vance spreads gross lies about immigrants far and wide even as innocent people suffer from the pain and shame that he caused.

That’s why grotesque racists like Bo French felt that they had a home in the Republican Party. After all, if the president can condemn entire groups of immigrants based on their countries of origin, then why can’t every other Republican who wants to broadcast his own bigotry do so? That’s why hundreds of thousands of Texas primary voters could look at Ken Paxton — and all of his adultery and corruption — and say, “Yep. That’s exactly the man we need in the Senate.”

… They made the conscious decision to follow, defend and pledge allegiance to an unstable, hateful man, and now — at long last — they’re experiencing the inevitable consequences of their inexcusable moral compromises.’

We are watching. Us and Nicki.

… is the flight of America’s Catholic theocrats – Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Sohrab Ahmari, JD Vance, and others – to Tristan da Cunha (the others include, from Hungary, Viktor Orban, from Austria, Pater Waldstein, and from England, Thomas Pink).

Tristan da Cunha is the site of the world’s most remote Catholic settlement. After the New Integralists spent Tuesday watching the heavens disappear with a roar, the elements destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it laid bare (Peter 3:10), they sought refuge – a place unpolluted by liberals – and they found it. Here.

Chris Van Hollen’s being mentioned for Majority Leader.

Dayum. I sort of a little bit know the guy. Our paths have crossed several times because we’re both old Peter Galbraith buddies. He’s courtly, kind, thoughtful. At least that’s what I’ve seen.

‘Scott Colom Flips Forrest County,

Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder

Nathan Bedford Forrest’

All experience is an arch wherethro’ 

Gleams my unraveling world, whose marginal utility fades 

For ever and forever when I move…

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My gray spirit yearns in desire 

To follow money like a sinking star, 

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought…

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This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave billions and billions — 

Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil 

This labour, by swift rapacity, to make hills 

Of cryptocurrency, and thro’ illicit trades,

Subdue them to our private accounts…

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You and I are old; 

Old age hath yet the despot and dishonour.

Death closes all: but something ere the end, 

Some work of ignoble note, may yet be done…

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It may be that blue waves wash us down: 

It may be we shall touch the prison’s bars. 

Yet tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ 

We are not now that evil which in old days 

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; 

One equal temper of psychotic hearts, 

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will 

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Michelle Goldberg, a wonderful writer always worth reading, reviews Elon’s spending habits.