‘Until Vance’s self-serving public betrayal of his boss last week, the vice president was a full partner in every bit of [the corruption and incompetence]. Give him this: that he now seeks to shift a big chunk of the blame to some Jews is, if nothing else, true to type.’

Maybe Bret Stephens is right. Maybe Vance is trying to blame it on the Jews.

Me, I just recalled the one group of Americans Vance has always singled out as the source of our national failures – “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” I assumed he’d blame them for the blue wave.

Maybe Vance meant to say “Jewish childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

Y’all about to elect a …

… black Senator? Heads up, y’all! Get a load of them Ole Miss students doing monkey grunts right on camera!

Oh no wait I made a mistake. That footage was back in 2013 when about 400 Ole Miss dudes were super-pissed that a black guy got elected president. What a fuss they made! Burned his pic! Also on camera.

No, this latest one was a bunch of Ole Miss missies being racist just tuther day. Hard to keep up.

“I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don’t know.”

Massie’s statement is one for the ages.

THE VIVEK AND VANCY SHHHHOOOWWW!!!

What have the two old college friends been up to since the recent Series of Unfortunate Events?

They’ve been up to their old tricks, the rascals!

‘[In a video circulating online, a] man sits on the ground with his sweatpants on fire. He then lunges at a second person and tackles him. The second man’s clothing also catches fire, and they both roll on the ground removing their clothes as several onlookers intervene. One appears to be holding a small fire extinguisher…

Columbus [Ohio] Police Sgt. Joe Albert said it appears the matter took place on Saturday.’

Although the two men have not yet been identified, many believe they are the VP and Ramaswamy, whose friendship, starting at Yale, has always been based on shared sadomasochism.

‘Douglas Wilson, a Christian nationalist pastor who was invited by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deliver a ​sermon at the Pentagon in February, told Reuters that MAGA “is not going anywhere” but must become less personality-driven and more focused on border control, tax cuts and avoiding foreign wars.”….

…. 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.

Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański —

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

Among the many benefits of the burqa…

… It virtually guarantees a greater likelihood of dementia.

BREAKING: President Trump will Appoint Vanessa Lynne Cooke-Case Press Secretary

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.

The Vivek and Vancy SHHHHOOOOOWWWW!!

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
—

It’s Porning Again in America

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.

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

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.

“[You can see them trying] to shake off the Trump stink.”

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.

L’essence de l’Amérique

‘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 Sado-State

‘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.’

‘Uh, yo, watch your man, then you should watch your mouth. Bitches.’

We are watching. Us and Nicki.

A curious little B Story, unnoticed in all the Blue Wave excitement….

… 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.

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