Top Of The World, Ma!

Follow Up

Sunday I linked to a tale of woe & suffering caused by robots. It all came out to the injured party's satisfaction, but only because he has a large audience, a few of whom had a way to contact an actual human at Mall☆Wart; a way or ways which will no doubt soon be as useless as trying to deal w/ a brain-dead pseudo-intelligence. And one must wonder how big the rip-offs were & can only imagine the agonies they must've endured to get an e-mail address or whatever the contact was.

Time Like Rope

Two-thirds of the way through yet another annus horribilis. Not at all sure I can take four more months of this shit.

Big Local Action

From the AP:

MLB’s Los Angeles Angels to be sold to Rams and Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke

Did the fans in the stands at the Big A audibly chanting "Artie sucks!", "Sell the team!" & "Fuck you Artie!" during Angels broadcasts effect beer baron Artie Moreno? Talk is US$4 billion, highest price ever for an MLB team. And the Angels beat the Yanks 10-1 last night.

Other local sports ownership stuff:

Mark Walter scandal, LA Lakers sale raise concern about ownership in pro sports

Walter, who made his billions in the insurance business and until this summer owned stakes in the Lakers, Los Angeles Dodgers and the English Premier League’s Chelsea, is reportedly under investigation by the federal government for alleged tax irregularities and failure to report billions in financing for key portions of his businesses.

His abrupt sale of the Lakers to an ownership group that includes Josh Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law, is raising suspicion Walter is attempting to curry favor with the federal government and avoid the harshest of possible punishments.

Two-bit ass-licking crook trying to bribe his way out. How many people has his insurance scam ripped off? Throw him in jail for all of his crimes.

Private equity is now ruining sports along w/ everything else.

“There is probably no drier topic than billionaire debt service for everyday people, but we know for sure that fans are a more than a little bit tired of seeing their favorite teams treated like assets as opposed to community goods,” said Will Norton, director of the McCormack Center for Sport Research and Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “These teams are becoming so expensive that you simply have to look to open up avenues to capital that otherwise would look like precarious choices for the long-term health of the club.”

More franchises than ever in the NFL, NBA, NHL and other leagues are partially owned and controlled by either private equity firms, owners who live and do business hundreds of miles away from a club’s home city or top executives with financial priorities that have little to do with the sports brands they own.

Not to mention former Microsoft executive (guilt by association) Steve Ballmer, owner of L.A.'s Clippers, who appears to have been paying player Kawhi Leonard under the table.

Everything the Rich Touch Dies.

Scared Much?

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, as “evil” during a campaign rally here Monday.

“I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” said Vance, addressing several hundred people at an event put on by MAGA Inc., a super PAC closely aligned with President Donald Trump.

“And it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation fighting for every single person — whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or Black or brown — but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others, and that is how, ladies and gentlemen, you destroy the United States of America,” Vance added.

Is he referring to white nationalist scumbags like himself & the other Republicans, who are interested only in helping wealthy white people get wealthier on the backs of working Americans?

Meanwhile ...

Embracing blatant Islamophobia, CBS News makes bizarre attempt to tie El-Sayed to 9/11

CBS News tried to scandalize Abdul El-Sayed's argument about 9/11 and the pandemic. His banal comments aligned with other mainstream commentators — and Trump too.

El-Sayed really puts the fear of Gawd in them, doesn't he? What exactly frightens them so about him?

Considering this is an intramural fight, why don't all three "Abrahamic" religions derived from the Big Book of Jewish Lies & Hallucinations just get lost? Enough is enough already. None of them actually worship their alleged Gawd, but instead kiss the asses of the three mentally ill, sun-fried desert dwellers who hallucinated all the lies & had them transcribed (Moses, Jesus & Mohammed, scam artists all.) I say all three are a complete fucking joke, like virtually all human activity. Stop wasting your time & effort.

And since you don't care what happens to it, why not give me all your money, pathetic chumps?

A Brace Of Earworms

Yea, 'though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Still I & I will fear no evil
Still I & I will fear no evil Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
Jah shall not fight the righteous by day
But the wicked he will smite by nightWhenever the fuck you're ready, Jah! We wait, but our patience grows thin.

Your "President", As A Waterfowl

Is this an invasion threat?

Trump just posted this video featuring armed geese — all sporting what appears to be Trump-style hair.pic.twitter.com/JNjQuaesAw

— Orla Joelsen (@OJoelsen) August 29, 2026

Those are some hideous mutations. Not even mental illness explains this, unless Natalie Harp's mental problems are the explanation.Digby has the origin of The Worst Pres. ever's "Greatest Presidents" list. Just sad.

Big fat sissy "Pres." is afraid he'll be seen as "weak", like Jimmy Carter. Don't forget pathetic & repugnant, either.

This reporter, old & wretched as he is, fully believes he could knock Fat Don off his fucking lifts w/ just one punch or kick, & would love to have an opportunity to demonstrate it for the entire planet. Fat sissy couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag.

Not To Worry (Much)

Music starts around (3:15). I'm old & deef & couldn't really hear the introduction.

Sure, consider it a threat. Going to call the police?

Ka$h Patel's New Improved F.B.I.

Speaks well of the F.B.I.'s attitude toward women & theft, dunnit?

Eric Tucker / Associated Press:

FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring  —  The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates …

Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:   At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

Nathan Brooks / Political.org:   FBI Quietly Drops Automatic Hiring Ban for Applicants With Prostitution History, Citing ‘Whole Person’ Review

"Whole person" my sweet ass!

Here's A Truly Stupid & Awful Person

The real problem is capitalism, & the morons who embrace it.What an absolute witch! Talk about just not getting it. Or it is it a deliberate refusal to understand?

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

What Darline Graham's Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals  —  Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents.  They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin's lymphoma and her father of a heart attack.
Lindsey Granger / The Hill:   Woefully underqualified: Darline Graham gives confusing victory speech

Why does she hate all her fellow Americans so, & wish them to an early grave after working themselves to death? Apparently wants them to be misdiagnosed as her mother was, too. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?

Fiery Friday Finger

As The Planet Burns

Hand of an Angry Gawd?

Here's a New One: "Leninist Capitalism"

Or "Stalinist Capitalism"

Why Are We (and Were We) in Vietnam?

Today on TAP: The nation that defeated the U.S. 50 years ago now has the largest trade surplus with us of any nation.

A quarter-century ago, when advocates of normalizing trade relations with China insisted that doing so would compel China to transform itself into a democracy, America’s unions, a number of social democrats (including at the Prospect), and a smattering of China hands (James Mann in particular) called that argument a non sequitur: Capitalism had co-existed with right-wing authoritarianism and dictatorship, and would with its left-wing (or ostensibly left-wing) counterparts, too. Today, Leninist one-party rule (or in China, neo-Stalinist one-leader rule) gets along just fine with the C-suites of America’s corporations and banks, for the same reason that Wall Street prefers production in “right-to-work” states: the absence of worker power and the ensuing low levels of workers’ wages.

Meet the new boss, chumps!

I know one of the major Murkin model railroad manufacturers (w/ SoCal roots; started at a hobby shop on Hollywood Blvd.) has moved most if not all its production from China to Vietnam. Great fucking job, from Eisenhower through Kennedy, Johnson & Nixon.

Ha ha. Defeated in war & then in economic competition. Tell us again how the Democrats are all "Commies" & you're all for "free markets" you corporate fellow travelers. We won't be free until we've purified this evil species by eliminating the highly functioning psychopaths.

As The Planet Melts: Water Water Everywhere

Glaciers giving up.Here is your "Ho-lee Shit!" moment.

Shorter Trump Appointee: "No Jewish Science!"

Heard this one before?

In a 2023 interview, Trump’s new FDA pick laid out a vision for ‘conservative-based’ science

Probably not, because you are ignernt buffoons. Learn something, it probably won't kill you.

When the Nazis entered the political scene, Lenard quickly attempted to ally himself with them, joining the party at an early stage. With another Nobel laureate in Physics, Johannes Stark, Lenard began a campaign to label Einstein's relativity as Jewish physics.

Lenard and Stark benefited considerably from this Nazi support. Under the rallying cry that physics should be more "German" and "Aryan", Lenard and Stark embarked on a Nazi-endorsed plan to replace physicists at German universities with "Aryan physicists". By 1935, though, this campaign was superseded by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. There were no longer any Jewish physics professors in Germany, since under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews were not allowed to work in universities. Stark in particular also tried to install himself as the national authority on "German" physics under the principle of Gleichschaltung (literally, "coordination") applied to other professional disciplines. Under this Nazi-era paradigm, academic disciplines and professional fields followed a strictly linear hierarchy created along ideological lines. In his 1938 paper, "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics", Stark contrasted a "pragmatic spirit" driven by experimentation, against a "dogmatic spirit" dominated by theoretical frameworks. He claimed that pragmatic spirit was exhibited primarily by men of the Nordic race while physicists with dogmatic spirit were primarily Jewish.

This awful person will be soon killing your children w/ "conservative-based race" science & anti-vaccination lies.

Bi-Polar

Constantly shuttling between the absolute blue-hot rage that fuels my righteous & well-justified desire to torture & kill all my enemies (It's a long list. Just about everyone I've ever known, met, or heard of is on it.) & complete exhaustion & enervation that so saps my strength I can't remain upright & must lie down, in a fitful state between sleep & consciousness. (One of these days I won't be exhausted when I get up; the rage & energy will continue unabated & you'll all be in trouble.)

Thank you all again for all the support & concern that I've never heard from anyone, ever. Now I know who were never my friends. Only some little prick who likes to call the police on people. Little bastard apologized to me the first time he squealed, when nothing happened; last yr. I was imprisoned for a wk. & yet not a peep so far. Been almost a yr. & a half, jerkwad. (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)

But I'm the one w/ the "problem", not a heartless society of uncaring pigs!! No, yours is a perfect world of greed, corruption, bullshit, denial, perversion, degeneracy & Republicanism. And, of course, squealing rat informers.

Now tell me this is the best of all possible worlds, you deluded idiots!

A Song For The Ages & The Current Moment

SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOBS, YOU TITS!!

25 Or 86 Delusional Don 47!

“We don’t even know if we won ..."

“We control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory,” he told reporters on Monday when asked about that comment.

He also posted an image of a map to social media labeling the waterway as a “new U.S. territory”.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, dismissed Trump’s comments as “delusions”.

From Fat Don's phony Twitter.

Donald Trump called the strait of Hormuz “an American territory” on Friday, as the US continues its military blockade of Iran’s shipping and ports while Trump’s administration struggles to end its war with the country.

“We don’t even know if we won, because I view the strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now,” Trump said, addressing a crowd in South Carolina. He was campaigning for senator Darline Graham, who is running to permanently fill her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat.

Later in his remarks, Trump joked about bombing Iran.

“It’s a Friday night. We have plenty of time,” Trump said before reciting The Snake, a poem he frequently uses at campaign rallies to underscore his anti-immigrant policies. “What the hell do I have to do? Go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?”

Mentally ill & mentally stupid. The complete idiot.

[The Guardian]

"Jewish Space Lasers"?

Is this where whoever had the idea got it? If they can move hurricanes, surely they can move forest fires!Not much talk of hurricane control these days, is there? And today's eyes in the sky are looking at a hell of a lot more than weather patterns. Was this all codswallop, Walt?

49 Mins. Of Fascist Fossil Fuel Propaganda

When did it all start downhill? That bastard Ford & the assembly line? The "Fuck the trees & mountains, watch us destroy them!" attitude?The last ten mins. are amusing; as w/ so many rosy predictions from long ago almost none of it has happened except electronics & computing are actually better than imagined (Punched card system!) & much of that arrived yrs. past the expected date.

Also enjoy the "Walkers will be shot" subtext, a min. past the obligatory use of atomic energy at (42:01).

Thursday Triple Play

1967:And 1972. The Paragons aren't mentioned in the YouTube credits. Even the Wiki lies.Bonus Track: