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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.

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?

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.

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.

Strengthening America

Eff The Farmers!

Stupid, ignernt, Common Clay of The New West morons got precisely what they voted for.

Martha McHardy / The Daily Beast:
Key Voter Group Rages at Trump for Sparking Historic Crisis  —  FIELDS OF ANGER  —  Farmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.  —  Donald Trump's farm-country stronghold is struggling due to an economic crisis that farmers say he is making worse.

Good. Hope they're all bankrupted & die homeless on the streets of a big city, especially since I don't need their fucking food anymore now that I have hormones!

And The Military!

In other national security areas, what do all the phony patriots & closet cases squealing like little girls about their testosterone & masculine manliness have to say about the reality away from their silly fairy stories?

New York Times:
Hegseth's Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless … A series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.

NBC News:
Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites, sources say  —  The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.  —  WASHINGTON — Iranian missile and drone attacks have inflicted damage …

How much did Russia & China have to pay to get these billions in damage done for them? Or was all they had to do help Fat Don get elected?

Note well that two of these three items may be behind a paywall. So much for the First Amendment, & yet another excellent reason to start the killing now, wouldn't you say?

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]

Beef In The News

None Dare Call It Communism!

Comrades! Glorious News! By decree of the People’s Beef Committee, 300,000 metric tons of ground beef shall enter tariff-free for 90 days, priced 25% below the capitalist market. Thus shall the workers eat, the ranchers prosper, and the Great American Herd rise again!

“Conservative lawmakers and pundits alike spoke out on the internet Friday after President Donald Trump announced a new deal that will temporarily lift certain tariffs on ground beef imports, with Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) warning ‘this will further harm’ American ranchers, ‘most of whom are MAGA Republicans,'”Mediaite

Mediaite: Fox’s Tomi Lahren torches Trump over new policy to “import a bunch of foreign beef.”

Apparently, by Sen. Sheehy's logic, it's perfectly fine if non-MAGA citizens are harmed. Will this beef be reserved for MAGA states, then? Another argument for reverse immigration: Back to the Auld Sod for you, bog-monkey!

Anonymous quote from Earth-Bound Misfit. Also, Political Wire.

This Should End Well

French weapon. They're probably safe, as no Yankee military has been stationed in France since 1966.

Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Starting ‘Economic Warfare’ Operation Against Iran  —  The US will begin what President Donald Trump said would be an unprecedented economic warfare operation against Iran, after faulting the country for failing to take its chance to make a deal with him.
Fox News:   Trump threatens ‘unprecedented’ economic consequences for any nation aiding Iran
Bob Hoge / RedState:   Trump Announces ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran, Will Be ‘Most Crushing’ Financial Operation Ever

"Trump says". Yeah? Crush on this dedication from "Natalie" in D.C., Fat Boy.

Financial Times:
Iran eyes military targets in Europe if Donald Trump escalates war, insiders say
Phillips P. OBrien / Phillips's Newsletter:   Midweek Update #24: The USA Is Not A Serious Country

Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com:   Iran Weighs Attacks on US Military in Europe

CNBC:   UAE severs trade with Iran after reported missile strike

Imogen Garfinkel / Daily Mail:   Iran's hardline mullahs ‘are considering attacks on European military targets’ if Trump escalates war

Al Jazeera:   Iran war live: Rubio discusses Hormuz security with UAE official

Timothy Nerozzi / Washington Examiner:   Iran slams US ‘clown crew’ as Trump threatens to annex Strait of Hormuz with no end to war in sight

All I want to know is when the nukes start flying.

Our Glorious Future: Sad, Innit?

Just a few more reasons to hate America, besides the fact that this shithole nation is filled w/, well, Americans. Eeeww!

Here It Comes Again!!

Catch It If You Can!!

COVID is ‘growing’ in nearly every state, CDC reports. Here’s where levels are highest

The West & The South, if you care. P.S.:

The CDC also tracks levels of two other respiratory viruses, influenza and RSV. Both are showing up less frequently in wastewater than COVID-19 is.

Can't wait for Brainworm Bobby to ban the newest vaccine & make masking illegal. And can't wait for another million or so American sheep to die. Maybe they can really jack up the numbers this go-round.

Let The Punishment Fit The Crime!

All people of good faith & honesty will agree that false ruler Donald Trump is a huge fucking pig; let's convict it, sentence it, & carry out the sentence by killing it, dressing it & butchering it like the hog it is!

Presidential portrait of Donald John Trump, Senior, after the sentence has been carried out.
Source: Mossycup Farms.

Trump Bacon! Trump Ham! Trump Pork Loin! Trump Hog Jowls & Ham Hocks!! Trump Chitlins! Trump Tripe!
Would not surprise me in the least if his mentally ill supporters literally ate of his flesh.

Apocalypse NOW!!

I don't understand why warnings of impending doom & the judgement that's about to be handed down (No wicked shall esacpe!) aren't number one on the charts, whatever the charts are today. Streams? Downloads? What could be more relevant now, wherever you get it?I mean, learn some English, Philistines!

'Cause Babylon take over on themself, dem are di ruler
Slave I an' I so hard without any dunza
While I and I mass on ya, time for hunger
But no nat should done pon di need pon a dunza
Which is the people's food
Meanwhile I an' I mass on ya, time for hunger

Sound familiar? You're soaking in it.

Round-Up Time For Laura Loomer!

Diseased, deluded & depraved mind, or loud-mouthed witch desperate for attention? Why the dichotomy? Both, & much, much more. One would not want to crawl around inside that brain. Or listen to the podcast. Hell, Loomer's tongue should be in a cast.

“I mean, it would be a lot easier to just mass deport Muslims and start to use military force to round them up. I mean, really, honestly, it would be much easier. It would be much easier, instead of having Americans relocate. It would be much easier to actually start using military force to start raiding mosques and removing these people from our country. I mean, that’s what needs to happen. They need to be removed from our country with force.”

— Trump ally Laura Loomer, on her podcast.

Can anyone give examples of "having Americans relocate"? Surprise, it's bullshit. Over 10% of the sheep move every yr. One of those American "freedoms". Like hate speech, & lying through your teeth at the top of your lungs on the iNternet. Someone get a net & a tight white coat for Ms. Loomer, please.

[Political Wire's Bonus Quote of the Day]

Nurisng Home Crisis Arrives

I mentioned Norm Ornstein, who described the coming Trump-caused health care crisis two items below. Wait no more!

‘There is nothing else’: Californians face eviction as insurer cancels assisted living benefit

Four weeks ago, Matt Johnstone received a call from the board-and-care facility in North Hollywood where his 89-year-old father lives. Health Net, the insurance company that pays for his care, was eliminating its assisted living benefit, meaning he would have to move out soon.

Johnstone panicked. His father has dementia and needs around-the-clock care. Neither Johnstone nor his brother can afford the roughly $6,000 per month the facility costs, and with health problems of their own, they can’t safely meet his needs at home either. Without insurance coverage, their father could end up on the streets, he said.

“He’s declining, and I just don’t know what’s going to happen if the program ends,” Johnstone said. CalMatters is not publishing the father’s name because Johnstone fears the plan will target him for speaking with media.

America-hating rich to the rest of America: "Suffer & then die in the streets, you old bastards!!" 

This country is going to need many more Luigi Mangiones. C'mon older people, defend yourselves against this subhuman scum while you can still pick up a gun & use it! Sic semper tyrannis!!!

Notes & Additions

Blow 46 mins. & 23 secs. on this, which is also linked two items below. Ornstein pulls few punches. Check what will happen to health care, at (26:50). Unfortunately, like many basically square types he seems to think he is obligated to be optimistic about the whole mess.

By BeanYolk.

May I remind you fools of the truth of nihilism:

1. An approach to philosophy that holds that human life is meaningless and that all religions, laws, moral codes, and political systems are thoroughly empty and false. The term is from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.”

There is no objective ground for truth. Burn it all down!

And don't mention Trump & his flunkies w/o noting they are the absolute proof that everything is nothing.

We are also amused by John Harwood, who used to be a fairly even-handed reporter for the Wall Street Journal ('though not a bofesideser) & is now at radical Commie "anti-semitic" Zeteo.