Gambit

Withall the is he or isn't he surrounding Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don's efforts to be King for a Lifetime (aided and abetted Big Steve), I've not yet heard or read a Lamestream Lunatic Left pundit address the only issue: what does the 22^nd actually prohibit? Kinda an important question, one might think? Mightn't one?

So, here's the text

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
[bold by me]

Note: to be always effective in stopping the likes of Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don, the bold word has to be "serve". As has been hinted at by Big Steve and others: the simple way around the 22^nd is to simply run Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don as Veep to Deputy Dawg, who then abdicates on 20 January, 2029 in favor of Don. It's absolutely Constitutional. Now, of course, it only works if enough Idiots want the ruse and vote for Deputy Dawg. If Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don and his merry band of Fascists can restrict the vote to just MAGAnauts, it's a slam dunk. And that's what they've been up to. And will continue as such until election day 2028.

By The Numbers - part the ninety sixth

By now you've heard/read that President Huey Long v2.0/2024^© is crowing that SNAP is a Democrat program, and he's happy to see them varmints go hungry. But guess what? SNAP, orig. Food Stamps, came to be in 1939. FDR, not LBJ.

Here's the dope. And, guess what? I'll bet the top 10 ain't all Democrat/urban states on a per capita basis. But, then, I'll bet you figured that, right? Liars will lie.

1  - New Mexico 
2  - Louisiana 
3  - Oregon 
4  - Oklahoma 
5  - Nevada  
6  - Massachusetts 
7  - West Virginia 
8  - Pennsylvania 
9  - Illinois  
10 - Alabama 

Only MA can arguably be labelled "urban"; it's a small, Eastern, educated locale. The rest, most likely, lean rural. Let's go see. Numbers are percent rural, as makes sense.

1 - New Mexico  rural 24.7
2 - Louisiana  rural 29.1
3 - Oregon  rural 19.7 
4 - Oklahoma  rural 35.8
5 - Nevada  rural 6.2
6 - Massachusetts  rural 8.9
7 - West Virginia  rural 55.2
8 - Pennsylvania  rural 23.6
9 - Illinois  rural 13.2
10 - Alabama  rural 42 

Clearly, Nevada is the outlier, with nearly all the population in casino cities; other than that, SNAP correlates strongly with the shitkicker lifestyle. Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don's peeps.

Serves them all right for voting for the bastard.

J'Accuse

Well... a few minutes ago, 6:20 PM Eastern, one John Flannery of MSNBC said the magic words: "Gang of Six" in reference to the evil set of Supreme Court justices.

I'm a gonna sue. I copyrighted that years ago. It's mine. All mine.

By The Numbers - part the ninety fifth

Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don has announced that he's going to invade (Blue) cities with troops. Can't have any crime in cities, now can we?

More than once, in these missives, the point has been offered that the Red states, being land of morons, will never be able to produce the stuff that the Blue cities have been doing since before the USofA was constituted. Killing the geese that lay the golden eggs. MAGAmorons.

Here's the list of Nobels by top 50 universities. It's as of 2023, but not likely to change much.

Of the 50, 10 are in Red states. And, no surprise, all are in good sized cities; not in shithole land. I wonder if the Marines will be sent to them?

21. Washington University (Missouri, so iffy)
26. Case Western (Ohio, so iffy)
27. Duke (well, ok)
31. Texas (well, ok)
37. UNC, Chapel Hill (iffy, that's Research Triangle)
38. UVA (well, ok)
40. Texas A&M (well, ok; but Vernon Smith is one. ick)
41. Vanderbilt (well, ok)
45. University of Miami (!!!)
48. Florida State (!!! read the caveat)

Here's a more complex list, which allows you to track Nobels by: year range, alumni/prof, category. So, for example, physics 1990 to 2024, just prof is almost all Blue. It's difficult to judge, since the list is global and the numbering is by number of Nobels, so lots of ties up to the 41^st. A scan comes up with 3 Red state entries. May be.

The MAGAthugs are out to kill the geese that lay those golden eggs. Good on you. Party like it's 1829!!!!

Island Times

We're off for our annual pilgrimage to Block Island (no innterTubes for me). Alas, can't march for No Kings Day. But I just saw that Benioff has apologized for saying that Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don should send troops to San Francisco. According to reporting, he was once a traitor to his class in supporting, in general, Democrats.

What the whole fiasco makes crystal clear: the Billionaire Class demands that their cities of residence (well... often in suburban palaces) be as well kept and quiet as those 'Private Islands' owned by those various cruise ship companies. A more untethered to reality bunch of folks can't possibly be. If it weren't for cities, and the energy they have, we'd still be plowing fields with mules and, mostly, dying by 50. Party like it's 1829!!! Yeoman farmers unite!!! And have a bunch of Darkies do the heavy work.

Data Integrity

[been sitting in the queue waiting for the right time. it is now.]

Regular reader knows my thoughts on the risk NSA pays to the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts in general and Mad Dictator Don specifically. Now Lunatic Laura Loomer appears to have instigated a data purge at NSA. Of course she would.

Believe it or don't: the NSA remit is to hoover up all electronic comms to and from, but recorded "over there", anyone not in the USofA. That, of course, includes all the chatter betwixt Mad Dictator Don, his minions, Vlad and his minions going back forever. Where's Edward Snowden when it matters? We American People need to know whether Mad Dictator Don has been and is selling out our country. Full stop.

Maracas

Once again, since Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don is a transactional grifter: cui bono?

And the answer is: his fossil fuel friends. At one time, a long time, the USofA controled Venezuela's fossil fuels. As with most of what Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don intends, it's back to the 19^th century!! Party like it's 1829!!

Monroe was a Pussy. Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don is a Dictator.