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BaronChocula

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July 18, 2025

President Puffy has weathered a lot

Financial ruin
Fraud legal findings
Access Hollywood tapes
Two impeachments
COVID mishandling
COVID suffering
Numerous tell-all exposés
Multiple indictments and felony counts
Manic pet-eating allegations
Constant obvious lying

But by now, Congressional Democratic leaders should have run scenarios of how to move forward with a President Shady Loveseat. Ya know, just in case.

July 17, 2025

Ha Ha Ha! John Heilemann just referenced (wait for it)

"SOME OF THE HIGHER I.Q. MEMBERS OF HIS BASE"

As if there's such a thing.





July 12, 2025

Pam Bondo vs Dumb Bongino

This is the exact kind of power struggle you see in republican administrations and other white nationalists organizations where decent virtues aren't the norm. Bannon upset the apple cart in the first trump reich. Everyone hated Jared. Tillerson called Duh fuhrer an effing moron. On W's watch, everyone hated Dick though their disgust was handled with a little more professionalism.

These klansfolk can't even work together and there's no one really in control, but the sad part is it won't stop the disastrous wave of calamity, the worst of which we haven't seen yet. All you can do is wish the very worst for the hate-filled incompetents who are making life miserable for Americans.

Of course all of us here know that. But sometimes you have to let off some organ music for the choir.

July 11, 2025

What if disgruntled ICE agents assisted the Resistance

We know from recent reports that not all officers are onboard with this steroidal rage stage of ICE enforcement. Some are quitting. What if some those officers could give the slip on upcoming raids? And this can involve officers from other federal law enforcement agencies who are unhappy with the current trends.

ICE Agents in Despair Under Stephen Miller’s Impossible Orders
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-agents-miserable-under-stephen-171653003.html

July 2, 2025

I refuse to call it Alligator Alcatraz

I'll call it Florida Death Camp or trump's torture center, something like that, but giving it a cute name only further desensitizes people who are already disembodied from the harsh realities of what's going on. Innocent people are going to die there.

It gives me the clenches when I see articles use this little nickname in their headlines.

It was apparently coined by Florida's Republican AG so you know the name is awash in sadism.

“We had a request from the federal government to do it, and so ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ it is,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference last week, adopting the nickname coined by his attorney general for the Everglades facility.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/what-is-alligator-alcatraz-florida
June 30, 2025

I'll take a moment to correct Charlie Sykes

I'm watching Deadline White House while enjoying my first meal of the day (I'm on the West Coast). The lead-off is Jaba the Putz's Big Butt Ugly Bill. Cornell Belcher is praising Democrats for the strategy of their opposition in light of their limited power (nice to hear someone not shitting on Democrats these days). Belcher points to how highly unpopular the bill is. Charlie Sykes, perhaps with a little condescension and some respect rebuts Belcher by suggesting that Jaba has the bully pulpit to trumpet the bill and lie about what's in it after it passes. He thinks this leaves open the possibility of the bill becoming more popular.

Let me respectfully condescend to Charlie for a moment. Those of us who chose the right party to begin with may be a little better at spotting trends and behavior. Opinions on bills that are unpopular don't shift readily at all. Negative opinions on bills become baked in very quickly. The Putz could lie his ass off about the bill, but it won't readily change anything.

We all remember what a big fucking deal the Affordable Care Act was. We remember it actually EXPANDED health coverage to folks from young people to people suffering from black lung disease and everyone in between. And for some reason people hated it at its passing. When Democrats lost the House in the following midterms the ACA was blamed.

The Putz's bill actually REDUCES coverage in a way that will be visible to just about every family somehow. How the fuck does Charlie Sykes think lying about this bill will turn people around? My only caveat to myself is that black lung disease sufferers who relied on the Affordable Care Act, which Jaba campaigned on dismantling, largely voted for Jaba - and then panicked when he tried to dismantle the ACA.

Regardless, I think the opinion of this bill has less chance of swinging positive than the ACA. But thanks for playing Charlie.

June 24, 2025

Joe Rogan is THAT stupid

and so is his cadre of basement goons.

Thanks to Nicolle for running a clip of Rogan podcasting and aghast that mass deportations are occurring when Donnie Rapist promised MASS DEPORTATIONS. Not mass deportations of criminals, but mass deportations, period.

It's actually the one promise that he's been fulfilling while submitting innocent people to torture in the process.

It takes a certain kind of idiocy to know what you know about Failure McBankrupt, decide he's the man for the job, and then act shocked when he commands government thugs to take extrajudicial action against working people.

I'm sliding back to my post-Election day disbelief.

June 24, 2025

Israel accuses Iran of violating ceasefire, vows to 'respond forcefully'

Source: BBC

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has just issued a statement, saying he has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to "respond forcefully to Iran's violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran".

As a reminder, we haven't seen Iran confirm the attack. Iran's foreign minister said earlier that it would only stop its attacks if Israel did the same.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn7ze4vmk2pt



Well that was quick. No Nobel Prize for Krasnov Epstein Files.
June 23, 2025

It's a full-on torture regime

After 2017 they separated children from their parents without a care of how to reunite them. Some of the detained children were too young to even know what was going on. Many thought their parents had abandoned them.

That is torture.

Now they're beating detainees. Some detainees are dying in custody.

This is torture.

Some are being deported to third countries not their own.

At the very least that is cruel and unusual.

June 23, 2025

Congratulations to Oklahoma DUers!

You now have an NBA title.

I admit that while watching the series I wondered to myself how many of the spectators cheering on Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams would call the cops on them if they were just guys snoozing in their cars. Looking at the 2024 election results from 2024 I see that OKC was as close as it got in the state with kraznov only winning by 1.7% over VP Harris. That made me feel a little better.

Upon looking at the results for Indianapolis, it was blue! This all gives me a little assurance that these athletes who competed in the finals are respected where they play for their humanity and not just their prowess if that makes sense.

I would love it if they didn't go to the White House, but if they do I will hold my nose.

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